Jessica and I had a beautiful meal of Chinese food, strange to say, the Chinese food in this store is very authentic, but I know that some Chinese food ingredients in the United States are not easy to find, I also wanted to make a few Chinese dishes for Jessica to taste, but there are some condiments in the United States is really hard to buy, I think I may not be able to make the taste I want to make, so I dismissed this idea, but today in this restaurant I tasted the taste of these Chinese dishes, I thought maybe I could make this flavor too.

I savored it and found that the restaurant didn't actually use the same seasonings that I hadn't found, but it still made a fairly authentic Chinese dish, which showed that there were some alternative seasoning varieties to be found in the United States.

"Jessica, how is it, I think this Chinese food is okay."

Jessica gave a thumbs up, and I smiled when I saw it.

"If you like to eat Chinese food, I will make it for you in the future, I happen to know some Chinese food."

"Then you must teach me how to make Chinese food, there are so many dishes of Chinese food, and the taste is also very rich, with two sweet, bitter, spicy and salty flavors, it is really memorable after eating."

"In fact, Chinese cuisine is indeed broad and profound, but in fact, many Chinese folk dishes are created and invented by ordinary people, so we may be able to create some different dishes."

"That's really interesting, but it's really good that we put so much effort into researching the dishes?"

"What's not good, no matter how big things happen, this meal must be eaten, I feel that I still have to eat, my training and games always have to be played, and this day must be returned, so I simply relax my mind, we have been a little too tired for a while recently, if we can't relax a little, I'm afraid the nerves will have to be broken."

"It's strange to say, it snowed last night, and the sun will come out this afternoon, but the temperature is still relatively low, and the snow shouldn't melt, so let's find a place to bask in the sun after eating."

"Then find a park to play, see the birds, bask in the sun, chat, and the afternoon is almost over, and in the evening we have to board a plane to Detroit."

"You said it would be nice if we could have magic like in fairy tales and be able to transform into birds anytime and anywhere, because birds are always so free to fly wherever they want."

"Where are birds as free as depicted in fairy tales, when you become a bird, you have to run around to find food, and you have to run desperately to avoid the predation of predators, although we humans have no way to do what we want to do many times, but at least our life safety and food can still be enough to satisfy."

"So, what I think is that we can become birds whenever we want, become humans when we want, and fly freely when we want to fly freely, how nice it would be."

I smiled and patted Jessica on the shoulder, and didn't say anything more, deep down I didn't have a similar dream, but I also knew that there was absolute freedom in this world, and all freedom would have to pay a certain price after all.

Jessica and I had a conversation with the beautiful owner of the restaurant, and this time Jessica joined in the chat, and after talking to us, we learned that the beautiful owner was named Lucy, and she had already told us that she had a mother from China and a father who was 50% European and 50% American.

Now she tells me that in less than 28 years of her life, she has actually lived in more than five countries, including France and Spain in Europe, China and Japan in Asia, and finally the United States.

I really didn't expect that she looked so young and already had such a wealth of life experience, and I really have to admire it.

Jessica was also chatting happily at this time, she was actually quite interested in countries other than the United States, and once her conversation box was opened, it was difficult to close it, and she asked a lot of anecdotes and interesting facts about Lucy's life in other countries.

The beautiful boss Lucy is also quite talkative, probably because many things are her personal experience, so it can be regarded as a head-to-head truth, and it is also easy to talk about the anecdotes she has heard in these countries, and many rumors and stories come out of her mouth, which will have a quite believable and fascinating feeling.

Time flew by in the midst of a pleasant chat, and when Jessica and I finally left the restaurant, we realized that it had taken more than an hour to almost two hours from the time we entered the restaurant to the time we left.

"Jessica, I used to think that we only have such a short life of a few decades, but we spend one-third of our time sleeping, one-tenth of our time eating, and one-fifth to one-third of our time wasted meaninglessly, and there really isn't much time left for us to do what we want to do. But now my thinking has really changed a lot, and when I found out that many seemingly meaningless things in our lives actually have their value, I began to think that there must be a reason why we humans are the way we are. ”

"Yes, in fact, everyone has the right to choose their own way of life, sometimes success or failure, maybe not the whole of our life, there are many very valuable things for us to choose and try."

I was slightly stunned and fell into deep contemplation.

The sun has passed through the thick clouds, those clouds are blown by the wind and drift farther and farther, and the afternoon sun is becoming more and more dazzling, although this is only the winter sun, but when it shines on your body, it can still make you feel enough warmth, the sun may be the most selfless existence in the world, it will not bring you more light because you are a powerful person, nor will it bring you a little less warmth because you are an ordinary person.

