In Gao Ying's short life of less than twenty years, death has always been a very vague concept in books and movies and TV dramas for him. After all, death is a very taboo concept, and adults rarely
I will discuss the issue of death with minors.
However, after seeing people die in front of him so directly and repeatedly, Gao Ying truly realized the horror of death. He finally understood why people said that war would destroy people's ethics and outlook on life and death. He had always
He firmly believes that life is extremely precious. As long as it can save one person's life, it is worth paying no matter how high the price is. But now, he only feels horrified. Is human life really precious?
A moment ago, the person who was still so alive, who was so determined to live, died so easily. He couldn't even leave a last word, couldn't even make the slightest struggle, he just died.
It turns out that death can come so easily and unreasonably. In reality, no matter how many deaths are reported in the news, it cannot be compared to the huge shock of seeing someone around you die with your own eyes.
"It turns out... I have indeed been longing for eternal life..." Gao Ying laughed at himself and said: "I don't want to die. I definitely don't want to die like an ant..."
Seeing that Gao Ying was a little incoherent, Hou Mingbo also became worried. He suddenly thought, could this be the so-called PTSD? Hou Mingbo had read some concepts about PTSD on the Internet, which translated into Chinese is post-traumatic stress disorder. This is a
A mental disorder that occurs when humans encounter death threats or witness others dying in front of them.
After all, the characters of Gao Ying and Hou Mingbo are different. Unlike Hou Mingbo, Gao Ying rarely experienced setbacks from childhood to adulthood. His parents are both senior intellectuals. They have always been among the best in school since they were students, and they are girls.
He is a male god-level academic master who is the envy of all of us. His life has always been very smooth. Compared with Hou Mingbo, who was born in poverty and suffered a lot from his father suffering from cancer, death has been placed in his mind from an illusory concept to a substantial one.
In front of him. He can persist calmly until now because he can rely on his own ability to solve any difficulties he encountered in the past, which resulted in strong self-confidence. But this self-confidence has been gradually destroyed at this time.
.
"I can't die... I can't die... I absolutely can't die..." Gao Ying repeated it three times, and then took deep breaths to force himself to calm down.
At this time, there was only one strong thought in his mind! He must live. No matter what, he must obtain eternal life!
This will became the strongest motivation for him to persevere. Then, he looked at Hou Mingbo and said, "Let's go. No matter what, we must survive."
Survive... He finally realized how heavy these three words were. He actually regarded himself as the savior, and even expected others to survive with his help. Whether he could survive himself, he had no guarantee.
.The same now, he has no confidence to let anyone around him survive. This is a test that must not be failed, and if he can survive today, he will continue to experience this again and again...
An exam you must never fail!
"I finally understood... what was written on the test paper at that time, 'How much are you willing to pay?' means. How ignorant was I to write 'I am willing to pay at all costs'?"
When Gao Ying said this, Hou Mingbo felt very uncomfortable. At home, looking at his father who became bald and thinner due to chemotherapy, he always realized the impermanence of life. But they really realized it.
Is the so-called "price" the only reason for longing for the so-called eternal life? Eternal life means that it can be longer than the stars and the existence of the universe. A mere mortal who desires to have a life longer than the universe has to pay a lot.
Do they really realize the cost?
They... don't understand the so-called life at all, and they can't understand the real death at all. That's why they... made a contract with the devil so easily.
…
Completely opposite to Gao Ying, Zhu Sunling experienced death too early.
After experiencing the earthquake and losing her close family members, Zhu Sunling knew that the God of Death was never a rare visitor and could come to visit anytime and anywhere. But people living in peaceful times are not aware of this, and they will
Living a healthy and safe life is a matter of course. Little do they know... they just happen to be lucky enough to live, that's all.
She still remembered her father, mother, sister, and brother lying in the coffin at the memorial service. After being remade up, they looked like they were just sleeping. They looked the same as before, but they could no longer speak.
I can't cry, I can't smile, and I can't love her anymore.
At this moment, compared to mourning, the two stronger emotions were...rejoicing, and the fear that followed. Rejoicing was because she was the only one to survive the earthquake disaster. When she saw her dead family members
Only then did she feel extremely strongly how lucky she was to be alive. If the rescue team had not finally found her and rescued her from the rubble, she would have been lying in the coffin like the rest of her family.
A long sleep that never wakes up.
And the fear is... one day in the future, she will still be lying in a coffin and let others mourn her. If she is lucky, it will be more than ten years later. If she is unlucky, maybe she will suffer a sudden disaster in the next moment. Why do humans have to
Want to die? Is it the natural law of birth, aging, illness and death? However, people can only live for a few decades before dying in this world. Compared with this universe that has been born for more than 10 billion years, human life is too short and fragile.
She firmly believes that human life must face death, which is a flaw in genetic evolution. Why do normal cells must face death? Why must tangible life decay one day? Why should humans accept that they will die as a matter of course? Pursuit
Eternal life has become her obsession since she was 6 years old, and it continues to this day. Therefore, she knows very well that to gain eternal life, she must pay a high price. In her opinion, even if this is a
It is a very fair and reasonable thing to make a contract with the devil and go through such a terrifying test in exchange for eternal life!
