Chapter 2 Chapter 1 A Very Weird Container

Let's look at a piece of news first, which was published in Hong Kong's "Ming Pao" on March 19, 1989. (March 19, 1989, was a very important day for me. Many, many inexplicable things added together to form a stupid thing, and the stupid thing was like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger, When it got to the point where it couldn't be controlled, the "big snowball" exploded suddenly, so violently that when you were inside, you didn't know what happened, and it felt like the end of the world.) (Don’t you understand the text in parentheses in the previous paragraph? It doesn’t matter, I don’t plan to describe that incident, and it has nothing to do with this story and the previous and future stories.)

The news is as follows: Strange stories about the Bermuda Triangle Sea burial dead found resurrected Documents prove death from cancer sixty-three years ago (Newspaper Bermuda Aviation News) Many mysterious and incredible things have happened in the Bermuda Triangle. It is said that there has been another incident that is difficult to explain by science recently. A Panamanian fishing boat found a man who "resurrected from the dead" near the Bermuda Triangle. A fishing boat found a white canvas bag seventy-five miles south of Bermuda on February 26. When it was opened, it turned out to be a living man.According to the captain, the man identified himself as Michael Wells Keane and said he had died of cancer 63 years ago, but he was vague about what happened after his death.He was later taken to Bermuda Hospital, and then transferred to the Zurich Psychiatric Research Center in an attempt to find out why he "resurrected from the dead".

Dr. Zanchen of the Bermuda Hospital said that the name and fingerprints on the death certificate were indeed the same as those of the rescued Kean. He said, "Don't ask me why I was able to come back to life. This question needs to be answered by someone smarter than me." According to the data, Keane immigrated to Bermuda in 1918 and suffered from cancer in 1923. He requested a sea burial after his death.On March 24, 1926, his wife carried out his wishes, wrapped him in a canvas bag, and threw him into the sea south of Bermuda. You have just finished reading the story I described titled. Of course, you must remember that Hassan, a shipping giant, picked up a large box that looked like a meat freezer from the sea near Bermuda. Coming alone, he turned out to be an important figure in the Shanghai Small Knife Society of China a hundred years ago!

If that news had been released three months earlier, everyone would naturally think that this story was inspired by that news, because there are indeed many similarities between the two. But of course it is completely different. The situation of the leader of the Knife Club in the story is much more complicated. The waters near Bermuda are known as "mysterious seas" or "devil seas". Many strange things have happened there, and every strange thing can be turned into a story. Well, let’s not talk about the resurrected one, let’s talk about Hasan, Boss Bai, Bai Su, the Gobi Desert, and me—when I think of Liu Hensheng, the leader of the Small Knife Society, he is an extremely important person, and he cannot be allowed to disappear again At this time, he chased him out, but he was nowhere to be seen again.Someone in the factory said that he was seen walking out of the factory, and I chased him all the way to the gate of the factory. The security of this factory is very strict, and it is not easy to get in and out.

But since I brought him here when he came, the door guard didn't stop him when he left! Once out of the factory, the roads lead in all directions, who knows where he went? I was stunned for a while at the gate of the factory, and I felt even more uncomfortable when I thought that this extremely mysterious figure might never appear again.Over the years, no matter how difficult the process of mysterious things has been, there will always be a day when the truth will be revealed and the truth will be revealed.And now, if Liu Gensheng doesn't show up again, then what happened to him will always be a mystery!

Although he left behind the extremely weird container, he took away the source of power when we were unprepared - a state-of-the-art tank, if there is no fuel power, It's just a pile of scrap metal. That container may have tens of thousands of functions, but without power, it is just waste. As I was thinking about it, I went back to the factory building and heard that old friends Hasan and Boss Bai were arguing again.The Shanghai dialect is still used.the other side.But the Gobi Desert is next to the container, and it is being studied and discussed.I was very interested in what they were discussing, so I ignored the quarrel between Hasan and Boss Bai, and I also came to the side of the container.There is no way of knowing what is the source of motivation for Liu Gensheng to take it away.It is very likely that in that small device is a new energy source that people on earth do not yet know how to use.The question is, the original energy has been taken away, can it be replaced by something else?

