Chapter 20: The Boundaries of Time and Space
After making the decision, Zhang Mo immediately bought a ticket to Guangxi, he knew that An Shendong lived in Lingshan County, Guangxi, so he wanted to go directly to try his luck and see if he could meet An Shendong, if he could see him, no matter what, he would ask Lao Dao to come over and save these people, at least save Yang Yanyu first. Zhang Mo knew that time was very precious to him, and every minute that was fast was possible to win more chances for Yang Yanyu to survive, especially after several interactions with Qiu Shisan, he felt the preciousness of time even more, because he felt hope and felt the direction of hope.
After getting off the plane in Nanning, Zhang Mo got on the bus to Lingshan County with his bag on his back, and next to him sat a dark and thin middle-aged man, wearing a colorful shirt and carrying a small bag on his chest. Zhang Mo leaned over and said, "Big brother, hello." The other party turned his face to look at Zhang Mo and hurriedly said, "Hello." β
"I want to ask where you got off the bus?"
"Oh, I'm the terminal Lingshan bus station."
"Oh, you're local here?"
"Yes, yes, yes." The other man nodded as he spoke.
"Then I want to ask you if you know it by yourself?"
"Ask whom?"
"An Shendong."
"An Shendong? What do you ask him for? β
"So you know him?"
"I know him, no, no, no, I don't know him."
"I don't know what you're asking me to ask him for?" Zhang Mo became a little angry all of a sudden, feeling that the other party was teasing him.
However, the man didn't seem to be angry, and quickly nodded and said, "Oh, oh, I'm sorry." With that, the man turned his face and looked out the window. Zhang Mo wanted to ask again, but seeing that this person didn't seem to want to say more, he didn't speak again. But he wanted to find An Shendong and had to ask, but he didn't want to say that he would just find someone else. Thinking to himself, he turned to the other side and looked at the man next to him, this is a young man, probably in his 20s, and he is quite handsome. Zhang Mo patted the other party and said, "Young man, are you a local?" β
The young man turned his head and glanced at Zhang Mo, nodded and did not speak. Zhang Mo continued: "Then ask someone with you, An Shendong, do you know?" β
The young man still didn't speak, but his head immediately shook like a rattle, and then he turned his head around like the middle-aged man just now, and no longer talked to Zhang Mo. Zhang Mo was very helpless, so he had to keep quiet and flipped up his mobile phone by himself.
After about two and a half hours of driving, the bus drove into the bus station in Lingshan County, which is also Zhang Mo's destination. Zhang Mo found a small hotel with his bag on his back and stayed there. After the salute was put away, he went downstairs to eat, and asked the waiter if he knew An Shendong, and the other party also shook his head. asked the boss the same way, Zhang Mo asked nearly 10 people in a row and got such an answer. In desperation, he had to go back to the hotel and make plans again. Zhang Mo thought in his heart that An Shendong was very famous in the whole country, and it was impossible for their local people not to know about him. They must be deliberately hiding it, but why should they hide it from themselves? Is it because I'm a foreigner? Or are they there to protect An Shendong? Think about it, maybe that's the reason, but if that's the case, it's even more difficult to do, and it's even harder to find out where he lives. Zhang Mo thought about it and couldn't think of a way. At this time, he inadvertently turned his head and saw a sign on the bedside table, which was a scenic tourism billboard, but the words on it really startled Zhang Mo, and he was in a cold sweat. It reads "Qianfengling", asking Xuzhen This is a town in Yuanling County where he and Wu Fei have been, why is there also here? He hurriedly opened his mobile phone to search for Xuzhen, but it seemed that he couldn't find an official answer such as an encyclopedia, and some advertisements and other things more or less mentioned something similar to it. Zhang Mo thought to himself, could this be God reminding himself? They don't want to say anything, so they can only let God guide me, and I'll go to this town tomorrow. After making up his mind, Zhang Mo took off his clothes and went to bed.
