Chapter 9 Choice
Shakespeare said: To live or to perish, it is a question.
In Yansheng's view, this is a multiple-choice question.
The library, located opposite the Adventurer's Guild, has a building area and building height that is larger than the Adventurer's Guild, and the older generation says: The library is the most beautiful building in the world, and it is no exception in the waste continent.
No wonder, even the big bear is obsessed with the library.
Yansheng and Roth walked out of the hotel, passed through the Adventurer's Guild, and came to the library. Sometimes, you have to admit that Chinese calligraphy is the most beautiful art in the world, because there is and only in China, there is calligraphy, it is unique.
Two large stone doors weighing 10,000 catties open to the inside, reaching into the high walls of the sky, blocking the view, it is estimated that you stand on any tall building in Nirvana City, and you don't want to see the face of the library, the two of them marveled and walked in.
On the square of Nuoda, a hundred zhang high golden bronze statue, come into view, take a closer look, the word 'Yuan Emperor' is engraved below, with some introductions, there are dozens of bronze statues of tens of zhang high standing around, under the bronze statue, there are carved stone statues again, horses, monkeys, pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, dragons, phoenixes, etc., can be seen everywhere, lifelike. On the side of the stone statue, I saw the guardrail again, and under the guardrail was a clear pond. A stone bridge, bent over.
The two of them enjoyed while walking, the scenery was intoxicating, and the green in the pond could really relieve anxiety.
Passing through the square, crossing the stone bridge, there are people holding books and reading on the wide corridor, some people chatting in a low voice, seeing the two, nodding their heads, the two of them salute back, and speed up their pace.
Walk through the corridor, a magnificent temple, irritating the eyes without warning.
It's high, it's so high, you can't see the top when you look up, it's big, it's so big, you can't see the edge at a glance!
Walking inside, the smell of books is fragrant, and the bookshelves are like high-rise buildings, piled up layer by layer, lined up, Chinese, English, French, Korean, Japanese, German, many, really many, so much that there is no end.
After walking through a few frames, I don't know where to start, and then inside, I found that most of the newcomers are here, or leaning, or standing, or sitting, or lying, or lying down, without exception, all of them are watching carefully, as if they have found beauty from inside, found gold, found the truth, you see, one by one, fascinated.
Yansheng took a closer look and found that what everyone watched was "The Law of Survival of the Waste Continent", "500 Million Years of the Waste Continent", "How to Be a Qualified Waste Man", "Hello, Waste Continent" and so on.
Yansheng didn't know how many floors this library had, and how high it was, even if he was allowed to walk here for a month, he might not be able to reach the top floor.
The mind is slowly returning, since it is here, let's take a look, anyway, I am entangled in the question of life and death in my heart.
Roth patted Yansheng on the shoulder and signaled that he was going to look for a book to read, and Yansheng nodded in understanding.
"Man, you must understand history!" Yan Sheng suddenly thought of such a sentence, and his fingers swiped across the bookshelves, looking for books related to the history of the Waste Continent.
The formation of the waste continent is already known, but the objective history of development has not been heard of, such as war.
It's nothing more than a fantasy to want to know the real history in a day or two, but probably, you still have to know!
"A Brief History of the Waste Continent", that's it, Yansheng opened it and watched it slowly.
Closing the book, two hours have passed, from the appearance of the Waste Continent to the establishment of the Adventurer's Guild, there have been many wars, but the famous large-scale battles are relatively only a few dozen.
Yansheng thought that the Waste Continent was really a waste, but after reading the introduction in the book, he had to re-examine it, and even Nirvana City may not be a waste continent in the true sense.
Heaven wants him to come to the Waste Continent, whether it is random or wearing a mission. He didn't know, but he had a fantastical idea: he could still get out of the waste continent.
got up and walked a few steps, returned to the bookshelf, crossed his fingers, and landed on a book called "Lingering Breath", Yansheng flipped through it, he thought of Yu Hua's "Alive", thought of Stephen King's "The Shawshank Redemption", he thought of life, thought of freedom.
He hated his former self, he had clearly found the true meaning, why couldn't he persevere, closed the book, walked out of the library with a smile, he had made a choice and knew the answer.
The night came as scheduled, it was still the Adventurers' Guild, or the restaurant-like venue, the familiar Williamham descended from the lifting platform again, the difference is that the people in the audience have already had a preliminary understanding of this world, and he does not plan to explain the origin of the Waste Continent to everyone.
He greeted everyone with a smile, and after greeting them, he said: "1,728 people, this year, is the most in the past 10,000 years, I don't know what the outside world has become, but I think in three years, no matter how big the change is, there will be a degree! Here for a year, one day in the outside world, there were 226 countries in the world when I committed suicide, and the mortality rate was nearly 20,000 per day, but the number of people who could get here was pitiful, and the average number of deaths was only two per country, and today, it was really a big surprise."
