This man, he ...... Father......

There was a joy that could not be hidden in his heart, but he couldn't show half a smile on his face.

The sky is low and the clouds are gloomy.

The "patient" on the street staggered, and the father who stood in front of him had a complicated gaze.

"Dad......"

Qin Manjiang muttered.

No matter who Jiang Du is, no matter who he is, at least the care of the past twenty years is real, and Qin Manjiang's father in his heart has always been Lao Qin.

However, when this word was really shouted again, Qin Manjiang actually felt a little unfamiliar.

Lao Qin glanced back at the villa area and said to Qin Manjiang and Shen Ji, "Come with me." ”

Shen Yu naturally didn't speak, just looked at Qin Manjiang.

Qin Manjiang nodded, followed Lao Qin, and separated a path in the strange crowd.

Walking through the streets and alleys all the way, Lao Qin walked in front and didn't speak, and Qin Manjiang followed behind and didn't speak.

Only Shen Ji occasionally glanced at Lao Qin.

When he arrived at an old house in an urban village, Lao Qin opened the door with the key and said, "Come in." ”

As soon as he entered the house, he had not yet gotten used to this old house that was blocked by the surrounding high-rise buildings, and Shen Ji spoke.

He unceremoniously found a chair and sat down: "Uncle, how do you know we are there?" Why are you stopping us? ”

Lao Qin lowered his head and poured water for the two of them, and said, "Not only do I know, but there are twenty people in this world who know ......"

"Twenty?" Shen Yu was very sensitive to this number, and immediately thought, "The strange story of Xiajiang Village in Fucheng has lasted for twenty years, and one person dies in a year, exactly twenty people, do you mean that the news that we have come to this world will be noticed by you who also come from the real world?" ”

Lao Qin put the water cup in front of the two of them and nodded: "Hmm...... As soon as the five of you arrived, we had a sense. ”

"So obvious?" Shen Ji was a little surprised.

Lao Qin shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Just like this water cup, when other water is mixed in, of course the original water in the cup will vibrate." ”

He sighed lightly and picked up the water glass: "An inappropriate analogy, this world is like a water cup, its capacity is actually very small, but it can grow larger over time, and it is already the limit to have a real human being come in every year, for so many years, there are only twenty drops of real water, and now, you have come in five drops at once, which has destroyed the balance of this world, and those 'people' who are not real water drops have been squeezed out of the cup." ”

"Becoming like that is just the beginning, and then the whole world will collapse."

Lao Qin's words were very clear, but Qin Manjiang listened to it, and his heart was very uncomfortable.

He had been silent, listening in silence.

He is familiar with Lao Qin, after all, he is his father who has been with him for nearly 20 years, and this old farmer with a low level of education does not pay attention to the choice of words and sentences when he speaks, and even has a small local accent.

When pigs fly...... Talk as you do now.

"Manjiang ......" Old Qin seemed to notice that Qin Manjiang's mood was wrong, he looked at Qin Manjiang, obviously there were a lot of comforting words he wanted to say, but when he saw Qin Manjiang's trance and empty eyes and almost bloodless lips, those words couldn't be spoken.

He waited silently, he knew that Qin Manjiang was a person with a strong ability to digest himself, this kid ...... Since I was a child, I like to be alone, and I won't trouble others when I encounter anything or any problem, and I am troubled by myself, and things will be solved, and so will my emotions.

Sure enough, although there have been some changes in his personality, these lowest-level practices are still the same as before.

Qin Manjiang's eyes slowly brightened.

"So, what do you want to do?" Qin Manjiang looked at Lao Qin calmly.

"I don't want to do anything, I'm going there just to stop you."

Lao Qin shook his head and said.

"Twenty of us all know that there are five people who have entered this world, but we can't know which five they are, and we can't tell whether you have replaced the original 'you' in this world after entering this world."

"What's the difference?" Shen asked curiously.

"Yes," Lao Qin pointed to himself, "After I came to this world, I was in the gap between the real world and this world for a short time, and I could only observe the 'self' of this world, until he accidentally saw his face, and then his face gradually disappeared, and I could slowly turn from the gap between time and space into a real existence, and become a ...... The 'me' of this world. ”

"Because of your one-time over-entry into this world, more and more 'people' have been squeezed out, and the operating logic imitated from the real world is collapsing, so the people who rely on this world to survive can only have a chance to restore this world to a balanced state only by killing you." Lao Qin said [true] their fundamental purpose, but this point, Qin Manjiang and Shen Yu had already vaguely guessed, but they were not too surprised.

On the contrary, Shen Yu was a little puzzled: "Why can't you just kill the 'us' in this world?" 'They' don't exist, so naturally we don't have anything to replace? ”

"No, you who were not replaced before you were replaced, that is, the aborigines of this world, also have your own set of behavioral logic, they are protected by the rules of this world, and being interfered with and killed by people from reality will also cause the collapse of the world."

