When Su Bai left the ward and walked to the entrance of the hospital, Jie Ling drove over and gestured for Su Bai to get in the car.
He got in the car and lit a cigarette out of habit. He didn't mind dirtying Jie Ling's car, which was as tidy as an obsessive-compulsive patient.
Jie Ling frowned slightly but didn't say anything. There was really no need to say anything.
"The two of them still believe that the girl is there." Su Bai put his hand out of the window and shook the ash off his cigarette. "It's hopeless."
"The view is naturally different when we are at different heights." At this time, Jie Ling felt a little like a spiritual counselor, but he also knew that Su Bai was fully aware of what was going on in his heart and understood that he was just feeling emotional for the sake of it.
"It's not the same." Su Bai shook his head. "It's not that simple. They aren't that stupid. They aren't stupid."
"What exactly does it feel like? We'll experience it ourselves when we get there." Jie Ling looked at the time and continued, "I invited a low-level listener. He's an array master. He's just good enough, and he's obedient."
"Is the inherent thinking of humans really that scary?" Su Bai looked around in the car, found a bottle of mineral water, and took a sip. "It's just like the boring experiment where they cut their fingers and blindfolded their eyes to drip water."
"There's also a very familiar experiment, which is to electrify a cage. When the monkeys touch the cage, they get an electric shock. After that, no monkeys dare to touch the cage. After that, the monkeys are slowly replaced with new monkeys. Even though the electricity is no longer electrified, none of the new monkeys dare to touch the cage."
"These experiments are usually used as chicken soup for the soul." Su Bai blew out a smoke ring. "But I guess very few people can understand the philosophy behind it."
"Philosophy may seem useless, but in fact, it's very useful. Generally, people can only really understand what philosophy means when they get older." Jie Ling suddenly seemed to think of something. "Su Bai, is it possible that the woman wanted to convey this to you?"
"You speak without a head or tail." Su Bai was a little dissatisfied.
"You know what it means."
"Do you think that we are the people in the laboratory who cut their fingers and blindfolded themselves to scare themselves to death, or that we are a group of monkeys who still dare not touch the cage when there is no electricity?"
"What do you think?" Jie Ling reached out and asked Su Bai for a cigarette. Usually, he was too lazy to smoke this kind of cigarette, but now, this action showed that his heart was not calm at this time.
Su Bai had once deduced some truths about the pre-Qin period with a monk wrapped in a bath towel in a hotel. Almost a century ago, a meeting on a small boat on the lake had opened a new China. This showed that sometimes, some shocking ideas and conjectures could not only be deduced after the parties took a bath, changed clothes, and burned incense. Sometimes, it was actually a matter of opportunity.
"What if …" Jie Ling suddenly licked his lips nervously. "What if there is no broadcast at all?"
"Hehe." Su Bai laughed. "Then why are you still living in Shanghai? You can't even afford a toilet with the money you've saved for a year."
"Haha." Jie Ling laughed heartily. "That's right."
The car continued to drive in the direction of the cemetery area, and the two of them fell silent. 15 minutes later, the car arrived at the entrance of the cemetery area. It was very deserted here, and it was obvious that the area had been cleared.
Su Bai got out of the car first, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, and looked around. The environment was quiet and secluded, and it was a good place for people to get physical and mental peace during the day. In front of tombstones, the living could often subconsciously think about the meaning of life and reflect on their own lives. Of course, if he came at night, those positive factors would probably not be seen, and it would only make people feel a little nervous.
A hunchbacked middle-aged man was waiting behind the door. He was young, but his face was covered with acne. Coupled with his obvious hunchback, he gave off the feeling of an old man in his twilight years.
When Su Bai and Jie Ling came over, his back was even more hunched.
"My Lords."
"You can start," Jie Ling said.
"Okay."
A red silk thread appeared in the hunchbacked man's hands. As the silk thread twisted, a kind of magnetic field disorder similar to last night appeared again.
Su Bai and Jie Ling went straight to the office.
"That guy is very smart," Su Bai said.
"Hehe, before becoming a listener, he was already a metaphysician. He is very smart and easy to use." Jie Ling was not interested in continuing to introduce the hunchbacked man. Instead, he looked at Su Bai and said, "Now, let's start to put ourselves in the perspective of the two people last night."
Su Bai nodded and took a deep breath. At this time, he regarded himself as a low-level listener who had just completed the experiencer's task.
Of course, it was impossible to completely forget and completely put himself in the shoes, but the simulation just wanted to re-experience that feeling.
Su Bai slowly squatted down and took out the photo in his hand. In the photo, it was a group photo of himself, Xun Er, Chu Zhao, and the four girls.
Jie Ling also squatted down at this time, looked at the photo in Su Bai's hand, and said, "Who is this girl? She is quite beautiful. Why haven't I seen her before?"
"I don't know. She wasn't in the group photo before."
"But looking at her posture when she took the photo, it was obvious that she was very familiar with you. And the angle of the photo also showed her position. It doesn't look like it was photoshopped. Her hand is still on the man's shoulder, and the man's posture is also very natural. It seems that he made it convenient for her to lean on him. How could you not know her?" Jie Ling asked.
