[Infrastructure] After being mistaken for a god

Daniel walked into the large conference room with a very serious expression.

All the researchers of the "Retracing Civilization Project" project team are gathered in the conference hall at this moment, and most of them feel uneasy-after all, since the last time the magnetic field parameters were wrong, the person in charge has never smiled in front of them.

Today, there is something more intensified.

Sure enough, Daniel said: "Today, I have an extremely important news to tell everyone."

His tone sounded a little heavy.

No way! ——Most of the researchers are thinking: It must not be that their Yi Nan is in bad condition, right?

It has been two months since Yi Nan returned.As the first and only human being in the world who has completed the time travel through the time-space tunnel and returned to the original time and space, she had to stay in a sterile environment for two months and cooperate with medical scientists to do various things. kind of research.

Daniel, as the head of the project team, has been there all the time.

Most of the researchers are guys with very high IQs. When they saw Daniel's expression, they automatically made up their minds.

"Yi Nan, our Yi Nan..." Someone was about to cry on the spot.After all, Yi Nan is quite popular in the whole group, compared with Daniel... it seems like two extremes.

"The news is—"

Daniel turned his head to look at the door.The researchers followed his gaze - a young girl was standing at the door.

This sudden joy swept the entire meeting room: "Ah, Yi Nan, you finally came out!"

There was a chorus of cheers in the room.Only Yi Nan tightened his face in grief and indignation: Let me be clear, what do you mean by "finally come out"?

None of this group of researchers realized that there was anything wrong with their words. A few short-tempered guys had already pushed away their chairs and rushed out, giving Yi Nan a bear hug.

After experiencing such an emotional turning point, someone slapped the table and asked loudly, "Daniel...what's the matter with you?"

Daniel pursed his lips tightly, but he felt a little innocent in his heart——she said that, she wanted to see "unsmiling and fierce", isn't that what he looks like now?

Yi Nan hugged her partners one by one, and at the same time had to rush to answer their questions:

"No problem, the doctor said that I have recovered to be exactly the same as a normal person, and I can work side by side with everyone in the future!"

"I remember what you said very clearly. I will help you look at your report later."

"..."

"By the way, I brought you a gift, I believe you will like it very much."

There is a small cart behind her, and there is a big wooden barrel and many clay cups on the cart.

"This is beer brewed completely according to the ancient Sumerian method, without any modern additives. I invite everyone to taste its flavor, and please help me to see if there is a market in modern society..."

Yinan took out a funnel and a wooden spoon as he talked to himself: beer brewed in the ancient way needs to be filtered, otherwise the black bread used as a starter and the dregs would be drunk together.

She passed the filtered beer to her curious colleagues.

They tasted one by one, and then smacked their lips with strange expressions.

"How is it? Does it taste good?" Yi Nan asked expectantly.

"Well, this..." her colleagues replied very tactfully, "quite special!"

The beer brewed completely according to the ancient method has a strong yeasty taste and is rather bitter. In addition, it does not have "steam" like modern beer. Researchers who are used to drinking modern beer have a hard time getting used to this taste.

Yinan: "Would you like another drink?"

"This...thank you, or not!"

"Yinan, thank you very much, this cup... I'll take it back to the office and taste it slowly..."

"Sorry, I'll go to the toilet first, I'll be here in a while! I'll be back in a while!"

Yi Nan didn't forget to tell them: "It's okay, there's still a lot of beer, come back later and continue drinking!"

Who would dare to stay in the big conference room? The researchers were all ready to rub their feet with oil.Unexpectedly, at this time, there was a burst of clear laughter from behind the people, and the laughter was very happy——

The members of the project team stopped in their tracks: they had never heard such laughter, and they had never heard Daniel laughing so freely.

The responsible project leader has finally let go of all the pressure today.

However, the charm of this laughter still cannot match the power of "ancient beer". After the researchers stopped for a while because of the laughter, they continued to sneak away one after another.In the huge meeting room, only Yinan and Daniel were left.

"It seems...the acceptance of this beer is not high enough!" Yi Nan said shyly.

"No," Daniel said loudly, "the acceptance is very high, but they prefer to taste this drink alone."

He stretched out his hand to Yi Nan: "Don't you have my share?"

Yinan nimbly filtered out another cup, handed it to Daniel, watched him taste it with relish, and thought to himself: It seems that he really likes it... just like the shepherd brother.

