reverse travel

On the way to the protected area, Yuan Yiwei and Zhang Xiao chatted about what happened last night.

Zhang Xiao told Yuan Yiwei that a friend of his was following this matter, and Yuan Yiwei's expression suddenly became very serious: "Don't follow, this is not an ordinary thing, the crisis management is very strict. And we don't know the other party Really, it's very dangerous."

Most of the anti-sentries and guides are ordinary people, but in recent years a new trend has gradually become apparent: more and more sentries and guides have joined such organizations.

"They are special people themselves, but they hate special people instead..." Zhang Xiao suddenly remembered what happened a few years ago, "Didn't there used to be an institution that claimed to help sentries and guides painlessly separate their spiritual bodies? Then it disappeared ?”

"It is impossible to separate painlessly." Yuan Yiwei said as he walked forward, "After the spiritual body is stripped, the sentry and the guide will be in a very dangerous and dying state. Those kinds of institutions are operating without a license. They torture the sentries and guides. Guides, let their spirits fall into an unstable state for a long time, and they cannot summon the spirit body normally. If people are crazy, they are cured."

Zhang Xiao suddenly realized.

"Parents who can't accept their children's special status will believe in the advertisements of the organization." Yuan Yiwei turned to look at Zhang Xiao, "The state banned it strictly within two years, and not many people know about it. How do you Got it?"

"I have paid attention to it." Zhang Xiao said.

Yuan Yiwei paused and stopped.

"Now I don't have that kind of thinking anymore!" Zhang Xiao quickly defended.

Yuan Yiwei stared at him: "Do you really not want to be a guide so much?"

Gao Qiong, who walked slowly behind, answered, "What's so good about being a sentinel and a guide? Nosebleeds when you see a man."

"This is a primary sexual reaction, what do you know?" Yuan Yiwei glared at him, "The primary sexual reaction can be overridden. After the intermediate sexual reaction appears, the primary sexual reaction will disappear, and when you meet the next person you like Objects never appeared before."

Gao Qiong became interested: "What is the intermediate sexual reaction?"

Yuan Yiwei was surprised: "Damn, you said a few words to me today."

Zhang Xiao blushed and opened the protection domain: "It's started, it's started."

Yuan Yiwei: "Zhang Xiao, answer my question first."

Gao Qiong: "Is no one paying attention to me? What is the middle-level sexual reaction like?"

The place to go this time is much farther than the last time, and the time span is also huge.

Originally, Zhang Xiao only needed to adjust Yuan Yiwei and Gao Qiong's Chen Shiyi, but Ying Changhe thought and thought, one was to let Yuan Yiwei see Zhang Xiao's situation, and the other was because Zhang Xiao was not very good at operating, Adjusting and adjusting, he brought himself there, and simply added his name on the mission dispatch form.

When the three of them landed on the ground, Yuan Yiwei's hand was painfully gripped by Zhang Xiao.

Gao Qiong still held Zhang Xiao's head in his arms, Yuan Yiwei was very dissatisfied: "What are you afraid of? It's too hard."

Zhang Xiao always remembered that Gao Qiong said that he could not let go when using Chen Shiyi to make a leap, so he couldn't help but put in a little effort.

The place where they landed was a mountain forest, surrounded by mist and singing birds, it was early morning.Zhang Xiao glanced at Chen Shiyi, the place and time were correct.

1620, the last year of Wanli.The time they were on was the [-]th day of the eighth lunar month. Before this day, the "Mayflower" started its journey across the Atlantic from England to North America in the New World, carrying religion, weapons, viruses and new civilizations; after this day Soon, Ming Xi Zong Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, and it was seven years before Shaanxi Wang Er led the hungry people to rush into the county and kill the county magistrate Zhang Douyao (*).

Yuan Yiwei looked nervous.The surrounding was very quiet, Zhang Xiao didn't know why he was staring at him.

"Zhang Xiao..." Yuan Yiwei's voice trembled, "I got it... I got it."

Only then did Zhang Xiao realize that Yuan Yiwei's hand was holding a maple tree beside him.

