Sweet and happy moments are always short-lived, and this special dinner will probably stick with me, and maybe I will remember this special restaurant in San Francisco long after.

When it comes to whether these insects can eat enough food, to be honest, I think they really seem to be more than they seem, although when you peel off their thick carapace to put in your mouth, you can easily feel full after eating them, like sometimes if you eat beef jerky, you don't need to eat too much to feel full.

The meat of these insects is also very tight, some of which taste like fried chicken, and once you eat your first piece of insect meat, you will quickly fall in love with the taste and will want to eat it again and again.

Jessica and I walked out of the restaurant, and San Francisco was already in the middle of nightlife, and the flickering neon lights seemed to silently narrate the city's prosperity.

At least on the surface, San Francisco doesn't seem to be as prosperous at night as Los Angeles, but Jessica and I don't have much more time to experience the nightlife here, and maybe the next time the Lakers visit Golden State, we can grab a bar and enjoy a special night here.

Jessica and I then split up at the airport and flew to the Utah Plateau on separate planes, and we made an appointment to talk together after we got off the plane, and we could go back to a hotel and have a world that belonged to the two of us.

When I was on the plane, my mind was empty, as if some force had drained the thoughts in my brain, and when I closed my eyes and rested, the images that often appeared in my mind before did not appear at the moment, I vaguely felt a little strange, but I didn't think further about the reason.

I just want to get some sleep at this point, this is to store energy for tomorrow's game, our game against the Golden State Warriors today consumed a lot of energy, the Warriors showed amazing resilience, and their team chemistry and execution were significantly better than the Lakers.

may be precisely because everyone is very tired in today's game, the Lakers' charter cabin seems unusually quiet, and even the usually energetic Shaq fell asleep early.

But even if we can recover as much as we can, tomorrow's back-to-back games on the Utah Plateau will be extremely tough, and the Utah Jazz have always been the Lakers' bitter rivals in the West, and they are also the biggest challenge we will face in the playoffs this season.

Their head coach, Jerry Sloan, is known for his iron fist, and his players have the same tenacity and toughness as the Utah Plateau.

The most powerful stars of the Utah Jazz are naturally the Hall of Fame duo of Utah Stockton and Karl Malone, who are the ultimate users of pick-and-roll tactics, Karl Malone has the muscles and strength that is not inferior to Shaq, but importantly, he and Stockton's pick-and-roll tactics are extremely varied, and we happen to have no defenders on the team who can limit their pick-and-roll.

And the Jazz's No. 3 star Jeff Hornacek is an accurate three-point shooter, after the Utah double brakes on the pick-and-roll strategy, Hornacek is actually no less threatening than Karl Malone, the Jazz's overall offense is very executed, and has a very high degree of tacit understanding, our Lakers will most likely fall into a state of caring for one or the other when defending their pick-and-roll tactics.

However, there is no way to do all this, back-to-back plus it is a plateau away game, our physical fitness tomorrow must be one of our biggest challenges, and at this time, I can't do how much to turn the tide within the limited bench playing time, I just hope that tomorrow our entire Lakers team can play normally is already thankful.

When I woke up from my sleep again, the plane had already arrived at the airport, and it seemed that most of the time my sleep on the plane would last until the plane landed, as if there was already a biological clock in my body, and as soon as the plane arrived at the airport, I would wake up naturally.

The first thing I did after getting off the plane was to talk to Jessica on my phone, and luckily her plane had already arrived at the airport, so I told Jessica the location of the hotel the Lakers were going to, and then I continued to take the Lakers bus with my teammates to the hotel.

The treatment of NBA players is honestly top-notch, and the hotels they stay in are basically local three-star or above luxury hotels, with all kinds of equipment to allow players to meet their basic needs as much as possible during their short stay.

Of course, there will be different differences between different hotels, generally hotels in big cities such as Los Angeles, Houston, San Francisco will naturally have more complete facilities, whether it is hot springs, swimming pools, massages, saunas, gyms, bookstores, or cafes, dance halls, cinemas, in short, most of the services you can think of these hotels can provide.

But instead of going into my own room like the other Lakers players, I sat alone in my seat in the hotel lobby and waited for Jessica to arrive.

"You've kept me waiting for a long time, tell me how I'm going to punish you naughty little wild cat."

