desert abyss

I am very impressed with Liao's hospital.

This is not only because the only private clinic I have been in contact with before is the dental hospital where I straightened my teeth, but also because although Liao’s hospital is located in Beijing, the patients and doctors there are basically German and Japanese.

I learned later that the Liao family went to Germany and Japan to do business during World War I.This family is very distinctive. At first they sold Chinese medicine, and later they started Chinese furniture.Overseas, the Liao family relied on sophisticated handicrafts and followed the European oriental fever at that time to develop a small shop into a small commodity market, and later established a gang to rule Chinatown.During World War II, when the country was in crisis, the Liao family began to buy a large number of Chinese cultural relics and handicrafts that flowed overseas, and kept them privately to prevent the invaders from raiding.Now that China's economy is developing strongly, the Liao family has come back to develop the market in their hometown, auctioning antiques at high prices to the new generation of wealthy Chinese.It's hard to say whether such an action is morally right, but perhaps it's better to repatriate cultural relics than to expel them.

In the generation of Liao Xiaotian and Liao Xiaodan, many of the Liao family were born abroad and integrated into the local society in Germany and Japan.The rules of the Liao family are very strange. Most of the property is passed on to the male but not to the female, and most of the money is passed on to the female but not to the male.Liao Xiaotian is not considered the eldest son of the family, but he is the heir of a large part of the family business.Liao Xiaodan is his distant cousin, who set up her own business in Germany when she was young, and later made furniture and toys in Northern and Central Europe, while also stepping on some gray areas.She has always been very optimistic about Liao Xiaotian, so she has been investing in him. The relationship between them is more of a partnership than a relationship.Liao Xiaodan is very bold in doing business, but when she sees that Feng Shui is unfavorable, she usually withdraws as soon as she says, and does not pay attention to human feelings.

Chen Yuanyuan is Liao Xiaotian's fiancée. Because of her ordinary background, this marriage cannot be obtained from time to time.Chen Yuanyuan is a forensic doctor by profession (even a civil servant). When she was in Liao's hospital, she walked around in a white coat, her eyes were painted black, and her lips were painted blood red.When Li Zhen’s eyes were undergoing surgery, I was uneasy, so she dragged me to smoke next to the heliport on the roof of the hospital.I don't smoke, and she was there alone, and gave me a piece of bubble gum.Although Liao Xiaodan is unkind, the relationship between Liao Xiaotian and me, or "I" is much closer.He and Chen Yuanyuan are also businessmen, and they put profit first. It is already a first-class feat of loyalty for them to go to the ground to save "me".In fact, Liao Xiaotian and Chen Yuanyuan are involved in the import and export of cultural relics, while the main business of "I" is the import and export of commodities, and I am in charge of their currency.Not only that, "I" is still engaged in smuggling.Liao Xiaotian also respects Huang Kun very much.This kid from a rich family was once a student of Huang Kun.

While I was waiting for Li Zhen to undergo surgery, "I" also came to talk to me on the rooftop.

I think this is very abnormal.

Except for Li Xiang and Li Zhenhui who respectfully call him "I", most people call him "Second Uncle".I originally thought it meant something like "Yang An 2.0", but Chen Yuanyuan told me that it was called so because Erbo is a homonym for two hundred in the dialect, and two hundred is the abbreviation of "two hundred and five".This is the name taken internally.Outsiders don't call it that.However, after I know how outsiders call me, I would rather they call me two hundred and five.

I asked Erbai what to do next, and he told me to see how Li Zhen's eyes recovered.

If the operation is successful, he will take me back to Shanghai.Then I can go and see my parents.Then he will put me under house arrest.Because he wants to avenge Li Zhen, and I can come in handy.

If the operation is unsuccessful, he will take me back to Shanghai, and then I will help him avenge Li Zhen.

"Isn't that all the same!" I stomped.

"Same size, this is a lifelong event related to Li Zhen's eyes!" Erbai was stunned and furious.

"But... I mean I..."

"You are more important than Li Zhen's eyes!"

