Chapter 3 Chapter Two: The False Twin

The flying saucer landed on the grass, and the air blew my hair. "This is just the beginning." Master Wang stood beside his flying saucer and said proudly. This is Kunshan, Master Wang is a farmer, but now he seems to change his career to make flying saucers. Master Wang liked to tinker with things since he was a child. He said that people around him called him Master.Step by step from the self-made radio, he has now developed into the self-made flying saucer, and even sold the fields to buy various materials for money.The newspaper asked me to interview this strange person and sent me a car. Although I didn’t think it was so strange in my heart, it was a task, so I had to cheer up and do an exclusive interview with this person.

The flying saucer is gray, about three meters in diameter, and made of aluminum.Now it can fly up to more than ten meters high by jet. Master Wang's next research direction should be to make this thing move, instead of always going straight up and down. "Soon it will be able to fly with people, and this is just the beginning." Master Wang emphasized. "Oh..." I really wanted to tell him that it's better to buy insurance before flying with people, but I held back.Anyway, it's still early for him to do that. Is this more impetuous than a remote-controlled large model aircraft?I pondered secretly in my heart.

Master Wang is very talkative. I am actually quite afraid of meeting such people during interviews, because they often don’t listen to what you want to ask, and only talk about what they want to say, and they can’t stop talking, no matter what. "My ideal is to have a chicken engine as soon as possible." "Oh... huh? What chicken dot engine, what is chicken dot?" I asked. "I chose this name myself. In fact, American scientists are already conducting similar research. It is to create an engine capable of space folding to achieve superluminal flight." "This... Are you sure you didn't read it in any science fiction novel?"

"Of course not. I saw it on Sina news some time ago. It seems that a project team has been set up to conduct research on revolving doors." "Then what does this have to do with chickens?" I asked puzzled. "It's not a chicken, it's a singularity, an odd even number." Master Wang frowned, probably feeling that the reporter in front of him was very embarrassed, and he thought of poultry when discussing serious scientific issues. "According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, massive things will cause the curvature of the surrounding space, and the greater the mass, the greater the curvature of the space, and to a certain extent, such as the center of a black hole, a singularity will be formed. On the singularity, space It's folded, and that's how the singularity engine works, creating miniature black holes that travel through space."

Master Wang's words surprised me, at least it sounded mysterious. "The United States is a research team doing research, and you are alone. How do you plan to start?" "Everything is for those who have a heart. I am currently reading some scientific works on cutting-edge physics to prepare." "Which scientific works on cutting-edge physics are you reading?" I asked curiously. "As written by the great British physicist Hawking." Master Wang replied. I was speechless for a while. After the interview with Master Wang, I sat in the interview car and felt a little dumbfounded about Master Wang's beautiful vision of the singularity engine.

It turned out to be a scientific work on cutting-edge physical science. It has been many years since Hawking wrote this popular science book, and when he came to China a few years ago, he said that his views on black holes have changed since he wrote this book. But the idea of ​​space folding is really attractive, whether it is a science fiction fan or Master Wang, it is deeply attracted by it.But as a layman, I always simply think of the folding of space as the folding of a piece of paper. In this way, I will inevitably wonder, since space can be bent and folded like paper, what are the upper and lower sides of the paper?

Turn left at the intersection in front of you and you will find the expressway. The drive from Kunshan to Shanghai is only an hour, which is very convenient.While waiting for the red light, I looked up and saw the road sign. "Datang 23 kilometers", one of the signs says so. My heart skipped a beat. "Master—" I said to the driver. "how?" The mouth is faster than the brain, that's what it says.My words have been spoken, but in fact I have not made a decision in my heart. "Can you pull over and stop?" The driver didn't know why, but he did it anyway.

I looked at the sign again, yes, Datang is not far from here. "Can you take me to Datang Village?" I said to the driver without hesitation. "Datang? The newspaper office will need a car later, I'm afraid it will be too late." "It's okay, you don't have to wait for me if you send me there, I will take a long-distance bus back to the city by myself." "That's good." The interview vehicle went back on the road and moved straight along the road. Huang Zhi lives in Datang. I haven't seen her since the interview in a maternal and child hospital three years ago.The letter contact between each other is also one-sided. I replied when I received the first letter. Later, I found out that she was suffering from mental illness, for example, so I never wrote back to her.

