Chapter 40: Ball Lightning

The third day of the third lunar month arrived, and the grand Yellow Emperor worship ceremony was held as scheduled in the Yellow Emperor's hometown scenic spot. The original square of the pen and fun pavilion www.biquge.info was temporarily expanded, and the police drawn from various cities in Henan took three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, and the media had already released the wind, Liu Weiping came back from South Korea, to find his roots and ask his ancestors, to commemorate the ancestors of Professor Liu Weiping, one of his inventors, and at the same time to participate in the Yellow Emperor worship ceremony, Liu Weiping's appearance attracted millions of fans at home and abroad to run to Henan, so that Xinzheng City had to wait.

The ancestral mountain of Xindian Town, where Xuanyuan Temple is located, is only three square kilometers in size, and the mountains are full of dense crowds, occupying the scenic spot, and it is also crowded with roads, parking lots, and even big trees are full of people. By the morning of the same day, all the intersections leading to Xindian Town were sealed, and no more people could enter!

Just after eight o'clock, Liu Weiping's motorvoy set off from Zhengzhou all the way to the Ancestor Mountain of Xinzheng City, and people welcomed them all over the road, all wanting to see the legendary robot hero. In South Korea, he was also a big hit, at best a joke, and now he has become a goodwill ambassador of traditional culture, and a sense of pride arises, he drops the car window and waves to the welcoming crowd.

The ancestor worship ceremony that was originally scheduled to start at nine o'clock because they were too slow to start until ten o'clock, the square in front of the Xuanyuan Temple was expanded to accommodate only 5,000 people, and the people outside the venue could only take out their mobile phones to watch the live broadcast.

According to the usual practice, the ceremony was announced after the 21 salutes were fired, Liu Weiping and the guests walked to the rostrum together, the bang salute rang out, the master of ceremonies silently counted in his heart, 21 After the ring, he was about to read out the guest list, 20, 21, boom, how could there be 22 rings?

Many people at the venue also felt strange, and there was a rumble, it was a thunder in the sky, "auspicious, really auspicious, March 3, born Xuanyuan, 32 years or the first time in the Yellow Emperor worship ceremony There was thunder, this is the ancestor is welcoming our new generation of Chinese representatives Mr. Liu Weiping, below I will introduce the guests who attended today's worship ceremony." ”

There was a burst of long-lasting applause inside and outside the venue, and Liu Weiping stood up and saluted everyone, and the applause became even more enthusiastic. After introducing the guests, the next thing is the routine of previous years, offering flower baskets, performing almsgiving, singing carols, and when it is halfway through, there is another thunderstorm, and the lightning strikes the lightning rod on the Xuanyuan Temple, which makes the people in the square dizzy, and the bean-sized raindrops fall down with hail.

"What's the matter, didn't the Meteorological Bureau come in the afternoon when it predicted strong convective weather?" Zhou Erqiang, who was sitting in the audience, asked the secretary, "I'll call and ask, it's okay, the group members have prepared disposable raincoats." The secretary handed over the raincoat.

"You go and pass on a word, immediately adjust the agenda, go directly to Liu Weiping's link, and cut all other ceremonies!" Zhou Erqiang looked at the heavier and heavier rain and began to worry.

"Run, everyone, run, it's hailing!" The people outside the venue didn't have raincoats and began to stir, "What's the panic, March 3, Lei Gong thundered first, and there wasn't much rain!" A white-bearded old man who climbed to the tree boasted to the people on the side, before his words were finished, a lightning bolt struck, and the ginkgo tree more than twenty meters high was broken in half, and the white-bearded old man fell to the ground, and luckily picked up an old life, but his beard, eyebrows, and hair were burned, and he was so frightened that he didn't speak and ran away.

"It's a shame, someone was struck by thunder!" The scene was chaotic, the hail was getting bigger and bigger, the big ones were as big as fists, and the small ones were like broad beans, and the people who smashed them hurt, everyone rushed to run down the mountain, scattered and fled, and the people who had been hiding under the trees joined the team going down the mountain.

"Secretary, the Meteorological Bureau said that the cyclone is accelerating, coming in advance, and the intensity is much greater than the forecast!" The secretary finally got through the phone and hurried over to report. "Why didn't you report it earlier?" The commotion outside was also felt in the square, and Zhou Erqiang started a fire.

"They said that they would report it in the morning, and the personnel in the emergency duty room were all drawn here to work on the spot, and the phone and network information could not come in." Hearing the secretary say this, Zhou Erqiang stopped talking, he looked at Liu Weiping, like everyone in the square, hoping that his actions would be faster and end the ceremony as soon as possible.

