On the way to the hotel, Tina told me what had happened. It turned out that after Chen Cuihua returned to the Gila commune, everything seemed to be changing in the way she had guessed, and after a month, her body did not show any changes, and it was still the same as when she was outside. Just as she was about to leave the valley, away from the place where she had lived for more than fifty years, the cave reappeared.

With the fear of the unknown, she sent someone to cordon off the back of the valley, thinking about it, or preparing to report the matter to the state, and the state will deal with it.

At this time, Tina received a notice asking her to report to the secretary in person about the thoughts and behaviors of the project department personnel, so she asked her to come to me to ask the secretary to report the matter to the top.

"After all, I don't know the specific situation, so Changshenghua hopes that you will report the matter of Hilla Peak to the secretary, and contact the relevant departments to go to Hilla Commune as soon as possible. Tina said.

Early the next morning, I picked up Tina at the hotel and went to the unit to report on my work. Pointing out Tina's office to the secretary, I walked into the office of the crayon leader.

As always, the leader held his big belly with one hand and put the other on the table, looking at me with a serious expression. After reporting to work, I put the small box on his desk, he sneered, and said: "Don't think I don't know what you did in the project department, I know if you don't embezzle, and you don't lack money, but you have a set of buying people's hearts!"

I smiled and said: "Leader, I know that there is a little bit of a violation, but the flaws are not hidden, you see that the brothers have a high income, and their mood is smooth, how much faster are you than us than other project departments? "I thought to myself, Hans, my brother, I'm sorry, I have to betray you in order to get by.

"We're going to save this money and give everyone a bonus, and if you look at everyone's enthusiasm for their work now, even Tina screams every morning that she wants to take Kilimanjaro in three years and march into Kenya. I continued.

At this time, the phone on the leader's desk rang, and the leader picked up the phone, listened for a while, and said, "I'll call him over." He put down the phone and said to me, "Why did you bring that external employee back?" The secretary asked you to go over and report some information, did you kid mess with that black girl again?"

I hurriedly said: "No, no, the secretary asked her to come over to report on the ideological dynamics of the employees of the project department." "The leader looked me up and down for a while, and I was terrified. I was about to speak, but he said, "Go ahead, remember not to embarrass me." I hurriedly said, "No, no, no, I've learned my lesson." ”

Walking into the secretary's office, Tina was sitting upright listening to the secretary's teachings. "I don't treat you as a foreigner now, you are all our employees, and the reason why I call you in charge of ideological and political work is because your work is easier than others. The secretary kept educating her ideologically. Seeing me enter, the secretary stopped.

"Xiao Xu, come on, come on, sit, Tina go pour a cup of tea. He warmly asked me to sit down, and she winked at me as I passed Tina. I sat down tremblingly, put my hands on my lap, and said, "Secretary, are you looking for me?"

The secretary laughed, leaned back in the chair and said, "Xiao Xu, don't be nervous, don't be nervous, you didn't make any mistakes, you did very well in Tina's report." Small mistakes are inevitable, but how can people who are not saints and sages be infallible? After saying that, he took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and threw it to me, and took out one himself and put it in his hand.

I quickly pulled out my lighter and got up to light it for him. He took a puff, exhaled the smoke, and then said to me, "Tell me about the "secretary of the city." ”

I recounted the story of Château and the Commune of Sheila, omitting Tina's origins. Tina came in and put the teacup in front of me, and went again.

The secretary listened to my story with a serious expression, thought for a while, and said: "I don't approve of this matter, but what you did is right, we are all atheists, and it is correct to use science to explain some things that we don't understand." Make bold assumptions and be careful to verify them. ”

After a pause, he continued: "I can only report to my superiors, and report to the relevant departments through my superiors. But there is no guarantee that they will react, after all, we are only a state-owned unit, and this matter is really quite unbelievable. ”

Seeing that I was sitting and listening, he nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "Tina is an excellent international student recommended to us by the superior unit, the first time to China after joining our African project department, if you have time during your vacation, you will take her around, after all, she will soon become a regular employee of our overseas business department, you have to have a good relationship with her, don't be resistant to you because she usually manages you." ”

I hurriedly said: "No, no, no, I am the only *D* member of our project department, and I can't set up a branch, so what can I do without supervision?" And Comrade Tina's work is still very hard, which is worthy of praise, and I have listed her as a candidate for advanced workers this year in my work report. ”

