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    emergence of the Self

    The so-called ability to “manipulate knowledge to create all things” is not invincible, and Shen Molin, a derivative of the black hole and a pure energy body, is not invincible.There are three weaknesses:

    First of all, the so-called control relies entirely on Shen Molin’s knowledge reserve and understanding ability, and most of this knowledge comes from books and the Internet.When faced with those undisclosed weapons and theories, Shen Molin was quite weak.Moreover, it is difficult for the pragmatic Shen Molin to convince himself to lower his requirement for “complete understanding”.

    Secondly, manipulation requires energy, and energy naturally cannot appear out of thin air.As long as she fights a war of attrition, Shen Molin has no chance of winning.

    Finally, like that accident, if Shen Molin becomes confused, loses his mind, or is in a weak state where he cannot fully control his body, he will naturally not be able to use his abilities.At that time, it was not even decided whether he was “he”…

    Of course, the above is an analysis of “Shen Molin” itself.To be honest, killing “Shen Molin” is actually very simple.Even without the above analysis, you can simply and crudely make “Shen Molin” disappear forever——

    Although “he” is an energy body that cannot disappear out of thin air and can only be transferred, the ordinary person “Shen Molin” relies on Qi Ruiqing to exist now, right?

    Shen Molin already understood this truth.

    But he understood better that the most urgent task now was to repair his devastated thought palace into a usable state.Only in this way can he protect Qi Ruiqing, find a way to change Qi Ruiqing back to his original form, and finally protect himself.

    The library, which was first flooded by heavy rain and then baptized by bullets, is now in a mess.Shen Molin went down the suspended broken steps and picked up the scattered and damaged books one by one.

    A half-page page that had fallen from an unknown book fell at his feet, and the writing on it had become so foamy that it almost looked like a giant.Shen Molin always felt a little nauseous, but he could only put down the book in his hand and squat down to pick it up…

    The dark wind blew up, and in such a closed space, the page flew up inexplicably and floated out of the stairs.Shen Molin chased it and looked downwards, but it dodged again and finally fell into the abyss.

    Shen Molin stood blankly for a while, and finally just sighed.He lit a light for himself and continued downward until there was no more way to go…

    At the end of the broken road was a black, smelly stagnant water.The piece of paper was lying on the water, as if within easy reach.

    Come on, come on…

    Shen Molin turned around expressionlessly, took the lamp and walked away without looking back.

    “Shen… Mo… Lin…”

    Qi Ruiqing’s shout echoed down, Shen Molin quickened his pace, picked up the book, and returned to Qi Ruiqing on the 42nd floor.

    “I’ve finished sorting these.”

    Piles of books neatly surround Qi Ruiqing, which looks like a defensive tower at first glance.Qi Ruiqing just sat on the steps and continued to return the fallen pages to their rightful places without raising his head.

    “Where should I put it?” “Whatever, that’s fine.”

    Shen Molin placed himself and the books next to Qi Ruiqing.He slowly sat down while holding on to the wall, propped up his knees and tilted his head to watch Qi Ruiqing work.

    “Why are you sitting down?” Qi Ruiqing turned to look at him.

    “I want to take a break,” he said.

    “Would you like some water?” Qi Ruiqing lowered his head again and handed over the water glass while putting down the book.

    “You should also take a rest.” Shen Molin took the water glass but didn’t drink it.

    “Then wait until I glue this book on my hand.” Qi Ruiqing lowered his head and almost pressed it against the blurry handwriting to identify it, “What word is this…”

    “Let me take a look…” Shen Molin swung his body and leaned closer, “Well…this is page 130 of food chemistry.”

    “Food chemistry?” “Here.”

    Qi Ruiqing wanted to take the book, but couldn’t move it the first time.It was Shen Molin who held the book and persuaded him with some pleading: “Throw away some books that are insignificant and cannot be repaired.”

    “No. Wouldn’t it be harder to cook without you?” Qi Ruiqing motioned for him to let go, deliberately making fun of him.

    Shen Molin gave a rare smile and followed Qi Ruiqing.

    Shen Molin held down the latest collection of books to prevent Qi Ruiqing from continuing to work.

    “I have some other ideas.” He took out a small machine from under his shawl, specially dyed black lab coat.

    “Camera?” Qi Ruiqing held the lens that was blown to pieces by an unknown force, and turned the device held by Shen Molin towards him, “It’s still… the old model.”

    “DV to be precise.” “What is DV.” “Handheld video recorder.”

