Ruyizhai

However, Wu Xingchen did not fall into any dark pit. When he opened his eyes again, he saw Teng Rong and the woman in the white gauze skirt. , There was a vague white light behind them, and their outlines were also somewhat blurred.Wu Xingchen rubbed his eyes and asked, "Did I sleep for a long time? I was..."

His throat was dry and hoarse, and he started coughing. This coughing made him dizzy, his back ached, and the feeling of falling back from last night returned. Maybe he did fall from somewhere.Wu Xingchen touched the back of his head, his skull didn't hurt, his head wasn't hurt, it was just swollen, his eyes wanted to open, but somehow he consciously avoided the light.Wu Xingchen raised his right hand to cover his forehead, which made him feel better. Only then did he see Teng Rong and the woman clearly. One was standing and the other was sitting. The woman was sitting next to him, smiling at him. Said: "You are in the room."

Teng Rong stood in front of him, blocking some light, Wu Xingchen fully opened his eyes, and saw that he was lying on a single bed with a glass of water on the bedside table.This room seemed to be the one where Teng Rong stayed with him last night.But right now there are only three single beds in the room, six cabinets, and a polished floor in the space between the single beds.It should be daytime, and the sunlight passes through the holes in the wall, casting beams of light in the room.Wu Xingchen still couldn't get used to the bright light, he lowered his head and rubbed his temples.He said: "Sorry, I recently underwent a major operation, and my body functions may have been affected and have not fully recovered."

In addition, after the operation, he came to Kowloon from Paris with no self-cultivation at all, and the jet lag may also have a big impact.

Teng Rong said: "Mr. Wu, you fell on the door of the bathroom last night." He picked up the glass of water beside the bed and handed it to Wu Xingchen: "Many new humans will be a little uncomfortable after coming to the church, and it will take a while to get used to it. .”

The woman propped her hands on the bed, shook her calf, nodded in agreement: "That's right, it will take a while to get used to it!"

Teng Rong said again: "I wonder if you have heard of altitude sickness?"

The woman was like Teng Rong's answer, repeating his words: "Have you heard of altitude sickness?"

Wu Xingchen took the water glass and said: "The altitude here is not high, the natural environment here is no different from the outside, why are you not used to it?" He shook his right hand, "I belong to a special situation..." He He mumbled before planning to take a sip of water, and a woman's smiling face was reflected in the water glass.She smiled sincerely, brilliantly, with a hint of concern. Looking at her smile, people couldn't help but want to raise the corners of their mouths and smile.Her laugh is contagious and should come from the heart.

That's what the woman doctor in the Sanitarium in Paris, Texas, laughed at.Wu Xingchen swallowed dryly, giving up the idea of ​​drinking water.

Teng Rong said: "This is just an example. With the level of evolution of new humans, altitude sickness is no longer a problem for you. It's just that your mechanical arm may have destroyed the original balance of your body."

Teng Rong's deduction is not unreasonable, let's not consider how much impact the replacement of the robotic arm will have on the body, but the importance of the human brain to the human body is unquestionable, perhaps his mechanical brain has not yet fully adapted to the left brain, causing his Had some hallucinations.

Teng Rong said: "By the way, I picked it up next to you."

He fished a videotape out of his coat pocket.Wu Xingchen was in a trance for a while, his head was still in a state of confusion, but he spoke first, and he heard himself say: "This is a videotape of a listening session ten years ago, the one you mentioned, the one Ruyizhai attended. To tell you the truth, Ruyizhai has been missing for a while."

"Mr. Ruyizhai has been missing for ten years, right?" Teng Rong looked at him with concern, "It seems that you really have a deep friendship with him."

As soon as these words came out, Wu Xingchen's heart thumped. Ruyizhai has been missing for ten years?Didn't Ruyizhai faint in the apartment with himself, and then sent to a nursing home for treatment?No, the doctors in the nursing home never directly answered his question about Ruyizhai's whereabouts. Everything was his speculation based on his own situation.However, how did Teng Rong know that Ruyizhai had been missing for ten years?Has anyone posted a missing person notice on the terminal?

