gentle collapse

I got up early to cook soy milk, and the ribs were stewed in the pressure cooker, so I should be able to eat them at noon.

The cat was circling around my feet, I poured some cat food for it, poked my head out from the kitchen, Zheng Yi and my dad were sitting at the coffee table, chatting.My dad is the type who keeps his mouth shut, but he is smiling heartily.

It's the New Year's Eve, shouldn't mom and Zhang Ran be called back for the New Year's Eve dinner?Maybe it would be better for them to live at home... I scooped a small spoonful of soy milk, tasted it, and added some sugar to it.The aroma of the boiled soy milk was overflowing, and I directly took out the inner pot of the rice cooker.

After setting up the dishes and chopsticks, I sat down and picked up the steamed buns. Just as I was about to eat them, my dad asked me, "When will you take the time to visit your mother? I saw her a while ago, alone... with so many Something. She misses you, don't hold grudges, she didn't abandon you at that time, we both have personality problems. "

Where did my mother and I have any enmity, I never blamed her.

"I've been thinking about this for the past few days. I'll take a leave of absence tomorrow to go back and see her."

Zheng Yi said excitedly, "I'll go with you."

"Hmm..." I felt a little inappropriate, but it seemed to be okay.I'm going to work, and Zheng Yi stays here for lunch, and we can go out together tomorrow after I get back.Zheng Yi is a familiar person, and if he chatted more openly with my mother, he could avoid embarrassment. I said happily, "Okay."

I went to the company at 11:[-] with a boxed lunch, and only then did I say hello to the shift changer. Not long after I sat down, a group of people stood in front of me.

"Is that him?" The white-haired hook-nosed old man I saw last time turned around and asked the person next to him.

"Yes." A man with silver-rimmed glasses nodded.

"This is really unexpected." The old man stared straight at me, bowed and bowed, "I'm neglecting you, Mr. Lin."

Seniors and children are orderly, I have never been greeted by an old man.I stood up without knowing why, and slightly bent my upper body: "What's wrong? Did something happen?"

The gentleman-looking man with glasses said to me: "Come with me, we will talk while walking." He made a gesture of invitation, and I followed him and left the group of people.The two walked in the long and narrow corridor, one behind the other.He went on and on, leaving no room for me to interject.So I just listened quietly.

"My name is Sun Ke, and I will be your assistant from now on. If you have any questions, you can ask me at any time." He pressed the elevator button, turned his head and said to me, "Few people have heard your name, After all, Professor Liu is the inventor of the space-time machine. There are too many heroes who have solved this crisis, and you are not very eye-catching. But I was fortunate enough to meet you in the research institute and heard about your deeds, so I specially invite you to participate in our research team."

The elevator dinged, and after entering, he took a few deep breaths and explained to me: "I've only been wearing it for a few days, and I'm not very used to the elevator. The miniature space-time machine can quickly take us to where we need to go. Place. To be honest, I haven’t seen such an antique thing as a car for several years, and it’s very interesting to go shopping on the street.”

I asked him: "Can you explain to me the current and future situation in detail?"

The elevator door opened at this moment, and a huge wrap-around screen was displayed in front of me, with countless staff members shuttling through it.Sun Ke went out and stopped a woman who was holding a notebook and wearing a white shirt: "Professor Liu, please allow me to introduce you. This is Lin An. You will be working partners from today on."

The corners of her eyes were raised and the bridge of her nose was straight. After hearing Sun Ke's introduction, she put the pen on the notebook and reached out to me: "Liu Yuan."

I put my hand on it: "Lin An."

Sun Ke said: "Didn't you just ask me what happened to all this? It's like this..."

He told me that since 1983, some strange things have happened one after another across the country... Some people claim that they have crossed over and that they do not belong here.A few cases may be pretending to be ghosts, and folk rumors may be alarmist.But such cases gradually increased, reaching dozens.Without exception, these people chose to buy real estate. Their ideas were weird and unconstrained, and they developed many emerging industries.And according to the survey, many people actually chose to hide it after time travel, of course, this is a later story.The fact is... such a disease, which was regarded as hypochondria at the time, was like a plague, not only infecting people's daily life, but even disrupting the economy, politics, and people's thinking.

At first, the government thought it was a conspiracy by some organization, so it set up an investigation team to collect intelligence secretly.The report handed in was very short, and it emphasized one point: Among the 23 people investigated, nine claimed that they were originally from Los Angeles, while the remaining [-] people, the place they first traveled to was also in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles is not a city, in fact it is just an ordinary town.It is located on the edge of Sichuan Province, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the traffic is blocked. At first, there was only one uneven road leading to the outside.After a year-long investigation, the researchers believe that Los Angeles should be blocked immediately to avoid affecting other places.

This is a kind of soft prison. In fact, it is very difficult to block a place.For this reason, they waited for another two years. When building a water conservancy project, they announced that small-scale resettlement was necessary due to the construction of water conservancy.The city of Los Angeles is subtly divided, and because the penetration rate of telephones and other communication equipment was very low in the 20s, it is not uncommon to lose news after relocation.Slowly... There is no longer a town like Los Angeles on the map.

