Introduction

Haibei Province is an economically developed prefecture-level city, close to the northernmost starting point of China's coastline, bordered by the Yellow Sea to the south, the Northeast Mainland to the north, the Bohai Sea to the west, and the Democratic Republic of Korea across the sea to the east. Historically, Linhai City was not only one of the important ports for overseas exchanges, but also an important military fortress where soldiers must fight.

Mingchuan University, located in Binhai New Area, Linhai City, is a provincial institution of higher learning in Haibei Province and one of the national key universities. As the No. 1 key university in Haibei Province, Mingchuan University is located in the Binhai New Area at the southern end of Linhai City, which has the most beautiful environment, close to the Yellow Sea, covering an area of about 2,500 acres. The huge campus is the only quiet place in this bustling and bustling city, there is no hustle and bustle of traffic on the campus, only the quiet of the sun shining through the leaves on the paths, and the charming fragrance of flowers and plants wafting everywhere, which makes people fascinated.

Sima Yuanying is a 2015 master's student in the Department of Philosophy of Mingchuan University, majoring in the history of Western philosophy, and has been studying for two years. Just like the intuitive perception of philosophy, Sima Yuanying's first impression is that he is casually dressed, unkempt, dull, and silent. However, for Sima Yuanying personally, although he was born in this world, although he was not comfortable and not worldly, he could be regarded as living a clear life.

Today is the weekend, most of the students go home, some play, some go shopping in the city, and there are no bustling students on the campus path, adding a quiet atmosphere to the already quiet campus.

It's 6:34 p.m. Beijing time, and the summer sunshine in the north is always too long, and what should have been a night is now like an early afternoon. But after all, it was getting late, and the sunlight could only sparsely sprinkle on the campus, through the slightly luxuriant branches and leaves of the ginkgo trees on both sides of the path, showing a tired but tranquil comfort.

Sima Yuanying was walking along Boxue Road from the graduate student apartment to the south gate of Mingchuan University, and from a distance, Sima Yuanying's unhurried pace always made people take it for granted that he was enjoying the most comfortable time of the day at this moment. In fact, Sima Yuanying is just walking aimlessly and by inertia, and he has no intention of paying attention to the changing time around him, he is thinking about the ultimate question of what is the meaning of life, which may seem hypocritical, but for him who majored in the history of Western philosophy and is addicted to it, this kind of question is perfectly normal, not to mention that he has just finished reading Schopenhauer's "The Agony of Love and Life".

It's not really aimless, it's just that the non-stop repetition of the day has honed the purposeful walk into an aimless subconscious behavior. Sima Yuanying's destination is actually very clear, that is, walk along Boxue Road to the south gate of Mingchuan University, then exit the school gate, cross the coastal road, walk to Yellowstone Beach, and then walk east along the beach, until you reach the end of Yellowstone Beach-Yellowstone Cliff, sit quietly on the steepest rock of Yellowstone Cliff, look at the sea in the distance, think about some questions, or don't think about anything, just sit quietly.

Due to the geographical relationship, Yellowstone Beach has always been the favorite of students of Mingchuan University, out of the winter when the low temperature is below 0, and in the evening until the evening in other seasons, Yellowstone Beach always attracts most students of Mingchuan University to come to tread the waves and play in the water, of course, there are not a few couples. According to nearby residents, the reason why it is called Yellowstone Beach is due to the Yellowstone Cliff on the east side of Yellowstone Beach.

Unlike Yellowstone Beach, due to the steep terrain, Yellowstone Cliff has not been favored by the citizens of Myeongcheon University or even Linhai City, and has always been regarded as a dangerous area, so naturally no one wants to approach it. Sima Yuanying likes it here, in his opinion, although it is very dangerous, but at the top of the Huangshi Cliff, you can see the most beautiful sea view, but it really takes a lot of effort to climb to the top to see the most beautiful sea view.

It is said that the Yellowstone Cliff is not made of boulders, with the only remaining knowledge of natural geography, Sima Yuanying speculated that the Yellowstone Cliff is just a delta formed by the river entering the sea in the early years, and the Yellowstone Cliff is the edge of the delta, the terrain that is not washed, due to the erosion of the river over the years, the delta terrain is getting lower and lower, and it gradually evolves into a steep cliff. It's just that there are several boulders of different sizes distributed on the top of the cliff, connected to each other and relying on each other, for these stones, Sima Yuanying can't think of a reason anyway.

At this moment, Sima Yuanying sat on the highest stone of the Yellowstone Cliff, his feet hanging on the edge of the Yellowstone Cliff casually, looking at the sea level in the distance, as if he wanted to see the Korean Peninsula on the other side of the sea.

In fact, this is just an illusion, Sima Yuanying is not interested in what is on the other side of the sea, he focuses on people, the kind of people in the true sense who throw away the appearance of matter. At this moment, what he is thinking about is "according to Schopenhauer's concept, if the phenomenon of human life is nothing more than the object of human desire (will) to survive, in other words, if all human life activities are nothing more than satisfying one's own desire to survive, then what can run through one's life can only be pain and suffering, then what is the meaning of life?" When the happiness of life has become some kind of gift that God gives to mankind when he is occasionally happy, what reason should we not reject such a life or such a God? ”

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I don't know how long it took, Sima Yuanying raised his hand and looked at the time, it was already a quarter past eight, and it was time to go back, just enough time to go back and finish the last two episodes of the third season of House of Cards. Sima Yuanying put down his hand and looked at the sea again, and saw a small boat parked on the sea not far away by the not-bright moonlight, Sima Yuanying stood up carefully while thinking, "It's a bit unreasonable, is there still a boat going to sea at this time?" It always felt like the ship was not moving, but more like it was anchoring. ”

Sima Yuanying stood up and planned to go back along the same path as before, at this moment he didn't know that from the moment he decided to get up, it had been decided that his life would change from now on, no, it was not his life that changed, but the lives of some people around him, as for Sima Yuanying himself, life was originally something that did not exist.

Sima Yuanying carefully walked down the boulder with such a question, and then came to the Yellowstone beach. The gray moonlight was not enough to illuminate the beach, but with the repetition of day after day, Sima Yuanying also knew where to go and where to go.

As soon as he stepped on the Yellowstone Beach, Sima Yuanying was tripped and fell, he felt that his abdomen was against something, he knelt with his hands on his knees, and instinctively touched the thing in front of his feet with his hands, it turned out to be a sack, just like the sacks that northerners often use to hold corn or potatoes.

Sima Yuanying fumbled to find the mouth of the sack, he didn't want to figure out what tripped him, but out of curiosity about the unknown, he wanted to know what was in the sack.

The sack was obviously tied with a dead knot, in the gray moonlight, Sima Yuanying spent a lot of time to open the dead knot smoothly, he reached out into the sack and touched it, and instantly a chill spread from his fingers to every cell in his body, he shivered unconsciously, only knowing that the things in the sack were both familiar and unfamiliar, and he didn't have time to think carefully about what this thing that made him both strange and familiar, he felt a cold chill coming from his neck, At the pinch, he looked up and saw a small boat parked in the shallow water 10 meters in front of him, which seemed to be the same boat he had just seen on the Yellowstone Cliffs......

However, at this moment, Sima Yuanying's main concern was not whether the ship was the one he had just seen, but what the chill from his neck was, because out of instinct, he felt that he really wanted a knife, a knife that was enough to turn day into night......