In the conference room of the office building of the Hilla Commune, Chen Cuihua sat at the top and said nothing. Liu Gong and the officer and I smoked cigarettes and didn't speak. Qiao Zhijun came in with a tea tray and put a cup of tea in front of everyone.

After being silent for a while, Liu Gong smiled at me and said, "Let's do it first." I nodded, looking at Chen Cuihua with questioning eyes.

Chen Cuihua bowed slightly, and said: "The situation here should have been reported to you, and I won't repeat my life experience." After speaking, he looked at Liu Gong.

Liu Gong nodded and said, "I was tasked with understanding the bizarre phenomena here and making scientific observations. ”

Chen Cuihua nodded and said, "After I returned here, I went to the bottom of the valley, and the entrance to the cave did not appear at that time, but I still had people block it." With that, she looked at me, and I nodded slightly.

She continued: "A month later, the officer on duty told me that the hole had suddenly appeared. I sent someone in to check it out, but he didn't come back. He went in with a walkie-talkie, but the surveillance personnel didn't hear anything. It was as if he had suddenly disappeared. ”

With that, she looked at me, then buried her head again, and the hand on the table shook slightly, and I knew what she was thinking.

After a while, she looked up, and her face regained its composure. "That's it," he said. ”

Liu Gong turned his head to the officer and asked, "Have you collected the information you entered?" ”

The officer said, "Yes." Then he thought about it, seemed to sort out his thoughts, and said: "According to the wounded soldier's report, the outer hole of the cave is about 100 square meters, and there is an iron gate locked with an iron lock in the innermost place. "I looked at Chen Cuihua, but she didn't look at me.

"The soldiers picked the lock of the door, and when they entered, they found a small hole of about 20 square meters, and the place where the small hole was directly opposite the door was a straight passage, and there was no door. The officer continued.

Liu Gong picked up the teacup, blew the foam gently, took a shallow sip, looked at Chen Cuihua and smiled, and continued to listen to the officer's story.

"About a kilometer along the passage, there was a cave that looked exactly like the small cave on this side, and then again, there was another cave that was exactly the same as the big cave in front of it, but there was no iron gate. The officer continued.

"How do they know that these two holes are exactly the same as the previous ones?" asked Liu Gong.

"Because there are several peculiar volcanic rock pillars on the cave wall, hanging down, the warriors can judge from the appearance. The officer replied.

"Go ahead. Liu Gong said.

"When they walked out of the hole, they found that the hole was also blocked by barbed wire and sandbags, and as soon as they appeared, they issued a warning in Chinese and started shooting. The opponents used rifles, machine guns and grenades, and the fire was not strong, but because the hole was narrow, the fighters had to retreat. That's it. After the officer finished speaking, he took a sip of tea from the teacup and looked at Liu Gong quietly.

Liu Gong smiled and said to Chen Cuihua, "Is there anything you want to say about Ms. Chen?"

Chen Cuihua said coldly: "What else do you say when you know everything?"

Liu Gong smiled and said: "You don't know that it is our soldiers who come out, and those who don't know are not guilty." ”

Chen Cuihua still said expressionlessly: "Thank you." ”

"But I want to know when this happened?" Liu Gong then asked.

"About fifty years ago, it was at war. Chen Cuihua said.

"Okay, what do you think about next?" Liu Gong then asked.

Chen Cuihua looked at me and said blankly: "Since you have reported to the country, let me obey the country." If I could, I would like the state to give me the status of an ordinary citizen. ”

"I'll report it. Liu Gong stood up with a smile, shook my hand first, and said, "I won't explain it to Mr. Xu, this situation has appeared several times in Mr. Xu's novels." ”

I smiled awkwardly and said, "I made it up." ”

Liu Gong said with a smile: "Your imagination is very valuable, and we scientific and technological workers often read your novels, which is very beneficial to our research. ”

After shaking hands, he turned to Chen Cuihua and said, "The situation here is more complicated, I want the comrades of the special combat team to stay, do you think it's okay?"

Chen Cuihua said: "Yes, I will arrange it." Then he walked straight out the door.

Back at the apartment of the project department, it was already late at night. When I opened the door, I was surprised to see that Cuihua was already waiting for me on the sofa in the room in a lilac dress.

"Can't wait?" I said, taking off my coat.

