Chapter 8 chapter eight

Open the pottery bottle, the wine is poured out, it is transparent, the aroma of the wine is overflowing, and the entrance is extremely fragrant.I don't know what year and day it was, what materials were used, and what method it was made of! While drinking, Yuan Zhenxia spoke out his idea.Old Lei's comprehension ability is not on par with Chen Chang's, and he doesn't understand either.Yuan Zhenxia said: "I once asked them, and their answers, not only I can feel it, but you can also feel it!" Both Chen Chang and Lei Lao at least knew that what happened before them was beyond their ability to handle.So he was convinced and said: "You can do whatever you say."

The two couldn't help muttering in a low voice again: "These... aren't ghosts?" Yuan Zhenxia stared at the group of figures——the term "figures" is not quite correct.In a general concept, the silhouettes of people are flat, while the silhouettes in front of them are all three-dimensional.Therefore, the correct term should be a three-dimensional figure. He began to concentrate: "Please contact me! Please contact me!" He saw those three-dimensional figures start to move. They were originally scattered and stood separately, but at this moment, they gathered together and arranged into a triangle.

Yuan Zhenxia also noticed that outside the door of this large stone room, there were shadows, and in the dimness, many figures could be seen.However, the figure outside the door did not come in. Yuan Zhenxia also counted the people who came in, a total of 21 people.At this time, twenty-one figures were arranged neatly into a triangle, with eight figures on each side. The triangle made up of human figures was still slowly turning, and the "sharp corners" of the triangle were aimed at Yuan Zhenxia for a few seconds before moving away.After a while, all three corners pointed at Yuan Zhenxia once before they stopped turning.

Yuan Zhenxia hypothesized that these twenty-one figures were representatives of all the figures in the ancient tomb, and they were the ones he wanted to communicate with.Therefore, he concentrated more, and after a while, he received the other party's message. It was a very strange feeling——At this moment, a "pointed corner" of the "triangle", that is, a three-dimensional figure, was facing Yuan Zhenxia, ​​and that figure suddenly gestured towards Yuan Zhenxia. If the idea to be expressed is complex, it is difficult to make the other party understand by gestures.But the other party obviously sent a strong message, which made Yuan Zhenxia's brain accept the induction.So although Yuan Zhenxia didn't hear any voice, he knew very well what the other party was "saying"!

What Yuan Zhenxia "heard" was: "We are ready! We can communicate with each other!" At this time, Chen Chang and Lei Jiutian also showed quite nervous expressions.Yuan Zhenxia first gestured to them not to interrupt, and then he asked the first question. When Yuan Zhenxia asked a question, he thought first, then asked aloud, and also used gestures to assist. At this time, his thoughts were very messy.He thought that the other party may have evolved to a way of direct communication of ideas, so they no longer have vocal organs, and people still have to rely on voice to express their ideas.

The question he asked was: "What are you?" It was still the three-dimensional figure facing Yuan Zhenxia gesturing: "Why do they all accept that we are ghosts, but you have doubts!" Yuan Zhenxia's answer was quick and direct: "I don't think you are ghosts! Ghosts can't be like you!" The other party's response was also quick: "Then, please tell us, what should a ghost be like?" Yuan Zhenxia didn't expect to fall into such a predicament when communicating with the other party at the very beginning. "What are ghosts like?"

This question seems extremely simple.However, even Yuan Zhenxia, ​​who has rich experience in weirdness, can't answer it.Because people on earth know the existence of ghosts, but they don't know what kind of existence ghosts are! Not ignorant, but ignorant! Therefore, Yuan Zhenxia couldn't answer for a while. The signal he received was translated into words: "Yes, it seems that there is no answer to this question. But if we are not ghosts, what are we?" Yuan Zhenxia took a deep breath: "I think you are from outside the universe, from the far reaches of the universe. In our language, you are aliens!"

Although those figures didn't know what they were, which sounded weird, but Yuan Zhenxia still answered according to his own imagination. For a while, those figures did not respond.Then, the "triangle" turned around, facing the figure of Yuan Zhenxia, ​​and changed it. Therefore, Yuan Zhenxia got another message: "Excuse me, what is the form of your life after the transformation?" Yuan Zhenxia was stunned: "I'm sorry, I don't understand very well, please express it in a way I can understand!" What he received again was: "We mean, what is a person called after death?"

Yuan Zhenxia took a sudden breath, and in an instant, he already vaguely understood the true identities of those figures! He only answered that question with one simple word: "Ghost!" He heard many sighs: "Then, we are ghosts!" What puzzled Chen Chang and Lei Jiutian the most was that Yuan Zhenxia asked so many questions and wanted to deny that the other party was a ghost. At this moment, he also sighed: "Yes, you are ghosts!" Although Yuan Zhenxia had signaled them not to interrupt beforehand, but upon hearing what Yuan Zhenxia said, the two couldn't help saying in unison: "They are ghosts in the first place!"

