Chapter 7 Chapter 5 Taoyuan

"Greixin stared wide-eyed in the colorful peach blossom cup, and many peach blossom petals fell in profusion. One peach blossom petal fell on his face. The wooden wheel of the donkey cart ran over the dead branches and fallen leaves on the ground, making a 'bi peeling' sound The pleasant sound. At this moment, there are two children dressed as ancient people in front of his eyes, and the place where he is located is a space that does not exist in actual history..." "In Taiyuan of Jin Dynasty, the people of Wuling walked along the river, and they didn't realize the distance of the road..."

Gresham felt in a rather warm dormant state. That kind of feeling is a bit like taking a nap in the afternoon, between the blurred state of falling asleep and waking up. There is chaos in my mind, but the original text of this ancient Chinese fairy tale emerges in it strangely. In the mist, he felt as if he had turned over, and the feeling of drowsiness was still strong. However, that burst of clear singing reappeared. "In Taiyuan, Jin, people from Wuling..." The singing is immature. It seems to come from not far away, but occasionally it will be blown away by the slight breeze, making it inaudible.

"Suddenly I saw a peach blossom forest, hundreds of steps across the bank, delicious grass, and colorful fallen flowers..." A sense of coolness spread from the face, as if a cold spray was sprinkled on the face. Greixin slowly opened his eyes under the cool touch, but the moment he saw the scene in front of him, he froze suddenly. At this moment, he only saw a large expanse of clear light blue in front of his eyes, as if the whole person was suspended in nothingness. "scare!" Greixin yelled, trying to sit up all over, but he was strangely unable to do so. The large piece of light blue moved slightly with his movements. It turned out that he was lying flat and looking up at the sky. The large piece of light blue just now is the blue sky I looked up in the mist.

Grexin was about to try to sit up again, but he heard Newton's voice in his ears. "Don't move! For God's sake!" Newton cried out eagerly. "Don't move!" "Newton?" Grexin said, but his body moved a little disobediently. "you……" Before he could finish a sentence, Grexin was speechless on the spot, too frightened to speak. It turned out that at this moment he was on a small platform protruding from the mountain wall, half lying and half straddling it in an absolutely unstable posture, and if he moved a little, countless falling rocks would fall down in a "scratch" manner.

Out of the corner of his eye, he looked down at the platform, and at the bottom of the deep cliff, he could faintly see a green river running through the barren valley. "Newton..." Gretchen struggled to force a trembling voice out of his throat. "Stay still," said Newton, "now, put your hand behind you slowly, and see if there is anything." Greixin tried his best to keep his movements as slow as possible, but the soil in the rocky layer seemed to be very loose, and as soon as his body moved, many small stones would roll down. On the left side, there is still the feeling of cool spray. Ge Leixin took a peek and saw a thin mountain spring slipping down the deep valley not far away, so there is a cool feeling of spray.

But this moment is definitely not a good occasion to praise creation. The voice of the child singing the ancient poem "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" sounded again. Ge Leixin tried to reach behind him with difficulty, Tong Yin's singing stopped suddenly, Ge Leixin slipped his hand suddenly, his body lost balance, only heard a scream, and the whole person fell to the bottom of the bottomless valley . When falling into the air, Grexin only felt the meandering river at the bottom of the valley turn over in front of his eyes. However, when it was too late to react, I just felt my chest tighten, the falling momentum stopped, and the whole person soared into the air, drawing a big arc in the blue sky in front of the cliff, and with a "bang", I landed on my back and fell In a pile of soft stuff.

Although the force of the fall was not small, the soft objects under his body absorbed most of the impact, and he was a little dizzy, but he didn't feel any pain. Gray Xin looked around and found that he had already climbed the cliff. The shade of the forest is dark, the sun shines through the branches and leaves, reflecting bursts of light smoke, and the trunks of the trees are like clouds blooming with white fungi. The surroundings are quiet and elegant, and the place where I am at this moment is actually a deep pine forest that I have only seen in ancient books. Newton's voice also sounded bewildered.

"Pine, wood family, natural species extinct at the time of the Superman Wars," murmured Newton. This record is also included in Gray's new nucleic acid knowledge, only to hear Newton's voice continue to speak like a dream. "In the 24th century, there are only seven botanical gardens on the earth that have artificially recreated pine plants. However, the largest pine garden has no more than 67 plants." Grexin swallowed with difficulty. What Newton said was consistent with what he knew, but the pine forest in front of him, large and small, had at least thousands of pine trees.

