——Three days later, at midnight, Zhang Liang's tent. At night, Zhang Liang turned off the lights, but he did not sleep, but sat in the dark tent and read.

He sat in the silent and dark void, with the ancient book of words and spirits floating in front of him, and the words and spirits on the book exuded a mysterious faint fluorescence, and with this faint light, Zhang Liang looked at the book quietly.

Until midnight, when the lights and candles of the entire military camp were extinguished, and even Xiang Yu's tent was darkened, Liu Bang came to Zhang Liang's tent. Liu Bang stood outside the tent, thought about it again and again, and then finally decided to raise his hand and touch the bell on the door.

"Please come in." Before Liu Bang's hand touched Xuanling, Zhang Liang's voice came out of the tent. Liu Bang froze for a moment, then his eyes flashed, he withdrew his hand, and walked into the camp tent lightly.

Stepping into the dark silence of the camp, Liu Bang saw Zhang Liang sitting in the void reading at a glance. Zhang Liang closed the ancient book, nodded lightly to Liu Bang who entered the door, and waved his hand to ask him to sit down.

"Mr. Zhang Liang is still studying so late, so Yaxing." Liu Bang also nodded to Zhang Liang, and then sat down in front of him, "But why don't you know the light?" Zhang Liang fell from the void and sat flat in front of Liu Bang, at eye level with Liu Bang, but his body still retained a trace of subtlety from the ground, "In the first three days, I had a bright light until midnight, and the king of Han was in the future, so I guessed that the light was too bright, so I simply went out today." Zhang Liang said with a smile.

"How did the gentleman know I was coming?" Liu Bang looked at Zhang Liang, who was calm in front of him, and asked in a low voice. Zhang Liang took out a teapot, a pot of hot water, and tea leaves sent by Liu Bang three days ago from under the desk, and said, "King Han doesn't have to be so polite to Zaixia, just call me a room." ”

"Now that the pattern of Qin and Chu has been clearly defined, a national-level war may break out at any time, and it is impossible for everyone in the Qin and Chu region to avoid the storm of war...... And on the battlefield, they are either friends or enemies, so the king of Han and the king of Chu should come to 'greet' me and Mulan, and to the two of us who have never expressed their stance on the war. ”

"That's right, that's how it should be...... But how can the ovary be sure that the person who came is me, not Xiang Yu? Liu Bang's gaze froze for a moment and asked. Gut feeling. Zhang Liang counted eighteen tea leaves and twisted them in the palm of his hand, blew lightly, removed the fine dust on the leaves, and then put them in the pot. Liu Bang didn't speak again, just quietly watched Zhang Liang slowly pour the hot water into the pot, and watched the fragrance of tea rise with the heat. Liu Bang picked up the lid of the pot and closed the teapot for Zhang Liang, so that the tea leaves would sublimate in the hot water.

Zhang Liang took out a slender white candle from under the desk and put it in front of the table, in fact, Liu Bang sent someone to send him a gentle and stable high-light machine lamp, but Zhang Liang didn't use it, he was still used to and liked to use the candle to read books. Zhang Liang twisted the heart of the candle with two fingers, and was about to use the magic blue energy to light the white candle, but was stopped by Liu Bang with a wave of his hand.

"The ovary doesn't have to be lit, that's fine." Liu Bang said. Zhang Liang was puzzled for a moment, but he still listened to Liu Bang and took back the white candle.

"Does King Han still think the lights are too bright?" Zhang Liang looked at Liu Bang and said. "I think it's better for our next conversation to be in the dark." Liu Bang also looked at Zhang Liang and said softly. "It seems that what the King of Han wants to talk to me about is not just a statement about the war - what is the matter when there is no light and night talk...... Also avoid everyone, including Xiang Yu, the king of Chu! Zhang Liang looked at Liu Bang's eyes with deep eyes through the darkness of the night.

"It's not to avoid, there are some things that Xiang Yu doesn't need or fit to know." Liu Bang looked at the deep gaze in Zhang Liang's eyes and replied in a deep voice. "So...... What exactly does King Han want to talk to me about? Zhang Liang retracted his gaze and said.

Liu Bang looked at Zhang Liang and fell silent, Zhang Liang didn't move, this moment was very quiet, so quiet that the breathing of the two of them was calm, so quiet that the thin moonlight outside the tent didn't dare to easily break through the silence in the gap, and the wind was so quiet that thousands of miles away came softly, but it was only like a whisper.

Until Liu Bang spoke, all the silence was like a piece of cold ice being thrown into the vast ocean tide. "Talk about the world under our feet - the Three Realms."

