Wesley Series • Truth · Chapter 1 • A quirky container

Let's start with a piece of news published in The Hong Kong Ming Pao on March 19, 1989.

(March 19, 1989, was a very important day for me.) Many, many inexplicable things added together to form a stupid thing, and the stupid thing was like a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger, to the point of being unmanageable, and the "big snowball" suddenly exploded, exploding so violently that I didn't know what had happened in it, and it felt like the end of the world. ）

(The text in parentheses in the previous paragraph, is it very clear?) It doesn't matter, I'm not going to record it, and it has nothing to do with this story and the previous and future stories. ）

The news is as follows: There is anecdote in the Bermuda Triangle where documents have been found to have been resurrected from burials at sea, proving that they died of cancer sixty-three years ago (this newspaper Bermuda Air News) Many mysterious and incredible things have happened in the Bermuda Triangle, and it is said that recently there has been another incident that is difficult to explain scientifically, a Panamanian fishing boat has found a man "dead and resurrected" near the Bermuda Triangle.

Seventy-five miles south of Bermuda, the fishing boat found a white canvas bag on February 26, which turned out to be a living man when it was opened. According to the captain, the man identified himself as Migao. Wells. Keane, who said he had died of cancer sixty-three years earlier, was vague about everything after death. He was later taken to a Bermuda hospital and then to the Zurich Psychiatric Research Centre in an attempt to find out why he had "come back from the dead".

Dr. Zamchen of Bermuda Hospital said the name and thumb on the death certificate were indeed the same as those of the rescued Keane, saying, "Don't ask me why I was resurrected, this question needs to be answered by someone smarter than me." ”

According to the data, Keane moved to Bermuda in 1918, contracted cancer in 1923, and asked for a sea burial after his death. On March 24, 1926, his wife carried out his wishes, wrapped him in a canvas bag and threw him into the sea south of Bermuda.

You have just finished reading the story I wrote about entitled "Wrong Hand", and of course you must remember the shipping giant Hassan, on the sea near Bermuda. I picked up a large box that looked like a frozen meat cabinet, and when the box opened, a person came out of it, who turned out to be an important figure in the Shanghai Knife Society in China a hundred years ago!

If that news had been published three months earlier, naturally everyone would have thought that the story of "Wrong Hand" was inspired by that news, because there are indeed many similarities between the two.

But of course, it is completely different, and the situation of the knife leader in the story of "Wrong Hand" is much more complicated.

The sea near Bermuda, known as the "Sea of Mysteries" or the "Sea of the Devils", has many strange things happening there, and every strange thing can be turned into a story.

Well, not to mention the resurrected one, or the matter of Hassan, Boss Bai, Bai Su, the Gobi Desert, and me—when I remembered that the leader of the knife club, Liu Hatesheng, was a very important figure and could not let him disappear again, I chased him out, but there was no trace of him. Some people in the factory said that when they saw him walk out of the factory, I chased him all the way to the gate of the factory, and the security work of this factory was very tight, and it was not easy to get in and out.

But since I brought him when he came, the gatekeeper did not stop him when he left!

Once out of the factory, the roads are in all directions, who knows where he has gone?

I froze at the factory gate for half a moment, and when I thought that this mysterious figure might never appear again, my heart was even more uncomfortable. For many years, mysterious things, no matter how arduous the process has been, there will always be a day when the truth will come out and the truth will come out. And now, Liu Gensheng this guy, if he does not appear again, then what exactly is going on with his encounter, it will always be a mystery!

Although the others were gone, they left the strange container, but they gave him the source of power when we were defenseless—a state-of-the-art tank car, if there was no fuel power, it was just a pile of scrap iron.

That container may have tens of thousands of functions, but without power, it is just waste.

As I thought about it, I went back to the factory building and heard hassan and boss Bai, a pair of old friends, arguing again. It is still in Shanghainese. The other side. The Gobi Desert was next to the container, studying and discussing. I was very interested in what they were discussing, so I ignored the quarrel between Hassan and Boss White, and I came to the side of the container. What is the source of power taken away by Liu Gensheng, there is no way to know. It is likely that among the small devices is the new energy that the people of the earth do not know how to use. The question is, if the original energy is taken away, can it be replaced by something else?