Where Grexin fell was a large pile of withered pine branches and leaves, and not far to the left of the pile of branches and leaves, there stood two people in the strangest costumes that Lei Gexin and Newton had ever seen in their life. The two looked at Grexin kindly, with caring expressions on their faces. One of them was tall and strong, with wide sleeves and long hair simply pulled back, but with a childish face, he was no more than sixteen or seventeen years old. The other one is a little boy, smiling, his scalp is shaved clean, and only two buns are rolled up at both ends. The burly boy was holding a flower rope in his hand, and one end was connected to Greixin's body.

It turned out that this boy had saved Gray's life just now. "We happened to walk through the pine forest," the boy said, "I saw that you were in danger, so we happened to save you." At this time, the little boy also chimed in and said: "My brother has always been very strong, you are lucky." The boy came over and helped him off the pine branch. Grexin wanted to ask Newton something, but found that he had disappeared, and he didn't know where he had gone. Greixin and the boy walked side by side to a clearing among the pine forests, while the boy was playing and laughing behind them.

There was a small donkey cart in the open space, and the boy motioned for Greixin to sit in the cart. The child also climbed into the car. "Sit down, I'll take you back to our house to rest for a while." The boy said. The donkey cart moved slowly through the pine forest. Greixin took a deep breath, feeling like a dream. There is the aroma of vegetation mixed with pine oil in the air. Looking up, there is a clear blue sky in the gap between the pine forests. That blue is not the same as the synthetic blue of the artificial sun, and the freshness in the air is something Grexin has never experienced before. Although he has only seen artificial suns since he was born, and only breathed artificial air that simulates photosynthesis, but at this moment he took another deep breath, and the cool and refreshing air flowed into his lung cavity, but he could immediately confirm that this was the sun that was only read in ancient books. natural air. But this is impossible. There is absolutely no such place on the earth in the twenty-fourth century, not even Venus, Mercury or even colonies. In the roundup on the top of Yao De Mountain, the nucleic acid police force’s limiting force field was only set within the range of the Earth’s sphere, and Newton taught Gray a new way to escape, which is to focus his thoughts outside the Earth and transfer his soul to Alien. There has never been a successful record of interstellar soul transfer before, but Grexin and Newton are desperate, hoping to leave the earth and go to Venus and Mercury before making plans. Judging from the current situation, the transfer was successful, but it reached such a strange place that should not exist in the two people's knowledge. In the quiet pine forest, there are occasional squirrels jumping in the forest. At this time, the little boy sang again with a clear and tender voice. "Walk freely, feel safe. The pine trees are luxuriant, and there is no home. The Taoyuan and flowing water, avoid the sorrow of Qin and the country." In the clear singing of the little boy, Newton's voice sounded quietly. "Greixin," Newton said, "do you have the original text of the ancient Chinese fairy tale 'Peach Blossom Spring' in your nucleic acid?" "Newton," Grexin said a little unhappily, "where have you been? Why didn't you say anything just now? What kind of place is this?" "I'll talk about that later, do you have the original text of 'Peach Blossom Spring'?" Just as Greixin was about to answer, the little boy changed his voice and coincidentally answered Newton's question, because what he sang next was "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" that Newton wanted to know. "In Taiyuan of Jin Dynasty, the people of Wuling walked along the river, and they didn't realize the distance of the road." The more the boy sang, the happier he was, and he took Ge Leixin's hand and beckoned him to sing along. "Suddenly I saw a peach blossom forest, hundreds of steps across the bank, delicious grass, and colorful fallen flowers..." "Why ask this fairy tale?" Gresham asked Newton quietly. Newton's voice was a bit bitter, "You can watch it yourself." The donkey cart came out of the pine forest in a bumpy ride. In front of my eyes was suddenly bright, a plain field, the donkey cart moved along a clear river, and climbed a small slope, but there really appeared a peach blossom forest with bright colors and peach blossoms everywhere. "Suddenly I saw a peach blossom forest, hundreds of steps across the bank, delicious grass, and colorful fallen flowers..." Greixin stared wide-eyed in the colorful peach blossom forest, and many peach blossom petals fell in profusion. A peach blossom petal fell on the face. The wooden wheels of the donkey cart rolled over the dead branches and fallen leaves on the ground, making a pleasant