Chapter 78: Is this a national time travel? !
At dusk in the Qiongzhou Strait, a strange fleet was slowly sailing on the sea, including a tall cargo ship, a squat flat-deck barge, four fishing boats towing large floating rafts, and a The yacht with its snow-white triangular sail had just arrived from North America to rendezvous.
At this moment, they are embarking on an unprecedented and great voyage - at least this is what the five hundred travelers in the fleet think.
But in fact, at the other end of the Chinese territory, in Vladivostok outside the northern border, there is also a group of smug Chinese travelers doing the same thing, and the total number is as many as two thousand, which is enough for Lingao and his gang. Four times. In addition, thanks to the large amount of arms left over from the Soviet era, the equipment and equipment of the people in Vladivostok are much more sophisticated... But no matter what, these people's journey through time continues.
The dusk gradually fades, the sea becomes darker and darker, and the door to the new world is about to be opened.
Looking at the looming coastline of Hainan Island, every traveler on cargo ships, barges and fishing boats feels very emotional. They were born and grew up in this time and space, and they would have died here. It embodies countless love and hate, disappointment and satisfaction, and countless firsts in life - but at this moment, they are about to leave here and never come back again, just like the farewell of death.
"...The satellite navigation system shows that we are now three nautical miles north and east of Bobu Port."
"...slow down and turn on all the lights!"
"...The ships move closer to the flagship!"
"...Prepare the wormhole!"
As the orders were passed down one after another, all the lights on each ship were turned on. The searchlight on the largest cargo ship, the "Fengcheng Ship", illuminated the deck brightly. The travelers realized that a historic moment was coming. They all stood up and looked at the tail building with wide eyes.
A sound check sounded from the tweeter, and then a high-pitched male voice came out:
"...Attention, prepare for the crossing in five minutes! All personnel wear life jackets and enter the cabin!"
——It is estimated that the wormhole will oscillate due to violent fluctuations in energy when passing through it. In order to prevent someone from falling into the water, except for the necessary deck personnel who fastened safety ropes and stayed at their posts, all other casualties were crowded into the cabin. . Then, the watertight doors were closed.
However, no one noticed that a figure unfortunately fell on the deck without a safety rope.
"...Hey, hey, open the door quickly! Why did you leave me alone outside?"
Huang Shi was carrying a heavy shoulder bag and dragging a bulging travel bag. He stood in front of the tightly locked watertight door, sweating profusely - he had accidentally fallen on the deck and was bitten by a dog. Mud, the pain was so painful that stars appeared in his eyes, and then he got up dizzily, and found the travel bag again. He was thrown out when he fell and got stuck in the gap between the lifeboat and the railing... By the time he finally rescued his travel bag, it had been delayed for a while, and no one else noticed Huangshi. The stragglers locked the door on their own.
To make matters worse, the watertight door in front of Huangshi had no portholes and seemed to have good sound insulation, so no one answered him even after he knocked for a long time. There was a porthole on the lower side bulkhead, and it seemed that someone was leaning out of the window looking out... So Huang Shi, a stupid young man, didn't have time to think too much, so he gritted his teeth and risked getting out from under the railing, trying to get closer. Go to the porthole and wave your hand to ask the people inside to open the door for you...
However, at this moment, an incredible white light suddenly flashed, and a warning sound mixed with excitement and excitement also sounded on the radio:
"...Attention, all ships! Shorten the distance and pass through the wormhole at full speed! Everyone is ready to accept the impact!"
Before Huang Shi could react, a sudden violent jolt threw him out of the boat! But instead of falling into the sea, he heard an inexplicable explosion and saw endless white light. It was such a dazzling white light...
Immediately afterwards, a strange feeling of dizziness came over, causing Huang Shi to completely lose consciousness.
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At the same time, below the deck of the Fengcheng ship, Guo Yi, who had quietly sneaked into the search, and two American agents assisting in the investigation, were excitedly whispering to their superiors on their mobile phones, "...it has been verified that the illegal transport ship The American yacht with arms has indeed joined this group at sea! This is probably the largest cross-border arms smuggling case in the country this year! We are currently lurking on their ship, please provide reinforcements as soon as possible..."
