Chapter Seventy-One: The Sacrifice
At the beginning of October of the first year of the Later Yuan Dynasty, Liu Chang entered the second round of training, which in addition to continuing the strengthening of the body, increased the tolerance of extreme temperatures and the overcoming of oxygen dependence.
The biggest weakness of carbon life is that the range of temperature acceptance is too narrow and the dependence on oxygen is too severe.
If the temperature is high, it will not work, and the oxygen concentration will not work, and the oxygen concentration will not work, which greatly limits the living space of carbon lifeforms. In the vast universe, the temperature of the existence of materials is from minus a few hundred to five or six hundred degrees, and the living space of carbon life forms is too narrow, which also greatly limits the space for human activities.
Of course, carbon life has its fragile side, but also its strong side, that is, carbon life has the advantage of evolution. And the direction of evolution is to challenge the harsh environment, from the sea to the land, from the land to the sky, and the next evolutionary goal of the earth's species must be the void.
What is evolution, evolution is to reduce the dependence on the existing environment, the dependence on temperature and the dependence on oxygen. However, as the pioneer of the evolution of carbon lifeforms, human beings have come to the end of evolution ahead of schedule, although they try to resist evolutionary obstacles with their intellectual expertise, but if the temperature is high, they will die of heat, and if the temperature is low, they will freeze to death, and if there are no clothes, human beings will not even be able to survive an ordinary winter, if there is less water, they will die of thirst, if there is more water, they will drown, if they have more oxygen, they will die of alcohol, and if they have less oxygen, they will suffocate to death, which has become a reality.
In short, without relying on external forces, human beings simply cannot survive outside their home planet, just like an infant baby, human beings have entered a dead end of evolution, many people are asking the meaning of life, the meaning of life is evolution, the meaning of each person's survival is to add a link of their own in the process of evolution, wisdom should have become the driving force of evolution, but unfortunately, he has become a stumbling block to human evolution.
100 days have passed, and in these 100 days, Liu Chang has spent almost every day in the training room alternating between cold and heat. Finally, the temperature tolerance of itself was increased to 50 degrees above and below. My aunt was heartbroken when she saw her nephew's sweat turning into ice every day through the observation window, and the ice turned into sweat again.
But there is nothing he can do, all he can do every day is to go to the foot of the mountain to get some antelopes, yaks or something, add food to his nephew, replenish his body, she is always very repulsive to the food synthesized by the machine here, the machine doesn't seem to use any materials, just out of thin air to make a bunch of weird food, unpalatable and tasteless.
My nephews are more than ten years old this year, and I don't understand what nutrition is not nutritious. Delicious is nutritious, and delicious is king.
Today is the twelfth day of the first month of the second year of the Later Yuan Dynasty, and in three days, it will be the Shangyuan Festival. My aunt got another antelope today, in this time and space, the Tibetan antelope is not a frequently endangered species, and there are on the plains below the mountain.
The aunt and nephew set up a wood barbecue at the foot of the mountain.
"San'er, it's the Shangyuan Festival in two days. After my mother passed away, I didn't go to see it, and I wanted to pay homage to my mother. Liu Ling didn't have the smile she used to have, her expression was full of joy, and she was a little gloomy.
Through this 100-day training, Liu Chang no longer has a feeling of cold and heat in the current environment, and it seems that he has achieved initial results. This stage of hard work is hard, but it is also the normal range of life of the creatures of this planet, which is relatively easy.
The next stage, for ordinary people, is a forbidden area. For him, it shouldn't be a big problem. Beyond this range, even he has to risk his life, which is not a forbidden area for people, but a forbidden area for life.
Although his physical structure has changed, he is still a man, not a god, and he cannot stand it, and he will definitely die. But this risk must be taken, in the past hundred days, he has understood his mission, which is to enter the void, find and spread the fire of life in the designated cosmic space, establish cosmic coordinates, and find the initial spring of the universe, stop the eruption speed of the cosmic spring, and prevent the universe from being destroyed due to excessive expansion. If he fails, this base will be withdrawn in search of another intelligent planet.
