Tiandi Baiju

"Isn't it?" Du Jing asked.

"No," Zhou Luoyang said, losing all his strength, "I have disassembled this watch, and I am very sure. It's over, the other one is in the hands of the Russian, and he will try it out sooner or later."

He was about to put back the back cover, but Du Jing said: "Fix it, and then find a way."

Zhou Luoyang didn't have the heart to touch it at all, but after thinking about it, he adjusted the transmission wheel and the bowstring.

"Is there a watch strap?"

Du Jing opened the drawer and found two watch straps. Zhou Luoyang connected the straps. Du Jing took them casually and put them on. He sat down in front of the spring bed and became silent.

"What should I do?" Zhou Luoyang asked.

"I'm trying to figure out a way." Du Jing said.

Zhou Luoyang didn't bother him. The warehouse is still safe. Presumably, Leyao didn't tell the Russians where they were hiding.But why did Le Yao want to do this?The only explanation, and only one, is that he wanted to go back to the day of the car accident at Haneda airport and save his parents from dying.

Du Jing didn't say anything, but he must have known better than Zhou Luoyang that he didn't even blame Le Yao.

"I'll help you with the medicine." Zhou Luoyang said.

Du Jing turned his head slightly, and put his head in front of Zhou Luoyang. Zhou Luoyang took the Yunnan Baiyao he brought from the store and applied it to Du Jing.He didn't bandage it, and only left his wound open temporarily. Zhou Luoyang took him to cut Du Jing's hair and specially requested it.After the cut that day, Zhou Luoyang also praised him for looking very energetic.

As if feeling Zhou Luoyang's gaze, Du Jing turned his head and looked at him with complicated meanings in his eyes.

"What are you thinking?" Zhou Luoyang asked in a low voice.

"Thinking of you," Du Jing said, "thinking of the past, the reset of time, and what will happen in our future."

Zhou Luoyang put down the medicine and sat in silence.

"I didn't understand his last words at the time." Zhou Luoyang said, "I didn't understand a lot of what he said. Time is a single line, and there is no parallel space. It is only our soul that travels through time. What do you mean by memory?"

Du Jing thought for a while and explained: "Consciousness is beyond our dimension. I also understood part of this when I was training in Washington."

"So?" Zhou Luoyang said, "Does this have anything to do with time?"

"The body is in this latitude," Du Jing said, "because it is material. Human consciousness is attached to the body and functions. So in other words, as long as the soul is in the body, it will be imprisoned by the rules of the real world."

Zhou Luoyang could accept such an explanation, and Du Jing had already told him the most straightforward reasoning.

"Time is like a long river, engulfing everything and going downstream in the river, and it..."

Du Jing pointed to the dial and said: "Our soul can be temporarily separated from the body, just like leaving the inside of the river, coming to the surface of the river, waiting in place, then sinking, entering the same coordinates, the same position of the river , but at this time, the long river has been flowing for a day.”

"I understand!" Zhou Luoyang said immediately.

They may not have carried out the so-called "time travel", but just withdrawn their consciousness and returned to their previous self!In this way, Zhou Luoyang seemed to understand the meaning of the "memory" that Svatanlovski said.

After the consciousness was withdrawn, it brought back the experience and memory of the entire 24 hours in the future!

They looked at another watch in Du Jing's hand. At this time, the drop-shaped pointer stuck to ten o'clock in the morning, stuck at 25:39:[-], jumping back and forth in a sticky state, like a clockwork being stuck average.

"It's broken again." Zhou Luoyang said in a deep voice.

"No," Du Jing said, "the Russians are debugging."

Du Jing looked around the warehouse, got up and did an experiment, gently pushed the pendant light hanging from the ceiling in the warehouse, and the pendant light began to vibrate in simple harmonic.

Zhou Luoyang noticed that while the lamp was swinging down, it suddenly retreated for an inconspicuous distance, and then fell repeatedly.

This scene is really weird, they are experiencing time regression in seconds!It's like being in a cassette video, but this video has become the real world!