Then, before Guo Yi finished speaking, his cell phone lost signal. At the same time, he was surprised to find that his face and hands seemed to have been exposed to a layer of static electricity, and they were slightly numb... while the other two American agents who were also talking on their cell phones next to him, I also suddenly couldn't make calls.
Immediately afterwards, the Chinese-American agent Xue Ziliang was also horrified to discover that the maritime satellite phone he had spent a lot of money to rent also had no signal.
"...What the hell! What's going on?" Guo Yi and Xue Ziliang suddenly looked at each other, their eyes full of unfathomable confusion and fear.
A short distance away from them, many people were raising their hands in ecstasy, shouting: "...Wear it!"
As of now, none of the travelers on the Fengcheng ship have discovered that a companion named Huang Shi on the ship has disappeared.
But in fact, across the wormhole in Lingao County in the late Ming Dynasty, Huangshi had already arranged manpower in advance and was waiting to welcome their arrival.
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1628 AD, September of the first year of Chongzhen, Lingao County, Hainan Island
After night falls in Lingao County, the streets and alleys are completely silent. After midnight, the city has been under a curfew, making the dark city look particularly eerie. Soldiers were stationed at the intersections of the stone roads throughout the city, ready to check passers-by. Ever since the beacon smoke was lit at Bobu Port, many villagers fleeing from pirates had poured in from the four villages and outside the city. Most of them were They were traveling with their families, and some even brought pigs, cows, chickens, ducks, cats and dogs with them.
Because it is located on a busy maritime traffic artery, Hainan Island has always been a place where pirates are extremely rampant. In history, pirates have raided Lingao many times and besieged the county seat. Once, they actually captured Lingao Zhi County. The governments of the Ming and Qing dynasties did not have any countermeasures against this. They simply built beacon towers and raised fire to call the police whenever they saw any movement at sea. The pirates parked their boats here to get water, but everyone was safe. Once the boat went deep into the harbor and landed, there would be sentries lighting beacon fires. Fireworks could be seen along both sides of the Wenlan River for dozens of miles around Gaoxian County, telling the people to take shelter as quickly as possible, and the city gates were immediately closed.
Every year after the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, typhoons gradually subside and pirate attacks become more frequent. Local people have long been accustomed to this.
In response to the crisis, the county has opened various roadside temples to accommodate these evacuated farmers, but there are still many people sleeping rough on both sides of the stone road. Even animals probably know that disaster is coming and rarely cry out. Only the ignorant children were still crying and being scolded by adults in low voices. Red or white paper lanterns are hung outside the government offices and temples, with dim lights, swaying under the eaves. In the dim light, notices could be seen plastered on the walls. From time to time, a watchman would carry a small lantern, bang a wooden clapper, and walk by with a few people.
A lantern was hung every short distance on the city wall, and people carrying spears patrolled back and forth, making the atmosphere in the city extremely tense. From time to time, people were whispering in the darkness of the street, exchanging sensational words such as "big iron ship", "short-haired thief", "witchcraft", and "sharp firearms".
In a small manor on the outskirts of the county, there was a strong man wearing country squire clothes, but with an exceptionally strong and capable figure. He was giving orders to a subordinate who was half kneeling on the ground, "...The job this time is finally completed! I am here Lingao continues to wait and see for two days, and you immediately set out on horseback at night to go to Fucheng and take a fast boat back to Xiapu, Fujian. Then take this letter to report to Marshal Huang, saying that the big iron ship he asked me to wait for in Lingao is coming! "< br>
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In addition to these time-travelling warriors who voluntarily abandoned the old world and rushed to the new world, more travelers were involuntarily involved in different time and space - not far from the Qiongzhou Strait where the five hundred Lingao people crossed. , a strange storm hit a city along the coast of Guangdong.
Without receiving any weather warning or even any warning, the inexplicable wind force almost exceeded level 8 swept across the crowded dock area. A strong wind roared in, and even the berthing area in the port had big waves. The docked ships made a squeaking sound like squeezing metal. It seemed that something was boiling on the seabed of the entire port, and the sea water was like It's boiling and ready to move.
