Chapter One Hundred and One: Boston Public Library

I couldn't remember when or how I got back to the hotel, but when I opened my eyes again, I was lying on the big bed in the hotel room, and Jessica was still sleeping sweetly next to me.

I took out my phone and looked at the time, and found that it was more than seven o'clock in the morning, although I didn't know how long I had been asleep, but it seemed that my brain was awake at this time, and I didn't need more sleep, but it was still too early, and I didn't want to wake up Jessica, so I was going to find the video tape about Jordan's game that I had with me.

If I had turned off the sound of the tape completely, Jessica wouldn't have been affected too much when she slept.

I gently turned on the TV, and then I remembered that this hotel didn't seem to have a machine for videotapes, so I had to put the videotapes back away, and then walked out of the room, ready to find something to eat first.

After breakfast, I had a vague reminder of last night's stroll through the snow with Jessica, and the fact that we ended up snuggling up to each other on the side of the road.

However, I still can't remember what happened next, I can't even remember the slightest fragment, and when I try to think about it, my head will feel dizzy for no reason.

In order to alleviate this uncomfortable feeling, I could only force myself to stop thinking about the things that I had and didn't have, and I said to myself that maybe those things would be completely forgotten at the time, just like some of my previous dreams, but after a while, I would slowly remember them.

I haven't told Jessica about this strange phenomenon yet, because I don't think there's much to talk about, and Jessica has a lot of things to worry about every day, and I don't want to add to this with my weird dreams.

I texted Jessica on my phone after breakfast and told her I was going to the gym for a while and would come back to her later.

It was just 7:40 a.m. when I finished breakfast, and if I went to the gym at this time, I would have at least half an hour or so to relax every muscle I had used yesterday.

Generally, our human muscles will be sore after exercise, and this soreness will generally reach a peak after 24 hours, and then disappear completely within 48 to 72 hours.

Of course, this is only theoretical time, if you can do something to help the muscles recover after the workout, as well as help the muscles dredge metabolic waste, such as the hot and cold bathing method I used after the competition, I want to use the alternating hot and cold contraction of the muscles, so as to squeeze out the metabolic waste in it.

Facts have also proved that this alternating hot and cold bathing method is very effective, but for those who have poor physical fitness, it is not recommended to use this bathing method, because the process of alternating hot and cold is easy to cause the human body to get sick, and the specific needs to vary from person to person according to each person's physique.

Now that I am in the gym, I mainly do some ligament stretching and muscle relaxation exercises, and I will not do strength training with a large load at this time.

Even though I usually play and train at a high intensity, I still pay attention to this and try to give my muscles more time to recover.

Of course, people like Kobe Bryant, who have been constantly doing high-intensity sports and training since childhood, their bodies themselves have been highly adapted to this high-intensity lifestyle, so now that I have Kobe's body, I can keep Kobe's physical condition at the best level at a smaller price.

It may take twice as much effort for others to achieve results, and I may only need to put in half the effort to get my body back, but I will still maintain at least double the effort to maintain the health of this body, which is something that I am always aware of.

Today I wanted to try a new approach to physical recovery, and the biggest difference from the previous training method was that it was a combination of what I knew about sports science from my memories of a previous life, and the training techniques I learned from the Lakers trainers this season.

I'm trying to integrate some of their advantages to create a more scientific training method, of course, today is just the beginning, I don't know how effective this training will be right away, it may take at least a while to observe how much progress this new training method has.

Training time was still going by quite quickly, and before I knew it, it was half past eight, and Jessica called me, and she had already gotten up and finished breakfast, just waiting for me to go to the Boston Public Library to find out more about the mystery we were looking for.

I put down my gym equipment and took a quick cool shower to wash off the sweat from my body, and the cold water helped me stay awake, which was very important when we went to the Boston Public Library to check out the materials later.

When I walked out of the hotel door, I found that Jessica had been waiting for me for a long time, and she was wearing a rather beautiful snow-white coat today, completely blending in with the white surroundings.

But I don't remember when Jessica brought this snow-white coat, in fact it was the first time I saw Jessica wear it today, and it was very much in line with her temperament, making me feel like she was a beautiful Snow White.

Maybe Jessica knew in advance that it might snow, so she brought it on purpose, I thought to myself, and walked forward with Jessica.

When we arrived at the Boston Public Library, it was as if a lightning bolt had struck my brain, and a clear memory popped up in my mind and played out like a movie.

"You said it plainly, so another question, how can we get back those deleted tape information?"

"Well, you need to go to another city."

"Which city?"

