All I can explain is that the pain was like someone was going to tear my bones out and take them out of my body.

It is so sharp, so violent, that it is simply unbearable, just like a thoracotomy without anesthetic, it is impossible for a patient to endure it.

"Take it out first, take it out and throw it at me, quick, quick......" The woman didn't care about my situation, all her attention was on the scorched wood.

Just now, I looked down at the scorched wood from diagonally above, and I could only see the front of it. Now, I crouched on the ground, my gaze slightly lower than that of the scorched wood, and immediately noticed that it seemed to be "dripping blood" underneath. It was something like blood, droplets, drooping from the underside of the scorched wood.

"A bloodied bone." That's how I feel most intuitively," or rather, it's a burnt and blood-dripping bone. ”

Thinking of the piercing pain when I was about to lift it just now, I felt more and more that it was not an ordinary scorched wood, but a human bone, more likely like a bone removed from my own body.

"What the hell is this?" I endured the pain and turned my head to look at the door.

"Get it, it's the greatest asset...... Hey, you just have to stretch out your hand, it's yours, such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, pick it up quickly......" The woman didn't want to explain, just kept urging.

"What are you hiding?" I asked.

"You...... You...... I kindly brought you up to ask for a glory and wealth, and you still doubt me? Don't talk nonsense, pick it up, let's go back the way we came, leave the Star Picking Tower, quick, hurry! The woman replied through gritted teeth.

I tried a second time, because I was mentally prepared, and when the sharp pain hit my chest, I stood firm on my feet, held it back desperately, and at once grabbed the scorched wood in my hand and made him leave the offering table.

"Alas......" A long sigh rang in his ears.

Of course, there was no one around, except for me and the woman at the door, only the statue in front of me remained.

"Give it to me, give it ......to me," the woman urged.

"Who? Who's sighing? "I looked around and then my eyes fell on the statue.

In a trance, a dim light fell from the top of his head and shrouded the statue.

Where the light shines, cobwebs and dust flutter.

"How many years? The passage of time is like blood in my body. I want to be free, but not dead. Death is the easiest, you can die in an instant, but death is not the final liberation...... What is the use of dying if you can't even be liberated? Death is a state of sin that is worse than living. After dying a few times and understanding the situation of death, it is natural that he is not willing to do stupid things anymore. Right here, sitting in a well and watching the sky, clearly seeing time pass like flowing water, it is torture and epiphany......"

It is clear that these sounds are made by statues.

"What is it?" I didn't look back, and asked the woman in a low voice.

"It's ...... It's, I don't know what it is, just take that thing out and you're done. She replied.

"What is this statue?" I took a deep breath, "It's talking, do you hear me?" ”

"Of course I heard it, it's an illusion, it's okay, you just need to take out the scorched wood." The woman said.

I have a feeling that the scorched wood and the statue are originally a whole, and there is some kind of flesh and blood relationship between them, so when you pick up the scorched wood, the statue will have an indescribable illusion.

"Who are you? What are you going to tell me? I asked in a low voice.

"I'm a prisoner of time, everyone is. Time is the biggest cage, imprisoning everyone in it, immortal and immortal. Time has no form, as long as you have feelings, this cage exists, and you can never break free. Come to think of it, isn't it scary? Just like now, sitting in the city of the Five Kingdoms, reflecting on the past and observing the future little by little...... I won't die, I'll only be imprisoned, the only time the prison of time has been opened, and thousands of years have passed......" The statue couldn't move, but the voice kept coming.

In the world of biology and astronomy, the argument that "human beings are prisoners of time" is constantly raised, and there are many supporters.

Especially in recent years, several of the world's major astronomical telescopes have discovered some super dead dead zones in the so-called "cosmic boundary" zone, where a large number of spacecraft have crashed. This discovery proves that this is where the cage is. Any high-tech spaceship that tries to break through there will only become a part of the ship's ruins.

With the wisdom of human beings now, there is no way to understand what it is, just like a summer insect can't talk about ice.

We don't fully understand the Earth, let alone outer space, the universe, and beyond the boundaries of the universe? Broadly speaking, human beings can never escape the control of time, which is probably the source of the concept of "prisoner of time".

"Come out, come out." The woman was still urging.

"Don't trade your most precious for what looks precious." The statue's words pinned me to the ground.

As a human being, my most precious thing is, of course, "life", and beyond that, everything is discardable.

"What?" I chewed on the other party's words and subconsciously asked rhetorically.

"What is the most precious thing to a prisoner of time?" The voice asked.

"Freedom, of course." I replied.

"It's not." The voice denied, "Even life and death don't mean anymore, why do you need time?" The most precious thing is your heart - if you don't even have a heart, how can you live? ”

"Life is precious, but love is even more valuable. If it is free, both can be thrown. "I answered each other with a poem that was often quoted by revolutionaries of the past.

Freedom is higher than life, higher than love, is the ultimate height that human beings have pursued since ancient times.

Only absolute freedom can make people live as they want. Of course, absolute freedom does not exist, and everyone living in this world, from the emperor to the beggar, is "dancing in chains".

In this way, "death" has become the most free way to be liberated.

In fact, this is a philosophical proposition of an endless cycle, which cannot be solved at all.

The interdependence between human beings and the universe is very complex, and if we think about it carefully, we will not be able to think clearly for days, nights, months, and years. Neither the ancient Greek philosophers nor Shakyamuni figured it out, and it was impossible for ordinary people to get the answer in a short period of time.

