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Chapter 3 Chapter Two: The Hero Saves the Beauty

Mustard Seeds 倪匡 8166Words 2023-02-05
He walked towards the picture, put his hand on a word at random, and looked back at me.Seeing his actions like this, my heart suddenly moved, and I lost my voice: Ah!These words are organs, what can be activated? Hu Hua looked admiring and nodded.I asked again: Not all the characters are organs, how can I know the details of the organs? It makes sense for me to ask this question, because even if you know what mechanism this character is opening (such as a dark room), there are many combinations. Nonsense replied: I am also an accidental inspiration As he spoke, he pointed to the strangely shaped door in the room.

My reaction was quick, and I couldn't help being startled at the time, not knowing what his action meant. After pointing to the door, Hu Hua pointed to the first line of the calligraphy. At that moment, I understood what he meant, walked over, and pointed to the word Tian on the first line of the calligraphy. I once described the shape of the door of this room as very weird, like a twisted fat snake, thick at the top and thin at the bottom, extremely irregular and indescribable. But this inexplicable shape is exactly the same as the calligraphy on the calligraphy I am pointing at now. That is to say, the door is the shape of the Tian character, enlarged about ten times.

You may say that I am talking nonsense, how can the shape I just described look like a sky character? Please note that the calligraphy is wild cursive, and in this type of calligraphy, the word Tian is written in this shape. The cursive script in Chinese calligraphy is very magical. It can be completely different from other fonts in shape and has its own style. However, it can be regarded as cursive script if it is written indiscriminately. Who is it, and why a good word has turned into such a strange shape, and no one has delved into it. So there is a saying that the cursive script is out of style, and the gods don't recognize it.

In the grid of cursive script, Tianzi is the shape I described. If you are interested, you can find some cursive calligraphy to have a look, and you can also take the opportunity to learn how the imagination of Chinese characters can reach an unimaginable level. Talking for a long time about the shape of the cursive tian character was nothing more than an explanation. At that time, I could quickly know that the tian character on the wall was a mechanism, and it was due to nonsense guidance, otherwise it would be difficult to have such an association. So it was very difficult for Hu Hua to discover this.

At this time, although I knew that Tianzi was a mechanism, I still didn't know how to activate it, and of course I didn't know what the result would be after activating the mechanism. I looked at Hu Hua, and he made a gesture to me, motioning me to press down the word Tian. I pressed the Tianzi into the wall with a little force. From the feeling, it can be inferred that the mechanism uses an oil pressure device as the activation force. The more you press down, the more force you need. It didn't take long to press the word "Tian" into the wall completely, and it looked like the word was written on the wall.

At that time, Hu Hua's expression became weird and tense, and he made a gurgling sound in his throat.I was expecting the changes that would happen after the mechanism was activated, and I didn't notice his weirdness at first, but the changes didn't happen for a long time, and the surroundings were very quiet, so the sound he made finally caught my attention. I looked at him and said: What do you want to say, just say it. Hu Hua swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and asked: What do you think will happen after the mechanism is activated? I'm upset at this point, he should have told me what would change instead of asking me!I said loudly: It can be any change!It is also possible that the whole house collapses suddenly!

Talking nonsense and smiling bitterly, knowing that I am dissatisfied with him, he explained: It is true, it is true He talked about three realities in a row, but he still couldn't tell what the realities were. I glared at him with rather angry eyes. He shook his hands and said hastily: I mean, the changes that happened after I activated the mechanism for the first time were very different from the changes that will happen now. So my feeling then, will be different from yours now To be honest, I couldn't digest what he said for a while, and I couldn't know exactly what it meant.

I thought about it and said: How long will it take to change? Nonsense's answer was beyond my expectation, because generally speaking, after the mechanism is activated, the changes driven by the mechanism will occur immediately, but nonsense's answer is: thirty minutes. I was taken aback for a moment, and said: Since it will take so long, why don't you take advantage of this time to tell me what changes will happen? Looking at the bullshit situation, he seems to want me to experience changes without knowing what changes will happen. Of course it can bring different feelings, but I don't think it is important.

So I said again: You came to me in such a hurry, didn't you want to solve the problem as soon as possible?Say it! After I yelled, Hu Hua took a breath, and then spoke out the changes that would occur when the mechanism was activated. So the following narrative is a nonsense experience. And when I narrate the experience of nonsense, I also have to start from the beginning. Without knowing the cause, it is difficult to understand the consequences. I will try to make a long story short. It turned out that Hu Hua spent the most time on this floor because of the collection of insect specimens on this floor.

