The non-self is a philosophical pseudo-proposition.

It's like the ship of Theseus that the evil spirit Du Wei and Du Wei once talked about.

A wooden ship moves on the sea, constantly changing parts.

Years later, the entire ship's components had been replaced, from the deck to the mast.

Well, take this as a premise.

If a ship is assembled from scratch with replaced parts, is it still the same as the original?

If so, what is the ship now?

Thinking from a philosophical point of view, it is impossible to give an accurate answer.

Du Wei will not deny the existence of the evil spirit Du Wei.

Because he knows that the evil spirit Du Wei is, in a sense, indeed his past self.

But he doesn't deny himself either.

Thereupon.

In this dissection room.

Du Wei looked at himself as an evil spirit and said slowly: "A person's life is like a rushing river, from birth to death, from the beginning to the end. ”

"In the process, emotions, lives, decisions, costs."

"All kinds of things are like waves in a river, they keep appearing, and it may be a pebble, a grain of sand, sinking to the bottom of the river."

"I can't deny my past, but I can't deny my present, or even my future."

"I admit that I am becoming non-me, so I bear, so I accept."

"It's normal to change, but it's the self that doesn't change."

"If one day I become another being, then that being must not be me."

The voice landed.

Du Wei pointed to his head, the coldness and firmness in his eyes did not waver in the slightest.

"I made a lot of plans to kill you, and openly and secretly, we fought countless times."

"So I often wonder what my chances would be if I were you."

"Eventually I came to the conclusion that infinity is approaching zero."

"But I don't like that outcome, because I have a lover, a friend, and even a mentally ill subordinate, and I have concerns, even if my humanity is getting worse and worse."

"I'm about to lose the ...... of the so-called love, the so-called friendship"

"I can only tell myself rationally that I am concerned, and I can't die in your hands."

Hear this.

The evil spirit Du Wei clenched his right hand, and the whole joker card was inserted into the flesh.

Behind it.

There were three wounds, two of which were stab wounds, and one of which looked like a bloody hole pulled out by a sharp claw—the work of an evil spirit.

The black trench coat was already stained with blood.

The body controlled by the evil spirit Du Wei was about to die, and the wounds in his lungs made it cough up blood.

Looking at its other self, it insisted on walking over.

"So...... Your plan, is ...... Is it to die with me? ”

The evil spirit Du Wei couldn't understand it.

"That's not what you're supposed to do."

"The so-called human nature only makes you cowardly!"

"Suicide is the greatest cowardice, have you forgotten everything you did to kill that damn brute?"

The evil spirit Du Wei refers to the revenge of the past.

"You make me angry! How can you be me!! ”

It spat out a mouthful of blood and pointed at its other self, blood from the corner of its eye running across its cheek.

It hated itself.

It adheres to everything that once was, and adheres to the name of Dewey.

But Du Wei said slowly: "I haven't forgotten that my plan is to make those evil spirits, buses, horror houses, and even schools all against you, and I myself will enter here, if I can survive until you die at the hands of those ghosts, I will leave and take back my body." ”

"But plans don't always keep up with changes."

"I've imagined you scary enough, but I didn't expect to underestimate you."

"Should I say, it's another me?"

"So, I have to change the way and prepare to die with you."

"I hate the world, but I can always do something for those people who only reason tells me."

"Even if I give you my body, your very nature will make you choose to kill Alex, Tom, and those people."

That didn't sound like something Dewey would say.

The evil spirit made him gradually lose his humanity, and he was originally indifferent, otherwise he would not have been until now, only Tom and Father Tony, and Ryan's three friends.

But actually.

Dewey is a personal ......

If you are human, you will have weaknesses.

He used to be dismissive, but other than that, he had nothing.

The evil spirit Du Wei is even more pathetic.

As long as it doesn't really regain its body, as long as it's still the evil spirit Du Wei, it will only live in the past forever.

Then.

Du Wei suddenly took out his phone and looked at the first name in the address book - Alex, and then Tom, Father Tony, Sliveica, Jon, Mrs. Senna, and the patients who came to him for counseling.

Even the phone number that did not exist in reality was remarked by him to Lane.

But that's all there is to it.

Because here it is his consciousness, and the phone only exists in his dreams......

Du Wei silently stuffed his phone into his pocket and touched his face.

He tried to make some expressions.

But I tried, but I gave up in vain.

"I can't find a way to kill you, so I can only die with you."

"It's time to ...... over"

Du Wei's voice was still indifferent, he looked at the evil spirit's self and the dying body, and slowly closed his eyes.

Call......

The light in the dissecting chamber disappeared instantly.

Everything fell into darkness.

And the demon nun, who was stuck outside the door, walked in.

……

At this moment.

Late at night, New York's red light district.

Tom and Father Tony hooked shoulders, and the two drank whiskey, staring obscenely at the graceful girl writhing on the dance floor.

"Hey, that's the life a man should live! It's a pity that Mr. Du Wei is reluctant to come, otherwise, the three of us will team up, which is really cool! ”

"No way, my good brother is so decent, I thought he was pretending at first, but I didn't expect him to be real, fuck! Sooner or later, I will bring him in and let him experience the bliss of the world. ”

……

The other side.

Furman Community.

Alex was wearing a large sweatshirt, browsing the pictures on the web with great interest, her hair had been dyed back to silver, and her temperament was sharper.

If you look closely, those web pictures are interior decoration concept drawings.

She has already bought the villa and is waiting for her boyfriend to come back from the church school and design a plan for the two of them to renovate their new home.

It's a convention.

……

Switzerland.

Inside the Twilight Church.

Ryan was wearing a white lab coat and a stethoscope that he didn't know where to get, and listened carefully to James, who was lying on the bed and had long since lost his breath.

Standing next to him were members of the Twilight Church.

They all bowed their heads in silence at James' corpse.

But Lane tilted his head and said, "I think he can still be saved." ”

……

At the psychological counseling clinic.

Antique clocks hang on the wall, and the hands keep turning faster and faster.

In the next framed cabinet was Annabelle, who had returned, banging frantically against the glass door.

Suddenly......

Click.

The pointer froze.

Then, the hour, minute, and second hands are separated from the overlapping state and point to 12 o'clock, 3 o'clock, and 9 o'clock, respectively.

A strange fluctuation appeared in the living room.

In the blink of an eye, the entire psychological counseling clinic seemed to come to life and had some kind of will.

A black mist instantly filled every corner, and the framed cabinet was submerged in it.

A pale arm protrudes from an antique clock, and on the back of the hand there is a black pattern of the same hand as Du Wei's.

But it seems that some conditions have not been met, and this arm can only be retracted helplessly.

Then all the visions disappeared.

The hands of the antique clock turned wildly.

Click......

The whole antique clock shook, along with the walls, the house, the floor......

New York City, which is not in the seismic zone, was shook......