Chapter 1: A Hundred Years of Exploration
In the year 2099 A.D., at the beginning of December, the weather was slightly cold.
Dragon Country Kyoto.
"Report to Lee!"
"Say!"
"According to your instructions, the man has been brought!"
In a secret room, a middle-aged man wearing a military uniform with a Chinese face slowly turned around and looked at the young man in front of him, the same military uniform, standing straight and looking forward.
The middle-aged man tapped the table with his fingers a little uneasy, "How are people's emotions?"
"Reporting to Li, the mood is quite stable at present. ”
The middle-aged man nodded, hesitated, and said, "Call the king, let's go see him." ”
"Yes!", the young man gave a standard military salute and withdrew.
The middle-aged man thought for a while, picked up the phone on the table and dialed a number, and a somewhat lazy woman's voice came from the other party, "What's wrong?"
"Code 654217. Li Chu didn't have any other nonsense, and said directly.
The other party was silent for a while, and said slowly, "It's finally decided?"
"He is the only person in the database with a 100% soul fit, I know that my decision has been opposed by many people, after all, he is an orphan, powerless, without any background, and many people have their own ......", Li Chu was silent for a while, and said, "Thank you......"
"Oh, what's the matter? The sun is coming out of the west today, or is the end coming earlier than you expected?", a little playful voice came from the phone.
"I didn't mean anything else, I just let you know. After speaking, without waiting for the other party to reply, Li Chu hung up the phone, sighed softly, walked out the door, and said to himself, "I'm really old, I can't help but call her...... Forget it, I'd better have a headache with what these old bones do......"
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Cheng Tao, eighteen years old, orphan, grew up in an orphanage. Life is hard, fate is bumpy, these can't catch up. After all, it's 2099, and life is quite passable. Just after his 18th birthday, he planned to use the money he earned from his part-time job over the years to go out for a good trip, but unfortunately, he was knocked on the stick as soon as he left the house......
Some looked around helplessly, there was nothing in the whole room, only the iron bench under his buttocks, a little cold, his hands were still handcuffed on it, and there was an official desk and two office chairs in front of him, which looked like they were used by the inquisitor.
"When did the state organs do things so indecently, knocking people from behind?", Cheng Tao shook his still somewhat heavy head, thinking helplessly.
Just thinking about it, the door of the room was opened, and two middle-aged men in military uniforms came in first, and many black-clothed people came in behind, their faces were covered by clothes and hats, and they couldn't see clearly. The two people led to the table, and the people behind them were divided into two rows, and two rows of chairs rose on the ground, the kind without legs, which is a kind of magnetic levitation sofa chair that has just emerged in recent years, it is said that it is very comfortable to sit on, but it is more expensive, Cheng Tao's eyes couldn't help but glance twice, thinking that it was incomparable with the iron bench he was sitting on, thinking of this, he couldn't help but move his buttocks.
"Don't be nervous, my name is Li Guohua, you can call me Li. He pointed to the person next to him who was also wearing a military uniform, "His name is Wang Jing, you can call him Wang." ”
Cheng Tao looked at the faces of the two of them and searched around in his memory, and found that he didn't know these two people, so he said a little sneeringly: "I don't know if you believe it or not, in fact, I'm not very nervous......
Li Guohua looked around for a week and said, "No matter how you look at this formation, it looks like you're interrogating, why aren't you nervous?"
"Because I didn't do anything bad......"
"Well, as the old saying goes, it's not bad to be right and not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door...... At present, it feels like it is passable, such a big task is entrusted to you, after all, you have to check what you have done, and then you will know whether you have done anything wrong, I hope it will be done as you say. Li Guohua knocked on the table and said slowly.
"That...... Do you really want to investigate?", Cheng Tao said curtly, "Can confession reduce the punishment?"
Hearing him say this, the two rows of people behind them all bowed forward almost at the same time.
Li Guohua's hand also trembled, and two fine lights shot out of his eyes, pressing straight towards Cheng Tao, and said slowly: "Let's hear it." ”
"I really didn't mean to watch the dean's daughter take a bath, did ...... It was her, she didn't draw the curtains. I just took a look. I swear......! Two eyes at most!", Cheng Tao hurriedly argued.
"That's it?"
"I ...... That's all I can think of, is the nano intelligence worm of this state agency already so powerful?"
"Nano intelligence insects are all listening to those leaders, which onion do you think you are?", Wang Jing really couldn't listen to it anymore, and said with a glare.
Li Guohua suddenly felt a little funny, he could imagine the wonderful expressions of the people in the back two rows, but they were all hidden in the dark, destined to be invisible.
