Chapter One Hundred Years of Solitude
Yang Jingxing, a student at Shangpu School in Puhai City, will be a senior in high school next semester. It is summer vacation now, and he is traveling in Europe with the summer camp organized by the school. Today is the last night in Paris. Yang Jingxing and his roommate Tan Dong have been bored for a while.
Decided to buy some wine to grow up.
According to Tan Dong's suggestion, real men drink brandy. The two of them looked at the small convenience store for a long time and chose a bottle of 700 ml. They didn't know what brand or type it was.
Both of them are sixteen or seventeen years old, and they are already old enough to buy alcohol here. However, their passports are centrally managed by the leading teacher, and the school also stipulates that students are not allowed to drink alcohol during school, including beer. So Yang Jingxing can only come up with the resident
The ID card was negotiated with the old man at the cashier, and he explained nervously for a long time. Tan Dong originally thought that Yang Jingxing's height of 1.83 meters and youthful mustache would save them these troubles.
After all, I bought the wine, and when I took it back to the youth hostel room, I was as trembling as a thief. After closing the door, I immediately found a cup and poured half a cup each.
After impatiently taking a sip, Tan Dong frowned and tasted it again, and commented: "Fuck, it tastes the same as o."
Yang Jingxing smiled: "That's a profit."
Tan Dong chewed dried fruit: "Drink more for the money you gave me."
Yang Jingxing disagreed: "I want to treat you."
Tan Dong took another big sip without hesitation: "Half for each person!"
A quarter of an hour later, the wine bottle was only half empty. Tan Dong was already drunk. He held a wine glass in one hand and a pillow in the other and complained: "I really shouldn't have come to this school. I regret it so much. If I stayed in Quhang, I wouldn't know how to play."
It’s so comfortable, there are so many friends, and so many beauties.” He is from Quhang, and Yang Jingxing’s home is in Jiuchun, a small county-level city near Quhang, so the two became friends and roommates.
Yang Jingxing was angry: "You don't have to treat me as a friend, but you have to treat Jiang Qing as a beauty!" Jiang Qing is a beautiful girl in Tan Dong's class who is traveling with him this time.
Tan Dong sighed: "I really can't stand her anymore...I want to fall in love prematurely, but it's already too late!"
Yang Jingxing clinked glasses: "We share the same problem, let's do it."
Tan Dong refused: "I don't believe you even if you say you cried!" Although Yang Jingxing, like most of his classmates in Shangpu, had no romance, Tan Dong firmly believed that his roommate had an innocent past. After being a roommate for two years, his deskmate
Years ago, he had some leverage over Yang Jingxing.
Tan Dong expressed his ideal again: "I also want to take my girlfriend to Germany to watch the World Cup next year." That should be the carnival after the college entrance examination.
Yang Jingxing clinked glasses again: "Come on, I wish you early love!"
This time, Tan Dong was happy. After taking a sip, he lay down and closed his eyes to collect his thoughts: "Ren Chuyu, my grades are not good; Li Ya, I'm a bit short; Wang Fanxuan... I don't know him very well; Bai Jun, it's boring... Tao
She's cute, I can't stand her more and more..." Several good-looking ones from Class 3 have been eliminated, including those from Class 4. It's really a problem.
Yang Jingxing praised: "You have too high a vision."
Tan Dong was angry: "Fuck, you have low standards!"
In the end, the bottle of wine was not finished, but Tan Dong was so drunk that he fell asleep without washing up.
We got up before seven o'clock in the morning and gathered because we had to catch the nine o'clock high-speed train to Geneva. Teacher Bo, who was strict and responsible, counted the number of people and found that ten boys and eight girls were present.
During breakfast, Tan Dong invited Ren Chuyu and Li Ya to sit together and said that he and Yang Jingxing were very drunk last night and were still dizzy now.
The girls did not admire her, so Li Ya asked: "Yang Jingxing, have you ever sat on a TGV?"
Yang Jingxing shook his head: "If you ask again in the afternoon, I'll just sit down."
Ren Chuyu chuckled lightly and said, "There is also a high-speed rail link from Quhang to Puhai."
