The Way of the Prehistoric World

"Is there anyone? Is there anyone? Bring me a living person! Of course, beautiful women are the best, but if it doesn't work, dinosaurs will do the trick..."

In the dark space, Mei Zihan shouted over and over again. If he were a living person, his throat would have been hoarse long ago, but now...

In fact, Mei Zihan didn't know what was wrong with him. From the moment he regained consciousness, he only felt that he was confused and dizzy.

"Am I dead? This is unscientific!" Not knowing where he was, Mei Zihan asked herself based on her imagination, and fell into deep thought without even realizing it.

"By the way, come to think of it, didn't I go home during the last May Day holiday in college? I remember attending a wedding." Mei Zihan continued to recall.

Since the "Golden Week", it has become too common to get married on "May Day" and "National Day". The reason why Mei Zihan was deeply impressed was because the "fiancée" he considered to be got married, but the groom had someone else. It's just a person.

Is the plot very cliche?

However, as a party involved, he could only ask silently in his heart:

Have you ever remembered? In the second year of junior high school, a young man fought desperately to save you from falling into the water.

Have you ever remembered? When we entered a key high school together after the high school entrance examination, we embraced each other and celebrated together.

Have you ever remembered? After the college entrance examination that year, you were unable to enter your ideal university due to poor performance, but I was about to board the train south and enter the medical school of a famous university to start my academic career. When the train was about to leave, we also had Each other.

Have you ever remembered it? When you graduated and were about to leave the ivory tower, we made a one-year engagement.

"Alas! It's easy to forget old friendships, but the hearts of old friends can change." Mei Zihan sighed helplessly.

Maybe it was my busy internship life that made me neglect you inadvertently.

Maybe the sophistication of people after work has changed you, or maybe it was that person's sweet words and intoxication that attracted you.

In short, the result is that I lost you, lost you forever!

The surprise of my classmates and friends and the flames of gossip could no longer have any impact on me, because my consciousness was completely sluggish at that time.

I have no idea what I said or did at the wedding banquet, how much wine I drank, whether it relieved my worries, or what happened afterwards. Maybe I don’t want to think about it, or I want to forget it.

But when I woke up again, everything had changed.

Mei Zihan felt that he was on the verge of collapse. Now he was like a comatose person. It was just that he couldn't control his body. The key was that he couldn't even feel his own body.

As for where he is and where he is, he has no idea at all. He just lies there quietly.

Why are you lying down? Because he himself didn't know what his state was, so he was just lying down.

"What humans fear most is loneliness!" Mei Zihan verified this famous saying with her own personal experience.

Nothing can be done, nothing can be felt, except thinking. This desperate state reminded Mei Zihan of a medical term - vegetative state.

"I won't become a vegetable, right?" Thinking of this, he thought he should have a cold war.

Well, if he's still in good health and can still fight.

"How could I become a vegetable?" Mei Zihan asked herself thousands of times, but she still couldn't find the answer.

Thinking of the vegetative state he had seen more than once during his internship, and facing the end of lying down forever until the end of his life, he boasted to his buddies in the same dormitory at that time: "If I become a vegetative state, I will definitely choose to commit suicide without hesitation." "

I still remember that they calmly asked: "Do people in a vegetative state have the ability to commit suicide?"

This is really a helpless conclusion. If anyone can hear Mei Zihan's current thoughts, he will find that Haikou was definitely not a lie. The one thing Mei Zihan wants to do most now is to commit suicide.

The result is obvious, he has never succeeded because he has no ability to commit suicide.

Therefore, Mei Zihan, who was extremely empty, lonely and hateful, could only think about it again and again in a chaotic and hazy state: "How great it would be if I could commit suicide!"

"One little sheep, two little sheep...one hundred million and one...one hundred million and one..." Just like this, I don't know how long it took, and the little sheep didn't know how many billions they counted.

Yes, hundreds of billions.

Since entering this state, he found that his thinking was particularly clear, like an extremely high-end computer. Not only was the past memory vivid, he could even count sheep to the level of billions of cattle. .

Because he was extremely bored, Mei Zihan had no choice but to look through his past memories over and over again, just like watching a high-definition documentary, except that he was the only protagonist.

This film, which lasted for more than 20 years, was exciting to him at first, especially the time before he was born to the age of three. This memory was something he could not recall at all before.

However, no matter how wonderful the movie is, there will be a time when you get tired of watching it. This is the case for Mei Zihan hundreds of years later. He urgently needs to find something boring to do to pass the long and boring time.

In the end, an online version of the Tao Te Ching became his almost only choice.