"Boston, the city where the Lakers' biggest rival is located, and I can't tell you how you're going to solve this problem when you get there."

That's right, this conversation was the same one I had with the artificial intelligence who claimed to be made by humans from outer space, and it was obvious that we would need to travel to Boston if we were to find the deleted information from the videotapes in Jessica's home.

Now that Jessica and I are in Boston, and the Boston Public Library is on a majestic scale, could the deleted information from the tapes be stored in this place?

I told Jessica what I thought, and told me about the conversation I had with the AI, and Jessica was silent for a moment after listening to me, revealing a somewhat intriguing expression.

"Jessica, tell me what you think about this."

"I just think it's really strange that the AI is there, because I wasn't there at the time, so there's no way to know exactly what the AI looks like, but from the conversation he has with you, it seems that he knows a lot of things, but he can't tell us, and we have to find the answers ourselves."

"yes, this AI and those so-called humans from the future are all dogs who want to treat us like toys that we can tease at will?"

"But I can't completely disbelieve his words, anyway, we're already in Boston now, and it's hard to say if we can find the deleted tape information next."

Jessica and I walked into the door of the Boston Public Library together, and we learned from the entrance of the library that the Boston Public Library is currently the largest urban public library in the United States, with a collection of more than 15 million books, second only to the Library of Congress and the Harvard University Library, and was opened to the public after its completion in 1895.

This huge library gives people a very simple and solemn feeling, the style is a bit like the church-like architecture of medieval Europe, and the whole has a gorgeous and elegant temperament, which makes people walk in it as if they have traveled through hundreds of years of time, walking on the avenue formed by the integration of years.

Like the Philadelphia Free Library, the Boston Public Library is divided into many different reading areas, but since we don't have a lot of time today, Jessica and I plan to look for what we are looking for first, and if we can find what we want by noon, then we will have more time to read other books.

When you are in the midst of this ocean of fifteen million volumes of knowledge, you will feel very small, but also very humble, and you will also feel a special power hovering around you, which may be the power of knowledge, although you may not be able to see them with the naked eye, but you can still know that this powerful power is around you.

Each reading area of the Boston Public Library is much larger than the reading area of the previous Philadelphia Free Library, and there is significantly more foot traffic, even though it has only been open for a short time, and we are already surrounded by people who come to read and borrow books.

There seem to be people of all ages, but there are significantly more of them older than they did in the Philadelphia Free Library, perhaps because the library has more historical archives.

After entering the library, I went to read the information about the partition of the library, and found that the Boston Public Library did store a large number of historical records related to the government, and they were all freely readable, but some of the more important books could not be borrowed.

When Jessica and I went to these areas where the archives were kept, we found that they were basically much more manageable than the very free library area, but there were not many people who would go to read these historical materials from hundreds of years ago, or they were all people who were also old.

Jessica and I are actually a little strange in this area, after all, few young people are particularly fond of historical archives, and there is a beautiful girl with them, which is indeed very abnormal in the eyes of ordinary people.

The reading area where these historical archives are stored is particularly large, and although I have been partitioned several times, when I enter one of the small areas, I am still frightened by the layers of archival books in front of me.

Jessica and I had seen some of the world when we were in the very free library before, and it stands to reason that we wouldn't be shocked by what we saw, but when we really saw the scale of the books in front of us, we couldn't help but sigh.

At least from this point of view, this country with a short history does have the habit of recording excellent history, and I believe that after many years, people can clearly find a series of clear historical records of this country since the founding of the country.

And the most important point is that the historical records of the United States are very strict, and it is difficult to modify and interfere with them through the will of individuals, after all, this is a country with a separation of powers, and political power is often unable to completely cover the sky and override the people who record history.

This fully guarantees the authenticity and objectivity of the American historical archives, although it is not completely guaranteed that these historical archives do not include the personal emotions and opinions of the writers when they are recorded, but relatively speaking, they are still quite fair and objective, and will record historical figures and historical events completely.

All the speeches made by many important figures in history at an important conference can be clearly recorded, and years later one can see every word said by all participants, such as when an important agreement such as the Declaration of Independence was signed, and the authenticity of every sentence can be guaranteed.

This is a very terrible point, the existence of this kind of historical archives can greatly increase the psychological pressure of politicians, so that the people in power will more or less take into account their words and deeds may leave a record in the history books, whether it is the historical president of the United States, or the current president of the United States, all their actions and words are on behalf of the country.

Therefore, there will be special records of their speeches on all official occasions, such as some important meetings, some important courts, and some processes related to the implementation of national policies, and there will generally be multiple forces to discuss and coordinate together.