Wu Xingchen glanced at Teng Rong's right wrist, Teng Rong was not wearing a terminal.There was only a small red blood spot on his right wrist.

Teng Rong noticed Wu Xingchen's gaze, put his hands behind his back, and walked a little further.Wu Xingchen looked up at him, he was still concerned, Wu Xingchen cleared his throat, and said: "Anyway, I miss him very much, trying to figure out where he went, if he was listening to the conference What was revealed on..."

"Then do you need to take a look at the contents now?" Teng Rong asked.After hearing this, the woman clapped her hands, jumped out of bed, and muttered: "Do you want to take a look? Do you want to take a look?"

She ran outside and came in after a while pushing a table with pulleys. There was a TV set on the table, and a VCR on top of the TV.Long wires trailed behind the TV and VCR.Wu Xingchen was dripping with cold sweat, and asked, "Is this the TV and VCR in the room where the videotapes are stored?"

The woman nodded again and again, Teng Rong pushed the video tape into the VCR, turned on the TV, and said, "Let's watch it together, with a few more people and different perspectives, maybe there will be unexpected discoveries."

He turned his head and smiled at Wu Xingchen.Wu Xingchen could only bite the bullet and say, "Then let's take a look..."

He wasn't sure if the video automatically played on the TV last night was over, he was afraid that 677's face would pop out again, but luckily after the TV went dark for a while, what appeared on the screen were men and women sitting in a circle.Wu Xingchen saw Ruyizhai at a glance.He breathed a sigh of relief, but in a blink of an eye it was held in his chest again.Ruyizhai in the small square box looks so vague, what on earth is he doing in Tengzhai?He also attended the listening session... for what purpose, what intention?

The last fall of the rebellious angel... This name was also mentioned by Ruyizhai.

Maybe, he will never be able to guess him, can't read him, maybe, he will never find him, maybe, he will become so blurred in his memory... Who can guarantee that the brain transplant surgery will not What about the after-effects?

On the TV, a woman choked up and said: "For a long time, sleep has become a luxury..."

The rest listened quietly.There was no standing ovation at the listening session ten years ago—perhaps because of this listening session, Teng Rong was not present, but there was no silence holding hands, only one person raised his hand to signal to everyone what he wanted to say, and everyone cheered. Look at him, and he speaks.Everyone listened.

"...He said, child, only in this way can you become a complete human being, he said, child, do you want to become those broken new human beings? Their souls are incomplete, they refuse to feel love, you have to use your heart to feel..."

Standing by the TV, Teng Rong asked Wu Xingchen, "Want to fast-forward to Mr. Ruyizhai's part?"

The woman sat back next to Wu Xingchen, crossed her legs, and looked at him with her face propped up: "Do you want to fast-forward to Mr. Ruyizhai's part?"

Wu Xingchen asked: "Is there only one video recording this day?"

Teng Rong said: "Yes, the record of that day was unexpectedly short," and he began to fast-forward the video. "Mr. Ruyizhai seems to be the third person who spoke."

Teng Rong continued: "Maybe it's a bit abrupt to ask, but is Mr. Ruyizhai's surname Ruyi or Ru?"

Wu Xingchen shook his head, unable to speak.

"Is it a nickname, or a stage name?" Teng Rong pressed play again, and turned his face slightly to look at Wu Xingchen: "This name is too unique. He has been an actor in many underground theaters, right?"

Wu Xingchen said: "You know all this? Did he say it at the listening meeting?"

"You said it." Teng Rong said.

"Yesterday?"

Teng Rong looked at Wu Xingchen with sympathy: "Yes, it seems that the mechanical hand has also had a great impact on the accuracy of your memory."

Wu Xingchen couldn't remember anymore, the brain transplant surgery might have really affected his memory center.He didn't dare to watch the blurred Ruyizhai on TV anymore, he was afraid that this blurred Ruyizhai would replace the one in his memory, and he couldn't tell what he looked like, so how could he find him?Even if he was found, he might not recognize him.He had to have a good talk with Clara.

Wu Xingchen was thinking wildly, his eyes didn't dare to stay on the TV too much, but his ears listened to every word Ruyizhai said.

