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    The ship he named Theseus

    “What, you don’t recognize me anymore?”

    Shen Molin spread out his hands as if to give a warm hug, but when his smile rose, Qi Ruiqing only felt waves of fear like a storm.

    “You…” He turned around and looked behind him. There was “Shen Mo Lin” who was sweating coldly.

    “Hmm…” The black-haired Shen Molin clicked his tongue, “Ruiqing, what is this?”

    “My substitute?”

    Stand-in?substitute?”No, it’s not…”

    “Who are you?!” The golden-eyed Shen Molin’s voice trembled, but he just kept Qi Ruiqing behind him to protect him, “You are…”

    “I’m Shen Molin.” That matter-of-fact look was chilling.

    “No, no…” “Do you think you are Shen Molin?”

    Shen Molin curled his lips and sneered, and an arrogant rhetorical question left “Shen Molin” completely speechless.He clenched his fists and his half-open mouth was frozen, but no words came out.

    Staring at the confident Shen Molin, he couldn’t help but tremble.

    “I…I really don’t…”

    “No, no! Shen Molin!” Qi Ruiqing hurriedly shouted, interrupted him, and reached out to grab him, but his hand was stopped in mid-air and was snatched away by the black-haired Shen Molin!

    “Don’t come near him again! He’s fake!”

    “But…” Qi Ruiqing wanted to explain to this new Shen Molin.

    “He used my identity to get close to you. What’s his intention?! Qi Ruiqing, haven’t you seen such a simple thing!”

    His sharp accusations were too harsh, and his grip on Qi Ruiqing was surprisingly strong.Qi Ruiqing was pinched so much that it hurt, and his brain was dazed for a while. He had to re-observe the two Shen Molin who were holding him on the right and the two who were holding him on the left.

    Black hair is right, pink-brown is right; dark eyes are right, but amber bird eyes are also right!!

    Shen Molin has this confident, proud, and evil expression, but he can also be confused, frightened, and timid to avoid looking directly at her!

    “You are Shen Molin, and so are you…”

    “There will only be one Shen Molin in this world.” The black-haired Shen Molin interrupted him.

    “But, but…” Qi Ruiqing didn’t believe it and just turned to look at the owl that was carefully holding his wrist, “You are also Shen Molin… aren’t you?”

    He saw “Shen Mo Lin” gritting his teeth and swallowing hard.

    “Qi Ruiqing, I…” “Come here!!”

    This pull caused Qi Ruiqing to stumble and almost fall, and “Shen Molin”‘s hand was also freed.Qi Ruiqing was pulled to the wall and forced to stand aside.

    It would be great if they both declared “I am Shen Molin” evenly, but why did the pillow person who followed him at the beginning use that kind of… guilty and complicated expression?

    Is he hiding something?

    Isn’t he really…

    This thought flashed by, but it was more frightening than the huge thunder that suddenly exploded in the night.

    “…Huh?”

    “Shen Molin’s” hand was still hanging in the air in that posture, and his figure suddenly flickered and became unreal.

    He stared at Qi Ruiqing silently until Shen Molin reached out and pushed hard.

    “How long do you want to keep pretending?”

    Shen Molin stood between the two of them, completely blocking Qi Ruiqing’s gaze.All Qi Ruiqing could see was the shadow cast by that person.

    So Qi Ruiqing had nowhere to look, so he could only lower his head and saw the knife held in Shen Molin’s hand.

    When the flowering period of camellia comes to an end, its head falls completely and horribly.

    If the blood on the knife didn’t come from any of the three people present, then who else…

    Qi Ruiqing suddenly remembered and looked back at the scene outside the door that had just been blocked.He saw the owner of the blood stain, Captain Yan, lying next to the wall, uncertain about his life or death.

    “Shen Molin, you…” Qi Ruiqing wanted to say.

    “Shut up, Qi Ruiqing.”

    But this Shen Molin actually didn’t want to pay him any attention.He was sneering and pushing “Shen Molin”, forcing him to the sofa step by step.

    “Admit it! You are not Shen Molin at all! A despicable impostor, an impostor who thinks he can deceive everyone!” “Shut up…” “After all, you didn’t calculate that I am still alive, right? Shen Molin’s identity is very useful, right? It’s so useful that you deceived yourself and even believed it, right?”