As long as alternative energy sources are found, many of the roles of this quirky container can be played.

Liu Gensheng said that this container can play many roles, unbelievable, at least one of the roles has been known, is to turn people into hundreds of millions of molecules, and then recover - Hassan because it is in the "rest" state of this change, so he does not have any feelings about "incarnating billions", but if people are in a waking state, incarnating hundreds of millions, what kind of feeling is it?

Be sure to experience it yourself!

This alone is enough to make people itch and be difficult to endure, knowing the extreme danger, but also to try, as boss Bai said: If there is no spirit of adventure, how can human beings progress?

And energy substitution, is not a difficult thing to do, when gasoline is lacking, alcohol, even charcoal, will be used to replace, the same can make the car drive.

Gobi's advice was excellent. He shouted, "Two old people, please listen to me." ”

Hassan and Boss Bai glared at him and actually stopped talking, which surprised Gobi, so he immediately seized the opportunity to speak: "I... We believe that if we continue to study this container, there will be no more suitable place in the world than this factory. ”

Hassan's face was ugly: "What do you mean?" This thing is mine. ”

Desert Busy explains: "No one wants your stuff, just put it here to study." ”

Hassan obviously disagreed, but before he could speak, Boss Bai said unceremoniously, "Forget it, studying that strange container is their specialty, and I have something else to do with you." ”

When I came in, I saw that Boss Bai and Hassan were arguing, but I didn't pay attention to the content of their quarrel, at this time Boss Bai said this, I knew that there was another plan of action, so I looked over to them, and Boss Bai raised his hand: "This Liu Gensheng, since he was a figure with a head and a face in the knife club, there was always a bit of a memory to stay, we went to check the historical documents, check all the information about the knife club, we can always find a little clue."

Hassan agreed with Boss Bai's plan: "This is called the 'General Tu Du' method, and I hope to find out the ins and outs of this person." ”

I heard them say this, and I couldn't help but make a sound, but Bai Su had already bumped me lightly with her arm and elbow, and of course she knew what I was going to say.

What I want to say is that there is not much information left by the knife club, and so many years have passed, and I am afraid that if I try to find Liu Gensheng in the document, it will be in vain! Bai Su didn't let me say it, naturally there was her reason, the two old people rarely agreed, and they were happy, so let them go to a busy one, why bother to sweep their happiness.

So I immediately changed my mouth: "As soon as Liu Gensheng came out of the container, he said that there was something important, and when I met him, he seemed to have been to Shanghai once, and he didn't know what he was going to do in Shanghai." ”

Both Hassan and Boss Bai were interested, and Hassan said, "In the heyday of the Knife Club, the base area was in Shanghai, and when he returned to Shanghai, he went to find his roots." ”

Boss Bai frowned: "It's been a hundred years, what roots can I find?" At that time, the people who were still alive were afraid that he was the only one, at that time, you and I were not born, and now you and I have become old demons. ”

Hassan narrowed his eyes: "It's very difficult to say, anyway, you and I have decided to go to Shanghai to collect information, and it is also good to check his behavior in Shanghai by the way." ”

The Gobi Desert was shocked: "He... Is a person more than a hundred years ago, where the travel documents come from, how can they come and go? ”

Boss Bai glanced at him, and there was a tendency to disdain the answer, I was afraid that they would be embarrassed, so I said: "Liu Gensheng must have had a great adventure, and he cannot be treated as an ordinary person." ”

The Gobi Desert still shook his head, thinking that things were very incredible. Boss Bai and Hassan came to the container again, looked at it for a while, and Saidao Saidao: "I feel very sleepy, how do you look?" ”

Bai Su said, "It's like sleeping." ”

Boss Bai felt pity: "If Liu is very late, I may incarnate into a billion, then I don't know what it is like?" ”

Hassan waved his hand, "There is no taste, I didn't know that such a thing had happened." ”

Boss Bai nodded, "As soon as there is an eyebrow, let us know." ”

When he said this, he pointed to me and Bai Su. The Gobi Desert did not agree. Although Hassan was not very willing, he was also excited to think of revisiting the old place with his childhood friend, and this thing became a small thing in the factory research.