Yuan Zhenxia looked at the two of them for a while, and made a gesture with a firm expression, ordering them not to speak again. At this time, Yuan Zhenxia's thoughts were extremely chaotic, he really had no time to explain to Chen Chang and Lei Lao, so he had no choice but to ask them not to open their mouths.Although the two didn't say anything, their expressions were very dissatisfied. Yuan Zhenxia ignored them, and pointed to the group of figures: "I see, you are dead, so you are ghosts!" Another series of sighs: "Yes, we are dead, so we are ghosts now!" To Chen Chang and Mr. Lei, this is a matter of course—when a person dies, he is naturally a ghost!And Chen Chang put on an expression of "I already knew".

At this moment, Yuan Zhenxia already knew exactly what those shadows were! They are ghosts, but they are quite different from the ghosts that humans understand! They are not ghosts from the earth, but ghosts from extraterrestrials.In other words, it was a person from an alien, but died and became a ghost! People on Earth don't know what kind of ghosts they become after they die.And the ghosts that the aliens turn into after they die are shadows of buildings, capable of receiving the energy of human brain activities, and also have the ability to make people sense the messages they send out! Yuan Zhenxia paused every word: "When did this tragedy... happen?" When he asked this question, many of his own experiences or those of people he was familiar with came to mind.That made him lament that there are many successful examples in interstellar exploration operations, but there are also many tragedies at the same time! He himself has met aliens who miscalculated the impact of the earth's magnetism on life, so that after arriving on the earth, they can only hide in the mountainside and linger in the dark ghost world. And that gentleman met the alien who entered the cat's body. This is all tragedy! Yuan Zhenxia also believes that this group of alien ghosts is naturally a tragedy in interstellar exploration! His question quickly had an answer: "When we arrived, an accident happened, which ended our original life form... We searched for the vocabulary of the earth people, and found out that it is called 'death'." Yuan Zhenxia said: "It seems that your lives are still very good after entering the new form!" There was another sigh: "Of course it's not good. You can't imagine how bad it is. We...we lost our means of transportation and couldn't build any more, so we had to stay on the earth. We also know that on the earth, ghosts live In the tomb, so we found this ancient tomb to live in—" Yuan Zhenxia waved his hands: "Wait a minute!" He really needed to call "pause", because the other party's words were overwhelming him like a mountain, which made it difficult for him to accept it for a while.He needs to stop and think. The first step is easy: a group of aliens, killed by accident. Naturally, dead aliens are, in their own parlance, "life forms that have ended a stage." Assuming that after they become ghosts, their abilities are greatly inferior.But they mentioned "looking for the vocabulary of the earth people" one after another, "knowing that on the earth, ghosts live in tombs", which means that they still have the ability to receive the energy of the brain activity of the earth people. That is to say, they can understand everything on the earth from the process of receiving the thoughts of the people on earth, and know that on the earth, ghosts live in tombs. Therefore, they found a huge ancient tomb built in an unknown age as their residence. All of this may sound unbelievable, but it is an out-and-out fact. Moreover, although they are ghosts, their abilities are obviously more than that.At least, they can use some method to transfer the bodies of the people on earth, pass through the darkness, and enter the ancient tomb. Yuan Zhenxia couldn't estimate how far this ancient tomb was from his residence, and he couldn't assume how he entered the ancient tomb. Yuan Zhenxia settled down: "What is the purpose of your life in the ancient tomb? What kind of changes will happen to your life form, or has it always been like this?" The answer he got was: "We want to go back!" When Yuan Zhenxia felt this answer, he felt infinite desolation and sadness at the same time, as well as helplessness and hesitation. Thinking about it, it should be, because they are the real "died in a foreign land", and they have become the souls of the dead in a foreign land.Naturally, going back became their only hope, and it was more likely that their situation would improve after going back! Yuan Zhenxia smiled wryly, and he was very sympathetic: "Then what can we do to help you go back?" After he said this, there was no answer for a while.Yuan Zhenxia added: "Perhaps my ability is limited, but I have many friends, some of whom are lucky ones who traveled in the interstellar world, and they are living well on Earth." Yuan Zhenxia's words were exchanged for a burst of sighing, and then there was another long silence—there was no sound at all, but when Yuan Zhenxia could feel them talking, the situation was as if he really heard them. Talk the same. The silence was too long, Yuan Zhenxia was a little impatient.He looked at Chen Chang and Lei Jiutian, only to see that the expressions of the two were also very