    The lens is broken, the flip-up screen is shaky, there are buttons that can’t be pressed and a battery that’s being held up… This is no longer old, this is battle damage.

    Qi Ruiqing carefully took the cultural relic from Shen Molin and looked at it carefully.

    “What’s in here?”

    Shen Molin didn’t speak, just waiting for him to guess.

    “The electronic devices that appear here are either image memory, special understanding storage, or a teleprompter that displays the voice of the heart. Obviously, this is used for filming. This is image memory.”

    Qi Ruiqing looked carefully and saw the dented bullet holes on the side.

    “This is… an observation record of a black hole?”

    “Qi Ruiqing, you are much smarter than my superficial expectations.” Shen Molin sighed, “Yes.”

    “So, was it really an accident? Our plan was completely successful before the accident?”

    …just like a corpse was alive before it died.

    “Did your mother do it?” Even though she had killed her enemy and it was clear from the information obtained through improper means that she had not been able to complete her original plan, Qi Ruiqing still insisted on listing Shen Molin’s mother as the most worthy of investigation.

    “It’s hard for me to draw a conclusion, because I can’t think about it for the time being.” Shen Molin put her hands on her knees and looked into his eyes, “Well… but you have to be honest. We can’t use any colored glasses to discuss whether she is my mother.”

    There is no need to discuss that. Qi Ruiqing said that with colored glasses.

    In Shen Molin’s helpless eyes, Qi Ruiqing scratched his head and pretended to be innocent, then deliberately lowered his head to look at the camera that had no observation value.

    “Okay, okay.” Shen Molin also knew that this issue could not be concluded for the time being. “If we can repair the camera, our observations will not be in vain.”

    “However,” he shook his head depressedly, “its memory card is completely broken…”

    “Okay, turn on the phone.”

    …Besides “unimaginable”, Shen Molin no longer knew what else to say.

    Qi Ruiqing patted him twice more: “Why are you so stunned? How do you retrieve this memory?”

    “…Press here.”

    The flickering screen finally started working, and Shen Molin decided to let Qi Ruiqing hold it to prevent it from working again.

    The initial scene was ordinary and mundane, with only looming gray smoke covering the road.But as soon as his eyes changed, Qi Ruiqing finally saw the “black hole”.

    The black and reddish hemisphere actually existed like this, swallowing up the entire experimental building.The light and shadow become more distorted and distorted as they get closer, almost losing their original meaning as they shift.As the photography progresses, the fluctuations in the picture become more and more dramatic.

    After the strobe flickered for a moment, the screen completely turned black.

    “Is it gone?” Qi Ruiqing hit this disobedient memory again.

    “Yes, yes.” Shen Molin pressed pause, “You still can’t see?”

    “Invisible.” “That’s right. After all, although we are all classified as mutants, we are still not the same type of creature.”

    A conscious body created based on energy and based on the thoughts of others, and a living body based on energy and based on material body, are completely different based on the causal relationship between their births.

    Well… cause and effect…

    Shen Molin continued to stare at the screen, his expression gradually becoming serious.

    “What? What’s in it?” Qi Ruiqing pushed him.

    “It’s hard for me to describe…like a mirror.”

    “Mirror? So you see a lot of you?”

    Yeah, a lot of “me”.

    They are not called Shen Molin, but they are one with me.

    Shen Molin only has one thought now: if her mother’s catalysis is not stopped, she and “Shen Molin” may really be alienated into someone else.

    He will also identify with that identity without hesitation, just like he did when he first met Qi Ruiqing, and like he does now.

    “I saw a long blue-purple hair tied up, and the blue sky was embedded in a fragile penis.”

    Qi Ruiqing was stunned for a moment and looked down at himself.After staying in consciousness for so long, he seemed to have forgotten what his body had become.

    But Shen Molin remembered.

    “I remembered… I asked you to leave quickly and forced you out of my body.” Shen Molin held his forehead, frowned, and sorted out the cause and effect of the matter.

    “There are other energy bodies like me in the black hole. I foresaw your future and encountered unknown dangers. I sent you away, and I changed into my original self due to the influence of the black hole.”

    “What’s your original appearance?” Qi Ruiqing’s face turned cold, “Now is your original appearance. Those are all foreign objects.”

    Oh…I forgot he would think so.

    “There is another flaw.” Qi Ruiqing remembered the despair at that time more clearly, “It’s not entirely because of the black hole that you became like that. I saw what else you did.”

