Lu Zhengkang has been going to various safe houses in Zhenjiang District recently at night, neither staying in the hotel nor going to Nanshan Dabie Wilderness. The consciousness exchange between him and Su Xiangli has not happened for a long time.
It seemed that this weird phenomenon had disappeared. Lu Zhengkang couldn't explain why. He just thought that he didn't want to swap bodies with Su Xiangli. As a result, there was indeed no swap, which made him feel relieved.
In fact, as early as the period when he was an internal tester, he could already roughly feel the operating mechanism of consciousness exchange. Especially after he let go of his obsession with color, this subtle feeling became stronger.
He was indeed able to control this unnatural phenomenon a little bit. It can't be said to be control. Lu Zhengkang had long guessed that this change was caused by the "Chinese Parent" system in him, and although the system had been silent,
But he will still listen to his wishes.
Lu Zhengkang wanted to know more about Su Xiangli, so they swapped bodies. Such prayers received responses from the system many times, including when he prayed for knowledge, and the system gave him knowledge.
In essence, the system is a wishing machine. It more or less represents human beings' desire for something for nothing, and is some kind of concrete reflection of inner greed and dissatisfaction. Lu Zhengkang does not deny that he is very dependent on the system. Without the system, his life would be
Just a pool of stagnant water, he is just a common being, forced to embrace the tide of the times, just like being selected to participate in "Three Worlds" forcibly.
If he doesn’t have a system, then none of this has anything to do with him. Without excellent grades and a good physique, he can’t be financially independent as a teenager, and he can’t let an outstanding girl like Su Xiangli remain obsessed with him. China is likely to lose.
He plays the game and is assimilated by the Zhimeng. At the same time, he has to face the pressure of the college entrance examination and the discord in his family...
Lu Zhengkang really gained a lot from the gifted system, including self-confidence, love for life, and belief in love. These treasures that had been almost wasted in the previous life were returned to his hands. Even without the system, he still had them.
He laughs at his qualifications in life, but he is still very grateful to this system. When he admits the system, it is equivalent to admitting his own incompetence. Without the system, would he be a waste? That's not true, but he is definitely not as comfortable as he is now.
It is a cliché that with greater ability comes greater responsibility. Lu Zhengkang agrees. This society can only be built when people help others. Including the epidemic in the 1920s, in the midst of hardships, some people made trouble, and some rushed to help from thousands of miles away.
What is reflected is not the so-called national character, a group consciousness based on the characteristics of the times, but a very authentic social structure. Some people just stay in their position by any means, and some people are just willing to dedicate their own interests to serve the public.
In suffering, the class consciousness, collective culture, and niche circles that are usually mixed together are broken up, the medium of subjective communication is weakened, and the public is isolated in their own place in the form of individuals.
The most important thing is that the special period has suppressed the intensifying hedonism and consumerism, pulling people out of the surreal space created by rapid economic development, overwhelming advertising, and the accumulation of commodity cultural symbols, just like coming out of a glitzy event.
After briefly awakening from the modern dream, we can clearly see the shortcomings of society and dare to admit their existence, so that we can correct them. It is difficult to build a country, but this is the only way.
However, in the post-modern society at the end of the century, symbolic commodity elements have penetrated into every corner of the world, and hedonism and consumerism have become dominant ideas. I am afraid it will be difficult for people to break free from the shackles of the surreal space. The rise of Zhimeng
It does not make the public wary, but makes them join in it without hesitation.
The reason is also very simple. On the one hand, grand narratives are ignored by the people at the bottom in post-modern society. People no longer pursue progress in practical significance because it is difficult for them to achieve this. The gap between people in this era
It’s already too big. How many generations of accumulation can we give birth to?
Elite? The cost of progress is so high that people are not interested in it. They dare not even think about it. Only people like Lu Zhengkang who have the "Chinese Parenting" system, or geniuses who are ahead of their times, can they say that they are the only one.
People can revitalize a family, but the concept of clan has actually been extremely weakened in modern times.
After the grand narrative disappeared, people began to look for value in fantasy and virtual worlds to fill their personal lives. This also led to another reason: as a hyper-realistic space to escape reality, the virtual world has long been expressed in its form.
It has appeared in all aspects of society.
For example, Disneyland, animation figures, electronic singers, false settings created by humans, through the operation of capital or collective behavior, transcend falsehood, invade reality, and become a conceptually real existence.
