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Is this world real?

If you had asked me that, I would have answered without hesitation: "Yes." ”

Now, I will answer, "No, your world and mine are just your world, and there are other worlds that you and I have not been exposed to are also real." ”

You may ask, "Now that the world is so open, what are the worlds that we have not been exposed to, and the worlds you are talking about are false and non-existent?" ”

I would reply, "A thousand years ago, would the ancient Chinese think that there were blacks and whites in the world?" Just because you haven't been exposed to it doesn't mean that the world of black, white people doesn't exist. ”

The first volume of the remnants of the White Lotus

Chapter 1: First Encounter

My name is Mu Bai, I just graduated this year, to be precise, there are still two months to graduate, and I am looking for a job everywhere. I received an interview notice today and asked me to come to the company for an interview at 3 p.m. I rode a friend's second-hand electric donkey to an inconspicuous economic development park on the outskirts of the city according to the address given by the company, "I'm here for an interview, Room 1220, 12B Floor, Unit 2, Building B" I explained the purpose and address of my visit to the door, and the security brother who was originally smiling heard the address I reported, the expression on his face immediately became weird, and he squinted his eyes and looked me up and down without saying a word. I didn't care about Ma Daha's temper, but I felt excited, after all, it was the first time I received an interview notice.

When I came to room 1220 and explained my intention to the front desk of the company, the young lady at the front desk smiled and took me to the conference room and turned around. There were already two interviewers sitting on both sides early, a young and beautiful young lady with jet-black hair, painted with popular smoky makeup, wearing a white short shirt, a small black leather skirt, slender legs with black, and a pair of black boots on her feet. When the young lady saw me looking at her, she rolled her eyes and twisted her head to the side. I pretended not to see a place to sit down, and saw another interviewer sitting across from me, a middle-aged uncle in his forties, wearing a cheap suit, with a black face, the original white shirt looked gray, his beard was unkempt, his hair was greasy, he was wearing a pair of glasses, one of the lenses was missing, a sloppy and unkempt image, with his hands crossed in front of his chest and his eyes closed. Look at this style like an interview, but like someone who came here to interview someone else. I couldn't help muttering, "I dare to come to the interview like this." As soon as such a thought came to my heart, the uncle suddenly opened his eyes and looked at me, as if I had been struck by lightning, and I couldn't help but shudder in my heart. This look is clearly the eyes of a superior person, as if it can penetrate everything in my heart. He looked at me and didn't speak, and slowly closed his eyes again.

Seeing that neither of them meant to speak, I took out my phone and flipped through the news boredly. After a while, the young lady at the front desk called the young lady to go to the manager's office, and I tried to talk to the middle-aged uncle, but he just looked at me and continued to close his eyes. I had to keep looking at my phone, but I didn't know what I was looking at. I waited almost an hour. I saw the young lady at the front desk come in again and call the uncle to go to the manager's office. The uncle walked to the door and suddenly said to me, "Young man, the first interview?" I was stunned for a moment and nodded. He smiled at me and walked away with the front desk. I thought I would have to wait another hour, but within five minutes, the front desk called me for an interview. I followed the front desk to the manager's room, only to see a chubby bald middle-aged man sitting behind the desk, I don't know why, seeing that his face was pale and sweaty. He can be seen shaking slightly. The young lady at the front desk was also surprised when she saw the manager's appearance, but she didn't say anything and turned around and left. After I sat down, I didn't wait for the manager to ask, and first asked, "Are you okay?" ”。 The manager ignored me and asked me to introduce myself. After I finished the introduction, the manager's chubby face already showed an impatient expression, and he threw out a sentence stiffly: "I know, go back and wait for the notice." ”

Coming down from upstairs, I rode my little electric donkey angrily, I was not angry, what a bullshit manager, just said that I didn't pass, and I was waiting for the notice, your grandma's claws, this broken company invited Lao Tzu Lao Tzu to come. Out of the park, I scolded all the way, and suddenly saw the middle-aged man standing at the bus stop for an interview together, I stopped in front of him, he still had an old god expression, and only glanced at me when he stopped. I shouted, "Big brother, wait for the car." He mumbled and didn't say anything. I said, "Take my car and take you to the subway, there are few cars here." He was not polite, and came up without saying a word. On the way, I asked him, "Big brother, how was the interview, did you pass?" He replied lightly, "No." "I wanted to complain, but I didn't say anything because he didn't want to talk about it. Soon I arrived at the subway station, I parked the car, and the uncle got off the bus and left, without even saying thank you. "What kind of person is it" I knew that I would leave directly, so why be a good person.