puzzled, obviously they also didn't know what they wanted. After a while, they spoke again: "You don't understand, although we want to go back, but that is by no means what you can help. We will find our own way, and we can achieve our goal." Yuan Zhenxia didn't make a sound, but just made a gesture, and everyone could understand what he meant: "If that's the case, why are you looking for us?" The group of ghosts that formed a triangle turned around again, and the one facing Yuan Zhenxia changed. It seemed that they were taking turns explaining the problem to Yuan Zhenxia. What Yuan Zhenxia heard was: "In the process of going back, we will encounter some difficulties... Some checkpoints have to be passed. In your words, there will be some doom." Yuan Zhenxia let out an "oh", at this moment, he had vaguely thought of some concepts, but not very specific yet.He said: "Do you need our help to survive these catastrophes?" The answer came immediately: "Yes, among them, the most... terrible calamity, we can go back after we survive this calamity, but we will... fall into the eighteenth level of hell, and never die again. Don't be overborn!" Yuan Zhenxia was shocked suddenly, because the language of "falling into the eighteenth hell" must be 100% the language of the people on earth.Alien ghosts can use such a language, so they naturally learned it after arriving on Earth! He just thought of this, and heard a voice: "Yes, although we are dead, turned into ghosts, and lost a lot of equipment, we still maintain some ability to receive the brain activity of people on earth. The energy produced is equivalent to knowing what people are thinking. Therefore, after collecting some typical thoughts of people on earth, they also have a considerable understanding of everything on earth!" Yuan Zhenxia lost his voice: "It's more than a considerable degree of understanding! The degree of understanding has surpassed that of any earthling!" This is indeed the case. They collect the thoughts of different types of people, which is equivalent to turning various thoughts of people into data, inputting them into computers, and then understanding human beings and the earth from them.Don't they know more than any earthling?Even more than any Earth's database! As a person on Earth, knowing this situation, it is natural to have a strange feeling in my heart.It was a very unpleasant feeling, and Yuan Zhenxia couldn't help but groaned. At this time, the other party fully demonstrated their ability to know what people are thinking.Yuan Zhenxia immediately got a response from the other party: "Are you unhappy? Actually, we didn't do anything harmful to the earth. We just want to go back. We have encountered one calamity after another, and we just want to go back. Unlike some... of their kind...they're even happy to live on Earth." Yuan Zhenxia seemed to understand, but also seemed not to understand.So he said: "There are a lot of aliens on Earth, I know!" A bitter laugh: "I don't mean aliens, I mean, the same losers as us, the kind whose life forms have changed...ghosts from outer space!" Yuan Zhenxia opened his mouth wide, feeling suffocated for a moment.Earthlings and ghosts of earthlings alone are complicated enough, but aliens and alien ghosts, even alien robots, and alien "living" robots are added! sky!How complicated is the situation in this small space?Is it more than that? In Yuan Zhenxia's mind, besides "buzzing", he received their words: "We can tell you that there are many situations similar to ours. On the earth, it is their actions that make troubles. The earth Human ghosts are very weak, most of them have no ability to affect people's brain activities!" Yuan Zhenxia still opened his mouth wide, at this moment, he heard Chen Chang and Lei Lao yelling in unison: "What are they talking about!" Yuan Zhenxia immediately replied: "If you don't understand, I will explain it to you slowly!" In fact, let alone Chen Chang and Lei Lao didn't understand, even Yuan Zhenxia had to calm down to understand. They revealed a great secret to Yuan Zhenxia! If it weren't for them to reveal this secret, no one with a rich imagination would be able to imagine it! It turns out that most of the "haunting" phenomena on the earth, the haunting ghosts are not the ghosts of the earth people, but the ghosts of aliens! When many extraterrestrials landed on the earth, their life forms changed—they died.Their ghosts stay on the earth. Among these ghosts, some are very peaceful, just want to go back, live in seclusion in the ancient tomb, only occasionally active, just like the group in front of them. And some are quite restless, so all kinds of haunted phenomena appear on the earth! The troublemakers are all alien ghosts! Yuan Zhenxia involuntarily stretched out his hand and patted his forehead—this kind of situation, if he was not suddenly reminded, who would have thought of it? No wonder, for thousands of years, people have been trying to figure out what ghosts are all about, but they have never made any progress.How can human abilities compare with alien ghosts?The alien ghost in front of him can know what Yuan Zhenxia is thinking, knowing himself and the enemy, of course he will win every battle. Yuan Zhenxia never knew what the other party was thinking?Of course, everything is at a disadvantage and it is difficult to compete! Yuan Zhenxia's