Chapter 1685 "Su Xiaoqiang"

Hey, where do people go after they die?

People go to the cinema after they die.

Cinema?

Yes, after you die, you will go to the cinema and sit in an empty projection hall. All the chairs are beautiful red. The light of the projector hits the big screen from high behind, and your life will be played on it. It's just you sitting there, watching over and over again the trivial or passionate things you spent your time with.

Is it like this?

How about it?

How about anything.

How about this answer?

Quite innovative.

Is it just something new? That’s a great answer, isn’t it?

Great? Why is it great.

Oh, I forgot. You no longer have the ability to empathize. I hope that from this answer you can taste the intriguing, lonely, desolate, and ethereal nature that only humans can taste. It seems that I am a bit too much.

Is this irony?

Satire? It's too harsh. At most, it's some malicious ridicule. But you can hear the bad intentions in this sentence, and you are really making rapid progress. I thought it would take you longer to get used to this strange feeling.

Everything has pros and cons. Everything has polarity. There are fewer distracting thoughts. It is indeed much faster to observe, learn, and apply. This is what it means to be focused!

Don't you hate it? Yes, erasing a lot of emotions can indeed make you look at many things more objectively, but is this still you, is it still the Su Xiaoqiang?

In the screening room of the cinema, in the middle of the rows of empty red seats, among the two figures sitting side by side illuminated by the white light of the big screen, a girl wearing a white sportswear and shorts placed her hands gently on both sides. On the armrest, I quietly watched a volleyball match on the big screen.

The posters of the movie are posted in every corner of this cinema. The posters show a young girl in different stages from childhood to adulthood. She is childish and cute, young and tender, and slim and stretched. She wears different clothes in different periods, and the background is It was a beautiful sunset. Standing at position C was 19-year-old Su Xiaoqiang, who was in his prime, wearing a dark green school uniform and holding scissor hands with a smile on his face. At the end of the sunset, there was a blurry figure facing away. Go.

The name of the movie is "Su Xiaoqiang", and the duration is 19 years and 8 months. The progress bar hidden under the black border is extremely long. The clip being shown on the big screen is probably from the girls' middle school volleyball game in the junior high school of Shilan Middle School. In the final, girls in sportswear were shown running on the wooden floor. The sound of non-slip sneakers and the hum of catching the ball echoed throughout the auditorium.

You said that after death, people will go to the cinema, right?

yes.

But why were there other people in the cinema?

What?

You said before that after death, you should watch your life alone in a movie theater, repeating it forever.

"Then why are you here?"

On the side of the girl's right hand, the ice water on the surface of the Coke in the cup sleeve slowly slid down and got wet on the armrest of the seat. She slowly turned her head and looked to her right. On the side, a woman sat quietly, beautiful The white light of the big screen shone on his face, watching the movie quietly and intently.

"You are not allowed to make loud noises in the cinema." The woman turned her head slightly and approached her and whispered, "Compared with why you are in the cinema, are you more concerned about why I am in the cinema?"

"You said that people will go to the cinema after death, so isn't it normal for me to sit here now?" the girl said softly.

"Is this one of the so-called benefits of bipolarity? Normal people cannot easily accept their own death." The woman smiled and watched the fierce volleyball match shown in the movie attentively. The score between Shilan Middle School and Jingying Middle School The fight has become intense. Players on both sides have reached the limit of their physical strength. As a free agent, the protagonist is even out of breath, but still insists on running around the venue.

"We lost this game. We lost to the opponent by one goal. In the end, I didn't have time to stop the opponent's main attacker's smash, and the championship trophy changed hands to the opponent's hands," the girl said.

The woman who was watching the movie attentively suddenly paused and sighed softly, "Is this revenge? Spoilers are the most taboo when watching movies, especially when sitting in a movie theater."

"I'm just retelling my life." The girl said calmly as she looked at the movie screen where she kept running, saving, sweating and never admit defeat.

