The Lost City of Alien Beasts

Chapter 929 No complaints and no regrets

——Mom, can you see, this girl Xinxin is becoming more and more like you.

——Dad, Mom, Grandma, you must bless Xinxin and make her life safe and smooth.

"That's almost it." Gao Yang stepped forward and patted Gao Xinxin on the shoulder: "Let's go."

"Yeah." Gao Xinxin also finished chatting with her parents. She stood up on her knees and almost fell down when her body tilted.

Gao Yang immediately helped her steady: "What's wrong?"

"I've been kneeling for a long time, my legs are a little numb..." Gao Xinxin's face turned pale, "My head seems a little dizzy too."

"You are too thin and anemic." Gao Yang felt distressed. He helped Gao Xinxin walk to a clean concrete step, "Sit down and watch the sunset."

"Ah."

The two brothers and sister sat down, enjoying the evening breeze and watching the sun that was about to set in the mountains.

Gao Yang took out a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake from his pocket and said, "Eat it."

Gao Xinxin was stunned for two seconds, then took the candy and opened the wrapping paper. The candy heart had turned into semi-powder. She put it on the cushion with tin foil and carefully fed it into her mouth. Half of it was left and she gave it back to Gao Yang: "You can eat it too." .”

Gao Yang took it and poured it all into his mouth.

"Well, it's so sweet." Gao Xinxin smiled and frowned: "I don't like sweets so much when I grow up. I remember when we were young, we would bother grandma every day to ask for sweets."

"Especially you, you already have cavities, but you still make trouble when grandma doesn't give you anything, saying that grandma favors boys over girls, so you go to your parents to complain." Gao Yang recalled with a smile.

"No way! Why don't I have any impression?" Gao Xinxin smiled, "Don't bully me for not remembering things when I was a child."

Gao Yang stopped arguing. He reached out and rubbed Gao Xinxin's head: "You were still a little kid at that time, but in a blink of an eye, you are now a big girl."

"Brother!" Gao Xinxin punched Gao Yang: "Why are you talking more and more like a father?"

"This is called elder brother being like father." Gao Yang said.

"I know, I know." Gao Xinxin relished the sweetness of the sweet-scented osmanthus cake in his mouth while looking at the gradually cooling orange sunset on the horizon.

She slowly tilted her head and leaned on Gao Yang's shoulder. Her voice was soft and sad, but not sad.

"Brother, do you know? When my parents just left, I felt that everything was very ridiculous and meaningless, and life was very boring. Fortunately, I still have you, otherwise I would definitely not be able to survive."

--Me too.

Gao Yang encouraged: "Then you are strong enough."

"Thinking about it now, I'm glad I survived. In fact, as long as people live, they can always find meaning."

Gao Xinxin smiled happily: "Now, I have to take care of Meng Xiaoyang, Yinyin, and Sister Xia. Sometimes, I suddenly feel that they are my family. If one day danger comes, I have to sacrifice myself to save them." I will definitely stand up for them without hesitation..."

"It's the same death. Compared to when I wanted to die because my parents were gone, I feel much more confident. I don't think it's selfish or wrong to die like this. I can face death calmly and easily. …”

"Perhaps grandma, dad and mom had the same mood when they died to save us. They were not afraid or in pain. They were not forced to suffer, nor were they desperate. They did it without any regrets. I have a choice... Every time I think about it this way, I feel less sad.”

Gao Xinxin pursed her lips: "I don't know if I've made it clear. Brother, if you miss them in the future, you can think like me, and you won't be so sad."

Gao Yang said nothing, reached out and patted his sister on the shoulder, then took her into his arms.

Gao Xinxin buried her face in Gao Yang's chest, tears streaming down silently.

The two brothers and sisters stayed quietly until the sunset disappeared and night fell.

"Let's go home and celebrate the New Year." Gao Yang said.

"it is good."

...Ten o'clock in the morning, No. [-] Hospital, Anliang District.

The weather is good, the sun is shining brightly and there are no clouds in the sky today, which is perfect for a festive day like New Year's Eve.

