Chapter 566

After Zha returned to his family, he went back to the highlands again to visit his sister who lived in the old house and the doctor's long-abandoned single house.

His return has not been uneventful.After witnessing him being taken away by the Collectors, everyone believed he was dead.In desperation and agony, his family had carried out his funeral, cremating as much of his body and blood as they could get their hands on.Naturally, when they saw a letter returned by the collectors intact, they were almost fainted by the surprise.

That wasn't the only surprising oddity.The Collectors who came with him immediately issued new orders.They gathered all the people in the neighborhood together at the fair, and announced to the people that a new change had taken place in the world.Krishna's rage had subsided now—quiet for good.The Collectors will never come again.All sacrifices will cease, and Krishna will not be wrathful.

The incident was more bewildering than delightful.It has never been suspected that the instructions conveyed by the Collectors were inaccurate, but the circumstances of this announcement are indeed unimaginable.

However, some people ask, if the Collectors never come again, who will be responsible for all future disputes?Who will tell them how to live in the future?Or are they just living by the old rules?Is there a way for them to call the Collectors again if the need arises?

The answer is no.The Collectors responded mercilessly.Their earthly dwellings are now dismantled, since there is no need to return later.The guides chosen to meet them and serve them were out of work and assigned to other errands.From now on, people on earth can only fend for themselves.

For all their ghastly appearance, the Collectors were repeatedly questioned, wondering if there had been any mistake in the decree, if there had been a misinterpretation in its transmission.

With no answer to these questions, the gatherers boarded their chariots and departed.They go with the current, spreading the same message to all.Anyway, that's how it was decided.

These things made people forget about Zha's return.Although at first they questioned him, they soon became convinced that he knew no more than they did.People are confused about the new life, but in fact, Za is just like them.He vaguely understood that everything happening around him at this moment was related to the doctor, but that didn't help him understand what the doctor wanted to do.The Collectors have a leader, and the leader rules many worlds.That was a complicated matter that had nothing to do with Zha.

But he understood some simple truths.something natural.In the marketplace, all have to give and all have to give.If someone takes something from him, the other party will always give him something back through a certain cycle.No one will just take but not give in this cycle, because it is very easy to be exposed.And as long as he is exposed, he will be isolated by everyone.He will live in fear and poverty until the next Collector's chariot arrives.If anyone reported this to the Collector, he was brutally executed.And all those who are considered to be deliberately concealing will be asked to double their contributions.In Zha's memory, no one who committed such a crime survived. Even if he tried his best to please everyone for several years, he could not escape death in the end.

Now, not in the fair, but in the presence of the collectors, the Physician took the life of the chief and the liberty of all the collectors.This crime exceeds all criminal laws that I know.He couldn't help thinking about how his elders would be treated if Hei Tian—the chiefs as the doctors said—caught the man from the kingdom of the black tower.Zha even thought of himself, although he didn't know very well, but if the doctor was caught by other leaders, would he and his family be involved?Just like people who don't report will be asked to sacrifice twice?
All of these things are beyond his control, and he has no reference in his past life to tell him how to deal with such a crisis.In hesitation, he only thought of going to the doctor's old house for a while.

This behavior is very unintelligent.When he met the doctor later, he pointed this out to him as well.If the doctor is really caught, a person who wanders in the criminal's old house will undoubtedly be noticed and punished.But at that time Zha didn't think about it.The solid order of the past life seemed to be completely disintegrated in a series of huge accidents.He forgot hunger and thirst, forgot fear, and even almost forgot the safety of his family.In the single room with dim light, he wandered around like a ghost from time to time, wanting to verify whether the plain but beautiful memories of the past really existed.

Some changes took place during his period of ecstasy.Although Zha has forgotten how to live because of a series of terrible experiences.Some have adapted keenly to the change.It is customary to isolate the first man when he cheats, seizes, and embezzles surplus supplies in the fair.But soon, everyone remembered the announced news: the Collectors would never come again.

No one can explain clearly the occurrence of the second confusion.Because it is so close to the third and fourth piles, no one can tell who is influenced by whom.Some people's exchange records have undoubtedly been falsified.Something else was quietly taken away.As the injured argue over it, beatings and violence ensue.All the things the Collectors forbade people to do, but now people will remember that proclamation.The Collectors never came.They are known to never lie.

Unprecedented disasters followed one another.Some people seem to have completely forgotten their past life suddenly and completely after seeing the blood.They took what they saw, and as a result those who grew water plants stopped going to the market.Zha had to take turns to exchange with his children at his home. Fortunately, the person who planted the water plants also had a large family.They need voice pipes, and they are not afraid of being robbed by outsiders when they are together.

They barely spent dozens of days like this.A bigger disaster broke in from outside.A group of strangers, about forty in number, all tall and strong men, they drove several electric cars that could run on the ground, and they were only things that I saw parts occasionally in the market.Although they look exactly like the natives, they claim to be gatherers and demand sacrifices as well.But what they want is not minerals, but food, stone cutting blades, crystal oscillators, water silk cloth, and various ready-made tools.They also need people.Young girls in good health, as well as strong miners, carvers and experienced plumbers.

