Chapter 9 Chapter 8 Convinced to break through the time limit

I must have looked very ugly at the time. I originally wanted to have a big blowout.But when I think of Kang Si trusting me so much, naturally I can't get angry.I spread my hands: "The only way now is to wait for Wang Jufeng and Rainbow to reappear automatically!" Kang Si asked in surprise, "Don't you intend to do something for your own destiny at all?" I said: "I did. Gu Ang suddenly disappeared after calling me loudly. He was sitting in that easy chair at that time. I also sat in that chair for a long time, hoping that I would disappear too, but in the end, I Still there."

Kang Si said: "Are you going to sit on that chair and wait?" There was obvious sarcasm in Kang Si's words, and I also felt that if I sat on that chair and waited, it would be a very ridiculous thing, and I should take some active actions. After staying for a while, I sighed: "I want all the information about the Grand Duke's Castle. There are not many such information outside, I believe you can arrange it!" Kang Si said: "Of course, we are a small country, and there are not many things worth preserving, so we have the habit of preserving everything. Our information on the Grand Duke's Castle is extremely rich, and I happen to be the person in charge of the Cultural Relics Preservation Committee , you can read it as you please."

I took a breath: "Also, please don't forget that there are two people missing in the Grand Duke's Castle, you have to do everything possible to find them out!" Kang Si said: "Of course—" He stopped for a while and looked at me: "How many days do you think it will take you?" I said: "I can't estimate it. I don't know how much information there is, and I don't know if I can find something in the information." Kang Si rubbed his hands, thinking: "Well, I can give you a month, no more!" I smiled wryly, and I understood what Kang Si meant, if after a month, I still haven't found a way to save myself, then I will be tried for murder under the circumstances of conclusive evidence!However, I don't care about this point, I just think, after one month, if Wang Jufeng and Rainbow don't show up again, then the two of them must be in dire straits!

At the moment, I just murmured: "One month!" Kang Si said again: "During this month, Mr. Wei, I'm sorry, but you can't leave the reference room. We will take good care of your life, but please cooperate!" I blinked, then nodded and agreed, "That's not a problem, but I would like to make a long distance call with my wife to talk about my current situation!" Kang Si was very forthright, and immediately agreed: "It will never be a problem, I sincerely welcome your Madam to visit our country." I secretly smiled in my heart, it is of course best for Kang Si to have such an attitude.Because I can be sure that Bai Su knows my situation and will definitely come to meet me. If she is refused entry, even though she is usually very quiet, if she wants to cause trouble, it is far worse than Rainbow!

Of course, I didn't say this to Kang Si, I just said calmly: "She will definitely come!" Kang Si said: "You can go to my office and make a phone call!" Fifteen minutes later, he entered Kangsi's office. Kangsi's office is actually worth describing, because he has many duties in his body, and his office is also extremely special.But since that has nothing to do with the story directly, I won't waste more words. In Kang Si's office, I made a phone call with Bai Su and briefly told her about some of my experiences. I only spoke very simply. Sure enough, even though I spoke very simply, Bai Su only heard half of it, and said: "I'll come right away!"

I said: "Okay, you come, Mr. Kang Si from the Ministry of the Interior, the Prosecutor's Office, and the Cultural Relics Preservation Association will bring you to see me!" Then, I briefly finished talking about the matter, put down the phone, and took a breath: "I should start acting now!" Kang Ke is a busy man. During my call, in less than ten minutes, I saw that he listened to at least a dozen calls, dispatched six visitors, and issued work instructions to more than a dozen subordinates.But despite his busy schedule, he accompanied me to the data storage room. The place where the materials are stored has a rather formal name called the "National Museum of Historical Materials".It was a rather dilapidated building.Although old, it is surprisingly large. Inside the brown-gray walls, each room has an area of ​​at least one hundred square meters. I estimate that there are more than thirty such rooms.

