"It is my fault."
Seeing the boy begging, the gold tooth boss shivered and lit another cigarette, took a deep breath, and said, "Your generation is actually far luckier than ours, because you have never seen the past. On a good day, I have long been used to the torture of purgatory, and I will never be like me, tossing and turning every suffocating night, recalling the past, the past and the past.
"There is no loss without gain, no pain without happiness, no fear of death without real life, ignorance is happiness, ignorance is a gift, and death is the ultimate rest.
"But now... brat, you already know it, and you will never forget it, sorry."
"It's okay, I think this is very good, really, thank you boss."
Bai Xiaolu choked up and said, "I'm just, I'm just too greedy. I hope that every day can be like today, with such clean water and such a peaceful environment. I can play "Strong Hand Chess" with my boss."
"Yes, you are too greedy."
Gold Tooth Boss smiled, "It's impossible."
"If time can really turn back and yesterday can really reappear, how good would it be?"
Bai Xiaolu tremblingly said, "Then we can repeat today again and again, regardless of the nuclear war outside, wasteland and wasteland, we will always hide in today, keep playing "Strong Hands Chess", after one game, we will start another game, forever That's all.
"No, it's more than that. If time can really be turned back, maybe we can stop everything, stop the damn nuclear war, stop all disasters that destroy peace and destroy mankind! In that case, maybe the boss can find your wife and My child, my mother will not die either, she will lead me to find my father!"
"you're drunk."
The golden tooth boss' knuckles turned white inch by inch, he suppressed himself forcibly, and said word by word, "Yesterday will not reappear, and time cannot flow backward. Life is not a game, and there is no reason to start again after finishing a game."
"Really, really not?"
The white deer seemed to be really drunk, his face and eyes were red and frightening, and he cried out like a little animal that had fallen into a trap and struggled, "You and my brother are both 'capable', aren't you all capable? Very powerful, can manipulate the 'four basic forces', even move mountains and seas, and draw power from the sun, moon and stars? Why can't there be a superpower that can reverse time and change everything, why!"
"Because the mysteries of time are far more complex, obscure and mysterious than the mysteries of space, according to Yuri's speculation, unless the four basic forces of 'strong interaction, weak interaction, electromagnetic force and gravity' can be unified Force', and then use the 'power of heart' to promote and increase, and fully crack and integrate the 'Grand Unified Theory', only then can it be possible to peek into one billionth of the mystery of time."
The golden tooth boss sighed, "This is impossible, at least, it is impossible on Earth."
"Impossible 'on Earth'?"
Bai Xiaolu keenly grasped the point, and his eyes burst into unstoppable sharpness, "What do you mean, it is impossible on 'earth', so where is it possible?"
"This… "
The golden tooth boss shook his steaming head, hesitated for a while, and said, "Yuri is a demon, but he is also an out-and-out genius. He has done a lot of research on the origin of superpowers in Camp X, A lot of extremely interesting conjectures have been drawn, one of which is that he believes that superpowers come from outside the sky, that is, in the depths of the universe, among the stars, it is meteorites that brought superpowers to the earth."
"what?"
Bai Xiaolu's eyes widened, and he stammered, "Meteorite, meteorite?"
"That's right, do you know how an all-out thermonuclear war breaks out?"
The boss of Jinya stretched out his two fists together and wrestled with each other, "At the beginning of the 21st century, the major powers of human civilization did collide and rub against each other, and even caused many small-scale conflicts and proxy wars, but each other has The huge nuclear arsenal and missile defense system are in the terror balance of "strategic nuclear deterrence". No one wants to die with the other side. A full-scale thermonuclear war may not break out so early.
"However, on the eve of the war, a small-scale meteorite rain broke into the atmosphere and attacked the missile defense bases and nuclear arsenals of the major powers very precisely, breaking the balance. Make a piece of scorched earth.
"Yuri believes that it is these meteorites that break the balance, or the meteorites that came from the same direction in the past few decades, brought some extremely special things from the depths of the universe, slowly changed the physique and soul of some human beings, and finally reached At the critical point, a 'capable person', or 'new human being' was born."
"There is such a thing!"
This is the first time Bai Xiaolu has heard such a statement, and he feels strange no matter how he thinks about it, "However, in recent decades, there has not been a large-scale meteorite rain hitting the earth. A few meteorites can accurately hit all The nuclear arsenal and missile defense backbone of the great powers?"
"Strange, isn't it?"
Golden tooth old road, "So, Yuri is very suspicious that these meteorites are not formed naturally, but some kind of weapon, from the depths of the universe...another civilization, another intelligent precision-guided weapon.
"Yuri believes that since human beings can master a certain degree of superpowers by relying on these fragments of meteorites, if they can go back to the source, find the source of meteorites, find another civilization, another kind of starry sky wisdom, there may be hope. Completely crack the mystery of the 'Four Fundamental Forces' and even the 'Grand Unified Theory', who knows?"
"so-"
Bai Xiaolu suddenly became excited and smart, "If you want to reverse time, you have to go to the depths of the universe, to the end of the star sea, to find a higher level of civilization and wisdom!"
"Don't get excited, kid, don't get excited."
The overlord of the wasteland tried his best to reassure the boy, "This is just Yuri's guess, it's just the crazy nonsense he uttered in an extremely excited situation, not to mention, how could you go to the depths of the universe, the end of the star sea?"
