An Yichu's ten interviews were ultimately not submitted to First Central Axis, and the reason for this was not just because of her disappearance.
In fact, An Yichu was not the only one who disappeared that night. Natsume, Li Dan and others also disappeared for a period of time... But in the end, An Yichu was unable to successfully complete the interview and report the content of the interview.
It was mainly related to her fantastic experience with Natsume.
It was this experience that revealed the shocking secrets of two different times and spaces.
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One hundred and seventy-five years later.
Time: November 3, 2324 AD
In Wangshu, a newly built town on the old site of Xiongan, Yougege met Zhang Fengyu, who had been hiding from him for half a century, in a small restaurant that only accepted passing tourists.
It's strange to say... More than two centuries ago, it was You Gege who hid from Zhang Fengyu to prevent him from finding him.
Later, it turned out to be Zhang Fengyu hiding from You Gege, and the quarrel between the two accidentally lasted for almost three hundred years. Three hundred years...how many generations.
As the only chef in the restaurant, even though he finally reunited with You Gege, Zhang Fengyu, whose pseudonym is Zhang Feng, did not stop his work. He had to entertain a lot of guests today, and ordered a variety of dishes. If this was the case in ordinary
The hotel has a designated way to tell you that a certain dish cannot be cooked, but it is different here. Zhang Fengyu will only say to the guest: "It can be cooked, but you have to wait."
The word "wait" was not a comfortable word at any time in the past, but in this era, when all mankind has just experienced an era that is so terrible that it is almost unreal, "wait" is a romantic word.
Yougege arrived at the store at around 12 noon, but it was already 3 pm when the bowl of dry noodles she ordered was ready and placed in front of her. She was also the last customer in the store.
Zhang Fengyu looks more comfortable than ever before. Even after three hundred years and having experienced so many things, he seems to be younger than before. The noodles were mixed before being placed in front of You Gege, and at the same time,
Added a little more chili pepper and minced garlic. Seeing that Zhang Fengyu still remembered her eating habits after so many years, Yougege smiled slightly, but she was a little absent-minded when moving her chopsticks.
Zhang Fengyu asked: "Who are you here to pay homage to?"
Yougege nodded: "A few friends."
"Well……"
"I came to see you by the way." Yougege was still as informal as before. She smiled contentedly after taking a bite of the noodles.
"Look at me? Haha... Just this disgusting face, what's so good about it?"
Yougege didn't look up. She was serious about the noodles. After eating several big mouthfuls, she said: "Don't you come here? How many young girls have treated you as a supreme treasure with colorful auspicious clouds, and have been deceived by you for the rest of their lives.
It's better for you now, you're so pretentious like me."
Zhang Fengyu was immediately embarrassed when he heard this. He scratched his head: "Is there any?"
Yougege curled his lips, ate several more mouthfuls of noodles, and said with a hiss, "Oh, it's so spicy! Water! Quick! Water!"
Zhang Fengyu immediately took out a bottle from the counter, opened it and handed it to her.
After drinking some water, Yougege said: "What time will you close your business? I want to take you to meet a friend."
Zhang Fengyu frowned. These years of peaceful life have made him resist disturbances outside of life. He first asked: "Who is it? Are you going to get involved in some big trouble again?"
Yougege waved his hand: "Don't worry, even if you want to go, I don't care. Our era ended more than two centuries ago. Now I just want to call it quits early and go back to my hometown to write a book. The rest...
…Love whoever.”
Yougege, whose speaking style had changed a lot, made Zhang Fengyu feel more at ease. He nodded: "Well... that's okay, but my place is usually open 24 hours a day. If I leave now, I guess many customers will not be able to eat.
It’s time to eat.”
Yougege asked curiously: "What? Does your store usually have a lot of customers?"
Zhang Fengyu rolled his eyes at You Gege: "What? You look down on people. Let me tell you, the daily turnover is several thousand."
Yougege burst into laughter: "Then... isn't it that I'm delaying your making money?"
Zhang Fengyu sighed: "It doesn't matter whether we have money or not, for people like us who are cursed by time. The main thing is that we are used to it, and it's a bit uncomfortable to stop suddenly."
After hearing this, Yougege thought for a while and then came up with a compromise: "Then... otherwise, I will invite him to your place, and you will arrange a private room for him. If guests come, you can entertain them.
how?"
Zhang Fengyu said in surprise: "Is this okay? I still think of it as an old-timer."
You Gege smiled and said: "Of course you can, but I'm a little surprised. Are you really the only one in this store?"
Just as Zhang Fengyu was about to nod, he saw a young and beautiful girl who looked shining in the sun walking into the store. When she saw Zhang Fengyu, she smiled shyly and said, "Master... I'm here again."
You Gege looked back and was amazed by the light on the girl in front of him. In fact, she was not very beautiful, especially compared to a stunning beauty like You Gege who combined the beauty of the Jiangnan water town, she looked even more ordinary.
But she has a youthful aura that makes Yougege envious.
Zhang Fengyu sighed softly, and changed the words he was about to say: "No, I also have an apprentice. Well, it's her."
Yougege smiled ambiguously: "Who is she? You don't want to introduce her to me?"