"He's trying out more functions of the Eye of Versailles," Du Jing murmured, "He asked about it from Le Yao."

Immediately afterwards, all the lights in the warehouse disappeared, and a real feeling came from his back.

Zhou Luoyang opened his eyes on the bed at home at midnight.

"Du Jing?!" Zhou Luoyang asked with fear.

"I'm here." Du Jing immediately sat up.

They both returned to midnight on January [-] at the same time!

"Change clothes!" Du Jing said, "Leave the house immediately!"

"Why?!" Zhou Luoyang said, "It's not yet midnight on January [-]th..."

Du Jing said: "Before we triggered a timing function like an alarm clock! We set the starting point of the backtracking at noon and night, and the Eye of Versailles can start backtracking anytime and anywhere!"

Zhou Luoyang changed his clothes and opened the door of Leyao's room. There was still no one inside, and there was a map of the chamber of commerce on the table.Du Jing took the car keys, came over and held Zhou Luoyang's hand, and said, "Don't look! Go downstairs!"

"Where are you going?" Zhou Luoyang said.

Du Jing replied: "Get out of here! Those Russians will come to your door soon!"

They stood in the elevator, Zhou Luoyang was extremely nervous, watching the elevator keep descending, the floor display first reached the sixth floor, then returned to the eighth floor, and then went down to the sixth floor.

"He's still debugging." Du Jing said.

This scene was so weird that it almost made Zhou Luoyang shudder, but Du Jing held his hand tightly, and they were like two tiny individuals who couldn't resist the howling of time.

When they arrived at the underground garage, Du Jing had to get in the car. Zhou Luoyang said, "Where are we going now? We're stuck in this period of time!"

Du Jing said: "Luoyang, listen to me, we still have a chance."

Zhou Luoyang got into the car, but Du Jing didn't drive. He said, "He will send people to arrest us first. No matter how many times we go back to midnight, we won't fall into the hands of the Russians."

In an instant, the two of them were back in bed at home at midnight.

Zhou Luoyang: "This bastard."

Du Jing: "Let's go!"

They went downstairs quickly, and Svatanlovski obviously hadn't been able to accurately locate a certain moment, so he could only keep counting the time to twelve o'clock.

"How many times do we have to repeat the same thing?" Zhou Luoyang said.

"Just run!" Du Jing said, "until he runs out of patience! He can't catch us! There is a time difference between the chamber of commerce and your house. He missed the deployment at midnight on the first night, so he is destined not to catch us. !"

Du Jing drove the car out of the garage, and saw a black Grand Cherokee driving in the distance, surrounded by the downstairs, and they escaped again.

As soon as the other party called and reported to Svatanlovsky, the Russian businessman went back to twelve o'clock.

Zhou Luoyang had no choice but to flee for the third time.

"This is ridiculous!" Zhou Luoyang threw the car keys to Du Jing.

Du Jing said: "He soon realized that he couldn't do some things even if he kept going back and forth. These are the rules of the game that have been written in the world computer for a long time."

Leaving the garage again, this time Du Jing didn't monitor them and turned the car onto another road.

"He didn't go back any more," Zhou Luoyang said, "but the trouble is getting bigger and bigger."

Now that Svatanlovski has been certified, as long as the Eye of Versailles is activated, Zhou Luoyang, Du Jing, Le Yao and the Russian will travel through time in their respective places at the same time.

"He will take another action soon." Du Jing said, "If possible, he will set the time to an earlier time."

Zhou Luoyang thought of many things in an instant, but he didn't interrupt Du Jing.

"This time point must have been before I got the Eye of Versailles..." Du Jing said in a low voice and quickly, "Even before you got it, only in this way, the Russians will not go back in time and lose Let's take back control."

"Yes!" Zhou Luoyang suddenly woke up like a dream.

"You have to remember," Du Jing said, "Think about who this watch once belonged to, your grandfather? Where is it in his house..."

