Chapter 45 Chapter Forty-Five

"What's wrong with you?" Tang Yuxing looked at me worriedly. "It's nothing...it's nothing." I thumped my head vigorously. "What you said really shocked me. I can't accept it for a while, so I have to digest it." I turned up my collar, trying to warm myself up. "Go back, it's getting late." Seeing that I was back to normal, Tang Yuxing looked down at his watch, then stood up, looked in the direction of the camp, and suddenly became preoccupied. "Let's talk for a while, I really don't want to go. Let's talk when the people from the camp come to pick us up."

Before the answer is revealed, I must take advantage of this momentum and continue to ask questions.If I sleep, I worry that my clear thoughts will become blurred or even forgotten. "It's so late, there should be someone from the camp to pick us up." He raised his eyes and looked far away, wishing he could see the camp clearly at a glance.But we were so far away that the small camp seemed to not exist in the huge desert. "Do you want to make a call?" I also stood up. Hearing my suggestion, Tang Yuxing took out his mobile phone worriedly, but after looking at it, he put it back again.

"No signal." I quickly took out my two mobile phones, but it turned out to be the same as his, with no signal at all. "Don't worry, maybe the people in the camp think that your students are coming, and we will inevitably have a longer chat, so that's why you haven't come to pick them up?" I tried to stop him from wanting to go back. He didn't make a sound, still looking into the distance. "Besides, if we go back to the camp, we won't be able to talk. After all, we can't let outsiders know about this." I stopped again. Hearing this, he turned his eyes back to me from a distance, and hesitated.I watched him silently, waiting for his decision.

"Alright, then let's strike while the iron is hot and finish the chat." He sat back to his original place, frowned and thought for a while, then lit a cigarette. "The reason why I told you so much is not only to let you discover some meaningful details, but also to let you know the purpose of other people investigating this matter. After all, we are not the only ones involved in the whole incident—the same incident Things have different meanings to different people, and only after you know all the meanings of this thing, can you gradually figure out the purpose of others.”

He took a deep breath on his cigarette and glanced at his watch again. Listening to his words, I started to wonder in my heart—could Wu Lili investigate this matter to treat her multiple personalities?It shouldn't be, she is working for the Dagu Foundation, and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with her personally.Besides, her arranging the whole room in pink may not prove that she has multiple personalities, maybe she just likes pink?And I didn't find anything unusual about her during my contact with her-did I overlook something? I wanted to tell Tang Yuxing about my doubts about Wu Lili, but I always felt that there was no basis for such doubts, so I decided not to mention it after much deliberation.

But why did Tang Yuxing talk about this topic from a parallel time and space?Does he just want me to know more about parallel time and space or does he mean something?Since we are in the same boat, he should directly tell me his ultimate purpose of coming here, so why does he talk about other things in many circles?Is he hinting at me step by step? If this is the case, then I can no longer interrupt his guidance, and just wait carefully for his next hint. So, I began to wait quietly for him to speak. "Don't you have anything to say?" Tang Yuxing was obviously used to my urging and asking questions, and my sudden silence surprised him a bit.

"No, I'm waiting for you." I shook my head. "I'm really not used to you suddenly being so obedient," he smiled slightly, "Okay, let's talk about the first point here, and then let's talk about the second point, which is Hartmans Research The experiment—remember that experiment?" "Remember. That experiment turned one DNA molecule into two—no, I misunderstood, two identical substances in different spacetimes and put them in one spacetime. Right?" "Basically correct. Then think about it, what will happen if this technology continues to develop?" His expression became extremely solemn.

"If this technology continues to develop..." I started to think about it, "then there is no need for any cloning technology at all, and the exact same person or the exact same world can be presented directly in the same time and space. It’s like copying! As long as this technology is activated at that time, wouldn’t I be separated from countless times and spaces and appear at the same time? Wouldn’t there be many “copied” me at that time?…” As I was talking, my mind became extremely clear and excited—a mysterious thing gradually appeared in my mind, which made me short of breath and almost stopped my heartbeat!

