If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

A table of "raw fish like summer flowers" arrived on time at the afternoon meal on the table laid out by Xingshen Temple. On the table was the deep-sea bluefin tuna weighing two hundred kilograms, and the Honyaki, which was as bright as a mirror. The kitchen knife cuts open the belly of the fish, and the belly meat is as attractive as pink marble. Surrounding this main course are teriyaki puffer fish, charcoal grilled spring fish, peony shrimp sashimi, and blue lobster sashimi flown from France, with mellow and fragrant sake chilled in a sake flask.

Before that, Lin Nian and others were at a critical moment of negotiation with Yuan Zhisheng. Unfortunately, the sound of footsteps came from outside Xingshen Temple. The people with good hearing all tacitly stopped talking. He turned his head quietly and watched the sliding door being opened. Long Maxun, who was wearing a suit and hip skirt, politely introduced a chef wearing a chef's hat and dressed as a chef to everyone in the room and told everyone that the scheduled lunch had been served. It's ready. Do you want to dine now or wait a while?

Yuan Zhisheng originally wanted to postpone the feast and finish talking about the things that should be discussed before talking about the banquet. However, Lu Mingfei on the side saw this and rubbed his hands with a smile. He said, "It's just in time." We haven’t eaten anything yet, so let’s eat first!

Since there seems to be a custom in China to talk about business at the dinner table, and the more drinks you have, the better the conversation becomes. Yuan Zhisheng did not do anything to spoil the fun, and nodded slightly to the chef to indicate that the food could be served.

Sake was poured into porcelain plates and presented in front of everyone. In order to take care of guests who may not drink alcohol, the chef also warmed some coconut milk to relieve greasiness.

"Based on the information we know now, the authority held by the emperor to be passed on to others needs to meet prerequisites." Lin Nian took a sip of the sake in the plate. It was light. In addition to the smell of alcohol, there was a faint flavor of cherry blossoms. , it should be the private wine brewed by the chef, and now he doesn't hesitate to use it to entertain them.

"Prerequisite?" Yuan Zhisheng was sitting at the table without drinking or using chopsticks. He was looking at Lin Nianjing and listening to every word he said.

"The more powerful the authority wants to act on the reality of the material world, the more powerful the spirit needs to be as a traction. While satisfying the spiritual conditions, it also needs strict preconditions to restrain it, otherwise everything will be messed up." Sitting across the table. Caesar bent his right leg and stepped on the tatami, and his left leg naturally fell to one side. The arm holding the sake plate was placed on the knee of his right leg, and he looked straight at Minamoto Chisei opposite him through the cut bluefin tuna with bright red flesh. .

"Just like the head of the Uesugi family, the authority held by Erika is also a shocking and extraordinary power, and as a price, you have seen everything she has endured over the years by her side. The most typical one" Being taciturn is one of the most typical constraints. That power makes all her words easily affected by her emotions and will, turning her into a murderous blade. As a price, keeping silent has become one of the compulsory courses for her at such a young age. One." Lin Nian said.

"Powerful cards are accompanied by risks, that's probably the truth." Lu Mingfei, who was making sushi in his left hand, tempura in his right, and chewing sashimi in his mouth, said vaguely.

"The arrival of the emperor does sound scary, as if he can easily infiltrate an entire force, but in fact it is not the case. From our experience of fighting with him, his authority also has many powerful restrictions secretly." Lin Nian. explain.

Lin Nian put down the wine plate and suddenly fell into silence. Yuan Zhisheng also paused, waiting for the next sentence, but after a few seconds, no one at the table spoke. He thought that the other party was waiting for him to make a "statement" and wanted to see How much sincerity was he willing to pay for this information? Just as he was about to say something, he realized that the wine plate in front of Lin Nian was empty, and at some point he pushed it half an inch towards him.

Yuan Zhisheng silently picked up the small jug and presented wine to Lin Nian. After the wine was full, he looked at Lin Nian and suddenly said, "What we are talking about now is just the 'Emperor', right? Not Lin Xian."

"Why do you ask?" Lin Nian lowered his eyes slightly.

"Lin Xian, she and the emperor are two different entities, right? Maybe she is closely related to the emperor, but there must be someone behind the scenes behind her who controls everything." Yuan Zhisheng said lightly, "Besides, just now Your friend Lu Mingfei also made a statement that distinguished the emperor and Lin Xian as different individuals."

Lin Nian glanced at Yuan Zhisheng. If he remembered correctly, the head of the Inuyama family directly identified Lin Xian as the emperor. This meant that in the concept of most people in the eight Sheqi families, there was no emperor who existed independently of Lin. The conscious body in Xian's body has this kind of recognition, and Inuyama Ga's original words when he mentioned Lin Xian were "The emperor sneak attacked Yuan Zhisheng and others in the abandoned factory" rather than "Lin Xian attacked Yuan Zhisheng and others in the abandoned factory." Waiting for others".

But Yuan Zhisheng seemed to be sure that the emperor and Lin Xian were two individuals, and it was not because of Lu Mingfei's words just now that he relied on them.

"Yes, they are indeed different individuals." Lin Nian answered Yuan Zhisheng's doubts calmly. After all, this question was not a big secret.

"Sure enough," Yuan Zhisheng said, "It's pretty much what we expected."

Lin Nian nodded, "The emperor's arrival restricts one of them. Except for a few exceptions, the emperor will almost never descend on the same person twice. In other words, his authority will only take effect on one person once under normal circumstances. And Lin Xian , you can be regarded as the spokesperson of the emperor - remember the emperor I mentioned before Is there a restriction that the emperor almost never descends on the same person twice? The reason why we use the incomplete qualifier almost is because even if Lin Xian is an exception, she is one of the very few individuals who can be observed to be repeatedly descended by the emperor. That’s why she became the emperor’s frontman and went to cooperate with the fierce ghosts.”

