Chapter 9 Chapter 8 The Situation Outside

Bai Su and I couldn't help being shocked when Hong Ling said this. Because even Hong Ling felt this way, all my thoughts and psychological analysis on Lansi before that were all overturned! Originally, my assumption was that everything was an illusion caused by Lansi's complicated psychological state. And even Hong Ling could feel the existence of the elders—it is impossible for the same hallucination to happen to Hong Ling, so there is only one possibility: there are indeed elders! For a while, because I really couldn't imagine what kind of existence an elder is, my thoughts were very disordered.

Hongya seemed to know that we would be shocked when she said this crucial point, so she paused for a while. She drank to herself and waited for our questions. But Bai Su and I didn't ask any questions—because we completely believed in her words, believed in her feelings, and just wanted to hear what she said; without any doubts, of course there were no questions. Hong Ling waited for a while before continuing. At that time, Hong Ling "heard" the elder asking: "The person you mentioned is here?" Lansi replied: "Yes, she—" Immediately it was the elder's reaction: "Ah, she is completely different, completely different, she can see me, yes!"

The elder's reaction was very excited, which affected Lansi, and Hong Ling naturally joined the "conversation" at this time: "How can I see—of course not with my eyes, it's very dark here, and I can't see anything." The elder immediately instructed: "Don't use your eyes, use your thinking, use your brain's ability, if you want to see me, you will be able to see." Since what Hong Ling said next was very peculiar, I had to digest it in sections. I want to express my thoughts after hearing Hong Ling's narration paragraph by paragraph. It is not completely incomprehensible for the elder to ask Hong Ling to see him in a way of thinking.

However, using "thinking" to "see" anything is always just "thinking" rather than really seeing. Even if it feels the same as seeing, it is still not seeing, that is to say, there is still a huge distance between everything that comes to mind and what really exists. However, everything that is "seen" by "thinking" is still closer to illusion, and farther away from reality. At that time, Hongya also had the same idea. So she asked, "Is it true what you see in this way?" The elder replied: "Since you have seen it, you have seen it."

Hong Ling thought for a while, but didn't ask any more questions. Lansi was much more nervous than Hongya at this moment, she even grabbed Hongya's arm with both hands.In fact, Hong Ling didn't know how to "see" the elder, so she had to concentrate on thinking. At first, she naturally thought, how could the elder be in the rock in the middle of the mountain? If the elder got in by some means, then he should be able to get out in the same way.That is to say, if the elder is currently in a closed state, he can change himself from the closed state to the open state. But now the elder obviously doesn't have this ability. The elder asked to open a three-kilometer passage in the middle of the mountain so that he can come out.

You can't come out without a passage, obviously the elder is in a sealed state.What kind of sealed state is that?It is the rock outside the body of the elder, he is surrounded by rocks, he cannot move without moving, like an insect enclosed in amber; or it is a container sealed by rocks, and the elder is in this container ? Hong Ling's way of thinking is somewhat similar to mine. Although she was concentrating on one thing, her thoughts would still diverge uncontrollably. At that time, she suddenly thought of the container that Tang Dadan put up for auction. The container was found in the mountains, and stalactites had been formed in the container, and hundreds of millions of years passed in time.And the Elders' Council was sealed in the mountainside, how many years ago was that?

When hearing the legend of "turning on and off once in a hundred years", everyone will think of a question: How old is the elder when the switch is turned on and off every hundred years? However, although a hundred years is a long time for human beings, it is extremely short for mountains. The youngest mountain range on earth was formed hundreds of millions of years ago, and the elders were enclosed in the mountainside. It should be something that happened when the mountains were formed, so how old the elder is is even more inconceivable. After Hong Ling felt that she "heard" the elder and could communicate with the elder, she was absolutely sure that it was not an illusion, but a real thing. She also thought that the reason why she and Lansi could have such communication with the elder was because Because the elder sent out some kind of energy, passed through the three-kilometer rock, and had an effect on her brain.And the energy of thought generated by her brain activities can be accepted by the elders when it works, and communication is thus formed.

It took Lansi three days and three nights to communicate with the elder. She only needed three minutes for the elder to know her existence. This was of course due to the extremely powerful energy generated by her brain activities── Because of this, the elder was sure that she could "see" him! Hong Ling had been thinking about such similar questions, and she didn't pay attention to whether her eyes were open or closed. Gradually, she didn't know when, a vague, hazy picture began to appear in her mind. Some images, I don't know what they are at all, they are just a big group, I can't even tell whether they are liquid or solid, let alone what color they are.

And after such an image appeared, Hongya felt that she was walking in the middle of that kind of thing. It was a very strange feeling, of course Hong Ling's body still didn't move on the stone, but she felt that she was moving forward. This situation shows that Hong Ling's brain activity has entered an abnormal state.Although in fact the "conversation" with the elders is already the result of abnormal brain activity, but there is still a big difference in feeling between just sitting there thinking and feeling the sound, and having "actual actions" at this time.

