The emperors and dynasties are different, but the "Jiang City" is the same.
Ruan Qing asked again, and Twenty-Seven also named several clear place names such as Kaifeng, Jiangning, Lin'an, and Quanzhou. In other words, the continent where Twenty-Seven is located and the continent where Ruan Qing is located are the same continent, and they are both the land of China.
"The problem can only be the timeline." People like Ruan Qing, who have read hundreds of time-travel novels, understood immediately.
Twenty-seven chewed on this new word: "Timeline?"
Ruan Qing stood up and went to the study to get some paper and pen. He sat in the middle of the sofa and started writing and drawing on the coffee table: "Come here and I'll tell you!"
The slender bare arms were so white that they were so close to his eyes.
Twenty-seven held his breath, leaned forward slightly, and looked at the rectangular white paper spread on the coffee table.
Ruan Qing drew a straight line and began to popularize science: "Generally speaking, time is a straight line. My grandfather gave birth to my father, and my father gave birth to me. In other words, Zhang San became the emperor, and the Zhang family became He was emperor for hundreds of years, and then the dynasty changed, and Li Si became emperor, so the Li family continued to work like this for hundreds of years, can you understand how time flows and how history develops? "
Twenty-seven said: "Understood." "Very good." Ruan Qing said, "Look, I connected the flow of time and the development of history into a line. This is the timeline. Do you understand?"
Twenty-seven said: "I understand."
But there was confusion in Twenty-Seven's eyes.
"So these two different timelines are parallel timelines. That is, they take place on the same continent, but have different histories."
Twenty-seven asked: "How did you get up there?"
Ruan Qing thinks this man is really smart! She was quite worried that he, an ancient person, would not be able to accept so many new concepts.
After a while, he raised his eyes: "Huang Liang Yimeng?"
"Yes." Ruan Qing said, "And now you have crossed the timeline, from one world to another. It's like you were supposed to enter a room, but you made a mistake and entered another room."
"It's not entirely true, but it can be understood this way." She said appreciatively, "Let's just say... Well, my timeline is a dream, and your timeline is another dream. No one is true and no one is false. Once you say it, it’s all true, it’s the real world, the real timeline.”
Twenty-seven was silent for a while, and then said: "Three Thousand Worlds."
"Then I don't know." Ruan Qing said, "In my era where you are now, all kinds of knowledge, theories and technologies are far beyond the era when you came, and people's exploration of the universe is beyond your imagination. To the extent that humans have even landed on the moon, there are still many supernatural phenomena that cannot be explained by science."
But a person who had always acted calmly was so shocked that Ruan Qing had to answer him first: "Yes, it's the one above your head now."
She thought for a while and then added: "This kind of rocket can fly out of the clouds. We also have another machine called an airplane that can also fly in the sky, but it can't fly to the moon. , is used for ordinary long-distance travel. For example, from Jiangcheng to Hangzhou, it can be reached in less than an hour using your timing method."
"Understand?"
Twenty-seven did not answer immediately this time, but stared at the two bifurcating lines on the paper.
She drew the bifurcation of the timeline from that "point": "History has changed from this point. So there is a timeline that is different from my timeline. On my timeline, Li Si When he became the emperor, my grandfather gave birth to my father. In another timeline, when Wang Wu became the emperor, he might not even have my grandfather anymore, let alone my father and me. Oh, I forgot to mention that my father is my father. , that’s what dad meant.”
Ruan Qing said: "A machine that can fly into the sky is called a rocket."
Twenty-seven was shocked by the building for the first time since he traveled to this world, and this was the second time he was shocked.
Okay, I can see that he is educated. This is great.
"What kind of power can do such a thing?" he murmured.
The building is crooked.
"Very good. But..." Ruan Qing drew another short line and then clicked a black dot. "There is a problem with this timeline now! You see, there is a problem at this point in time. This problem may be me Grandpa was not the one who gave birth to my father, or maybe because of the change of dynasty, Li Si did not become the emperor, and Wang Wu became the emperor."
"Go to the moon?" he asked in shock, "are you talking about the moon in the sky?"
Twenty-seven's focus was not on the difference between airplanes and rockets. After he was shocked, what he was most interested in was: "So is there really Guanghan Palace on the moon? Can people who land on the moon see Fairy Chang'e? Is Wu Gang there?"
Ruan Qing: "..."
It's seriously crooked.
"No, the myths are all lies." She waved her hand, "Don't believe this. The Jade Emperor and the Supreme Laojun are all made up. The moon is similar to the earth under our feet, the environment is just worse. Up there There's nothing there, it's so cold that no one can live there."
"Friend, friend!" Seeing that Twenty-seven's eyes were bright and he seemed to have many questions to ask, Ruan Qing had to force himself to the front, "These are all trivial matters! Let's talk about the matter in front of us first, shall we?"
Twenty-seven said "cough", as if a little embarrassed: "I'm kidding, Miss Ruan, please tell me."
Ruan Qing also had something she wanted to know—as a lover of time travel and fictional historical novels, she eagerly wanted to know where the timeline went wrong.
Fortunately, I read books on the twenty-seventh. In ancient times, it was said that uneducated people in remote villages did not even know who the current emperor was. Even in particularly remote mountain villages, people may not know about the change of dynasty.