There are only three employees in the entire museum. Although it is called a "museum", the documents and records stored are very messy, and there is no scientific classification and numbering method. One of the employees took me and Koji to the second floor: "Dr. He is one of the most outstanding figures in history, and we have kept the most information about him and the Grand Duke’s Castle, here, rooms No. 1 to No. 6 are all relevant information!" As the clerk said that, he pushed open the door of Room No. 1. I looked inside, and I couldn't help but gasp, and I understood why Kang Si was so generous and gave me as much as a month!

The room of one hundred square meters is full of old-fashioned wooden shelves and wooden cabinets, and the wooden shelves are full of folders—all of which use two thin wooden boards as clips. Those thin wooden boards themselves, They may also be antiques, dark in color, and some are engraved with patterns.There are a total of six rooms of materials, that is to say, I have to read a room full of materials within five days, which is really very hard work. I had no choice but to smile wryly at the time, and I wasn't worried, because it was estimated that Bai Su would arrive in three days, and the two of them worked together, and the progress could be doubled!I just said: "I hope there are no big problems in terms of writing."

The clerk said: "French and Spanish, some are recorded in German, and a small part is the ancient language of Luxembourg. That is only a very small part, and even we don't know what it records!" I said: "Okay, thank you, Mr. Kang Si said, within a month, I have to work around the clock, about three days later, my wife will come, have you arranged a place for us?" The clerk looked at Kang Si with a very strange expression, and Kang Si said: "I will send someone to clean up a utility room right away, so I have to wrong you for the time being!" I murmured: "Anyway, it's better than detention centers and prisons!"

Kang Si heard my words clearly and made a grimace, but the clerk didn't hear clearly, and still had a bewildered expression.I moved over a chair, stood on it, and took off the first thick folder from the top of the first wooden shelf, and started my first step in understanding the work of Grand Duke Baoneng and the Grand Duke’s Castle.Kang Si waited for me for about ten minutes, promising to contact me as soon as there was news about Rainbow and Wang Jufeng, and then left. I closed the door of the room, and the environment was very quiet. If you intend to do research work, then you can say that you have entered a huge treasure house.I want to find the answer to a mysterious question among these many materials. I am not even sure whether my efforts will have results, so I have to do my best.Under such circumstances, flipping through the yellowed paper and looking at the words that are still written with a quill pen, I feel extremely sullen.

