Kou Tong's house lived in an old building. Although it was close to the downtown area, it was a quiet place. From the nearest main road to his house, there were several narrow alleys.
Unfortunately, many ghost stories also start like this - on a dark and windy night for a month, a man, woman, old man and child were walking in a narrow and long alley. The street light in the alley was broken and flashed on his head. ,Sudden! The lights go out... The alley stretches out with a scream, like the dying cry of a night cat...
When it comes to Dr. Kou, whose character is always negative, the story becomes: On a sunny afternoon, three men were walking in a narrow and long alley. The street lights in the alley were not sure whether they were broken or not. Because it didn't open at all... Cough, suddenly! Huang Jinchen, who was walking in the front, made a crisp sound, and he stopped sharply, only to see that the slate he stepped on under his feet actually cracked.
The three of them froze for a moment at the same time and looked at each other.
Kou Tong sighed loudly and patted Huang Jinchen on the shoulder: "Er fat, if I don't lose weight, I don't want you anymore. I'm just a poor part-timer, and I don't have the money to change the floor every day."
Huang Jinchen protested furiously: "I shouldn't believe in the infrastructure construction of this city!"
Yao Shuo scolded: "Shh! Don't make a sound! Listen."
I just heard the sound of "quack, quack", and then along the crack under Huang Jinchen's feet, the stone slabs on the path actually cracked all the way, Huang Jinchen's hippie smile immediately became serious: "Get away!"
The three of them didn't respond slowly. When his voice fell, they climbed up the narrow wall next to each other, and looked at the big gap on the ground in amazement.
It slowly spread out from the ground like a living creature, split at the top, and calmed eerily.
Huang Jinchen and Yao Shuo looked up at Kou Tong at the same time, and found that Dr. Kou was squatting on the wall with a very indecent movement, holding his chin, staring at the big crack on the ground and thinking.
"Cracked ground, forked..." Kou Tong frowned, "What does this represent?"
Huang Jinchen asked very incomprehensibly: "Why can't you talk about something, is it interesting to make a lot of mysterious and weird things? Why is there any semiotics or theology in the world? The people who study this stuff are real Is there nothing else to do?"
Kou Tong thought for a while, and said in a way that Huang Jinchen could understand: "Because no matter what time or place, there are always some things that can't be said too much, you know."
Huang Jinchen pouted and began to look through his sack, and then took out a yo-yo-like thing from it, with a label hanging on it, still in the crooked font of a child, and it said: "Not afraid of ghosts" - quite in line with the idea .
"I'll try this thing."
Huang Jinchen tore off the package and threw the ball off the wall. The ball hit the ground and bounced back successfully, just like the ten-dollar gadgets sold on the train. Start flashing, make a "Di Di" sound, and then a milky voice said: "I'm not afraid! I'm mad at you! I'm not afraid! I'm mad at you!"
Yao Shuo had an expression he couldn't bear to gamble, Kou Tong looked up at the sky forty-five degrees, pretending that he didn't know the idiot next to him.
"Hey, look, that ball is starting to roll." Huang Jinchen added this sentence, fearing that the world would not be in chaos.
I saw the ball bouncing back and forth on the ground, as if someone was operating behind it, jumping forward, shouting "I'm not afraid of mad at you" while walking, and so on. It ran to the place where the crack splits, and then jumped up and down at the split point. I saw a small bud suddenly grow on the ground, and then the bud suddenly grew, and all of a sudden this The silly ball was pushed aside.
Huang Jinchen hurriedly caught it, and the small ball made a choking sound in his hand: "...I'm not afraid..."
… is pretty smart.
The small buds of the plants at the intersections stretched and grew recklessly, and then turned into a big tree within a minute, as if they were going to play out growth, budding, prosperity, decay, and death in an instant.
The tree was covered with apples, and then a branch was rolled up, with head and body, scales of eyes, and a swift letter-becoming a snake, and at last a dozen golden leaves grew on the top of the tree, Then everything finally returned to silence and became still.
Kou Tong tilted his head to look at Yao Shuo: "It's impossible to see a ghost in the daytime, how about it, which card is this, can you tell?"
