Ruyizhai

Now, there's no music whatsoever, and now, in this place where the characters can do whatever they want and do whatever they want, the characters talk about whatever they want to talk about.

Ruyizhai said: "The first story is about the theft of an oil painting."

As he spoke, the x12 hung from the fireplace, where the logs were still burning and crackling, and the red light fell on them through the x12.Ruyizhai and Wu Xingchen continued to talk face to face.Wu Xingchen said: "The two brothers Teng Rong and Teng Yu returned to their ancestral home on earth from the spaceship of the psychic society drifting in space in order to survive. They sorted out paintings, vases, and figures in the ancestral home. Twenty pieces of antiques, including sculptures, were donated to the Earth Museum, and x12 is one of them. It is an oil painting, with the story of Michael's crusade against the fallen angel Lucifer on the front, and the European seventeenth-century painter Lucifer on the back. The signature of Bens, according to my preliminary identification and analysis, this painting was drawn jointly by Rubens and his friend Jan Bruegel, but the strange thing about x12 is that the painting presented on its surface Next, it has another face, and if you use the perspective analysis instrument of the Earth Museum, you will find that its draft is quite different from the finished product." Wu Xingchen glanced at Ruyi Zhai, "Combined with the preliminary identification and analysis report, you think part of the draft came from Yang's father The hand of Pieter Bruegel, a painter who lived in the fifteenth century, whose works are rarely handed down, and the other part of the manuscript is far earlier than the time of Peter's birth, created between 1510 and In 1520, you think this part was done by a painter called Bosch."

Speaking of this, Wu Xingchen raised his right hand and said: "Generally, there is no information about Bosch in the terminal database of citizens of the general alliance, whether it is the Earth Museum, K-star museum, art gallery, or what I learned in the academy. In the history of European painting, there are no figures of Bosch and his paintings, but in the general terminal database of the war camp, I searched for Bosch and saw several of his paintings. In addition, the terminal database of the war camp also collects A painting by Pieter Bruegel, which I have never seen, called The Tower of Babel."

Ruyizhai asked, "Why did you suddenly bring up this painting?"

Another painting fell in front of the fireplace, blocking in front of x12, it was Peter's "Babel".The yellow light fell on Wu Xingchen and Ruyizhai.Dense figures climbed up and down a revolving staircase in the light.

Wu Xingchen said: "Because the Teng family's old house on Kowloon [-]st Avenue has been transformed into the Tongtian Tower. It is now the headquarters of a religion called Nether Spiritualism. The believers used tiles as bricks to build the Tongtian Tower. Seven floors have been built, and it is still going up. Tongtian Tower has no windows, only some small holes. I believe that the bottom floor of this Tongtian Tower is also connected to the room for making phoenix tails and hypnotizing and mind-controlling believers. basement."

Wu Xingchen asked Ruyizhai: "You know the basement, right? The entrance and exit are in the woods of Tengzhai where the phoenix tail is planted."

Ruyizhai said: "It was originally excavated by the ancestors of the Teng family and used as an air-raid shelter, in order to save their lives in the war."

Wu Xingchen asked him: "Have you been there, have you seen those rooms? Were those rooms there ten years ago?"

Ruyizhai nodded: "I don't know whose idea it was, but there were people who used the Phoenix Tail to stun people, and then transported them to different rooms. Some of those rooms were showing movies, and some displayed Oil painting, ink painting, in short, to make sleepy people think that they have encountered some soul from the previous life."

Wu Xingchen asked him: "Then why didn't you tell me ten years ago?"

"Why did I tell you? What if I tell you? What do you want to do? Report them? Report them for using drugs to control believers?" Ruyizhai laughed, "Isn't this illegal in the 31st century? Where is there any law in the 31st century?" What about the concept? Besides, did you have the concept of 'reporting' ten years ago? You just saw a piece of news or heard a story, but you just thought that someone would handle these things well."

Wu Xingchen was dumbfounded, and Ruyizhai said: "Don't interrupt, once you interrupt, readers will be distracted, and they probably have forgotten what we said earlier."

