"Begin." Wang Jiyuan gave the order, and ten soldiers formed two triangle tactical formations and rushed towards the team of twenty or so students. After all, they were professionally trained soldiers, and once they got serious, they had the momentum of charging into the battlefield.
Ji Yijun and Ye Zi stood in the front, Ji Yijun carried the stick on his shoulder and put one hand on his waist, posing a pose he thought was cool. Ye Zi held the stick in both hands and took a half bow step. Although she was impatient, she was very steady when fighting. Although the two of them were very skilled, the students behind them were not so calm. They originally formed a loose square formation, but when they saw the soldiers rushing over with wooden sticks, they were all nervous and at a loss. Some wanted to move to the side, and some wanted to retreat to the back, and they immediately became chaotic.
"Don't be afraid, stay calm, and follow the plan!" Ji Yijun turned around and shouted. After his shout, the students calmed down a little and barely formed two small square formations.
"You guys deal with the ones on the left, and we two will deal with the ones on the right." After saying that, he and Ye Zi rushed towards the five people on the left, while the remaining twenty or so people frantically attacked the five warriors on the right.
Ji Yijun and Ye Zi were not afraid of the five-man team. After a few steps, they came to close combat. Ji Yijun shouted loudly, swung his wooden stick and hit the leading soldier. The soldier was about to raise his stick to block, but found that Ji Yijun was just making a lot of noise but not much action. The stick was actually a feint. The stick, which was originally carrying wind and thunder, suddenly changed its direction silently in the middle, and with a push, it led the soldier at the front of the formation away. Ye Zi followed behind Ji Yijun, saw the opportunity, and took advantage of the soldier's stagger to swing down, and he immediately fell face first into the mud.
Seeing their comrades defeated in one round, the other fighters all waved their sticks and attacked vigorously. However, their aggressive fighting style was completely useless in front of Ji Yijun and Ye Zi's cleverness. Although they had the advantage in numbers, they were suppressed. Ji Yijun and Ye Zi cooperated with each other and kept creating opportunities. Not long after, as the second and third people were knocked down, the team completely collapsed.
However, when Ji Yijun knocked down the last soldier and looked at the other side of the battlefield, his nose was crooked with anger. The students' team was actually dispersed by the enemy! The guards were running away everywhere. It turned out that although the battle on the right was twenty people against five, the leading sergeant was very smart. He used constant running and charging to pull the two formations of the students. In a short while, the two good square formations disappeared. Once the people were scattered, the inexperienced students were quickly chased around by the soldiers who cooperated tacitly. When several people were knocked to the ground and screamed, the battle became a big rout.
"Let's charge over and take them all down!" Ji Yijun and Ye Zi wanted to go over and work together to defeat the remaining five soldiers, but Wang Jiyuan stopped them.
"We can still fight, why should we stop!" Ji Yijun shouted angrily.
"Because you have already lost. A team of 22 people is reduced to only two people. What's the point of fighting further?" Wang Jiyuan said seriously.
"That's because they are so useless!"
"No!" Wang Jiyuan's voice was not as loud as Ji Yijun's, but it was more powerful than his. "You are the leader of the team, but you abandoned your companions and made them cannon fodder. What else do you have except courage? You are too useless!"
Ji Yijun wanted to speak, but was stopped by Ye Zi. She said in confusion: "But we can still defeat all of them."
"Whether the other team wins or loses, you lose. This kind of victory is unacceptable."
"But doesn't victory always come from hard work and fearlessness of sacrifice?" Ji Yijun asked again.
"Think about it, how many of us have traveled here?" Wang Jiyuan asked.
"More than seven hundred."
“And how many local people are there?”
Ji Yijun was silent. After a while he said, "I understand. Preserving our strength and keeping everyone alive is the first priority."
Wang Jiyuan glanced at everyone on the playground and said, "So, from now on, remember what kind of victory we want!"
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In the classroom, after Zhang Hong ran away, Xiao Chen and others carefully assigned the work details.
After a while, Du Mei couldn't help but say, "If everyone who comes here is like Zhang Hong, we're all doomed. It's better to kill ourselves than to be angered or cheated to death by them."
"Xiao Mei, don't say that. When people stay on campus for too long, they sometimes lose sight of reality. He thought he was in the zoo, but he didn't know he was in the Amazon jungle." Liu Wan said, "He will eventually understand why Teacher Luo is protecting him. We just need to do our best."
"Well, never mind him. But Teacher Liu, how should we teach Spanish? Is it the same as in class?" Du Mei asked.