After a period of time, while preparing for my graduation thesis, I was looking for a job, I thought that I would never have any intersection with him again, but I didn't want to see him again on a special occasion not long after, and since then I have started a different life journey!

Chapter 2: Midnight Terror

Finally graduated, after unremitting efforts finally found a FMCG sales job, every day to run customers, receive orders, help customers sort out the shelves, although busy is also fulfilling, the first month according to the performance I should be able to get about four thousand, I didn't expect to fill out the performance form to find the regional manager to sign, the manager came to a sentence: "Last month, Xiao Zhou was fined 700 by the head office, you make up for it." I was stunned: "Who is Xiao Zhou, and what does his punishment have to do with me?" "You've got a lot this month, so you'll have to make up for it." The manager said coldly, and I replied: "I have gained a lot of my hard work, and I deserve it." The manager said disdainfully: "I have to listen to me, if you don't take out this money, I won't sign it, you won't get a penny." I suppressed the anger in my heart and said; You sign it first, and then we'll talk about it. With that, I turned around and went out.

In the evening, when I talked about this with a few good colleagues, everyone was also very angry and discussed resigning together, but I didn't say anything. A few days later, the salary was paid, and after the morning meeting, the manager called my office and asked me to give him the money, and I suppressed my anger and said, "Manager, what money?" "I told you a few days earlier, give the money to Xiao Zhou to make up the fine." The manager said, I said, "Manager, he was fined because of his reasons, if I am fined because I have to pay this money, his fine has nothing to do with me, I will not pay this money." "Fuck you, believe it or not, I'm going to kill you now, disobedient, I'm telling you to fuck off now." The manager began to curse. I couldn't suppress my anger anymore, kicked him in the stomach, pressed him to the ground and slammed him, at this time other colleagues also ran in, saw that I was beating the manager, none of them came up, all stood there and watched, after the fight, I stood up and scolded the manager who was lying on the ground holding his head: "Sun Tzu, I didn't do it myself, not your turtle grandson fired, and I will be seen hiding on the street in the future, and I will be beaten once I see it." ”

Qinyang, in ancient times became Huaiqing Mansion, can be said to have a long history, talents come out in large numbers, because it is located in the south of Taihang Mountain, the north of the Yellow River, it is also called Shanyang, the most famous here is the four major Huaiyao, still with the iron stick yam as the most, the famous China's first ghost village - Fengmen Village is located in the foothills of Taihang Mountain in the north of Qinyang City. After leaving the job, I was very bored, so I came to Fengmen Village with my bags on my back, because the local villagers have been relocated and have long been uninhabited, and because of the "reputation" of Fengmen Village, there are often "travelers" to explore, and the local government arranges people to guard various intersections day and night for safety, and does not allow "travelers" to visit.

I ran to the station and bought a ticket at random, but I didn't expect to pull me to Qinyang, thinking that if you come, you will be safe, and if you come, you will go to Fengmen Village to go around, anyway, I have long wanted to come to Fengmen Village to see. Since the intersections were guarded, I wandered down the mountain for a long time without finding a way up the mountain, so I wandered around along the foot of the mountain until I finally found a path into the mountain.

It is the height of summer, the scenery in the mountains is gorgeous, and the birds are singing and flowers are fragrant everywhere. At this time, I had no intention of enjoying the scenery, full of hesitation, seeing a full moon hanging obliquely in the air, I felt a sense of melancholy in my heart - his grandmother's, Lao Tzu was lost. There is no signal in the mountains, so you can't call 110 if you want to. The mountain road is difficult, and I can't find the road at night, and I don't dare to turn on the light when I look at the two bars of the mobile phone, and the only thing that is gratifying is that there are two pieces of bread and a few ham sausages in the bag. Saying that I am not afraid in my heart is that it is false, although the bright moon is in the sky, but from time to time there are a few roars of beasts in the distance, and it is inevitable that my heart will be abrupt. Circumventing a mountain col and seeing a dark shadow of a village in the ridge of the mountain by the moonlight, I couldn't suppress the ecstasy in my heart, and I mustered up all the strength to climb up the mountain.