"It's easy to be ambiguous, but I don't disagree. After all, I lied to you, and I did pull you into this matter because I read your novels, as long as you don't mind that I'm an eighty-year-old woman. She actually laughed, and two shallow dimples appeared on the young and beautiful face.

"I don't mind! Tina won't mind. I said with a smile.

"Hooligans!" she blushed, as if she had forgotten that she had stirred up the topic a few seconds earlier. But soon regained his calm expression.

I walked over to the sideboard, poured two glasses of red wine, walked over to the couch, handed her one and one on the coffee table, and sat down to look at her.

"You should have guessed it. She said.

"Not quite. Are you going to tell me?", I said with a smile.

"Do you want to hear that?" she asked rhetorically.

"I don't want to hear it if it's a little dark. But it's good fiction material, and you know that's what I love about it, so I'm struggling with it. I continued to laugh.

"Well, I'll start when I came to the tribe. She ignored me. Reaching out and brushing a few hairs in front of her, she thought for a moment and began her story.

More than fifty years ago, when the young Chen Cuihua came to the valley with a book of old man's quotations and a medical kit on his back, he really couldn't imagine that there was such a place in the world.

At that time, the tribe was dirty, poor, ignorant, and backward, and the people of the tribe did not have enough to eat, did not have enough clothing, and were cruelly oppressed by the chief and his personal guards. The old sorcerer, known as the Prophet, was unable to move and took refuge in that small house made of mud and thatch every day to receive prayers.

The chieftain reluctantly agreed to the medical team to send people into the valley after being coerced and induced by the local government. Just when they met the chief, the chief actually had ill intentions towards the young and beautiful Chen Cuihua, and he bluntly told Chen Cuihua that he had the right to the first night of every girl in the valley. The two warriors were arrested before they could react, and Chen Cuihua was also sent to the chief's filthy residence by the chief.

But who is Cuihua? She grew up with contempt, bullying, and abuse, which cultivated her tenacious and sensitive nerves, knowing that she fled to Africa because she killed people. With a scalpel with her, she easily cut the rope and killed the drunken chief as soon as he stepped into the room.

When she was burned at the stake by the chief's son and his guards, the old wizard finally appeared, and he knelt down and shouted the name of the immortal flower to Chen Cuihua, and told him that he had to be baptized by him to become the son of the old chief, Chen Cuihua was the "immortal flower", the spokesman of God, although this is the place of God's forsaken, but the spokesman of God cannot be blasphemed.

So Chen Cuihua was placed under house arrest in this small valley at the bottom of the valley, and that cave was her residence and infirmary. Here she treated the people of the tribe, delivered births to mothers, and gradually gained the respect of the tribesmen. The tribesmen told her that the government had come to look for her, but because she was an "immortal flower", the chief did not approve of her leaving.

The reason is simple, this tribe comes from the realm of the gods and was once a servant of the gods. In the war of the gods countless years ago, the gods that this tribe followed were defeated, and the gods abandoned them and returned to the gods alone, leaving them to suffer here, so the chief thought that she had to communicate with the gods here, waiting for the sons of the gods to come and lead them back to the land of origin.

As she struggled to escape from here, the old wizard and his supporters launched a divine war.

There have always been two factions in the tribe, one is the anti-god faction represented by the chief, who advocates killing back to the god realm and fighting against the gods. The other faction is the appeasement faction represented by the old wizard, who advocates talking to God, obtaining God's forgiveness, and returning to God's domain to continue to be God's servant.

Hearing this, I couldn't help but interrupt her and say, "Is there really a god?"

She smiled and said, "Judging from their cognition, there is. ”

I smiled and said, "Okay." ”

She picked up her glass, took a sip of wine, took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her mouth, and continued her story.

Treiss had walked on the corpses of the new chief and his escort to meet the old wizard. The old wizard gave her and the two warriors two choices, one was to leave the place in three years and return to their own lives. The second is to stay and become a true God.

Chen Cuihua and the two warriors said that they wanted to leave immediately without thinking about it, but the old wizard said that because the power of the gods was used in the divine war, the consequences of rashly leaving the valley were unpredictable, so they could only leave the valley after three years.

"You know the rest of the story, I didn't hide it from you about the war that lasted for three years, the reason was that the government of that time and space wanted to recruit soldiers and raise taxes in the tribe, it was me and two warriors who led the tribe to resist, they sacrificed for the tribe, and the monument on the square was for them and the soldiers who died in the war for a few years. She looked at the red wine on the coffee table and said quietly.