"The apple and the snake... This should be the tree of wisdom in the legend of the Bible." Lao Yao said, "The twelve leaves should represent the twelve signs of the zodiac... There is a version of the tarot card, where the 'lover' appears on the card. over these things."
"Lovers?" Huang Jinchen was taken aback, "Is that also a card?"
"Lovers represent choices." Yao Shuo frowned, "It is said that the apples and snakes on the tree represent 'wisdom' and 'desire' respectively. There is also a saying that the choices on the lover's card are 'virtue' and 'desire'. , originating from the Neo-Platonist trend of thought in the Middle Ages, there is a tendency to break away from the material and reach the spirit…”
Huang Jinchen said: "Isn't this a disease? Where does the spirit come from without material? How do I feel that this set is similar to that... What is Cheng Zhuli's 'removing human desires' and 'preserving heaven's principles'?"
When Yao Shuo heard the first half of the sentence, he wanted to ridicule this gun-bearer for being ignorant, but when he heard the second half of the sentence, he thought he still knew this
I heard Master Huang make his own evaluation of this trend of thought: "It means to make people live by tightening their belts. On the one hand, they can't eat enough, on the other hand, they can't sleep with their wives casually. Isn't it farting..."
Yao Shuo felt that talking to this person again would be an insult to his IQ. Kou Tong held back for a while, and couldn't help expressing his own opinion: "Master Huang is really... good view."
Huang Jinchen smiled triumphantly, pointed to the tree bearing fruit and snakes under their feet, and said, "What about this?"
Kou Tong thought for a while: "Otherwise, let's try, can we go around..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw two walls "growing" behind this copycat version of the wisdom tree growing in the world, and it was getting higher and higher. are located at the tails of the two forks, respectively.
Kou Tong sighed: "I know, the answer is no."
"Then choose." Huang Jinchen jumped down from the tree, carried his funny sack, and said loudly to the tree of wisdom, "I choose desire."
Kou Tong was standing on the wall, looking at him in amazement, feeling that this man is really straightforward and self-conscious, completely ignoring mainstream aesthetics, doing his own way, with a kind of "I'm happy, can I handle it" rampant.
He has both the calmness that kills with one blow, and the unrestrained wantonness, and they are mixed in such a man without conflict. Kou Tong suddenly feels that he is a little attracted to this man.
He couldn't help but ask, "Why don't you choose wisdom? Isn't it better to be smarter?"
The two erected walls collapsed, and a small snake climbed down from the tree, crawling out as if leading the way in front, Huang Jinchen turned around and said to Kou Tong, "What is the use of wisdom, it is not enough to be full or warm, you Haven't heard of 'mentally handicapped children have more fun'?"
This makes sense!
Kou Tong was immediately persuaded, and jumped down from the tree, but a bunch of small snakes fell on the tree, blocking his way. rose by itself.
Kou Tong asked, "I also choose desire, can't I?"
The snake group gave way, and the wall leading to "desire" fell down again, but there was no Huang Jinchen there. Kou Tong's heart suddenly sank—this tarot card was using choice to separate them. He turned his head and wanted to talk to Yao Shuo, but suddenly his feet shook violently, and a tongue of flame rose from the crack, rising The temperature was so hot that Kou Tong's exposed skin hurt, so he had to take a few steps back.
Then the flames subsided—a wall stood in front of him, and Yao Shuo was also blocked on the other side.
Kou Tong turned his head and saw a wall on one side and a deep alley on the other, not knowing where to go.
He suddenly felt a little lost, stood there for a while, and finally sighed, touched his trousers pocket, and took out a water gun from it—the one labeled "Elephant Killer". After Huang Jinchen paid the bill, By the way, he also stuffed a one-dollar bill into the orangutan's basket, and "bought" it.
But what's a water gun good for
Dr. Kou wanted to cry but had no tears. He was just a little bit stronger than the average tech nerd. He didn't even have a weapon pack for a dungeon.
Until now, Dr. Kou has understood what it means to be "unarmed".