Everyone lowered their heads, the high emotions were pulled down again, and those damn memories rushed into their brains.
Williamham continued: "Actually, it's nothing, just travel to a new place, don't get too tangled, I promise not to mention it! No, this year seems to be a little different than usual, you know?"
The crowd shook their heads.
Williamham said: "You may not know, we here, we have not seen Chinese for more than 300 years, I remember the last one was called Bailong, an athlete, because he felt that he was too failed, and committed suicide! Now there is another one, I would like to get to know, can I stand up?"
Yansheng was caught off guard and was named, so he could only stand up.
Williamham asked, "Why did you commit suicide? The suicide rate in your country has been the lowest in the past few years, is it because of pressure, because of love, because of family, because of friendship, or is your country also practicing a capitalist society?"
Yansheng smiled: "It's me who is too much of a failure, and it has nothing to do with the country!"
Williamham smiled: "There are no nationalities here, everyone is from different places, so don't mind, I just said it in passing, I hope you don't take it to heart!"
Yeonsheng nodded, he felt embarrassed, this was not a glorious thing.
Williamham habitually drank saliva again, and continued: "Okay, back to the point, this explanation, I think you must all be clear, maybe you have made a choice between life and death in your heart, but there are some things that I still want to emphasize!"
"First, the living person will become an animal during the day and become a human at night, and at the same time will lose his reproductive function and stay young forever, the important thing is that all your memories of the past will follow you like a shadow and remind you! Second, the dead will repeat their death, and they will wander back and forth on the road of death every day, but they will be completely liberated, and they will not have to think about why they have become waste, and they will not have to dwell on how failed their past is, because they have no memory, and they will be reincarnated for thousands of years on the same road without any purpose! ”
"If you want to choose, it doesn't really mean much, I believe that everyone will make the right choice, and fools know how to choose between life and death. What does it mean, the purpose of the Waste Continent is to save waste, you should have seen it from the library, it is not an easy way to walk, endless loneliness, are you really ready to bear it?"
Williamham coughed a few times and said solemnly: "Now, listen carefully to what I have to say, because that will determine your future."
"Tianluo Spring, in addition to being able to sort out your meridians, the most important thing is that it allows you to obtain a kind of power, which can be used as an attack skill in addition to being expressed in the form of a beast, commonly known as magic, or martial arts, which is forbidden to be used in Nirvana City, and when you become an adventurer, you can naturally use it, and this also determines whether you are an ordinary adventurer or a special adventurer. Therefore, when you step into Tianluo Spring, you must forget everything that happened in Nirvana City, because in the entire continent, only this place is safe!"
"Tianluo Spring, in the Phoenix Valley, where the fog is very big, after arriving, it can be said that you can't see your five fingers, and the way you deal with it, just empty your mind and go to greet it. Tianluo Spring, as the name suggests, is just a pool of spring water, but his scope is infinitely wide, and no one has ever seen his whole picture. When you are surrounded by water, just go forward, when the water is up to your waist, swim boldly, and if you can't swim, you just sink, don't scream, don't shout, don't shout! ”
"Do you understand?"
"Understood!"
"Okay, so what's the point?"
"Don't shout, don't shout, don't shout!"
"Beautiful! Okay, okay, don't talk about it, don't talk about it, you guys get ready, go to Tianluo Spring immediately!"
Williamham, as if he had thought of something, urged everyone to get up and leave.
The moonlight is sprinkled, the breeze is soft, Tianluo Spring, in the Phoenix Valley.
When the moon rose, the moon set, and their trip actually took one night.
For Yansheng, this road is not unfamiliar, because he and the white dragon horse have walked, but they have not really entered the Phoenix Valley.
Walking into the valley, the fog is clear, those who choose to live all the way, those who choose to die all the way, still, there are dozens of people who choose death, and prolong life, choose to live.
In the fog, Yansheng walked and walked, feeling the water soak his shoes, walking and walking, the water flooded his knees, walking and walking, the water was not above his waist, he pushed forward with both hands, and only swam forward.
The white fog was vast and quiet, and Yansheng remembered Williamham's words: "Don't shout, don't shout!"
A fierce man plunged into the water, opened his eyes, the surroundings were cloudy, his eyes hurt, surfaced, and continued to move forward, suddenly, a blue mist floated in the water, regardless of others, continued to swim forward, and after a while, a red mist floated, and the whole body had no reason for heaviness, feeling, and strength disappeared little by little.
He fainted again.