Lop Nur—Parallel Time and Space—Replicators... Pisces Jade Pendant! "Professor Tang, I finally understand why you came to Lop Nur!" As if I had discovered the ultimate mystery of the universe, I was almost screaming with excitement. "Really?" He froze for a moment, then narrowed his eyes and looked at me suspiciously, "Why are you here?" "You are looking for the Pisces jade pendant!" The answer to the mystery was finally revealed, and I was so excited that I couldn't help it. Tang Yuxing was silent. The silence was so long this time, as if the universe was born to die.

"How much do you know about the Pisces jade pendant?" He squeezed out a few words from his hoarse voice. "Not much, but maybe enough." Seeing his reaction, I almost got an affirmative answer, "The Pisces figure is actually Fuxi's Taiji diagram! The Taiji diagram created by Fuxi is formed by two identical fish embracing .I didn’t understand why the Taiji diagram was surrounded by two identical fish, but through your description of parallel time and space, I believe that these two identical fish are actually the same fish in two parallel time and space. Fish—I never expected that Fuxi would have discovered the mysteries of parallel time and space in ancient times!"

"Go on, and then?" He looked at me expressionlessly, but I knew that there must be a tsunami-like collision hidden under this expression. "I heard that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the military once discovered a Pisces jade pendant in the Lop Nur area. It is said to be a jade pendant, but it is actually an advanced device. When this device is activated, all objects irradiated by it will become two, Just like the experiment conducted by the Hartmans Research Institute. So a large number of replicants appeared in the Lop Nur area, and some strange creatures in parallel time and space entered our time and space through this device. Since the military could not control of the device, and the inability to control the vast numbers of replicants and replicants that it spawned, destroyed the place with nuclear weapons." I got more and more excited. "Didn't we just say that with the current capabilities of human beings, it is impossible to manufacture such a device, so may I ask, who made the Pisces Jade Pendant?" He still asked me calmly. "I heard that the Pisces jade pendant was made more than 100,000 years ago, so it is very likely that it was made by humans with higher technology in ancient civilizations, or it was left behind by aliens! Didn't you say so? The experiment is completely established in theory, and people now have been able to conduct such experiments—although the existing experimental results are extremely small—but since the theory and practice are established, we cannot deny that more advanced humans have made such experiments. Instruments. You don’t doubt the existence of creatures higher than humans, do you?” "No doubt at all!" Tang Yuxing sighed, "According to what you said, do you think the Pisces jade pendant is actually a high-tech instrument that can create wormholes?" "That's right! Now that humans can manufacture ion accelerators, humans have the possibility of creating wormholes and black holes. You have just told me this inference. If this is the case, why can't more advanced humans create wormholes? What about the instruments for holes and black holes? Since you came to Lop Nur to look for wormholes, and you also know that the wormholes in the universe not only have laws of their appearance that we cannot grasp, but also we cannot know when and where they appear, so you come This place must not be looking for wormholes that exist as existing substances, but to look for instruments that can create wormholes!" Tang Yuxing twitched the corners of his mouth slightly after hearing what I said in one breath, and then looked at me strangely. "Is there anything else to say?" "Actually, I should have thought of this a long time ago. You have repeatedly emphasized to me that human beings' current capabilities are extremely limited, and you have repeatedly mentioned that even if a known wormhole is discovered, human beings cannot control it, so in fact, even if you find it here. Knowing the location of the wormhole is also meaningless, because humans can't control it at all. But you still came, and you seem to be full of confidence, so I think you must know the existence of such an instrument, and you must know that this instrument can make The higher-tech instrumentation of wormholes!