In front of the palace gate, the carriage slowly stopped. Everyone in the car had to get out of the car and walk into the palace.

After the two Fu family ladies got out of the car, Gao Yu got out of the car first, then Gao Ran, and finally Gao Qi.

Although none of them lifted the curtain to look out of the car when they were in the car, Gao Ran already knew by relying on her sense of hearing and smell that outside the car at this time, it was already crowded with people.

Although there were already people walking into the palace at this time, the speed of entering was far less than the gathering speed of those people who arrived outside the palace gate almost at the same time, so when Gao Ran got out of the car, he saw that there were many candles in the lanterns shining one after another, flashing and flickering, and a large group of gorgeously dressed people who were far more numerous than the lanterns were reorganizing the order of their own families one after another without losing tacit understanding. Then, according to the order of the arrival of each family, they consciously ranked behind the first to arrive......

Even if it was the first time for Gao Ran to participate in such an occasion, it didn't take long for him to naturally become a member of such a large group with rules.

Such an effortless, extremely natural, and clearly irresistible convergence force made Gao Ran slowly walk towards the palace gate step by step with the gradually forming procession, but at the same time, he sighed in his heart that his gregarious instinct as a so-called "social animal" was really powerful.

Even for her personally, in the past seven years or so since she came to this other world, she has basically lived on her own, but once she is placed in an environment like the present that must be gregarious to adapt, she can still easily adapt to such group action. There is no need for others to specifically indicate what she must do, just by watching others do it, she instinctively and naturally learns the unspoken rules in front of her that she can realize without having to say it explicitly, and she only needs to learn from others and do it according to the unspoken rules that are formed on the spot, which is to be gregarious.

The sudden action of such an effortless gregarious instinct made Gao Ran suddenly have a feeling: perhaps, "man" itself is a species between "living alone" and "living in groups". But as for whether to choose more "independent" or more "cooperative", it should also depend on the specific environment. What kind of survival style is more conducive to the individual's adaptation to the specific environment at the moment, the "person" will be more inclined to show what kind of survival characteristics. But essentially, it's about adapting, and it's only better at adapting that you have a better chance of surviving.

Even for Gao Ran, "living alone" is definitely more tempting for her to live than "living in a group". But in essence, she just chose a more suitable way of life for her to try her best to maintain a balance between adapting to the environment and her own spiritual world, and the ultimate goal is to be able to live.

Although she knows that the so-called "spiritual world" may be just a by-product of "people" who have to constantly adapt to changes in the environment in order to survive. But there are gains and losses. Since "man" is born with a brain that is far more developed than other species, and can use this brain to gain more survival advantages, then "man" has to pay a corresponding price for having such a brain - such as the so-called "civilization" and the so-called "thought", which are essentially by-products of that brain.

The good side of this kind is that it can construct an imaginary community, uniting the "people" of large or small scales that can be condensed by different imaginary contents, so that they can work together to turn the imagination into reality, and on the bad side, if it is evil, or if it is beneficial to one party and harmful to the other, then such imagination will lead to large-scale struggles and even wars.

As far as the individual is concerned, as long as he is a "person", then he will always live in two worlds at the same time in this life - the so-called "real world" that seems to be real but not necessarily the whole face of the truth, and the so-called "spiritual world" that guides him to "act" his life script.

So far, Gao Ran has thought about it countless times, but even if she knows in her heart that the "true face" she can touch is like this, but what can she do? The power of the by-product of "imagination" is really too powerful, so strong that since she really realized its power, she has taken the initiative to completely give up her resistance to it. After that, she just wanted to try to fit in—to satisfy it in a more appropriate way, in exchange for a moment of inner peace.

Although in other respects, Gao Ran is very vigilant not to get lost in the "means", and can well avoid being completely lost in the endless pursuit of the "means" because of the confusion between the "means" and the "ends", but for the by-product of the "spiritual world", Gao Ran began to understand from the first time when she touched on the origin and meaning of the "me" in her eyes in her thinking:

Perhaps, when "man" initially developed imagination, and was able to unite more of his kind through this imagination, and greatly enhanced the viability of the entire population with the cooperation of many people, "man" also became more and more powerful because of this imagination, and the "spiritual world" it constructed became more and more far-reaching influence on "man", so that "imagination" gradually became no longer just a simple "means" that evolved in order to survive. - At least, for a "person" like Gao Ran, whether she is alive or not, whether she can live for a long time or not, no longer matters to her, she only cares about her life and whether her existence can satisfy her "spiritual world" imagination of her life?

That is to say, for Gao Ran, even if she knows that "imagination" appeared at the beginning, its essence is only a "means", a means of survival that "people" have gradually evolved in order to survive better, but such a "means" has evolved so far, but it is a powerful existence that "people" like her are no longer able to resist. The only meaning of her life, the only motivation that can sustain her to continue living, is given to her by this "means", and long before she realizes that it is a "means" and not an "end", she has regarded it as an "end" to be fulfilled and achieved throughout her life.

"Huh. ”

No matter how many times he faced the so-called "truth" he understood, Gao Ran could only smile coldly. I feel that life is absurd and boring.

But even so, even if she knows that she is just a "tool" that has long been manipulated by "means" and driven by the "spiritual world" to realize her imagination of reality, she can only continue to work hard as before to balance the gap and difference between imagination and reality, strive to alleviate the contradiction between the two, and strive to find a more suitable way to satisfy the underlying desires of imagination at each moment, so as to balance the different requirements of the "real world" in her eyes and her "spiritual world".

She had no choice. If it can't be balanced, then whether "reality" prevails or "spirit" prevails, she will not be able to survive for a long time. And the result of losing her balance will only be: either she will eventually become a soulless shell, and then she will soon be unable to bear the mental pain brought by the endless emptiness and finally choose to cut herself off in order to seek liberation, or she will be too addicted to the perfect imagination of the spiritual world to extricate herself, and finally she will be too alien to the objective reality to adapt to the real environment, and in the end she can only die—die from the lack of adaptation to the environment.

Therefore, for one of the "people" who are born with a much greater proportion of "spirit" than an adaptation to reality, admitting that "spirit" is no longer a "means", but an "end" in itself, Gao Ran can have endless motivation to try to find a more suitable way of life for her at each moment, to meet the true needs of the spirit, so as to maintain the balance between the two worlds of "spirit" and "reality" that she lives in at the same time all the time. Then, in the process of constantly fine-tuning this balance, she can keep her life alive......

What kind of helplessness is this?

When she came back to her senses, she looked at the "people" around her, who were essentially living in the two worlds of "spirit" and "reality" at the same time. Although I don't know what is the proportion of each person's "spirit" and "reality", but at least one thing is certain: even if the "person" seems to be realistic, he is still acting according to his own imagination of his own life. - It's just that, in his imagination, life should be more focused on the real environment, and more emphasis on adaptation to the environment, especially material resources......

"We are no different, even if it seems that some of us are too idealistic, some are too realistic, and some are always oscillating back and forth, left and right, but in essence, we are all living in our own imagination, and in the end, we will only live as we imagine ourselves......"

For a moment, Gao Ran suddenly felt like he was inexplicably hollowed out. She unconsciously looked up at the sky that was about to break: the sky was beginning to lighten, but it was only beginning to be illuminated by the "light" that preceded it, but she had not yet seen the entity of the light source, and the starlight that filled the night sky had dimmed and disappeared. The sky at this time is really like Gao Ran's mood at this time - he can see everything clearly, but he can't see anything, as if there is nothing in the first place......

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