After seeing the oddly shaped door several times, he became curious and wanted to see what kind of room he would enter through this door. While thinking about how to open the door, he stretched out his hand and pressed lightly on the door, but unexpectedly the door was already sunk in, and then with a little force, the door slid open to the side. Hu Shi stood at the door for a long time before he could vaguely see the situation inside the room. Strangely, he didn't consider using modern lighting equipment to see the situation in the room more clearly. Later I asked him why he didn't do that , He hesitated for a moment, and then said: I just didn't think about it, maybe it was because I didn't want the atmosphere in this room to be destroyed by modern equipment.

Perhaps it is for this reason, because after lighting all the oil lamps in the room, there is indeed an indescribable mysterious atmosphere in the room. If you pull in some electric lights and let them shine brightly, this atmosphere will disappear. Even when I had this question and answer with Hu Hua, I didn't know that this point was actually extremely important, and it was the main key to the continued development of the whole thing.In other words, nonsense at that time, if it hadn't been done in that way, nothing would happen in the future. So when I understand this point, nonsense channel: Providence!God willing!This is totally providence!It can't be anything other than God's will! All those who have heard nonsense say that have no objection to nonsense.I didn't express any objection because the so-called providence is originally a mysterious and mysterious phenomenon.All accidents, or all things that cannot be explained by common sense, can be said to be God's will. The weirdness of what happened next can certainly be attributed to God's will. And when I was listening to the nonsense, I felt that the person who arranged the room not only used the shape of the door to strongly imply where the mechanism was opened, but also implied that the person entering the room should light the oil lamp.Because nonsense went on to say that not long after he entered the room, he saw a shelf next to the big oil urn of the perennial lamp. Although the light was very dim, the shelf was shining golden and very eye-catching. And there was nothing on the shelf except a thin piece of wood.At one end of the thin wooden strip, there were scorched marks from burning. All these situations create a hint, so that people who see it will naturally think of using thin wooden strips to draw the fire and light other oil lamps. The person who made such an arrangement obviously did so on purpose. Of course, this person was also the person who set up all the organs that were discovered later. This person has a very deep understanding of the psychological suggestion, which is very admirable.This person later made the Gobi Desert almost worship him, thinking that he can be called the double best with the king of Tiangong, that is another story. Because of such hints, nonsense, whether the act of lighting the oil lamp is God's will or man's will, I have some reservations. Later (again later), Bai Su and I talked about this issue once, and Bai Su said: At that time, nonsense, all the oil lamps were lit, and none of them leaked. My idea is: these oil lamps are so prominent that they have a strong attraction to light one and want to light another one. Unless they are not lit, they will definitely light all the oil lamps together. But I didn't continue to argue with Bai Su. Since the matter of lighting all the oil lamps is so important, I have spent quite a bit of time explaining it. It wasn't long before Hu Shi entered the room for the first time, he lit all the oil lamps, and of course saw the calligraphy. He also immediately recognized that it was Li Bai's "Will Enter the Wine". However, it was not until many times that he accidentally discovered that the shape of the door was exactly the same as the cursive character Tian. He felt that there might be a connection between them, so he paid special attention to the character Tian.And in the process of noticing, he would of course touch it. After touching it several times, occasionally he used a little more force, and the word "Tian" was pressed into the wall.Hu Hua immediately thought that it might be a mechanism. He has been completely pressing the word "Tian" into the wall, waiting for the mechanism to activate. But after waiting and waiting, nothing changed. Hu Hua tried to press other words, but none of them could be pressed.Hu Hua's patience is very good, he never left, waiting for changes to happen. As Hu Shuo said just now, changes will take 30 minutes. I believe there are not too many people who can wait 30 minutes because at that time, it is impossible to be sure whether there will be changes. It may be a waste of time to wait for a day. However, nonsense just has this patience as if it was God’s will. If it was me or Wen Baoyu at the time, even if he pressed the word for heaven and waited for three to five minutes, there was no movement, and he would have given up a long time ago. It is absolutely impossible. Thirty minutes long wait. I elaborate on this point, also because it is very important, and the reason for it is known later, and I will talk about it later. At that time, talking nonsense was waiting, admiring the sockets of those oil lamps, and paying attention to all changes at the same time. As for why he firmly believed that there would be changes, he couldn't say.People's latent feelings are very wonderful and cannot be explained. There are many examples, which prove that if the things that will happen have a major relationship with the fate of this person's life, this person is likely to have premonitions of different strengths and weaknesses. Nonsense didn't even have any premonition at that time, he just felt that if he had to wait, there would be changes, there would be changes, and this change would have a huge impact on his life in the future. When Hu Shuo felt this kind of vague feeling, it was difficult to describe his mood, he felt empty, and wanted to hold on to something to stabilize, but he knew very well that this kind of spiritual