Looking at Jessica's belated figure, I got up and walked towards her, and she took my hand and jumped forward like a cute fawn.

Even though it was past 12 o'clock in the morning, Jessica and I had taken a nap on the plane before, so it didn't feel very cold, but the beautiful stars of Utah that night were unusually moving.

Because of the high altitude of Utah, the air is relatively thin, and there are few clouds in the sky, and it is even easy to see a galaxy in the night sky, which is the Milky Way.

I took Jessica by the hand and walked along the trail outside the hotel, everything around me seemed strangely quiet, in fact, the hotel was located halfway up the mountain, and Jessica and I walked up the trail on foot.

We are not going to climb a long distance up the mountain, we just want to find a place with a wider view to take a good look at the stars in the sky, in mid-November it is already winter, the temperature around is close to freezing, like this mountain climate may start to snow in the near future, in fact, the period before snow is the coldest.

I put my arms around Jessica's shoulders tightly and let her lean on my arm, and our exhaled breath quickly condensed into a white mist, but although it was a little cold, we all had happy smiles on our faces.

"Jessica, do you think that one of these stars will be the same as the earth we live in, there are all the conditions suitable for the survival of living creatures, and there are also some pairs of intelligent beings who are looking up at the sky at this time, thinking about whether there is also a pair of same eyes looking at the sky on the other side of the vast galaxy."

"Hehe, you've become so literary, how don't you feel like you can say it!"

"Really? Why can't I have a literary atmosphere, maybe it's because of the surrounding environment, or maybe it's because you're subtly changing me. ”

"If there really are other intelligent beings like us on the other side of the galaxy, I'm sure they will also do their best to explore the endless starry sky, just as we humans do, because the thirst for the unknown world and knowledge is the instinct that every intelligent creature will have."

"Yes, it doesn't even have to be intelligent creatures, even ordinary cats and dogs will have all kinds of interests in the unknown, and we human beings, as the spirits of all things, naturally rely on this endless imagination and curiosity to become more and more intelligent and powerful."

"Just like my parents, many people may have a deep curiosity about the unknown, but they really dare to step out of their comfort zone to face all kinds of challenges, and try to explore the worlds that once existed in this world, and finally present them to the world."

"Jessica, your parents should really be very great people, at least such people are extremely important to all of us human beings, they should also be unwilling to be ordinary, they don't want to just get knowledge and information through the media, they prefer to rely on their own hands and eyes to see the world with their own eyes, to uncover the world under the layers of fog."

"But I don't know where to start, I want to walk on the path my parents have walked and continue to follow what they have found but have not been able to accomplish, but I don't know where to start."

Jessica and I sat on a huge wooden stake, and Jessica's body trembled slightly as a cold wind blew, and I took off my coat and draped it over Jessica's body.

"Actually, we don't have to follow the path your parents walked, the reason why they hid those things from you as much as possible during your upbringing is probably to protect you and don't want you to follow their old path again."

"But if that's the case, why did they leave me those things, they knew that I had inherited the strong curiosity of their character, and knew that I would definitely pursue it."

"I don't know, but they must have a reason why they had to do it, maybe they finally figured out that it might be useless to hide everything from you, and sooner or later your character will follow your family's tradition and embark on such a path."

"I don't know, I don't want to think about these things anymore, I really just want them to be able to come back to me safely, no matter what important secrets I am willing to give up, just to get them back to me."

"Little fool."

I gently stroked Jessica's little red face with my hand.

"I've never seen a girl as stupid as you."

"Where am I stupid?" Jessica pursed her lips and looked very angry, I didn't say anything, and I followed her example.

Jessica didn't do it now, and stood up and tried to hit me, but she couldn't stand on her feet all of a sudden, and her whole body began to fall sideways.

Fortunately, my skills were flexible enough, and I immediately hugged Jessica's small waist, and in this way, her whole body was hugged by me, which is very similar to the kind of scene that often occurs between male and female characters in ancient dragon martial arts novels.

I used to think that this kind of action could not appear in the real world, but at this moment, I really experienced the feeling of being the leading actor in an idol drama.

The surroundings were so quiet at this moment that I could even hear the heartbeats of myself and Jessica clearly, and the thumping sound was so strong, like the exuberant life force of our human beings, and like two burning flames, emitting enough temperature to dispel the cold around them.

