Chapter 21: Permanent Horizons

"What you see in your heart, what you see in the world" - anonymous

At 7:00 a.m. on July 18, 2016, Harbin Railway Station, Heilongjiang

In the early morning, Hacheng was much colder than Beijing, and Jiang Huanshui was tightly wrapped in his coat, one hand wrapped around his chest, and the other hand was carrying a small black box.

Touching the heart area on the left side of his chest, a blue tattoo appeared on his chest three hours after the phaser drilled into his body.

The tattoo is made up of two rings, like a cross-section of a phaser folded, forming a very strange pattern.

Between the two rings, there is a gray-white structure that goes from point to line to surface to body, and then to a strange structure that he can't understand or see.

A total of eleven patterns are arranged in sequence, forming an irregular circle structure sandwiched between two rings.

Inside the innermost ring, there is a strange symbol that you can't understand, if you stare carefully for a long time, not only will you be a little dizzy, as if there are countless contents floating in it, and even faint directly with a black eye.

The whole tattoo is only the size of the bottom of the cup, the position is in front of the heart, and there is no common feeling of unevenness in the tattoo.

It's more like it's printed.

Jiang Huanshui had the heart to ask, but Qinak had no interest in explaining to him.

After the second questioning, the fingers of his left hand appeared under the sofa in the living room, above the table, and on the floor of the kitchen......

With three bangs, bangs, bangs, bangs, bangs, bangs,

Then he understood that these were questions he shouldn't have asked.

His eyes were bloodshot, cold sweat and snot and tears fell together, the corners of his mouth were crooked, and his molars were loosened by a hard bite.

Ten seconds later, the sixteen fingers and half-pulled palms that had been scattered in each other returned to where they should be.

The nine craters in the floor and the blood stains around the craters testify to what happened.

Then another day of hell reincarnation, this time, he finally memorized all fourteen movements.

Now, at 7 a.m. on the 18th, he appeared at the train station in Hacheng.

Not surprisingly, taxis are pitifully scarce.

He had been to Harbin several times before, but he had always come by plane, and he didn't know how to get from the train station to Harbin Institute of Technology.

Jiang Huanshui was a little confused, and he didn't know if he should find someone to ask.

The original mobile navigation has disappeared with the dissipation of the P9.

Even if he thinks about it with his ass, he would never think that a mobile phone with a biochemical weapon, an electromagnetic coil, an ion bomb, and a Big Ivan icon will have an inferior human navigation map for human use by the Human Corporation.

"Parasite, close your eyes!"

Jiang Huanshui closed his eyes in disunderstanding, and nothing happened two seconds later, he opened his eyes strangely, his eyes were blank.

"Parasite!"

Jiang Huanshui trembled, he closed his eyes again, and his mouth was also in the way.

A point of light is displayed, and it quickly appears in front of what should be a dark eye.

Soon after, the light exploded like a nuclear bomb, and the entire field of vision was filled with a variety of colors.

It's a map.

Maps are very common, paper, spherical, electronic.

Printed on books, drawn on posters, displayed on monitors.

But this map is different.

This is a satellite map.

A bird's-eye view of the whole city of Harbin from above, the map is extremely high-resolution, the roads are as clear as a knife, the smallest is smaller than a hair, it is a few inhabited alleys, and the roughest part is wider than two fingers, it is a ten-lane main road with a lot of traffic.

A red line zigzags from Harbin Railway Station directly to the graduate student apartment building of Harbin Institute of Technology.

Then the angle of view drops sharply, like a meteor falling to the ground, and explodes less than five meters above the ground.

Colorful, colorful, colorful, colorful, ......colorful,

The illusory construction coincides with the real building, the scene "in front of you" is exactly the same as closing your eyes, the cold and tall buildings stand silently, the flower beds and green separation belts across the road, the surrounding shops are hung with large and small colorful signs, and the square is very lively with people.

He "saw" the world distinctly, but it was still like a picture scroll, and there was not a single moving object, let alone a moving person.