"Why is it impossible?"
Bai Xiaolu looked at the strong hand chess on the ground, held a chess piece tightly in his palm, and bled, "As long as I can reverse time and save everything, I can endure any hardship, I am not afraid of any pain, and I am willing to pay any price! "
"That's going to be a long, long journey."
The golden tooth boss looked at Bai Xiaolu, with intense pain on his face, shook his head and said, "Little devil, you will lose a lot of things, maybe everything."
"Is there anything else I have to lose?"
Bai Xiaolu looked at his bleeding palm and grinned, "Also, as long as time goes back and yesterday reappears, everything that was lost can be found, isn't it?"
…
That night, the boy dreamed again.
This time it was a dream that was so good, so good that I didn't want to wake up.
He dreamed that thermonuclear war did not break out, the small mountain village they lived in was full of flowers, and there were patches of colorful orchards and farmlands at the foot of the mountain, and the air was full of tangy fragrance.
He separated from his elder brother. The older brother is a handsome young man, the younger sister has neat legs and feet, and the mother is not dead or crazy. The family sits on a picnic on the mountainside, watching the hard work of the people at the foot of the mountain. He sang a lot of songs with his sister, while he and his brother just smirked and drank sweet and sour fruit wine.
Ah, and Dad, they found Dad, Dad is a middle-aged man as tall as a mountain, unshaven, smells a little bit heavy, looks like the boss with gold teeth - of course, the version with black hair, black eyes, and yellow skin, Dad Talking loudly, laughing loudly, also taught them to play "Strong Hand Chess", he, brother and dad played together.
This dream is so beautiful that the boy subconsciously knows that it is not true, but it does not prevent the boy from keeping all the laughter and tears in the dream, in the good old days.
Finally, the dream is coming to an end.
The sun was setting, dragging the boy's shadow into a long, black snake.
"Don't you want it to end like this?"
Suddenly, the vague shadow really wriggled like a poisonous snake.
"Hey?"
The boy's eyes widened, startled.
"Do you want all of this to become a reality, and yesterday really reappears, and all the joy and happiness can be repeated indefinitely?"
His shadow continued to ask him.
In the dream, all the absurdity seemed normal, and the boy's cowardice turned into curiosity, Bai Xiaolu asked, "Who are you?"
Shadow smiled.
For the first time, Bai Xiaolu knew that his own shadow could also laugh, and it was so... weird.
"I am you."
The shadow said in a low and charming voice, "You will be hundreds of millions of years later."
"what?"
Bai Xiaolu was stunned, and stammered, "After hundreds of millions of years, I, how could I, you, how could you—"
"do not waste time."
The shadow said, "You don't know how many lives I burned and how many planets I sacrificed to send you a message from hundreds of millions of years... During these hundreds of millions of years, you and I have done very well, but I want to completely Rewinding time, restarting everything, 'very good' is not enough, we have to do better... Hey, what the hell are you doing? I extinguished billions of stars, and paid such a terrible price, just to pay the price of eons ago Say a few words by yourself, but you actually don’t care, are you distracted?”
"No, I'm watching it."
Bai Xiaolu said, "Didn't you see it?"
"it?"
Shadow froze, "What is it, I can't see it, tell me, what is it!"
"Vulture."
Bai Xiaolu stared at his eyes, and couldn't help but said, "Such a vulture with big watery eyes that looks cheap and coquettish, you didn't see it?"
"Water-eyed... mean and coquettish... Vulture?"
Shadow was silent for a moment, then his voice suddenly became sharp and angry, "Tell me, what is it doing, tell me, what is this damned vulture doing!"
"It's going around in circles, like it's dancing, dancing something, ballet."
Bai Xiaolu said honestly, "I don't know the specific play, I'm sorry, I can't concentrate after being harassed by it-what did you just say, you are me after billions of years, what are you going to do?"
Shadow was silent for a long, long, long, long time.
Then, the dream broke with the roar of the shadow.
Seeing the shadow soaring into the sky, Bai Xiaolu devoured the vulture in one gulp, as if wrapping the vulture in a sack and beating it head-to-head.
"You stalking bastard, you dirty and vile cockroach, you sneaky bacterium, you vile and shameless virus, get the hell out of me, get out of my core!"
This is the voice of the shadow, for some reason, so angry.
"Oh, oh, pain, pain, pain, pain, death, death, death, surrender, surrender, brother, I surrender, uncle, uncle, can I ask you, uncle, please don't hit uncle, at least don't hit your face , I rely on my face for food! Vultures are so innocent and harmless to humans and animals, how can you bear such a heavy hand? Have you forgotten the oath of "Love vultures, everyone is responsible"? Pain, pain, death , help, come here, Hong Chao has beaten someone, Hong Chao has beaten someone to death!"
This, Bai Xiaolu doesn't know whose voice it is, er, and doesn't really want to know.
The dream is so inexplicable, and I wake up in a daze, and I always feel... weird.
This was supposed to be a pure, bleak, hopelessly noir story.
It's the story of a boy who lost everything, became unrecognizable, tried to look back but could never look back, and even forgot who he was.
However, since the appearance of the vulture, everything has become weird.
It's like a pot of hot porridge mixed with a rat droppings.