voice was choked: "You...and your kind, what other strange abilities do you have?" The answer Yuan Zhenxia got was: "A lot of things are beyond the capabilities of the earthlings. In many cases, they will occupy the brains of the earthlings for a long or short period of time and change the behavior of the earthlings." Yuan Zhenxia felt a chill—he had already thought that the upper body of a ghost was one of the many haunted phenomena. Many extraterrestrial ghosts are messing around on the earth, forming a lot of haunted phenomena on the earth! However, alien ghosts can't do whatever they want, and they also have nemesis, which is the doom called by the figures in front of them. This also reminded Yuan Zhenxia that there are many legends that point out that ghosts in the underworld can also "cultivate positive results".Of course, the process is quite difficult, and you have to go through many hurdles and go through a lot of calamities before you can reach your goal. Is that the necessary steps for alien ghosts to return to the original planet? Yuan Zhenxia was thinking wildly, when he heard the other party say: "Yes, you gradually understand!" Yuan Zhenxia waved his hands aimlessly, and his expression must have been quite scary at this time, because Chen Chang and Lei Lao, at the same time, brought a glass of wine to his mouth. Yuan Zhenxia took a sip, drank the wine dry, wiped his mouth with his hand: "No, I don't understand very well!" He was immediately promised: "Just ask, and we'll make it clear to you!" At this time, Chen Chang was in front of Yuan Zhenxia, ​​and Yuan Zhenxia pointed at Chen Chang: "How did he live with you like him?" The answer was: "His situation is rather special. When we found him, he was in the transition stage of his life form. We used our ability to bring him here and let him live here──" Yuan Zhenxia interrupted abruptly: "What kind of power is that that enables you to bring people around!" When he said this, he pointed to himself again, indicating that he was also brought by them. He heard a sigh: "It's hard to explain to you completely. This is the result of us using the power in the universe that you don't know. In your words, it's a kind of magic. In fact, you should be familiar with it." , Not only people, objects can also be transferred. There are many objects in this ancient tomb, which were not here originally, and we moved them from other ancient tombs." Yuan Zhenxia took a breath: "Those... treasures?" Their reaction was a bit contemptuous: "Things that people on earth consider treasures—it's strange that people on earth treat those objects as treasures and bury those things underground!" Yuan Zhenxia yelled anxiously: "Don't discuss the behavior of the earthlings, your method of transportation──" The other party interrupted him unceremoniously: "You also know that this kind of moving method is related to ghosts, so you call it the 'five ghost moving method'!" Yuan Zhenxia pondered for a while, Lei Jiutian had said long ago that his coming and going to the ancient tomb was quite like "escape method", it seemed to be true. That is the ability of all kinds of alien ghosts, that is, the spells that people on earth have never been able to understand deeply! Yuan Zhenxia still pointed at Chen Chang: "Why does he not need to eat anything and live forever? And he hates the old life and doesn't adapt to it?" The group of triangular silhouettes turned around a few times before Yuan Zhenxia got the answer: "Isn't this good? Isn't this the phenomenon that people on Earth have been pursuing? People on Earth say: Be an emperor and want to become a god. Like His behavior is the first step to becoming a fairy!" Yuan Zhenxia sighed: "I'm not saying it's bad, it's just that I don't understand!" What Yuan Zhenxia received was a burst of laughter: "It's very simple. We gather some substances in the universe and give him food. That's what you call 'elixir'. That's enough to maintain his life. , Moreover, it can delay the aging and division of his cells by thousands of times, and his metabolism and body changes for a thousand years are just like your one year!" Yuan Zhenxia's thoughts were extremely chaotic, and a sentence popped up suddenly: "Why didn't Qin Shihuang meet you back then?" It took a while before there was a reaction to this sentence: "Oh, the Qin Shihuang you mentioned, he... I'm sorry, he saw us, but we promised to keep his secret and say nothing. He is very kind to us, this ancient tomb is what he provided to us!" Yuan Zhenxia suddenly thought of Qin Shihuang, because he heard them say that extending human life a thousand times seems to be a very simple matter, and Qin Shihuang's search for the elixir of life is so famous in history. Therefore.But he never thought that he would get such an answer. According to this answer, Qin Shihuang's pursuit of immortality has achieved his goal! So where is this generation of tyrants now?Also in an ancient tomb, living in isolation? What's the taste of such a life, even if you live for 10,000 years?It is simply that the longer the life, the more painful it is! If it is the same as Chen Chang's example, he has no interest in the enjoyment pursued by all normal people, and naturally he has lost his desire for power, and he will no longer hope that his dynasty will last forever! Wouldn't that be a great irony?