September 205 of the interstellar year. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

A remote town on a bustling planet, where it has not yet been included in the construction zone, may be a bit of an overkill, with only a few modest streets lined with a few shops lined with doors. The door number has been weathered and a little bleak.

This is the ninth space-time transit station, providing people with time and space travel services.

A young man with a young face got off the traveling spaceship, he was carrying a bag and a sketchpad, his clothes looked a little cheap, his long messy hair looked a little greasy, his eyes were scattered, but there was a faint trace of enthusiasm and fire in the depths that had not been completely extinguished.

Three years ago, Jiang He was a shining star in the Interstellar Art Exhibition, his paintings blended realism and abstraction, full of magic and thought-provoking, with a painting "Life" won the highest auction price of the Interstellar Art Exhibition in one fell swoop, and he has been known to the world since then.

And today, three years later, the so-called talent is worn out by the empty pride and extravagant life, next year's art exhibition will start again, when he looks at his empty canvas and has no inspiration, he suddenly realizes that he can no longer see such a fantastic color in his eyes, maybe this time he can't get the painting, and from then on the world will slowly forget himself, as if he was not remembered before, which makes him not feel at ease and panic.

Jiang He looked at the balance on his card, and could only barely afford the cheapest time travel. The kind of time travel that is uncomfortable and can even make people vomit and faint.

Yes, he was going to go ten years ago, before the construction of this interstellar could begin.

Ten years ago, the desolate city and things, the introduction on the e-book is always thin and weak, Jiang He believes that only by being in person can we portray the feeling and meaning of the times.

The end point of his first time travel was 100 years ago, the beginning of the first interstellar year, the interstellar year 100 years. At that time, the interstellar civilization was just starting, and there was no epoch-making process discovery, only ordinary reinforced concrete cities and remote mountain villages and suburbs, but it was these that made him feel the desolate but magnificent early stage of civilization, which had not yet been fully developed primitive and wild, and it was precisely because of this that his painting "Sheng" was commented as a photo album of the new era, recording a great time period through a point.

Time travel is not uncommon these days, it's just cheap and expensive.

When I finally came to the front of the store, the LED light in front of the door was half broken and shining with an unhealthy light.

Jiang He pushed the door in, and there was a smell of dust that had not been cleaned for a long time in the room, which was not pungent.

There are several wooden cabinets in the store, and each wooden cabinet is neatly hung with large and small utensils, including porcelain cups, glasses, and dolls, and it is more like a grocery store, with all kinds of strange things.

The boss with the gold-rimmed glasses was an old man, and the afternoon sun was a little pleasant, he sat on the chaise longue behind the table, squinting and dozing, and there were a few paper newspapers in front of the table, which were like luxuries in this era, exuding the smell of fragrant ink. Jiang He also likes this kind of thing full of substance, and the digitized words and objects always make him feel empty and empty.

There was a time travel guideline standing next to the table, which seemed to be handwritten by the boss himself, the font was elegant and powerful, a feeling of fairy wind and bones, Jiang He couldn't help but look at it twice.

Before obtaining the time travel permit, Jiang He had already memorized the criteria.

First, time travel is risky, so consider it carefully!

Second, time travel can only go back in time.

Third, after time travel, the body becomes a medium, and it cannot and cannot interfere with the past.

Fourth, time travel must take good care of time and space tokens, if you lose them, you will be lost in the turbulence of time and space.

Fifth, all risks of time travel are borne by oneself and relevant voluntary letters must be signed.

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Jiang He took out the information card and gently tapped on the table, and the old man behind the table woke up.

The boss rubbed his glasses gently, his eyes were so cloudy that he couldn't see the person in front of him clearly, pointed to the cabinet behind him and said slowly: "Go pick one of the tokens in the cabinet and make a note on this watch." ”

"No need, I've already found a token just now. What about the watch?" Jiang He pinched the jade pendant in his hand, a little cold, this is what he saw on the second cabinet just now, half a palm-sized jade carved with an unknown pattern full of quaint atmosphere, this is the token of time and space he selected.

After traveling through time and space, he must carry this jade pendant with him, and break it when he ends his trip.

"Where's the watch?" the old man, who seemed a little forgetful, opened the newspaper and looked at it, but there was nothing underneath.