"I think you should proceed in two lines, arranging daily conversation courses for most people, and providing in-depth teaching for a small number of people who have more time and learn quickly. Expand our team as soon as possible." Xiao Chen interrupted.
"We will choose the appropriate range based on our communication with the locals. I have also had contact with the villagers who came here to trade these past two days, and what they speak is really close to modern Spanish." Liu Wan responded, "But this also raises a big question for me, how is it possible for people from two worlds to speak the same language?"
"Teacher Liu, why is it impossible? I think the universe is so big that there are all kinds of strange things. It may just be a coincidence." Ding Lun asked curiously.
Liu Wan shook her head and said, "You know, language is a reflection of daily life. The etymology of many words is influenced by ancient languages and surrounding languages. For example, many Chinese characters in Japanese come from this. Other words have allusions, because such things happened in history, so such words were created. For example, the Chinese word '图穷匕见' comes from the story of Jing Ke. If Jing Ke had not assassinated the King of Qin in history, there would be no such word. However, there are many Spanish words here, but they are very similar to those on Earth. This puzzles me."
"For example?" Ding Lunquan scratched his head, as if he didn't fully understand.
"The other day I met Xi Luo looking for Xiao Chen, and Xiao Chen was discussing issues in the conference room. He said that we have too many meetings, and I clearly heard him use the word 'mitin'. You all know that this word comes from the transliteration of the English word 'meeting'. Is there an English-speaking country nearby, and the locals just happened to introduce this word? Let me give you another analogy. It's like you met an alien who not only spoke Chinese, but also said 'Ye Gonghaolong', 'Returning the Jade Complete to Zhao', and even recited a few Tang poems. Don't you think it's incredible?"
"If such aliens really exist, they must have visited the Earth a long time ago," Ding Lunquan said, slapping his head.
Xiao Chen nodded and said, "Xiao Ding's statement actually makes sense. Luo Ling and I have discovered this phenomenon before. I think this is related to a fundamental issue." He paused for a moment, then said word by word, "Why are we here?"
Several people were deeply attracted by this topic and looked at Xiao Chen intently.
"I think there is only one explanation for the Spanish here, that is, a long time ago, there were people who spoke Spanish here and taught the locals to speak this language. In fact, all these locals are descendants of those ancient time travelers! This world is very likely connected to Earth in some way! We are definitely not the first group of Earthlings to come here."
Xiao Chen felt that the people in front of him were breathing heavily, and he continued to analyze: "In fact, there is a lot of evidence. For example, species, I have seen horses, cows, sheep, dogs, chickens and other livestock here, and I have also seen plants such as cypress and pine trees. They are exactly the same as their counterparts on Earth. Not to mention how different planets can have the same species, even if they are the same species, they should not have evolved into the same appearance. So I would rather believe that they came directly from Earth to this world and then reproduced."
"Senior, are you saying that all kinds of creatures on Earth were constantly brought to this world? That's how the biosphere here was formed?" Du Mei asked in surprise, covering her mouth with her hands. "But why have we never heard of such a thing on Earth?"
"Aren't there always mysterious disappearances? I've seen such things in several magazines, and there have been special programs on TV." Ding Lunquan said excitedly, "I remember there were ghost ships, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Guston explosion. They are all unsolved mysteries."
Du Mei nodded and said, "Yeah, that's right. And if the animals that disappeared were from the deep mountains and forests, maybe no one would know about it."
"There's a problem here." Liu Wan stood up with a frown. "I'm a language researcher, so I have to look at it from a linguistic perspective. The origin of the Spanish here is at least the Spanish of the 20th century. Many words and usages do not exist in earlier Spanish. But Xi Luo told me that this area has been speaking this language for thousands of years, and there has been no obvious change. This doesn't match the timeline."
Xiao Chen frowned. Indeed, this problem seemed difficult to explain with his guess. The others also fell into deep thought. The original space problem became even more difficult to understand when it came to the change of time.
After a while, Luo Ling spoke up: "We have broken through space, will we also break through time? The time on both sides may not be equal. You remember the saying that one day in heaven is one year on earth. Maybe this is the case between these two worlds?"
"Ah? No way." Du Mei shouted, "I have been here for more than ten or twenty years, and then returned to my original world. Only a few days have passed. In front of my boyfriend, I have become a 40-year-old old woman, right?"
"Who knows whether I can go back or not? Why are you so worried?" Ding Lunquan said with a wry smile.
After hearing this, Xiao Chen also smiled bitterly in his heart. Yes, who knows