Early the next morning, Zhang Mo took the earliest bus to Wenxu Town, and Zhang Mo got off at Wenxu Town after half an hour's drive. Zhang Mo opened the map on his mobile phone and looked at his location and the map of Wenxu Town. After reading it, he was shocked again, the town was actually white on the map, and then the white area quickly became larger, and then the whole map turned white. Zhang Mo thought to himself: "There is no signal in this broken place, forget it, it seems that this town is not big, and I will find out An Shendong by asking one by one." So he walked into the village with his bag on his back, and saw that there seemed to be a market not far away, and there were quite a lot of people, so he walked over. However, when I got closer, I found that it was not a market, but three people in their 50s sitting in a row at the free clinic, surrounded by many villagers. However, the clothes worn by these people are somewhat special, neither like modern people, nor like the ethnic minorities here, but somewhat like the clothes worn during the Ming Dynasty in ancient China. Zhang Mo didn't think much about it after reading it, just shook his head and prepared to walk away. At this time, he noticed a sign on the table of the three people in the free clinic, and the word "An" was written on it. Zhang Mo thought to himself, could they have something to do with An Shendong? Looks like you've come to the right place. So he patted a villager next to him and asked directly: "Hey, hello, may I ask where An Shendong's family lives?" As soon as the three words An Shendong were mentioned, everyone turned their faces around and stared at Zhang Mo and no one spoke.
Zhang Mo felt very nervous for a moment, so he repeated it again: "Oh, I just want to ask where An Shendong lives?" At this time, one of the three free clinicians spoke: "What are you looking for our master for?" Zhang Mo was excited when he heard this, and he finally found the right place. He hurriedly replied, "I'm from Shanghai, and I have a friend who is very sick, and I want to ask for help." β
The man smiled and said, "Are you kidding me, there are so many good hospitals in Shanghai, you don't want to look for them, come to our ravines and ravines to find doctors." β
"I'm serious, my friend's illness can't be saved by ordinary doctors."
"Oh, tell me, what is it?"
Zhang Mo didn't dare to say it directly after seeing that so many people were present, so he turned around and said, "Can I see your divine master and talk about it?" β
"I'm sorry, our master travels all year round and is not at home."
"Do you know where he is now, I can go to him."
"We don't know about this, the master is uncertain, and he never tells us."
Zhang Mo was helpless, it seemed that he was going to run in vain this time, and he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. However, he continued to ask: "Then you see that I have run here, can you take me to your master's house to have a look?" β
"You don't believe us?"
Zhang Mo hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, no." I just feel that I have run so far, although I can't see your master, if I can go to the immortal land to bow down, it will not be in vain. β
The man turned his head to look at the other two people and said, "Okay, since you are so sincere, I'll take you over." β
Zhang Mo was overjoyed when he heard this: "If this person can be alone with himself and tell him about the matter, maybe he can help me solve it, isn't a famous teacher a high apprentice." So he told this person the truth of the matter along the way, but this person only responded with "uh-huh" and didn't say anything else. Zhang Mo saw that his face was expressionless, so he didn't say anything more. About 10 minutes later, the two of them came to the other end of the town, where there was a road that led to the depths of the canyon, and a narrow, high, and long arch bridge appeared above the canyon, and the most terrible thing was that the bridge had no railings on either side. This person took Zhang Mo straight onto the arch bridge, Zhang Mo couldn't help but be a little frightened when he saw the cliffs on both sides, but thanks to his experience in field activities in recent years, he walked without danger.
After another ten minutes, the road passes through a hill, the other side is suddenly open, an open flat land is covered with a courtyard, the two big stone lion grids in front of the door are conspicuous, the carving is very realistic and vivid, the door is written on the "East Shrine" three big characters, people look unconsciously serious. Inside is the pavilion and water pavilion, carved beams and painted buildings, three steps and a chair, ten steps and a one, moving and changing the scene, staggered and reflecting, this is completely a paradise.
Zhang Mo secretly wondered in his heart that this was An Shendong's home? It's the 21st century, how can there be such a place? Shouldn't this be a park? He looked around, looking around, and there were ten people in the courtyard, except for a few people cleaning the courtyard. There is an incense altar in each courtyard, and Zhang Mo thought: "This may not be his house, but a Taoist temple." No wonder it's so big. Zhang Mo was thinking nonsense, and the man suddenly stopped and said, "It's already here." Then he pointed to a room and said, "My master stayed here when he came back, but he rarely came back, and we rarely saw him a few times a year." I'll take you to the hall to pay homage to heaven and earth. Zhang Mo nodded and followed the man into a hall with a huge painting on the front wall. This painting is a portrait painting, but he has dragon horns on his head and large eyes, like the dragon king of the East China Sea on TV.
