Chapter 59: Conjecture
has been writing more than 120 words, no matter how much Quan Hao asks the old man to write again, he just strokes his beard and shakes his head, with an unnatural expression.
It took him a long time to realize it. It turns out that there are so many words that the old man knows, and the goods in his stomach are emptied. No wonder he looked embarrassed. And the old man didn't look very energetic, his eyes were half-squinted. Probably because it takes too much energy to write so many words. Quan Hao no longer disturbed his rest, and called the little girl over and asked her to take good care of the old man.
After an exchange with the old man, the suspicion in Quan Hao's heart not only did not decrease, but became greater: In addition to Chinese characters, is there any kind of writing in the world that is written as square characters? Or is this just a different world similar to ancient times after all?
When he was gone, the old man opened his eyes. looked at the not-so-neat "one" written by Quan Hao, twisting his beard thoughtfully.
As time passed, the health of the refugees improved. The food on the island is so abundant that you can not only eat but also eat well. With a nutritious foundation, their bodies slowly become stronger. The adults replied the fastest, and the men struggled to carry a bucket of water from the beginning, and it didn't take a few days to carry one in one hand and still walk like flying. The little ones returned to their lively nature and frolicked on the beach from time to time. They are the only ones who can put the dying crisis behind them so quickly. Comparatively speaking, the recovery of the elderly is the slowest. For the only remaining old man among the refugees, he is also the only one who knows how to write. Quan Hao gave him enough respect and did not arrange for him to do things. Anyway, the strong labor that can be used is enough. He can often be seen going around the group, smiling all the time. Others, both men and women, had a good opinion of him and were willing to accept him. But most of the time, he still stays with the group of adult men, and if Quan Hao is there, he will also come over from time to time to go around twice.
Jeon Hao later communicated with him a few more times. The old man introduced himself as Xian Lin, of course it wasn't these two words, and Quan Hao still didn't know him when his name was written. I only know those two words: one sound "leisure" and the other sound "forest". According to the composition of the names of the ancients, Xian should be his surname, and Lin is the name. He was also the only one in the group with a serious name. Other men have a variety of surnames, and the first name is one or two numbers. It is probably similar to Zhu Qiqi, Zhu Baba and others. Women are even more miserable, they only have surnames, and some don't even have surnames.
According to the old man Xianlin, their group of people are all refugees fleeing the war. Walked to a place called "Valley" and was stopped by local officials. The leading county magistrate (Quan Hao guessed) was amiable in person, saying that he would take them in, but secretly gathered them together in the name of work, and gave them porridge to eat. They didn't think much about it, they all fell asleep after eating porridge, and woke up floating on the sea.
Only then did Quan Hao understand why these people were very strange to each other, and it turned out to be a deliberate arrangement. The county magistrate was a bit clever, and he didn't want to take responsibility and didn't want to accept too many displaced people, so he used a clever method. The outcasts will definitely not care where the people who have nothing to do with them go, he has achieved the goal of slimming down the outcasts, but has not damaged his reputation. Maybe he can be rewarded by his superiors for his ability to resettle displaced people.
In addition, as expected, there is indeed a unified master on the big 6. As for whether he should be called king or emperor, Quan Hao is not clear, and it doesn't matter. As long as the power arrives, even if he claims to be the village head, he will be the co-ruler of the world. But the dynasty does not call any of the names known to Quan Hao, and is called "Lie". This name completely frustrated his desire to play the strategy according to the history books. Categorized by a certain point, the world should belong to the category of alternate history.
However, there are too many similarities between this world and ancient China. From Xianlin's mouth, Quan Hao knew that this dynasty called Lie had a imperial examination system and ruled the world with civil officials. The people value sons over women, and the society emphasizes agriculture and suppresses business. In addition, the characters they clearly showed were square characters, with one sound per word, and the clothing style was also the same as that of ancient China.
Where did the alternate history come from so much like the real history?
Quan Hao has a guess. When he was in college, time-traveling novels were all the rage. At that time, several people in the dormitory had a debate about whether the time-travelers should change history. His point of view is that as long as the traveler survives, even if he deliberately does not affect the exhibition of history, the world will become unrecognizable. For example, suppose he walks by the river and scares a female, which affects the arrangement of eggs in the belly of the fish. When these eggs are excreted from the body and combine with sperm, a few juveniles will definitely be produced. As these juveniles grow, they change what they eat wherever they swim, down tens of thousands of plankton and up to at least a few predators. When they grow into adult fish and then mate and give birth, the same variables increase exponentially. Quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes, and there will always be one or two fish that are too smart or stupid for the hunter to catch them a few minutes earlier or a few minutes late. This morning and evening may affect the time for the hunter to come home and his wife to hehe, thus creating a completely different baby. The baby repeats what the juvenile has done, and then continues to pass on the cause and effect. Someday this conduction up the food chain will return to humans. After that, it's the farrier effect. A nail is broken, a shoe is lost, a shoe is broken, a horse is broken, a general is killed, a general is killed, a general is lost, a country is lost.
More extreme, even if the traverser only appears in a world out of thin air. And then it was gone, dead, gone, in short, gone. Then he may have trampled on an ant, even if there are no ants, germs are always everywhere. The causal effect will ferment on the micro level for a long time, but with enough time, one day, it will affect the macro level.
It's even more so if the traverser is bent on blending into the world. According to the principle of the six degrees of separation, five intermediaries can know any stranger. He will act like a cell with a virus, spreading a virus called "replacement" to the entire human race. Many years from now, all the people in the world who should have been there will be replaced.
Quan Hao thought of himself again. The refugees he saved here were also juveniles that shouldn't have appeared. Every moment of the island world from then on will be mixed with the element of him as a time-traveler. So a long time ago, was there also a time-traveler who once came? If he influenced the legendary Three Ancestors of China, or even the Mother of Mankind in Africa, Lucy. Will the world become what it is now?
If you think about it further, is the Earth really the same Earth? What if there is also a traverser...... Uh, can't think about it anymore, it's terrible.
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