[Origin·One]
Legends through the ages often happen in ordinary afternoons.
On a cloudy day in the 21st century, a baby girl was born on a planet we are familiar with.
There is no way to verify her life experience, because she was abandoned when she was born.
If the abandoned baby survives by chance, is sent to an orphanage, or is adopted, they can live an ordinary life. But our baby girl was not very lucky. She was picked up by an organization that uses children for begging.
The baby girl would be given sleeping pills before she could remember anything, and would be held in swaddling clothes by a strange woman, sitting by the side of the street crying and begging for money to save the girl.
When she grew into a little girl, she would kneel at the gate of the station every day, kowtow to her uncles and aunts, and then hand over the money she collected to the organization in exchange for food for the day.
The biggest achievement a girl could imagine at that time was nothing more than a few dollars more.
If you look back at this scene from a distant future, it will add a sense of absurdity.
[Origin · 2]
There are many children in the begging organization, and they all sleep in an abandoned factory at night.
The factory is located in the wilderness, and several workers died for unknown reasons before. The police couldn't find out the reason, and finally stopped using it. Because the place is unlucky, no one came to take over.
The children grew up in this haunted place, and sure enough, every few years, some of their companions would die strangely.
One second he was walking fine, and the next second he suddenly fell to the ground and couldn't get up.
The organization didn't care about these little lives, and buried them hastily on the spot. The children have also become numb to this, and spend all their time mourning their companions trying to cheat more money.
Only our girl was thinking different things.
She was neither educated nor intelligent. It's just that in the life of looking at people's faces and begging for money all the year round, I gradually honed a terrible power of observation.
Only she discovered a secret: the two little friends who died several years later fell in the same place in the factory, and there was no difference.
[Origin·3]
The girl stared at the place of the dead day and night.
No matter how you look at it, it's just an open space without any landmarks and nothing special. She also took the risk to walk over there, but she didn't wait for the accident to happen.
Even so, she still felt that there was something "something" invisible to the naked eye.
[Fate · One]
"What is this?" Lin Kai asked.
The landlord said: "As you can see, this is a picture."
Lin Kaidao: "I know it's a picture, and I can tell that it's a building. But shouldn't your spies keep an eye on the Pioneering Group? What does it mean to bring this picture back at this time?"
The landlord stared at the drawings on Lin Kai's case, and said solemnly: "This is a very tall building."
"..."
The landlord said: "Have you ever seen such a tall building?"
Lin Kai was stunned for a moment: "No. Isn't the tallest building in the world the one that the emperor built for you in the capital? The one with the words 'The landlord is a good man will live a safe life'—it seems to be the seventh floor?"
The landlord said: "This painting is that building."
"..."
Lin Kaidao: "The painting method is quite artistic. Those who don't know it think it is Tiangong."
"Not artistic. That's how it looks now."
Lin Kai asked secretly: "What do you mean? This building was rebuilt by the Pioneering Team?"
The landlord nodded.
Lin Kai asked incredulously: "When is it, they still have time to build a house?"
[Fate 2]
A few months ago, the Wulin League won the help of the Fubo Army. So far, the balance between the two forces has been completely broken, the Wulin League has been victorious, and the Pioneering Group has been defeated.
Jiangshan is finally about to welcome a new owner.
However, also a few months ago, the Wulin League received a piece of frightening information.
The time travel of the core members of the Pioneer Group was not accidental, but took advantage of a certain law in the universe - they called it "singularity".
After the pioneer team fell into decline, they began to search for the singularity of this world, trying to travel through it again.
"As a result, they have gone through too many time travels over the years, and finally suffered retribution, and the order of time and space has been disrupted. Now not only your Great Liang and my hometown, but even the passage to the third world has been opened. Once people from the new world Once they converge into a large scale, another round of war will begin.”
The landlord was so tired that his face was expressionless: "A group of demons dancing wildly is a sign of the end of the world."
Lin Kai looked at the landlord. Since a few months ago, his hedonistic strategist seemed to be a different person, and he suddenly became conscientious.
Lin Kai was not at all pleased. Being busy means not being sure.
[Fate · Three]
"Born at the wrong time." Lin Kai sighed.
He has devoted himself to managing the Wulin League for more than ten years, and he is only one step away from owning the country, but he finds that the country may be gone in three seconds.
The landlord rubbed his brows and said, "I won't let this world end here, I still want to stay here and enjoy the happiness. Since only the top leaders of the Pioneering Team are familiar with the rules of crossing, they must be caught and tortured to obtain information. Pick up the pieces."
Lin Kai was silent for a while, but decided to ask: "Then have you ever thought that maybe they are in a hurry to escape precisely because this mess is out of control?"
"Or maybe they just don't want to pay the price of cleaning up."
The word "price" fell heavily on the case, cracking cold lines.
The two were relatively silent.
Lin Kai left one last question unanswered: If the price is too high, will you follow their lead and leave
[Fate · Four]
The landlord took a deep breath and said, "No matter what, we have to catch someone. Is it possible for us to invade the capital within three days?"
Lin Kaidao: "You are dreaming, our people are still hundreds of miles away from the capital, and the Pioneering Team has gathered everyone to retreat to the capital. That is their last line of defense. It will take at least ten and a half months to break through..."
Lin Kai looked at the landlord's face.
Lin Kai said carefully: "Why, will something terrible happen within three days?"
The landlord pointed to the picture on the case.
Lin Kai had a flash of inspiration, and his heart suddenly became heavy.
The host said: "Pioneering team, probably have found the singularity."
His voice seemed erratic in the dead silence of the study: "If I'm not mistaken, the singularity they found should be near my building, and it should be in a very high place."