Hong Ling felt that her situation and actions were something she had never experienced before, so she naturally made some surprised sounds. Lansi didn't know what happened to Hong Ling, she asked anxiously: "How, how is it?" Hong Ling could actually hear Lan Si's question, and at the same time she could answer, she replied: "I don't know, I don't know what happened yet!" Between their responses, they both received a warning from the elder: "Don't talk, don't interfere." Lansi quickly agreed, and Hong Ling grabbed Lansi's hand, signaling her to rest assured.Lansi, the super head-down master, was as weak as a baby at this time, she held Hong Ling's hand with both hands, and could not think of anything except praying that Hong Ling could see the elder sooner.

And Hong Ling couldn't know how long and how far she had advanced in the feeling of "advancing". Then there was a sudden pause, and after the pause, she was still surrounded by that kind of unknown thing—later, Hong Ling guessed, that kind of lumps of things were the rocks that made up the mountains, and she was "moving forward" , the fact is that she is walking through rocks! Of course, it is not the human body that is passing through the rock, but the mind is passing through. When the mind is passing through the rock, it is the situation in the rock that the mind feels. Both Bai Su and I agree with Hong Ling's assumption, because according to what happened later, this assumption is the only possibility. At that time, after Hong Ling stopped, her intention was to continue to move forward, but there was a lot of resistance in front of her, so she had to stop. She asked the elder for instructions: "I still can't see anything... I can't go any further... How can I get to you?" She immediately got a response from the elder: "You can't come to me - if you can come, I can go out of course. But you can see me, you can see me!" Hong Ling got the encouragement of "can see", which gave her the confidence that she could see. After a while, her eyes gradually became clearer, as if the extremely thick fog began to dissipate, and it seemed that the focus distance was not accurate before, but now Slowly correcting, a clearer... clearer... image appears. When the image began to appear, she still had no idea what it was, and when the image became clear enough for her to identify what it was, she found that everything she saw presented a very strange visual effect—she had never Don't know how to describe it properly except to say that everything looks like you're looking at a photographic negative. However, she has repeatedly stated that this metaphor is not very accurate, but it is the closest description she can find. Hong Ling's visual images at that time were so strange, I imagined that everything she saw at that time was the image produced by her visual nervous system, which received the signals emitted by the brain waves and reflected back.It is completely different from the process of receiving it through the eyes and then transmitting it to the nervous system. Of course, the image "seeing" is also completely different. I can only imagine that the image received by the reflection of the brain wave is roughly similar to the image displayed on the screen of the radar device.Because this is not how humans see images, it is difficult to imagine and difficult to describe. Perhaps one day, the potential power of human brain activity has been widely developed. When everyone, like Hong Ling, has the ability to "see" images directly using brain waves, there is no need to describe it at all, and everyone can know how it is. It's the same thing. (Yes, seeing images in the process of brain wave emission and reflection, the eyes, such an extremely important organ, become dispensable.) (Scientists are now researching, and some achievements have been made for blind people to use, so that blind people can see images, which are designed according to the principle that the visual nervous system directly receives signals.) (Without relying on equipment, people can have the ability to see images directly through the eyes, and it has gradually been confirmed through many experiments. However, this situation is not common now, so it is called "supernatural power".) (As far as I know, the research on this aspect of supernatural powers is currently the most detailed and recorded by Professor Li Sichen from National Taiwan University. He has recorded many examples where people can directly obtain images, and he is the pioneer of research on this major topic── Just think what a huge impact this kind of research has on humanity!) (Science fiction writer Zhang Cao, using her real name Zhang Rongkang, published the process of this research in Crown Magazine. Friends who are interested can find it.) (As long as you pay a little attention, you can find that many things that are considered impossible and unscientific in the inherent concept are quietly happening around us.) What Hong Ling saw at that time (I no longer put quotation marks around "seeing", because it is indeed seeing, but not using eyes, but using another way.) scene, after she knew the image It's not that she can judge that what she sees is a space after expressing it in a way she is familiar with. She couldn't judge how big that space was, nor could she tell exactly what kind of existence this space was. When I heard what she said here, Bai Su and I were very puzzled, because there is a space in the middle of the mountain, there is nothing strange about this situation, to put it simply, it is a cave, if there is anything special, At most it's just a sealed cave, we don't understand that Hong Ling doesn't say that. At that time I raised the question, Hong Ling just shook her head: "I don't think what I see is like a cave... It seems... that space seems to be another world..." Hong Ling still couldn't explain why, and we were even more puzzled-if there was another world, it would not be a cave, but a valley! And of course that space will not be a valley - if it is a valley, the elders can of course come out easily, why is there a need to break through the three kilometers of rocks! Hong Ling couldn't tell the specific situation, and we didn't force her, because since