Li Jiale's words are like a depth charge.

After the explosion, it caused a big wave in my heart. After hearing this, I couldn't be calm anymore. A chill rushed from my vest to my head.

While swishing and chilling, I subconsciously looked up.

It seemed like I actually saw a couple of ropes that were holding my body, but I didn't know exactly who was controlling it all.

I looked at Li Jiale again, and saw that he had already eaten the last bite of ice powder.

There was a commotion around, and the people who had been standing still just now started their actions again: eating ice powder, talking to the people next to them, laughing, and making noise.

Take another look at the boss, he's still so busy.

One hand holds three bowls of ice powder, and the other hand quickly scoops various spices into the bowl.

Li Jiale wiped his mouth, and he pointed to the ice powder in my bowl that hadn't moved much: "Why don't you eat ice powder, I've eaten two bowls, isn't it delicious?" ”

I shook my head and said I had no appetite.

Li Jiale got up and said let's go, he looked left and right, and picked up the pot of "Red Girl" from the table.

The boss happily came over and collected the money.

Before leaving, he still couldn't stop thanking Li Jiale: "Don't listen to the old man, the loss is in front of me, I have learned, I have lived for half my life, I still hear these words for the first time, it is so fresh!" ”

With that, he returned to the stall and began to keep busy.

Li Jiale held the "red girl" in his hand, and he continued to shuttle with me in the night market.

At this point in time, it is the busiest time in the night market.

I noticed that the people who walked past me had similar expressions on their faces, the corners of their mouths were raised, the muscles on their faces were piled together, and the way they laughed looked so fake and so fake.

Looking at this awkward scene, my heart was very uncomfortable.

Especially when I heard what Li Jiale said just now, he said that they were all lifeless, just programs written by people.

It made me feel even more chilled.

Actually, a long time ago, I once saw a movie.

The protagonist of the movie is a computer programmer, and he spends most of his day writing computer programs. Then suddenly one day, he felt that his life was being manipulated.

This feeling came inexplicably, but it always filled his mind and lingered.

Finally one day,The hero discovers,It turned out that he was a string of program code written under someone else's keyboard.。 And the meaning of his existence is just a small role that constantly sits at home and writes programs every day.

The world he has always lived in is just someone else's online game.

After learning all this, the protagonist is devastated.

He tries to change all that, and after a series of battles with fate, the protagonist decides to modify the program code himself and escape from the place.

So, he used his professional skills to finally get into the core area of the game program.

The protagonist worked hard to modify the program.

Just when he thought he had changed his fate, at the last moment, he discovered another amazing secret.

It turns out that everything he is doing now.

The action of him modifying the program now has actually been written in the program a long time ago, that is, he thinks he has modified the game's program, but everything is still in the control of others.

He will never be able to get away from it all.

Although it was just a science fiction movie, I was really sweating when I saw it at the time.

I was wondering if the direction of my life would be controlled by others.

In a field that I don't know, there are people who are controlling my thinking, and they are directing what I am thinking in a very special way.

Even if it's my body, don't control it.

Even if I made a random fart, it was written by a certain instruction a long time ago.

Li Jiale saw that I had been frowning and not speaking, so he said to me: "Tang Xiaofan, I know that your mind is full of questions now, what do you want to ask, just ask." ”

I asked him directly, "What is a program and who is writing it?" ”

"I want to know this question you asked, too."

As he spoke, there was a loud noise on the side of the street, and then a scent rushed to his face. Everyone's eyes were on a place, and in that corner, there was a stall selling popcorn.

An old man in a dark blue khaki suit was pouring the burst corn kernels out of a long black cloth bag.

An old-fashioned popcorn machine standing on the side.

The smell came from the machine.

When all the steaming popcorn was poured out, the surrounding children began to clap their hands in admiration, and the uncle's hand turned in the popcorn, and then picked up a dustpan and began to sift it.

Soon, all the tiny corn kernels that had not yet burst fell to the ground.

The whole street was filled with the smell of popcorn, and I took a big gulp and took a deep breath, this is the smell of my childhood, I haven't felt it for a long time.

The bag of popcorn that the uncle filled was very special, he did not use the clinker bag, but took out a newspaper, held a handful of popcorn into it, and then twisted the newspaper a few times, wrapped it into a ball, found a hemp rope, and after wrapping it around a few times, it was wrapped into a ball.

This method of wrapping popcorn is very unique.

It can be said that few people have seen it, but I suddenly remembered.

I've seen it.

When I was a child, I just remember that whenever a popcorn seller came, my grandmother would always lead me and walk downstairs with a big pot to buy it.

A pot full of popcorn was bought, and grandma would find a porcelain jar to store it.

In Liang Yuan's house next to him, the storage method is completely different.

I saw with my own eyes that Liang Yuan's grandmother picked up those bursting buns of grains with newspapers one by one, like the old man just now, and then bundled them with hemp rope.

I asked her why she did this, and her grandmother said to me, "If you eat one pack and open one packet like this, the popcorn won't go soft." After speaking, she raised her eyebrows: "This method was taught to me by my grandmother, we have always eaten like this at home, open a bag and eat a pack, it is very crisp!" ”

While she was talking, Liang Yuan sat on the side and ate popcorn.

I saw him rub a lot of popcorn into his mouth and eat it with great energy.

The sound of popcorn coming out of his mouth was crispy, and Liang Yuan was satisfied.

Then, he picked up the Nintendo game console controller in his hand again, and the two eyes stared at the little people jumping on the TV screen, looking bright......