Zhou Luoyang said: "In the hands of my grandfather, I can confirm it. But as for where it is at home, I... I have to find it..."

"No no!" Du Jing said, "It's not important now, you just need to remember, you don't have to think about it right away, in case we get separated because of going back in time..."

Zhou Luoyang looked at Du Jing. Du Jing stopped the car, took his hand, and interlocked his fingers.

"Wait for me," Du Jing said, "I will definitely come to you. No matter when we return, if we can't contact each other, we will go to the warehouse of Chang'an Clock and Antique Store."

"What if it happens before we are born?" Zhou Luoyang asked.

"When I grow up, I will come too." Du Jing hugged Zhou Luoyang in his arms.

The car was parked on the side of the road. At this moment, they could do nothing but wait for Svatanlovsky's manipulation of time.Zhou Luoyang had an instant premonition that Du Jing was right, they were going to separate soon—they were going to be lost in the maze of time in the next moment, and they could do nothing now but quietly wait for the coming event result.

Svatanlovsky will choose an appropriate time point, go back to a certain day, come to China, retrieve the Eye of Versailles from Zhou Luoyang's grandfather, and truly own it from that day on, go to China start his new life.

"I'm going to buy you a Band-Aid." Zhou Luoyang touched Du Jing's side face, the bleeding stopped, but he wanted to stick the wound up.

"No need," Du Jing said, "soon we will be separated in time."

"No," Zhou Luoyang replied, "At least for now, let's stop thinking about anything."

Zhou Luoyang took him by the hand and got out of the car. He went to a convenience store on the side of the road and bought hot milk. Du Jing stood aside and looked at him silently.

When Zhou Luoyang went to check out, the late-night clerk didn't show the slightest surprise to them.

But when the clerk was collecting the money, Du Jing and Zhou Luoyang looked up at the clock in the convenience store at the same time.

It was an extremely strange feeling, the minute hand disappeared, no, it didn't disappear, but turned too fast and turned into a phantom.The hour hand rotates rapidly, everything is silent, and time begins to go back.

"I love you." Zhou Luoyang said to Du Jing.

"I love you." Du Jing replied, "wait for me."

Zhou Luoyang turned and walked towards Du Jing, Du Jing rushed towards him, the two wanted to hug each other at this last moment, but at the moment before their respective fingers touched, time went back, and everything in the world disappeared in an instant.

Huge, invisible hands fend them off, and throw them into the vast maze of time full of twists and turns.

It was an extremely strange experience, completely different from Zhou Luoyang's experience of going back 24 hours every time. He felt that time was passing by quickly, passing through his body like a howling wind.Many blurred and chaotic memories flashed in his mind one after another, fragments overlapped one after another, and then there was a loud bang.

The huge wave of time pierced through his consciousness, and there was a blinding light around him, Zhou Luoyang was speechless for a long time.

At eight o'clock in the morning, he stood in the former university dormitory. The two beds were empty, and his things had already been removed.

Zhou Luoyang immediately turned around and began to look for the mobile phone, which was charging on the desk.

"Graduated with a master's degree." Zhou Luoyang murmured, "May [-]th."

It was more than a year before Du Jing returned to China.

"Why did you choose this day?" Zhou Luoyang said to himself.

He walked out of the dormitory, knocked on the door of the opposite dormitory, and saw the senior at the opposite door, exactly the same as a year and a half ago.

"Hey, Luoyang, are you leaving?" The senior held a towel and said, "Shall we have dinner tonight?"

"No...nope." Zhou Luoyang was restless, and said, "Eat when you're free, I'll be back, let me say hello."

"When's the car?" the senior asked, "Have you found a job yet?"

"Let's go to Wanshi first." Zhou Luoyang recalled that day. After graduation, he planned to go home for a while and then visit his grandfather, but three days later, his father had a car accident at Haneda Airport.The family did not tell the news of his father's death to his grandfather, who was already cognitively impaired, but he still knew.

