Chapter 18 Picking up abandoned souls

Li Ximin has written a book, and I simply like the title of this book. He wrote in the story behind the work as follows—— In my nightmares at night, I often see them surround me with sad expressions, crying and saying to me: "We lost our souls, and we can't get them back." My heart hurts. I cry with them. Grieve together. Their souls are lost, and I want to retrieve their souls, or those who have lost their souls are the ones who pick up their souls, so this novel is born. Occasionally, I feel this way too, not only with those who are considered soulless, but sometimes ourselves too.

These years, I don’t dare to watch the news. I would rather spend my limited time reading historical papers, or reading Li Ximin’s horror novels.Because, every time I see those shocking facts, I wonder why I don’t need to write?Is there still a need to write about that individual character and soul in one's own novel? Fiction, compared to the world we actually live in, is too pale and boring! I would also wonder if the souls discarded by us were all collected by the omnipotent Li Ximin in his horror novels? Sorry, please allow me to express my feelings—when poisonous milk powder is raging around everyone, when expired vaccines are injected into children's bodies in a grandiose manner, when rivers polluted by mines flow under our feet, when dust-stained The air floats into our nostrils. In this era of stormy weather, in this era where everything is possible, I really can't imagine what else can't be betrayed?What else can't be left behind?Including the soul.

When everyone is born, it must be the time when the soul is fullest. Although very young children will also be selfish, they will fight simply for a piece of chocolate or a toy gun, but they will not calculate with ulterior motives Others, let alone deceive others with duplicity, let alone "struggle" for the word "success" like adults. Why?This era will make us lose our souls?Because we are too eager for "success" and too obsessed with "struggling" for "success", which will make the whole generation pay a huge price. What we gain are just boring numbers, but what we lose is irretrievable His youth is an extremely precious soul.

I think the real meaning of horror novels, especially Li Ximin's horror novels, is not to show you a story, nor is it to lie in the boring things like "decompression", "release" and "stimulation" that have long been said in vain. The reason is to pick up the souls abandoned by our era. ,,,, "Blood Money"... You can see all kinds of characters in Li Ximin's works, see the bizarre phenomena in this world, and see many facts that are ignored in our daily life but exist so cruelly. I would like to thank my elder brother Li Ximin for granting the copyright of these five books to my studio, for the stories behind the works he wrote for each of the five books, and for all the participants in the publishing process of this book.We are all picking up the soul of this era.