Chapter 3 Chapter 2 The relationship between time and life

Bai Su and I looked at each other with a bitter expression, and put forward an acceptable hypothesis, which didn't make the matter go any further, but caused more doubts! Everyone was silent for a moment, imagining the first time Liu Gensheng saw the container. My assumption is that no matter where Liu Hensheng saw the container, the possibility that a leader of the Shanghai Sword Society a hundred years ago saw the container in the Pacific Ocean is small, but it is not absolute. impossible. However, after seeing the container, it is absolutely impossible for him to figure out the function of the container and know how to use it one by one.

Let alone him, the leader of the gang a hundred years ago, a hundred years later, I, Bai Su, Boss Bai, Gobi Desert, and so many people in that factory can be said to be all intelligent people, and some are even more intelligent. He has modern scientific expertise, but he also has the feeling of a primitive man facing a large computer in the face of this weird container. It can be seen from this that it is absolutely impossible for Liu Gensheng to understand the many functions of this container without a teacher. And if there is a person who is willing to guide him carefully, it is not difficult for him to learn.Those two rows of buttons control all the functions, as long as you have a good memory and remember how to press which buttons in order, what functions can be produced, anyone can learn it.

Of course, it is one thing to learn to use the many functions in the container, but it is another thing to understand why the container has such functions. It is like anyone can press a button to make a TV appear. screen, but it is another matter to understand why the screen appears on the TV. Moreover, there are enough reasons to believe that Liu Gensheng can only use that container, and he doesn't know the further reason. Therefore, in fact, he has a considerable sense of fear about that container, which makes him repeatedly warn "don't even touch it", " If you touch it, you will cause trouble.”

Liu Gensheng only knew about the container but didn't know why. He was by no means the first-hand owner of the container. As soon as I thought of this, I immediately called out what I thought of. Wen Baoyu immediately agreed: "You have been fooled." Instead of saying "We've been duped," he says "You've been duped," which is pretty damning, implying that he wasn't there, and implying that if he had been there, he probably wouldn't have been duped. I sneered: "Why are you being fooled? Although he doesn't understand the principle, he always knows what the container can do."

I had a bad expression on my face, and Wen Baoyu also knew that his attitude just now was too much, so he shrank his head and didn't dare to rush to express his opinion.Hu Shi suddenly smiled: "The situation is very strange. It is very possible. When Liu Gensheng found the container, he opened it and a person came out of it. That person entered it several years ago. The situation is like—" Wen Baoyu couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted: "It's like Hasan saw Liu Gensheng coming out of it, so of course that person taught Liu Gensheng everything." I also had the same thought, but I was just puzzled: "It's really strange how Liu Gensheng could accept this unbelievable fact in terms of his level of knowledge at that time—there was no car at that time."

Naturally, there is no answer to this question, Bai Su continued her thinking: "He may have been learning how to use this device until recently, so he left Hasan in a hurry when he saw Hasan, of course there is a reason It's very important to wait for him to do." Wen Baoyu shook his head: "That matter may not be important, if it was important, he must have done it long ago." Bai Su smiled: "This situation is a bit like the plot in martial arts novels: the person who has obtained the secret book of martial arts, is attracted by the content of the secret book, becomes fascinated, concentrates on studying martial arts, and can let go of everything until he has achieved success in martial arts. , only to realize that time flies."

Hearing Bai Su make such a metaphor, although due to various mysteries, the truth is unknown, and I was very depressed, but I couldn't help laughing "haha": "The one who is close to the ink is black, it is really good, and Xiaosheng Over the years, speaking has his style." Bai Su smiled: "My example is unqualified?" I thought about it, but I couldn't pick out what was wrong, and Bai Su said again: "During this process, I believe that Liu Gensheng must have obtained an extremely rich amount of modern scientific knowledge through the device in the container, perhaps far more than It is precisely because of this that he has been attracted to continue his research."

Bai Su's words were quite convincing, I lost my voice and said: "We underestimated him too much, we only regarded him as a person who had an adventure, but we didn't expect him to be reborn during this adventure, No longer the leader of the Knives, and possibly the best man on earth." Wen Baoyu couldn't help blinking, I tried my best to recall the time when I was with him, but I couldn't feel that there was anything special about him, so I couldn't help but feel puzzled about my embarrassment, a little helpless: "It seems that the problem It’s back again, and Liu Gensheng still needs to show up to answer all the questions.”