Not long after, the Zhou family held a second funeral. From then on, Zhou Luoyang lost almost everything and began to accompany Le Yao.

"Your phone is ringing." The senior reminded.

Zhou Luoyang pleaded guilty, turned around and entered the dormitory, there was a call from a stranger.

His heart beat wildly, he answered the phone, and there was a moment of silence.

"Hello?" Zhou Luoyang said nervously, "Who is it?"

Still no one spoke, Zhou Luoyang whispered: "Speak, who are you? Did you type wrong?"

He couldn't help recalling that on May [-]th, he seemed to have received this strange call, but it was the same on the phone at that time, and no one spoke.

No, wait, no one called me at the time.

But why do I have such a memory?Zhou Luoyang was a little confused, it was so strange.

"Is that you?" Zhou Luoyang asked again.

More than a year ago, the only person who knew his phone number was Du Jing, and he changed his number after graduation.

Zhou Luoyang said in a low voice, "I'll wait for you at the appointed place, Du Jing."

Du Jing hung up the phone, and Zhou Luoyang stood in the dormitory with his mobile phone in hand. Not long after, he put on his sports bag and left school.

He took the latest high-speed train back to Huizhou and called his father at the same time.

No one heard.

"Quickly answer the phone..." Zhou Luoyang said to himself, "Answer the phone!"

No matter how much he called his father, he couldn't get through. Zhou Luoyang called Le Yao again, but Le Yao didn't answer.

"Leyao," Zhou Luoyang said, "Are you back too? Are you there? Reply to me as soon as possible after receiving the voicemail. Where are you?"

Zhou Luoyang hung up the phone and looked out the French window, it was already dark.

He called his grandfather again, but it was answered by his aunt.

"Is grandpa okay?" Zhou Luoyang asked a few words about his grandfather, and the other party answered briefly. Apparently, my aunt hadn't visited grandpa in the past few days, and only threw the old man to the escort.

She asked him when he would be back. Zhou Luoyang had a lot to ask, but he couldn't say anything. He suddenly called home and asked for a watch, which was suspicious.

In the early morning, he bought a plane ticket back to Wanshi that afternoon, and landed at Wanshi Airport at ten o'clock in the evening.

After turning on the phone, Zhou Luoyang tried to call his father again, but this time he got through.

"Hello, Luoyang?"

Zhou Luoyang was at a loss for a moment when his father's voice came unexpectedly.

That voice has become a distant memory for many years.I still remember the last time I talked to my father on the phone, Zhou Luoyang was in a bad mood because he didn't come to his son's graduate graduation ceremony.

But Zhou Luoyang was not very good at expressing intense emotions. He was angry but didn't vent his anger. He only said a few words in a friendly manner and hung up the phone indifferently. This was the maximum anger he could express.

"I'm sorry." Zhou Song said on the other end of the phone, "You have graduated today."

Standing at the airport where people were coming and going, Zhou Luoyang suddenly choked up, tears streaming down his face, and his eyes were red.

"Luoyang?" Zhou Song asked again on the other end of the phone, "Are you all right?"

"No." Zhou Luoyang whispered.

Zhou Song heard the elder son's voice and said with guilt, "Where are you now? Are you home?"

"In Wan City." Zhou Luoyang originally wanted to say a lot, but at this moment, his mind was empty, "Come and see Grandpa."

"Well." Zhou Song replied, "I just finished talking about something. On the way home, Le Yao and your aunt went on vacation. Have you considered my proposal?"

Before graduating from graduate school, Zhou Luoyang also had a phone call with his father. His father suggested that he go to Tokyo to help him manage the business, but Zhou Luoyang naturally refused. At that time, he didn't want to work for his stepmother and younger brother at all, which made him feel that he like an outsider.

So Zhou Song took the next best thing and asked Zhou Luoyang to take his friends to Japan for a trip together.

This friend, of course, is Du Jing.

Thinking about it now, Zhou Luoyang always felt that his father seemed to know something, even in college days when their relationship had not yet been confirmed, as if he had vaguely noticed that his son had someone he liked.