    But Shen Molin couldn’t remember clearly.

    The destroyed video, the broken memory card, and in the end, there was only a darkness that could almost emit a stench on the screen.

    Then came the terrifying roar, the ear-piercing sonic boom, and the choking smell of gunpowder.He heard the living Qi Ruiqing crying for them to stop, even facing the dangerous gun for him.

    He wanted to leave me alone.

    But it hurts so much…

    It hurts, it hurts, it hurts.It hurts so much…

    It hurts.it hurts.it hurts!

    pain!It hurts!It hurts!!

    It hurts…don’t…don’t…

    Take off the black coat and separate the shirt and adhering flesh.The horrific wounds on Shen Molin’s body were revealed in front of Qi Ruiqing.

    It can dye a dark shirt until it bleeds… and that’s just the upper body.

    The throat was extensively damaged, and large blood vessels in the neck were ruptured; heart damage, lung rupture, perforation and rupture of the esophageal airway; ribs, sternum, and collarbone fractures; large blood vessels in the abdominal cavity were ruptured, and the stomach, intestines, gallbladder, liver, spleen, and pancreas were ruptured and damaged to varying degrees; the long bones of the arms were fractured, and almost only the tendons of the right arm were still connected; various ballistic injuries were crisscrossed, and the burnt surface was so horrifying that Qi Ruiqing could not help but gag.

    This is just the upper body.

    The broken hair on Shen Molin’s forehead was stuck with blood and blocked his eyes.His mouth was open and speechless, and he appeared to have suffered brain damage from intracranial hemorrhage and a skull fracture.

    Moaning, endless moaning, the resonance made Qi Ruiqing tremble.He suppressed the discomfort and gently placed his hand on Shen Molin’s body.

    “It’s okay…it’s okay…”

    The broken bones reconnected, flesh and blood reorganized, the wounds began to recover, and the shocking scarlet color also receded.

    “It’s not fatal yet, it can be saved.” Shen Molin’s first sentence after he could speak was comfort, “Judging from the reflection… I’m not so bad that I think I’m going to die…”

    Qi Ruiqing was too lazy to argue with him. He lifted Shen Molin up and leaned against the wall. He used bandages and gauze to bandage the wounds that had not fully healed but were still controllable.

    “Well…” Shen Molin was fiddled with, and his veins popped out in pain.

    “Bear it, I’ll be fine soon, hold on.”

    Qi Ruiqing wiped off the blood stains with a towel and let the water wash away the dirt, so the red water flowed down and turned into a waterfall and rushed to the end of the stairs.

    “You can be considered a qualified…field volunteer…” Shen Molin broke into a cold sweat and did not forget to tease him.

    “Yeah…” Qi Ruiqing patted his chest gently, “You’re back to wearing a white shirt, and you still look good.”

    “Ha… cough…” “Why are you coughing again?” “This time it’s not because of them.”

    It’s just painful.

    “Fortunately, I don’t have a memory palace, so I don’t store everything in it.” Qi Ruiqing smiled bitterly, “Unfortunately, you don’t have the brain’s self-defense ability to hide all the terrible things.”

    “You can’t hide them yet…they are still useful.”

    The black hole, the energy of thought, the beginning and end of the story, the cycle of cause and effect…even if they are bound to be associated with pain.

    Because Shen Molin promised Qi Ruiqing.Now he doesn’t think about anything but making up for the other party.

    “Give me some wine, Qi Ruiqing…I want to drink…”

    Qi Ruiqing also had this intention.

    “This is real wine.” The two dozen beer glasses were put on the table. “I didn’t just think it up, and it wasn’t created by you.”

    “So where did it come from?” “…The method of obtaining it is not fair, so I won’t tell you.”

    It’s a pity that there are no appetizers.

    “That’s it… I have to spit it out after eating it.” “You’ll get drunk quickly if you drink too much.”

    Shen Molin opened a bottle nonchalantly and blew into his mouth.

    “I’d get drunk quickly even if I didn’t drink too much.”

    “Are you self-aware?” Qi Ruiqing put his forehead on his head and joked, “One cup.”

    “That’s why such a loser needs to drink in vain to relieve his sorrow…” Shen Molin laughed at himself, “I’m just waiting to get drunk… This way it won’t hurt…”

    Shen Molin is not a waste.

    “Okay, okay…if you say it’s not, then it’s not.” Shen Molin always had trouble with him.