"Hey, I can't remember anything. ”

He sighed softly, as if lamenting his aging age, and as if lamenting his vague memories. He rummaged around the desk again, fiddling around for a while and finally found a worn-out tablet in a drawer under the desk.

Jiang He took the computer, filled out the spreadsheet, and transferred the remaining balance at the same time.

The sound of "drip" indicates completion.

"Put the information card here, come and pick it up when you come back, remember, don't move during the process. ”

The old man put away the tablet, took a sip of tea, modern people don't like tea, but Jiang He likes that taste very much, it is different. Jiang He handed the information card to the old man, picked up his backpack and walked to the backyard, although it was not the first time to travel through time and space, he was still a little excited, and the cold feeling of the jade pendant in his hand made him very comfortable.

The old man gently blew on the tea floating on the surface of the cup, the tea brewed from this thermostatic cup always made him a little unpleasant, but he couldn't afford more expensive tea sets, he only remembered that he seemed to have drunk tea with many people, and the taste of those teas made him unforgettable, but paradoxically, he couldn't remember the taste of those teas and the people who drank tea together.

He picked up the information card on the table, and the card flashing on the screen showed the identity of the young man just now.

"River, interstellar age: 17, painter, living in 。。。。。。 ”

The old man lifted his gold-rimmed glasses.

"Jianghe, such a familiar name. ”

He put away the information card, locked the cupboard, and rested on the recliner again. The sunlight passed through the glass that had not been wiped for a long time, and became bundles of threads, and the dust drifted silently in the sunlight, and a beam of light fell on the old man's cheeks, but the wrinkles on his face deeply concealed the shadows, and those lights could not shine.

The teacup was still smoking, and the old man forgot to close the lid.

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Jiang He found the space-time warehouse placed horizontally in the warehouse, he always felt that this thing was like a cold and huge coffin, glowing coldly, he opened the lid and lay in, holding the cold jade pendant in his hand.

Overhead is an LCD screen, which displays beating data, after simple information recognition, the lights in the warehouse begin to go out, and finally slowly become pitch black, the space-time warehouse begins to rotate and accelerate, and finally faster and faster, the river lies in the warehouse and rotates sharply, the feeling of the sky spinning makes him feel as sad as drinking a large glass of inferior liquor, and the stomach is obviously empty but still makes him can't help but vomit, and the training when he takes the time travel license is not so real and intense.

He held the jade pendant in his hand tightly, and the speed of rotation did not seem to have reached a critical value, and it was still accelerating. Jiang He felt that something was wrong, because the simulation training mentioned that the acceleration time could break through the critical value in a maximum of seventeen seconds, and now that it was almost twenty-five seconds, Jiang He was still spinning with acceleration.

Gradually, he felt that he was about to be affected by the gravitational pull around him and began to increase sharply, he felt that he was being pulled by a strong pulling force on his limbs, the huge force seemed to pull him away, he was about to cry out in pain, but he couldn't control his vocal cords, he couldn't make a sound, only the darkness around him.

His drawing board had been torn to pieces by the huge gravitational force, and his face had been scraped open by the shards, and blood droplets flowed down the wound and were instantly pulled down by the pulling force, and his side began to spin.

Jiang He regretted it a little, but at this time he felt that his consciousness was beginning to fade, he was so tired that he was about to lose the strength to think. Gradually, images emerge from my mind, like a black-and-white film movie.

The first time I got into a fight with a child in an orphanage.

Pick up a paintbrush for the first time.

The first time I was scolded by the dean.

I was praised by my teacher for the first time.

Stealing something for the first time.

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The images are mottled and complex and well-organized, as if they were rinsing the rubber, and each picture comes from the depths, gradually emerges in the darkroom, red and green, and finally freezes into a photograph to be salvaged.

"Am I going to die?" Jiang He thought to himself, hearing that before people die, they can see their own voice replayed like a movie.

He recalled the emotionless electronic synthesized voice coming from the electronic screen during the training: "Time travel rule number one: time travel is risky, please consider it carefully!"

Jiang He smiled miserably, a darkness struck, and Jiang He finally fainted.

The huge tearing force finally disappeared, and Jiang He seemed to have a dream, and in the darkness of the dream, there was only a faint feeling of coldness, which came from his hand, and it was the jade pendant.

