"Don't talk about the topic."
The woman couldn't help but pat the table gently: "You just said that you created a novel protagonist named Roach. What happened later? You wouldn't want to tell us that the Roach you created came to the real world, right?"
"It's really scary."
The middle-aged man sighed deeply: "Do you know what Halloween is?"
"Of course I know!"
After finally catching up with something he really knew, the man around the woman quickly interrupted: "Halloween is a traditional festival in the West. To celebrate the arrival of Halloween, children will dress up as various cute ghosts and knock on the doors one by one, asking for candy, otherwise they will be troublesome. At the same time, it is said that this night, all kinds of ghosts will also dress up as children and mix into the crowd to celebrate the arrival of Halloween. Humans will dress up as various ghosts in order to make ghosts more harmonious."
"You're not wrong with what you said."
The middle-aged man nodded and added: "Halloween was originally a festival to praise autumn, just as May was to praise spring. The ancient Gaul, Britain and Ireland priest Druid had a grand festival to praise autumn, which lasted for a whole day from midnight on October 31 to November 1 the next day. They believed that on that night, their great god of death, Saman, summoned all the ghosts of the dead that year, and these evil spirits were punished by being entrusted as animals. Of course, just thinking of such a ghost gathering would be enough to make the fools with simple minds at that time frightened. So they lit a bonfire that soared into the sky and closely monitored these evil spirits. This was how the saying that there were witches and ghosts everywhere on Halloween Eve began. To this day, in some isolated areas of Europe, some people believe this is true."
“Halloween was originally a festival that praised autumn?”
"That's right."
The middle-aged man nodded and said, "Halloween activities were very simple, and most of them were held in churches. But throughout Europe, people regard Halloween Eve as a good opportunity to play, tell ghost stories and scare each other. So people no longer use this festival to praise autumn, but make it a festival of gods, monsters, witches and ghosts. This situation is actually very normal, just like the Chinese Valentine's Day was originally a festival of begging for the Qaeda Festival, but after it was passed down, it slowly turned into Valentine's Day."
"Of course, these have nothing to do with the topics we are going to talk about next."
The middle-aged man paused for a moment and continued, "So I'd better just talk about something more in-depth, first of all, the origin of Halloween costumes."
"Is there any other saying?"
“There is a lot of articles here!”
The middle-aged man raised an index finger and said seriously: "Halloween costumes originated from pranks, and Halloween costumes are also full of people, not just monotonous big ghosts. The simplest ghost costumes are to put a white sheet on your head, and two holes are used to leave your eyes; if you want to play a magician, put on black clothes and black pants, then put on a black top hat, and hide a fluffy rabbit between the top hat and the top of your head; the child wears white clothes and white pants, and then tie a flashlight on his back to his head and dresses up as a little angel; some parents also dress up their children as cartoon images they like."
"It sounds quite interesting."
The woman touched her chin: "I'm pretty happy to experience Halloween content when I have the chance."
"Next, let me talk about the origin of the pumpkin lantern."
The middle-aged man swallowed and continued, "The pumpkin lantern originated from ancient Ireland. Legend has it that a man named Jack was a drunk and loves to play tricks. On Halloween, he set up a trap to trap the devil in a tree. He did not allow the devil to come down until the devil promised to never let him live in hell. After Jack died, because he did not believe in God, he could not enter heaven, and the devil did not allow him to go to hell. In order to help Jack find the way back to the world, the devil gave him a piece of burning charcoal. Jack placed the burning charcoal in a lantern carrot carrot to help find his way back to Ireland, but he never looked for it, so he wandered around the world with the lantern forever."
"That should be called a carrot lamp?"
The woman said in confusion: "What does this have to do with the pumpkin lantern?"
"The carrot lantern is the predecessor of the pumpkin lantern."
The middle-aged man explained tirelessly: "In the ancient Irish legend, this small candle was placed in a hollowed-out radish, of course it was called a carrot lamp, but the ancient carrot lamp evolved to this day, and it was made of pumpkin. It is said that shortly after Irish arrived in the United States, they discovered that pumpkins were better than carrots in terms of source and carving, so pumpkins became the darling of Halloween."
"I see."
The woman nodded thoughtfully: "So Halloween has become the same ghost festival as our Zhongyuan Festival?"
"Yes."
The middle-aged man sighed with some sigh: "The traditional Chinese July Zhongyuan Festival is similar to the West's Halloween. During the Ghost Festival, even many bandits are taboo about many things, just to avoid bad luck. It can be seen that even in folk beliefs, it is best to stay away from the elves and ghosts, but the West has packaged it as the third largest festival after Christmas and Thanksgiving. At this time of year, under the cover of night, people confuse the world, worship fear and death with the rhythm of the dance of death."
"This is indeed touching."
The man next to the woman couldn't help but interrupt, "But you said it for a long time, but you didn't mention the key points? I just checked it on my phone and found that all the things you said were stuffed online, so it's worth putting it in front of us?"
"Yes, I almost ignored this."
The woman couldn't help but frown: "No matter whether all the things you just said are rampant or not, it seems that they have nothing directly to do with that Roach, right? You just said that the Roach you created was out of control, and it was even more terrifying than coming to the real world. What's going on?"
"I'll warn you one last time."
The man knocked on the table with a bad expression: "I advise you to explain it quickly, otherwise I can't guarantee that I will always be patient and continue to listen to your boring nonsense, and you will lose the last chance to talk."
"Then I will just say it simply. Do you really think I said what I said just now?"
"What do you mean?"
"I'll say one more thing. Do you really think that everything you said just now is what you said?" The middle-aged man sighed dejectedly, looking at the old ceiling above his head with his eyes blankly: "I don't care about anything anymore. Let me tell you the truth. The world we are in is not a real world at all, and our conversation has long been engraved in the cause and effect line of time."
“Because we are all…”
Chapter completed!