When I opened my eyes, I woke up in a trance as if I had a soul.

I was amazed to find that I was sitting in the lab, my phone in hand, the stock price on the screen was constantly pulsating, and I looked around, the inductively coupled plasma torch was burning, and the peristaltic pump was running at a constant speed.

What's going on? How am I in the lab, how am I going to be at work? I picked up my phone and it was 10:59 a.m. on August 16, 2017. I'm still on August 16th, but why didn't I wake up from my bed and come to the lab like a spirit?

I think back to yesterday, when I was getting lost on the high-speed train home, there was an uncle like a poet on the high-speed train. Just like that day on the plane, I had lost consciousness before I left City C. I literally became a prisoner of time and space, locked in August 16th in City C.

No, I suddenly realized something much more serious. On the last day, I didn't wake up in bed, but woke up in front of the mirror in my own home, about 7:55 a.m. And today, I didn't wake up from bed again, and when I realized myself, I was actually working in the lab, and it was already 10:58 a.m. What the hell is going on? What's going on?

I began to envision a worse scenario: I was locked up in a space-time cage set up by the aliens, and they were constantly under their observation and control, and whenever I tried to escape, the aliens would take me back and punish me. The harshest punishment could have been shortened.

Is it that every time I try to escape from here, my time is punishably shortened? Who's in control, who's seeing my escape, and who's shortening my time? I do not know. All I know is that I can't try to escape anymore, I can't escape, I have to accept my fate. For an opponent I don't even know who he is and where, I don't have any confidence to defeat him.

Maybe the shortening of these two days was just because I was disobedient and the aliens gave me a small punishment. The situation is not as bad as imagined, and from today onwards, I may still be able to live in August 16 in C City with peace of mind, and I can spend the rest of my life in the ordinary. This is the only most reassuring scenario I can think of right now, how panicked and helpless I am, and how ignorant I am.

I walked out of the lab trying to restore my peaceful life, and I wanted to show my compromise and submissiveness to those who were watching me.

"Senior brother, what are you doing here?" Zhang Han saw me standing at the door of the laboratory, a little strange.

"No... What time is it? It's time to eat, right? "I'm still a little flustered and my face is a little ugly.

"Oh, it's almost twelve o'clock, and we're ready to go to dinner." Zhang Han said.

"Okay, let's go eat then." I'm a little sluggish.

"Did you see a meteor shower yesterday?" Xiao Luo brought up this familiar topic again. I ate in a daze, not thinking to join the discussion.

"Our classmates watched the meteor shower on the roof of the dormitory building together, and we also saw a purple meteor." Xiao Luo said.

"I also saw it yesterday, that purple meteor is very bright, so beautiful" Senior Sister Zhang Han also responded.

"Purple? It's rare. Colleague Zhou Tong was a little surprised.

"Yes, and it's big and bright." Zhang Han continued.

"We still have a lot of couples who make wishes, standing on the roof of the dormitory, hahaha." Xiao Luo said with a smile again.

"My girlfriend and her boyfriend stood on the roof of their respective dorm buildings to watch the meteor shower, and then made a wish together on WeChat." Xiao Luo continued.

"Isn't it impossible to make a wish?" Zhou Tong asked.

"I didn't say it, I only allowed typing, not voice, haha" Xiao Luo laughed again.

"I don't make a wish anymore, I used to make a wish when I was studying, hoping that meteors could make love last forever, but in the end I broke up, and now I'm still single." Zhang Han looked playful and helpless.

Listening to their happy chat, I just barely echoed and showed a few smiles, although I tried to pretend to live a normal life, I found that I couldn't do it, I am a person who will write sadness on my face, and I am also a strong person, not a person who can accept defeat casually.

"Senior brother, what's wrong with you today?" Zhang Han clearly saw what was on my mind.

"It's nothing, maybe I didn't sleep last night." I explained.

"Why do I think something is wrong with you today?" Zhang Han wondered.

"It's really nothing. Hahaha" I tried to resolve this problem with laughter.

People felt as if I was trying to hide something, but they didn't dare to keep asking, because they knew I didn't like to share my grief with everyone.

"Feifei, what are you most afraid of?" I asked about Li Feifei, who was doing a test sample.

"I'm most afraid of rats. Especially the kind of big rats. Li Feifei replied.

"Hehe, is there anything more terrible?" I asked again.

"Uh... Let me think again. "Li Feifei may really be afraid of mice.

"Are you afraid of the unknown?" I then asked.

"Unknown? What is unknown? Li Feifei was a little surprised, my question may indeed be a little strange.

"It's something you don't know, something you don't know when an unknowable disaster will befall you." I explained.

"Since we all know that it's a disaster, why is it called unknown?" Li Feifei asked rhetorically.

"It's also possible that it won't be a disaster." I added.

"I'm not afraid, I'm just curious. Don't you want to know why? Li Feifei asked rhetorically again.

"I want to, too, but I don't have any way out." I was a little frustrated.

"What's going on? Brother. "Li Feifei felt that something was wrong with me.

"No... It's nothing. I explained.

"It's okay, there is something unknowable in this world, we are all the successors of communism, the world is knowable first, and then there is what we are now. Hahaha! Li Feifei joked, as if she wanted to make me happy.

Is the world really knowable? Nothing is agnostic? As we who have embraced a materialist worldview since childhood, it seems that this should not be a problem.

I didn't eat and took a taxi back home after work, the evening sun slanted into my bedroom, I opened the window, the pigeons on the roof were still circling the house in the distance, the sky was getting dark, and the wind was still blowing in my hair.

"Are you reading poetry?" I asked Ami on WeChat.

Ami: "Uh, how do you know?" ”

Me: "You forgot what you told me before. ”

Ami: "I don't think I remember what I said. ”

Me: "What poem are you reading?" ”

Ami: "You're from afar, I'm going far." A long way to pass through here. There is nothing in the sky, why give me comfort. The flock of birds like black raindrops, flying from dusk into the night, and there is nothing in the night, why do you comfort me? ”

Me: "Haizi's poem. ”

Ami: "You've read this poem too, huh?" ”

Me: "I've heard people talk about it, on the high-speed train. ”

Ami: "Looks like you like this poem too." ”

Me: "It's okay, I just don't understand." ”

Ami: "I don't know much either. ”

Me: "Maybe we'll figure it out later." ”

Ami: "yes, I'll figure it out one day. We don't understand it now, maybe it's just that we haven't experienced enough. ”

Me: "Yes, nothing in this world is unknowable. ”

Ami: "Uh-huh. Rest early, the world is still waiting for you to discover. ”

Me: "Okay, wait for me to find out." ”

Ami: "Well, it's not early, I'm going to wash up." ”

Me: "Rest early, good night." ”

Ami: "Good night, let's talk tomorrow." ”

I opened the window again, and there were still three lights on the hotel opposite, and the wind was still blowing on my face.

I really want to know, knowing everything, it's even more difficult for me to let go than running from here. Perhaps there really is nothing in this world that is unknowable, and everything has its own reasons and principles. I probably shouldn't give up, I shouldn't just admit defeat, that sentence is good" Chaowen said, it's okay to die at night. "It is more painful for me to live in ignorance than the punishment of the last days.

I lay in bed and couldn't sleep for a long time, I didn't know what would happen tomorrow, if everything would be calm again or for the worse, the fear of the unknown confused the room.

Until I gradually lost consciousness and fell asleep in the night.