The author's diary of ghost stories

you?

Yu Liang frowned and quickly turned to look behind him, but there was no one behind him, and he didn't feel the feeling of cool air surrounding him, so he looked up at the camera with some confusion.

What you guys?

Did something follow?

But aren't there so many evil-proof props at your door?

For nothing?

"You look very strange. Don't you know that there is someone else in your body?" A voice came from the speaker on the door again. This time, there was some doubt in the voice. It could be heard that he was not there. I don't understand Yu Liang's behavior of looking back just now.

"My body..." Yu Liang realized what the voice was saying, but he did not show that he had guessed it. He just continued to ask calmly, "Why is there someone else in my body? You What are you talking about?"

This is the first time, the first time someone has pointed out the existence of another "person" in his writer's universe when they first met.

The last person to clearly realize this was "Zhi".

It's a source of weird stories.

So now this guy who discovered this fact easily...

It's certainly not simple.

"Well, it seems that the inspiration of you people is really low. It's normal that you can't see other consciousnesses." The voice sighed.

"Knowing God?" Yu Liang didn't understand. He didn't even know what the words were. "What is that?"

"Knowing God is knowing God, how can there be anything else?" There was a kind of annoyance in the voice, as if he was lamenting Yu Liang's shallow knowledge, but he did not explain to Yu Liang, but urged, "Quick, quick Come in, there are a lot of ghosts in this building, my knowledge can only be shared with humans, if I tell the ghosts... then it will be over."

He muttered, "Those guys are much smarter than you."

Hearing this, Yu Liang stepped forward and tried to pull the door handle, but the electric current from the door handle made him tremble and his hand immediately retracted.

"Ah, I'm not sure you're not a ghost yet." The voice continued, and then said to Yu Liang, "Let's take a ghost test. The ghost can't tell what looks like a human and what doesn't. .”

Then a page that was somewhat familiar to him appeared on the display screen in front of Yu Liang.

Ghost test questions.

The last time he saw it was a hand-drawn text version, but this time it was a complete monitor version.

In addition to the same five large characters "Ghost Man Test Questions", Yu Liang also saw some smaller characters to explain the origin of this set of questions.

"Substitutes, substitutes, are also called 'ghost people'. They have a similar appearance to humans, but they often have distinguishing features that are obvious but cannot be accurately stated."

"They look like humans but are not humans. There is an obvious contradiction on their faces."

"They cannot accurately recognize the appearance of 'human beings' because they have no experience of 'human beings'."

"When they appear in your life, they tend to invade your life slowly and gradually until they become more and more human-like, until they can completely take over your life."

"And that's their instinct."

"The following are some ghost test questions, which can well distinguish the characteristics of humans and ghosts. Please make your judgment on this."

"when--"

After the crisp ringtone, Yu Liang saw two blurry photos, both of which were portraits.

The person on the left has a large area of ​​burns on his face. He has initially recovered and is generally considered normal except for the dark brown scars.

The person on the right looks normal at first glance, but the nose is extremely inconsistent with the overall facial features. The bridge of the nose is extremely thin and the nostrils are huge. It looks like some special exaggerated painting style, so Yu Liang thinks that the right side is closer to Ghost man.

The display screen flashes and the content of the test questions switches to the next page.

The person on the left probably has an enlarged thyroid gland and an extra lump of flesh on his neck, while the person on the right has ears that grow upside down, upside down, and something is obviously wrong.

The next ten questions in a row were like this, and Yu Liang could basically quickly judge who was the ghost.

As mentioned in the preface of the test question, as a human being, Yu Liang can often detect something wrong easily without any problems.

So in just two minutes, he completed the entire ghost test, and the iron door slowly opened in front of him.

The interior of this room was dark, with a strong smell of formalin.

Yu Liang couldn't see clearly the structure inside the room, but he walked straight into the room without much hesitation.

The owner here is the kind of person who has a lot of stories to tell. You should be able to get a lot of needed information from this guy.

It seemed that Yu Liang's steps touched a switch somewhere. The lights in the room slowly turned on, releasing a cold white light, illuminating everything in front of Yu Liang's eyes.

This is probably a small laboratory, with various instruments crudely connected through crude lines. In addition, there are some organs soaked in light blue liquid, large and small, and some of them may be human. , but more organs are different in size from human organs.

