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Li Xinyi seemed to wake up from a dream and said: "I understand, the reason why the people of Ma Tian are ignorant is because they have no external knowledge and information!"

"People here don't know what's right and what's wrong! And newspapers can bring information all over the world......"

Lao Fang said slowly: "We are in the 21st century, but we don't know such things as newspapers. And the book says that in 1582, there were newspapers in the world. ”

Li Xinyi's first reaction was: "The gods deleted the newspaper too? ”

But immediately he felt that something was wrong, and he looked at the large paper in his hand suspiciously. "If the gods can really delete newspapers, why is there still this thing in the library?"

"Newspapers seem to have gone extinct as early as around 2010. It may not have anything to do with the gods. ”

Extinction?

Li Xinyi noticed that Lao Fang used a special word.

Lao Fang said, "In the library, the newspapers after 2010 could not be found, and suddenly disappeared. I don't know how to describe it, it's like the dinosaurs went extinct,"

"Could it be that the gods appeared in 2010?" Li Xinyi guessed

Lao Fang shook his head: "The newspaper is destroyed by another thing. ”

"What is it?"

"Media. More advanced media. ”

As he spoke, Lao Fang unfolded a picture, which was a square the size of a black palm.

"This is the media?"

Li Xinyi looked at the black square on the picture, and the name of the thing was marked below the picture: 'The new generation of iPhone 14 pro'.

"Mankind has invented a more advanced medium, which can obtain information from every corner of the world in an instant, and can talk to people anywhere on the planet.

"This thing is ten times better than a newspaper, and the newspaper has become an obsolete thing. So it died out naturally. ”

Li Xinyi noticed that the paper on which the picture was printed was old and yellow, and it was very old.

"I don't remember seeing anything like this." Li Xinyi said.

Lao Fang looked at Li Xinyi and said, "In Matian, no one remembers that such a thing exists,"

Why?

Li Xinyi said, "It means that the 'media' has been deleted from the world by the gods? ”

"It's not 'media' that has been removed. It was the 'concept' of the media that was removed. ”

"What the gods delete is not concrete things, but concepts of things."

The old man said, taking out a handwritten piece of paper, "Have you seen these words?" ”

On the paper is a line of words hand-copied by Lao Fang: 'Matian Town Public Library'.

Those were a few words on the library sign.

Lao Fang asked: "What does Matian Town mean?" ”

'Ma Tian Town'? It seems to be very smooth to read, and Li Xinyi feels vaguely strange. Ma Tian is Ma Tian, why write the word 'town'?

"Calm, suppressed, calmed......" he raised his head sharply: "What is the town?" ”

Lao Fang asked, "What is Ma Tian?" What is Yun Tight? Can you define them in one word? ”

Li Xinyi frowned, he began to understand what Lao Fang meant. Some kind of 'concept' disappeared from his mind.

Lao Fang opened the dictionary and pushed it in front of Li Xinyi.

'Township is one of the administrative divisions, and its administrative status is related to that of the neighborhood and township、...... The same, by county-level cities, counties, autonomous counties、...... Direct jurisdiction. ……’

'County is one of the administrative divisions, and its administrative status is the same as that of municipal districts and county-level cities、...... The same is the case with prefecture-level cities and regions、...... Municipalities are under the jurisdiction of municipalities or are directly under the jurisdiction of provinces. ’

The moment he saw these definitions, Li Xinyi suddenly remembered.

The concepts of 'town' and 'county' were removed by the gods.

He never thought that the 'concept' thing would be so important. 'Concepts' actually contain knowledge.

When human beings have no concept of 'media' at all, they are completely unaware that the world's information is readily available.

In the same way, when people no longer have the concept of 'town' and 'county', they have no understanding of the size and scale of the world.

Therefore, the people of Matian did not dare to go out, because they did not know what was outside, and they did not know how big and far the cloud was and how far away.

Reminiscent of ancient times, the world is always infinite, mysterious and dangerous, in the legend, where there are giants, where there are evil dragons, in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, all kinds of terrifying monsters emerge in endlessly. People are always in awe and fear of the world far away.

In fact, if they had a junior high school geography book, a lot of superstitions would have disappeared completely.

Li Xinyi only has the concept of 'town' and 'county', and he immediately understands that when he walks out of Matian, it will not be too far, and he will definitely go to a county. The county is also only a small place, and he will no longer be afraid and afraid of distant places.

For this simple 'discovery', Li Xinyi doesn't know whether to be sad or happy.

The people in Matian Town now are actually the same as the ancient people, and their cognitive level has completely regressed to the Middle Ages.

"I see, the gods make humans ignorant!" Li Xinyi said, "Delete the media and make people lose information." Remove the concept of geography and make people afraid to go out. ”

"In this way, people become ignorant, they will believe in the gods, they will believe in the gods. He will rule over them. ”

The gods certainly didn't just remove one or two concepts. There may be more things that have been removed.

Sadly, if you want to control human beings, you don't need to move mountains and reclaim seas at all, you only need to make small changes, take out some concepts, and it is enough to set society back hundreds of years.

Li Xinyi covered his forehead,

After a while, he looked up at Lao Fang and said, "Uncle Fang, I feel that you are simply a scholar. You are a servant for all incompetence. ”

When Lao Fang heard this, there seemed to be a complicated light flashing in his eyes.

"When I walked into the library," said Lao Fang, "I had a strong feeling...... Feel like a different person. ”

He belongs to the library, not to the kitchen and utility room.

Lao Fang became suspicious of himself. Just as Li Xinyi also doubts himself: why is there another personality in the body?

Maybe everyone has another self in their body?

Clankle is a good child, but she has a past that no one knows about.

The fat people of those song and dance troupes, everyone once had their own vivid character and life.

When the gods changed Matian Town, what else did they change? Changed everyone's life?

The two sat silently opposite each other.

But they didn't go into the nitty-gritty.

It's not time to talk about that yet. There are so many things I don't know, and I can't talk about anything.

Li Xinyi got up and said good night to Lao Fang.

"Go to bed early," said the old man, "and I don't know what will happen tomorrow." ”