    “Get out! Get out!!” “Shen Molin” collapsed and turned out a gun and pointed it at him.

    “Don’t come here…go away…”

    It panicked, and others could see it panicking. It even forgot to load its pistol, and it couldn’t even keep its body steady.It tried to fight off the unknown creature with its unstable weapon, but in reality it was of no use.

    “Do you dare to shoot?”

    Shen Molin pinched the muzzle of his gun and touched his gun-holding hand.

    “Come on!” He opened his mouth, bit down on the barrel of the gun, and licked the mouth of the barrel provocatively.

    “Shen Molin! Shoot! He is not Shen Molin!” Qi Ruiqing tried to wake him up.

    “He won’t.”

    That evil nature, that crazy rebellion, he turned back to Qi Ruiqing and acted wantonly with Shen Molin’s face.

    “He wouldn’t dare.”

    “Shen Molin shoots!”

    No one would give them a chance to hesitate. The monster under Shen Molin’s skin raised his hand and slapped away the pistol, immediately grabbing “Shen Molin” by the throat.He pinched “Shen Molin”, grabbed him with a few quick steps and slammed him against the wall.

    “You don’t dare, because you know better than anyone else that you are a liar! You are running away from everything you have seen with your own eyes, but you have a guilty conscience!”

    “I didn’t!!” The poor bird’s wings were broken and it couldn’t even struggle.

    “Then tell me, what did you see in the black hole?”

    “I…”

    “Say!”

    “I…I…I…”

    “You are not you, do you deserve to use this ‘I’?!”

    It stared at the ruins in front of it with wide eyes.

    It saw people who were crying and people who were suffering. It saw fallen flowers that were trampled to pieces, crushed into the soil and turned into mud.

    Therefore, it can no longer understand its own existence.

    When the tip of the knife fell, it didn’t think clearly about the reason for avoiding it.

    “Let him go!”

    When Qi Ruiqing took a few steps to pick up the gun and take aim, all that had already happened.

    The monster obediently let go of his hand, and Shen Molin fell straight down, tilting his head and falling to the ground.

    One of his eyes turned into the half-handle of a knife embedded with malicious intent, while the other one was open and empty, just looking at Qi Ruiqing.

    Qi Ruiqing also watched, watching Shen Molin unable to get up again.In the blank space in his heart that was already somewhat numb, a ball of anger suddenly rose into the sky.

    “You bastard…how dare you do such a thing under Shen Molin’s skin…”

    “So what?” The monster said disdainfully, “Are you going to kill me and see Shen Molin die in front of you again…”

    Bang!After a decisive gunshot, the monster leaned forward, holding its bleeding shoulder and observing Qi Ruiqing in disbelief.

    This shot was aimed at the head.

    If it weren’t for the fact that Qi Ruiqing had never fired a gun, if it weren’t for the fact that Qi Ruiqing couldn’t use those abilities now, this monster would have died long ago.

    “Wait! Wait!” The monster raised his hands in surrender, “Dear, listen to what I have to say…”

    Bang!The second shot grazed the monster’s earlobe and hit the wall.

    “No, no! No! Qi Ruiqing, listen to me!”

    Seeing that it was useless to talk, the monster quickly “squirmed” and moved to Qi Ruiqing.

    Qi Ruiqing’s third shot failed to hit him, and then the gun was pushed aside with brute force.

    “Qi Rui…”

    The fist flew past and hit him neatly in the face.Qi Ruiqing cleverly gave up the power competition with no chance of winning, dropped the weapons that were no longer suitable for the current situation, and fought with his bare hands.

    After three punches, an elbow and a kick, the stunned monster finally understood his determination when he saw the ashtray flying towards him.

    “Qi Ruiqing!”

    Black smoke erupted around him, and the shock wave finally drove back the red-eyed Qi Ruiqing.

    Tear open the shell of hypocrisy, and the monster is no longer pretending.The lump of mud angrily threw itself at Qi Ruiqing, trying to drain the fearful energy from him.

    However, the only thing that responded to it was those bloodshot red eyes.

    “Hehe…hehe…”

    It laughed weirdly.

    “Aren’t you afraid that I will kill you?”

    What it said was not human, but it was directly transmitted into Qi Ruiqing’s mind.