Next, the color of the sky changed drastically. Blue lightning threads enveloped the port area like a huge power grid, and a strong whirlwind enveloped everyone. The rolling waves of water hit your face, making it difficult to breathe. Apart from the sound of wind whistling in his ears and the blue light printed on his retinas, his body has lost all other senses. Finally, a strange low-pitched sound like a lowing cow came from the entire port area. People shrouded in blue light seemed to feel that the ground and the sea were being thrown up at the same time, and everything in front of them was upside down and spinning violently!
On this day, an extremely bizarre typhoon, without any forecast from the meteorological station, landed in the port area of the city accompanied by a fierce thunderstorm, and then dissipated instantly after the thunderstorm. The coast seemed to be severely attacked by some giant beast. After a bite, almost one-tenth of the port area was destroyed by typhoons and thunderstorms, along with several moored and passing ships, leaving only a huge gap stripped of earth and stone. Afterwards, statistics showed that more than four landside areas of the port warehouse area were stripped away and disappeared, along with five ships and more than 500 people missing...
But in another time and space, these missing people were looking at the incredible sight in front of them, in a daze.
——A wide river appeared in front of us, at least several hundred meters wide, maybe more than a thousand meters wide. Including the land underfoot, both sides of the river are covered with lush forests of mixed coniferous and broad-leaved tree species, and the gaps in the forest are dotted with lush wild grasses.
If the above-mentioned temperate forest scenery is basically normal, then... countless irregular cement masonry, huge and twisted metal brackets, broken and stacked asbestos tiles, and even hundreds of containers, seven crooked Scattered among the riverbank forests, there are occasionally tall red wharf cranes with peeling paint, overturned wharf vehicles and metal beams of the crane towers, all stacked up and interspersed in a haphazard manner.
The most bizarre thing is that five huge cargo ships seem to have fallen from the sky, leaning or turning sideways on the river beach and in the forest. The ship with the most exaggerated posture is like an upside-down rocket, standing straight on the ground. Poke deep in the forest. The crowns of many trees were covered with all kinds of messy packaging, and a few large trees with the densest branches and leaves even supported a small sentry box.
In this surreal place, all kinds of people are shouting to each other, swinging their arms in a nervous breakdown, occasionally running, and then falling down. People's hoarse shouts echoed everywhere in the unfamiliar forest.
The injured people leaned on the river beach, panting, groaning in pain; more people were sweating profusely, looking for their companions among various cement or metal garbage, digging frantically among the rubble. They were holding something, or lying on some mutilated corpse and crying. A very small number of people watched all this indifferently, as if they were stupid, with a bunch of question marks repeatedly floating in their minds:
"...Where are we? What happened before?"
——Welcome to travel through time and space to New York in the 17th century, Chinese people from the 21st century!
Well, although many unlucky souls who were dug out from under the rubble only had time to take a brief look at the strange new world before they died.
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Of course, there are also some cases of passive crossing that are not so tragic - the crew of a certain "Yunsheng No. 1" passenger and cargo ship that was originally traveling on the Yangtze River suddenly discovered the river water outside the ship overnight. It turned into sea water, and the scenery of the Three Gorges turned into a vast sea and barren grassland... What's even worse is that the sun above our heads actually hangs in the northern sky! What does this mean? This means they are now in the Southern Hemisphere!
After organizing the exploration team to go ashore and withstand the baptism of bone arrows and javelins from the tough indigenous people, the travelers of the "Yunsheng No. 1" passenger and cargo ship finally used instruments to determine that this place is located at 33 degrees south latitude. 57 degrees west longitude, which is the Uruguay region of South America in later generations... As for figuring out their era, you have to wait until the first Dutch merchant ship that accidentally passes here a few months later...
Next, several years passed before they discovered the existence of a group of fellow travelers in North America.
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On the same night, the ship that suffered the same fate as the "Yunsheng No. 1" passenger and cargo ship was also the "Cosco Star" - an all-metal structure, 147 meters long, 165 meters wide, registered tonnage It has a capacity of 5,000 tons and a full load displacement of 11,000 tons. It uses green tourism as a gimmick and serves as a luxury passenger. A modern five-masted intelligent sail-controlled galleon used by the ship. Shortly after it set sail from Shanghai, it traveled through the fog to the west coast of Australia in 1630. Immediately, a rear-end collision occurred across time and space and hit a car. A Spanish galleon of about three hundred tons...
