Chapter 13 Chapter 12: The Beginning of the Peach Blossom Water Spring

I leaned against the bar cabinet and looked around to see if Dabao was nearby.There were a lot of people by the swimming pool, and Dabao's blond hair was very easy to identify. If he was within sight, I would definitely be able to see him. I looked at it for a few minutes, and the phone on the bar cabinet rang. The bartender picked up the phone, listened to it, showed a strange expression, and handed the phone to Bai Su. I immediately leaned over, Bai Su's expression was also a little nervous, we immediately heard Dabao's voice: "Both of you, you can be said to be the most eventful people in the world."

Bai Su said calmly: "Don't criticize us yet, please show up and talk to us, otherwise—" Dabao interrupted her: "I'm not going to meet you alone, please follow the directions on the map and come to Palataka." I yelled, "What the hell is that place?" Dabao said: "It's very far away and difficult to reach, but you must come. The place is in the central part of Brazil, and you have to go through some virgin forests and many Indian villages. If you don't want to come, then forget it." .” I made a fierce voice: "Hmph, Dabao, your secret—"

Dabao interrupted me again: "You may already know most of the facts, but you must understand that this does not pose any threat to us, and it is useless to scare us." I said: "It's useless? Otherwise, you will call us?" Dabao sighed: "You don't understand, you really don't understand at all, we are completely two types of people—" I said "Aha": "That's right, I don't have chlorophyll in my body, and I'm not afraid to do the lime water test." As soon as Bai Su heard me say this, she hurriedly whispered in my ear: "Wei, don't say that!"

Dabao was on the other side of the phone, and after a moment of silence, he said, "I personally never advocate meeting you. Anyway, no matter how you announce your discovery, no one will believe you. Think about it yourself, who will believe that you discovered it?" The second type of person?" I couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva.Yes, even if I knew all the secrets of the second type of person and announced it, who would believe it?That is to say, my threats are actually useless. And under such circumstances, Dabao still contacted us, so it can be seen that he has no malicious intentions.

For a while, I couldn't help but be speechless. Dabao's voice sounded again: "My personal proposition is to ignore you completely, but the results of the vote, the majority of people, expressed their willingness to talk to you, Mr. Wei, if you want to see us, then please stop making boring threats , come to the place we appointed." Bai Su said in a deep voice: "There, all of you will meet us?" Dabao didn't answer any more, just let out a muffled snort!And, immediately hung up the phone.I hurriedly pressed the switch, answered the switchboard, and asked where the call was coming from.When the switchboard told me that the call was coming from a room in the hotel, I almost knocked four or five people down, rushed back to the hotel, got on the elevator, ran to the door of the room, saw the door was wide open, and the service Sheng was tidying up the room, but Dabao was gone.

When I was depressed, Bai Su also came, she looked at me, shook her head with a smile that was not a smile. I knew she was mocking my foolishness, so I could only laugh at myself: "I hope I can catch him." I said while waving my hands, Bai Su said: "You forgot, even if you are face to face with him, if he wants to leave, he still has his ability." I have to admit the fact that they seem to have a knack for disappearing fast.It seems that if you want to know more about this second type of people, you have to go to that ghost place called Palataka! Back in my room, I opened the map. There are detailed travel routes on the map, and there are a few lines of notes, suggesting that we should bring more equipment for passing through the virgin forest.

Both Bai Su and I know that Dabao once said that he had to "pass through some primeval forests" to go to that place, and he downplayed it, which may include unknown dangers. Therefore, we did not dare to underestimate Dabao's proposal. We spent two days preparing and then set off. Bai Su and I are no strangers to the forests of South America. We have entered the forests many times, but every time we pass through different places, the encounters are naturally different. However, it doesn't make much sense to describe what happened on the road.Palataka is a small place, and the virgin forests that pass through are not "a few"—it stretches for hundreds of kilometers.