"Du Jing is gone." Zhou Luoyang said.

He mentioned it to his father a limited number of times, but he didn't tell him Du Jing's name.

"Oh, is his name Du Jing?" Zhou Song said.

Zhou Luoyang could hear that Zhou Song was driving a car in Tokyo, returning home in the busy night.

"Be careful when driving," Zhou Luoyang said.

"It's okay, Tokyo is very congested." Zhou Song said, "Why did you leave?"

"I dropped out of school," Zhou Luoyang said, "I dropped out of school more than a year ago. It's been a long time since I mentioned him last time. How do you remember it so clearly?"

Zhou Song replied: "Because you never mentioned your friend to me, he is the only one."

Neither father nor son spoke. After a while of silence on the phone, Zhou Luoyang suddenly said, "Father."

Zhou Song hummed. Zhou Luoyang originally wanted to tell him about the car accident at Haneda Airport that happened a day later, but the idea was very simple.

"What's the matter, son?" Zhou Song asked easily.

"You..." Zhou Luoyang thought about it. He couldn't tell his father that he came back from the future. In order to remind him that there will be a car accident in twenty hours, and he and his wife will die in the car accident. Only the younger son survived and became paraplegic.

"Do you have a traffic safety guard in your car?" Zhou Luoyang asked.

"There is one," Zhou Song said, "I begged in Qingshui Temple. What's the matter? Why did you mention this suddenly today?"

"No..." Zhou Luoyang thought for a while and replied, "I had a dream last night, and I dreamed of you."

Zhou Song hummed again, Zhou Luoyang sighed, and said, "I dreamed that you came to Haneda Airport to pick up Le Yao and Auntie, on the way back..."

He used another way to remind Zhou Song.

Zhou Song said, "What about after that?"

Zhou Luoyang said: "Afterwards, I adopted Le Yao."

Zhou Song smiled and said, "Has he grown up healthy and safe?"

Zhou Luoyang replied: "It's not too healthy, but it's grown up after all."

Zhou Song said, "That's good."

The two were silent for a while, and Zhou Song suddenly said, "Why do I feel that you don't look like you today?"

"Who else is not like me?" Zhou Luoyang said.

"Like you who grew up." Zhou Song joked, "Could it be another future you, come back to the present, and remind me to pay attention to driving?"

Zhou Luoyang: "..."

What my father said was purely unintentional, and after a while he said: "I will pay attention to safety, not for myself, but also for Leyao."

Zhou Luoyang said, "You see it very openly."

The night scene in Tokyo is colorful, Zhou Song looked at the guard hanging under the mirror, and said, "But, son, don't Buddhists often say that? All conditioned dharmas are like dreams and bubbles, like dew and electricity..."

Hearing this, Zhou Luoyang seemed to have the majestic and solemn face of Brahma in Angkor Wat in front of Zhou Luoyang's eyes.

"...It doesn't matter about birth or death." Zhou Song said, "If fate is really like this, then accepting the arrangement of fate is the best choice, right?"

Zhou Luoyang hummed, his father has always been very open about many things, even relationship and family, for him, he often used the word fate to explain it.

"It's nothing." Zhou Luoyang pondered for a moment, then said, "Because of this dream, I decided to call you."

"Goba Nasai," Zhou Song said suddenly in Japanese, "I didn't go to your graduation ceremony."

"No, no," Zhou Luoyang replied, "It doesn't matter, it really doesn't matter. I'm glad you guys brought me into this world. I love you, Dad."

Zhou Song's side was quiet, Zhou Luoyang thought about it, and said, "Maybe Du Jing will come back tomorrow."

Zhou Song replied: "Then you have to arrange for him to come and meet everyone and have a glass of wine."

"Okay," Zhou Luoyang replied, "as long as there is a chance."

"It's a deal." Zhou Song smiled.

"It's a deal." Zhou Luoyang hung up the phone.