Zhang Liang sat quietly, but when he heard this, his inner world trembled sincerely, and even Liu Bang, who said this, couldn't help but feel a little disturbed at the moment when he finished speaking. Everything was still quiet, everything in the tent was motionless, only the fragrance of tea wafting from the teapot lid lingered in the silence.

But in fact, at this moment, Liu Bang and Zhang Liang's hearts were shaken for the same long time, and the calm, tranquil, and deep sea finally fluctuated. Just that sentence concluded an extraordinary potential relationship between Zhang Liang and Liu Bang for a long time to come.

"King Han, what do you want to talk about in the Three Realms?" Zhang Liang still calmed his breath and lightly said, "The mystery of the Three Realms." Liu Bang said, "Zhang Liang, you should also know that our world, this world called the Three Realms, exists on a huge mystery. ”

Zhang Liang didn't speak anymore, but just re-examined the man in front of him through the darkness and listened to him. "A thousand years – the farthest written history of the world can be traced back is a thousand years. Few people have noticed this mystery. Liu Bang said with a solemn expression, but his thoughts at this moment unnaturally thought of Ying Zheng, who had said something similar to him...... Yes, Ying Zheng is one of the few people who also pays attention to and attaches importance to this "thousand years".

"No matter how ordinary people can think of the existence of this world for more than a thousand years, I don't know how long this strange realm of the ancient land has existed, not to mention the loess land under everyone's feet......" Liu Bang took out an ancient gray scroll from his arms and opened it on the desk in front of Zhang Liang.

"As the old saying goes, Qin and Chu are the first land to breed life in the Three Realms, and it makes sense in terms of its proximity to the incalculable living place of the Ancient Land. However, there are huge loopholes in the written history of Qin and Chu, Jin Yuan, and Tang Cao - the written history of Qin and Chu is as far as 1,128 years, and the written history of Jin Yuan is as far as 1,080 years, which is the latest Tang Cao, and the written history can also be traced back to 960 years......"

"The difference in the length of the history of the three countries is less than two hundred years, and such a close time is simply not enough to support the argument that Qin Chu is the oldest place where life exists in the Three Realms!"

"However, whether it is Jin Yuan or Tang Cao, there is no such ancient existence in their land as ancient as the ancient land, so the substantial ancient origin of Qin and Chu should be undeniable......" Zhang Liang followed Liu Bang's pause and said what he said later, but he wanted to stop talking. That's right, this is the contradictory anomaly left by the historical years......

If the substantial antiquity of Qin and Chu cannot be overthrown, then there is probably only one possibility left - thousands of years ago, before the three countries stood side by side, there must have been a more distant and longer human era in the world of the Three Realms! ”“…… But there is not a trace of written history left behind - a blank human time! Zhang Liang almost said this in a trembling voice...... The mystery of the Three Realms, the time of a thousand years ago, the blank years of history - all of this, of course, he had thought about and guessed. And all this, he has never talked about it with anyone, even his teacher Jiang Shang.

This is because thinking and questioning about the time before the history of writing is itself touching the bottom line of the existence of the existing world. Everything that does not exist has a reason for not existing, and questioning is the greatest sin in the existence of this world itself. In fact, Zhang Liang could think that there must be people who think of these extreme problems in the world, but he didn't expect that in this world, he would encounter it.

"Come, let's take a fresh look at our world......" Liu Bang finally pressed hard with his hand, and finally spread the entire scroll on the desk. That's the full map of the Three Realms! On the map, there are three huge landmasses on the vast and ethereal sea, which are close to each other, but are clearly separated from each other by coastal rivers.

They are held together at such a delicate distance, in a circle, and in the middle of them, the sea is divided into another part, which is only connected to each other by the river, this circular sea surrounded by three landmasses, historically known as the "Haixin Lake", but people of all ages do prefer to call it the "Sea of Origin", because people believe and believe that the strange sea lake surrounded by this land is the source of life in this world, and its time must have existed for a longer time than any country or even more than the ancient land.

And the three lands that are mutually connected, isolated from each other and check and balance each other are the living places of this world - Qin Chu, Jin Yuan, Tang Cao three "1,000 years, these three lands, these three countries, divided and isolated and balanced each other, for a thousand years - there is one thing Ying Zheng is not wrong, this is indeed ridiculous and sad, this world, in this strange way, has existed for thousands of years. ”

"This is a deformed phenomenon - Ying Zheng is right, someone should have to end it sooner or later." Liu Bang's hand pressed on the ancient gray map, while his pupils stared at Zhang Liang's deep eyes, "And it's not just Yingzheng, Tang Cao and Jin Yuan, the thinking sages of these two countries must also be thinking about the same thing." ”

"But it's almost impossible - the reason why the three lands in the three realms have been divided for thousands of years without changing the situation is essentially because of the Henggu rivers that separate the three lands." Zhang Liang pointed to the small but clearly existing river separating Qin Chu, Jin Yuan and Tang Cao on the map, and said, "Although the river is not wide, it is overflowing with the deep sea breath that has been brewing in Haixin Lake for thousands of years. ”

"That's right, because of the mysterious nature of the Henggu River, it is determined that the vast majority of people in the world will never be able to cross the line, and it is also determined that no country can expand its army or powerful forces to other lands - therefore, the key point of unifying the three realms is not how to enhance the strength of the army, but how to unravel the obstacles of the Henggu River!" Liu Bang said.

