traveling doctor

Kou Tong's family 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, he had to go through several narrow alleys.

Unfortunately, many ghost stories also start like this - on a dark and windy night, a man, woman, old man and child were walking in a narrow and long alley. Flash, suddenly!The lights went out... A scream came out from the alley, like the cry of a night cat dying...

When it came to Dr. Kou, whose character was always negative, the story became: On a sunny afternoon, three men walked in a narrow and long alley. Because it didn't open at all... Ahem, suddenly!Huang Jinchen, who was walking in the front, heard a crisp sound under his feet, and he stopped sharply, only to see that the stone slab under his feet was actually cracked.

The three of them froze for a moment and looked at each other.

Kou Tong sighed loudly, and patted Huang Jinchen on the shoulder: "Er Fatty, I don't want you if you don't lose weight. I'm just a poor worker, and I don't have the money to change the floor every day."

Huang Jinchen protested frantically: "I shouldn't believe in the infrastructure construction of this city!"

Yao Shuo scolded, "Hush! Be quiet! Listen."

I only heard a sound of "cracking" from below, and then along the cracks under Huang Jinchen's feet, the stone slabs on the path cracked all the way, Huang Jinchen's playful expression immediately became serious: "Get out of here!"

The three of them were not slow to react. When he finished speaking, they climbed up the narrow wall next to him one after another, looking at the big hole in the ground in amazement.

It slowly spread out from the ground like a living thing, opened at the top, and then calmed down strangely.

Huang Jinchen and Yao Shuo looked up at Kou Tong at the same time, and found that Dr. Kou was squatting on the wall in a very indecent movement, holding his chin, staring at the big crack on the ground thinking.

"Cracked ground, forks..." Kou Tong frowned, "What does this represent?"

Huang Jinchen asked very incomprehensibly: "Why can't we talk about things? Is it interesting to make a lot of mysterious and weird things? Why do semiotics or theology exist in the world? 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 cannot be said in too much detail, you understand."

Huang Jinchen pursed his lips, and began to rummage through his big sack, and found a yo-yo-like thing from inside. There was still a label hanging on it, which was still written in crooked children's handwriting: "Don't be afraid of ghosts" - quite suitable conception.

"I'll try this thing."

Huang Jinchen tore off the packaging three times, five times and two times, and threw the ball off the wall. The ball hit the ground and bounced successfully, like the kind of gadgets sold on the train for ten yuan each. It started flashing, made a "beep" sound, and then a childish 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 that he couldn't bear to gamble, Kou Tong raised his head 45 degrees to look up at the sky, pretending that he didn't know the cheating guy next to him.

"Hey, look, the ball is starting to roll." Huang Jinchen added this sentence, fearing that the world would not be chaotic.

I saw the ball bouncing back and forth on the ground, as if someone was operating behind it, bouncing forward, yelling "I'm not afraid to piss you off" and so on in a soft voice while walking. I rushed to the place where the crack bifurcated, and then jumped up and down at the bifurcation point, I saw a small sprout suddenly grew on the ground, and then the tiny sprout suddenly grew stronger, and all of a sudden this The silly ball was pushed aside.

Huang Jinchen quickly caught it with his hands, and the ball made a choking sound in his hand: "...I'm not afraid..."

...and pretty smart.

The small plant buds at the intersections elongate and grow unscrupulously, and then turn into a big tree within 1 minute, as if they want to play out growth, germination, prosperity, decay and death in an instant.

The tree was full of apples, and then a branch curled up, with head and body, eye scales, and a scurrying letter--became a snake, and at last twelve golden leaves grew from the top of the tree. , and 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 broad daylight. How about it? Can you tell which card it is?"

"Apple and snake... this should be the legendary tree of wisdom in the Bible." Lao Yao said, "The twelve leaves should represent the twelve signs of the zodiac... There is a version of the Tarot card, the card 'Lover' These things have appeared on the Internet."

"Lover?" 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, and there is another saying that the choices on the lovers card are 'virtue' and 'desire' , derived from the Neo-Platonism trend of thought in the Middle Ages, there is a tendency to break away from the material to reach the spirit..."

Huang Jinchen said: "Isn't this a disease? How can there be spirit without material? Why do I feel that this set is similar to that...what Cheng Zhu Neo-Confucianism's 'eliminate human desires' and 'preserve the principles of nature'?"

When Yao Shuo heard the first half of the sentence, he wanted to satirize the ignorance of the gun-bearer, but when he heard the second half, he thought he knew this?

I heard Master Huang make his own evaluation of this trend of thought: "The meaning is to tell people to tighten their belts to live. On the one hand, they can't eat enough, and on the other hand, they can't sleep with their wives casually. Isn't it farting..."

Yao Shuo felt that if he talked to this person again, it would be an insult to his IQ.Kou Tong held back for a while, and couldn't help expressing his opinion: "Master Huang is really...a great opinion."

Huang Jinchen smiled triumphantly, pointed to the fruit-bearing tree under their feet and said, "Then what about this one?"

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 imitation tree of wisdom growing in the world, and they were getting higher and higher, just like the legendary Tower of Babel, trying to reach the sky. respectively located at the tail of the two forks.

Kou Tong sighed: "I see, the answer is no."

"Then choose." Huang Jinchen jumped down from the tree, carrying his funny big bag, and said loudly to the tree of wisdom, "I choose desire."

Kou Tong was on the wall, looking at him in amazement, feeling that this man is really straightforward and selfish, completely ignoring the mainstream aesthetics, doing his own way, with a kind of rampant "I am happy, can I control it?"

He possessed the calmness of one-hit-killer, but also this unrestrained wantonness, and they were mixed in such a man without any conflict, Kou Tong suddenly felt that he was a little attracted by this man.

He couldn't help asking: "Why don't you choose wisdom, isn't it better to be smart?"

One of the two erected walls collapsed, a small snake climbed down from the tree, and climbed out as if leading the way. Huang Jinchen turned around and said to Kou Tong: "What's the use of wisdom? It's not enough to keep you warm. Haven't you heard of 'Mentally handicapped children have more fun'?"

This makes sense!

Kou Tong was immediately convinced, and jumped down from the tree, but a bunch of small snakes fell from the tree, blocking his way. Huang Jinchen stepped over the fallen wall with his front foot, and the wall with his back foot rose up by itself.

Kou Tong asked: "I also choose desire, can't I?"

The group of snakes gave way, and the section of the wall leading to "desire" fell down again, but there was no Huang Jinchen there.Kou Tong's heart sank suddenly—this Tarot card was using choices to separate them. He turned his head and wanted to talk to Yao Shuo, but suddenly there was a violent vibration under his feet, and a tongue of flame rose from the crack, 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 blocked him, and Yao Shuo was also blocked there.

Kou Tong turned his head and saw a wall on one side and a deep alley on the other, he didn't know where it would lead.

Suddenly he was a little confused, stood there for a while, finally sighed, touched his trouser pocket, and took out a water gun from it—it was the one with the label "Elephant Buster", after Huang Jinchen paid the bill By the way, he also stuffed a one-dollar banknote into the orangutan's basket, counting it as "bought" it.

But what is a water gun enough for?

Doctor Kou wanted to cry, but he was just a technical nerd who was a little better than the average nerd, and he didn't even have a weapon bag when he played the dungeon, so he was directly let him go into battle.

Only now did Dr. Kou understand what it means to be "unarmed".