A very bad sign for the place.
The noise of people and the sound of equipment on the set seemed far away for a moment. Yi Wan was stunned by the sound.
— along with his hand suspended in mid-air.
Huigong was standing on a huge rock. Below the rock was a bottomless abyss. To push him off the rock, all it took was a slight push.
What's more, his body was completely defenseless against Yi Wan.
Even so, Yi Wan knew that his defenselessness was logical. The set was full of cameras and cameras. Even if they stood in a remote corner, there were staff members walking around from time to time.
A popular idol, on the set of an amateur variety show, in front of everyone, without jealousy, anger, or revenge... pushed another tarot blogger he had never met off a cliff
It's absurd anyway.
Completely absurd.
But this is the absurdity that Yi Wan wants to test.
The reason why Gu Ruchao was successfully reborn was that he chose a logical death. Xie Ziyu could go back to the past because he changed the logical defeat. Only logic can form a Markov chain, and only logic can infer a hidden Markov model. Xie Ziyu lives in a predictable future and an observable past that he is grateful for, just like an omniscient four-dimensional creature.
Therefore, the only thing that can defeat Xie Ziyu is the absurdity with a zero probability.
An absurdity even more absurd than the logic of this absurd world.
Yi Wan's guess came from the plum blossom buckle during bungee jumping. The frightened expression on Xie Ziyu's face at that time was definitely not acting. Xie Ziyu arranged the future of others. He narrated Zhang Jianhua's logic, Chu Shang's logic, and the logic of each participant.
But he never understood Yi Wan, he didn't expect it, so he was terrified. Because everyone else had more or less integrated into this world. Only Yi Wan had his own logic... Only he refused to integrate into this world from beginning to end.
So this is the only weapon Yi Wan can use to fight against this omniscient and omnipotent creature, the only weapon he has!
This is also what Yi Wan guessed, the reason why Xie Ziyu was so persistent in dragging him into this world—he wanted Yi Wan to integrate into this world.
And Yi Wan used the absurdity woven by his logic to counter his omniscience!
If Yi Wan's logical model of this world is not valid, then when he pushed Xie Ziyu with murderous intent, Xie Ziyu should have grabbed his hand at the last moment instead of letting him push him down...
But Xie Ziyu didn’t.
So he confirmed it. "Bad luck." Yi Wan said, "Your prediction was not successful."
Yi Wan's voice was a little trembling, which made him naturally turn his action into a "pat". When Hui Gong turned around, his expression changed from a momentary shock and a moment of anger to a complex, interesting mockery and anger.
He scanned everyone, trying to find the murderer who swapped the bamboo sticks. This toy-seeking look allowed him to maintain his grace in failure. The director and props who were communicating were not the ones, the two guests with embarrassed faces were not the ones, the confused Xiong Xiaohua was not the one, and Hong Lei who came back after changing her high heels was not the one.
"It's a childish and crude trick, but logically, such minor sabotage would be prevented by various unexpected events," Huimiya said, "along with the people who tried to do it."
"Perhaps it's because your arrogance interferes with your understanding of the world." someone said.
The newcomer stood beside the two of them. He was wearing sunglasses, a light-colored denim jacket and matching jeans, like a hero who suddenly appeared.
Heroes usually come to the battlefield with their own guards. But this time, the hero's followers are not so cool... A group of old men and women wearing peaked caps rushed up the hillside with a sturdy posture that did not match their age, accompanied by angry magic attacks.
… They were brought here in a minibus. All the staff were stunned and did not dare to stop them.
"It's him! That Manager Bai!" Auntie A shouted angrily, "He's the one who tricked us into raising funds and cheated us out of our money!"
"It's shameless to cheat an old man out of his money!"
Bai Yueguang was also stunned by the mighty battle. He immediately wanted to hide behind Chu Shang, but was pulled out by an old man. The old men and women were invincible. The directors and stagehands who were good at calming down conflicts on the set fled in fear with their camera equipment. No one dared to confront them head-on. Only Chu Shang was swaying in the crowd, with a look of astonishment on his face, at a loss.
The crowd was noisy, and a few middle-aged women who didn't squeeze into the crowd also took the initiative to catch up with a few staff members to explain science.
"I've been looking for this liar for years! The property rights were originally agreed to be for 70 years... but it was expropriated within two years, and there was no compensation at all!"
