Black Myth: Egg of the Primordial Wilderness

"Black Myth: The Egg of the Ancient World" - This is the real "black", even despair can't find a place to stay. I am a standard lover of dark epics. I have watched "Game of Thrones" and read "Dune". I pride myself on being immune to "darkness" and "despair". Until I clicked on the book and saw the first sentence: "The first sound of the universe was not the trumpet of creation, but a scream of pain." And then the second sentence: "We are cancer cells, living on the corpse of God." I was pinned directly to the screen. 1. Its "blackness" is absolutely "black" in logic. The most powerful thing about this book is that it builds a dark universe that is logically self-consistent and impeccable. It is not dark for the sake of darkness, but uses the dual main lines of "Dewdrops" (the source of cancer mutations) and "Zero Light" (the fire of resistance) to reinterpret all events in human history - from Zhuang Zhou's Dream of Butterflies to the Three Kingdoms. Every allusion and every character has become a footnote to this dark logic. - The unification of Qin Shihuang was the victory of the "violent proliferation subtype" of cancer; - Liu Bei's crossing the river with his people was Lingguang's "awakening of benevolence"; - Even the "snake seducing Eve" in the Bible has become a program for dewdrops to activate human's "cancer cell instinct". This logical closed loop of "interpreting all light as darkness" is the most nerve-wracking thing. 2. Its "despair" is the ultimate "despair" in philosophy The despair of this book is not the shallow despair of "the protagonist is dead" or "the world is destroyed". Its despair makes you start to doubt: "We think we are fighting cancer, but in fact we are just helping cancer write papers on immune escape." It makes you realize that all your efforts, all your goodwill, and all your resistance may be just the self-optimization of "cancer cells" on a cosmic scale. This kind of despair is deep in the bone marrow, because it denies even "hope" itself. 3. Its "epic feeling" is "grand" that spans time and space The layout of this book is very large, from the "Binding Sound" of the birth of the universe, to the "Zero Light Awakening" during the Three Kingdoms period, to the future "Mars colonization", the time span runs through the past, present and future. It combines Chinese mythology, Western religion, and modern science fiction, but perfectly serves the core theme of "cancer and resistance". This sense of grandeur across time and space will make you involuntarily feel a sense of awe that "human beings are so small" when reading. 4. Write to you who are still hesitating If you like to read "cool stories" and "the protagonist cheats all the way", then this book may not be suitable for you. But if you like works that are in-depth, thoughtful, and worth chewing over and over again, then you must not miss this book. It may subvert your cognition, may make you feel uncomfortable, and may even make you fall into silence for a long time after closing the book. But that's the beauty of it - it's not a book to be read for fun, but a book to remember. Finally, I will end with a quote from the book: "The real black myth is not 'we are sick', but 'we know we are sick, but even the concept of 'health' is an illusion caused by illness." Family members, I am still confused after reading this book... At first, I was attracted by the title of the book "Black Myth: The Egg of the Prehistoric World", thinking it was an ordinary prehistoric novel. As a result, the first sentence of the first chapter silenced me: "The first sound of the universe was not the horn of creation, but a scream of pain." The second sentence is even more amazing: "We are cancer cells, parasitic on the corpse of God." I sat up straight. This book is different from what I have read before. It does not tell you who is powerful and who can counterattack, but tells you a story from beginning to end about "we are all cancer cells in the universe". The unification of Qin Shihuang, the benevolence of Liu Bei, and the establishment of the Three Kingdoms are all part of the "cancer" in the book. The most amazing thing is the "zero light" setting, which sounds like hope, but the author tells you that even hope itself may be the illusion of cancer cells. After reading it, everything I look at now feels like I'm gnawing on God's bones, and even drinking water feels like I'm sucking God's marrow. This book is so "dark" that after reading it, I even despaired and didn't know where to put it. If you like dark and hardcore settings, you must read it! But if you have a bad heart, please be careful. I haven't recovered yet.