"No." The woman suddenly shook her head and pointed out the girl's slip of the tongue, "Don't make a mistake, this is not your life, this is the life that belongs to 'Su Xiaoqiang', the life of that little goddess."

The girl paused and did not speak. She just watched quietly as the girl on the big screen cheered and excited for the good balls that were successfully saved one after another, and was upset and frustrated that one after another was scored by the counterattack. The girl's appearance was exactly the same as hers in the movie theater, but just like what the woman said, she couldn't be a part of it and couldn't empathize with the girl who was active on the volleyball court at that moment.

Just like the woman said, that is Su Xiaoqiang's life, not hers.

"After death, people will come to a movie theater and watch their lives over and over again, alone." The woman said, "The person who died was Su Xiaoqiang. What does it have to do with you and me? We just evaded the fare and entered the movie theater, sneaking away quietly. Just a little thief who entered the screening room."

"Do you think so?" the girl said.

"Don't we all think so?" the woman said, "The reason why people are called people is because of their rich emotions. A person's life is a castle built up of emotions, including happiness, depression, anger, sadness, and countless others. Delicate emotions blend together to form a whole period of life.”

The woman raised her right hand and pointed it at the screen of the cinema screening room, and quickly dragged the progress bar. The picture above kept flying backwards, back to her childhood, when a girl named Su Xiaoqiang went to Disneyland with her parents, surrounded by princesses. A clip of them taking a group photo together and giving the crown that belongs to the princess.

"Look, how happy she is." The woman looked at the little girl sitting in the shadow beside her, wearing a princess dress and crown exactly like the little heroine in the movie, and said with a smile.

"I remember this scene. My father spent a lot of money to invite these Disney princesses to the Disneyland park to celebrate my birthday." Even though the little girl was dressed up like the heroine in the movie, her expression was so plain and there was no nostalgia. There is no reminiscence.

She looked at the person on the big screen as if she were looking at someone else.

The woman looked at the side face of the little girl and said with a plain smile,

"The most precious wealth of human beings is the feedback of everything around them, fear, anger, and joy. It is all these that push human beings forward. People always go on and make different decisions for certain emotions. Whether it is wrong or right, the shape and traces of the road left behind are the shape of this person's life. "

She spoke softly and dragged the progress bar. In that movie, the heroine named Su Xiaoqiang's major moments in the past 19 years were constantly replayed. She won the championship in the girls' group in the ballet dance, won the first prize in the essay competition, and was promoted to When I was in junior high school, I became the grade representative and was responsible for presiding over every speech under the national flag or school activities. I was promoted to high school with excellent results and was commended by the city's top three. On the first day of high school, I was harassed by people outside the school and received a With the help of a boy from the same school, I fell in love at first sight.

The progress bar stopped here, and the woman turned to look at the girl next to her who was wearing the uniform of Shilan Middle School. The other girl was staring at the boy standing in front of the heroine on the big screen, with no emotion on her expression.

"The heroine of this movie is a kind-hearted girl who has been rich since she was a child and has a little pride, but is always taught by her father to have a tutor. Most of her life is smooth sailing, with excellent academic performance and material wealth. The conditions surpassed 99% of people. A good starting point allowed her to have the interest and time to pursue artistic cultivation since she was a child. Ballet, sports, and some painting creations were her hobbies in her spare time. She even knew how to learn Chinese. Portuguese bilingual.”

"She likes to eat sweets, but she is often worried about her figure being out of shape, so she signs up for classes at the gym. She is afraid of being eaten by coaches. She also has too high a standard and looks down on most male coaches, so she favors women who have won prizes in bodybuilding competitions. The coach has repeatedly warned her not to train her to have such clear muscle lines, so she only focuses on the three-part training of hips, legs, shoulders and back. Every time she finishes the training, she feels so much pain that her classmates at school ask why she can maintain the same shape. People with good bodies brag about being naturally beautiful.”