—I'm done." After finishing my analysis in one breath, I solved the doubts in my mind about his purpose of coming here, and immediately felt a lot lighter in my body. "Then what is the use of this instrument if I find it?" "Since it can create wormholes, and since it can 'copy' everything, then what's the use of it!" I didn't even bother to answer his question. "Hehe, the power of rumors is really cute and scary!" Tang Yuxing took out the last cigarette, lit it and took a deep breath. My lofty arrogance froze in an instant—he was very disdainful? "Your reasoning ability is indeed very strong, but the premise of your whole set of reasoning is simply not valid!" Although his tone was slow, every word slapped me like a slap in the face, making me fall from heaven to hell. "There is indeed a Pisces jade pendant in the world, but it is not an instrument at all, it is just a jade pendant. Moreover, the Pisces jade pendant was not found in Lop Nur at all, but was unearthed from the cemetery of a princess of the Liao State in the Naiman Banner of Zhelimu League in Inner Mongolia. Yes, it's just an ordinary burial object." Tang Yuxing, who was in his seventies, was rocked with a smile. I... I'd better find a pit and bury myself. "Moreover, even if there is such an instrument, it is impossible for it to simply replicate creatures, and it is even more impossible for any strange creatures to come to real time and space through the wormhole created by this instrument. Don't forget, the copied DNA molecule It is in the superluminal environment, and it is impossible to exist without that environment-the parallel time and space have completely different time and space, how can creatures in completely different time and space appear in the same time and space? You can enter your Parallel time and space, you can dream, but you still have to be in a certain time and space in the end, how can a person appear in two time and space at the same time? Can you talk to yourself in your dream? Can you talk to someone who is twenty years later? Do you talk? If you can, wouldn’t time travel make sense? You can go back to a year ago and tell yourself a year ago to buy a lottery ticket that can win 5 million, and then you won’t Can you win five million?—Don’t forget the theory of non-interference between parallel time and space! Just like the multiple personalities mentioned just now, no matter how many multiple personalities that person has, he is always in the same time and space. It’s just that he entered his real time and space through parallel time and space! Even if some terrible creature in other time and space enters our time and space, it still needs a certain carrier in this time and space! Do you think you can copy another’you through that instrument? 'Come out? Do you think you can go to war and kill people without any scruples by copying an army? Do you think you can spend as much as you want by copying a hundred dollars into countless copies?——You should throw it away quickly Lovely fantasies of these novelists." All right—I slapped myself hard in the heart. "The significance of this experiment is that it confirms the existence of parallel time and space, allowing people to see two identical substances, but these two substances cannot be connected through time and space. For example, I can see you at the same time And you in the mirror, but can you make you in the mirror hit me? Can you hit you in the mirror by yourself? So, some sci-fi movies claim to conquer the world by creating a batch of replicants. , that’s just a sci-fi movie, it’s never going to happen.” After saying this, he smiled maliciously. "Then why did you mention this experiment to me again?" Seeing his malicious smile, I shivered. "Because this experiment confirmed that two identical substances can appear at the same time, its biggest and worst effect is-misleading! If you don't understand the comprehensive theory of parallel time and space, especially the theory of non-interference between parallel time and space, then this Experiments will make people think that matter can be 'reproduced'! If one day you meet someone who is misled, then you can tell him out loud - stop fucking dreaming! Ha ha." Hearing swear words from Tang Yuxing really made me feel funny and kind! "The history of science is actually a history of falsification to a certain extent. Many scientists may not be able to produce new theories and new practices in their lifetime, but their significance lies in the fact that they have confirmed the absurdity