Chapter 28 The world opens its eyes
boom!
It was like a bolt of lightning flashing through his mind, illuminating the entire brain cavity. It also struck the teetering kite at the same time, making the "kite string" behind Lin Xian's head on the verge of breaking.
Ji Xinshui...
Lin Xian never expected that he would meet enemies he knew and even dealt with in the real world in such a distant time and space as 1952!
He clenched his fists.
Ji Xinshui is not only his enemy, but also the boss of the Seven Deadly Sins, Copernicus' lackey, and the culprit who took away the lives of Xu Yun and Tang Xin.
Therefore, when Lin Xian deceived and killed the 80-year-old man, he did not hesitate at all. He even felt that the death penalty was not a pity for his sins.
Now Lin Xian never expected...
This old man who died in 2023 was actually "resurrected" in front of him in the form of a teenage child in 1952.
boom!
Another bolt of lightning struck the kite, and the kite string connecting the back of the head to the future time and space shook violently, threatening to break.
Lin Xian understood.
[This is World Line issuing a warning, an early warning. 】
If the kite string is broken, it must mean a breakthrough in the elasticity of space and time, a change in the curvature of space and time, and a world line jump...
In that case, history and the future will take a new and unfamiliar trajectory.
And he will forever lose the ability to return to the time and space of 2234, becoming a ghost that does not belong to the old era, a time and space wanderer trapped in a strange time and space and a strange world line... drifting with the flow.
He quickly calmed down the intense emotions just now.
The clenched palms gradually relaxed.
Now.
The moment I learned that little Johnny’s real name is Ji Xinshui.
It is a key choice point to test at the edge of space-time elasticity——
[He now has the ability to change Ji Xinshui's fate. Once Ji Xinshui's fate and life trajectory change, it will inevitably lead to changes in the world line. 】
Lin Xian started thinking from the beginning.
He had seen Ji Xinshui's information at the Donghai Public Security Bureau before.
This old man from the old days was born in 1938. When he was young, he went to sea with his parents to escape the war. During the reform and opening up period, he returned to China as a returned scientist and worked in the laboratory of Tunghai University.
Now in 1952, Ji Xinshui should indeed be thirteen or fourteen years old, and he closely matched the life and age of the little Johnny in front of him.
So it goes without saying...
Little Johnny is Ji Xinshui, the crazy old man named "Arrogant" in the future.
Lin Xian uses entangled space-time particles to travel through time. He can ignore forced avoidance, rewrite history at will, and change the world line at will.
He can use the pistol in his pocket to kill the child Ji Xinshui and eliminate this scourge from the root; he can also use his admiration for himself to reverse the direction of his life and let him stay in the United States for the rest of his life and never return to the Dragon Kingdom.
In this way, the establishment of the seven deadly sins can naturally be avoided, and the deaths of Xu Yun and Tang Xin can also be avoided.
but……
What's the cost?
This will cause the trajectory of history to drift to a new world line, and the kite string behind Lin Xian's head will break instantly, and he will never be able to return to the original time and space.
The price is too high.
Moreover, even if Xu Yun and Tang Xin could be saved, they would only save two people on the new world line, which has nothing to do with the dead Xu Yun and Tang Xin on the world line that Lin Xian experienced...
It's just that the new Xu Yun and Tang Xin are not dead, it's not that the dead Xu Yun and Tang Xin have been resurrected.
Lin Xian understood these logic and laws of time and space a long time ago.
Only by letting the future trajectory move forward on the original track can he safely return to 2234 and carry out a series of subsequent plans.
thus.
Now this key selects the node.
Care must be taken.
"That's right."
Lin Xian was unmoved and made an understatement.
He lowered the black top hat on his head and took one last look at the little boy with his bright blue eyes:
"Goodbye, Ji Xinshui."
Not a single word more was said.
Lin Xian opened the door, got into the yellow taxi, and handed the small note to the driver:
"Go to the western suburbs of Brooklyn, this location."
The bearded driver took the note, looked at it, and nodded:
"Okay sir, I'm very familiar with this area."
After that, he started the vehicle and left.
Through the right rearview mirror, Lin Xian saw the child Ji Xinshui, who was gradually moving away, staring at the car and watching him leave.
Angelica once said.
Ji Xinshui would go to Brooklyn every winter to mourn his former best friend.
Now let’s see…
Could this friend be him or Douglas?
