223 Wise people are often miserable
Ignorance is a blessing.
This is what Wu Xiaoqing heard Shen Changwen say, once, when he was discussing the technical plan with Yevgeny, Wu Xiaoqing and Xu Yan were in a daze on the side, and Shen Changwen said it to Yevgeny in English. The search and rescue team translated.
Shen Changwen said this unintentionally, but it deeply left traces in Wu Xiaoqing's heart. At that time, he was still fighting the landlord with Wang Youquan and Xu Yan, and after hearing this, he put down his playing cards and picked up the exercise book full of red crosses again.
Ignorance is the greatest sin.
This is what Yevgeny said, and it is used to talk about these immortal cultivators who ascended to the heavenly realm. He went to ask the search and rescue team, and the search and rescue team said that there was nothing wrong with that.
Wu Xiaoqing also felt right.
If Wu Xiaoqing has learned any of the most important lessons from this mission, no, from these missions, it is this sentence.
Wu Xiaoqing can feel that even people of the kind of knowledge like Yevgeny and Shen Changwen will unconsciously reveal a kind of inferiority complex in front of the search and rescue team, Wu Xiaoqing can still recall now, when he first saw Shen Changwen, he looked at the superconducting coil, his eyes were about to pop out, and he looked at Wu Xiaoqing's eyes as if he saw aliens; The same was true of the later Yevgeny, all the arrogance, after seeing the cabin, appeared out of thin air*, and the whole person almost became demented.
He had not been able to fully comprehend this great shock of theirs before, but after this mission, he understood.
It is not so much that they are shocked, but that they are afraid, that they are inferior, that they are despairing.
It is a subconscious fear in the face of great power, as if humans in ancient times encountered an irresistible beast in the wild...... This fear seeps out from the depths of the genes, and then quickly soaks the intellect, and after the intellect is helpless, it becomes despair.
But they are ignorant in this situation, not ignorance - they know exactly what they are facing, and they realize that they do not know this new and strange thing.
In these two scenes, the really ignorant one was actually Wu Xiaoqing, who was proud at that time.
Wu Xiaoqing only knew that these two people were stupid, but he didn't know why they were stupid. He himself is nothing but an executor, what does superconductivity mean, what does a portal mean, what does nucleus* mean...... He may know some of them ignorantly, but if he really wants to elaborate, it is a fog.
How similar this is to the situation of these flying people.
During this period of time, Wu Xiaoqing has seen a lot of flying people on the space station, and he has seen very intuitively the helplessness and pity shown by the ignorant in the face of the cold reality.
These flying people have lived a carefree life all their lives, and the twists and turns of life are, at best, unsatisfactory in a certain life, and finally die in battle - the big deal is to be reborn and continue to live. Even if you mix to the end, you don't even have a flying sword in this life, then you can live a small life by yourself, at least not hungry.
But after the power tower was blown up and the aura was cut off, almost all the flying people faced a mental breakdown and despair.
In their eyes, the whole world seems to have changed completely overnight.
In fact, Wu Xiaoqing has never experienced this kind of feeling.
It's just that the difference with them is that the changes in his world are all changing in this better and positive direction - Wu Xiaoqing in the past can't imagine the life of primitive people, the life of people in the feudal era, let alone the life of people in this flying world. Because of the mission, he experienced it again and again, and each experience was a complete subversion of his worldview for him.
But Shen Changwen is also like him, he has experienced three tasks, but there have been no unexpected emotional fluctuations from beginning to end.
Because in a way, he knows some of the basic laws of how the world works. Even these worlds don't know where in the universe they are.
Let's take the trapeze world as an example, as soon as he saw the flight information of these people, Shen Changwen was discussing the propulsion mode they might use, and held meetings with the search and rescue team again and again to do various verification tests.
In their eyes, there is no mystery in this world - even if it seems incredible, they can always find the principle behind this mystery with patience.
This is the confidence given to them by knowledge, and this confidence makes Wu Xiaoqing extremely envious.
So after that, he desperately wanted to make up for this by studying. He felt that he was still very young and that he was not stupid - as long as he studied carefully, he would definitely have an effect soon.
This kind of thinking is a fantasy for the vast majority of people, especially when they are young, thinking that there are endless possibilities in their bodies, and that they can release them at any time if they want to.
However, after two or three months of continuous study experience, Wu Xiaoqing gradually began to realize a cruel truth.
He's stupid.
According to Yevgeny, high school physics does not require any foundation at all. The so-called junior high school mathematics is replaced by an ordinary smart child - mastered within a month, basically understood and used in two months, and caught up with the level of similar students in three months, without any problems at all.