She finally smiled and her eyes brightened.

She didn't know that Daniel really "remembered" this taste, so he was used to it and liked it very much.

Daniel held the ceramic cup and sipped it in small sips, as if the cup contained a cup of fragrant coffee.

"Okay, enough nonsense, let's start the meeting!" After he finished drinking, Daniel put down the clay cup, announced the opening of the meeting, and closed the door of the large conference room.

Yi Nan: This...

There were only the two of them in the huge conference room.

What kind of meeting is this?

Yi Nan apologized: "It's all my fault." She shouldn't have brought beer here.

"No, this is just right." Daniel seemed very comfortable, "Anyway, the contents of this meeting are all prepared for you alone."

For you, alone...all for you, prepared...

"The topic of this meeting is, what changes did the 'Retrospective Civilization Project' bring to the world in addition to achieving the experimental goals."

The projector in the meeting room started playing the slideshow.Yinan quickly sat up straight, and she always took her scientific research tasks seriously.

The great library of Alexandria appeared on the screen, majestic and magnificent, stretching for several miles, it was what Yinan saw in BC.

She was very excited: "Could it be, could it be..."

Could it be because of her efforts that this large library survived the long river of time?

"Not really." Daniel poured a ladle of cold water on her ruthlessly.

"At the beginning of the project, we discussed that the influence of individual behavior on the evolution of the overall civilization is infinitely close to zero. This project has basically verified this point."

"The Library of Alexandria survived the catastrophe in Caesar's era and was not burned; but after that, with the changes of the times, this building has been experiencing years of erosion, wars, swords, theft, and sale... In the end, the building of this civilization The treasure house also took its collections together and disappeared into the vast history..."

Inan sighed regretfully.

Thinking about it now, Vitruvius once put out the fire that burned to the library desperately, and she herself left a fortune, entrusting reliable people to continue to take care of the library's collections-but now it seems that these efforts It has all been in vain, and history will still silently return to its original track.

She sat in front of the conference round table, resting her chin in regret, and stared at the huge building on the screen.

"But this cannot be generalized." Daniel changed the subject.

"Because there is a person who bravely passed through the 'time-space tunnel' and went to various time-spaces in BC, allowing us to get a lot of first-hand information about human civilization - she once supported the construction of the library of Alexandria and the translation of ancient books and Sorting, through her work at that time, we have been able to reproduce almost all ancient books in modern times—"

"really?"

Yi Nan, who was praised, was both surprised and delighted.

"Yes!" Daniel nodded calmly, tapped his finger, and various ancient books recovered by the project team began to appear alternately on the screen, including clay tablets and parchment scrolls.

"So individual behavior is not unimportant - I must thank you for teaching me this lesson..."

Yi Nan looked at Daniel with joy.She felt that Daniel's eyes had begun to reveal warmth.But for some reason, the other party suddenly straightened his face again, putting on a serious and expressionless expression.

He tapped his fingers, and the images on the screen changed, and a remote sensing map of the entire Mesopotamian Plain appeared.

"There are still some minor changes. Although you only affected a certain era, we found that these changes have been preserved to modern times. During the period of the experiment, these changes are happening quietly, and they are for the better—— "

"For example, the water and soil in the Mesopotamia are better protected: this may be the reason why humans there started to use water-saving irrigation technology very early."

Yi Nan saw the area between the two big rivers on the remote sensing map, and there were indeed more green spots.She recalled that when she was "airdropped", she had seen the two rivers plain with long yellow sand.Obviously, under her influence, the area where I lived and worked has improved the farming methods.

In the 2000 years since she left, this new farming method has played a positive role in local soil and water conservation.

Inan is very proud of this.

Daniel casually flipped to the next slide, and an ancient book appeared on it—the head on the ancient book was familiar to her: Shakespeare.

"This..." Yi Nan was puzzled.

Shakespeare was a great playwright in the 15th century AD, what has it to do with her?

"I don't know if you remember, but there's a famous line in Shakespeare's play Hamlet..."

Yi Nan continued stupidly: "To be or not to be, that is the question?"

Daniel shook his head, the smile in his eyes was almost overflowing, but for some reason, his face was always tense.

"Weakness, your name is woman."

Inan suddenly pouted.Of course she was very impressed with this sentence, but she also didn't like it - why do you say that women are weak?Isn’t Shakespeare’s poem the first to open a map gun?

