Chapter 33: The five major forces arrive (Part 1)
"...咻——"
Accompanied by bright flames and roaring roars, a small rocket was launched from the backyard of Ziming Building on Huifu Street in Guangzhou, rising from the ground at an astonishing speed until it was finally lost in the bright starry sky. ...but it didn't attract much attention from passers-by on the street.
Because this night happens to be New Year's Eve, when all kinds of firecrackers and fireworks are set off most lively in Guangzhou, and the night sky is filled with fireworks.
Therefore, the small tail flame of this rocket did not attract many people's attention at all, and was drowned by the firecrackers and fireworks celebrating the New Year.
Then, while waiting for the [Mini Reconnaissance Satellite] obtained from Doraemon to be launched into orbit, Wang Qiu briefly introduced to Guo Yi the uproar that had aroused in the original world after their collective time travel. Ran Julang - Speaking of which, Guo Yi is still Wang Qiu's colleague in theory.
"...It's incredible... More than three years have passed in our world, but only three days have passed in modern time and space?"
Hearing the current situation of the "old time and space" described by Wang Qiu, Wang Meiling and others, Guo Yi couldn't help but be quite stunned for a while, "... In other words, our disappearance is still explosive hot news over there? This kind of sky-high, The situation of one year in the human world is really awkward..."
"...Come on! You guys who have only traveled through time for three years are already lucky enough! According to you, the two groups of time-travelers from North and South America have been in this world for a full eleven years, but for As far as their relatives in the modern world are concerned, these unfortunates have simply disappeared. It's only three days - I remember there are several elementary school students on the missing list. If I don't see my child for three days, I will be three years old. Maybe I can accept it. But if I don't see him for three days, I will be eleven years old. How to calculate this account. ? I’m afraid no parent can accept it!”
Wang Qiu curled his lips, shook his head and sighed, "...and, except for the few unlucky ones like you who were unfortunately involved, the Lingao Crossing Group carefully planned and took the initiative to cross. They should have already had the idea of bidding farewell to the old world in advance. Be prepared, any regrets are your own fault, not others.
But the three groups of people from North America, South America, and Australia who traveled through this time and space are the real "people sitting at home, disaster comes from the sky"! Thousands of people, without any preparation in advance, inexplicably landed in a barbaric land with no electricity, no running water, no food, and dangerous pirates, natives, and wild beasts... What's more important is that it will last forever. It’s been eleven years since I said goodbye to my close relatives and family! ”
Having said this, he couldn't help but sigh deeply, "...it's really a headache...Eleven years, a long time, is enough for a child to grow into an adult! Think about it, what if What kind of embarrassing situation will happen if we take them back now?
They are just those poor parents who find that their children have grown eleven years older in the blink of an eye, and even brought back their daughter-in-law, son-in-law, and grandchildren. There are also some anxious poor wives and children who, after being separated from their husbands and fathers for only three days, found that not only did their husbands and fathers suddenly grow eleven years older, but they also had a new wife and children in another world... What kind of tragic scene of family collapse would it be?
By the way, I remember that there seemed to be several party members and cadres in those missing lists! Will they still have to be held accountable for bigamy? How to deal with their positions and party memberships in the original time and space? Oh, after thinking about it like this, I feel like my head is going to be messed up..."
"...Hey, listening to what you said, Comrade Xiao Wang, I feel like my mind is about to go crazy. Fortunately, among the travelers from Lingao County on Hainan Island, there should be very few who have abandoned their wives and children. And in that world, I don’t have a wife or children to pay for. On behalf of..." The plump boss Guo Yi rubbed his forehead with a look of collapse, and then was stunned by Senior Sister Ma Tong's words: "...I think you just need to be prepared how to explain to your parents, and what you have done for yourself. Why would it be nice to marry a transgender concubine in this time and space..."
"...Hey, I've said it so many times, the relationship between me and Pei Lixiu is really just a very, very pure working partnership..."
"...Ahem! Comrade Xiao Guo, I'm sorry, I have to remind you that you need to correct your stance. Do you really think of yourself as a member of the illegal crossing group in Hainan Island and forget that you are actually checking them? National law enforcement officers! ”
Hearing that Guo Yi's tone seemed a bit wrong, Wang Meiling couldn't help but frown and said, "...It didn't matter before, but now that your father and we are here, your mother will probably come over soon, so you must Adjust my mentality..."
