The next morning, Wang Yige left for Beijing, and Wang Hongwen, director of the county education bureau, personally drove Lin Ping and Wang Yige's father to the Linxi train station to see him off.

"How are you going? Are you also taking the train all the way to Beijing this time?" asked Wang Hongwen as he drove the car.

"Uncle Wang, I took a flight from Jia'an to Beijing. Wang Yige replied.

"Alas, Yige, don't take a plane, how scary the plane is. Wang Yige's father said next to him, "Dad, you should change it to a train." ”

Wang Yige's father has the psychology that many ordinary people have, that is, he always feels that the plane is unsafe, and he lacks stability when he leaves the ground under his feet.

Wang Yige said with a smile: "It's okay, I also took a plane when I came back from Beijing last time." ”

Wang Hongwen also said with a smile: "The plane is very safe and convenient, it takes two or three hours to fly from Jia'an to Beijing, if you take the train, it will take two or three days, how tiring." ”

Wang Yige's father rubbed his hands a little helplessly and said, "Two days ago, I heard that there was a plane crash of Malaysia Airlines or something...... Listen to that person, Xin Ming said, hundreds of people on a plane are gone...... Weird and scary ......"

As soon as Wang Yige's father said this, the car fell into a short silence and silence, and several other people didn't know what to say for a while.

Wang Yige smiled and said: "It's okay, Dad, the probability is very small, much smaller than the probability of an accident on a train or car, and besides, I have to take a plane from Beijing to South Africa, so I can't give up food because of choking." ”

Wang Yige's father fell silent, he couldn't understand what his son was saying because he was choking, and his hands were constantly rubbing to show his uneasy emotions.

At this time, Lin Ping smiled and said, "It's okay, Uncle Wang, don't worry, Yige will definitely be fine." ”

Then the car fell silent again, the four of them did not speak, Wang Hongwen stared ahead and drove his car intently, Wang Yige and his father each looked out of their windows, and Lin Ping, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was also looking out the window and pondering.

And Lin Ping's contemplation is because of the "Malaysia Airlines crash" a few months ago, Lin Ping has been very busy, busy with school work, so he doesn't care much about the outside world, just occasionally watch the news, until that day, Lin Ping suddenly saw the news of the "Malaysia Airlines MH370" crash, the whole person was stunned, at that moment he realized that although he came to this world, but the world is still continuing to advance according to the trajectory that happened in the past, at least he does not have the ability to change the trajectory of the world's development now, although there is " The "butterfly effect" exists, but the effect produced by his butterfly is still very weak, or it takes time for the butterfly effect produced by "education" to work.

After all, "ten years of trees, a hundred years of people".

And because of the "Malaysia Airlines" incident, Lin Ping was thinking about whether he could use his own strength to prevent disasters that could happen in the future, but he received a long-lost system warning, and the system clearly told him that this kind of behavior and practice is prohibited, and Lin Ping can only change education by himself, but cannot be a "prophet" savior.

The system told Lin Ping more clearly that if Lin Ping prevented a given disaster from happening, then there would be a bigger disaster to replace the established disaster.

The system said such a paragraph or a question to Lin Ping, which completely dispelled Lin Ping's intention to be a "prophet" and "savior":

"If you don't say it, and if you don't know about it, then it will happen, and your conscience may be condemned, but if you say it and want to stop it, then it won't happen, and you will be questioned and reviled and even imprisoned. You can't change a lot of things that you did before you crossed over, the only way to do that is to educate and then change the world. ”

Now that Wang Yige's father was talking about "Malaysia Airlines" in the car again, Lin Ping remembered the warning the system had given him before, and looked at the street trees outside the window that kept falling backwards, Lin Ping said, "Let me ask you a question?"

"What's the problem?" Wang Yige asked curiously.

"Philosophical questions. Lin Ping said.

Wang Hongwen laughed: "What kind of philosophical question, President Lin said to listen to it." ”

Lin Ping pondered for a while and said: "There is a train with five hundred passengers on board, which is about to depart the next day, but the night before departure, you had a dream, dreaming that this train had an accident and all the people on the train were gone, this dream is very real, like a prophecy. ”

The other three people all looked at Lin Ping strangely, especially Wang Yige's father, frowning and not knowing what Lin Ping meant at all.

Lin Ping continued: "And you have two choices. ”

"The first option is to do nothing, if you don't have this dream, then the train will inevitably have an accident, and all 500 people will die, and none of them will survive; the second choice is to do everything you can to tell the railway office, the police station, and the people who take the train, to persuade and stop them from taking this train, but no one listens to you, and the train will continue to move as usual, and as a result, the train will definitely not have any accidents, and all 500 people will arrive at their destination in good condition, and you will be ridiculed, abused, and even imprisoned for it. What will you do?"

"If you don't say it, this train will inevitably have an accident, and 500 people will die, and if you say it, this train will definitely not have an accident, but you will have an accident, right, Mr. Lin?" Wang Yige took Lin Ping's question very seriously, which sounded ridiculous.

"Yes. Lin Ping nodded.

"I ...... I think I should be able to say it......" Wang Yige said after thinking for a moment and hesitating.

"Teacher Lin, what kind of question are you talking about is too profound, I don't understand the things of your cultural people, and I answered incorrectly...... I won't make jokes......" Wang Yige's father smiled awkwardly and said, "But Yige is about to take the train, and I'm sorry to hear your question." ”

Lin Ping smiled and said, "No, Uncle Wang, don't worry about thinking, blame me, I just was thinking blindly and said this casually." ”

There was a brief silence in the car, and then Wang Yige, who was sitting in the back seat, patted Wang Hongwen's shoulder and asked curiously, "Hey, Uncle Wang, you haven't answered Teacher Lin's question yet, will you say it?"

Wang Hongwen laughed and said, "Say, why don't you say it!"

"If you say that there will be no accidents on the train, and you are creating panic, spreading rumors, losing your official position, and even being considered a madman, do you really want to say it?" Lin Ping asked.

Wang Hongwen was silent for a while, and then glanced at Lin Ping with a little displeasure in his eyes, but he still said with a smile: "Comrade Lin Ping, don't complicate simple problems, and don't keep thinking about these illusory and unreal things. ”

Lin Ping laughed heartily and said: "My fault, Director Wang, it's just a blind thought, seeing that we are too boring, just talk about it casually to relieve everyone's boredom, this is a false proposition, I talk too much." ”

Wang Hongwen smiled with relief and said: "Your question is still a bit worth thinking about, but it has no practical significance and is not worth discussing." ”

"Yes, Director Wang is right. Lin Ping said with a smile.