As soon as I said a word, Zhu Lao looked at me in surprise and said, "It seems that you have really been there, but ...... Without my guidance, how could you have opened the door and gone inside? ”

His words confirmed my suspicions.

I felt more and more difficult to breathe, and I had to swallow before I asked again, "So, ...... The old man, who has traveled from the future? ”

As soon as I said this, I immediately realized my mistake, so I quickly changed my words.

"No, it should be your old father, who not only traveled from the future to eighty years ago, but also ...... He has also traveled to ancient times, even ...... Hundreds of millions of years ago, right? ”

Zhu Lao's stubborn eyes obviously showed approval, nodded his head, and said, "Yes, my father...... He traveled from 3238 a thousand years later! ”

"Crossing? Oh my God, are you crazy, Dad? It was only at this time that Zhu Pan came back to his senses, and a sentence rushed out of his mouth and shouted very loudly.

Although Bai Xiaohe also had a surprised expression, she had already accepted the concepts of "ghosts" and "aliens" before, so she was still able to maintain her composure, and hurriedly said, "Mr. Xiao Zhu, please don't scream so loudly!" ”

Only then did Zhu Pan realize that this kind of thing must not be widely advertised, so he was so frightened that he closed his mouth suddenly, but looked at his father in great horror.

Zhu Lao stubbornly sighed and said: "Since you have seen everything, I don't need to hide it from you anymore, in fact, I have been hiding it for so many years, and there is a reason, that is, I am afraid that once I say it, not only will no one believe it, but I will be a madman!" ”

He said that there was a reason, and that meant that there were other reasons that could be more important.

But I'd better not interrupt him now, and listen to him quietly.

It turns out that in 3238, thousands of years later, human technology has developed to the extent that space travel can be carried out, but time travel has always remained in the theoretical stage.

Among them is a very young scientist, who has believed that time travel can be achieved since he was a child, so he has been doing experiments and research in his own home.

Just when he was obsessed with research, his wife and his young children died in a spaceship crash during a space trip.

At that time, he was supposed to accompany his wife and children on a space trip, but because his research was at a critical point, his wife took the child on the spaceship alone in a fit of anger.

He regretted this, and worked tirelessly on the time machine, fantasizing that one day he would be able to go back in time to prevent his wife and child from getting on the spaceship.

It turned out to be a success, and he built the first-ever time travel machine.

He couldn't wait to pilot the time machine himself, setting the time to a year before his wife's death.

But he didn't expect that his time shuttle could indeed travel through time, but it couldn't accurately locate it in time.

As a result, he crossed for the first time, not back to ten years ago, but to the Qin and Jin dynasties three thousand years ago.

He immediately activated the time machine and traveled a second time, but this time it was even more absurd, he actually went to the Carboniferous period 300 million years ago.

He stayed for a short time in that era, made a specimen of trilobites, and then activated the time machine again, traveled to the era of Tang Baihu, and made friends with Tang Baihu and exchanged gifts.

In this way, he traveled back and forth in time six or seven times, and those calligraphy, paintings, and gold and jade antiques were the souvenirs of these crossings.

Finally, the last time traveled to eighty years ago, when his time machine malfunctioned, and one of the components overheated and burned, causing a slight explosion.

At that time, the white light seen by the people around Guanghai was produced by the slight explosion of the time machine.

And because the time machine stayed in the shallow sea, it happened to blow up a sea snake to death, so the legend about the sea snake spirit also came into being.

“…… My father first buried the broken time machine on the beach, then built a thatched house by the sea, built the secret room under the thatched house, and hid the time machine in the secret room. ”

Zhu Lao stubbornly sighed and finished telling this long legendary story, only to hear that I couldn't bridge the gap with Bai Xiaohe, and Zhu Pan was even more speechless.

"Didn't your father try to fix that time machine?" Bai Xiaohe couldn't help but ask.

