Chapter 2 The Man Who Keeps Asking the Time
As a thief, the first reaction after being found was of course to run, I reacted, and when I climbed through the window, I fell directly from the second floor, and the back of my head hit the ground, unconscious. When I woke up, I found myself locked in this room.
I thought that Su would send me to the office, or beat me up, but he didn't, and he didn't let me go, and this level locked me up for half a year. Now it's clear to me that Sue was imprisoning me only because I saw this blueprint on the floor, though I couldn't read it at all. But he couldn't risk releasing me, and certainly he couldn't kill me casually, though he later admitted that he had thought about it.
I spent many days and nights in this room, and I was confronted with this blueprint, my father's watchmaker genes, and this aimless observation every day, which may be the key to understanding this design before Sue did I have no engineering foundation. And during this time, Sue and I barely had any communication, and he was completely in a state of dreaming. The only communication I had with him was that from the first day I woke up, he would sit across from me almost every day and ask me only one question repeatedly.
"What year, month, and day is today?" I'm a more confused person, I often don't know what number I live in, but I still know how many years and months I know, I was nervous to be caught as a thief, so I immediately began to recall the time, fortunately, a few things happened during that time, ** have been brushed, I even know what number it is, so I had to stammered to answer the time.
The person on the other side will think for a long time after listening to the time, not the kind of daze or pretending to think about the abuse, but really thinking, he sometimes looks out the window blankly, his fingers are constantly loosening, when the sun is very good, the whole room is warm and sunny, he thinks in front of me, I just lie down and look at the blue sky outside.
Soon I got used to it, and for a while he would ask me almost every day, sometimes once every three or four days. Every time he asks me, I start thinking, like him, thinking about what the hell he's doing?
"Big brother, I'm a first-time offender, it's the first time I've done this kind of thing, you see that I've been caught by you so easily, you can understand, can you forgive me? You just let me go, I have an old man, a younger brother and sister, and my health is not good, you want me to apologize, or what, no matter how bad it is, you can send me to the police station. "The first few times, I would say that to him, hoping for a result, but he would never answer me. After a long time, I also got a little hairy, and when he asked me about the time again, I was angry and didn't answer, and as a result, I didn't eat for a day. I wanted to go on a bit of a backbone diet, but when I remembered that when I sneaked in here, no one knew that this was the heart of an ancient building, and it was a good place to hide corpses. There's no point in starving myself to death.
Moreover, the meal sent by this buddy is particularly delicious, there is only one meal a day, and the chest is attached to the belly when I am hungry, and I can't bear it when I smell the fragrance.
As a foodie, I feel like a pig being controlled by my appetite, and sometimes I want to hit my head and die.
But then I got used to it, and as time went by, the days passed, and I finally gave up hope of being let out of here, and wondered what he was doing.
Ask the time day by day, if you are a normal person, if you have asked the time once, at least you don't have to ask again the next day, but he will still ask, and there will be no shortage of elements of years, months and days. It felt like he was treating me like a human clock.
I thought about a lot of possibilities, I saw a movie before, and the memory of the person in this movie can only last for one day, so every day he wakes up, his brain is blank and needs to reabsorb all the information, including time.
It's the same with this guy, so why don't you go back and buy a watch?
I broke out in a cold sweat when I thought about it, and I thought of the possibility that this person was a procrastinator. He woke up every morning and found that his mind was blank, and there might be a notebook next to the bed telling him what he had done before, and he knew who he was after reading it, but he forgot the time, so he came to me, asked me about the time, and thought: I'll go out tomorrow to buy a watch, and then send him to the police station.
But when he woke up the next day, he forgot all about it, and asked me the time again, thinking again, I would go out tomorrow to buy a watch, and then take him to the police station.
Does Lao Tzu live in a day that is constantly repeated?
If that's the case, it's terrible, it's like my time is flowing in a circle, and the next day after the end of each day is my yesterday.
To confirm that this is not the case, this day he asked me when I made a change.
I quoted a wrong time. I want to see if a wrong time will change his behavior. So I deliberately misreported the year.
The day passed slowly, I thought about a lot of possibilities, and I longed for some change in my heart that would allow us to have a conversation outside of time.
But the situation really caught me by surprise. The next day, at the point when I thought it was business as usual, he would still come and ask me about the time. Suddenly he appeared, covered in blood, and fell in front of me.
I looked at him, his body was full of broken wounds, he looked at me coldly, the blood on his face stuck to his hair, and said, "You lied to me."
I shrunk my neck in fright, and he stretched his hand out to me, and there was a key inside, and I looked at the shackles on my body, which was the key to the shackles.
"Let's go." He said before he fell unconscious.