Fear Collection

"What's that? A narration? Or..." Xie Jinxi had already vaguely sensed the danger of this topic. Perhaps after listening to Feng Sinian's talk, he might not be able to accept it and even go crazy.

"It's a narration." Feng Sinian replied, "I said it was a narration. At first I thought it was my hallucinations or something like a narration or commentary. Then I realized that it was actually a narration."

"You mean...our world is a fiction? A work?"

"Compared to the upper-level narrators, let's say that." Feng Sinian raised his gun and pointed to the front, "Don't stop, keep going."

Xie Jinxi could only turn around and continue walking in the direction pointed out by Feng Sinian, at the same time Feng Sinian explained to him: "Well...to give a simple and understandable example, you read a narrative work, maybe a novel , The novel mainly tells a story. A character in the story is set up as a writer, and this writer character writes a story, and then the narrative layer appears.”

"The writer's role can determine the direction of the story he writes, but the writer's role is just a virtual character created by the writer. At the writer's level, the writer can decide what story the writer's role writes and what the direction of the story is. The writer's role is in In their own narrative layer, they think that the stories they create come from their own will, but in fact this is also controlled and decided by the top writer himself.”

"Such as One Thousand and One Nights? A story within a story?" Xie Jinxi quickly understood.

One Thousand and One Nights is mainly about a woman named Scheherazade marrying a tyrant and attracting his attention by telling stories to the tyrant, and the story Scheherazade tells is actually "Stories within stories", Scheherazade is relatively the lower narrator.

Feng Sinian said: "Yes. Generally speaking, characters in the narrative layer seldom realize that they are characters. Even the narrators in the lower layers don't feel that they are characters. For example, you feel that you are writing a story. , but this story is not what you want to write, and the plot and even the ending are not all out of your own will?"

"Of course the 'writer' of the narrative is God, he can set the characters in his pen to know that he is a character, so you will find that even if a character knows that he is a character, it is still under the control of the upper-level narrator, such as..."

"I."

Speaking of this, Feng Sinian suddenly laughed lowly: "So, do you understand? I will appear because the upper-level narrator set that I can hear the narration, and I will appear because he asked me to appear."

"This is the insurmountable gap in dimension and narrative level."

Xie Jinxi instead captured the key point of the problem, and asked: "How do the top 'writers' know that they create 'writer roles' and let 'writer roles' create stories in stories for themselves and not for others?" What about the will of the top narrator? The 'writer' doesn't know if he is the top narrator, right?"

Hearing this, Feng Sinian laughed even more wildly, and then he abruptly interrupted his laughter, and replied with sarcasm: "Yes, everyone lives in their own narrative layer, in their own 'reality' Just like the people in this fragmented world, in our eyes the space in the fragmented world is limited, and the fragmented world is full of abnormalities, but in the eyes of the residents in the fragmented world, this is their reality.”

"But in the eyes of higher-level narrators, this place is just a shadow of a shadow."

Xie Jinxi murmured and repeated "the shadow of the shadow", and said in a low voice: "Our frontal real world is the shadow of the upper narrator's world, and the fragmented world, that is, the negative world, is the shadow of the frontal world, so A shadow of a shadow?"

Feng Sinian ignored Xie Jinxi's self-talk, but suddenly stopped and said, "Okay, we're here."

arrive?

Xie Jinxi found that they stopped at a place similar to the gate of a vault.

Feng Sinian walked over, grabbed the doorknob, and said, "Electronic authority verification and mechanical combination lock are double-secured. If one of them is wrong, it won't open, but it's useless to me."

As he said that, he directly pulled the door open, and then he looked at Xie Jinxi and said, "Okay, let's go in now."

Things have come to this, Xie Jinxi can only walk in.

After the two entered, Feng Sinian closed the door behind him.

This room is about forty square meters, and there are three safes that are almost as tall as a person.

"Okay, no one can disturb you for the time being, our progress is a bit slow, in order to allow us more time to communicate, then..."

Feng Sinian snapped his fingers.

This room is about forty square meters, and there are three three-legged high-back chairs in it.

In Xie Jinxi's eyes, the three safes just disappeared out of thin air, as if the furnishings in this room were originally like this.

"This..." Xie Jinxi felt a strange contradiction, "How did you do it?"

Feng Sinian said that he could hear the narration, so he... Could it be?

"Yes, I can also 'interfere' the narrative to a certain extent. For example, change 'there are three safes that are almost as tall as a person' to 'there are three three-legged high-back chairs inside'."

"Of course it's only to a certain extent. I have tried many things, and later found that I can only do what the upper-level narrator wants me to do. I don't seem to have told you that I am speeding up."

"Acceleration?" Xie Jinxi repeated in doubt.

"That's right, the upper-level narrator is probably already impatient with the progress of this procrastinating story, so I'm just following the upper-level narrator's wishes and speeding up. What kind of monster, what kind of destruction, the story has no conflicts, contradictions, or drama , what kind of story is that?"