of many pseudosciences. This is of great significance in itself, just like in Doing the method of elimination, their contribution is to eliminate all kinds of fallacies in the process of truth emergence. Well, we have finished talking about the second point, and now we enter the third point. ——The third point is the core point of view in the whole theory , is also the ultimate goal of my coming here!" It's finally time to reveal the truth! I immediately mobilized all the cells and listened attentively. "We have been talking about time travel, but have you noticed that we are talking about time travel? Whether it is going back to the past or entering the future, this kind of travel is vertical - is there any horizontal travel? What about the possibility? In other words, is there a shuttle that uses space as the axis?" He stared at me intently. "Theoretically... yes..." I dare not jump to conclusions. "There are some mysterious caves in Africa, South America, and China's Yunnan Province. People who enter these caves either disappear or appear in another place; this is also the case in Bermuda and Lop Nur. People who disappear have entered parallel time and space. If there is no suitable wormhole to return, they will disappear forever; but how can those who reappeared appear elsewhere?—they appeared elsewhere on the earth, which means that they are still in the In the original time and space. But how did they get from here to there?" "Could it be that they entered a parallel time and space, and then reached another corner of the earth through another wormhole? I once read a report, saying that a plane suddenly disappeared thirty years ago, Thirty years later, it appeared on another route, and the Air Traffic Management Bureau still keeps the records of when the plane departed and disappeared 30 years ago, and the memory of everyone on the plane still stays at 30 years ago." "That's right, similar things have happened many times. The case you mentioned has gone through both time and space, but some cases have not. The emergence of all happened at the same time!——they only completed the space shuttle!" "But didn't you say that there is no time without space, and there is no space without time." "Yes. The space shuttle I'm talking about actually has a time shuttle, but this time shuttle is extremely small, maybe only a few hundred millionths of a microsecond, and humans can't detect it, so it can be ignored. So it looks like it It’s more like a translation of space! We just said that it’s meaningless to enter parallel time and space through space-time shuttle, but if under certain conditions, the process of time shuttle is negligibly short, and space shuttle, that is, space translation can be realized , then how important this is!" "You mean, we can completely ignore any distance restrictions and complete the translation of space in an instant, right?" "That's right. As long as there is such a wormhole, as long as you enter it, you can instantly reach another place you want to go in the same time and space from anywhere!" "If there is such a wormhole, we don't need transportation at all. Can't we go wherever we want?" I see the promise of future technology. At the same time, I finally understood why Youhouxi's army could reach Mexico. "Yes. If such a wormhole appears, then you don't need to travel across the oceans to invade the United States at all. You only need to put an elite army in the United States wherever you want to take it, and then you can achieve it by surprise. Your purpose. Haha." He laughed a little out of shape. "You came to Lop Nur to find wormholes capable of spatial translation?" Although Tang Yuxing's example of invading the United States sounds like a joke, I have a vague premonition. "You finally know my true purpose!" "However, such a wormhole is too special, right? Not only can it travel through time and space, but it can also ignore the time travel, and it must also limit the space travel within the scope of the same time and space. Translation of any place—it's too restrictive to exist!" I really can't believe that such a wormhole can exist. "But in theory it exists." Tang Yuxing laughed again. "Existing in theory doesn't mean it exists in reality." I'm a little annoyed. "Then how did the Loulan people and Youhouxi achieve it?" He posed a question that I couldn't answer. "Well, since it really exists, let's search it centimeter by centimeter! As long as we go to every corner of the Lop Nur area, we will always find it? It won't take long." I