Chapter 2: The Woman in Red

Professor Yang is a professor in the Department of Physics, and he often comes to the library to borrow books. Seeing that Yu Xiang looked lonely and listless, he smiled and said, "Xiangzi, how can it be like a deflated ball, no energy." ”

Yu Xiang asked inexplicably, "Are you happy?" ”

Professor Yang smiled: "My surname is Yang." Of course, he knew it was a popular topic on the Internet.

Professor Yang diverted the topic and said: "Today, it is said on the Internet that there are parallel universes, and scientists from the United States and Australia have published the latest view that 'parallel universes' not only exist, but also affect each other in specific environments. ”

Yu Xiang said: "I also saw this news, saying that there are dinosaurs on the earth in some universes, and in some universes, the earth may still be in the Ming Dynasty." And under certain circumstances, the two universes will also pass through each other. ”

Professor Yang smiled: "If you go to the Ming Dynasty, do you think you will be happy?" ”

"Maybe, at least you don't have to worry about the house, where the sky is high and the sky is wide, don't worry about PM2.5!"

"Hehe, at that time, it wasn't a problem with the house, I'm afraid it was a problem with the stomach, and the taste of not eating or drinking was much worse than not having a house." Professor Yang paused and asked, "Tomorrow is the weekend, why are you going?" ”

Yu Xiang said: "It's not decided yet!" At this time, Yu Xiang's mobile phone rang, showing the phone number of his good friend Wang Tao, Professor Yang made a gesture to Yu Xiang to answer the phone, and Yu Xiang answered the phone knowingly.

Pressing the green connect button, Wang Tao on the other end of the phone asked in a loud voice: "Xiangzi, why are you going tomorrow, climbing the mountain?" ”

"I have to ask Yang Lili to see if she has any arrangements tomorrow, and she will call you back." Yu Xiang replied, after all, he hadn't contacted his girlfriend for a week, and he missed her too.

The other end of the phone smiled and said, "You kid will be afraid of his wife in the future, hey, wait for your reply, hurry up." After saying that, a beeping voice came from the phone.

Yu Xiang hung up the phone and quickly dialed his girlfriend's phone: "Lili, tomorrow Wang Tao asked me to climb the mountain, do you have any arrangements over there?" ”

A familiar voice came from the other end of the phone: "My mother said that you will come to my house for dinner tomorrow night, and I will tell you something, can you come?" ”

Yu Xiang chuckled in his heart, last week's incident has not completely passed, and his mother-in-law let herself go again, which song is this singing, for the sake of his beloved girlfriend, that is, to go up the knife mountain and down to the sea of fire, he has to go, Yu Xiang decided to continue to go to the Hongmen banquet.

So Yu Xiang replied: "I'll be back tomorrow afternoon, there should be no problem in the evening, I will definitely go to your house in time." ”

"Then you go to climb the mountain during the day tomorrow, pay attention to safety, bring more clothes, the temperature will cool down in the past two days, and it will be cold in the mountains." His girlfriend's advice on the phone made his heart warm, and with his girlfriend's permission, Yu Xiang called Wang Tao back and made an appointment with the time and place.

Turning around, Yu Xiang smiled at Professor Yang and said, "No, climb the mountain tomorrow and exercise." ”

Professor Yang looked at Yu Xiang's submissive actions just now, and he sighed in his heart: A very good young man was tortured into a dog by reality! He is cautious in everything, he is more than promised, he always wants to be a good man, he is too modest, and his courage is insufficient. In today's society, such a person can only be regarded as a good person at best, but in the workplace, he will definitely suffer. No wonder it will become a veteran sling.

Professor Yang looked at Yu Xiang with an imperceptible deep meaning in his eyes, and he decided to help this "good old man" and turn him into a "successful" person.

In fact, in the universe, earthlings are not lonely, and there are many extraterrestrial civilizations that are highly developed, and they maintain the balance of the universe.

There are many messengers on the earth that they have sent, some of them have become gods of mankind, these people have become the protagonists of various myths and legends, and another type of people live around ordinary people, and they silently fulfill their mission.

Professor Yang is such a silent messenger of the universe.

He is looking for a candidate who can change the fate of tens of millions of people in another universe. He fell in love with Yu Xiang, and Professor Yang admired Yu Xiang's kindness and diligence and bravery.

