Chapter 38 Chapter 2 The Evil of the City (4)

"you are married?" "Ok." "Have children?" "Soon, two more months." "Tell me, if you had no family, what would you like to do?" "have not thought." "Liar." "I didn't lie to you, it's not practical to think like this." "Then tell me, what do you want to do when you are in high school?" "A painter?" "what about now?" "I'll tell you what I want," Cane leaned over to Marty, his eyes sparkling, "remember that white villa I saw on the road just now? Within three years, I must buy it!"

"What if they don't sell it?" "For sale, everything has a price, as long as I can afford the price, I will definitely sell it." "Then I wish you the best of luck," Marty said softly. Marty had no aversion to cane's rhetoric and the stench of copper in his mind.This value is shared by money, and everyone cannot help themselves in it. The norms of society are like this. How can we ask people to be detached? "Excuse me, may I have a drink?" the waiter asked loudly beside him. Marty was startled, and quickly sat up, and saw this young waiter wearing a French service apron and a bow tie, pushing a cart of various beverages, appearing in front of them silently like the wind.

"What kind of drink do you want?" the waiter asked. "Thank you, we didn't call service," Cane said. "Mr. Ke told you, please drink." Marty picked out a large glass of mineral water, and the waiter added ice and fresh lemon slices and handed it to Marty on a tray.Cane chose grapefruit juice. "You look very young, are you still studying?" Marty asked the waiter. "Yes, the university is not far ahead, and I work here at night." The waiter replied. "It's hard work." "No no, it is my honor to serve you." "The club taught you to speak like this? How unnatural! Seriously, is it hard work?" After Marty asked, he admired his aggressive demeanor and felt a little like Jill.

"Qi, the requirements here are stricter than ordinary restaurants, and there are many rules, but the income is really good, and the tips are also generous. The hard work is worth it." The waiter said. It was self-inflicted, and Marty pulled out a hundred-dollar bill and placed it on the tray, awkwardly, for the first time in her life.The waiter picked up the tip as soon as he brushed the tray with his hand, and hid the hand holding the banknote under the tray, very calmly. The waiter walked away pushing the trolley, the waiter who went to class during the day and stayed up late at night to wait for a tip, this young boy who had planned for a rainy day before leaving society and started working hard, quietly disappeared like the wind, taking his tip with him .Marty watched his back disappearing in the woods.In the sea of ​​lights in Taipei, there will be another flickering light soon, right?Blink and blink, silently facing the same twinkling starry sky.

There was a figure moving in the woods, Marty squinted his eyes, and saw Haian coming out of the thick shadow with Jill in his arms.The two of them were very close, too close.After walking out of the woods, Jill stepped aside, and the two walked towards Marty one after the other, just as Xiaoye and Suyuan turned back from the side of the hillside, and their laughter was heard from afar. Jill bypassed Hai'an and sat next to Marty, and asked, "Are you chatting?" "Well, we're talking about territory," Marty said, and she glanced at Hai'an. Xiaoye Suyuan came over, and everyone sat on the ground to watch the night view of Taipei.

"Ah, Taipei." Su Yuan said. Everyone silently looked at the brightly lit Taipei Basin, their thoughts drifting far away. "What do you think this sea of ​​lights looks like?" Su Yuan asked. "Like a thousand-eyed monster," Jill said, "this beast has bright eyes blinking all over its body, and each eye has a soul, and each eye thinks it has its own independent life and act independently. In fact The eyes are all wrong, they don’t know, in fact, they are all an organ attached to the giant beast, they think they can be completely independent, but in fact, when the giant beast goes east, they all go east, when the giant beast groans, they all suffer, the giant beast The beast thinks about them and they are all confused. Sometimes one of the eyes awakens and begins to reflect whether this is its life or whether it is living in a larger life. But it is only more confused because it cannot be sure of such awakened thinking. Is it itself, or the giant beast. I am also an eye on the giant beast. Without the giant beast, I will dry up and die, not even the eyes... Can a lost ant be called an ant? No , it is just a combination of a little bit of neurons, dazed and ignorant, the original intelligence to build nests and store food in the ant colony no longer exists, it can only walk around like in a dream, until it dies. This giant The beast, it created us, and we formed it. You call it a society, or a community of destiny, the essence is the same. If this beast looks beautiful, we will be beautiful, and if it looks evil, we will be evil... Sad."

"Sad." Su Yuan also said. "Sad," Marty said too. "Stupid." Hai'an said.He lay on his back with his hands behind his head, facing the starry sky. "The life of an ant in an ant colony is as sad as that of an ant that has lost its colony. Because it is just an element in a larger living body, ants without thinking form an ant colony with thinking ability. A part of a huge living body. But people are different. I believe that human life is not limited to the life of this giant beast. As long as you have a clear gaze, you not only see through it, but also dominate it. Thinking is the master of everything, thinking The person is everything. Jill is not wrong, you just use the human mind to see the world, and the world is based on this logic. With the God's mind, the whole monster, the whole world is just a momentary imagination in the mind , this giant beast, I want it to be both beautiful and ugly, let me experience it as much as possible.”