The night was deep, but Kosong fell asleep wearily in his arms.

The single bed was narrow, and he leaned sideways and stretched out an arm so that the girl could be safely curled into his arms.

The eyelashes were still trembling slightly in their sleep - perhaps because of the pain somewhere.

The skin of the two men was very tight. Even if you have calmed down from the previous madness, you can still feel the amazing heat and smoothness. He sighed slightly, and reached out a hand to gently stroke from Ke Song's bare shoulder, all the way to his sharply contracted waist.

The most primitive desires of human beings......

Even I can't break free from that desire.

Ultimately...... It's still a living thing.

Li Zhen got up gently, slowly put Ke Song's head on the pillow, then got rid of her limbs, used her toes to remove the paper balls from her leather shoes, and got out of bed naked.

He tugged at his shoes and walked to the window. So I saw the civet cat.

The cat is purring softly, its face buried between its paws, its soft belly rising and falling rapidly.

There was a slight "snort" in the breathing sound, as if something was blocked in the nose or throat, making it breathless. Li Zhen gently reached over his hand, touched the tip of its wet nose, and then retracted it. In the dim light of the sky, I saw a thin layer of transparent liquid on my fingers......

Some resemble snot. But the thing was slowly moving, like a slime from a cartoon.

He let out a low "oh" and rubbed his fingers slightly—and the liquid was gone.

He turned around and lightly put on his clothes and picked up the cat again. And the cat was not awakened. They walked out the door silently, glanced past the house where the freezer was kept, and continued along the dusty road.

After walking for a while, crossing three streets, I saw a figure sitting next to a ruin, and a red dot flashed on the side of his mouth.

So he walked over and sat down beside the man.

Ying resolutely glanced at him, took out a cigarette and handed it to him.

Li Zhen waved his hand, and then asked, "Can't sleep?" ”

"I wonder what the hell is going on with you." The other party threw away the cigarette butt at hand and lit another one. "I'm not at ease."

Li Zhen gently stroked the cat's smooth body. After thinking for a while, he said, "I was going to tell you later." But now I feel the need for it. Just worried about something...... You can't accept it. ”

Ying Ran smiled slightly: "You can be resurrected after dying twice, is there anything more unacceptable than this?" ”

"Hmm...... This is true for the average person. Li Zhen nodded, "Then you have to be mentally prepared." Because what I'm going to say next is probably a little more bizarre. ”

"Tell me about it."

Li Zhen looked at him: "This me you see now." Just one of them. There are many more me. It's like that, somewhere else. ”

Ying Ran frowned slightly and pondered for a while: "What do you mean...... Spiritual consciousness or something, or some philosophical idea? ”

"Me. The other me. The third me, blah blah blah. Really big living people. Li Zhen pointed at himself and then elsewhere, "It's like a clone." ”

Ying Jueran looked at him in surprise, leaning back slightly: "You mean...... You...... Not Li Zhen? But clones? One of them? ”

He was a little wary. If it weren't for some mental preparation, I almost stood up.

Li Zhen reached over and patted him on the shoulder to calm him down: "The clone is just an analogy. I am Li Zhen, and everyone else is also Li Zhen. We're all the same person – not just the same body, but actually very close in thought. ”

Ying Ran still didn't calm down completely, just looked at him and didn't speak.

"I know what you're thinking." Li Zhen smiled, "You're thinking about the kind of thing in science fiction - every clone thinks they are the original, so they hate each other and even fight each other or something." But in my case, nothing exists...... Maybe it's hard for you to understand. Let me explain it to you. ”

He raised his arm: "Like you." When someone is about to hit you, you instinctively raise your hand to block it. But would you consider 'what is lifting your hands' instead of 'lifting your feet'? Wouldn't it be unpleasant to have your arm and kick slapped? ”

"It's ridiculous, isn't it? Because hands and feet are a part of you, you don't think about who is reasonable and who is unreasonable, everything is at the service of your whole. ”

"In the same way, if there are three of me, A, B and C standing together, and there is only one road in front of them, and there is a mine buried on the road, and one of them has to sacrifice himself to detonate the mine—"

"If A takes the initiative to say that I will clear mines, then B and C will definitely not stop him. If A and B say to C that you are going to clear mines, C will not refuse. Because we're all the same people – we don't think about being fair to our arms or being fair to our feet. ”

He looked at Ying Ran: "Do you understand? ”

Ying Ran pondered for a while, and said slowly: "I don't understand. But...... Roughly figure out what's going on. ”

He looked at the Li Zhen in front of him again: "If I meet another you, he will also know me, and he will also know Zhang Kesong, and he will sit down and talk to me like this?" So...... Oh my God, what are you going to do? How did it come to this? ”

Li Zhen gently rubbed the tanuki's head: "You should know that I was blown to pieces at that time." Some of the larger parts have become people like me. As for the future...... We'll definitely be together. But for what is not now? Because each of us is thinking about one thing. ”

He sighed slightly: "A person's subjective consciousness will always be very one-sided, so I need many people to think about it together, and then summarize it to draw conclusions." ”

He looked up at Ying Resolute: "Should I help you, or...... Stand aside and watch. ”

Ying resolutely stared at him and slowly sat up straight: "What do you mean by that?" ”

"Don't look like that. You're a good friend to me in the human race—don't you realize that I'm actually leaning toward you? Otherwise...... I don't even have to 'think'. Li Zhen smiled faintly. Shake your head at him.

