Chapter 1: Adventurers
The wind swept across the earth, and the grass and trees were depressed. In the early spring of the northern country, it is still cold, and a team of camouflage green trucks is running hot on the suburban roads. The convoy was guarded by an armored vehicle armed with machine guns in the front and rear, and two helicopters carrying rockets overhead.
This is a military road, surrounded by a military restricted area, and illegal entry vehicles, people and even animals will be turned into garbage.
The road winds through the valley, through the forest, over the creek, and finally disappears under a large mountain.
The convoy stopped at the end of the road, the helicopter turned and left, and as the hum of the rotors faded away, the cars on the road dwindled until the entire convoy was completely swallowed up by the rocky mountain.
Under a boulder at the top of the mountain, under the cover of vegetation, a gray machine moaned lowly, it was an aspirator. The air is swept in by the fan, filtered through the first layer, zigzags along the ducts, and merges with the numerous incoming air from the other suction machines in front of the main filter, passing through the complex of the main filter and then distributing it into the different ventilation ducts. All the way air comes out of the ventilation grille, and the front is open.
A bright hall filled with trucks and two armored vehicles on one side, and instruments on the other, in the center of the hall stands a cylindrical device with a silver surface, connecting the ground and the ceiling, taking up almost a third of the hall. There is a door in the lower part of the cylindrical device, through which trucks are coming in and out.
At the door, an officer was talking to a white coat.
"Colonel Liu Yun, can you let your subordinates rest for a while, they are walking around here, it will affect the work of our people."
"Director Jiang, it's okay, my subordinates are used to high-intensity training every day, and it is really torture to make them sit still." Liu Yun had a smile on his face as he spoke, as usual.
Jiang Lin shook his head: "Forget it, you are always justified if I don't waste saliva with you, but this time, I always feel a little strange that you will lead the team in person." β
Liu Yun let out a soft "oh".
Jiang Lin continued: "Look, you are the direct person in charge here, no matter how you say it, you can be regarded as a commander, this kind of inspection operation is not a small risk, and it is too unreasonable to let the commander go in person." β
"I volunteered to go."
"What?" Jiang Lin was taken aback, "You still have a wife and children, the reliability rate of this broken thing is less than 50%, 90 people went out of the first ten experiments, and only 51 came back, this kind of thing is not known to others, can we still not know the way?" β
"I know very well," Liu Yun still smiled so easily, "Director Jiang, although we have worked together for a long time, you have never known me, so it is a pity that it is difficult for us to become friends." β
Jiang Lin froze.
At this time, a heavily armed sergeant approached Liu Yun, saluted, and shouted: "Report to the captain, loading and unloading is complete, please instruct." β
Liu Yun nodded and said to Jiang Lin, "Director Jiang, let's go to the console." β
Jiang Lin was puzzled: "What are you doing at the console, shouldn't you go in?" β
Liu Yun suddenly pulled out the pistol on his waist and pressed it against Jiang Lin's chest: "I said, you don't know me, don't waste your saliva, go ahead." β
Jiang Lin was dumbfounded, he was just a simple scientist, he never thought that the muzzle of the gun would one day be pressed against his chest, and cold sweat oozed out for a while.
Liu Yun handed him the handkerchief, and the muzzle of the gun shook: "Hurry up, our time is precious." β
The console is surrounded by a circle of one-way transparent bulletproof glass, and only a small armored door opens, which must pass the electronic authentication of fingerprints and retinas to enter, Liu Yun and Jiang Lin have information in the computer, and Liu Yun's subordinates are not qualified, they can only stay outside. Liu Yun escorted Jiang Lin into the console, there were already three staff members inside, and they were all panicked when they saw the gun in Liu Yun's hand.
"Don't mess around," Liu Yun nodded amicably at them, "Do what you have to do, and leave me alone." β
"Y-what do you want?" Jiang Lin finally remembered what he should have asked.
"It's nothing, I just want you to change the parameters of this teleportation, from 890 A.D. to 1890 A.D., that is, 135 years ago. It's not that hard. β
"Y-what are you going to do in 1890?" Jiang Lin was puzzled.
"I said you don't know me anymore, I want to be a person who makes history, not a person who is created by history, understand?"
"Do you want to change history? Don't you know the road, history is a tree that is vertically upward, and if there are no certain hormones involved, it will never have a fork, but will always develop upward. Our time machine can send people and objects to a node of the tree of history like nutrients and water, and these substances at the end of the tree of history will produce interfering hormones after being sent to the node below it, prompting the generation of branches, and new history will develop on that branch, without affecting the trunk of the tree of history, so it is impossible to change history. β
Liu Yun still smiled at each other: "Nonsense, we all know this, didn't you hear it clearly just now, I want to create history, not change history, I just want to promote the emergence of a historical branch, and then survive in the history of that branch, and do some of the things I want to do, is this clear?" β
Jiang Lin was stupid again, he settled down and thought about it, felt that it made sense, and then found that it was crazy: "So you don't want to come back?" Do you want to live forever in antiquity? No one knows you there, and they will kill you. β
Liu Yun said: "You don't have to worry about this, you didn't see it clearly just now, most of those trucks are weapons, ammunition and other military equipment, not the investigation equipment you imagined, the soldiers I brought are all aspiring young people who want to do a career with me, and the 11 expedition team members are all my own people, with those advanced weapons, plus strictly trained special forces, and a commander with goals and wisdom, in that era, we will definitely be able to do what we want to do." β
Jiang Lin had nothing to say, he was too immersed in professional knowledge to think further on other issues, and in the face of the gun, he could only do what the crazy officer in front of him ordered.
15 minutes later, Jiang Lin nodded to Liu Yun: "The parameter modification is complete." β
"Lock the automatic countdown, 5 minutes, hurry." Liu Yun was still smiling, although his heart had reached the highest climax of ups and downs in his life.
"Alright." Jiang Lin did not drag his feet when he was doing his own work.
"Everybody's out of the woods!" Liu Yun pushed Jiang Lin, and the muzzle of the gun shook at the other three people, so the five of them walked outside the control room together.
Outside, a group of white coats squatted on the ground, all with silver bracelets, and the 25 special forces soldiers brought by Liu Yun had already controlled the situation.
Seeing Liu Yun come out, a soldier stepped forward to report: "Report, all contact with the outside world has been cut off, and the sensors arranged in the No. 3 passage show that the troops outside are banging on the door with tanks." β
Liu Yun shouted and ordered: "The first team came over and handcuffed these four people, the second team drove the two armored vehicles in, and the other team members immediately entered the container, we only have less than five minutes, hurry up!" β
The 36 adventurers began to act in an orderly manner, Liu Yun took back the handkerchief from Jiang Lin's handkerchief, began to wipe the sweat dripping from his head, and shouted in his heart: "Soon, almost successful, the heavens are on my side, and I will win if everyone counts the heavens!" β
He walked in the steps of a victor into the "container", the cylinder with a silver-white shell.
Five minutes later, a Type 98 medium tank smashed through a heavy iron door at the back of the hall and rushed into the hall, where soldiers dressed in black and green swarmed in, and they saw handcuffed white coats, empty trucks, andβa pile of wooden boxes marked with *, the numbers on a palm-sized LCD at the top of the boxes jumping from 00:01 to 00:00.