Chapter 2: Meetings Through Time and Space
Qi Jingtao's exclamation echoed in the empty space of the main room, very high-pitched and terrifying. But this host room space is independent, soundproof, and specially built at a high price. His rare high-decibel exclamation could not have been heard out of the main engine room at all, and the armed police on duty downstairs who could support him at this time could not hear it at all.
Qi Jingtao, who was taken aback by his own shout, secretly hated that the construction party was too dedicated and couldn't make a sound at all. When accepting, you must find them trouble, even if you are picky in the egg, you must find some problems to embarrass them.
Run away? Don't be funny. He is the officer on duty, even if something really happens, he must see it clearly, and it is only after the fact that he is a responsible person. Wait, let's see it again,...... Oh, the face of the guy on the screen is not too hateful, and it still looks a little familiar?
The middle-aged man on the screen naturally took out a box of hard-shell cigarettes from the pocket of his somewhat old suit, skillfully popped one out, took it in his mouth, lit it, took a puff, and said peacefully in the fog: "Brother, you are not so daring, right? Don't scream, this voice is not good...... Hey, I'm not the guy you think I am. Oh, what year, month, day is it?"
Everything looks normal, like an old smoker. That box of cigarettes is still Tashan cigarettes that Qi Jingtao is very familiar with. It is the flagship product of Nantian Tobacco Group, and it is also his favorite since he learned to smoke. A familiar feeling appeared, and unconsciously, Qi Jingtao felt a burst of relief. The old smoker's stinky problem is committed, and when he sees others smoking, he also wants to smoke a cigarette. I touched my overalls pocket, but there was no smoke. By the way, smoking is prohibited in the central computer room, and in order not to make mistakes and be deducted by the leader, his cigarettes are still in the desk drawer before entering the computer room.
"April 1, 1996, is April Fool's Day. Qi Jingtao swallowed his saliva and unconsciously answered the question of the person on the screen, which was completely a knee-jerk reaction without going through his brain.
"It's okay, it's okay, it's still in time, it's still in time!" the middle-aged man on the screen seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and muttered softly.
"Hello, I'm not good. Dude, just say something, what's going on? Today is April 1st, it's true, man, you're a hacker, right? April Fool's Day is not popular in China! It is illegal to hack into the host of a state-owned enterprise. ”
Qi Jingtao thinks of himself as a standard atheist, a person appears on the screen of the host of the network system, and he can talk to him without speaker equipment, although this kind of thing is a bit ahead of the curve. At an inappropriate time and place, the appearance seemed a little weird, but it was not too beyond his cognition, and it didn't frighten him.
In these years, corpses can be dissected and analyzed at will, where the hell did it come from?
Besides, technology can do anything. The internal LAN of Nantian Tobacco Group has long been completed, and the appearance of a talking figure on the screen of a networked computer is no longer a problem.
The middle-aged man on the screen skillfully spit out a set of smoke rings and looked at Qi Jingtao fixedly. After a while, the middle-aged man moved, he took off a black ring from the finger of his left hand, and shook the black ring by himself. The strange thing is that there is an identical black ring on the finger of his left hand, I don't know what material, as if it has been removed, but it is just a phantom.
It wasn't until the middle-aged man seemed to have seen enough that he reluctantly raised his head and smiled at Qi Jingtao, who was in a daze: "Brother, don't care if I'm a hacker or not, whether it's April Fool's Day today." It's good that our brothers can meet. Fate, you know, the right thing happened at the right time, in the right place. Everything shows that our brothers have a fate. God still has eyes, put away this ring, and slowly realize it yourself!"
Middle-aged man on screen. He glanced at Qi Jingtao deeply, raised his hand and threw the ring at Qi Jingtao. Yes, it's really "thrown" over, that feeling. It's like watching a stereoscopic movie. The ring. Leaving the hand of the middle-aged man on the screen, he flew towards Qi Jingtao in a parabola. Qi Jingtao wanted to dodge, but he didn't have time to react at all, and he felt that there was something more on the middle finger of his left hand.