Ying Ran felt a little stiff on his face. He even wanted to stand up and stay away from this Li Zhen in front of him. It was late at night, the sky was red and dark, and the two of them were in ruin......

It's like a horror movie.

And this Li Zhen said it......

"In the human race". He took a slight breath and tried to make his voice sound calm and calm: "Listen to your tone, you don't think you're human. ”

"I've been a human for seventeen years." Li Zhen nodded slightly, "And then it's not." ”

Ying resolutely said in a deep voice: "You just have a different ability. I'm capable, A-class and psionic, but we're still human. ”

He felt ...... Li Zhen's mind is a little unclear. Beneath the seemingly calm surface, there is an incomparably frantic heart.

Li Zhen smiled and shook his head: "Look." You're looking like that again. It's all said. Let's talk. ”

He patted Ying Ran lightly on the shoulder, but the latter sat upright.

"Whether or not it is a human being is not a philosophical question, but a purely biological one. I was born from my mother's womb. Everything behaves like a human being. So I'm human. Because both my macro form and my deep DNA. Actually, it's not much different from you. ”

"But have you ever thought that if a person's genes cause him to grow hair, grow a tail, and become a four-limbed walking form — like this cat? So is he still human? ”

"If he still has the consciousness of the human mind. Then it's still a person. Ying resolutely replied quietly, "At least that's how I see it." ”

Li Zhen sighed: "Human thinking consciousness? Are you referring to those things that are highly intelligent, rational, emotional, and allow us to talk face-to-face and in an organized manner? Decidedly...... It's not just humans who have these things. There are also species. Haven't you ever thought about Chiyou? ”

Ying Ran was silent for a while, and said calmly: "You mean to say that you are a species. ”

"Perhaps? But not necessarily. Li Zhen smiled, "Those things...... Just like humans, maybe it's just a period of time for me to go through. ”

"Okay, it looks like you're still ......" Li Zhen smiled slightly wryly, "Actually, I was resurrected six months ago." I was even more confused then than I am now. I wanted to figure out how different I was with you now – so I found a microscope. Then I looked at my own blood. ”

"My platelets, white blood cells, even somatic cells and stuff like that...... All are alive. They have flagellar-like tentacles, and each of them can breathe on its own and energize itself – that's how I was resurrected before. The North Hospital collected my blood sample, and at that time it was said that I was no different from a normal person, but the degree of genetic mutation was more complicated. So I can tell you now - it was the little things that were disguised at the time. It's as if there are a lot of me alive – and they're alive too. ”

"Now you think I'm still human?" He pointed to himself, "Don't look at appearances. ”

Ying Ran was silent for a while: "And what about the result?" ”

"That's how it turned out so far – we can sit here face to face and you're my good friend." Li Zhen said slowly, "I know you'll mind." But speaking of which...... Whether we are human or species, we are all family. How I came, that's how you came. ”

Ying decided that his thinking pattern was not very good enough to keep up with the information revealed by Li Zhen, so he simply sighed in his heart and decided to suppress his emotions temporarily and be a listener. So he said, "It looks like I'm about to hear the secrets of species and the origin of humanity—is that what you've been doing for the past six months?" ”

"You don't need to research, you just know the Tao so well." Li Zhen shook his head, "I devoured that egg that day, and that egg also devoured me—in a sense, we are all different beings from species like Chiyou, not completely. But after that, like I told you – I was in good shape, very pure. So a lot of things are naturally known. ”

"It's not some mysterious memory of a past life, it's just a memory. You see, human beings are instinctively afraid of a lot of things. For example, the bone spurs on Chiyou's body, the snake-like eyes, and the very scary face - it seems that none of them will do any harm to people, but they are just afraid. In fact, these are memories buried deep in our genes – they slowly manifest themselves as instincts. The ancestors of the human race were afraid of them, and knew that they were terrible, so the instinct slowly passed down and turned into the inexplicable fear that is now felt - as for the 'coercion' that I felt from the species before, it was the same thing. Instinct deep in the genes. ”

"So I got more stuff...... The fragmentary memories hidden deep in the genes are integrated, and I am 'born to know'. I think that if all human beings were to merge into one person, there would be no fewer people who knew the Tao than I did. ”

"Hmm...... Off topic. Let's talk about species and humans. In fact, both are also ...... In a way, it's similar to my existence - split. It's just that this split took a long, long time...... Evolution barely works, to use the word evolution. In fact, just a few thousand years ago, there were a considerable number of species that lived in the world - they are the source of those myths and legends today. But then for some reason...... They were all silent, but now they were awake again. ”

"You want to ask them what they are silent about, and what they are awake for." Li Zhen smiled slightly, "I know a little bit, but it's not exact. So I've got to figure it out. So I have to find someone to ask about something, so I told you before, I'll go back tomorrow. ”

"I'm going to reclaim the forward base so that person has more time to find answers."

"When I came, I met another me, who called himself Levin. He made one thing clear to me – in fact, I'm 'considering' it right now, which in itself speaks for my own position. After all, memories are made up of emotions from past experiences, and they can affect a person's consciousness quite severely. So whether it's you, Kesong, Kitagawa, or even my parents, it's all influencing me...... Tell me, I should actually help you, not watch you fight with the species. ”

"So I already have the answer on my side. The next job is to find other people and get them to accept the answer. Li Zhen looked at Ying Ranran, "What do you think?" ”

The latter listened all the time, his face calm. At this point he hesitated and said, "I believe in you." But others...... Maybe not as easily persuaded as I was. You still have to keep it a secret. (To be continued.) )