Jessica had a hidden look on her face that was difficult to be noticed, and I didn't pay much attention to it, but I thought that maybe her body would be a little uncomfortable.

I took the photographs out from under the projector, and when they entered the palm of my hand, I reaffirmed the idea that they were indeed from at least fifty years ago, and that the yellowed traces of time on the photographs could not be easily faked.

"Jessica, how much do you know about these pictures and the people in them?"

Jessica didn't answer me right away, she gently picked up a few of the old photos, placed them on the table in some order, and flipped them over one by one.

I can clearly see that there are different letters and numbers engraved on the back of these photos, and there seems to be some unknown connection between these letters and numbers.

"Do you see the pattern of these letters and numbers?"

Jessica pointed carefully at the photographs placed on the table with her hand, and there was a glint in her eyes, as if I should know the secrets of the photographs.

"I really haven't seen this yet!"

I shook my head and focused my attention further on the letters and numbers behind the photos, but even if there was some kind of pattern and connection, there was certainly no way to judge based on this information alone.

I also carefully flipped the photos back up, hoping to compare the images on the photos with the alphanumeric numbers behind them, so as to find out some kind of pattern hidden in them.

"You see that?"

Jessica asked me again, but I could only continue to shake my head slightly, I also hoped that I would be able to find out the hidden information in these pictures immediately, but I didn't seem to have the talent for it, and I was just an ordinary person in terms of observation.

"It's normal that you can't see it, because the letters and numbers behind these photos follow the rules of an ancient civilization, and it has become extremely difficult to interpret this rule, in fact, I have looked through a lot of relevant materials before, and found that this ancient rule has long disappeared in the long river of history."

"But don't you think that's weird? If this ancient rule is really gone, then why do you still know that this rule existed, and how did your ancestors know about it, and still be able to arrange these photos by this ancient rule? ”

"You're right, I shouldn't have known all this, but I do know now, but I don't know why, I just know."

I shook my head slightly, Jessica obviously knew very well that what she said was very inconsistent with normal logical thinking, but I thought about it carefully, Jessica must not be joking with my idle boredom when she said this, then there must be some reasonable explanation behind this, even if this reasonable explanation is very unreasonable in the eyes of ordinary people.

"Let's not dwell on how you know about this rule for now, the problem now is that we have to find a way to break this ancient rule before we have a chance to find out the secrets hidden in these photos."

"Until today, I was very eager to know the secrets of these photographs, because I felt that they were also very closely related to the disappearance of my parents, and even everything that happened around me did not exist in isolation, there must be some kind of clue between them that we do not know and cannot see."

"Jessica, there are so many secrets in your family, I think the process of finding this secret may make you very unhappy, and may even put you in danger, is it really that important to find the truth of this secret?"

"You asked me a similar question last time, and you know what my answer is, so please don't ask me such a question in the future, you know that I may have chosen to escape before, but now I know that I will never escape this cage of fate, unless I can find the key to open the door."

"Do you believe that these pictures in front of you are the key to finding the key to open the door?"

"Yes, there's no doubt about that, but we don't have any clues about the letters and numbers behind these photos."

"For example?"

"You've tried to match the contents of these photos with the letters and numbers behind them, but it's clear that there's not a clear relationship between them that can be seen at a glance, but we can't see this correlation for the time being, and that doesn't prove that this correlation doesn't exist."

"So what you mean?"

I was stunned by Jessica's somewhat tongue-twisting words, trying to know what she meant.

"It may be that we are not looking for enough samples, or that these samples themselves are missing, whether it is the content of the photo itself, or the letters and numbers written on the back of the photo, is there a possibility that the information presented in them is incomplete."

After listening to Jessica's words, I suddenly had a sense of enlightenment, indeed, if the sources of information that we have at our disposal are not complete in themselves, then the reasoning we base on this incomplete information is very debatable.

If your reasoning is true, then what part of the information is incomplete? Could it be that there is something wrong with the content of the photo itself, or is there something wrong with the letters and numbers behind the photo? ”

"Because we don't know much about this mysterious and ancient rule, most of the reasoning is based on speculation, and these reasoning will be based more on what we know and rules, but if this ancient rule itself is a rather subversive theory, then it is very likely that even if we have the right source of information, it is still impossible to come up with the right answer."

"If you think about it, you have a lot of truth in what you say, but if you think about it, we're all back to square one, because what a terrible thing it would be if everything we know is wrong!"

"Right and wrong have always been relative concepts, just as the same words can have completely different meanings in different contexts, so it's likely that these ancient rules would have meant something completely different then than they do today."

"It seems to make sense, but it also seems to feel that everything is a fog, as if the more I think about it, the more I find that I don't know anything, and even everything I knew before may be false and cannot be judged."

"Actually, it's not that serious, the doubt itself does not lead your mind to the brink of collapse, whether you believe in your brain or not, it doesn't matter, the most important thing is to be able to find the truth hidden behind the fog through countless superficial phenomena."

"So let's go back to square one, these pictures come from your ancestors, who hid their secrets in them through an ancient rule that has been forgotten, and they may have done so to guide their descendants to continue their unfinished work, although we don't know exactly what this unfinished work is, and the other possibility is that they just wanted to bury this information in this way permanently. So they didn't leave enough clues for future generations to unravel these secrets. ”

"You're right, my ancestors' motives are inherently problematic, because this ancient rule is not accessible to ordinary people, but I know the existence of this ancient rule very clearly for some unknown reason, so some information may exist in DNA genes, and these secrets themselves can be passed on through bloodline, so it is also possible that they are not worried that their descendants will not be able to unlock these secrets, and they do not have to worry about the existence of people who can interpret these secrets without bloodline."