"When I was in junior high school, like the other girls around me, I ignorantly fancied the big boy in school. I occasionally tried to talk to the big boy but was ignored. My pride was hit for the first time since I was young, so I started to hate this school. Damn it. After I entered high school, I encountered a harassment incident and was rescued by a boy in my class. I secretly expected that I would be in the same class with him. When I opened the classroom door and saw the boy's face in the corner, I thought it was fate pulling a red string. Since then it has been triggered.”

"Actually speaking, the reason why I really like that boy is that the hero saves the beauty is only a small part of the reason, right? The handsome appearance and the coldness of her appetite are the main reasons. Who doesn't like cool and cool girls in that period? What about the handsome boy? Especially when she found out that this boy's family situation was not very good, she even felt happy in her heart, so she announced domineeringly in front of other girls that this cabbage belonged to her family. You are not allowed to pull it out secretly and just play the cultivation game of watering and fertilizing all day long.”

"Emotions are cultivated. It is not so much about showing goodwill and pursuit. To put it bluntly, the actions during that period are actually the feelings of a well-off girl towards a boy who is in line with her own aesthetics and hobbies and whose social status is lower than hers. Temptation, right?”

"I have to admit that in the beginning, what girls do is more inclined to be a little girl's behavior of constantly giving favors to make the other person feel grateful, and thus get a sense of self-satisfaction and a sense of expectation in return from this action."

"Is it childish? It's true that while maintaining the boy's self-esteem, he continued to give favors and pour in love to protect him. Hearing him fight for himself and hearing him defend some of the stupid and typical little boys he has done. until the relationship grew so strong that it took root in her heart and became a big tree that was difficult to ignore. The first 'love' grew out of a tender seed and became a behemoth that had to be faced squarely. "

"The girl completely fell in love with the boy, but when everything was about to come to fruition, the boy rushed to the distant United States because of an acceptance letter from abroad. She was very sad, and after the boy left, she went home and made a fortune. After a period of temper, she broke a lot of things. She, who was rarely spoiled, made a request to her father that she must go to the same school as the boy. This made his father very worried, and his hair started to grow thin. It fell down, and in the end there was no way to satisfy this wish. I had to comfort my daughter who had been crying for several nights. There was no grass anywhere in the world, so why should I fall in love with a flower unrequitedly? At the same time, I was itching to find this ungrateful bastard. Give him a chance to clean up and let him see the dangers of the adult world."

"Occasionally one day, the girl received news that the boy had returned to China, but she saw the shadow of the boy entering and leaving the hotel with another strange girl. She felt that the sky was falling, and desperately rushed forward to get an explanation. In the end, she found out that it was just a A ridiculous misunderstanding and a promise.”

The crisp buzzing sound of coins bouncing sounded in the cinema. Under the white light, the arc shadow that turned, rotated and refracted the white light fell on the back of the woman's hand, and was lightly covered by the other palm.

The woman looked at the girl wearing the uniform of Kassel College next to her and said with a smile, "Actually, did you know? The other girl present at the time actually looked down on this kind of trick and thought it was a little trick of the boy, as a way to hang someone. A man from a good family and already enamored of his girl uses a rogue method to make a promise that looks very romantic, but actually draws an unlimited promise, so that the girl can always wait for him wholeheartedly in a foreign country, becoming a partner. His escape route after taking off his clothes one day."

"If a person knows what he is waiting for, he can wait forever." The girl said.

"This sentence is certainly beautiful, but only the heroine at that time, the girl named Su Xiaoqiang, could say it and believe it with that kind of sincere emotion, right?" The woman covered the back of her hands and looked up at the cinema. Ceiling, "But can you say this now? If the situation repeats itself, will you be played by such tricks and words, and devoutly believe that the boy will come back to hug you one day?"

"Have you considered those three 'admonitions'?" the girl asked.

"No, let us forget those three 'admonitions' for the time being, and just put yourself in your shoes at this moment and put yourself into this scene in the movie today."

