Chapter 182 The Significance of Time to Soul Beasts
"Oh, it turns out there is another reason."
Hearing Bai Niao's answer, Fan Yun couldn't help but sigh. Although he had read many complicated books and understood many things, the world was often much richer than books.
The dilemma faced by the beast may be difficult to consider with his current perspective.
"As expected, I still have questions. I should ask you more questions. For example, I have been thinking about why a soul beast turns into a human for a long time. Why should a good soul beast become a short-lived person?"
Stroking the big cat's back, Fan Yun lay on the white bird and looked at the white snow outside the cave.
"Qiang~(Haha, a life's view will always be limited by its own vision, so it needs to communicate with other lives. And regarding the issue of soul beasts turning into humans, apart from the reason of self-preservation, there are actually other possibilities.
)"
"Um?"
Fan Yun petted the cat for a moment. He was curious about what the white bird had to say.
"Qiang~ (Although the life of a soul beast is a life of struggle, fighting against humans, other predators, and prey, it is precarious. Only a small number of soul beasts can reach a state where they can safely protect themselves. But once the soul beast can
Live a stable life and no longer worry about tomorrow. When you are free, you will start to think about your own life.)"
"Qiang~(Because of the long lifespan, time is nothing in the eyes of the soul beasts that have grown up. Because we have lived for a long time, and we do not have a human calendar, the concept of time is actually very vague in our eyes.
.And the same life for many years will make some guys feel tired and start to think about what they are living for?)”
"Do you think about the meaning of life?"
With eyes full of thoughts, Shiratiao seemed to be immersed in her own memories for a moment, but she soon recovered.
"Qiang~(Of course, when a life no longer has to worry about living, he will start to think about the meaning of life. Some people are tired of the same scenery and life that have remained unchanged for thousands of years and want to change their lives.
As for the prosperity and millennium changes of human society, we can also detect a little bit of it through the changes in the clothing of the offenders and the objects they carry.)"
"Qiang~(Slowly, we will begin to become curious about where the humans who have been fighting against us all our lives live and what kind of life they live?)"
"So there will be some guys who want to become humans and experience human life?" Fan Yun asked.
Bai Niao nodded when he heard Fan Yun's question, and then said: "Qiang~ (Not all spirit beasts can hide in the high altitude clouds and observe human society from a distance like me. For the vast majority of spirit beasts,
, if they want to see what human life is like, becoming human is their only way.)"
"Even if the cost is that they only have a hundred years left to live?"
Touching Fan Yun's head, Shiratiao's words were somewhat meaningful: "Qiang~(You can't understand what time really means to us. A long, unchanging, meaningless life means nothing to high-level soul beasts like us."
One is a prison that binds the self, and the search for the meaning of life and some expectations for tomorrow are the guards in the prison that prevent us from committing suicide.
If you can appreciate the meaning of life, even if there is only one hundred years left, it is worth it. Although most of us don’t know how long a hundred years is, after all, no one has the leisure to record how many years he has passed.
Spring and Autumn.)"
"Is that so?" Fan Yun's heart became complicated after hearing Bai Niao's words.
As an ordinary human being, his lifespan should only be a hundred years. Although the old man told him since he was a child that birth, old age, illness and death are normal in the world, and after the old man passed away, he gradually learned to look down on these things, but if possible, he still hopes that he can live a little longer.
, take a good look at this world.
Sometimes Fan Yun even has some strange delusions in his mind, about what it would be like if he could live forever.
Shiratori's words now made Fan Yun start to reflect. Is it really a good thing to have such a long life? And once he starts thinking, Fan Yun's thoughts will drift all the way like stepping on a banana peel on the slide.
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Thinking of the family, friends, students, and leaders around him now, Fan Yun really couldn't imagine his life after sending them away one by one.
How long does it take for the pain of losing someone to heal?
Somewhat silently, Fan Yun thought of the old man who had been gone for many years, and Fan Yun couldn't think of an answer.
But then, Fan Yun thought about his family with the big cat Bainiao, and new worries arose.
Subconsciously hugging the big cat tightly in his arms, Fan Yun couldn't help but frown.
"Meow?"
Feeling the restraint on his body, the big cat opened his eyes, and his black glass eyes looked at Fan Yun, who had a somewhat uneasy face, with some doubts.
"Qiang~(What's wrong with you?)"
Bai Niao also seemed to notice something was wrong with Fan Yun, who was lying on top of him, and asked.
My own life is only a short hundred years, and the remaining lives of Big Cat and White Bird are still very long. After I leave in the future, how will Big Cat and White Bird spend the rest of their lives without themselves?
Time has no meaning to them, and life that has lost its meaning is just a prison to them. So can they live well after they leave?
Maybe White Bird is okay, after all, her experience is there. After thousands of years of seeing farewell, she may not be so sad, and she can still live well in the future, but what about Big Cat?
Fan Yun knows that since he got to know himself, the center of Big Cat's life has become him, Fan Yun. If the center of life is lost in the future, where will Big Cat go? Can he live well?
Perhaps his worries were unfounded, but the worries in Fan Yun's mind at this moment were very heavy.
Fan Yun relaxed his arms holding the big cat tightly, stroked the big cat's head, looked at her worried eyes, buried his worry in his heart, and changed the topic:
"I'm fine. By the way, White Bird, speaking of which, before meeting me and the big cat, did you find the meaning of your life? What is it? I'm very curious."
Bai Niao glanced at Fan Yun with a meaningful look. Bai Niao did not delve into Fan Yun's abnormal plan in front of the big cat, and said:
"Qiang~(Haha, I have never been troubled by this problem. I don't know what other soul beasts think, but as far as I am concerned, life itself has meaning, and being alive is the greatest miracle.
Watching the sun rise in the east and setting in the west every day, watching the flowers bloom and fade in the forest every season, watching the lush vegetation decline every year, paying attention to the birth of new life, and regretting the passing of old life, these are very meaningful things in themselves.
)"
"Qiang~(So living and feeling life and the subtle changes around you every day is meaningful enough to me.)"
Chapter completed!