When we went through all kinds of hardships and finally arrived at Palataka, it felt like a world away.The small town is populated by Indians. As soon as we arrived, a woman in traditional local clothes greeted us: "Mr. Dabao said, you should have arrived five days ago." I snorted: "There was a little accident, and I was delayed for some time." The "little accident" that I have lightly described, including me and Bai Su, both stepped into a swamp, if there was not a dead vine just within reach, it would have been buried long ago, and that night, we were killed by a group of carnivores. Surrounded by flies, almost turned into two sets of bones and so on.

The woman said again: "Please go through the town and go forward, you will see a river, he is waiting for you by the river." I said "oh", the woman looked me and Bai Su up and down: "Don't take a bath in the river!" She probably saw that the two of us were too dirty, so she issued such a warning. Of course, I know that her warning is not a threat. There are probably piranhas with extremely sharp teeth in the river. After the woman finished speaking, she walked away on her own.I smiled bitterly and said, "It seems that the place where they live together is even more remote."

Bai Su said: "Of course." I shook my head: "Their number will not be small, how can they live on the earth without being discovered?" Bai Su suddenly laughed, and I stared at her, she said: "Your words remind me of a nouveau riche who bought a high-magnification telescope, thinking about the story of the astronauts on the moon." I snorted: "It's not funny at all." After passing the small town, and passing through a field, you can see high mountain peaks in front of you, and the peaks are still covered with white snow. After a while, you will reach the river. Once you reach the river, you can see the grass, A canoe came out.

