Xiu Erdai's daily essays

08048-will be harmonious

I reflected: why do I not feel that this is something that needs to be bothered?Regarding the difficult problem that Zhuran described, my first reaction was to publicly inform the whole city of the situation, and to say that I did not plan to "exorcise ghosts", and then let those who are afraid of ghosts move away for a year or two, and those who are not afraid of ghosts stay. Foreigners who want to bump into ghosts move in and temporarily operate Wenran City as a ghost town, so they shouldn't lose money.After this incident is over, the life of the local people can quickly resume.

After all, the whole city is going to encounter ghosts together, and there are experts to help analyze the origin of the ghosts and how far the scariest scene can go. After a little more time, we may be able to conclude which coordinates are more likely to encounter ghosts, and where ghosts are more gentle. , Where do the ghosts I encounter seem like friendly living people.

It's just a holographic scene that covers the entire city, which is acceptable to ordinary people.Among the mortals who are alive now, either they have been exposed to holographic games since childhood, or they are familiar with holographic technology from immature to mature. To the extent that monks can accept illusions, mortals can accept holographic scenes to what extent.What's the trouble?

Pei Jianzhuo: "Maybe the first step is to inform the whole city—in fact, it is equivalent to announcing the whole world—so that Zhuran can't move forward? Officials in the mortal world have never welcomed monks to make spiritual events too public."

……Have it?

Xiao Sui: "Master has privileges."

Pei Jianzhuo: "The Shazhuan is too vigorous, and the mortal world officials can't suppress it, so they simply use this as a test field to test the relationship between the mortal world and the cultivation world in the new era, and to explore whether technology and cultivation have already been found. The road to interoperability can be further opened.”

The conclusion is found.Holographic games and illusions, air conditioning and spiritual cooling and heating, airplanes and swords, exploring alien planets and relying on spiritual protection to walk in the universe... Although the technologies used are different, they have achieved very similar results.Different routes lead to the same goal, focusing on one body.

In ancient times, because there were no or very few people without spiritual power, there was no division between the world of cultivation and the world of mortals; but in the future, when all things can be solved by either spiritual power solutions or technological solutions, and the two When there is no distinction between superior and inferior schemes, the boundary between the world of comprehension and the world of mortals may become blurred again.

The world will eventually be harmonious and there will not be too many divisions.

08049 - Primitive Occupation

I asked Zhuran: "What does the mortal person in charge here say?" The person in charge led us to Zhuran, answered the phone and left, leaving room for the monks to communicate internally.

Takeran: "He said he was asking for instructions. He can be responsible for the research work, but things that have too much social impact are beyond his scope of authority."

Me: "Fellow Daoist Bamboo, have you asked your mission office?"

Zhuran: "There is no need to ask, this matter is not decided by me or the gate of death, but by the entrusting party, which is to see the needs of mortals. If mortals want Wenran City to return to normal as soon as possible, I will eliminate the remaining power here; If they can't bear to let go, I will use the name of Shengmen disciples to assure the residents of this city that those ghosts will not actually hurt them."

Shi Ciran: "Since the heroes lived peacefully in their later years, why do they still have so many horrible memories? Haven't those war memories been forgotten by them?"

Zhuran: "It is impossible to forget. Anyone who has participated in the war, no matter how many years, no matter how peaceful their life is, they will never forget the cruelty on the battlefield. Especially the battlefield with cold weapons, blood, severed limbs , howling, rot... too close. They don't want to scare the younger generation, but it is impossible to completely erase the bloody smell on their bodies. It is deeply imprinted on their hands and hearts."

Shi Ciran: "Cold weapons... Is it easy for sword repairers to be contaminated with that kind of bloody cruelty?"

Zhuran: "Yes, sword repair is a profession that faces the cruelty of life and death without isolation, and physical training is also. It is primitive enough and close enough to nature. So, Daoist Pei must think it is incredible that the things here have not come up with a solution for so long, right?"

Me: "The matter itself may not be difficult, but because it involves many people and a long history, there may be more trade-offs, so it will be complicated. In addition, in fact, all current cultivation professions can be called Go to the primitive. Physical training is to fight directly with the body, sword training is to hold a sharp weapon, tool training is similar to primitive people chiseling stones to make tools, and Dan training can be compared to kneading balls with various herbs to cure diseases..."

Me: "As for the professions that can be called modern, they haven't developed for a long time in the mortal world, and they can't accumulate enough to become a profession in the cultivation world. To form a profession in the cultivation world, at least two conditions must be met First, after the Nascent Soul Stage, one can develop self-developed exercises; second, one has established a sect, that is, a relatively large number of people are gathered to study and test the feasibility of this profession and related exercises.”

Me: "The combination of the two conditions means that the new profession has the possibility of development and continuation only when a second-rate sect with most of its disciples is the profession."

Me: "There are only so many second-rate sects in total, and the last time there was a new addition to the list of second-rate sects—not to mention the reduction—how many years ago?"