said. Speechless. "But a wormhole is an energy field, and it doesn't exist all the time. Just like a door, when it is open, it will be closed." "And who's going to decide when it's on and when it's off?" "I don't know." He shook his head. "According to what you just said, if the people in the Lop Nur area—such as the Loulan people—they came here through the wormhole during the Xia and Shang Dynasties, they disappeared through the wormhole hundreds of years later; and then passed through the wormhole after more than a thousand years. The wormhole came here and disappeared through the wormhole after hundreds of years. Does that mean that at least in their time, the wormhole would open once every few hundred years, and sometimes only after more than a thousand years? Will it be turned on once?" "Yes indeed!" "Since no one knows who determines the opening and closing time of the wormhole, and the last time the wormhole opened and closed was hundreds or even thousands of years ago, even if the disappearances that occurred in the past few decades were really caused by the wormhole, then There are no rules to follow, since we don't know anything about it, what are we doing here?—Come here and wait for it to open next time? What if the next opening is hundreds or thousands of years away?" I have an urge to hit someone. "What if we meet by chance?" He was still teasing me. "Even if you touch it, can you control it?" I almost growled. "Hahahaha...Okay, okay, I won't tease you anymore." Tang Yuxing suppressed a smile, trying to be serious. I pursed my mouth bitterly and turned my head away. "I did come here to look for wormholes, but not to look for known wormholes that exist as cosmic matter, because as Mr. Zhou said, we don't know when we will find them, and we don't know what to do after we find them. How to control, so it is meaningless. I came here to find..." He paused deliberately, then blinked, waiting for me to look at him. Where does this come from? He came to find a wormhole, not a known wormhole, so what kind of wormhole did he come to look for? ——This old man is sick! I ignored him and continued to show my temper. "Do you listen? If you don't listen, I can go back to eat." Tang Yuxing pretended to get up, and seeing me turn around quickly, he continued to look at me cheerfully. "Please, professor, don't mess with me, tell me what you're looking for!" I was ready to kowtow to him. "Come find the Pisces Jade Pendant!" go to hell! I stood up and prepared to walk down the dunes. "Why go?" Tang Yuxing also stood up and called me loudly. "Go back to Beijing, and then be shot, so as not to be played to death by you." I stopped in my tracks, suppressing the killing intent in my heart. "Well, it seems that you do have the potential to kill the mentor." He laughed again. I walk away. "I'm indeed here to find the Pisces Jade Pendant—if you like the name!" His smile disappeared instantly, and he calmly revealed the answer. I turned around. "The known wormholes are difficult to find and uncontrollable, especially the special wormhole we mentioned. Finding it is more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack. But the fact that there are special wormholes in Lop Nur has been confirmed. I suspect that the wormhole in Lop Nur There is an instrument that can create wormholes, which is what you call a more advanced human-made instrument. I don't know the name of this instrument, so if you like, I can call it 'Pisces Jade Pendant'!" I stood there in a daze, the ups and downs of my mood almost broke my nerves. "The rumor is indeed very cute. It is not only cutely made up, but also cutely touches the edge of the truth. Taiji Pisces, Pisces Jade Pendant, Lop Nur mysterious disappearance, parallel universe-these unrelated words can indeed be connected. Written as a good science fiction novel. Although the above things are not related, these rumors are indeed close to the truth in Lop Nur. If you will sit down and listen to me, I can tell you why I suspect that there is a wormhole in Lop Nur instrument." He sat down after speaking. What a nuisance, he knew I would definitely sit back. The sky is already very dark, maybe it will be dark in half an hour, so I hope he can tell me the answer as soon as possible, so as to save us from getting lost in the desert where we can't see our fingers. "Although the appearance and disappearance of known wormholes in the universe have no rules to follow, the appearance and disappearance of Lop Nur wormholes are very regular!" After