"He was a king, and every night he took a young woman to bed, and in the morning he killed that woman, and many a father's daughter died, and many a sister's sister died, and many a husband's wife died Yes. One day, a group of king’s guards knocked on the door of my house. They came to take my sister away. My father knelt down and begged, but the guards were indifferent, so I secretly rode on the guard’s horse and went to the king’s house. castle, I saw the king, and I said, I will tell him a story."

Wu Xingchen couldn't laugh or cry, this was the beginning of a book called "Arabian Nights" that Ruyizhai and he had mentioned a little bit.In this book, "I", that is, the protagonist of the story, will tell a story for the cruel king every night.

Wu Xingchen has long understood that whether it is Watson or the storyteller, these are not the life experiences of Ruyizhai, they are just written by "No.1 title". "No.1" is "I", and it is also a means of unfolding the story. In order to shorten the distance between the characters in the story and the readers, it is easy for the readers to empathize with and understand the characters. Maybe Ruyizhai has read too many such stories and thought that I am also a character in something, so I often talk about authors, readers and so on.

Teng Rong asked Wu Xingchen: "Do you have any impression of the kingdom he mentioned? Maybe he returned to this kingdom, his hometown."

Wu Xingchen noticed it: "Mr. Teng seems to be very interested in the whereabouts of Ruyizhai?"

Teng Rong said: "Because his disappearance seems to trouble you very much."

He added: "If you want to stay here, it doesn't matter how long you want to stay, you are very welcome." Teng Rong smiled: "The outside world is sometimes very dangerous."

"Here, you are safe."

He went out.

After Teng Rong left, Wu Xingchen asked the woman, "The listening meeting ten years ago seems to be very different from what it is now."

The woman smiled, gestured in front of her and said, "It's been ten years, a little baby, if you give him ten years of hard work, he can grow so tall."

Mentioning the baby, Wu Xingchen shuddered and asked the woman, "I don't know if you've ever seen a child with a red birthmark here?"

The woman pointed to her face: "A big piece of red? Like a dye? On the child's face?" She looked at Wu Xingchen inexplicably, "Will there be such a child? Don't all children look like angels?" Same? Have you ever seen an angel with a big red patch on his face?"

Could it be that the woman and child are just like the abyss, an illusion?

Wu Xingchen asked again: "Where did the others go?"

"They have their own business, everyone has their own business."

"This is quite new." Wu Xingchen smiled.

The tape ended, and the final part was a middle-aged man standing up and saying, "So that's it for today."

Wu Xingchen said: "More than half of the people who participated in the listening meeting have not spoken."

The woman yawned and asked him, "Going to eat something? Are you hungry? What would you like to eat?"

Wu Xingchen was indeed a little hungry, so he nodded.The woman jumped out of bed happily, hummed a ditty without lyrics and dragged him out of the room.They were located at the top of the Tongtian Tower, the seventh floor. After walking through three rooms on the circular corridor, they came to a staircase with only a dozen steps.

"Can it only lead to the sixth floor?" Wu Xingchen asked while walking on the stairs.

The woman said, "The stairs to the fifth floor are there."

The woman pointed to the sixth floor, and Wu Xingchen looked down. There was such a short staircase between each floor, and there was no direct staircase from the bottom floor to the top floor in the aisle.At this time, there was no one in the Tongtian Tower.

The woman led Wu Xingchen into a room next to the stairs connecting the sixth and seventh floors with straw woven spatulas.There are four or five long tables in this room, and each long table is filled with food. The two sides of the long table are full of pregnant women, all of them are gobbling, just eating, but not talking. The room is full of people who chew and swallow food. sound.The table was already full of dishes that Wu Xingchen had only seen in the old recipes in the museum - roast whole lamb, roast chicken, sausage, fruit tart, strawberry cake, donuts, Wellington steak, fish soup, cream stew , Bolognese noodles, seafood risotto, food is still being delivered from behind the small roller shutter on the side of the room.

There were too many people at the table, the woman managed to find two vacant seats, she dragged Wu Xingchen to sit down quickly, the dishes and cutlery on the table were ready-made, but almost everyone was eating with their hands.

