Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Nuwa Project
"Huh? This...... What's going on? Before Xiao Zhi could recover from the joy of "meeting an old acquaintance in another country", Song Qinglian grabbed his neck with one hand.
Xiao Zhi tried his best to break free but couldn't break free, this old man looked thin and small, but his strength was great. After a long time, Xiao Zhi only felt dizzy, so he had to secretly take luck, and slowly red light lingered around, but the Dao power was insufficient, and it had no effect on Song Qinglian.
I can't get angry, I'm going to die.
Just when Xiao Zhi was foaming at the mouth, looking like he was about to die. Song Qinglian suddenly let go of his hand.
"Someone, escort!" Xiao Zhi coughed dryly a few times, but before he could catch evenly, he shouted loudly.
Xiao Zhen's cry for help echoed in the palace, but the people outside seemed to have walked away, and no one came in.
Don't you hear? Xiao Zhi didn't give up, tore open his throat, and shouted over and over again.
"Stop shouting, they won't hear it no matter how loud it is." Song Qinglian didn't stop him, let Xiao Zhi shout, and saw that he was tired of shouting, so he slowly opened his mouth to persuade.
"You, did you do anything to stun them?" Xiao Zhi stepped back vigilantly.
"To be precise, now that we're in a separate space, they can't hear it." Looking at Xiao Zhi's puzzled expression, "You don't know so much about Daoqi, are you really a volunteer of the plan?" β
"What plan? What volunteers? The first time he heard these words, Xiao Zhi was shocked, "I just happened to travel into this person's body, and I don't know what you said." β
"Sure enough, you're special." Song Qinglian relaxed, went to the chair next to him, peeled an orange casually, and said while eating, "You can sit too, let's talk slowly." β
Xiao Zhi retreated to the corner of the dormitory farthest away from Song Qinglian, with a wary face, "Let's keep our distance, isn't that, distance produces beauty." β
"Don't be so nervous, both of us are from another time and space, and we are partners with the same fate."
"Which partner who is connected to the same fate will come up and choke his neck to death!" Xiao Zhi remembered the feeling of almost passing out just now, and still felt afraid, "So which time and space are you from!" Our plane wasn't a pinching way to distinguish friend from foe! β
"It was that era, socialism and capitalism coexisted, China became the world's second largest economy, Amway was in a mess, and fraud was also very developed!" Song Qinglian cocked Erlang's legs as he spoke, and said leisurely, "Don't worry, just your three-legged cat, if you want to kill you, you will already die." β
"What the hell is the fraud that is very developed!" Hearing this, Xiao Zhi roughly confirmed that Song Qinglian was also a person who crossed over, but still asked uneasily, "Then why did you pinch me just now?" β
"Let's see if you're lying." Song Qinglian looked at him, "You were foaming at the mouth just now, and the Dao Qi you used was still so weak, it can be seen that you are indeed not the person who was sent - after all, the plan will not let an unprepared person like you come." β
"After talking for a long time, what exactly is the plan?" Xiao Zhi walked to Song Qinglian and sat down, took a sip of tea and asked.
"Nuwa's plan, it's very complicated, and I only know part of it." Song Qinglian thought for a while and said, "In general, it is a plan to use technology to teleport people to this era from the era we are in. β
"Is it just to help people cross?" Xiao Zhi couldn't react for a while, "Can such a thing really be done?" β
"It's achievable at the moment, but there's a huge risk and a lot of things I don't understand." Song Qinglian said, "I am only a volunteer, not a R&D person, so I only know part of the situation. β
"Tell me everything you know." Xiao Zhi felt a little ridiculous.
"That's a long story, in fact, a few years ago, people found themselves in an era where they could communicate with another time and space, similar to the kind of parallel universes." Song Qinglian took a sip of tea, "The expert invented a teleportation mechanism - I don't know much about the specifics, that is, it can teleport the things of our era to this era, and it has indeed been done." Later, the teleportation mechanism was continuously improved, and experts tried to teleport creatures, at first birds and beasts, and in 2000, they began to experiment with teleporting living people to this time and space - this plan to teleport living people is the Nuwa Project. β
"Slow down, let me react for a while." Xiao Zhi scratched his head vigorously and thought for a while, "Is it now that our space-time is planning to send people to this space-time for experiments?" β
"Yes, that's understandable."
"So, there are a lot of people like you on this plane?"
"No, it's not." Song Qinglian carefully explained, "First, it is very risky for the teleporter to come, I am not the first batch of volunteers, and the success rate of the previous transmission is about ten percent, which is calculated according to the signal transmitted back - that is, on average, out of ten volunteers, as long as one can reach this era alive, the life and death of the remaining nine people are uncertain." Second, because of the backward technology in this era, now you can only teleport people, not people back. The extremely high mortality rate and non-returnability result in very low numbers of volunteers, and volunteers need to pass a test before they can be transmitted. β
"Inspected?"
"That's right, you see, astronauts don't need to have good physical fitness to go to space, and we volunteers are the same, we need to have a special physique to improve the survival rate in this era."
"What kind of test standard?"
Song Qinglian thought for a while, "To be honest, I don't really understand, but after coming to this world, it didn't take long for my control and mastery of Dao Qi to reach the realm of perfection, I guess it may have something to do with this." β
"I guess I understand." Xiao Zhen tried to calm himself down, "What you said is true. β
"You yourself have somehow crossed over, and you still question me?" Song Qinglian was a little disdainful, "Then again, how did you get here?" β
Xu Zi'an told Song Qinglian about his drunken fall downstairs on Chinese New Year's Eve, and Mo Ming's wonderful crossing to the sick Xiao Shu.
