Fu Le sat in the classroom and looked out the window.

It's going to rain, it's gray outside, and it's overcast. The classroom was very hot, it was almost afternoon school day, the teacher had already left early, and the students sitting below were either drowsy and chatting excitedly.

With a buzzing sound in his ears, Fu Le chased the flies away and lay down on the table, wanting to sleep for a while.

There was a boom of thunder, lightning illuminated the excited silvery faces of the students, and the sound of chattering filled the classroom.

The explosion of thunder and lightning was accompanied by waves of exclamations from children.

The sudden power outage in the classroom was a novelty for these children. In this era, the children of their generation have hardly experienced such a thing as a power outage, a plot like a power outage, which they have only seen in movies.

Outside the window, it was overcast, and the classroom was almost pitch black. Then there was a burst of screams from girls and laughter from boys, and the boys began to imitate the plot of the movie.

Fu Le slept even deeper.

There was a flashlight shining through, and there was a faint teacher's voice in my ears: "Students, due to the weather, school is ...... early today."

This was good news, but Fu Le's body was so heavy that he didn't want to move.

Let's get some more sleep......

From the bottom of his heart, he agreed to his request.

In the confusion, the teacher's voice seemed to come from far away: "Another ......"

Fu Le didn't hear what was behind the "other", and he fell into a deep slumber.

......

Fu Le was awakened by the cold, the old windows of the classroom were squeaked by the strong wind, and the wind was still strong outside, but the rain had stopped.

Fu Le opened his eyes, and the outlines of desks and benches could only be faintly seen in the darkness in the classroom.

He was the only one left.

"You're awake. ”

Fu Le noticed that there was a figure at the back of the classroom.

"It's all gone, and you're left alone. ”

"Uh-uh-uh......"

Fu Le's eyes widened, and he took a few steps back in a bit of a panic, and his mouth responded randomly.

When the figure approached, Fu Le realized that it was a girl in his class - named Wang Ying or Wang Ying, in short, it was a name that was easy to forget.

"I'm waiting for my mom ......," the girl explained.

Fu Le nodded a little nervously: "My dad is coming soon." ”

The two of them had a tacit understanding and stopped talking to each other, and the girl seemed to think of something, and suddenly said, "By the way, Teacher Yang will come to inform you when school is about to end......"

"We're going to Jihe tomorrow. The girl looked into Fu Le's eyes.

"'Jihe'...... Oh, I see. Fu Le repeated, nodding hurriedly.

The girl's face was buried in the dark shadow, and Fu Le couldn't see her expression.

"My mom is here. ”

"My dad is here. ”

The girl pointed to the window behind Fu Le, who beckoned to her, but he didn't look back, because maybe there was nothing under the window.

The girl also automatically ignored Fu Le's words just now, picked up her schoolbag and turned to leave, turned her head and said, "Don't go back late." ”

"Uh-huh, my house is very close. Fu Le nodded, and added, "Super close." ”

The girl smiled: "I know, you are the first to come every day." ”

Fu Le didn't know what to reply, his face was a little red, and he whispered, "Only the second one who came, I know who the first one is." ”

The girl's face turned red instantly, she picked up her schoolbag, ran downstairs, and disappeared from Fu Le's field of vision.

Fu Le put on his clothes, locked the doors and windows, and walked to the cubicle on the top floor of the school building.

Pushing open the door, which required a lot of strength, was a small room with some simple textbooks on the table.

"All told you super close. Fu Le locked the door and lay on the bed in a daze.

Fu Le looked at the night sky outside the window, of course there were no stars tonight, and there was no eye.

This is the place where Fu Le is located at the end of the 21st century, a small mountain village in the northwest of China.

Fu Le has no father or mother, and an old man takes him in. He lives in the school and sometimes at home, of course, which is rare.

Although the tuition fees in this era are completely free, and there are many ways to make money, Fu Le Fu Le is too young, so he always has to worry about life.

With the development of the times, the progress of human scientific and technological civilization has slowed down in the past hundred years. In this era, new inventions appear every day, but they are all minor repairs that are needed in real life.

Transformative technological innovations have not been seen in nearly 50 years, and humanity thought they had found an endless mine, only to find that they had not dug it, but it had already come to an end.

Too much calm can lead to deadly turmoil, and when the world reaches the end, boring questions such as "what is the meaning of living" are raised.

In the eyes of some, the world has been thoroughly studied, and science seems to have reached a dead end. The world is starting to get dead.

But in the eyes of some, this is a new beginning for humanity, and this is the arrival of a wonderful era.

In the past fifty years, the study of ancient civilizations has intensified, and some physical theorems have been overturned.

Some scientists, who are no longer able to make new research and come up with new theories, feel more and more that theorems were tools in the past, but now they are a constraint on human progress.

New theories are beginning to emerge, and ideas that once seemed absurd are now gaining a market.

You may laugh at questions like "What is the meaning of human existence?", but after laughing, you may admit that you really can't answer it.

Fu Le looked at the night sky in a daze, and there was still a tingling wind whistle outside the window.

The rain was beating on the windows, and it was raining again. The night sky outside was pitch black, there were no stars, and the night sky was clean today.

Fu Le believed that there were one or more eyes that were constantly observing or watching humans, and that Fu Le had seen it very realistically when he was a child.

The eyes saw that Fu Le was looking at it, and disappeared in a panic.

But in the future, whenever there were stars at night, Fu Le could feel those eyes still observing humans above the night sky.

Fu Le couldn't describe the emotions in the eyes of those who observed human beings. But once Fu Le went to a school event and saw the same look when he went to the farm.

