I was swallowed by the dragon in one gulp, but to my surprise, the feeling in the belly of the dragon was not what I imagined, to go through the painful torture, and finally died tragically, but suddenly lost consciousness, before a little bit of consciousness is just a subtle experience, as if I fell into a slowly flowing river, along the river is constantly drifting, want to stop, but can't stop, can't wake up.

I don't know how long this feeling of floating comfort lasted, and finally stopped, but I only felt that there were many voices faintly coming from my ears, scolding, pleading, and crying. Strangely enough, I couldn't understand what those voices were saying, and I wanted to open my eyes and sit up to see what was going on.

But the feeling that my head was awake and the parts of my body were uncontrollable kept me asleep, and I don't know how long it had been, except for the pin-and-needle stinging pain in my body, I didn't remember anything.

The pain made me happy, because it meant that the limbs of the uncontrolled body had begun to gradually become conscious.

"Who are you?" I heard a strange voice calling in my ear.

Then I heard another voice sound: "For thousands of years, it is the first time someone has come here, just leave him behind, he has obtained the Great Dao, but the six roots are not purified, as long as a little training, he will be able to become a big material in the future." ”

"What do you think, Great Wizard?"

"Wizard? What's going on? I struggled to use my brain to think about the incomplete information he heard, the content of what those people were saying, and I couldn't fathom it, "Is it ...... Am I really dead? Are you kidding? Is this a forbidden place for the living? Am I already in? ”

"We can't get out, and people outside can't get in, this is a dead place, because Ran Xu is outside, and Ran Xu is willing to let him in, which means that his appearance is not accidental." An old voice said unhurriedly, he mentioned Ran Xu, and said that this is a dead place, no one can come in and no one can go out.

"It seems to be true." I even began to feel a little excited, which showed that my conjecture was right, and this time I gambled and I won.

Soon, a series of footsteps rushed in, and a series of strange language pronunciations could not be heard in the dialect of any place, but after thinking about it, I could also think that this was probably the ancient Yue language, which was already an extremely ancient language.

I don't know what happened, but I felt as if there was a flowing breath running upwards in my head, until my heavenly spirit was crispy and numb, as if a faint electric current had baptized my whole body, "This is probably the feeling of empowerment, right?" I'm not going to become an immortal, am I? ”

It took a while for the tingling sensation to subside, and I slowly opened my eyes and was surprised to find that several pairs of eyes were looking at me as if they were looking at a pet.

"Great wizard, he's awake." A man in a white robe said.

"Call him over." An old voice came from outside the crowd.

Then, the old man's voice stopped, and I was just about to stand up when I felt a stinging pain in my body again, and I was faintly worried that I would fall asleep again. Although I can move my hands and feet now, my whole body is still sore. And I looked around and saw that there was not even a single decent piece of furniture except for a wooden couch.

The crowd dispersed, and I looked in the direction from which the sound came, and there were only five or six there, each armed with a weapon on the left and right. As the distance grew closer and the line of sight lengthened, I saw these people wearing ancient costumes made of linen.

"Is this the living in the forbidden land of the living? Who the hell are they? I thought, and for a moment, I thought I had really crossed over.

"Ancestors, please accept the worship of the younger Lin Kun."

"Lin Kun?" The old voice repeated Lin Kun's name, and then stood up, at this time, I was able to see his face clearly, his face was withered, but his spirit was strong, when he sat you would feel that he was about to die, but when he stood up, you would find that he was a crane with a childish face.

"This old ancestor, I am a descendant of Yuling, but your authentic descendants, the younger generations are reckless, disturbing your purity, and I hope that the ancestors will forgive their sins, adults have a lot, don't be like the younger generations."

"Haha, kid, it doesn't matter who you are at all." The old man said with a smile, waved his hand to the guard next to him, and continued, "A few of us are here to guard the Ultimate, and that's what you're for, right?" ”

"Ancestor, I won't beat around the bush, I really want to know what secret is hidden at the bottom of this dragon burial pit, but I don't have to say that I want to watch this secret, if you don't want to say it, I don't dare to force it, and I'm afraid that if I know this secret, I will cause more trouble."