The day before yesterday I received Huang Zhi's second request for help about her daughter's disappearance, and I was always a little uneasy.I don't have her phone at hand, and going to another place for verification doesn't seem to be to that extent, what if it is really a mental patient's nonsense. I just happened to be here for an interview today, and it was convenient to turn around and take a look. Even if I saw her daughter playing happily in the house, it still made my sensitive heart not uneasy. I looked at the rapidly moving scene outside the car window, but I was thinking in my heart, time flies so fast.More than a thousand days and nights have passed since the interview that was finally not written into the news because it was too weird.During these days, I certainly had many wonderful experiences, but when I think back to the doctor twisting the paper-like baby in his hands and holding it up in front of me, I still can't help but tremble.

As I got closer to Datang Village, fragments of memories kept coming out of my brain, glued together, and brought me back to that afternoon. "What the hell is this?" I calmed down, took a deep breath, and asked pretending to be relaxed.The baby skin on the opposite side exudes a fishy smell, which enters my body with a deep breath, making my chest churn, and I almost spit it out without nausea. "This..." Dr. Zhang glanced at the stillborn baby in his hand, with a look of disgust on his face, shook his head and said, "I don't know either. Well, you have seen it now, believe you There is no interest in studying it in detail."

I smiled wryly, who would be happy to see this weird and disgusting dead baby all the time? "If you still want to interview, don't be here, go to another place, but I don't have much time." Dr. Zhang said. "Okay, if it's convenient, let's go in the aisle outside." There are benches on both sides of the aisle, and we found a place to sit.I don't know if it's a psychological reason, but when I left the delivery room, I even felt that the air was much fresher. It was like a big stone was pressed on my chest, but now it's much better. "Is it rare to have a deformed child like this?" I asked. "It's not only rare, I've never seen it before," Dr. Zhang said. "As a layman, from the perspective of ordinary people, I really can't imagine how a person can give birth to such a baby. How can it develop like this in the mother's womb?" "To be honest, although I have never seen such a deformed fetus, I am afraid that no doctor in the whole hospital has seen such a deformed fetus, but there have been people who gave birth to similar dead babies before." "Oh?" I was a little surprised. "Yes, there is such a case. It's called a paper baby, and it's so rare that it's only listed in case textbooks." "Paper baby?" This is really an appropriate title, but I was even more confused in my heart. I clearly still remember that when I was in the delivery room, I asked the doctor in front of me what it was, and he replied that I didn't know. .But now he said that there have been such cases, called paper babies.Isn't this inconsistent? "Uh, paper baby, yes." Doctor Zhang's tone became elusive again, as if he was not very confident. "how?" "It should be said that the paper baby I saw in the book is indeed like this, but to be honest, it is hard for me to be sure that this is the paper baby." His words completely confuse me, what does it mean? Seeing my surprised expression, the doctor shook his head slightly, and he was also very confused when he said such words. "Do you think what I said is contradictory? It's really because this case is so strange. Although there are all kinds of strange cases in medicine, especially in modern society, changes in living conditions and habits have led to new diseases, but ..." When the doctor said this, he shook his head again, as if his thoughts were seriously disturbed, and he couldn't organize effective sentences to explain this matter to me for a while. The sense of fear just now has been overwhelmed by curiosity. I stared at the doctor opposite, urging him to speak quickly with my eyes. Not long ago, the commotion caused by that scream had subsided.Perhaps it should be said that all those who heard the scream were overwhelmed by the despair and fear in the scream.As long as it is a living thing, it will seek good luck and avoid evil, and they will disperse soon. They will definitely try their best to forget about this matter, but it is not certain, they may be awakened by this scream when they dream back at midnight. There was only one person standing not far away, and the conversation between me and the doctor could almost be heard from that position.She was the young nurse who was guarding the door of the delivery room before, no doubt her current behavior is a bit abnormal, no matter what, her current position is definitely not here. The nurse knew what kind of thing Huang Zhi gave birth to. The doubts in her heart would never be smaller than mine, and she must have been frightened.The momentary fear of seeing the paper baby is strong enough to leave a psychological shadow on many people. I guess she just wants to hear how the doctor explained it to me.Fear often stems from ignorance, and when the truth is known, the fear will naturally disappear.But not everything can be explained clearly, and at this moment. . . The doctor sighed. "I don't think it's a paper baby." The doctor said again, "It's just similar in appearance to a paper baby. Let me explain what a paper baby is first, and you'll understand why I said that. You know about multiple pregnancy, right?" "what?" "Oh, it's commonly known as twins or multiple births. Among pregnant women, this happens to about one percent of pregnant women. We generally regard this as a happy event, but the danger of multiple births is