In the early morning in the hotel in the movie, the sad "past lives" was still playing slowly in the alarm on the mobile phone, and the lyrics sang:

The past life will not be a hindrance to us

Dreamers will eventually wake up

Don't wake me up I'm not dreaming

Keep repeating these three lyrics, as if this is an endless cycle of dreams.

"I don't believe it." The girl said lightly.

"Why?" The woman didn't seem surprised by this answer.

"Those three 'admonitions' aside, I will rationally think about the effect period of this promise, but I have come to the conclusion that real life is not immutable. During that time period, 'Su Xiaoqiang' came into contact with the boy again. He has escaped from the class that was once unable to escape from material poverty, and has completed the class jump, even standing at a higher level than 'Su Xiaoqiang', so his resources and own conditions are bound to attract more outstanding women to gather here. Around him, there will be many bonds and stories between him and those women. When 'Su Xiaoqiang' cannot be by his side, there is a high probability that his feelings will deteriorate and migrate, and then this promise will become ridiculous. The shackles of each other restrict the other party and themselves, and eventually lead to an embarrassing scene of separation. "

The woman looked at the words analyzed calmly by the girl beside her quietly, "It's so calm, a perfect analysis, taking into account the shackles of reality, the reality of human nature, the harsh conditions, and most importantly - everything Things will change, not the unchanging truth like in the movie. Promises will deteriorate, girls will grow old, and things that were once unattainable will become tasteless and discarded white wax in a certain solar eclipse, so. Dismissing the so-called empty promises is the right thing to do!”

"Throwing aside the premise of predicting the future, what I did was wrong," the girl said.

They had all seen the follow-up to the movie and knew that the promise was fulfilled and that the two did come together.

"Yeah." The woman nodded lightly and smiled, "Who could have known that this promise would be fulfilled in such a timely manner? That boy's persistence cannot be fixed by so-called probability and analysis. Do you think he doesn't know Time will pass, will the situation change? So in order to prevent this kind of thing from happening, his love is so urgent and intense, like a violent storm, and he also chooses to face all the obstacles that are coming - He was worried that he would not be able to resist the temptation and become the scumbag who hangs on the girl, so he simply found an opportunity to confirm the relationship directly. "

The woman looked at the boy who kept appearing on the screen from a certain moment, and was also the well-deserved male protagonist in this movie. She laughed a little, "He is just anxious to announce to the world that he is not a scumbag and wants to give Su Xiaoqiang a It's the same as his 'status'. Although the future development of things will not be as he expected, at least his attitude will give him an answer to his promise. "

She removed the hand covering the back of her hand and placed the coin on the side of the armrest, with the light of the screen rippling on the surface.

"Only Su Xiaoqiang deserves to be with him, not me." The girl said, "But I will not be ashamed of it, or change my approach and choice on the question just now."

"Yes, you won't." The woman nodded.

"Because this is my approach." The girl said.

"Yes, this is your approach, not Su Xiaoqiang's approach."

The woman nodded, looking at the big screen, the boy and girl who were leaning against each other in the cafe and taking photos like a couple, and whispered, "That's why we are here to attend her funeral."

Where do people go after death?

Go to the cinema.

The cinema will show her life, over and over again.

The progress bar continued to pull back, the bizarre campus life, the dragon world beyond understanding, the mysterious golden shadow, the first exchange, the loss of health, the difficult but still persistent love, he would worry when he was injured, and he would secretly wipe his tears in the dormitory and feel useless if he couldn't help. When the knock on the door sounded, he immediately turned on the melodrama and pretended that he was moved to tears by the plot, hugged him and asked him to comfort him.

So the plot came to the second exchange.

The picture was frozen in the underground pit that was like hell without sky and sun. The white monsters and the molten red demons fought each other. The arrogant and violent emperor stood in the sky and gave the contract. The game between the three parties was the moment of choice.

The heroine chose to reject the temptation of the devil, but got the atrocities of betraying the contract. In the sound of the coin falling to the ground, the big screen suddenly fell into darkness.

The cast list began to slide up from the bottom.