Wu Xingchen rubbed his chin, x12 hung up again, blocking "Tiantian Tower", he continued:

"Before we came to a conclusion, x12 was returned to Teng Rong."

Ruyi Zhai said: "We should clarify the timeline for readers."

He then said: "The night you came to see me, x12 was stolen from the museum. The theft happened around 06:30 p.m. central time..."

A man in black took away the x12 in front of the fireplace, and the black shadow rushed into the darkness behind Wu Xingchen and Ruyizhai.

Ruyizhai smoked a cigarette, rubbed her temples, tilted her head and gave Wu Xingchen a look.Wu Xingchen nodded, and continued: "At 3050:2 p.m. on February 9, 6, Teng Yu borrowed his friend Luo Lie's identity information to enter the staff floor of the museum."

Two people got out from the darkness, their appearance, figure and physique were all clear, and they were all composed of words.Those were Teng Yu and Luo Lie.Luo Lie handed Teng Yu a card, and Teng Yu boarded the elevator leading to the third floor of the museum.

The freewheeling montage begins again.

Wu Xingchen kept his eyes on Ruyizhai, and said, "Teng Yu stole x12. At 6:40, the Central District Police Department found Luo Lie and took him away for questioning. The exterior wall of the museum is being repaired, so his certificate can freely enter and exit all floors of the museum. At 8:50, the police locked Teng Yu as a suspect. The police came to Teng’s residence in the Eastern District and arrested Teng Yu. Teng Yu died of a heart attack. The police recovered x10 and returned it to the museum the next day. When we were analyzing and discussing x12, Teng Yu’s twin brother Teng Yu Rong, the original donor of the painting, came to the museum to take back the painting. The reason he gave was that Teng Yu came to steal the painting because the painting was very important to Teng Yu. Let this painting accompany Teng Yu. After understanding, we learned that Teng Rong will cremate Teng Yu’s body and x12 after Teng Yu’s farewell ceremony. However, during the farewell ceremony, you found that you were lying in the coffin with Teng Yu The x12 here is not a genuine x12, it does not have Rubens's signature on the back."

Wu Xingchen and Ruyizhai are surrounded by more and more figures, they are staging Wu Xingchen's narration, and the words that make up them are trembling frequently because of their every movement.The words were reflected on the backs of Ruyizhai and Wu Xingchen.Wu Xingchen said: "During the farewell ceremony, another incident happened. Luo Lie's pet dog found Luo Lie's body in Teng's house. After calling the police, Teng Rong confessed that last night, Teng Yu returned home after stealing x12. Go home and tell him how I worked with Luo Lie to steal x12." Wu Xingchen stopped for a while, but the figure behind him didn't stop, one Teng Yu became two, and one Teng Rong also changed into two. It became two, one Teng Yu and one Teng Rong were talking, Luo Lie jumped out, Teng Yu and Luo Lie had a dispute, Teng Yu and Teng Rong teamed up to subdue Luo Lie; and the other Teng Yu and Luo Lie first He fought fiercely, and then dragged his body to meet another Teng Rong.

Neither Wu Xingchen nor Ruyizhai looked at those figures, they looked at each other, Wu Xingchen said: "I speculate that Luo Lie may not know that Teng Yu borrowed his identity for the purpose of stealing, as for what reason Teng Yu used to persuade If Luo Lie borrowed his identification information and work certificates, it will be unknown."

Ruyizhai said: "You can guess."

Wu Xingchen said: "I guess it's about the certification of alliance citizenship. Luo Lie has been applying for alliance citizenship, but there has been no result. As for Teng Yu, it usually takes half a year for space wanderers to apply for alliance citizenship, but Teng Yu's application came down very quickly, maybe he has mastered some application tricks, and he used this as a condition to lure Luo Lie to hand over his work permit and identification information."

Ruyizhai nodded and said, "Through the dialogues of some characters in the psychic meeting described by the author, this guess can indeed be made."

He added: "However, through some schedules of the museum described by the author, a further guess can be made."