For the next three days, I hardly rested, and kept reading various documents, which were all extremely trivial records, and everything about Grand Duke Baoneng was written down, which was meaningless at all. Kang Si came to see me once a day, and the room he prepared for me was also quite comfortable. Even in my dreams, I saw crooked words dancing in front of me.Every time Kang Si came, I asked him if there was any whereabouts of Wang Jufeng and Rainbow, and the answer was always "no".My heart is getting more and more anxious, because the two of them have been missing for more than a week!At dusk on the fourth day, as I had done in the past three days, when I was burying my head in the pile of old papers, the door opened, and Kang Si yelled, "Look who's here?" When I looked up, I saw Bai Su.Bai Su hurried towards me: "Are they still missing?" The "they" that Bai Su refers to, of course, refers to Wang Jufeng and Rainbow. I smiled wryly, and without waiting for my answer, Bai Su said loudly: "They disappeared in the old castle. You can't go to the old castle to find them." What are they doing hiding here?" I hastily said: "You listen to me first and then tell me what happened. You don't understand what happened, so how can you blame me indiscriminately?" Bai Su frowned, Kang Si moved a chair and let her sit down.I said to Kang Si: "Go and do your work, I believe the two of us can handle any difficulties!" Kang Si nodded, bowed to Bai Su again, and walked out.I closed the door and explained everything that happened in detail. Bai Su has an excellent habit, that is, when she is listening to someone narrating something, she seldom interrupts, so I can finish the whole thing in one breath. After I finished speaking, Bai Su stood up, paced back and forth between the wooden shelf and the wooden cabinet: "During the whole thing, you made the biggest mistake, that is, you didn't believe Wang Jufeng's words!" I stared, but Bai Su didn't let me speak, and said again: "Rainbow believed Wang Jufeng immediately, why didn't you believe it? The two of them are in the 'past' now!" I just said: "Listen to yourself, 'they are now in the past', does it make sense?" Bai Su said: "That can't be blamed on me, it can only be blamed on the inability of human vocabulary to express things that humans don't understand." I stood up straight: "You believe Wang Jufeng's words without reservation? He has been to the 'past' and returned?" Bai Su said with certainty: "Yes! The only thing that can explain all kinds of strange things, you see, some things disappear for no reason, where do they go? They reappear for no reason, where do they come from? The rainbow lighter, when she was In that room, when the lighter was dropped, due to factors unknown to us, the lighter went to the past." I opened my eyes wide, and I understood what Bai Su meant. What she was talking about was the relationship between time and space.For example, a certain writer was immersed in writing in his apartment on the twentieth floor. Suddenly, due to unknown factors, the time went back a hundred years. A hundred years ago, the house of the writer’s apartment was still It doesn't exist at all, so this writer will fall from a place as high as the twentieth floor! Bai Su continued: "The lighter suddenly appeared again, and, obviously, it was used by someone during the process of its disappearance, and the person who used it was not very familiar with such a simple thing as a lighter, so they used it up. Flint can’t be replenished either. Is this still unclear? Lighters go back to the past: a time when there were no lighters!” I swallowed a mouthful of saliva, Bai Su spoke more and more vigorously: "The hand that Rainbow touched is of course not Gu Ang's hand, nor is it someone hiding in the castle." I said angrily, "Then, whose hand is it?" Bai Su said: "Do you remember what Wang Jufeng said? He was hiding in the ash trough of the fireplace, and suddenly he was on top of a big tree. It can be assumed that before the Grand Duke's Castle was built, in today's Where the east wing of the Grand Duke's Castle is located, there is a very tall tree, at least as tall as the third floor of the Grand Duke's Castle today. On this big tree, if someone stretched out his hand inadvertently, And when he stretched out his hand, his hand suddenly broke through the boundary of time, and after a few years, it stretched out from the fireplace in a room on the third floor of the Grand Duke's Castle!" I just stared blankly at Bai Su, I never knew that Bai Su's imagination was so rich.I'm not a person without imagination, and I can accept Bai Su's statement, but no matter what, I can't help but feel a little funny when I hear it.I said: "According to what you said, that person stretched out his hand, and his hand suddenly broke through time. Then, at that moment, could he see his hand? Moreover, his hand suddenly If someone touched it, they would be amazed!" Bai Su didn't think there was anything ridiculous in what I said, but said solemnly: "Then I can't be sure, because I have never experienced it. Even if this person is surprised, he is not unpaid, at least he got what he said at the time." , it may be a precious thing, the lighter from the rainbow!" I waved my hand and said loudly: "Wait a minute, you can continue to use your imagination, but