It is impossible for the human race to have the next chosen son, no matter how brilliant the material civilization of the human race is in the future, and the evolution of human beings has come to an end. Even if there were, it would be at least tens of millions of years, hundreds of millions of years later, waiting for the earth to give birth to new intelligent beings again, and this intelligent life was abandoned.
"Okay, I'll go back with you. My father doesn't know where he was buried, that is, as a son of man, it is still appropriate to fulfill the filial piety of the son of man. For a moment, both of them fell silent, silently looking at the red flames, dancing up and down.
"Hello, baby, do you miss your sister?" The first to say hello was the black girl Jones, Liu Chang had seen it, and the other two may have just come back, but Liu Chang hadn't seen it, "Your aunts and nephews are eating and drinking spicy food here, and they don't greet their sisters, and eat alone." With the voice, three beauties came from different directions, also three real beauties, and in appearance, ranging from twenty to fifty. One white, one black, one brown.
Originally, there should have been a gray race, but unfortunately it disappeared 16,000 years ago, and the gray messenger also passed away, of course, there was still one person who was not a human or a ghost, and was sealed by Liu Chang in the thirteenth academy. Now there are only four emissaries in the five bases.
"I don't have your share of this dinner today, this is what I specially prepared for my nephew, who has just come out of the customs and is skinny and skinny." Liu Ling immediately recovered.
"We are all sisters for tens or hundreds of years, and it is not easy to get together today, don't be so stingy." It was the youngest black girl who spoke, her head full of wool curls and a mouthful of white teeth shining in the sun.
"Don't be close, we're not that familiar, I just came, not like you monsters." Liu Ling said with a smile.
"Only mutton? What's the point of just eating mutton, you two will go hunt a few pheasants, rabbits or something. "The eldest brown sister spoke.
"Well," the two responded immediately, and the hula was gone.
Sister Brown sat down next to them, picked up a branch, stirred the fire that had been burned into charcoal, and then looked at Liu Chang with a smile: "How about the three boys, is it going well?" ”
Liu Chang saluted in a proper manner and said, "Thank you for your concern, it's going well." ”
"What a good boy, he knows how to count etiquette so much, it's really rare." After speaking, he deliberately put his face on the face, "What do you call me?" Call me big sister? It's more than enough for me to be your aunt and grandmother, I'm older than your aunt, and you still call me eldest sister? ”
"It's not bad for me, my aunt originally asked people to call you grandma, I practiced all night last night, I wanted to call you grandma, but you are too much, how can you look like a grandma, you are almost the same as my sister at all, even younger than my sister.
I call my aunt aunt, not because my aunt is old, but because she is older. This thing is really unreasonable, some people are born to be grandfathers to others, where to be reasonable, you say yes. No way, that's the material that was born to be an aunt. Therefore, it depends on the age of this thing, and it is more reasonable to look at the appearance. Find any random person and let them talk about it, who doesn't say you're sisters? You look younger than your aunt, you look more like a sister than your aunt, and no one believes you when you call you aunt, right, aunt. "I have to hurry up and hold the position, and the sycophants are rolling, although there was no word for sycophants until the Yuan Dynasty, and now the situation is urgent, and it doesn't matter about the dynasty, the position can't be lost. How can I call her aunt, after the aunt here, those two come back, and I have to force myself to call the second aunt and the third aunt?
Purely according to the number of years, these female goblins are indeed more than enough to be their grandmothers, and they must not do this, all day long, this grandmother, that grandmother, three grandmothers, isn't they three grandchildren? Then I suffered too much, especially the black girl who was not a few years older than herself, calling her the third aunt? Grandmother!! You must be brought down to a lower rank than your aunt. It's not that I really don't look like my brother, so I'll call you eldest sister, second sister, and third sister!
In any case, the sycophants of the Yuan Dynasty are sharp, and they deserve the blood of the Huns. That stupid eldest sister is very useful anyway, hehe's happy, and she praised "The third boy is just able to talk, and his mouth is so sweet" This is accepting my sister's position. Woman, what a strange creature, no matter how old she is, you don't have the shame to say that she is young, she really believes that she is young, others believe it or not Liu Chang doesn't know, this stupid big sister believes it.
