Chapter 027 The Third Secret

I was swallowed by the dragon, but to my surprise, the feeling in the dragon's belly was not what I imagined. I would experience excruciating torture and finally die miserably. Instead, I lost consciousness all of a sudden. Before that, The little bit of consciousness I had was just a subtle experience, as if I had fallen into a slowly flowing river and was drifting along it. I wanted to stop, but I couldn't stop, and I couldn't wake up.

I don’t know how long this floating and comfortable feeling lasted, and finally stopped, but I only felt the voices of many people faintly coming from my ears, some scolding, pleading, and some crying. The strange thing is that the language is not very clear. What are those voices saying? I really want to open my eyes and sit up to see what is going on.

But that feeling of being awake but unable to control various parts of my body made me fall asleep like this. I don’t know how much time passed during this period. In addition to feeling the tingling like needles in my body, what else? No impression at all.

That kind of pain actually made me happy, because it meant that the limbs of my body that were out of control had begun to gain consciousness.

"Who are you?" I heard a strange voice calling next to my ear.

Then I heard another voice, "This is the first time in thousands of years that someone has come here. Let's just keep him here. He has achieved the great path, but his six roots are not clean. With a little training, he will be able to do it in the future." Become a great talent.”

"Great wizard, what do you think?"

"Wizard? What is going on?" I struggled to use my brain to think about the incomplete information he heard. What those people said was confusing to me, "Could it be... Am I really dead? Are you kidding? This is a forbidden area for the living? Have I already entered?"

"We can't get out, and people from outside can't get in. This is a dead place, because Ran Xu is outside, and Ran Xu is willing to let him in, which shows that his appearance is not accidental." An old voice said. Speaking hurriedly, he mentioned Ran Xu and said that this place was a death place where no one could come in or go out.

"It seems to be true." I even started to get a little excited inside, which meant that my guess was right. This time, I won the gamble.

Soon, a series of footsteps ran in quickly, and a series of strange pronunciations of the language could not be distinguished from the dialect of which place. But after thinking about it, I can also think that this is probably the ancient Yue language, which is already an extremely ancient language. .

I don’t know what happened, but I felt like there was a flowing breath flowing upward on my head, until my heavenly spirit felt numb and numb, as if a weak electric current washed through my whole body, "This is probably This is the feeling of empowerment, right? Am I going to become an immortal?"

After a while, the tingling feeling subsided. I slowly opened my eyes and was surprised to find that there were several pairs of eyes looking at me, as if they were examining a pet.

"Great Wizard, he's awake." A man in a white robe said.

"Call him over." An old voice came from outside the crowd.

Then, the old voice stopped for a moment. Just as I was about to stand up, I felt the tingling pain starting to appear on my body again. I felt vaguely worried that I might fall asleep again. Although I can now move my arms and legs, my whole body is still sore and weak. And I looked around and found that except for a wooden couch, there was not even a single decent piece of furniture.

The crowd dispersed, and I looked in the direction where the sound came from. There were only five or six people there, each holding a weapon in his hand and standing guard on the left and right. As the distance got closer and my line of sight extended, I saw that each of these people were wearing ancient costumes made of linen.

"Are these the living people in the forbidden land for the living? Who are they?" I thought, and for a moment, I thought I had really traveled through time.

"My dear ancestors, please accept the obeisance of junior Lin Kun."

"Lin Kun?" The old voice repeated Lin Kun's name, and then stood up. At this time, I was able to see his face clearly. His face was haggard, but he was energetic. When he was sitting, you would feel He is already dying, but when he stands up, you will find that he has a childlike appearance.

"Old ancestor, I am a descendant of Yuling, but you are a true descendant of the future generations. The younger generation is reckless and disturbs your purity. I hope that the ancestors will forgive me. You have a lot of people, so don't be as knowledgeable as the younger generation."

"Haha, kid, it doesn't matter who you are." The old man said with a smile, waved his hand to the guard next to him, and continued, "We are here to guard the ultimate. Is that what you are here for?"

