Realistic Longevity

I am born, I exist, and I die.These are the three stages of the life path.

Cheng Chuhua is currently walking on the second stage, and after 3000 years of walking, he still hasn't touched the edge of the final stage.

"Mr. Cheng, this is the tenth time you have come to do psychological counseling. During this process, has your condition improved?"

In the second private psychological clinic in Jianghai City, a psychiatrist in a white dress flipped through the past records and said to the man in front of him.

Compared with the previous nine times, this time the doctor's dress is more plain and gentle, with flaxen curly hair hanging on the beige chiffon dress, faintly covering the nameplate engraved with the words "Concubine Yunxue", clean and clear makeup It weakened the glamorous and oppressive feeling of her profound facial features, making people naturally relax their guard.

Cheng Chuhua leaned slightly on the back of the sofa, with a polite smile on his lips: "Of course, Dr. Yun is the best psychologist in Jianghai City. How could the psychological counseling you did personally not be effective?"

Concubine Yun Xue closed the notebook and crossed her legs, which was also a natural and relaxing movement: "From the results of these ten psychological counseling sessions, it can be seen that Mr. Cheng's anxiety has indeed improved, but I haven't found any cause for anxiety. source, and Mr. Cheng doesn’t seem to intend to erase this source, does he?”

"The source of anxiety?" Cheng Chuhua blinked. He has moderate myopia, and even if he looks at others seriously, his eyes will look distracted, so he needs to add some small movements to show that he is not distracted. "Doctor Yun, you are a psychiatrist, you should know Some illnesses, especially mental ones, cannot be cured, and it would be great if they can be improved. What’s more, even if I tell the source of my anxiety, Dr. Yun won’t believe it.”

Concubine Yun Xue smiled slightly: "Mr. Cheng, why don't you tell me? Believe it or not, I have my own judgment. Whether it can be cured or not is up to me to decide."

"This is the sixth time I've heard similar words, and Dr. Yun is my sixth psychiatrist." Cheng Chuhua smiled, with a bit of anticipation in his helplessness.

"Then Mr. Cheng, would you mind answering it again?" Concubine Yun Xue asked without changing her expression.

"I don't mind." Cheng Chuhua tapped his fingers on the armrest of the sofa, Concubine Yun Xue cast a glance, "Doctor Yun...does he believe in eternal life?"

Concubine Yunxue remained calm: "It depends on what kind of immortality it is. If it is immortality in novels and TV dramas, I don't believe it. If it is remembered forever, such as the 'immortality' of celebrities in the past dynasties, I don't believe it either. Whether from the perspective of an individual or a group, immortality is a false proposition, the universe will collapse and perish, so what is immortality in the world?"

Yep, the conversation was blocked.

Cheng Chuhua pressed his eyebrows: "Then we have nothing to talk about."

Concubine Yun Xue was not angry either, she picked up the coffee and took a sip before putting it down: "Anyway, it is a good thing that Mr. Cheng's anxiety symptoms improve. I hope to see you next time, and you can be honest with me."

"Thank you, Dr. Yun." Cheng Chuhua smiled politely, shook hands with her and left the reception room.

Walking out of the psychological clinic, it is raining outside.

Fortunately, Cheng Chuhua checked the weather forecast before going out, so he was well prepared, took out the folding umbrella from his bag, opened it, and Shi Shi ran into the rain.

It was summer, his least favorite season, and the season with the most rain.

Jianghai City is surrounded by rivers and seas. During the rainy season, the sky pours water like a hole, making people shout why the Nuwa Empress has not come to mend the sky.

And the most frustrating thing is that due to the influence of monsoons and ocean currents, the rainy season in Jianghai City is from May to July every year, which perfectly avoids the military training time of junior high school students and college students, making this the only group that can be happy with rainy days very happy not happy.Not only was he unhappy, but he also wanted to ask the rain god to cast a spell.

Cheng Chuhua also doesn't like rain, mainly because he doesn't like cloudy days.This gloomy day often reminds him of some gloomy years in the past, and many memories that he eagerly wants to forget will always be awakened on rainy days. Occasionally, in the sound of the rain, he will dream about the past, Those almost nightmarish dreams were so real that his heart palpitated, and every time he woke up, he would suffer from insomnia.

It is not good to have too much life experience. Even if you only remember a small part of the memories accumulated in 3000 years, it is an unbearable weight.

As a long-lived person, Cheng Chuhua is too aware of how lethal memories are.

Even after he knew that he was a long-lived person, he reduced his interactions with others to avoid excessive emotional entanglements and causing great pressure on himself, but he still created too many pasts that he could not let go of.