I have to clarify a few questions!" Bai Su looked at me with a defiant attitude, waiting for me to ask a question.I said: "You mean, any object can break through the boundary of time?" Bai Su said in a very affirmative tone: "It seems so. Gu Ang's knife and some other things belonging to the administrator are missing, and they disappeared under this circumstance. Some things suddenly appeared, such as an old rope , a boulder appeared in that situation. You said yourself that the boulder that hit the roof of the car could not have fallen from a very high place. It appeared out of thin air because it broke through The time limit has been exceeded!" I waved my hand: "You mean, I'm waving my hand now, just grabbing out of thin air like this, and if my hand suddenly breaks through the boundary of time, I can just grab something back!" Bai Su said: "It should be like this, it depends on your hand, when did you go back, and at that time, there is something there that you can grab!" I blinked, and Bai Su suddenly laughed: "If you keep waving at the ruins of Huaqing Pool, maybe you have a chance to meet Ms. Yang Yuhuan who is taking a bath! As long as the time is right!" I couldn't help laughing bitterly, Bai Su's analogy was originally funny, but I couldn't laugh, and I said: "According to this, if someone can grasp the key of the Time Portal, he can get it empty-handed?" Bai Su pointed at me abruptly, her sudden action shocked me a lot, her expression was very excited: "That's right! I just happened to think of this too!" I was baffled, I didn't know why Bai Su was suddenly excited, and I couldn't understand what she was thinking, so I just looked at her.Bai Su said: "Spells, all kinds of spells in ancient Chinese legends, carrying five ghosts, picking things with bare hands, these spells, I think, are all caused by the spell casters who have mastered the method to break through the time limit!" I could only smile wryly. What Bai Su said might make sense, but it didn't help us at all in our current situation. I said, "Stop playing any longer, how will this help us?" Bai Su said: "Of course it helps, Wang Jufeng has broken through the time limit and returned to the past—" I hurriedly said: "Don't forget, when he was in the past, he was not Wang Jufeng, but another person, an ordinary mountain villager named Mo La!" Bai Su said: "Yes, there are still factors that we don't understand, but Wang Jufeng always returns to that era - the era when the Grand Duke's Castle was under construction. Therefore, I believe we can concentrate our efforts to see the construction period of the Grand Duke's Castle information! I hope to find evidence that Wang Jufeng has returned to the past!" I stayed for a while, and Bai Su had indeed found some clues, although the clues she found were based on some foundations that I didn't want to believe. However, anyway, you have to read all the materials, and there is nothing wrong with reading the part she suggested first.When I started to look at the information, I had already obtained a simple classified record from the staff, and after checking it, all the documents during the construction of the Grand Duke's Castle were placed in Room No. 4. Bai Su and I arrived in Room No. 4, and started to separate and read the documents.The part I read was about the source of the construction materials of the Grand Duke’s Castle. All the stones for the construction of the castle were all granite quarried from a cliff not far from the current castle. The quality of the stone has been studied in detail. According to the description in the written records, I can be sure that the stone that fell from the sky and hit the roof of the car is the one in the records! I couldn't help laughing bitterly. According to Bai Su's imagination, maybe at that time, a mule cart was carrying stones to the construction site, and one of the stones suddenly fell down, breaking the boundary of time, so, more than a thousand years ago , The stone that fell from the mule cart hit the roof of my cart! I wanted to mention this matter to Bai Su, but when I looked at Bai Su, I found that she was much busier than me. When I got a large stack of documents, she just flipped through them and put them back in the original place immediately. Make a mark to indicate that you have read it.Judging by her situation, she seemed to be looking for something purposefully. I didn't ask her what she was looking for, but I just took my own way to look at the construction materials of the Grand Duke's Castle, and found that Grand Duke Baoneng hired many famous architects from Spain, Germany, and France to participate in the work.Moreover, what Wang Jufeng said was good, Grand Duke Baoneng didn't like autographs very much, and the bronze plaque that forbids hide-and-seek had the Grand Duke's signature on it, which couldn't be regarded as a strange thing. That night, after we enjoyed the sumptuous dinner delivered by Kang Si, we worked until late at night and fell asleep in the utility room.Before going to sleep, Bai Su murmured: "I will definitely find it!" I couldn't help asking, "What exactly are you looking for?" Bai Su said: "I'm looking for records of people who were executed for fleeing during the construction of the Grand Duke's Castle!" My heart moved: "You want to find Mora's