"What's the schedule for the museum?"

"Have you ever wondered how Luo Lie got the job of restoring the exterior wall of the museum?"

Wu Xingchen scratched his ears: "I really don't know how non-alliance citizens get jobs."

"Ignoring the details for the time being, is the restoration of the museum's exterior wall due to the latest research report on the temple's exterior wall suddenly issued by the Ministry of Culture at that time?"

"Yes."

"When exactly, do you remember? Was it before or after Teng Rong donated the antiques?"

Wu Xingchen said: "After that, it was the day after the donation happened."

Wu Xingchen was surprised: "You mean all of these are related? Because of this report, the museum needs repair workers, so Luo Lie has a certificate that can freely enter and leave the museum. All Teng Yu needs to do is borrow When it comes to this certificate... you mean that Teng Yu manipulated all of this?? But what does he have to do with the Ministry of Culture? I remember that report was jointly submitted by professors from the School of Urban Restoration, he... "

Ruyizhai smoked his pipe and pressed the flat cap on his head—he didn't know when he changed into a very Holmes outfit, behind him were many Teng Yu and countless Luo Lie talking, Fighting, whispering.

Ruyi Zhai said: "You should write it down, Luo Lie's work, repair report, after leaving here, you can go to investigate and complete the whole case."

Wu Xingchen took out his notebook and looked like Watson. After jotting down a few notes, he said, "Let's continue talking about what happened on the day of the farewell ceremony."

Ruyizhai reminded him: "Just now we mentioned that Teng Yu and Teng Rong confessed that they stole paintings and admitted to cooperating with Luo Lie."

"Yes." Wu Xingchen said, "Anyway, Luo Lie found Teng Yu, the two had an argument for some unknown reason, maybe they wanted to kill people to silence..."

"Very well, you now have almost a detective's hideous imagination."

"hateful?"

"Always speculate that everyone is a murderer, look at everyone involved in the case with suspicion, think everyone is suspicious, and look for everyone's motives. Isn't this abominable? Thinking of everyone badly."

Wu Xingchen was not too happy, and said, "Don't interrupt."

Ruyizhai smiled and nodded, sank on the sofa, wearing a nightgown and a nightcap on his head, yawning and rubbing his eyes, but still facing Wu Xingchen, You can still see the brilliance of interest in your eyes.

Wu Xingchen said: "Teng Yu killed Luo Lie, according to Teng Rong's one-sided statement, he said that Teng Yu was very scared, he was confused, at a loss, he also repented, regretted it, and asked his brother for help, out of brotherhood Teng Rong helped him to bury Luo Lie's body."

"These words are obviously used to deceive sympathy." Wu Xingchen said: "New human beings are easily touched and moved by such words."

"Aren't you touched?" Ruyi Zhai asked.

Wu Xingchen said: "I think Teng Rong in the farewell ceremony was pretended by Teng Yu."

"Why do you say that?"

"When the police found Teng Yu who had passed out, they could prove that the person lying motionless on the ground was Teng Yu's important physical evidence bracelet, which was separated from himself."

"But the police believed that he was Teng Yu." Ruyi Zhai looked at Wu Xingchen, "Don't you believe the police's judgment?"

"No, I want to trust their judgment, but their judgment is too dependent on the honesty of others." Wu Xingchen looked at Ruyizhai, "and Teng Yu himself and I admitted it."

"Well?"

"Not long ago, when I went back to Kowloon Avenue, in order to verify the true identity of Teng Rong I saw, I colluded with Yuanyuan and revealed to him that x12 was in the Yuanyuan Theater. As a result, he really went to steal the painting, He was caught by Yuanyuan."

Ruyizhai's eyes widened a little: "It's not bad, you are not only good at deceiving people, but also setting traps." He narrowed his eyes, "You are getting more and more like an old human being."

Wu Xingchen took a sip of absinthe, rubbed his hands, and said, "Is that the underground air-raid shelter you found on the day of the farewell ceremony?"

Ruyizhai nodded and asked him: "Do you believe that people really have past lives, and can they really meet their own past lives?"