"Old Ancestor, I won't mince words. I really want to know what secrets are hidden at the bottom of this dragon burial pit. But I don't insist on spying on this secret. If you don't want to tell me, I don't dare to force you. And I’m afraid that knowing this secret will cause more trouble.”

The old man didn't even raise his head and said, "It doesn't matter. Since Ran Xu is willing to let you in, it means that you and I are destined. There is nothing wrong with telling you this secret, because history is irreversible, just like the endless flow of the Yangtze River. Even if its real source is not on the Ten Thousand Ren Ice Peak, will it stop flowing?"

"Ancestor, you are right. The secrets from back then may change the history books, but they will not change history."

"This is a place of death, but it is home to us immortals. The best way to protect secrets is to take them to the grave." The old man smiled, nodded and said, "The third secret, you Want to know?"

"The third secret?" I sighed, looked at the old man helplessly, and said, "I don't know whether I should say I want it or not. What will be the consequences if I take this secret out? I really I can’t believe it.”

The old man smiled and said, "Do you think that even if you tell the truth, how many people in the world will believe you? At that time, whether King Yu or Ran Xu, it was because they valued this too much that they fought desperately Cover it all up, and in fact, thousands of years from now, who will care what the truth is? People will only believe what they want to believe, and will not accept the painful facts."

I nodded, thoughtfully, and found that this so-called ultimate possibility is not an untouchable "minefield", but its existence is like an "abyss." Nietzsche (note 1) said, "When When you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you." (Note 2). If you do not give an in-depth interpretation and only do a shallow analysis, the abyss probably refers to self-introspection - when you have seen enough evil, When you look deeply enough into yourself, you will see a pair of eyes reflected on the water looking at you, looking at you like a monster. I finally understand this now.

"But what is the secret at the bottom of the Dragon Burial Pit? It's not like the people behind the scenes are here for the third secret, right?" I shook my head and denied my answer, "Probably not. Their purpose should be very simple, they hope to obtain eternal life, just because of greed, not the so-called salvation!"

With the development of human society to this day, people are no longer "completely moral" people. Standing in the abyss and taking the most evil peek outside, in addition to those who stare into the abyss, there are also people who are unwilling to take a glance at the abyss. They have the most "hard" hearts, just like demons. Respect your own obsession.

"Those who fight the devil should be careful not to become the devil. When you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you...I understand." I suddenly realized that I was wrong from the beginning. When I wanted to get the secrets here, I just let myself be controlled by my own obsession, like a devil. In fact, those who stare into the abyss, or those who do not want to be stared into by the abyss, are doing the right thing. It's the same thing as him - obsession.

The short version of this effect is that subjective cognition affects people's views on difficulties through confidence. To overcome difficulties that you believe you can overcome, you will also be knocked down by difficulties that you think are insurmountable. Finally, shape yourself into what the outside world thinks you should be.

"In fact, I don't need to come in at all. Every step I take is blinded by my own obsession..."

Note:

1. Nietzsche: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900), a famous German philosopher, linguist, poet, composer, and thinker, is considered the founder of modern Western philosophy. The founder, his works have provided extensive criticism and discussion in the fields of religion, morality, modern culture, philosophy, and science. His writing style is unique, often using aphorisms and paradoxes. Nietzsche had a great influence on the development of subsequent generations of philosophy, especially existentialism and postmodernism.

Before he began studying philosophy, Nietzsche was a philologist. At the age of 24, Nietzsche became a professor of classical philology in the German-speaking area at the University of Basel in Switzerland, specializing in ancient Greek and Latin documents. But he resigned in 1879 due to health problems and has suffered from mental illness ever since. In 1889 Nietzsche suffered a mental breakdown from which he never recovered. He lived under the care of his mother and sister until his death in 1900. Nietzsche's major works include "The Will to Power", "The Birth of Tragedy", "An Untimely Investigation", "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", "Philosophy in the Age of Greek Tragedy", "On the Genealogy of Morality", etc.

2. "When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you": This sentence comes from section 146 of Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil". The original text: Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.