City-wide ban

The main reason why Xia Xinghe accepts the illusory existence of "time travel" well is because of this key person in front of him—Qin Dongchen.

He is Xia Xinghe's doctoral supervisor, specializing in high-energy astrophysics.

In terms of personality, this young Ph.D. supervisor gave him the feeling of four words—heavenly? Horsey? Empty.

Perhaps it is the high IQ unique to Omega that has supported this person to the present. Xia Xinghe doesn't quite understand this person's pursuit of the so-called "nothingness", but not "pragmatic" academic style.

Qin Dongchen is not interested in high-energy astrophysics itself. After explaining the tasks to the students, he spends all his time studying the impossible "time travel" in private.

"The John Tito incident at all? Isn't it a rumor? Xiaoxia."

At countless dinners after class, Qin Dongchen and his high-energy astrophysics apprentice talked about topics related to relativity, quantum mechanics, and time travel.

"Time travelers do exist."

Xia Xinghe was forced to listen to this "non-professional" teacher countless times, talking about a specialty outside their field.

"Facts have proved that the IBM 5100 computer he brought from the past did solve the clock defect of the Unix system in 2038. This is the direct evidence of his time travel."

John Tito (Note 1) was a "time traveler" who caused a sensation on the Internet in the early 21st century. He claimed that he was an American soldier from 2036. During 1975, ten predictions concerning the future of mankind were made.

Later, these several prophecies seemed to come true. At that time, the rumors about John Tito also raged on the Internet for a period of time, but then they disappeared as time went by.

It's just that Qin Dongchen has always been obsessed with it.

"Master Qin, I think you need to calm down."

The first time Xia Xinghe said something offensive to Qin Dongchen was because he directly embezzled experimental funds used for high-energy celestial body experiments in order to conduct a so-called photon travel experiment.

"We can indeed prove that some of John Tito's accounts of the year 2036 did happen, but the fundamental problem is that we simply cannot prove that this man, and his story, actually appeared on the Internet before 2036. Up."

Xia Xinghe said: "After all, data is the best thing to fake?"

In fact, he knew that his statement was sophistical, but he didn't care about the rationality of his statement. He just didn't want his teacher to indulge in this vain speculation any longer. up.

Maybe people who are too smart will end up digging into corners and going to dead ends? Xia Xinghe thought, just like Newton insisted on thinking about illusory ghosts in his later years.

"Xiao Xia, what do you mean? 'Brain in a vat'." What he didn't expect was that Qin Dongchen didn't reject him at all, but became more interested in it." We don't even have a way to prove whether we are the consciousness data just constructed in this second."

"Is the so-called memory real or virtual? Are we ourselves, or just a brain soaked in nutrient solution that keeps thinking?"

Every word of Qin Dongchen can make Xia Xinghe feel a real shudder, but this person is obviously very intoxicated in the grotesque "world of nothingness" that he conceived:

"Xiao Xia, we have no way to find the absolute 'truth'." Qin Dongchen said, "We can only follow the clues in our hands and work backwards, so as to restore as much as possible the appearance of this world 'once'. "

This person is crazy, Xia Xinghe finally thought so.

Maybe some people who are knowledgeable are a little bit wrong? That's right, it's like when I go to bed with Qi Luyao, that person always looks at me like x-rays that are running efficiently, as if even Xia Xinghe's five internal organs The activity state of the six internal organs can be seen through.

This is probably an occupational disease. Xia Xinghe, who was in love at the time, made an analogy, which logically reduced the degree of abnormality of this person in his mind.

Until later, this person underwent a small repair operation on the glandular membrane, and since then it seems that the whole person has been completely out of order.

At first, he was a little forgetful, and he lost all memory of what happened three or five days ago. Then he seemed to have hallucinations and auditory hallucinations, and he always mentioned some things to Xia Xing that he hadn't mentioned at all.

But the good thing is, this doesn't seem to have affected this person's professional level, and even started to make him pay more attention to high-energy astrophysics.

The last topic he and Xia Xinghe opened together was about the collection of nuclear radiation produced by galactic nuclear explosions, and it was also the beginning of his and Xia Xinghe's parting ways.

"If the purpose of the master's study of high-energy astrophysics in this way is just to make a wedding dress for your so-called time travel research, I may not choose to cooperate with you again."

At that time, Xia Xinghe had already mastered a considerable number of contacts in the physics academic circle. In terms of nuclear radiation collection, there were countless engineers who were more professional and qualified than Qin Dongchen.

But he was just speaking out of anger. After all, the approval of the project was mainly led by Qin Dongchen, and the replacement of the main core personnel was said to be over.

"Okay, then I won't participate." Unexpectedly, Qin Dongchen took the initiative to accept such a ridiculous proposal, "I always feel that my existence restricts your thinking. After all, with you, I just want to A result without a process."