Qixia Mountain is full of maple trees. It is the end of summer and early autumn, and the mountains are full of green shade. The autumn colors have not yet been seen, only the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the leaves.Amidst the gloom in the distance, a corner of gilt cornices was faintly exposed, and there was a slow swaying bell, which was indistinct when it came into my ears.

Yuan Yiwei's eyes were red, and he just kept repeating "I can touch it".Infected by his excitement, Zhang Xiao was also a little embarrassed: "Yes, is it because of me?"

"Yes, yes." Yuan Yiwei wiped his eyes, "Zhang Xiao...you are so interesting. The Odris Barrier may not affect you, but why...I don't understand."

Gao Qiong stood aside and looked at the mountains, ignored Yuan Yiwei's nagging, and took out a compass to look at it.

All they wore was a hand-drawn image.The last record of the Zisha peach-shaped cup fell on Qixia Mountain on this day.

"Xiang Weng is good at pottery, and he made cups with his heart. There is a cup with a peach-shaped void in the middle, surrounded by branches and leaves, with jade and solidity, and everyone who sees it sighs." It is recorded in "Jian Tao" (*) from the museum, "Wanli At the end of the year, Jia Qianyin bought it. Jing Qixia met a bandit, died, and the peach cup disappeared."

The place where the bones of the caravan's followers were found was only two kilometers away from where they landed.

"Let's go." Gao Qiong said, "Don't cry."

Yuan Yiwei wiped his eyes again: "Oh, you don't understand. People in our industry are deeply influenced by their parents. My parents are both archaeologists, and they never thought that such a day would come. "

Zhang Xiao was very curious: "What about Gao Qiong's parents?"

Gao Qiong was already ahead, and he didn't know if he heard his question.

Yuan Yiwei was still nagging: "My father, when I went to Sichuan, I kept saying that it would be great if I could witness the grand occasion of that year..."

Zhang Xiao patiently listened to his chatter for a long time, but he didn't talk about Gao Qiong's matter, feeling a little disappointed. "Okay, let's go." He tugged at Yuan Yiwei's sleeve, "If you really don't want to part with it, break off a branch and take it home."

"No, no, we must protect the environment." Yuan Yiwei said.

He hesitated for a moment, then folded one, and another, and stuffed them all into his bag before he was satisfied.

The three walked for a while, Zhang Xiao said to himself: "I think, we should change clothes."

Yuan Yiwei thought so too.Before he touched the things here, he didn't really feel it, but now he felt very inappropriate: the three of them were obviously not from here, if they were seen, the problem would be serious.

He walked for a while, and suddenly remembered something, and quickly pulled Zhang Xiao: "Oops, I forgot to tell you about the attendance rules yesterday."

Yuan Yiwei looked very serious: "There are not many detailed rules for attendance, because there was Odris Barrier in the past, we don't have to worry about damaging the past timeline. Now it doesn't work, I guess new regulations will be formulated. But one One thing that will definitely not change is the number of people who show up."

He pointed to himself, then pointed to Gao Qiong: "You and I are guides, and Gao Qiong is a sentry. There are at least two people on duty, including one sentry and one guide; at most three people, two guides and one sentry, or Two sentries and a guide."

Zhang Xiaoqi asked, "Must Chen Shiyi's managers be included?"

"Not necessarily, the guides have to go with them because their mental and physical strength can protect their colleagues, and those who go out to work during the space transition will not be torn apart by the pressure." Yuan Yiwei said, "People who can control Chen Shiyi , only Chen Shiyi's manager, it used to be Chen Yi, now it's you. Each of our attendances has a specified time, no more than eight hours."

Because Chen Shiyi can only display the time and place, if the manager does not accompany the attendance, when to leave and when to return, the manager must start Chen Shiyi exactly according to the schedule of the dispatch table.Regardless of whether the person on the field has found the lead or not, they must return when the time comes.

When Chen Yi is here, if possible, he will usually attend work with him.Sometimes with Zhou Sha and Yuan Yiwei, sometimes with Gao Qiong.If Chen Shiyi's manager accompanied them, their return time would be relatively free. Within eight hours, they did not have to follow the dispatch schedule completely.