As for whether Yu Xiang can change the fate of thousands of people, it can only depend on Yu Xiang's own creation, and Professor Yang cannot give a positive answer. He used to help some people travel through the past, and these people quickly died out in that universe because they couldn't adapt to the new environment, which is one of the reasons why many people inexplicably disappear from the earth every year.

Professor Yang also couldn't use the advanced technology possessed by their planet to help Yu Xiang change the fate of that planet, and if he did, it would upset the balance of the universe and affect the evolution of the entire universe. As for whether Yu Xiang can rewrite the fate of tens of millions of people in that universe and his own fate, it all depends on Yu Xiang's own creation.

**At nine o'clock the next morning, Yu Xiang came to the foot of the scheduled mountain, just got off the car, a fresh air rushed to his face, in front of him was a big mountain, the sky was blue and blue, it was a rare good weather.

Wang Tao, the leader of the mountaineering team, called everyone to gather at the bottom of the mountain and asked everyone to check the necessities for mountaineering, and each person should prepare at least 4 bottles of mineral water, their own bread, trekking poles, etc.

Yu Xiang opened his backpack and cleaned up the solar charger, compass, small flashlight, Yunnan Baiyao powder, a pack of band-aids, a large-screen smartphone, and a thin down jacket.

The most important thing is that he brings more bread and biscuits than others every time, on the one hand, he has a better physique, he can climb to the front every time, and on the other hand, he tries to release kindness in this way, integrate into this small team, and always feel that he should do something for others.

After the preparations, they chose a relatively safe place to climb the mountain, with a path winding to the top, and at the very top of the mountain, a small quadrangular pavilion could be seen.

Wang Tao asked everyone to meet the time and agreed to gather at the pavilion at 1 o'clock in the afternoon for dinner, and prepare for the return trip at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Wang Tao also joked, to see who can catch up with Yu Xiang today, you can't let him be the champion every time, in the mountaineering team, Yu Xiang's physique is the best, every time he is the first to climb the highest peak. Everyone was eager to try, after all, young people are very competitive.

The process of climbing the mountain is almost the same, climbing up the trail, and everyone is still talking and laughing at the beginning, and they can keep up. But after half an hour passed, the laughter was replaced by the sound of wheezing, and slowly someone fell behind, of course, most of the people who walked behind were female teammates and new comrades.

Yu Xiang still took the lead. He plays the role of a trailblazer in front, giving timely feedback to his teammates behind him.

The trees at the top of the hill are gradually sparse and replaced by shrubs and weeds. Some unknown small flowers swaying in the early autumn wind. The sky is high and the clouds are light, and Yu Xiang enjoys the feeling of the city being trampled underfoot.

Seeing that he was about to reach the four-corner pavilion at the top of the mountain, Yu Xiang looked at his teammates still on the mountainside, he looked at his watch, at 11 o'clock in the morning, he decided to stop and wait for his teammates, he took out his smartphone to take pictures, and passed the good photos to Yang Lili to share, which is his habit.

Smartphone is his closest partner except Yang Lili, it is the entertainment artifact of otaku in his era, Yu Xiang except for occasionally accompanying Lili to go shopping, eating and watching movies, the rest of the time is almost always in the dormitory, using mobile phones to surf the Internet, reading novels, listening to songs, and getting on and off his mobile phone. Carrying hundreds of e-books, Yu Xiang usually dabbles in a wide range of e-books, and there are all kinds of e-books.

The sky is blue, the quaint and elegant four-corner pavilion on the top of the mountain looks particularly meaningful, Yu Xiang took a picture of the pavilion with his mobile phone, through the mobile phone screen he suddenly found that there seemed to be a rainbow-like halo on the pavilion, this halo is a bit like the colorful halo on the head of the Buddha he saw on TV, he took his eyes away from the mobile phone screen, looked at the pavilion, but did not see anything unusual. When he looked at the phone screen again, he found that there was still that rainbow-like halo, which was very amazing. He pressed the shutter and took a photograph of the halo wrapping the pavilion in the four corners, very beautiful under the blue sky. He hurriedly passed the photo to Yang Lili.

When he wanted to take another photo, he couldn't find the seven-colored circle of light, and he felt very strange and decided to go up to the pavilion on the top of the mountain to find out.

He quickly climbed into the gazebo, when a colorful glass-like door suddenly appeared in front of him, the colorful colors flowing, shimmering with psychedelic and seductive colors, exactly like the gate of time and space he saw in American science fiction movies.