This is a pattern observed by Mandy. As the emperor's former right-hand man, she collected a lot of information about the emperor, and now she has sold it to Lin Nian with some cheap "conditions" after changing jobs.

"Why is she special?" Yuan Zhisheng asked.

"I don't know." Lin Nian shook his head, "I'm also trying to figure out the reason."

"The second constraint is that he basically won't appear in two places at the same time. At least we have never observed his avatar having skills." Lin Nian continued,

"The principle of the emperor's authority is to erase all the memories of an individual and then inject himself into it. It stands to reason that he can create his own clones without restraint and use these clones to quietly eat away at the top of the entire force, but until now we We have never observed him doing this. At first we speculated that he was hiding a trump card, but gradually we suspected that he simply could not do this or did not dare to do it.”

"Don't you dare to do this?"

"Do you think the basis of human existence is idealistic, spiritual and soulful, or materialistic, material and physical?" Lin Nian suddenly asked this question to Yuan Zhisheng.

Lu Mingfei, who was feasting on fish and meat, suddenly paused and looked up at Lin Nian, seeming to be very interested in this question.

Yuan Zhisheng pondered for a moment, probably deconstructing and trying to figure out the meaning behind the question from the perspective of the questioner, until after a while he gave his own answer, "Spirit and matter, materialism and idealism are one and the same." No, the basis of human existence is to gradually repair the inner spirit and soul with material and physical bodies. Only when the two are integrated and compatible can we be regarded as a 'person' that is widely accepted at the social level."

"Based on your answer to this question, do you think that if a new spirit and soul are injected into a strange material and body, then the identity of this 'person' is the material and body itself, or the one inside? "A copy of your spirit and soul?" Lin Nian asked, "For the simplest example, back up all your memories from birth to now. At this moment we are talking, every detail, every ray of light you see, and the shape of every drop of rain are backed up and input into a mechanical body. Then can the body that comes to life in turn be called Is the name 'Yuan Zhisheng' an individual, or is it still a cheap robot that doesn't even deserve the name and is only used to assume this proposition?"

Yuan Zhisheng fell silent. Including him, everyone at the table was more or less involved in thinking about this proposition.

Lu Mingfei was holding the broken crab legs in his hand, chewing the sushi in his mouth and looking at the crushed mustard pieces settling on the bottom of the soy sauce on the plate in a daze - could a robot with its own thoughts and memories be called Lu Ming? No?

If the individual named Lu Mingfei is constructed bit by bit from his special experiences, and his personality is repaired bit by bit by the scars of the past and the good things, then the perfectly backed up memory will also It should have all these, the same personality, the same memory, the only difference is that the carrier is different, so why can't the backup robot be named Lu Mingfei? Just because he, Lu Mingfei, has a body?

That backup will have the same loneliness and the same social relationships as Lu Mingfei. He has experienced everything Lu Mingfei has experienced. In essence, he is indeed the Lu Mingfei. So will I reject the existence of Lu Mingfei? So if you accept it, what will happen in the future? Do they share life and social relationships together?

When he got married, he was not the only one who entered the bridal chamber, there was also a tin can sleeping with his bride. Just thinking of this possibility, Lu Mingfei couldn't help but punch the tin can's head open.

Oh yes! Lu Mingfei suddenly figured out the answer to this question for himself.

"The robot has backed up my memory and personality, but it is still a robot. I am still me. I am a human being of flesh and blood. One punch is a robot. Individual differences are the biggest difference, right?" Lu Mingfei suddenly seemed like After thinking about something, he looked at Lin Nian and said.

Lin Nian looked at Lu Mingfei without any change in his expression, as if he had guessed that he would say this, and continued to make further assumptions, "Then what if we replace the element of the robot with a hybrid that has greater potential than Lu Mingfei?" "Lu Mingfei's body, possessing the personality of Lu Mingfei, punches you, so should Lu Mingfei's name be changed?"

"Uh" Lu Mingfei was stunned.

So it was his head that was blown apart during the wedding? After all, he had this idea just now, so the other party should naturally have the same idea, but this time the one who got his head blown off was the hypothetically weaker version of himself.

"Is it a matter of sequence? The 'I' that exists in this world first is the 'true self', and the 'I' that is backed up later is the 'false self'." Caesar pondered to this point and gave his answer.

"Then which 'Caesar Gattuso' do you think the Gattuso family will recognize, the one who comes first in time, as the main body, or the one who is the backup and has better qualities?" Lin Nian looked at Caesar and asked.

Caesar paused, smiled and shook his head, "I understand what you mean."

"I understand too." Chu Zihang nodded gently.

"What do you understand?" Lu Mingfei was still brainstorming, and saw that his two companions looked enlightened.

"What?" Lu Mingfei still didn't understand.

"The core of this question has never been whether the backup version of you is still yourself, but how we should view and deal with this backup version of ourselves. It is the latter's thoughts that can make the former's decision." Yuan Zhisheng said, "If you can accept this split individual and are willing to identify him as yourself, then it is not wrong for him to be given the same name as you. But if even you yourself refuse to admit that he is you, then from the moment of the split, he is no longer Lu Mingfei, but your enemy."

"One of the things on the throne is enough." Lin Nian said slowly, "At least, when this proposition goes beyond the hypothesis and falls on Him, the answer He gives is this."