"My life disappeared in the City of the Five Kingdoms, and everyone took it as the truth, but it was an illusion. Because, I have long been a 'prisoner of time', imprisoned in the Five Kingdoms City or other places in the Central Plains, there is no good or bad, just a different geographical location. Now, listen, the biggest secret is to find a way to win forever, so that you can always be invincible, far beyond the other forces, so that they cannot threaten your existence. Since you are destined to come here, you must spread this sentence and let everyone know - big wins instead of small wins, big knowledge instead of small knowledge, big work is not small work, big vision is not small vision......" That voice said a lot, but what stinged me the most was the sentence "always ahead".

Great Qin was once ahead of the other six countries, so he was able to unify the six countries and become the lord of the world. When they ignore this "eternal lead", they will be attacked, defeated, and eventually lose their state power and even their lives.

The temporary lead is only a "small victory", which cannot last long, but suffers from it, and becomes a negative teaching material in history.

Similarly, in modern warfare, island nations initially gained the upper hand, sweeping across half of the Asian continent. However, its leading position was not enough to suppress the heads of the Asian peoples forever, and they were finally overturned to the ground and kneeled in surrender.

"How can I stay ahead of the curve?" I couldn't help but ask.

The same is true on the rivers and lakes. The lead of one person, one gang, and one organization is always extremely limited, and even the KGB, the CIA, and the FBI, which were once incomparably advanced and powerful, have gradually faded away, and what can be called "forever"?

"Take it and study it, mysteries and mysteries, the door of all wonders." The voice replied.

My heart still hurts, but I clutched the scorched wood with all my might, refusing to let go again.

"Three times in my life, three times I was crossed, and this is the last time. If you miss it again, the orthodoxy of the son of heaven of my Han family will be completely wiped out. I don't know if you're the right person, but I'm running out of options. Let's go, go to the steppe, go to the northern steppe, find that person, kill that person...... Solve the eternal trouble, solve the eternal trouble......" The voice gradually faded away, farther away, and finally disappeared.

I reached out and touched the statue, and it shattered, collapsed, and then turned into a puff of smoke and rose into the air.

The woman stood by the door, and when I walked out, she grabbed the scorched wood.

"Give me, give me." She said hurriedly.

I gently pushed her away, not wanting others to take the fruits of my labor.

"Give it to me, I'll take you away." The woman refused to give up.

"I'll take it, and you can take me with you." I avoided answering her questions.

"So far, the only way to go out of the city is to the northwest." I say.

"Was that voice inspiring you?" The woman asked.

I nodded, "Exactly." ”

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the most powerful man in the steppe was Genghis Khan, and during his lifetime, he always wanted to make Mongolia extremely powerful and sweep across Asia and Europe. As a result, he really did, and his descendants carried on his legacy, all the way south, to eat away at the Southern Song Dynasty.

I guess what that voice means is that going to Mongolia to assassinate Genghis Khan at this moment can achieve the best results.

"Let's leave the Star Picking Tower first." The woman said.

We didn't linger long in the hall and went down the same way.

The shouts of killing on the walls were getting closer and closer, and I could feel the smell of blood floating in the air.

The woman walked faster and faster, and finally led me to a large, empty house.

"Where is this?" I asked.

The woman whistled sharply, and a large crowd of men and women immediately poured out around me.

"These people can escort us out of town." The woman said.

I threw my hand over to everyone, but they were all expressionless, just staring at me.

"What do we do next?" I asked.

The woman had already sat down, and people kept coming to report to her.

"It's simple, give me the scorched wood, and you'll be free." The woman smiled and shook her head.

"That's impossible, the scorched wood is very important, and only I can enter the Chuntai Hall and bring it out. If you could get in too, you wouldn't have waited until now. I said.

In the Chuntai Hall of the Star Picking Building, I realized several times that the woman was hiding too much of her own story, but I didn't pursue it, I just wanted to get the scorched wood quickly and solve the key problem.

"You're only half right, I don't dare go in - you're right. However, you are not the only one who can enter, there are many others who dare to enter. What if you get the scorched wood? If you can't understand the above secrets, isn't it really a useless piece of 'scorched wood'? The woman said.

"When I took the scorched wood, did there be a vision in the hall outside?" I asked.

The woman shook her head: "No, I was surprised just now. ”

"Let's get out of town first." I didn't ask any further.

"Yes, get out of the city first, and then make calculations." The woman nodded.

At the moment, although I got the scorched wood, I did not feel any joy, but became more confused, as if I was caught in a larger puzzle.

Although modern people discourse history on the central axis of time, in reality, the development of events is diversified, multipolar, multi-linear, and multi-layered, and does not follow a clear line.

At the same time, I don't know how much happened inside and outside the capital, but the historian's pen will only record the biggest focus, and even only limited to the events in the emperor and the palace, and there is no time to pay attention to the civil chaos.

On the contrary, although the perspective of the wild history record is extensive, it is disorganized and muddy, and the credibility is not high.

When that voice spoke of "prisoner of time", it touched me tremendously.

Even today, with the rapid development of science and technology, isn't anyone still a "prisoner of time", unable to get rid of time and exist independently?

"What is time?" has become a huge philosophical proposition that cannot be solved for eternity, and its importance is not far less than that of the fundamental philosophical proposition of "the origin of mankind".

After the difficulty of Jingkang, the most famous event was "the city of the two emperors and five kingdoms sitting in the well and watching the sky".

That way of being imprisoned is only closer to the "prisoner of space".

It is a great irony that two pampered emperors fell from the pinnacle of life and were imprisoned in the double shackles of time and space, which is worthy of reflection by modern people.

I stayed in the big house until dusk came.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang like the sky cracking outside, and the house trembled.

Someone rushed to report: "Helper, helper, the golden people have entered the city, the golden people have entered the city." ”

The woman Huo Di got up and waved her hand and ordered: "Everyone go out through the north gate together, and if you encounter the enemy, you will be killed." ”