But Guo Yi obviously only heard the second half of the sentence, "...What, my mother is coming over here too? Oh! No - God..."
Just when Guo Yi looked collapsed and crazy, Wang Qiu pulled Wang Meiling aside mysteriously and asked in a low voice, "...Hey, mom is really going to hold them accountable for illegally crossing without permission. Huh? I thought you were just making it up to fool people!”
"...How could it be a made-up charge? Our government departments have always been in charge of the world and the air in the middle. There is never anything that cannot be controlled. Even if the living Buddha reincarnates illegally without approval, he will be severely dealt with. They These people traveled through time and space without even making a report, and left such a big mess behind. How can we not hold them accountable?”
Wang Meiling immediately replied seriously, "... Putting aside the issue of smuggling arms by the Lingao gang, the property rights of the two ships, the COSCO Star and the Yunsheng No. 1, do not belong to the time-travelers on the ship. This property dispute alone The problem is enough for them to drink a bottle of it!”
"...Well, the Living Buddha was held accountable for his illegal reincarnation without the approval of relevant departments... I seem to remember you saying that such a thing happened..."
Wang Qiu touched his chin and was speechless for a moment, "...but what always makes me feel a little strange is, Mom, since the living Buddha has died and become a reincarnated soul boy, how should you deal with this matter? Dead man It’s not easy to investigate the charges! Is there any way to bring the living Buddha back to life? Or is it too much to put the blame on the baby?”
"...That living Buddha has already been reincarnated as a baby, what else can be done? Do we have to strangle that baby to death and reincarnate again?"
Wang Meiling couldn't help but roll her eyes at her son, "...We just deposed the name of that living Buddha, and then found a living Buddha activist from another temple who had a red heart facing the party to inherit his temple property. That’s all—Western Sichuan The Tibetan area is famous for having too many living Buddhas in its temples, and there are often cases where several living Buddhas are hiding in one temple. If you do this, you will free up a post. It is too late for people to be happy, so how can they cause trouble? "
"...Okay, these so-called living Buddhas sound quite realistic. Maybe we can actually build the party branch on the temple..."
Wang Qiu curled his lips, looked back at Guo Yi, and found that Ma Tong was pulling out a modern newspaper from nowhere and explaining to Guo Yi the current situation in the modern world news media, "...Senior Guo Yi, I think you don’t have to worry about being entangled by the media when you go back - so far, the only thing that has been revealed by the news media is that the COSCO sailing ship has lost contact. (Australian audience), the disappearance of the Yunsheng No. 1 river ship (South American audience), and the news of a mysterious natural disaster at a port in a certain city in Guangdong (North American audience). You, the traveling crew in Hainan Island, and the veterans in Vladivostok, Russia, are involved in an arms smuggling case. , are currently suppressed by relevant departments and are not allowed to be published in newspapers, so there is still a period of buffering and adjustment time..."
"...Hey, how should I put it? In fact, the Ming Dynasty in this time and space is probably far more lively than many people imagine. In addition to those of us who travel in groups, there are probably many people who have traveled through sporadically. For example, currently in Chen Xin, who serves as the commander-in-chief of Dengzhou in Shandong, is a time traveler who has been basically confirmed... In addition, there are many unconfirmed suspicious objects, including some who are lucky and some who are miserable..."
Guo Yi stretched out his hand to scratch his hair and said to everyone, "...but what happened to the group of modern retired veterans in Vladivostok you just mentioned? Could it be that in our already overly lively seventeenth-century earth, there are actually Is there a fifth large-scale time-traveling group? ”
"...What?" Wang Qiu and other "people from the modern world" were immediately surprised, "...how much do you know about other time-traveling groups? How come you haven't even heard of the largest group? They are all in one breath We traveled through more than 2,000 people, and even brought landing ships and armored vehicles with us!”
"... Regarding the three traveling groups distributed in America and Australia, we only indirectly learned of their existence through a wireless telegram at the end of last year. As for the actual meeting, it was about two months ago. And the location is Batavia on the opposite side of the South China Sea... As for the details of this Batavia alliance, I am not very clear about it in Guangzhou - but their fleets are now coming to Lingao. "
Guo Yi sighed helplessly, "... As for the retired veterans from Vladivostok, as well as armored vehicles and landing ships... I'm sorry, we really haven't heard of them, and the other crossing groups probably haven't discovered them either. exists, because it absolutely cannot be hidden..."