The secretary nodded with satisfaction. I took this opportunity to quickly take out the small box and said, "Secretary, this is a small gift from the construction party when I was in Africa, which is equivalent to more than 100 yuan in our currency, but it is very practical, and I see that the craftsmanship is also very exquisite, so I want to ask for one more for you." ”

The secretary took the box expressionlessly and opened it, took out a beautifully carved ebony cigarette holder, estimated the price, laughed, and said, "You are clever, you know that I don't accept gifts on the limit, okay, if you have a heart, I will accept it." ”

When I walked to the office parking lot, Tina was standing next to my car waiting for me. I opened the car door and sat on it, without speaking. She got into the car and sat in the passenger seat and looked at me, and after a while, I said helplessly: "He agreed to report to the central government through the superior unit, but there is no guarantee of the result." ”

"Okay. Tina said, looking at the shade tree next to the parking space, and said leisurely, "I'm worried about her." I said, "She's eaten more salt than you've traveled, and she's so much better than you, so you need to worry about it." She lowered her head, her long hair on her long black thighs, and said softly, "You don't know her, she is the real goddess of immortal flowers, and a kind person like her should not be harmed in any way." ”

I remembered what Xiao Zeng told me, shrugged my shoulders, and said helplessly: "Okay, although she has nothing to do with me, I accept your evaluation of her." Where do you want to go? Back to the hotel?"

"Let's go to your house, I want to meet your son, I've only seen him on video before, I think he's cute. Tina smiled happily as if she remembered something. I know she must have remembered a video of me once getting drunk and helping me pick up my son, and being educated by my son's righteous words.

I took Tina back to the dormitory, and as soon as I opened the door, the stinky boy shouted in the room: "Xu Sansui, don't come in and disturb me, I'm thinking about something." Tina covered her mouth and winked at me with a smile. I took out the spare slippers and gave them to Tina, and said while changing them: "Don't be big or small, there are guests, not Uncle Fan, nor Aunt Fan's daughter-in-law." ”

"Huh!" came his voice of surprise from within, followed by the creaking of chairs against the floor, and then we saw our son in a tank top and shorts, kicking slippers out.

"Ahh "The stinky boy jumped up exaggeratedly like a monkey with its tail stepped on. I walked over and slapped him on the back of the head and said, "What are you doing, clean up, go and call Uncle Fan, Lao Fan's daughter-in-law and aunt, let's go out to eat at noon." ”

The son touched the back of his head and muttered, "I also said that there is no black aunt, isn't this the African one?" I raised my foot and wanted to kick it, but he ran towards the door with a smoke, shouting as he ran: "Aunt Fan's daughter-in-law, call Uncle Fan, my dad and Aunt Hei are going to invite guests to the restaurant." I turned around in embarrassment, and Tina was already laughing on the couch.

In the next few days, I accompanied my son and Tina to several scenic spots in the suburbs, to see the scenery, drink tea, and have a very comfortable time. Until I received a call from the secretary.

My son and I had just returned home from breakfast at the snack bar outside the market that morning, and we were sitting on the balcony staring at each other wondering where we were going to play with Tina. My phone rang.

Pressing the answer button, the secretary's voice came: "Xiao Xu, I'm sorry, the vacation has been canceled, you immediately pick up Tina and go to the airport together, the comrades from the State Science and Technology Bureau and the Institute of Physics are waiting for you there, you take the earliest flight to the end of the tea." ”

I hung up the phone helplessly and said to my son: "Son, you have to study hard, let others work everywhere in the future, and stay in the office to drink tea and smoke." The son rolled his eyes and said, "Let's go, let's go, when I have money, maybe I will travel all over the world, and I won't take you." I smiled and picked him up, shook him, and went to the bedroom to clean up.

When Tina and I arrived at the airport, the secretary and a few middle-aged people with serious expressions were already waiting for us in the departure hall, and after getting to know each other, we took the green channel and stepped on the latest plane to Chawei.

When we arrived at the end of the tea, it was already the afternoon of the next day, we simply washed up, ate in the canteen of the project department, and we got into the car with the heavily armed special forces fighters of the overseas base who had already arrived and headed for Hilla Peak.

