The night breeze is slightly cool, and the green grass is also real and illusory, gently stretching its branches and leaves in the wind. Alice shook her hand, and the grass turned into countless faint green light particles, scattered and annihilated.

"It's also a lot of work to keep it growing all the time. Any questions? Alice said.

Sun Suhe rubbed his temples, "The jumping incident I said before, well, there are some other things, although I still have a lot of questions, but I'm afraid these will not be clear for a while." What I want to know most now is, who do you think I am, and who do you think you are?"

"What do you think? Imagine how you would feel if you met your childhood self?"

"Well, I think he's so naïve and stupid......" Sun Suhe replied casually, blushing as he spoke.

Alice patted Sun Suhe's shoulder and laughed: "Yes, yes, it's me, I'm still quite self-aware." Seriously, do you remember the story of the ship of Theseus?"

"You mean that paradox of thinking?" asked Sun Suhe.

Alice nodded, "If I remember correctly, the origin of this paradox is this, the Prince of Athens Theseus sailed to Crete and killed the monster Minoan Cow. In his honor, the Athenians preserved the ship as a monument to the hero. As time passed, the wood decayed, and the Athenians kept replacing it with new wood. Eventually, every piece of wood on the ship was replaced. So is this ship still the ship of Theseus?"

Sun Suhe understood the meaning of Alice's words, but he didn't know how to answer this question for a while.

Alice continued: "How can we think clearly of the paradox that so many philosophers have debated? However, I think that the ship of Theseus is not because of the keel, not because of the deck, not because of the sails, not because of some piece of wood. In the same way, I am not because of the muscles, because of the bones, because of the organs, because of a certain cell. What makes me who I am is some kind of deeper self-awareness, and this self-awareness is always present in you and me, so you are me, and I am you. ”

"You are me, and I am you. You are me, and I am you. Sun Suhe chewed on this sentence carefully.

After pondering for a long time, he let out a long sigh: "Hey, this kind of philosophical and metaphysical thing, the more I think about it, the more confused I become, I know what kind of person I am, and you also know what kind of person you are, that's enough." By the way, don't you have any questions for me?"

"Well, well, you haven't called your parents in a long time, have you?" asked Alice, a little wry.

Sun Suhe rubbed his hair awkwardly, "I haven't called back since I ran out of the house." Actually, hey......"

Alice bit her lip and whispered, "Let's hit one." ”

Sun Suhe was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt a shock in his heart, I haven't seen my parents for more than a month, but she ......

The bottom of his heart was suddenly sour, and Sun Suhe felt that compared with Alice's mood, all his anger and self-esteem seemed so naïve. He looked at the time, "Mom and Dad should be off work by now." Let's hit one, I'll fight now. ”

Sun Suhe turned his mobile phone into hands-free mode and dialed home without hesitation.

Toot, toot, toot...... In a quiet room, the waiting time for connection is extraordinarily long.

"Hey, Suhe?" said Mom with a surprised voice coming out of her phone. Alice's hands clenched unconsciously, her eyes were red, and she turned away slightly, as if she didn't dare to look at the phone that was on the phone.

Sun Suhe couldn't help but pour out two lines of poetry in his heart: the hometown is more timid, and he doesn't dare to ask anyone. At this moment, he felt an inexplicable sense of guilt invade his whole body, and he didn't know whether it was his family, Alice, or himself.

Sun Suhe's voice was slightly choked and said, "Mom, it's okay, I just want to call home." ”

"Do you have a cold? Is it serious? You have to take care of yourself when you're out there alone. Hearing that Sun Suhe's voice was a little strange, her mother asked eagerly.

"It's okay, I'm okay. Just now, my nose was a little itchy...... "Sun Suhe beckoned to Alice while making a phone call, and pointed to the phone. Alice swallowed her emotions and shook her head through gritted teeth.

The call took a long time, but Sun Suhe felt that time passed too quickly.

Mom and Dad tacitly agreed not to mention work anymore, but told him to take good care of himself, eat and clothe himself, don't get sick, and call home if he is short of money. They chattered a lot of trivial things, and Sun Suhe felt that it was not annoying at all for the first time, but sad and heartwarming, with mixed tastes.

Sun Suhe deeply felt that his parents always wanted to give their children what they thought was the best, but when this kindness was not what the child really wanted, everything seemed so helpless.