The shape of that boat looks like a canoe, but it is obviously equipped with extremely advanced power equipment. We also saw that the man who steered the boat forward at the stern had blond hair and the sun shone on his face. It turns out that that person is Dabao. The boat quickly approached the shore, Dabao made a gesture to us, and Bai Su and I jumped onto the boat lightly, Dabao smiled at us, thinking of the experience of the past ten days, I couldn't help feeling angry: "You turn back Quickly." Dabao's smile is very cute: "Don't forget that half of our inheritance is plants. It is easier to pass through the primeval forest than yours." I snorted, "Yes, flesh-eating flies don't eat wood." Dabao actually had a great sense of humor: "Yes, our meat has thick and hard fibers, so it's not tasty." I was amused by his words, the boat sailed forward rapidly, and the sun was shining brightly. I stared at Dabao intently, looked at him, and wanted to see the difference between him and us in appearance.But by the looks of it, he's also a handsome blond European, not at all different. Dabao obviously also saw me looking at him: "In appearance, we are not different." I spread my hands: "But internally, we are two completely different creatures." Dabao said: "Yes, the inside is completely different, including physiological organization and thought form." I couldn't help being curious, and pointed at his chest: "You...don't have a heart?" Dabao smiled and said, "Of course." I said, "Then—" Dabao said: "Our appearance, like yours, is all adapted to the living environment of the earth and evolved over hundreds of millions of years. Since the living environment on the earth is like this, it will naturally not change. It is like every soap The bubbles are all round, because under the influence of the pressure of the air and the surface tension of the soap bubbles, the soap bubbles cannot be square or triangular.” I understood that the soap bubbles must be circular, and reached When Bao said this, it perfectly explained the deep relationship between the environment and the appearance of creatures. Bai Su said: "But you just mentioned the internal physiological organization—" Dabao said: "The most fundamental tissue is the cell. Our cells are different from your cells. They have the dual characteristics of animals and plants, but the organs composed of many fine cannons have the same appearance." I said "Oh": "It's like a boat, made of wood or fiberglass, the shape is the same, but the material is different." Dabao smiled: "It's a very appropriate metaphor." I said again: "But the difference in ideological form—" After Dabao saw us, he always had a smile on his face, but at this moment, as soon as he heard me mentioning this question, he showed a bitter look, and after a while, he said: "This question, I am now If I explain it to you, it's hard for you to understand—" He paused for another moment before he said, "What about after you arrive at your destination?" Although I was puzzled, Dabao acted very sincerely as soon as he showed up. I really had no reason to force him, so I just nodded in agreement.There are too many questions in my mind. He doesn't want to answer one question for the time being, but the second question has already been blurted out: "Does each of you have an avatar?" Dabao laughed "haha": "This is our method of reproduction. Originally, you knew nothing about this method of reproduction, but someone finally researched it. Dr. Single Phase is one of the outstanding figures among you." , and Dr. Hu Gao from the United States—” Bai Su said "ah": "Asexual reproduction method!" Dabao said: "Yes. First you discovered the asexual reproduction method of plants. Now, it has advanced to the asexual reproduction method of animals. Cultivating a cell can achieve the purpose of another complete and complex life." Bai Su and I looked at each other, and each took a deep breath involuntarily.The two of us, at the same time, thought of those "strange plants" in Dabao's greenhouse. Impatient, I asked first: "In your greenhouse, there is a nursery with four—" Dabao corrected me: "There are four, not four." I took another breath and wanted to ask something, but because of the shock in my heart, I couldn't ask. Dabao said: "That is the result of a single cell taken from my body and cultivated for four months." I cried out: "God, they...they... are not plants, they are babies!" Dabao sighed softly: "You are still too clear about the boundaries of life. Plants and babies are both life. I have already told you that you still don't understand." I was sweating involuntarily, and I wiped it with my hand: "Then, I took off one of them——" Dabao said: "That life was destroyed by me. In fact, because I was in a hurry to leave, all three lives were destroyed by me. You don't have to blame yourself." I moaned like: "God, but they...have roots, in the dirt, they..." As I said that, I couldn't help but look under Dabao's feet to see if there were roots growing under his feet. Seeing my strange expression and movements, Dabao burst out laughing "haha": "During the development of the embryo, in the early stage, our embryo has obvious vegetable nature. This is like your embryo, which has a tail in the early stage, almost It’s like disappearing after a month, you want to find the root under my feet, just like I want to find the tail behind you, of course you have to be disappointed.” I forced a smile, but in my heart, I didn't think it was funny at all.A completely different form of life, which is an extremely mind-bending thing. Bai Su frowned: "People - the way we reproduce is to produce one or more completely