Li Ya disdainfully said: "By then, everyone will have graduated."
A group of people were sent to Lyon Station by the travel agency at one o'clock after eight o'clock. Teacher Bo asked everyone to sit down and don't get separated.
Yang Jingxing, who had been planning for many days, found the right opportunity and went to plead with him: "Teacher Bo, can I not go to Rome with everyone? I want to see Modena."
Teacher Bo shook his head repeatedly without thinking: "No, no, how can it be...where is Modena?"
"Ferrari Headquarters." Shao Lei, who was in the same class, lazily answered for Yang Jingxing, "A place that is addictive for the eyes."
Yang Jingxing said eagerly: "I'll set off as soon as I get to Geneva. I'll only be there for one day, so I can make it in time."
Boer remembered that during the domestic statistics, Yang Jingxing seemed to have written down the place he wanted to go to, but he still shook his head: "No, no, I have to be with everyone! This opportunity to visit Cern is hard-won, so cherish it.
." He is a physics teacher, so of course he thinks so.
At this time, Tao Meng came over. She was wearing a Dior summer dress that she had never seen before. A black short skirt, a light gray jacket-like top, black high heels and translucent black socks were not suitable for sixteen or seventeen
year old girl.
Wearing high heels, Tao Meng is on par with Tan Dong, who is 1.75 meters tall. Her big sunglasses cover half of her face, making her pink and thin lips a little dazzling.
As for Jiang Qing and Tao Meng's status as class beauties, Tan Dong believes that Jiang Qing is the winner because Tao Meng is already the class president and cannot have too many titles. She is already a stinker.
Standing in front of Teacher Bo, Tao Meng took off her sunglasses and said, "Teacher Bo, please tell the travel agency that I will stay in Italy for a while and will not go back with everyone."
Bo Erqi agreed to this request: "Yes, I understand. Father is here?" He was called Bo Erqi because his height was not as high as Tao Meng's without high heels.
Yang Jingxing was so shameless that he quickly chased after him and asked, "Teacher Bo, can I stay for two more days? I'll call home..." This made Tao Meng look at him.
Bo Er, who values fairness, had no choice but to say: "As long as your parents agree!"
Yang Jingxing hurriedly called his father, speaking in a rare low voice. But of course his father disagreed: "No, you are alone! People in Italy don't speak English, right?"
Yang Jingxing didn't give up: "I'm begging you, it's not for Ferrari, I don't want to come at all..." It was no longer possible and he had to give up his self-esteem: "It's not just me, there is also a classmate. Someone from her family will pick her up!"
Tao Meng was surprised when she looked at Yang Jingxing this time, and her lips moved to say something.
My father asked a series of questions: "Who are your classmates? Are they boys or girls? What do you do at home? Is it true?"
Yang Jingxing didn't look at Tao Meng: "It's true!"
"Give your teacher the phone and I'll ask." The father didn't quite believe his son.
Yang Jingxing shamelessly begged for second class.
Bo Er was very embarrassed and said on the phone: "There is a classmate who doesn't want to go back... It's a female classmate, but they don't either..." He looked at Tao Meng with determination: "Tao Meng, are you willing to take responsibility for Yang Jingxing?"
?”
Amid the ridicule from other students, Tao Meng lowered her eyes and shook her head expressionlessly.
After Yang Jingxing answered the phone awkwardly, he angrily whispered to his father: "I'm not a child anymore... forget it!"
After a while, they got on the bus. Yang Jingxing seemed very disappointed and looked out the window dully. After setting off for more than an hour, he suddenly heard Tao Meng calling him: "Yang Jingxing."
Yang Jing rarely turned his head away and glanced sideways at his enemy.
"Why do you want to stay in Rome? How many days do you want to stay?" Tao Meng said in a business-like tone.
Yang Jingxing's expression immediately changed, with a smile on his face: "I'm going to see the Ferrari headquarters...it only takes two days, three days at most!"
Tao Meng looked at Yang Jingxing and thought for five seconds, then said, "Then we'll go on the 9th, and you have to get on the plane on the 11th at the latest."