seeing me sit down, Tang Yuxing started to get straight to the point. "Why do you think the wormholes in Lop Nur are very regular?" "This is my judgment based on the appearance and disappearance of the Loulan people - every time the Loulan people disappear, they are almost wiped out, and every time the disaster comes, they will disappear collectively!" "A catastrophe? Disappeared collectively?" I tried hard to see his eyes and expression clearly in the dark. "That's right. The Loulan people disappeared for the first time in the Shang Dynasty. At that time, the Shang Dynasty was sending troops to conquer Loulan. The second time it disappeared was in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Loulan started killing here—every time when the family is about to be exterminated, they will disappear as a whole, is this an accident and a coincidence?" "When the danger comes, they will disappear collectively. This is obviously a long-awaited preparation!" I quickly answered. "That's right! Even if there is a known wormhole in Lop Nur that exists as a matter of the universe, it is impossible for the Loulan people to manipulate it at will. But the fact that the Loulan people can manipulate the wormhole is undeniable, so I suspect that the Loulan people are very It is possible that they have mastered an instrument that can create such a wormhole. It is precisely because they have this instrument that once danger occurs, they will use this instrument to create a wormhole, and then enter another time and space through the wormhole to escape from here! " Although this suspicion is reasonable, it is obviously too bold.So I didn't rush to make a statement, but continued to listen to his analysis. "We said that time and space travel can be realized through wormholes, but if it is through known wormholes in the universe, even if the shuttle is realized, we don't know if we can return or how to return. Because there are countless wormholes in the universe , The appearance and disappearance of wormholes are also irregular. If you enter another time and space through this wormhole, then you will probably never encounter a new wormhole in another time and space in another time and space, or encounter countless other wormholes. A wormhole into a new space-time - the possibility of traveling through a wormhole and returning to the same place through this wormhole is almost non-existent. Just like you throw a grain of sand into the sea, you The chance of finding this grain of sand again is basically zero. But have you noticed that the Loulan people can travel through Lop Nur many times, they can leave through this wormhole, and they can also return through it-this is enough to prove that they can completely manipulate this worm Hole!" "Any wormholes in the universe cannot be manipulated by humans, so the wormholes of the Loulan people are man-made!" I almost rushed over and picked him up. "Yes! Well, think about it now, when in history did similar collective disappearances happen?" He was also trying hard to see the outline of my face in the dim light. "You Houxi!" "Yes. Why did Youhouxi's army disappear collectively before being destroyed, and then appear in another area of ​​the same time and space? Isn't this also in line with the operating principle of this special wormhole?" "But, what is the relationship between the disappearance and reappearance of Youhouxi and the disappearance and reappearance of the Loulan people?" More than 3,000 years ago, one was in the westernmost part of China, and the other was in the easternmost part -- I really can't imagine how they shared the same instrument. "do not you know?" He kicked the ball back. "How do I know?" I looked innocent. "Of course you know!" He nodded at me seriously, "Aren't you an expert on the Shang Dynasty?" "Shang Dynasty and Loulan..." I muttered to myself, thinking hard. "I can remind you that the general of the Shang Dynasty who conquered Loulan was the first queen of Shang King Wuding—Fuhao!" A bright light was lit above my head - Fuhao had helped Wuding conquer more than 20 countries in the west, and Loulan was included in these countries! The Loulan people once disappeared collectively—the Loulan people mastered the instrument for making wormholes—Fuhao once conquered Loulan—Wu Ding once married a minority woman "V"—Youhouxi's army disappeared collectively—WU415... … "If 'Wu' was really from Loulan, would she have brought this instrument to the Shang Dynasty? At the end of the Shang Dynasty, when You Hou was