As long as alternative sources of energy are found, many of the functions of this strange container can be played. Liu Gensheng said that this container can play many functions, which is unimaginable. At least one of the functions has been known, which is to turn people into billions of molecules and then restore them. This change, so he has no feeling at all about "incarnation of billions", but if a person is in a waking state and incarnates into billions, what kind of feeling does it feel? You have to experience it yourself to know! This point alone is enough to make one's heart itch. Knowing that it is extremely dangerous, one has to give it a try. As Boss Bai said: If there is no adventurous spirit, how can human beings progress?

It is not difficult to replace energy. When gasoline is scarce, alcohol or even charcoal will be used instead, and the car can also be driven. Gobi's suggestion was very good. He shouted: "You two old men, please listen to me." Hasan and Boss Bai glared at him and then stopped talking, which surprised Gobi, so he immediately seized the opportunity to speak: "I...we believe that if we continue to study this container, there will be no more containers in the world. A better place than this factory." Hassan's face was ugly: "What do you mean? This thing is mine."

Desert hurriedly explained: "No one wants your stuff, just put it here for research." Hasan obviously disagreed, but before he opened his mouth, Boss Bai said bluntly, "Forget it, studying that strange container is their specialty, and you and I have other things to do." When I just came in, I saw that Boss Bai and Hasan were arguing, but I didn't pay attention to the content of their quarrel. Only when Boss Bai said this did I know that there was another plan of action, so I looked over at them, Boss Bai He waved his hand: "This Liu Gensheng, since he was a prominent figure in the Small Knife Society back then, there is always something left in his memory. Let's check the historical documents and all the information about the Small Knife Society. We can always find some clues."

Hasan agreed with Boss Bai's plan very much: "This is called the 'General Dou Tu' method. I hope we can find out the ins and outs of this man." I heard them say this, and couldn't help but want to speak up, but Bai Su had lightly bumped me with her elbow, of course she knew what I was going to say. What I want to say is that there are not many materials left by the Xiaodao Society, and so many years have passed, I am afraid that trying to find Liu Gensheng in the files will be in vain!Bai Su didn't let me speak out, naturally there was her reason, the two old people rarely agreed and were very happy, so let them go to work, why bother to spoil their happiness.