Wu Xingchen asked him: "How did you steal x12?"

Ruyi Zhai asked him back: "Why do you think Teng Yu pretended to be Teng Rong?"

"It should be to avoid punishment for murder. Abandoning a corpse only needs to go to a funeral home to serve for half a year. Killing people will be thrown to a war camp."

Ruyizhai said: "It's too simple to steal paintings. As soon as the surname Teng left, I went back to Teng's house, pretended to chat with the people inside for a while, and attended their listening meeting. I found the bottom up there. I found a secret room in the room where Teng Rong's body was found."

"There's a secret room there?"

"That's right, this secret room connects the corridor and that room. Do you remember the video of Teng Yu's arrest? He ran wildly in the corridor and disappeared from the screen for a while. At that time, it should be the real Teng Yu. Because we later saw the scratch on his wrist."

"By the way, there are still marks on his wrist that would be left after removing the terminal bracelet."

Ruyizhai said: "He should have used that secret room to enter that room from the corridor, and he had prepared Teng Rong's body a long time ago, he just needs to throw the terminal next to the body and wait for the body to be discovered That's it."

Wu Xingchen was not without regret: "The police should immediately test their genetic codes, blood types, and compare their dental records."

Ruyi Zhai smiled: "Perhaps Teng Yu already knew that the police would not take such a series of measures, so he used such a package transfer note."

"He is obviously a space baby. How does he know so much about the new human beings, how to deceive the new human beings' sympathy, and how the new human police officers handle cases?"

Ruyizhai said: "He is a space baby who affects his understanding of new humans. How did you come to this conclusion?"

"The place where he was born and raised advocated the old human way of life." Wu Xingchen paused, "Ah, no..."

"what happened?"

"677 said...Mai Barley said that the spirit master of the psychic meeting is actually a new human being, and that system..."

"system?"

"In the underground air-raid shelter, in addition to those weird rooms, in addition to the factory that makes the medicine of Fengwei Dama, there is also a room that stores a system that was brought to the earth by the Teng brothers from the upper world. , seems to be a simulation system of the terminal, the system has a logo of a black dog graphic, could it be through this system that Teng Yu learned everything about the new human beings?"

Ruyizhai sat up straight, but said nothing.Wu Xingchen was still talking: "What does that system have to do with the black dog I have often dreamed about recently?" He kept asking questions: "Clara also mentioned the black dog, he said that the black dog created Can he, a dog...can create a human being? Is this dog a mechanical body? It chose the image of this black dog at random? Is Clara a human? He seems to be, but, perhaps he is a mechanical body, after long-term practice , mastered the common language proficiently, and gradually learned to think in words. I met a mechanical body in New York, and her common language has been learned very well. As long as they want to learn, they can learn it. As long as humans want to learn, Can we also learn to think in a mechanical way? Where is the boundary between the mechanical and the human? What makes a human a human?"

Ruyizhai said: "New York belongs to the second story." He asked Wu Xingchen, "Have you finished everything you want to say about the first story? Are you sure the readers won't have any questions?"

Wu Xingchen hesitated and said, "If you start from the reader's standpoint..."

"No, it's fine from your standpoint."

"But I'm not a reader."

"But your questions must be questions that readers will have. If the characters in a book can't raise the questions that readers will have, then it's not a book. It's prose, poetry, or recipes."

Wu Xingchen said: "The discussion about it also belongs to the second story."

The two smiled at each other.

Wu Xingchen said: "My question is, I revisited Teng's house ten years after you stole x12, and there I met a mysterious guide and a woman, do you remember the one who pulled me ten years ago?" A woman who goes to a stage play?"

"What's up with her?"

"She gave birth to a child for Teng Yu."

"What happened to the child?"

Wu Xingchen blinked: "I know the characteristics of a detective."

Ruyi Zhai wanted to speak, but suddenly realized something, first frowned, then smiled helplessly, and said with gestures: "Yes, yes, endless questioning, inquiring into the bottom line, we must find out the motives of everyone's actions, the reasons for everything. Everything has been made clear.”