name?" Bai Su said: "Yes!" I sighed: "Even if Mo La is found in the records, it can't prove anything. Don't forget that Wang Jufeng is a historian. He may have read the records of Grand Duke Baoneng's execution of people, and left a record in his mind." Very impressed!" Bai Su didn't say anything more, fell asleep, and after a while, he suddenly said: "I believe in the record, this Mora must have something special about him, because Wang Jufeng is back again!" My mind is very confused, and there is no point in discussing this issue, and I am also very tired, so our discussion ends here. The next day, we were still looking through materials in Room No. 4.In the afternoon, Bai Su suddenly called out: "Here it is, come and see!" I put down the document in my hand and came to Bai Su's side. Bai Su pointed to the document in her hand: "Look, Mora! He was sentenced to death for escaping and hanged on the gallows!" I shrugged my shoulders: "I've said it before, this doesn't prove anything, Wang Jufeng may have seen it too." Bai Su kept silent, flipped through the documents again, I had already turned around, and Bai Su called out again: "Look, come and see!" I turned around again, with a very impatient expression, but when I saw Bai Su's eyes shining, I was inexplicably excited, and I knew she must have found something important.Bai Su was not only excited, but also couldn't stop breathing, one could tell that what she discovered was not only important, but also extremely exciting! I hurriedly moved my head, Bai Su said: "Look, this part of the document indicates that the official will never recognize it as an official record, but it was only written down because something like this happened at the time!" I said, "What exactly are they?" Bai Su said: "First thing, remember about Mo La, Mo La disappeared on the gallows!" I was taken aback, quickly snatched the document from Bai Su's hand, and looked at it impatiently.On the yellowed parchment, it is indeed recorded that after Mora's execution, the body suddenly disappeared. Everyone present saw this strange incident. The Grand Duke ordered that no one talk about it, but as the recorder, It is the responsibility to document this.After this record, there is a person's signature, and this person is naturally the recorder responsible for recording what happened at that time! I also involuntarily took a breath, looked at each other with Bai Su, and Bai Su made a gesture to me.I couldn't help being a little shaken: "Mola's corpse broke the time limit. It should be that there is an unknown corpse now. Why did it become Wang Jufeng and come back alive?" Bai Su shook his head and said, "What is the subtle relationship between time and human life? I don't think anyone can explain it yet. Life is different from anything else. A stone can go back a thousand years, or go back a thousand years. Thousands of years later, it must still be a stone, and the lighter is the same, they have no life. But life must be different. With the change of time, life itself is also changing. This year, you are Wesley, I am Bai Su, one hundred Who was I a year ago? Who are you? Who am I a hundred years from now? Who are you?" Bai Su's words left me dumbfounded. After a while, I said, "You're getting more and more complicated. In your imagination, life is immortal and always exists!" Bai Su said: "Of course it is. Life has always existed. It existed in the past, exists now, and will exist in the future, but in different ways!" I took a breath: "This is the same meaning as Wang Jufeng and Caihong's 'previous life'." Bai Su said: "That's right, it's very the same." I frowned, Bai Su's statement was quite unacceptable, so although I didn't refute it, I shook my head involuntarily.Bai Su didn't argue with me any longer: "Read on, there are still many official records that are considered unofficial, let's see what they are!" I flipped through the pages, and when I flipped through a few sheets, I couldn't help but let out a strange cry.I am by no means a person who makes a fuss easily, but when I saw this record, I was really stunned! Bai Su also turned her head to look at it. After she saw it, she couldn't help but yelled. This record is also very brief: "A carpenter named Rayal, while lying idle in the treetops, swore that an invisible person touched his hand, and the invisible person's hand was cold. In a panic, Layal fell from the tree, and what fell with him was an unknown thing, which would emit fire." ──Here, there is an "unknown thing" Simple drawing. God, that's a lighter, and it's the rainbow one, it even has the letters "R? K" on it! The record also read: "This unknown thing was dedicated to Grand Duke Baoneng. The Grand Duke ordered that no one should mention it. As the official in charge of recording, he has the responsibility to record this matter." I swallowed a big mouthful of saliva: "This... this... must be a rainbow lighter!" Bai Su said: "That's my hypothesis!" I smiled wryly and said, "And that bronze medal? How could it appear at the same time? At that time, the Grand Duke's Castle hadn't been built yet, so why was there a ban on playing hide-and-seek in the castle?" Bai Su frowned: "I think, both the bronze medal and Layal's hand broke through the time limit, but they didn't break through at the same time, it's just that they