After a while, one white and one black, the smoke and dust came back from the sky. Just two rabbits! Slaughtering rabbits, these two girls called a skillful, knocked a stone to death, hung on a tree, twisted a knife around the neck, and with a scream of both hands, stabbed, they took off the rabbit's coat, uh, it was a rabbit's skin, and disemboweled. After a few breaths, the white and tender rabbit was put on a wooden stick and set up on the charcoal fire, and the action was like flowing water, all in one go.
At a glance, you can see that this guy is not doing this kind of thing.
During this barbecue, Liu Chang finally learned about the situation of the three people: the oldest, named Ganidoo, is a brown person; followed by whites; Maria. The black girl is the youngest, she looks to be seventeen or eighteen years old, her name is Jones, and she is of black race.
On the morning of the Shangyuan Festival, five miles south of Chang'an City, Shanglin Garden, the entrance of the Royal Hunting Park. It was a barren place, with no tall trees, only low, whose leaves had fallen off the dry branches of the bushes, shivering in the cold north wind.
The ground is covered with snow, and when you look around, there is a vast white expanse, and the majestic palace group at the end of the white end in the distance is faintly visible. Although it is called Tongbai Pavilion here, there is no pavilion, and there are no tung trees and cypress trees, it is a local pavilion when the land was requisitioned, and then it continued to be called before.
A bare dirt bag in the snow was exposed, without any markings around it. This is the mausoleum of Wei Zifu, the Empress of the Han Dynasty. It was not that there was no snow on the grave, but Liu Ling and Liu Chang opened it with their hands, and now, Liu Ling and Liu Chang's aunt and nephew were standing in front of the grave, standing silently, without flowers or offerings, in the place where they thought it was the head of the grave, Liu Chang placed a large square stone, and a small pile of soil was placed on the stone.
The tomb of her mother, Shi Liangdi, is no longer found, and it is said that when the army stormed the imperial city, she died in the chaos.
Liu Chang didn't have a deep impression of his grandmother, after all, he was not even five years old when he left the palace, and it has been almost five years now, and all memories have been hazy. When he saw his aunt kneeling, he just followed him, and when his aunt got up, he got up with him.
Liu Ling is different, she is the eldest princess, she has been loved by her parents since she was a child, and she has been living by her parents' side until she left the palace.
Although she slowly learned about the witch Gu incident that happened after she left, and the great damage caused by the witch Gu incident, she couldn't judge right and wrong, and she couldn't even resent it, because the promoter of the witch Gu incident was her father, His Majesty the Emperor of the Han Dynasty. Her father's love for her is no less than that of her mother, and even more so, she was born to be the eldest princess across levels, and gave her the best fiefdom, and her father gave her everything he could.
Mother is now lying alone here, and she can only watch. Although she has this ability now, he can't do anything because whatever she does will hurt another of his loved ones.
Thinking of her father, Liu Ling's heart began to ache faintly again, that kind father is almost seventy this year. People are rare after seventy years, and my father will soon be in his old age, I don't know what his current situation is, and whether he wants to be a god anymore.
Thinking of this, Liu Ling's heart felt a trace of warmth, thinking of a stubborn old man, tossing and turning all day long, just wanting to see the fairy, but in the end the fairy didn't see it, and he hurt himself, but he was still happy, and he was funny and sad.
Father, are you okay? Tears that had just stopped flowed down her cheeks again.
After noon, the two of them came to Guangming Yuan outside the Xuanping Gate, where Liu Jin and his wife Wang Wengxu were buried. Wang Wengxu had just given birth to Liu Ai at that time, and when he was in the county prison, Bing Ji believed that the prince was innocent, and was very sympathetic to the plight of the prince's family, so he agreed to one of the prince's housekeepers at that time to replace Wang Weng Xu with his wife, so that Wang Weng Xu secretly survived, but in the end, although the illness had been rescued and escaped by Bing Ji, she still died. Whether it is the sister-in-law next to his brother or the impostor sister-in-law, Liu Chang doesn't know. Whether it's a real sister-in-law or a fake sister-in-law, they all deserve their own respect. Although he asked the county order to bury his father and Mrs. Wang at that time, because there were too many joints involved, the people below might not dare to report it truthfully, and the prince died and lived again; Madame Wang is dead, and she is alive again. The emperor knew, but he didn't know how many people would die, and it was another bloody storm.