Daniel looked at her clearly, as if saying: I know you will resent.

"But the fact is, after you came back, I happened to look up an early publication of "Hamlet", and this sentence disappeared."

"At that time, I insisted that my memory was correct, so I looked up the "Hamlet" published in various ages, from the early lonely copy to the modern day, but I didn't find this sentence."

"Can you imagine my shock? — I was trying to prove that your actions affected the world, but I had no proof," Daniel said.

Yinan lowered his head and pondered, thinking: Could it really be her?The image of the Queen of Chaldea that she "established" changed the perception of women forever, so that playwrights like Shakespeare finally have the nerve to name "weakness" on the entire female group?

But if it's really because of her, because she changed people's perception of women before AD-Daniel is right, how does this prove it?

"I contacted all the actors who played the role of Hamlet, whether it was a stage play or a film and television drama, and asked them if they had any impression of this line. All the answers I got were impressions—"

"But they don't know why. It seems that this line disappeared overnight. This line only exists in the memory of these actors, and there is no other evidence..."

Yi Nan blushed excitedly when he heard Daniel's explanation.

"and then?"

"And then there is no more." Daniel waved his hand coldly, "I didn't present this discovery as a research result, I hope you don't mind."

Yi Nan immediately understood what Daniel meant, and she deftly put her finger on her lips, making a "silence" gesture.

Since Shakespeare hasn't had such a "map shot" since the beginning, they shouldn't bring up this sentence again.

The two quickly reached a tacit agreement on this "discovery".

Seeing that Yi Nan was so considerate and always able to communicate with him, Daniel's eyes had already turned into gentle spring breeze—he finally felt that the cold expression on his face was strained very hard, and coughed lightly.

But Yi Nan propped his elbows on the table, holding his cheeks, staring at him steadily.

"What?" Daniel suddenly felt panicked for no reason.

"Nothing?" Yi Nan joked with a grin, "Boss, why do you always have such an expression, do you find it very hard?"

Danny suddenly felt aggrieved: "Didn't you say you wanted to see me 'unsmiling and fierce'?"

He immediately felt bad when he said a word.

Yi Nan covered his mouth with his hands, and his eyes were wide open.

"you--"

You're showing off!

The seven words "serious and fierce" are what Inan said to Vitruvius.

At that time, when she was confused, she asked Vitruvius to look "serious and fierce".

Originally, Daniel could justify that he learned about this matter through data transmission, but Daniel himself substituted himself, saying "I want to see how I... look like".

Yi Nan told Daniel's truth, she was a little excited and proud, she leaned towards Daniel with bright eyes, and asked in a low voice: "So you really know what 'Vitruvius' was thinking at that time?"

Daniel nodded solemnly, and pointed to his forehead: "It's all here."

He also has all the memories belonging to Vitruvius.

"That's great, I was just about to ask..."

When Yi Nan said this, he suddenly became dumb and his face changed.

She pushed the chair and stood up, blushing pretty face.Subconsciously, she wanted to reach out to cover her face with her hand, but she held it back.

"Marco, he..."

Vitruvius once painted a beautiful painting of her in the quiet room, so what Vitruvius saw, Daniel also saw?

Yi Nan was extremely embarrassed, although she didn't feel ashamed.

Vitruvius painted for the sake of beauty, and the two of them were frank - but the problem is...

If Daniel really inherited the memories belonging to the same soul through the magnetic field, then he should also remember... what Herod did, what Saar did?

Herod kissed her.

Sal married her.

Yi Nan felt that he had dug a Mariana Trench for himself, and it would not be filled even in this life.

In this way, the relationship is very complicated. Daniel is her ex, ex-ex, and ex-ex at the same time?

She stretched out her hand and slapped her forehead: How can I go up and down from now on?

"Daniel... I think, should I go back to my original research institute and do research remotely for a period of time?" She said incoherently, "Wait... I'll come back to the project team when we all calm down?"

After all, only when she really faced it did she realize that it would be difficult for her to fully accept this feeling for a while.

She loves this soul, but suddenly she doesn't know how to get along with the person in front of her.

Daniel frowned.

After finally looking forward to her coming back, this guy wants to run away now?

So he pointed to the screen and replied in a calm and composed tone: "The slideshow is not over yet."