I am devastated.If Chen Yuanyuan hadn't pulled me, I would have jumped off the airport.However, I knew in my heart: I can't go back to my previous life.I've seen things no one else can imagine.And through the conversation between Erbai and me later, I learned that I didn't want to be forced to do something by others, and then I had to fight for my own basic survival.

Erbai's working place in Shanghai is located next to a sub-center of the city, very close to Fudan University and Tongji University.This shop is a jade shop on the surface.On the right side of the Yushi shop is a cat cafe, on the left is a crayfish shop, and opposite is a succulent shop, all opened for his own entertainment.

This jade shop has two floors, the downstairs is gray all the year round, because Li Zhen is sitting downstairs, and Li Zhen often forgets to open the door because he has to sleep late in the morning.

Upstairs is where [-] works and rests.The office windows are bright and clean.There is a window to the north, a cabinet in the northwest corner, and a beautiful mahogany couch and mahogany table against the east wall, with a pot of lotus placed on the corner of the table.Other than that, there was nothing else in the room.I saw that his taste was quite similar to mine, so I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, I also had an even weirder feeling in my heart.

Erbai explained to me the ins and outs of the matter.

He wasn't born 20 years before me.The first half of his life can be said to be parallel to mine, but it is very different.Like me, he was born in 1985, and like me, he went to Lop Nor to investigate geographical anomalies in 2009, and met "Li Zhen" and "Huang Kun" in the team.But he was not kidnapped, but specially recruited.At that time, "Huang Kun" and "Li Xiang" were also married and had a child.And "Liao Xiaotian" and "Chen Yuanyuan" were doing logistics back then.

That 2009 desert expedition found nothing out of the ordinary.

But in 2010 (I haven't lived in 2010 yet, I feel indescribably weird when he said that), a strange phenomenon appeared in their lives.First of all, many daily necessities began to change frequently: in the morning, I put slippers at the entrance, and when I came back at night, I found them under the bed; Then their lives became chaotic: the classmate who thought he was a salesman died in a car accident when he was a child, and his mother ("my") had uterine fibroids and needed surgery, but suddenly said before the surgery date The operation has been successful. One day "I" woke up and saw that the office building outside the window had become a library.The most frightening thing is that apart from the five of them ("I", "Li Zhen", "Huang Kun", "Liao Xiaotian", "Chen Yuanyuan"), no one else seems to feel that life is abnormal.

Later, "Li Xiang" fell into a coma.Although it is not a vegetative state, it is generally similar. "She" began to repeat things about the desert upside down in a coma. "I", "Li Zhen" and "Huang Kun" realized that the matter was probably related to Lop Nur.And at that time, they experienced something similar to us: their future selves are hunting themselves.

"We thought they were our future self," Erbai said flatly, "you must also think that I am your future self, but it's not like that at all. They are people from a completely different time and space. It does not belong to our world. And I am also from a completely different time and space, and I am not from your world at all."

"We killed those who tried to kill us. Then, in order to find out what happened, and let Li Xiang wake up, we went back to Lop Nur again. We found the abyss you saw. You saw the cliff there, and There is a ladder that goes around the abyss and leads to the outside world. Getting out of it is one thing, but going in from there is another thing entirely. From that ladder you can go straight down into the abyss. When we come out of the abyss again, we find The local time is 1990. We thought we went back to the past, but later found that although it is the past, it is not the same as our past. It was probably at that time that everyone realized that the abyss is not space, but it is not time, but It's a mixture of time and space. The reason our lives are messed up is because there is an overlap between time and space. For some reason, people from other time and space want to kill us, it seems that this will solve their time and space problems. And we believed What they said. So we found ourselves in 1990, and our purpose was to kill young you, Li Xiang, Li Zhen and Huang Kun, because we felt that this would restore our own world to normal."

"But 'Huang Kun' still thought that way afterwards." I added.

"It's complicated. We didn't kill you guys...but I did a...very bad thing. Very, very sinful. They did it with me too, but I was the one who had the idea. "

"What's the matter? Didn't you adopt Li Zhen and Li Xiang? Can this be considered bad?"

Er Bai slightly closed his eyes and sighed.

