Chapter 109: Finishing the game
When I went into meditation again, I felt like my body was becoming lilt, and it was a bit like falling asleep.
"What's next for you?"
Bryant's voice rang out in my head again, but I didn't really know what he meant by saying it at this point.
"What kind of plan are you referring to?"
"It's about the mystery of your and Jessica's origins, I just sorted out everything you've been through a little bit during this time, but the more I think about it, the more I think this whole thing is incredible, do you understand what I mean?"
"yes, that's how I feel right now, it's very complicated here, it's like there's an invisible and huge hand in control, Jessica and I can only see a small part of it every time, and he shows us all the things he wants to show us, but in fact he can't be sure of the reality of these things."
"Maybe that's true, but you're a little confused by the appearance of these things, and if you can take a break from yourself and look back at them, maybe you'll find something new."
"You have a lot of point, so let's go back a little bit to how these things happened, Jessica and I met in a bar at the beginning, and I was able to bet on whether he could score 30 points at halftime, and this guy actually scored 30 points in the first half, and then I went to one of his parties, and the main theme of this party was his solo concert."
"Well, after you met Jessica, she proposed to go to a haunted house in Los Angeles, she was scared alone and wanted you to go with her, and the reason why she knew about this haunted house was because a flyer about this haunted house flew into her car for some reason, don't you think it's a little strange?"
"I did think it was a little strange at the time, after all, this is not an ordinary haunted house, but Sir Faustin's manor, and there are many unknown secrets in this manor, Jessica and I have been to this so-called haunted house three times, but each time there will be more things that are difficult to explain, so let's remember what strange things happened in this haunted house today."
"When you first entered this haunted house, you found a family photograph in the master's study on the second floor, and you can now recall whether there was Sir Faustin himself."
"I've seen Sir Fauststein's picture with Jessica at the Los Angeles Museum of History before, but now I can't remember if I saw Sir Faustin on that family photo when I was in the haunted house at the beginning!"
"Well, my memory of this is clearer, maybe it's really the authorities who are obsessed with bystanders, I watched everything you experienced as a bystander, but my memory is more profound and clear, there was actually no Sir Faustin in that photo at that time, and there were some diaries in that study, the owner of the diary said that this manor was built by his grandfather during the gold rush with the wealth obtained from the gold rush, and I clearly remember that his grandfather in that photo was not Sir Faustin."
"Is that really the case?" Listening to what Kobe Bryant said, I fell into deep thought.
"It's also important to note that the information you and Jessica found about Sir Faustin's family at the Los Angeles Museum of History is actually different from what you found in the haunted house in the first place."
"No, why do I remember that Jessica and I found the same photos at the Los Angeles Museum of History as we found in the Haunted House? Could it be that Jessica and I have a problem with our memories? β
"These photos are indeed very similar, even the number of people and movements in the photos are almost identical, but maybe because these photos are a bit old, you don't see the faces of the people in the photos clearly, and you have a preconceived idea that these photos are the same as the previous photos."
"Is that really what it looks like? It seems that Jessica and I really didn't analyze these photos carefully at that time, and the first impression gave me a special impression that it was determined to be a photo I saw in a haunted house before, after you said this, it seems that there is indeed such a possibility, but now the question arises, if the people in these photos are not the same people, then why are they so similar in number, body shape, movement, and clothing? β
"I haven't figured this out, is it also a photo taken by people in two planes in a parallel universe?"
"Even in parallel universes, the probability of this happening is almost zero, maybe someone deliberately modified one of the photos in order to hide his true appearance, so which of these two sets of photos will be real?"
"Do you think about why the Los Angeles Museum of History was stolen when you went to check the information about Sir Faustin, and the FBI and CIA were involved in the investigation, and whether they showed up to find the truth or try to cover up some secret?"
"Do you mean that both the FBI and the CIA could have something to do with this? If that's really the case, then it's terrible, have their forces penetrated to such a deep extent? β
"The FBI and the CIA are never simple, you may not know our two organizations in the United States very well, they are sometimes a little more scary than some of the TV shows and the latter films, they often use unconventional methods, so it's hard to really know for sure what they do and what the real purpose of this is."
"I believe what you say, after all, they are all special agencies of the government, and many times they do use some unconventional means, but according to your meaning, even the loss of Sir Faulstein's data itself may have been involved in the FBI or CIA, or at least they may have known about it in advance."
"Well, you're smart, and you can figure out the key to that all at once."
"If that's the case, then things will be even more troublesome, do we still have to deal with government departments like the FBI and the CIA?"