different people. In terms of appearance and thinking, the previous generation and the next generation may be somewhat the same, but they will never Exactly the same. The previous generation of you and the next generation are exactly the same in shape, way of thinking—” Dabao looked at the water splashing from the stern: "This question involves a wide range of issues, just like Mr. Wei's question just now. I think it's better to wait until the right time to explain it to you." I don't know why, and Bai Su obviously doesn't know why, why Dabao is unwilling to answer immediately when he comes into contact with the aspect of thinking.I had no choice but to ask again: "Why did you disappear so quickly? I clearly heard that you were talking half a minute ago, but suddenly disappeared. How did you disappear—" Dabao smiled and said: "It didn't disappear at all. It was a kind of camouflage. We were squatting right in front of the bushes, which looked the same as the bushes—" I said loudly: "Impossible, no matter how much a person pretends to be, he won't look like a tree—" But halfway through my speech, I stopped suddenly.That kind of statement is just for us, they are different, half of them are plants, I have seen in the greenhouse, they are mixed among the plants, just like the scene of plants, even the color is the same. Thinking of this, I had no choice but to sigh and stop talking. At this time, the boat had turned into a tributary, which was far away from the mountain. The tributary was a mountain stream, and the current was very fast. The boat went upstream without slowing down at all. I looked forward, and the majestic mountain peak was right in front of me, and the boat was clearly going to follow the mountain stream and drive straight to the mountain.I said, "You have always lived in such a hidden place?" Dabao said: "Yes, it has been like this ever since we failed and knew there was no chance of victory." I was puzzled to hear: "Failure? What failure?" Dabao stared at me for a while, and then said: "You will always understand—" After he said such a sentence, he suddenly changed the subject: "There is a record in China, which is called the record of the beginning of Taohuashuiquan. Of course you know it." Seeing that he avoided answering again, I felt angry: "Where does the Peach Blossom Water Spring begin, I've never heard of it." As soon as Dabao heard my answer like this, he showed an extremely surprised expression, Bai Su touched me lightly, and said in a low voice: "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring." I couldn't help being annoyed and funny: "Oh, Peach Blossom Spring, I'm sorry, there is such a record, a famous writer wrote about an ideal society that he thought was pure imagination." Dabao looked at me: "No one has ever thought that this record is true?" I stared: "Of course someone thought about it, but I can't find that place. Many people have tried to find it, but failed. 'The one who doesn't care about it', do you understand the meaning of this sentence?" Dabao said: "Of course I understand. No one will look for it again—this record has been passed down for thousands of years. The strange thing is that there is a problem in it that you have never looked into." I wanted to speak, but Bai Su lightly touched me again: "Excuse me, what's the question?" She asked very modestly and didn't let me speak, mostly because she was afraid that I would ask some stupid questions. Dabao said: "According to records, several families hid in that place and lived there. If this is the case, long-term inbreeding will turn the offspring into idiots. There is no such thing as an ideal society." Word." My eyes widened, what kind of question is this, I almost wanted to blurt out this sentence, but I held back, because in an instant, I thought of the question raised by Dabao, indeed Very serious.Those people in Taohuayuan, the earliest blood relationship is simple, unless they don't get married and have children, otherwise, the next generation is inevitable, all of them are close blood interbreeding, what kind of consequences will be produced in the future, the medical science has long been conclusive. Why did Dabao suddenly raise such a question?I was still thinking about it, but Bai Su said, "You mean, that group of people are the same as you..." I almost jumped up: "The group of people in that hidden place, they...they..." Dabao said: "Yes, just like we live in the mountains now." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed forward.I was out of my mind when I spoke just now, and I didn't pay attention to the environment outside me at all. When he stretched out his hand and I looked up, I was surprised. The boat is still going upstream in the rapids of the mountain stream, but the mountain stream has become very narrow and the water is more urgent. The towering cliffs on both sides are right in front of you, so close that you can almost touch it with your hands. And just when I was surprised, the boat turned sharply and rushed into a waterfall. The speed of the boat was so fast that our bodies were not wet at all. As soon as I rushed into the waterfall, it was a big cave, quite dark, with the sound of the water, and the boat was still moving forward. I didn't know what to say. Bai Su approached me and whispered in my ear: "Jin Taiyuan A native of Wuling, fishing for a living—" I really don't know whether to be angry or laugh, Bai Su seems to be in a much more relaxed mood than me. After sailing for about ten minutes, it suddenly became clear to the eyes, the water of the mountain stream was no longer so turbulent, and it became a river again, surrounded by