Liu Weiping's program is very simple, he is responsible for the two links of incense and inscription, the organizer is more thoughtful, originally for the shade, in front of the statue of Emperor Xuanyuan set up a shed, which has become a shelter from the wind and rain, Liu Weiping saw everyone's anxious look, and accelerated his pace and walked in.

Miss Etiquette had already lit three sandalwoods, and when she saw Liu Weiping coming over, she handed the sandalwood over, as soon as Liu Weiping stretched out his hand, all the sandalwood fell to the ground, his round fingers couldn't catch such a thin sandalwood at all, Zhou Erqiang in the audience saw it in his eyes, and was anxious, "How did you do it, why don't you arrange rehearsals for such an important link?" The secretary didn't dare to answer next to him.

The people in the square endured the pain of being hit by the hailstones, and they all hoped that Liu Weiping would end it soon, and some people couldn't help but boo when they saw him clumsily picking up sandalwood on the ground. Fortunately, the hostess on the side cleverly helped him pick up the sandalwood and insert it in the incense burner. With a snap of the electronic lighter, a huge pillar of sandalwood behind it was also lit, and the incense session was finally over.

The hail came and stopped fast, and in a blink of an eye, the rain stopped, and the Xiaoice balls on the ground slowly melted, leaving a pool of water, "I said that there is not much rain!" The old man with a charred beard beckoned everyone back to see the excitement.

"Now let's enter the last link, please Mr. Liu Weiping inscription." Seeing that the weather was calm again, Zhou Erqiang's hanging heart relaxed, and he watched Liu Weiping pick up the brush with interest.

There was a sudden exclamation in the square, "Look, ghost fire!" A football-sized fireball floated out of the Xuanyuan Temple, moving quickly towards the zigzag drawn in the direction of Liu Weiping. What nonsense, that's ball lightning! Liu Weiping just wrote down the four official letters of "Root Family Event", and originally according to the staff's prompts, he was going to take pictures of the media with a brush before the payment.

He raised his head, the people below pointed and pointed, the frightened flower of the lady on the side was speechless, Liu Weiping thought that probably human beings have never seen a robot write such a good calligraphy, he was a little proud, lowered his head and prepared the title.

There was a slight sound in the air, and the fireballs kept discharging into the air, fluctuating but getting closer and closer to Liu Weiping's round head. The hearts of the people in the square were all in their throats, and they saw that the fireball was about to hit Liu Weiping's head, but Liu Weiping didn't know it, and was inscribed his signature one by one.

Another dazzling lightning illuminated the square, and the fireball exploded behind Liu Weiping's head. Liu Weiping put down the brush, and the hostesses on both sides held up the rice paper on which he was writing. The rumbling thunder arrived behind the lightning, covering the enthusiastic applause from the audience, and also covering the doubts of the sharp-eyed.

"Why is the title Satoshi Nakamoto?" Someone whispered, "Isn't this robot called Liu Weiping?" Zhou Erqiang's secretary also saw that something was wrong, "Secretary, this can't be robot humor, right?" ”

"Fortunately, the live broadcast was postponed, so I called immediately to find a way to cut it!" Zhou Erqiang was taking the lead in applauding, and when he heard the secretary's reminder, he hurriedly ordered.

Liu Weiping woke up from his dizziness, and looking at the enthusiastic crowd below, he also raised his hands happily and waved. There was a bang, the ice rain this time was bigger and more violent, and the crowd who had just come back was busy scattering. Zhou Erqiang in the square waved his hands and commanded loudly, "Withdraw, withdraw, hurry up!" "No one on the scene cared about what Satoshi Nakamoto was all about anymore.

The well-planned Yellow Emperor worship ceremony is over, Liu Weiping and his entourage have just removed the ancestral mountain, and the worship ceremony is no longer a hot topic in the media, and no one has reported on the Nanjing International Tribunal.

"50 mm! In just one hour, more than 50 mm of rain fell in northern China, which has not been seen in a century, and meteorologists generally predict that this year will enter the El Niño year is a high probability event! ”

"The meteorological observatory predicts that today's strong convective weather will continue for a period of time, and it is expected that the precipitation will reach 100 mm today.

Liu Weiping and Zhou Erqiang sat in the same car and drove slowly southward along the highway, and the on-board TV constantly inserted weather information. The torrential rain splashed on the asphalt, making it impossible for the car's camera to identify the lane demarcation line on the highway, and the driver had to switch to manual mode.

"Leader, I really don't need you to accompany me, I'd better go to Xinyang by myself." Looking at the picture on TV, Liu Weiping became uneasy.