Gao Qiong looked back at Zhang Xiao.

Zhang Xiao suddenly had a doubt in his heart.

"I have a question." Zhang Xiao said, "Is space transition dangerous?"

Yuan Yiwei: "It's not dangerous."

"Guides accompany people on field missions, so what about the sentries?" He asked, "When the Odris Barrier still existed, people on field missions would not encounter any danger at all. The biggest danger is to enter the space. It’s a round-trip journey, but a guide is enough for this journey. Why do you have to travel with sentries?”

Yuan Yiwei didn't make a sound.

Zhang Xiao stopped when he saw Gao Qiong, and turned to look at himself.He felt that Gao Qiong's eyes seemed to be encouraging him to continue talking.

"The Odris Barrier can protect us from contact with people and things in the past. Then, we only need a guide to complete the work when we go out to the field." Zhang Xiao asked Yuan Yiwei, "What is the necessity of a sentinel?"

Yuan Yiwei turned his head: "This is a rule. I don't know either."

"You know it well." Gao Qiong said suddenly, "You are like Ying Changhe, how long do you want to hide from him?"

Zhang Xiao was stunned: "What?"

"In fact, using Chen Shiyi to make a space transition is very dangerous, and this danger can not only be solved by guiding a person's mental and physical strength." Gao Qiong said quickly, "Zhang Xiao, you are accepting this job Before, Ying Changhe concealed some very important things..."

"Gao Qiong!" Yuan Yiwei interrupted him suddenly, "We signed a confidentiality agreement."

Zhang Xiao stared closely at Yuan Yiwei, then at Gao Qiong.

"Zhang Xiao can also sign a non-disclosure agreement, but the premise is that he must know about it." Gao Qiong's expression was very calm, even a little stubborn, "You can't let him continue doing it like this."

"Of course we will talk about this matter, but not now." Yuan Yiwei spoke quickly, eagerly and nervously, "Let's finish this work first. Let's go."

Gao Qiong didn't move.His eyes turned to Zhang Xiao: "They don't say it, I say it. Has anyone mentioned the 819 incident to you?"

"Gao Qiong!" Yuan Yiwei stepped forward and grabbed his shoulder, "You are breaking the rules!"

"I'm a temporary worker, what am I afraid of?" Gao Qiong frowned and stared at Yuan Yiwei, "He trusts you, Zhou Sha, and Ying Changhe. But none of you dare to tell him about it."

Zhang Xiao was puzzled, his heart was beating wildly.His intuition told him that what Gao Qiong was going to say now was a bit scary.

Yuan Yiwei didn't speak, but Zhang Xiao saw that flowing mist suddenly appeared under his feet.

Gao Qiong broke free from Yuan Yiwei's hand.

"Yuan Yiwei, your power can't affect me, it's useless." Gao Qiong took two steps back, still looking at Zhang Xiao, "Do you know how Chen Yi's wife died?"

"Gao Qiong, not now... This will affect Zhang Xiao's mental state, and we may not be able to go back." Yuan Yiwei softened his voice, "We will talk about it when we go back, and we must say it when we go back. Zhou Sha will tell him..."

Gao Qiong ignored him.

"Do you know how many people died in the protected area?" He said, "The 819 incident was the most serious work accident of the National Expo since the founding of the People's Republic of China. The cultural management committee did not have so few people before, because everyone was gone."

Five years ago, on August 8, a field team of the Cultural Management Committee set off to perform tasks through Chen Shiyi in the protected area as usual.

The team consists of ten people, including eight guides and two sentries.

That was the No. 12 field mission after Guobo obtained the right to use Chen Shiyi.

The manager of Chen Shiyi activated Chen Shiyi on time, and the ten-member team disappeared into the protection domain.

At that time, in addition to the managers, Ying Changhe and Chen Yi were in the protected area.Together they waited for the good news brought back by the field team. What these ten people were looking for was the location of a large tomb.

Six hours later, the manager adjusted Chen Shiyi's numbers on time and started.The protection zone began to get colder, tiny ice particles appeared in the air, and an invisible vortex slowly appeared in front of the three of them, like a small, rotating cave.

