In fact, I have already made assumptions about the children of the old gods.
I just didn't expect it to be confirmed, and when this guy who claimed to be the son of God and man appeared in front of me, I wasn't excited at all. I even felt disappointed, or...bored.
It's like a Guizhou movie that is full of bad jokes.
God is good too.
No matter people.
Or some kind of hybrid breed, etc., these are all common concepts.
Generally speaking, this is because the divergence of human thoughts in this era has invisibly touched the cognitive barrier of reality, and there is no way to break through it.
Therefore, I am not at all interested in her claiming to be a descendant of God and man.
The pen drew casually on the paper. I did not continue to record, but quietly waited for the next step.
Takahashi Ginko also seemed to notice my disinterest.
So she smiled and asked: "Do you prefer the more abstract Close Encounters of the Third Kind like lighthouses?"
I was stunned.
This is a question that most people will find inexplicable. But it sounds a bit harsh to me... I am a fan. I dabble in various types, but my favorites are often niche types.
The lighthouse mentioned by Ginko Takahashi comes from one of the famous works of American science fiction writer Jeff VanderMeer, "The Lost Southland". This book is very famous in the circle of science fiction fans. I believe that most people will finish reading "The Lost Southland".
Along with "The Three-Body Problem", I also read the two books "The Forgotten Southland" and "Arrival". Although they are relatively older works compared to the era I live in, the real problem is that nowadays
The quasi-literary works still cannot conceal their brilliance.
Therefore, when I heard this question from Ginko Takahashi, it was as if some of your little quirks had accidentally met a soulmate.
This sense of identity, or spiritual resonance, suddenly piqued my interest.
I sat up straight and said with a smile: "Yes, I do prefer the kind of works that give readers room for imagination. It is a kind of hazy beauty. Just like your previous job, I think most of the regular customers of the custom shop are more...
Enjoy the process of your performance, rather than the nudity when you finish the performance?"
Hearing this, Takahashi Ginko asked: "Uncle, do you mean that what I just said was a bit too direct and too naked?"
I was immediately speechless.
Indeed... Takahashi Ginko's words hit the nail on the head. I do feel that her claiming to be the descendant of old gods and humans is a bit too naked. Not only is there no sense of mystery, it even leaves me with little room for expectation.
nothing.
This is like someone who went to explore a mysterious area and suddenly found that it was a tourist attraction. Your adventure experience suddenly had a guide, so all the mystery and unknowns became open and boring.
Takahashi Ginko, who could see through my thoughts at a glance, suddenly covered his mouth and laughed.
"Uncle, you are so interesting."
Is this interesting?
I don't think so.
"You came to interview me, and I told you the truth, but then you looked forward to getting spiritual pleasure from me like a reader, tsk tsk tsk... You are too unprofessional, uncle." Takahashi Ginko sarcastically said
Very harsh.
I was so excited that my face turned red but I was helpless.
After all, what she said is true. This is probably why I have rarely produced very good works over the years...
I admit... I am an unprofessional and undedicated reporter. Because I enjoy exploring through this job more than discovering and paraphrasing.
I want to have this moment to myself.
"I'm sorry...but I have to admit that I'm not the kind of person who likes to travel with a camera. I think scenery is for enjoying, not for recording and forgetting. It's easy to be overly obsessed with shooting.
It makes me miss out on beautiful things, so...if you think I'm not professional enough, we can end this interview early." After saying this, I put away the notebook, but to be honest, I was a little
I was so angry that I had to save face so much that I immediately regretted it after I said it.
Takahashi Ginko was stunned for a moment, then became serious.
After thinking for a while, she said: "You are right...Uncle... Being too obsessed with shooting will indeed make people ignore the more real scenery in front of them... In fact, I can understand your desire to enjoy this moment alone...
…So……"
Hearing "So..." and the hesitation or disappointment in her tone... my heart suddenly rose to my throat, and I began to hesitate whether to defend myself, but I couldn't pull that face away.
However, this girl helped me out: "Well, how about this, uncle, I'll just take you to them."
When I heard this, I suddenly felt a little creepy, and my body felt like I was getting an electric shock.
The strange excitement mixed with a little fear and anxiety made my heart beat faster.
I nodded immediately, as if I was afraid that she would suddenly regret it. And my move immediately made the girl in front of me giggle, and I suddenly felt a little embarrassed. After all, at this age, it is unreasonable to be less stable than a little girl.
.
However, after Takahashi Ginko finished laughing, he said in a deep voice: "But uncle, I want to remind you that they are gods, manifestations of pure divinity without humanity at all, so don't use your thoughts to try to understand them.
Not only is that stupid, it's also dangerous."
I could tell that there was no joke in Takahashi Ginko's words.
I tried to stay calm and collected as my heart rate continued to rise.
Yes...it is God that I have to face.
It is an existence that can be called "god" in the true sense.