Speaking of this "Tao Te Ching", we have to talk about the contemporary Western medicine education in China. In addition to studying Western medicine, there is also a compulsory Chinese medicine course. Although it is very basic, it still requires study and practice.

Therefore, every Western medicine graduate can also show off some terms specific to traditional Chinese medicine such as "eight cardinal principles syndrome differentiation and six-organ syndrome differentiation", and this online version of the "Tao Te Ching" was found online when he was studying traditional Chinese medicine.

"At that time, I definitely just read it through without asking for a thorough understanding. Afterwards, except for famous sentences such as 'Heaven and earth are unkind and treat all things as civet dogs', the rest were returned to the Internet!" Mei Zihan recalled when he discovered the online version of the Tao Te Ching. With.

But when I was looking through my memory, the online version of the Tao Te Ching stayed there intact.

"Don't this amazing discovery just prove the theory of a memory scientist in the past life? The content of that theory seems to be: 'Everything that people see, hear, and perceive is stored in memory, but we can't remember it. Just get up.'"

Mei Zihan felt that he had made a contribution to medicine again and had completely proved this theory, but he could not say it out loud.

"Well, no matter what the theory is, having the "Tao Te Ching" can help relieve some boredom,"

This meant that he finally found a way to replace counting sheep. After that, he even had some speculation: "I just don't know if I can become an immortal."

In his previous life, although Mei Zihan had the dull temperament common among medical students, he was by no means a nerd who "didn't hear anything outside the window and only read books by sages."

There is always time to take a break from the busy schedule. Occasionally reading a few online novels is also a personal hobby. Of course, I have also read some masterpieces on immortality and ancient times. Whenever the "Tao Te Ching" is mentioned in the book, it is regarded as a guide to immortality. How amazing.

The protagonists who have studied "Tao Te Ching" either punch Sanqing, kick Hongjun, embrace Nuwa's sister, etc., all of them are awesome.

Ever since, Mei Zihan also wanted to try to see if it had any effect. Anyway, he was just idle.

In the past, he would definitely not have tried this. In the past, when we had hands and feet, we could move and run, except for Taoist priests, who would be able to recite the Tao Te Ching silently?

That is to say, the current situation is special, what else can I do besides choosing it?

"The Tao can be Tao, but it is not Tao. The name can be named, but it is not named. The beginning of the nameless heaven and earth. The named mother of all things..."

Mei Zihan began to recite the online version of the Tao Te Ching silently, over and over again, and in the blink of an eye, a thousand times.

"Here, who said that reciting the Tao Te Ching silently is beneficial? Why didn't I feel it?" Mei Zihan was absolutely filled with righteous indignation and was on the verge of exploding.

After steeling himself and reciting the Tao Te Ching silently 10,000 times, he still couldn't feel any effect and he exploded: "That author is an idiot. I have confirmed it." (A certain author: This work is purely fictional. I believe it. , you lose!)

"One little sheep, two little sheep..."

Repeatedly reciting the "Tao Te Ching" silently had no effect. In the emptiness and loneliness, he resumed his great career of counting little sheep.

After once again counting the hateful little sheep to hundreds of billions, he had no choice but to continue the great cause of silently reciting the "Tao Te Ching".

After a long time, Mei Zihan once again discovered that the "Tao Te Ching" was unreliable. Disappointed, she had no choice but to turn back to the little sheep again. Since then, it has been reincarnation for an unknown number of times. It can be said that "it goes back and forth like this for an unknown number of times."

After going through the cycle countless times, Mei Zihan, who still had no effect, couldn't bear it and cursed again: "God, are you kidding me? It's okay to turn me into this for no reason. After reading so much Read the "Tao Te Ching", you must give some effect no matter what, just think, it doesn't matter if I have a small face, the key is that I have a big face! You must give some effect no matter what... Give me some effect, okay... What a cheat! Is there any..."

After scolding him countless times, there was no response from "God", and he himself was tired of scolding.

After a long time, Mei Zihan's expression had become extremely depressed, just like a bereaved dog, still the kind he had after being hungry for days and nights, lying there with a dull consciousness, not wanting to think or speak.

At this moment, he deeply realized what "good fortune tricks people" and what "unexpected disasters" are.

As a medical student from a prestigious university who is about to graduate, not only did his lover leave him in the blink of an eye, but he also turned himself into a vegetative state. How embarrassing!

I don't know how long after being confused and confused, maybe a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared, and the voice of "Heaven and Earth are unkind and treat all creatures as stupid dogs" miraculously appeared in Mei Zihan's mind.

Affected by this, he couldn't help but start to recite this sentence silently in his daze, with an expression of great devotion and concentration.

