Chapter 264: A Dialogue with the Past
When exactly did the history of your world start to go wrong?
This sentence is a strange question.
From Jiang Chen's point of view, the historical direction of this world is strange in every sense.
Hua was able to reach a consensus with a group of Southeast Asian hooligans and gangsters such as Vietnam and the Philippines, as well as the disobedient Southern Dynasty and the acrobatic Ah San, to establish the Pan Asian Cooperation Organization (PAC), which includes 60% of the world's total population, to compete with NATO and the Soviet Union (CCCP).
For Jiang Chen, a good young man in the new era who occasionally watches the news and pays attention to the current situation, it is almost an unimaginable picture.
"Maybe the collapse of the Soviet Union?" Jiang Chen thought for a moment, "I remember it was 1991. In our world, the USSR lived less than 70 years. ”
Because of the early end of the bipolar pattern, the Third World did not experience a run-in period of survival in the cracks? Jiang Chen is not an expert in sociology, and he can only make this level of conjecture.
"The collapse of the USSR? I can't imagine it at all," Lin Ling pinched her chin and frowned.
"Speaking of which, are we digressing?" Jiang Chen coughed and said softly.
"No," Lin Ling shook her head, "Do you know how subcrystals are formed?" ”
"Xenomorphs, some of the creatures in the back of the zombies' heads?" Jiang Chen didn't know why she asked about this common sense out of her mind again.
"That's right, subcrystals are a biological crystal." Lin Ling nodded, "According to the conclusion of Dr. Crain's experiment in 2132, there are Crainn particles in every conscious carbon-based life. But in general. This energy tends to be stable and is normally very low. ”
Hearing that every creature had Crainn particles in its body, Jiang Chen subconsciously reached out and touched the back of his head.
"Don't be nervous. Not every living thing has that kind of 'brain tumor'. Unless there is an uncontrollable mutation that causes the area of the organism where the Craint particles are stored to become cancerous, it is possible to condense subcrystals, and the energy in the steady state will be excited to become unstable. Since organisms with subcrystals are more likely to survive natural selection, xenomorphs that come out of a nuclear crater tend to carry subcrystals. Lin Ling looked at Jiang Chen's movements and teased.
"According to the unplaning experiment, usually. The area where the Craint particles are stored is immediately adjacent to the cerebral cortex. ”
Speaking of this, Lin Ling stopped and took a deep breath.
"Hypothetical I mean hypothetical. If there is a person, the amount of Krain particles in the back of his head is much higher than that of a normal person. Although the subcrystals have not yet been condensed, the Craint particle content is infinitely close to the threshold for condensation of subcrystals. The probability of developing this genetic mutation is low, but in a population base of several billion. But it's very likely. ”
"By some kind of strong action. It's like a magnet magnetizes iron, allowing his brain to pick up signals from other timelines. Then his whole person is like an old-fashioned antenna mast, although he does not have the ability to send signals, but he can passively receive signals from other radio stations. Normally, this signal can only come from the future! ”
Hearing this, the expression on Jiang Chen's face also became solemn, but then he noticed that something was wrong.
"Antennas? No, the brain is not a desolver after all, if only an antenna is inserted in the head. Even if you receive electromagnetic waves, you can't turn the "
Lin Ling shook her head.
"Theoretically, yes. The area where the Craint particles are stored is part of the brain. If the person who receives this signal happens to be asleep, this special wave acting on the Craint particle will be translated into the form of a dream and 'seen' by the receiver of the signal. ”
"This kind of experiment has been done in the past before, but because it is difficult to locate the four-dimensional coordinates, it has always been meaningless to broadcast the signal back billions of years ago. Later, the experiment was halted due to the fact that the butterfly effect could have uncontrollable effects on the 'now'. The more advanced technology is, the more likely it is that human beings will play to their death. ”
Speaking of this, Lin Ling looked at Jiang Chen helplessly.
"But now it seems that this worry is completely unnecessary."
Jiang Chen, an "ancient man", stood in front of her. The interfered "past" does not have any impact on the "present", but only evolves another historical trend parallel to the "present" from the point in time of the interference.
"Time travel, except for you, a special case that I can't explain, without the help of wormholes, even if you exert the power of the entire civilization, you can't send even a grain of sand from the present to the past."
Lin Ling took out the memory chip from the card slot of the holographic computer.
"It's just too expensive to send mass to another point in the timeline. But what if it is a massless substance that is being transported? It's just a 52kb signal, which is enough to do it with the pre-war level of technology, and the trouble is just how to position it"
As she spoke, Lin Ling returned the memory chip of the EP to Jiang Chen's hand and looked at her with a very serious gaze.
"What would someone do if they received a signal from the 'future'?"
What happens if a signal from the future is received?
Leaving Lin Ling's room, Jiang Chen had been thinking about this question.
However, what exactly will be done depends on what the message is conveyed in the signal of the 'future people', right?
If it's the lottery code for tomorrow, then that person will undoubtedly buy a lottery ticket. However, people in the future will obviously not be bored enough to remember the password of which lottery in the past, and send that information to the past at such a great cost.
"Changing history?" Jiang Chen muttered to himself and returned to the bedroom and lay down on the bed.
If CCCP and PAC had been strangled in infancy from the beginning, would it have been possible to prevent the outbreak of World War III in 2171?
But for now, the person who sent the signal to the past is clearly doing useless work.
Nothing has changed in this world.
What moves is nothing more than another unrelated parallel line.
Thinking so, Jiang Chen started the crossing.
The scenery in the line of sight changed, and the daylight outside the window suddenly warmed up.
It was already noon, and by this point Aisha was clearly already up in bed.
Pushing open the bedroom door, Jiang Chen walked towards the living room.
Seeing Jiang Chen coming over, Aisha, who was sitting on the sofa in the living room flipping through fashion magazines, put down the magazine in her hand and got up to greet her.
"Someone came looking for you just now."
"Someone looking for me? Who? ”
Jiang Chen stretched and said.
"He identified himself as Mr. Chen and called our room at the hotel front desk."
Mr. Chen?
It seems to be Roberts's business partner in Los Angeles, and he has some status in Hong Kong. On the way to Xiangjiang, this Mr. Chen also helped him a lot.
Jiang Chen still has some impressions of this person.
"And now? Where is he? ”
"I told him you were still sleeping. He asked me to tell you when you woke up, and he was waiting for you in the café in the lobby on the first floor. Aisha said softly. (To be continued......)