Okay, let's get down to business. Li Guohua gave Wang Jing a look. Wang Jing knocked on the table. A small hole appears in the middle of the table, and a 3D image is projected. It is a lamp holder, like an ancient oil lamp more than 2,000 years ago.
Cheng Tao looked at the image in front of him with some curiosity, blinked his eyes and said, "What kind of antique is this?
Li Guohua smiled slightly, "It is quite valuable, it can be said that in the past 100 years, almost all the manpower and material resources of our country have been invested in this lamp." ”
Cheng Tao couldn't believe it, "That's it?"
"That's right, that's it, it's called 'Green Lantern'. Wang Jing said with some pride.
"What do you think? Just this broken lamp, you want to spend 100 years to pour out the strength of the whole country?", Cheng Tao's eyes widened, looking at the ancient lamp in front of him, which was not surprising.
Li Guohua looked at Cheng Tao and slowly leaned back in the chair, sighed and said: "About 80 years ago, the theory at that time was already proposing that when something can exceed the speed of light, then it can travel through. But after a long search, no one could find any material to pass through, until one day someone came up with a theory. Li Guohua pointed to his brain, "Thinking, thinking or soul." He believed that the human mind is an existence that can transcend the speed of light, so the human mind can recall the past, experience the present, and foresee the future. In the world of thinking, the mind is unfettered, it can go from infinity to infinity, infinitely small to infinitely large, and it can transcend time. This was his initial theory, which aroused the interest of a group of people at that time, so they found him and established the Soul Research Institute together, which is currently under the military of our country, and is the highest secret base, and I am the current supreme commander of the base. As we continue to study his theories, we find that the human soul is a special field, and once it leaves the human body, it will cease to exist when our research reaches a bottleneck...... The extraterrestrial probe has brought us a great gift, we have found a substance in space, this substance is very suitable for the soul, we named it the soul stone. ”
"It preserves the soul?"
"No, it can take out the soul ......"
"What's the point of that?"
"We took out the souls of animals and edified them. Looking at Cheng Tao's strange eyes, Li Guohua said slowly, "You don't have to look at us with this kind of eyes, the progress of human beings is always exchanged for a lot of sacrifices, we are full of energy in the soul of education, so that it is more active, and in the end we succeeded, we used our souls to see a corner of the future world......"
"What do you see?"
"The end of the world. ”
Cheng Taoteng stood up suddenly, but he forgot that his hands were handcuffed, he was stuck, and sat back with grinning. Li Guohua looked at the handcuffs, clapped his hands, and came in and untied Cheng Tao's handcuffs.
"What the hell is going on? Humanity has destroyed itself?"
"It shouldn't be human. No...... How to put it, we may have been destroyed by other civilizations. ”
"Aliens?"
"We can't really see it, we can only see a corner. It's a little ridiculous, we seem to see magic, anti-physics, what is described in the novel. We can only speculate on a few things. ”
"So what are you looking for me to do?"
"You are the person in our database whose soul is most suitable for this soul stone. ”
"And then?"
"In later experiments, we used our souls to seem to peek into another world. Very vague outline, we found that there is a connection between the soul and the soul, and this theory also happens to explain that some people or some extremely great people in ancient times always appeared in a group, and their souls were mutually influencing, and this distance could be infinitely far away, without the boundaries of space, so we put forward another theory, the soul can be traversed. ”
"So?"
"We have chosen you, the only one with a 100% fit, to plant a seed for the future apocalypse, or for the future earthlings. ”
"It's a little ridiculous, but can I understand it this way, you, want me?", Cheng Tao pointed to his nose, "Time travel to another world?"
"It seems that you are not very stupid, and my heart is a little relieved now. Li Guohua leaned back.
"Don't ...... Don't, don't let your heart down, I'...... I, you see what else I have, it doesn't meet your qualifications, and I try to satisfy you. Cheng Tao was a little incoherent, "My God, if the creatures of the other world are all disgusting creatures, how can you let me live?"
"If that's the case, you should be glad you did. Li Guohua said lightly.
Cheng Tao looked up at Li Guohua, a little confused.
"If the dominant creature of another world were human...... Well, there is only one explanation, and this universe is likely to be created in a human-like way by a single being. Li Guohua's eyes flashed with some strange brilliance, and his finger pointed to the empty ceiling.
Cheng Tao's eyes kept moving back and forth between the ceiling and Li Guohua's face, thinking if he was joking? But he only saw the serious expression on Li Guohua's face, and swallowed his saliva unconsciously.
Li Guohua sat up slightly straighter and stared at Cheng Tao's eyes, "This possibility is very high." So...... Do you have any other concerns?"