Chapter 18: Serendipity
At first, Neil thought that they were two ancient people who were rushing to the sea, but he found that these two people were moving extremely fast, and as the other party got closer and closer, Neil saw that these two people were wearing tight-fitting silver-white clothes, which were not at all ordinary earthlings.
To Neil's greatest surprise, the two men's heads appeared to be enormous, roughly twice the size of normal humans.
Neil involuntarily stood up and took a few steps in the direction where the two men had come, he wanted to see the two people more clearly, but in the faint morning light, Neil could not see their facial features clearly, and could only see two erect creatures with large heads jumping and jumping towards him from far and near, the scene was quite strange.
Neil subconsciously looked back at Schimer and found that he had woken up, just opened his eyes. To Neil's surprise, when Schimer caught a glimpse of the two strange creatures, he suddenly exclaimed in an exaggerated way, and immediately bounced off the ground, which startled Neil.
As if frightened, Schimer uncharacteristically lost his usual grace and composure, and began to flick the phenotypic terminal on his wrist quickly, while nervously looking up in the direction of the two strange creatures.
With a crackling sound, a wormhole appeared in front of Schimer again. Schimer ran behind Neil, trying to grab Neil and lead him into the wormhole together, but before his fingers touched Neil's back, he found that Neil in front of him suddenly flew into the air, and the whole person jumped into the air more than ten meters high, and at the same time, the two strange humanoids on the beach disappeared and flashed quickly like dancers illuminated by laser lights on the dance floor, floating in the direction of Schimer at a very fast speed.
With a shout, Schimer hurried back to the entrance of the wormhole and disappeared as fast as he could, and Neil, who was floating in the sky, was already stunned by fright.
Neil was astonished, and in a matter of seconds, he saw the two large-headed creatures flash and disappear beneath his feet, while he was teleported over a barren hill like a cloud.
Neil saw a silver-white flying machine parked directly below him, shaped like two quadrangular pyramids upside down, and then he felt that he was being pulled downward by a force, and the whole person fell, he felt his body penetrate the top layer of the aircraft and suddenly entered the interior of the aircraft, as soon as he stood still, he was shocked to see that it was the two strange big-headed creatures that appeared in front of him, and the two of them were looking at him with great interest at the moment.
Only then did Neil have a chance to see each other's appearances: the two weirdos in the spaceship were similar in size to humans, but they were top-heavy and their proportions were extremely incongruous.
Their bodies are wrapped in silver tights, and the exposed facial skin is rough and eeriely blue-purple.
The biggest difference from humans is that both of them have a large, slender head, which stretches violently backwards and upwards from the forehead, like a spoon with a large head upright and bent backwards.
Equally elongated are their eyes and noses, and their pointed chins make their faces almost form an inverted triangle.
At the moment, they were studying Neil with curious eyes, their elongated eyes opening wide and narrowing into a slit.
The two big-headed men looked at each other for a moment, then turned their gaze to Neil, who was slightly taller and suddenly began to speak to him in a language that Neil didn't understand at all.
Neil shook his head in confusion. The man kept asking Neil, each pronounced in a different way, and the end of each sentence rose slightly, pausing at the end.
Neil guessed that he was trying to communicate with himself in a different language. After four or five sentences, Neil finally heard him ask himself in clear English, "Where are you from?" Neil replied that he was an American from Earth in 1969 AD.
"Oh...... Is it? In 1969, I wondered why there was a creature so dressed on Earth more than 1200 years BC. Was the tall guy who was with you just now a Drowkin? ”
"Yes."
"You two...... No wonder! It was impossible for the earthlings of 1969 to come here...... But how could the Drowin also appear at this point in time? …… So, earthlings can now visit the moon? Neil felt incoherent, but he replied politely, "Yes, I am the first astronaut to land on the moon, my name is Neil Alden Armstrong." The big man talking to Neil had his eyes narrowed, his head tilted back, and the corners of his mouth split horizontally to the back of his head, an expression that Neil hoped would represent a smile.
"Neil," said the man,
"Hello! My name is Dees Crusser, and this is my friend Victim", he said, pointing to the man next to him.
"We are from the Thorpdaite system...... Belch...... Tourist. Another alien, Victim, also nodded to Neil and said, "Hello, earthling." We are West Erelsians, from 8.6 light-years away. "She's a little smaller, she has a thin voice, and she's supposed to be a woman.
"I just came to Egypt in the 13th century BC an hour ago, and I didn't expect to meet an American astronaut from the 20th century," Dees said. You're talking to that...... How long has the Dzorkin been here? Neil recounted the incident to Dees and Victim as briefly as possible.
As Schimer described the Flood to himself, Dees frowned and shook his head, interrupting Neil.
"Neil, I have to tell you, as a human born on Earth 5,000 years after the Great Flood, you know enough." Neil nodded slightly, silent.
Diese waved his hand and said briskly, "So where are you going next?" We can send you back if you wish. ”
"Go back? Where to go back? ”
"You can go back wherever you want. You can go back to the moon where your trip started at the wrong time, or the Earth of the era you lived in, anywhere. Neil thought about it and said he wanted to go back to Earth in 1969.
"No problem! Is it back before the moon landing, or after the moon landing? Do you want to keep this memory — I mean this memory of you since you landed on the moon so far — do you still want to keep it? Neil didn't expect the other person to mention memories.
He hesitated: "If I can, I want to go back to the moon, and I want to keep this memory...... Actually, I still have a lot of things to ask my companion Buzz. Dees grinned softly: "Neil, if you want me to say, this memory, you'd better not keep it; It is better not to have the moon landing, so that it is the best choice for your human race. Of course, for you at this moment, you must be a little confused, and maybe a little painful, because of a secret that you learned by chance, you have to give it all up, and ...... In fact, what you know is far from the whole story. ”
"Yes", Neil suddenly felt very aggrieved,
"I realized that I had learned some secrets that we humans didn't know about but had been trying to figure out, about our own origins, about extraterrestrial life, and so on. However, I still have a lot of questions that I still don't understand, such as why the Drogin people living on the moon left the earth in the first place, and Schimer, what exactly does he want from me? Neil lifted out the great fog and confusion that was entrenched in his heart in one breath, and almost cried when he talked about the embarrassment.
Diess smiled all of a sudden: "Hehe, okay, Neil, I completely understand your feelings, but everything has a price." Would you be willing if I let you keep those memories and end up paying you with your life? Neil thought for a moment, then looked into Dies's eyes and nodded.
Dees giggled again, his mouth above his narrow chin cracked so exaggeratedly that it almost grinned behind his ears, and it looked a little terrifying: "Good, good, Neil, you're a brave human. But don't say it so soon, especially if you haven't fully figured out the situation. Well, I'll let you understand right now what the price of life is. Dees put away his smile and stared at Neil with his eyes wide open, Neil could see the other's fuchsia pupils for the first time.
Dees suddenly leaned his face close to Neil and opened his mouth, revealing the bright red oral mucosa, and at the same time, Neil felt a cold air rushing out of his head, and immediately lost consciousness, and the whole person fell straight back to the ground.