It's like an endless black hole, with no light, no sound, not even time.

I don't know how long it took...

Jiang He felt a drop of water fall on his face.

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Dushui City, a small border town in the south, quietly waits for the summer to pass in this southern plain.

It rained heavily last night, and the sun finally came out, but it was still scorching.

People have taken out their rain-soaked clothes to dry, and by the way, they also took out the damp quilts at home to dry, and the dried quilts always make people sleep soundly.

The beggars on the outskirts of the city also took advantage of such a good day to go out to beg. It wasn't until almost noon that they returned to the ruined temple, holding the steamed bread and baked cakes they had begged for in the morning, and some of them were lucky enough to get a copper coin or two, and bought some rice.

A beggar with a pockmarked face also carried half a roast goose and two steamed buns into the temple leisurely, a big Buddha in the temple has been dilapidated and immortal, only a faint appearance can be seen. There is a broken door behind the big Buddha, there is a hall house behind the door, it used to be a place for monks to eat and live, and now it is occupied by people with higher status in this group of beggars, the back room does not leak on rainy days, the wall is not breathable, and it is good to sleep at night.

A young beggar was sitting on the threshold of the back room with his legs crossed, staring at the small water on the ground motionless, as if in a daze. Seeing that his heart was nameless, the pockmarked beggar scolded: "Your grandmother, you eat and drink here all day long, and you don't let Lao Tzu go." ”

As he spoke, he lifted his palm and slapped it on the head of the young man in a daze, and the moment he reached the top of his head, one hand firmly grasped the dirty palm of the pockmarked beggar.

The young beggar looked up at him, and suddenly pulled his backhand and pulled the pockmarked beggar to a stumbling side.

"Okay, you dare to fight back. The beggar struggled hard and withdrew his hand. In his heart, he was secretly surprised by the young man's strength, he quietly shook his wrist, which was a little painful, and kept scolding in his mouth:

"Lao Tzu really saved a white-eyed wolf, you get out of here now, Lao Tzu will break your leg when he sees you again. ”

The pockmarked beggar pointed at the young man majestically, but the other party didn't seem to hear it, and lowered his head again, he was angry in his heart, raised his hand and wanted to slap him again, but when he thought of his strength, the hand raised in mid-air finally had to be withdrawn fiercely.

He snorted, and walked to the hall on his own, and went into the room and lay down on the bed, then grabbed the half of the greasy roast goose and began to gnaw on it.

The young man on the threshold was still staring blankly at the wet mud under the eaves.

All the time the ants drowned in the water, and other ants hurriedly crawled past him.

This young man is Jianghe.

Coming out of the cave, he walked all the way to the beggar temple with his thoughts, and fainted when he saw that he was saved, and then was picked up by the pockmarked beggar just now.

"It's a strange place, it can't be the planet of ten years ago, and the civilization of ten years ago was backward but not so inferior. Jiang He thought silently in his heart, picked up the branch and poked the wet ground.

What's more, and what frightens Jiang He the most, is that he can touch the world! Just like the dirty but hot palm of the beggar just now, real and full.

You must know that after the time and space jump, the traveler will turn into a medium, into a transparent and weightless and spaceless form, and in the time period after the shuttle, it is like a spectator of a movie, who can act and watch, but cannot change the image and ending of the movie. The void body passes through all entities, powerless to touch and change reality, not even a speck of dust can blow.

But this time, he was able to touch and perceive the world! He could smell the smell of the beggar in the air, he could feel the hard and rough wooden stick in his hand, and even others could see his existence and talk to him! This is something that cannot happen in normal time travel!

The breeze is coming, and the water is not rippling. Jiang He sat on the threshold, thinking about the cause and effect, but he still couldn't think of a reason.

When he first arrived, he could not understand the language of the locals, but after a month he finally learned and understood the language of the region, and it was not difficult, but he still could not speak because his throat was badly injured.

Jiang He poked on the ground with a small wooden stick again, he could feel the hardness of his fingertips, and he came to this world naked, nothing, his package and drawing board, as well as the jade pendant, should have also fallen into the turbulence of time and space...

His time travel went wrong, and he didn't know what the problem was, but he only knew one thing, and that was to survive and find his lost jade pendant.

He didn't like the terrible heat and the smell of the air.