"What happened when the old wizard reappeared?" I asked.

Three years later, the old wizard reappeared, and the war ended abruptly, as if it had never happened.

This time the old wizard took Chen Cuihua to the cave behind the Jedi in the valley, in the cave, the old wizard told her that this cave can lead to the realm of the gods, but it can only be reached under the leadership of the gods, otherwise it will lead to the end of the world, which is the place that the gods hate, and Chen Cuihua has now entered the cave, he is already a god, and after speaking, he performed the miracle of waving his hand to appear in the starry sky.

She did not believe in God, but she was still so shocked by the miracles of the old wizard that she continued to try to explain it with science in the days that followed.

"But that cave is a Klein bottle, nothing more than a Klein bottle located at the intersection of time and space in parallel space. There are no gods at all, and there are no gods, they are just legends. Speaking of this, Chen Cuihua stretched out her hand and put it in her hair to comb it, and laughed.

"Not necessarily. I said.

"What happened today happened in the war fifty years ago, did they know what happened before and deliberately show it to me today?" said Chen Cuihua with a mocking voice.

"Because even if the old wizard uses a trick, it still can't explain the fact that you can still appear in the starry sky and you are not old when you wave your hand. I said.

She fell into deep thought, and after a while muttered, "Is there really a god?"

I laughed and said, "I have a friend who came from an unknown place, but she can do your kind of miracles, and then she also disappeared, and she said she was a shadow." I think she's a time-traveler, a time-traveler of quantum teleportation. Think about it now, now that we travel back to ancient times, will the ancients think that we are gods?"

Chen Cuihua was silent, and after a while, she raised her head and said, "So you still think I'm Schrödinger's cat, constantly quantizing and reorganizing entities?"

"Yes. Actually, you guessed it yourself, so you will send Tina and the other young people out of the valley. I said.

Without waiting for her to answer, I continued, "And the result of today's test is that the quantum indicators of the cave are very unstable, which should be caused by your long-term absence there." ”

"You mean I'm the stabilizing factor of that invisible machine?" she said in horror.

"I guess. At most, you should be the source of energy for that machine, or the target to be detected. Only if you are there, the valley is a stable existence, and if the machine can't detect you, it will start an unstable program, and the consequences cannot be expected, but there is a high probability that it may be the space collapse that Liu Gong said today. Of course, I can't guess the time of this test, but based on the time of the cave's appearance, I can roughly know that the time will not be less than a year. ”

She thought for a moment and said, "So the cave appeared fifty years ago because the old wizard wanted to turn me into him. ”

I nodded, picked up the wine, shook it, and took a sip.

"Then how do you explain Tina and Qiao Zhijun? It's true that they traveled through time and space, but why didn't they become old wizards or me?" Chen Cuihua was a little crazy, not like a person who had gone through fifty years of ups and downs.

"There are a lot of possibilities. For example, if I write a martial arts novel, I will write like this, only those who are gifted can bear the energy of passing on gong, if I write science fiction novels, I will write that only those whose brain domain reaches a certain capacity can be accepted by people in the four-dimensional space, and if it is a Xianxia novel, it is said that only people who do a lot of good deeds can become immortals. I said with a smile.

"You do...... Quite a jerk. But you're right, why am I bothered?" she muttered as she put her hand on her forehead.

"I have to go back to the valley once a year?" she asked again.

"I really don't know this, I suggest you cooperate with Liu Gong and their research, after all, they are professional. I said noncommittally.

"Before I came, Liu Gong received a phone call saying that China welcomes me to restore my nationality and identity. She said softly.

"It's good for both of you, you know it's not just the Science and Technology Bureau, it's the country. I laughed.

"But I don't have any relatives in the country anymore. She was a little melancholy when she said this.

"Tina will soon become a full-time employee of our company's overseas division, which means that she will be able to become a naturalized citizen if she wants to. I laughed.

She laughed too, raised her glass and said, "No matter what, you are my forever friend." ”

I raised my glass and touched it with her, then drank it down.

Putting down the glass, I smiled and said, "Only friends?" She lifted the corner of her skirt and raised one foot and kicked it at me.

The next morning, I noticed a note on the coffee table, opened it, and it read, "We are friends." ”

Putting down the note, I walked to the window and looked at the snowy tops of Kilimanjaro in the distance, as if I saw a golden strip behind the snowy tops, leading to the end of the world.