feeling could not be helped by actions. He felt that during that period of time, his mental state was very trance, and in this situation, he heard a voice coming from the wall. It's a very slight crunching sound, and the source of the sound is the right side of the word that day. Hu Hua immediately walked forward, but he stopped immediately after taking a step, and quickly retreated to the outside of the room. His reaction was correct. He heard the sound, knew that the mechanism was about to be activated, and wanted to go over to see what happened, but immediately thought that after the mechanism was activated, there might be dangerous situations, such as suddenly shooting out many poisonous arrows and spears. Or the entire ceiling is pressed down. These situations are often seen in martial arts novels and some movies. So nonsense immediately exited the room to be able to keep safe when such a situation arises. After he exited the room, the sound continued for about a minute before he saw a 40-centimeter-square piece of the wall on the right side of the sky character. device. The device is difficult to describe. Nonsense described it in detail, which gave me a rough impression in my mind. But when I saw this device with my own eyes, I knew that no matter how detailed Nonsense described it, I couldn't understand it from his description. , to know what the device really looks like. So the description I am making now is the same. Although it is very detailed, it cannot let you know the real appearance of the device, and I cannot let you see the device with your own eyes, so I can only ask you to use your imagination and describe it in words. Imagine what that device would look like. Anyway, the appearance of this device is not important, what is important is its function. That device, when I saw it, I thought it was an optical device. It seems that it is composed of many glass lenses. Those lenses have different shapes, some are square, some are triangular, and some are trapezoidal. Put together, each reflects the room The light from the medium oil lamp is not very bright, but the flickering is erratic, it looks weird and mysterious, like a weird compound eye. Of those lenses, only two are round. The two circular lenses are about ten centimeters apart in the middle of the whole device, and there is a square frame next to the lenses. After such a device appeared, the sound stopped. Hu Hua waited for a while before moving forward. Ever since he saw this device, he has been thinking: What is the function of this device? His first thought was: the two circular lenses in the middle look like lenses, but the whole device doesn't look like photographic equipment, so these two circular lenses should be the eyepieces of some optical equipment. This optical device can be a magnifying glass, a telescope, a periscope or a diorama. When Hu Hua imagined the diorama, he shook his head involuntarily, thinking that there is no such possibility that the diorama is a very primitive entertainment device. Diorama! His thinking has been advancing in this direction, so when he came to the front, the height of the two circular lenses was very suitable for him to take a closer look. He naturally regarded the circular lenses on the device as optical equipment. Eyepiece, close your eyes to watch. It is very necessary to explain that when nonsense described the process in detail, I already knew that the reason why he said so in detail was to delay the time for thirty minutes. When the mechanism was activated, the device appeared and let me see That device, much better than he told me. And his goal was achieved. When he mentioned that the device appeared, the sound came out. Not long after, I saw the device on the wall, on the right side of the sky. I stared at the device, just like when Hu Shi saw it for the first time, I kept imagining: What exactly is that? And the weird thing is that when nonsense mentioned dioramas, I happened to think of dioramas, and naturally shook my head. When the nonsense comes to the point where he closes his eyes to look, someone else will definitely not be as impatient as me, and ask questions at this time, but go and see by himself.I have also walked forward, but at the same time I also asked nonsense: What did you see? Nonsense's expression was extremely strange, he was even panting. He didn't answer, but just made a gesture, motioning me to go and see for myself. This shows that what he saw must be beyond any conceivable weirdness, which is of course the reason why he is so urgent to find me. I took a breath, collected my mind, and was ready to accept any unimaginable weirdness. I moved my eyes to the two round lenses, as if looking through a telescope, and looked intently. In the first second, I couldn't see anything but a gray area. I blinked and quickly saw that there was another world in that gray light. At that moment, I could only see I think it's funny. I thought of the diorama just now. At that time, I just felt that this idea was ridiculous and absurd. However, when the scene gradually appeared in front of my eyes, it was like looking at a diorama. I can see that from the gray area to the scene gradually appearing, it is not that there is no scene, but that the scene is there, but at the beginning, my eyes have not been able to adapt to the light, so I have to wait until I adjust naturally After the visual induction, the scene can be seen. It is said that the situation is like looking at a diorama, but it is actually a bit rough. A more accurate description should be like watching a three-dimensional slide. Two slides are combined through a simple optical combination to combine the images together. Create a three-dimensional effect. At this time, when I looked out, what I saw was a real three-dimensional scene, just like seeing a real scene. It took at least a minute before my eyes were first drawn to a human body before I was able to look away and look elsewhere. So I describe that human body first. It was a woman's nude body, completely naked and naked. She was lying on her side, with her head on one hand, and her face turned upward. You could see half of her face, her back, slender waist, round buttocks and slender