So I immediately changed my words: "As soon as Liu Gensheng came out of the container, he said that there was something important. When I saw him, he seemed to have been to Shanghai once. I don't know what he wants to do in Shanghai." Both Ha Shan and Boss Bai were interested, Ha Shan said: "During the heyday of the Small Knife Society, the base was in Shanghai. He went back to Shanghai to find his roots." Boss Bai frowned: "It's been a hundred years, what else is there to find? The people at that time are still alive now, I'm afraid he's the only one. At that time, you and I were never born, and now you and I have passed away." Turned into an old monster." Hasan narrowed his eyes: "It's hard to say. Anyway, you and I decided to go to Shanghai to collect information. It's also good to check his behavior in Shanghai by the way." The Gobi Desert said in amazement: "He... is a person from more than a hundred years ago. Where did he get the travel documents? How can he come when he wants and go when he wants?" Boss Bai glanced at him, seeming to be disdainful to answer. I was afraid they would be embarrassed, so I said, "Liu Gensheng must have had a great adventure, so we can't treat him like an ordinary person." The Gobi Desert still couldn't help shaking its head, feeling that things were incredible.Boss Bai and Hasan came to the container again, looked at it for a while, and said, "I feel like I fell asleep, how do you look?" Bai Su said: "It's like a deep sleep." Boss Bai felt pity: "If Liu was born a little later, I might turn into billions. I don't know what it's like?" Hassan waved his hand: "I don't feel anything, I don't even know that such a thing happened." Boss Bai nodded: "As soon as you have an idea, let us know." When he said this, he pointed to me and Bai Su.The Gobi Desert didn't agree.Although Hasan's expression was not very willing, he was very excited at the thought of being able to revisit the old place with his childhood friends. Putting this thing in the factory for research has become a trivial matter. At the moment, the four of us bid farewell to the factory and went to Hasan's villa.Along the way, the two old men talked about the anecdotes and life in Shanghai back then. Boss Bai was once the leader of the seven gangs and eight associations, so he naturally knew the activities of the gangs like the back of his hand. He said: "The Little Knife Society used to do pirate business, but suddenly rose in Shanghai, almost without any process, and became so powerful that it could almost oppose the officers and soldiers, and openly rebelled. Later, it suddenly failed again, and there was no scum left. The process was very complicated. Mystery, I wanted to study it for a long time. This time, I can take the opportunity to fulfill this wish. Alas, when I am old, I have to do things by chance. Which one I do is which one. If you want to do it, how can you have such a long life!" He suddenly became sad, and Bai Su and I naturally didn't dare to talk to each other, and Hasan sighed for a moment. After living in Hassan Villa for two days, the two old people still disagree.Hassan wanted to go there with great fanfare, the reason being: in that place, it was very important to be able to enjoy privileges.If he, as a world-renowned shipping giant, takes that ship, sails into Wusongkou, and parks the ship on the Bund, the natural scenery will be so great that he can do whatever he wants.But Boss Bai is in favor of "private visits on micro-services". The reason is that both of them are so old that they have no time to do boring things. They go in quietly to do things. Time is precious and should not be wasted. They kept arguing, and I said to Bai Su: "No matter what they do, this matter has finally come to an end. We—" Bai Su stretched her waist: "We should go back!" I gave her a gentle hug.We came back the next day. As soon as Wen Baoyu knew we were coming back, he and Hu Hua came to the door. He shouted: "What's the situation? After I heard about it, I had to call Liangchen Meijing , they waited to hear the answer." As soon as I told what happened, Wen Baoyu paused: "The leader of the Small Sword Society shouldn't have been let go." I smiled wryly: "Who doesn't know? But he moved quickly and was extremely chaotic at the time, so he disappeared all of a sudden." Wen Baoyu tilted his head: "If he can come and go freely in time and space without the help of the device in the container, then he will not be found." What Wen Baoyu said touched my heart. Liu Gensheng may not be able to move freely in time and space without relying on devices, but so what?The world is so big, it is not easy to find someone. At this moment, Wen Baoyu took out a clipping of a newspaper, which contained the news that was introduced at the beginning, and he said again: "The sea area picked up by the container is a bit strange, you can send someone to investigate there." Don't look at Wen Baoyu's random thoughts sometimes, but sometimes his proposals are also very good.Anyway, Hasan had plenty of boats under his command, so he sent a few out to search the sea area where the strange container was found day