In addition, the most obvious feature here is that it is full of Taoist charm.

There are utensils with Taoist characteristics everywhere, such as the small incense burner with colorful cloud patterns that I saw downstairs, as well as some magic ropes similar to luminous steel ropes, mechanical jade ruyi, and flashing tokens made of light-transmitting materials. , and a screen hanging on the wall.

On the screen was a flowing Taoist Scripture. Every word on the Taoist Scripture shone with various lights, making it look radiant.

In addition, Yu Liang also noticed some strange things, such as a speaker made in the shape of a small bell, which An Buchen called the "Sanqing Bell"; a black brick covered with dazzling patterns, which An Buchen called It's an altar wood; it's a cube screen with six sides that look like a wooden fish. There's an electronic pen with a small hammer on the side. It's probably an electronic wooden fish or something.

An Buchen also explained that Taoist priests also use wooden fish, which is not exclusive to monks and nuns.

The overall atmosphere is very technological, closely connecting Taoist priests and cyberpunk.

It seems that the owner here should be similar to a Taoist priest, so An Buchen should be able to have a lot in common with him.

About a minute later, a woman in an electric wheelchair came out of the back room. She looked at Yu Liang from head to toe, nodded and said, "He looks like a decent person."

Yu Liang didn't care about her wording. After all, such wording sounded like a good citizen now, and the other party was willing to believe that he was a human being.

And he also observed the woman's face carefully. The woman's appearance could not be said to be beautiful, but it was not ugly either. At least her facial features were regular and she did not have any ghostly features.

"Of course I'm not a ghost. I'm... Ren'an, an adventurer." Yu Liang introduced, and then continued to ask: "I want to know what you mean by knowing the gods just now?"

"Ren'an... Okay, you can call me whatever you want." The woman said casually, "Taoist priest, Taoist nun, monk, programmer, woman, whatever. It's much more convenient to call individuals by attributes."

"Okay, monk." Yu Liang chose a title he thought was appropriate. And call each other this way.

"Knowing God... is knowing God." The woman's eyes moved. She drove the wheelchair to the clothes rack and took off a black Taoist robe from it. The Bagua patterns and the sun, moon and stars on the Taoist robe were all fluorescent. He also wears some special accessories. "When you are preaching, receiving karma, and solving doubts, it is better to wear a Taoist robe. Since you are so special, I don't mind teaching you some things that you can't learn in books."

She looked at Yu Liang and narrowed her eyes slightly, as if she could see his soul and the diverse souls through Yu Liang's body.

The woman continued: "Do you know the soul in a person? This is a compulsory course for primary school Taoists."

soul?

Elementary school Taoism?

Required courses?

Yu Liang was a little surprised. Is the Taoist status in this copy so high?

"Well, I know you people won't listen, just like those boring ideological and political courses." She curled her lips, and her eyes fell on the flowing Taoist scriptures on the screen, seeming to be thinking about where to start. Where can I explain to Yu Liang?

But An Buchen thought of something and recited the Taoist Sutra to Yu Liang first: "Heaven and earth regard people as mayflies, and the great road regards earth and sky as nothing. But the true nature of the Yuan Shen transcends the Hui Yuan and rises above it."

She explained: "The soul, the human soul, the human subconscious, and the foundation of personality are the only things in the human body that can last forever."

The woman retracted her gaze from the Taoist scriptures: "The soul is a system in the human body, a computer system that has been updated and iterated for thousands of years but can ensure that its essence does not change."

Yu Liang: "???"

He tapped An Buchen's character card with some confusion.

In this regard, An Buchen only had two words and a brief comment:

"heresy."

Yu Liang: "..."

"The soul is the part of your body that is born capable of thinking. It can make judgments without accumulating any knowledge. It is like your intuition, but it is not just intuition, but the source of intuition." Of course the woman listened. Not seeing An Buchen's comments, she almost said to herself, "So as a computer system, if you want to improve its performance, what do you need to do?"

Yu Liang said nothing. Not only did he not understand Taoism, he also did not understand computers.

"Cache." The woman shrugged, seeming helpless at Yu Liang's ignorance. "What is cache? It is the storage of existing calculation results, and this is what Taoists call consciousness."

