Chapter 925 Another Kind of Spiritual People
Lu Yao got off the shuttle bus.
Opposite the car door is a clean and wide lake. The willow trees and grass by the lake have been carefully maintained, and some stone benches shaped like folded coins are scattered around the lake.
It was the first time that Lu Yao encountered a shuttle bus exclusively for the community. He could just show the owner's dynamic QR code and scan it to get on it.
This is the Lu Island in the ecological lake in the south of the city. To get outside, you have to cross two long bridges. If you don’t drive, you really need such a means of transportation.
There are a few houses and a golf course on the island, which is backed by the Ecological Lake Park and is also commonly known as the city's wealthy area.
Song Shiyi lives in one of the large flats with lake views.
Lu Yao and Isabel took the elevator to their destination and saw that the door was open.
"Welcome, welcome."
Song Shiyi wore a loose green printed short-sleeved shirt and black shorts, her hair was draped over her shoulders, and a band-aid was stuck across her nose. She was different from her usual exquisitely detailed outfit and became a more approachable girl next door.
Because she didn't put on any powder, her dark circles were more prominent, and her skin looked more delicate and natural.
She said: "The Executive Bureau has called for support and needs the power of Lian Zhen Xingjun. Wei Yingxue will be here later."
Lu Yao nodded and looked around the room.
Song Shiyi's house has two floors and covers an area of over 200 square meters.
The room is very spacious, with gray wooden floors and creamy white walls as the main colors, and not a lot of furniture. The living room near the French window has three rows of leather sofas in a circle, and the three rows of sofas are red, yellow and green, which are the only bright colors in the room.
This reminded Lu Yao of when he was a child, he also liked to surround himself with books or pillows.
Between the sofas is a large white coffee table that can accommodate one person lying down.
There is a 100-inch TV on the wall, but it has no electricity.
Next to the TV is a surprisingly large double-door refrigerator.
There were no decorations around, no carpets, no picture frames, no potted plants, no storage boxes, only a clothes hanger, on which Mingzai the bird was squatting and dozing off.
Apart from the living room, the other areas were completely abandoned, like some kind of under-budget exterior set. The kitchen didn't even have a stove or any cooking utensils, and the open doors on both sides of the corridor were also blank.
The breath of life is limited to the living room area.
Song Shiyi lives in such a place.
Lu Yao asked: "You just moved in not long ago?"
"No, I lived here before I joined the committee. I've lived here for five or six years."
Song Shiyi opened the refrigerator, took out a bottle of Coke and handed it to Lu Yao: "I remember you drank this brand when you had dinner."
"Thanks."
Lu Yao took the drink and noticed that the refrigerator was full of various drinks, dairy products and a lot of fruits.
That means Song Shiyi lived here when she was in the girl group.
She handed Isabel a bottle of iced mineral water.
"I used to be a dancer, so I was away from home most of the time, often sleeping in my car and at work."
Song Shiyi's face showed a nostalgic look: "But I only remember things before I was 14. At that time, I practiced dancing and singing every day, and took photos according to the requirements. It seemed that there was no end to the things to do. In fact, I still prefer to be in school. I am more relaxed, and I also like studying and doing exercises."
Lu Yao was puzzled: "You don't like dancing?"
"dislike."
Song Shiyi said this with a confused look on her face: "I'm not a good dancer, I'm not a good singer, and I've been forgetful since I was a child, but many people praise me."
"At the time, I always thought it was just a compliment, just like those aunties always say little girls are pretty. I know I don't have any talent in this area. I have bad balance and my singing is out of tune. When I was very young, I became a volunteer for the committee. I was very happy at the time. It was similar to the feeling of a magical girl in real life."
"It wasn't until my parents told me that a special company wanted to package me and let me perform dance on stage that I realized that they didn't want me to sing or dance, but just thought I was good-looking and likable. So they just wanted me to go on stage with my image. Even the dance teacher said that whether I dance well or not is another matter. What matters is talent."
"The talent they are talking about is another kind, like 'three longs, one small, and one tall'. It means long arms, long neck, long legs, a small head, a little taller, and the skin must be white enough. Good looks are also important."
This was also the first time that Song Shiyi took the initiative to talk about her past.
It seems that she is more relaxed in such an environment.
From a spectator's perspective, Lu Yao understood it.
The most important thing for stage performance is visual effects. 80% of information received by people is through vision. Having strong professional skills is good, but only good looks can attract more people's attention in the first place.
Song Shiyi suddenly came to her senses: "Ah, then let's bathe our feet first?"
"here?"
Lu Yao looked around but didn't see any foot bathing bed here.
"Ming Tsai."
Song Shiyi calls out.
The bird took off from the clothes rack, flew all the way into another room, and soon returned from there.
"Master, I'm ready."
Song Shiyi stood up and said, "Mr. Huang, Miss Mary, let's go over there."
Following her, Lu Yao discovered that the originally empty room had turned into a small pool. The room was much lower than the outside, and there was a circle of platforms around it. The room was full of water, and many finger-sized fish were swimming in it.
Song Shiyi took the initiative to go over and sit on the shore. She took off her slippers and put her legs in the pool. The fish came over and rubbed against her legs.
Lu Yao had heard of fish therapy, which is when small fish eat dead skin, but this was the first time he had actually tried it.
He rolled up his pants and stepped into the water. The fish gathered around him and bit him, which gave him a tingling sensation, but it was quite comfortable once he got used to it.
"When you feel tired, it's best to have a foot massage, a sauna, and a bottle of cold beer."
Song Shiyi gestured as if she was drinking a cup, narrowed her eyes and said, "Most of the troubles accumulated from a day's work will disappear just like this."