in trouble, did she activate this instrument?" I told my bold doubts he. "Since the people of Loulan have such an instrument, and Youhouxi has used such an instrument, who else can there be besides 'Wu'?" "However, if 'Wu' took the instrument away, how did the Loulan people in the Eastern Jin Dynasty appear and disappear?" After one problem was solved, a new problem appeared. "Who said there is only one instrument that can create wormholes? When technology reaches a certain level, it is not difficult to manufacture more instruments, right? Isn't Europe and the United States building ion accelerators at the same time?" "But will 'W' really bring the instrument to the Shang Dynasty?" "You should know that the tripod used to sacrifice 'Wu' is much more noble than the tripod used to sacrifice women. It can be seen that this 'Wu' is very important to Wu Ding." It suddenly dawned on me—I never understood why this unrecorded "Wu" in history is more noble than Fuhao, who has made great military exploits. Is it incomparable to anyone? "According to the manufacturing principle of an ion accelerator, as long as a specific and powerful field can be formed, it is possible to create antiparticles, and then form a ghost field, and black holes and wormholes appear. Therefore, this instrument must be used to create some kind of field. Since we The assumption is that this instrument is made by humans with a higher civilization, so it is definitely not as bulky as an ion accelerator, and it is likely to be small and easy to carry, or even as small as a horseshoe magnet, which is small but can form a powerful force. magnetic field." Tang Yuxing began to analyze the appearance of this instrument.Although his analysis is clear and logical, my mind is still stuck on whether these assumptions exist or not. "Okay, let me sort out my thoughts—according to our guess: the Loulan people had such a device. When Fuhao went to conquer them, they used the device to disappear; but for some reason, 'W' failed to disappear, and She was brought back to the Shang Dynasty by Fuhao and became another wife of Wu Ding. At the same time, she also brought an instrument to the Shang Dynasty; when the Shang Dynasty was facing disaster, Youhouxi used this instrument to escape to South America—— -Is that right?" The more I talk, the more I feel that these speculations are full of loopholes. "What do you think?" Tang Yuxing was noncommittal. "It's still unbelievable. Although I don't doubt that the Loulan people have such an instrument, and I don't doubt that more advanced humans can make such an instrument, but why do more advanced humans give the instrument to the Loulan people? Also, the one used by Youhouxi Was this instrument really brought by Wu? Could there be other channels that we don’t know about?” "First of all, the mysterious disappearance of the Loulan people regularly and the mysterious arrival of Youhouxi in South America can prove the existence of this instrument. We only need to know where this instrument is now-this is the purpose of my coming here; secondly, Wu in the Shang Dynasty There is no doubt about its importance, but we have no way of knowing why she is so important. However, we know that there was a war between the Shang Dynasty and Loulan. After the war, Wu went to the Shang Dynasty, and this instrument was activated when the Shang Dynasty fell, so We can't help but believe that this instrument was brought over by E—although we believe this view, we need other evidence to prove this view; again..." "Excuse me for interrupting—what other evidence do we need to support this point?" I was afraid that I would forget this question in a while, so I interrupted his analysis hastily and rashly. "Text! Since the two countries had such a major war, there must be a record in the text! Also, there must be a record about Wu in the text!" Tang Yuxing spoke with certainty. "Why do you have to record E?" I don't believe that an ordinary person like me will be recorded in modern and contemporary Chinese history. "Because Wu is not an ordinary person! Think about it, since this instrument is so powerful and mysterious, can ordinary people touch it at will? In addition, if Wu is an ordinary person, what will happen to her after she is taken to the Shang Dynasty by Fu Hao?" As a captive, she will become a slave or be slaughtered as a sacrifice! But she actually became another queen of Wu Ding!