In my previous thoughts about what they are, I still cannot get rid of the shackles of the ideological culture I accepted since childhood. The God I understand will always have the shadow of a human being.
But after being reminded by Ginko Takahashi, I felt that I had to constantly mark my inner thoughts with negative marks, otherwise this unexpected trip might really turn into a journey of no return for me.
"Okay, I've written it down."
Takahashi Ginzi nodded, then stood up and said, "Okay, let's go see one of them now."
When I heard this, I was stunned: "Huh? Are you going now?"
Takahashi Ginko nodded: "Yes, it lives on the nearby mountain. If you are lucky, you might be able to see the whale."
"Whale...whale?!"
My mind was completely screwed up.
Thoughts like "This is too much fun?" "What the hell is a whale?" "A god who lives on the mountain? Is it a mountain god?" kept pouring out of my heart. And I took it for granted that these thoughts were normal.
But I suddenly realized what Takahashi Ginko had just reminded me, so I immediately classified these ideas into the category of "stupid".
Maybe I am a little ant, maybe I can tell my descendants as a wise man that the mountain in front of us is the highest peak in the world. But from now on, I want to become an alien, I want to deny my reality
Accepting all the knowledge, perhaps only in this way can I roughly realize that the highest peak in the world of ants may be just a piece of poop, and Mount Everest on the earth is just a larger piece of poop formed after the collision of two plates.
Come out of the villa.
Takahashi Ginko put on a box of cat food and two canned yellow peaches.
I thought she was going to feed the cat, and the canned yellow peach was to quench her thirst on the road.
But she explained before I asked the question: "Oh, by the way, these are snacks for that person. He likes these things very much."
I was stunned, then reluctantly accepted this setting, kept smiling and said: "Okay."
Most of the foothills near the villa area are barren. This barrenness does not refer to the barrenness of vegetation, but the barrenness of biological species. Since there are many residents nearby, and there are various observation nodes on the mountain tops, this area of area
Thousands of acres of foothills have turned into a green desert on the edge of the city.
I couldn't see any trace of wild animals along the way, and even the chirping of insects and birds was a very rare thing.
Takahashi Ginko walked in front with ease, and I tried my best to keep up with her pace.
On the way I asked: "What's the name of this...uh...god? Is it Turaya or?"
Takahashi Ginko replied without looking back: "She is the incarnation of Yaramus, the guide of the Requiem Home. It is said that she has lived for more than 1,700 years. When the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, the hometown of my ancestors,
, this lady is also there, but she didn’t save anyone, she just moved to another place and lived in seclusion again.”
I listened to these incredible stories, chewed hard on the parts of them that were difficult to accept in real thinking, and then asked with twitching corners of my mouth: "Incarnation? What does incarnation mean?"
Takahashi Ginko stopped, she thought for a while and then turned around and asked me: "How much do you know about scientific knowledge such as dimensions?"
I was stunned for a moment, then smiled awkwardly: "I guess you know some common sense."
"Well...then you think of it as the image Yarams must have in order to materialize himself in the three-dimensional world. After all, it is a god. If it really breaks into our world by force, we humans would have long ago
It became extinct." Takahashi Ginko's explanation is easy to understand.
But I naturally understood what she said about three dimensions as three dimensions. So when I wrote about this experience later, I made a seemingly trivial mistake, but in fact it delayed human beings' understanding of the three-dimensional world for at least more than a century.
serious error.
Of course, these are all things later. At least in my understanding at the time, it was not difficult to understand that God would appear as an incarnation in the human world, but I forgot... I had to fundamentally deny the established knowledge.
concept.
I nodded, and Takahashi Ginko continued to lead the way.
The mountain road became more and more rugged and muddy, and the surrounding area was pitch black, which looked really scary.
I can't help but look at the woods around me, thinking that there should be some beasts hidden in the darkness that are spying on me and Ginko Takahashi.
Takahashi Ginko carried a searchlight above his head, illuminating the road ahead very clearly.
After climbing over a mountain, I was exhausted and just about to suggest taking a rest. Ginko Takahashi suddenly turned off the searchlight and turned around quickly and made a silent gesture to me.
"Shh!"
I was stunned for a moment, then quickly covered my mouth.
After the lights went out, it took my eyes a while to adjust before I could finally barely see things in the dark.
Takahashi Ginko retreated to my side and then took my hand and moved slowly towards the side of the mountain road.
I didn't dare to say anything. The two of us were as cautious as travelers lost in the mountains who accidentally bumped into a black bear, lest the slightest disturbance could lead to death.
When they reached the boulder on the side, Takahashi Ginzi said excitedly: "Uncle, you are so lucky!"
I looked at her blankly, meaning: 'Why are you so lucky?'
Takahashi Ginko stuck his head out and looked ahead, then whispered: "You'll know in a moment."
I nodded and waited patiently.