Zhang Mozheng could see the god, and the man spoke again: "This is the portrait of our ancestor, you kneel and bow with me, and tell him what is in your heart." Then I saw this man raise his arms from the side to the top of his head and bend it, put his hands on the top of his head, and then squat down with his arms forward, his upper body bent down, and his head buried in the ground, looking a bit like a fetus in the womb. Zhang Mozheng wondered, what was this for. But the man said, "Do whatever I want." Zhang Mo didn't dare to slack off, he did it again according to the gourd, and then told him about his own affairs. After speaking, he raised his head and looked at the wall again, only to see that the dragon king above suddenly turned up, and it turned very fast, and the surrounding houses and people also turned together, and then disappeared. When everything stood still, he found himself in a vast snowy field, with mountains in front of him and endless snowfields behind him. At this time, a voice came: "Welcome to Qianfeng Ridge, welcome to Qianfeng Ridge." "The sound is distant and close, deep and clear. Zhang Mo was frightened and ran around, looking around, and shouted loudly: "Where is this?" Is there anybody? Where is this? Is there anybody? Zhang Mo suddenly sat up from the bed and opened his eyes, it turned out to be a dream.
Zhang Mo turned on the light, and it turned out that he was still in the hotel. Zhang Mo tried hard to recall the situation in the dream, and finally some people said that it was Qianfengling. He hurriedly looked over to the table to see the billboard. Zhang Mo was taken aback at a glance, it was written on the scenery of Qianfeng Ridge, and asked why there was no Xuzhen, he quickly turned the sign over and looked at it, but there was no word to ask Xuzhen. Could it be that I was wrong during the day? However, this Thousand Peaks Ridge seems to be real. Zhang Mo looked at his watch, it was already 4 o'clock in the morning, he got dressed and went downstairs after washing.
Some of the shops downstairs were already open for breakfast, so he bought two steamed buns and a cup of soy milk, and went to the bus station while eating. When I got to the bus station, I found a bus to Qianfengling, then got on the bus and bought a ticket, and found a window seat to sit down. Before six o'clock, he had already arrived at Qianfengling, Zhang Mo got off the car and found that only he got off the car, it is possible that there is no fame here, and no one comes, or it may be too early, no one gets up so early to come to see the scenery, and the sky has just turned white.
Although it is southern, the early winter morning is still very cold. Zhang Mo tightened his collar and strode forward in the direction of an arrow, this is said to be a tourist scenic spot, but in fact, except for a few road signs, it is a barren mountain and a wild ridge, and even a figure cannot be seen. Zhang Mo walked along a path towards the mountain, the side of the road was covered with all kinds of trees and weeds, the wind blew the leaves rustling, Zhang Mo shook his spirit and quickened his pace. But the further you go, the denser the trees become, the path becomes less and less clear, and the ground is covered with dead leaves. Zhang Moshen was shallow and shallow, and after touching for more than an hour, a small stone platform finally appeared, and there were no plants growing on the stone platform and leaning against the cliff. Zhang Mo cautiously sat on a stone and looked into the distance, at this time the sun was slowly rising from a fog, and the scenery and terrain around him gradually became clear. Zhang Mo looked into the distance and found that the reason why this place is called Qianfeng Ridge is because the large and small peaks are undulating, although each peak is very small, but it is enough to make people feel the majesty of nature.