Yang Jingxing said quickly: "No problem! I'll go alone and leave after watching. Nothing will happen!"
The squad leader shook his head solemnly: "You want to come with me."
Yang Jingxing ignored it: "Okay, you have the final say!"
Tao Meng nodded: "You can call home."
For Ferrari, Yang Jingxing was really humiliated and had to let his father talk to his classmates on the phone.
Tao Meng was very polite: "Hello, uncle... Yes, my name is Tao Meng... My father, he is in Leipzig now... No, it is Germany... I don't know. Uncle, that's it, I am Yang Jingxing's squad leader.
I know he wants to go to Maranello this time, and I happen to have time..." After finally finishing speaking, Tao Meng returned the phone to Yang Jingxing, frowning slightly.
Yang Jingxing quickly reassured his father, while his left arm had to endure Tan Dong's heavy beating.
They arrived in Geneva at noon, and after listening to Bo Er and others' arrangements, they went back to their rooms. Tan Dong did not hide his envy and contempt for Yang Jingxing at all, and asked him to pay attention to what Tao Meng's house was doing.
Tan Dong is very good at analysis: "Absolutely awesome! Look at Huo Xuan, do you have no idea now?"
Yang Jingxing laughed at himself: "I risked my life for Ferrari."
During lunch, Tan Dong and Yang Jingxing ate steak and drank beer, and drank three bottles each, which was very satisfying. Then Teacher Bo gathered everyone together again to give a detailed introduction to Cern that they were going to visit tomorrow.
Later in the evening, Tao Meng called Yang Jingxing's room and asked him to go to room 1108 to discuss going to Modena.
"Sit down, would you like a drink of water?" Tao Meng was greeting guests. She and Cao Linglan shared a room. Cao Linglan was counting the loot on her messy bed, while Tao Meng's bed was very tidy.
Yang Jingxing smiled apologetically: "Thank you, actually you don't need to accompany me. I will go in the morning on the 9th and come back in the afternoon on the 10th..."
Tao Meng interrupted: "No, we must work together. This is the monitor's responsibility, and I promised your father... In fact, I knew where you wanted to go when we were collecting opinions at school, but I want to do it for most of the group.
Consider it, so we can’t take care of it on the route.”
Cao Linglan interjected: "I don't want to be accompanied by Tao Meng!"
Yang Jingxing hehe: "I'm afraid you'll be bored."
Tao Meng shook his head: "Anyway, I don't have any plans. My father will come to Rome to pick me up on the 10th, but we will stay for a few more days, so you want to go back alone and book the air ticket yourself?"
The squad leader was serious and responsible, planning the itinerary for Yang Jingxing in detail, and asked him to report the news as soon as possible after returning to China.
The next morning we went to visit Cern, the European Institute for Particle Physics. Bo Er was much more excited than the students. He kept asking the tour guide to introduce and take photos, and only took time to tell the students how beautiful particle physics is.
Perhaps in order to show their humanity, the Europeans opened the Large Hadron Collider to Yang Jingxing and other Oriental children, and arranged for tour guides and engineers to explain it.
Standing in front of the huge core of the collider, Bo Er, like a native seeing a totem, worshiped with awe and gratitude, his voice trembling, and taught Yang Jingxing: "Take a good look, isn't this more exciting than a Ferrari?"
Yang Jingxing nodded in agreement.
Bo Er and others started talking about black holes and wormholes again. Tan Dong suddenly squatted down and made a Terminator gesture: "I come from the future." He got his wish and was laughed at by several female classmates.
The summer camp tour guide translated to the students: "Most of the people who come here to visit this year are not as lucky as you, because the LHC has been undergoing maintenance before, and today the Higgs boson experiment was conducted."
Yang Jingxing was about to raise his camera to take a picture, when he suddenly felt a blinding flash of whiteness in front of his eyes...
After regaining consciousness, Yang Jingxing found himself in darkness. He opened his eyes again, but it was still dark. His first reaction in panic was to reach out and touch himself, but unfortunately, he couldn't feel his hands... From his brain
The action instructions sent also disappeared without a trace, without any feedback.
