Why Live?

Liu Wuwei's seventeen years of life is a fill-in-the-blank question. The question is "What are you living for?" And the answer column is always empty. That night, a group of mercenaries retreated to No. 3 Middle School on the outskirts of the city. The mercenary led by the leader announced a bet called "God's Judgment": a revolver, one live bullet, and one blank bullet. They volunteered to participate. If they win, the whole class will leave, and if they lose, they will take their lives. Liu Wuwei thought for a long time in the audience - thinking about his father's "um" that was so short that no one could hear the disappointment, thinking about his mother asking if he had eaten on the phone, thinking about going into the factory to drive screws - and then raised his hand tremblingly. Five shots. The last shot hit the chest. The mercenary leader fed him a drop of blood before he passed out. A drop of blood that is not human. He woke up in a military hospital. An old man wearing an old Chinese tunic suit sat beside the bed and told him a story: 100 million years ago, a branch of Pangea evolved that was different from all living things today. Later people called them ancient beasts. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is not a myth. The blood of those ancient beasts has not disappeared and has been passed down from generation to generation in human bodies. This kind of person is called Yuanyi. After the old man left, Liu Wuwei picked up the dark silver round badge on the bedside. The moment the fingertips touched the metal, a very subtle warm current seeped from the surface of the badge into the fingerprint, and followed the wrist to the chest. Not hot, not stinging, not heat. Something moved in the deepest part of his body - like a fish that had been sleeping for a long time, shaking its tail fin. He is still alive. What we need to learn next is how to live