Zhang Mo calculated that if he crossed here, it might not be enough time for two days, but he patted the tent in his backpack and said to himself: "Lao Tzu is prepared, you can't scare me." As he spoke, he also chanted Chairman Mao's poem: "The five mountains are soaring and the waves are soaring, and the Wumeng is majestic and walking mud pills." Then he took out his glass and took a sip of water, looked up and continued. Further inside, in addition to various plants, there are many small birds "chirping" from the trees. Although there are no people here, it is deserted and terrible, but it is completely easy for Zhang Mo, who has many years of exploration experience. Zhang Mo walked from morning to evening, but never walked to a place that could catch his attention. It soon became dark, and Zhang Mo didn't stop until he couldn't go any further, he found a slightly more spacious open space and set up a tent and lit some dry firewood. He sat alone by the campfire, not fearful but emotional, and he had always thought that everything was caused by his vanity. So in the past few years, he has become haggard, physically and mentally exhausted, although he has been trying to find a way to atone for his sins, but he has never seen the slightest clue. Seeing Zhang Mo in a trance, he seemed to see Lu Yingfei, Wu Fei, Yang Yanyu, and the three of them all looked at Zhang Mo viciously, as if to say, "Give us back our lives." Zhang Mo shuddered, quickly got up to put out the fire, and got into the tent.
The next day, Zhang Mo got up at 4 o'clock and continued to hurry. Half a day later, Zhang Mo was already deep in the hinterland of Qianfeng Ridge, and he walked up to the highest peak, which was really covered with a thick layer of snow. Although Zhang Mo had been prepared and put on a jacket with fleece liners, he still couldn't help but feel a little chilly. Zhang Mo hastily ate something and continued to walk without stopping, because he couldn't rest for a long time in this environment, otherwise he might not be able to walk again once he was mentally tired.
Walking further is a dense forest, Zhang Mo thought about the right place he walked while walking, after all, he had been walking for almost two days, and he still didn't find anything in the hinterland of the barren mountains, and he always had an indescribable awkward feeling in his heart. But he thought about it again, and the hint in the dream was very clear, it must be this place, even if it was wrong, he had to cross it, this place was probably the first person to reach it. Just as I was thinking, there was a cave in front of me, and on one side of the cave was a cliff, and on the other side was still a dense forest. This cave immediately aroused Zhang Mo's interest, because all the way over, there was no special situation that could make him pay attention, and now that a cave had appeared, Zhang Mo couldn't help but lift his spirits. He turned on the spotlight on his head and walked in, the road was narrow and difficult to walk when he first entered the cave, but after walking for about ten minutes, the front suddenly opened up. A hall with a dome and a dome appeared, Zhang Mo was very familiar with this, because he and Wu Fei had also encountered a similar cave in Wenxu Town in Yuanling, that cave was like a half-way underground palace, Zhang Mo wondered if this would also be half-way. He picked up his flashlight and turned it on, and the spotlight above his head tore a bright slit in the dark cave. And the place where this bright light passed was not a large area as usual, but here, the light seemed to be emitted from a laser, with a small aperture and straight into the opposite wall. Although Zhang Mo felt strange, but also flawlessly thought about it, he looked around, and found that the degree of construction of this cave was much higher than the last time, and this hall was already carved with decorations of various shapes, but Zhang Mo did not study archaeology, and he didn't know anything about these ancient words. Of course, he wasn't too interested in any of that.
Zhang Mo put down his backpack, and then looked and touched along the hole to the right. When I walked to the entrance of the cave, I suddenly dropped something with a "bang". Zhang Mo hurriedly stopped to watch, it turned out that his hand inadvertently touched a square stone on the wall, and knocked the stone down, and the stone smashed to the ground and fell off a corner. Zhang Mo touched his chest and took a deep breath. He inadvertently glanced up at the opposite side, only to see a large circular stone door appear on the left side of the opposite wall with the hole in it. Zhang Mo immediately pointed the flashlight at the stone gate, and at this time, the beam of the flashlight seemed to be weaker, it seemed to be only a few tens of meters away, but the beam felt like it was a thousand meters away.
Zhang Mo rubbed his eyes and looked hard at the stone gate, only to see that the stone gate was also carved with various words and patterns, and a picture in the center of the stone gate immediately attracted Zhang Mo's attention. There is a person who looks like a human and a non-human, a dragon and not a dragon, isn't this the portrait I saw in my dream? It seems that he has really come to the right place. Zhang Mo hurriedly walked over the falling stones to the circular stone gate, but as soon as he took a step, the spotlight on his head and the flashlight on his hand went out, and it went dark everywhere. Zhang Mo hurriedly retreated to the entrance of the cave, groping for his backpack, and suddenly at this time, the spotlight on his head and the flashlight in his hand turned on again, and he hurriedly looked around.
