Chapter 18: Twenty Years with a Wave of Hands

"Xiwen" Although I saw that there was a wife, I didn't dare to recognize each other rashly after such a long time, so I called out my wife's name to test it. Hearing the word 'Xiwen', and seeing my face that hasn't changed in the past 20 years, my wife exclaimed, "Oops! You dead old man, where did you go? We haven't come back for 20 years, and we haven't heard from us. ”

Hearing this familiar voice, and making sure that this was the wife I had been thinking about for a long time, I bypassed her sideways and walked into the house. I touched the sofa and coffee table that I hadn't changed for 20 years, picked up the coffee table and put it on the water, the cup of boiled water that my wife used to prepare for me every day, and drank it in one go. It took my wife, who was startled, to come to her senses, close the door, and follow me to the sofa where I was sitting and said, "You want to kill me."

"Me too!" I hugged her as I spoke. She hugged me and put her fist on my shoulder as she asked, "Where the hell have you been?" Where did you go? I looked up and told her all I could remember. My wife looked at me suspiciously and said, "Is that so?" ”

"That's right, you see I'm still the same as I was twenty years ago, and even my clothes, shoes and socks haven't changed. Actually, I only lived in the celestial sphere for about 20 days. I stood up and let my wife look back and forth.

"I've heard before, 'one day in the sky, one year on earth', it seems that you really went to heaven."

"It's not the heavenly court, it's the heavenly sphere," I pulled my wife to correct.

My wife leaned on my arms and looked up and asked me, "Do you think I'm old and dislike me?" ”

"How so!" I stroked my wife's gray hair with my right hand and continued, "It's better to be a wife there."

My wife suddenly remembered something, broke free from my arms and said, "Come and see our grandson," and dragged me to the bedroom. My wife gently opened the bedroom door and whispered, "Maybe I'm still asleep" We tiptoed to the bed, and saw a little boy about two weeks on the bed sleeping on the bed, with a round little face very cute. If it weren't for the fear of waking him up, I really wanted to go up and kiss him. My wife, afraid of waking the child, quietly pulled me out of the bedroom and gently closed the door. Then he whispered to me in my ear, I will tell you about our family in the past 20 years.

Let's start with the day you mysteriously disappeared. That day, as usual, you went to work after lunch, and you didn't come back until after 11 o'clock in the evening. Usually when you get home late, you call me to tell me, but not only did you not call me that day, but I never answered my call. I was in a hurry, so I went to the work unit to look for you, but no one saw or knew where you went. The doorman who often greets you said that he only saw you go in, but didn't see you go out. I and a few colleagues from your unit searched carefully in your unit several times, but we didn't see any trace of you. In desperation, I contacted all my relatives and friends by phone in the middle of the night, and searched the nearby streets, parks, and even rivers and public toilets, but I didn't hear from you until dawn. Relatives and friends who came back one after another suggested that I go to the police station to report the case and ask the police to help me find it. I sent off my relatives and friends who had worked hard for most of the night, and immediately went to the police station to report the case.

Of course, there has been no news from you. It's as if you've suddenly evaporated from the world. After a while, all kinds of rumors came to my ears from time to time. Some people say that you are studying oracle bones, and you can't get out of there. Others say that you studied the oracle and saw something you shouldn't have seen and was taken away. And so on.

I withstood all kinds of pressures to raise our son to adulthood and marry and have children for him. Now that our grandchildren are more than two weeks old, do you know how hard it is for me? Speaking of which, the tears in my wife's eyes couldn't hold back any longer. I handed my wife a towel and caressed her shoulders and comforted: Let it pass. It'll be fine in the future, I'll be with you.