Xiao Zeng, the captain of the security team of the project department, drove a pickup truck to lead the way, I sat in the passenger seat, and Tina had to share a car with us, so I had to let her sit in the back seat with us.

When the convoy reached the bottom of Hilla Peak, Qiao Zhijun in camouflage uniform and a helicopter were already waiting for us on the road.

I got out of the car, Qiao Zhijun gave me a big hug, and then said, "Changshenghua, please take a helicopter over first, and I'll take them on the mountain road." "When I turned to talk to the people behind me, the officer in charge of the unit said that he had called a helicopter and was not more than a few minutes late.

When we arrived at the small building behind the fountain, Chen Cuihua was already waiting for us there. I looked at her in camouflage and laughed, but she said lightly: "The first time in fifty years, just because I have been away from here for a year, can you guess what the reason is?"

I said, "I can't guess." As if she had expected me to say this, she turned to Tina and said, "What are you doing here?" Then he turned around and walked towards the back of the small building.

Walking down the path at the bottom of the valley, you soon saw another small valley that opened inward, and the bottom of the valley was the mouth of a cave with a black hole.

Barbed wire and sandbags were erected around the entrance of the cave in the small valley, and several pillars of snow-lit searchlight swept around the entrance. Dozens of black buddies wearing berets and camouflage uniforms are facing the entrance of the cave with machine guns, as if facing a great enemy.

"What a battle!" I said jokingly, looking at the scene in front of me.

Chen Cuihua glanced at me, turned his head to look in the direction of the cave, and said as if unintentionally: "Didn't you tell me all your speculation?"

I smiled and didn't speak. She didn't say anything more, just waited quietly.

When the team from the State Science and Technology Bureau and the Institute of Physics arrived, I raised my hand and looked at my watch, and it was exactly ten minutes since we entered the commune.

"You found out?" she said to me.

"It just confirms my suspicions. I said.

After arranging the instruments we brought, the expert who led the team walked to our side and said to Chen Cuihua: "Hello, I am Liu Guoping, working in the State Science and Technology Bureau. ”

Chen Cuihua ignored him, and I hurriedly said, "Liu Gong, do you see anything wrong here?"

Liu Guoping was a little embarrassed and said to me: "Mr. Xu, I can be sure that this is the entrance to a space-time singularity, and we have also found such a place in China, but this is the first time I have seen such a high quantum index." ”

I laughed and said, "We don't understand." He turned his head to Chen Cuihua and said, "That's right." She snorted, and I thought that was what I meant by agreeing with my words.

The officer of the special forces came over and said to Liu Guoping: "Chief Engineer Liu, it's too late now, can we go into the cave again tomorrow?"

Liu Guoping walked to the instrument and looked at it, and said, "I'm afraid not, quantum fluctuations are very unstable, I'm afraid that this space will collapse." We don't have much time. ”

I looked at Chen Cuihua, and she happened to look at me. I think she saw the wonder in my eyes too.

A squad of fighters jumped into the cave in battle formation, gun in hand. Xiao Zeng jumped next to me, I reached out and patted him on the shoulder and said, "You're retired." He lowered the muzzle of his gun, lowered his head and said, "Brother Xu, I know." ”

The officer turned back to me and said, "Mr. Xu, don't worry, our soldiers are all strictly trained, no problem." ”

Chen Cuihua pursed her lips and said nothing, staring directly at the entrance of the cave, not knowing what she was thinking.

I walked over to the side and sat down on a rock, lit a cigarette, and smoked as I looked at the straight Chen Cuihua standing and the busy crowd in front of me.

Suddenly, the crowd was in an uproar, and I saw the officer running quickly towards the entrance of the cave with the rest of the soldiers, and I hurried to Liu Gong, who was next to the instrument.

"What's wrong?" I asked. Liu Gong didn't answer, and handed me a headphone.

I put on my headphones, and there was a shrill shouting and rustling of electricity, and sometimes there were shouts and "thump" and "thump" sounds, which I could tell were gunshots and bomb explosions.

After a while, the soldiers helped and carried a few people out, Liu Gong and I walked forward, and the officer said to Liu Gong with a heavy face: "There are no dead people, the other party only fired after warning." ”

"Anyone in there?" I asked, surprised. "Let's go back and talk about it. Liu Gong also said with a heavy face.