"Try not to clash head-on with this kind of government department, but there's no need to worry so much, because we can find a way to avoid the FBI and the CIA in this matter."
"Well, if it's true that the people in those pictures are not the same, as you say, it means that Sir Faustin may not really be the one who built the manor, and a lot of the information we see may be wrong, and now the real problem is here, we can't tell what we see and what we are looking for is real and what is deliberately fictitious."
"Well, even so, we still have to try to work in the direction of the truth, because at least then we can gradually discover more things in the process, even if some information has been deliberately tampered with, but as long as we continue to think and discern, there will always be a day when the truth will be revealed."
Kobe's words are still full of something that can stir people's motivation, and after listening to his words, I really don't think I should give up on trying because of the slightest difficulty on the road to finding the truth.
"Another thing that was quite strange when Jessica and I first went to the haunted house was that we heard a very shrill sound, like a woman and a child, and then when we followed the sound, we found that the sound seemed to come from the third floor, but the staircase to the third floor was destroyed, which was very weird, because when Jessica and I came here for the second time, we found that the stairs were already intact."
"I'm afraid it's not just the stairs that have changed, but also the paintings in the corridor on the second floor, some of them have been moved, some of them are not there when you first visited, and you were in a coma for about ten minutes, and the study room before was sealed."
"Then Jessica and I walked up the stairs to the third floor, and there were not many rooms like the second floor that we had expected, but only one room, and at the end of the room there was a very strange door, and a series of voices sounded in my head at that time, and I was so frightened that I pulled Jessica and rushed down, and when we left the third floor, we heard the same shrill screams that we heard when we first came to the haunted house, And when we rushed to the second floor, I found that the staircase that had gone up to the third floor had become the same vandalism as before, and I really couldn't figure out what was going on. β
"Maybe there is only one explanation, that is, the place where this haunted house is located is in the center of some kind of space-time turbulence, and the haunted house that you and Jessica entered these two times is actually located in different planes, of course, I am just guessing, and I saw what happened to you at that time, and I also fell into doubts for a long time."
"When you say that, I think it's really possible, in fact, the staff we met at the door when we went to the haunted house for the first time and the second time we went to the haunted house were different, and the staff we met at the door when we went to the haunted house for the third time became a different group, in fact, the time between the three haunted houses we went to was not long, but there were three completely different groups of people, which is a little too wrong."
"I'll give you a second thing, does it mean that the haunted house your parents went to when they were young is not the same as the haunted house you went to when you went to the third time?"
Hearing Kobe's analysis, I fell into deep contemplation, it seems that more and more evidence shows that the haunted house that Jessica and I go to every time, and the haunted house where Jessica's parents go in the video, are not the same haunted house, if this is really the case, the possibility that there may be time and space turbulence here is quite high as Kobe Bryant said.
"If there is really space-time turbulence in the place where this haunted house is located, then how to determine the scope of influence of these space-time turbulence and the operating mechanism of these space-time turbulence?"
"There's no way to know for sure right now, even if you take the time to go to this haunted house again, you may only find more mysteries, and of course you and Jessica can really consider going back again when you return to Los Angeles tomorrow."
"Okay, let's talk about it for today, the game outside should be almost over."
"Well, I'm going to help you find some parts that have been ignored in your memory, and there is an advantage to my current state, that is, all memories are relatively clear to me, those that are hidden in your subconscious, and you can't see clearly, I can see clearly, and even I found that you still have a lot of secrets in your previous life, maybe you will be very interested in some things in your past life."
"Really? Can you really see those things from my past life? Well, the next time we have time, we must come and discuss the things about my past life, I always feel that I died inexplicably in my previous life, and now it seems that there is definitely some kind of huge conspiracy behind all this. β
"Hahaha, your intuition should be right, although I can't be completely sure of this now, but from the memories of your past life that I see in your subconscious, it is clear that there is indeed some kind of conspiracy in it."
I gradually came back to reality from my meditative state, but it seemed that time was passing a little slower than I had imagined, and by about six minutes of the fourth quarter, the Pistons' bench players seemed to have chased the score back to about 15 points.
I looked up at the scorer, good guy, this Grant Hill has already scored 35 points, you must know that at this time, the Pistons team only scored more than 80 points, and he alone accounted for nearly half of them, I remember that when I went down at the end of the third quarter, Grant Hill only scored more than 10 points, how could he score nearly 20 points in such a short period of time?
It seems that I woke up at the right time, judging from the current time and point difference, the Pistons still have a chance to catch up, it seems that Grant Hill is going to play more than 40 minutes today, I really don't see that this guy has such a strong scoring explosiveness.