Wu Xingchen said: "That is a very suitable form for new humans, why did it disappear?"

"Because all of your questions have been answered before you raise them. At this time, the existence of questions will only cause unnecessary trouble. We are off topic again." Ruyizhai said, "But this is also the characteristic of detectives. The protagonists always deviate from the topic again and again, and they always suddenly realize the truth when they go off the topic again and again."

Wu Xingchen said: "I didn't feel suddenly enlightened." He said, "It seems that there is a painter's soul living in that child's body. I don't know. I have never seen such a painting. The picture is crazy."

Ruyi Zhai said: "Crazy strokes or crazy artistic conception?"

"artistic conception."

"Maybe it's Goya." Ruyizhai said, an oil painting was hung in front of x12, on it was a man staring in horror.

Wu Xingchen didn't look at the painting, but still looked at Ruyizhai, his body was covered with dark green light.He said: "They set up a stage in the underground that combines Bosch's paradise on earth and the scene of hell trial, and then the child sketched some of the details." After thinking about it, Wu Xingchen changed his words, "It may be They arranged some of the details after that kid's drawing."

Wu Xingchen also said: "Maybe that child really has a soul from a previous life, so they did drug experiments on him."

Wu Xingchen said: "In order to save her child, ah, I know why she kept letting me stay! She wants me to discover the basement! She wants me to save her child! Because I am different from other believers... She is asking me for help, I seem to finally understand her eyes now!"

Ruyizhai coughed, and Wu Xingchen picked up the exclamation point that fell on the ground. He was a little embarrassed, lowered his eyes, and lowered his voice a little: "I met a member of an organization called Eagle in Tengzhai. That woman also called for help from this organization, I don't know how she did it, maybe she slipped outside through that underground air-raid shelter and sent a distress letter, anyway, that organization is investigating the abuse of Pteris, they blew up Air-raid shelter."

"The Tongtian Tower has collapsed."

Ruyizhai looked at Wu Xingchen, and in his eyes some children were holding up stars, crowns and swords to stage a stage play.Ruyizhai asked: "This is the picture that impressed you the most?"

Wu Xingchen was also surprised: "What impresses me the most is the collapsed Tongtian Tower."

"Don't be fooled by your memory."

Wu Xingchen took a sip of ice water and said, "Maybe it's because they make me feel like everything is in a cycle, very mysterious and mysterious."

"How about that tour you talked about?"

"I never saw him again, and he was also looking for the black dog."

"The black dog may be an image, or it may be the truth of this world." Ruyizhai said, "This is also the usual trick of this author. He puts forward an image and emphasizes it repeatedly, so that you will never forget it, so that you see it on the road. A black dog will bring back memories of this one."

Wu Xingchen asked: "Is this the meaning of the first story? Is this the theme of this one? Is it to reveal the truth of this world?"

Ruyizhai said: "Whether this is the theme of this movie is unknown, but the significance of the first story should be to pave the way for the background of the world view."

"bedding?"

"Don't you know? The readers of this book are all from the 21st century."

Wu Xingchen thought for a moment, and said, "But the first story has no intention of explaining to audiences in the 21st century the reasons for the formation of various concepts in the 31st century. It's just a narrative."

Ruyizhai laughed: "Watson, you have discovered the reason why this book has so few readers!"

Wu Xingchen started drinking absinthe again, and said, "I always feel like we are talking to ourselves." He looked back, Teng Yu, Teng Rong, Luo Lie, and the children had all disappeared.Only the words on the ground are trembling.

Ruyizhai shrugged: "It's the author's self-pity and the reader's self-talk." Wu Xingchen said: "You make the reader so arrogant."

"Oh, it must be the arrogance of the person who wrote these words."

"Isn't what we say what we want to say?"

“What we say is what the author created what we want to say.”

"It seems to be back to a conversation we had earlier," Wu Xingchen said, "Everything is really like a cycle."

Ruyizhai said, "Why don't you tell me the second story."