Wen Baoyu laughed aloud: "It's extremely contradictory, he has already said that he won't say anything." I snorted and waved my hands vigorously. I really regret that when he appeared that day, I didn't use all means to make him tell his experience. However, although I had some assumptions at that time, it was not as specific as it is now—now there are assumptions such as "time pause" and "segmented life", and it is also assumed that when Liu Gensheng first saw this container, there were people in the container. People gave him a lot of knowledge and so on.

With these assumptions in place, it will be much easier to force him to tell the truth with both soft and hard tactics. In any case, Liu Gensheng has disappeared without a trace, and it is very difficult to find him again. The assumption we made, no matter how close to the truth, is useless, at most we can only continue to assume it. Thinking of this, I couldn't help feeling very depressed, Bai Su smiled: "If his life cannot be separated from that container, then he will never use that container again." Wen Baoyu jumped up: "That's right! He will return to the container with the power device, even if he will fly away as soon as he enters the container, he must first approach the container."

I understood what Wen Baoyu and Bai Su meant, and laughed: "This reminds me of the fable of 'waiting for the rabbit'." Bai Su said: "It's basically the same. It is certain that Liu Gensheng can't leave this container forever. As long as he guards it, there will always be a day when he will appear." I took a deep breath, this statement is quite reasonable, Wen Baoyu asked again: "How big is the power plant?" I compared it: "It's about a little thinner than ordinary compressed air cylinders, and it consists of four cylinders in total. It's quite difficult for him to take it off and put it under his coat." Wen Baoyu clapped his hands: "Of course he can't go here and there with such a thing, we can do both." As he said that, he took the phone and put it in my hand. I thought about it for a while and felt that the "two-pronged approach" method was not harmful, so I called the French factory. That phone number was given to me by Gobi before he left. The tiny mobile phone is a masterpiece of him and the desert. It stays around 24 hours a day. It is very easy to contact them. After a while, I heard Gobi's voice, and I asked first, "Is there any progress?" Gobi's voice sounded very bitter: "Not at all. We tried to connect currents with different voltages at several contact points, but there was no response at all." I was a little appalled: "Be careful, don't risk using too high a voltage." Gobi smiled wryly: "I don't think there will be any danger, nor will it be useful. Otherwise, that centenarian demon would not rest assured to leave this thing with us." Hearing him call Liu Gensheng a "hundred-year-old monster", I couldn't help being a little funny, but Wen Baoyu, who was at the side, already applauded and said loudly: "The centenary-year-old monster is remarkable." Gobi sucked again: "We are just dead horses as living horse doctors, and we really don't want to give up." I paused: "After we discussed it, there is a two-pronged approach." Gobi had great confidence in me, and hurriedly said, "Excellent, let's hear it." I said: "Wen Baoyu came up with one of these two methods, let him come and talk to you." I handed the phone to Wen Baoyu, who was overjoyed and took the phone with one hand. Mostly due to overexcitement, Wen Baoyu was sweating in his palms, wiped his gown vigorously with one hand, and began to describe our assumptions and things to do to Gobi. The "two-pronged approach" method he mentioned was indeed very reasonable, and he heard a lot of applause and cheers in the middle of the speech.Wen Baoyu was even more happy, his handsome face flushed, and he explained in great detail what should be done. As soon as he finished speaking, Gobi said: "No problem, we can start the investigation of the power unit that was taken away immediately. As for guarding this container... I think we spend a few hours every day and pretend not to study it. It seems like There is no one, but people are arranged to watch secretly. If the centenarian demon does not appear, it will be very difficult to escape once it appears." Wen Baoyu was also so excited that he seemed to have waited for Liu Gensheng, and even started to recite the play: "Let's see what the old man is capable of, and I'll get it when I get it." I always thought that this was the only way out, and I didn't have much hope, and of course I wasn't that excited.After Hu Hua and Wen Baoyu left, I had something else to do.When Wen Baoyu left, he said that he would be responsible for telling Liang Chen Meimei, who was studying in Switzerland, about this strange incident, and he would also relay it to Dr. Yuan Zhenxia to listen to more people's opinions, brainstorming and so on. Bai Su and I sat opposite each other in the study for a while, I paced back and forth, Bai Su was naturally in my actions, it could be seen that I had other ideas, she quietly waited for my opinion. I sorted