The old man didn't raise his head and said, "It's okay, since Ran Xu is willing to let you in, it means that you and I are destined, and there is nothing to tell you this secret, because history is irreversible, just like the Yangtze River, even if its real source is not on the top of the Ten Thousand Ice Peaks, will it stop flowing?" ”

"Ancestor, you're right, the secrets of the past may change the history books, but they won't change history."

"This is the place of death, but there are a few of us who will not die, and the best way to keep a secret is to bring it to the grave." The old man smiled, nodded, and said, "The third secret, do you want to know?" ”

"The third secret?" I sighed, looked at the old man helplessly, and said, "I don't know if I should say whether I want to or not, if this secret is taken out by me, what will be the consequences, I really can't believe it." ”

The old man laughed and said, "Do you think that even if you tell the truth, how many people in the world will believe you?" Back then, whether it was King Yu or Ran Xu, it was because he attached too much importance to this point, so he would desperately cover it up, in fact, thousands of years later, who would care what the truth was? People only want to believe what they want to believe, and they don't accept the facts that are painful for them. ”

I nodded, and after some thought, I realized that this so-called ultimate may not be an untouchable "minefield", but rather an "abyss." Nietzsche (note 1) said: "When you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you" (note 2), if you don't read it deeply, only do a superficial analysis, the abyss probably refers to self-introspection - when you see enough evil, and introspect yourself deep enough, you will see a pair of eyes reflected on the water looking at you, looking at you like a monster. I've finally come to understand this now.

"But what is the secret of this burial dragon pit bottom? It's not like the people behind the scenes are here for this third secret, right? I shook my head and denied my answer, "Probably not, their purpose should be very simple, they want eternal life only because of greed, not so-called salvation!" ”

Since the development of human society, man is no longer a "completely moral" person. Standing in the abyss, doing the most evil peeping outward, in addition to those who stare into the abyss, there are also those who are unwilling to glance at the abyss, they have the most "hard" heart, just like a demon, only revering their own obsessions.

"Those who fight the devil should be careful not to become the devil. When you stare into the abyss, the abyss is staring at you...... I understand. "I suddenly realized that I had been wrong from the beginning, and when I wanted to get the secret here, I was just letting myself be controlled by my own obsessions, like a devil, when in fact, those who stare into the abyss, or who don't want to be stared at by the abyss at all, are doing the same thing as him—obsessions.

The simple effect of this effect is that subjective cognition influences people's perception of difficulties through confidence, and to overcome difficulties that you believe can be overcome, they will also be knocked down by difficulties that you think are insurmountable. The last bit is to mold yourself into what the outside world thinks you should be.

"I don't really need to come in at all, every step I take is blinded by my own obsessions......"

Exegesis:

1. Nietzsche: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900), a famous German philosopher, linguist, poet, composer, thinker, is considered the founder of modern Western philosophy, his works have put forward extensive criticism and discussion in the fields of religion, morality, modern culture, philosophy, and science. He has a unique writing style, often using the technique of aphorisms and paradoxes. Nietzsche had a great influence on the development of philosophy in later generations, especially in existentialism and postmodernism.

Before he began to study philosophy, Nietzsche was a philologist. At the age of 24, Nietzsche became professor of German-speaking classics at the University of Basel in Switzerland, specializing in ancient Greek and Latin literature. However, he resigned in 1879 due to health problems, and has been suffering from mental illness ever since. Nietzsche suffered a nervous breakdown in 1889 and never recovered, living in the care of his mother and sister until his death in 1900. Nietzsche's main works include The Will to Power, The Birth of Tragedy, An Untimely Investigation, Thus Said Zarathustra, Philosophy in the Age of Greek Tragedy, and On the Genealogy of Morality.

2. "When you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you": This sentence is from Nietzsche's "The Other Side of Good and Evil", stanza 146, the original text: Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.