Hearing Lao Qin say this, Qin Manjiang Huo Ran got up: "So, in order to maintain the normal operation of this world, they from the real world can only kill us who are also from the real world, but before they do it, they must be sure that we have been replaced and are not the aborigines of this world." ”

Qin Manjiang looked at Shen Lu: "So the best way is to say something that only we can understand from the real world, and lead us to take the bait." ”

"No wonder ......" Shen Ji nodded.

"Let's go." Qin Manjiang said to Shen Lu.

"Oh." Shen Yu hurriedly took a sip of water and just got up.

"Wait!" Lao Qin subconsciously stretched out his hand, wanting to stop them from leaving.

saw Qin Manjiang standing at the door of the old house, and he didn't look back: "Thank you for the news...... Good bye. ”

Qin Manjiang stepped out of the door, Shen Yu was stunned, and immediately followed.

The two of them walked quickly, and by the time Lao Qin got up and chased to the door, he had already disappeared.

Shen Yu hurried two steps and asked in a low voice in Qin Manjiang's ear: "Hey, do you recognize father and son?" That's what you did to your dad? ”

"Shen Remain......" Qin Manjiang stopped, "Do you know the ship of Theseus?" ”

"Of course." Shen Yu said.

The ship of Theseus, refers to a ship that can sail at sea for hundreds of years, thanks to non-stop repairs and replacement parts. As soon as a board rots, it is replaced, and so on, until all the functional parts are not the original ones.

However, is the ship that has been driven and replaced like this still the original ship of Theseus?

Or is it an already completely different ship?

If it wasn't the original ship, then at what point did it cease to be the original ship?

"You want to say that your father isn't the same person he used to be?" Shen asked asked.

Qin Manjiang was silent for a moment and did not speak for a long time.

"Shen Remain...... I was so upset, he was really dying. ”

A tear slid down the corner of Qin Manjiang's eyes very abruptly.

He turned his head to look at Shen Ji, his expression was very dazed.

Shen Yu was dumbfounded.

But he was able to understand......

Really from a standpoint, this old Qin should be on their side, after all, these twenty people need to rely on this world to exist.

Lao Qin came to stop it, indicating that he had made a choice between surviving in this world forever and saving his son's life.

No wonder Qin Manjiang was about to leave in a hurry, he couldn't hold back the emotions in his heart that he couldn't tell whether they were positive or negative.

Because he could feel that his father had indeed changed.

But like the ship of Theseus, which replaced parts for sailing, some things remained the same, even if they were all replaced inside and out......

"Shen ......" Qin Manjiang wiped away his tears and sniffed, he was just about to speak.

"Manjiang!" Lao Qin's voice caught up from behind again.

Qin Manjiang's body trembled, he still didn't turn his head, but he heard Old Qin say loudly:

"Do what you think is right!"

The tears that had just been wiped away came out of his eyes again, but Lao Qin's voice seemed elated: "People have to live in the moment, live in reality!" ”

"Go ahead!"

His voice suddenly lowered a lot.

"Kid...... Go ahead. ”

"Burst this bubble that shouldn't exist and go back to where you need to go......"

Lao Qin stood far away, not approaching.

He didn't know if Qin Manjiang could hear these words, but he believed that his children would understand.

After all, he was so smart, and he could see at a glance that he was not the original Qinling Han.

These "people" who came from the real world twenty years ago are already dead souls.

The so-called "substitution" rebirth is nothing more than another fusion of two souls, the birth of another bubble under the false bubble.

However, the good thing is that it doesn't matter which timeline or which world.

Cultured and uneducated, the middle-aged man named Qin Linghan loves his children......

Qin Manjiang couldn't cry, and Shen Yu let out a light breath.

He held Qin Manjiang's arm and walked away slowly.

If you want him to say, what kind of false reality does it matter? What does it matter what world is destroyed?

Just live happily!

It's just that he is Shen Ji.

And the person who is supporting himself, the person who needs to make a choice, is called Qin Manjiang.

This person has been saying that he doesn't have any dreams, but Shen Yu knows that people who don't have any dreams are the ones with the biggest dreams.

What he wants to save has always been everyone......

For this reason, some necessary sacrifices were silently resisted by this guy himself.

Like what...... Destroy this world with your own hands, where your father still exists.

Shen Yu glanced down at Qin Manjiang, this was the first time he had seen Qin Manjiang express his emotions so intensely.

He held Qin Manjiang with one hand, took out his mobile phone with the other, and took a picture of Qin Manjiang with tears on his face.

"Keep it as a souvenir."

Shen Yu smiled with satisfaction.

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