sound of "bi peeling". At this moment, in front of his eyes are two children dressed as people from ancient times, and the location is a space that does not exist in actual history.At that moment, Grexin thought he had figured out everything, and couldn't help laughing out loud. The little boy was surprised to see this person who was dressed completely differently from him, suddenly laughed wildly, opened his eyes wide, not knowing what happened. "What are you laughing at?" Newton said angrily. "I'm laughing," Grexin still couldn't stop his self-deprecating smile. "Thought we escaped, why did the Nucleic Acid Police Force invent this trick of VR virtual reality again? Weren't we caught by them? What are you doing with this kind of game?" "If it's a VR virtual reality, wouldn't I know?" Newton said coldly, "I am a VR myself. Will two VR virtual realities overlap?" "Then where are we now?" Gray asked in bewilderment. At this time, the donkey cart had already walked out of the peach blossom forest and turned into a small path sandwiched in a mountain crevice. The water surface of the river beside the trail was as smooth as a mirror. Greixin looked up and saw his own reflection on the water. In the reflection of a few peach blossoms, I became a middle-aged man with a thin face and piercing eyes, but the clothes on his body were different from the togas and sleeves of the two children, almost like the ancient twentieth-century soldier. Yellow expedition suit. "Who am I?" he asked again. Newton pondered for a while. "It is possible that we have penetrated into the flow of time and space." Newton said: "We were originally going to transfer to an alien planet. But, maybe at that moment, the thought wave of you and me surpassed the critical speed in the principle of time, invisible Constitutes the conditions to travel through time. Come to this place that may be ancient China." "So we have come to a fairy tale in ancient China," said Greixin disapprovingly. "According to historical records, this Peach Blossom Spring is just the fantasy of the unsuccessful seekers of fame in ancient times." "This is what I have been unable to figure out." Newton said: "Let's take a look." Not long after the drive, the mountain wall suddenly opened up, and what appeared in front of us was a small village full of ancient flavor. The villagers have an elegant and leisurely atmosphere. Several yellow dogs are chasing the donkey cart and barking. The old man with frosty hair is playing chess in the shade of the pine. "The scenery is like daytime, and the scenery is like daytime." Newton murmured, "But such a scene is too contrived!" Ge Leixin looked around at the village scene, and compared it with the original text of "Peach Blossom Spring", and found that it was exactly the same. Moreover, at the entrance to the village, there is a large stone archway with two ancient seal characters written on it. "Those two characters mean 'avoid Qin'." Newton knew that Grexin didn't understand those two words, so he said this. "This kind of place is more like the so-called 'themed amusement area' that was quite popular in the ancient twentieth century." In the end, that's Gray's conclusion. The two children who brought Gray into the village were brothers. The boy was named Gongyekuan, and the boy was named Gongyerang. Gongye's family killed chickens and cooked wine, and Greixin had a hearty meal with this strange family. When they were full of wine and food, Ge Leixin and Tong Gongye let Xinbu walk out of the village. Ge Leixin pulled up a stalk of grass on the ground and chewed on the natural scenery of the place. The fragrance of the grass permeated his cheeks, but his heart became more confused. "Newton," he whispered, "maybe this is really ancient China, because I can't see any traces of artificial carvings, and everything is really ancient life." Newton refuted his statement with a bitter voice. "Not necessarily." Gray was startled, and then he knew Newton's reasons for refuting him. Because at this moment, there was a mechanical sound in the air. A craft Grecian had never seen before flew over him, dropped a package, and sped off. The little boy Gongye Rang avoided the package far away, with a look of disgust on his face, unwilling to approach it. "I'll take a look at the past and discuss it with you when I come back." Newton said succinctly, and then fell silent. On the vast land, only Greixin was left, and his heart was full of countless doubts. When night fell, Newton came back, and the voice appeared amidst the chirping of insects in the night. "came back?" Grexin sat up abruptly. "Is there any conclusion? What is this place?" "Grexin..." Newton's voice trembled a little. Suddenly, the starry sky in front of Greixin's eyes gradually turned bright gray. This is Newton's VR commentary function, but it has rarely appeared since it mutated. The scene in front of him has now become a huge laboratory. "This is the simulated scene of the Air Force Administration of the United States of America in 1968 AD. It appears at this moment because it has