came to the same time!" I didn't say anything, and read on, this bunch of "not officially recognized" records all recorded some strange things that happened during the construction of the Grand Duke's Castle, which were unexplainable, and Grand Duke Baoneng also ordered that anyone Don't mention it.These strange events are similar to the strange events I know, such as the sudden disappearance of some objects, the sudden appearance of some things, and finally, another disappearance. It is recorded that two officers had a drunken dispute. The officer who was hit in the heart of the opponent disappeared suddenly after being seriously injured and fell to the ground. The chain hammer used by the murderer was a weapon on the battlefield. The "chain hammer" used on the battlefield, I know this kind of weapon used by European warriors in the Middle Ages, is a rather large iron ball with many spikes on it, tied with an iron chain, and can be swung to kill people. The reason why I introduced this kind of warrior in detail is because I immediately thought of Gu Ang's wound.When I saw Gu Ang's wound, I only thought of the mace, an ancient Chinese weapon, but never the chain hammer, an ancient European weapon! At this time, I couldn't help but groaned, and Bai Su asked, "What's the matter with you?" I smiled wryly: "Gu Ang, that officer who disappeared is Gu Ang!" Bai Su looked at me, but didn't say a word, and after I said that sentence, I didn't say a word, both of us looked very strange, and there was an inexplicable chill running through our bodies.The reason I know where this chill is coming from is because we are hovering outside the realm of human knowledge.I have come into contact with an extremely mysterious and incredible realm.This realm is completely beyond the scope of human knowledge and imagination!I tried my best to get myself into this incredible realm, to understand some things in this incredible realm, but I couldn't do it, because this was beyond the scope of my knowledge, and even beyond the scope of my imagination. After a long time, Bai Su was the first to speak out: "It seems that my imagination is too outrageous. After breaking through the boundary of time, people's lives change and become another person. Objects, because they have no life, so their forms No change, a lighter is still a lighter." I don't know what my expression is like, but I can imagine that it must be very funny, and, amidst the funny, there must be an indescribable horror, so Bai Su looked at me with a very strange expression: "You... ...Why don't you express your opinion at all?" I said: "I have already expressed my opinion. The officer who was injured under the chain hammer is Gu Ang. After he was seriously injured, he broke through the boundary of time and came back." I said: "The moment before he died, he understood everything. He only said that I killed him because I brought him to the Grand Duke's Castle and brought him back to the past, so he was killed!" Bai Su sighed: "In terms of your current situation, we'd better be realistic, no court in the world will accept this kind of explanation!" Suddenly, I laughed very smartly: "I can't be realistic, because what I'm encountering now is surreal, and I don't care whether there will be a court to accept my explanation!" Bai Su asked in surprise: "You, what do you mean by saying that?" I looked up and looked at the ceiling, which was discolored because of the age: "I think, I mean, I have somewhat touched the mystery of life." Bai Su obviously understood what I meant at once, so when she heard me say this, she couldn't help but took a "swish" breath.I didn't go to see her, because I was concentrating on thinking at this moment.What I think of, the concept is still very vague, I can only say that I have captured a little bit.I have to work very hard to express what I think in words. I said: "I have come into contact with a little bit of the mysteries of life. From ancient times to the present, everyone has nostalgia and love for his life at this stage. It is because human beings cannot be sure of the essence of life. Once life disappears, it's over! But you don't know that life will appear in many forms in time!" Bai Su said coldly: "Stop talking about so many esoteric terms! I know what you mean. You mean that even if you are sentenced to death and go to the electric chair, you still won't die!" I still didn't look at her, just said: "It can be said that I just ended my life at this stage. Who knows what stage my life will go to? It may be a hundred years later, a thousand years later, After 10,000 years, or even farther away, he appeared in the form of another person and continued to live, just like Mora went to the gallows and ended his life at that stage, but got back Wang Jufeng's life at this stage. That part of Mo La's life was like a dream to Wang Jufeng!" When I said this, I glanced at Bai Su, and I saw her pursed her lips, not saying a word. I said again: "For Wang Jufeng, when he himself knows that there is a life in the form of Mora, that life is just a dream to him. If he can have the opportunity to go back and forth in time How many times, he will definitely feel that the current life is just a dream, and he will wake up from the dream at any time, so why should he pay so much attention to the current life?"