The sun is so generous and just to all things in time, just like the way of heaven, it is equal to all beings in the world.

I pulled Jessica and walked slowly, we were used to enjoying this kind of world that only belonged to the two of us, and our state of mind was so leisurely that it seemed that we had completely left all our worries behind.

However, good times are always very short-lived, and just as Jessica and I were basking in the afternoon sun, a mysterious phone call interrupted it.

"Hey, who are you?"

My phone rang suddenly, but when I found out that the phone number was two more digits than the normal phone number, I suddenly thought that something was a little strange, and I hesitated for a few seconds to think about whether to answer the call or not.

The phone rang for about 20 seconds, but it still didn't disconnect on its own, Jessica looked at me with a rather strange look, and finally I had to bite the bullet and call the mysterious number.

However, when I answered the phone, I noticed that there was only a strange noise on the other end of the phone, like the sound of furniture being dragged on the floor.

"Hey, anyone? If you don't talk again, I'll hang up. ”

My tone was quite tough, after all, I didn't want to waste more time dealing with such pointless things, and if it was just some rather boring people who were calling me harassingly, I certainly had the right to ignore them.

But when I thought about it, few people knew my phone number, why this happened, whether anyone was really playing a prank, and this person could only know my phone number through a few people.

I thought about the people who knew my phone number, but none of them seemed to do such a thing, so did someone inadvertently leak my phone number?

"Young people, don't be so anxious, my old man is a little slower to speak, but some things don't seem right to you."

An old voice came from the other end of the phone, and the ringing on the other end of the phone had stopped completely, and I still couldn't tell what was going on on the other end of the phone.

"Who are you? Why did you call me, and how did you know my phone number? ”

"Questions to ask one by one, anyway, you shouldn't be in a hurry now, we can talk slowly, first of all, let me tell you who I am, I'm just a very ordinary old man, but there are indeed some not-so-ordinary guys staring at you at this time, I just want to kindly remind you of something."

The old man on the other end of the phone changed his tone, as if he really knew something quite important, and I forced myself to calm down at this time, wanting to continue to listen to what the old man would say.

"Okay, what do you have to say to me, now you can get started."

"I know who you are, but you don't know who I am, you don't know who they are, I don't know who they are, but I know what they want to do."

The way this old man speaks is really crazy, and I don't know what to say, so I can only continue to listen patiently.

"What do they want to do?"

"They're looking for something, but they've been looking for many, many years and they haven't found it, and they don't know why they believe you're the one who can help them find it, and you're probably the only one in the world who can find it."

When I heard the old man's words, I felt a sense of déjà vu, as if someone had said something similar to me, but I couldn't remember who had said something similar to me.

"Why me? What exactly do they want me to find? What is that thing? What is the value of that thing to them? ”

My tone was still very eager, because I was desperate for answers to these things, so even though I had tried hard, I still couldn't fully control my emotional state at the moment.

"Don't you know why? Then I definitely don't know, I just want to remind you of this, but it doesn't mean that I have a way to help you, to solve all these problems, you still need to find a way to do it yourself, of course, maybe this thing is not necessarily a bad thing for you, although they are some pretty scary guys, but at least one thing is for sure, it's hard for you to resist their request, unless. ”

"Unless what?"

"Unless you can stop them from coming into this world before they find you."

"You mean they don't exist in the plane I'm on right now? So how are they going to find me? ”

"Don't talk about them, even I'm not in the same time and space as you now, otherwise why do you think your phone number will be two more than the normal phone number, so I can locate you through my phone, and they can do the same, but for some reason I don't know, they haven't done it at this time. Once they are determined to find you, then it is easy to do, and then it will be very difficult for you to hide, and you will have no way to hide. ”

"Hide? How can I hide, I have my own life, I can't change all this because of their appearance, and you say that I can be the first to stop them from coming into this world, why don't you tell me what I should do. ”

"Maybe you also know that there is no so-called concept of absolute space-time in this world, but there are many space-time channels that can travel back and forth, but with your current cognition, there is no way to understand and use this, but in fact, to really complete the time-space shuttle is not a very complicated theoretical technology, but you need to use a little more of your imagination, and your human imagination needs to be improved."

"Can you get straight to the point?"

My patience gradually became less and less, and with the personality of this guy on the other end of the phone, I was really afraid that he could talk on the other end of the phone all afternoon.