—Will there be any records of such an important person?" "But... what if the Loulan people didn't have any writing at that time?" I will not let you down. "You should know that Western explorers discovered many texts in the ancient country of Loulan, and almost all of them have found their origins, but there is one text that has not been deciphered so far!" "Mysterious symbols!" All the information about me and Yuxing Tang has finally converged to this point! "Yes! I suspect that these symbols in the whole incident are actually the lost Loulan characters, and these characters must have recorded the instrument, and even mentioned the whereabouts of the instrument. Otherwise, why would everyone be fighting for this set of symbols? Is it up to you to die?" Tang Yuxing stood up, thoughtful. "In other words, no matter what channel someone uses, what they are actually looking for is this instrument that can create wormholes?" After more than half a month, I finally understood the true meaning of the symbol, which made me feel like crying. "Yes. Unfortunately, since the Loulan text cannot be deciphered, we cannot know the final whereabouts of the instrument through these texts. Instead, we can only search for it step by step based on various mysterious events that happened to the Loulan people and Youhouxi. This is why Sun Lin arranged for the two of us to investigate at the same time - your investigation starts from the Loulan text, and my investigation starts from the rationality behind the mysterious incident!" He patted my shoulder lightly, which made me feel like a comrade-in-arms. "I trust Sun Lin unconditionally, and I hope you can do the same, because everything Sun Lin does is for our country and our nation!" When I heard this, my nose was a little sour.We have never thought about how many people have given up their families, their lives, and even their lives for our peaceful and peaceful life! "I understand! I will trust him unconditionally. Unfortunately, my investigation has made no progress, but you have locked Lop Nur." I am deeply guilty. "Don't say that, our gains are actually the same." He didn't mean to comfort me at all, but was very sure. "I am advancing step by step from the starting point to the end point, and you are advancing backwards from the end point to the starting point. I have come to Lop Nur step by step based on mysterious phenomena, quantum physics and archaeology, while you have reached Lop Nur through the Loulan text." Walk into this place—even if we don’t meet here now, we will meet sooner or later. Even if I haven’t found Lop Nur yet, wouldn’t you come here based on the hint given to you by Lin Jixian? Besides, it’s precisely because you are investigating The process led to countless mysterious figures, which made me more convinced of the existence of this instrument!" "But...how did those people know about the existence of this instrument and its powerful energy?" 一想到那些神秘人物，我浑身开始冒虚汗。 “咱们都能知道，为什么别人就不可能知道呢？神秘现象、量子物理学、种种科学实验以及考古发现——这些东西不是只有咱俩才懂的，凡是有心的人都能通过这些事情推断出仪器的存在。你这半个月所经历的事情不就能说明这个问题吗？” He shrugged. 好吧，那就狭路相逢勇者胜吧！ 现在，我终于明白为什么西克教授破译了符号后会有如此异常的反应了，也终于明白为什么董先生、丁教授和林吉贤会如此神秘地传承着这套体系，还明白为什么所有神秘之人会不惜任何代价寻找这个神秘的仪器——一个能自如控制虫洞的仪器如果出现在这个世界上，那这个世界会变成什么模样呢？ “唉，有些人显然已经走在咱们前面了。”汤宇星的声音中充满了忧虑。 我理解他的忧虑，因为在我们刚见面的时候，我把自己这半个月来所有的调查简单告诉了他，他已经知道阿瑟教授的研究成果被人偷走，也已经知道有人可能已经掌握了秘密，而且在不断地阻止别人接触秘密。 “是啊。”一想到这些，我也不禁感慨万千。“能破译楼兰文字的只有阿瑟教授和西克教授，如果楼兰文真的记载了仪器的去向，那偷走阿瑟教授成果的人一定知道仪器现在在什么地方。” “这也正是我担心的。知道仪器下落的不单单是偷走阿瑟教授成果的人，还有试图阻止别人寻找仪器下落的那些人。如果他们真的找到了仪器，那咱们所有的工作都通通白费了。” 他低下头，生怕我看见他眼中的恐慌。 “这两拨人会不会就是一拨人？” “应该不会。你不是跟我说了吗，偷走阿瑟教授成果的有可能是西方的情报部门，而那些试图阻止别人调查的人能够在中国畅行无阻，还能让中国的警察觉得恐慌，因此他们不会是西方的情报机构。话说回来，其实我对西方的情报机构并不担心，因为我们并不清楚楼兰文字对仪器的下落记载了多少，也不清楚阿瑟教授掌握的楼兰文字是否完整，所以我们不清楚西方情报机构是否真的知道仪器的具体下落——当然，这只是我美好的愿望。” “要是仪器落在外国人手里，我们岂不是要遭殃了？” 我脑中迅速出现了外国军队突然出现在天安门的场景。 “那就要指望那些试图阻止调查的人了！这些人既然能量如此巨大，能使警察如此恐慌，还能让孙林一筹莫展，那我毫不怀疑他们属于中国更强力的部门。他们既然知道仪器的下落，那他们一定不会轻易让别人拿走仪器。从寻找仪器的角度来看，这帮人很可恶，因为他们在阻止我们寻找；但作为中国人，我还是希望他们能有些本事，别让仪器落在外国人手里——中国军队出现在白宫总比外国军队出现在天安门要好吧？” 他苦笑了一下。 我也苦笑了一下。 “但愿如此。那您觉得，这些人到底是怎么知道仪器下落的？” “无非是两种渠道：第一，他们的调查跟我的调查一样，也是通过这些理论和实际展开寻找的，由于他们属于强力部门，有着巨大的能量，所以我去不到的地方他们能去，我找不到的人他们能找到；第二，你不是一直在寻找那本能破译楼兰文的书吗？你不是跟我说过那本书是继承了西克教授衣钵的董先生写的吗？董先生不是曾经想出版这本书但是被人拦下来了吗？那些人不是除了阻拦他出版这本书，还曾阻拦过试图跟他接触的政府要员吗？” “我明白了，那本书除了丁教授和林吉贤看过之外，还有另外的人看过！那些人是通过那本书找到的仪器。” 这时，我回忆起董先生病危时曾有的那个规定——所有人不得单独接近董先生，无论多高的职位！ 所有的谜团正一个一个地被揭开。 “只能这么解释了。不过，我真不希望这些人是从这本书中找到的仪器，如果是这样的话，我们刚才美好的愿望就破灭了。因为西克教授和阿瑟教授研究的成果是一样的，既然董先生继承的是西克教授的成果，如果通过这本能够找到仪器，那西方情报机构也就能从阿瑟教授的成果中找到了。总之，一场争夺仪器的恶战早晚都会发生。好了，说了这么多了，你总该知道那些人是什么人了吧？” 他严肃地看着我，而我则无比恐惧地点了点头——能够制造各种离奇事件而不留痕迹，能够让神通广大的孙林束手无策，能够在神秘可怖、有着巨大核武器试验场的罗布泊自由出入，能够阻止无论多高职位的政府要员接近董先生，这个国家里如果真有一种力量能实现这一切的话，那只有：军队！