    “In your mind, you are scolding me for being a love brain!” Qi Ruiqing pointed at him with a half-annoyed smile, “I have a basis for this, it’s scientific…”

    “No, I really didn’t scold you, I wouldn’t dare.”

    “Then give me your teleprompter.” Qi Ruiqing only believed what he saw.

    “But that thing is broken.” “Broken?” “It will be ready for use after I clean this place up…really.”

    Regardless of whether it was true or not, Qi Ruiqing just wanted to make trouble with Shen Molin.He had to tease him – Shen Molin’s traumatic sequelae made his emotions a little numb.

    “That’s what I plan to do…” Shen Molin took a sip of wine, “Although plans can’t keep up with changes, and I’m always too ambitious… But I want to completely understand the principles and laws of ‘mutation’.”

    “Then use your ability to turn me into my original form?”

    Shen Molin nodded, then lowered his head and raised his hands to rub the hair in front of his eyes: “I… don’t have much confidence.”

    “I won’t scold you, nor will I pay attention to this.”

    But Shen Molin paid attention.

    “If I come to a conclusion… it’s a bad conclusion anyway. I find that I can’t save you, I’ll harm you, and I’ll even…”

    He swallowed hard to moisten his throat that was irritated by the bubbles.

    “Then I’ll go crazy.”

    “What should I do if I become like that again?”

    “I did something uncontrollably and even hurt you…what should I do?”

    After he finished speaking, he stared at Qi Ruiqing with a sad look on his face.

    “…I don’t dare to speak big words, but I will do my best to help you and prevent this kind of thing from happening.” But then again, “But I have confidence in you, you will not hurt me.”

    “Why?” “Because you are Shen Molin.”

    The topic ended here, and they all chose to talk about something else tacitly.

    For example: talk about the correlation between alcohol consumption and genes.

    “Is your poor drinking ability hereditary?” “No, how can a businessman like my father not drink?” “Maybe it’s recessive inheritance?”

    In the human body, the activities of alcohol dehydrogenase ADH and aldehyde dehydrogenase ALDH are determined by genes, which affects the degradation rate of alcohol… Well, Shen Molin may not have genes at all now.

    For example: Talk about whether mutants have animal attributes.

    “What kind of bird are you?” “? I’m not a human, right now?” “No, your wings… look a bit like an owl.”

    The Eastern Scops Owl belongs to the order Owlformes, the family Owlidae, and the genus Scops Owl.Its scientific name is Otus sunia, and its other names include Eastern Red Scops Owl, Hammer Sparrow, etc.It is characterized by mottled brown, yellow eyes, and black stripes on the chest.

    Judging from the hair color D2C1C9#, he is the brown type… No, Shen Molin is a human being, he is a human being.

    “Then what am I? Look at me.”

    Well…if I have to say it, the eyes look a bit like a blue-eyed green snake, and apart from the scales on the head, it looks like a mutated blue-glandular coral snake.But no matter what, Qi Ruiqing looked very poisonous.

    “I have red scales.” Shen Molin opened his collar, “Look.”

    The place where the head was severed was… shocking.Even the snake scales are red there.

    “That’s the blue-glandular coral snake. This snake is characterized by its red head and abdomen and sky-blue back.”

    No, Qi Ruiqing is also a human being…what the hell…

    For example: talk about the special physiological structure of mutants.

    “What’s in your eyes?” “What?” “There is a membrane.” “There was it before, it has always been there, it’s called the nictitating membrane.”

    Qi Ruiqing opened Shen Molin’s eyelids with his hands, his thirst for knowledge was frighteningly strong.

    “There must have been none before.” “Yes, really. It’s just like the tail feathers and they are not commonly used.” “Why don’t you use them?” “It’s not that I don’t use them, it’s that they are not commonly used. I only use them when flying.”

    Another example: talk about shared memory

    “I don’t know why, but I seem to see some things about me from my father’s perspective. I have a… news that’s not bad news.” “You said.” “I have a marriage partner.”

    Qi Ruiqing spit out a mouthful of wine.

    “Ah?” “What happened after you left…well, we are not married yet.”

    “Male or female?” Qi Ruiqing was very concerned about this.

    “Girls.”

    Qi Ruiqing looked at him with a look of shock and then subconscious denial of suspicion.

    “Uh… uh… I have no feelings for her. You know, I have no choice. In order to control their children and maintain their family status, parents often use this method to show their majesty…”

    Qi Ruiqing waved his hand to interrupt him: “Are you not married?”

    “Yeah.” “Very good, then now you don’t have any marriage partners.”

