Chapter 19: Who is the Shadow?

I think what we're talking about now is a complete paradox, and if I had just woken up now, I might not feel strange to say these things, but now I'm in a state of absolute wakefulness, and if I want to believe all this, wouldn't it make me doubt life.

"Lao Zhao, I think what you just said is completely impossible, there must be something wrong." I denied Lao Zhao's statement from the most ordinary cognitive perspective.

"Why did Brother Ling say this?"

"If we're all going in the same direction, you're never going to be across from me."

After I finished speaking, Lao Zhao pondered for a while and said, "There is still a situation that is still possible. ”

"What's the situation?" I asked.

"Look in the mirror, if the two of us walk towards the mirror one after the other, then you will see me in the mirror walking across from you. If that's the case, then ......"

"So how?"

"Then between you and me, there must be a shadow in the mirror."

Lao Zhao's words made me shudder, what is a shadow in the mirror? Shadows are disembodied, and if they are able to act alone and unrestrained, then the entity must have been lost. What is in the legend that there is no shadow? Ghosts have no shadows, can it be said that our entities have died, and we ourselves do not know, and "we", as the shadows of entities, still exist from the entity, and have become lonely ghosts in this tomb.

Shadows cannot exist in sunlight, or only on the back side of sunlight, and in the darkness, they become one with the darkness, which is like a ghost.

If I am the shadow now, when did "I" die? I can't find the answer to this in my memory, the only possibility is that it wasn't me who killed the water monkey just now, of course, it was Song Jin who shot me in the head with an arrow, but the water monkey killed me. Or maybe I lost too much blood in the fight and died, but I'm not enough, it's normal for the big man to bleed, there are four liters of blood in a normal person's body, and I didn't use it to water the flowers, so this possibility is almost zero. Wound infection and death? If it weren't for the poison, I probably wouldn't have hung up so quickly. There is also an impossible possibility, that is, it was not the water monkey that Song Jin shot with an arrow just now, but "me".

I stole a glance at Song Jin, and he didn't react in any way, and it was no different from when I saw him before. And according to the statement just now, there are shadows among us that come out of the mirror, if I am sure that I have been moving forward, and "I" am still alive, then the biggest possibility is that Lao Zhao is a shadow.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but take two steps towards the edge of the pit, and quietly put my hand on the handle of the knife in case of accidents. Raising his eyes and glancing at Lao Zhao, Lao Zhao smiled slightly, but now I feel that this smile is a little more hideous.

"Lao Zhao, you took a few chapters in my store a few months ago, remember?" I asked Lao Zhao. It is said that the memory of "ghosts" has certain limitations, so I will believe it once and take a memory test.

"Well, I took it, why did I suddenly remember to ask this?"

"I'm just asking, how many did you take?" I said lukewarmly.

"Well...... this" Lao Zhao couldn't answer for a while. He was speechless. My premonition became stronger and stronger, and the palms of my hands holding the knife were covered with sweat, and beads of sweat appeared on my head.

"I can't remember." Lao Zhao spread his hands.

"Think about it!" I yelled, my grip on the knife tightened, and my body took a step back. The pit had already discovered my anomaly, and it had been near me for a long time.

"Brother Ling, what are you ......" Lao Zhao took a step towards me as he spoke, I pulled out the dagger with a snort and the tip of the knife was facing forward, seeing that I was in trouble, the pit was already ready to go, and rushed to Lao Zhao in one step, pulled out the dagger and put it across Lao Zhao's neck, and shouted, "Don't move!" At the same time, Song Jin's arrow had already hit the temples of the pit.

I saw that the pit was being held against Song Jin's temple, so I stepped forward and stuck Song Jin's neck with a dagger, shouting, "Put the arrow down!" Although I know that my skills are far from Song Jin, just like now I am jamming his neck with a knife, maybe the next moment he has broken my wrist, but the life of the pit hangs in a thread, if I don't do something, I will be sorry for our brothers for so many years. Brother because I know he'll do the same for me.

Lao Zhao was compared with a knife by the pit, his hands were raised in front of his chest, his chin was held high, and he didn't dare to move easily, but he just threw a look at Song Jin, Song Jin looked at Lao Zhao, and Lao Zhao opened his mouth: "Xiao Song, put down the bow and arrow." ”

After receiving Lao Zhao's order, Song Jin took off the arrow and took it back to the quiver, and the bow was also put away and stepped aside. Seeing Song Jin retreating, Lao Zhao said again: "Brother Niu, can you take a guy." ”

The pit looked at me, I nodded, and the pit pointed at Lao Zhao's nose and said, "Don't mess around, otherwise I will pull you on your back if I die." "I know that although the pit is usually more, but this kind of thing, he really looks like a capable person.

