Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 133 Convincing the Master to Go Running

"Of course, with the Master."

Zhou Jing chuckled into Gu Jia's ear.

Gu Jia's ear was rubbed by the boy's lips, and the hot air he exhaled blew into her ear, feeling warm and itchy.

Assuming that doomsday is three years from now, of course we have to maximize our happiness in the short time left. First, we have to find someone who doesn't need to work hard or make money to be our gigolo. This person has to be beautiful, gentle, and unique enough.

Among the people I know, Gu Jia is the most suitable one who meets these three conditions.

"What if the brat becomes more and more outrageous?"

Gu Jia hesitated to speak and gently pinched the back of the boy's hand. She wanted to say "I'm serious", but was afraid of hearing an answer she didn't want to hear.

"Where's the master?"

Zhou Jing continued to ask.

"Me?" Gu Jia couldn't say "with you", so she said, "If the world is destroyed in three years, I want to not go to work every day, eat, drink and have fun all day. My girlfriends all have families, so it's okay for you to accompany me. You're a good cook."

Gu Jia didn't dare to answer seriously.

She was worried that the boy would laugh at her for being too old and too young, and for being immoral.

Gu Jia has been struggling with contradictions in her heart. She wants to get an accurate answer and give up even if there is no hope. But she is also afraid of losing hope completely and being sentenced to death. Now at least she can maintain the relationship and cultivate feelings. If she doesn't get the answer she wants after confessing her feelings, she can only remain silent when they meet in the future.

"I'm also a good driver."

Zhou Jing looked at Gu Jia's profile seriously and thought that he should take the 2012 prophecy as true.

The film started on time and the lights in the theater went out.

Zhou Jing had watched this movie four or five times in his previous life, and he is still shocked when watching it now. It is the most shocking disaster movie he has ever seen. After watching "2012" for the first time in his previous life, Zhou Jing could not calm down for a long time and thought about it for a long time.

What is a life on earth?
What is the earth in the vast universe?
Life is nothing more than a machine controlled by a unique code. Steel machines will wear out and become scrapped, and living things will grow old, get sick and die.

"Explain to me what happened to the Earth as a result of the solar ejection?"

Gu Jia didn't understand the beginning, so she leaned her shoulder against Zhou Jing's chair and said.

Zhou Jing whispered in her ear:
"To put it simply, the sun emits a particle that causes a reaction inside the earth, causing the temperature inside the earth to rise, causing a large movement of the continental plates, leading to super earthquakes and volcanoes, and triggering super tsunamis and floods."

This is the only explanation for Zhou Jing, a liberal arts student.

"I see."

Gu Jia nodded. Now that she knew the cause of the disaster, she understood it better after watching the movie.

"Floods are very prominent in civilizations. Different civilizations in the world have similar myths. Our myths include Nuwa mending the sky, the Classic of Mountains and Seas records a great flood, and the Western Bible contains a world-destroying flood and Noah's Ark. This movie was made based on the records of Mayan civilization. Do you think this is a coincidence or a necessity?"

Gu Jia said to Zhou Nanyu.

"Of course, floods, earthquakes and fires are common threats to all civilizations. Coupled with the limitations of ancient cognition, they regarded insurmountable natural disasters as punishment from heaven. This should also be the reason why ancient people revered heaven."

Zhou Jing said in Gu Jia's ear.

“That’s a perfect explanation.”

Sometimes when Gu Jia read posts on the forum, she would be led by those "knowledgeable" netizens to doubt whether there is a God or not. After listening to the boy's explanation, she felt that her thinking was too narrow. If there must be a God, the only God is nature.

"But that's not necessarily the case. The origin of life is an unsolved mystery."

Zhou Jing and Gu Jia spoke with their heads close together.

Gu Jia nodded.

Zhou Jing would occasionally glance at Gu Jia's face and her hand on the armrest of the seat. He felt itchy in his heart. If it was Yang Wenwen's hand, Zhou Jing would definitely not be able to help but hold it.