Zhang Liang raised his head and looked at Liu Bang's eyes, and suddenly there was a subtlety, "Actually, I have been paying attention to and thinking about all this in my early years, so I have always paid attention to the overall situation of the entire Three Realms. Liu Bang suddenly pressed his eyes and said in a low voice, "Actually, as a protector of the king, I am not as competent as Xiang Yu, in the three years that I have guarded Huyao City, I have not made any great contributions to the defense of the border city, and most of my time has been spent on paying attention to the situation of the entire Three Realms in addition to Qin and Chu." In the meantime, I have been wondering, where did the mystery of this eternal river come from? ”

"The ideas I could have at that time were naturally the key points that everyone could think of but few people could connect with......" Liu Bang stretched out his finger and crossed along the Henggu River between the three landmasses, and said, "If the river is deleted directly, then the broken parts of the three landmasses along the river can actually be pieced together in a complete way - this is a doctrine that has been prevalent in the Three Realms for a long time, the theory of the unity of the three lands!" It is believed that the three landmasses were actually a complete land thousands of years ago or even longer, a complete annular land, which floated above the sea, and at that time, the Haixin Lake inside it had no communication with the sea outside, and was completely isolated. ”

The very existence of the Three Realms is like a huge mystery. Therefore, for thousands of years, some people have been unremittingly exploring and thinking about the reasons for the emergence of this strange state of the Three Realms, so hundreds of years ago, a sage named Zhuangzi put forward a conjecture about the origin of the Three Realms, which shocked the people of the entire Three Realms, and for a while, his doctrine spread throughout the world and became the most recognized mainstream doctrine.

This is the doctrine of the unity of the three lands. Zhuangzi believes that Qin Chu, Jin Yuan, and Tang Cao were all connected in a circular land from the beginning, and Haixin Lake was a strange sea area surrounded by land. A thousand years or more ago, due to an unspeakable natural disaster, the entire continent was divided into three parts by the divine power of nature, and Haixin Lake was connected to the vast rivers outside it.

But the continent is only divided, so the geographical location is still very close, and even the edges of the adjacent are also formed, but it is undeniable that they have been divided, so far, the strange three realms are "not connected and independent of the sea - Haixin Lake." This further reflects its remarks as the source of life. The theory of the unity of the three continents is indeed a very bold and crazy, but logically connected conjecture. ”

Liu Bang continued, "So, for a long time, I have been firmly thinking about the singularity between the three-land theory and the Henggu River. "The theory of the integration of the three lands is indeed the most logical theory, but in essence, it is nothing more than the words of one family, the water without a source, the world thousands of years ago, and even the words have not been recorded, how can a little conjecture be able to glimpse the truth?" Zhang Liang lifted the lid of the teapot, sniffed a trace of warm and pleasant tea, and said.

"Yes, this is just Zhuangzi's personal conjecture, and there is not enough theoretical evidence, so there is not much valuable information that can be used for practical thinking - so my exploration for several years has been fruitless." Liu Bang nodded and continued, "But half a year ago, a person's remarks deeply affected me, like an initiation. ”

When he said this, Liu Bang suddenly stopped, staring at Zhang Liang with burning eyes, while Zhang Liang was holding a teapot and slowly pouring tea into the cup, feeling Liu Bang's gaze, he raised his eyes unnaturally. It wasn't until a cup of tea was full and Zhang Liang hung the teapot in his hand that Liu Bang spoke. "That person is you, Zhang Liang!" Hearing this, Zhang Liang's eyes couldn't help but stare, and the look of doubt was incomplete.

"Actually, I have been concerned about your existence before, I know that you are a sage who has been living in seclusion in Fengqi Mountain and concentrating on enlightenment, and your teacher is the immortal saint Jiang Ziya." Liu Bang said in a calm voice, word by word, "I also know that you have been talking about all kinds of absurd prophecies on Fengqi Mountain, and everyone who has heard it ridicules you as a madman, but I believe it, I believe in your prophecy, especially the prophecy you said half a year ago——"

"Non-existent beings live in non-existent situations, the gates of the forbidden realm shake, and the lost kingdom watches."

(End of chapter)