Ruyizhai

The video recorder made a slight noise. Some of the people sitting around were eating, some were whispering, some were embroidering, and some were knitting sweaters. Teng Rong looked at everyone with a smile on his face, and occasionally clicked a button. Nodding, this daily assembly called "The Listening Session" seems to be just a fun party.However, the lively and happy atmosphere dissipated instantly after Teng Rong stood up, and the rest of the people who were sitting stood up quickly. The person who was chatting with a smile closed his mouth tightly. The person who was still smiling at first immediately froze on his face. The embroiderer and knitter dropped the things in their hands and laughed silently.Everyone started applauding almost at the same time, even the boy Wu Xingchen was holding started to applaud, the room became lively again, and everyone's smiles were tense.

Just when Wu Xingchen was amazed at the tacit understanding of the crowd, Teng Rong made a gesture, and the applause stopped abruptly. Its disappearance was as abrupt and neat as its appearance.Everyone was quiet again.

At this time, Teng Rong held up the hands of the church members standing on his left and right sides, and everyone followed suit, and soon everyone held up their hands.Another circle, very big.

"Put me down," said the boy.

Wu Xingchen put him down, the boy patted his clothes, and took Wu Xingchen's hand.The two of them formed a small circle.The boy closed his eyes, and Wu Xingchen glanced at the big circle, the components of the big circle—everyone had their eyes closed and their heads bowed, including Teng Rong.It was Teng Rong who spoke, and he said, "Lonely souls, come back, come back here, come back to a place of peace."

After finishing these words, Teng Rong fell silent. The room was unusually quiet, so quiet that Wu Xingchen could clearly hear his own breathing. With the sound of breathing, he held his breath in embarrassment, afraid that his breathing would disturb something or break something.

The video recorder hummed continuously.

After a while, Teng Rong let go of the other members' hands and opened his eyes. Everyone followed suit. Teng Rong sat down, and everyone sat back.Only then did Wu Xingchen change his breath, the boy who was pulling him also opened his eyes, and asked Wu Xingchen to hug him again so that he could touch the camera and put his eyes in front of the viewfinder.

People picked up what they were busy with before. People who ate put the things they spit on the plate into their mouths and continued to chew, the voices were very soft. People who embroidered picked up the embroidered cloth on the ground and continued to thread needles. People who chatted But they stopped chatting, they just sat quietly with calm faces just like those people who had nothing to do before.No one spoke.Wu Xingchen asked the boy in a low voice: "Are people not allowed to speak at the listening meeting?"

The boy covered Wu Xingchen's mouth and gave him a reproachful look.At this moment, a woman sighed, and Wu Xingchen looked over. This woman had red hair, was wearing a white linen skirt, and a twisted braid hung down her chest. He hiccupped, stroked his stomach, and muttered something with his mouth crooked, but Wu Xingchen couldn't hear him.Suddenly, a man sitting opposite the woman stood up, tall and thin, with big hands, he kept touching his high nose bridge, and walked around the periphery of the big circle, he walked to Wu Xingchen, Wu Xingchen He heard the man babbling, but he still couldn't hear it clearly. It was a bit like a common language, but there were some new tones. Wu Xingchen could only judge from his tone that the man was complaining about something.Someone yelled.It was an elderly man with a white beard. He jumped to the center of the big circle, landed on all fours, beat his chest and stamped his feet, and jumped around.

The boy said to Wu Xingchen when this person made a lot of noise: "They are talking to the souls of the previous life, trying to call them back."

Wu Xingchen thought about it, and said, "Does that mean they don't have souls in their bodies now?"

The boy said: "No, they have souls, but their souls are incomplete. Only when they have the souls of the previous life, and all the memories of the previous life have returned, the human soul is complete. People will die with such a complete soul and become The next incomplete soul's 'past life soul', people's memory will call again, be remembered, no one will be forgotten."

"Can the soul of the previous life be the integration of many previous lives?"

"Dating back to the beginning of life."

Wu Xingchen looked at the man in the center of the big circle who was on all fours, opened his mouth and started licking the floor, barking, and said, "No wonder he looks like an animal, like a dog..."

The boy said, "Listen to the wind."

The wind passed through the hole in the wall, and it did roughly sound like human whispers.

"Can you hear it?" the boy asked Wu Xingchen, "You have to calm down and listen, you will hear it, listen to what your previous life said, listen to what he told you, he will tell you his some things."

Wu Xingchen listened attentively.

Hu, Xi Xi, Suo, Suo Suo.

The boy looked at him sincerely, waiting expectantly for an answer from him.