out what I thought, and then said: "Suppose that thing appears every 100 years, or only once in 110 or 120 years, and suppose that this thing has existed on the earth for a long time. For a long time, then, this should have happened many times. I would like to check various official records or anecdotes in history extensively to see if there are similar records mentioning such a container. And a ——of a hundred-year-old demon." Bai Su frowned: "This is an extremely heavy job." I laughed: "Of course we can't do it ourselves. We can entrust multiple organizations with computers to store data. It is best if there is a result. If there is no result, there may not be any loss." Bai Su tilted his head and thought for a while: "Okay, your Excellency is busy, so let Xiao Ke handle it." I hugged her tightly: "Thank you, lady!" Bai Su glared at me, and I had a sudden thought: "This container can easily shorten a person's lifespan..." I originally wanted to say: "It can prolong a person's lifespan", but when I thought about it, the description of "prolonging" is not very appropriate, because in the state of "time pause", a person is almost dead. Ten years old, or eighty years old, does not prolong life. So I thought about it and decided that using the word "stretched" is much better than the word "extended". I rephrased: "This container can...extend life. If we squeeze in together and stay in a state of time suspension, and come out one year after ten years, wouldn't we be able to see the scene one or two hundred years later?" I spoke very earnestly, but Bai Su's reaction was cold: "That's not necessarily interesting. People always belong to their own era. It is very painful to fall back and advance." I also want to convince her that if there is a chance to play such a game, she should play it with me. Otherwise, I would become a "hundred-year-old demon" alone, but her life would have already ended. It would be extremely tragic.But before I could speak, she said calmly: "Do you still remember the great astronaut Ge Dapeng? He is so outstanding. When we met him, he was a hundred years later. He has the opportunity to return to our place. time, but he insisted on going back to his own time, and even though the future was bleak, he was going to take risks." I sighed, naturally I have never forgotten Ge Dapeng, an astronaut on Earth in the next century.During his space voyage, he encountered an unpredictable shock wave, which shocked him back a hundred years ago, and met me and Bai Su. In terms of his knowledge and ability after a hundred years, if If he stays in our era, then he is a superman without tearing it apart.But he is determined to find the era that belongs to him. It can be seen that there is an inseparable relationship between time and life: the life of this era must grow and end in this era, and cannot leap over this era. (The story of the great astronaut Ge Dapeng, me and Bai Su is described in this story.) Bai Su said again: "I don't think Liu Gensheng will be happy if he has surpassed time for a hundred years." I couldn't help shivering lonely and pitifully, thinking that even if Bai Su and I could appear a hundred years later, at that time, we would have no relatives or friends, and we were two people who were completely out of touch with time. What joy in life to speak of. Of course, I immediately dismissed this idea, and I had a new question: "However, Liu Gensheng seems to be very energetic and doesn't feel any pain." Bai Suxiu frowned slightly, her expression was very touching, I reached out and stroked her brows gently. She said: "I guess Liu Gensheng must have a very important task that has not been completed. He only wants to complete this task in his heart and has no time to feel uncomfortable. Once this task is completed, he may feel the pain of losing his time!" Bai Su's hypothesis, purely from a psychological point of view, is quite vague. I don't quite agree with it, so I asked in a skeptical tone: "You mean, he is doing that task now?" Bai Su laughed: "This is just my immature idea, I hope he can appear in front of us again!" That day, the discussion on this matter ends here. From then on, every day, Wen Baoyu would report to me every day without me contacting the Gobi Desert. For the first two days, Greenhouse Yu was still very polite to the Gobi Desert: "I contacted them, but I didn't find anything." Then he started calling them "these two guys" and then "these two guys", and a week later the Gobi desert became "these two stupid people", "the stupid ones".... After two weeks, I couldn't help scolding him: "Xiaobao, how can you call them that?" Contrary to my expectations, Greenhouse Yu said: "It's not that I want to call them that, that's what they call themselves—they can't find the power unit, so they blame themselves for that." I smiled wryly: "Maybe our estimate is wrong!" Wen Baoyu said: "No, our estimation is correct. Liu Gensheng absolutely cannot take that power device around. For example, if he goes to Shanghai, he must have hidden it somewhere, but we can't find it." I sighed: "It may be hidden hundreds of kilometers away, not really