This sentence completely angered Xia Xinghe - after all, he just wanted to get the fruits of his labor directly from himself.

He doesn't care about the so-called "scientific research" at all. His existence is more like a contractor who oversees the work, urging his subordinates to complete the task as soon as possible.

Since then, Qin Dongchen has never appeared in the laboratory except for submitting applications when funding is needed.

Therefore, this nuclear radiation collection work is equivalent to being completed by Xia Xinghe with a group of young juniors.

He was deeply impressed by this. The day the project was completed was Christmas, so he sent a symbolic message to Qin Dongchen. That night, he and Qi Luyao had a last show in the car, and they proposed separate.

Thinking of this, Xia Xinghe suddenly had a headache, he picked up the phone in a daze, and dialed Xia Gaoyuan's number.

In fact, he was full of doubts and wanted to ask, but the only thing he could say was:

"Why did you have to force me to break up with Qi Luyao?"

Qi Luyao and Lu Chai sat in the room, staring at Lu Chai's screen and waiting for a long time, but there was no response to it.

"Master Qi... Maybe... they won't make any big moves." Lu Chai hesitated, "I feel that the firewalls in all areas are complete, and they shouldn't make temporary tampering or other actions."

Qi Luyao looked at the motionless display screen in front of him, his brain running at high speed.

Lu Chai felt a little nervous when he saw his expression, how many times this person showed this look, and he suffered disaster.

——Heaven and earth are not afraid of the earth, but he is afraid that Master Qi will move his head.

Sure enough, as soon as the man opened his mouth, there was another bad news: "Then you go and check the creation time and protection records of these files to see where their recent work focuses. I need to focus on observation."

——The protection record is a confidential document hidden in the innermost layer of the entire security wall. It is not difficult to steal him, but the impact is definitely no less than the one he entered before to protect Mo Yuanyou's secret. The string "Self-Explosion Code".

But this person put forward such a request in a calm manner, as if a father of Party A who never knew the sufferings of the world, asked you to design an advanced building beyond the level of the Pritzker Prize.

What's even more frightening is that Qi Luyao's sentence didn't ask him if he could, but it was an imperative sentence - just do it if you are told to do it.

I have been with Qi Luyao for a long time, Lu Chai even has the temper of this teacher - I do what he asks, and at most I can survive until the royal family rushes over to shoot him. If I refuse directly, I will Probably won't be able to get out of this room tonight.

So he was sweating again, bit the bullet, and sat down in front of the table and chair.

The reason why he chose to blew himself up before was because Mo Yuanyou issued an order to keep the string of codes even if he died. Now that Qi Luyao's order does not affect his interests, he gritted his teeth and took a gamble to wait until Duanhong came to pick him up. .

He turned on the computer tremblingly, and used Qi Luyao's authority card to rush into the backstage of the royal family with great fanfare, restraining himself from being distracted by the dazzling variety of programming designs around him.

It has to be said that the firewall of the royal family is much stronger than that of the government. The camouflage program was almost broken several times, and finally broke into the innermost layer on the eve of Luchai's mental breakdown.

"found it."

Lu Chai, whose forehead was full of sweat, opened the page tremblingly, and made a careful comparison with the information located at the beginning. After a long time, he opened his mouth under Qi Luyao's expectant eyes:

"The one that has been more active recently is a laboratory building at the coordinates T-135 in West South Area C. I don't know exactly what kind of research it is engaged in."

Qi Luyao concentrated, and firmly memorized the coordinates in his notebook.

Then, he saw Lu Chai take out his mobile phone, looked at it for a long time, and finally eased his brow slowly as if he was relieved.

"Teacher, I'm going to the bathroom." Lu Chai got up, turned his face away, Qi Luyao didn't see his expression clearly, "I'll take a breath here by myself in a while, you go to sleep first."

——Perhaps he thought his pheromone smell was interfering with his sleep, Qi Luyao thought with a little embarrassment, but he was embarrassed to say so, and nodded.

That night, Lu Chai did not return all night, which was expected by Qi Luyao.

But until noon, afternoon, and the whole day, when he didn't see the child again, Qi Luyao gradually felt something was wrong.

At night, the entire city of Conran reacted to this matter extremely slowly like a half-dream snail that was torn out of its shell.

The red alarm was sounded, the guards were on alert, and the latest wanted notice appeared on the large and small screens in the imperial city.

A Qingshui member who called himself "Broken Rainbow" took an Omega hostage. Although the child was heavily mosaiced, everyone recognized this hostage star at a glance.

——Lu Chai was kidnapped again.

The author has something to say: Lu Chai: Thank you for the invitation, but it really seems that I have a problem with my IQ when you report it like this.