Chu Shang was even more shocked: "Didn't you say you just returned to China?"
Yi Wan: "... What kind of scam did Bai Yueguang do before?"
Yu Rongshi: "Grave."
Yi Wan: “…”
Yu: "He took the money abroad and stayed there illegally. Now he has been deported." Yi Wan: "..."
Okay.
Yu Rongshi took off his glasses, glanced at Huigong, whose expression was unreadable, with his phoenix eyes, and suddenly smiled.
"The law of nature also respects the old and loves the young." He said slowly, "Isn't it, Mr. Xie?"
Even though Liu Chen almost broke half of his leg while trying to make contact.
"Also, please stay away from my rumored girlfriend." He added, "1v1 is the way to go."
He said a buzzword he had learned from surfing the Internet. Unfortunately, this sentence did not resonate with the young man Yi Wan. Yi Wan just gave him a strange look.
Yu Rongshi was a little confused.
Did he learn the wrong words
The scene was in chaos. Director Cheng was staring blankly at the script, thinking of a solution. His eyes repeatedly moved from Chu Shang to the production manager, from the production manager to the photographer, from the photographer to the screenwriter, and then to...
"There are 18 bad lots, and there are also 18 old people coming over." The prop squatted on the ground and counted the bad lots, exclaiming.
"Wow, so accurate!" Xiong Xiaohua was also squatting beside him and said in surprise.
Director Cheng: …
Sometimes it doesn't have to be so accurate.
He finally looked at Zhang Jianhua. Zhang Jianhua ignored him. Director Cheng then said, "If I increase the money..."
"I have a job, Mr. Cheng." Zhang Jianhua looked up and said, "I won't quit for the time being."
His smile blinded Director Cheng, whose heart was corrupted by capitalism.
Regardless of how Director Cheng will deal with this program, at least Chu Shang’s Bai Yueguang filter is completely shattered. Maybe because his name contains “Shang”, he finds it hard to accept that Bai Yueguang used the cemetery to commit fund-raising fraud (even though Bai Yueguang repeatedly emphasized that he was just a manager). It’s a pity that he didn’t even have the chance to leave, because he was already submerged.
Yi Wan heard a slight "click" sound.
A set shattered.
Huigong stood beside him and looked at Yu Rongshi. After a long while, he smiled strangely.
"Is this your new teammate? Shen Zhong?"
He laughed strangely, not in a sarcastic way, but rather in a way that seemed like he was taking great pleasure in someone else's misfortune. This made his shoulders tremble and his scalp tingle. He seemed to have discovered something very funny, and all his emotions flowed towards this black hole that caused the gravitational field to collapse. He didn't even care about the failure just now.
"You think he's a hero, the one who changed the studio, the one who brought redemption? How many stories has he told you about himself, fighting me, fighting Goldfinger?" He chuckled, "A very idealistic and personal hero? You think so? But you—"
"Don't you think there's something wrong with him?"
Yi Wan looked at him coldly. Then only Hui Gong was laughing.
Yu Rongshi was also looking at the Gray Palace.
He asked his brother to help him find out Bai Yueguang's dark history, invited people to pay attention to Yi Wan's actions, and successfully prevented a potential tragedy. A few years ago, he had been fighting with Xie Ziyu repeatedly. But until the end, he had never seen Xie Ziyu show such an expression.
Say something like this.
At this moment, he suddenly felt that Xie Ziyu's targeting of him was probably not just because of his "arrogance" or "integrity" that offended him... But that was only a slight momentary feeling. Xie Ziyu was a psychopath, and this was a fact. The words of a psychopath were not to be trusted.
"… pathetic defective product." Huimiya said, "Do you think I would be angry about a failure?"
Yu Rongshi felt that Huigong was throwing gibberish at him. So he said coldly: "You will pay back Chi Xu's debt eventually."
Huigong's face twisted: "Rather than Chi Xu, you should go and look at those girls who are severely depressed because of his self-willed behavior..."
"If he had stopped meddling earlier, they could have been as happy as Xiong Xiaohua."
He raised his chin and pointed at the innocent and sweet girl in the crowd. Xiong Xiaohua thought they were greeting her and waved back.
"If you make trouble again, I can still send you in." Yu Rongshi said in a cold tone.