[Origin·Four]
"I told him not to climb such a high place, and he insisted on saying that life is about taking risks..." the mother on TV burst into tears.
The reporter asked her: "Did he like to climb outside tall buildings before?"
The mother choked and said: "I have loved all kinds of extreme sports since I was a child, and this time I kept it from me..."
At this point, the scene switched back to the studio, and the host added: "But according to the surveillance video, Yang did not fall to his death by mistake, but suddenly lost consciousness before falling. This building is the tallest building in the area. When it was just completed five years ago, some youths climbed with bare hands and died suddenly at the location indicated by the camera, and the police are investigating the cause.”
The woman turned off the TV and bowed her head in thought.
The original baby girl has grown into an adult. Among the little friends who were begging together, only one out of ten survived safely.
Some died, some escaped. The woman did not choose to escape, her role was reversed, and she became the organizer who used the child to beg. The trajectory of life left no room for her kindness, and she became a greedy, sensitive, and ruthless person.
The bizarre story in the news reminded her of a secret that had been accumulated in her heart for many years.
Women have a wicked instinct. She believed there must be some connection between "that place" in the factory and the news.
[Origin·5]
The woman tried to investigate, but she had no clue. Instead, she read all the propaganda books of various cult organizations.
Until the third year, by chance, she got a book with a very small circulation, which was self-published by an unsuccessful scholar a few years ago.
The book records the theories created by scholars. He calls it a theory, but mainstream academia derides it as "an alzheimer's delusion."
— There is a "singularity" in our world.
A singularity is a portal to another space-time. The singularity is wandering in the universe, but it has become active in this world in recent decades.
Contrary to popular speculation, singularities are neither fixed at a single location, nor do they wander out of order. It flashes in turn at dozens or even hundreds of specific locations, and each location does not stay for more than one minute.
"So you will find that there are 'frequently dead' locations in many urban ghost stories. I even believe that these death times can also be summarized." The scholar wrote.
Unfortunately, even if there is a pattern, he doesn't have enough data to extrapolate. Fantastic theories without support can only be attacked as delusional.
The woman flipped through the pages, smiling.
At least she knew the scientific name of "that place" in the factory.
[Fate · Five]
"Speaking of singularity, didn't you come here because of a traffic accident?" Zuo Yunqi asked.
Several allies of the Wulin League sat around the table. After Lin Kai listened to the information about the tall building, he urgently called them to the study to discuss matters.
The landlord said: "Yeah, I didn't look at the red light when I crossed the road..."
Long Daxia frowned and said, "What is a red light?"
The landlord said: "... was directly bumped into the green belt."
Long Daxia said: "What is a green belt?"
Lin Kai coughed dryly and said, "Hero Long, if you have time, you should read the newly released "Dictionary of Inter-Translation Between Other Worlds" by the League. The popular writer Fan Aiguo strongly recommends it."
Fan Aiguo, a popular writer, puffed up his chest and said, "I don't dare to be that."
The host knew that Long Daxia was forced to abandon his sword and take up his guns, but deep down in his heart he still had resistance to the traversing equipment, so he didn’t talk too much, just said: “Now that I think about it, the place where the green belt happens to be a strange place. Go ahead."
Zuo Yunqi suddenly asked curiously: "What was the feeling at the moment of time travel?"
[Fate · Six]
The landlord paused and didn't answer for a while.
Zuo Yunqi said: "Oh, forget it."
"It's not impossible to say." The landlord said slowly, "It's just that it can't be described in the existing language."
When he said this, everyone was aroused curiosity. Lin Kai patted popular writer Fan Aiguo: "It's up to you to prove yourself."
Fan Aiguo cleared his throat hesitantly, and said, "I can't tell. If it's death, it's too happy. It's like... It's like a glimpse of something... The truth above our cognition. This is how to describe it It’s too poor, and that feeling is tens of thousands of times beyond the carrying capacity of human words.”
The landlord nodded.
Fan Aiguo was in a daze: "Although it was only for a moment, I will never forget it."
The landlord nodded.
Zuo Yunqi stared at the drawings on the desk, as if he was about to stare out a flower from the blank space on the roof of the painting.
People who have had that experience, what kind of mood will they have if they face the singularity for the second time
[Fate · Seven]
Zuo Yunqi didn't dare to think too much, and brought the topic back: "Since the singularity is at such a high place this time, most of our troops have no time to attack the city and stop it, so we can only resort to dangerous moves?"
The landlord said: "It's difficult to take risks. There are no planes here..."
Long Daxia said: "What is an airplane?"
"..."
Xie Liang, who kept his head down drinking tea as an audience, made a rescue and said, "A mechanism that can fly—that's roughly what it means. It can send people to very high places."
Long Daxia said in a deep voice: "I don't need a mechanism to fly very high."
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.
Lin Kaidao: "We all know this, but it's useless for you to fly high alone."
Long Daxia said in a deep voice: "To capture the thief, first capture the king, only one person is needed."
Everyone looked at each other again.
The landlord sneered: "My hero, you have already done this thing of breaking into the tiger's den alone once, and you are mentally handicapped when you are a pioneer group, and you will let you succeed a second time?"
Long Daxia frowned and said, "You're talking about the dangerous move of soldiers."
"This is not called a dangerous move by soldiers, it is called giving away your own head."
"I came here to ask for my life, of course because I have some confidence. The weak dare not break into the tiger's den."
The landlord was inexplicably discriminated against, instead of being angry, he smiled and said: "My limbs are not well developed, but I have a good thing called a brain."
The atmosphere was very awkward.
Xie Liang said in vain, "Drink tea, drink tea."