Upon hearing this, the young girl took the initiative to come forward and say hello without waiting for Zhang Fengyu to speak: "Hello, my name is Xue Jiannian. I worked in a store before. Now I want to use my skills to make food and drink easier, so I shamelessly admit you.
This old handsome guy behind you is the master, hehe."
Yougege smiled even more ambiguously when she heard this, but there was no hint of jealousy in her eyes. She just felt that this girl was really cute, and she felt as friendly as an old man seeing his granddaughter.
Of course, this statement sounds a bit strange, and it may be more appropriate to describe it as aunt's laughter.
Zhang Fengyu held his forehead and said: "Okay, just tell me what your name is, there is no need to say anything else."
Xue Jiannian smiled brightly. She curiously looked at Yougege, who was still wearing a long aqua dress in autumn, and then asked: "Sister, are you my master's friend?"
Yougege smiled even more when she heard Xue Jianian calling her sister. She nodded, glanced at Zhang Fengyu and said, "That's right."
Xue Jianian didn't understand and looked curiously at the master Zhang Fengyu who was forced to come by her.
Zhang Fengyu said awkwardly: "This is You Gege, my friend, Jian Nian... If you really want to help, go to the kitchen to clean the ingredients you will use tonight. I won't teach you the steps. You
They are all familiar.”
Xue Jia Nian muttered You Gege's name in a low voice and then nodded with a smile: "Yeah! Then...sister, please sit down, I'll be busy in the back."
"Yeah." You Gege looked at this girl and liked it more and more. When Xue Jianian went to the kitchen, You Gege said with emotion: "It's really good..."
Zhang Fengyu asked in confusion: "What?"
Yougege smiled softly: "I said...it's great to be like her."
Zhang Fengyu heard clearly this time, but still couldn't fully understand what You Gege meant.
After eating the noodles, You Gege said goodbye and went to invite the guest who was going to be introduced to Zhang Fengyu. But she did not go straight to her destination. Instead, she bought a lot of flowers when she passed by a flower shop on the corner. The flower shop owner
They are a young couple who have just bought a store, and these words were planted by their parents on newly reclaimed land on the outskirts of the city.
Since this was the first time I came here to buy flowers, the store owner gave Yougege a huge discount, which was almost like giving it away for free.
Yougege was not polite, took the flowers, paid the money, and went straight to the monument in the center of the city.
A few centuries ago, in order to commemorate the victory of the anti-fascist struggle, a monument was erected in the Memorial Square. Now, in the center of Wangshu, a small town built on the old site of Xiongan, a 30-meter-high monument with no words has been erected.
Monument. The reason why there are no words is because even if the monument is enlarged tens of thousands of times, it is not possible to write the names of all the people who died in this unprecedented catastrophe. Yougege came to the monument with flowers and looked at it from a distance.
The ground was already filled with flowers. Yougege did not go further, so he placed the flowers outside. They stood in front of the monument for a long time, and at some point, a man and a woman appeared behind Yougege.
The man looked at Yougege a little more uncertainly and then asked softly: "Excuse me..."
Yougege turned around, but his face inadvertently changed into a strange look.
"What's the matter?" Yougege's voice also changed, becoming cold and a little wary.
The man was immediately embarrassed, and the woman glared at him and apologized quickly. Yougege didn't mind, turned around and left. After walking a few steps away, she heard the woman whisper: "I told you it was not the case! Mr. has been dead for ten years.
How could it be possible to appear here after several years! You still don’t believe it!”
The man felt aggrieved and said softly: "But I just feel a little familiar...Don't you want to see Mr. again?"
The woman frowned: "Bullshit! What's the use of thinking! You'd better think more about your husband's teachings during his lifetime and live a good life."
The man sighed softly: "Hey..."
As Yougege gradually walked away, her face quietly returned to its original state. She slightly raised the corners of her lips, and a mysterious smile appeared on her face.
In the evening, the small restaurant in the alley of the city was indeed full as Zhang Fengyu said. Master Zhang Fengyu and Xue Jianian were so busy that they did not even have time to say hello to You Gege.
The guest didn't pay attention either. He followed Yougege to the private room on the second floor and sat down, sipping tea and chatting.
The man was wearing a mask that was hard to tell without looking carefully. He sat down and took it off, and it turned out to be Su Yao, the second-ranking figure in the High Angel Legion who had been like a god descending to earth in the battle of Neptune Mengliang, and whom the Su family had high hopes for.
The eldest son of the Su family.
But how could such a character who was born in the era of human interstellar civilization appear here?
The reason for this will be explained in detail later.
"Are you still used to it here?" Yougege asked.
Su Yao shook the tea in the cup and asked, "Shouldn't you ask yourself this question first?"
"Ask me?" Yougege didn't quite understand.
"Yes." Su Yao stopped what he was doing and said softly: "It has been more than a century since I brought people to this era. The disaster has passed, but few people know the truth, even those who were curious at the beginning.
Although the remaining people are very energetic, I believe they can rebuild their homes, but... so what? The 'old gods' are still there, and the shackles are still there. If they can't transcend, they can still rebuild their homes.