It's different for people who have received education. Twenty-seven can talk about ancient times that are more "ancient" than the era he lives in.
However, if he said something, Ruan Qing would deny it.
"Yi? Never heard of it. The last one!"
"Ying? There is no such dynasty. The next one!" "Zhou? Which Zhou? What is the emperor's surname? Niu? There is actually a royal family named Niu? The next one, the next one!"
Just tracing back all the way, I finally found the bifurcation point of the two timelines.
"Qin lasted three hundred years? Is it the Qin of Qin Shihuang? The Qin of Lu Buwei? The Qin that unified the six kingdoms, with cars on the same track and books on the same page?" She was shocked.
Twenty-seven gave her a definite answer: "It was the First Emperor who founded the Qin Dynasty, which lasted more than three hundred years."
"Oh my God!" Ruan Qing was shocked, "Qin II on our side is dead! Only ten years! "
Twenty-seven was also surprised: "How could this happen?"
Two people pair up in history. It turns out that the young master Fusu did not commit suicide and he succeeded to the throne!
There was a strange person beside him, who "guessed" that the Jiao Zhao was about to happen by observing the stars before it arrived. When the imperial edict came, Prince Fusu saw it and thought, damn, it was true. He immediately drew his sword and beheaded the emissary.
The subsequent historical development was like a wild horse running wild.
The Qin Dynasty had been strong for three hundred years, and it affected all subsequent history. Many of the founding emperors were born in the peaceful and prosperous times. Some became famous ministers or celebrities, while some even lost their names and were lost in history. They may not have even been born at all.
The entire historical line is different from Ruan Qing's side.
After calculating the time, Twenty-Seven came from about a thousand years ago, around the time from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Song Dynasty. But his Mu Dynasty was just about a hundred years old, and it was the stage when a dynasty developed into a peaceful and prosperous age.
"A thousand years!" Ruan Qing took a breath and stretched out a finger tremblingly, "Well, can I, can I...?"
That finger didn't have any threatening power at all. Along the way, Twenty-Seven had already seen that Ruan Qing didn't know any martial arts at all, neither internal nor external skills. He raised his eyebrows but didn't move.
Ruan Qing's finger slowly stretched out and poked his shoulder, paused, and then poked again.
Twenty-seven: "..."
"Oh my God!" Ruan Qing clenched his finger that had touched the "thousand-year-old man" and said excitedly, "A thousand years!"
I touched the ancient people from a thousand years ago!
Twenty-seven was speechless for a while, then asked: "Why is Miss Ruan so excited?"
The eyes were shining, as if they had picked up some treasure.
Ruan Qing said: "You don't understand, you don't understand."
She composed herself and said, "We have a type of novel here. A novel is a storybook, a story made up for people to read."
Twenty-seven nodded.
Ruan Qing continued: "We have a special type of novel called time-travel novels. They are about modern people traveling to ancient times, or ancient people like you traveling back to modern times in reverse. I have been reading this kind of novels since junior high school. , I have read it for more than ten years, and I don’t know if there are a thousand copies.”
Ruan Qing was embarrassed to say that she had dreamed of time travel when she was in her second year of high school, and she had compiled a complete set of necessary information for time travel.
For example, the ratio of gunpowder, the manufacturing methods of soap, glass, and allicin, and memorizing numerous ancient poems and classics. She even tried to teach herself rice hybridization, but gave up after finding it too difficult. After all, in reality, she can't even tell the difference between wheat seedlings and leeks, so it's really difficult for her to engage in agriculture.
"I have always dreamed of traveling through time," she said. "Although now it is not me who has traveled through it, but you who have passed through it. This is also fate. Why did you fall into my car instead of falling into someone else's car?"
When she said this, her eyes sparkled, and she felt uncontrollable excitement.
Twenty-seven understood a little bit: "Is this why you are willing to help me?"
At this point, the topic has been refocused.
Some key things need to be made clear.
"That's understandable." Ruan Qing cleared her throat, "In some cases, you have to listen to me carefully."
Twenty-seven nodded.
"First of all, your situation belongs to... well, I actually don't know what it belongs to." Ruan Qing said, "Those time-travel stories are all made-up stories after all, just like dramas. But now you are living in front of me. , my first advice to you is, don’t expose yourself, don’t let others know that you are an ancient person from a thousand years ago.”
Twenty-seven's expression became serious.
"Because this thing is too... too rare." Ruan Qing said, "If you are exposed, I don't know how the government will treat you. It is certain that you will be taken away for research. In that case, you are likely to lose your personal freedom. In the end The worst case scenario is that they might dissect you, and in that case, you might not even survive."
She tried to be serious: "I'm not being alarmist. Just put yourself in your shoes and think about it. If I traveled to your side and was discovered, how would the people on your side treat me?"
Twenty-seven could answer this question without thinking: "Nine times out of ten, he will be burned to death as a 'demon'."
There is a high probability that he will be crushed to death, and then he will ask eminent monks and Taoist priests to seal and suppress him to prevent the demon's soul from backlash.
Anyway, as a person who is different from the times, he will not end well.
(End of chapter)