Wu Xingchen saw that he was the only man in the audience, he didn't feel embarrassed to move, and asked the woman: "Is this the only cafeteria you have?"

The woman poured him a glass of orange juice and grabbed a large piece of lamb chops for him: "Eat this, eat this, you need more nutrition!"

The woman stood up again and broke off a roasted chicken leg and stuffed it to Wu Xingchen. Wu Xingchen hurriedly thanked him: "Aren't you going to eat it?"

The woman touched her deflated belly: "But it's not the time to need nutrition yet."

Wu Xingchen took a bite of the chicken leg, and asked the woman, "I haven't asked you how to call it? I heard from Mr. Teng that ten years ago you were the one who hosted the Ruyizhai who visited again?"

The woman also said: "You can call him whatever you want, the name is just a code name."

A half-grown girl came over with a plate of roast duck, and the roast duck was only settled on the table. The woman jumped up and tore off a duck leg and put it on Wu Xingchen's plate.She wiped her hands on her skirt.She was wearing the same dress as yesterday, with thin suspenders hanging over her collarbone, and there was no number code there.

Wu Xingchen glanced at a pregnant woman sitting across from her. The pregnant woman looked very young, no more than sixteen at the most, and was holding a rib to eat the meat on it. Her collarbone was exposed during the movement. 3...7...6...

376.It seems to be such a number.

It's like the code name of a war camp, except that no one in the war camp writes their code name on their body.

Wu Xingchen asked the woman in a low voice: "Why do some people have numbers on their bodies and others don't?"

The woman said: "Sometimes it is difficult for new human beings to drop their names. At this time, we need to gradually help them realize that names are just code names, so give them a code name temporarily, and slowly, they will abandon their names. , will give up his code name."

The young pregnant woman finished gnawing on the ribs, threw down the bones, stood up with difficulty holding her waist, reached out and took two donuts, one bite at a time, chewing heavily.

The woman asked Wu Xingchen: "Do you like it, the warm feeling?"

"A warm feeling?"

The woman held Wu Xingchen's hand, her hand was indeed very warm, she said: "Did you know that children have memories when they are in the womb, so in ancient China, people paid attention to imaginary age, that is, adding more age to the actual birth age. Last year. Human memory begins in the mother's womb. After birth, people are just constantly looking for that lost warm feeling, so people put on clothes, people hug, people chase warm eyes, chase The act of making the heart beat faster, the blood rush, and the body burn."

Wu Xingchen withdrew his hand and said, "There are indeed psychologists who believe that the Oedipus complex has a considerable impact on personality shaping and courtship standards."

The woman said: "The origin of human beings is the memory and nostalgia for the womb."

Wu Xingchen was noncommittal, the young pregnant woman seated opposite and the pregnant woman next to her fought for a strawberry.The strawberry flew out from between the two of them and landed on Wu Wu Xingchen's plate.Wu Xingchen just wanted to persuade the fight, and a pot of thick soup was served in time, and the attention of the two pregnant women was immediately attracted by the thick soup.

The strawberries were crushed and couldn't be eaten.

Wu Xingchen lost his appetite and put down his fork.The woman leaned against him, and said in a low voice: "Humanity has experienced the last fall, and finally established a paradise that truly belongs to human beings. It can get rid of all shackles, get rid of all concepts and meanings, and truly live like a person. Eat when you eat, eat as much as you want, sing when you want to sing, not only singers have the right to sing, isn't it ridiculous to define a person with the advantages in his genes and decide what he must do in his life? ?Can't people just be a certain person? Can't they make some wrong decisions? Can't they spend their lives meaninglessly? The most respectful way of life is to throw away all definitions. Pursue everything that is unspoken A partnership only limits one’s ability to love. When you love someone, you have to say it out loud. You don’t have to laugh because everyone else laughs. It’s unreasonable and abnormal, don’t you think? An individual with independent thinking , Why should it serve the atmosphere? If you want to hunt and kill animals, then hunt and kill animals. This is human instinct, isn’t it? This is the opportunity for people to truly become human, isn’t it?”

She asked him: "Mr. Wu, don't you want to stay in such a paradise?"