near the factory." Wen Baoyu was silent. As far as I am concerned, the work of searching for information is not going smoothly. There are records of the information obtained, even the ones that were connected, suddenly shining brightly on the sea in the middle of the night, but there is no similar container for people to sit in. or similar records. Things are not progressing at all! Even Boss Bai and Hasan have not heard from each other after they left. I don’t know if their “root-seeking” in Shanghai is successful. When I mentioned the common term "root-seeking", Wen Baoyu laughed: "It's really a real root-seeking—the person they are looking for is named Liu Gensheng." Greenhouse Yu really wanted to go to Shanghai, and go crazy with those two old people, but his parents would not let him say anything, and soon after, he went to Taipei for me. This is a digression. Even if. In the next few days, Bai Su and I will naturally not be idle waiting for the development of this matter, but we are busy with many other things, but there is no progress in this matter. But during this period, without our participation, other things happened, which are very related to this story. Remember that hapless captain? I had good reason for calling the captain of the great steamer "The Unlucky Captain."In the betting action between Hasan and Boss Bai, because of Hasan’s trust in him, he became the only person who knew that Hasan hid in the container. , betrayed Hasan's secret to Boss Bai. The bet between Boss Bai and Hasan turned out to be so unexpected that everyone had already forgotten the outcome of the bet.Boss Bai and Hasan have such a friendship, coupled with their personalities, naturally they don't put any bets on their hearts, and they have long regarded the whole thing as if it never happened. Their interest has shifted to the Small Knife Society. went. In other words, since I don't have to accompany Hasan to tell the story of the eighty days, Hasan doesn't have to change the name of that luxury cruise ship to Boss Bai. The whole thing is over, only the unlucky captain completely changed his fate. Hassan knew that the captain had told the secret to Boss Bai. Anyone who knew at the beginning that he was betrayed by someone he trusted would certainly be unhappy, and Hassan was no exception. But Hassan immediately forgave Chuanfu, and since the whole matter had come to an end, Hassan didn't blame the captain and continued to let him be the captain. It seems that it is not unlucky at all!Yes, if the captain wasn't so vain. In the whole thing, although the captain could not resolutely refuse the temptation due to his own shortcomings (how many people can bear such a temptation?), but he was the victim of the incident-he got nothing, but lost his personality.Although no one blamed him, he deeply blamed himself. The captain is a very upright person. If he is a treacherous villain, he will not feel any pain. It is precisely because he has been upright all his life and has never done anything wrong to others, so in this situation, he will feel sad Extremely, can no longer be freed from that mental state. So, he started drinking. (When Boss Bai and Bai Su discussed buying the captain with astronomical sums of money, I once strongly opposed it.) (It appears that my objection is quite justified.) (Don’t test human nature, don’t! Just like Liu Gensheng warned not to touch the button in the container, don’t even touch it!) The captain of a large passenger ship has a very heavy workload and huge responsibilities. He has to keep 100% awake almost 24 hours a day.However, due to mental guilt, the captain became an alcoholic in just one month. How could he bear such a heavy responsibility? What's more frightening is that due to the dual stimulation of self-blame and alcohol, the captain suffered from acute mental illness.The official name of this acute mental illness is "alcoholic madness". People suffering from this disease are more terrifying than ordinary mania. It has intermittent attacks-whenever the alcohol in the body accumulates to a certain level, a People who are usually very normal and rational will suddenly become crazy, completely defenseless, and behave weirdly, which is completely different from this person's usual behavior.That is the result of alcohol completely destroying the normal functioning of the human brain and causing people to completely change their behavior. The captain's first bout of alcoholism occurred on board the ship, exactly on the fortieth day of the eighty-day voyage, when he suddenly had a violent fight with two sailors who also drank, and his nose was bruised and his face was bruised. The doctor on board had diagnosed excessive alcoholism, so he strictly prohibited alcohol, but only for two days, he did not know where to get a large bottle of vodka, poured it into his belly, and "give a speech" in the restaurant with a flushed face , rough language, heard even the most uneducated people can not stand, a few gentlemen stood up to stop, the captain fought with the people again. After he sobered up, he vaguely knew what had happened. He was extremely