Chapter 6 Chapter 5 The first strange dream

Zinney began to tell his story again, and the following is his experience.In order to make it easier for you to accept what he said, I have retained his first person, it is all his words, his experience.Please note that the "I" in the quotation marks below is Sinney, and the ones in parentheses are my reactions. "Bo Lai and I paid a lot of money to Bain. Because Bain has repeatedly claimed that what he sold us is a genuine antiquity, so old that no one can tell the origin and year of this object, and, even in We couldn't find the same thing in the palace, so we bought it. When Bain handed it to us, he left in a hurry.

"That thing—you've seen it before, but you don't know what it is. Bailey and I both know that we've been tricked, but there's no other way. "Bai Lai's temper is very weird. He has almost no other friends except me. Although we lived with other people in that ancient temple, we didn't communicate with other people. We just asked in one of the dilapidated temples In a small room, we live our own lives. "There is nothing more to say about our life. I can't remember how we used this box as a pillow. When we found out that we were cheated, we kept putting it in the corner of the room. Before going to bed that night, Bo Lay dragged the box out and we used it as a pillow when we lay down. You've seen that box before. Bai Lai and I slept on each other, and it was easy to talk. As usual, the marijuana made us drift into sleep. Township. Usually we rarely dream, but the situation this night is different.

"I emphasize again, from now on, for about ten nights in a row, I will have the same dream every night, the dream is exactly the same, and later, even in the dream, I can connect it with my own memory. The beginning of the dream is that I have arrived at a place. "As I said, this dream is difficult to put into words. At the beginning, I can't. All I can say is, I'm in a place. But that's not quite right. Because I'm not there at all, but I feel that I'm there. What should I say about this place? It may be easier for you to understand. It’s like being in a movie theater surrounded by screens. Your body is surrounded by the scenery of the same place. Do you have a body? What about the feeling of that place? In fact, you are not there.

(Somewhat understandable, but not very easy to understand.) "I got to the place, what it was, I can't say, it was like a room, I should say a space, filled with a soft light, I couldn't see anything else, but I felt someone, at first, I just felt There were people who didn't see anything, and only a few figures were sitting there afterward. "I can hear very clearly, human speech. It's indescribable, and I'm hearing a language I've never heard before. And yet I understand it perfectly—or I don't It should be said that I can understand, but as soon as this sound enters my senses, I understand its meaning. Or there is no sound entering my ears at all, but someone else's idea suddenly poured into my mind The feeling, do you understand?

(Don't quite get it yet, but as long as Shinney hears someone talking, what matters is what he "hears"!) "I first heard a voice say: 'What's the final decision, have you come to a conclusion?' Then there was a silence, and another voice said—all the same voices, and there might be no voice at all, It's just my own feeling. (It doesn't have to be so detailed! What did the other voice say?) "Another voice said: 'There is a final decision: expel those people, they cannot be allowed to stay with us and live with us, send them away as far away as possible!' Another said: 'The problem Where should I send them?' The voice said: "Yes, the plan has been delayed because we couldn't find a suitable place. Now we have found a place, which is not very ideal. They are there , barely able to live on.'

(I don’t understand, it’s really like talking in sleep, but I have to listen patiently.) "The first voice is like the moderator. They must be discussing something in a meeting. I will call that voice the moderator, so you can understand it easily. (Nod, if it is numbered, it is easier to understand.) (The host's voice said: "Where is it?" A voice said: "It's a satellite of a seventeenth-level luminous star with an atmosphere. Because the atmosphere is not thick enough, it is greatly affected by the luminous star itself, and the difference in temperature is also large. It is very large, the highest may reach over 82%, and the lowest is minus over 104%.' (I don't understand, what kind of temperature calculation method is this?)

