Ancient European buildings stand on both sides of the narrow streets, and the walls are covered with vines and moss. The warm red light at dusk pours on the stone pavement, dragging out Li Mengli's long shadow.
"Mengli?" Li Xiaoyu ran through several intersections and finally saw Li Mengli's figure in this narrow street, "Where are you going?"
When she noticed that Li Xiaoyu was catching up, Li Mengli was still dragging her feet like a zombie, walking towards the setting sun without saying a word.
"Sister Luo Lan called me just now and asked us to go back for dinner?" Li Xiaoyu ran past her, turned around to face her, and walked backwards at the same time, "You...where did you pick the flowers?"
Li Mengli held a bouquet of flowers of various colors in her hand and said in a dreamy voice: "In the flower beds on the roadside, they have the same meaning as me."
Li Xiaoyu forced a smile and said: "How could it be meaningless? Look, they are as beautiful as you!"
"But they are not real, just like me, they are just a false existence.
Although they are not real flowers, they are still treated as flowers.
This is a very painful thing.
It doesn’t matter if it’s me or these flowers.
It disappeared a long time ago, didn't it?
This is a fact that cannot be changed no matter how advanced the technology is. "
Li Mengli stopped, put the tip of her nose against the petals, inhaled deeply, and then smiled in despair, "The real Li Mengli will be allergic to pollen.
But I don't have allergies. "
"Mengli, isn't this your problem? These flowers are simulations created by technology, and there is no pollen at all."
"That's the problem." Li Mengli slowly looked up at her and said, "I am also a simulation created by technology...
Sister-in-law, please stop caring about me and let me get out of here.
After all, I died.
Even if you stay in the cafe, it will only cause you trouble, and it will not even increase your popularity. "
"What are you talking about? Didn't Meng Ling say it a long time ago? She resurrected you with your true body. She just replaced a piece of your spine. It is a completely different concept from that kind of artificial person. You are still A living human being!" Li Xiaoyu comforted, "Just like a disabled person who has been fitted with a prosthetic limb, you can't say that he is no longer a human being, right?"
"Humans... don't need to eat and sleep?" Li Mengli squeezed the bouquet in her hand tightly and gritted her teeth, "Just like these flowers that don't need watering and fertilizing, they are just the product of human beings deceiving themselves...
It has no meaning, no meaning of existence! "
Li Xiaoyu was silent for a while and said calmly: "If Carnival Island hadn't suddenly disappeared, Mengling originally planned to tamper with some of your memories, so that you wouldn't remember your death.
But even if we come to Saint-Freux, Li Mengling should be able to do that kind of thing at any time if she wants, right?
If she only sees you as a machine to satisfy her own fantasies, why not fix you into her ideal sister?
Mengli, it’s because Meng Ling recognized you as her biological sister that she didn’t tamper with your memory at will for so long.
Even if she knows you are in pain.
Even if every time she sees you in pain, she may feel more pain than you.
She still didn't do that either.
Because you are a living person...
You just slept for a long time and just woke up.
Other than that, there is no difference between you and any of us. "
"But...if everyone thinks this way, why have I never felt it? Just now, Sister Luolan didn't even care about my feelings when she spoke. I obviously died once..."
"It's because everyone thinks so!" Li Xiaoyu interrupted her and said seriously, "It's because there is no difference between you and us, so Sister Luolan doesn't care about your mood!
Do normal people always need special care?
Only patients with fragile hearts would have their mood carefully taken into consideration at all times, right? "
Hearing this, Li Mengli looked at Li Xiaoyu pitifully and said, "Is it true, sister-in-law? Don't lie to me..."
"Okay, go back and eat quickly." Li Xiaoyu patted her shoulder, "Even that greedy guy Xiaolan is waiting for you."
"Okay..." Li Mengli finally listened to the advice and walked back, murmuring, "It's a waste to give me something to eat. After all, I died before, so I don't need to eat at all now."
"Okay, okay, you, you have to know how to be content. You don't need to eat or sleep. These are super powers that many people envy." Li Xiaoyu took her hand and shook it widely, "Be a happy person. , how lucky it is to be alive? There are so many things in the world that we have not experienced!"
