Chapter I: Entrustment
Chen Ke was woken up by the roar of the engine, and through the porthole of the plane, he saw the continuous Rocky Mountains and the famous Grand Canyon of Colorado, on both sides of the canyon, red and yellow cliffs standing thousands of feet. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
On the radio, the flight attendant enthusiastically introduced the colorful desert of Sonoran in Arizona and the fossil forest left behind millions of years ago.
The plane quickly landed in Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, and when it walked out of the airport, a Yinyun car stopped in front of Chen Ke, Chen Ke got into the car, and the car turned around and flicked its tail, and turned around and drove towards Pike County.
Two hours later, the car pulled into a mountain bend, and outside the window, the slope was full of verdant yellow pines and longleaf pines, and cardinals and wild larks chirped in the forest. After more than ten minutes of detouring, the car stopped at a manor.
The buildings in the manor are completely in the style of ancient Chinese architecture, with cornices and arches, blue bricks and tiles, and winding paths and pavilions, but what really attracts Chen Ke is a sculpture in the manor.
It was a two-meter-tall humanoid sculpture with a beautifully carved face, especially the eyes. The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the sculpture, and Chen Ke seemed to feel the vicissitudes of time and space with those eyes.
A dull sound of footsteps interrupted Chen Ke's thoughts, and Chen Ke turned his head sideways to see a servant walking towards him.
The servant was dressed in black clothes and black pants, and his attitude was very respectful, but he was silent, and there was a chill in his attitude. After the servant led Chen Ke into the main hall of a villa, he quietly retreated.
The main hall is large, but it is empty and has no furnishings. In the middle of the main hall was a handicapped car, on which a man in his forties was leaning on his back, highly disabled, hunched over with a chicken breast and his head tucked up in his neck. The facial features are also very ugly, which makes people dare not look at them directly. The legs and feet are also congenitally deformed, slender and weak, and dragged in a wheelchair.
Rao is Chen Ke is well-informed, and he was also taken aback at this time, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he couldn't believe that Mr. Gu, who has been known as the richest man in the world for so many years, is such a disabled person! No wonder he doesn't show up in front of the world and keeps a low profile of mystery.
"I'm sorry, I'm a disabled person and I have limited mobility, so I had to ask Mr. Chen to come here and talk about this commission." Mr. Gu's words were very polite, but his tone was very cold and hard, his face was like a slate, and there was no trace of a smile.
After a short period of surprise, Chen Ke's face had returned to normal, he didn't look at Mr. Gu's ugly face, and said lightly: "Since Mr. Gu is unable to move, why do you still entertain guests in this deep mountain and remote area?" ”
"That's a good question." After Mr. Gu finished speaking, he suddenly pressed the button on the wheelchair, and the wheelchair slowly turned around automatically, and then the back door of the main hall was opened, and the wheelchair carried Mr. Gu slowly towards the back door.
Chen Ke followed behind the wheelchair, walked out of the main hall of the villa with Mr. Gu, and walked on the cement road for more than ten minutes before the wheelchair stopped in an open space in the manor.
Mr. Gu pointed to the clearing and said to Chen Ke, "Below here is the super fluid anti-gravity engine, which can create the wormholes needed to travel through time and space. ”
"Through time? That's what you're commissioning? ”
"Not bad." Mr. Gu tapped his finger and nodded.
"I don't accept this commission." Chen Ke shook his head, joking, with the existing scientific and technological power of the earth, he couldn't even fly out of the solar system, let alone travel through time and space. As for the super fluid anti-gravity engine that Mr. Gu said, although he had never seen it, he also knew that it was just a legendary thing, and this commission was only a scientific experiment nine times out of ten. But it is easy to enter the tiger's den, but it is difficult to get out of the tiger's den, this manor looks empty, in fact, there are organs everywhere, Chen Ke secretly observed, and has found several infrared monitoring and motion sensors on the tree, under this kind of close surveillance, it is almost impossible to leave quietly.
"You can make any offer you want, even if I give you all my property." Mr. Ku was still expressionless.
"Mr. Gu, you know that this kind of offer is meaningless, I have traveled through time and space, and I can't use this money if I take it." Chen Ke was unmoved.
"Do you have any wishes that you can't fulfill?" When Mr. Gu said this, his tone was inadvertently a little more melancholy.
"Nope." Chen Ke replied very resolutely, and at the same time secretly frightened, the more Mr. Gu's tone softened, the more important this commission was to him, and the person who could sit in the position of the richest man in the world was certainly not a soft-hearted person, once the conversation could not be reached, it was difficult to guarantee that Mr. Gu would not point a pistol at his head to force him to comply.
Mr. Gu didn't care whether Chen Ke was telling the truth or not, he only said to himself: "It is my wish to travel through time and space and change history, but I am a disabled person, even if I travel through time and space, I have no ability to change history." ”
"So you're entrusting me with fulfilling this wish for you?" Chen Ke can understand Mr. Gu's perverted wishes, after all, at his level, there is nothing in the world that can make them feel fresh, they need a more exciting and challenging game.
"Not bad."
