Ah Quan raised his hand with the teapot, paused in mid-air, and then poured the tea into the cup.
"It all depends on how you define human beings." He said without raising his head. "A person with a heartbeat, blood, life and death is a human being? Or is a person with thoughts, memories, joy and sorrow a human being?"
He smiled slightly and handed the tea cup to Lin Sanjiu. "If you follow the former definition, I am no longer a human being. But in my own opinion, I am a human being, especially compared to your two friends."
Lin Sanjiu felt as if a clockwork was suddenly tightened in her mind. She took the tea cup and stared at Ah Quan. "You - my friend -"
"Yeah, I know where they are."
Ah Quan put one leg on his knee and took a sip of tea. "I'm sorry to say that, the place where the long-haired child happened to be is my memoirs. Naturally, I can't let him stay here, so
When he came to ask me about your whereabouts, I pointed him to another memoir. You see, I happen to know a place where people can clearly see a trail stretching into the distance... He wanted to find you
, so we followed the footprints and entered."
Even though he knew that they were the ones who broke into the other's territory first and that A Quan was just responding to the crisis, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but get angry reflexively - just like an unreasonable mother.
She had to reason with herself in her mind before holding back her anger and asking: "How long has he been stuck in his memoirs? Is he okay? Where has he gone? Can you bring him back?"
Strangely enough, when the same thing happened to her, she could regard it as a development of the situation, a result of helplessness - after all, for a person who survives in the apocalyptic world, disturbances and dangers are inevitable; but if it happened to Li Bao, it would be inevitable.
It seems like an injustice.
Ah Quan glanced at her a few times, seeming a little surprised by her anger.
"It seems that he is a very important friend to you."
"Yes."
Ah Quan put down his teacup, smiled, and said, "Although I don't understand why, you don't have to worry about him. From a mental stability perspective, compared to you and another guy who is just a human being, that child is
The safest... From another perspective, he is the least safe. Because if you had not found me, I would have kept him in the memoirs forever."
Lin Sanjiu was stunned. "I don't understand what you mean."
Ah Quan took out the magazine from somewhere, opened it and flipped through it for a while.
Lin Sanjiu looked at the third-rate gossip headlines and large color pictures of the characters on the cover, and vaguely guessed what was going on. It became more and more incredible that it was like a dream - so many memoirs, could it be that this man had packed them all into a small magazine?
Is it in?
"Here," he tapped the magazine with his finger, and said, "Start from this... Well, he was not very lucky. Although he knew to avoid the core of triggering memories, he ended up triggering five memoirs in a row. It's you
The most numerous of them.”
Lin Sanjiu's heart tightened when she heard Ah Quan continue: "However, he was not affected at all."
This time, her hesitation had a different meaning.
"I...I don't understand."
Ah Quan glanced at her and repeated the same meaning again: "That's the literal meaning. No matter what memoirs he went through or how many times he went through, he was not affected at all."
It seemed that Lin Sanjiu couldn't think of a suitable thing to say except for the blank "I don't understand."
"But, this is impossible," she murmured after a while, her fingers constantly making circles on her field pants. "You must know better than me, this is impossible. When memories are triggered, we
I am completely 'living' in the body of the memory owner, accepting and feeling everything about them... Ah, I understand, you have got the wrong person. My other friend may indeed have no reaction at all, because he doesn't
With human emotions.”
Ah Quan thought about it for a few seconds and said, "No, I'm pretty sure I'm not wrong. The one I was talking about who didn't respond was a very beautiful boy who couldn't tell the difference between male and female. His hair was about this long.
He gestured on his chest and asked: "Do you want to see him? But don't get too close."
Before Lin Sanjiu could reply, "How do you read it?", he had already turned over the magazine.
Lin Sanjiu had seen countless people, fallen species, object effects or abilities rushing towards her, but this was the first time she saw a small world rushing towards her - the scene in the large picture on the whole page suddenly appeared.
It jumped out of the page, drowning her like a wave in an instant, and captured her tightly.
Teacher Yi didn't warn her, and she didn't feel any danger. After a moment of confusion, Lin Sanjiu found herself "floating" on a long beach.
There is no sunshine on this day, and there is a gray mist on the sea in the distance. The back of a girl is sitting on the beach that was originally snow-white but dyed gray by the sky, quietly listening to the sound of the waves hitting the quiet world.
, motionless. Behind her, several waterfowl with slender legs were looking for food on the beach.
This feeling was so strange. This was only the first layer she saw - she could see the second layer without turning her head; it was as if two layers of pictures were stacked on top of each other, and she used a little willpower to filter out the top layer.
After that, Ji Shanqing emerged.
He stood on the same beach, where the girl sat, in the egg-blue sky and the mist like clouds.
Ah Quan's voice rang out, the same as before, still a few steps away.
"The girl is the owner of the memoirs. Logically speaking, your friend should be able to feel all her emotions. There are no earth-shaking things in the girl's memories... She has always stayed away from the crowd throughout her life.
The memories are all dusty. Every time I see her memories, I fall into a faint, indescribable feeling of loss and melancholy."
Ji Shanqing's expression had nothing to do with melancholy: his brows were furrowed tightly, and he looked irritated, as if he was in a hurry but had to endure a play that he was not interested in.
He obviously knew his identity very clearly, because Lin Sanjiu was so familiar with his various subtle expressions that he could even tell that he was keeping time.
"I...I didn't expect that."
When she spoke, her eyes blurred for a moment, and when she looked again, she saw that Ah Quan had turned the magazine back again. Lin Sanjiu looked at the magazine blankly and said, "The one who is not affected should be Yu Yuan, he has no emotions...
…”
"Another friend of yours?" Ah Quan smiled, "He is the other extreme. Since I am not going to embarrass you, I have to pull him over now, and you have to wake him up quickly. He is immersed in
It was too deep, and corresponding physical changes have already occurred - his breathing has stopped several times."