Chapter 2 Meeting Fan Xian
Li Chengze was full of doubts. He tried to set several different goals, but no matter how he set them, the system prompts in his mind showed no response and there was silence. .
"Your Highness, Fan Xian is here..."
Just when Li Chengze was studying his mysterious abilities but found nothing, Fan Wujiu brought Fan Xian back to his house.
Li Chengze looked at Fan Xian. He was tall and outstanding in appearance. He was worthy of being the protagonist of Qing Yu Nian. His appearance was quite good, and he was on par with himself.
"Your Highness, what do you want from me?"
Li Chengze looked at Fan Xian, who seemed relaxed and at ease, but his eyes showed caution as he asked.
"Wujiu, please retreat first and don't let anyone get close to this place." Li Chengze did not answer Fan Xian's question immediately, but gave an order to Fan Wujiu.
"This..." Fan Wujiu showed hesitation on his face.
The relationship between His Highness and Fan Xian has completely broken down, and Fan Xian's martial arts is close to the level of a ninth-grade master.
Without his own bodyguard, let His Highness, who does not understand martial arts, be alone with Fan Xian?
"Don't worry, it's okay!" Li Chengze waved his hand to reassure Fan Wujiu.
"Yes, Your Highness!" Seeing Li Chengze's insistence, Fan Wujiu nodded, turned and left.
"Your Highness, what is so important that you can't even trust your own confidants?"
Fan Xian didn't have any extra courtesy and sat down directly on the chair next to him. He poured himself a cup of tea with a joking and curious look on his face.
Li Chengze walked barefoot to the chair next to Fan Xian, squatted down, and shook his head as he spoke.
"Then, who is the second prince? Who are you?"
Fan Xian rolled his eyes and asked impatiently.
Suddenly, Li Chengze looked at Fan Xian and couldn't help but laugh.
"Second Prince, why are you laughing?"
Fan Xian looked at Li Chengze in confusion, wondering if the second prince was mentally abnormal.
"I just thought of a funny joke." Li Chengze stopped smiling.
"What joke?" Fan Xian asked curiously.
"Lu Xun once said, 'It's none of my business, Zhou Shuren'. I think this is the meaning of the joke, right?" Li Chengze looked at Fan Xian with a smile.
The tea cup in Fan Xian's hand suddenly slipped and fell to the ground. Porcelain fragments and tea were scattered everywhere, but he didn't care. His eyes widened, as if he had seen something incredible, and he looked at Li Chengze in disbelief.
Lu Xun? Zhou Shuren?
How did the second prince know these two names?
"What, Fan Xian, do you think you are the only time traveler?"
Seeing Fan Xian staring at him in shock, Li Chengze asked with a smile.
Fan Xian did not respond directly, but cleared his throat and asked tentatively: "Odd changes to even?"
Li Chengze replied casually: "Look at the quadrants for symbols!"
"Palace jade liquor?" Fan Xian continued to ask.
"One hundred and eighty cups!"
"The king of heaven overshadows the tigers of the earth?"
"Pagoda suppresses the river demon!"
These words were meaningless to modern people, but Fan Xian instantly confirmed Li Chengze's identity.
"So, you know who I am, but you deliberately pretend not to know?" Fan Xian remembered that in the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, he recited hundreds of poems while drunk,
Everyone thought he was improvising and praised him as a poet. In fact, Li Chengze knew everything but watched as if he were watching a show. This made Fan Xian feel extremely embarrassed.
"No, to be more precise, this is the first time we have met." Li Chengze shook his head and corrected.
"First meeting!?" Fan Xian's expression changed slightly, and he immediately understood what Li Chengze meant.
"That's right, you traveled through time as a baby, while I traveled through time as the adult second prince Li Chengze."
"To be more precise, I have only been in this world for an hour."
"So, this is indeed our first meeting." Li Chengze nodded and answered affirmatively.
"Wait, let me digest it..." Fan Xian was caught off guard. Fan Xian slowly raised his arms, feeling that his mind was like a turbulent chaos, and his thoughts were in turmoil. Although his life is full of incredible adventures,
when faced with Li Chengze's sudden revelation of his identity as a fellow time traveler, even Fan Xian couldn't help but feel dizzy and confused.
Seeing this, Li Chengze chose to wait quietly, giving Fan Xian space to collect his thoughts. After dozens of breaths, Fan Xian's eyes gradually focused.
He looked directly at Li Chengze with a hint of disbelief in his tone: "Even if you just met the code, you said that you are also a time traveler. This... I still find it hard to digest."
