Humans are afraid of time, and time is afraid of the pyramids. 4,600 years later, it still listens quietly to the wind and sand from ancient times. In the eyes of the ancient Egyptians, the pyramids were a symbol of eternity.

At the highest point of the Acropolis is a ruined wall lined with stone pillars. The once lush and fruitful olive trees did not last forever under Athena's protection, and the goddess no longer cherished the land.

The Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary stands on the banks of the Seine. Craftsmen carved beautiful glass and stone bricks, and the poet offered good wishes to all mankind. However, the world has not entered the new era depicted in these statues and psalms.

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I looked at the photos in my camera and was filled with emotion.

When I was still in my hometown, I was young and longed for the distance; Now I can face them directly, but I don't have the same feelings as before.

We are living at the dawn of the new epoch, when science and logic will be stripped of their obsolescence, and new things and ideas will grow and develop.

The thumb of your right hand taps briskly on the keys until the screen shows a series of photos taken in the city of Tromsø, the "City of Aurora". Tromsø is the largest city in northern Norway and is located within the Arctic Circle.

From ancient Norse mythology, to the folk epic "Beowulf", to Wagner's opera "The Ring of the Nibelungen", to the stormy mountains and Ulduar in the online game "WorldofWarcraft", I have always had great admiration and yearning for this "Promised Land" in my mind. Therefore, Scandinavia occupies a very important part of this trip.

But my deepest feelings for Northern Europe don't come from their culture. Emotions are impulsive and emotional, and the things that inspire emotions are also intuitive and shocking. Such things, like nebulae, shine in every deep and dark corner of the universe; Like the aurora, palpable but mysterious.

Aurora...... I put away my camera, closed my eyes, let out a long sigh of relief, and leaned back in my chair.

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"Are you Chinese?"

After changing trains at London Heathrow, a new passenger sat down next to me. He was wearing a black suit and white shirt, a striped tie, and short silver-gray hair that made it difficult for me to determine his exact age, probably in his fifties.

"Yes, a Chinese tourist." I turned my gaze away from the newspaper in my hand and replied to him in fluent English, "Are you Israeli, coming home from a business trip?" ”

The plane's destination was Ben-Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, and I also made a guess about his identity based on this clue.

"Hmm. The other day in London for an exposition. ”

"Exposition?"

"The 36th World Language Expo."

I don't have any impression of this language expo, but having seen the expo expo, I can go on with the conversation.

"Your participation in the section must be related to Hebrew."

"Hebrew is predominantly Hebrew, with some references to Aramaic and Greek, in addition to recent archaeological discoveries."

"Archaeological finds in language...... I guess it must be the Dead Sea Scrolls, is there anything new in the near future? ”

He nodded to confirm my conjecture, "Not long ago, the Cultural Relics Bureau unearthed a parchment prayer box that stored ancient scrolls, and although this scroll has miraculously survived years of oxidative erosion, the contents on it are very difficult to decipher. Taking the opportunity of this expo, we gathered a group of linguistics experts to study and discuss this. ”

"What was the result?"

The uncle shrugged his shoulders and made a helpless gesture.

……

"What attracted you to Jerusalem?" After some conversation, my uncle asked me about the contents of my trip to Israel.

"A long history and culture. But my passion is no longer here, and I'm more interested in the current state of affairs in Israel than I am in today. ”

"Oh? So what do you think about Israel? ”

"I'll make you laugh," I smiled slightly, and casually compiled a more pleasant-sounding remark, "In my eyes, Israel can be said to be the most advanced country in the world today. ”

Hearing my slightly numb compliment, the uncle suddenly came to his senses, and he turned his body to my side, waiting for me to make further explanations.

"There is an old saying in my hometown that says, 'Born in sorrow, die in peace'. Israel is located in a hostile and dangerous Middle East, and must firmly occupy the political, economic, technological, military and 'moral' high ground, or there will be no place for its death. From Ben-Gurion to Golda Meir, from Sharon to Netanyahu, both the people and the leaders, they are made up of real elites, and Obama and the Democrats have no chance of coming to power in Israel unless the Jews don't want to live. ”

I closed the newspaper with Obama's picture attached to it and continued to explain my understanding in a serious way.

"The day after the founding of your country, the overwhelming superiority of the multinational coalition surrounded your home, but Israel won the war with a disparity in strength. Although the arms and financial aid I received later contributed a lot, I have to say that when I read the modern history of the world, this account left a deep impression on me. China has a term for approval, it's called 'fighting nation,' and I think it fits well with Israel. ”

"Having been honed by several wars in the Middle East, the IDF is the most experienced war-fighting force in the world. With the support of high-tech equipment and highly qualified soldiers, the Israeli army claims to have the strongest individual combat effectiveness. In addition, it also has a wealth of experience and achievements in dealing with terrorism, and the 'surprise attack on Entebbe' can be described as a legend. ”

"Jews have been known for a long time in the fields of science, economics and education, and there is no need to repeat them. It is a miracle that only three percent of the population is engaged in agriculture and that the entire country is self-sufficient and can be exported. ”

……

My uncle looked very happy that his country and nation were praised by foreigners, and he opened his mouth to ask me: "Is this your personal opinion, or do many Chinese think so?" ”

"My country has a population of 1.4 billion, and there will certainly be people who share my views, and there must be many people who hold the opposite view of me, but I believe that at least nine adults may not have an intuitive impression of Israel at all, after all, the two countries have not crossed much in history."

"Yes. Can you tell us a little more about what you think about Israel? For example, religion and culture, I'm interested in how you think about that. ”

"I'm sorry, but I'm a skeptic who has never been religiously upheld, and it's not appropriate to give an opinion on this."

"That's ......" Uncle was slightly regretful, but I didn't see disappointment on his face. He had already learned from what I had just said that was what was really interesting to him, and other than that was certainly not a new point of view for him.

