1.

Before meeting that homeless man, Huang Beibei had always been very busy. He was a salesman. His mobile phone was on 24 hours a day, and he had endless calls every day. His computer was on 24 hours a day, and he had endless calls every day.

emails. He seems to know a lot of people, but in fact he has no friends at all. He has not even spoken to his wife for a week.

He feels strange to the people he is most familiar with, and feels familiar to strangers. But he doesn't mind. As long as he has a mobile phone, the Internet, and a TV, he can have the whole world.

But everything changed after meeting that homeless man. That day, he was holding a broken induction cooker and complaining to his wife that she couldn't cook without the induction cooker. A homeless man stopped him with ill intentions.

He said with dark lips: "Your wife is a loser, and so are you."

Huang Beibei ignored him, but the vagabond chased him relentlessly and shouted: "A lame man can't live without crutches, a lame man is a cripple; you can't live without these things, you are also a cripple."

The day after meeting the homeless man, Huang Beibei lost his job.

Huang Beibei lost his job because he lost an important business. He lost an important business because he did not receive the customer's email in time. He did not receive the email in time because the network card of his computer was broken.

Ever since Huang Beibei lost his job, he has really become a useless person.

Every day, his nerves are as tense as the indicator light on the mobile phone charger. He deliberately sets the text message reminder tone and the incoming call ring tone to noisy and special music. Such sounds can sound at any time and anywhere.

It can attract his attention immediately. He has to do this because he can't miss any call or text message, just like he can't miss any employment opportunity. He doesn't want to become a useless person.

2.

This summer, it is really extremely hot. Water vapor seems to be rising inside and outside the house. The world has become a big oven, seeming to dry everything out. Even time, blood and soul are dry and hot like this.

The weather has evaporated, and the future and dreams have become so distant and boring.

In fact, not only those illusory things disappeared from the world, but also Huang Beibei's mobile phone.

He clearly remembered that it was still in his hand one second, and that was probably the one hundred and first time he checked whether there were any unread text messages and missed calls today, but the next second it disappeared and evaporated. At that moment

, he actually felt unprecedented despair, even more desperate than when he lost his last job.

That phone stored all his interpersonal relationships, related to his future, and even his entire life. At that moment, Huang Beibei felt that he was really useless. He rummaged through every pocket, even every item on his clothes.

Then, with slim hope, he searched his journey today inch by inch.

Just when Huang Beibei was so desperate that he collapsed, he met the homeless man again. He was lying lazily on the broken mat on the corner of the street, with the corners of his mouth poking out from his beard, slightly raised in mockery.

Huang Beibei suddenly felt that all his bad luck was caused by this vagabond's curse. If he said he was a useless person, he really was a useless person. So he asked with all his face, "Who are you?"

The tramp pointed to a blind man holding a guide dog on the road and said, "I am a useless person just like that blind man."

"Then have you seen my mobile phone?!" Huang Beibei continued viciously.

The tramp continued to point at the blind man and answered the wrong question: "Your mobile phone is the blind man's guide dog."

3.

Huang Beibei became in a trance because he lost his mobile phone. He often put his hand into his trouser pocket habitually, and then took it out lonely. He was often awakened by the ringtone of his mobile phone in the middle of the night, only to find out after he calmed down.

That was just a dream.

It is no exaggeration to say that Huang Beibei's heart was bleeding, because in the two days since he lost his mobile phone, he did not know how many job opportunities passed him by. Even if he wanted to find someone to support him, he could not find someone to support him.

It became a luxury, because those people's phone numbers were all stored in his mobile phone, and he never thought of remembering them.

Huang Beibei finally couldn't bear it anymore and begged his wife to use the limited household funds to buy a new mobile phone.

At that time, Huang Beibei's wife looked like she had just swallowed ten pounds of de-tona-tor: "You useless person! You can't live without a mobile phone?!"

This sentence hit the nail on the head. It seemed that something hit him hard in his heart, creating some strange sparks and illuminating a terrible truth. Huang Beibei thought of the tramp's words and couldn't help but feel awe in his heart.

It turns out that the mobile phone is really his ears, mouth, and his arms and legs. Without the mobile phone, Huang Beibei is a blind man without a guide dog.

This time, Huang Beibei took the initiative to find the homeless man. At that time, he was lying on a broken mat with chapped lips. The scorching sun was evaporating his life bit by bit, making him look dying.

Huang Beibei asked him the same question again: "Who are you?"

A trace of loneliness flashed in the tramp's eyes: "A useless person who refuses to become a useless person."

"What's the meaning?"

The tramp looked at the glasses on the bridge of Huang Beibei's nose and said: "Human, the longer you live, the less complete you become, and the longer you live, the more disabled you are. Look, look, the streets are full of disabled people... although I am about to die."

But I’m glad that I wasn’t a cripple when I died.”

Huang Beibei looked at the homeless man who had nothing, and suddenly understood something, and his heart suddenly became bright and clear.

4.

From then on, Huang Beibei never mentioned buying a mobile phone again. He became more and more strange and unreasonable. He threw the new mobile phone his wife bought him into the trash can; he refused to invite anyone

Repairing a broken microwave oven; he eats three meals a day even if he bursts into a belly because he never puts leftover food in the refrigerator.

His wife said he was crazy, but he justified it: "I'm just trying not to become a useless person."

His words made his wife so angry that she ran back to her parents' home and never came back.

Then one day, most of the city was without power.

As a result, the world was in chaos. Without electricity, there were no computers, networks, factories, or even traffic lights. Everyone became idle and at a loss. Employees sat in front of computers in a daze, workers squatted at the door of the workshop smoking, and traffic police stations

I was so tired and sweating profusely at the intersection that even eating and drinking became a problem.

On such a hot day without electricity, everyone was restless except Huang Beibei.

Huang Beibei lay lazily on a broken mat, just like the dead tramp, looking mockingly at everyone passing by and at me.

Yes, I met Huang Beibei at that time. At that time, I was holding my notebook and looking for a place to access the Internet because that day was the deadline for submitting manuscripts to magazines.

Huang Beibei stopped me, and at first glance he looked like a homeless man who had just joined the industry, with a jerky look on his face.

He said, you are a useless person.

I said, I am not, I support myself by writing.

He asked, if there was no computer, could you still continue to write?

This question makes my hair stand on end because I can no longer write stories with pen and paper. Without a computer, you will never see my stories again, forever.

So, I hesitated for a long time before saying: "Okay, I admit that I am a useless person."

Huang Beibei continued to ask, are you still willing to continue to be a useless person?

4.

I do.

Since there is no longer a complete person in the world, we have to accept this fact willingly. We use advanced technology to create various machines and equipment that we can control, and then we ourselves are willing to become the ones being manipulated.

They control us to use them, maintain them, and develop them to be more powerful.
Chapter completed!