"The host said: 'That won't work, if you can't adapt to this temperature, it will cause a lot of deaths.' A voice said: 'You can teach them how to adapt. Let them learn from the original creatures on this planet. The existing ones on that planet creatures, in order to adapt to the temperature on the stars, have very thick hair on their bodies." The host said: "We can't make them grow thick hair to keep out the cold, so we have to teach them to use thick hair to cover their bodies .The high temperature can barely survive, how about the necessary parts in the air layer?' A voice said: 'One fifth, 50% less, can live, but it will become dull and lack of vitality. Relatively Humidity is best for short periods of time and in some areas, most of the time, it's uncomfortable!'

(Which place is this? Where is the "satellite of the seventeenth luminous star"?) "The host said: 'There is nothing that can be done, this is the most merciful way, they must not stay here! How is the food in that place?' A voice said: 'It is enough, of course it depends on how they use it. The host seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and after a while, he said again: "The most important question now is whether to keep their hair?" "I have already said that I don't really hear someone speak, but I just feel the sound coming in, and the idea is generated in my mind. All the ideas come from the sound I feel, and I can fully understand that only The word 'hair' is vague to me. When I discussed it with Bailey, he felt the same way. But we couldn't find any other ideas. Those people must be talking about hair, you Just have to take my word for it.

(I believe, but I really don't understand, what's so important about hair? Listening to what Sinney said here, I already had a vague idea that it was a meeting, and the meeting was discussing how to send a group of unwelcome people to another place to go. However, I don't know when and where it was a meeting.Did England send criminals to Australia in the 16th century?Or did Russia send criminals to Siberia in the nineteenth century?Or did China send criminals to Heilongjiang in the twentieth century? ) (Another voice said, 'Our form is determined by genetic factors, and our appearance cannot be changed. Their appearance has to remain the same as ours. Maybe after a long time, they will have a slight change in appearance due to their living environment, But it will never be completely different, they will still have hair growing out. However, we can make the function of hair disappear completely, this is possible.' The host said: 'Okay, that's it.'( The function of hair? What special function does hair have? It’s getting more and more inexplicable!)

"By this time, I saw figures, about seven, seven hazy figures, the same as our common people, with very long hair. "While I saw figures, I also saw a large number of people within a certain range of this space. I couldn't tell how many people there were. At least tens of thousands of people gathered together to It gives the feeling that there are so many people. (When did the large-scale deportation of criminals happen? There seems to be no such record in history!) "The host continued: 'The function of the hair will disappear, and their intelligence will be reduced to close to idiots!' The rest of the people were silent for a moment, and a voice said: 'The situation is probably like this, but the genetic factors cannot be completely eliminated. Passed on, the genetic factor has a chance of mutation, and we can't estimate what will happen in the future. Moreover, the memory part of the genetic factor cannot be completely eliminated." The host seemed a little surprised: "They will remember this place?" A voice Said: "I don't remember, but an extremely vague impression." The host sighed: "This is another problem. If they have an impression, they must want to come back, and our purpose is to prevent them from coming back. Unless one of them suddenly becomes fit for life here with us, that's a big problem!'”

