Dream Guide

The starlight shines through the glass and onto the back of Life Flower, who is bending over to adjust the telescope.

It has been almost a year since I bought this telescope. Except for a few children who came over to have a little fun during the Lantern Festival, I have been standing alone on the roof of the building, looking up at the stars in a stubborn and unchanging posture, no matter what the weather.

The children did not come back. They usually go to school, and during the holidays they hide at home and play games. For children who live in a city where there is always smog, the charm of games is far greater than the dim starry sky above their heads.

She spent tens of thousands to buy something, but it has since become dusty. Sheng Shenghua feels it is a pity. After every routine cleaning of Aoki's studio and room, she went to the glass shed on the roof to clean the dust on the telescope.

Sometimes she would look at the sky, the moon, and unfamiliar stars on nice days, until one time she accidentally saw a gleaming cloud through the eyepiece. She had never seen such a shocking scene, nor such a beautiful light.

She didn't know what it was at the time, but when she went back and looked it up online, she realized that what she was seeing was the Great Nebula in the constellation Orion.

From then on, Bi Shenghua fell in love with astronomy and the stars hidden in the deep universe. She wanted to see their true appearance.

Winter is the best season to observe the Orion Nebula. The weather is good today, there are no clouds or haze in the sky. She looked through the finderscope for the three stars in Orion's belt. Those three stars were very bright and neatly arranged. They were very conspicuous in the winter night sky. She found them quickly.

After adjusting the angle and focus, she saw the bright nebula through the eyepiece.

That is the M42 Nebula in the Orion constellation, like a big bird with colorful streams of light spreading its wings and flying. Seeing it, Lifespan Hua thought of the coal boss, that crow that was extremely greedy and wordy.

Next to the big bird, there is a dense and dark dust cloud. Behind the cloud is the red light emitted by the hydrogen gas ionized by the nearby star. At the top of the cloud is a dark cloud with a rotating bulge, because it looks like a horse's head. , astronomers call it the Horsehead Nebula.

But in the eyes of Bi Shenghua, how does it look like a horse head? It is somewhat similar to that chicken coop head. Right next to it is the M42 Nebula that looks like a big bird, just like a crow croaking and flying towards Aoki's head.

Together with some other nebulae and bright stars, they are surrounded by a bubble-like arc-shaped red emission nebula, which is Barnard's Loop in Orion. It is said that Barnard's Loop spans 300 light-years.

Lifespan has a special liking for Orion, and she can be fascinated by it for a long time just by looking at it. To this end, she also studied astronomical data about Orion, and learned that the big bird-shaped M42 nebula is 1,350 light-years away from the earth, and the chicken coop-shaped Horsehead Nebula is even further away, 1,500 light-years away. .

When she thought that even if the bird could fly at the speed of light, it would take hundreds of years to land on the green wood, Life Flower couldn't help but laugh.

In a few hundred years, the crows would have starved to death!

But sometimes, she would feel a little sad for no reason. That piece of wood and that greedy crow have been gone for almost a year, without any news at all, as if they have disappeared from the world.

Bi Shenghua straightened up, looked away from the eyepiece, and looked up at the distant starry sky. The nebula cannot be seen with the naked eye. Only the three stars on Orion's belt hang iconically in the sky, as if declaring some kind of meaning of life.

She recalled some rumors about Orion, saying that human beings were born from the nebula 1,500 light-years away and later migrated to the solar system. That was the first solar calendar recorded in the Mayan civilization and was called the Gendaya civilization. At that time, people had third eyes, which emitted blue light like the star Rigel and could communicate with the gods living in the center of the galaxy.

It is said that many important pyramids in Egypt and the Maya are laid out according to the positions of the three stars in Orion's belt, and the vents of the largest Pyramid of Khufu seem to point to those stars. Some scholars say that it was not a vent at all, because the tombs did not require vents, and other pyramids did not have vents, so these passages pointed to the Pharaoh's "return" path. Their souls will return to the Great Nebula in Orion through the pyramids, while their bodies will become mummies and be dried on the earth.

Bishenghua doesn’t know if these claims are based on any basis, maybe they are all just nonsense. She also doesn’t know why humans lost their third eye, or how the Gendaya civilization disappeared. Anyway, these are just legends.

But when she was searching for information on the Internet, she saw that a late German scholar named Jaeger once claimed that the Gendaya civilization was on the bottom of the South Pacific.

She remembered Aoki and Coal Boss and went there.

It's been almost a year and they haven't come back. She asked many people and even called the police about it, but to no avail. Not only her, but also many people who care about Aoki are doing their best to find Aoki's whereabouts.

Hu Xing and Shi Dazhuang used police resources, Yao Jingjing and Hou Biao also mobilized the entire security company personnel, and the Xia family assisted. All the money that should be spent was spent, and all the connections that should be used were used. However, Still found nothing.

The last news about Aoki was the message brought back by Xia Xiaoxiao and the information provided by Mei Yiqiu through the United Nations Space Management Committee and the South Pacific research vessel rescue team. Aoki and Su Huilan arrived at the camp on Lapa Island at the end of last year and drove them After the boat he rented went to sea, there was no news again.

Will they really follow the three-eyed Gendayans to the distant constellation Orion? Even at the speed of light, it will take more than a thousand years to fly back? She thought as she looked in the direction of Orion.

Ever since she fell in love with astronomy, Bi Shenghua always had some strange ideas in her mind. She felt that she was a little abnormal. Not only did she become sentimental, but she also began to doubt the meaning of life.

Her behavior made both Xiao Qi and Mo Yu a little worried. Xiao Qi said that she was lovesick, but Mo Yu thought that she lacked faith and should use faith to expel those strange thoughts in her mind.

Bishenghua felt that Mo Yu was right, so she followed Aunt Zhang to the church. But she really couldn't stand the local priest's tone when he read the Bible and the gospel with a Wuzhong accent, and people sang hymns with a local flavor over and over again. After listening to half of it, she ran away.

Later, she went to Lengchan Temple outside the city. She felt that the Bodhisattva was more approachable than Jesus. But when she arrived at the temple, she saw that it was crowded with tourists. The smoke from the incense made people cry, and the hall was noisy. There is nothing solemn or sacred about it.

She also went to Taixuan Temple, but there were more people in Taixuan Temple than in Lengchan Temple. The street in front of the temple was so crowded that she couldn't even squeeze through. She gave up before entering the gate of Taixuan Temple.

Finally, Lifespan came to a small temple in the outer suburbs. In fact, she didn't know if this was a temple, but the locals called it that. The gods worshiped in the temple are a bit confusing. There are Bodhisattvas, spiritual officials, and the Jade Emperor. Confucius is also worshiped in a small side hall next to it.

Life Flower came here to find faith, but she couldn't place her "faith" in these clay puppets. She just felt that this small temple was quiet and had an indescribable sense of comfort and security.

She bowed casually, and when she walked into the Lingguan Hall, a Taoist priest greeted her: "Girl, draw a lot, it's very effective!"

On the table in front of the Taoist priest, there is a sign saying ten yuan for drawing lots, and there is a payment QR code next to it. Sheshenghua scanned the QR code with her mobile phone and paid ten yuan.

The bamboo sticks clattered in the tube, and then one fell out with a clatter. The life-long flower picked it up and looked at it. There were two signatures written on it:

What's the point of not seeing each other the next year? We go to business among the misty trees and dusk clouds.

She stared blankly at the words on the sign, carefully studying its meaning, but she didn't even hear the Taoist priest's words: draw lots for ten yuan, and interpret the lot for thirty yuan. Girl, scan the code again, and I will interpret the lot for you.