Head coach Silver Fox Harris has become much more stern now, after all, our Lakers had the biggest advantage before when they were leading by 32 points, and they were chased back by 17 points in just over half a quarter, which is really a bit embarrassing for us.
At this time, the substitute players of the Lakers team all lowered their heads, like children who had done something wrong, but I knew that they should still do their best, but Grant Hill would suddenly break out, plus the lead was a bit too big, and it was nothing to think about being chased back, so it may not be so strict for Grant Hill's defense on the court, and when his hand is completely beaten, it may not be so easy to defend again.
After the timeout, head coach Silver Fox Harris re-introduced the five strongest players of our Lakers team, which is the lineup that our Lakers used to finish the game.
The Pistons also made all of their starters on the court.
After a half-quarter of rest, we now have a relatively large recovery of physical fitness, on the other hand, Grant Hill has played the entire second half without a minute of rest, so it seems that his physical fitness should have reached the end of the strong crossbow, I don't believe that he can maintain the previous offensive firepower under my tough defense.
I didn't play with the ball when I came up, but I was going to play a dozen without the ball first, and let Grant Hill waste some more energy on the defensive end to chase me, I ran a big circle around the whole half, and with the help of Shaq and Robert Horry's pick-and-roll, I created some good shots, but I didn't rush to make a shot, because I wanted to run a little longer and let Grant Hill use more energy to chase me.
But then the Pistons also seemed to realize that Grant Hill would not be able to stand the physical strength if he came to defend me, so they even let the slower and shorter Joe Dumas defend me, would rather say that they can't keep up with me, but also try to save Grant Hill's physical energy?
In the face of Joe Dumas's change of defense, I didn't hesitate more, and directly used a body forward cross-step to change direction, shaking his whole person's center of gravity out at once, his steps were not very neat, and he didn't stand firm all of a sudden, stumbling back a few steps, and seemed to be about to fall to the ground.
I took a quick step forward, rushed past Grant Hill's defense with a very fast start-up speed, and then rushed into the Pistons' restricted area.
In the face of the front block of the Pistons players, I did not hesitate at all, directly put my feet on the ground, and the whole person felt a huge rebound force, and with my footsteps kicked down, the whole person suddenly seemed to fly.
The Pistons forward in front of me was also not to be outdone, and he jumped up hard to block my offense head-on, in fact, his height and arm span did have some advantages over me, but he obviously underestimated my bounce, overestimated his bounce speed, at this moment I burst out of the huge power, has directly overshadowed his power, I pressed him to the ground from top to bottom, directly blocking the Pistons power forward.
He was knocked to the ground by me, and there was an incredible look in his eyes, as if he didn't believe that I could have such terrifying explosive power.
After completing the dunk this time, I was not as excited as I was to complete the dunk before, in fact, I felt more and more that this was my regular operation, Kobe's physical talent is really amazing, especially the strong core strength is terrible, as long as I can maintain good training habits, then the potential in this body will continue to be released, and even I think there is a chance to be on par with Michael Jordan, the god of basketball, in some aspects.
There is no doubt that Michael Jordan's ability to stay in the air is definitely the strongest in NBA history, his stay time is extremely long, and the gliding distance is extremely long, the most important point is that when he makes those unbelievable gliding moves, you will even feel that it is too easy for him, this is the scariest part, because you don't even know if Michael Jordan did all his strength when he made these moves, whether he could still make more terrifying moves?
The fans at the Pistons' home court, who had just been a little excited, were suddenly doused by my terrifying dunk, and they became quiet again.
I quickly retreated to the backcourt and didn't give the Pistons a chance to play a quick break.
In the next few minutes, our Lakers team did not deliberately control the pace of the game because of the lead, mainly because Shaq and I were both playing high today, and I felt that there was endless strength in my body, although I rested for most of the quarter off the court, it did not affect the continuation of our good form at all, and the relationship between me and Shaq seemed to be more fierce than anyone today, you score a goal, I also score a goal.
Grant Hill's form continued for a while, but when he scored 40 points, his fitness finally showed signs of exhaustion, and my close defensive intensity against him had reached the playoff level, and he would start to make all kinds of mistakes as long as he held the ball, and the Pistons no longer had a chance to chase points.
When the game was only two minutes into play, our Lakers stretched the margin to 25 points again, and with my ultra-long-range three-point shot, the head coach of the Pistons couldn't take it anymore and shouted that it was probably the last timeout of the game, and the last two minutes had completely lost the suspense of the game.