An Buchen was thoughtful and did not refute Yu Liang's universe. He just added an original sentence from the Taoist Scriptures: "When a mortal is reincarnated, the Yuan Shen lives in the square inch, while the Conscious God lives in the lower heart."

The woman continued to explain to Yu Liang the theory of computer systems:

"The experience of human calculations is stored in the consciousness. When a person encounters a similar situation, the brain will automatically skip the soul and use the experience in the consciousness to handle matters."

"Secondly, there is a second-level cache in the computer, which is an extension of caching similar scenes, similar to drawing inferences from one example. The human brain is more sophisticated and has implemented countless levels of cache."

“The human brain will organize and summarize the stored cache instruction sets, and explore and extend each other, using permutations and combinations to produce ‘creations’.”

"However, this is just what you think is creation. In fact, you are just using existing experience to try new problems, and using the extension of consciousness to solve problems, rather than using the soul."

"As a person grows up, more and more instructions are stored in the cache, gradually becoming an instruction set, and the macroscopic feeling this instruction set brings to the surroundings is personality."

"The consciousness gradually becomes thicker, and the Yuan Shen is fixed in it. However, the communication between adults often does not use the Yuan Shen, but is the communication of the consciousness."

"So now I... am the consciousness?" Yu Liang was a little curious.

"No, you are a combination of Yuan Shen and Consciousness God, but in my opinion, you are Consciousness God." The woman continued. She seemed to realize that there would be ambiguity in such a statement, so she analyzed it in more popular terms, "Outsiders' understanding of you is based on the communication between consciousness and spirit. For example, what they think of your character, personality, way of doing things, etc. are all manifestations of consciousness. But as far as you are concerned, the profound consciousness of spirit Under the cocoon, there will still be souls jumping out."

After saying this, Yu Liang became more enlightened. It was probably similar to psychology, and the relationship between the two was like the subconscious mind and the conscious mind.

"Together with its light and its dust, it is called 'Xuantong'. Xuantong is the manifestation of the Yuan Shen naturally transcending the Consciousness God." The woman further analyzed, "The cocoon woven by the Consciousness God protects the Yuan Shen, but At the same time, it also blocks the soul. Inspiration and intuition will be abandoned by the brain and turned to experience."

At the same time, An Buchen also found the original text of the Taoist Scriptures to support this point: "The subconscious mind is like a strong vassal and a strong general, who deceives the weak and weak Heavenly Lord, and then adheres to the rules and regulations. Over time, Tai'a has been turned upside down."

Then she explained it again in her own words: "As people grow older, the cache of consciousness becomes thicker and thicker, and the soul becomes weaker and weaker. Over time, Tai'a becomes inverted (meaning that if you hand over power to others, you will suffer the consequences). And this is why as people grow older, they lose their spirituality as the primate of all things.”

Yu Liang noticed that An Buchen had inadvertently used the term "cache set" mentioned by the female monk, which meant that she subconsciously agreed with the other party.

The female monk stretched her body and summed up simply: "In the beginning, the Yuan Shen dealt with problems and handed similar problems to the Consciousness God. The Consciousness God thought it was right and solved all the problems independently. This is the essence of the biological computer system of human beings. .”

She leisurely recited some words from Taoist scriptures:

"If the soul is there, it means there is absolutely nothing. This is how life, heaven and earth all come together."

"A scholar who can protect the soul is beyond the realm of yin and yang and is not in the three realms."

"This can only be seen by nature, the so-called true face."

She let out a long sigh: "This is what the experiments on these ghosts are like. After leaving only the soul, they can escape from the three realms and transcend the five elements. They can see more things that humans can't see and truly get that A legacy that has evolved over thousands of years, it belongs to humankind’s computer—Daozu.”

"The true face..." Yu Liang lowered his eyes. He instinctively felt something was wrong in the female monk's words. His eyes were always on the female monk's face in the wheelchair. He suddenly felt that the female monk's face was somewhat familiar. .

nose.

ear.

mouth.

skin.

Wait, is that a ghost test question?

Every part of the female monk's facial features is very similar to the photo in the test question. As long as a little bit of "normal" is taken from each picture, it will eventually converge into a face.

Is this how this normal human face came about?

The questions are asked by ghosts. After getting the correct answer, you can become normal in the eyes of normal people. But if you don't get the correct answer...

He became the kind of macrocephalic or thin person in the corridor on the third floor.