The two and a half hour movie ended unknowingly. Gu Jia tilted her head to glance at the boy beside her and said, "Humans are too small in front of nature." "Isn't it? In the movie, the sky falls down for all mankind. For us personally, it may be a disease, an accident, or a small earthquake that can destroy everything we have. So it is a blessing for a person to live to old age in good health without any pain."

Zhou Jing looked at Gu Jia and said.

"Yes."

Gu Jia sighed deeply, stood up and left the theater.

When they reached the hall, Gu Jia gave her shoulder bag to the boy and went to the bathroom.

Zhou Jing went to the men's room with his bag.

After coming out of the bathroom, the two of them left the theater and went to the car. When they got in the car, Gu Jia still hadn't gotten over the shock of the movie and was very depressed. "Do you think the world will really be destroyed one day?"

"The current recorded history of civilization is only a few thousand years, which is just a moment compared to the billions of years of life on Earth. It must have been destroyed in the past, and we don't know when it will be destroyed in the future. The sun will definitely burn out one day, and the earth will definitely dry up one day. As long as it doesn't happen in our lifetime, it doesn't matter when it is destroyed, right?"

Zhou Jing couldn't help but reach out and hook the hair beside Gu Jia's ear with his fingers.

"Yes, we should cherish the present. Everyone is equal in the face of such a disaster. What would you do in the face of such a disaster? Would you run away?"

After hearing what the boy said, Gu Jia felt much more open-minded. It was enough to live a good life in her lifetime. Recalling the movie where huge cities and tall buildings were reduced to ruins in the blink of an eye and the entire continent was swallowed up by the tsunami, Gu Jia felt very emotional.

"Where are you running to? You're preparing to die in advance. Master, don't you think it's more hopeless to live at that time?"

If the end of the world comes, Zhou Jing will definitely not escape. Even if he enters Noah's Ark, there is no guarantee of hope.

"Yes, living is more desperate." Gu Jia felt the same way, "Why build Noah's Ark in our country? According to the American theme, they should be the heroes."

"It may be to better enter the Chinese film market. In fact, only my country has such productivity. If such a disaster really happens in the future, there is one country in the world that can create a miracle, and that country must be my country."

"why?"

Gu Jia took a sip of the tea that she hadn’t finished drinking while watching the movie.

"The stubbornness engraved in our cultural genes and the solidarity in the face of great disasters."

"In Western cultural beliefs, gods cannot be disobeyed. In Western mythology, they hid in Noah's Ark when facing a flood and waited for the flood to recede. In ours, Dayu controlled the flood and fought against nature to the end. The Western sun god is supreme. In our mythology, Kuafu chased the sun because it was too hot, and Houyi shot down the sun. In Western mythology, fire was given by God, but in ours, fire was drilled out by drilling wood, and there are also Yugong moving mountains and Jingwei filling the sea."

"In short, our culture is full of fighting spirit in the face of difficulties."

"The closest to us was the earthquake last year. Maybe that's why we were the only one of the four ancient civilizations that survived."

Zhou Jing originally thought that culture, an invisible and intangible thing, was very meaningless. However, as he got to know the world better and his cognition improved, he felt that it was this invisible and intangible thing that enabled a nation to stand firm.

"Indeed, the spirit of 'Are there any kings, princes, generals or ministers of different species' is exactly like this. You are more like a liberal arts student than a liberal arts student. So the movie we just watched is a typical Western cultural feature. The vast majority of people died, and only a very small number of people were waiting in Noah's Ark for the flood to recede."

Gu Jia nodded and said.

"If our country made a movie about apocalyptic disasters, we might install an engine on the earth and move it away."

Zhou Jing thought of The Wandering Earth. Stories like Dayu's flood control, Houyi's shooting down the sun, and Yugong's moving mountains might have been written by people like Liu Cixin.

“What a big engine that is.”

Gu Jia couldn't help but laugh. It sounded outrageous, but it did fit in with the cultural attributes of her country.

"It's man-made."

"I'm so tired. I don't want to run tonight. Please convince me to go run."

Gu Jia looked at the time. It was already past four o'clock. Her mother sent her a message asking if she would go home for dinner. She was hesitant.

"I'll give you a massage after running."

(End of this chapter)