The conversation ended, and the room fell into an eerie silence.

Huang Stone took a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it. The dark red flame shone under the incandescent light for a few seconds, and the entire smoke burned out visibly to the naked eye. A minute later, Huang finally exhaled the smoke that filled his lungs.

The off-white smoke was filtered by his lungs for almost all colors. The dimly colored smoke slowly drifted up along the snow-white ceiling and was eventually carried away by the night breeze outside the window.

The guard, who was guarding the door, pushed open the door and delicately placed an ashtray in front of Huang Stone. He brought a pot of tea from the plate he dragged in his left hand and filled the empty teacups in front of the captain and Huang Stone. Then he turned around and walked up to me, bowed slightly, and handed me a cup of tea.

I smiled and nodded in acknowledgement as he turned around and closed the door.

The captain picked up his teacup and drank a little. In the smoke swirling under the lamp, his expression was a little hazy: "Comrade Huang, I don't know when you came to this world." ”

"I thought you'd all figured it out." Huang Stone's expression was mixed, with a mixture of mockery and faint excitement. He casually extinguished the remaining half of the cigarette in the ashtray, leaned forward, and the shadow cast by his strong body extended to the captain: "I'm from... 2009, oh, a distant era. ”

"If your dad told you the details of when they came, you should remember me." He shrugged, a self-deprecating look on his face, and lit another cigarette: "Of course, it's more likely that I've long forgotten." ”

"I went into the wormhole by boat with your father's group. While traveling through time and space, I was unexpectedly thrown into a turbulent current and came to Guangning alone in the forty-sixth year of Wanli. Oh, you don't know, I almost died in that cold winter. ”

The captain lowered his head slightly and said, "Governor Zhu Mingxia mentioned you, Comrade Huang. They did have a person named Huang on their roster, but that person was called 'Huangshi'. ”

"I'm Yellowstone." Huang Stone, or Yellowstone, interrupted him. "Stone, it's just the English pronunciation of 'stone'."

"I didn't expect your father to have smooth sailing after they came, and now he is a powerful veteran. And I'm just a small warlord under a big warlord. ”

Huang Stone suddenly raised his head, and his eyes revealed a deep light: "As you said, everyone else came to the Ming Dynasty fifty years ago, and now they should be seventy or eighty years old. ”

I put the teacup in my hand on the chair next to me and said softly, "Governor Zhu Mingxia, he looks less than fifty years old now. ”

Huang Stone turned his head to look at me steadily, and the captain spoke: "All the traversers, their bodies have changed. They age at half the rate of normal people. Fifty years have passed since the crossing, but the metabolic speed of their bodies has only passed twenty-five years. In other words, Zhu Mingxia, who crossed over at the age of twenty-three, is now only forty-eight years old. ”

Huang Stone was motionless for a while, then suddenly laughed and leaned back in his chair, laughing so much that his body was shaking: "Okay, good, good, I'm twenty-seven years old this year." When I'm old, the elders will be about the same. ”

The captain took out a letter from the drawer and handed it to Huang Stone with both hands: "This is the handwritten letter that Zhu Mian handed us when he ordered us to come, please take a look." After speaking, he looked at me and frowned slightly: "Comrade Li, I can understand your situation now." ”

I shrugged, walked over to Huang Stone in a chair, and sat down next to him: "Me? I crossed over in 2019. ”

"You're different. We have seen the files of all the middle and senior personnel of the Chinese Governorate, including yours. Your profile has been updated from birth to the time you commanded the Japanese Dispatch Army, and there is nothing out of the ordinary. ”

"If you are really a traverser, then you have grown up in our country since you were a child, a soul piercer." The captain clasped his hands together and rested on the table, staring into my eyes, "And everyone else, it's all flesh." ”

"Someone else? Hey, I had a question before, the Holy Ancestor Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, is he a traverser? ”

"He's the only soul piercer you've ever had." The captain said lightly, "You haven't answered my question yet, that is, how to prove that you are a traverser, and not a liar who has learned the secrets of our country and tried to cheat and try to cheat you out of preferential treatment." ”

I couldn't help but laugh: "If you really want me to prove it, you may not be able to afford it." ”

"Oh? I'm interested. ”

I leaned back in my chair, raised my head slightly, and my face became solemn. Seeing the other party's expression, a strange feeling appeared in the captain's heart for no reason. In a trance, he seemed to see that if the lieutenant colonel across the table had finished what he wanted to say, something indescribably great would happen.