It was already a quarter past two in the morning, which can be said to be the time when the night is at its deepest and richest.
I have already fallen asleep at this time in the past, but today I am so excited that I don’t feel sleepy at all. The majesty of the mountain forest is mixed with the freshness after the rain and the smell of dead grass. I can’t help but recall that when I was a child, I went with my friends late at night in my hometown.
Explore the light rising into the sky in the mountains.
It's just that when we walked for most of the night, the light disappeared before we could see what it was.
Later, I heard the old people talking about a group of soldiers entering the mountains. They seemed to be conducting experiments in the mountains. But I really didn't believe it... because I had never seen anyone go into the mountains before.
Just when I was lost in memories, suddenly it started to rain lightly in the forest.
The rain hits the forest leaves, but very little falls.
I subconsciously shrank and asked, "How long do we have to wait?"
Ginko Takahashi looked up at the sky, and could still vaguely see a crescent moon in the sky. Such a sight was not uncommon. When I was a child, I was completely drenched by rain in the sun, so it is normal for it to rain while the crescent moon is in the sky.
climate phenomena.
But immediately afterwards, I was speechless.
I saw that the sky seemed to have turned into a vast ocean, and at this moment I was at the bottom of the ocean.
A huge creature twisted its body and swam slowly over the woods. When its sky-blocking figure appeared in my field of vision! I blurted out two words!
"whale?!!"
As soon as the words fell, a loud, distant and profound whale song resounded throughout the mountains and fields.
I was so shocked that for a long time it was difficult to tell whether I was awake or dreaming.
After the whale appeared, Takahashi Ginko excitedly took my hand and started running wildly.
I didn't know where she was going to take me, but I just felt that it was right to follow her. The two of us soon passed through the forest and came to an open area.
From here you can see the whales swimming among the mountains more clearly.
Yes...those...I counted them.
There are ten whales, big and small.
From the outside, they look like sperm whales because of their large foreheads, but some of them look like blue whales.
They were in groups, wandering slowly in the mountains and forests, sometimes swimming very high, and sometimes clinging to the mountains and forests. Just as I was watching these whales infatuatedly, a lot of lights suddenly lit up in the mountains and forests.
At first there were just specks of stars, like fireflies twinkling in the grass.
But slowly, there was more and more light, like wildfire starting a prairie fire.
At this time, I heard Takahashi Ginko say in my ear: "It's that adult!"
Who is that adult? I was stunned for a moment, then my scalp went numb and I immediately became alert.
It’s God! Is it God?!
Is there really a god in this world?
What exactly will it look like?
Can it understand the words of us mere mortals?
Are those lights... that light... the same?
I held my breath and was so excited that my body was shaking. Takahashi Ginko suddenly held my arm and said: "Relax, uncle, that adult is very friendly. At least in my impression, she has never done anything to harm us humans.
She is like an artist, always creating many impressive works."
After hearing this, I looked at the light spreading in the mountain forest without being distracted for a moment, and asked carefully: "Those whales are also her masterpieces?"
Unexpectedly, Takahashi Ginko shook his head and said: "No, the whale is the world's response to feeling the presence of that adult."
"Response?" I blinked: "What do you mean?"
Takahashi Ginko raised his hand to catch a leaf falling from the sky and said: "The earth is alive, and the earth is also spiritual. This is not something we humans have given them, but they already have it, but it has always been very obscure.
the reality of existence.”
It is undeniable that if someone had said this to me before today, I would have felt that the person in front of me was a very emotional person, and he must have loved this land to sigh like this. But now I suddenly feel that this
It's actually very rude to sigh... It can even be said to be stupid and ignorant.
We always self-righteously glorify the supremacy of human beings in our own spiritual world, but we often forget how insignificant we are. The awakening and self-domestication of our self-awareness is actually a process of self-deception and self-satisfaction. It can even be
It is said that our brains force us to obtain physical pleasure through this kind of sighing.
But today, Takahashi Ginko told me a humble answer that may be closer to reality.
The earth is spiritual, it is alive, it is alive in a way that we have not yet fully understood, and it can respond.
Thinking of this, I suddenly understood what a whale is.
The whale symbolizes life.
In the ocean, the life and death of whales symbolize the endless life and the exuberance of life.
When it was alive, it was a fertile land for wandering. After death, it could turn into an isolated island and become a hotbed for countless lives to survive. Thinking of this, I don’t know why my eyes suddenly filled with tears.
I have feelings, a little guilt, and more of a sadness about my own powerlessness.
After g glanced at me, he suddenly smiled: "Uncle, you are so interesting. It seems that I was right to choose you."
I glanced at her inexplicably, and when I was about to ask some questions, the wind suddenly picked up.
Late at night, the wind in the mountain forest began to converge towards the mountain col from all directions, as if being sucked away by a giant's mouth. The lights also continued to shrink as if they were being pulled, and the light became more and more dazzling!