gentle collapse

System companies are just a front for recruiting volunteers for data collection.Traversing is a slowly increasing event, without obtaining enough data support, it is impossible to obtain such a clearly directional distribution map of traversers.

And the underground laboratory they built in the back garden of Chen Wei's house dug in all directions underground. The first four tunnels found nothing, so they had to be used to transport various materials.So the second phase of the project started, digging down from the tunnel directly under the Chen family villa, and it has been a year since.

And Chen Wei thought that after he was reborn, he could change his destiny. What he didn't know was that the background of the original competitor was so big that he couldn't shake it.The period of history changed by his father's time travel has affected too many people...

I asked Sun Ke: "If time travel is caused by the influence of a radioactive element, why not really move us out? Let us fend for ourselves here, time travel and being time travel?"

"Everyone here is different from the people outside, and the T element is even hereditary. What do you want the government to do? Let you mix with ordinary people, or abandon a town in exchange for the stability of the entire country? We It is true that some time-travelers with unique vision and insight are needed to speed up the development of the times, but everyone wants to live a better life and obtain the highest benefits for themselves. If it weren’t for the panic of the early travelers who told the truth, I am afraid that their collective silence and concealment will lead to more and worse results. If you are allowed to move freely in this country and not easy to monitor, what will happen in the future? The scientific research funds and public facilities we have invested here The cost is already astonishingly high..." He shook his head and said directly, "Forget it, you are still just a high school student."

I think I understand what he meant, but from my point of view, I don't think the people who time-traveled are so vicious and harmful to society.I continued to ask him, "Why do we need a translator because we can't understand what you're saying?"

"We are also puzzled. Sichuan belongs to the southwest region, but the language is from the northern language family. Mandarin is based on the northern dialect. It stands to reason that most of what you and we speak are similar. But the accent in your township is very strange. , retains a lot of ancient sounds, and retains a lot of ordinary tones, which are similar to Hokkien, but not the same. It happens that the popularity rate of Mandarin in the 80s is not high, and language barriers can further isolate you from the outside world, so in your The common Mandarin here is actually your own dialect. In order to let the traversers integrate into the life here as soon as possible, we collected the voice here, performed code conversion, and made communication equipment."

The answer to the mystery that has troubled me for so long turned out to be such a simple matter.Thinking that I have something to do tomorrow, I asked him, "Can I ask for a day off tomorrow?"

"Your working hours are free."

I closed the document and stroked the gilded date on the upper right corner of the cover: October 2021, 10.

I went home and turned on the lamp beside the bed. Zheng Yi asked, "Is it twelve o'clock?"

"It's almost time." Then I remembered that Zheng Yi was still sleeping on my bed, so I quickly turned off the light and said to him, "Go back to sleep."

"Lin An, I dreamed that you crossed over." In the darkness, his voice was very clear, "Everyone passed through, they all ran to the train station, the train turned into an old charcoal-burning train, it roared You run over the crowd, but those people don't stop. I grab you, you punch and kick me, tell me to get lost."

"Who are you, bring Zheng Yi back. The Zheng Yi I know wouldn't say such polite words, and even crush the crowd with a bang..." At the end, I just laughed out loud.

"That's right, I'm not Zheng Yi. He's dead. I want to use his body to occupy the earth and unify the universe." Zheng Yi closed his eyes and smiled for a while, then was a little puzzled, "Why are you so nervous?"

I specifically asked Sun Ke for Zheng Yi's T-element test report, which showed that Zheng Yi was not far from crossing.Zheng Yi's dream is upside down, not everyone has time-traveled, but he has time-traveled.Even though I know that even if he leaves, he can come back in eight months, but I still don't want him to leave.

He asked me, "What's going on?"

I don't know how to describe how I feel now, and I don't know whether I should tell him the news.He didn't close his eyes and looked at me against the light. I sighed and said, "Go to sleep."

Early the next morning, Zheng Yi and I got up and went to the supermarket to buy something.He was standing next to me with his things, I knocked on the door, and it was my mother's husband who opened the door. After he opened the door, he glanced at me and walked towards the restaurant without saying a word.My mother happened to be coming down the stairs, and when she saw me, she was overjoyed and beckoned to me. Zheng Yi and I went into her bedroom together. There was a dish and a soup on the bedside table in the bedroom.

She said, "Haven't you eaten yet? Mom will get you two bowls, wait."

I grabbed her wrist: "You and him eat separately? Have you had a fight?"

She glanced at Zheng Yi and quickly said, "No."

"A few days?"

"That's his temper, and he has always been like this." Her expression was a little sad.

"why?"

