July 2015.

Lingnan Province is in the middle of a sweltering summer at this time.

Dead.

In the urban area of Shanmei City, Lingnan, in a private house on the outskirts.

At this time, the air conditioner outside the house was whirring.

But the owner of the room was asleep at this time, sweating profusely and soaked with sweat.

Suddenly, the young man with a frown on his brows, a spirit turned up.

"Huhu ......" Huang Haojie's face was pale, and his eyes were bloodshot panting.

It seems like a nightmare.

He propped up his exhausted body and went to the bathroom.

Hiss! Picked up some cool tap water and scrubbed his face vigorously.

Looking at himself in the mirror with a haggard look and bloodshot eyes, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Exhale! Turning off the faucet, he prepared to go back to his room.

As soon as he turned around and walked out of the bathroom, he saw his mother Wang Fanghua at the door of his room.

"Xiaojie! Another nightmare? Why don't you take a look at the big hospital in the provincial capital tomorrow! ”

"It's okay! It's the same to go to the provincial hospital, and I've been checked in the city, maybe I've been stressed out recently! It's good to rest for a while, Mom, you can rest first! Huang Haojie said with a smile.

"Then Xiaojie, you should rest early!" Mother was still a little worried, but in order not to put pressure on Huang Haojie, she went back to the room to rest.

Huang Haojie propped up his tired body and returned to the room.

He turned on the lamp and sat silently at the desk, only to see the design of an airship spread on the desk, he gently flipped through it, and there was also a large stack of design drawings below, all of which were detailed design drawings of various parts and parts of the airship.

Huang Haojie looked at the design in front of him, it was really too real, it was like the airship in the design picture was like it really existed.

And those experiences in the dream are also like the real thing, fighting on the battlefield, building an empire, developing technology and farming, as if they were personal experiences.

This strange dream began to appear on his birthday on January 15 this year, and it was about two or three times a month, and eight or nine times a month.

Each time is a different scene, there are battlefield battles, there are rebukes, there are scientific research, there are daily life, and so on.

It was a completely different world from history, a steampunk world, a world of the Great Chinese.

The reason why it is very real is because the first time Huang Haojie dreamed of this strange dream, it was in the battlefield, the scene of blood and flesh flying and corpses all over the field directly made him vomit, and then he was disgusted for several days.

But today, in his dream, he finally obtained a useful information, if this information is true, then he can be sure that this dream is real, and it is his own real experience in parallel time and space.

Huang Haojie lay down on the bed and slept quietly, because he fell asleep very easily after strange dreams.

Nothing was said all night.

Lingnan in July is hot and sultry, but also vibrant, and the days are longer and the nights are shorter.

Early in the morning, he knew the sound and floated gently into the village.

Huang Haojie hurriedly got up to clean up, brushed his teeth and washed his face, and then said to his parents: "Dad, Mom!" You don't have to cook me at noon, I'll go for a walk in Lotus Mountain! ”

After saying that, he went out with a backpack.

"This kid! Why don't you skip breakfast and leave! Mother said, looking at the breakfast prepared.

"Forget it! Xiaojie may be too stressed these days, so let him go to Lotus Mountain for a walk! Huang Fuguo said while eating breakfast.

"Old man! Do you think it will be because Xiaojie is not happy with his work in the company, which makes him have nightmares all day long, or we let him find another job?" Mother thought for a moment and said.

"Hmmm! Let's ask him in a few days! The father hurriedly ate the salted duck eggs with white porridge.

The other side.

Huang Haojie took advantage of the Saturday holiday to come to the bus station and took the bus to Haicheng County.

Lotus Mountain is located in the northwest of Haicheng County, Shanmei, one of the branches of the Lingnan Mountains, this Lotus Mountain and the Lotus Mountain of Panyu are not the same place, but they are one of the branches of the Lingnan Mountains.

Because the main peak mountain resembles a lotus, it is named Lotus Mountain.

It is also one of the famous Buddhist and Taoist holy places in the Lingnan region, with many Buddhist temples and Taoist temples.

When Wen Tianxiang resisted the Yuan, he also passed by here.

However, Huang Haojie didn't come here this time to see any Buddhist temples and Taoist temples, nor did he come to experience the footprints of historical celebrities.

In his dream last night, he knew that he had come to the Shanmei area of Lingnan in parallel time and space, and it seemed that he was returning to his hometown.

Ordered to explore for minerals in the Lingnan area, so the mineral resources of Lingnan have undergone large-scale detailed exploration by 'themselves'.

Three small gold mines have been explored in the Lianhua Mountain area of Shanmei, of course, the reason why Huang Haojie is so impressed, mainly because one of them was found in a canyon cave, in which a huge piece of dog's head gold was found, a piece of dog's head gold weighing more than 30 kilograms, and this piece of dog's head gold was finally given to Huang Haojie.

Because of this, his memory in the dream is so profound.