"If I hadn't made that decision, they wouldn't have needed my adoption at all... The relationship between Li Zhen and Huang Kun would not be what it is now. In my world, their relationship is not what it is now... Forget it , I have to be mentally prepared for this matter, and you have to be mentally prepared, and I will tell you later."

"After I did that, I changed my mind. At that time, I started the import and export industry in the Suzhou and Shanghai areas, and there was a little smuggling and buying and selling, so I had a certain financial backing. I don't think I can kill The young Li Zhen and Li Xiang in this world should provide for them to live a good life, so I adopted them. 'Huang Kun' thought I was a traitor. He has never had any feelings for this world. After he tried to kill us a few times, I drove him away. I was 29 years old, and you in this world were only nine years old. Since then, you have begun to live under my protection, but I can't let you know."

"When I expelled 'Huang Kun', I left a long scar on his hand. I don't know where he went after that, but I know that if he comes back, I will be able to recognize him with that scar. He. 'Lee Jin' didn't know whether he should stay with me or 'Huang Kun'. He was still trying to find a more peaceful way to bring the world back to normal. And I had given up on my world, I just want to live here and help you, let you know about it earlier, give you some training, give you some financial resources, so that you may have better abilities than us to fight against.'Li Zhen' Therefore, he expressed his gratitude to I was very disappointed, and left me later, I don't know where I went. 'Liao Xiaotian' and 'Chen Yuanyuan' also left one after another before I rebelled."

"I thought that with their disappearance, things would turn around, and I could live a normal life with you here, but it's not. The collapse of time and space is still going on. There are all kinds of 'us' again and again Come and kill us. Their worlds are varied, sometimes some of them have never been to Xinjiang at all, sometimes they don't know each other, anyway even then, during their 20s to 30s Here, time and space will definitely collapse. So I will not force you to do anything, but you must know that you will have to fight for your own basic survival in the future."

"Here in 2004, I was already 39 years old. I found something abnormal in my body." Erbai rolled up his sleeves.A black and blue mark appeared on his wrist, and it extended up the arm. "This plaque has been extending to my torso, and now it is almost reaching my heart. Since I came to this world, my life has returned to normal. I thought I could die of old age here in peace, but I didn't expect..."

He sighed and shook his head.

"My life began to be chaotic again. So I began to closely monitor the Xinjiang Environmental Bureau. In the same year, someone reported to me that the magnetic field in Taklamakan was abnormal. I know that this world is already in danger. Although it has not affected you yet, but Soon. Soon."

"That was five years ago. You were 19 years old and still in college. Li Zhen was also 20 years old. Huang Kun and Li Xiang were also 23 years old. You are all too young. But I know you have to prepare. "

"You know that an expedition team went to Xinjiang five years ago, and you also know that I actually set up that team, but you don't know why those people died. I never expected 'Huang Kun' after so many years They reappeared and massacred my team together with 'Li Zhen'. Only a very few people survived. We still don't know why the two of them insist on killing people in this world. We only know that 'Huang Kun' ''s spirit has appeared abnormal. This may be caused by the collapse of time and space, but I think it is mainly due to Huang Kun's family genetic factors... His family has a history of diseases. Since then, there has been an unknown The red-clothed child started to entangle us, which is also very troublesome."

"As Xu Jin said, 'Huang Kun' has no logic, I have no IQ, and we can't communicate. We have been fighting openly and secretly for five years since then. I didn't want to present the story to you in this way, but He pushed too hard, we had nowhere to go, and finally kidnapped you and took you to the desert without telling you anything, it was all due to the situation. But I think it's good now, after all, you can believe what I say now. "

I also want to hear more about Erbai's adoption of Li Zhen and Li Xiang, and how Li Zhen, Huang Kun, Liao Xiaotian and Chen Yuanyuan met in this world, but at this time someone came to Erbai, and I was sent away .

Erbai has been very busy, and it is impossible to chat with me about family affairs, so the little stories between them are all gradually found out by myself later.It was only later that I realized what a cruel and inhuman thing he had done at that time, and the helplessness that he spent his whole life to remedy but failed.Later I could also understand the thinking process of 'Huang Kun'.That's all a few years away.