At that moment, the four of us bid farewell to the factory and went to the villa in Hassan. Along the way, the two old people talked about the situation of Shanghai's palm and life, and Boss Bai was once the leader of the Seven Gangs and Eight Associations, and he naturally knew the activities of the gang very well.

He said: "The knife club used to do pirate business, and suddenly rose in Shanghai, almost without a process, and the power was so big that it could almost oppose the officers and soldiers and openly rebel." Later, it suddenly failed, there was no slag, the process was very mysterious, I had long wanted to study it well, this time it was good, I could take the opportunity to make this wish. Alas, when you are old, you have to do things at random, which one to do is which one, if you want to do it, where is such a long life!

He suddenly became sad, and Bai Su and I naturally did not dare to talk, and Hassan sighed for a moment.

After two days at Hashan Villa, the two elderly people still disagreed. Hassan wanted to go with great fanfare on the grounds that it was important to be able to enjoy privileges in that place. If, as a world-famous shipping industry magnate, he took the ship into Wusongkou and moored the boat on the Bund, the natural scenery would be so great that he could do whatever he wanted. And boss Bai is in favor of "micro-service private visits", on the grounds that the two people are so old, there is no time to do boring things, quietly go in to do things, time is precious, should not be wasted.

They kept arguing, and I said to Bai Su, "No matter how they go, this matter has finally come to an end." We— "

Bai Su stretched out a lazy waist: "We should go back!" ”

I gently hugged her. The next day, we came back, and as soon as Wen Baoyu knew we were coming, he came to the door with Nonsense, and he shouted, "What is the situation?" After I listened, I had to call Switzerland immediately to give me the beautiful scenery, and they waited to hear the answer. ”

As soon as I told him what had happened, Wen Baoyu paused, "The leader of the knife club should not have been let go." ”

I smiled bitterly: "Who doesn't know?" But his movements were fast, and he was so chaotic that he was suddenly gone. ”

Wen Baoyu tilted his head sideways, "If he can come and go freely in time and space without the help of the device in the container, then he will not be able to find him." ”

Wen Baoyu's words made my heart move, Liu Gensheng did not rely on devices, and he might not have the ability to come and go freely in time and space, but so what? The world is so big that it is easy to find someone.

At this time, Wen Baoyu took out a page of newspaper clippings, which carried the news introduced at the beginning, and he added: "The sea area fished up by the container is a bit strange, you can send someone there to investigate." ”

Don't look at Wen Baoyu sometimes thinking wildly, but sometimes the proposal is also very good. Anyway, Hassan had ships under his command, and sent a few out to search the sea where the strange container was found day and night, and maybe something would be found. Thinking of this, I immediately called the villa in Hashan, but the housekeeper replied: "The master and Mr. Bai left eight hours ago." ”

I took a breath, they were gone, it seemed that the opinion of the white boss prevailed, and they "micro-service private visits", not with great fanfare. I had no hope at all for the two of them on their trip to Shanghai, estimating that they would return in a few days, and then it would not be too late to propose to Hassan to search at sea.

Wen Baoyu was very interested in the matter of the knife club, and shouted: "Shanghai, a big city, actually called a gang to occupy, is really strange and strange, how did I not know that there will be a gang called the knife club?" ”

I said coldly, "There are too many things you don't know, why just a knife!" ”

Wen Baoyu was also interested, he knew that my words were irrefutable, so he immediately changed the topic: "As soon as Liu Gensheng came out, he immediately went back to Shanghai...　”

I waved my hand and didn't want to discuss it with him, so I said, "I'm not sure if he's really been to Shanghai, but I just speculate that this guy is very hateful and won't say anything." In his expression, I could see that he did not seem to have achieved his goal--this kind of discussion ended here, okay? ”