The separation of powers in the United States is the independence of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers, and this independence is real independence, although this separation of powers has not been fully established for some time in the early days of the United States, and American citizens lack the habit of supervising and enforcing these powers.

But with a series of very important events and great people, they gradually put the United States on the right track of the separation of powers, and never deviated from it, in which the supervision of American citizens played a very key role, after all, American citizens have the right to legally use guns.

Another point is that Americans attach special importance to the implementation of the Constitution, all laws must be created and implemented in the strict sense of the Constitution as the most basic spirit, and the Constitution is the commanding height that no individual or group can surpass, which is very important, it is precisely because the Constitution of the United States has such supreme power, so the federal law extended by it can have such a strong effect.

In the U.S. Constitution, U.S. citizens can legally use guns to overthrow BZ from the government, which is a constitutional spirit that can hardly be found in the world, and it is also a very important point to establish the U.S. judicial legislature and judicial independence, which ensures that the executive power cannot have a direct impact on the legislation and the judiciary.

In the time and space of my previous life, there was the 1998 case of President KLD v. New York City, the Supreme Court pointed out that the U.S. Congress should not grant the president the right of veto, because it allows the president to veto bills one by one before signing them, which violates the spirit of the Constitution.

The President of the United States and the federal officials under the President of the United States have executive power, and the President of the United States has the power to appoint and dismiss federal officials, but the power of the President of the United States can only extend to the executive branch of the United States, and the President of the United States has no power to intervene in all affairs of some non-executive branches.

In the United States, the judicial power is held by the Supreme Court and some sub-courts ordered by the Supreme Court and Congress, and judges must be appointed by the president after hearing the advice of Congress and obtaining the consent of Congress, and their positions are for life.

They all believe that the older and more experienced the judge, the more impartial the execution of the judgment, one of the very important reasons is that the court's judgment needs to refer to a large number of human ethics and other comprehensive considerations in addition to the legal provisions.

Therefore, only judges with rich experience in adjudicating cases can consider and judge from various aspects more objectively and fairly, which is recognized by the vast majority of people, and it is precisely for this reason that federal judges are all lifelong, and the older and more experienced judges are, the higher the status.

Although the separation of powers in the United States has slightly reduced the efficiency of each other, it has in fact enabled the three powers to be carried out smoothly and effectively, and has not allowed any one side of power to be too unbalanced.

Of course, there are also some bad things in the US government, but the separation of powers has limited the power of the US government to the greatest extent, and has tried to keep the power in a cage and not let it become a demon that has the opportunity to wreak havoc at will, which is probably an important reason why the United States has always been able to carry out steady and rapid development since the founding of the country.

Because the triangle is the most stable pattern, the mutual restraint of the separation of powers also makes the power system of the United States relatively balanced, and under this equilibrium, the United States can develop stably for a long time.

Jessica and I have found a lot of historical materials here that record the president of the United States and the federal government, but the purpose of our coming here today is not to look for these, but to find what we are looking for in this vast archive, but there is one biggest problem, that is, Jessica and I don't seem to know what we are looking for, or we don't have a clear direction or hint.

When we didn't first enter the huge library, Jessica and I felt that we could find what we were looking for in the limited time we had, and even after reading at the Boston Public Library in the morning, we were able to find time to visit the Kennedy Library in the afternoon.

But the reality slapped Jessica and me in the face mercilessly, not to mention how many books we read in the Boston Public Library, and it would take hours to even walk through this huge library, and we would only be able to see a small part of the content at the end of the day in this sea of historical archives, and it seemed too difficult to find what we were looking for.

So Jessica and I started to discuss that we should find a more efficient way, maybe we need to grasp the most critical direction we need to look for first, such as narrowing down time to a certain range, then narrowing down the area to a certain range, and finally narrowing down the events and people to a certain range.

In this way, according to the library's index, we may also have the opportunity to find the archival information we want.

After my discussion with Jessica, we came up with a preliminary plan to find information, first we had to search for information separately, then each person was responsible for an area, and then if we found important information, we would call each other on our mobile phones to notify each other.

Secondly, the area we first consulted also carried out some planning, starting with the materials of the gold rush period in the 19th century, and the archives of the major cities in the western region were searched as much as possible.

And then in the midst of all this complexity, we have to read it with a focused approach, looking for archival materials of particular events, like the ones we found in the Free Library in Philadelphia.

Of course, whether we can find similar information of great value depends on our luck today.