    What is in front of Shen Molin is his first love, so it will be whatever he says.

    “If these things didn’t happen, would you marry her?” Qi Ruiqing seemed to mention it casually.

    But Shen Molin knew that the answer was important.

    “…I,” he considered, “it’s hard to say.”

    “It’s not like you to agree to such a marriage.”

    People will always change, and Shen Molin has never learned how to give in.

    “…Then I came quite in time.”

    Finally: let’s talk about some general truths.

    “Did you really kill my mother?” “Yeah. I came to the detention center and killed her, that’s it.”

    It’s hard for Shen Molin to comment – but judging from what she did to Qi Ruiqing, he really hated this controlling “biological mother”.

    But Qi Ruiqing doesn’t deserve the credit and the capital to return to society for such a rotten person.

    “I can’t go back a long time ago.” Qi Ruiqing smiled reluctantly, “A month ago… I couldn’t go back.”

    “From the moment I heard that my mother’s rescue efforts were ineffective, I went crazy. Reality can no longer tolerate me. Only fantasy can keep me alive.”

    “My negative impact on society is subtle. Do you remember that elementary school classmate? The one who always opened the back door for me.”

    Shen Molin remembered that he seemed to be some kind of director named Chen Jianwei…

    “No,” Qi Ruiqing chuckled at him, “This person does not exist at all.”

    “Perhaps it’s because my condition has worsened… This person’s appearance can even convince everyone around him, without even being disobedient.”

    “But in my remote Nigou village… are there any children around my age who have the capital or wealth to become a director?”

    However, just like the matrix effect, he appeared just like this, and the problem was not discovered by the world until not long ago.

    “I finally understand what you said: mutants will eventually leave society and go to ruins.” Qi Ruiqing was actually relieved, “If I don’t stop thinking, the world will eventually be distorted into my fantasy because of me.”

    We’ve made a mess here, haven’t we?

    “If they could put aside their prejudices, we might be able to accept cooperation. But in their eyes, we have lost our rights as human beings.”

    “If they say they want to cooperate, will you be willing?” Shen Molin looked at him drunkenly.

    “I listen to you.”

    But the premise is that this happens first.

    Shen Molin fell asleep, just like that time, hesitating about their future, and passed away exhausted and drunk.

    Qi Ruiqing put on his coat for him, supported his head and leaned him against the wall.

    “Shen Molin…”

    Untimely footsteps rushed outside the ruins, stopping at the entrance of the nest.A ray of light swept into the cave entrance, reminding Qi Ruiqing of a time when he was caught in a crime.

    But the difference was that this time he was not afraid at all.

    He really didn’t need to be afraid, because the other party’s nervousness was even more intense.

    “Qi Ruiqing!” The captain raised his hands, “Don’t do anything, I don’t have any weapons!”

    “But I’ve been surrounded again outside, right?” Qi Ruiqing despised them the most, “Be prepared with both hands?”

    They had the same plan when facing such a heinous criminal.

    “You are using force against Shen Molin, but when facing that woman, you think, ‘If you can use it, you will make up for it’? I know that major contributions can reduce the sentence, but she is such a sinister sociopath who wants to kill everyone!”

    “This is a special situation. We cannot spread panic, but there are really not enough candidates who are qualified for the job. Please forgive us…” “Then why can’t you forgive us?!”

    He hates it so much!But whether it is morality, law, or pragmatic and cold-blooded reality, these are not on Qi Ruiqing’s side.

    “I only killed her damned person… But that was just what I did… Why don’t you let Shen Molin go…”

    Qi Ruiqing can accept that he will serve his sentence and even die without fear.He deserves it.

    But what will Shen Molin do after he dies?

    They have even written the “Draft Method for Containing Intelligent Energy Bodies”!!

    “No no, no no no!” The captain waved his hands wildly in an attempt to dispel some of Qi Ruiqing’s thoughts, “Listen to what I say to Qi Ruiqing, just one sentence!”

    “We are here to make peace.”

    ——Small Theater————

    “Cold Facts About Qi Ruiqing – Name”

    The nice name “Qi Ruiqing” is actually not his original name.When he was born, the name his father gave him was actually “Qilian Mountain”.

    Yes, it is “Qilian Mountain”.

    Later, the same outsider from the city told Qi Ruiqing’s parents that the name was “quite ambiguous”, so they renamed him.The name “Qi Ruiqing” was born.

    “Qi Ruiqing…?”

    “Well, what a good name.”

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