I thought that Wen Baoyu and Hu Said would inevitably agree to such a statement, and who knew that even the nonsense, who had never liked to talk, also cried out with Wen Baoyu: "Of course not." ”

I snorted and stared at them, and Wen Baoyu raised his hand: "There has never been a Wesley story, there is no end." ”

I thought about it for a while, and the truth is true, but once Liu Gensheng left, he couldn't find him, things wouldn't make progress, and even if he found him, he wouldn't say anything, it was helpless, and I couldn't think of any way to make him reveal his secret.

I don't think Hassan and Boss Bai will gain anything by going to Shanghai, nor do I believe that the Gobi Desert can find a substitute for power.

The whole thing, there is no way to go, I feel very disgusted, so I also have the idea of giving up.

I sneered, "Just let this thing break an example?" ”

Hu Shu and Wen Baoyu looked at each other and shook their heads, Wen Baoyu even deliberately angered me: "You want to give up, let's talk to Dr. Yuan Zhenxia, he must be interested in tracking it down." ”

Bai Su interjected softly at this time: "It is not necessary that every story must have a falling end." ”

Wen Baoyu said in a deep voice, "There must be a good story." ”

Bai Su smiled, "Is the story of "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" bad?" Fighting the invincible hand of the world, the golden-faced Buddha Miao Renfeng and the flying fox Hu Fei, whether Hu Fei's knife will be cut down after all is a mystery of eternity. ”

Xiao Bao rolled his eyes: "I remember a gold expert who said that this was the author's reason for making things up, and this story has always been incomplete." ”

Nonsense suddenly had a whim, waving his hands, asking everyone to pay attention to his words: "If in the course of the competition, there is suddenly a force that makes time freeze, or in that particular time, time loses its effect, everything becomes static, and this situation happens when Hu Fei's knife will be cut, what will happen?" ”

Wen Baoyu has a natural adaptability to all kinds of strange assumptions, nonsense is very complicated, I will come to mind, Xiao Bao has clapped his hands and shouted: "Good idea, if this is the case, then, as long as this situation does not change Hu Fei's knife, it will never be cut, not that he does not want to cut, it is that he cannot move." ”

I snorted, "In such a situation, will people still have thoughts?" ”

Wen Baoyu suddenly gave a shiver and looked shocked: "If in such a situation, people still have thoughts, it is too terrible, it has been frozen there, eight hundred years, can not move, that is much more terrible than death!" ”

Xiao Bao spoke exaggeratedly and his expression was full of expressions, and I rebuked: "If there is such a situation, of course, the mind will also be still, and I don't know anything." ”

Wen Baoyu looked at me, and although he did not open his mouth, his expression was obviously asking, "Why are you so sure?" ”

This look of his was so disgusting that I blurted out, "In that vessel, Hassan is in a state of rest, decomposed into molecules, but he doesn't know anything." ”

When I say this, I am just giving an example, and the fact that this example is rushed is also a bit paradoxical. But as soon as the words came out, the four of us were invariably the same. With a low cry of "Ah," we thought of something very important at the same time.

Nonsense has just assumed a situation in which time suddenly disappears—time is invisible and untouchable, so abstract that it doesn't seem to use an adjective like "disappearing," but since time is a phenomenon that exists, it can naturally disappear.

Or, in this case, time ceases to exist, time stops, time ceases to function, and the meaning is the same.

Here another very contradictory situation arises, for man has no idea what that situation is, and in that case everything stands still, and it is only an assumption.

But what if, in this case, everything is stationary and not in a particular space in this case, and time is still going on?

Hassan, I, and Boss White had all entered the container, and in that container, they were in a static state, whether they had pressed those buttons or not. Within that container, time disappears, creating the kind of special environment that nonsense assumes?

All four of us were thinking at the same time: if not 100% in line with this assumption, at least a similar situation.

In that way, in that vessel, it is the same for a long time, because in that vessel there is no time, it is an environment without time!