After hanging up the phone, Alice leaned against the wall alone without saying a word. Sun Suhe couldn't bear it, but he didn't know how to comfort her, so he deliberately pinched his nose exaggeratedly and shouted: "Stink, stink, ouch, who is so stinky, go take a bath." ”

Actually, Sun Suhe wanted to comfort him with kind words. But, in this case, any comfort seems to turn into a shameful show-off. Sun Suhe watched Alice's lonely back walking towards the bathroom, and could only hope that a comfortable hot bath would allow her to change her mood.

Alice entered the bathroom in silence. She stood under the shower, letting the warm water wash over her body of dust and emotion. The wet hair was casually draped, and Alice brushed the hair that hung down from her forehead with her hand from time to time, but she couldn't tell whether it was water or tears together.

Sun Suhe leaned on the sofa, looking at himself reflected in the window glass, a thousand tastes and thoughts came to his heart like a tide. He closed his eyes and reached out to touch his cheek.

The night breeze blew, and Sun Suhe carefully distinguished which ones were the coolness of the cool breeze blowing on his face, which ones were the warmth of being touched by his fingers, and which ones were the touch from his fingertips. His mind gradually calmed down, and the beating of his heart was felt more and more clearly, and Sun Suhe felt for the first time that life was surging in his body. At the bottom of my heart, a voice is getting stronger and stronger: Whether it is for myself or for my family, I must survive!

Bang, bang, bang...... A knock on the bathroom interrupted Sun Suhe's thoughts.

"What's the matter? The door is stuck again? This door is stuck at both ends of his grandmother's three days. Sun Suhe hurriedly ran over. was about to help open the door, when he suddenly remembered something, and suddenly his face was crimson with embarrassment, and he stood in front of the door at a loss.

"Bring me some clothes, and bath towels, and give me the one to dry on the balcony." Alice's voice came from inside the bathroom.

"Okay, okay, you wait, I'll get it right away. Sun Suhe said, hurriedly took three steps and ran away in two steps.

Alice is petite, puts on a T-shirt by Sun Suhe as pajamas, and sits on the sofa drinking milk with a big grin. Although the hem of the T-shirt was almost down to Alice's knees, Sun Suhe was still a little too shy to look directly. The faint body fragrance from the tip of his nose from time to time made his cheeks even hotter.

Alice looked at Sun Suhe's embarrassment, smiled narrowly, and deliberately leaned over.

"What are you doing?" Sun Suhe made an impatient look to hide his embarrassment.

"What are you doing?" Alice said, resting her face on Sun Suhe's shoulder.

"Don't don't, isn't it fun? Don't play with me, okay?" Sun Suhe begged helplessly for mercy.

"Ashamed, ashamed, in the next innocent little virgin Sun Suhe. Alice rubbed Sun Suhe's head, leaning forward and backwards with laughter, and the milk in her hand almost spilled. She smiled and attached it to Sun Suhe's ear, and said softly: "Tell you a secret, in fact, I am not a woman." ”

"Eh?" Sun Suhe was stunned for a moment, only to feel that there were more surprises in a day today than in the past year.

Alice couldn't help but laugh again when she looked at Sun Suhe's stunned face, she patted Sun Suhe's shoulder and said, "Because I'm not human at all, and of course I won't be a woman." What the hell are you being shy of?"

"You're not human? yes, it's strange to have humans in another world. ”

But Sun Suhe looked at Alice's appearance, in addition to her appearance being really thrillingly beautiful, her basic body structure seemed to be no different from that of a human being.

"Don't you think I'm similar to humans? Actually, there are a lot of differences. That's right, you see. Alice said and gently stroked the silver hair in her ears,

Sun Suhe saw that her ears were small and pointy, and they seemed to be the same as the elves in the story.

Alice casually played with the ends of her hair and said: "It's quite lucky, I haven't turned into a slime, goblin or anything, haha, although it's very different from humans now, but at least the appearance is still acceptable." ”

"But, it's become a woman, um, a mother?"

Before Sun Suhe finished speaking, he saw Alice looking at him with a smile.

A chill arose, and Sun Suhe couldn't help but shiver. He quickly changed the subject: "You can't be the legendary elves, right? ”

Alice thought for a moment and said, "I don't know if it's an elf or not." There is no concept of elves in our world. However, since I was able to come to this world, it is not impossible that there may be people from my own race who have come to this world and left legends in history. ”

As Alice was talking, her face suddenly turned pale without warning, and she suddenly lay down on the sofa, cold sweat dripping on her body.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Sun Suhe's anxious voice kept coming. But Alice's audible voice grew smaller and smaller, and her consciousness gradually sank into silent darkness.