Spring couplets were also posted on the door of the inpatient department, and lanterns were hung, making it look festive.

In the small park downstairs, patients wearing blue and white hospital gowns were wandering around casually. Some were playing in groups like children, some were squatting alone in the corner and muttered, and some were standing on the spot with their backs turned. He looked up at the sky with unblinking eyes.

There is a chess stone table next to the fountain, and two doctors in white coats are playing chess while basking in the sun.

The doctor on the left is named Sun. He is very young, thin and wears black-rimmed glasses. He has a clean face and looks a bit like a frail scholar.

He hit the pawn with artillery at the beginning, and did not forget to chat: "Old Tang, do you know about the Ship of Theseus?"

The doctor opposite was in his forties, with a slightly sloping top, a chubby face, a round nose, and a wide chin. He was quite blessed. He mounted his horse to guard the soldiers, with a look of disdain on his face: "I stopped talking about this topic in junior high school. ."

"Let's talk." Xiao Sun continued to play chess, "I never figured it out. Look, a ship sails on the sea. Every time it is replaced with a new piece of wood, when the ship goes ashore, all the wood is gone. After changing it again, do you think this ship is still the original ship?"

"Yes, and no." Old Tang slowly played chess.

Xiao Sun frowned, a little disappointed: "Old Tang, you are talking like this again."

"Haha." Old Tang smiled enigmatically: "Human cells are completely renewed every 6 to 7 years. So let me ask you, are you still the same person you were 7 years ago?"

"Well." Xiao Sun thought for a moment: "Of course it's me."

"No, no." Old Tang took the opponent's shot and said, "Yes, and no."

"It's really boring to chat with you. If you don't understand, you don't understand. It's not a shame. I think you're just older but not smarter." Xiao Sun showed no mercy to his predecessor, Old Tang, and beat him to pieces.

"Haha." Old Tang was not angry. "When you get to my age, you will understand that many problems cannot be solved by IQ alone, but by understanding. You are lucky, you are in a good mood today, let me talk to you. .”

"All ears."

General Lao Tang mounted the horse: "I say yes and no, it depends on different philosophical views. You, like most people in the world, are entangled in cause and effect, obsessed with eternity. As a finite individual, you want to chase the infinite, and you are looking for trouble and asking for it. Eat hard.”

Xiao Sun was stunned and forgot to stop the horse with the car in his hand.

“If you regard your life as a whole and have the illusion that you can control and understand it, then of course you are still you, you are your master, no matter how many times the cells in your body are renewed, you will always be you, no matter what the material is. Regardless of replacement and annihilation, you are still you. You like to call these things soul and consciousness, and think that they are eternal."

"Isn't it?" Xiao Sun said.

Old Tang squinted his eyes and smiled, "I don't think so. I don't think life is a whole. It is just the continuous superposition of countless flowing and changing moments. Don't say that I was not me seven years ago. I was the one who killed you in the last second. , it’s not me at this second.”

Xiao Sun was dumbfounded with the cannon in his hand.

Old Tang talked eloquently: "In other words, there is no concept of 'I' at all, I do not exist. Life is just the accumulation of countless moments. This accumulation gives us the illusion of subject and object, making us feel Oneself is oneself, others are others, and the universe is the universe.”

"Xiao Sun, think about it carefully, you were born in this universe, how can you be separated from it?"

"How arrogant! How ignorant!"

"It's like a fish thinking about its relationship with the sea water, but it doesn't know that it is nothing and the sea water is nothing. Their common name is the ocean."

"So, what's your answer?" Xiao Sun said.

"Play chess." Old Tang smiled faintly: "Playing chess is you, it is me, it is the universe, it is infinity."

Xiao Sun seemed to understand, but he frowned: "Then, is that ship still the original ship?"

"Hey, I'm in trouble again." Old Tang shook his head and sighed. It's a dead end for the general.

"No. 6! No. 7!" A doctor rushed over angrily, followed by two nurses: "Who asked you to steal my clothes!"

(End of this chapter)