People will buy luxury bags and watches that lack real meaning for advertising purposes, go to amusement parks to interact with cartoon characters played by employees, and enthusiastically collect sneakers, limited edition cards, and computer equipment. In essence, they are hoarding symbols. They collect
These things themselves have no meaning, but the act of collecting them creates meaning.
Is it difficult for primitive people to understand this phenomenon brought about by social development? But modern people have grown up in this environment. They have seen many similar situations in cultural works in which humans were kept in captivity by intelligent machines and humans were mechanically transformed.
, human beings have become a setting of conscious existence, and they will not feel strange fear about it.
For them, which one to choose between the unsatisfactory reality and the possible blissful conditions in the virtual world? It’s clear at a glance, right?
Because of this, the truth must be concealed. This long-term right-wing institutional orientation in the country is to maintain stability.
As things have developed to this point, the war that will determine the fate of mankind has been kept in the dark.
Lu Zhengkang, and even all senior state officials, are the invisible "guardians" of the times. They are the people who must resolutely participate in the battle.
Big Brother's call may come at any time, and Lu Zhengkang has also begun to explore the truth on his own.
God is about to send great responsibilities to this people. Lu Zhengkang actually does not have this awareness. This era is no longer a society of single-handed heroes. In other words, this kind of personal hero experience has never been mainstream in the long history of China.
In China, there is no Austrian
In Desai-style legends, some are only successful kings and defeated bandits. Individual actions are summarized under the guidance of collective ideology, and the only remaining sustenance for the individual's spirit of resistance is transformed into knights, such as Tai Shigong's "Biographies of Assassins"
That way, it occupies a tiny chapter.
Lu Zhengkang, as he realized, was just a sesame seed in a thousand-layer cake.
And he has never thought about using his own abilities to gain status and power. Living in this world is not easy. If you want to live well, it is even harder. If you want to live a free, stable and happy life,
He has to lose something. He is a person with no political leanings. Rather than saying he is anarchist, it is better to say that he just opposes ideology and is alienated from mainstream values.
Lu Zhengkang is very satisfied with his life.
This reason alone is enough for him to fight hard. People are unwilling to change. If they struggle not to change, it is also a strong endogenous behavioral orientation.
Yesterday, Saturday, Su Xiangli sent him an email saying that he missed him. Lu Zhengkang walked out of the safe house and headed towards his girlfriend's rental house.
The doorbell rang, and Su Xiangli opened the door and gave him a silly smile. Lu Zhengkang asked, "What makes you so happy?"
"It's nothing. I feel like I'm getting better at my recent dance practice." Su Xiangli responded casually, but her eyes kept resting on Lu Zhengkang's cheek. In fact, she just hadn't seen him for a long time and was a little addicted to love.
"What's wrong?"
"Ahem, classmate Lu Zhengkang, have you noticed that we haven't swapped bodies for a long time."
"It's been four weeks, more than a month, what's wrong?"
Su Xiangli stretched out her little hand in a begging gesture, "Then you should hand over your private diary." She looked like a little squirrel, and Lu Zhengkang felt a warm smile in his heart.
"It's not yet certain whether this kind of thing will happen again. Let's wait a little longer." Lu Zhengkang said.
"Oh." Su Xiangli was a little depressed. Her behavior today was very childish, and Lu Zhengkang couldn't help but think of her when she was a child. She was also very cute at that time.
Lu Zhengkang still remembers every bit of his life. Thanks to the transformation of the system, his memory is very good. People like him who live a satisfactory life are not bound by the virtual world, so they work hard to maintain the consciousness of the real world.
From a personal perspective, his efforts are actually selfish.
Lu Zhengkang fell into melancholy. Su Xiangli could see it. His eyes were very distracted. Half of this guy's face was bathed in the early morning light through the window screen, in a thin layer of dim shadow.
His slightly closed eyelashes cast deeper shadows, covering up the floating stars in his eyes, like a sparkling river pond under the moonlit night.
It is rare to see a melancholy Lu Zhengkang. The main theme of childhood in his youth is happiness, which is light, enjoying the greatest rights, and no worries caused by obligations and responsibilities. Nowadays, the potential pressure of life has made him cheerful all the time.
Lu Zhengkang unconsciously showed signs of exhaustion. Su Xiangli thought that after completing "Three Worlds", life would be able to return to its usual comfort. But now she discovered that it was not possible. Some things, after knowing
, will bring indelible pain.
What was Lu Zhengkang carrying? Su Xiangli remained silent. She wanted to escape. As a 16-year-old, she still had luck with the world. As long as she ignored it, misfortune would not befall her.