At this time, the phone rang, it was Yang Lili's phone, he hurriedly answered the phone, and said to the other side: "I saw a colored door, it's amazing, good"

Before he finished saying "good", he felt that he was sucked towards the colorful gate by a huge attraction, and in an instant, the sky was dizzy, and he felt as if he had arrived in another place.

Yu Xiang came back from his dizzy state, looked at the mobile phone he was holding, the call with his girlfriend Yang Lili had been interrupted, and the mobile phone signal was a red cross, he lifted the phone upward, it was still a red cross, and the trapezoidal vertical line that was usually the most familiar couldn't come out.

After several efforts, he still couldn't see the vertical line, so he was completely deflated and stuffed his phone into his bag. After settling down and looking around, he was startled to find himself in an unfamiliar environment, surrounded by dense pine forests, tender green grass under his feet, and the smell of spring in the air, which was obviously not the mountain he had climbed.

Is it already dead? Yu Xiang tried to understand what had just happened to him, and a sad emotion surged into his heart! No, he is not married yet, and he is still in his twenties. Man, just hang up? That's too much of a backlash!

He was a little unwilling, and he had to verify whether he really hung up. Legend has it that the dead have no pain, so he pinched his arm vigorously, this pinch hurt so much that he jumped high, looked at his arm, was pinched a piece of purple, masochism has a feeling, and there is weight on the ground! This is a sign that people are alive, it seems that they are still alive!

Looking at the unfamiliar environment around him, thinking about the bizarre experience just now, an ominous premonition came to his heart, could it be that Professor Yang really crossed over yesterday with a word?

Look at the watch on your wrist, the time shows 11:11 a.m., and the phone also shows 11:11, double 11, this time it's naked. But looking at the direction of the sun, it was already in the west, it was afternoon, and it was evident that the time of the watch was the time he was on the pavilion at the four corners of the hilltop.

He searched the surroundings with his eyes, but there was still no Wang Tao and other donkey friends around, and he shouted a few times: "Is there anyone?" It was empty, and no one responded to him except for the occasional birdsong.

Yu Xiang looked at the sky, his heart couldn't help but sink, it was close to sunset, he didn't bring an overnight tent, originally he didn't plan to sleep in the wild, what's worse is that Yu Xiang was born timid, afraid of the dark, if a person stays in the mountains, even if he is not eaten by wild beasts, he will be scared to death by the night, thinking about it, he can't help but feel creepy.

"You'll have to find someone to spend the night before dark," Yu Xiang said to himself, seeing a winding path in the forest leading down the mountain, so he decided to follow the mountain down the mountain before it got dark. He walked briskly down the hill along the path.

Just after walking a short distance, he saw a red figure staggering up from the bottom of the mountain, Yu Xiang was overjoyed, he could be regarded as seeing someone, and hurriedly ran towards the person. But he found that the red figure was holding a pine tree, and it seemed to be about to fall.

Yu Xiang is usually a kind-hearted person, he will definitely help anyone who is in trouble, he subconsciously ran up and hugged the individual.

Unexpectedly, the man's body shook violently like an electric shock, broke free from him at once, rushed out three steps away crookedly, and stabbed at Yu Xiang with a wave of his sword.

"What's the situation?" Yu Xiang was taken aback, only to feel a white light coming towards the door in front of him, Yu Xiang reflexively lowered his head, dodged, and hurriedly jumped a few steps back to stay away from the person.

It's dangerous! Yu Xiang broke out in a cold sweat, and the sword almost stabbed him.

The man froze, looked up at Yu Xiang, and said, "Dog thief, I'll fight with you......"

Before she finished speaking, she had already seen Yu Xiang, with a surprised look in her eyes, obviously the person in front of her was not the "dog thief" she said.

Yu Xiang hurriedly threw down the trekking poles, faced the man with empty hands, and hurriedly said: "I didn't mean to hurt you, I saw that you were about to fall just now, and I wanted to help you, but I just wanted to help you, don't misunderstand." Usually, when Yu Xiang meets a stranger for the first time, he is also referred to as "you". Put your posture to the lowest and be extremely humble.

The person in front of him saw that Yu Xiang had no malicious intent, and the hand holding the sword slowly drooped down, and when there was a loud sound, the sword fell to the ground, and her whole body was like a deflated ball, slumped on the ground, leaning on a tree beside her, dying and extremely weak.

Yu Xiang breathed a sigh of relief, no longer worried about the other party stabbing him with a sword, but he didn't dare to rush forward, worried about the other party's violent reaction. Yu Xiang took two deep breaths to calm down his mood, everything that happened just now made him feel like acting, as if he had returned to the set of a costume martial arts film, but obviously all this was not acting, it was really happening to him.