After being imprisoned, he slowly changed the rules and controlled people's thinking without anyone noticing.Use a bunch of patches to fill those logical loopholes, and let the folk customs relocate naturally.Why go out?How can I get out?The less people know, the less they think, the more they are shaped by the rules, the more they grow into what they want us to be.

But life must go on, production and consumption cannot stagnate.The frequent occurrence of time-traveling incidents will definitely disturb the hearts of the people.No matter how great a politician is, there is no suitable solution: when a person loses a loved one, how to soothe his grief?Even if we are just stupid people with a mess of brains, even if we don't care about the world and lack compassion, we are still human beings who value blood relationship.Of course we question: where did our loved one go, and who is in him and where did he come from?

There will be grief and indignation when there is difference, and there will be thinking when there is doubt.

The best way to do this: make up history.

They write textbooks, saying that the time-traveling machine was invented in 1983, that time and space were only chaotic for a short time, that soul travel is very common, and it happens all over the world... During this time-space transition period, they decided to adopt a special way of town management.

Make rules, just to let us continue to live normally.And confinement is to ensure that people outside are not affected by us, so that they can develop naturally.They concentrated the collapse, controlled the abilities of the traversers, and kept looking for solutions.

Until some people who traveled back from the future told them that on October 2021, 10, the time travel machine will be invented.And those ordinary travelers only remember the most famous inventor, that is a female scientist named Liu Yuan.

Liu Yuan continued to explain: "According to some travelers, in order to avoid the paradox of traveling through machines, the scientific community issued a ban after the invention of time-space machines in 2021, prohibiting scientists from using time-space machines to travel to previous time-spaces to create time-space machines. The time-traveling machine paradox means that if scientists travel to ancient times and create a space-time machine, which changes history, then by 2021, the time-traveling machine and related construction theories have already existed, and there will be no such thing as an inventor. But there are no inventors. Whose theory will the future scientists use to go back to ancient times to make space-time machines? Because of the decisiveness, the consequences are unimaginable. So since we know this news, we have been waiting for the arrival of 2021 to make space-time machines Machines have been invented in their history."

Sun Ke said: "After the invention of the machine, we can send the travelers back to the original time and space through the detailed description of the time and place. But after they leave, the body will enter a deep sleep state. In the early days, in the boundless universe and infinite time and space, the investigation work was very difficult. For the time being, we cannot retrieve the souls who have traveled through time and space. They are floating in the space-time tunnel, and they are likely to fall into the space-time gap and never return. However, you quickly solved this problem...but your method and research report are classified and have not been released to the public."

That's all he could say.He strictly complied with the requirements of the space-time ban and did not disclose any information on how to build the space-time machine.And he himself didn't know how I used to quickly find those people who traveled to other time and space.

I don't know now either.

"You can ask me anything related to work, not related to work. I won't tell you anything except my name. I hope you are not the kind of glib person who just talks nonsense." Liu Yuan turned around and left after finishing speaking. Yes, she walked to the screen, directed the others, and kept talking to a pile of data, maps, and yellow-green line graphs.

I couldn't understand anything, so I laughed at myself.Sun Ke standing next to him raised his glasses, rubbed the bridge of his nose, and said to me: "Her IQ is directly proportional to her temper."

"She has a good temper. She probably feels that I wasted her time just now, so she is a little unhappy."

He said: "After all, the time is coming. There are a lot of scattered and useful data, but the final answer cannot be obtained. Some anxiety is real." Sun Ke took out a stack of materials from a safe and handed it to me. "This is some data analysis so far. You can read it here, but you can't take it home. They will search you when you leave the institute."

I took it over and got ready to read the heavenly book.

I didn't expect that the things inside have been as easy to understand as possible.The data includes detailed data analysis on rivers, magnetic fields, radiation, the location of everyone who passes through Los Angeles, and the changes in various indicators in the residents' bodies [Note: especially the formation of a special layer of mucous membrane on the surface of organs].

With Chen Weijia as the center, the crossing marked points change from dense to sparse, showing a radial pattern.The closer the residence is to Chen Wei's house, the thicker the special mucous membrane on the surface of the internal organs will be. By detecting the amount of T element in this mucous membrane, it can be analyzed whether it is close to the crossing critical point. When the T element reaches 5%, time travel will occur. Once the time travel occurs, the T element will drop to 1%, and the general T element content of residents is 2% to 4%. This makes it possible to investigate whether residents have already experienced time travel.

The structure of non-living things will also undergo some changes.

In vitro radiography has a low accuracy of T element and can only be used to check for traversers. When some people are wrapped with special materials, they can escape detection, such as Chen Wei's family.Chen Wei's father invested in the construction of one-tenth of the houses in Los Angeles during the period of soft government between 1983 and 1986.The new policy can restrict, but not directly freeze his assets.This has caused the housing price level in Los Angeles to increase tenfold. My brother has been working for six years and cannot afford the down payment.

If the government intervenes, housing prices in Los Angeles will fall.Chen Wei's family can use the existing assets to buy more real estate. Of course, his own account is not allowed, but there are many people who are willing to take risks to serve him for the sake of money...

From this point of view, Chen Wei's family is a thorn in the side of the government, and they wish they could deal with it quickly.The bankruptcy of the Chen family was almost doomed.All kinds of clues point to the Chen family. They have already decided to dig deep under the Chen family, trying to find something.Something that is radioactive and allows people to travel through.