Yinan: ...

This guy is still in a meeting? !

Even if she wants to run away, she should wait until the meeting is over.Everything should have a beginning and an end.Furthermore, she should also respect the time and energy spent by the other party in preparing these materials.

Therefore, Yi Nan tried hard to warn himself: Be professional!

She sat down at the round table and said solemnly: "I'm very sorry for interrupting, please continue."

So Daniel tapped his finger, and the cover of a book appeared on the screen, with a line of golden characters on the cover: "Dearchitectura".

This is exactly the "Ten Books of Architecture", the handed down work of Vitruvius.This book was written in Vitruvius's later years,

A page was turned, and the preface of the book appeared on the screen.

"Nature has not endowed me with talents beyond ordinary people, my face has become old and ugly with age, and disease has taken away my energy; therefore, I hope to use my knowledge and the books I have created to give back to those who have been given. The person I support endlessly②..."

Listening to Daniel reading this preface aloud, Yi Nan felt mixed emotions.In her ears, Daniel's voice was very similar to that of Vitruvius. Gradually, she seemed to see Vitruvius, the Vitruvius after she left, the older and more mature Vitruvius...

Vitruvius writes the last word on the scroll, which he carefully guards while the ink dries.

A new aqueduct is being built outside, and the sound of chiseling boulders keeps coming.Another huge waterwheel will be built at the end of the waterway——Vitruvius doesn't feel noisy, he knows how much convenience this waterway will bring to the lives of the surrounding Romans after it is completed.

The ink was finally completely dry, and Vitruvius carefully stacked this page with the other pages of the "Ten Books on Architecture", heaving a sigh of relief, as if letting go of a worry.

He picked up his cane and walked slowly out of his study.

The twilight is getting thicker, and the sound of building the aqueduct has also stopped.

Vitruvius supported his cane, looked at the last ray of light in the sky, raised the corners of his lips slightly, and was quite satisfied with his past life.

In the eyes of others, this should be regarded as a magnificent life - he has been serving in the army, witnessed Caesar's "I come, I see, I conquer" the battle of Zela, also witnessed Caesar's assassination, the three parties of the Roman Republic The civil war, the queen of Egypt followed her lover underground, Augustus ascended to the throne of emperor... I will appear on the stage after you sing, and Rome is no longer a "republic".

When all this was over, Augustus took a fancy to his talent and gave him greater responsibilities and missions, giving him the opportunity to build more civil buildings, both temples for worshiping gods and for ordinary people. Provides convenient public and private facilities.

So Vitruvius became the most famous engineer, presiding over the largest construction project of the Augustan period.When he was old and could no longer travel around to preside over projects, he returned to his hometown and began to write "Ten Books on Architecture".

Now, as his life draws to a close, Vitruvius feels that he has not left much to regret in his long life.

But if there is regret, there is only one.

When he was young in Alexandria, he once met a mysterious girl who gave him a key to the "treasure house".That "treasure house" has benefited him a lot throughout his life.

But she disappeared very suddenly.

He was sure that he had a deep relationship with her, but he couldn't remember it at all.

It's like a layer of thin and transparent frosted glass, which is obviously the truth if it is broken, but he still can't find the point where he can hit it.

His time with her was too short.

Vitruvius had imagined countless times that he hadn't set out with the army, and that she hadn't disappeared—what would happen to them?

Maybe not at all.Because Vitruvius is used to being alone, except for the woman he meets by chance, he has been alone in his life, free to come and go.

Whenever Vitruvius thinks of the only regret in his life, he will feel melancholy in his heart, and secretly ask himself if he has ever really been tempted by this girl.

And the answer was like the last words he said to her:

"I do not know."

Now, looking at the finally dimming sky in the west and the bright star slowly rising, he felt a sudden movement in his heart.

A flash of inspiration, when he was old.

He found that although there was something he couldn't think of in his life, he was sure that it would be very, very beautiful.

After Daniel told about this "history as if he had experienced it himself", he looked at Yi Nan.It took him a long time to speak again.

"As a researcher of history, I am very grateful to you. Your decision has allowed Vitruvius to leave a treasure for mankind."

"But I can't let you go after experiencing his state of mind."

"Therefore, I hope that from now on, we will never have to bear the pain of separation from each other."

Daniel got up, came to Yinan, took her hand, and knelt down on one knee.