Hu, Xi Xi, Suo, Suo Suo.

Wu Xingchen only heard the wind.He smiled and said to the boy: "My previous life should be wind."

The boy clapped his hands and asked enthusiastically, "What kind of memories does Feng have?"

Wu Xingchen couldn't make it up for a while, and when he was tongue-tied, something hit his leg. When he saw it, a straw sandal fell beside him.He looked for it, and in the center of the big circle, a slender man who was twirling on tiptoe was missing a shoe, but he didn't care, and was still dancing with a stiff posture.A man's past life soul may store the memory of a ballerina.

Wu Xingchen picked up the shoe and asked the boy, "Can I talk to him at this time?"

The boy shook his head: "Souls that have not yet returned to their bodies are very timid, and they are easily scared away."

The dancing man fluttered his wings like a bird, and there was no more dancing steps under his feet, just hopping around on one foot indiscriminately.

The boy changed the tape, and Wu Xingchen asked, "How long does the listening session usually last?"

"Until the last man is satisfied."

When Wu Xingchen saw Teng Rong, more and more people left their seats, more and more people made loud roaring sounds, and some even hit their heads against the wall, took off their clothes and writhed on the ground, but Teng Rong But just sitting there, I don't know when there was a book in my hand.

Wu Xingchen asked the boy: "Has your president found his soul from his previous life? Is he complete?"

The boy said: "Everyone says that the president is a brand-new soul, which is a rare thing."

Wu Xingchen said: "So, he is different?"

"What did you say?" the boy asked.

He didn't understand the meaning of "different", Wu Xingchen wanted to explain, the boy started to change the video tape again, when he started recording again, two men wrestled together in the big circle, one was the white cheeked dog Man Hu, and the other is a strong man with five big and three rough, and a loud voice.The white-whiskered man was no match for the strong man in terms of body shape, but he bit and scratched, and instead pressed the strong man to the ground, making his face and hands covered in blood, and he had the upper hand.The strong man was already lying on the ground panting, but the white beard didn't intend to let him go, he opened his mouth, and threw himself on his neck again.

There were people dancing around them, people laughing lowly, and people kneeling on the ground and kowtowing non-stop. Teng Rong glanced at them, turned a page of the book, and his eyes fell on the book.

The boy said briskly: "This man should be a dog hunter! Haha!"

The boy added: "The battle of the soul is common! The enemy of the soul is always present!"

Wu Xingchen said: "He bled a lot, he will die..."

His voice was drowned in the clueless strange language and whirling wind. He wanted to stretch his white beard, but he took a few steps forward, and before he reached the big circle, he felt dizzy and lost his balance , fell to the ground.The people were still talking, and their tones were getting more and more awkward. What lost language did they speak?Did their previous lives teach them?Men are still fighting, biting each other, beating each other, how far back have they been fighting?When was the first person to spot the first dog?Or when the first dog met the first human?Humans are instinctively afraid, and dogs are overwhelmed by the instinct to protect themselves...but why be afraid?Why do we always feel frightened when faced with the unknown?I always worry that the unknown will kill you. How strange, why does the unknown covet your life?It's ridiculous...Wu Xingchen laughed, and one word after another was rampaging in his head, all like words that Ruyi Zhai would say... If Ruyi Zhai was here, he would definitely show "contempt" and "attack" What people here have is only an "irredeemable" sense of superiority.

A black dog stood in front of Wu Wu Xingchen.

He wanted to go with it, to the cave, he wasn't afraid.He wondered what was in the depths of that cave.

The black dog turned around.

Wu Xingchen got up to chase him, but bumped into him firmly. He covered his forehead and saw that he had bumped into Teng Rong.Teng Rong held Wu Xingchen's arm with one hand, and looked at him worriedly: "Mr. Wu, are you alright?"

Wu Xingchen shook his head, Teng Rong helped him to a chair and sat down, the hysterical people who were still in the big circle before packed up the tables and chairs, and the boy who took the video was gone.The listening session is over.

Wu Xingchen tried to press his temple with his hand, but something blocked his temple. He looked at his right hand and smiled helplessly. He was still holding the straw sandal he had picked up earlier.Wu Xingchen looked around and said, "This shoe..." He found the man dancing the ballet. He was still in the office, busy clearing the dishes on a long table.Wu Xingchen took the shoes to him.The man said, "Thank you, but these are someone else's shoes."

The man points to his feet, he has shoes on both feet.Wu Xingchen compared them, and found that the straw sandals he picked up were exactly the same style as the shoes on the man's feet, but the size was slightly different.