A few dilapidated houses are scattered along the ridges, forming a small village. Looking at the dark house, my heart was half cold, this is an abandoned village of "merging villages and towns". After the villagers moved away, the house was not demolished, because it had been uninhabited for a long time, it had long been dilapidated, fortunately, the structure of the house was quite strong, and it was improvised to shelter from the wind at night, and what made me even happier was that I found a pile of corn stalks in a house, although they were all rotten, but they were able to keep warm, I tidied up a place after the straw pile, and lay down improvised, who wanted to fall asleep just lying down.

Suddenly a terrible scream woke me up, I opened my eyes and saw the bursts of fire coming from outside the house, and there was a scream in my ears, I felt a chill inexplicably, I didn't dare to move, and I didn't dare to come out, and as time went by, the screams became lower and lower. I had the courage to creep under the window, and slowly poked my head out, only to see three men in gray and white cloaks, kneeling on the ground, with their hands crossed over their chests, singing loudly, in front of the cloaked man was an abandoned wooden telephone pole, on which was tied a long-haired woman dressed in black, her hair covered her face, and her face could not be seen, only her body twitched with the cloaked man's chant. Looking at the strange scene in front of me, I couldn't help but scream, the cloaked man heard me scream, and looked at me, probably they didn't expect anyone to be here, the three of them didn't react for a while, I wanted to take the opportunity to escape, but my body was weak, my legs were weak, and I watched a cloaked man walk slowly towards me, I knew that if I didn't run at this time, I would definitely have no chance, I bit my tongue violently, roared, and smashed my fist in my chest, the severe pain was a shock to my body, and the strength seemed to return to my body at once, Turned around and ran towards the window at the back of the house, jumped out of the window, ran wildly in a panic, suddenly there was a "surprise" behind me, I suddenly seemed to be evacuated from the body, paralyzed and fell to the ground, I wanted to turn back, but found that except for the eyeballs, the whole body could not even move, I wanted to struggle, but the body did not react, at this moment I except for the thinking and eyes, the whole body seemed to no longer belong to me.

I lay motionless on the ground, and as the footsteps came from far and near, a pair of big feet in leather shoes appeared in front of me, which must have been the man in the cloak who was chasing me just now, and he kicked me in the face with his toes, and when I didn't react, the owner of the big feet bent down and dragged me up one foot, and slowly walked towards the fire. At this time, I was only left with fear, and as the cloaked man dragged me, my fear intensified bit by bit, and suddenly it was dark, and I was scared .............. faint.

Chapter 3: Meet Again

A thunderclap woke me up, I opened my eyes and looked around, only to find that I was hanging from a tree with a crooked neck, a tall and thin figure standing next to the fire in the distance, not far in front of him fell three charred corpses, the figure slowly turned around, slowly walked towards me, I trembled, teeth gurgling, the figure came closer, it turned out to be him - a middle-aged uncle, at this time he was looking at me with a playful face, I don't know whether to be afraid or to be happy, weird environment, weird people, I want to speak but can't say a word.

The middle-aged uncle suddenly turned around, stretched out a hand as if he had grabbed something out of thin air, only to hear him scold: "Evil obstacles, I don't know whether I am dead or alive." Then I saw a burst of fire coming out of his palm, and then it was as if the thing he was holding in his hand was on fire, and a human-like beast silhouette was formed in the firelight, and it disappeared in a blink of an eye, as if it was burned by the fire in his palm in an instant. And his figure was illuminated by the firelight, and at that moment it seemed to be a god descending from heaven, which seemed so glorious and majestic, that people couldn't help but have an urge to worship in their hearts!