high peaks, and it was a small valley. On the flat ground of the small valley, along the river, there are many very elegant houses, the highest of which is only three stories high, some are large and some are small, and in front of the largest building is a very flat building. The square, the center of the square, is a huge fountain. I have never seen such a magnificent fountain. The main spring is 30 meters high, thick enough to hug, and the sound of the water is booming. When it is sprinkled, the pool under the fountain splashes countless water. , Illusion one small rainbow after another, which is extremely beautiful. Beside the big fountain, there are many small fountains, each with a height of ten meters.The most wonderful thing is that on top of each fountain, there is a plant like water lily.The force must have been precisely calculated, and the plants spread their branches and leaves on the top of the fountain, swaying with the tremor of the fountain, but they did not fall down. The roots of the plants, just inside the fountain, seem thin and long, extremely white, and hang down all the time.I have never seen this way of using water from a fountain to grow plants in "hydroponics". The entire small valley is extremely quiet and peaceful.Both Bai Su and I took a deep breath involuntarily.In an instant, we all had the same feeling in our hearts: if there is a paradise in the world, then this is it. There are many places with beautiful scenery in the world, and I have been to many places, but there has never been a place that makes me feel so comfortable and relaxed.Bai Su and I looked at each other, and then at Dabao. Dabao was also looking at us, I said, "Here—" Dabao said: "This is our place for the time being, we don't know when we will lose it." I could hear that Dabao's words were full of sentimentality, or in other words, a kind of extreme helplessness.Bai Su hurriedly said: "How could it be, this place is so beautiful." Dabao's expression was somewhat bitter. He looked at the rainbow shadow created by the fountain: "The Marco Polo Bridge in China is not beautiful, but the artillery fire of the invaders started from there." Bai Su and I were stunned for a while, and for a while, I couldn't figure out why Dabao made such a metaphor.After Dabao said this, he slowed down the speed of the boat, and soon stopped on a pier, and made a gesture of please go ashore. Bai Su and I went ashore, and the surroundings were extremely quiet, except for the sound of water from the fountain, there were almost no other sounds.At this time, although my mood was in a very comfortable situation, I was somewhat puzzled.Because I am in an extremely strange, even unimaginable environment, what will happen next is completely unpredictable. In order to make the atmosphere more relaxed, as soon as I landed, I smiled and said to Dabao: "I thought there would be a grand welcome." Dabao smiled wryly: "No. In fact, there was an extremely fierce debate about whether to let you come here. Only a very small majority agreed, and I personally opposed it, but the minority obeyed the majority. between us." I spread my hands and said, "Why? So we are saboteurs?" Dabao glanced at me, hesitant to speak, Bai Su said: "It doesn't matter, what do you want to say, just say it." Dabao turned his head away: "Not only you, but all of you." His words were quite vague, and I wanted to ask again, but Bai Su lightly touched me and refused to let me speak.Dabao said again: "Please follow me." Bai Su and I followed him forward, Bai Su whispered: "They, I mean, their kind of people, they all regard us as their enemies." I nodded and understood that in what Dabao said just now, the first "you" refers to me and Bai Su, and the second "you" refers to everyone. Bai Su paused: "Perhaps it can also be said that if we confront them, they must not be opponents." I frowned and looked at Bai Su.Bai Su sighed suddenly, and almost at the same time, Da Bao, who was walking in front of us, obviously heard Bai Su's words, also sighed. This means that both of them, almost at the same time, thought of the same thing that made them sigh, but I don't know why they sighed. I cast a questioning look at Bai Su, but Bai Su didn't respond at all.At this moment, a few people walked out of a building.I think they are all acquaintances.Okun walked in the front, followed by Berlioz, Vince, Lennon, and the last one, as soon as he got out of the building, opened his mouth, laughed, and walked towards me. The last, but the fastest.Although I knew that this person was here, I was surprised to see him as soon as I arrived. He was none other than Captain Mackey. Markey's expression, which looked extremely happy and flushed, was very similar to the way I saw him when I first met him, drunk on the street, and when I saw him again, in the detention center. Completely changed a person. He smiled and ran towards me, and when he came in front of me, he held my hand vigorously and shook it: "Unexpected?" He said, looking at Bai Su: "I also have unexpected things, unexpected things like you The boy's wife is so beautiful!" Infected by his happy mood, I punched him on the shoulder: "When did you become glib?" After saying this, I lowered my voice: "Markey, your How's the situation?" No matter how happy he looked, Markey was always captured by "them" when he came here, and I couldn't help but ask this question out of concern for him. After hearing this, Markey still smiled at Joe: "You don't have to lower your voice when you speak here. I'm fine, fine. I've never been so fine in my life. This is better than I could have imagined before." He has repeatedly emphasized