No one believed they were gatherers.A man who grew water plants pointed out that this was ridiculous, so the forty or so people broke down the door of his house, dragged his entire family out of it, tied it to the tail of an electric car, and hung the family outside the market. Go round and round.That's not the same as the string hanging under the collector chariot, and most people also know how the electric car works.But they still got what they asked for in the end.

The day after the family died, Zha fled to the highlands with his own family.In hindsight he knew he wasn't the only one who did it, but he was the only one who succeeded.Of all the electric cars that were chasing the fugitive, the one that happened to be responsible for him was inexplicably damaged, slid sideways from the flat stone field, and fell into a deep ditch very far from the original road.

Zha and his family fled back to the highlands.That remote and closed place has also shown a trace of disorder, fortunately still following the inertia of the past life.Zha hoped that the inertia would last longer.But deep down in his heart he vaguely knew that it was impossible.Because of the Physician, he escaped execution by the Collectors, but with even more dire consequences for the world.They were doomed to a tragic end.He didn't know who was most wrong in this matter, perhaps himself.But that doesn't matter anymore.

When the electric car appeared far away at the end of the highland, he ran to the doctor's single house again.He wanted to destroy the whole house, burn all the parts that could be burned, and try not to keep the rest.What was the meaning of that, he really couldn't tell, it was just a hopeless fantasy that wanted to escape from reality without reason.But when he walked into the house, the courage to destroy disappeared without a trace.He fell inside the house and passed out from hunger and fatigue.

In his sleep, he saw the doctor sitting in his usual seat in the single room again.Zha himself was lying on the table like a corpse waiting to be cremated.The doctor in the dream still looked like that scary young man in a dazzling red robe with deformed ears, but his cold expression made Zha feel kind.With tears in his eyes, he held out his hand to the doctor.

Even in the dream, the doctor still turned a blind eye to this statement of weakness.He gestured and told Zha that he was fighting a war in the sky.The result of the war is insignificant, so he is still paying attention to the development of this world, and thinking about the problem that has troubled him for a long time.

about life.He stated himself.There are two fundamentally incompatible views.Life is a purely complicated machine, and thinking is a spark of friction that occasionally flashes during operation, which can be said to be a by-product.And another point of view is that the machine is just a presentation-life is something more intangible, just like people can't catch the wind.Only when it is connected with a certain material structure can it exhibit the phenomenon that people call life.The more complex the structure, the richer the phenomena it can present.But that is different from the soul.The soul as an individual never exists, just like an image is just a piece of information received by a person.If life is above matter, that means it is something that is not fully understood.From all so-called "living" things, what they see is only a very small aspect of it.

In this infinite repetition of life and death, things become orderly and then disorderly again.It is almost impossible to discern the essence in this chaotic chaos.Controlled experiments are imperative.Only let the lives that meet the conditions appear, and the interference items should and must be raised.Death is the sure way to undo this disorder.

Zha groaned in pain.die.The word reminded him of family.He couldn't stop crying.At this time, the doctor let out a sigh, and the crazy and unreasonable narration that was unique to dreams also stopped.He looked at Zha with something resembling pity.

You have failed.He told Za.The trade in equivalents has been invented many times throughout your history, only to be destroyed by the Collectors immediately.They also did not allow the wide spread of written and spoken dialects, because that would be too efficient in the exchange of information and could easily get out of control.And the population.In different years, the Collectors resorted to punishment strategies of varying degrees of severity, from just one individual to the killing of entire families.In fact, it is determined according to the size of the current population.They always try to keep the population of the earth within a self-sustaining range.If people were very happy to sacrifice that year, killing alone would not solve the problem, and they would also introduce highly contagious diseases.

Even so.The doctor told him again.In the past, less than a hundred days, the rate of decline of the population on the ground has almost caught up with the year of the massacre.Those who had served the Gatherers, and who knew better, did a great job.They first competed internally to establish their superiority, and then began to expand their territories.The chaos is temporary, and maybe soon they'll have new managers—but, anyway, they've failed.Modeling shows that the population and resource structure of the world has become too unbalanced, and the new managers are also poor.Famine was inevitable, and looting and death would naturally follow.

Are you willing to accept this result?he asked.

Zha lay weakly on the table, sobbing in this extraordinarily long nightmare.With trembling hands he begged to keep it away from him.Let him end his life in a lonely house isolated from the world, or restore order to this terrible world.The doctor didn't speak for a long time, and he didn't leave his seat until Zha struggled to fall off the table, walked over to hold Zha's hand.It was like a drowning man holding onto a piece of driftwood, but the wood was warm and real.

It was at that moment that Za realized that he was not dreaming.The doctor has returned to the old house where he left for many years, and stands in front of him.He still lifted Zha from the table with that elder-like attitude.Just do it.The doctor gestured to him.And that's what happened the next day: Physicians ruled the terrestrial world.

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