If anyone was around, they would notice that Mei Zihan's transparent soul, which was originally somewhat scattered, slowly gathered together during this silent recitation.

As the soul solidified, unknown particles continued to fly around and slowly merged with his soul. As the unknown particles merged, his soul became smaller and smaller. Solid, the changes between the two can be described as mysterious and mysterious.

After an unknown amount of time, Mei Zihan's soul finally shrank to only one inch in size. At this moment, the soul had completely turned into reality, and was as vaguely visible as a small person.

At this time, Mei Zihan did not wake up, but continued to recite the "Tao Te Ching" silently over and over again. As time went on, more and more unknown particles gathered around him, and the vaguely visible villain became more and more... clear.

If there was a mirror in front of him, Mei Zihan would have discovered that the villain looked exactly like him, but he had shrunk from a 1.78 meter young man into a one-inch mini villain.

Suddenly, a dazzling glow flashed by, and the villain's body was completely clear, and Mei Zihan also woke up at the same time.

"What's wrong with me?" Mei Zihan was startled by her own changes.

After a while, he figured out the reason. It turned out that when he gave up on himself, he vaguely entered the legendary enlightenment state of forgetting both things and myself.

During his epiphany, he involuntarily recited the "Tao Te Ching" silently over and over again. It was precisely because of his epiphany that he had some understanding of the "Tao Te Ching".

Although he only understood the superficial aspects of it, it not only made his own realm advance by leaps and bounds, but also inadvertently formed the soul - that is, the villain.

"It turns out that the Tao Te Ching still needs to be understood. I have read it thousands of times before in vain." After realizing it, he felt annoyed.

But soon, he seemed to remember something again, and then he said with a burst of complacency: "It seems that I really have the destiny of the protagonist in the legend! His qualifications are quite high. In the blink of an eye, he has successfully cultivated his soul, and he can at least increase his number by a thousand." With a life span of eight hundred years, I will definitely wait until I wake up..."

After that, he completely fell into fantasy, making "hehe, gurgling" sounds from time to time, which made people's hair stand on end.

In fact, what Mei Zihan doesn't know is that he has been practicing for thousands of years. If you include the boring time before, it has been more than ten thousand years. Fortunately, the space he is in now is special, otherwise he would have no idea where he died. .

Compared with achieving the soul, there was a bigger surprise waiting for him to discover. In the process of the formation of the soul, the chaotic energy - that is, the unknown particles - also transformed his soul into a Innate soul.

The simplest benefit obtained from this is that in the future, if someone deduce Mei Zihan's origin, they can only come to the conclusion that he was born innately. This allowed him to avoid a lot of trouble invisibly. Of course, the benefits are far more than this. point.

Mei Zihan, who was overly excited, did not realize that she had received such benefits at the moment, and instead hurriedly indulged in cultivation.

Since he discovered the key points of understanding the Tao Te Ching and gained some understanding, he couldn't help but devote himself to cultivation.

Reciting silently with different rhythms over and over again, the reward is the deeper understanding bit by bit. Even if the effect is hundreds of times slower than the previous enlightenment period, he still enjoys it, just like a baby facing his favorite toy. Although it was boring, I didn't feel tired at all.

In the process of his cultivation, the chaotic energy continued to gather from all around and merged with his soul. As the chaos energy in the soul increased, the entire soul also changed.

Slowly, his soul started from the gaseous state and became denser little by little. After a long time, the gaseous state in his soul became dense enough to reach a critical point and could transform into a liquid state at any time.

I don't know if it is because of the magical effect of the "Tao Te Ching", but the entire transformation process of the soul from the gaseous state to the liquid state seems to be unusually smooth. The whole process seems to be a matter of course, and the transformation is completely successful in a short time, without any obstacles at all.

However, the "Tao Te Ching" cannot be effective forever, and the bottleneck of the solidification of the soul appears in front of him like a gap.

With repeated practice, the soul that had been completely liquefied gradually began to become viscous, slowly but surely approaching the solid state, and finally reached the critical point.

The Yuanshen at this moment has gone beyond the scope of liquefaction, and solid particles have begun to appear in some Yuanshen.

Even though most of these particles would turn back into liquid soon, the few remaining particles gave Mei Zihan the confidence to break through.

After that, the entire Yuan Shen internally changed repeatedly between solidification and liquefaction, but could never break through in one fell swoop.

Time passed by, no matter how many thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years passed, Mei Zihan was still addicted to cultivation. The space has been echoing: "The Tao can be Tao, but it is not Tao. The name can be named, but it is not named. The beginning of the nameless heaven and earth. The named mother of all things..."