At this time, he saw an amazing thing, the square stone he had just touched had returned to its original place at some point. Zhang Mo hurriedly moved back, his back pressed against the wall, holding a flashlight in his left hand, and pulling a dagger from his leg with his right hand and holding it in his hand. He looked around for a moment and said, "Come out, don't hide." But there was no reply, and he repeated it again, again without a sound. Zhang Mo slowly got up and walked back to the square stone along the right wall, he didn't touch it with his hands, but looked closely. After reading it, I was shocked again, I obviously fell off a corner just now, but now this horn is intact and grows on it. Zhang Mo took another step forward to the other side of the stone, and at this time, an amazing scene happened again, the stone was on the ground again, and there was indeed a corner missing. Zhang Mo just wanted to bend down to pick it up and look at it, but suddenly the spotlight and flashlight went out again, exactly the same as the scene just now. Zhang Mo was really frightened, he hurriedly ran to the entrance of the cave again, but as soon as he arrived at the entrance of the cave, the spotlights and flashlights turned on again. He thought it was too weird here, he sat on the ground and closed his eyes and gasped, he wanted to keep himself calm. After a while, Zhang Mo seemed to understand something, he felt that the reason why the stone looked at it in a different state here and that side was because the time and space here and there were different, and his spotlight and flashlight also changed because he crossed the stone into a different time and space. That is to say, from the 180 degrees straight line of the stone to the left hand side of my current time is a time and space, and the 180 degrees I am currently sitting on this side is another time and space. He felt that this was the most scientific explanation.
To test his idea, he mustered up the courage to walk along the wall on the right to the stone. He held the flashlight with his left hand, and then slowly stretched out to the other side of the stone, at this time the flashlight on that side went out, but Zhang Mo saw a more terrifying thing with the spotlight on his head, his left hand quickly grew wrinkles, he hurriedly retracted his hand, at this time the wrinkles disappeared, and the flashlight was back on. Sure enough, time flies very quickly in the space-time on the other side, maybe a second is a year or even faster. He didn't dare to cross it again, and at the same time he felt that his conjecture was correct.
"The line directly opposite this stone is a space-time dividing line, which divides the space-time here into two parts, one before the stone is broken, and the other after the stone is broken. Time passes very quickly in the space-time after the stone is broken, and the space-time here is a normal space-time, so every time you cross the stone, you will find that the state of the stone is different. Zhang Mo muttered to himself.
Then he pondered for a while and suddenly said to himself, "No, if this is the time and space before the stone was broken, then when was this stone broken?" It was broken shortly after I came in, but now from this side, the stone is still good! No, no, there is a problem with the time and space here. Zhang Mo was a little dizzy all of a sudden, he couldn't figure out what was going on, but he knew very well that this cave was too simple, and if he didn't come out again, he would be taken by this time and space to I don't know when. It is possible to bring to the past, or it is possible to be in the future. But no matter what time it is, he may never be able to see his relatives and friends again, let alone save Yang Yanyu.
He didn't think much about it, so he picked up his backpack and hurried to the exit, but he stopped after just two steps. Zhang Mo thought that the person in my dream yesterday asked me to salute a painting of the Dragon King, and now that I have indeed seen that painting, I might as well salute before leaving, at least I must not leave regrets for myself. So Zhang Mo put down his backpack and looked at the painting on the round stone door from this side, saluted according to the situation he remembered in his dream, and then picked up his backpack and walked outside the cave. As he walked, he wondered what kind of person did this kind of mechanism, could it be that the ancients built a mausoleum for fear of tomb robbers, but this kind of time mechanism modern people would not do, so how could this ancient people know? And if you have been in the time and space before the stone is broken and does not break the stone, is it possible for you to be immortal, or run to the other side and quickly escape back to the real time and space, will you directly see what will happen decades later? However, he immediately shook his head and felt that he was so naΓ―ve, the time and space over there passed so fast, he was afraid that he had already disappeared after just a minute. Thinking of this, Zhang Mo shuddered, and his feet also sped up.