Hell, this time it's for sure, it's really hell.
Qi Jingtao stared dumbfounded at the black ring that appeared on the middle finger of his left hand. He believes that his understanding of network technology is not complete, but the general direction will not deviate too much. Network technology, when will it be possible to chat with real people on online video? And can it also transmit physical objects through online video?
It's not scientific, it's absolutely not scientific! It should be, it's definitely not in the category that science can explain. The Internet has just appeared, and the host room of Tiannan Tobacco Group has just been introduced. What can the Internet do? It's still a process of figuring out. Video chats may be possible, but physical delivery is not possible. If the physical transmission of the Internet can really be realized, the world will definitely be chaotic and collapse!
"Brother,...... Uncle...... Uncle, you, you...... What the hell are you? Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,...... Tong Yan Wuji, Tong Yan Wuji, who are you?" Qi Jingtao himself didn't know what state he was in now, and he didn't faint, which already showed that his nerves were thick enough.
"Brother, calm, calm...... To be honest, I don't know what's going on! I don't even understand what I should call you. Your current time is April 1, 1996, and fortunately, Sadako hasn't appeared yet, so she can't scare people to death. For the record, I am not a ghost, I am a human being, a living person like you. It's just that I'm on April 1, 2016. Brother, take a closer look, are the two of us a little similar, are we alone?" The middle-aged man on the screen looked at Qi Jingtao with a smile and said.
Sadako, what is that? Qi Jingtao didn't know, and he wasn't interested in knowing. But he can feel that the middle-aged man on the screen still smiles very peacefully and naturally, and he looks like a living person, not something gloomy and impersonal as deduced in film and television works. Moreover, he looked at himself with a very intimate feeling, as if a father looked at his son. Qi Jingtao can realize this feeling, that is definitely the feeling of a father looking at his son.
Qi Jingtao was with his father, and occasionally when he looked at his father, his father looked at him with this look. However, he is absolutely, definitely not his father, how can his father be so white, so fat, bald, and wear glasses to pretend to be Sven. At this point, Qi Jingtao can swear to any god.
Qi Jingtao looked at the man on the screen steadily, feeling very kind, and there was an indescribable and inexplicable connection. Qi Jingtao could feel that this middle-aged man was definitely related to him. If nothing else, that face, a few points shrunk is his own outline.
Moreover, his authentic dialect of the five regions of central Yunnan is his hometown. But he is a third-generation single biography, and judging by his age of about forty years, it is absolutely impossible for him to be the illegitimate son of his father who is only in his fifties. It's impossible for my father to have brothers, I've never heard of them, and those cousins who are closest to each other are not like this...... Wait, what does he call himself? Brother, yes, brother. Then, he will not be his own elder.
"Wait, uncle...... Brothers...... Big brother, what did you just say, what was it in 2016...... What does it mean?" Qi Jingtao still couldn't calm down, and he didn't know how to express it.
"Yes, in the 21st century, the online world is popular for trick crossing, watching others cross every day, doing this and that, and my heart is weird. No, we're on the way, although I didn't cross it myself. Crossing is a fashionable thing in my time, you may not have heard of it in 1996, but it's coming soon. 2016 is 20 years for you, so you don't need to explain this, right?
You just have to remember one thing – you are me, and I am you. What exactly is going on? How did it happen? I don't understand, I don't understand. Doesn't it mean that existence is truth? Don't care about the science of this thing. The world is complicated and helpless, and there are many things that science can't explain.
Oh, don't rush, don't rush...... Got it. Brother, the time is almost up, and someone is urging my brother to leave. All the secrets are in that ring, it should be a good thing, let's explore slowly, you slowly realize! The old brother's family will eat fragrant and spicy food in the future, or eat bran vegetables, it's up to you, bye-bye!"
The middle-aged man on the screen suddenly sped up his speech and disappeared suddenly, as if someone was urging him.
The screen flickered for a while and returned to its normal state, but poor Qi Jingtao crashed......