Under my repeated questioning, her voice began to tremble: "He married me because he wanted me to give him money to ease his living burden. If I occasionally fail to buy groceries or pay utility bills, he will show me embarrassment." The money he earned is only for his son. Some time ago, his son scolded me for a little thing, calling me a chicken. I was so angry that I quarreled with his son. I haven't spoken to me for a week. He... he just knows that I don't have a house, and there is no place to live without him, so he dares to treat me like this. "

"It's always like this?" I asked, "Why don't you come to me?"

"You are still studying, I can't hurt you."

"What's the trouble, Mom..." I sighed, "Do you still want to live with him like this?"

She sat on the edge of the bed, put her hands on her thighs, and lowered her head: "Divorced twice, others will spread gossip."

I was so angry that my head was a little hot: "You can't wrong yourself because of other people's gossip, you don't live for other people's mouths."

"There still needs to be a man in the family so that people won't be bullied."

"I'm a man too," I said to her, "I'll take you home, to our old home."

I took my mother's hand and glanced at Zheng Yi.Zheng Yi smiled with a smell of hay that had been exposed to the sun. He walked to the closet and said to my mother, "Auntie, pack more clothes, and I'll help you."

Before leaving, my mother insisted on washing the dishes, putting the dishes in the refrigerator, and wiping the table.The man just sat in the living room without saying a word.I called my dad and told him to go home and clean up.When we got there, I saw him standing at the door. My mother stopped and didn't go any further. My father cleared his throat and said, "The house is ready. I will live with my son now." Well, this place is empty. The surnamed Zhao, who looks like a dog, turned out to be this kind of person, did he beat you, I will find someone to beat him to death."

My mother's voice was a little soft, she said: "No."

"It's fine if you don't have one." He put his hands in his pockets, bent like a simple old farmer, "Come in, Xiaoyan."

My dad hasn't called my mom that way for many years, and he continued: "Lily, you like it, I put it on the table, it smells good."

"Auntie, I'm really tired. I'll go in and put my things first." Zheng Yi lifted the luggage in his hand and shouted to me, "Lin An, come in and put your things away, your hands are purple .”

I walked forward a few steps, and looking back, my mother was following me. I looked at the rusty iron threshold stained with mud, and stepped into the house, feeling unprecedentedly at ease.I think even objects have memory.The sofa may still remember the annoying ash when my dad smoked, the ball of yarn my mother put on it, and the situation when my brother and I curled our feet on it and watched cartoons.The things that existed never dissipated, they were frozen in that moment, where they existed forever.

Zheng Yi was sitting on the sofa at the moment, looking at the lilies in the dusty glass vase, and beckoning to me, he said, "Uncle is quite romantic."

"He didn't understand before. He didn't understand why women like flowers. They can only bloom for a few days, and they can't eat or use them."

"I have the same idea as your father, and I don't like flowers very much. But if I have a partner, I will definitely buy it for her. Because she likes flowers, and I like her."

"Not bad, very enlightened."

With a coughing sound, my dad stretched out his hand and came to get the luggage. I handed it to him and asked, "Dad, how are you getting along with that widowed aunt? I just remembered that I haven't seen her all this time."

"I played it early." His voice was a little harsh, "Don't tell your mother."

"This..." I hesitated pretending to be embarrassed.

"Uncle, ignore him, he's just pretending to be weird, he hopes that you two will go to the Civil Affairs Bureau tomorrow to get a marriage certificate." He bumped my shoulder with his shoulder as he said it.

"You should have a better time this year, right?" He said, "Last year after you finished the New Year's Eve dinner, you called me out and asked me to play games with you for a few hours. After I went back, my mother You got beat up, you know?"

"Okay, I will definitely not disturb your Chinese New Year this year."

"Don't, you must call me on New Year's Day."

"Why are you calling?"

"Happy New Years to me," he said.

On New Year's Day, I knocked on the door of Zheng Yi's house. There was only Zheng Yi's mother in the house. There was no food on the table, and she didn't turn on the TV.She looked at me and repeated in a low voice: "Just like his father, he suddenly disappeared. After so many years of raising him, he suddenly disappeared."

I picked up the down coat on the sofa, put it on her, pulled her arm, and put it into the sleeve.

I said, "Auntie, Zheng Yi will be back. Today is New Year's Eve. I will take you to my house to celebrate the New Year."

Zheng Yi's mother wiped her eyes with her hands, and looked at me: "Lin An, you go back and have a good New Year. During this time, you run to my side every day. You still have to spend the New Year with your family."

"You are my family." I dragged Zheng Yi's mother to my house, and after setting her up, I walked out, stood at the door, and made a salute to the empty front with the wine glass in my hand: " Wherever you are, happy new year."