Walking out of the cave, it was also dark outside, Zhang Mo looked at his watch, and calculated that the time should be 8 o'clock in the evening. So he retreated to the vicinity of the cave entrance, opened his backpack, set up his tent, and prepared to sleep for a while. He complained about himself while setting up a tent, because he suddenly felt that he was so stupid, how could An Shendong, a dignified person, not even see a figure in such a place, just relying on a dream he had by himself? Really, hey! I'm so stupid! The tent was set up, and he went in and lay down, and in a few moments he fell asleep. But he had barely slept for more than an hour when he heard someone call him again. He opened his eyes, rubbed them, and listened carefully, and sure enough, someone outside the tent was really calling him: "Hey, is there anyone inside?" Zhang Mo hurriedly climbed out of the tent, only to see a young man in a black cloak standing in front of his tent, with sunglasses on his face and unusually long arms. Zhang Mo hurriedly said, "Hello, are you calling me?" β
"I saw that there was a tent here, so I was curious to see if there was anyone in it. If you want to go down the mountain, the sky is bright, you can go, but it will take some time to get out of the mountain here, so you can't waste it too much. β
"It's dawn?" Zhang Mo suddenly realized something, "It's impossible, I looked at my watch at 8 o'clock in the evening just now, and it's 9:15 now." Did you sleep for 12 hours? Zhang Mo was a little flustered again, and he hurriedly asked, "Brother, are you a local person, are you familiar with this place?" β
"I'm local."
"Then do you know An Shendong?"
"I know."
"Do you know where he lives?"
"I can't say this, this is a secret from the locals to the outside world, and we have to protect the Ann Shen Master so that he will protect us."
"I understand that, but I'm not a bad person. My friend had a disease that doctors couldn't treat, and I heard that only a tranquilizer could save her. β
"What is it?"
"I can't tell, I think she lost her soul."
"Lost soul, hahaha," the young man actually laughed. However, this is also expected by Zhang Mo, this kind of thing is generally not believed by normal people. However, the young man only smiled lightly, did not continue, and then said, "You have found the right person, I may be able to help you." As he spoke, he took out a square box from his pocket, and when it was opened, it was a crystal-like nine-hupedron with a hole in each side with large rounded corners. Although the sunlight here is weak, this nine-sided body still emits a dazzling colorful light. The man then said: "This is called the Nine Hole Crystal Ice Jade Universe, you take this back and put it in front of the patient's bed to summon her, it should be able to wake her up in less than two days." β
"Nine-hole Crystal Ice Jade Universe, what is this? Why is it so magical? How does it work? Or did you cast a spell on him? Zhang Mo suddenly became interested again, and was full of doubts.
"I can't tell you this, just remember to give it back to me when you're done."
"It's no problem to give it back to you, it's just that how can I believe what you say, what if I can't wake up when the time comes?"
"Then let me ask you, what are you going to do if you don't have this thing?"
"I don't know, I might still continue to look for An Shendong."
"Then I can tell you unequivocally, Master Anshen, you can't see you at the moment, and he won't see you either."
"Why? Do you know where he is? You know him well, don't you? β
"No comment. You don't need to ask again, I'll say a word to you at the end, many coincidences must be premeditated, and of course not all premeditation is bad. Well, goodbye. After speaking, I saw this person turn around and stride away.
Zhang Mo hurriedly shouted loudly: "Hey, you wait for me, I'll pack up the tent and go together!" But the man ignored or stopped, and soon disappeared. Although Zhang Mo cleaned up quickly, he still didn't catch up. However, Zhang Mo is in a super good mood now, and he is 100 times better than winning the jackpot. He hurried and walked back without stopping. Although he was very tired from traveling in the past few days, and he also had a lot of questions, he couldn't take care of it, he only felt as if he was resurrected with full blood, and he was eager to rush back to Shanghai and rescue Yang Yanyu.
Is the World Real? No one can tell. If you want him to be true, then he will give you the truest one, and if you want him to be false, then he will give you the most false. γ