historical symbolic significance." Newton said: "And I hereby solemnly declare to you that the mystery of human time and space has been solved because of you." "You're crazy," Grayson replied. "The village you live in is called Biqin Village. It is an utopia, but it is an utopia deliberately created." "In the ancient United States of America in the twentieth century, there was a race called the Amish, did you know?" Grexin thought for a while, then nodded. The Amish people are an ethnic group that insisted on living backwards for two hundred years in the ancient twentieth century. They rejected the civilization at that time, dressed in ancient clothes, and never used electricity or technology. "The same is true of this village of avoiding the Qin Dynasty. About hundreds of years ago, a group of people who spurned civilization lived here for generations based on the ancient Chinese fairy tale 'Peach Blossom Spring'. Over time, it became this ideal country. Your identity , is an anthropologist from a civilized society, doing research here. When an accident occurs, he may stumble and fall off a cliff, and his soul and body will be separated in an instant." "Are we still in the twenty-fourth century? Have we really entered time and space?" Grayson asked. "We are indeed not in the twenty-fourth century now. The soul transfer on the top of Mount Yaode did allow us to enter time and space. However, it is not as simple as going back to the past and entering the future." "What do you mean it's not that simple?" Greixin said angrily, "Is there a fourth possibility, the present, the past, or the future?" "Yes." Newton said briefly. Grexin was stunned. "Outside this Qin-avoiding village is a city with a civilization far superior to this one, called Ancient Qin and Jin City. I was looking through historical classics in that city, but found a very interesting thing." "Say." Grexin replied briefly. "In the historical books of the ancient Qin and Jin cities, the records before the 16th century AD are the same as our world, but after the 16th century AD, it's just nonsense. It's like the historian who compiled the history suddenly lost his mind." "Why is that?" Grayson asked. "This was also the question in my mind at the time. However, after reading many other books, it was the same. The history after the sixteenth century AD was seriously out of touch with the history I knew. Moreover, I learned about the current era there. .” "Oh?" Gray Xin raised his eyebrows, "What year is it?" "This year is AD 2261," said Newton. "Impossible!" Gregory yelled. After a little calculation of the times, he knew that this was impossible. "In 2261 AD, the earth is entering the end of the Superman War, and the atmosphere at that time has been broken, and there will be no such clear sky. You must have misread the time." "This was also my question at the time, but look at the stars in the sky." Gresin unconsciously looked up following Newton's guidance. The clear sky at night is full of stars, and the Milky Way full of mysterious mist lies in the center of the sky. "You have a star chronology table in your nucleic acid, right? History is not the only way to calculate time. The position of stars will change with the passage of time. Do you calculate what era this should be?" A disc-shaped star chronology calculation table flowed through Gray Xin's mind, moving with the position of the constellations in the sky. "Wu Xian, Ang Su, North Pole..." The answer that appeared at the end proved that the date Newton found was correct, and Gray's new calculation table could even calculate that this day was April 18, 2261 AD. "Why..." he muttered to himself. "Where we are now, did not exist in the history we know. The history we know, including the Superman War, did not happen in this place." Newton said word by word: "But we are here, and this place exists." Gray Xin was speechless for a long time, and felt a bit like the scientist in the classic joke who proposed that "according to the strength and weight of the wings, theoretically, it is impossible for a wasp to fly". You can also imagine the embarrassment of wasps flying around him. appearance. "Do you feel a little similar to what someone said?" Newton asked. Of course there is. Greixin could easily recall in his mind that that day, in the office of the "Boss", Lu Jingde from the Time Development Bureau said the same thing on his blog. "You can even lock his bioelectricity here. However, there is nothing there. The three coordinates of the three-dimensional space are all in line, but there is no one. It is said that he is not there, but there is bioelectricity... " "That's why I say that the riddle of time and space for thousands of years is solved because of you, because I have already found the answer to this riddle." Newton said excitedly. The scene of NASA gradually faded, the blurred night, the sky full of beautiful stars. Newton's voice gave off a bewildering feeling in the quiet night. Not far from the lake, a group of sparkling fireflies flew past. "Have you ever heard the name of Lu