"A voice said: 'Actually, it doesn't matter. There is excessive radiation in the light of the seventeenth-level luminous planet, which makes life short. And their hair has no original function, so they can't break through time and space. Restrictions, try their best to use other methods, they can't achieve their goals.' (Again, "the function of hair", what function does hair have? Hair grows on the skull, what fart function does it have? Anyone who shaves his hair completely or grows his hair three feet long will have a great impact on this person's life It won't have any effect, what's the use of hair?) "At this time, a voice that had never spoken before said: 'According to what you mean, send them away and leave them alone?' After this person said this, it was a long period of time. There was silence, and then the host asked: "Do you have any suggestions?" The voice said: "I suggest that after a certain period of time, we can send people to check it out. As I said just now, if their descendants, a generation Passed down from generation to generation, and some of them can be suitable for our life, we should let them come back!' "There was another silence. The host said: 'This is quite difficult. They have all been checked in detail and proved to have a very strong evil factor. Who do you think can take on such a job?' The voice said: 'We may train a few people , I already have a few people in my mind who can take on this job." The host said: "This is an extremely difficult job, how many people are volunteers? You must know, send them to that place, in those The middle life of a person is an extremely dangerous thing! According to our estimation, after the gradual recovery of intelligence, the consciousness of evil will definitely be higher than the consciousness of goodness!' "The host said: 'How many people will there be in that place at that time? You only send a few people, isn't it too dangerous?' The voice said: 'Of course it is dangerous, but we should do this to let the people who are eligible to come back Come on. I'm already training four people, one of whom is my only son.' Then, there was another silence, and the host's voice said again: 'Okay, your proposal is accepted! Exile them at last It is a last resort, that place is not suitable for living, and I also believe that after a few years, there will always be some people who are eligible to come back!" Then there was a sound of footsteps, and the voice of the host: "Let's go and see these human condition.'" Sinney stopped here. Everyone must remember that Xinni narrated his dream to me twice, each time, he stopped here, and when he stopped twice, there was a very strange look on his face. When he stopped here for the first time, I didn't rush him because I needed time to "digest" everything he had said.I have almost recorded everything that Sinney said verbatim, and you can naturally see that his "dreams" are indeed difficult to "digest". What kind of dream is this?Before he pauses, he doesn't even see anything, "only figures" and he hears a lot of conversations in his dream (it's a conference going on).The content of the meeting is to send a group of people (mostly criminals) to another place, which is a kind of deportation.The places where the deportees are going are not suitable for living, but barely survivable.Moreover, criminals (assumed to be criminals) seem to undergo some kind of operation to reduce their intelligence and make them look like idiots before being sent to the garrison.Among the participants in these meetings, opinions were also very different.They affirmed that after several generations the intelligence of the deportees would gradually recover—but in any case not to the original degree. Then, one of the participants in the council was particularly kind, considering that after some years, some of the descendants of the garrisoners might be completely different from their ancestors, and the inheritance of evil was reduced to zero, he argued that These people should be able to come back and not be left alone.So he advocated sending people to the garrison to choose the good ones to return. This person has even decided to send four people to do this dangerous work, and these four people are volunteer workers, and one of them is the one who put forward this idea. the only begotten son of man. This is the impression I get when I think over Sinney's account.And at that moment, I suddenly had a very strange idea. I vaguely felt that the dialogue in the "meeting" that Sinney told me seemed very familiar to me, not unfamiliar.In particular, I am not unfamiliar with the section about the only son of the person who made this claim, but at the time, I couldn’t remember where my familiar impression came from.At that time, I thought about it for about ten minutes, and Xinni also stopped for ten minutes. I didn't ask until I had a little idea, "Is the dream over?" Sinney said, "No." I didn't press him any further, so, after a minute or so, he started telling his dream again. "When the host said he was going to see the situation of those people, I also saw those people. Those people, at least tens of thousands of people, came out of a spherical white building. The white building There are seven doors in total, and people come out of each door. These people move in a very orderly manner, lined up, and go forward. They each go to a... a very strange