"Jessica, do you remember the last time we saw those pictures in your house?"

"Remember, why did you suddenly bring it up?"

"When we were talking about your parents just now, I suddenly remembered a small detail that we had all overlooked before."

"What details?"

"At that time, there were special letters and numbers on the back of those pictures that were similar to passwords, and we all guessed that it might be some kind of ancient encryption, but now that I think about those numbers and letters, I think they must be something else."

"What is it? Why did you remember this after so long? ”

"It doesn't seem to take long, it's only a few days, and besides, some inspirational things are really not easy to explain clearly, anyway, I only think about it now."

"You go on, tell me what details you remember that we have missed."

"We thought the secret might be hidden in the numbers and letters, but we missed something more important, and that was the photos themselves."

"No, we studied these photos very carefully at the time, and we didn't see any obvious possible connections in these photos!"

"It's not a connection, because we just talked about the possibility that there are other intelligent beings in the galaxy who are also staring at us at this time, so I thought that the secret of the photo does not exist in the photograph, but exists outside the photo, I know that this may not be particularly clear, but there is only one explanation, that is, the real purpose of the people who took these pictures is actually hidden from the fact that they took the photo."

"Well, you managed to get me unconscious, but you still haven't told me what the secret is?"

"What kind of equipment would you need to take these pictures in those days?"

"I really know a little bit about this, but there didn't seem to be any small cameras that could be carried around, so you usually had to build a triangular stabilizer to shoot, do you mean?"

"Yes, there is a problem with the angle of these photos, and it is not realistic to take the angle of these people in the photos with the shooting technology of the time."

"There seems to be a little bit of truth in listening to your analysis, but it doesn't mean anything, maybe there are other things we didn't think of."

"Think about what these pictures are about."

"It seems that there is no fixed theme in these photos, and the characters and backgrounds that appear in each photo are almost different, from children to the elderly, from light men to beautiful women, there are all kinds of characters, so we can't find what the common denominator is in these photos, and it is difficult to decipher the secrets hidden in them."

"Well, indeed, but do you think it's possible that the person who took these pictures was not your ancestor, your ancestor actually only found these pictures under certain circumstances, and the person who took these pictures is probably not even human!"

"What? Isn't it a human, is it a ghost? ”

"It shouldn't be a ghost, or in other words, the people who took these pictures are not human beings on our planet."

"In addition to human beings on our earth, are there human beings on other planets?"

"It's hard to say, as we already know, the combination of letters and numbers left behind these photos comes from a very old cipher, and it's a long-lost cipher, so we can't find a way to crack these ciphers directly."

"I still can't understand everything you said, including your reasoning logic itself feels untenable, you just replace another guess with one guess, and you don't really solve the biggest problem we are facing at the moment."

"I admit that there may be some problems with my expression, and maybe I really haven't fully figured out the secrets, but this is definitely a new breakthrough, as long as we think about it deeply, we will definitely be able to discover more."

"Well, thank you, whether or not we can solve the secret in the end, I see your efforts, and I really hope that the offseason will come soon, so that I can travel the world and explore the unknown with you."

"In fact, the unknown realm not only exists all over the world, there may be many mysterious fields around us, and we don't have to wait until the offseason, you will accompany me to fly all over the country in the future, just as a kind of tourism, and when we return to Los Angeles, we will carefully study the mysterious artifacts left for you by your parents and ancestors, and even we can use the strength of some other people, after all, there must be more authoritative and powerful people in the field of cultural relics research."

"I've considered what you're talking about, but my parents told me before they left to try not to let these artifacts in my home come back to light, and they said there was something here that shouldn't exist in this world."

"Something that shouldn't exist in this world? It's really an interesting way to say, what kind of things are things that shouldn't exist in this world in the first place? Could it be that they mean that there are very dangerous beings among these artifacts, and once they are targeted by others, they have the potential to bring great impact and destruction to the world? ”

"That's what they mean, anyway, we probably really need to rely on our own ability to solve these secrets as much as possible, there is a very big museum in Los Angeles, the next time we go back to Los Angeles, we will go there together, maybe we can see some cultural relics similar to my home, and then we can consult and consult these cultural relics, and we can indirectly find the information of those cultural relics in my home."

"You're a genius."