What Lu Yao was concerned about was: "Wasn't this an empty room before?"
“No.”
Song Shiyi said, "There are apostles living here, but they are usually on the Xuzhou side. Sometimes they come here to stay for two days. Mingzai just called one over. His ability is related to water, which is very suitable for foot massage."
Lu Yao looked at the fish in the water suspiciously: "Then these fish..."
"It's a normal star fish, the kind used specifically for fish therapy."
Song Shiyi said solemnly, "Don't worry. They are all very healthy fish, I promise."
Lu Yao couldn't help but think that these were not empty rooms, but houses that could be transformed and customized at any time.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
It seems that the whole house is not a lonely golden cage at all, but Song Shiyi's private paradise.
Her life was comfortable.
Song Shiyi suddenly said: "Actually, after meeting you, I found that my old god curse seems to be getting weaker... because my memory is recovering. It's not recovery, but I won't forget some things."
"At first I thought it was related to Miss Mary. Because when I see Miss Mary, my related memories will be quickly restored, and everything about Miss Mary will immediately become clear. So I have always wanted to get closer to Miss Mary, because she is not only very similar to me, but can also make me normal."
"But gradually, I found that the same situation happened when I met you."
"So later I wondered, could it be that Miss Mary was not the cause, but you who she followed? Because divine authority is the basis for lifting many restrictions. I had a physical examination and found no other abnormalities, so other factors were ruled out."
"Then I thought, maybe you hold the title of [Hou Yi], or a similar title. So it will have some kind of reaction with my [Moon Goddess], making the curse power of Chang'e temporarily ineffective... But these are all my wild thoughts, or maybe it's just because the power of the Moon Goddess is gradually fading as I grow older."
Lu Yao listened silently.
Sure enough, Song Shiyi's old god curse came from Chang'e.
It turns out that this factor also contributed to her inexplicable fondness and attraction to Isabel.
Song Shiyi supported herself with both hands, adjusted her sitting position, and looked over: "Mr. Huang, what do you think about the ancient battlefield ruins?"
Lu Yao said: "I have no opinion."
Then he told what he had learned about the Monument People from the Mix people.
"Wait, wait a moment."
Song Shiyi took out her cell phone and began recording seriously.
Lu Yao recounted the local situation, and then said: "The origin of the monument people is the shadow of the stars projected by the ecliptic star track, which means that the monument people are actually a kind of servants. I remember that Teacher Zao said that the monument people are ancient humans in the virtual universe and the origin of humans on Earth. This seems to contradict."
Song Shiyi's lips tightened slightly.
"No."
"Mr. Huang, have you ever thought about why humans are so passionate about building houses? Whether in the Stone Age or in the information age, people are always keen on building various buildings, whether they are functional caves, houses, bridges, dams and granaries, or tombs, totems and memorial landscapes with greater cultural significance... It seems that the development of technology and the expansion of cognition have not changed this instinct of human beings."
"Humans have an innate passion for architecture. When seeing tall and magnificent buildings, they feel both fear and love. Some people say that they are symbols of accumulated strength and wisdom, and that architecture is a three-dimensional symbol."
She looked at her feet being surrounded by small fish in the water: "We now know that the human body is just a carrier that serves the DNA information in the body. Human growth, reproduction, and aging cycles are all predetermined programs set in the body."
"We think that's our own thoughts, but in fact, it's just the implementation of the instructions set by the DNA in our bodies. We choose each other because of smell, visual judgment and compatibility. These are all external manifestations of genetic information."
"In other words, we are just mobile homes built by DNA."
Song Shiyi gently shook her legs, and the fish scattered, but soon gathered together again: "Just like them, their appetite makes them show a kind of convergence. No matter how you disperse them, they will eventually gather together."
Lu Yao suddenly realized a possibility: "You mean, our own construction is also like this?"
Song Shiyi nodded: "This is the instinct rooted in our bodies. It is the information and mission implanted in the human race since its birth. It just sounds ridiculous. Humans are not born to survive, nor to evolve, but to build."
"The earliest ancestors of mankind, those ancient humans, were doing this. Their existence and continuation of life were all for the most core upper-level goal, building, building all kinds of buildings."
"Whether it is a pit or a tower, building and maintaining a house is the meaning of our existence, and a house is a physiological desire that must be satisfied, just like appetite and lust, which is more hidden. This phenomenon runs through human history, and in every era, someone has exploited this instinct of human beings for profit."
“We are another kind of spiritual people.”
This conclusion was so outrageous that the more Lu Yao thought about it, the colder his back felt, because it might be true.
It is said that people do not live for houses.
However, Song Shiyi’s conclusion is that people really live for houses... People are consumables, and houses are the important finished products.
Lu Yao said: "We are not spiritual people."
Song Shiyi nodded: "According to what we know, the output rate of the spiritual people in the past was not high, and it is impossible for them to achieve the same order of magnitude as us. The earliest ancient humans in the virtual universe that have been discovered came from the depths of the virtual universe, a place in the border zone close to the super-limit zone."
"We came from that chaotic land. This is the earliest source we have found so far."
Lu Yao suddenly remembered what the Kitchen God said.
——What kind of civilization can survive in such an extremely intense ecological space as the border zone, and build a safe order to restrain and check other races?
The ancient humans of the Xuzhou universe once established a powerful civilization in the border area.
And that place was originally a special space area formed by the explosion of the Spirit King, and it was also the place where the power of the ecliptic star track radiated.
Human beings are the descendants of a civilization that was once a slave.
Lu Yao took sips of ice cola to cool his fevered brain.
After all this time, we are the ones who come with bad intentions?
(End of this chapter)