Weird Talker

Chapter 632 The Ship of Theseus

Chapter 632 The Ship of Theseus

This man, he... father...

An unconcealable joy surged from the bottom of my heart, but I couldn't show half a smile on my face.

The sky in Fucheng is low and the clouds are dark.

The "patient" on the street staggered, and the father standing in front of him had complicated eyes.

"dad……"

Qin Manjiang murmured.

No matter who Jiang Du is, no matter who he is, at least the nearly 20 years of care are real. The father in Qin Manjiang's heart has always been Lao Qin.

However, when the word was really called out again, Qin Manjiang felt a little strange.

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

Naturally, Shen Kai didn't speak, but just looked at Qin Manjiang.

Qin Manjiang nodded, followed Lao Qin, and parted a path amidst the strange crowd.

All the way through the streets and alleys, Lao Qin walked in front without speaking, and Qin Manjiang followed behind without speaking.

Only Shen Shi occasionally glanced at Lao Qin.

Arriving at an old house in the village in the city, Lao Qin opened the door with a key and said, "Come in."

As soon as he entered the house, before he got used to the old house where the light was blocked by the surrounding tall buildings, Shen Kai spoke.

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

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

"Twenty?" Shen Kai was very sensitive to this number, and immediately thought, "The ghost story of Xiajiang Village in Fucheng lasted for 20 years, and one person died a year, exactly twenty people. Do you mean that we came to this world? Will the news of you, who also came from the real world, notice it?"

Lao Qin put the water glass in front of the two of them, and nodded: "Well... we have sensed the five of you just after arriving."

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

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

He sighed softly and picked up the water glass: "An inappropriate metaphor, this world is like a water glass. Its capacity is actually small, but it can grow larger with time. It is already the limit to have one real human come in every year. For so many years, there were only [-] drops of real water, and now, five drops of you have come in 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. After that, the whole world will collapse."

Old Qin's words were very clear, but Qin Manjiang listened, feeling very uncomfortable in his heart.

He has been silent, silently listening.

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

Absolutely impossible...to talk like this.

"Man Jiang..." Lao Qin seemed to have noticed that Qin Man Jiang's emotions were wrong. He looked at Qin Man Jiang, and obviously had a lot of comforting words to say, but when he saw Qin Man Jiang's vacant eyes and almost bloodless lips, what happened to those words? I can't even say it.

He waited silently. He knew that Qin Manjiang was a person with a strong self-digestion ability. This child...had liked to be alone since he was a child. He would not bother others when he encountered any problems or problems. He was troubled by himself. Troubled, things are resolved, and so are emotions.

Sure enough, although his personality has changed somewhat, these bottom-level practices are still the same as before.

Qin Manjiang's eyes gradually became brighter.

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

"I don't want to do anything. I went there just to stop you."

Lao Qin shook his head and said.

"The 20 of us all know that five people have entered this world, but we don't know which five. Moreover, we can't tell whether the you who entered this world have been replaced with the original 'you' of this world. "

"Is there any difference?" Shen Kai 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' in this world until he accidentally saw his own face , and then his face gradually disappeared, so that I could slowly become a real existence from the cracks of time and space, and become... the 'me' of this world."

"Because of your one-time excessive entry into this world, more and more 'people' are squeezed out, and the operating logic imitated from the real world is collapsing. Therefore, the people who rely on this world to survive can only kill you. This is the only way to bring this world back to a balanced state." Lao Qin said [true] their fundamental purpose, but Qin Manjiang and Shen Li had already vaguely guessed this point, so they were not too surprised.

On the contrary, Shen Shen was a little puzzled: "Why can't we just kill 'us' in this world? 'They' don't exist, so naturally we have nothing to replace them?"

"No, before you were replaced, that is, the aborigines of this world, you also have a set of behavioral logic. They are protected by the rules of this world. If they are interfered and killed by people from reality, they will also causing the world to collapse."

Hearing what Lao Qin said, Qin Manjiang suddenly 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 make sure that we have been replaced. Not native to this world."

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

"No wonder..." Shen Kai nodded.

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

"Oh." Shen Kai quickly took a sip of water and just got up.

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

But Qin Manjiang was standing at the door of the old house without turning his head: "Thank you for the news... goodbye."

Qin Manjiang stepped out of the door, Shen Kai was startled, and immediately followed.

The two walked quickly, and when Lao Qin got up and chased to the door, he had already disappeared.

Shen Kai took two steps forward, and whispered in Qin Manjiang's ear, "Hey, father and son recognize each other? Is this how you treat your father?"

"Wreck..." Qin Manjiang stopped, "Do you know the Ship of Theseus?"

"Of course." Shen Kai said.

The Ship of Theseus, refers to a ship that can sail at sea for hundreds of years, thanks to constant repairs and replacement parts.As soon as a plank rots, it is replaced, and so on, until none of the functional parts are the original ones.

However, is the ship that has been driving and replacing in this way still the original ship of Theseus?

Or an already completely different ship?

If not the original ship, at what point did it cease to be the original ship?

"You want to say that your father is not the same as before?" Shen Kai asked.

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

"Shen Kai... I feel very sad, he is really dying."

From the corner of Qin Manjiang's eyes, a tear slipped down abruptly.

He turned his head to look at Shen Hai with a very dazed expression.

Shen Ke was dumb.

But he can understand...

From a standpoint, this old Qin should be on the [True] side of them. After all, all 20 of them need to rely on this world to exist.

Old Qin came to stop him, which meant 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 just like the ship of Theseus whose parts were replaced for sailing, some things have not changed even if they have been replaced from the inside to the outside...

"Shen Kai..." Qin Manjiang wiped away his tears and sucked his nose, just as he was about to speak.

"Manjiang!" Lao Qin's voice chased him up from behind.

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

"Do what you think is right!"

The tears that had just been wiped came out again, but Lao Qin's voice seemed cheerful: "One must live in the present, in reality!"

"Go!"

His voice suddenly dropped a lot.

"Children... let's go."

"Pierce this bubble that shouldn't exist, and go back to where you should be..."

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 is so smart, and he can tell at a glance that he is not the original Qinling Han.

These "people" who came from the real world 20 years ago are already dead remnants.

The so-called "replacement" rebirth is just another fusion of two souls, the birth of another bubble under the false bubble.

However, fortunately, no matter which timeline or world it is.

Educated and uneducated, that middle-aged man named Qin Linghan loves his children...

Qin Manjiang broke down in sobs, and Shen Kai let out a foul breath.

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

Let him say, what kind of false reality is it?Whatever it is, the world is destroyed?

Just live happily!

It's just that he is a sinking wreck.

And the person he supports, who needs to make a choice, is called Qin Manjiang.

This person kept saying that he had no dreams, but Shen Ship knew that those who had no dreams were the ones with the biggest dreams.

What he wanted to save had always been everyone...

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

For example... personally destroying this world where his father still exists.

Shen Ke glanced down at Qin Manjiang, this was the first time he saw Qin Manjiang expressing his emotions so fiercely.

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

"Souvenir."

Shen Kai smiled in satisfaction.

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(End of this chapter)