Lao Zhao, who was freed, twisted his neck, and then said just now: "Brother Ling asked me about the seal, but he has an ulterior motive? ”

"Don't talk nonsense, you can think if you want to, and whatever words are engraved on the chapter, tell me them one by one." The pit pointed at Lao Zhao and said loudly.

"You know all that? Then why do you ask me? I asked Lao Zhao rhetorically.

Lao Zhao smiled and said, "I know what, I don't know." ”

"Then I want you to say yes or no!"

"Yes and what, no and what."

"It's not that we don't have anything, my brother will make amends to you, if so, don't blame my brother for being polite, after all, dust returns to dust, and what should go should not stay. If there is anything I can help pass on, and for other things, please stop thinking about it. ”

The conversation between me and Lao Zhao is obviously only clear about what the two of us will say, and the pit is confused, and Song Jin has not reacted, but I feel that Song Jin has some understanding.

Listening to my words, Lao Zhao suddenly burst out laughing, and the unbridled laughter formed a huge echo in the tomb, as if there were thousands of people laughing together, and thousands of people had thousands of laughs.

"Brother Ling, you are really bold enough, but you are not calm enough." Lao Zhao said to me.

"What do you mean by that?"

"If I really am, then why am I going to explain these things to you? I'll hear if you have a reason. Lao Zhao stood there with his hands on his hips, looking confident.

"This ......" I was speechless for a while, indeed I hadn't thought of this just now, if Lao Zhao was a shadow, why did he tell me this. What can I do if I know this, what can I do if I don't know, I can't change a reality.

"Do you want to hear about the seals I took on March 15, March 21, April 11, and April 16?" Lao Zhao changed to his hands on his shoulders and stood there.

I put the dagger back into the holster, stepped forward and made a gesture, and said, "Brother Zhao, my brother has offended a lot just now, I hope to forgive me!" Seeing me like this, although he couldn't fully understand it, he apologized to Lao Zhao just like me.

Lao Zhao smiled and waved his hand, and said: "It's nothing, it's nothing, young man, it's just impulsive, but I also admire you so much, I can have such a bold guess, and I envy the two of you, life and death." ”

"If Brother Zhao doesn't dislike it, we are willing to help each other." I and the pit were a little embarrassed, so we had to follow Lao Zhao's words.

"Being able to meet the two of you is also a great blessing for me Zhao Pinchuan in this life! Thousands of dollars are easy to get, confidants are hard to find, my old Zhao is polite. He arched his hand to me and the pit, and the pit and I returned the same courtesy.

After a hiccup, we reverted to what we had before, but fortunately the incident did not cause serious damage, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable. I think there is another benefit, which is that it removes any doubts that may exist.

Now the question goes back to the previous topic, if we are not shadows, then how did we meet?

"I'll make a guess, the four of us are all shadows." Lao Zhao pointed at the three of us, and then pointed at himself.

"It's all shadows?"

"This is also an idea that I had when I met Brother Ling. Later, when I met Brother Niu, this thought was even stronger. ”

"Why is it more intense when you meet me, I stimulate you?" The pit asked puzzled.

"Of course it wasn't Brother Niu who stimulated me, but your position at the time stimulated me, Brother Niu carefully recall, when we met you, which direction were you going?" Lao Zhao asked the pit.

The pit thought for a while and said, "You are coming from across from me. ”

The words of the pit greatly surprised me, because I was in a hurry to save the pit at that time, and I didn't pay much attention, but now that I think about it, the pit is indeed facing us.

"Then let's reorganize our direction, Song Jin and I are facing Brother Ling, Brother Ling and we are face to face, Brother Niu and Brother Ling are one after the other, that is, Brother Niu follows Brother Ling." Lao Zhao sorted out what he had just said.

"And the two of us were really going in two directions at the time." I pointed to the pit and explained to Lao Zhao.

"That's what I call a reflection. If we assume now that Brother Ling's direction has not changed. Then Song Jin and I, as well as Brother Niu, have all been reflected, and if we assume that the direction of me and Song Jin has not changed, then both of you have been reflected. ”

Lao Zhao's assumption is indeed reasonable, without determining who is the 100% unchanged reference, it is possible for several of us, and we have indeed all moved in the process, and as long as we move, it has changed.

"So, where exactly is the so-called mirror that reflects us? When do we walk into the mirror, and why do we feel nothing? ”