thing, that thing, like a An olive, magnified 100 million times, and these people walked in one after another. "I can see very clearly. What do you think those people look like? They are the same as us, like you and me. They are taller. The most memorable thing for me is their expressions. Almost everyone is the same , with straight eyes, no expression at all, that kind of look, when I discussed with Bai Lai, we agreed that it was the look of an idiot. And tens of thousands of idiots are marching forward together, this... This is really scary people. (That's pretty scary!) "What's even more strange is that so many people with dull expressions are walking forward in a row by themselves. I didn't see other people, but in the distance of the open space, there were some strange-looking animals wandering. What kind of animals? I can't tell at all, some are like a mix of cow and horse - almost half cow, half horse, some are dog and horse mix, it's so weird! (It must have been so strange, so strange that it was beyond Shinney's knowledge, so he couldn't be sure he said it.) "Then, the weirdest thing came, those huge olive-like things - at least five hundred meters long, after all the people climbed up, suddenly made an extremely astonishing loud noise and emitted a dazzling light. The fire, soaring into the sky, flew away! "When the deafening sound and the flames gradually disappeared, I heard the strange voice of the host again. He seemed to be talking to another person: 'When are you going to implement your plan?' That person said: "After twelve cycles." The host said: "How many generations do you estimate that their changes have been passed down?" The man sighed: "At least ten thousand generations! The time there is different from here , and they were unable to overcome the final hurdle. It was your order that the use of their hair has been lost forever!' "The host's voice was also a little helpless: 'It's not my opinion alone, it was decided at the meeting. In fact, we are already benevolent enough!' The man was silent for a long while, as if he did not agree, and then Said: "The four who volunteered to do this dangerous work, when they go, will proceed in the same way we are reborn here." "Mr. Wei, please pay attention. What happened to Bailai and me in the future has a very important relationship with this sentence. This person mentioned the word 'rebirth'. At that time, the host said again: 'May I They succeeded! We overcame the difficulty of death, and it took twenty cycles! I still don’t understand what our scientists explained to those people. After those people died, there was nothing left?’ Then Humanity: "It's not that there is nothing. After death, we are in an illusory realm, just like before we found a way to regenerate. We can't find life again." The host didn't make a sound, just two "hmm" , There has been no sound since then, and at that time, I also woke up!" The latter part of Sinney's narration sounds even more incomprehensible. After thinking about it for a while, I found that his narration has no direct relationship with Bailey's death. Under the dim light, I fixed him with puzzled eyes.Xinni sighed: "Mr. Wei, I have had the same dream for seven or eight nights in a row, but Bai Lai is different from me." I was a little annoyed: "Didn't you say that Bai Lai's dream was exactly the same as yours?" Xinni said: "Yes, after we started having that dream, we discussed the content of the dream in detail every time we woke up from the dream. It was an extremely strange dream. You just listen to me, and you may not feel that you have experienced it yourself. The shocking feeling in this dream. After seven or eight days of connection, I went out to buy food that day, and Bai Lai stayed in the ancient temple alone. At that time, we had already attached great importance to this ancient relic, so we stayed Watch alone." I took a breath, and Xinni continued: "When I came back, I saw Bai Lai hugging that thing tightly, and an extremely indescribable brilliance appeared on his face. I have never seen it before. I've never been so happy with him, and when he saw me back, he called out, "Sinney, I get it! I totally get it!" I was a little confused: "What do you get?" , Said: "Sinney, I'm sorry, when you left, I made myself have a new dream.'" I snorted: "Sinney, you mean that Bai Lai was unfaithful to you? He used that thing to make himself obtain a new dream, and you don't know the content of this dream." Sinney ignored the hints in my words, because I always believed that Sinney killed Bai Lai for some reason, and if Bai Lai's behavior made him angry, it was one of the reasons! Xinni shook his head: "I didn't mean to blame him, at least that's what I thought at the time, I just asked: 'What new dream do you have again?' Bai Lai's expression and tone were extremely excited, and he asked me "Do you know who those people were driven away?" I shook my head, and Bailai almost screamed: "It's our ancestors, and we are their descendants!" Then he grabbed me , shook my body vigorously: "Sinney, I want to go back, I want to go back, you help me!" It was very strange, at that time I also had a strong feeling, and said: "Why don't we go back together?" Bai Lai said: "No, I can only go one by one." I said three times in a row that I would go first, but it was useless. I couldn't compete with Bai Lai, so I had to let him." I