    “…You can’t do it.”

    Qi Ruiqing has never been afraid.There was a feeling that told him that he was the one who could decide all this.

    To…the power of thought.

    Shen Molin said it.

    “In the restricted area, during that fight with Shen Molin, I was blind, panicked, and powerless to resist.” Qi Ruiqing glanced at the structure similar to Shen Molin’s. “It might be easy to stab me to death with your ‘body’, right? But you didn’t. Instead, you used a collapsed wall that was easily countered.”

    Why is this?

    “And just now, you could have killed the defenseless me first. I am the closest to you and can be easily reached, right?”

    “But you didn’t. Instead, you went straight to Shen Molin. Why?”

    “There may be two reasons: First, your goal is to destroy Shen Molin’s psychological defense and sow discord…”

    “The second thing is: you can’t kill me.”

    “You can’t kill me, you can only hurt me by accident.” Now it was Qi Ruiqing’s turn to smile, “Because you are just a parasite hiding behind Shen Molin. If Shen Molin doesn’t let you hurt me, you can’t.”

    In the stinking mud, Qi Ruiqing closed his mouth and watched those similar eyes wake up one by one and narrow them in the same way.

    “Qi, Rui, Qing.”

    It vaguely recited the name called “Prohibition” that was engraved in the “DNA”, and couldn’t help but taste the calm “human” in front of it.

    “Wrong and right.”

    It lightly swept across Qi Ruiqing’s cheek: “But you are indeed admirable.”

    “Huh.” Qi Ruiqing turned his head to avoid it and looked at the blood stains gradually disappearing on the wall and on the carpet, “You are not worthy of admiring me.”

    The skin bag was broken, and the liquid inside gurgled out. It was blood, tears, and indescribable mud.

    The fallen body stood up stiffly and strangely, straightened its upper body, supported its head, and the knife inserted into the empty eye socket was pushed out.

    Its bloody tears filled the room and climbed to the ceiling.Wherever it went, everything was burnt black and dry by its sorrow.

    Qi Ruiqing waited, waiting for the intact eye to look at him again.Even though he looked like a ghost now, Qi Ruiqing recognized it immediately.

    “Shen Molin!”

    This is Shen Molin!

    His pupils shrank sharply, and then, Shen Molin’s body was pulled by the thing in his eyes, and he teleported over in the same way.

    “!?”

    After a competition without any suspense, Shen Molin was frighteningly strong after putting aside the complicated and heavy emotions.The monster could only stay in the vortex in his eyes for half a second, and then it was sucked into the center of the vortex and disappeared.

    After devouring it, the eye with extremely small pupils stared at Qi Ruiqing again in a ghostly manner, then slowly expanded and loosened.

    Shen Molin backed up and fell down again with a thud.The leaked part of him surged back into the gap, leaving a horrific wound with a level two serious injury and a missing eyeball.

    “Shen Molin.” Qi Ruiqing got up and threw herself on Shen Molin distressedly.

    “…”

    He just closed his eyes tiredly.

    Eyes, eyes…

    Close your eyes.

    Shen Molin has always felt that among the three diseases of deafness, muteness, and blindness, the most terrifying thing is the “loss of sight.”

    The fear brought by the unknown is absolute.Under the late night effect, people will always make the most irrational decisions.

    Is there a relationship between thinking energy and the brightness of the outside world?This is another new topic.

    There are many things he doesn’t understand, doesn’t understand, and doesn’t understand…

    “Qi Ruiqing.”

    On the hospital bed, he looked at Qi Ruiqing on the pillow. Who were his eyes red for?

    “I have bad news.” Qi Ruiqing said sadly, holding his hand.

    “The person you killed was really Shen Molin.”

    A bit of a reaction.

    Has sleep cycles, opens eyes, and responds to physical contact.

    Going from coma to consciousness does not happen overnight like in the TV series. It is a long, multi-stage process. Give him some time.

    Starting from the stage of light coma, from the initial eye tracking, to the response to commands, the reaction speed is accelerated bit by bit, and finally…

    “Rui…Qing.” He interrupted, “What are you thinking about?”

    “How did you…” “There is no physical…so…no way.”

    Qi Ruiqing breathed a sigh of relief and became happy.Shen Molin can wake up quickly, which is a good thing.