Lin Xian is not very sure about this conclusion.
He just met Ji Xinshui a few times by chance, spoke a few words, and gave him some money.
Perhaps it was these casual words that changed Ji Xinshui's future life, and that was why he would never forget the "Mr. Douglas" he admired most in his heart.
Lin Xian closed his eyes.
Hold your eyes with your palms.
Is this the history of lockdown?
Unknowingly, he originally thought that he was an unexpected visitor in time and space, but he did not expect that... he was also a part of history.
"No matter what, it must be guaranteed that I can return to 2234 safely."
Lin Xian cleared his mind and felt the kite string behind his head.
Since leaving Ji Xinshui.
The sky seemed to have cleared up, the weather was fine, and the kite string became stable and flexible, without the collapse trend just now.
I have to say that this early warning mechanism is quite good.
He was not sure whether Yu Xi and No. 17, who had also used entangled space-time particles to travel, understood the laws of space-time and whether they knew that the shaking of the kite string meant that the elasticity of space-time was in danger.
But I think...
Whether they knew it or not, it didn't matter.
Both of them were professionally trained space-time agents. For them, obeying orders and completing tasks was more important than anything else, including their lives.
"Fortunately, this only entangled space-time particle will finally disappear completely."
"When I return to 2234, there will be no more space-time travelers who ignore the laws of space-time."
...
The taxi drove for more than an hour and stopped at a weedy farm.
The bearded driver turned around:
"Sir, your
The driver pointed to several old houses on the farm and continued:
"This area is basically private land. Many rich people buy land here and plan to build villas, resorts, etc.... The newspaper said that Brooklyn will be developed as vigorously as Manhattan in the future, and everyone is betting on investment plans. "
"But, in my opinion, how can such a poor place as Brooklyn develop? The rich will eventually go to Manhattan, or even New Jersey, which is much better than Brooklyn. "
He tapped the numbers on the meter and looked at Lin Xian:
"Sir, this place is very remote, and it will be difficult for you to get a taxi when you leave. I can wait for you here, and the fare can be settled together on the return trip. "
"No need. "
Lin Xian shook his head and handed over a hundred-dollar bill directly:
"The rest is a tip, no need to change. ”
He met with Einstein on this trip, and he didn't know how long they would talk, nor did he know what secrets Einstein had hidden in this farm.
Therefore, he didn't want a third party to be present:
"You go back to Brooklyn directly, someone will come to pick me up, and I'll take their car back."
The bearded driver looked at the green hundred-dollar bills, and saw Franklin smiling at him on the bills, and his eyes widened immediately:
"Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir! You are so generous!"
He unbuckled his seat belt and jumped out of the car, respectfully helped Lin Xian open the car door, and bowed:
"I wish you a happy life! "
Afterwards, as if he was afraid that Lin Xian would regret it, the bearded driver stepped on the accelerator to the bottom and evacuated at the speed of light, leaving only a trail of dust.
Lin Xian straightened his hat.
Touching his protruding cheekbones, he looked at the dilapidated farm in front of him.
November 5.
The day he agreed to meet with Einstein finally arrived.
Originally, he was still worried about how to hide his voice and appearance; but the time-space rejection reaction was a timely rain, which perfectly solved the disguise problem for him.
Now.
He looks like a mixed-race of Dragon Country and the West;
His voice is a hoarse Irish voice;
His name... is Douglas.
This is Lin Xian's new identity in 1952, and he will officially contact Einstein in this identity.
Take a step, Lin Xian walked into the ground A huge farm.
There are only a few rooms in the whole farm, and Einstein should be waiting for him in one of them.
Lin Xian pushed the doors one by one.
Some rooms seemed to have been occupied by workers and had some bunk beds; some empty rooms were old and covered with cobwebs, and some warehouses were piled with rusty tools.
After going through all the rooms, Lin Xian did not find any place like a living room, study, or tea room.
"This..."
He scratched his head, a little confused.
Einstein specially asked him to come to the farm to chat, there can't be a place to drink tea and pour water, right?
Every room is so shabby.
It can't be that in this cold winter, the two of them really opened their hearts outdoors under the moonlight and froze into popsicles, right?
"No, this is definitely not Einstein's style. "
Lin Xian paced around the farm and began to analyze.
Einstein was a famous scientist, a person of status and position, and also a polite gentleman.