that he is very good now, and it seems that his happiness from the heart is by no means pretending. I really have no reason to doubt it.He turned to Bai Su again, held Bai Su's hand, and kissed the back of Bai Su's hand.Ao Kun and the others looked at him with smiles. I have been hostile to Okun since the first time I saw him, and the scene at the airport was even more unpleasant, but at this time, his smile was definitely not fake, he walked towards me first , stretched out his hand.I shook hands with him: "I'm so sorry I made you relinquish your position as vice president." Aokun said with a smile: "What is that, don't mention it again, come on, please come in and read it." Under their leadership, Bai Su and I entered the building, which was very elegant and comfortable, passed through a hall, and entered a large room like a meeting room. There are plants everywhere in the building.I say that the big room is "like a meeting room" because usually, the atmosphere of the meeting room is more or less serious and debatable, but when you enter this big room, you never feel that way. It makes people feel extremely harmonious, like here, there will be no problems that cannot be solved at all. There were already seven or eight people in the room, and when they saw us entering, they all stood up, and Okun raised his voice: "Everyone, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley!" He said, applauding first, and everyone in the room applauded too. .Okun then introduced their names one by one. I don't list their names one by one, that's meaningless.And at this time, I also knew that the people in this room looked exactly the same as us, but they were another kind of people, completely different from us. Under such circumstances, normally, I should be extremely defensive, but at the time, I didn't feel that way at all, just like being in a group of old friends I haven't seen for many years.At first, I thought, maybe it was because of the sincerity and kindness on the faces of these people.But I immediately denied myself this idea.In anyone's life, he can meet someone with a kind and sincere expression on his face, and almost anyone will have the experience of being stabbed in the back by someone with such an expression.My complete unguardedness was for another reason entirely.At that time, I couldn't tell why, but I just felt that since my mood was so relaxed, why should I be on guard? Everyone exchanged greetings and sat down. Someone brought an extremely sweet and delicious drink and pots of sweet snacks. Ao Kun first said: "Mr. Wei and Mrs. Wei, for who are we? It's pretty well understood—" Bai Su said: "No, actually I don't know anything about it. Everything is just our speculation. Mr. Dabao told us a little bit, but we can't say that we understand it thoroughly." Okun was silent for a while: "We have decided to invite you to come, and we have also decided not to keep any secrets from you two." I said, "Thank you for your trust in our couple." Ao Kun waved his hand: "We are very willing to trust anyone. Although we have suffered countless losses because of this, and are even on the verge of total annihilation, we are still willing to trust the two of you, absolutely willing." I wanted to say a few polite words at first, but I was afraid of making mistakes again, so I thought it would be better to let Bai Su say it better, but Bai Su didn't say anything, but just sighed lightly. Okun took a sip of that drink: "We are another kind of human beings, the earliest advanced creatures that appeared on the earth. When we evolved to be almost the same as now, there were various animals and plants on the earth, but humans Far from appearing, only some mammals can be called advanced creatures—" When I heard this, I couldn't help standing up immediately, waving my hands, and wanted to say something, but I didn't know what to say.Bai Su was by my side, pulled me gently, and I had no choice but to sit down again: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you, but I was too surprised." Ao Kun said: "I can't blame you, because people on the earth always thought that there was only one kind of people. They didn't know that there was another kind of people long before they evolved into adults." I muttered, as if I was dreaming: "How did you... evolve?" Ao Kun smiled wryly: "It is impossible to know how the evolution process is, just like you pure animal people don't know how to evolve into adults. What's more, our culture has developed to the most splendid period because of the pure animal people. appeared, but suffered catastrophe continuously, so that many cultural achievements have long been lost and cannot be traced.” I patted on the head vigorously, and gulped down the drink that felt refreshing: "In this way, you are not able to adapt to the environment—" Okun shook his head and said, "No." After he denied it, he paused for a moment before saying again: "Please listen to me to give the simplest step-by-step narration, okay?" I just nodded and agreed. Ao Kun touched the table lightly with his fingers: "In fact, we are very adaptable to the natural environment of the earth. The climate of the earth is very suitable for us. We are not afraid of the cold - our appearance is exactly the same as yours, even if we dissect it , can’t tell the difference, the difference is the cell structure, which can only be seen under a microscope. Of course, our cell structure retains the characteristics of some plants, has chlorophyll, can produce vitamin C by itself, The reverse cycle of respiration, the alternation of oxygen and carbon dioxide, etc., but these cannot be distinguished externally."