(Foreword)

The beginning and the end, two completely different ends, make you mistakenly think that its trajectory is a straight line, separated by two completely opposite directions, and gradually drifting away.

However, it is actually like a circle, and no matter where it starts, it ends at that point and circles in a circle.

Therefore, you, and did not begin; Therefore you are not finished.

You just keep walking on the trajectory until the loop of time, to the point of infinity.

(Text)

August 31, 2020 at 11:59 a.m

"Fool, fool, get up fool.

Sloth, sloth, you slacker.

If you don't have the money to learn to make a dead house, you're going to die!

If you don't get up again, the old lady will call Xiaoxue. ”

I pressed the switch on the head of the recording penguin alarm clock at the head of the bedside with a "snap", opened my sleepy eyes and looked at the time on the alarm clock: 11:59.

"Ah, at 11:59, I'll sleep a little longer."

I ducked my head and slowly narrowed my eyes......

No, wait a minute, 11:59?

11:59?

Is it 11:59......?!

I made an appointment with Arthur and the others at half past twelve, and now it's 11:59!!

I jumped out of bed, randomly pulled one of the piles of dirty clothes and put it on myself, and took a pair of pants from the plastic basket on the balcony and put it right in. I grabbed my hair casually, rinsed briefly, grabbed my backpack, and ran all the way to McDonald's next to the central park that they had agreed on.

I pushed open the door of McDonald's and saw them sitting in their seats, and they were looking at me at the same time. Xiaoyu beckoned to me.

"I'm sorry...... I'm sorry...... I...... Late. I gasped for breath as I wiped the sweat from my forehead with my right hand and sat down next to Arthur.

"Char, we've been waiting for you here for half an hour, how do you say you can compensate us?"

Arthur held out a finger and pointed it at my nose, tilting his head slightly and looking me in the eye.

"I ......"

I was just about to speak, but the dwarf suddenly interjected: "I see, I see, we should ask Char to reimburse us for all the money for today's package, and invite us to the water world to have a good time for a long time." ”

"That's a good idea, so it's decided."

"Woo! Woo! ”

Arthur excitedly agreed, and Xiaoyu nodded.

You guys...... You beasts......

I looked at my wallet, which wasn't already fat, sighed deeply, and turned my face away.

"By the way, you shouldn't have called me out today for more than just eating, right?" I asked bluntly.

The dwarf looked at me, froze for a few seconds, and slowly frowned, his expression serious.

I saw that he suddenly took out a newspaper and put it in front of us, and the headline on the first page of that newspaper clearly read: Jiaolong Defense System has been officially put into use.

"Jiaolong defense system? What is it? Arthur asked, puzzled.

"This is the latest defense system developed by scientists from various countries." The gnome replied.

"'Jiaolong Defense System'? This...... What does it have to do with us? Arthur continued.

The dwarf smiled and pointed to the bottom line of small print: The system connects all the data in the country.

"Connecting all the data in the country?" Arthur seemed to understand something.

The dwarf then added, "If we can use this system, we might be able to find clues about Professor 'Z'." ”

"No way, it's too difficult, and we're not researchers in government agencies, so how could we use this system." I mouthful of the idea of a dwarf.

"It's true that it's impossible for us to use this system right now." The dwarf smiled, took a sip of the coffee in front of him, and continued, "So I need to infiltrate the department that made this system first, and then hack into the main ......"

"No! It is illegal to do so! I yelled at the gnomes.

"Okay, you just didn't talk about it, and I'll tell me if there's anything better you can do."

The dwarf looked aggrieved and lowered his head, I looked at Arthur and then at the light rain on the side, picked up the stirring rod and stirred the coffee in front of me.

Since the four of us heard that phone call from the future on January 15, we have each started to go down different paths

- I, needless to say, the only way I can think of is to go into the tiger's den, find the tiger, and find Professor Z in the closest place to him. Therefore, after I came back from the Arctic glacier, I have been immersed in the sea of books, and I began to work hard to apply for the graduate degree of quantum physics at the China University of Science and Technology.

That being said, for a future person like me who doesn't understand the subject knowledge of this era at all, if I want to master all of this in a short period of time and successfully enter this school, I need to be reborn and my character explodes.

So I haven't seen them again for seven months from the time I came back to the end of August, and they never looked for me until yesterday's phone call.

Arthur, she is different from me, she has chosen a long and winding path. In the past six months, through her family connections, she finally joined a news agency as an intern reporter. She once told me that the journalist profession can not only obtain first-hand information, but also hide himself well, and it is not easy for the enemy to find out.

She said the truth, and I had no room for rebuttal.

And Xiaoyu, she is the luckiest of us. The body she entered was born as the daughter of a rich family, and she was spoiled by her parents. In this heaven and earth, as long as she opens her mouth, there is nothing that she can't get.

Although she is just a primary school student, her parents invited a professor from the university for her, and this professor is not from other places, but from China University of Science and Technology.

Xiaoyu is indeed smart, always playing a tantrum every once in a while, making a little temperamental, forcing her parents to change her professors one after another, and she takes the opportunity to observe their arms to see if there are any scars.

Although her idea is indeed feasible, it is only a needle in a haystack, and she doesn't know when it will be a head.

Finally, it's this dwarf. He was very short in the first few worlds, but when he came to this world, he never thought about it, but he didn't want to lose it, and his height simply shrank to Lilliputia, which made me feel a little sympathy for him.

However, he is such a person, in this short half a year, he not only taught himself four foreign languages, but also learned the computer language of this era, mastered computer programming, and was admitted to three Fortune 500 companies at the same time.

But he can't look at any of them, and he is still waiting for a better opportunity.

I looked at the gnome, then at the coffee in my hand, stirred it lightly, raised the cup, and took a slow sip.

"Char, do you still insist on taking the postgraduate examination of China University of Science and Technology?" The dwarf asked bluntly.

"Hmm. I'll definitely get in. I replied to the gnome.

The dwarf didn't say anything more, just reached out and put his hand on the newspaper and paused for a second before shoving it into his bag again.

For the rest of the day, as if he and I had never discussed this topic, the four of us, who had been reunited for a long time, ate, drank, talked and laughed, and splashed water on each other in the water world.

Dusk is a golden memory, and laughter is the sadness after suffering.

We splashed, splashed, splashed......

But the moment the water streaked across the sky, the golden yellow behind it turned a dark purple.

We stood and stood, looking out together—the lonely horizon.

We were silent.

I dare not look forward to tomorrow, and it is difficult to look back on yesterday.

I looked at it all, at the light, which was getting darker and darker, almost into the earth, and clenched my fists tightly.

No, even if the night will come, it will be born for the dawn and will meet the light that pierces the sky.

Am I not standing here too? After going through countless A world series world lines, I finally came here, and I came to this B world series world line of another dimension that was completely different from before.

"Let's go, it's time for us to go back." Arthur patted me on the shoulder, smiled and pulled me to the exit of the water world.

I stopped thinking, forgot about the darkness behind me, and just tried to keep running with them into the distance, to the only light.