DipNovel Chapter 66 Hold On
Chapter 66 Hold On
Chapter 66 Hold On
The bipedal ape symbol was well preserved, and Captain Zhao's translator deciphered it as an agricultural calendar.
The timing of sowing, harvesting, and fallowing is specified down to the day.
When Captain Zhao lifted the stone slab onto the ground, the old chief Mo Sai was squatting under the mango tree watching the upright apes draw circles.
He took the stone slab and looked at it for a while, then said, "This calendar was used by my great-grandfather. It's not just the symbols that are the same, but the content. The planting days, harvest days, and fallow days are exactly the same as the oral calendar of Botswana."
Where did the oral calendar come from?
"It was passed down from our ancestors. They said they learned it from the creatures that drew circles."
Captain Zhao was silent for a moment: "Did your ancestors learn farming from Homo erectus?"
"It wasn't that we learned it, it was that we farmed together." Mosse placed the stone slab on his lap and said, "Our ancestors said that long ago, humans and creatures that drew circles farmed this land together. Humans farmed their fields, and they farmed theirs. The days for sowing were the same, the days for harvesting were the same, and the days for fallowing were the same. Fields were next to fields, wells were next to wells. Then one day, they left, and we don't know why they left. Our ancestors recorded their farming methods, and they became the oral calendar."
That evening, Captain Zhao wrote up the oral history into a report and sent it to Kerry.
When Kerry forwarded the message to Lu Cheng, he added a note:
Pre-civilized humans and Homo erectus not only coexisted but also farmed together. After they left, humans passed down their agricultural techniques for 100,000 years, turning them into their own oral calendar. Farmers in Botswana still use the Homo erectus calendar to farm today, but they are unaware of it.
Lu Cheng placed the report on his desk.
Carrie pushed open the door with a cup of coffee in her hand, and from his expression, she knew he was thinking about something.
"The old chief of Bertswana said that when upright apes look at human hands, they perceive the number of fingers on their own hands as human. So the two extra fingers in the mirror are from upright apes, not seven fingers."
Carrie placed the coffee in front of him: "You mean, the seven fingers in mirror perception aren't God deceiving humanity, but rather the eyes of the upright apes deceiving themselves, and then they passed the deception on to humans?"
"That's what Moser said. He said: It wasn't me who saw seven in the mirror, it was the upright apes who saw seven in the mirror, and then they transmitted the image of those seven to me. The gray diffusion wasn't caused by God, it was caused by the visual error of the upright apes. God didn't come from the mirror, he came from the eyes of the upright apes."
Lu Cheng picked up his coffee and took a sip.
"If he's right, then the god carved on the pre-civilized stone wall is in the mirror," which translates to the eye of the standing ape itself being the source of the god. They see two extra hands in their own hands, and two extra hands in human hands as well. This discrepancy flows from their eyes, into the mirror, into the water, and into the human eyeball. The gaze continues, the discrepancy continues. The discrepancy continues, and the god is immortal.
Taro Tanuki Country, Kyoto.
Massa walked into the courtyard alone at four in the morning.
In the courtyard, the upright ape had just turned the mirror over after keeping it face down all night.
The plaster on the frame seeped into the edge of the mirror, forming a pattern on the surface.
It's not the concentric circles from before, nor is it the upright ape symbol.
It is a painting.
It depicts two hands.
One has five fingers, and the other has seven fingers.
The two hands are clasped together.
After the plaster seeped into the mirror, it stained both hands gray.
Massa squatted in front of the mirror and stared at the painting for a long time.
The upright ape squatted beside him, dipped its front paws in the remaining mortar, and carved a line of words on the stone slab.
"We can't tell the difference, we haven't been able to tell the difference for 100,000 years. When we look at our own hands, sometimes we see five, sometimes seven, and we don't know which one is real. So we draw both hands and put them together. That way we don't have to tell them apart."
Massa looked at the words: "Now the gray has seeped in, staining both hands gray, and you still can't tell?"
Upright Ape Carving: "It's even harder to tell the difference, but there's no need to. Gray isn't a third hand; gray is the color of two hands clasped together. It's not merging, it's clasping."
It was almost dawn when Massa came out of the courtyard.
He sent Kerry a short telegram: it said that Gray was holding on.
The Winners' Kingdom, the government.
When Lu Cheng received the telegram from Massa forwarded by Kerry, he was watching Carrie plant flowers in the backyard.
Carrie opened a flower garden in the backyard of the government building, where she planted roses that had been transported from the United Kingdom.
She squatted down by the flowerbed, dug holes with a small shovel, and planted the rose seedlings one by one.
"Massa said that the upright ape drew two hands on the mirror, one with five fingers and the other with seven, clasped together. The plaster seeped in, and both hands turned gray. It said that the gray wasn't merging, but clasping."
Carrie stuck the small shovel into the soil: "What does 'holding' mean?"
"It grasped the human's hand, and the human grasped its hand. Both hands turned gray, but not into a third thing; rather, at the moment of grasping, both hands absorbed the color from the other's hands. After letting go, they washed themselves, and the red returned to red, and the black to black. But at that instant of grasping, the gray was there."
Carrie stood up and dusted off her hands:
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"Then shake hands, then let go and go your separate ways."
Lu Cheng looked at her.
Carrie's way of thinking is always so direct.
Complex matters become simple in her words.
Give each other a handshake, let go, and go your separate ways.
If it works, great; if not, we'll see.
"The problem is how you shake hands. Namibi's 30,000 people also shook hands, and after that, they walked into Angula. Sergei also shook hands, and after that, he squatted down and formed concentric circles. If you shake hands the wrong way, your hands will get stained with ash that you can't wash off."
"Then what's the right way?"
"Moser's method. He grasped the error that a hominid looked at a human's hand 100,000 years ago, and he returned the error to the hominid, so his own hand still has five fingers. If you grasp the truth, your hand will not turn gray. If you grasp the illusion, your hand can never be cleaned."
That night, dawn broke.
[Day 80 of the Alien Creatures' Arrival - Disguise Progress Update]
[Average progress of camouflage for the Ten Kingdoms' Homo erectus: 91%. Individual from Taro Tanuki Kingdom (Kyoto): 99%.]
[System notification: Chief Mosse of Bertswana has successfully resisted the mirror cognition transformation, and there are no gray lines in his pupils.]
This was confirmed as the second effective defense method—error attribution. The core mechanism: attributing visual errors to the visual system of the upright ape, rather than to its own or divine intervention.
[System Supplement: Both the Mbeki method (self-affirmation method) and the Moses method (error source tracing method) are effective defense mechanisms. The Mbeki method is suitable for those whose visual errors have not yet become entrenched, while the Moses method is suitable for those who have developed visual errors but have not yet completed cognitive transformation. Neither method is effective for those who have completed cognitive transformation.]
[System final notification: Those who have completed the cognitive transformation have changed their self-perception from "human" to "Seven-Fingered People." This transformation is irreversible. Approximately 110,000 people throughout Namibi and along the Angula border have entered this irreversible stage.]
The light curtain went out.
Lu Cheng stood on the balcony. Carrie walked over to him, holding two cups of coffee, and handed him one.
"The lives of 110,000 are irreversible. Of the remaining people, half can be saved using the Mbeki method, and the other half can be saved using the Mosaic method. As for those who cannot be saved—" Carrie took a sip of coffee.