At that time, I was not surprised after listening to Erbai's explanation.After all, I have seen too many unimaginable things in the desert with my own eyes, and although Erbai has concealed things from me, she has always been honest.The rough guess that came to my mind and his explanation have been seamlessly connected.

There is only one problem.

Who is Xu Jin.

(End of this volume)

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Lee Jin's surgery was a success.

Success means restoring 50.00% of vision.Although there will be scars, but not disfigurement.

Li Zhen was still lucky.If it wasn't for that piece of green jade, he would have been beaten into a sieve by then.The green light knocked everyone down, except Xu Jin who was cosplaying the old woman with two guns.

In my opinion, Huang Kun has done his best.But in Huang Kun's view, he has lost his qualifications to be a human being.

He was still in the Liao Family Hospital when Li Zhen had the surgery, but he disappeared after Li Zhen came out.Later, when Li Zhen, I, and Erbai returned to Jiangnan, we found out about him.

After Huang Kun disappeared from Beijing, he returned to his hometown of Nanjing, where he held Li Xiang's funeral alone.Although Li Xiang's bones did not exist, he still bought a tomb for Li Xiang.After that, he entrusted his several-year-old daughter to his relatives for adoption.After the first seven days, he has returned to his job in the Nanjing Military Region.

I just can't understand that this heinous behavior comes from Huang Kun who I am familiar with.In my concept, he is a man who is extremely responsible and powerful.I thought the follow-up of this incident would be for him to appease the depressed Li Zhen until life returns to normal.Unexpectedly, he chose to escape.

I went back to Shanghai to meet my parents.Because Erbai visited the old couple on my behalf during my kidnapping, and made up a story about me being hired by a foreign company, so the old couple were very happy.I couldn't bear to tell them that I was unfilial and something serious happened, so I didn't say much.After that, I was taken to Nanjing by Erbai and placed under house arrest, and my every move was monitored.In fact, he doesn't have to be like this, I have already made a decision.

After meeting my parents, I mentioned the matter of Li Zhen and Huang Kun to Erbai.At that time, I had already started to contact the career of [-].What is he doing, I just follow and watch.Gradually, I also started to help him do some things.He expressed his satisfaction with my career, saying that he wanted to find a communist successor before he died, and I could be regarded as a member of the Young Pioneers at this time.

The things I do for Erbai should usually be done by Li Zhen.In Nanjing, Erbai lived in a large courtyard.Lee Jin's duties are akin to his bodyguard-cum-secretary, so he lives there too.In addition, there are other two hundred helpers that I am getting to know living in the yard.

At that time, Li Zhen fell into depression, stayed behind closed doors, unwilling to do anything, and did not want to communicate with us.

I think Li Zhen and Huang Kun are simply out of place.I complained to Erbaiyi. He was reading the report. After I chattered next to him, he threw away his pen and told me to solve problems by myself instead of just pushing.I thought he was very handsome at the time.

Huang Kun's cell phone couldn't get through.I just ran straight to him.Huang Kun was frightened by my determination, and under my repeated harassment, he finally agreed to go home with me to find Li Zhen.

When he got to the door, he faltered.

"I don't think he wants to see me," he told me at the door.

"He doesn't want to see you, are you going to give up? Is this your ambition?" I hate that iron can't become steel.

"I'm really sorry for him. I really don't want to be like that 'Huang Kun'. I think it's better not to see him. It's better for you to keep a distance from me in the future..."

"Are you still responsible?" I grabbed his collar, "I tell you, if you can't knock on Li Zhen's door today, you are not a man."

I saw Huang Kun's expression at the time seemed to be "I don't want to be this man. If you give me a knife, I'll die too", but under my coercion and lure, he had no choice but to go forward and knock Door.After he knocked for half an hour, Li Zhen opened the door and poured boiling tea all over him.

Huang Kun then faltered again.So I had to do ideological work for him again.

I told Huang Kun that Li Zhen didn't slap him in the face, which shows that things are very hopeful.So Huang Kun knocked on the door for another half an hour, and Li Zhen finally opened the door to accept him.

I don't know what these two monsters discussed, but after the discussion, Huang Kun left angrily, and couldn't stop him, but Li Zhen came out of the room refreshed, and his depression has been cured since then up.