As soon as he realized this, the picture flew forward, as if hanging on the front of the "Harmony" high-speed train, people, trees, roads, railings, houses and even the morning fog in the air rushed to his face, and countless images directly hit his mind, faster than a roller coaster, more accurate than a DSLR camera.

Jiang Huanshui's entire body was about to lean back, but Chinak's stronger mind control made his body motionless.

Then he immediately realized that it was only a picture in his consciousness, a three-dimensional picture only in his mind, and now he was still standing still.

But the picture was so realistic that he felt his body like an insect on the front of a high-speed train, and the juice and wreckage left disgusting stains on the front of the train.

It seemed like a long time, and it seemed like a moment.

"Open your eyes, parasite"

Jiang Huanshui opened his eyes, and in the next second, he bent down deeply and retched a few times, he finally understood why some people were airsick and motion sick.

There seemed to be some twinkling Venus beating in front of me.

There seems to be some realistic picture rushing backwards.

In his eyes just now, Qinak used satellite maps as the basis, and Google and Baidu Street View as the data source pointed out a route from the railway station to Harbin Institute of Technology for him in a dozen seconds, with a shameful supercomputer speed.

"The simulated map is loaded, and the retina projection display system is loaded. You've got fifteen minutes."

Well, retinal projection systems? What the hell is this?

Then he found himself different.

In his current vision, the entire interface is like wearing a cyberpunk-style reality augmented reality headset, and there is a pale red arrow pointing along the entire line.

Where to go straight, how many meters to go straight, what the speed should be, how long it takes, etc., are clearly marked, and the numbers are constantly changing.

Where to turn, how many degrees, how many meters away from the straight road, and the next direction are clearly marked.

Even how many pits there are on the ground, how deep and how deep each pit is, how much in diameter, and which foot will step into the pit are properly arranged.

And that's not all.

When he concentrates a little, the object in his field of vision will be enveloped by a light colored frame, and the information of the entire object will be displayed in his eyes at a glance.

Now he is staring at a mother and daughter in the square, with pale red frames and information boxes floating to the left of the mother, and pale yellow frames and information boxes appearing on the right side of the little girl.

Name: Liu Yajun

Age: 35

Occupation: Accountant of the Finance Department of the German Investment Company

Address: The left bed of the master bedroom 702, Unit 4, Building 5, Xinmeng Community, Nangang District, Harbin

......

Overall Threat Level: Low

Threat Handling Recommendations: Mechanical asphyxia with bare claws

Weapon selection: Right claw

......

Name: Zhang Ximeng

Age: 5

Occupation: None

Address: 702 secondary bedroom master bed, Unit 4, Building 5, Xinmeng Community, Nangang District, Harbin

......

Overall Threat Level: Very low

Threat Management Recommendations: External trauma to the brain with bare claws

Weapon Selection: Left Claw

......

Looking at the shroud box and the message text on it, Jiang Huanshui's heart was full of fear, and he forced not to look at the cute little girl, and his eyes were shifted.

Three seconds later, the other object reappeared in his eyes, enveloped in pale green frames and information frames.

Name: Deyuan LT-2345 fixed frame trash can

Lifespan: 5 years

Ownership: Harbin Railway Station Fixed Assets Office

Weight: 10 kg

Height: 132 cm

Width: 65 cm

......

Overall Threat Level: None

Threat Handling Establishment: None

Weapon Selection: None

"Parasite!"

Jiang Huanshui was interrupted by this command, and the various colored frames in his eyes disappeared, while the pale red road signs were still silent, and the countdown above had reached fourteen minutes and five seconds.

Fourteen minutes!

More than three kilometers!

Jiang Huanshui didn't dare to delay, and trotted and began to get up.

The direction of progress overlapped with the indicated route, and Jiang Huanshui ran all the way along the prescribed route, going straight when he should go straight, turning when he should turn, and of course stepping on the pit......

Not a single one was stepped on.

Only those who have a pit in their brains go to step on the pit.

When there were twenty-three seconds left before the countdown, Jiang Huanshui came to the door of Harbin Institute of Technology.