    “That person…is Shen Molin…?”

    Qi Ruiqing shook his head: “It’s not Shen Molin, nor is it some projection of Shen Molin or some stress response clone. It is your part now, but it is not Shen Molin’s part.”

    Shen Molin was confused, but he seemed to understand.

    “I had a nightmare… I dreamed of killing Shen Molin… It’s really scary.” He waved his hands somewhat self-deprecatingly as if to drive away something, “Where is Captain Yan?”

    “Oh yes, you were charged with intentional homicide.”

    Shen Molin stared, suspicious.

    Qi Ruiqing laughed: “What expression? I am teasing you. He is alive.”

    That’s good.Shen Mo Lin said in her heart and slowly sat up.

    He hesitantly raised his hand and touched the gauze covering his eyes.

    “Qi Ruiqing.” “I’m here.” “Did you put it together like this in the beginning?”

    Tear out the broken fabric from under the stone slab, sew it with sentimental threads, and then fill it with cotton called memories…

    Is this… Shen Molin?

    “It was last time.” Qi Ruiqing squeezed his palm, referring to what happened after exploring the black hole. He remembered how he fished Shen Molin out of the mud.

    “So… is that true?” Shen Molin asked expectantly and panicked.

    “What?” “It’s not Shen Molin.” “You are him.”

    What Shen Molin wants to ask is: whether he is Shen Molin.

    So Qi Ruiqing replied: Of course.

    But obviously Shen Molin was not satisfied with this answer.

    “…But, I don’t know if it’s okay or not.” He covered half of his face in despair and pulled his hair to try to cover his eyes. “If you can’t return to your original state, will you be angry?”

    This piece of cloth has been cut and mended so that the original color cannot be seen, and the buttons on the doll can no longer be found in the same style…

    It’s obviously still the same.

    Now it is almost impossible to see the original appearance.

    Qi Ruiqing loves Shen Molin, and it also loves Qi Ruiqing.Qi Ruiqing’s expectations are its expectations, and what Qi Ruiqing wants is what it wants to do.

    Qi Ruiqing wants Shen Molin to come back, so he has to work hard to get Shen Molin to come back.

    And everything about Shen Molin has something to do with black holes.Inevitably, it must understand all this, so that everything will not become chaotic and uncontrollable in the increase of entropy, only then can Shen Molin come back, and only then can Qi Ruiqing be happy…

    Qi Ruiqing, Ruiqing…

    Alas……

    “Oh, Shen Molin is awake.” Captain Yan came in, “Does he have a headache?”

    “…So be it.” Qi Ruiqing didn’t know what he was thinking, but his eyes were fixed on Shen Molin’s, and finally he sighed.

    “Captain Yan, are you okay? Really?” Shen Molin remembered that the knife was aimed at Captain Yan’s heart, and it would not hit the wrong place.

    “Thanks to Qi Ruiqing,” Captain Yan poked his heart, then patted the legendary doctor on the shoulder, “I can still be considered alive.”

    Shen Molin didn’t say anything. He just took Qi Ruiqing’s arm and pulled up his sleeves. He glanced at the snake scales that appeared again and reluctantly pulled off the sleeves again.

    “My legs are fine.” Qi Ruiqing comforted him.

    “Nothing can happen to you, you have to be complete and exactly the same.”

    What was Shen Molin thinking? “If Shen Molin came back and saw Qi Ruiqing turning into such a half-human, half-ghost, he would definitely be sad.”

    “Can you stop thinking nonsense?” Qi Ruiqing was really annoyed, but he didn’t poke the weak Shen Molin with his finger.

    “Wrong.” “You say it but you don’t admit it, and you don’t change it when you are wrong. So what’s the difference between you and the uncivilized idiot you call me?”

    Shen Molin actually smiled apologetically: “No difference, no difference…”

    His smile froze again, and he covered and grabbed the gauze again.

    “You don’t need those white coats – no matter what type they are. It’s okay, you can go back to work tomorrow.”

    “Really?” Captain Yan didn’t listen to him and just turned to listen to Qi Ruiqing’s opinion.

    “False.” Qi Ruiqing stood up, “He needs psychiatric consultation.”

    “Have you seen that he has said the word ‘I’ so far?”

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