It would be much easier to just do nothing, don’t you think?"
Yougege looked at Su Yao calmly for a long time and then said: "Maybe you are right. Essentially, nothing has changed in this era. The world is still this world, the people are still the same group of people, nothing has changed."
"The truth is annoying, why don't you tell me what you plan to do next."
"I?"
"Yes, didn't you just call me here to tell me what to do next?" Su Yao said.
But Yougege smiled and waved his hands and said: "Oh no, actually I just want to invite you over for a meal and a chat today. As for the future you mentioned... there is no future... I am living like an old witch.
This play has been performed for so long, I am not tired of it, and the audience is tired of watching it. Besides... the thinking of the transcendent is a brand new thinking system, not a person like me who has just lived a little longer.
I can handle it, but you think too highly of me."
Su Yao frowned and said, "Are you planning to retire?"
"It's not a retreat, it's a complete curtain call." It seems that Zhang Fengyu didn't mix the lemonade that You Gege loved the most today. There was too much sugar in it, and it tasted cloyingly sweet. It must have been made by Xue Jiannian, his apprentice.
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"Hey, hey, hey, things have just gotten better. What do you mean by your sudden curtain call?" Su Yao was very unhappy.
"It's not interesting... I'm tired... I'm really old and can't do it anymore... Wouldn't it be better to leave the stage to you and the young talents in the future? Old guys like me should have been buried long ago."
It would be normal if the words were spoken by an old man, but the person who said these words was a girl who clearly looked like she was only in her early twenties.
Su Yao understood what You Gege meant, and said, "There is no room for maneuver?"
Yougege nodded affirmatively.
"Then...before you leave, can you help me answer a few questions, or simply tell me where to go to find the answer? I don't want to rush forward in confusion. After all, I have been busy in a daze for more than a century. I
I am also very tired, and I want to make sure that this last journey goes smoothly." Su Yao rarely spoke frankly.
Yougege looked at Su Yao, and she asked with a smile, "What do you want to know?"
Su Yao said: "Difference, where is the point of disagreement?"
This question was asked without any beginning or end, and most people would be confused by it. But Yougege understood what Su Yao meant, and she replied: "The difference... lies in persisting or giving up."
"What is persistence? What is giving up?"
Yougege thought for a while and then said: "Persistence is this era, giving up is the sea of grass..."
Hearing this, Su Yao was shocked: "In other words, that is not the bunker space that the forerunners walked through at all? But the remaining dream fragments of Yarams?"
Yougege smiled slightly and nodded: "The story... we have to start with the first time An Yichu set foot in the utopia that once gathered the efforts and dreams of countless people..."
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"So... this is the bunker world?" An Yichu's interview spanned an unprecedented length.
The interviewee has transformed from a survivor of Vault No. 1 in Xiongan New Area into a Type III super soldier in the interstellar civilization era after the end of the Golden Age.
"Yes, I found this place according to my boss's wishes, but I'm not very sure." The specific interviewee at this time was changed to Zhong Chuqi.
This kid has become the commander of the secret forces under Su Yao, and is responsible for leading people to wander around the solar system looking for some strange things. This time, Zhong Chuqi led people from deep underground on Mars into the area suspected of leading to Ke
The bunker world/passage of the last royal city of Yibo Civilization.
The technology of this passage is a third-level civilization technology that humans have not yet mastered.
It is also the key space shuttle technology that humans yearn for, which can break out of the solar system to start a great expedition and conquer the Milky Way. However, due to its ancient structure, and the purpose of Zhong Chuqi’s trip is to find the old site of the Ke Yibo civilization and the possible existence of the gods.
Sexual fragmentation, so this technology is still too far away and unfamiliar to current human civilization.
"Then...can we go back to our original world?" This is what An Yichu is most concerned about now.
Natsume, who was also sitting on the shoulders of these high angel warriors like a child, also cast a concerned look.
Zhong Chuqi looked troubled: "It's hard to say... Actually... we are also trapped. After the previous passage sent us here, we can't find the way back. Now we can only continue to move forward.
Maybe by finding the old site of Ke Yibo's civilization, we can all return to our own time and space as we wish."
"But it may be that all this is a violation of the grandfather paradox of entropy increase. How can time be so easily controlled." An Yichu sighed quietly.
Unexpectedly, when these words fell into Zhong Chuqi's ears, they turned out to be very ridiculous.
He comforted: "Don't worry, the so-called violation of entropy increase, the grandfather paradox of space and time, and other things have been proven by scientists more than two centuries ago to be misunderstandings of narrow thinking and cognition, although I can't explain it to you in detail.
What a misunderstanding, but I just want to tell you... In fact, there is no so-called time at all. Time is just an artificial concept that describes the specific display space... Just like the entropy increase you said, ice will not stay cold forever.
This causes the iron on the ice to heat up, because this is an irreversible increase in entropy, and the past, present and future we understand are actually just changes that occur at a single node within a fixed time and space. This is just for ease of understanding and simplification.
This kind of change is described as the past, present and future based on the mindset... Do you understand?"
After listening to Zhong Chuqi's so-called non-detailed explanation, An Yichu felt that his entire worldview had been subverted and refreshed.