Donko re-lit the candle, and his words echoed in my head for a long time: There were only three people in the stone room after the candle was extinguished! What exactly does this mean? Could it be that the voice outside Dongzi's words is that there are more than three of us in the stone room when the candles are lit? But how is this possible! Is he blind to me and Xinyi?

Although I thought this in my heart, I couldn't help but look around again for a week: "I said Dongzi, don't deliberately play dumb riddles to scare the two of us, where is there a fourth person in the stone room besides the three of us!" ”

Dongzi said lightly: "It depends on how you define the concept of the word 'human'!" In your perception, of course, there are only three of us in the stone room at this moment, but to define the category of 'people' according to my concept, there are at least six people in this stone room at this moment! ”

"Six?" Xinyi and I exclaimed at the same time, how could there be three more people in the stone room out of thin air! I immediately asked, "Where are the three extra people now?" ”

Dongzi didn't answer my question directly, but looked down at the candle that had been burned for a while, and then he slowly raised his head, his gaze slowly stretched from near to far, and finally, his gaze was fixed on me and Xinyi, his eyes were deep, and the corners of his eyes twitched twice unconsciously.

Dongzi's action made me a little restless, did he mean that the three extra people were behind me and Xinyi at the moment? This is absolutely impossible, I have already checked the surroundings several times, and the stone room itself is such a small space, there must not be three people hidden under my nose!

Soon I thought of Dongzi's words at the beginning: "I said Dongzi, you said earlier that there were only three of us after the candle was extinguished, and the extra three people were when the candle was lit, but this is completely illogical, how can anyone appear and disappear with the lighting and extinguishing of the candle!" ”

Dongzi looked at me again: "Then think about it, what changes have occurred in the stone chamber before and after the candle is extinguished?" ”

"Change? It's just that there is light and there is no light! Could it be that candlelight can still make three people? ”

"It's up to you how you define the concept of the word 'human', as I said before!"

Donko's words once again circled me back to the beginning of the problem, and I was a little annoyed: "You mean to say that there are three extra ...... Not human? ”

During the conversation between me and Dongzi, Xinyi, who had not spoken much, suddenly learned Dongzi's movements, first staring down at the candle, then slowly turning her head, her gaze narrowing away, and finally looking at the dim space behind us where there was nothing!

"I see!" Xinyi suddenly exclaimed, and at the same time, her hands were tightly grasping my arms, and I could clearly feel her hands shaking!

"It's a shadow! Extra ...... It's a shadow of the three of us! ”

"Shadows?" After hearing this, I was stunned at first, how can a shadow also be called a person, is this the definition of "person" by Dongzi? It's no wonder that Dongzi keeps emphasizing that the extra three can only appear when the candle is on, and disappear when the candle is extinguished!

Dongzi nodded unhurriedly after hearing this, it seems that Xinyi said that the so-called three extra "people" in Dongzi really refer to the shadows of the three of us in the candlelight!

"I said Dongzi, what are you kidding, you are making a fuss about our shadow for a long time, how can the shadow be called a person, this is what you call beyond our cognitive view? That's the big secret? ”

Dongzi looked at me with a serious face, and I couldn't see the slightest hint of joke in his expression, and he continued: "People, so to speak, our closest friends, are our shadows! The shadow follows wherever you go, whether you are eating, drinking tea, walking, sleeping,, going to work...... Whatever you do, the shadow repeats what you do, from the baby at birth to the coffin after death, and the shadow follows it all the time in this life! But for thousands of years, how have people in the world really paid attention to our closest 'friend'? Whether you're walking in a sunny outdoor place, or a brightly lit night street, or under the bedroom light in the dead of night when you get up to go to the bathroom, whether it's in shape commensurate with your body proportions, or whether it's stretched long, short or distorted by the light source, who has ever stared at their own shadow? If our shadow is also a thought, conscious, real ...... What about matter? ”

When I heard Dongzi finally say that shadows can also have thoughts and consciousness, I was really shocked! This statement has been around since ancient times, and I am afraid he was the first to put it forward! Suddenly, I admired Dongzi's way of thinking! No wonder he says that what he wants to tell us will be beyond our cognitive view, and if his statement is true, it will not only be beyond our cognitive view, I am afraid that the entire scientific community, and even all mankind, will be boiling for it!

I must have reservations about this statement, and at this moment I naturally want to confront Dongzi on behalf of science: "Don't say it so mysteriously, how can a shadow have thoughts and consciousness, we all know that the reason why any object has a shadow is because the object itself blocks the shadow cast by the light, which is just a product of the obstruction of the propagation of light, strictly speaking, the shadow is just a visual phenomenon of light in the contrast between light and dark!" ”

After hearing this, Dongzi shook his head again and again: "This is just an explanation given by existing science, of course, I also admit that this explanation is correct, but this explanation is not comprehensive and in-depth enough." Shadow is the shadow projected by the obstruction of light propagation', this is the so-called scientific explanation that everyone has been instilled into since childhood, it is precisely because everyone looks at the shadow with this kind of inertial thinking, so modern science ignores the essence of the shadow, I just said that the shadow also has thoughts and consciousness is only a rare diamond, if you want to say mysterious, then I will tell you clearly, what I will continue to talk about later, is a hundred times more mysterious than this! And I'll tell you about it in the name of science! ”

Dongzi's tone was firm, and he kept staring at the long and distorted shadow behind us that was stretched by the candlelight, although I firmly did not believe that the shadow would be conscious, but at this moment, deep down in my heart I had begun to be timid, and the chill in my intuition seemed to be more real!

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