As a result, everyone's suspicious eyes turned to Wang Qiu in the next moment, making Wang Qiu, who became the focus of the moment, break out in cold sweat on his forehead.
"...Well, this situation is indeed very strange. Let me think about it...well, either the people in Vladivostok have traveled to other time and space. But this is obviously impossible. According to this "Book of Time Travel" Hint to me, everyone should have come to this world...either the sea The arrival time of the Shenwei Travel Group was too late, and they have not yet reached this time and space... But this is impossible. Since we have all come to this world, it is better for others to arrive in advance. Or they have arrived somewhere. In a remote place, no one knows about it yet? ”
While Wang Qiu was examining the "Book of Time Travel" in his hand and looking at the pre-prepared world map of the seventeenth century, he kept mumbling, and finally came to a conclusion that seemed to be quite reliable, " ...It seems that this must be the case. There are still many isolated and wild places in the world today. It would be normal if a group of time travelers stayed there for several years without communicating with the outside world and no one knew about it. .”
"...So, which wild land will they go to?" Wang Meiling scanned the map with squinted eyes, "...The tropical rainforest in America? The savanna in Africa? The lonely island in the South Pacific? Or...this Vladivostok in time and space? And Siberia next to it?”
"...The American continent should be unlikely. Unless they were destroyed for some reason at the beginning of their journey, or they had made up their mind to live in seclusion from the beginning, it would not have been possible for the entire eleven years no matter what. None of them were noticed by the other two traveling groups.”
Wang Qiu replied, "...Africa is somewhat possible. Many places in the interior of Black Africa were not entered by European explorers for the first time until the 19th century. Australia is also somewhat possible, although the traversers of the COSCO Star are entrenched. In northwest Australia, the fleet of South American traversers also cruised through southern Australia. coast, but there are still many unexplored places on the northeast coast of Australia, and no one seems to have been to New Zealand...Tahiti, Easter Island, Hawaii and other places in the Pacific are even more lonely. No one can find it even if it takes a hundred years
In addition, from a close look, Vladivostok in this time and space seems to be a good place to hide from the eyes of the world - Brother Guo Yi, does the Senate in Lingao know anything about the situation on the Sea of Japan? I mean that stretch of coastline that belongs to Russia in the modern world! ”
"...No, in fact, except for Marshal Huang Shihuang who fought with the Tatars in Liaodong a few years ago, the fleet of the Lingao Senate has not even been to the north of Shandong. In Japan, it has been Just Kyushu Island and Choshu Domain..."
Guo Yi replied firmly, "...However, Huangshi took a boat north to Liaodong not long ago. Maybe he can find something there..."
"... Next, there should be the war-torn Gobi Desert in Central Asia where news is difficult to reach, and the coniferous forests in the ice and snow of Siberia."
Senior Sister Ma Tong pointed out two other possible crossing locations on the map, and then accidentally glanced down, suddenly noticing a unique target, "...Wait a minute, why did I forget that there is that place? ? I hope they won’t be so miserable and actually traveled to Antarctica! ”
Traveled to Antarctica? Well, this is probably the most miserable time travel option! It's almost certain to die!
There is still an indigenous group of Eskimos in the Arctic, which shows that the environment there can barely support human survival, and they can make do with fishing and building igloos to make ends meet. But if it were in Antarctica... could the travelers still live by eating roasted penguins every day?
Just when everyone was horrified by the above idea, Wang Qiu noticed that the words "The satellite has successfully entered orbit and can work" appeared on the screen of the [mini reconnaissance satellite] ground remote control device in the corner of the room, so he He greeted everyone: "...Okay, let's not scare ourselves by making random guesses! Anyway, now that the satellite is available, let's start searching directly! Who wants to come and watch together?"
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Then, in an instant, four heads swarmed up in front of the screen, pushing Wang Qiu, who was operating the keyboard, aside. "...Quickly! Scout the situation in Vladivostok first! See if anything pops up over there that shouldn't exist!" Wang Meiling watched the satellite reconnaissance pictures with interest, while patting her son on the shoulder and saying - The next moment, a high-definition aerial view of the Vladivostok area at the end of the fourth year of Chongzhen's reign in time and space appeared on the screen of the remote control device, making everyone gasp.