"We have a mature disaster prevention system, and besides, I can still command remotely, so let me accompany you to lie down, local officials are afraid that something will happen when they see you." Zhou Erqiang comforted, "Oh, by the way, Mr. Liu, I want to ask Satoshi Nakamoto what's going on?" ”

Liu Weiping felt a sigh in his heart, how could he ask this, his reaction was very fast, "This is a legend twenty years ago, it was said that during the 2008 financial crisis, a Japanese pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto proposed the Bitcoin algorithm, and then countless people came forward to admit that they were Satoshi Nakamoto, but they were all denied, only now, people can't figure out who Satoshi Nakamoto is." ”

"Oh, so that's the case, it's better to be serious about the Yellow Emperor's worship ceremony." Hearing Zhou Erqiang say this, Liu Weiping felt strange, fortunately he had a super search engine, and he immediately searched for the Yellow Emperor Worship Ceremony and Satoshi Nakamoto as keywords, and the results came out, and some people in the square had already photographed his inscription on social media.

"Leader, that's the case, the people who set my program gave me many names, called Turing, Satoshi Nakamoto, famous people in the history of artificial intelligence have been written into my program, when I wrote the inscription just now, I think it's a bit inappropriate to call Liu Weiping, after all, Professor Liu Weiping is also a celebrity in Henan, using a virtual name like Satoshi Nakamoto not only conforms to my robot identity, but also shows that the Chinese nation is multiplying."

Liu Weiping answered immediately after Zhou Erqiang's question, he felt reluctant, but Zhou Erqiang heard it but felt reasonable, "Okay, or artificial intelligence is thoughtful, the Yamato clan is originally the descendant of our Chinese clan!" ”

A carload of people burst out laughing.

When the car arrived in Xinyang and got off the highway, the water had already covered the wheels, and the car could not be driven. Hearing that the Nanwan Reservoir had burst the dam, the local officials went to the rescue, and the inflatable boat that came to receive the reception was opened, and Liu Weiping added hydrogen to the car again, so he took the inflatable boat and followed everyone towards the southern suburbs.

The sky is cloudy, although the rain is a little lighter, it still keeps falling, the night comes obviously early, the inflatable boat drives south along the street, the residents on both sides of the building hurriedly build an embankment with sandbags or can't stop the water from rushing into the house, the rescue firefighters also drive the inflatable boat to evacuate the elderly and children to the high ground, and the people who have not had time to wait for the rescue wade waist-deep water with the inflatable boat to evacuate.

Drove more than ten kilometers, in front of the night is a big mountain, the rescue boats coming and going on the water are illuminated by the lights of Liu Weiping from afar to see the three big characters on the mountain gate "Xianyin Mountain", Liu Weiping is still familiar with these three words, it is said that the sage Hou Han Zhou Pan missed his mother, had no intention of being an official, so he resigned and returned to his hometown, and was hidden in the southern suburbs of Xinyang in this mountain, and later people called it Xianyin Mountain.

Liu Weiping felt guilty in his heart, and he had no memory of what his parents were like. The water flooded the steps, the inflatable boat leaned directly up, and the group went up the mountain with flashlights, "Mr. Liu, the kindness of the local people in Xinyang, it took a lot of effort to find the ashes of Professor Liu Weiping's parents and move them to this place." Zhou Erqiang explained to him as he walked.

After Xianyin Temple, Liu Weiping saw a newly repaired mausoleum, and the four tombstones were Liu Chunyang, Fu Qin, Liu Weiguo, and Liu Weiping, and they were particularly solemn in the rainy night, "The comrades in Xinyang are very careful, and the tombs of the patriotic martyrs have also been moved, and Professor Liu's family is reunited." Zhou Erqiang praised the people who accompanied him.

Liu Weiping carefully looked at the photos of Liu Chunyang and Fu Qin, and stored their images, "What is the relationship between Liu Weiguo and Professor Liu?" "He didn't have his brother's information after recovering his memory in Bitcoin.

"This is the elder brother of Professor Liu Weiping who died on the battlefield in Korea. Liu Weiping was born after the death of his brother. The person accompanying him introduced.

His name turned out to mean to defend peace, and Liu Weiping looked at his brother's tombstone and guessed the origin of his name.

Everyone followed Liu Weiping and bowed towards the tombstone, and when he bowed to his tombstone, Liu Weiping thought that this was also a human being, if he was a robot, then Liu Weiping was his real parents.

The accompanying people don't know the secrets behind these, a robot is thousands of miles away, braving the heavy rain, and ran to Xinyang to sweep the graves of these four people, it is really a strange thing in the world, artificial intelligence is unreasonable, this is just a robot, if thousands of robots are produced, it is really unimaginable what the world is.

"Secretary, the Xinyang disaster relief video conference room is ready, waiting for you to go back and preside over the meeting." The secretary reminded him.