I looked up at the stats, Shaq cut 32 points, 14 rebounds and 5 blocks, and I cut 28 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 5 steals, I didn't know I was shocked to see it, I didn't expect that I had 5 steals in this game unconsciously.
And Grant Hill's final score is 42 points, and he also has 8 rebounds and 12 assists, you must know that there are very few people who can get this kind of data in this era, after all, this era is not like the later small-ball era when the score is 120 points or even more than 130 points, and the score in this era is often only about 100 points, so the gold content of Grant Hill's data is still quite high.
Of course, a large part of his statistic today was obtained by the bench players of our Lakers, and really under my defense, Grant Hill got only ten points, so my defense against him in this game was actually quite successful, you can't just look at the final data, and ignore the process of the game, sometimes the data will mislead you, because you don't know what time period he got these data, what situation on the court.
I talked a lot with Grant Hill after the game, we encouraged each other and praised each other's performances, and then I said that I was looking forward to playing him again in Los Angeles, and Grant Hill smiled and nodded.
The post-game press sessions are still the same, and when you've been through about a dozen NBA games, you're pretty much familiar with the routines that these reporters like to use, and you know how to deal with most of their problems.
However, today's questions from these reporters are much more gentle than the previous ones I encountered, and I have patiently answered all the questions they raised one by one.
As I got better and better in the game, some reporters even started asking me if I thought about competing for the best rookie and All-Star opportunities, and I answered truthfully, in fact, I think all I have to do is show my best side, and I'm glad that so many fans like me, and if the fans want to see me at All-Star Weekend, then give me more support in the future voting round.
At the end of the reporter interview session, I went back to the locker room to take a bath with hot and cold water again, today my body is in a relatively excited state, so even after a regular season game, the body still does not feel the slightest fatigue, but I know that this is just an illusion, whether I feel my body tired or not, but after each game my physical fatigue will definitely accumulate, so I need to let my body calm down after the game, Through some ways, the metabolic waste accumulated by exercise can be excreted from the body faster.
When it was all done, I walked out of the arena and took Jessica with me to find another Detroit restaurant for a late-night snack, which has basically become a routine for Jessica and I every time we arrive in a new city, and tonight we have to fly back to Los Angeles, so we don't have more time to explore the Motor City of Detroit.
Jessica and I walked the streets of Detroit for a while, and found that there are basically all kinds of restaurants here, probably because Detroit is one of the most racially rich cities in the United States, whether it is Greek, Mexican, Middle Eastern and Eastern European, Chinese or even Japanese, and because Detroit is close to Lake Michigan, there are also many restaurants that specialize in barracuda and whitefish.
With so many types of restaurants to choose from, Jessica and I didn't know what to do, and after some discussion, we decided to try the so-called Greek food, not knowing what the food of this ancient civilization would be like.
When Jessica and I entered a Greek restaurant with a very distinctive dΓ©cor, we felt as if we were on the other side of the ocean along the Mediterranean Sea, and we could feel the Aegean atmosphere in our faces.
Looking at the menu, we found that there is really a lot of Greek food, and at the end we ordered some assorted paella, Greek coffee, Greek yogurt, Sufulaki special barbecue, seafood and vegetable salad.
Don't look at the portions of these foods when they are served, but when you take a few bites, you will find that they are quite generous, and the Greek cuisine makes you feel like you can't stop it.
"Jessica, in the future offseason, we must go to the Mediterranean coast to have a good time, especially in an ancient civilization like Greece, there must be many interesting places."
"Well, you can feel the customs of that place from the food, and in fact, it will be a very memorable experience if you can set foot on that land yourself."
"It's going to be wonderful for us to make a travel plan and write down all the places in the world that we want to see and walk, and then implement our itinerary one after the other."
"Well, it's exciting to think about, but I think we're really good right now, flying between major cities across the U.S., playing basketball and getting that much salary."
"If you're making a lot of money, what are you going to do with them?"
"I haven't thought about it yet, but I think if I make a lot of money, I still want to use a part of it to help the community and those in need, right?"
"Of course that's right, but we have to find a better way to do these things, and some things can't be solved simply with money."
After listening to Jessica's meaningful words, I nodded silently, as if I had thought of something.
After dinner, Jessica and I walked around the streets of Detroit for a while, in the mid-90s Detroit was still a pretty bustling city, unlike in my previous life, when the whole city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy, at least during this period, Detroit was still the city of cars and music in the United States.
Everything around seems so prosperous, but who can withstand the cruel baptism of time, in fact, from this level, having the ability to travel between different time and space is really quite valuable.