"Can't be repaired!" Zhu Lao shook his head with a wry smile, "The components that burned out at that time happened to be the core components of the time machine!" And in our time, the kind of material that made such a core component has not yet been invented! ”

"Your father must have thought of other ways, right?" I opened my mouth to ask, "That He Chao's soul will enter the network, it must also have something to do with what artifacts your father left behind, right?" ”

Zhu Laozhi once again cast an approving look at me and said: "Yes, my father did not completely dismiss the idea of going home because of this, in their time, human minds could leave the body and enter the network to fly freely, and he knew that the birth and application of the Internet happened to be in the late twentieth century and early thirtieth century, so he modified the helmet he used to control the time machine, dreaming that after the birth of the Internet at the end of the twentieth century, he could at least let his soul go back to a thousand years later with the help of the Internet." It's a pity that he couldn't wait for the day when the Internet was born, and he was in ...... Not long after I got married, he died because he was too old! ”

Zhu Lao stubbornly sighed with sadness on his face, and Zhu Pan hurriedly rubbed his father's shoulder to appease.

To be honest, it's hard for me to understand Zhu Laoqi's words, because even if one day human technology develops to the point where the soul can leave the body and enter the network—just like He Chao's soul—the soul can only exist in the modern network, how can it travel through time to reach a thousand years later?

But I think that although I can't understand this kind of problem as a modern person, as a future person in the future, since he has created a time travel machine, it should not be completely impossible for him to find a way to make his soul travel through time through the Internet.

So although I had a question in my heart, I didn't say this question, but just asked Zhu Laoqi: "He Chao entered the network through the helmet modified by your father?" ”

"Yes!" Zhu Lao nodded stubbornly, "When my father died, he repeatedly told me not to reveal the matter of the time machine, otherwise it will definitely arouse the greed of the Western hegemonic countries!" Maybe we will take advantage of the fact that our country is not yet strong and take risks to send troops to rob it, and it is even possible to trigger a third world war! ”

I can understand what he said, but Zhu Pan was unimpressed, and couldn't help but interject, saying: "Dad, if you dedicate the time machine to our country earlier, the high technology hidden in it will definitely greatly improve the scientific and technological level of our country, and I am afraid that no hegemonic country will dare to fight our country's idea at that time!" ”

His words sounded reasonable, but Zhu Laozhi shook his head again and again.

After a little thought, I understood, and said: "Since the time machine was made after a thousand years, the high-tech implied in it must be very advanced, and it is not at all something that our modern technology can crack!" What's more, it took your grandfather 3,000 years later to build the first experimental time machine, which fully shows that no one has built another time machine based on this time machine, whether it is dedicated to the country or not, in the underground collection of your house! In other words, the high-tech hidden in the time machine has not been completely cracked and exploited from beginning to end. ”

I said this a little twisted, Zhu Pan's face was confused and deep in thought, but Zhu Lao stubbornly nodded again and again.

I thought about it for a while, and then said, "But after decades of rapid development in our country, no country dares to start a war against us now, so ...... I still think that the old man should dedicate this time machine to the country, even if with the level of modern science and technology, it is impossible to completely crack the hidden high technology, but to make our country's scientific and technological level in a short period of time have a big improvement, it should still be no problem! ”

"That's right!" Bai Xiaohe immediately opened his mouth to agree, "Old man, think about it, I won't leak this matter until you think it through, but I really hope that you can make your contribution to our country!" ”

Old Zhu was speechless, just lowered his eyes and pondered.

Zhu Pan couldn't help but call "Dad", and I hurriedly said: "Mr. Xiao Zhu, don't urge the old man, I invite the old man to come today, the most important thing is not for this time machine, but for He Chao's soul!" ”

"Not bad!" Bai Xiaohe interfaced again, "He Chao's soul is rampant on the Internet, hiring murderers, and now ...... Even the people in our police system dared to move, fortunately...... Our comrade has a big life, or else ......"

She let out a long sigh and shook her head.

I knew that she didn't dare to reveal my name, so she called me "a person from the police system", but it was precisely because of this title that I saw Zhu Lao's stubborn brows trembling slightly, and I was greatly touched.

"This thing...... Honestly, I really regret it! He suddenly said this.

It turned out that after the death of Zhu Lao's stubborn father, Zhu Laoqi strictly followed his father's instructions and never dared to reveal the secrets of their family, even to his two sons, he never mentioned it.

In order to avoid leaking his mouth after tea and drinking, he simply put on a strange temper, so that the neighbors on the left and right all stayed away from him, and his two sons were not very close to him.

But over the years, the bitterness and burden accumulated in his heart became thicker and heavier, and his temper really began to become more and more extreme and awkward.

Until one day, a young man named He Chao came to his Internet café to surf the Internet, and later applied for a job as an Internet café manager.

(See Chapter 398 "Soul Online")