Moe Academy: Resurrection Battle

"Everything moves by itself when you observe it quietly." The ancients had such a feeling long ago, and I deeply understand it. Sometimes when I pick up a small stone, I feel that I have mastered the whole world. Each stone has its own unique texture and its own history of tens of millions of years. Each shell has once been home to a small life, which so skillfully built its own home, then abandoned it, died, slept on the seabed for thousands of years, and was accidentally washed up on the beach. Every bird appears early, but disappears at night. They all have their own home and their own love. Every insect is the same, some hide under the leaves, some hide in the flowers, some burrow into the fruit, and some hide in the soil. They each occupy their own territory, as if they had already tacitly shared the world. In the process of observing them, I not only get the benefits of relaxing and cultivating my character, but also have a better understanding of nature. I feel that every creature is so wise, and I respect them more and feel that I am insignificant. In the late summer of 1995, I caught a praying mantis and recorded its "life and daily life" as usual. The praying mantis is one of the few insects that can be kept as a "pet". I found food for it, treated its illness, and even found a mate for it. I developed a deep relationship with it and learned many things from it that I had never thought of before. In North America, most praying mantises will freeze to death in early November. My praying mantis was pampered indoors, so of course it lived longer. With the careful care of my whole family, it not only survived the New Year and lived until 1996, but also did not die until early February. I held a small funeral for it and called the Guinness World Records Museum to ask if they could include this long-lived praying mantis in the record. Although they later told me that it was not possible, it inspired me to have another idea - to write a book for the praying mantis based on my daily diary. The writing started in August. It can also be said that I started writing half a year after it died. During this period, I hesitated for a long time, fearing that I was not capable of writing such a book. I also hesitated whether to use this book to present my spiritual world to readers. Although it is a record of the life of a praying mantis, this book is really my "random thoughts". It can also be said that it is a variety of associations generated by observing mantises. Because it is "random thoughts", there is almost no limit to the chatter. I once wondered whether readers would be impatient with this kind of subject matter and whether they would scold me for talking nonsense in the middle of the creation. But then I comforted myself: "No matter what, I dare to write a book for a mantis, and this "test" can be considered a success." In my past 25 years of writing career, I would publish a tentative "game work" every once in a while. From the early "Firefly Window Essays" and "True Tranquility" to the recent "Dream of Flying", they are all "private books" that record my soul. The starting point is "only to entertain myself, not to entertain others". It is also with this idea of ​​"only to entertain myself" that I completed these 180,000 words in three consecutive months. And because the theme revolves around a mantis devouring its own kind, it is named "The True Story of the Killer". In terms of writing skills, I adopted the method of irony, that is, positive words are said in an opposite way. I know that most readers can see it at a glance. The reason why I bring it up here is that I am afraid that some younger friends may not notice it and mistake my "negative words" for "positive views" and distort my meaning. In addition, in order to help readers grasp the main points, I have added some "marginal notes" as a kind of "introduction". Friends with advanced knowledge, please just treat it as "it does not exist". "The True Story of the Killer" can be called my "different color book". There are many bloody scenes in it, but behind those scenes, I hope to present the real world. Since this world is so dangerous and treacherous, and full of dangers, why can't I tell the truth in it? Right! What I really talk about in this book is a "reason", the natural law of mutual generation and mutual restraint, the rule of survival of the fittest, and the "helplessness of life". I think only when a person sees through these rules and helplessness can he be calm and optimistic. On the contrary, not facing and accepting it will only cause inner anxiety. For this reason, I put this book in my "dealing with the world series". Many political and human themes that are not easy to discuss in "Looking at Life with a Cold Eye" or "I'm Not Teaching You to Cheat" are expressed through the mantis killer. Here, I must emphasize that the irony in the book is the entire history and human nature, and there is no allusion to modern people. Please readers do not drill into a horn. What is the difference between the life of a mantis and the life of a person? There is birth and death, injury and killing, love and hate. Originally, we should have "joy and sorrow" and "no joy and sorrow" for all kinds of things in this world. The former can be said to be "life is square", that is, "life" has to face many angular dilemmas; the latter can be said to be "life is round", in the end, if we cannot see all separations and pessimism as a "circle" or a "law of life" that repeats itself, it will be too painful. "Heaven creates all things, heaven kills all things; all things create all things, and all things kill all things." This is the "circle" I express in the whole book. In order to draw this circle, I will donate 500,000 yuan of royalties to charity before the book is published. I hope that The Killer will bring you not "killing" but "life". This book is my latest attempt. It may be a little profound and difficult, but I sincerely ask you to be patient, read it slowly, chew it slowly, savor it slowly, and sympathize with it slowly...