Starring: Su Xiaoqiang, Lin Nian

Friendly actors: Chu Zihang, Lu Mingfei, Lin Xian——

In the darkness, the girl and the woman on the red chair did not speak. They all stared at the projection screen silently. After the cast list was played, the darkness of the screen suddenly sank, a ray of light emerged, and two figures appeared in the picture, like the "easter egg" that should always be at the end of the movie.

But at this time, the picture suddenly stuck, and then it was completely silent in the darkness, as if it was edited out.

Until the light came on again, but what appeared again was the light of the operating room, and the face of a middle-aged man with a mixture of anxiety and joy.

The movie returned to the beginning, and the progress bar returned to the far left.

The life of the girl Su Xiaoqiang stopped in the subway of Nibelungen at the age of 19, and there was no story belonging to her afterwards.

The light illuminated the girl's face. Even though it was the same face as Su Xiaoqiang's, the calmness and indifference on it had never appeared in any frame or second of the movie being shown now.

"How cruel." The woman said slowly.

"If I hear the truth in the morning, I can die in the evening."

The girl said a strange sentence, and her eyes were as red as fire in the darkness. "The war is about to begin. This is her last choice. The way to salvation may be in it."

The picture of the movie suddenly froze. The screen that was supposed to play the movie "Su Xiaoqiang" repeatedly had a distorted screen. Like an old-fashioned TV, it began to flash colorful blocks of color, and the stereo surround sound on both sides also spread the harsh and unpleasant sound of snowflakes.

However, among those snowflakes, if you listen carefully, you can hear some vague human voices, as if they were shouting and roaring something, so miserable and painful, full of strong hatred and unwillingness.

The woman looked indifferently at the images hidden in the snowflakes on the projection screen, the collapse of the golden throne, the collapse of the world in the deep sea, the white snake swallowing the phantom of the dance costume, the red lightning spreading across the sky like a world tree, the woman nailed to death in the red deep well laughed and opened her eyes with blood and tears, those fleeting frame-skipping fragments kept flying, until a certain moment, the girl next to her closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, her pupils returned to black.

The screen in the projection room also jumped back to Su Xiaoqiang's life, which was ordinary, but warm and touching.

"How much you lose, how much you gain, the scale will always tend to balance." The woman looked at the screen in the projection room and said softly, "Grasp this power, sooner or later, maybe you can make a second part of this movie?"

"Sequels are often dog-tailed, and the real classic has enough with the first part." The girl lowered her eyes and said.

"If you were allowed to choose again, would you choose this path again?" The woman suddenly asked the girl a question.

Maybe it was because her tone was different, with a gentleness and softening that she had never had before, so the girl naturally asked back, "Are you asking 'Su Xiaoqiang' or asking me?"

"Ask you. Or, how should I call you?" the woman asked.

"Su Xiaoqiang." Su Xiaoqiang slightly raised his head and looked at the woman beside him and said, "Of course I am still called Su Xiaoqiang, I will not have any other name."

"Then Su Xiaoqiang." The woman asked, "If it were you, would you choose this path again?"

"Is it still the answer after excluding the three "advice"? "

"Of course." The woman nodded, "It seems that you really value the three "advice", even though I can see that you don't like them."

"The existence of "advice" always has its meaning. I really don't like it, but I will definitely abide by it." Su Xiaoqiang said.

"So what's the answer?" the woman said.

Su Xiaoqiang looked at the heroine on the big screen, who was running in the sunshine and on the lawn with a single ponytail and a smile on her face, looking forward to a better life. He did not answer the question immediately, but just looked at her silently, as if thinking about something, using her usual indifference and efficient calculation and analysis.

"Is that so?" The woman seemed to have gotten her answer, and lowered her head with a smile.

The endless movie in the cinema was still being played repeatedly. At some point, the woman's figure had disappeared, leaving only Su Xiaoqiang sitting in the wide screening room, with endless red seats in the background, and white light flashing to illuminate her face, which was indescribable indifference or indifference.