In the southeast of Guangming Garden, about a mile away from Guangming Garden, there is a small hill, not high, only a few zhang high, there is a pavilion to rest. When I saw the two people, one big and one small, walking towards this side, gradually approaching the pavilion, the man in the pavilion picked up a child on his back and got up to leave, which is also very normal, Liu Chang and his aunt and nephew were dressed in silk and luxurious, while the man and the child were dressed in linen. Making way for nobles is the basic consciousness of inferior people.
"Lord Bingji, why did you leave in a hurry when you saw me?" Liu Chang spoke first.
The man named Bing Ji was obviously stunned, and it was not good news that someone recognized him. Although the child was a little familiar, he didn't dare to gamble now, and he didn't dare to look directly at the two nobles who had already walked in front of him.
"The noble man recognized the wrong person, and the villain is not Bingji." Hurriedly bowed down to answer, his eyes asked his nose, his nose asked his heart, and he tried his best to control the strong desire to escape, because as soon as he ran, he was completely finished.
Although he was a child, Bing Ji did not dare to despise it. Just kidding, there are parents next to him, and if there is any trouble, his trouble is even greater. But the aunt walked to Bing Ji's side and looked at the child in Bing Ji's arms seriously, this child was about four or five years old, although the clothes were coarse and coarse, and his complexion was quite normal. The aunt nodded with satisfaction, yes, this nephew didn't suffer much, and Bing Ji is quite reliable.
"Alright, Lord Bing, look up, who am I?"
"The villain doesn't dare"
"If you look at it, you can see it, what adults, villains, why are they so verbose, you won't laugh at me for not being long-winded, right?" Liu Chang stepped forward, got under Bing Ji's nose, and broke Bing Ji's face, and Liu Chang's face and Bing Ji's face were face to face.
Liu Chang is also very depressed now, it has been five years, and his size doesn't seem to have changed, when he was ten years old and five years old, there seemed to be no difference. Bing Ji looked at the face in front of him, very familiar, almost too familiar. It's the same as the face I saw more than two years ago, it's not right, it's about the same height as two years ago, why doesn't a child grow up in two years? Doubts are doubts, Bing Ji didn't dare to speak, he is a prison guard in the Imperial Prison, where do you not know the truth that if you talk too much, you will lose.
The aunt was not polite at this time, and snatched the child from Bing Ji's back, the child was trying to perform his howling Dafa, but after all, he was more than four years old, and he was sensible, and he was a little embarrassed to cry, not that he could cry at once, and he didn't hold back a tear for a long time, so he had to keep twisting his body and refuse this unreasonable woman.
"Don't move, call uncle!" This sentence calmed both of them.
Bing Ji was suppressed because he was too familiar with this sentence, in the past, when they were uncles and nephews, it was the obscenity of the little uncle.
The child was suppressed, and this sentence seemed familiar and intimidating.
"You're really... The villain greeted His Royal Highness the Prince of the World" to confirm the identity of the visitor, Bing Ji did not hesitate to bow down.
"Okay, okay, you finally recognize me, I'm still me, it's not the same, it's amazing. Get up, don't bow, I feel like I'm being looked down upon by you. Liu Chang didn't pay attention to Bing Ji, but came to his aunt's side, looked up at his nephew in his aunt's arms, it was too unreasonable, and his nephew was about the same height as himself. Bing Ji stood up and stood to the side, not knowing the identity of this woman, and not daring to speak rashly.
"Call Grandma Grandma, Grandma Grandma will give you something delicious." Liu Ling is also like no one now, and there is nothing in her eyes except for this little thing. Although Xiao Budian looked dazed, he was stunned by a "call uncle", and now there is another 'aunt' and grandmother, and he doesn't dare to move, just staring at Bing Ji with both eyes.
"Auntie? You're the eldest princess?!" I don't know who the 'aunt and grandmother' is, but Bing Ji knows, and said in shock.