"Then how do you prove that this machine can indeed make people travel through time and space?" Chen Ke pointed to the open space in front of him.
"I can't prove it." Mr. Gu shook his fingers in the wheelchair, "But I can vouch for one thing." After Mr. Gu finished speaking, a servant handed a pistol to Chen Ke, which was a CZ83 made in the Czech Republic, "You can use it to blow my head at any time, but once you shoot, it means that you have taken this commission." ”
"And what if I turn away?" Of course, Chen Ke would not pick up the pistol.
"As long as you can step out of this manor, I won't do anything to you." Mr. Gu's tone became cold and hard again.
Chen Ke was silent for a few seconds, and then said, "Okay, I'll take this commission." ”
Immediately, a servant handed over a paper list, and Mr. Gu said: "This is the material prepared for you, you see if there is anything that needs to be modified, the only restriction is that the total weight cannot exceed one hundred and eight kilograms." Chen Ke took out a pen, wrote on the paper for a while, and then handed it to Mr. Gu, who looked at it and laughed: "Mr. Chen is really different." ”
Three days later......
In the main hall of the villa, Chen Ke and Mr. Gu sat opposite each other, and there was a large long table between the two, and an Asian man who looked like an engineer took out items from a large black box and placed them on the large long table one by one. The man said, "This is a miniature camera, a miniature projector, a miniature camera, a miniature camera, a miniature Bluetooth speaker, a miniature printing machine......"
Mr. Gu asked, "What do you want so many printing presses for?" ”
Chen Ke said: "It is used to print books and banknotes. It's only four, which is not much, and if it weren't for the weight limit of one hundred and eight kilograms, I would have brought four thousand. ”
The man said, "The power of our engine is limited, and we can only carry such heavy items under the condition of ensuring your safety," and pointed to the miniature printing press: "This printing machine can use ancient Chinese strip ink." Then he took out another sniper rifle and said: "This is a plastic sniper rifle, only the bullet is metal, but after the first shot, the trajectory and rifling of the sniper rifle will be damaged, and after three shots, it is a scrap, although the quality of the gun and bullets is not much, but I personally think that the sniper rifle will be of limited help to you, and it is a bit of a waste to carry it." ”
Chen Ke shook his head, the war of cold weapons is basically hand-to-hand combat, and it is easy to shoot the enemy's main general on the battlefield with a sniper rifle, as long as it is used properly, it is not impossible to reverse the outcome of a war.
As the man continued to introduce, all kinds of items were placed on the large long table, and there were more than a dozen carbon chips for storage, which was more than 20 times larger than the storage capacity of silicon chips; There are ultra-light ceramic pistols and bullets for self-defense, and the performance of this ceramic pistol is basically the same as that of ordinary metal pistols; There are also miniature sensors and seeds of various plants - mainly food and cash crops.
Finally, the man took out a small red box, the box looks wooden, antique, and the size is about the same as a mobile phone, the man introduced: "This is a mobile phone, the shell is coated with a red nano protective coating, which can be waterproof, fireproof and corrosion-proof, even if it is subjected to huge external pressure, it will not be deformed, if it accidentally falls into the sea, the mobile phone will automatically pop out of the anti-sinking airbag and float to the water." The carbon chip just introduced must use this phone to read the data. ”
Chen Ke nodded, except that the number was a little less, he was very satisfied with the items provided by Mr. Gu, and in addition, judging from the items he had carefully prepared, the possibility of success in traveling through time and space this time was also very high. He asked, "What era will I go back to?" ”
The man replied, "According to our calculations, Mr. Chen will probably go back about 500 years, and the location should be in a certain city in ancient China. ”
Mr. Gu said solemnly: "Mr. Chen, my commission is to accelerate the process of civilization and greatly shorten the time for mankind to enter the information age from the agricultural age. ”
Chen Ke said: "The evolution of civilization has its own laws, and Mr. Gu's doing this is tantamount to promoting the growth of seedlings, which is likely to lead to the abnormal development of civilization." ”
Mr. Gu was silent for a while before he said: "I have also considered what you said, but quantitative changes cause qualitative changes, and the inevitability of history is also composed of many accidents, I believe that Mr. Chen will take my commission seriously." ”
His last sentence is not a kind word, everyone who has read history, more or less will have regrets about what happened in history, Chen Ke asked himself, if he can really go back to the past, even if there is no such commission, he will spare no effort to change, so that the regrets of history will not be repeated.
The man looked at the watch in his hand and reminded him that the time was up. The three of them left the main hall together and came to the open space behind the villa.
At this time, the entire manor was filled with an energy shield glowing with blue light, Chen Ke took the protective suit handed over by the servant, and suddenly turned to Mr. Gu and said, "I still have one more question, why did you choose me?" ”
Mr. Gu said: "The sculpture at the gate of the manor is my grandfather, and he chose you." ”
Chen Ke nodded, without asking any more, he put on a bulky protective suit, and walked step by step to the launch cabin under Mr. Gu's solemn gaze, when the countdown on the screen became "0", the super fluid anti-gravity engine emitted a burst of soft blue light, and the entire cabin began to become blurry, become vague, and become transparent......