and night, maybe they would find something.Thinking of this, I immediately called Hasan's villa, but the housekeeper replied: "Master and Mr. Bai left eight hours ago." I took a breath, they had already left, it seemed that Boss Bai's opinion had the upper hand, and they "visited privately" without fanfare.I don't have any hopes for their trip to Shanghai. I estimate that they will return in a few days, and it will not be too late to propose to Hassan to search at sea. However, Wen Baoyu was very interested in the Small Knife Society, and shouted: "Shanghai is such a big city that a gang has ever occupied it. It's really strange and strange. Why didn't I know there was a gang called the Small Knife Society?" He was a little carried away when he said this, and I said coldly: "There are too many things you don't know, why is it just a small swordsmanship!" Wen Baoyu was quite sensible, he knew what I said, it was irrefutable, so he immediately changed the subject: "As soon as Liu Gensheng comes out, he will go back to Shanghai..." I waved my hand and didn't want to discuss with him anymore, so I said: "I'm not sure whether he has actually been to Shanghai, but I only speculate that it is very possible. This guy is very hateful, and he refuses to say anything. From his expression, I see he doesn't seem to be getting what he wants--that's the end of the discussion, okay?" I thought that Wen Baoyu and Hu Hua would definitely agree with each other, but who knew that even Hu Hua, who had always been quiet, yelled with Wen Baoyu: "Of course not." I snorted and stared at them, Wen Baoyu raised his hand: "There has never been a Wesley story that has a beginning and no end." I thought about it for a while, and it was indeed the case, but once Liu Gensheng left and couldn't find him, things wouldn't progress. Even if he was found, he wouldn't say anything. How can he make him reveal his secret. I don't think that Hassan and Bai Laoda will gain anything by going to Shanghai, and I don't believe that the Gobi Desert can find a substitute for power. There was no one way to go through the whole thing, which made me feel very disgusted, so I had the idea of ​​giving up for the first time. I sneered and said, "How about making this an exception?" Hu Shi and Wen Baoyu looked at each other, shook their heads, and Wen Baoyu even deliberately angered me: "If you want to give up, let's discuss it with Dr. Yuan Zhenxia, ​​he must be interested in pursuing it." At this time, Bai Su interjected softly: "Not every story has to have a clear ending." Wen Baoyu said solemnly: "There must be good stories." Bai Su smiled and said: "Is the story not good? Fighting against the world's invincible golden-faced Buddha Miao Renfeng and the flying fox Hu Fei, whether Hu Fei's knife will be cut off in the end is an eternal mystery." Xiaobao rolled his eyes: "I remember an expert in gold science said that this is the author's deception, and this story is still incomplete." Hu Hua suddenly had a whim, and waved his hands, asking everyone to pay attention to what he said: "If during the contest, there is a sudden force that makes time freeze, or at that specific time, time loses its effect, Everything becomes static, and this situation happens just when Hu Fei is about to slash, so what will happen?" Greenhouse Yu has a natural ability to adapt to all kinds of weird assumptions. I will feel sorry for the nonsense when he speaks very complicated. Xiaobao clapped his hands and said: "Good idea, if this is the case, then as long as this If the situation remains unchanged, Hu Fei's knife will never be cut down, not because he doesn't want to cut it, but because he can't move it." I snorted: "In such a situation, do people still have thoughts?" Wen Baoyu shivered suddenly wittily, with a horrified expression on his face: "If a person still has thoughts in such a situation, it would be terrible. If he has been frozen there for eight hundred years and cannot move, that is much more terrifying than death. Already!" Xiaobao's words were exaggerated and his expression was full. I reprimanded: "If this is the case, of course the mind will be still, and you don't know anything." Greenhouse Yu looked at me. Although he didn't speak, his expression was obviously asking: "Why are you so sure?" His expression was very hateful, I blurted out: "In that container, Hassan is in a state of rest, broken down into molecules, but he doesn't know it at all." When I was talking, I was just giving an example at random, but this example was picked up hastily, which is a bit specious.But as soon as the words were spoken, the four of us uttered a low voice of "ah" at the same time, and we thought of a very important point at the same time. Nonsense just assumed a situation in which time suddenly disappears—time is invisible and intangible, and it is very abstract. Phenomena can also disappear naturally. Or, in this case, time no longer exists, time stops, time no longer operates, which means the same thing. Here, another very contradictory situation arises, because people don't know what that situation is like. In that situation, everything is