He and I had such a good chat at the Halloween party and we had such a good understanding. It was impossible for him to meet me in such a shabby place.
There is a problem.
There must be a problem here.
What Lin Xian couldn't figure out was-
"Where is Einstein?"
Lin Xian suddenly felt very funny.
Could he have stood me up?
The other party clearly vowed that he would stay on the farm from morning to night on November 5th, waiting for me here all day.
The result was good.
There was no living room, no place to chat, and no Einstein!
"It's so weird. "
Lin Xian bent down and checked the decoration materials scattered on the ground.
They were basically some wood scraps and some tile corners. He rubbed the ground with his feet and found a few cut wires.
This was enough to show that there was a place in this farm that was being renovated, and the grade was not low, and the materials were very luxurious.
"I need to sort out my thoughts."
Lin Xian held his chin and summarized the abnormalities of this farm:
1. There are workers' dormitories, construction waste, and traces of carpentry and electrician construction, which means that there must be some place in the farm that has been luxuriously renovated. But the strange thing is that there are not only no workers in the farm now, but also no traces of renovation... Where did Einstein spend the renovation money?
2. Since 1945, Einstein has frequently passed by the door of CC's welfare home; it is not difficult to infer that the renovation of this old farm should have started in 1945, and Einstein often came to supervise... It is unbelievable that after seven long years, there is no trace of renovation on this farm.
3. Einstein invited me to be a guest so sincerely, and showed that he really wanted to meet me again, but now he didn't go out to greet me, but he disappeared and stood me up... How can this not be the work of a great man?
Various things.
Everything is wrong.
Lin Xian is now more and more certain-
[There must be secret spaces such as hidden dark rooms and underground bases in this farm! 】
"I'll look for it again."
He turned around, walked around a few dilapidated huts, and walked towards the back of the farm.
...
At the same time.
New Jersey, Princeton, 112 Marshal Street, single-family house, study.
Einstein, who had fainted on the desk for three days and three nights, twitched, woke up from his coma, and slowly opened his eyes.
"I, I'm..."
He let out a long breath, supporting his temples with both hands.
Line.
Line.
Line, line, line, line...
In his brain, there are countless billions of lines!
These intricate lines are as thin as hair and as dense as bees, interweaving in his mind!
Each line seems to connect the future of different periods. He only needs to concentrate a little to see what is happening at any time, in any corner, around any person!
This is a feeling that is difficult to describe, but Einstein can clearly recognize it...
From [the moment he wakes up], he can see all the future! Everyone's future!
For example.
He had no idea how long he had been unconscious, but he knew that it was 14:28 on the afternoon of November 5, 1952.
There was no calendar in his room, but he could see the calendars of every family in the United States, the dates on every newspaper, and the time broadcast by the host on every TV.
"What on earth is going on?"
He was stunned, looking at the manuscript paper with the number 42 on the table.
All the strange phenomena started when he calculated the answer to the cosmological constant; from that moment to now, he had been unconscious for a total of three days, but he did not feel any hunger or thirst.
This was too abnormal!
He was a 70-year-old man, how could he withstand three days without food or water?
"What happened to my body? I..."
Einstein raised his head and looked at the mirror on the table.
He took a breath for a moment.
Blinked.
He couldn't believe the reflection in the mirror!
He raised his right hand tremblingly, picked up the mirror, looked at Einstein's shocked face, looked at the blue eyes that did not belong to him -
bright and crystal blue eyes.
It seemed that there was a glazed galaxy flowing slowly in his pupils.
"Blue?"
Einstein frowned.
His pupils were obviously brown, why did they inexplicably turn blue after three days of coma?
Recalling the blue light that illuminated the entire room before he fell into a coma, and the two small blue electric balls that appeared out of thin air...
"Could it be because of the two small blue electric balls?"
Einstein calmed his breath.
If.
The future scenes he saw in his mind were all real...
What will the future of mankind look like?
[Is it the same as Douglas said, that nuclear deterrence will form a long-term peace? ]
Or...
[As I have always worried, will mankind destroy itself because of uncontrollable forces? 】
Einstein closed his eyes and began to search for the farthest, farthest, farthest line in his mind, looking at the final future of mankind——
…
…
For a long time.
He sighed and opened his eyes.
His face became heavy and his expression became melancholy, as if he had aged dozens of years in an instant:
"It's a pity."
Einstein lowered his head:
"Douglas...you guessed wrong."