"So you didn't come through the teleportation mechanism, but consciously crossed over, or did you cross over with your soul?" This time, Song Qinglian was surprised, "I really haven't heard of this, you are really special." β
"After talking for a long time, why do you always say that I am special?" Xiao Zhi was a little puzzled.
"That's the crux of the matter now, since the time you crossed over, there hasn't been any news of the traversal mechanism - normally we can communicate with that side through the traversal mechanism."
"So you suspect that I did it?"
"Ah, I can't say it's a suspicion." Song Qinglian smiled embarrassedly, "Didn't you attract a red dragon when you were critically ill, and then you lost communication." Most of the strange things that happened in this world were related to the Nuwa Project - so I went to the Tai Hospital with a lot of effort to collect your information, and found out from your daily words and deeds that you are not from this era. β
"I'm really good at collecting information on a daily basis." Thinking of the guards who usually laughed together, Xiao Zhi said in a broken voice, "I probably know who revealed it to you." β
"If you want to open something, palace people are also people, who doesn't have a heart to chew the root of the tongue." Song Qinglian patted Xiao Zhen's shoulder comfortingly, "The things you don't lift have been spread all over by them, don't take it to heart." β
"So who made them spread the word like this! Isn't that you? Why are you still comforting me like you're all right? The amount of information received was too much, and Xiao Zhi couldn't react for a while, "What should I do next, should I think of a solution with the volunteers who came with you?" β
"Kid, you're thinking too simply." Song Qinglian sneered, "What kind of people do you think are the people who voluntarily crossed over, saints?" Tell you, those who are willing to sign the agreement and put life and death aside are outlaws and perverts! β
Without waiting for Xiao Zhi to answer, Song Qinglian continued, "I'm afraid this is also something they didn't expect when Nuwa's plan was formulated, because of the back-and-forth and huge uncertainty of this teleportation mechanism, there is nothing that can restrain the people who have crossed over. Let's see clearly! In this era, this continent has become a venting ground for these people's desires! β
"Then now these five countries ......."
"That's right, the surviving volunteers are hiding in the shadows, and the current five countries should have volunteers like me behind them, so they can survive after a hundred years of strife. What's more, if you have lost contact with the teleportation mechanism......" Song Qinglian said here, and suddenly changed the topic, "The reason why I am identifying with you today is to cooperate with you, you are now the king of Qi Kingdom, I have the strength to compete with Cao Ze, only if the two of us join forces, can we live well." β
"Why should I trust you?" Xiao Zhi stared at him, "You also signed that agreement, and you are also one of the outlaws and perverts." β
"That's right, but at least we're all in Qi now, and we happen to be from the same place, and we all want to live, so it can be seen that our goals are the same. I rely on your identity, and you rely on my strength, complement each other. Song Qinglian was very calm at this time, smiling, his hands were elegantly placed on his knees, and his tone was unhurried, as if an old professor was lecturing on an esoteric knowledge. As for outlaws and perverts, I can only say that everyone has a dark side, it just depends on how the environment is, at least in this unconstrained environment, the dark side will be brought out to the greatest extent. For example, you are a person with a modern education: freedom, equality, and fraternity are the basics of being a human being. It's just that I've been the king for a few years with this body, and I'm not merciless in my decision. β
"You're wrong." Xiao Zhi curled the corners of his lips and replied, "Presumably, this kind of inhumane plan will only attract bastards." I used to be a thief, freedom, equality, fraternity are all to me, and unscrupulous means to achieve the end are my code of conduct. Moreover, when I borrowed this body, I promised its master that I would conquer the Six Nations for himβthis was also my own purpose, and I would not only live but also live well. β
"That's a good thing, I want to persuade you to be ruthless, it seems that you don't have to work hard. In this world, only ruthless people can live long, and I have seen many volunteers who have been killed because of their soft-heartedness. Song Qinglian looked very happy, clapped his hands and said, "I really didn't see the wrong person, I hope you live longer." β
"Of course, I've always had a big life, and I didn't die if I fell from such a high place." Xiao Zhi looked at Song Qinglian with a grin, "I am willing to join forces with you." Now, I'm going to borrow your power to deal with Cao Ze, and in addition, I want you to find a way to help me improve my Dao power. β
"Of course I will do my best, this is Weichen's business." Song Qinglian put the orange peel on the table, stood up, and recited a trick.
Xiao Zhi only felt time for a moment, and then returned to reality, what happened just now was like a dream.
Song Qinglian grimaced at him, and his mediocre facial features were wrinkled together on the old face, signaling him to come back to his senses and return to his identity.
It's ugly. Xiao Zhi didn't make a sound, and only said to him with his mouth.
No way. Song Qinglian replied in the same way.
The two smiled tacitly, as if the naughty children had done something bad and agreed to keep silent.
Meeting in such an identity in this strange era is the greatest fate and the biggest secret.
"Alright, you go down first."
"Whatever the king commands, the ministers will do their best." Song Qinglian meant something: "The king is at ease." β
Hearing the movement, Xie Lan walked in, and seeing that Xiao Zhi didn't speak, he took the initiative to ask, "After talking for so long, I don't know if Imperial Doctor Song is willing to serve the king?" β
"Of course he does, don't you still believe my eloquence?" Xiao Zhi smiled heartily and said, "In the future, you can treat him as your own and allow him to come and go freely, without having to ask for another order." β