But it was too late for him to stop.

"A specter, the specter of communism, hovers on the continent of Europe..."

"Nope! Shut up! The captain bounced up like a spring, and even brought down the chair under his buttocks, and the back of the chair fell to the ground with a loud bang. His eyes were wide open, and he waved his left hand behind him, motioning for the guard who opened the door to close it again.

"Change one, change one." Like a fish caught on the shore, the captain opened his mouth and inhaled. Fine beads of sweat poured out of his forehead and ran down the ridges of his face. This mere dozen words has such a great magic.

I smiled a little narrowly, and then said, "It doesn't matter if it's black or white..."

"Enough, enough, Comrade Li... No, Your Majesty Li, it's okay, I apologize to you, I shouldn't doubt your identity! ”

The captain raised his head, took a few deep breaths, and bowed slightly: "I beg your pardon, I must immediately report your news to His Majesty the Senator. ”

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Three days later, Lushun.

Zhu Mingxia has been in this position for a long time. He lay on a bamboo chair with his legs resting on the small coffee table in front of him, quietly looking at the blue sea outside the balcony. Sadly, since he arrived in Taiwan to start working, he has not enjoyed such a leisurely morning.

God knows why I finally had a morning with nothing to do, and I had to think about how to deal with a wild traverser so big and so difficult? It took Zhu Mingxia ten minutes and still didn't figure out why he was so unlucky.

And this wild traverser is also an army officer he knows! Why didn't I find the abnormality, and wasted so much thought in vain. Damn, that guy didn't say it before, why did he take the initiative to jump out when he arrived on Eternal Life Island? Does the Senate seem to be the kind of evil organization that will capture wild travelers and slice them for study?

There was a knock on the door behind him, and Zhu Mingxia helplessly stopped thinking. He tidied up his clothes and turned to look at Huang Stone and Li Ruchu who walked in.

"Hello... Two people. Zhu Mingxia smiled a little stiffly and asked them to sit down.

In the process of talking, my spare eyes have been paying attention to Zhu Mingxia's demeanor. Well, he and Huang Stone two fifty years... Or more than a decade... Well, these two people don't travel at the same point in time, and I'm never sure how many years they haven't seen each other. In short, these two old fellows, who had not seen each other for many years, conversed in a tone that was unfamiliar and familiar. Originally, in the 21st century, one was a recent secondary school graduate, and the other was a retired armed police officer; And now, one has become the commander of the assistant army who is fighting hard in Liaodong, and the other has become the old governor who is high above and is in charge of the most powerful empire of mankind. There is nothing more wonderful and unpredictable than this.

More than an hour later, Zhu Mingxia conveyed to Huang Stone the Senate's handling plan.

"We hope you can stay in the Dongjiang Army." Zhu Mingxia said very sincerely. "The Dongjiang Army was very important in the Chinese strategy of the Australian Song Dynasty. Mao Wenlong is also in his fifties now, and Mao Chengzuo does not have military power, and his power can basically only be transferred to you or Chen Jisheng. Before the Senate determined that you were Huangshi, you had a lot of prestige in the Dongjiang Army. We hope that you will continue to play the role of Huang Sitong, and our country will also secretly increase our support for you to help you become the next Dongjiang commander-in-chief. ”

"So that you can completely master the Dongjiang Army and use this as an opportunity to start assimilating the Ming Army?"

Zhu Mingxia nodded unceremoniously: "Yes." ”

Huang Stone was silent for a while, then raised his head and looked at Zhu Mingxia: "I promise." ”

Zhu Mingxia stretched out his hand and shook Huang Stone tightly.

I watched them silently. Huang Stone agreed, and it was not something incomprehensible. He has lived in the Dongjiang Army for more than nine years, personally experienced and participated in the process of the Dongjiang Army becoming weak and strong, and has an incomparably deep affection for this army. If he was bent on going to Australia and Song to become a high-ranking official, he would not be the Huang Stone anymore.

So Zhu Mingxia turned his gaze to me.

Well... The situation is even more complicated... Zhu Mingxia and I didn't know each other before the crossing, the only thing I knew was that in 09, it was reported on the news that a ship disappeared in the Qiongzhou Strait, and the country was looking for a long time at that time... It is estimated that it is the ship that Zhu Mingxia and they drove away through time and space.

And I'm in this world, and I'm still Zhu Mingxia's subordinate... used to show off his acting skills like crazy, and he deceived Zhu Mingxia for so long, but now it's really a bit embarrassing.