So far so good.

The first person to appear in the protection zone was Captain Chen Qi.

He was only there for a split second.

"Something else..."

Chen Qi shouted three words, and the next moment, he was torn apart by the strong pressure in the black cave.

None of the ten-member team came back, except Chen Qi, who was bloody and bloody.

Chen Yi's wife was a guide accompanying the team. She disappeared with the child in her womb, and like the other eight people, she did not leave a word.

After the 819 Incident, the Cultural Management Committee and the National Museum urgently sealed up Chen Shiyi, and the manager who was present suffered from serious psychological barriers and eventually left the National Museum.

Ying Changhe was severely punished, but due to the special nature of the Cultural Management Committee and Chen Shiyi, he still served as the director of the Cultural Management Committee.Ying Changhe revised the attendance regulations. In order to avoid large-scale casualties, the number of attendees was reduced to a maximum of three, and in order to cope with unknown crises, sentries were required to accompany him.

A large number of offices on the negative eighteenth floor are closed.Because some people are gone, some people were transferred to other places, and some people resigned directly.

Chen Yi took over the original manager and began to manage Chen Shiyi.

In the training of new employees, everyone who enters the cultural management committee must keep these regulations in mind, and understand the 819 incident on the premise of signing a confidentiality agreement.

It was not Ying Changhe who took direct responsibility for the 819 incident, but the captain Chen Qi.

He didn't accurately judge the situation at the time, didn't protect the team's personnel, and didn't even say what happened.

Even if it wasn't his fault, he was the captain.

Someone has to take responsibility.Ying Changhe must be kept, and the rest of the Cultural Management Committee is not qualified to bear it, only Chen Qi Neng, only Chen Qi Neng who has stopped speaking.

"Ying Changhe didn't tell you about the 819 incident, because he was afraid that you would reject the job." Gao Qiong said, "There is no more suitable manager than you. The Cultural Management Committee wants to continue to exist and continue to work. I can rely on you."

Zhang Xiao remained silent for a long time.

A fun, smooth, safe field trip suddenly turns into a dangerous deception.

His fingers were a little cold, so they clenched into fists.

"Why did the accident happen?" He asked in a low voice, "Have you found out the cause of the accident?"

"...No." It was Yuan Yiwei who spoke this time, "There is no way to find out what happened. I checked with Chen Yi and Zhou Sha several times according to the dispatch form at that time, and there was no problem. I know Only people from the Culture Management Committee and a few high-level people were involved in this matter, and they made great efforts to investigate, but found nothing."

A year later, Chen Shiyi started again.The cultural management committee started to recruit people, and that's when Yuan Yiwei and Zhou Sha came in.

Zhang Xiao felt very cold.

"Chen Qi is a very powerful sentinel." Yuan Yiwei whispered, "They should have encountered a serious accident at that time."

Yuan Yiwei paused.

"Gao Qiong, Director Ying has entrusted Zhou Sha to tell Zhang Xiao about the 819 incident. She should have said it, not you, she must have said it. She has already made preparations."

Gao Qiong frowned: "Why? Why didn't Ying Changhe say it himself?"

"Zhou Sha said it is the most suitable." Yuan Yiwei looked at Gao Qiong, "Chen Qi is her father."

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*Shaanxi Wanger Uprising: In 1627, there was a severe drought in Shaanxi. The starving Wang Er led a hundred farmers who could not bear heavy taxes to rush into the county government and killed Zhang Douyao, the county magistrate. This was the beginning of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty.After that, uprisings of various sizes broke out across the country, and figures such as the "Eight Kings" Zhang Xianzhong and the "Crossing General" Li Zicheng appeared.

* "Appreciation of Pottery": A set of pottery appreciation books published by China Ceramic Art Publishing House. The book elaborates on the origin, classification, and development of pottery, and is an important reference book for the history of pottery.Since the book was published in 1990, the entries have been continuously revised and added.In a supplement in 2004, 46 previously undiscovered pottery items were added, and the editorial office included a separate paragraph in the "Revision Description" to thank the National Cultural Relics Restoration Center and the Cultural Management Committee.