Yipu?" Newton asked. "No." "This man is a genius time researcher, but he has a huge flaw in his personality. At the age of seventeen, he clashed with others and was vaporized by the enemy. He didn't even have a chance to transfer his soul. However, at the young age of sixteen, he He put forward many bold space-time hypotheses, although his theory was not taken seriously because of the deliberate downplay of the mainstream school. However, many time-space scholars now believe that if this person can live longer, maybe the mystery of space-time has been solved long ago opened." "When Lu Yipu was alive, he once put forward a bold hypothesis of time and space. At that time, time travel was still in its infancy, and the first expedition team had not yet taken place. However, he once predicted the possibility that time travel would not survive great." "What's his theory?" Gresham asked. "His theoretical assumptions came from some phenomena in philosophy and psychology, and because of this, many mainstream scholars scoffed at his arguments," Newton said. "Lu Yipu believes that dreams, precognitive phenomena, or Zhuang Zhou's butterfly-like induction are probably one of the forms of time travel. Under certain unknown conditions, people use the above behaviors to penetrate time and space, but sometimes that time and space are different from each other. The time and space you are familiar with can be completely disconnected." "Just like now." Gregory took a deep breath. "As a result, he posited a theory, which he called the 'network bifurcation time theory,'" Newton said. And a diagram is projected in front of Gray Shin's eyes. "His point is that our world may not be a single world. In the same space, many different worlds may coexist. He called it 'probability parallel world'." "These many worlds are parallel to each other and almost never intersect, but they are closely related to each other. For example, you, Grexin, walked in front of a three-fork road today. According to the arrangement of fate, you will be hit by a car if you go to the right, and you will be killed if you go in the middle." Nothing happens, and if you go to the left, you will meet a woman who will be with you all your life. Maybe you finally choose the middle road, and nothing happens, but the other two worlds of probability have diverged at the moment you choose. Of those two worlds, one has no new descendants of Lei Ge, and the other has a different future." A second bifurcation map appeared in front of Greixin's eyes. "Basically, the real distribution of time and space is countless parallel worlds with more forks than this one, but we always only remember a linear history, because our life is just a line among countless forks. According to Lu Yipu According to the theory of time travel, time travel will break this linear law, throwing people into a world with the same spatial factors and completely different probabilities in everything else, and because of this, no one has ever returned from time travel, because which world to transfer to is random Random numbers, the probability of returning to one's own world in countless parallel worlds is almost zero." "Facts have proved that this Lu Yipu is really a genius, and his deduction is completely correct. I analyzed our current situation, and then recalled the fate of those time travelers. Only this theory can explain it. The reason why the bioelectricity of the Time Bureau is still The reason why we can receive the messages from the expedition members is that they still exist, but they have just gone to another world. Where we are now is a world that had a probabilistic divergence in the sixteenth century. Therefore, the history before the sixteenth century is the same, After that, it was completely different.” "So," said Newton at last, "it is because of you, Gresin, that this riddle of time and space has been solved. I did not exaggerate when I said that." Greixin let out a long breath and looked up at the starry sky with a lonely expression. "But," he said quietly, "I can never go back to Siloyang, can I?" "Yes." Newton said briefly. "Also, as long as you do time-space transfer again, you will never come back to this Qin-avoiding village. This is a road of no return." A blazing meteor flashed across the sky. Greixin stared blankly at the meteor disappearing on the horizon. Although he said he had solved the mystery of time and space, he didn't feel happy at all. After a long time, he still felt unable to speak. Early the next morning, Gongyerang, a boy from Biqin Village, took Ge Leixin to the field to pick wild mushrooms. A large expanse of green Miscanthus undulates slowly on the plain, and a few stems of miscanthus flowers in early spring flutter in the sky with the wind blowing. Grexin lay flat on the open ground, looking up at the blue sky that human beings could never see in person in the 24th century. Looking from the side, the angle of flat against the ground, in the gap between dew and grass stems, little Tong Gongye asked to look around for fragrant mushrooms, she smiled cheerfully, and