After the Celestial Sphere's unmanned aircraft returned, it returned to its original state. Dali, Xiaomi, and Dagang are studying the second task - reconnaissance of the earth. Dagang first suggested that the spacecraft should not stay in the western Pacific for a long time. Although our ships can be stealthy, this is a major sea communication route, and there is a lot of traffic. Moreover, satellites and drones of earthlings are patrolling the sky day and night, as well as various light, electricity, and wave detections of earthlings. In case there is a ship that can detect us, it will be troublesome. Why don't we move to the Bermuda Triangle in the Atlantic. After listening to Dagang's suggestion, he looked at Xiaomi vigorously, meaning to listen to Xiaomi's opinion. "I understand that people on earth have a fear of the Bermuda Triangle, and it's safer for us to make it a base," Xiaomi said. In addition, the wheat departed from the landing point of the spaceship and returned home, and if the earthlings came to us according to the approximate distance and direction, they would also have trouble. So I agreed to move the ship to Bermuda in the Atlantic. Strongly agreed to the suggestion of the two, and in this way, the Celestial Sphere ground spacecraft flew to the Bermuda Triangle in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean at night.

Soon, the Celestial Spheres set up a base in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle, relying on a ground-flying spacecraft. They camouflaged the sky over the base, and the satellites and planes that passed over the base saw the same vast ocean as the other oceans. A closed barrier is also placed above and below the water around the base, in the sky above the base, and in the water below the base. No planes, ships, missiles, torpedoes can fly in, and as soon as these electronic devices approach the barrier, their commands and operational signals are changed and forced to turn elsewhere.

When everything was ready, several stealth drones set off from the base and headed for Antarctica, the North Pole and the Himalayas. Others have traveled to the Great Rift Valley in Africa, the heart of the Sahara Desert, the Grand Canyon of Colorado in the United States, the rainforests of Brazil and Southeast Asia, and the Arctic Circle in Russia. Field studies of air density, temperature and humidity, and living conditions. The various equipment carried by the drone will collect a variety of information and transmit it back to the base in its entirety.

The other three super stealth submarines carried Dali, Dagang and Xiaomi respectively to the Mariana Trench and the waters south of the Pacific Ocean, the bottom of the southern Indian Ocean, the ice sheet of the Arctic Ocean, and the bottom of Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean to investigate the ocean currents, underwater topography, sea salinity, and submarine volcanic eruptions. Selecting a site for the later construction of the Celestial Sphere Garrison Base and providing information for the transformation of the earth.

Let's put aside the matter of the celestial sphere people collecting information on the earth for the time being. After learning about their situation, Wheat and his wife are struggling with whether to report Wheat's 20-odd experience to the government. Report it to the government, there is no evidence. The souvenirs I brought back from the celestial spheres were all agricultural products from the earth, and my paintings and writings had been taken away when I returned. I look much younger, but that doesn't mean I've been on the celestial planet for more than 20 years, right? Who can believe it? Stop letting people say I'm crazy because I want to be famous. Don't report it, it's not a small matter. It may have a shocking impact on the earth and the people on it, and it is a dilemma to think about it.

At this moment, a child's cry came, and the little grandson woke up. The two of us rushed into the bedroom, only to see the little grandson crying and rolling on the bed, probably waking up for a long time and not seeing the adult, so he was anxious to cry. The wife picked up the child and coaxed it for a long time before the child stopped crying. Then he stared intently at this grandfather who had never met before.

"Call Grandpa! This is Grandpa! "My wife kept guiding her grandson. The child stared at me with puzzled eyes and was silent for a long time, and then called his wife "grandma, grandma" and ignored me.

"Hey! I just talked about me, and I didn't ask the child what his name was."

"It's called 'Yiming' and Mai Yiming, and at home I call him 'Mingming', which is his nickname," the wife replied.

"Mingming, Mingming," I casually took a ball to tease my grandson. The child reached out to catch the ball and said in a milky voice, "Uncle give it to me, Uncle give it to me", and my wife and I laughed when we heard this. This child's grandfather is not called grandpa, but uncle.

"That's right, two days ago I took Mingming out to play and met a middle-aged man in his forties. He called someone 'Grandpa', and I told him that when I met someone of this age, I should call him 'Uncle', so when I saw you for the first time today, I wouldn't call 'Grandpa' 'Uncle'," my wife explained to me.

"Hey! This kid has both a memory, an understanding and a receptiveness. You look at grandpa looking young, right? ”