"That's why I appeared. I am the conflict, I am the contradiction, and I am the turning point of the plot. So I can hear the narration and interfere with the narration. I am the agent of the will of the upper-level narrator."

Xie Jinxi also understood at this time, why Feng Sinian said before that he could not fight against him together with Mu Ta.

If all this is the will of the upper-level narrator, and the upper-level narrator wants him to come here and sit in those three chairs, then Feng Sinian, as the coercion and guide, is invincible.

No matter how much he and Muta resisted, they still couldn't resist the statement 'Xie Jinxi came to the room with three chairs'.

Moreover, thinking about it at a deeper level, as long as the upper-level narrator still needs Feng Sinian to promote the plot of the story and cause conflicts, Feng Sinian will not disappear.

Feng Sinian knew that Xie Jinxi understood what his existence meant, and said, "Don't worry, I will tell you the function of those three chairs before you sit on them, and before I start introducing those three chairs, you Is there anything else you want to ask me? Apart from me, I'm afraid you won't find a second, oh no, a third person who can answer your question so comprehensively."

Xie Jinxi thought for a long time, and said: "As a character living in the lower-level narrative, even if I know that my own destiny is in the hands of the upper-level narrator, even if I know that the positive world is also fictional, I don't care about those."

"My story, my narrative layer, is my reality."

"So I only care about one thing, and that is whether Muta and I can return to our real world alive. I also want to see my family."

Feng Sinian nodded, and said: "Yes, of course. At that time, not only you and him can go back, but 'He' and the entire negative world can go back. When the positive world and the negative world merge into one, you and he can go back together." Also go back?"

Xie Jinxi was stunned, and then he reacted and asked sharply, "You...are you joking?"

"No, didn't you know from the character named Ji Chuanmo that 'He' is getting stronger and stronger, and may seize control of the positive world? This is the upper-level narrator, for us pathetic characters Prepared for the future."

Xie Jinxi almost froze, he only felt a kind of fear deep in his soul gradually rising and spreading.At that moment, the faces of his parents and younger sister flashed through his mind, followed by the huge crowd with blurred faces, the bustling city, the busy avenue and the skyscraper...

Over there, Feng Sinian laughed loudly again, and said while laughing: "That's it, that's it, you can't accept it, let it be painful, let it be fearful, let's struggle! Let's make the story more exciting!"

"Ahahahaha...hahaha!"

"Thank you Jinxi."

Xie Jinxi couldn't even hear Feng Sinian's crazy laughter for a while, only heard Muta calling his name.

"He doesn't necessarily know everything, and he doesn't necessarily know the final outcome. Do you know the narration trick? Even without the narration trick, the narration that Feng Sinian can hear is only what the upper-level narrator wants him to hear, Then he will not hear what the upper-level narrator does not want him to hear."

"And you..."

"And I'm the protagonist." Xie Jinxi took Muta's words in his heart.

That's right, Xie Jinxi was also thinking along the way, why him?

After Feng Sinian explained that he was the agent of the upper-level narrator, Xie Jinxi became even more strange. The upper-level narrator would rather set up such a character than allow himself to appear in this room to promote the plot. This proves that he is in the story. is very important.

It is so important that maybe he is the protagonist.

"The upper-level narrator may be a god to us, but the upper-level narrator is a 'bad god'." Xie Jinxi said in his mind, "Setting up Feng Sinian is a stupid move, and the upper-level narrator has completely exposed him The powerlessness. He can't control the rhythm of the story and the development of the plot, and it has reached the point where he has to set up such a character."

"Then... maybe we have a chance."

"The development of the plot, sometimes not necessarily, will be as the upper-level narrator wishes."

The author has something to say: too long to read the version: the concept of the upper-level narrator in this article comes from scp, and the "upper-level narrator" and "author" can be equated.

Detailed version: I really struggled with it for a long time, because from the perspective of literary theory, there is narratology, a narrative layer, and a narrator, but there is no such thing as a narrator in professional books. orz

Narrative and narrative are actually not the same. Generally speaking, narrative includes: narrative content, narrative discourse, and narrative action.

The definition of narrative in the literary sense is "fictitious process of social events with discourse", and the definition in modern Chinese dictionaries is "to tell the story before and after, and then record it".

In short, narration and narrative are not the same, and the narrator and author in the work are not the same.Take Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman" as an example, in which there is an onlooker narrator and the narrator "I" at the beginning.

The narrative layer theory is related to Genette. Genette’s explanation on this is more confusing, so I won’t mention it here. If you are interested, you can read Genette’s "Narrative Discourse".

Therefore, I struggled for a long time whether to use "upper-level narrator" or "upper-level narrator".It can be understood that the narrator in the narrative layer becomes the so-called "narrator" when narrating the story.

Orz, the author does not have much in-depth understanding of narratology, please point out if there are any mistakes, woo woo woo, I will change it.

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