"Further, do they really have enough knowledge of genetic technology itself in the era they live in, or whether the knowledge and information transmitted in the bloodline genes are not completed by them, but can be traced back to even older times."

"If some information is really passed down through bloodline, and this lineage comes from very ancient times, then there must be many, many people in this world who have this bloodline, I deeply doubt that."

I was silent, I couldn't find a reasonable explanation for Jessica's question, as we reasoned and thought further, the mystery did not solve easily, but like opening a Pandora's box, so that more and more puzzles would erupt, at this moment I don't know why I didn't feel fear or worry because of these difficult puzzles, but it was like the feeling when I encountered a pretty powerful opponent in a basketball game, I even had a feeling of excitement, and my desire to unlock the secret became stronger.

Actually, there are some things that you really can't think about, and when you think about them, you may think of some very terrible things, and even the fact that I met Jessica from the beginning is full of many incredible coincidences.

However, for a soul like me, who had lost his life in a car accident in another time and space, to be reborn in Kobe Bryant in 1996 is a phenomenon that cannot be explained by science, and there is no doubt that this is a world that is very similar to the world I originally lived in, but different in some subtle ways.

There are many things in this world that try to make me feel that this is no different from the world I lived in in my previous life, but there are other things that seem to be desperately trying to prove to me, this world is completely different from the world I was in in my previous life, if I would have felt very uneasy because I had this strange idea before, then at this moment I have slowly figured out the things in it, and I no longer feel that there is anything to be confused about, no matter what the truth of this world is, I will face it bravely and use this life to accomplish some goals that I never thought of achieving in my previous life.

My hand tapped Jessica on the back, and she looked back at me affectionately, but I could still see something else in her seemingly affectionate eyes, but I wasn't sure what it was, because the feeling was only a moment.

I picked up an old photograph and held it up in the air, and then tilted my head to look at it from a very strange angle, and for a moment I really felt like I was seeing something that wasn't there in the photograph, but it disappeared so quickly that whether I told myself whether it was just an illusion or a real thing would make me feel conflicted and uneasy.

And at this moment, Jessica's eyes looked at me a little different, she seemed to see this uneasiness in my heart, but she was also trying to restrain herself from saying the words that came to her mouth.

I didn't know what she was trying to say, but at that moment, I seemed to see the black shadow in the photo change again, the black seemed to dissipate somewhat, and the originally pasted area appeared a clear outline, but this time was so short that my brain couldn't get enough information to build a clear enough picture.

So the outline that should have been very clear was now mutilated and confused in my mind.

"You see them changing?"

Jessica finally got the words out of her mouth, I didn't expect her to do that, and I didn't expect her to be so difficult to say because of this sentence before.

I pondered for a moment, sighed slightly, and continued:

"Well, the picture on it has changed twice, and I thought it must be the result of my hallucinations, but it wasn't until you asked me that I felt that things weren't that simple, and you seemed to know about it."

"I don't know I know about it, and it may sound like a, but I don't need to make such a nasty joke, if you really see the change in this picture, then there may be an explanation for the other thing my parents told me when they left."

"What's the matter?"

I asked in an eager tone.

"They told me that you are the key to solving all these mysteries, and it is for this reason that I went out of my way to contact you, but you have to believe me, I really didn't want to pull you into the whirlpool of my life at the beginning, I don't know when I found that I couldn't live without you anymore!"

I gagged Jessica with my hand to tell her to stop talking, and I gently pulled her into my arms, letting her tears run down my back.

"Don't say stupid things, even if I know your true purpose of approaching me, I won't be angry with you, after all, my life has a lot more color because of you, no longer only basketball, I used to think that basketball is my life is my everything, until you appear, so please take good care of yourself, I don't want to lose something as important as basketball in my life."

"But."

"Not so much, but I will definitely help you unravel the secrets left by your parents, in fact, I don't want to know the truth behind all this."

I couldn't tell the truth about my own rebirth in Kobe's body, and although I had a strong urge to do so, I was eventually suppressed by my sanity.

I carefully put the black and white photos back into the projector, and then locked the projector completely, and I don't want to spend any more energy on this matter today.

In a few hours, I was going to be on a plane to fly to Golden State, and to be honest, I thought it was really fun to be an NBA star, just play a few dozen minutes of basketball every few days to become a millionaire, a multimillionaire or even a billionaire, and I can fly back and forth between the big cities for free, what a wonderful thing!

But now I have a new feeling, in fact, when the hobby really becomes a job, it is quite a challenging thing in itself, the life of NBA stars is actually very fragmented, and they have to face a lot of challenges, they have to deal with everything from outside basketball, and many times even basketball superstars have a lot of unknown pain and helplessness.

For the rest of the few hours, I decided to enjoy the sweet world with Jessica, and get rid of all the worries, and Jessica didn't know where to get a few tapes out of the house that looked a little old.

"I've never seen these tapes, they were all found when I was packing up the things my parents left behind, and I didn't dare to look at them alone, for fear that they would record something that I would not be able to face."

"It's okay, you have me by your side now, although I also want to stop you from watching these tapes now, because I just want to spend this sweet time with you just for the two of us, but I can't be so selfish, if you really want to watch them, I'll watch them with you."

Jessica's face was flushed with a slight flush, and it looked like an unripe red apple, half green and half ripe.

I couldn't help but kiss her on the forehead again, and then reached for the tapes.