depressed, and he didn't know how to apologize to others. He locked himself in the captain's cabin for two full days. Of course, it was a vicious circle——in such a situation Now, he needs the stimulation of alcohol even more, so he has the third episode of alcoholism. This time, he went so far as to insist that the two gorgeous female passengers were prostitutes and that he was going to throw them off the ship. At that time, the ship had just left Singapore and was sailing on the vast ocean. When he was mad, he did not forget that he was the captain and fully exercised his captain's authority.As for the two women he accused, one has the title of baroness and the other is a famous female fashion designer. This matter developed to the point where the captain grabbed the fashion designer by the hair, broke the glass, and forced the female designer out of the window—of course, he was subdued again, and this time he was not treated as the captain. He was monitored by several able-bodied crew members in turn, and he was not allowed to step out of the captain's cabin. After discussing with the two doctors on board, he was still provided with alcohol, but he was not allowed to get drunk and let him have contact with others. Alcoholism naturally had to harm himself. After the meeting, the senior crew asked the head office for instructions. Since Hasan was not around and the captain was a very senior person, the head office had no idea. They just instructed: When they arrive at the next port, ask him to go ashore, and the first officer will act as the captain. position. Look, the story goes back and forth, and it comes back again. The next port is the city where I live forever. It’s not that the captain immediately connected with the story line as soon as he landed. There is a branch of the shipping company in this city, and the person in charge of the branch naturally doesn’t know why the captain became like this. Not daring to be negligent, he pulled out a small bungalow where the company entertained guests and gave him a driver and servant.The captain simply drank heavily for seven or eight days, and drank until he was dark. Then, he felt that drinking alone was very boring, so every day he went to a club for senior seamen to drink for entertainment. In that club, there are almost all kinds of pastimes, but the purpose of the captain's going there is naturally only for drinking.Some people with a good capacity for alcohol accompanied him to drink, and they were all in the same company. The topic was speculative, and the wine was naturally very enjoyable. I don't care. That afternoon, as usual, the captain drank with several people in a living room of the club with a glass in hand.The layout of the living room is very classic, the sofas are all hard leather, the kind nailed with copper nails, so smooth that it can be used as a mirror to shave. I don't know how it started. First, three people came in. Obviously, among the three people, two of them were constantly ingratiating themselves with the other person. People living on the sea wear casual clothes, but they are proud and speak loudly. As soon as they come, they tell the bartender: "Bring the best wine! If you want the best woman, where should you find it?" The bartender lazily agreed, but did not take any action. The other two glared at the bartender: "Did you hear that, go quickly, bring the best wine, ask for the best!" The bartender is an old man in his sixties. He has served in this club for more than thirty years. He has never seen any kind of battle. He rolled his eyes upwards, and he did not look at the three people, but looked at the captain: " Captain, do you want any more wine? Here, we always say please first, right?" The captain also looked at the disgust of those three people, and laughed out loud when he heard the bartender say this. The three people were furious immediately, and their faces were flushed. One of them raised his fist and wanted to hit the bartender, but seeing at least seven or eight pairs of angry eyes shot at him, he didn't dare to act rashly. The captain is not very drunk here yet, so he doesn't want to make a big deal, he waved his hand: "You find another place to drink bars, this time is not suitable for you." The first person who asked for a drink was still unconvinced: "Why? We will have money soon—" Speaking of this, he suddenly got a little angry and changed his words. Even the bartender couldn't help laughing. Anyone can tell the difference between "have money" and "soon to have money."After laughing, the bartender even sighed and shook his head in sympathy. The man's face became even redder, and he waved his hands vigorously, announcing: "At most three days, we can pick up that sunken ship." A person sitting in the corner said in a very impolite tone: "Oh, the three of you are here to salvage the sunken ship?" The person patted his chest: "Why, isn't that a sailor?" A few people yawned loudly, and another person said: "Only members can pay. As far as I know, the best wine here is worth more than five thousand dollars per bottle. Please pay in cash for the three of you. How