frowned, and Burley said "we are the descendants of those people", "we", of course, not only referring to him and Sinney. Because of those people, according to what Xinni saw in his dream, there are at least tens of thousands of people, how could there be only two descendants, but what does "we" mean? I was thinking about it, and Xinni said again: "Bai Lai had already prepared it. He took out a knife and pointed it at his heart: 'You have studied anatomy, stab me here, the deeper The better." Mr. Wei, my reaction was the same as yours at that time. I called out: "You told me to kill you?" Bai Lai laughed loudly: "Sinney, silly boy, why don't you understand? I won't die, I already know how to go back, after I go back, I won't die, you forget what we heard in the dream, rebirth! Life goes on, death has long been overcome!' I hold Belle and force it The sharp knife in my hand is still hesitating and unable to take it down." I was extremely confused: "Then you finally made a move!" Xinni said: "Yes, I finally did it. At that time, Bai Lai's expression was anxious and excited: 'You stab me so that I can get out of my body as soon as possible. The body is useless, it's just like a house You can only move into a new house by moving out of an old house, do you understand? Oh, you don’t understand, I already understand! Hurry up, boy, hurry up, if it’s too late, this thing will be useless ’ he said, pointing vigorously at the thing Bain sold us. Because his expression was so urgent, and his words were so earnest—” I didn't wait for Xinni to finish speaking, and said, "That's not a reason. If he wants to abandon... his body, he can commit suicide." Sinney said: "Yes, I also asked him the same question, and Bailey's answer was: 'Of course I can commit suicide, but if someone helps me to get rid of the things I don't want in the fastest way, why bother to find someone else? The cumbersome and slow way? Sinney, I promise you, I will come back and tell you everything, and go back with you, this is so funny, we never thought about the use of human hair, haha! ’ He laughed and urged me on, and I just... I just—” I said, "You finally stabbed him in the heart!" Xinni looked at the light and murmured: "Yes, I buried that thing under his body as he ordered. After that, I have been waiting for him to come back, but he didn't come back, I... I……" When he said this, he looked at me with a very sad look: "Until now, I don't even know the use of human hair." At this time, I couldn't see my expression, but I believed that my expression must be full of sadness. Because Sinney's question is so childish.This can prove that his mental state is very abnormal, and everything he said may be all nonsense! I said angrily, "What's the use of hair? Hair is used to protect the head, elementary school students know it!" Xinni suddenly laughed: "Primary school students can be satisfied with such an answer. But I believe that in terms of your level of knowledge, you will not be satisfied with such an answer. Do you know how thick a human skull is?" I still said angrily: "It's nearly an inch, and it's extremely hard and strong!" Xinni said: "Yes, people's thoughts are concentrated in the brain. The brain is an extremely important part of the human body. The responsibility for protecting the brain is assumed by the thick and hard skull. It was not until the eighteenth century that human beings found a chiseled head. Bone way. Why do you need such soft hair when you have such a solid protector? Hasn't it occurred to you?" I can't answer that one question for Sinney.Indeed, I never thought of this problem before. Hair is used to protect the head. This is an impression that has been deeply rooted since my education.But the fact is that hair has no use other than protecting the head. It doesn't matter whether a person has hair or not. During my silence, Sinney asked again: "Didn't you also notice that the length of the hair is not commensurate with its so-called 'head protection' responsibility? Human hair, from birth to adulthood, can be as long as eight Ten centimeters. It is almost equal to two-thirds of the height of a human body! Leaving it down can not only protect the head, but also protect the back and buttocks, haha!" I was a little annoyed by Xinni's laugh, and asked loudly: "Then what's the use of your hair!" Xinni shook his head and said, "I don't know now. Bai Lai must know, but he hasn't come back to tell me. Mr. Wei, in my dream, I heard the conversation of the dreamer, and mentioned hair more than once. 1. The function of hair. They must be useful. I am a medical student, and I know that the structure of the human body is so delicate that useless things cannot be allowed to exist, but hair, such long hair, is useless at all, so I had to force it Give it a use: to protect the head." I didn't say anything more, what Xinni said made sense.What is the use of hair?Why do people grow so many and such long hairs on their heads?When it comes to the concept of hair, most people don't easily think that the hair is nearly one meter long. That's because people keep cutting it short.If hair is allowed to grow, unless it is due to a disease, human hair can grow to nearly one meter! When I thought of this, I found that my thoughts were also messed up by Zinny, I shook my head vigorously, and decided not to think about this boring question.At this moment, Xinni leaned