Then, Liu Gensheng was an ancient person a hundred years ago, and it was very easy to accept that if he had been in this container, or had been in the container for many years, time would not work for him.

Inadvertently, there is such a hypothesis, and this hypothesis is related to the mystery of Liu Gensheng, which makes us very excited.

Wen Baoyu waved his hand, "The leader of that small knife society may have obtained that container a hundred years ago, and he has lived so long by relying on that container, and that container is the treasure of longevity." ”

Nonsense retorted: "It's not treasure at all, you think, time doesn't exist, people are in a static state, what's the difference between that and death?" ”

Wen Baoyu said, "Of course, it's very different, he won't wake up when he dies, he can pre-calibrate the time of awakening at any time; and that container doesn't know how many other functions there are, alas!" Saddle saddle saddle"

When he said this, he even sighed three times, with an itchy and unbearable look, stayed for a while, and then added: "That thing is more fun and much more fun than Chen Changqing's house." ”

I asked and snorted, "Be content to be human." ”

Xiao Bao paced around: "If only the Gobi Desert could find an alternative power, it would be good." ”

I sneered a few times and didn't say anything. The whole thing, with such a hypothesis, is certainly exciting, but it is of no use to the progress of the whole thing. Putting man at rest and disappearing (assuming) is only one of the functions of that vessel, and another known function is to break people down into billions of molecules. What power?

These two functions alone cannot make complete assumptions, and if many functions are added, they are even more complex, and even the best scientists on the earth, before this container, are afraid that they are like cavemen in front of a large computer, which cannot be understood at all.

Wen Baoyu suddenly patted his thigh again: "This thing is in our hands, if we can't study a famous hall, it is really a vain person." ”

I glared at him, "From now on, you don't do anything, you specialize in research, only to be afraid that when your hair is gray, you still can't study anything." ”

Wen Baoyu accepted this sentence very well, perhaps because he was lazy by nature and didn't want to spend time studying it at all, so he added, "It would be good to find out the leader of that knife club." ”

When he said this nonsense, I didn't bother to pay attention to him, but I also thought of a question: Liu Gensheng was able to live a long life, he was able to have many abilities, all by relying on the various devices in this container, if he left the container, he was just an ordinary person who knew martial arts, but he was so anxious, just unloaded the power device, was there something extremely important to him, and he had to rush to deal with it?

Things seem to be getting more and more confusing, and only then an acceptable assumption is made, and then there are many more problems.

Wen Baoyu and Hu Said talked about something and published something, but I didn't pay attention to it, only to hear him finally say loudly: "I guess Liu Gensheng must have gone to Shanghai again, his old lair is in Shanghai, and his main thing to do is naturally in Shanghai." ”

After a while, he added, "If Hassan and Old Master Bai happen to meet him in Shanghai, it will be good." ”

I said coldly, "Shanghai has a population of more than 10,000 people. ”

Wen Baoyu said, "Both of them go for the same purpose, and the chances of encountering them are great." ”

Boy, this sentence makes a lot of sense. Hassan and Boss Bai went to find the materials of the Knife Society, and if Liu Gensheng also wanted to find the documents of that year, the possibility of meeting in the library or archives was naturally greatly improved.

There are also some old buildings in Shanghai, related to the activities of the Knife Society, which are listed as monuments, and if they all go to see it, they will naturally have the opportunity to meet.

Wen Baoyu saw a sentence that made me nod my head darkly, and I was even more proud: "That power device, I don't know if it is heavy or not?" I don't think he's traveling around with it, maybe he's buried it near the factory...　”

When he said this, he danced with joy: "Asking the Gobi Desert to send a few rovers out may be very rewarding!" ”

I also agree with Wen Baoyu's idea, so I was secretly surprised in my heart, Liu Gensheng must have removed the power device for fear that someone would press the button randomly, he had repeatedly warned that he would break into trouble, if he really found the power device and fell into Wen Baoyu's hands, he was afraid that there would be chaos in the world!