"Maybe..." Li Mengli looked at the pedestrians on the street in front of her, as if they were chasing time, "Why does everyone seem to be working so hard?"
"Of course we are fighting for a better tomorrow!" Li Xiaoyu said with a smile, "Human beings are creatures that can survive on hope.
No matter how difficult things are, as long as there is a little bit of hope for the future.
You can continue to live bravely. "
"Hope?" Li Mengli thought for a while and asked, "Auntie, what is the hope for you to live?"
"That's too much. Have you heard of it? There is a tree in South Africa that can eat people. As long as someone comes close, it will open its big mouth and swallow people in. I have never seen it before!" Li Xiaoyu He said with some excitement, "Also, in 1965, Dunhuang found that more than ten Nanfu batteries produced in 1988 had rusty outer shells, but the trademarks were clearly visible. What's going on?
Also, it is said that the lost country Atlantis existed under the mudflats of southern Spain.
It is said that there is a huge Loch Ness Monster in the Grand Canyon in the northern part of the Scottish Plateau..."
Li Mengli reacted for a while and then asked inexplicably: "What do these things have to do with you?"
"Well - you may think these things are too far away from you, right?" Li Xiaoyu thought for a while and continued, "Do you still remember? You told me before that you heard marbles coming from upstairs in your house. sound?"
"Can not remember……"
The other party's answer made Li Xiaoyu unwilling, and she added: "Then you must often realize that when you are doing something, you will instantly realize that this situation and this thing have happened before, right?
Or have you dreamed about it before? "
Li Mengli shook her head.
"How could it be? Have you ever fallen asleep, as if you were about to fall asleep, but suddenly you felt like you were falling, and then you suddenly woke up?"
"Sister-in-law... I can't sleep now. Can you stop mentioning sleep all the time?"
"Oops! I was just making an analogy!" Li Xiaoyu said simply, "Anyway, this world makes me very curious.
I noticed a lot of strange things when I was a child, but no one has ever believed me except my mother... Hey, your grandma. Except for her.
So, when I met you, I was really excited!
We are all people from the future, and it also made me understand a lot of things that I had never understood before.
It makes me want to live forever.
As long as I live one more day and spend one more day with you, I can solve one more mystery! Isn't this exciting? "
"What's the use...won't we all die sooner or later?" Li Mengli didn't feel excited at all, but felt even more lost. "Death is a very nihilistic feeling. There is no heaven and hell, and the soul is floating in the boundless world. In the darkness, there is no thought or consciousness, and you can't feel your own existence at all.
I was with that nothingness.
Completely integrated. "
Li Xiaoyu felt a little horrified when she heard this. She immediately pulled Mengli and accelerated her pace back. She changed the subject and said, "Hurry up, I'm going to starve to death."
"You will die if you are too hungry, you will die if you are too thirsty, you will die if you are sick, and you will die if you don't inhale oxygen. People live to go to death, to the endless darkness, and to completely enter a state of nothingness." Li Mengli murmured "It's meaningless, whether it's struggle, success or failure, life, everything is meaningless..."
Li Xiaoyu suddenly stopped, turned around and held Li Mengli's shoulders, frowned and scolded: "Li Mengli!
Just listen to me! I don't care what you think or what you've been through.
Even if it's for us, even if you always look so gloomy, you still have to live for me!
Even if it's a puddle of mud, keep breathing and keep your eyes open! "
Li Xiaoyu said, turning Li Mengli's shoulders so that she could see the people sitting around the dining table through the glass of the cafe:
Roland was pouring wine into the glass.
Fang Xiaoling pointed at Xiaozhi's new image wearing a women's headscarf and laughed heartily.
Li Mengling stood on tiptoes and grabbed Wang Chenyu's ears, not knowing what she was scolding.
Xiaolan, who was holding a knife and fork in her hand, saw Mengli outside the glass window. She opened her teeth and claws in surprise. Looking at her mouth shape, she knew she was saying: Dinner is ready! It’s time to eat!
Li Xiaoyu asked softly in her ear: "Is all this meaningless?
Mengli, as long as there is no one in this world who cares about your existence.
Your life is meaningful.
If you still want to leave in the future, ask yourself first.
Is there anyone waiting for you to come back? "