Yu Xiang took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, he mustered up his courage and carefully looked at the person in front of him.

I saw that the man was dressed in red, dressed in a short placket, with a red belt tightly tied around his waist, his figure was standard and well-proportioned, his mature chest was panting with the other party, and his height and body shape were very similar to his girlfriend Lili. The man's hair was scattered and looked extremely embarrassed, her hair was scattered and covered half of her face, and her face was stained with blood, and she couldn't see her appearance clearly. However, it can be seen that the person is a woman.

Yu Xiang moved his eyes to her arm, and saw that the clothes on her arm had been cut open, and the area around the mouth had been soaked with blood, and the blood seemed to be still flowing, and it seemed that she had just been injured.

When he met an injured girl, with Yu Xiang's helpful enthusiasm, he would not sit idly by no matter what, although he could not be sure whether the other party was a good person or a bad person, he still had the courage to ask the woman in red: "Are you injured, do you need help?" ”

The woman in red nodded weakly at him.

Because he often climbs mountains, he knows a little about wound treatment. Yu Xiang decided to help her deal with her wound first. Yu Xiang stepped forward quickly, carefully lifted the arm of the woman in red, and saw that there was a wound on her arm that was more than an inch long, and blood was still oozing outward.

Yu Xiang said to the woman: "Your arm has been cut and is still bleeding, I will help you bandage it, it may hurt a little, do you think it's okay?" ”

The woman in red meekly said "um", which was considered to be agreed.

Yu Xiang put down his backpack and took out Yunnan Baiyao powder, band-aids, towels, and wet wipes.

Yu Xiang gently opened the clothes around the wound, wiped the blood around the wound with a wet tissue, the blood was still oozing out, and poured Yunnan Baiyao powder on the wound, because there was no needle and thread suture, Yu Xiang could only use a band-aid to stick the wound like a patch, the wound was too long, and it took three band-aids to stick the wound.

In the end, he used a mountaineering towel to gently bandage the wound, the bandaging should be moderately tight, too loose and easy to fall off, too tight will lead to poor blood flow, serious may lead to tissue necrosis, Yu Xiang knows this truth, so the bandaging is extra patient and meticulous, just like caring for a rare thing that is easy to break.

The woman in red obviously felt Yu Xiang's meticulous intentions, she was so big, it was the first time she had such intimate contact with a strange man. In her era, men and women are not allowed to have physical contact, especially unmarried women, let alone physical contact with men, even if they hand things to each other, they must put it down first, and then let the other party take it, but now, Yu Xiang is holding his arm to bandage the wound, she can even feel the man's body temperature coming from his hand, even if it is a child of the rivers and lakes like her, such a scale is inevitably too big.

If you insist on giving her a reason for herself, the situation is urgent now, coupled with exhaustion, she needs help, and the enemy who chased her is still looking for her, once she is found by the enemy, she is afraid that her state will be difficult to escape the doom of being killed, and then I am afraid that even the person in front of her will be poisoned by the enemy.

Of course, there is another reason that she herself can't explain, and I'm afraid this reason is the main reason why she is willing to accept the help of this strange man.

Although she saw this man dressed in a strange outfit and with a hairstyle that she had never seen before, he was polite and tall, with clear eyebrows and well-defined silhouettes, polite but not gentle. This man's body exudes an intoxicating and mysterious aura everywhere.

Therefore, since the first time she saw him, her heart jumped wildly after reading countless people, and she even felt that she had something to do with the strange man in front of her.

She involuntarily felt a very comfortable and safe feeling in her heart, this feeling had been felt by her adoptive parents, but since the death of her adoptive parents, she had not felt this way for a long time, and now this long-lost feeling actually filled her heart the moment she saw him.

Therefore, she accepted his help, and if she were someone else, she would rather die, she would not accept this kind of help.

Looking at the man in front of her who helped her bandage, she forgot about the pain, and her eyes gradually softened. Yu Xiang was preoccupied with dressing her wounds, and of course he was not aware of these conditions.