He was holding the mobile phone, facing the long traffic of taxis, the light and shadow flickered, like the flashes of dreams in the vast world.

He saw three missed calls and tried to call back, but the number was empty.

Is it Du Jing?Zhou Luoyang thought to himself, hailed a taxi, and went straight to grandpa's house.

The unit building was the same as before, on the sixth floor, before Zhou Luoyang pressed the doorbell, he suddenly felt unreal—is all this real?

He didn't dare to press the doorbell for a long time, countless thoughts were born one by one, and then disappeared silently.Back in the day, has everything been different?

Swatanlovski's backtracking is equivalent to giving them another life that has been interpreted for free?

He pondered for a moment, and finally rang the doorbell.

"Here we come!" The nanny came over and opened the door. When she saw Zhou Luoyang through the security door, she was quite surprised.

"It's Luoyang?" the nanny said, "Why are you back?"

"Just finished the graduation formalities." Zhou Luoyang said, "How is grandpa?"

"Just fell asleep." The nanny said, "I'll go and see..."

"Don't call him." Zhou Luoyang went in like a gust of wind, opened the door lightly, and saw his grandfather sleeping on the bed.

His face is so familiar, just like the countless days and nights that Zhou Luoyang and him have accompanied each other.

He came to the bed, knelt down, held Grandpa's hand, stayed quietly for a long time, and said in a low voice, "Grandpa, I still have very important things to do, and I also hope...to be with you together."

But people will always leave. In the vast world, people come and go, all things flow continuously, and life is just like this.

"I'm here to find something." Zhou Luoyang said to the nanny when he arrived in the living room.

The nanny nodded, and sat on the sofa, knitting a sweater and watching TV.

Zhou Luoyang entered the study room, which contained most of his grandfather's collection, and some of it was in the warehouse.

"Where is it?" Zhou Luoyang said to himself.

He remembered that Le Yao said that when he was six years old, his grandfather visited him in Japan and wore this watch, but that was many years ago.

He opened the door of the bookcase, looked through the drawers, and turned to the safe.

No, not there.Zhou Luoyang clearly remembered that the safe was full of bills, real estate certificates, and some antique certificates.Only he and grandpa know the password at home.

"What are you looking for?" said the nurse.

"It's nothing," Zhou Luoyang replied, "You should be busy."

He knelt in front of the safe, pressed the password a few times, the door popped open, reached in and fumbled around, nothing.But inside was the black leather notebook of great-grandfather.

He turned a few pages, and suddenly found something that should not have appeared in a place that should have been incomplete.

He had read the second page that was originally recording the Eye of Vercetti and confirmed that it had been torn off. Now, it is well kept.

There was a page full of Russian written on it—the ink was yellowed, it was from my great-grandfather.

He tore off that page and put the black leather notebook back. At this moment, the two periods of time and space seemed to have a strange intersection and overlap.

But he didn't think much about it, checked it thoroughly, and there was also a faded black and white photo of his great-grandfather Zhou Yuan.

His great-grandfather was similar to him during his lifetime, perhaps because of this, his grandfather loved him so much.

He got up and went into the living room, where the nurse looked up at him.

He wanted to ask where the watch was received. Since his grandfather fell ill, relatives often came to the house to search around, give the nanny some money, and openly divide up the collection of grandpa.Firstly, the nanny doesn't want to take care of their family affairs; secondly, she has no position to do so.

But at this moment, Zhou Luoyang suddenly had an idea, and thought of something unreasonable.

"Why did you say 'also'?" Zhou Luoyang remembered what the nanny said when he opened the door, "Who else came here today?"

"Your brother and your aunt." The nanny was a little surprised, and said, "Don't you know? I thought you had an agreement."

Zhou Luoyang: "..."

"Who else?" Zhou Luoyang said with a trembling voice, "My dad is here too? Did they come by themselves?"

"Your father didn't come back." The nanny said, "That Japanese kid was looking for something just like you, and left in the evening."

"What did he take?" Zhou Luoyang said.