After panicking, Yang Jingxing found that he couldn't feel anything in the darkness. He seemed to have no body, no breathing, no air around him, and no temperature... The only thing he had was consciousness and the ability to think.
Did he die? Only a poor soul was left floating in the endless darkness. Yang Jingxing's consciousness was desperate and sad.
After a long time, probably a few days based on his consciousness, Yang Jingxing guessed that he had probably become a vegetative state, because after he calmed down, he did not believe in the so-called soul.
I couldn't reconcile myself to the fact that I was still young and yet I turned into a vegetative state! What happened? Did the collider explode? Yang Jingxing imagined how sad his mother would be, but he could only cry in his heart.
How much I want to live! In the past, Yang Jingxing never understood why people live, but now he knows that people live for the sake of living, and living is better than anything else!
He could eat, sleep, talk, laugh, cry and scold... He had friends, relatives, and girls alive... I don't know how long it took, probably weeks or months, but Yang Jingxing began to suffer from loneliness.
torture.
The remaining consciousness also hopes that advanced medicine can revive him as a vegetative state as soon as possible, so that he can see the light of day again and avoid torture. Yang Jingxing has to wait, but unfortunately this waiting has no end. One day has passed, and another day has passed, probably
A week has passed... He is still a poor soul floating in the endless darkness, without sleeping or breathing...
Now, maybe a year has passed. If Yang Jingxing wants to make his mind go crazy, it's better to become a complete idiot so that he doesn't have to be tortured by his thoughts. He finally understands why the prisoners in the prison are so afraid of being imprisoned.
The house is so painful!
How much I miss you! I miss my mother’s nagging, my father’s scolding, and my grandpa’s love. Friends, how are you? They also said they were going to the same city to study at university. Liu Miao and Xia Xue agreed to go together during the summer vacation.
Swimmers, you came to see me, Mom? Where am I now? Have I gone home? Mom and Dad, don’t be sad...
Not willing to give in, really not willing to give in! Yang Jingxing sighed in the endless darkness, sad... After a long time, he also wanted to laugh occasionally... As time passed slowly, one year, two years, ten years... the infinite and long loneliness
…
How many years have passed? Are your parents still alive? Are you getting old too? It’s time to die! If medicine doesn’t progress, euthanasia is a good idea! Is this just asking for life rather than death?! What have I done wrong to punish me like this?
Another day, Yang Jingxing suddenly became energetic and felt that he should think of something happy. Fortunately, the memory of a vegetative person is surprisingly good, and not a single moment of his life has passed away.
Although I have thought about everything I can recall and guess countless times in the past decades or hundreds of years, I still start one of the countless possibilities again: If nothing happens to me, how will I live for the rest of my life? What kind of wife will I marry? Give birth to a daughter.
Or a son... How can I live without living in this world in vain?
While he was lusting, Yang Jingxing's mind was suddenly startled. White? Is that white? Why is there white? It seems to be passing in front of his eyes! Is it an illusion? I have long forgotten what vision and illusion are.
!
This change was too big for Yang Jingxing, who had been accustomed to nothingness for decades or even hundreds of years. He was frightened and ecstatically hoping for more.
Yang Jingxing was not disappointed. In the "vision" of his consciousness that had no direction or angle, white appeared, followed by red, green, orange... It was so rich!
Those colors appeared and disappeared, as if disappearing into my own consciousness, but the ones that followed were still continuous. Finally, those lights intertwined into a shape like a DNA map, constantly rotating and changing, entering my own thinking.
Yang Jingxing's consciousness no longer had any sense of time, but it was estimated that this colorful state lasted for about a day or a month. As the halos of the maps enriched himself, he clearly felt that his consciousness was changing, or that his thinking and brain were changing.
Changes. Many things that I couldn't remember suddenly came back to me very clearly...the whole memory became so organized and clear.
Another unexpected moment, Yang Jingxing felt something! Feeling, feeling! What is it? Breath, temperature! Yes! It's the body!
Chapter completed!