"It's finally wrapped" Yu Xiang breathed a sigh of relief, looked up at her, but met the way she looked at him, this kind of look Yu Xiang had seen in Yang Lili's eyes. The moment their eyes met, the woman in red lowered her head shyly like an electric shock. Yu Xiang's heart was even more shocked, the facial contours of the person in front of him were like Yang Lili, this woman's face was covered with plaster and blood, and she couldn't see the whole picture, even so, Yu Xiang's heart was shocking enough, he tried his best to keep himself calm, telling himself that it was impossible for Yang Lili to appear here covered in blood, and besides, this woman obviously didn't know herself, and she almost killed herself with a sword just now!

Yu Xiang was thinking about her thoughts, and the woman in red lowered her head and said nothing, and the atmosphere seemed a little awkward.

Yu Xiang is a master at resolving this embarrassing atmosphere, and said, "You are so strong, you were so badly injured, when you bandaged you just now, you actually didn't say a word, admire and admire!" ”

The woman in red still bowed her head and remained silent. Yu Xiang changed the subject and said, "Do you feel better?" ”

The woman in red nodded, in the affirmative.

"That's good."

Yu Xiang looked at the sky, I don't know when, it was dusk, looking at her in front of her, she could only see the general outline, but with a companion, Yu Xiang's heart was a little more stable. He felt a little hungry at this time, he climbed the mountain in the morning and didn't eat until noon, he felt that the woman in red might be hungry too, looking at her weak body, she also needed to replenish some food to recover her strength.

"Girl, are you hungry? I have food and water here, can I have something to eat? Yu Xiang asked.

The woman in red nodded her head in acceptance.

Yu Xiang took out a bottle of mineral water, unscrewed the cap, and handed it to her, the woman in red straightened up, took the mineral water with her other hand, and drank it in a big gulp, obviously thirsty. Because I drank too fast, I choked and coughed.

Yu Xiang hurriedly reminded: "The girl should take a small sip and choke carefully." ”

Only then did the woman in red notice her gaffe, she was so thirsty that she hadn't eaten a drop of water since last night. Hearing Yu Xiang's reminder, she stopped drinking water and put the bottle on the ground embarrassedly, but half of the bottle of water was gone.

"This bread is relatively dry, so it's easier to swallow while eating and drinking." Yu Xiang said as he tore open the package of a loaf of bread and handed it to the woman in red.

The woman in red lowered her head and took the bread, this time she turned around, took a bite of the bread, and suddenly felt that the bread was soft and fragrant, extremely delicious, she had not eaten all day in order to escape from the enemy, and she could not bear to eat such delicious bread. Although the bread is delicious, it is not easy to swallow if it is too large.

She turned her head to look for the bottle of water she had just put down, and when she turned around, she saw that he was holding the bottle of water, which had been handed to her mouth, and she shrank her head back shyly, avoiding the mineral water he had handed her.

She looked at him and saw that he was looking at her, full of concern.

"This hand of yours is injured, don't move much, I'll help you." He said.

She was slightly stunned, then shook her head. Picking up the mineral water with the injured hand, he drank it slowly, eating much more slowly.

Yu Xiang said in his heart: "What a strong woman. If this wound had fallen on me, I might have to cry out loud. ”

Yu Xiang himself was hungry, he took out a pack of sandwich biscuits, ate them, and pondered as he ate, and a series of questions came to his mind.

This woman like Yang Lili is the first person he met when he came to this world, presumably it is providence, maybe his next life has something to do with this strange woman in red, is this fate? Yu Xiang didn't believe in fate for a long time, if it weren't for Yang Lili's appearance, he wouldn't have known that there was fate in the world!

In the city where Yu Xiang lives, there are countless people passing by him every day, and countless fates pass in front of him every day, but he has never caught it, let alone taken the initiative to catch it, and people have become estranged by too much suspicion and self-defense, even if it is between neighbors, they have lived together for several years, and they must know each other when they meet, let alone interact with each other.

There are only people with interests, sometimes to the banquet, Wang Tao will bring strange friends to introduce him to know, every time he raises a glass to persuade the wine, he will inevitably say something like fate, but after drinking, they will go their separate ways, perhaps, the next time they meet the same person at the reception, maybe they will continue to raise their glasses and talk about fate!

Fate, in modern society, is really a cheap luxury. Therefore, he didn't believe in fate for a long time, but also believed that he was a chess piece, and every encounter he had was deliberately arranged by the chess player, this sense of helplessness and helplessness has been lingering in his heart, and over time, it has become a heart door that cannot be opened, this door isolates him from the outside world, the more prosperous and wonderful the world outside the door, the more lonely and lonely he is.

And today, will Yu Xiang's encounter be fate? Will the door in his heart be opened for her?