legs. Her body is impeccably beautiful, her face is also shockingly gorgeous, her long hair is loosely tied up in a bun, and her side lying posture is so wonderful, forming a picture of a supreme beauty. Before this, I imagined many weird scenes that I would see, but I never expected to see such a naked woman! During that minute or so (maybe more) when the eyes are completely drawn, the feeling is so strange that it is really indescribable.The peculiarity does not come from the naked woman itself, but I was thinking: what kind of device makes her visible? What kind of existence is she? Is it a photo?Is it a picture?Is it a sculpture? I even thought: Is it a real person? It is ridiculous to think of being a real person, but it is very natural to have such an idea.Because what I saw was so real. Although the beauty was motionless, she gave the impression of being completely alive. She closed her eyes, but her eyelids seemed to be trembling slightly, but when she wanted to see if there was such a tremor, she couldn't catch it. any indication. What makes people feel this way even more is her long eyelashes. With her eyes closed, the eyelashes seem to be extraordinarily long, slightly upturned, almost alive. And the skin of her whole body is so fine and smooth, like a jade carved in powder, which makes me feel that it is a very delicate porcelain statue. Only very fine porcelain can emit such a soft, thin glow under the dim light. A thin layer of brilliance, this layer of elusive brilliance will even flow slowly. However, if you look carefully, you can know that the beautiful woman is definitely not a porcelain statue, no matter how finely crafted it is, and it can't make the soft hair appear on the skin! The reason why I feel like there is nothing is because firstly, the light is not very bright, and secondly, she seems to be quite far away. I guess the beauty is five or six meters away, so I can't see it very clearly. I believe that if there is enough light at close range, every pore on her skin can be seen clearly. Because of this situation, the possibility of being a statue is ruled out. No matter what material the statue is made of, it is impossible to have such an effect.There are only two possibilities in the current scenario. One is: that is a real person. But it's really unbelievable if it's a real person. The second is: it is a high-resolution picture display, and it is a three-dimensional display. It is true that this hypothesis can be established, but considering the age when all this was set up, maybe even photography had not been invented, it seems too incredible. My thoughts were very disordered, completely centered, and after a while, my eyes could barely move away from that beautiful woman's extremely good-looking carcass.Only then did I realize that the surroundings of that beauty were all gray and nothing.The beauty is lying on a piece of milky white silk, which looks very soft. I couldn't make any assumptions about what I saw, I just felt extremely strange, as if I had entered a dream. Just when I was about to leave those two eyepieces, and wanted to hear what nonsense had to say about this weird phenomenon, I heard nonsense's heavy breathing, right next to me, nonsense may have been by my side for a long time , but because I was so engrossed in that beauty, I didn't realize it until now. I was suddenly puzzled: Hu Yu’s shortness of breath meant that he was extremely excited. His abnormal mood was of course due to the extremely strange scene in front of him, but I thought that there might be other factors in it! What I thought of was: nonsense, just at the age when a fair lady and a gentleman are in love with each other, the beauty he saw and the beauty I saw, apart from the same surprise and unbelievable feeling, he must have a different feeling Feeling produced! This different feeling is the natural admiration of young men for beautiful women and it can easily develop into love. Although the beautiful woman is just a sight to see, and she doesn't even know what kind of existence she is, but that does not hinder the development of love emotions. Although this emotion is considered an abnormality in psychology, But in reality it is quite common. Nonsense, could it be that he fell in love with the beauty that he could see? Judging from his anxious expression, it was indeed possible.I took a slow breath and asked casually: How long has it been since you saw her? Hu Hua immediately replied: Nine days! I just turned my head and looked at him. His answer has completely proved what I just thought! The day he left a message at my door was today, and nine days after he saw that beauty, he thought of coming to me.During these nine days, he probably spent most of the twenty-four hours looking at that beauty. The beauty is indeed attractive that he will never tire of seeing. And there are nine days, which is naturally more than enough to fully develop the relationship. Nonsense may not want others to know about this matter because it is very weird after all. But now he obviously has other ideas, so he came to me urgently. When I looked at him, his reaction further proved my guess. He grabbed my sleeve with both hands, panting, and said, "Did you see her?" I just nodded, and before I could speak, Nonsense had already called out: Save her!Get her out!Think of a way to rescue her! The anxiety and panic on his expression, there is no doubt that he regards the beauty he saw as his closest relative, and more importantly, in his heart, he definitely believes that the beauty is a real person , a real person. And he wants to rescue her! It seems like a simple story of a hero saving the beauty, but the beauty's situation is so special, I'm afraid this story of a hero saving the beauty cannot be developed. Seeing Hu Hua's reaction, I shook my head involuntarily, and Hu Hua said sharply: You won't help? The meaning of my shaking my head is very complicated. Firstly, I don’t think the beauty I saw is a real person, and secondly, I don’t take the nonsense attitude seriously. Nonsense obviously misunderstood, but for a while I didn't know how to explain it, so I had to shake my head again.
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