Not only that, but he also developed certain psychological problems due to living alone for a long time. In the past, he had no conditions and could only fight on his own. It was not until he entered the modern society that he was able to go to the hospital for psychological counseling every other quarter to control this increasingly serious psychological problem. question.

In the final analysis, regardless of longevity physique, Cheng Chuhua is just an ordinary person without any special ability or experience.His existence is like a bug left over from the creation of the world. Although it is unreasonable, it is unremarkable, and it will not cause any harm if left alone. Even if it exists, it is aimed at himself, so it is naturally ignored by the programmers.

He also thought about committing suicide, but unfortunately he never succeeded, and was always rescued by inexplicable passers-by with inexplicable methods.

After trying several times to no avail, he had no choice but to give up, and instead looked forward to meeting people with special abilities, such as supernatural powers and spells, and asking them to help end this long and meaningless life.It's a pity that he has waited for more than 1000 years, but he still hasn't waited for such a person.

Cheng Chuhua could only continue to live.

After crossing the crossroads, the rain stopped, Cheng Chuhua looked up at the sky, there were a few gleams of light in the heavy clouds, but there was still no sign of clearing up, and there was a tendency for the next game to happen soon.

He didn't put away his umbrella either, and walked a little further, and went into the canteen on the corner to buy a bottle of water.

"Boss, how's business going?" Cheng Chuhua scanned the QR code to pay with his mobile phone, and chatted with the boss casually while loading the page.

The owner of the canteen is a young man with a black tattoo of a beast of unknown origin on his left arm. He looks fierce and unorthodox, but he smiles very kindly, which is incompatible with the aura that comes with the tattoo.

"Hey, don't mention it." The little boss waved his hand vigorously with a cigarette in his mouth, "Aren't there two big supermarkets newly opened near here? There was a special price on the day the supermarket opened, and everyone went shopping there. If I don’t come back again, my business will plummet, anyway, it’s not comparable to before.”

There is a TV in the canteen, and an exclusive interview with the person in charge of the product R&D department of Jiangjiu Group is playing on the screen.

"...Jiangjiu Group's chain supermarkets have covered all prefecture-level cities, and the next plan is..."

"The times are advancing, and the business of Jiangjiu Group is also expanding, which is also a good thing for our common people." Cheng Chuhua entered the amount and paid with his face.

"That's what I said, but of course I feel uncomfortable when I was robbed of my business." The little boss blew out a smoke ring, "Isn't that big company in Jiangjiu... a big company engaged in the Internet? Mobile payment is made by them , and smart things...smart electrical appliances and smart products are also theirs. You said they don’t make these high-end gadgets well, and they came to join in the fun with us small businessmen.”

Cheng Chuhua laughed and said, "Without Jiang Jiu, there would be other companies. Jiang Jiu is a state-owned enterprise anyway, and we don't lose money if they make money."

The little boss smiled: "Okay, I'll close the shop tomorrow and apply for a job as a cashier in a supermarket, so I can be regarded as a person who eats from the country."

"Ha, that's true."

Cheng Chuhua chatted with him again, and walked out of the canteen with water.

At this time, it began to rain again outside, light rain, hazy, like a thin layer of mist.

Cheng Chuhua walked into the rain with an umbrella, and walked slowly towards the community at the end of the street.The rain washed the wooden sign on the iron gate outside the community, revealing two mottled characters—sea of ​​clouds.

Early the next morning, Cheng Chuhua, who was still asleep, was awakened by a knock on the door.He sat up and brushed his hair, looked at his phone, it was just after nine o'clock.

Who will come to him at this time?

Cheng Chuhua, a widow with no friends, no relatives, and no partner, stepped on his slippers to open the door with a dazed expression. As soon as the door opened, he saw two people in plain casual clothes with the words "Labor and capital are not ordinary" all over their bodies. "People" youth, a man and a woman, should be handsome and beautiful.

The handsome one has light red hair, handsome eyebrows, and a cool demeanor. He wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses with a string of gold wires on his nose. Behind the lenses, he looks at Cheng Chuhua with calm and sharp eyes, as if he can see everything he thinks at a glance.There are wireless headphones in his ears, also gold, which match his glasses.

The beautiful one is full of legs from the neck down. It is a few centimeters taller than the last one. It has a deep outline and beautiful facial features. It has a chic and domineering posture with one hand against the wall. It looks like the domineering female president in the film and television video that Cheng Chuhua watched last night. character of.

The two stood side by side, Qiqi showed him their IDs, and explained their purpose straight to the point through the anti-theft door.

