"The first point is also the one that I think is relatively easy to accept."
When she spoke, Lin Sanjiu glanced at Bohemia a little apologetically. She was indeed deliberately preventing him from staying. She couldn't tell why - maybe it was just because she wanted to take Bohemia with her.
Lin Sanjiu could not help but feel a little guilty when she thought of breaking her expectations.
"...It's the people here who are really part of the cycle of nature, literally."
"What do you mean?" Bohemia leaned closer.
"The mushrooms here are in a dominant position, right? But even they don't have the same unscrupulous status as humans did on the earth before. Oh, you don't know-" Lin Sanjiu pondered for a few seconds and explained: "
In short, judging from the information we have received, when mushrooms are alive, they must purify the air, accommodate residents, and maintain social operations; after they die, they must turn into soil nutrients and provide supplies... You see, their skin will be peeled off
Come down and become raw materials for pavement, clothing, etc. Even mushrooms are like this, but what about humans?"
Doctor Cat gave a long yawn, and then washed his face with his paws for a while. For him, there may be no more boring topic than the current conversation.
"Human beings cannot just enjoy the benefits in this society without obligations. This is different from the past human society on earth. People here have to give back to nature after taking from nature..."
"So what is it?" Bohemia's heart was in doubt for a long time, and she became angry: "Are you still talking about the topic?"
Lin Sanjiu sighed: "Have you forgotten? Or you told me... After people here die, there is no funeral ceremony or burial. They will only become nutrients... to support the growth of new mushrooms.
stand up."
Lao Da from the garbage dump secretly obtained so many corpses and wanted to transport them out of the mushroom city because he knew that new mushrooms would grow from those corpses. Lin Sanjiu still remembered that there were many corpses among them.
They are all elderly people, which means that the proportion of natural deaths among them is probably not low; those corpses that died of natural causes were probably originally buried casually in a place where mushrooms needed to grow.
Bohemia tilted her head, her big golden brown eyes sparkling slightly.
"That's it?" She didn't seem to take it seriously at all, "You are dead, why do you care where you are buried? Isn't this the case with other animals and plants? Just you people from the old world.
Some people are so pretentious that when they die, they have to pour chemical materials into coffins. I have seen coffins that even bugs can't bite through. When they are dug up a hundred years later, they will still be a plastic-like body, and there is just a big piece that cannot be disposed of.
It’s rubbish, it’s disgusting. Let me see, you people from the old world are all used to it.”
Doctor Cat turned to look at Lin Sanjiu. Although the cat couldn't laugh, its whiskers were trembling for a while.
Even if he expected the informality of Bohemia, Lin Sanjiu was still a little embarrassed.
"What kind of messy burial methods do you have in the twelve realms? No, listen to me. Funerals are not just pretentious... This is a way for human beings to try to understand life and death. Death is like life, the essence is
Above, it's because we miss life so much and don't understand why it will eventually pass away. In other words, we regard our lives as infinitely important, so we take death that ends life so seriously... We hope that death is life
The other side of."
After saying this, she took a breath and found that Doctor Cat was so sleepy that she couldn't even open her eyes.
"After humans' fear and fascination with death disappear, death itself becomes insignificant, and the subsequent psychological impact is that life does not seem so precious." She was afraid that Bohemia would not understand it.
, had to give an analogy: "For example, if you have a lover - forget it, let me change an example. For example, if you have a pair of earrings, it doesn't matter if you lose them. Then when you own them, will you feel that they are very rare?
?”
Bohemia shook her head, and her big dark green stone earrings jingled for a while.
"This is the second point I discovered. People in the mushroom society attach great importance to the meaning of life, but in fact they don't value life that much - it's very contradictory, isn't it?"
"How did you know?" She was a little unconvinced.
"I found several clues that can prove this." Lin Sanjiu was waiting for her to ask, and quickly replied: "The Lobster Body Repair Center only has some very basic facilities, such as ointments, hospital beds, and bandages.
Something like that. It is obviously supposed to be a substitute for a hospital, but in fact, if you have a slightly more complicated disease, you may not be able to see it at all. When I took the puppeteer in, I felt strange... There was no one on duty.
There are no doctors or nurses, physical examination equipment, or first aid facilities. Even the medical room in Exodus is inferior to..."
She raised her eyes and looked at the closed experience center not far away, and said: "So, I just looked through all the occupations in the experience list. Garbage workers, strawberry farmers, writers, molecular deconstructors... there are all kinds of occupations.
Only there are no doctors or nurses."
Bohemia pursed her lips and said nothing.
"Meijia was beaten so badly. It stands to reason that she should be sent to the hospital, right? After all, she is just an ordinary girl physically and has not evolved. But in her memories, she just 'did not go to school and recuperated at home.'
…I was sure at that time that she didn’t go to the hospital because people here didn’t have the habit of going to the hospital.”
"What should I do if I get sick?" Bohemia raised her head and asked.
"I guess what happens to animals in nature when they get sick is what people here do," Lin Sanjiu replied simply, "Maybe there are a little more treatment methods. The living environment here is good, and the people are not that bad."
It’s just that things go wrong easily – it’s just that the natural depletion that comes with age cannot be delayed.”
Doctor Cat didn't know when he suddenly opened his eyes and added: "Well, if you live until the day you die, you will die. What are you worried about? I really don't understand you. You are obviously still alive and well, but you are dying every day."
Keep it in mind..." It said and fell asleep again. It seemed that it was really bored.
Bohemia looked at it without saying a word - for the children of the Twelve Worlds who already lacked proper medical care, this might not be a big enough impact.
Lin Sanjiu decided to remind her of another thing. "Do you remember that old lady?"
"How could you forget?" Bohemia's expression changed.
"The moment she opened the door, she looked good. Even if she wasn't childish-looking, she was still strong. But when she recognized us as the wanted criminals on TV...she showed in every way that it was her last day.
"She looks like that." Lin Sanjiu frowned, "I felt something was wrong at that time. She looks like she is only sixty years old. In modern human society, old age has just begun... She has nothing wrong with her, so why should she be pulled?
We kept reminiscing about the past and eating the dishes we used to cook, as if our time was running out. The most surprising thing was that after we finished reminiscing, she actually died - so suddenly."
Like an owl that discovered the enemy's situation, Bohemia straightened up: "What do you mean..."
"Yes, I finally understand now. She found out that we were wanted criminals, and decided on the spot to give up her own life to keep us."
This sentence naturally raised more questions - Bohemia did not react slowly and immediately asked: "Can a living person die at the drop of a hat? You said she used her own life to keep us here?"
…What does it mean again?”
"The first answer is, yes." Lin Sanjiu tapped his temple, "The will generated by the human brain is extremely powerful... If your brain does not think that your left leg can move, then you
She would really become a lame, and besides, her situation is probably a little different from ours. How different is the answer to your second question. Do you still remember what happened to the old lady’s body?
Right? She didn't turn into a zombie, although her body did 'walk' to the window and broke in half... At that time, something poured out of her body. You should guess what it was by now.
Alright?"
Bohemia was startled and said softly: "...spores?"