"Could it be that my memory was erased?" Su Bai asked.
"The broadcast will not erase the memory of the listener. It will only erase some of the ordinary people's memories of the listener after his death, allowing him to die a normal death in reality."
"What if?" Su Bai was a little uncertain.
"Her figure appeared in the photo again, which may mean that she has just died." Jie Ling guessed, "According to the theory that memory has been changed, the three of you bought a tombstone here, so her tombstone should be next to it, connected to the three of you."
"Then let's go and see …"
At this point, Su Bai suddenly widened his eyes, and Jie Ling beside him also held his breath at this moment.
The sky suddenly turned dark …
"What's going on!"
The hunchbacked man looked at the red line in his hand in disbelief. The red line was spinning at a rapid speed. Now it was not his fingers that were driving the red line, but the red line that was driving his fingers.
His ten fingers were overloaded, and blood was already flowing out. The hunchbacked man was terrified, but there was no way he could stop it. But if he continued, his ten fingers were likely to be directly destroyed.
"Puff …"
"Puff …"
Several fingers directly flew out of his palm, and the hunchbacked man fell to the ground dejectedly, but his red line continued to float in the air, constantly shaking and changing, as if a pair of invisible hands had replaced him at this time and were controlling everything.
…
"Here, besides the photo under the tombstone, there should be something strange." Jie Ling had already stood up at this time, looking around and observing, "The speed of the array's operation is more than ten times faster than before, unless that guy just skipped the ordinary listener level and directly fused with the life weapon."
"Continue to maintain the state of belief, at least continue to maintain this state of immersion." Su Bai also stood up, "Don't wake up, or all this will disappear."
"Hehe, this is like a ghost lying on the bed, you wake up but can't move, but why did you remind me of this? Do you think I don't know?" Jie Ling patted Su Bai's shoulder helplessly, "It's because of your reminder that I feel like I'm about to lose the role."
After Jie Ling said that, he immediately closed his eyes, and the surrounding darkness also faded a little, and a trace of light began to shine in.
Su Bai looked at his palm, he did not feel anything sucking his strength, but in order to maintain this feeling, he seemed to take the initiative to give his strength. This was a very strange feeling, because the loss of his strength was not passive, but active.
"Now I'm a little regretful that I invited a low-level listener array master here. There is clearly something here that we neglected last night. Your two friends did not have their essence, qi, and spirit absorbed by the so-called array here last night. On the contrary, they used their own strength to maintain the operation of all this last night, and when they were exhausted, the operation here stopped. Otherwise, there is no reason for them not to be sucked dry and still be alive, because they themselves are the energy source, and they are the ones who hurt themselves."
"Simply put," Su Bai continued, "it is impossible for them to strangle themselves to death."
"You're still as concise as ever." Jie Ling smiled, "Are you scaring yourself? Or do you believe in something and it appears? Or is it a trap set up by using your own established thinking pattern? "
"Xun Er said that when she looked up the girl's information on the computer, the power went out. Now that I think about it, it might be because she did not know who the girl was, so it was like a dream. It is impossible for a person's dream to appear that they have not seen in reality. Because Xun Er did not know who the girl was, an accident happened when she was about to look up the information, and a reasonable explanation allowed her to avoid this problem that she could not recognize herself."
"That should be the case. This place is a bit like a dream, but it is not. It is not a situation that simply arouses people's inner fear or negative emotions, because it is not that simple and pure. This place is really complicated, and the water is deep."
Su Bai turned around, looked at the office, and took a few steps forward. The door had been resealed, and the darkness was getting thinner and thinner. Obviously, both Su Bai and Jie Ling could not maintain their previous conversation. After all, they were much wiser than Xun Er and Chu Zhao, and they came here after knowing the general truth. Subconsciously, they did not believe it at all. It was similar to the effect of self-hypnosis that they could maintain their previous conversation until now. The silly conversation between the two was actually to create this kind of atmosphere so that they could immerse themselves in the role, but obviously, this kind of atmosphere could not last for long.
Jie Ling put his hand on Su Bai's shoulder and sighed, as if he was helpless because he had not found the key point.
Su Bai took out a cigarette and handed one to the waiter behind him. The waiter took the cigarette.
"Pa."
Su Bai lit the cigarette. The darkness had thinned to the point that there was only a layer of paper left. All of this was about to end, but there was still nothing. Could it be that he had to do it again later? Or could he call the monk who was holding some Buddhist conference in Nantong back to explore together?
"Hey, did you put any souvenirs under the tombstone when you bought it?" Jie Ling asked curiously.
Su Bai was stunned for a moment. He turned around and saw Jie Ling standing more than ten meters away from him. He was very close to his tombstone,
Then..,
The person who had just put his hand on his shoulder to take his cigarette..,
Who was it?
For a moment..,
The darkness instantly thickened again.
In the distance, Jie Ling was surprised and praised,
"Heh, how did you do it? Did you hypnotize yourself again? What a long-lasting man. "