08050-decision

Pei Kong: "It's a crooked building. Zhuran just wanted to bring the topic to you, so he politely praised Jianxiu. He didn't really want to talk to you about the ancient and modern professions. Academically speaking, the array cultivated by Zhuran The profession of cultivation is older than the profession of sword cultivation you cultivate. The source profession of array cultivation and sword cultivation is law cultivation, which appeared at the same time. Compared with them, sword cultivation is a generation later. .People have already praised sword cultivation against history, why don't you show your humility and excuse, and still climb along the pole?"

He didn't boast, did he?What he actually wanted to say was "barbaric" sword repair, but he changed it to "primitive" to be euphemistic. .

Look, it's really troublesome not to speak directly, and it's not even sure whether to praise or scold.

Zhuran: "So Fellow Daoist Pei really has a solution?"

But it’s not good to be too direct. Too clear a question will make it inconvenient to gag and bypass the topic even if you don’t want to answer it.

Me: "Nothing new, just tell the public the truth and let them make their own choices."

Wang Beidian, the person in charge of mortals, walked back at this time and said: "Given too broad options, those who make the choice will often be at a loss, unable to make a choice, and will eventually blame us for being irresponsible and blame us. What's more, if it is just Inform the facts, that is, they didn’t even provide options, but only gave a short-answer question.”

Wang Beidian: “When designing social questionnaires, we are very cautious about whether to include short-answer questions, what kind of short-answer questions to include, and whether to set short-answer questions as mandatory, because as long as this part is a little troublesome, few people will If you are willing to fill out the form, there will still be many intentionally or unintentionally wrong answers among those who fill in the form, which means that the survey effect will be very poor.”

Me: "But the story was spread too widely in the early stage, and it must be impossible to hide it. Now many boring people have made up plots that are much more horrifying than the actual one. If you tell them the truth, then they will know about Wenran City Even if the intertwined aura of ancient and modern is completely ignored, it will only last for a few years at most; and if you don't say anything, they will think that Wenran City has become a territory for ghosts, and there is no place for living people to stay."

Wang Beidian: "Of course, it is impossible to keep the things that have disrupted the life of the whole city from being hidden from everyone for a long time. The higher-ups have already notified them and decided to make them public. When the technical problems are made public, the experts from the Gate of Rebirth will explain the technical problems, and the host of the lively program will The role of a human...is Young Master Pei willing to take on it?"

I:"……"

Wang Beidian: "Mr. Pei's participation can turn what seemed scary into a playful atmosphere."

Me: "If the host's job is just to let me talk casually, I can do it, but if I have a script, then forget it. This is not a horror, at most some of the pictures are not good-looking, but certainly not Residents here cause physical damage. Except for heart disease and other unbearable scares, other people can watch this as a small horror show, which is less exciting than watching a well-acted horror blockbuster.”

08051-Truth may not necessarily be accepted

Takeran: "Stimulation is not necessarily the case. Although real scenes do not have sound effects, front-end atmosphere, etc., but...many real war scenes cannot pass the review in movies. Including many so-called real war scenes. A lot of things have been deleted from the documentary. The release of all those things is not to restore the historical truth to the public, but to make people afraid to explore the truth. They will occupy the attention of the viewers and prevent them from thinking rationally. This period of history only leaves primitive cruelty in people's minds, and it cannot bring any useful inspiration."

Zhuran: "There are some things that people must have a tolerance above a certain value to touch, that is, only professionals can read all of them, and ordinary people can only touch the 'truth' that has been deleted to what level. .The latter is unquestionably also true, not comprehensive, but not intentionally distorted."

Wang Beidian: "Mr. Zhu is right. Mr. Zhu showed us the most horrific scene. It can be said that except for professions such as military and police, other people, including us who study archaeology, find it difficult to accept. This is not courageous. It's not a big problem, but those pictures touch the bottom line of human nature too much."

Zhuran: "There are many people who can't even watch the whole process of killing pigs, let alone killing people like killing pigs? There are thousands of people buried in this cemetery. Maybe they form a group of heroes as a whole, but when it comes to a specific Individually, each has more or less less heroic aspects. Ancient soldiers and modern soldiers are not the same concept. There is too much difference in discipline. Even in many historical periods, soldiers and bandits are not quite the same. It can be separated. Besides, in war, a hero to some people may actually be an evil butcher to another part. The same behavior, different positions, and different definitions.”

Me: "Are the residents of Wenran City the descendants of the people these heroes protect, or the relatives and friends of the people they killed? Will the residual blessing power here identify friend and foe?"

Zhuran: "I'm not sure, so I said, this is a very complicated situation. Once the breath in this ancient cemetery is completely released, I'm not sure whether the blessing can continue to be a blessing. If you want to be safe, it should be completely cleared That's fine, but those who want to see heroes treated with kindness may not be willing to accept such rough treatment."

Myriad Lizard: "But isn't the blessing spell power supposed to be unconscious? It has become a blessing to this land and the people who live on it, and they will not pursue blood relationship or hate?"

Zhuran: "In theory, this is the case, but the formation and continuation of mantras have very complicated mechanisms, and often need to try their luck. What fits the theory and past cases may not necessarily fit the current reality."