After making the plan, Jessica and I began to work separately on the plan, saying that sometimes your eyes will feel a little glazed in the midst of countless archival materials, because at the same time you may see many, many book covers, which will affect your concentration to a greater or lesser extent.

And the size of the text in these files is also relatively small, just like a dense little ants, when they are too dense and too dense, you sometimes feel that your eyes are a little cloudy, your head is a little dizzy, this feeling is really not necessarily able to be relieved in a short time, and even for a period of time your eyes will be a blur, completely unable to see the text on the book.

This may be the problem that tends to occur when you are overfocused, after all, reading these dense words for too long can easily make the eyes and brain enter a state of exhaustion.

I was able to browse through these materials very quickly, and I didn't have the ability to do it at first, but as I read more and more archives, I realized that I had to learn this ability, otherwise it would be quite a difficult task to look at the names of so many archives, and to sift through them that might be useful.

Coupled with the phenomenon of visual fatigue that I mentioned earlier, I will force my eyes to rest every once in a while to ensure that there are no major mistakes, mistakes or omissions in the subsequent reading process.

Of course, judging from my current reading speed, it is unlikely that there will be no mistakes at all, and I even think that I may have missed some quite useful information, but I have no other way to do this, those files that have been read are just seen, and it is impossible to re-check them in a short time.

More and more, I feel that Jessica and I are now behaving like buying lottery tickets, hoping that by buying countless tickets for a few dollars, and then trying to win that grand prize, the odds are there, but it's not good if we can run into them.

And when we buy lottery tickets, we still jump to buy, because there are too many lottery tickets, it is impossible for us to take every lottery ticket seriously, so it is even possible that some lottery tickets have been opened, but because of our negligence and omitted them, and these missed lottery tickets are also difficult for us to find, because we have too many lottery tickets in our hands.

The lottery process lasted more than an hour, and Jessica and I were both feeling a little tired, so I called her out, took her hand and walked to the area with a seat, and then pulled him to sit down, and then slowly talked about how each other's lottery went.

"Jessica, I don't know if you've found a pattern."

"What pattern have you discovered?"

"These archives that record major events in American history seem to have a very similar way of documenting them, and I mean, even though some of them are decades apart, or hundreds or even thousands of kilometers apart, they all seem to have some very similar things."

"These files are supposed to be revised according to similar standards, so isn't it very normal for this to happen?"

"I don't mean that, think about it, even if these files are revised by the same standards, but many of these files are actually handwritten, and if you look closely, although the handwriting on these files is not the same, there is some kind of similar pen in it, which makes people feel that all these files are from the same person's hand."

Although I didn't have a deep understanding of calligraphy in my previous life, I was also an amateur of calligraphy, so I still have some understanding of some rules of human handwriting.

In fact, many of these historical archives in the Boston Public Library are preserved here as first-hand materials, so most of the archives have been yellowed, but they have been bound and protected in the later stage, so that these old archives can still be preserved very completely.

And most of these archives with a history of more than 100 years were originally recorded by handwriting, and even some manuscripts were mixed with the original records, which were the kind of manuscripts that flew and danced, after all, the people on the scene spoke so fast, and if there was no superhuman hand speed, how could these conversations be completely recorded immediately.

It was when I saw these first manuscripts that I became even more convinced of the authenticity of the contents of these archives, for it was clear that most of these scribbled manuscripts were extremely intact, and the handwriting in them seemed to have some kind of life of their own, slowly spreading from the paper, turning into elves flying in the air, flying into the hands of those who knew how to unlock their elven codes.

I don't know if I have the key to open their elven code, but after I told Jessica all this, after a period of silence, Jessica nodded slightly, agreeing with my point of view at this point.

"Jessica, do you think it's possible that these files are all from a certain person, but think about how this possibility can exist, what kind of person can record so many files at the same time as if they have a doppelganger."

"Maybe you have too few files to compare, if we get more files to compare, let's see if there is such a coincidence in the handwriting among them."

Jessica brought over some of the other files, which Jessica had taken from another area, and when we put the different files on the table and spread them out for comparison, the result was still very surprising to both of us, in fact, most of the handwriting really matched.

However, it is true that the handwriting is not just one person, there are probably several people, but there are indeed the same handwriting that appears in different times and places, and there may be decades or kilometers apart.

Jessica and I wondered if it was possible that the people who were recording the archives were actually those people whose job was to record the actions and words of the important people in these important events.

But as Jessica and I brought more and more files for comparison, we gradually overturned this previous speculation, because under normal circumstances, a recorder can work for a maximum of 20 to 50 years old, or 60 years old, and it is unlikely that there will always be a person who is still a recorder in his seventies and eighties, and besides, a recorder is a rather boring job, and if he does the same work for decades, it won't be boring.