the image she saw was her unprecedented experience, it's natural that she didn't have a familiar language to express it. If it were us, the situation would be the same . In short, we know that Hong Ling saw a space that should be very large. Hong Ling not only saw a space, but also saw many things in that space. She didn't know at all, and she couldn't even imagine what those things were—they were of different sizes, shapes, and colors... Anyway, it's something I don't know what it is. We have to accept this statement. Those things are still, so Hong Ling can only call them "things".Hong Ling knew that those things were certainly not elders, so she looked for elders among those things. She saw something moving very far away, and it was moving very fast, and it came to the front all at once, and what she saw was a human figure. How tall and how big is this human figure, since there is nothing she is familiar with to compare it with, so she can't say it at all. The human figure changes endlessly, a bit like looking at an amoeba under a microscope, but Hong Ling can distinguish the various parts of the human figure's body during the changes, and she sees that the human figure seems to be waving at her── She could even feel the excitement of waving her hands. At the same time, Hong Ling also sensed that the elder was asking: "Did you see me? Did you see me?" Although what Hong Ling saw now was quite different from what she had imagined in advance, but it was indeed that she saw a person, or a creature. What she expected to see was an old man with white hair and white beard and a strange description—that's what the elder she imagined, but she could immediately accept that the extremely weird human figure she saw now was the elder. So she immediately replied: "I see! I see you!" While she was answering, she saw the elder (the figure) rushing forward, but when the figure reached the junction of the space and the mass of things, it was obviously blocked and couldn't move forward. The elder stopped there. When Hong Ling received the signal, it was the elder who kept calling: "Help me switch, I want to switch!" Later, Hong Ling knew that when she received such information, Lan Si also received it.Hong Ling responded at the time: "In addition to opening up the three-kilometer passage, is there any other way to help you switch?" Hong Ling saw that the elder seemed to shrink into a ball: "Of course you can move the whole mountain—if you think it's easier than building a passage." Hong Ling smiled wryly, she clearly felt the elder's anxiety, and quickly responded: "Of course it's easy to open a passage." At the same time, she also heard Lansi's reaction. Lansi was assuring the elder: "We will proceed as soon as possible—there is already a way to proceed, and it can be achieved!" At that time, Lansi already had the 20 billion pounds that Tang Dadan gave her. Lansi had no exact idea of ​​how much money would be needed to carry out such a huge project. She only knew that a lot of money was needed, and 20 billion pounds was a lot. funds.She didn't know that Tang Dadan had at least quadrupled the 20 billion pounds and turned it into a larger fund, and it was indeed possible to carry out this huge project. From the change of human form and the information received, it can be known that the elder is very happy with Lansi's words. But at this time, Hong Ling felt great doubts in her heart——she felt that the elder was so anxiously looking forward to "switching", obviously he did not have the ability to switch.From this point of view, the elder's current state of "retreat" does not seem like he formed it voluntarily.It seems that the elder was locked in that space by an irresistible force! Because of this, the elder must rely on external power to help him switch, so that he can leave this space. Hong Ling has such doubts because although her experience is so unique, she is different from Lan Si, she has no religious fanaticism for the elders, and she does not believe that the elders are the representatives of all powers, so she has this kind of respect for the elders. Very disrespectful thought. Hong Ling did not mention this doubt to Lan Si at the time—and she never mentioned it to Lan Si afterwards. She just talked about this question that suddenly occurred to her when she was describing her experience to us. And before she told us that she had this doubt, I had thought of the same question a long time ago. From Hong Ling's narration, it can be clearly seen that the elder was locked in that space! I've had the experience of knowing a soul shut in a piece of charcoal, constantly sending out "let me out" signals. Now I feel that the situation is very similar. Of course, I don't think the Presbyterian Council is a soul shut up in the mountainside, but he is shut down, there should be no doubt about it.And he does not have the ability to get rid of the closed state, he must switch out, and must be helped by external force. As for the elder, he thought of asking external forces to help him, which felt very primitive, very stupid, and not smart at all. Although there must be a channel to come out, and if there is no channel, a channel must be opened. The reason is very simple, and there is only one way. But the elder is the instructor of the head-bending technique, and those who accept his teachings have become head-bending masters with incredible abilities. The elder himself should have greater abilities. Why is there no other method besides this method? up? For these questions, in order not to interrupt Hong Ling's narration, Bai Su and I just looked at each other and didn't raise them. When Hong Ling thought of this, she didn't expect the elder's ability to receive thought signals to be so strong. Although she was only thinking to herself, the elder reacted immediately. The elder's tone felt very helpless: "Yes, I don't have the strength to come out by myself. I have been here since I was here. If I can come out, I will come out as soon as possible." Just come out, and won't be here for so long!" Hong Ling felt very abrupt about the phenomenon that the elder knew what she was thinking after thinking about it for a while, because the elder knew what she was