greater than that of pregnancy. Single births. This not only refers to the difficulties during childbirth, but also more troubles in the development of the fetus in the womb. After all, the mother only needs to provide nutrients for a single fetus, but the nutrition for multiple births has to be divided into two Or more." "You mean, the paper baby is a deformed baby caused by insufficient nutrition in multiple births?" "No, no." Doctor Zhang waved his hands again and again, "If it's just like this, how can it be considered a rare case? From a certain point of view, the paper baby is an unfortunate baby who was murdered before it was born." "Murdered before birth, by whom? Could it be his twin brother?" "It should be said to be twin brothers. It is too difficult and almost impossible for multiple twins to produce paper babies. Usually, twins grow in a balanced manner in the mother's womb. However, under certain extreme conditions, one of the twins is particularly strong, At the very beginning, he would snatch most of the nutrients and squeeze his brother's living space. Finally, at a certain moment, the mother cut off the nutrient supply to his brother, and then, the dead baby would be gradually absorbed by the mother." "A strong individual is always easy to survive. It seems a bit too much to describe it as murder." I said "The problem is that many people doubt that if only relying on the mother's absorption, it may not be possible to make a dead baby as thin as a piece of paper." The doctor said meaningfully. I suddenly shivered and looked at the doctor. "So, there is a very likely situation. When the strong baby is pressing on the thin baby, the thin baby slowly deforms, and then part of his body is absorbed by the mother, and another part is absorbed by the strong baby. Maybe this Absorption happens after the weak baby has completely lost its life...who knows!" The doctor didn't say another possibility, which is too unbelievable and disgusting.I had this vision in my mind of a baby in the womb clinging to another, sucking the life essence out of him and leaving him shriveled like paper.This is simply a vampire in disguise! What would it be like for a man who sucked his own brother dry to know it when he grew up? "When I saw this deformed dead baby, my first reaction was a paper baby. But then I thought, if this is a paper baby, where is the other one?" The doctor looked straight at me. In fact, his eyes were not focused on my face, but penetrated my body and projected somewhere in the void.He seemed to be asking me a question, without really expecting any answer.The more you think about the paper baby that Huang Zhi gave birth to, the more unbelievable it becomes. Even such a middle-aged doctor with more than ten years of rich medical experience is oppressed by a series of problems in his mind and can't breathe Come. "Why did the patient give birth to only a paper baby, and where did his crushed brother go? How did this dead baby become what it was in the mother's womb if there was no other baby, what was oppressing him, absorbing him? Where did that thing go?" The doctor asked questions faster and faster, his face became paler, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead in a blink of an eye.After asking the last question, his eyebrows quivered and his eyes froze at me. "It's impossible not to have such a thing!" He burst out after a few seconds, and he shot it out of his mouth with such force and viciousness like a cannonball, "Such a thing can't grow naturally!" Along with this sentence, it came out of his mouth, and the spittle star hit the tip of my nose. "Oh, I'm sorry, I got a little lost in thought." The doctor apologized to me. Fascinated?I think he was bewitched by the paper baby. A sound of hurried footsteps went away, and I turned my head to see that it was the nurse who was eavesdropping. She walked faster and faster, the soles of her feet stumbled, and she staggered and almost fell.The dose of sedative was not too much, and Huang Zhi woke up soon after.She didn't sit up from the bed, but stared blankly at the ceiling. Her daughter was sitting on the small chair, looking at her mother. "Mom." She called softly. Huang Zhi didn't respond. The girl became quiet. In fact, she has always been quiet, a bit withdrawn and withdrawn. Patients in other beds in the ward sometimes looked at the mother and daughter, and they asked a few times in good faith, but Huang Zhi didn't respond. I watched for a long time outside the ward, hesitating whether to interview Huang Zhi.It is cruel to interview her at this time, and she may not cooperate, but if you don't interview, just rely on what Dr. Zhang said before, the press release will be very incomplete, maybe you will be shot by the editor, and you won't be able to see her at all report. Dr. Zhang's unanswered questions were revolving in my mind like a revolving lantern, and the paper-thin baby skin also followed me, entrenched in the shadow of my vest, lingering. I licked my dry lips, and slowly reached into my shirt pocket with my right hand. Huang Zhi still opened his eyes wide, staring at the mottled ceiling.The sweat on his face had already dried up, and the vitality of his whole body seemed to disappear into the air along with the beads of sweat.The originally slender and beautiful face was corrupted by the withering of spirit and spirit, giving people the illusion of mummy in a trance. A slight air disturbance caused her to blink her eyes. Her pupils were still dull, and there was no change due to blinking, but they reflected the image of another person. "Hi, I'm Naduo, a reporter from the Morning Star newspaper." I bent down and said to her. "This is my business card." I took the business card out of my pocket and handed it to her. She blinked again, slowly turning her pupils toward me.