Chapter 1: The Star of Bals
On August 13, 2019, in a residential house in Shushan District, Luzhou, Anhui Province, China, a young man with broken short hair sat in front of a laptop, he had a pair of clear and bright, slightly childish eyes, straight nose bridge, thin lips, and slightly ordinary facial features, which can only be said to be delicate.
This young man's name is Ai Mingjie, he is nineteen years old this year, and he is watching a science popularization master introduce the process of the discovery of the continent of Rodinia on the beep station.
"In 1850, the German explorer Bars came to the Sahara Desert to investigate, and wrote a travelogue, which has been handed down and lacks a large part, but these are not important, the important thing is that it is written
'We encountered a strange black sphere floating in the air, I touched the sphere with the guide, and suddenly felt dizzy, and when I woke up again, there was still a strange sphere floating above me, and under me was the body of the guide, and under the corpse were all jagged stones, which should have fallen from the air and hit the head to death, fortunately I didn't die, unfortunately I had a cut in my leg'.
These fragmentary travelogues record that Baals landed on an island, where he was recuperating from his injuries and constantly exploring, and one day he climbed a cliff and found a continent on the opposite shore, but due to the conditions of the time, he did not log on to this continent.
He recuperated from his wounds, made a wooden frame from the island's only resources, climbed to the height of the sphere, and crossed the sphere again to return to the Sahara, where he is said to have made his way out of the desert and returned to the nearest city, Laayoune, where he was robbed and killed by local ruffians due to his disheveled clothes, and his notes were somehow circulated to Russia.
For a long time, people only regarded this travelogue as a fantasy of Bals when he got lost in the desert, and then in 1995, the rumor of Laayoune seeing strange black spheres spread to Russia, and it happened that the travelogue owner heard about it, and began to spend a lot of money to find clues, until six years ago, it was confirmed by an explorer of the American Explorers Association, and the photo was taken. ”
As he spoke, the UP master put a photo of a sphere with a diameter of about three meters, and then he said: "The black sphere recorded in the travelogue is similar to the wormhole proposed by Einstein, and the continent he saw should be a continent on an unknown terrestrial planet, this terrestrial planet is also called Bals Star, and this subcontinent is called the Rodinia continent, and there has been a great call to explore this subplanet in recent years, but governments around the world say that it is for safety reasons and has not arranged large-scale people to enter."
And there are only three wormholes that can enter that planet, except for the location of the No. 1 wormhole in Western Sahara, the other two specific locations are not known where, but according to online netizens, there should be one in the uninhabited area of Qiangtang in Huaxia, because some travelers have seen many vehicles carrying supplies on National Highway 317 before. ”
Ai Mingjie thought to himself: "Netizens are really omnipotent, this can be speculated, but I don't know the specific location, and my uncle only mentioned it in Qiangtang." ”
Click, suddenly the door opened, Ai Mingjie looked up and forgot to look at the door, and found that his aunt Ai Manling came back with a bag of vegetables, "Aunt, you are back, buy so many vegetables" Ai Mingjie said.
Ai Manling, Chinese New Year's Eve, is a tall man, with a straight nose on his duck egg face and eyes that reveal a spiritual look, and works as an editor for a well-known travel magazine.
She is Ai Mingjie his grandfather responded to the country's call to develop the west, picked up the child, ten years younger than Ai Mingjie's father Ai Zhenguo, after graduating from college, he stayed in Luzhou with his uncle Yang Youcheng and had a son, Ai Mingjie applied for Huaxia University of Science and Technology after the college entrance examination, and came to live at his aunt's house in Luzhou during the summer vacation.
Ai Manling said: "There is still a big piece of beef in the refrigerator, your uncle came back in the evening and made you a hearty meal, by the way, Xiaoyu hasn't come back yet?" ”
Xiaoyu is Yang Yu, who will turn eleven years old in two months, and today he asked his classmates to go out to play. Ai Mingjie replied: "Not yet, I've sent him a message, and I'll be back in about an hour." Then he asked, "Isn't my uncle going to the mainland of Rhodinia?" Is it back so soon? ”
Ai Manling said: "I don't know, I didn't elaborate on the phone, but I knew it at night, and he said that there was major news for us in the evening." ”
Uncle Yang Youcheng is a member of the Chinese Explorers Association at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve six, and has made some documentaries in many primeval forests in China, and is more famous in their circles. I never thought I'd be back so soon, and I don't know if I've seen it.
Ai Manling: "In ten days, you will report, you have everything ready, don't wait until school is about to start and then worry, your mother told me before that you lost everything, keep an eye on you." In a few days, my eldest brother and sister-in-law will also come from Xijiang to send you to school, saying that they want to check in to commemorate it. ”
Ai Mingjie's family has stayed in Western Xinjiang since his grandfather's generation, and Ai Mingjie's father Ai Zhenguo and mother Wang Li opened a supermarket in Wushi, Western Xinjiang, which is considered to be the upper income of the middle class.
Ai Mingjie said: "I think they are more like they are planning to travel than sending me to school." ”
Ai Manling smiled: "They usually don't pay much attention to your studies, they believe that you are conscious, you are about to go to college, you will definitely be concerned, and besides, they usually work so hard, what's wrong with coming to relax." ”
Ai Mingjie said: "Hey, don't talk about it, I went to the gym to work out, and I will come back before dinner." "Let's go put on our shoes.
Ai Manling said: "Well, you usually ask your cousin to follow, you see that he is fat, how good it is to learn from you, you look at you, you are one meter eight tall, eight muscles, and high IQ, don't worry about finding a girlfriend." ”
Then he smiled: "You always say, do you talk about girlfriends?" A gossip expression.
Ai Mingjie put on his shoes and said, "No, no, don't worry." "With that, I went out.
Out of the gate of the community, while waiting for a taxi, the mobile phone received a message from his high school friend Ma Yanbo: "Look at the news released by the Explorers Association, major news. ”
Ai Mingjie opened the mobile phone browser to check and found that the first hot search was the first one, and after clicking in, it was to the effect that "the government intends to open the Bars Star Wormhole to some domestic citizens, and the specific requirements, that is, the process, are being discussed and formulated, and will be announced in a month."
This news is really important, thinking of the news that his uncle is going to say at night, Ai Mingjie thinks that his uncle should know some internal news. Thinking about it, the car called online arrived, Ai Mingjie got in the car and went to a nearby gym, where he got an annual card, after all, Huaxia University of Science and Technology is also in the city, and you can come at any time if you want to exercise. And Ai Mingjie has been exercising since junior high school, and he also learned parkour for two years.