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However, how could Su Xiangli feel relieved after learning about Lu Zhengkang's difficulties?
"Lu Zhengkang, are you hiding something from me?" She said it in a declarative sentence, without any suspicion.
Lu Zhengkang seemed to have woken up, and he laughed, "What are you thinking about?" He pulled Su Xiangli into his arms and rubbed her forehead with his chin.
Su Xiangli inhaled his scent deeply, clinging to him as if she had lost her strength, and murmured: "Deer, you can tell me anything you want, we are just like one person, why should you hide it from me? Even if
If you want to do something bad, I will accompany you to the end."
"How could I let it go..." Lu Zhengkang felt soft.
Su Xiangli was furious, "You really are hiding something from me!"
Fell into a trap!
Lu Zhengkang's melancholy and affectionate expression immediately collapsed, and he was sweating profusely, "No, no, no! How is that possible, hahaha, didn't I just say the same thing because I saw you were into the drama?"
Su Xiangli pursed her lips, showing that she was about to cry. Her appearance and eyes were like a heavy hammer, hitting Lu Zhengkang's nose. His vision went dark and he immediately panicked. Growing up, he rarely saw Su Xiangli.
Xiang Li cried. No matter how uncomfortable she was, she just lowered her head and stayed quietly for a while.
The only time I saw her cry was on the eve of participating in the closed beta. She was extremely scared that time, but no matter what, she was a very sunny and strong girl, and after experiencing the "Three Worlds" incident, she became even more
Very cheerful and will never show weakness easily.
"Don't cry, don't cry." Lu Zhengkang began to tremble incoherently.
Su Xiangli continued to act pitiful. She just pretended to be aggrieved at first, but she couldn't help but think in her heart: What if Lu Zhengkang really had an accident?
She imagined that one day, when she opened the door, Lu Zhengkang was lying on the ground bloody. He passed away suddenly before he even had time to say a word to her. Then she had to attend Lu Zhengkang's funeral. She was not married, had no formal relationship, and did not get the benefit of both parties.
What should she do if she is a puppy lover recognized by her parents?
What to do? She could only stand in front of his grave as a classmate. There was not even a grave. His ashes were scattered in the sea. Su Xiangli didn't even have a place to mourn. Lu Zhengkang's family would know that except them
Besides, is there anyone who will always remember Lu Zhengkang?
The more Su Xiangli thought about it, the sadder she became, so she asked: "Lu Zhengkang, answer me honestly, is there any danger?"
Lu Zhengkang wanted to lie, but he was speechless again under her eyes. If he didn't speak, he would acquiesce.
"How dare you!" Su Xiangli's heart froze. She didn't look pitiful anymore. She just stared at Lu Zhengkang in disbelief, with tears streaming down her face.
"Don't do this."
"What do you want me to do! You are going to die, what do you want me to do?!"
"I'll be fine."
"What if, we are just high school students, don't think that you are a great person because you have been an internal tester and you are a major. Have you thought about your family and me, if something happens to you, how will I live?
?”
"Then you just live on for me." Lu Zhengkang said, "The path I took is not glorious. I am also very selfish. If anything happens, just let me bear it alone."
"I'm afraid you really won't come back." Su Xiangli sobbed, "Why are you? Originally, I wanted to invite you to a ballet performance. I wanted to see you in the audience, and I danced for you. Why did you want to
Talking about this kind of thing, if something happens to you, if you get hurt anywhere, I won't allow it. Is Colonel Lin looking for you again? Don't go, really, or you can let me go for you."
Lu Zhengkang wiped Su Xiangli's cheek. She cried sadly, and Lu Zhengkang also felt uncomfortable. "No, don't worry, I'm not going to be an internal tester. I'll be fine. When will the performance you mentioned start?"
I definitely want to see you dance, Susu."
Su Xiangli sobbed for a while and managed to calm down. She wiped her face and showed a relieved smile. She said like a treasure trove: "This month, on the 17th, I checked and you finished your final exam on the 14th.
, and then you can go to Fujian and Guangdong City on the 15th, 16th
On the 17th, I will go shopping and go to the amusement park with you. On the 17th, you will watch my game. On the 18th, we will go home. On the 19th, we will visit your great-grandfather. I have thought about it all. Lu Zhengkang, you
Don't walk, okay? Don't do anything, just stay with me, okay?"
When she said this, the stars in the sky twinkled in her eyes.
Lu Zhengkang nodded, "Okay, I'm not going anywhere."