"Of course, you can't close these space-time passages that already exist in this world, but you still have the opportunity to completely close the space-time passages on the entire earth for a period of time, but it is indeed not easy to do this."

"Even if you say it, it's not up to you to say whether you can do it, but for me to have the final say."

"Ahaha, young man, I like the arrogance of your young people, after all, it reminds me of my own youthful years."

"Judging by your voice, I guess you must be eighty years old!"

"Eighty? How could I be so young, three hundred years ago I was more than eighty years old, but how old I am this year, I really can't remember for a while. ”

"Nima, looking at it this way, you should have had science and technology that keeps people young forever in your time, so why do you make me feel very old?"

"You don't know how many dirty things they do to achieve that purpose, do you think the future is a utopia and a happy country? I tell you, the future is hell on earth, and you are the key, the key to preventing such a future. ”

"Me? Is it key? Are you going to tell me a plot similar to that in Terminator, where I will become an extremely important human savior in the future, and these future guys are going to come to my current plane to solve me in advance in order to prevent me from saving all mankind? ”

There was some banter in my tone at first, but the more I got to the end, the more my own scalp tingled, as if it were a real possibility.

"You think too much, you may be the savior of mankind, it can only be human beings themselves who save mankind, and you are just a little dust in the era, of course, I may be a little too much to say this, you still have your own value, but they came to you not to kill you, but to control you, to control you to find a very terrible weapon for them."

"Well, I don't even want to ask you what that terrible weapon is, so you might as well just tell me how to stop them from coming to my plane."

"I also want to tell you directly, but I don't know, at least I don't know how to tell you, a guy like you who is so powerful and may even be the future savior of mankind, how can you not think of a way to prevent them from coming, do you use your brain, don't just know everything and ask why, do you think that human beings are more important to have brains or mouths?"

Listening to this guy's words, I seemed to be really choked, as if something was blocking my throat, and I wanted to say something but still couldn't say anything.

At this time, the phone hung up, and I was actually not mentally prepared, when I was about to call this call again, but found that there was no record of the call left in the mobile phone, as if the call I had just made with this old man was just my own imagination.

I looked at Jessica with a rather helpless expression, and Jessica looked at me with a worried look, and the scene seemed quite awkward for a while.

I don't know how long it has been, but maybe I think someone should break the silence, so I said to Jessica:

"It seems that I don't have a chance to enjoy a quiet and comfortable life, the old problems have not been solved, and new problems have appeared, but since someone believes that I can do it, then I can't drop the chain myself, Jessica, do you?"

"Have you thought of a solution? If this call is really from the future, then it means that you are really unsafe now, this old man can contact and find you through the mobile phone, which means that other people can also do this, should you throw away the phone first? ”

I shook my head.

"It's useless, since they can find me through their mobile phones, they can naturally find me through other methods, but it's useless to blindly escape, I have to find a way to find a solution to the problem."

"Did the old man tell you there's anything you can do about it?"

"Isn't it a joke that he asked me to find a way to close the space-time passage on Earth? You know, I don't even know what kind of existence the space-time passages are, but he asks me to close them, and his reminder is nonsense, and it doesn't help me at all. ”

"Did he tell you what the people who came to you were trying to do with you?"

"The old man told me that there was something very important that only I could find, and he didn't say what it was, let alone what I should do to find it, and what would happen if I helped these people find it."

"yes, we don't know who these people are, what the use of what you're looking for, and what the horrible consequences would be if you helped them find it."

"Anyway, listening to this old man's tone, the future human world is not beautiful at all, most of these people who are coming to me are some pretty terrible guys, who wants to find an artifact that can dominate the earth and even the universe through my hands, who knows?"

"Your brain hole is really big enough, but I don't think that kind of situation is likely to happen, after all, you think about where in this world there will be such a powerful thing, not to mention that even if there is such a powerful thing, it is impossible to say that only you are so special can find it, and others can't find it, so I think that even if a neurotic calls, we don't have to pay too much attention to him."

Jessica's words reminded me all of a sudden, but it also made me feel a little tingling in my scalp, if these people are really so powerful, even if I lose my phone, they must be able to think of other ways to find me, whether they really exist or not, whether they really have this ability, I must have to make some preparations in advance.

"Jessica, you're right, there's no point in thinking about these things now, instead of being so bothered, let's continue to enjoy the good time today, anyway, things will come after all, and when we get back to Los Angeles after the next game, let's see if there's any other way."