static, and it is just an idea. But what if, in this situation, everything is still, not within the specific space of the situation, and time is still going on? Hasan, I, and Boss Bai have all entered that container, and in that container, they are in a static state. After pressing those buttons, time will disappear in that container, thus causing nonsense The particular circumstances assumed? What the four of us thought at the same time was: if not 100% fit this hypothesis, at least it is a similar situation. In that case, it doesn't matter how long you are in the container, because in that container, there is no time, it is an environment without time! Then, Liu Gensheng is an ancient man a hundred years ago, so it is very easy to accept. If he has been in this container, or has been in the container for many years, time will have no effect on him. Inadvertently, there is such a hypothesis, and this hypothesis is related to Liu Gensheng's mystery, which makes us very excited. Wen Baoyu waved his hand: "The leader of the Small Knife Society may have obtained that container a hundred years ago. He has lived so long because of that container. That container is the treasure of longevity." Nonsense retorted: "It's not precious at all. Think about it, time doesn't exist, and people are in a static state. How is that different from being dead?" Wen Baoyu said: "Of course it's very different. He won't wake up after he dies, and he can pre-adjust the time of waking up at any time; and the container doesn't know how many other functions it has. Alas! Alas! Alas!" When he said this, he sighed for the third time, with an itchy expression, stayed for a while, and added: "That thing is more fun than Chen Changqing's house, much more fun." I asked and snorted: "To be a man, one must be content." Xiaobao paced back and forth: "It would be great if the Gobi Desert could find an alternative power source." I sneered a few times and didn't make a statement.The whole thing, with such a hypothesis, is certainly exciting, but it is of no use to the progress of the whole thing.Putting people in a state of stillness and time disappearing (assumed) is just one of the functions of the container. The other known function is to decompose people into billions of molecules. What kind of function is that?What power? These two functions alone cannot make complete assumptions, and if many functions are added, it will be even more complicated. No matter how good a scientist on earth is before this container, he is probably like a caveman before a large computer. , is simply incomprehensible. Wen Baoyu suddenly slapped his thigh again: "This thing is in our hands, if we can't study a trick, it's really useless to be a human being." I glared at him, "From now on, if you don't do anything and focus on research, I'm afraid you won't be able to research anything until your hair turns gray." Wen Baoyu accepted this sentence very much, maybe he was lazy by nature and didn't want to spend time researching it at all, so he said again: "It would be great if we could find out the leader of that small knife society." When he said such nonsense, I didn't even bother to pay attention to him, but I also thought of a problem: Liu Gensheng's long life and many abilities all depended on the various devices in this container. He is just an ordinary person who knows martial arts, but he left in such a hurry, he just removed the power unit, did he have some important matters that he had to rush to deal with? It seems that things are getting more and more confusing, and an acceptable assumption is made, and then there are many more problems. I didn’t pay attention to what Wen Baoyu discussed and published with Hu Shuo. I only heard him say loudly at the end: “I guess Liu Gensheng must have gone to Shanghai again. His old lair is in Shanghai. Of course, it’s also in Shanghai.” After a while, he said again: "It would be great if Hasan and Mr. Bai happened to meet him in Shanghai." I said coldly, "Shanghai has a population of more than 10 million." Wen Baoyu said: "Both of them go for the same purpose, so there is a great chance of meeting them." This kid, this sentence makes a lot of sense.Hasan and Boss Bai went to find the materials of the Small Knife Society. If Liu Gensheng also wanted to find the documents from that year, the possibility of encountering them in the library or archives would naturally increase greatly. There are also some old buildings in Shanghai, which are related to the activities of the Small Knife Society and are listed as historic sites. If they all go to see them, they will naturally have the opportunity to meet each other. Wen Baoyu saw a sentence that made me nod secretly, and I was even more proud: "I don't know if the power unit is heavy or not? I think he took it all over the place for travel, and maybe it was buried near the factory..." When he said this, he danced and danced; he was very happy: "Ask the Gobi Desert to send a few detection vehicles out, and it may be very rewarding!" I also agreed with Wen Baoyu's idea, so I was secretly surprised. Liu Gensheng must have removed the power unit in case someone