I continued walking toward home, and as I walked, I rebuked myself: "Are you an officer in the People's Liberation Army? Are you a member of the Communist Party? A teacher of Marxist-Leninism? You are, and you're a materialist. And a pure materialist is afraid of nothing. A communist doesn't fear death, so what else is there to fear? Ghosts, causing afflictions? No! Are there wild beasts here? No! Not in this world. It's just much ado about nothing....