over full of mystery: "You must have never noticed another weird phenomenon!" Hearing "The Strange Phenomena" lifted my spirits and thought he had something amazing to say!Who knew what he said was still about hair!He said: "How many species are there on earth? Hundreds of thousands, millions of species, but only humans have hair, and only humans have hair on their heads that can reach two-thirds of their body height! And this kind of hair The organization of the human body is so wonderful, each hair is hollow in the middle, and has extremely fine organization! It must have an extremely important function, but the function has been stopped!" I could only keep blinking my eyes, but Xinni spoke more and more vigorously: "Although Bailey didn't come back to tell me all the details, I can also predict one thing, Mr. Wei, the satellite of the 17th class luminous star is the earth!" I was shocked for a moment, even I couldn't tell the reason, but I naturally followed his tone and said: "The place you saw in your dream──" Xinni's expression was even more strange and mysterious, and his voice was lowered a lot: "That is the place that each of us wants to go back to. I don't know what the original name of that place is, but on Earth, although human languages ​​are different , for that place, there is a common name: heaven!" My breathing became involuntary and hurried, and Xinni leaned back: "Besides, for many years, people on the earth have always wanted to go to heaven, and they have exhausted all methods. Some people even want to build a tower. Climb to heaven!" As soon as I heard Sinney say that "some people even want to build a tower and climb up to heaven along the tower", I suddenly realized! I suddenly understood why there was a feeling of "familiarity" when listening to Sinney's narration.That's a religious story! When I think about it, I can't help but laugh.More terms came to my mind: "sin," "salvation," "only son," and so on. Immediately I felt relieved, and was absolutely sure that Zinny was insane.Hippies often have a relationship with religion and like to "meditate". He must be a fanatic of religion, and there are many confusing concepts in his mind, so he has such "weird dreams" and lives in chaotic fantasies. among. After quite a while, I find it strange that such a hasty decision was made at that time.Because at least the "relic" that Bain sold, I can't explain what it is.But at the time I decided to do so, of course, for a reason. What I said to Xinni made my head dizzy, and I finally found an explainable reason, so of course I would not give up.Just like a person floating in the sea suddenly sees a ship approaching, the first reaction must be to climb on the ship, who will study which country the ship belongs to! At that time, I was thinking along this road, and naturally I no longer cared about what Xinni said to me. I had a plan in my mind, and I patted him on the shoulder: "We should go to bed too!" Zinny blinked, as if he still wanted to discuss everything he said with me, but I stretched and yawned. Xinni looked very disappointed: "It's a pity, that thing fell down! Otherwise, you will definitely have the same dream! Since you are so curious about everything, you must be able to find out some reason!" Looking extremely sleepy, he fell asleep.Zinny was lying down.But after he lay down, he seemed to be muttering to himself: "I don't know if Ba Yin still has such a thing? I wanted to buy another one from him, but what is he afraid of?" I tried my best not to laugh, why should Bain be afraid?The reason is very simple. Bayin found an unknown object from nowhere, put it in an old iron box, and lied to Western tourists that it was a "real antique".When a liar suddenly meets a deceived person, how can he not be afraid? Zinny muttered to himself for a long time again, but I didn't pay attention to what he was saying, and I didn't fall asleep. I just tried to rest as much as possible while maintaining a state of extreme alertness, because I was afraid that he would escape. After dawn, Xinni woke up, and I left the Nepalese house together with him, and lied to him: "Let's look for Bain again, and see if he still has such ancient relics!" Sinney looked very happy and followed me every step of the way.I took him around a few times first, and then told him to wait in the lobby of a hotel. I found the hotel staff, asked him for the phone book, and found the phone number of a mental hospital. I decided last night that instead of sending Sinney to the local police, it would be better to send him to a mental institution.Sinney was sober sometimes, he would tell his family's address, and the hospital contacted his family to take him back. I called the psychiatric hospital and told them there was a patient like this and I would send him in for testing.The hospital hesitated for a long time. A call was heard by at least ten people before it was transferred to a doctor in charge.I just gave the doctor my general conclusions.I didn't tell the story of Zinny stabbing another man in the heart, but I told the doctor that Zinny could be a very dangerous man when his fantasies were too rich. The doctor finally accepted my request, I put down the phone, found a place with Shinni, had a full meal, and then walked towards the mental hospital with him. Poor Sinney, even at the door of the hospital, was completely unaware of my plot.