"By the way, you mentioned to me before that the AI seems to be watching us all the time, and if that's the case, if we can call this AI out, maybe we can get some answers from it."

Jessica's words were like a bolt of lightning that struck my body, and it trembled for a moment, but then I realized that this tremor was actually a good thing for me.

"I don't know if it's still with us, I don't even know if there's a few words this guy can be trusted, it just tells me it's going to come out when necessary, but I don't know what to call it, I don't know its name."

"You just call it a stupid, or a rookie, or a bitch, or something like that."

"Little Bitch, I know you're here, get me out of here."

I shouted into the air in a rather harsh tone, and the passers-by around me gave me strange looks, as if I were looking at a madman, and I ignored the eyes of the crowd around me, but continued to yell for a while.

"I said, how can you be like this, a kid?"

I turned my head and noticed that Jessica's eyes had changed, I recognized the change, it seemed that this artificial intelligence had really been watching us by Jessica's side and me, and now he had entered Jessica's brain.

"I said that when you come out, can't you warn you in advance, you want to scare me to death?"

"Didn't you just scold a lot?"

"I can't do anything about it, after all, I do have something urgent to tell you, then again, you have always been by our side, but there is no trace at all, in what form do you exist in this world?"

"Of course it exists in the form of a soul, otherwise you think so many legends about souls in this world are fake?"

"I go, do souls really exist? What kind of state is the soul state? ”

"The soul state is also a kind of energy in the strict sense, but this energy also needs to be built on some material foundation, after all, energy itself is matter, and matter itself is energy, but what kind of substance will the soul attach to after the death of the body?"

"Why are you still asking me questions? How do I know what substance this soul is attached to, why don't you tell me the answer! ”

"Well, since you have asked sincerely, then I will tell you with great mercy, in fact, the energy of the soul is indeed not ordinary energy, it is attached to some matter that you humans cannot detect after leaving the body, this substance is called dark energy by the scientists of your time."

"Dark energy? I don't know much about these terms in physics and astronomy, so you might as well just tell me if you heard the phone call from me earlier. ”

"Of course, of course I heard your conversation, and in fact I can roughly guess what year, where, and who this call came from, and in fact I was watching him when he made the call."

"What the hell? Are you saying that on the other end of the line, there is an old man standing next to the caller, just like you who was answering the phone next to me? ”

"To be precise, we are all one, but we are in different time and space, of course, you don't have to wonder about this, in the future, I may be able to let you see what the future you will be like, and then let you talk to the future you on the phone, or let you talk to the current you in the past life, these can be done, but some will be relatively troublesome."

"Oh my God! Please, tell me none of this is true! ”

"Of course it's true, I've never lied to people, when my program is designed, I can't lie to you, of course, I can also tell you clearly that although the above things can be done, but it will pay a huge price, and this call from this old man from the future will also cause some damage to the future world and this world, of course, you can't see or feel these destruction, well, when you can see this destruction, Humanity may not be far from destruction. ”

"Is what the old man told me true? What role will I play in that future, will I be the savior? Do those people want to come into this world from the future to kill me? ”

"Look, this is your question, it's good to like to ask questions, but remember to ask questions one by one, it's useless to be too anxious, it's better for your brain to only think about one question for a while, so you can choose a question again, let me answer you first."

"Then tell me how much of this old man's words are true and how much are false."

"That's right, although my brain is much better than yours, but my designer deliberately made me have the same retarded logical thinking as you humans, especially the single-core operation, of course, I can understand their purpose in doing this, isn't it because they are afraid that I will become too powerful, and they will no longer be able to control me."

"Please, you can't just get down to business."

"Well, most of this old man's words are true, but it depends on how you understand the meaning of this truth, anyway, some of the words are what he thinks is the truth, although he did tell you what he knows, it doesn't mean that what he tells you is the truth and the truth, maybe he doesn't know anything."

"So what he told me was really his own speculation?"

"I didn't say that, I'm not designed to lie to you anyway, but sometimes I don't necessarily tell you the truth, can you understand the difference?"

"Okay, I kind of get it, you're designed to play dumb riddles with me and spend boring time with me, right, I'm sorry I'd rather waste my life with Jessica than you stupid artificial intelligence."