And he knew that there was no news of any gold mine from Lotus Mountain so far, and he thought that this gold mine should not have been discovered yet.

That's why he decided to come and see luck, if there really is a gold mine, he can get a windfall, and he can also be sure of the real existence of parallel time and space.

If you don't have a gold mine, you should do it.

In a large bookstore in Haicheng County, he bought a detailed map of Lotus Mountain.

I also went to buy flashlights, ropes, small shovels, plus firewood knives, dry food, mineral water, and so on that I carried with me in my backpack.

He took a tricycle and headed to Lotus Mountain.

"The little brother is the one who went on an expedition to Lotus Mountain...... What a friend of that donkey! The uncle who drove the tricycle asked in Chaoshan dialect.

"Yes! I heard that when Mr. Peng was engaged in revolution, he once hid a batch of treasures in Lotus Mountain, aren't you going to try your luck! Huang Haojie said with a smile on the donkey under the slope.

"Haha! Brother! This is the tourist bureau guy bragging, don't be fooled, listen to your accent is from the city! Uncle Tricycle said chattily.

"Uncle has a good ear, it's from the city, I know about that treasure, and I'm not here to find the treasure today, it's just an entertainment activity, try your luck! I assume exercise exercise. Huang Haojie continued to say with a smile.

"That's it! It's good to exercise more! It's like that kid in my family, who spends all day in front of the computer, and his eyes are broken! Uncle Tricycle was talking to Huang Haojie while driving steadily.

Obviously, the tricycle uncle often drives this road, and he seems to be familiar with it, even though it is a country road, he still drives steadily.

The place where Huang Haojie wants to go belongs to the edge area of Lotus Mountain, about fifteen kilometers away from Haicheng County, where is not the Lotus Mountain Scenic Area, but the real wilderness.

He and the tricycle uncle chatted along the way, and before they knew it, more than half an hour had passed, and the destination was far away.

"It's here! Brother Huang! The tricycle uncle slowly parked the car at the entrance of a small village.

"Come!" Huang Haojie hurriedly took out his wallet and paid.

"Brother Huang can call me on my mobile phone when I go back, and if I'm nearby, I can come and pick you up!" The tricycle uncle smiled and waved to him.

"Okay!" Huang Haojie said as he walked towards the small village.

Looking at the archway of the small village, it is carved with three big characters of Hailian Township.

However, when he walked in, Huang Haojie only saw some old people moving, and few young people.

As we went deeper, the village became more and more desolate, crumbling to stone houses with only walls, and the stone walls were covered with moss and trumpet flowers.

From time to time, you can see banyan trees and stinky thorns (five-colored plums) entrenched in the dilapidated houses.

Another left-behind village that has lost its young people.

This is also the reality in Shanmei, where most young people go to Yangcheng, Pengcheng and Xiangjiang to work, and only return to their hometown during the New Year's holidays.

Leaving the small village to the west, not far away is the foothills of Lotus Mountain.

Huang Haojie saw a lot of lychee trees along the way, the red lychees were hanging all over the branches, and the longan trees were also bearing green fruits.

However, looking at a large area of lychees on the ground, he was also quite helpless.

He has lychees and longans in his house, but in the past few years, he has not made much money by planting lychees and longans, and he will even lose money.

The labor cost of nearly 200 yuan a day, plus pesticides and fertilizers, if there is a bumper harvest, it is even more thankless, and the buyer will keep the price very low.

Even if it is a good variety of lychee concubine smile, cinnamon flavor, glutinous rice, etc., the purchase price will not exceed two yuan a catty, not to mention the general varieties such as black leaves, white ash, and abundant flowers, the purchase price is less than one catty.

Imagine asking a person to pick lychees a day, picking more than 1,000 catties when it is full, and going to 200 yuan in labor costs at once, plus pesticides, fertilizers and previous labor costs, there is not much money to make at all.

Therefore, the abandonment of fruit farmers in Shanmei has become more and more obvious.

What he saw today was just a microcosm.

After walking through the semi-barren fruit forest, you will begin to enter the lotus mountain.

This is the Lotus Mountain in the marginal area, and there is no sign of man-made development.

Some are just mountain roads trodden by one or two people, and these roads are stepped by travelers or herb pickers.

Huang Haojie looked at the map while looking at the surrounding terrain, and took out the satellite positioning map of his mobile phone from time to time to compare his location.

As he deepened, the scorching sun of July had reached noon, and he was sweating profusely, taking out glucose and light salt water from time to time to replenish electrolytes.

After entering the mountainous area, he had to be cautious, after all, there were poisonous snakes such as cobras in Lotus Mountain, and the surrounding area was overgrown with weeds and dense trees, so he wielded a firewood knife from time to time to clear some obstructive branches and vines.

Perhaps this is the fact that there is no road in the world, and people have a way only when they overcome obstacles.

He thought bitterly while overcoming obstacles.