occasionally sang leisurely nursery rhymes. "The sun and the moon are full of fragrance, spread all over the land, and the beauty is rich and delicious. Don't hide it, and see it from me. It is rich in fish and rice." At that moment, Ge Leixin was refreshed, he let out a long sigh of relief, and shouted: "I figured it out!" The sound spread far away, and the little Tong Gongyerang just looked at him curiously, and went to look for the grass mushroom again. "What did you figure out?" Newton's voice sounded. "I was thinking, since I chose this road of no return, I have to live well, right?" Greixin said: "This Taoyuan Village is a good place, maybe we will live here for a long time." He looked at the figure of the little boy Gongye Chang playing in the emerald green plain. "Here, maybe it's the paradise that time travelers dream of?" Newton was silent for a long time. "It's a pity," he said at last, "that we won't be here long." Grexin was stunned. "What?" He asked suspiciously, "Why?" "Pour out a glass of the water you brought with you," Newton said. With his backhand, Ge Leixin poured out a glass of water from the purple bamboo bucket on his back. "You look carefully at the surface of the water," Newton said. The water in the bamboo forest is clear and transparent, and it seems ordinary. However, if you look closely, you can see very thin and slow water patterns. "That's the resonance of the hydraulic field," Newton said. "It means that the Yangfeng has come to our world. When the 'water' biochemical person appears, this resonance phenomenon will appear in the nearby water. He may not have found our location, but it is very close." Grexin looked around in panic. It seems that the originally peaceful land has been infected with a murderous atmosphere. "Should be in time," Newton said. "We have to be ready to transfer at any time. But of course, the sooner the better." Ge Leixin looked at this peaceful natural land with nostalgia. The breeze is blowing gently, and the green hills in the distance are still covered with misty haze. At this moment, the little Tong Gongye let out a loud cry, and picked up a straw mushroom the size of a cattail leaf fan in his hand. The breeze blew again, passing Grexin's side with a "huh", but it blew his voice away. "Here we come!" Newton shouted eagerly, "Leave! Grexin, get out!" Grayson, on the other hand, did nothing. The little Tong Gongye in the distance felt the gentle breeze blowing softly beside him, but the whole person involuntarily raised his toes and left the ground. Grexin ran towards Gongyerang's direction abruptly, forgetting Newton's exasperated screams. The breeze lifted Gongye Rang's small figure higher and higher, and Gongye Rang struggled in the wind. In the breeze, he could vaguely see a thin man as ugly as a ghost. If Tong Gongye were to fall from a high altitude at this time, he would either die or be injured. "Come back!" Newton yelled, "You can't beat him!" "stop!" Greixin was still on his feet. He had never fought against the "wind" cold-blooded captain of the nucleic acid police force who appeared at this time, and he had no idea of ​​cold-blooded ruthless methods. Suddenly, the breeze surrounding little Tong Gongye suddenly disappeared, and his little body, which lost its support, fell from a high altitude. At this moment, the cold-blooded captain realized that he had found the wrong target, let go of Gongye, and rushed towards Greixin. Ge Leixin's running figure suddenly staggered, his steps crooked as if he was drunk. The moment his footsteps were about to sag, Gongyerang, who had fallen from a high altitude, had already fallen and fell into Ge Leixin's arms. Because the fall was too violent, the two of them hugged their arms full and both landed on the ground with a "pop". Gong Yerang was smaller and was not injured after rolling to the side, but Grexin lay down in an extremely twisted posture on the ground. Gong Yerang was still in shock, his mouth was flattened and he was about to cry, but he saw an ugly man appear out of thin air, he glanced coldly at Greixin who was lying on the ground, and then looked at the little boy Gongyerang, his eyes were cold Like a sword, Gong Yerang's crying was swallowed back. Then the man's figure faded and disappeared like a gust of wind. After a long time, Gongye let him look at the dead man's body next to him, tears streaming down his face, his crotch was finally wet when he pissed. During the long and rapid backward time and space travel, Newton said loudly amidst the whistling wind of time and space. "Greyham, I know you're a good man," he said. "However, I can only advise you not to have any ties with people in any world. Because you do not belong to their world, and as long as you leave, their lives will never be related to you. Just now We got away with it, but luck doesn't always happen." Gretchen was just silent. Why didn't he know that Newton was right, but how could he let an innocent child die for nothing? The silent dead silence, accompanied by time travel, travels to another time and space again.