pressed the button indiscriminately. He had repeatedly warned that it would cause trouble. In the hands of Wen Baoyu and the others, I'm afraid there will be chaos in the world! But I can't think of any way to stop him from notifying the Gobi Desert——Wen Baoyu and Bai Boss have many similarities. When doing something, they don't think much about the consequences. , very speculative, and this is the reason. Looking at Wen Baoyu's situation at this time, it seems that he has found the power unit that Liu Gensheng took away, so I don't bother to talk to him. At this point in the discussion of the matter, it is difficult to make any further development. Wen Baoyu made many wild assumptions, but among the three of us, none of them nodded to his statement. He felt a little discouraged. After a moment of silence, he became happy again —that's the lovely thing about his character, never letting depression take up too much time. He pointed his fingers again and said: "At least we can assume that in that container, we can create an environment where time stops! So that human life can be carried out in stages!" Here, Wen Baoyu coined a new term: "the staged progression of life". The term he coined is also very vivid, and it can explain this strange phenomenon in detail.Take Liu Gensheng as an example, if a hundred years ago, when he was twenty years old, he had a strange experience and entered the container, time would have stopped for him, and twenty years had passed outside, He came out of the container, still twenty years old. Then, after he left the container, he lived under normal conditions for another two years, so he was twenty-two years old.He entered the container again, and was again in a time-stopped state, and another twenty years passed outside... By analogy, every twenty years, he leaves the container for two years, so a hundred years is only ten years to his life.Liu Gensheng looks like he is about 30 years old. His life is "the progress of life in stages". Naturally, his segmented life does not have to be twenty years, but can also be a whole segment of thirty years, ten years, or one hundred years. In short, when he was in that container, his life was in a state of suspension.This situation is extremely weird. After the four of us thought about this situation for a while, our respective expressions were quite strange. Moreover, we obviously thought of a very close situation at the same time, and the four of us spoke at the same time: "That's like—— —” Bai Su stopped talking first, Hu Hua and I also stopped talking, and Wen Baoyu couldn't stop once he opened his mouth as usual, so let him continue the next sentence: "It's like a box of ninety kinds of tapes, every nine minutes of playing, Just press the pause button, pause for 30 minutes, then play for another 9 minutes, and pause for another 30 minutes. Then, when the tape is finished, the broadcast time of the tape is still 90 minutes, but the time has passed 330 minutes. ten minutes!" Nonsense's face was very pale, of course, because he thought of the great flexibility of this "step-by-step method of life": "If it is true in theory, wouldn't a person's life be extended to—" I took a breath and added what he hadn't finished: "It can be extended indefinitely, a thousand years. Ten thousand years, fifty thousand years..." Nonsense, nonsense, his body trembled, and he shuddered alone: ​​"It is not uncommon for the leader of the Small Sword Society to come out of the container, and the person who came out of the container may also be Jiang Taigong who met King Wen at the age of eighty. !" There are so many ancient people who can say, why he picked this Mr. Jiang, I don’t know, of course, because everyone’s thoughts were very disordered at that time, and it didn’t have any special meaning to pick up an ancient person at random. But the nonsense brought up Jiang Taigong, which aroused Wen Baoyu's association: "It's better to be Nezha!" Wen Baoyu is very fond of Nezha, a mythological figure, and often envies that he can cut the flesh back to his mother, and cut the bone back to his father. In Wen Baoyu's words: "Entering the advanced form of life, the life form dominated by the soul, and throwing away the useless stinky skin!" (There are so many traditional Chinese fairy tales with rich imagination, and the Nezha story is just one of them.) I was afraid that it would be endless for him to list the ancients he liked, so I hurriedly said: "Of course Liu Gensheng has spanned a hundred years in this way." It was only at this time that Bai Su was able to express his opinion: "According to the situation, Liu Gensheng has been in the environment where time stopped for quite a long time. During this period, when he left the container, he may have had other adventures." We looked at her, and Bai Su explained: "The container has many functions. He once told Hasan that Hasan was too old and didn't have enough time to learn it. It can be seen that he spent a lot of time learning to use the container!" Bai Su's hypothesis raised a new question: Where was the container at that time?From whom did he learn to use the function of this vessel?