Huigong's facial features twisted again: "... Talking to you will never make sense logically."
Yu Rongshi: "Go slowly."
He was too lazy to pay attention, he just knew that Xie Ziyu would be very angry if his garbled code throwing process was interrupted.
Huigong shrugged and left. Before leaving, he stopped beside Yi Wan.
He lowered his head, so the voice was close to his ear again, and only the two of them could hear it.
"I know you don't like him."
This sentence shouldn't have caused any response. But Yi Wan responded with lip language.
"How do you know?" he said.
"You are too smart, so you don't like anyone." Hui Gong also responded with lip language, "and he..."
Not self-consistent.
"Sometimes real redemption is worse than a fake one." Hui Gong finally laughed in a voice that both of them could hear. "You will soon understand this - why?"
He asked himself and answered, "Because of nothingness. Yu Rongshi should have understood it a few years ago, right? By the way, I should respect you more in the future. I shouldn't call you Shen Zhong, I should call you Yi Wan."
Huigong waved his hand and disappeared among the several staff members who were hurriedly responding.
"AT's response is slow, but soon, they will inform Yi Wan that he has been cut off." He put on his coat and said, "It's time for us to move on to the next step."
"Will this really work?" He said to himself again, "Yi Wan is a very smart person. Will my contact with him this time make him aware of some of my weaknesses?"
The people around him were no longer surprised by his strange reactions, but it was clear that Huigong didn't care about their thoughts.
"If I am now living in a huge black vortex." Huigong gestured with his hands again, suggesting the hugeness of "it", as if answering his previous question, "then Yi Wan has already lived in that vortex."
"He's in deeper trouble than I am."
"So if there really is a most terrifying monster in this world, then that monster would not be me, but him."
The show ended in dismal failure. Several people were not in the mood to have a celebration banquet, even though the show was good enough. The director team went to discuss post-production issues urgently, and several celebrity guests looked at each other in bewilderment. After returning to the base, Hong Lei kept complaining: "Why did that Hui Gong just leave? He is not professional at all."
The fake necklace and the broken high heels were thrown into the trash can. The only thing she gained from this variety show was that she felt a little sorry for Yi Wan.
The others were also packing their luggage. Xiong Xiaohua looked around and saw a staff member, so she asked about the injury of host Liu.
She felt sad when Liu Chen pulled her away from the door of the Gray Palace yesterday.
But Liu Chen's strange behavior did not make her feel disgusted or weird. On the contrary, he made her feel familiar and at ease.
It is hard to describe this feeling in a few words. It is like a late night when a few friends from the drama club went out for a midnight snack after a play… They walked a long way before they saw a hot pot restaurant open. So they ate hot pot fish together, with the boiling red soup steaming hot. It was still chilly in the spring, so they went back to school together at two in the morning. They would still walk a long way and talk a lot. The boys consciously sent the girls to the dormitory and then went home.
That's the feeling.
"He fell and broke his leg but didn't get on the bus. I don't know what he was waiting for." A doctor said, "He just got on the bus and left."
"Oh." said Xiong Xiaohua.
Xiong Xiaohua grew up in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. She doesn't eat spicy food and has never eaten hot pot fish. But when she looked at the glass window, she thought that the glass in the hot pot restaurant should be foggy during the late spring cold. The boys were fishing and the girls were laughing. It seemed like this was the scene, as if she had been to such an event.
The plain-looking Liu Chen sat in the ambulance, holding up his phone to watch the interview with Xiong Xiaohua, his eyes wet with tears.
That was an interview video of Xiong Xiaohua a year ago, in which she talked about her past experiences. The girl in the video was wearing a white sweater and had a clear and lovely smile.
“I’ve never been in love.”
"I still have a yearning for love."
She had never been in a relationship, never been humiliated, never entered a room.
He wondered if these were the three sentences that Chi Xu was thinking of when he thought about being torn to pieces.
…
Yi Wan sat in the hotel room.
He didn't explain to Yu Rongshi, nor did he want to explain to him what he did to Xie Ziyu, or what Xie Ziyu said to him in the end. A strong and huge feeling swept through his body, and he just wanted to be quiet at this time, or he didn't want to say anything.
There was a "click, click, click" sound coming from outside the door.
Zhang Jianhua walked in.