Then, from the owner of the sailboat, a frustrated Polish nobleman, the crew and passengers of the "Cosco Star" learned in disbelief the current location - south of Java Island, south of the Timor Sea, Australia Near Derby Port...but the time is January 2, 1630!
A moment later, "former Paladin" Levi, who had just returned from medieval Europe with his wife and children, stood on the deck of the "Cosco Star" with dull eyes, raised the telescope he bought while traveling in Shanghai, and observed what appeared. On the land in the south, a group of kangaroos jumping upright on their legs are clearly visible in the field of vision, and on a tall eucalyptus tree, two koalas are doing life-extending movements as if no one else is watching...
As a result, the poor young father was completely insane for a moment. He dropped the telescope in despair. He first looked at the watch on his hand that showed nothing. Then, in full view of everyone, he made a sound that no one around him could understand. Wailed: "... Damn Lord! Aren't you still willing to let us go? Doraemon! Brother Wang Qiu! No matter who it is! Come and save me!!! I don't want to travel through time anymore!! ! ”
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In addition to these groups of travelers who act collectively in hundreds of people, there are also some travelers who work in small groups or even alone.
However, although the geographical locations where they arrived were different, the time period was relatively similar - probably around the end of the Ming Dynasty.
For example, Wang Dou, a history teacher in modern Chinese society in the 21st century, woke up one day and found himself in the north of Shanxi during the Chongzhen period in the late Ming Dynasty. He was located on East Huailong Road, Xuanfu Town. In the Baoan Prefecture area, his identity is an ordinary Dunjun in Jingbian Dun under Dongjiazhuang, Shunxiang Fort. There is an old mother and a child bride who is not yet married... The name is still Wang Dou.
Another urban white-collar worker woke up and found himself in the countryside of Wuwei County, Anhui Province in the late Ming Dynasty. He became Yu Guozhen, a young landlord whose parents both died. He had a big family behind him and owned a house and more than 80 acres in his name. With so much land, in terms of social status, one can be pampered. It's a pity that the relatives in the family are all hard-hearted and ruthless characters. Instead of pitying him as an orphan, they are all sharpening their knives and preparing to kill him to share the inheritance. If he wants to survive, he must first find a way to recruit some outlaws. It would be better if you kill a few of your uncles to scare the monkeys...
A game producer named Zhang Wei was accidentally electrocuted and sent flying to a beach in Fujian in the late Ming Dynasty in the fourth year of the Apocalypse. Just when he almost drowned in the salty sea water, he was fished out. ——The man who rescued him was named Zheng Zhilong, and there was a man named Shi Lang next to him...
Two young men named Chen Xin and Liu Minyou suddenly became dizzy while hiking together. After waking up, they inexplicably traveled to Jizhou during the Tianqi period in the late Ming Dynasty. Because of their short hair and "strange clothes", they suddenly became dizzy. I was almost arrested as a Tatar by nearby farmers...
There is also a retired special soldier Li Meng who traveled to Jiaozhou, Shandong Province in the late Ming Dynasty. He found that he had become a penniless military household with no land to farm, so he decided to rely on the sea to eat and travel. He embarked on the illegal and criminal path of selling illegal salt. However, this private salt business was also controlled by many local snakes. Li Meng thought that he could not make money by being friendly, so he gathered a group of children from military households who were also extremely poor. While leading them to kill and set fire, he taught them "the golden belt of murder and arson, repairing it" The truth of "a bridge makes up a road without bones" - if you want to survive in this world, you have to work hard to kill people...
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There are too many to list... But no matter how these modern Chinese travelers with different origins and different ideas will collide with each other on the land of China in the first half of the 16th century, or on the earth in the last years, they will create a planet similar to Mars. The huge spark that hit the earth was just this The fact that so many people disappeared at the same time has caused a huge turmoil in the modern Chinese society that is accustomed to peace and tranquility... However, at least this night, I was sleeping soundly with two bold and unrestrained naked ladies in my arms. Classmate Wang Qiu still knows nothing about this.