"If you have time in the future, uncle, I will be happy to share with you what I have seen and thought after my trip to Jerusalem."

"Well, lad, here's my contact information, and if you run into any problems these days, I can help you somewhat. Wishing you a meaningful time in Jerusalem. ”

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Jerusalem is one of the stops on my journey, and I knew it in detail long before I arrived, so I can say a lot about it.

In front of this uncle, I only need to say some nice words as a means of chatting between strangers. But the information I just said is not all I know.

The world is at peace, people are tired of living in conflict, and no one wants to live in a place of hidden danger all the time. Despite Israel's continued efforts to attract Jews from abroad, net in-migration has fallen by three percent in five years; Even more than sixty percent of the people who move out of Israel each year are immigrants who have moved into Israel; In addition, a large number of Israelis choose to live abroad, a number of about one-eighth of the total population; Ethnically diverse fertility rates are also eroding the foundations of the Jewish nation-state.

Despite all these pitfalls, Israel is still a thriving country. As for what the future holds, it's not my turn to worry about it as an unrelated person.

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Looking out the window, you can see the moon, the lights on the wings, the dim clouds, and a few stars. But in fact, the most conspicuous image that can be seen at night is the self reflected in the window, like looking in a mirror.

The Boeing 777 took off at 10:30 p.m. local time, and most people were now asleep. I was also a little tired from the recent trip, so I took off my glasses, closed my eyes and yawned, ready to rest.

At this moment, there was a strange sensation in the body, which seemed to suddenly become lighter, and it seemed to be a normal reaction caused by the plane slightly reducing its altitude. I didn't think it was impressed, but then a wave of irregular shaking forced me to pay attention.

When I opened my eyes, I noticed that some of the passengers who were still asleep were also feeling wrong, constantly moving their heads around or leaning against the window to look out, trying to understand what was going on.

I thought back to what I learned about aerodynamics in college, and I guessed that I was experiencing turbulence. But I quickly began to question the conclusion I had just reached that the plane was now in the stratosphere and it was almost impossible for turbulence to occur.

The oxygen mask above my head fell*, interrupting my thinking, and I subconsciously put on the oxygen mask in front of me.

Awake travelers wake up the sleeping people around them. I also quickly woke up the uncle next to me and sent the oxygen mask to him. The latter didn't know what was going on in the tunnel, but the hanging oxygen mask already explained the current situation. Uncle took it and put it over his face.

After a bit of scramble, I began to analyze what had happened to me. The body was still slightly swollen, and the eardrum was slightly bulging, which, combined with the drop of the oxygen mask, meant that there was a breakage somewhere in the cabin, causing the air pressure outside the body to drop.

The atmosphere in the cabin was tense, but it didn't cause much commotion. Everyone knows that if you don't stay calm at this time, you will kill yourself, and there is no exaggerated scene now.

Some people were holding oxygen masks and breathing heavily, some people were at a loss for what to do, and some passengers kissed the cross they carried with them through the oxygen masks, while I watched intently everything in the cabin.

However, loss of pressure and tremors are only a prelude to the storm. A loud scraping and tearing sound of metal came from behind him, and the shaking of the plane intensified. Even more frightening is the fact that the movement of air has become palpable to the flesh. I looked back, and the sight in front of me made my mood freeze.

The plane began to disintegrate from the tail section, and a large amount of air was surging towards the rift, and the crack continued to expand and extend to the front of the cabin.

Due to the collapse of the fuselage structure, the aircraft rolls, pitches and yaws irregularly, and these actions also increase the scale of the cracks. The force exerted on my body, the sudden drop in air pressure and temperature, made my consciousness gradually trance. The hysterical screams of the passengers were hard to hear, and I wonder if the passengers were about to lose consciousness as well, or if my hearing was no longer maintainable.

The plane cracked into the air at an altitude of 30,000 feet.

In the dark of night, people, cargo, and debris flew all over the sky, and their next trajectory was determined according to the direction of their velocity when they peeled off the fuselage. I was thrown into the arms of a curtain and completely unconscious.

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1. "Bethesda" is familiar to some readers as an Aramaic word.

2. The author will not touch on any realistic and sensitive political issues in this book, but the prologue of the new book must be full of 3,000 words (in fact, it is already exceeded). So the author needs to write the beginning longer, and at the same time plan the boundaries of its prologue, and finally this is what it is. Then, it was originally a more deadly version at the beginning, but then you know from Kunming over there, so I re-made the beginning of a crash.

3. There will be no eunuchs in this book, and the author's graduate life will be in a state of nothing to do in the next few years (looking for an idle tutor). The book must be completed, without irrigation, the scale will be relatively large, conservatively estimated at more than 200W words.

4. The author is a newcomer involved in the creation of novels for the first time, and various shortcomings may be exposed along the way, but there will also be tangible growth reactions. I hope you can be more tolerant and give more guidance, and the author would like to thank you here.

5. This book is set based on the world view of The Elder Scrolls. I believe that the setting in The Elder Scrolls, a work with a history of 20 years and a good reputation, can arouse the reading interest of readers.

The specific style of the protagonist is not static, and he will experiment with a variety of gameplay (warriors, mages, dragon roars, werewolves, etc.) and routes (exploration, business, politics, war, etc.).

6. The plot of this book is mainly based on the protagonist's observations and experiences, and there will be many psychological descriptions, plus the author hopes to exercise his pen power, so he uses the first perspective.

Finally, there is a special note for Elder Scrolls players: 1. LoreFriendly (the previous Three Nos principle was represented by this word); 2. The regular MOD has been played; 3. The main character will slowly transform from passive to active in the snow manga chapter, and walk out of his own different paths, no longer sticking to the plot in the original game.