thinking, but she had no idea what the elder was thinking. In such a situation, the elder and her are definitely not on an equal footing, and becoming an elder is superior, while she is completely under the elder's control! At this time, she understood why Lansi had such unreserved admiration for the elders. It was because of this reason--she had been in a situation where she knew all the elders when she thought about it for a long time, so she would naturally respect the elders. Treating him like a god, he changed the relationship between himself and the elders into the relationship between man and God. Moreover, Lansi has continuously obtained the ability of the head-bending technique from the elders, which is equal to her status as a super head-bending master and the status of the leader, all of which are bestowed by the elders, so she naturally has an irresistible obedience to the elders. But Hong Ling's situation is different. Although she feels that the elders are extremely capable, and she has already joined the sect, she naturally has a high degree of respect for the gods (elders) in the sect, but she is not as good as Lansi. to that extent. Originally, as soon as I thought about the other party, I knew that this situation was surprising, but Hong Ling didn't feel scared. Firstly, Hong Ling is open-minded, and never thinks that what she thinks cannot be known to others; secondly, she has not been exposed to the head-bending technique at all, and she doesn't know how powerful the head-bending technique taught by the elders is, so she doesn't know how the elders can do it. No matter how supernatural power I have, I feel that even if I think about it, it doesn't matter if the elder knows immediately. On the contrary, she also felt that the elder was very helpless and the situation deserved sympathy. Hong Ling didn't know what the space the elder was in, but no matter what kind of space it was, it was always a very sad thing if she couldn't come out of it! No matter how capable the elder is, he still has to rely on the help of others to get out of the predicament. Hong Ling also knows better than Lan Si that even with huge funds, it is definitely beyond imagination to build a three-kilometer tunnel in such a mountainside, so can the elder get out of trouble? It's really hard to say. The biggest difference between Hong Ling and Lansi is that Lansi believes that the current situation of the elder is "retreat", and if the elder changes the current situation, it is a "switch". But Hong Ling thinks that the elder is trapped now, and if the situation changes, it will be out of trouble. So after Hong Ling felt the elder's reaction at that time, what she naturally thought of was: How long has the elder been in this space?Why is he trapped in it? From these two questions, the most important question arises: What kind of person is an elder? These questions flashed through Hong Ling's mind, and she knew that the elder would definitely receive the signal she sent when she thought about these questions, and she also looked forward to the elder's answer. However, the elder avoided these questions and did not answer them at all.Hong Ling insisted on thinking for a while, but the elder still didn't answer, but asked Hong Ling instead: "Tell me as much as possible about the situation outside." Hong Ling was taken aback for a moment, and it was difficult to understand what was meant by "outside situation" for a moment. At this time, Lan Si joined in: "The elders want to know everything in the world, but it's a pity that the leaders of all generations, including me, don't understand I don't know much about the world, so I can't meet the elder's request, now that you're here, it couldn't be better!" Hearing what Lansi said, Hongya felt very confused at the time──when Hongya narrated to us, her confusion was of course resolved.As soon as Bai Su and I heard what she said, we understood what her confusion was at that time. An elder needs to know the situation in the outside world. An elder needs to be told by others before he can know the situation outside. He has the ability to know other people's thoughts, how could he not know the outside situation? If he can receive what everyone in the outside world thinks, what else in the world does he not know? Hong Ling was confused by this question at the time. Of course, she soon had the answer──Bai Su and I immediately thought of the answer when we heard this. The answer is actually very simple: only in that cave can the elders communicate with people. In that cave, no matter what people think, the elders in that space can know.After leaving the cave, the elder cannot communicate with people, and his ability to know what people are thinking disappears and no longer exists. Therefore, if the elder wants to know the situation outside, he can only rely on the people who come to the cave to tell him. And this cave is the "treasure place" of the sect, and only the leader can enter it. Although the leaders of all dynasties, including Lansi, were super head-removing masters with great supernatural powers, their lives were all limited to head-reducing techniques. Lansi was better, and it was just adding Wen Baoyu.They don't care about things in the world at all, and they don't try to understand them. The head-down technique is their whole world. Therefore, it is certainly not enough for the elders to want to know the external situation from them. After Hong Ling understood this situation, she felt that the "outside situation" was complicated and complicated, and she didn't know where to start.She thought for a while and suggested: "If you want to know anything, just ask, and I will answer to the best of my knowledge." The elder agreed and started asking questions. I was thinking, what does the elder most want to know?That should have been the first question he asked. At this time, I already had a certain premise for what the "elder" is (what kind of existence), no matter how I imagine it, it should be based on this premise. The premise is: since the elders were trapped in the mountainside, it should happen exactly when the mountain range was formed. There is nothing like this happening before the mountains or after the mountains.