He ignored me and walked straight to the crooked neck tree behind me, and I couldn't help but wonder what he was doing, and before I could turn my head, he fell to the ground with a thud. "Damn, don't say a word when you untie the rope," I rubbed my aching buttocks and shouted, "Huh, I can talk" The middle-aged uncle's voice came from behind me, and I realized that I had now regained control of my body. Although I was weak, I struggled to get up, looked at him and asked in a trembling voice, "Who are you, what is the situation?" "Don't ask what you shouldn't." He replied, "Go down the mountain beam, go to the left at the third fork and go down the mountain, don't talk nonsense after you go down." Ignoring me, I turned and walked towards the fire. At this time, I didn't care who he was, I turned my head and ran along the mountain beam, I didn't run far and turned back, ran to the house and picked up the backpack and ran, just ran out of the distance, I heard him shout "Wait", I instinctively stopped, turned my head to look at him, and felt a little apprehensive. I saw him walk up to me, and the original cool expression on his face disappeared, replaced by a smirk: "What, can you lend me twenty yuan, I haven't found a job recently, and I don't have the money to go back." "After listening to his words, I almost didn't fall again, is this still the majestic, god-like master just now?" If not, forget it" He saw that I didn't speak for a long time, and immediately became a cool look again. "If there is no cash, can I transfer it to WeChat?" "Yes, yes" he took out his mobile phone from his pocket in a panic---- a domestic copycat machine that broke a corner, and didn't see what brand it was, he fiddled for a long time and didn't call up a collection code, I directly took his mobile phone and took the opportunity to add a friend - Silent - very strange name, and then transferred 500 yuan to him, he was stunned after receiving the money: "Borrow so much, when can I pay you back?" "Don't worry, when will you have it," I said, "It's okay if you don't pay it back, I don't know how to thank you for saving me." "Okay then, I'll pay you back as soon as I get a job." It's getting late, it's almost dawn, so let's go back quickly. ”

Back at the rental house, I washed up and then lay on the bed, feeling like a dream and a fantasy all the time, if it weren't for the pain of the abrasions that pulled me back to reality, I would have thought it was just a dream. The cloaked man, the woman in black, the middle-aged uncle, who are they, could it be that they are really those legendary characters, I shook my head, I want to put aside these unrealistic ideas, after all, I have received more than 20 years of materialist education, and I always feel that everything I experienced last night is fake, could it be that he is making a movie, and the uncle is a protagonist? It's even more impossible, although I panicked at the time, I didn't find anyone else, I really couldn't suppress my curiosity, so I took out my mobile phone and sent a smile to "Mo Ming", I slot, his grandmother is a claw, that bastard actually deleted me!!!!!

Two days later, it was the 15th of July, my father called me early in the morning and asked me to accompany him to the grave of my grandparents, I simply packed up and went to the station to buy a ticket home, and after several rounds, I returned to my hometown, a small mountain village far from the hustle and bustle of the city. After I got home, I chatted with my parents for a while, and went back to the house to sleep after dinner, and I dreamed at night that I returned to the unknown village, at this time the village was rejuvenated, no longer dilapidated, people came and went, I was a blind wanderer, those people didn't seem to see, none of them looked at me, I walked casually, walked to the crooked neck tree without opinion, and began to circle around the tree, I wanted to stop, but I couldn't stop, the speed of the circle became faster and faster, and the scene in front of me slowly became a phantom, I was getting more and more scared, and the faster I was afraid, I finally couldn't help but scream "ah", and sat up from the bed suddenly, soaked with cold sweat all over my body. At this time, his father's voice came from outside the house: "Qiu'er, what's wrong?" I wiped my sweat with the sheet and said, "What's the matter, I didn't hold my phone steady and fell to the ground." Father didn't care, just said simply: "Don't play, you have to get up early tomorrow." ”

I lay on the bed, lit a cigarette, and my mind was full of that dream, thinking about the crooked-necked tree, and I always felt empty in my heart, as if something was missing. But I don't know what's missing, looking at the green smoke drifting from cigarette butts, I don't know why I think of that middle-aged uncle - where is he now, has he found a job, what kind of person is he?

