The group of men and women with candles in their hands were at the edge of the clearing, shouting hoarsely at him.

Li Zhen was shocked, and landed on the ground in time to retract his wings.

As soon as he landed, the men seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and then shouted noisily.

In any case, the other party must have good intentions, and it is a group of men and women of the same age. Li Zhen looked at their clothes as he quickly approached - thankfully, it wasn't in the style of science fiction, it was still the way it used to be.

So he ran to the periphery of the open area in one go, and finally saw the other party's appearance clearly, and heard what they were talking about.

The most said phrase is – "How did you get there?? ”

There were about 30 people, more women than men. Everyone had eagerness, confusion, and even trepidation on their faces. They were so excited as if they had seen something amazing, and if it weren't for some invisible force in front of them, they would have pounced.

Li Zhen certainly had more questions to ask them. So he put on his shirt and waved his hand: "Don't argue, don't argue, what's going on?" ”

At this time, a girl finally shouted: "Be quiet, be quiet, be quiet!!" Listen to him!! ”

It looks like this woman is the leader in the middle of the group. As soon as she spoke, the crowd really fell silent.

For a while, a person and a group of people looked at each other, but they didn't know how to speak.

Two seconds later, Li Zhen frowned and asked the most realistic question: "What is this?" ”

He was referring to the open area in front of him, and he was asking about the woman across from him.

To say that she is a woman seems to be saying that she is older. Because she looks like she is only twenty-four or five years old, she can still be called a "girl". But the face of this one showed a composure that did not match her age, not a curious and excited look on his face like the others.

After all, they saw Li Zhen fly over with their own eyes.

The woman also frowned: "You don't know what to do?" ”

Then she thought for a moment and her eyes widened: "You won't ...... It can't come from heaven, right?! ”

She said as she looked behind Li Zhen—a faint light could still be seen at such a distance.

Li Zhen hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Yes." It was a spaceship that fell. I am a survivor. What time is it? ”

A startled inhale rang out from the crowd. The woman looked him up and down in amazement, and then said, "Now...... It was about eleven o'clock in the evening. ”

"I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about now, what year is it?"

The woman looked at him a few more times and said, "20 years." In 2020. ”

Five years.

Li Zhen was stunned for a moment. Then exhale a deep breath of turbidity.

OK...... He said to himself. OK. Not 2200. It's 2020. It's been five years, five years!

At this time, a young boy suddenly said: "Are you ......?"

"You look...... Are you ...... Li Zhen? That Li Zhen? The Philippine one? ”

As he said this, the crowd fell silent. Then some people looked at the boy: "Which Li Zhen?" ”

But the man stared at the man two meters away, and the excitement and surprise in his eyes grew stronger and stronger. Finally reached out and pointed: "You are!" I knew you when I was a child!! That's what it looks like!! I can fly!! ”

Then he turned his face to those who were puzzled and shouted, "Li Zhen! That Major General! Didn't it say it in the newspapers before. He's in the Philippines—"

It seems that this is enough. A moment of silence was followed by a massive exclamation. That sentence seemed to awaken the memories of these young people years ago. More people's eyes suddenly lit up-

"It's him!!"

Li Zhen has never had the experience of facing "fans" before, in fact, most of what he does is behind the scenes, in obscurity. But he didn't expect that nearly five years had passed. In today's situation, you will meet such a group of people. In normal times, he might have been a little complacent, but now, more worries make it impossible for him to experience that emotion at all.

So he grinned, "I am." Don't argue just yet—who's going to tell me what this is? What the hell is going on? ”

The girl he had spoken to earlier didn't seem to be able to keep his composure anymore this time. There was a subtle hint of excitement on her face, but she did a great job of suppressing it. However, the tone of his voice has changed somewhat: "...... If you've really just returned, you probably don't know what to do. This thing appeared five years ago. ”

She gestured with her hand on both sides: "Officially, it's called the Partition Zone, and we call it the Space-Time Wall." If a living person walks through here, it only takes one step and the whole person will be turned into ashes - so we told you not to come here. ”

It's the same thing they encountered in the sky. Li Zhen sighed slightly: "How many of these things are there?" ”

The girl looked at the others around her and hesitated, "I don't know what to do." We can still hear some news at first...... Later, this thing became more and longer, and the communication was almost interrupted. Four years ago, it was probably ...... It's like this all over the country. ”

A group of young men stared at him, their faces flickering in the light of the candles, a somewhat terrifying sight.