For a long time, Fan Xian regarded himself as a lonely time traveler, until he read the letter left by his mother.
Only then did I have a deeper understanding of this world - it is not a purely alien world, but the rebirth of modern civilization after nuclear war. Now, Li Chengze's words have subverted his understanding.
"Perhaps, there are some misunderstandings here." Li Chengze explained gently, "You are not a time traveler in the true sense. You are just jumping in the long river of time, slipping from modern civilization to this reconstructed world. And I have crossed over. The limits of space come directly from another parallel universe.”
“Although our original worlds are all bathed in the sunshine of modern technology, the details are completely different.
For example, there are many secrets you don’t know hidden in this world, because I come from a higher-dimensional world, where everything is more complex and advanced than here. "
Li Chengze's words were full of philosophy and science fiction, but Fan Xian just shook his head frankly after hearing this, saying that it was difficult to understand this narrative that went beyond common sense.
Looking at Fan Xian's confused expression, Li Chengze smiled bitterly in his heart,
It is not easy to eliminate the gap between the two, especially when the truth is so complicated and difficult to accept. However, he did not give up, but became more determined to complete the task.
Indeed, this task is extremely difficult, because wise people are often highly wary of unknown information and will not accept it easily.
"In order to dispel your doubts, I will reveal a few secrets that you firmly believe no one knows, as evidence of my identity."
Li Chengze said to Fan Xian seriously,
“First of all, about the secret in your mother’s belongings—it’s a Barrett sniper rifle, right?
No one should know this detail except you and Mr. Wu Zhu, but it is not a secret to me. "
When Fan Xian heard this, his expression instantly became serious. The Barrett in his hands was indeed an extremely secretive existence. Even he himself thought that only he and Wu Zhu knew about it. At this moment, Li Chengze's outspokenness shocked him.
"Furthermore, Lin Gong's death was actually caused by Wu Zhu, and I also know this very well.
Under conventional logic, this should be information that the second prince could not touch. "Li Chengze continued to state, his tone firm.
Fan Xian's expression changed again, this time it was more complicated. The truth about Lin Gong's death was a pain in his heart that he didn't want to touch easily, and Li Chengze's accuracy forced him to re-examine the person in front of him.
Strike while the iron is hot, Li Chengze continued:
"Finally, regarding the mystery of your life experience - you are actually the illegitimate son of Emperor Qing.
This secret was told to you by Sean before his death when you were in Beiqi, right? This information cannot be easily obtained without personal experience or special channels. "
Every secret revealed was like a stone dropped in Fan Xian's heart, causing ripples. He had to admit that what Li Chengze said was true. The revelation of these secrets was undoubtedly a huge impact on his knowledge.
At this point, Fan Xian nodded slightly and understood: "We are in a three-dimensional space, which is composed of length, width, and height."
Li Chengze further elaborated: “That’s why, if thinking is compared to space, it is the superposition of multiple dimensions, and the bridge connecting these spaces,
It's time. The four-dimensional space is based on the three dimensions, plus the dimension of time, forming a time axis. "
"I probably understand." Fan Xian nodded again to express his understanding.
"What's interesting is that the existence of high-dimensional space can reach any position in low-dimensional space."
Li Chengze changed the topic and guided Fan Xian to think deeply, "Imagine that a two-dimensional plane (surface) contains countless one-dimensional lines (lines), so a two-dimensional entity can easily span any point in one dimension.
If you jump directly from A to C, there is no need to go through B.
In the same way, we in the three-dimensional space can also freely operate objects on the two-dimensional plane, such as taking out or putting items into the circle, without being restricted by its boundaries. "
Fan Xian fell into deep thought and quickly captured this logical chain:
"So, for the four-dimensional space, the three-dimensional world is like an open box, which can enter and exit our time point at will?" He looked at Li Chengze in shock.
"That's it. My dimension is higher than yours, and I can theoretically visit any time point I want."
Li Chengze admitted frankly, "The reason why I appear here can be regarded as a journey from four dimensions to three dimensions. As for the secrets I mentioned before, they are all fragments that I observed in the four-dimensional state."
“As for predicting the future,” Li Chengze added, “due to the butterfly effect, even if I can see some fragments of the future, I cannot accurately predict its final outcome.
My arrival itself has become a 'butterfly' that affects the future direction. "
When Fan Xian heard this, his brows furrowed and then relaxed, and finally he nodded, acknowledging Li Chengze's explanation.
He realized that if he really had the ability to span time, predictions about the future would become complicated and full of variables, because every slight change could lead to unpredictable consequences.
(End of chapter)