Even if we assume that such a person exists, when almost the same handwriting appears in some historical archives with a time span of 80 years or even 100 years, the previous speculation seems so ridiculous, no matter how you say it, there will be no one who has been doing this kind of work for a hundred years in a row, haha.

Thinking of this, Jessica and I both looked at each other and couldn't help but look puzzled.

But then we turned our thinking to the other side, and it seems that this span of time and distance can prove one thing, that is, there seems to be one or even many people who travel back and forth between different time and space, who are dedicated to recording these important historical events, and all of them have recorded these materials completely.

Because Jessica and I are not so familiar with the specific historical events recorded in these archives, it is actually difficult for us to really read the content of these archives completely.

Although many of the contents of these archives are oral records, there are still some differences between the oral habits of the United States more than a hundred years ago and the present, or some of the oral stalks they had at that time, and people today may have a certain degree of dyslexia when they interpret it, which may not be able to understand even for scholars who specialize in studying these historical materials, not to mention that Kobe Bryant, who only has a high school education level, and I have his memory and knowledge level. Naturally, I can't understand a large part of it now.

Jessica is slightly better than me, she should be regarded as the kind of quite knowledgeable female scholar, probably because of the influence of her family lineage, she seems to really have a considerable talent to learn all kinds of more obscure knowledge, the most important thing is that she learns very quickly, and can find the trick of learning in a short time, so she has not been able to enter a prestigious university for further study, I think it is a pity that she has not been able to enter a prestigious university.

But if Jessica really goes to college, where will I have the opportunity to meet her, so I will immediately feel relieved about it, life is not the best of both worlds after all, if you want to get something, you will inevitably need to give up something.

There are times when you seem to have achieved the success you dreamed of or achieved some kind of ideal, but you don't necessarily know how much you have sacrificed for it, and how heavy the opportunity cost you have paid for it.

But the most wonderful point of life is not exactly that, each of us will face a variety of choices, and then will also bear the ensuing costs for the various choices they make, only when we understand what kind of price their choices will pay, but also resolutely adhere to their choices, at that time we can be regarded as truly growing up and mature, and learn the philosophy of life contained in the trade-offs.

"Jessica, it seems that those future humans who can travel freely in time and space also seem to participate in the process of recording these important histories, but we still don't know what the fundamental purpose of these future humans is to do this, are they trying to rewrite history or simply record history, and what is the value of recording history itself to them?"

"This is indeed quite a puzzling thing, normal people will not spend a lot of energy to do something that is not beneficial to themselves for no reason, at least the vast majority of human beings will not, not to mention these human beings who will have a higher level of intelligence and technology in the future, so they must have some reason why they have to do this, we can think along this line of thought, maybe we can figure out what these people are doing it for."

"Actually, I've been wondering if these future human beings who have been able to travel through different time and space will themselves be restricted by some higher-level rules, the artificial intelligence told me about the existence of the highest rules of the universe, so maybe the process of these future human beings traveling through time and space is limited by some of the supreme laws of the universe, so their actions are not something they can do at will, what they do in history seems to be very strange, but in fact, there must be a bigger secret hidden behind it, And for more plausible reasons. ”

"Well, what kind of rules will bind these future humans who are enough to travel through time and space?"

"It's really hard to think about it with our way of thinking, just like the ancient people, no matter how hard they tried to learn knowledge, they couldn't figure out some of the scientific knowledge and theories put forward by modern people, this is because the knowledge they learned since childhood has become a kind of existence that limits their imagination and breadth of thinking, if they want to expand their breadth of thinking, in a sense, they must give up the original existing knowledge, and learn and think about a new knowledge system with a very empty brain."

"Therefore, there is no way for us to understand the behavior of these future human beings based on the way of thinking based on existing scientific theories, because the starting point of their way of thinking is different from ours, and what is very reasonable in their eyes will become very unreasonable in our eyes."

"Jessica, you're really smart, and with a little reminder, you'll be able to understand the most crucial part of this."

If that's the case, then wouldn't there be no way to find out why they did it? Otherwise, wouldn't we have to completely abandon the logical way of thinking we used before, so that we can have the opportunity to go further and reach these future human thinking fields. ”

"I know it sounds incredible, but I think it's very difficult to do that with the way we have, and it's not so easy to get rid of the way we think about it, so maybe we'll have to find another way to do that."

"Have you already thought of such a solution?"

"That's right."

"What is it?"

"Dreams!"