Chapter 4: The Lost Path

Today's mid-year festival, early in the morning with my father to the ancestral tomb with the sacrifice to walk, the ancestral tomb in the back mountain woods, to the Mu family ancestral tomb need to pass through a mass grave, father said: "In the past, this was a depression, I heard that there was a treasure here in ancient times, so I recruited a group of people to excavate, and finally I don't know what was dug up, anyway, the people did not come back, said that those people were buried directly in the depression, after the devil left, the people came here to dig up, Looking for relatives on the spot graves, there are no family members, the villagers also help to bury them, at first there will be people to worship, and then slowly this place is gradually abandoned. I asked, "This is not far from the ancestral grave of our old Mu family, why didn't the little devil dig up our ancestral grave at that time?" My father thought for a while and said, "Maybe it's the blessing of our ancestors, but our Mu family is not a famous family, and there is a mountain beam separated from here, so it hasn't been ruined by the little devil." ”

Walk through the mass grave, cross the mountain beam, and go to the three poles on the sun, before coming to the ancestral tomb of the Mu family, my father came to the grandfather and grandmother to divide the money, burn incense, and babble about something, I think it is nothing more than the blessing of the ancestors and the like, my father kowtowed, and called me to kowtow, and then put the sacrifices and ingots we brought in front of the grave one by one. After making it, my father drew a circle around the ingots with a wooden stick, but he did not connect it in the direction of the tomb, but left an opening in the direction of the tomb. My father told me to light the ingots, and then throw the offerings—small steamed buns, fruits, roast chicken—into the fire one by one, and wait until the ingots were finished. My father and I kowtowed a few more times to my grandparents' graves. Then he came to the grave of his grandfather and grandmother to burn incense and kowtow, and then took out the remaining ingots and burned them all at once, and his father said: "Grandpa and grandma, the ancestors of the Mu family, all come to receive silver during the festival, and bless the old Mu family and the whole family to be safe and sound!" When those ingots were burned, my father patted me and said, "Kowtow a few times to the ancestors of the Mu family, bless you with a successful career, and bring a daughter-in-law back as soon as possible." I kowtowed a few times and followed my father back.

When I came to the mass grave, my father asked me to rest for a while, took out a handful of grass incense by myself, lit it and bowed to the ground casually, I looked at my father's pious appearance, and suddenly felt a little like laughing in my heart, and felt that my father was purely wasteful by doing this. Don't say I don't believe in these gods and ghosts, even if there are really these lonely ghosts, they won't bless us. I lit a cigarette, and suddenly remembered what had happened that night, the cloaked man, the woman in black tied to a telephone pole, and the mysterious middle-aged man, Silence. At that moment, I couldn't help but ask myself in my heart, "Is it possible that there are really ghosts and gods in this world?" ”

In the evening, I went to the village to find a little play, and before leaving, my father said, "Today's mid-year festival, don't go out." I replied, "I'll leave tomorrow, I haven't seen them for a long time, and I don't know when I'll be back." The father was silent for a moment and said, "Okay, come back before ten o'clock." I said yes and ran away.

With a few small to the village of the small restaurant, a few young people let the boss make a few dishes, then began to drink, young people drink how to take care of the time, a drink to more than eleven o'clock, if not the boss repeatedly urged us a few estimates will not go, a few people drank a lot, a few people are young and vigorous age, feel not happy a few people together and run to the back mountain, a few of us shouted against the mountain wind, said bold words, slowly the strength of the wine came up, a few people do not know when to come to the mass grave, I don't know who shouted: "Who dares to sleep one night tonight, tomorrow I have a treat." "I" I didn't wait for others to speak, so I raised my hands high and shouted, and a few young people heard that I recommended myself, so they coaxed together. At this time, I didn't know where the evil spirit came from, so I borrowed wine to spread the wind: "Not only will I sleep here for one night, but I will sleep on the grave." After saying that, he ran high and puffed up the grave without a tombstone and asked them, "What is this, big enough and spacious enough!" A few of them laughed: "Okay, that's it." "Then you don't hurry up, don't delay Lao Tzu to sleep." Several people burst into laughter: "Fierce, really fierce, it's still Brother Qiu's cow." After shouting, a few of them dispersed.

I sat on the grave and looked at a few of their distant figures and giggled, at this time I was under the influence of alcohol, the whole person was confused, I don't know how long it took, I staggered up and wanted to pee, an unstable fell down, and when I got up, the scene in front of me was completely different, I woke up with a spirit, a high mountain in front of me looked gloomy and dim, from time to time a few flashes of lightning on the top of the mountain, in front of the mountain lay a city, an S-shaped river across the city, A towering wooden bridge over the river stood on it, and strangely enough, it was only half of it. I was confused at this time, where is this, I have never seen this place in my memory, and the tall wooden bridge has never been seen before, even if I have never heard of it。。。。。。!