Yan Yan and the make-up teacher invited by Wu Xiaoqing are basically the same statement.
Wu Xiaoqing has always felt that his poor foundation is due to his poor learning. As long as he lays a solid foundation......
Now Wu Xiaoqing is beginning to understand, in fact, it is not.
Even if it is a basic problem, then this basic problem has already foreshadowed some problems.
Would a smart child have such poor grades in junior high school that he will completely give up on himself in his studies?
Maybe, but it's certainly a small probability.
The real fact is that the knowledge of junior high school is actually very simple for "smart" children in the true sense, and they don't need to work hard in class, and many people even need to look at the textbook yourself to master it yourself.
Wu Xiaoqing recalled his life in junior high school, indeed, there were not many such people in their class. In the end, they all successfully entered high school.
The high school entrance examination is like a sieve, which selects people who are smart and hardworking, and who meet a certain standard, and enter the next round of study.
Wu Xiaoqing was sifted out of this sieve.
Wu Xiaoqing used to think that it was because he disdained to study at the beginning.
Now he knew, in fact, he couldn't. Maybe he was subconsciously aware of his inability very early on, so he pretended to be disdainful on the surface - this disguise has been carried out for a long time, and even he has begun to believe it.
This kind of cognition made Wu Xiaoqing, who had always been arrogant, begin to feel uneasy.
He began to realize that there was something wrong with his life, and that this problem was probably something he could not solve on his own.
Luckily, he also has a search and rescue team.
The search and rescue team always has a way to deal with any problems that arise during the implementation of the mission.
Wu Xiaoqing is the most important part of the search and rescue team, and the search and rescue team has naturally made arrangements in advance for possible changes in his psychology.
"The eldest brother said that I can have an operation," Wu Xiaoqing told Shen Changwen, "will it make me smarter?" ”
"How does surgery work? The search and rescue team didn't say? ”
Wu Xiaoqing shook his head: "Big brother said that these technologies do not exist on the earth and need to be kept secret from us." ”
"Are there any side effects?"
"The eldest brother said that the biggest side effect is that they will become too smart...... "Wu Xiaoqing said, "Smart people are often miserable." ”
This sentence made Shen Changwen stunned for a few seconds, and then he nodded: "He's right, if you really want to be smart, you won't be as happy as you are now." ”
Wu Xiaoqing shook his head firmly: "Then I'd rather be unhappy...... I don't want to be taken for fools by you. ”
"Fools? No," Shen Changwen said, "it's just simple." ”
"I can't even understand what you mean, and I can't even understand what you translated, what is it if I'm not a fool," Wu Xiaoqing said, "I become smarter, at least I can help me a little more in the future." ”
"So, you've decided?"
Wu Xiaoqing didn't answer, but nodded slightly.
Shen Changwen didn't say anything, he was disgusted that he accepted the operation, but he had no position to object to Wu Xiaoqing accepting it as well. Of course, he knows Wu Xiaoqing's conditions, a person who is struggling to even read junior high school mathematics will have to face a lot of high-tech problems in his future work...... Shen Changwen can imagine that the tasks they will perform in the future will definitely become more and more high-end. Not to mention that Wu Xiaoqing felt that his IQ was not enough, Shen Changwen and Yevgeny didn't have this kind of thought.
In front of the search and rescue team, they are actually all fools. But they are all a little smarter than Wu Xiaoqing, and this kind of cleverness is more conceited to a large extent.
Yevgeny was addicted to alcohol, and this conceit was even less, and Shen Changwen himself, he knew very well in his heart, that he was against any surgery on his brain, which was purely an emotional confrontation.
He was able to accept defeat against the search and rescue team, but he couldn't accept that the reason for this failure was because of problems with human physiology.
This is the plot of almost all earthlings - no matter how bad our specific lives are, our possibilities are always there. This possibility is engraved in our genes and is present in our physiology. Our inability to take advantage of this possibility is simply a failure of our individuality, but as humanity as a whole, the power of this possibility transcends all else.
Yes, even a search and rescue team.
This is a kind of identity complex for his own species, Shen Changwen doesn't know if there is a professional counterpart in psychology, but he summarizes his psychological state, and that's what he thinks.
If he doesn't undergo surgery, he's still a pure earthling, a human being in a completely natural state, and he can be proud of what he's accomplished—because that's what humans are doing as well.
And what about after acceptance? What is he? All the achievements in the future, in Shen Changwen's view, are just charity from the search and rescue team.
But this psychological obstacle does not exist at all for Wu Xiaoqing.