Wu Xingchen said: "I'm sorry, because I saw that you didn't have a shoe on your foot just now, and then you just happened to feel hit by something. When you saw that there was an extra shoe beside you, it looked the same as yours... I took it for granted. thought it was yours."

Teng Rong came over and said, "Then put it in the lost and found."

Wu Xingchen nodded and gave him the shoes.Teng Rong said again: "It's getting late, Mr. Wu, why don't you just rest here tonight?"

Wu Xingchen said, "That's really disturbing."

His dizziness got better, and he followed Teng Rong out of the president's office.The two walked for a while in the quiet corridor, Teng Rong stopped in front of a room with a bouquet of dried roses hanging on the door, and said: "There is a straw water jug ​​hanging on the door of the bathroom, you can use it tonight." Rest here."

He pushed open the door, and there were no locks on the front or back of the doors here.There are three single beds in the room, sleeping five people, two on the bed and three on the floor between the beds.There are also six lockers in the room.

Wu Xingchen stood outside the door and asked Teng Rong in a low voice: "I wonder if the member who received Ruyizhai ten years ago is still at the headquarters?"

Teng Rong pointed to a long-haired woman on a bed and said, "That's her, maybe you can chat tomorrow."

Wu Xingchen nodded, thanked Teng Rong, and the two separated.After entering the room and closing the door, Wu Xingchen groped to the empty bed by the light coming in from the holes in the wall. The woman Teng Rong pointed to was sleeping in the next bed to him. Seeing the woman's appearance clearly, he was the woman in the white gauze skirt who had chatted with him a lot at the bottom during the day.The woman fell asleep peacefully.Everyone in the room, men and women, were fast asleep.Next to each bed were two cups, some half full and some empty.Wu Xingchen picked up a full cup and smelled it first, but there was no smell. He took a sip, and the cup was filled with water.He drank half a glass of water and sat on the bed.

There was complete silence in the hallway.The roommates were still sound asleep.Wu Xingchen carefully took off his shoes, messed up the bed, and tiptoed out of the room.He groped into the room where the videotapes were kept.He turned on the flashlight function of the terminal, and rummaged through the two large cabinets for the videotape of the listening session ten years ago.The videotapes were arranged in chronological order, which helped Wu Xingchen a lot, but there were too many videotapes. The videotapes in the first half of 3050 were placed high in the cabinet, and he had to climb on the table to reach them.

3050年6月，3050年5月……3050年2月……3050年2月1日……2月11日！

found it!

Wu Xingchen took out the video tape, flipped it off the table, stuffed the tape into the video recorder, found the power switch, put on the earphones on the table, and turned on the TV. The TV screen flickered, and 677 appeared on the screen!

Wu Xingchen patted the video recorder, and the video tape was spat out, but 677 was still on the TV, and he even started talking.

"No one is going to watch these tapes, but if someone turns on this VCR."

Wu Xingchen pressed pause a few times, and 677 was still talking: "Hey, my friend, it's not that the video recorder is broken, it's a built-in video, it will be automatically destroyed after watching it, don't ask how it is done, you can listen to it I don’t understand, anyway…”

In the video, 677 took a deep breath. In the low-resolution picture, his image was shaking slightly from side to side, and his vision was therefore very unstable.

"If anyone sees this video, please leave here." 677 said with firm eyes.

"It's a hoax." His tone was strong.

"You are tired of boring work and monotonous life. You think this will bring you the freedom that your ancestors had. Freedom to choose laziness, freedom to choose to do nothing, freedom to choose meaninglessness, this is your freedom, You can do whatever you want, but what you need to know is that the spirit master is a new human being.

"The spirit master of the psychic church who claims to be the continuation of the old human blood is actually a product of a laboratory...Think about it, how could a real natural person be like this..." 677 wiped his face, "So perfect? ​​They use drugs to create hallucinations , they will kill..."

There was a series of hurried and heavy footsteps in the corridor.Wu Xingchen quickly turned off the machine, pulled off the earphones, and hid under the table.

Someone came in, panting, judging from the thickness of the legs and the size of the feet, it should be a woman.The woman bent down and met Wu Xingchen face to face. The door was kicked open and the woman was dragged out.The door closed again.Wu Xingchen went out to take a look, and saw a group of people holding torches and wearing white cloaks walking into the president's office.

Wu Xingchen wanted to chase after him, but when he stepped forward, he suddenly fell into an abyss!He only felt that he was falling in the darkness. He wanted to call for help, but no sound could come out. All he could see was the posture of the woman bending down just now. A baby with a large red birthmark.