Li Zhen thought for a moment, sighed, stuck the Longinus spear into the ground, and then sat down without any scruples.

He waved his hand a little tiredly: "If you are tired, you can sit too." ”

"I did just come back when the ship crashed, so I didn't know anything. When I went to heaven, it was 2015. So what's going on in the meantime, please tell me about it. ”

His voice seemed helpless and depressed. Such a voice and image are very different from the high-spirited, hot-blooded and powerful young general that was advertised in the past. But it seems that it is exactly like this, and the relatives seem to be more relaxed in those years. Once they got rid of the excitement and shock, they found that the heroic major general from five years ago also looked like a peer, but with a more mature tone.

This impression made them more intimate and more favorable, so first two people sat down like Li Zhen, and then everyone sat on the ground.

It was as if they were using a candle flame to keep a watch for the old world they knew.

The girl whispered, "This is Yuzhou." Here we are, Southwest Associated Political University. This should have been Yubei District in the past, but the wall in front of you separated Yubei District from us. This thing is like a city wall, and the one you see now is straight, which is very rare. Most are curved and the width is not fixed. So a lot of these zigzag isolation belts are connected together, and they separate a lot, well, a lot of autonomous regions. ”

"Autonomous Regions." Li Zhen frowned slightly and repeated the word, "Is it your name, or the official name?" ”

The girl tilted her head and smiled bitterly. Such an expression made her delicate face a little more lively: "Which official do you mean by official?" Was it the former imperial government, or the current autonomous regional government? ”

Li Zhen slowly raised his head and stared at her, and looked at her for a while before saying, "The empire has collapsed?" ”

The girl raised her slender eyebrows: "Nominally, no." But now...... Let's put it this way. It's like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period - I mean there is this trend. ”

"Then the autonomous region you are referring to is the local separatist force." Li Zhen said in a deep voice, "The junta? ”

"It's not that exaggerated yet." The girl continued, "There are these barriers, but occasionally there are gaps - this thing is slowly changing. Sometimes one person can walk through, and sometimes a whole convoy or even tens of thousands of people can walk through. So I say nominally there was also an imperial government. We are all citizens of the empire now, not some small independent state. ”

"But I heard that there was a disturbance in the north." A boy interjected, "It seems to be near Dingzhou, where the place is quite big, last year it was said that it was going to be independent, and the empire sent troops to suppress it, so I just wanted to make a show, but it happened that there was really a gap there, and it was really suppressed." ”

"Well, it's the Liu family." Another boy added, "It's the old Liu Yangbo's family." ”

Li Zhen was slightly stunned, and then smiled bitterly. The world is just impermanent, and the family has no good outcome after all.

Girl: "So we're on the fringe. Our area probably includes half of Yubei District, one Jiangbei District, half of Yuzhong District, and the entire Nan'an District. Where are you...... No one was there a long time ago. The people inside must have died a long time ago. Because at first your area was a big area. We came here to see you because we saw a fire there. ”

So now it seems like the ancient times when communication was not smooth. Li Zhen thought to himself that the so-called isolation zone was changing, and the whole country was divided into one area after another by this anomaly, and it was difficult to communicate effectively. In this case...... Sooner or later, someone will stand on their own. The empire is like this, and maybe the entire world is like this.

He can slowly understand what it looks like in the future, and now he wants to know another thing about Lu Dao.

So he asked, "What about the species?" ”

The girl pursed her lips: "That...... You should know that you used a nuclear bomb when you were 15 years old. ”

"Hmm."

"After that, there was no news of the species for months. But more than a year ago, when the fence zone became more numerous, it was said to have been discovered again – in Australia and the United Kingdom. But after that, we didn't know much, because the official blocking of news about this kind of thing, and the communication was really not smooth, so sorry, we really didn't know much. ”

"Okay." Li Zhen only said one word, and then stopped talking. (To be continued......)