"Jessica, sometimes I think back to what would our lives be like if we really had an infinite number of human beings and could travel through time and space tunnels anytime and anywhere?"
"Actually, I think that many things will feel quite beautiful when you don't get them, but after really having that almost endless life, you may feel that life has become quite boring, for example, when we are very young, we are full of curiosity about everything around us, no matter what we see, we have a strong urge to understand it, but as we get older, this feeling will become weaker and weaker, until everything around us can no longer attract our attention, Maybe endless life itself is not a pleasant thing, and the more you know, the more disappointed you are in the world, and you no longer have dreams, don't you think it's a terrible state? β
"Jessica, I really didn't expect you to be able to see this issue so deeply, think about it, what you said just reminds me that the most important thing in our life is not the length, but the quality of life, if we can't have a life full of quality, then what's the point of having eternal life?"
An hour later, Jessica and I boarded a plane to Los Angeles, and it felt like a century had been gone for a while that we hadn't been back for a few days.
Jessica fell asleep sweetly in my arms, but I was very unusually sleepy, my mind kept recalling the words that Kobe and Jessica had said to me before, some of the things they said were some reminders to me, I thought about these words over and over again, trying to find some information that could make me discover.
However, the process of thinking about these words itself was very tiring, and it didn't take long for me to gradually fall asleep, but this time it was more surprising that I didn't dream when I slept on the plane, which was really interesting.
When I woke up, the plane had stopped at the Los Angeles International Airport, and when I opened my eyes, I saw Jessica's beautiful eyes, which made me involuntarily feel a special comfortable feeling, as if as long as I could see her, I would feel that my life was full of happiness.
When Jessica and I returned to her house, it was almost one o'clock in the morning, but neither of us was too sleepy at this time, so we found a random movie to watch.
Of course, the movies of this era are also to be watched in the videotape, some movies can be finished with a box of videotapes, and some movies need two or more videotapes to be finished, and sometimes in order to find a movie you want to watch, you need to find it from a large number of videotapes, I have to say that this is much behind compared to the later digital age, only need to be on the mobile phone to be able to see tens of thousands of movies at any time.
However, at this time, I feel that this backwardness has a unique fun of this era, if you have countless movies for you to watch at any time, you will sometimes feel that the movie is not so good, in this era when you want to see a good-looking movie is relatively high, when you finish watching a good-looking movie, the shock to your soul will be higher, because you will watch the movie more attentively.
Jessica and I watched the famous romance movie "Gone with the Wind", which was a half-century-old color movie that was honestly quite shocking to me.
In fact, the background of the story described in this movie is before and after the American Civil War, after watching the scenes and some plots in the movie, I can't help but think of Sir Faustin's manor, you must know that the construction of this manor should be around that time, Jessica seems to have similar ideas as me.
"Jessica, the love of that era feels so wonderful, it seems that in the DAN era, people's personalities will become more unrestrained and free, what kind of love do you like? Is it better to be vigorous, or is it better to be bland? β
"Of course, love has to be vigorous, especially when we are young, that is, to have dreams, are you willing to be my prince charming?"
I hugged Jessica's waist tightly, a faint smile on the corner of my mouth.
"Why, is only a prince on a white horse?"
Jessica was amused by me, and I just gagged her mouth with my mouth to make you laugh!
I woke up the next morning before eight o'clock, and even though we didn't go to bed until two o'clock last night, it seemed that my biological clock had made it a habit to wake up on its own around eight o'clock in the morning, no matter how late I slept at night, and I didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing.
But Jessica doesn't have a biological clock like me, and we had a pretty good time last night, but luckily it's a single-family house, otherwise the neighbors would have to come to our door and ask for trouble.
Despite this, after a few hours of good quality sleep, I still came back to life, after all, I am still young, it is an age that can withstand tossing, and now I don't toss and wait for old age to toss but I may not be able to toss ah.
I didn't plan to wake up Jessica, but I found something from the refrigerator and made a nutritious breakfast, this morning I was actually going to go to the gym near Jessica's house to practice well, I remember the last time I went there, I met a lot of quite enthusiastic fans, well, they seem to be a little too enthusiastic, in fact, I prefer to be able to keep a low profile, and I just want to exercise silently by myself.
Although Jessica's home is a detached house, it is actually only one floor, so there are not many rooms in the whole house, and there are a lot of artifacts and collectibles to put in her home, so it is really difficult to find a place to put some fitness equipment.
So I thought, when I get my salary, or sneaker endorsement money, I'll take Jessica to a bigger house, and then I want to do something I want to do in that house.