At that time, those people were curiously watching the pigs and sheep in the pen.

When Fu Le was eight years old, someone told him: "Humans have been raised, and when they are fat, they should be killed." ”

Fu Le's stomach screamed twice, and he flipped over, only two coins fell out.

"There's no money again. Fu Le pursed his lips and began to worry about life.

"Jihe ......"

Fu Le suddenly had a flash of inspiration, recalled what the girl said before, and fell into deep thought.

The Ji River is a discovery of mankind in the middle of the 21st century, and it is also a problem that cannot be explained by human beings.

The Ji River is an underground river that suddenly appeared around the world after the earth's crust subsided, and the salinity of the river is very large, and the depth is extremely rare.

What is even more surprising to the world is that scientists have detected extremely rich energy molecules in the water samples of the Ji River, and this molecule can be separated from the water molecules of the river itself. Based on this, scientists speculate that there may be a very rich new energy substance buried at the bottom of the Jihe River.

When the energy material at the bottom of the river is diluted into the river water, so that the river itself can be turned into an oil-like resource, then governments can't help but ponder: how rich is the energy contained in the mysterious substance at the bottom of the river?

Jihe River is the name of China, and all countries in the world have their own names. The world's first Ji River was discovered in Sichuan and Shu in China, and then this mysterious river appeared in the Rocky Mountains of Lijian Kingdom, the Indian Peninsula in South Asia and various parts of the Western Ocean.

Governments around the world have attached great importance to the exploration of the river, and at the same time, the struggle for the ownership of the river has become more and more fierce, and the cross-border Jihe River has caused political and economic conflicts in addition to war.

But the world is rejuvenated, and there is no denying that contradictions can move the world forward.

At the same time, due to the mystery of the Jihe River, and some of the knowledge on it, it simply cannot be explained by the previous scientific knowledge system, and the scientific community sees it as a new opportunity for scientific progress.

Some young scientists who were unwilling to spend their lives only making minor repairs in the theories of their predecessors began to study the Jihe River.

The emergence of Jihe triggered a world frenzy in the middle of the 21st century.

When governments around the world stepped up the development of the Jihe River, the modern technology that mankind is proud of made mankind doubt for the first time.

Ji River, this mysterious river with a dark yellow color, has no fish and insects, and no vegetation exists.

Scientists were surprised to find that it could shield all human external detection. Governments tried to send commissioners down the river, thousands of kilometers downstream, but found nothing.

There are also things that make human beings begin to doubt the modern knowledge and theory system.

On November 26, 2067, a young boy from Mumbai, India, inadvertently fell into the Ji River.

Three days later, the little boy appeared in front of his family with a piece of copper in his hand.

"I can breathe freely underwater, and you can't imagine what's under the water. ”

Face to face to the global camera, the little boy beams with pride.

The copper plate was bought by the Indian government from the boy's parents, and the Indian authorities tested that it came from the Mughal dynasty in the 16th century, and at the same time had a strong magnetic attachment to it.

The incident shocked the world, and countries sent people to search for it, but the trained commissioners and world-class divers reluctantly said that there was nothing underwater.

"I'm underwater and can breathe freely. ”

People still remember the words of the little boy in India before.

Greed was the original driving force, and at first people were afraid of the river that appeared out of thin air, but as time went on, children actually began to try to go down the river with curiosity or encouragement from greedy parents.

After countless news explosions around the world, a young Western boy took out a piece of the remains of a weapon from the ancient Roman Empire from the river. A young girl from Kobe in Toei got a silver stone from the river, the stone is not an antique, but the surface contains the rarest element of astatine on the earth, and was later bought by a collector at a high price.

But when they excitedly went down to the river with the big bags given by their parents for the second time, the children went home wet with the shriveled bags.

"This time, there's nothing underwater. A little boy said to the media in frustration.

But children who go down to the river for the first time can still see those things and bring them with them or antiquities or special natural products.

After countless shocks of facts, scientists can only accept this illogical, even superstitious, argument that the river only accepts children, and that children have only one right.

And these children can only bring out one item at a time, and there have been children who have tried to fill their pockets, only to find that there is nothing in their wet pockets when they come ashore, as if the river has withdrawn them.

In the years that followed, the number of deaths caused by launching into the water increased exponentially. Governments have strengthened the management of the Ji River, and have uniformly stipulated that local schools organize the launching of the Ji River in a fixed grade of students.

These children are also tasked with searching for that mysterious resource, but these children from all over the world seem to be unanimous, and they all say that their memories of the river are vague.

Governments are also helpless about these half-grown children, and can only hope for the items that are brought with them.

So from the 70s, governments began to restrict the flow of east and west from the river, and after the children were brought in, the relevant authorities bought the goods according to their value.

Due to the government's forced acquisition, coupled with the unknown danger of entering this mysterious river, although there has never been an accident for a child who has gone down the river for the first time, so in recent years, there are fewer and fewer parents who are willing to let their children enter the Jihe River, and only some very poor families will let their children go down the Jihe River.

Of course, there are also adventurous children who see it as a rare experience. After all, it has been confirmed that once a child reaches the age of thirteen, he will be like the adult commissioners, who can only see the dark bottomless water of the river at the bottom of the water.

In Fu Le's view, this is a rare opportunity, and the government has given a lot of money for the acquisition, and if you can get something more valuable, there will be a lot of additional rewards.

"God forbid, let me see my parents at the bottom of the river. ”

Fu Le smiled self-deprecatingly and fell asleep.