"Haven't you packed your luggage yet?" He said with a smile, holding his computer.
Yi Wan didn't say anything. He just watched his back as he packed his things. Zhang Jianhua's professionalism in life was unmatched. He folded the towels neatly, zipped up the suitcase, and even wiped the hotel sink before leaving.
Yi Wan looked at his back and saw that half of him was buried in the shadows.
"... Chu Shang came to see you just now." He finally said.
"Um."
“… He will continue to call you.”
"Yeah." Zhang Jianhua said, "But I don't plan to take it."
In fact, all the problems have not been solved, Yi Wan thought.
Some people have a brilliant life, while others have a life filled with a serious illness that will haunt them for the rest of their lives.
The history of life is not a script, and some things can never be eradicated in a lifetime.
Zhang Jianhua packed everything. Yi Wan suddenly realized that he was a little nervous just now, which was why Zhang Jianhua folded the towel sixteen times.
"Don't worry, I will continue to work." Zhang Jianhua said, "Please believe in my professionalism. I have loved him for three years, but before I met him..." "I have loved my career for more than ten years."
His tone was brisk. For the first time, Yi Wan realized that people were not hesitant when they pretended to be calm, but were more cheerful than usual. He looked down and saw several job-related quotation emails sent by Zhang Jianhua on his phone.
He paused.
Zhang Jianhua waited for Yi Wan to say "yeah", just like Yi Wan had done countless times. But this time Yi Wan spoke.
"In fact, all the problems have not been solved." Yi Wan's voice had an inorganic, mechanical feel. "Chu Shang is still the prince of AT. If he wants, he can still make things difficult for you. If he still has feelings for you, he will harass you. If he loses feelings for you, he will get angry and make things difficult for you."
"… "
"There will be more and more rumors about you and him in the company. What happened today has been forwarded to the company's internal forum. Although the boss of at reacted quickly and deleted the post, he couldn't disband the WeChat group. I guess he will talk to you later."
Chu Shang would not be affected. He could just walk away and talk about this love affair in a joking way when he was in his forties or fifties. After being freed from the control of the script, he was still the son of the CEO and a gentleman in the eyes of others.
It's you who face the rumors and the harassment, even if the only thing you did was walk into that bar on Saturday, May 13 of that year.
The exploitation of the upper class by the lower class will not end with the end of the script. The shoulders of ordinary people will still be covered with quicksand that fell from the fingers of the CEO's son.
so…
If you can't stand it, you can leave.
Why don't you leave
Because I am unwilling to accept it? Because of what kind of unwillingness? Is your fate, which I am trying to change, originally the best choice from your heart
Zhang Jianhua was silent.
They sat in the room for a long time, until dusk fell, coating the city with pink and gold. The hotel room was well located, and through the window you could see the city below the hillside. Each tall building was three-dimensional, not like a city painted on paper.
There are traffic in the twilight, there are countless rooms, there are countless ordinary people who are controlled by the script and not controlled by the script, there are countless ordinary people who are controlled by life and not controlled by life, there are countless ordinary people who are controlled by history and not controlled by history.
The city is a fortress that devours people, and it is also everyone’s home.
Many years ago, 18-year-old Zhang Jianhua came to this city by train with his luggage. He bought a ticket for 159 yuan and saw the twilight of S City from the blue sky and white clouds of Inner Mongolia. What was he thinking along the way
What does he imagine himself to be like when he is 35
Few 18-year-olds fantasize about being 35. They like to fantasize about being 24 or 25, about being young and full of vigor, about being successful and famous, and about taking revenge.
Young people don’t know how thin spring clothes are. 35 years old is too far away for them.
People like to fantasize about the future, but never about tiredness. At the same time, they prefer to mourn the youth that has died.
Finally, Zhang Jianhua spoke.
"Because we have recognized the essence of life, we have to keep moving forward. There are always things more important than momentary emotions. That is longer-lasting happiness." He said, "Have you seen "Arrival"? It says 'I see all the sadness in the future, but I still choose to go'."
… emotional, fragile optimism.
Yi Wan thought.
“…it is an experience.” Zhang Jianhua suddenly smiled. “At least it is an experience, isn’t it? Maybe one day, I will write it in my autobiography.”
The driver's voice urged him outside the door. He and Yi Wan stood up and picked up their own suitcases.