many bottles?" The man's face was extremely ugly, but he was still very confident, and said with a "hum": "In three days, the wealth in the shipwreck will allow me to buy the entire club!" Seeing his affirmation in his expression and tone, the group of people stopped making fun of him and looked at each other. They are all very experienced sailors, so naturally they pay great attention to all sea activities, but at this moment, looking at them The look on his face obviously didn't know that there was any large-scale salvage work going on in the nearby waters. All navigators have a special sensitivity to shipwrecks.Every navigator knows that no matter how safe and strong the ship is made by modern technology, in fact, any ship sailing on the sea, in the unpredictable sea, may become a shipwreck at any time—naturally, then It also represents the life of every navigator, who may be swallowed by the sea at any time. That's not alarmist. Nuclear-powered submarines should be the pinnacle of human shipbuilding technology, right?However, in the past thirty years, more than ten submarines have been sunk in the bottom of the bottom of the bottom of the sea, and there will never be a chance to see the sun again. In addition, the treasures on the sunken ship are also very touching. If a sunken ship is salvaged and there are valuable treasures on board, it will naturally make people suddenly rich. Because of these two points of attraction, there was a short silence in the living room.Then, a person asked: "Is there someone salvaging the sunken ship nearby? It seems that I haven't heard anything?" As soon as this person said these words, the expressions of the three people who came in rashly changed suddenly.At first, it could be seen that they were already a little drunk when they clamored for the best wine. (Who would call out the nonsense of "bring the best wine" if you are not a little bit drunk?) At this time, it seemed that their drunkenness had subsided, and they were even a little flustered. The three of them said in unison: "No, no, of course no one is salvaging any sunken ships nearby!" The three people changed their words suddenly, which surprised others. Not only did they deny it, but they didn't want to stay any longer, they turned around and walked outside. As soon as the three of them went out, two of them followed suit as if on a whim. go outside. At this moment, the captain suddenly shouted: "Stop! Don't go out and ask them about the sunken ship!" Those two were stopped by the captain at the door, looking very embarrassed. It seemed that they were going to ask the three people about the sinking of the ship. They looked at the captain together, and the captain drank the wine in the glass in one gulp. Then, he laughed loudly for about ten seconds before saying: "Go out and ask, these three guys must have kept secrets at first, and then reluctantly revealed that they saw gold nuggets in the sunken ship they found on the bottom of the sea. I'm afraid there are 80 tons, but they don't have the capital to invest in salvage—" When the captain said this, the rest of the people also understood what the captain wanted to express, and laughed too. The two people at the door also shrugged and smiled: "If we invest, we will never have the chance to see the gold, will we?" The captain yawned, poured wine into the glass, and said: "Yes, this kind of trick has been played for centuries. I can't imagine that there are still people playing it now, and there are almost some people who are going to be fooled." The two people at the door were flushed and walked back awkwardly. One of them, who was younger, was a little uneasy, and said in a low voice, "Maybe it's true, maybe it's not." Unexpectedly, it was just such a sentence, but it angered the captain—the captain’s mental state was really in a very terrible situation, and his action was so violent that it was beyond imagination. He suddenly roared and jumped up. stand up.With a glass of wine in his hand, he even threw the glass at the man. The man never expected such an accident to happen. With a bang, the glass shattered on his forehead, and a small amount of blood flowed out. The wine in the cup also spilled on his head and face. The captain's next snarl was shocking even to the navigator who used to talkative, and he cursed: "You bloody bitch, don't believe me, just go find those three sons of a bitch, Look at the money in your pocket...is it suitable...just go, the ones who don't go are..." This series of "..." should be explained, just like the abridged version of "Jie Ben Jin Ping Mei", it is all deleted swear words. The man had been scolded for no reason, was injured again, and was drenched in wine, frozen there, not knowing what to do, and the rest of the people would never have expected such a thing to happen.For a moment, he was also terrified. However, the captain still refused to stop there. He picked up the wine bottle, raised his hand, and the bottle smashed on a table and shattered. past! If I hadn't happened to appear at this time, I believe the captain would have to spend the rest of his life in a madhouse.