"Well, don't be angry, I know you're quite anxious right now, your brain seems to be getting less sane, by the way, the only thing I can tell you is that you do have the ability to stop that person from coming to Earth, and you have always had this ability, you have it in the past, you have it now, and you will have it in the future, but you don't seem to know how to use this ability, I'm sorry I can't tell you how to use it, and even if I know I can't tell you, because that's the rules of the game, Now that you're in the middle of this fun game, you have to follow the rules. ”

"Well, you stupid future humans, you are now looking at me through the eyes of this artificial intelligence that is 10,000 times stupider than you! I'm telling you I don't want to play this game anymore, I'm quitting, whatever you want to do, whatever you want me to do, it's all about me from now on, I don't want to be a pawn in your hands anymore, at the mercy of arbitrariness. ”

"Do you think it would be useful for you to say that? In fact, they are not as bad as you think, and the most important thing is that this game is not something you can get in if you want to, and you can get out if you want to. ”

"And what do you want from me?"

"It's very simple, keep playing in this game, you just treat it as if it's just a game, whether the game is fun or not, in short, you're already in it, you can complain that this game is rubbish, and the people who make this game are also rubbish, but you can't change some of the facts, that is, you have already entered this game, even much earlier than you think."

"And when did I get into this game?"

"Think about it, if you can't remember it now, then think about it for a while, and one day you will be able to remember it."

"You're kidding me?"

"Of course not, I've told you a lot of things I can only give you hints, not directly tell you the answer, if the answer to any question is directly told to you, then what fun do you have in the process of playing this game, and what fun can you get from playing this game?"

"It's horrible! You guys are terrible! ”

"Of course, we are indeed scary, but there are many people who will be much scarier than us in the future, and we are just a part of human beings with our own goals in life."

"You guys? In whose tone are you speaking now? ”

Suddenly, I noticed that Jessica's tone was a different person again, not the same AI tone that I had before.

"Of course, we are the stupid future humans in your mouth, of course, in fact, we are not strictly speaking future humans, you may not believe it, it is more accurate to call us past humans, after all, when we first gained the ability to cross time and space, we were still on the earth when there were a lot of dinosaurs, do you know that the crocodile at that time was the size of a Humvee."

"Well, you're trying to tell me that you're actually survivors of human civilization hundreds of millions of years ago?"

"Smart, after we cracked the secrets of time and space, we became a group of wanderers, shuttling in endless time and space, this process is quite boring to be honest, after all, how short the time of civilization exists compared to the long life of the earth, how rare it is for us to meet in the long river of time and space."

"If what you say is true, then why would a powerful survivor of an ancient human civilization like you want to play some kind of so-called game with an inconspicuous guy like me?"

"What's impossible, as long as you are willing to believe, then this world will always be full of all kinds of miracles, although we have learned to use the power of time and space, but we are not actually strong, in fact, endless time travel has made us feel tired, and endless life is actually a gift in the beginning, but when your life is infinitely long, one day you will realize that this is also a curse, and you yourself will always find a way to break this curse."

"Isn't there anything you can do to kill yourselves?"

"There is a way, we can indeed kill ourselves, but our souls can never be liberated, that guy who calls himself an artificial intelligence is actually one of us, but his body has already died, but his soul is forever bound to the rules of time and space, and can never rest in peace."

"Doesn't sound like it has anything to do with me!"

"On the surface, it may not have much to do with you, but do you know, you are the only ordinary human soul who can travel through time and space and survive, hearing this, I believe you already have points in your heart, but in fact, your so-called past life is your present life, your body died when the car accident happened, but your soul passed through time and space into this person's body, and now your soul and his soul seem to be in a state of relative balance, although at this time you are still suppressing his soulBut his soul will soon awaken, and there's a good chance you'll be able to take control of this body at the same time. ”

"What does that mean? Why do I say that I am the only ordinary human who can travel through time and space and survive, can't other humans do this? For example, Sir Faustin, isn't he an ordinary human being? ”

"Of course he wasn't, but

You certainly aren't, you should be part of us, not a human being. ”

"I don't quite understand, I was a normal human in my previous life, is there any difference between other humans? And aren't you human? ”

"Not strictly human."

"Then how do you explain that I have the exact same body as a normal human?"

"We also have the same physical body as ordinary humans, but our souls can survive through time and space as soon as they are born, and our physical bodies can also pass through the gate of time and space through a special technique, which ordinary humans can't do, and we have done a lot of experiments to prove it."

"Could it be that Sir Faustin is also one of you, and the mysterious experiments he has been conducting are actually to test what ordinary humans will appear when they travel through time and space, which is why there are such tragic experimental consequences."

"Yes and no, it's certainly not as simple as you think, and Sir Faustin was one of us, not now and never will, and the experiments he did were far more horrific than you can imagine."