"Hello, we are members of the Unusual Events Processing Department. My name is Tang Ran, and she is my partner, Concubine Yun Xue." The handsome guy briefly introduced himself, raised his hand and tapped on the anti-theft door, "We have something to think about. Asking you, is it convenient for us to come in and sit down?"

After listening to his introduction, Cheng Chuhua looked at the beautiful one immediately: "Your name is Concubine Yun Xue?"

"Yes." As if knowing what he was thinking, Concubine Yun Xue smiled slightly, "What we are going to ask you today includes another person with the same name and surname as me."

Cheng Chuhua pondered for a moment, opened the anti-theft door and invited them into the living room: "Please come in, let me wash up first."

"Please." Concubine Yun Xue nodded with a smile.

"5 minutes." Tang Ran added, "The matter is urgent and troublesome."

"Okay." Cheng Chuhua's heart trembled, he didn't dare to delay, he hurriedly washed his face and brushed his teeth and came out of the bathroom.

Sitting across from the two of them, Cheng Chuhua glanced left and right, and took the lead to ask, "Excuse me... what is the Department of Unusual Events?"

Tang Ran looked down at the document, and Concubine Yun Xue was in charge of explaining: "The Department of Unusual Events Handling is referred to as the Special Department. It belongs to the State Administration of Unusual Events. It is an unknown official organization that is responsible for handling various special events."

Cheng Chuhua's left thumb subconsciously pressed the ring on the index finger: "For example?"

"For example, supernatural events, unconventional disaster outbreaks, etc. The detailed examples are what we want to ask you today, and it is related to your psychiatrist—Concubine Yun Xue." Stretching out his hand, Tang Ran promptly pulled out a document and handed it to her, "Your psychiatrist died in the psychiatric clinic last night. According to the investigation, there is a special aura left at the scene, which does not belong to human beings."

Cheng Chuhua hadn't had time to be surprised that the person with special abilities he had been looking for suddenly appeared, and his eyes widened in astonishment because of another thing in her words: "What? You said that Dr. Yun is dead?"

"Yes." Concubine Yun Xue nodded, "After her death, we found that everyone related to her had a deviation in her memory, and her name in other people's minds was no longer Concubine Yun Xue, It's Shen Dai, and her appearance is not the same as before, but this."

As she spoke, she handed the document to Cheng Chuhua, which contained the information of Concubine Yun Xue, or Shen Dai. The woman in the photo was indeed different from Cheng Chuhua's impression.

"It's impossible." Cheng Chuhua blurted out, "I've done psychological counseling with Dr. Yun ten times, and I won't remember her name and appearance wrongly. This person is not her!"

"You are right. In fact, the memory about her has been completely distorted. We also used some methods to go back to the past to find out her image before the distortion. We speculate that this distortion is related to the special atmosphere remaining at the scene. Concubine Yun Xue stared into Cheng Chuhua's eyes, her tone was serious, "The memories of people related to Concubine Yun Xue, including her colleagues, assistants and other patients, have been distorted. Only your memory is the same as our investigation results. Now, Here comes the first question, why isn't your memory distorted?"

Cheng Chuhua's heart skipped a beat.

"I found out about your conversation with Dr. Yun yesterday morning." Tang Ran, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "You mentioned longevity to her, didn't you?"

Cheng Chuhua stared at him for a long time before slowly nodding: "Yes."

"Why?" Tang Ran looked back at him, the coldness in his eyes became sharper.

"I have severe anxiety symptoms, and I have to do psychological counseling every quarter to control the situation." Cheng Chuhua did not hide it. He felt that the goal he had been pursuing for a long time was about to be achieved. "Yesterday morning, Dr. Yun finished the treatment for me. After counseling, she asked me what the source of my anxiety was, so I mentioned Changsheng to her. Unfortunately, she doesn’t believe in Changsheng, so I couldn’t tell her the source of my anxiety.”

Cheng Chuhua paused: "Actually, I am an immortal."

Tang Ran and Concubine Yun Xue raised their eyebrows at the same time. Although they were surprised, they were not particularly surprised.

This shows that they have been in contact with, or at least know the concept of the immortal.

Cheng Chuhua became even more excited. Once excited, he couldn't help but grabbed the hand of Tang Ran who was sitting directly opposite him, and said sincerely: "Comrade, to tell you the truth, I have something to ask."

Tang Ran pulled his hand violently, and said one word concisely: "Say."

Cheng Chuhua earnestly said: "I want to end my life."

Tang Ran: "..."

Concubine Yun Xue: "..."

One minute later, Tang Ran took out a golden rope and tied it around Cheng Chuhua's wrist: "Obstruction of official duties, you have been arrested."

"……what???"