Pirates: Be the Master from the East China Sea

"You two, stop changing the subject."

The woman couldn't help but pat the table lightly: "You just said that you created a novel protagonist named Luo Qi. What happened next? You didn't want to tell us that the Luo Qi you created came to the real world, right?"

"The truth is scarier than that."

The middle-aged man sighed deeply and said, "Do you know what Halloween is?"

"of course I know!"

After finally catching up with something he really knew, the man next to the woman quickly interjected: "Halloween is a traditional festival in the West. To celebrate the coming of Halloween, children will dress up as various cute ghosts and go from house to house. People knock on the door and ask for candy, otherwise they will be trick-or-treating. At the same time, it is said that on this night, various ghosts and ghosts will dress up as children and mingle with the crowd to celebrate the coming of Halloween. In order to make the ghosts and ghosts more harmonious, humans dress up in various costumes. Plant ghosts.”

"There's nothing wrong with what you said."

The middle-aged man nodded and added: "Halloween is actually a festival that praises autumn, just like May Day is a festival that praises spring. The priests of ancient Gaul, Britain and Ireland - the Druids had a saying praising autumn. The grand festival lasts for a whole day from midnight on October 10 to November 31 the next day. They believe that on that night, their great god of death, Saman, summoned all the ghosts of those who died that year, and these evil spirits Ghosts must be punished by being reborn as animals. Of course, just the thought of such a gathering of ghosts was enough to frighten the simple-minded ignorant people at that time. So they lit bonfires in the sky and closely monitored these evil spirits. There were ghosts everywhere on Halloween. This is how stories of witches and ghosts began. It is still believed to be true in some isolated areas of Europe."

“Halloween was originally a holiday celebrating autumn?”

"Yes."

The middle-aged man nodded and said: "Halloween activities used to be very simple, and most of them were held in churches. But throughout Europe, people regard Halloween as a good opportunity to have fun, tell ghost stories and scare each other. .So people no longer used this festival to praise autumn, but turned it into a festival for gods, witches and ghosts. This situation is actually very normal, just like the Chinese Valentine's Day was originally a festival for begging for clever things, but after being passed down, it became a festival for gods, witches and ghosts. It slowly became like Valentine’s Day.”

"Of course, these have nothing to do with the topic we are going to talk about next."

The middle-aged man paused for a moment, then continued: "So let me talk about more in-depth things. First of all, the origin of Halloween costumes."

"What's the point?"

“There’s a lot to read in this!”

The middle-aged man raised his index finger and said solemnly: "Halloween costumes originated from pranks, and Halloween costumes are all different, not just monotonous big ghosts and little ghosts. To make the simplest ghost costume, just use a piece of ghost costume." Put a white sheet on your head and cut two holes for eyes; if you want to play a magician, put on black clothes and black pants, then put on a black top hat, and hide a stuffed bunny between the top hat and the top of your head as a spare; Children put on white clothes and pants and tie a flashlight on their backs to become little angels; some parents also dress their children into their favorite cartoon characters.”

"It sounds quite interesting."

The woman touched her chin: "I would rather experience the Halloween content when I have the opportunity."

"Next, let me talk about the origin of the jack-o'-lantern."

The middle-aged man swallowed his saliva and continued: "The jack-o-lantern originated from ancient Ireland. Legend has it that a man named Jack was a drunkard and loved to play pranks. On Halloween, he set a trap to trap the devil in a tree. He didn't allow the devil to come down until the devil promised to never let him live in hell. After Jack died, he couldn't go to heaven because he didn't believe in God, and the devil didn't let him go to hell. In order to help Jack find a way back to earth, the devil Jack gave him a piece of burning coal, which he placed in a lantern he carved from a large carrot to help him find his way back to Ireland, but he never found it, so he wandered the world forever with the lantern. .”

"Should that be called a carrot lantern?"

The woman said with some confusion: "What does this have to do with the jack-o'-lantern?"

"The carrot lantern is the predecessor of the pumpkin lantern."

The middle-aged man took the trouble to explain: "In ancient Irish legends, this small candle is placed in a hollowed-out radish. Of course it is called a radish lamp, but the ancient radish lamp has evolved to this day. Lanterns made of pumpkins. It is said that not long after the Irish arrived in the United States, they discovered that pumpkins were superior to radishes in terms of origin and carving, so pumpkins became the favorite of Halloween."

"I see."

The woman nodded thoughtfully: "So Halloween has become the same ghost festival as our Ghost Festival?"

"Yes."

The middle-aged man sighed with some regret: "The traditional Chinese Ghost Festival in July is similar to the Western Halloween. During the Ghost Festival, even many gangsters taboo many things, just to avoid encountering bad luck. It can be seen that even among the people Everyone in the faith knows that it is best to stay away from elves and ghosts, but the West has packaged it into the third largest holiday after Christmas and Thanksgiving. At this time of year, it confuses the world under the cover of night, and with the death The beat of the dance worships fear and death."

"This is really touching."

The man next to the woman couldn't help but interjected: "But you have been talking for a long time, but you haven't touched on the key points? I just checked on my mobile phone, and what you said is all the stuff that has become popular on the Internet. This is also Is it worth bringing it up in front of us and talking about it?"

"Yeah, I almost ignored it."

The woman couldn't help but frowned: "Whether everything you just said is bad or not, in the final analysis, it doesn't seem to have any direct relationship with that Roach, right? You just said that the Roach you created is out of control, and It’s scarier than coming to the real world, what’s going on?”

"I'm warning you one last time."

The man knocked on the table with an unkind expression: "I advise you to speak clearly as soon as possible, otherwise I can't guarantee that I will always have the patience to continue listening to your boring nonsense, and then you will lose the last chance to talk."

"Then let me put it simply. What I just said, do you really think I said it myself?"

"What exactly do you mean?"

"Let me go one step further, do you really think that everything you just said was said by yourself?" The middle-aged man sighed dejectedly, looking at the old ceiling above his head aimlessly: "I It doesn’t matter, let me tell you the truth, the world we live in is not a real world at all, and our conversations have long been engraved within the cause and effect line of time."

"Because we are all..."

"Living in a novel."