However, I can't think of any way to stop him from informing the Gobi Desert - Wen Baoyu and Boss Bai have a lot of similarities, when doing one thing, don't think much about the consequences, this old and young two, very committed, the reason is also this.

Looking at Wen Baoyu's situation at this time, it was as if he had already found the power device that was taken away by Liu Gensheng, and I didn't bother to pay attention to him.

At this point, it was difficult to have further development, and Wen Baoyu made many wild assumptions, but none of the three of us nodded at his statement, and he felt a little discouraged, and after a moment of silence, he was happy again- this is the cuteness of his character, and he never let frustration take up too much time.

He pointed his fingers and said, "At least we can assume that in that container, we can create an environment of time pause!" So that human life can be carried out in sections! ”

Here, Wen Baoyu coined a new term: "the segmentation of life."

The term he coined is also very vivid, which can very specifically illustrate this strange phenomenon. Taking Liu Gensheng as an example, if a hundred years ago, when he was twenty years old, he had a strange encounter and entered the container, time stopped for him, and twenty years had passed outside, and he came out of the container and was still twenty years old.

Then, after leaving the vessel, he lived under normal circumstances for two more years, then he was twenty-two years old. He entered the vessel again, and then he was in the state of time, and twenty years had passed outside...　

And so on, every twenty years, he leaves the vessel, and is active for two years, then a hundred years is only ten years for his life. Liu Gensheng looks like he is about thirty years old, and his life is "the segmentation of life".

Naturally, his segmented life may not be twenty years, but it can also be thirty years, ten years, or a whole period of one hundred years.

In short, when he was in that vessel, his life was in a state of suspension. This situation is extremely strange, and after the four of us have thought about it for a while, our respective looks are quite strange, and, obviously, at the same time, thinking of a fairly close situation, the four of us said at the same time: "That's like—"

Bai Su stopped first, and I and Hu Said also stopped, Wen Baoyu could not stop as soon as he opened his mouth as usual, so the next words were said by him: "That is like a box of ninety kinds of tapes, every nine minutes of broadcast, press the pause system, pause for thirty minutes, and then play for nine minutes, and then pause for thirty minutes, then, when the tape is finished, the broadcast time of the tape is still ninety minutes, but the time has passed three hundred and thirty minutes!" ”

Nonsense's face was very pale, of course, because he thought of the great flexibility of this "life segmentation method": "If it is theoretically true, wouldn't a person's life be extended to —?"

I took a breath and added what he hadn't finished: "It can be extended indefinitely, a thousand years." Ten thousand years, fifty thousand years...　”

Hu Said involuntarily, his body trembled a little, and he shivered lonely: "Out of the container is the leader of the knife club, that is not unusual, out of the container may also be eighty years old to meet King Wen's Jiang Taigong!" ”

So many ancients can say that why he picked up this Mr. Jiang, I don't know, of course, because everyone's thoughts were very disordered at that time, and there was no special significance for picking up an ancient person casually.

However, the nonsense brought out Jiang Taigong, which caused Wen Baoyu's association to come: "It is best to be Nezha!" ”

Wen Baoyu liked the mythical figure of Nezha very much, often envied that he could cut flesh and return his mother, cut the bones to return to his father, and end his flesh and blood body, and from then on he was free and free, and he no longer had to be bound by the flesh born of his parents. ”

(There are so many traditional Chinese mythological stories with a rich imagination, and the Nezha story is just one of them.) ）

I was afraid that he would list the ancients he liked again, so it was really endless, so I busied myself: "Of course, Liu Gensheng spanned a hundred years in this way." ”

Bai Su was only able to express his opinion until this time: "According to the situation, Liu Gensheng has been in an environment where time has stopped for quite a long time, during which time, when he leaves the container, he may have other adventures. ”

We looked at her, and Bai Su explained: "That container has many functions, he once said to Hassan, Hassan is too old to learn, but it can be seen that he has spent a lot of time learning to use that container!" ”

The white hypothesis raises a new question: At that time, where was the container? From whom did he learn to use the function of this vessel?