IJWTRQ Chapter 042

Until the end of the day, Cui Heyu didn’t find the right ability for himself.

And the strength of Liang Xian and the others couldn’t hold on for too long. After flying in the sky for a while, Ah San went beyond the protection range, and was swept into the wind screaming, it was Tan Yan who had to drag people back. When he came back, his whole body was covered with injuries, and he was lying with Qin Li and Yan Yongfeng who were exhausted.

Not a moment later, the excited Liang Xian came back to help treat Yan Yongfeng and Ah San, after that, he himself also lay flat due to excessive consumption, for a while, four people were lying inside the protective cover.

Qiu Qizheng: “…”

He can only comfort the depressed Cui Heyu: “I think it’s good that you didn’t find a suitable method of use. Look at the four of them…”

The backpacks of Tan Yan and the other four were still intact. He took out the medicine and gauze from the backpack, and was carefully bandaging the wound for Ah San.

He also took out a disposable compressed towel and carefully wiped the sweat off the faces of several people.

“You don’t need to do these things.” Cui Heyu was very uncomfortable, he snatched the towel from Tan Yan, wiped Yan Yongfeng Qin Li’s face and body carefully, and finally rubbed Liang Xian’s face with the rest of the towel that everyone used, perfunctorily beyond words.

Tan Yan even laughed, he asked: “Do you want to stay in this world for a few more days?”

“This…” Cui Heyu hesitated, “Will it be too dangerous?”

“When the wind dies down, we’ll go find the transmission point,” Tan Yan thought about it and said, “At that time, stay near the transmission point for a while, and go back after you all get enough training.”

Cui Heyu’s mind became active, he looked at Qiu Qizheng.

Qiu Qizheng also thought about it, he thought about the problem most comprehensively, and asked a question at this time: “Will there be another void in the real world while we stay in this world? Before Professor Qiao said, that in the past entering the ‘void’ basically in a day round trip, the next ‘void’ to appear can be temporarily stable from 21 o’clock to zero o’clock in the evening, and the appearance of the ‘void’ depends on whether the next world collapses after the rotation of the Rubik’s Cube universe, so there is no law for the appearance of the void, because there are countless changes in the parallel world, the next world we touch is intact or collapsed, it can only depend on luck.”

“Perhaps there are laws to follow, but because the base is too large, this cycle may be in units of hundreds or even thousands of years. In the limited life of mankind, it is difficult to figure out a law that can be used as a reference.” Qiao Zhixue explained it like this at the time, “For the time being, we can only tentatively change it to 24 hours once. Every day from 21 o’clock to 0 o’clock, you must be more vigilant. After you arrive in another world, try to return at 21 o’clock the next day, and no later than five hours.”

Five hours is the limit number for the instrument designed by Qiao Zhixue to control the spread of the ‘void’.

The appearance of this device is also a coincidence, even Qiao Zhixue himself finds it unbelievable. When he was studying, he majored in the direction of quantum mechanics, and his doctoral graduation project was to design an instrument capable of producing quantum force fields. After numerous experiments, Qiao Zhixue accidentally discovered a force field that can temporarily stop the motion of particles and he made this instrument as his graduation project.

And when the ‘void’ happened, it was also by chance. Qiao Zhixue used this instrument on a whim when the ‘void’ spread, and the spread of the ‘void’ stopped immediately. After about half an hour, the ‘void’ disappeared.

At that time, Qiao Zhixue thought that his instrument made the ‘void’ disappear, but later found that each time the ‘void’ disappeared at a different time. He was puzzled by this, until he got to know Tan Yan, and realized that his instrument only had the function of stopping the spreading, and it was Tan Yan who truly closed the loop completely and repaired the space.

As of now, the longest time the instrument has paused the spread of the ‘void’ is three hours. Based on the changes, Qiao Zhixue calculated that the maximum time will not exceed five hours, which is a safe time, beyond which it will become more dangerous.

Because no one knows if the ‘void’ really stopped during the five hours, or if it was just accumulating energy. The worst possible scenario is, when no one is able to restore the space within five hours, if the quantum instrument is destroyed, the energy accumulated in the ‘void’ for five hours will explode in an instant, and the consequences will be unimaginable, and people waiting around the ‘void’ may not even have a chance to escape and be directly swept in.

What is even more frightening is that if the parallel universe changes again during this period of time, then the people who are sucked in will have two outcomes, one is to be lucky enough to enter a collapsed world, never to return; The other is that the world in contact with the Earth at this time is a complete world with an absolute space barrier, so no one knows what will happen to people who cannot enter the other world and cannot return to the original world.

Thinking of this, Cui Heyu frowned and said: “We have been here for ten hours, and we crossed at 1 o’clock in the morning. If the time has not changed because of the world, it is now 11 o’clock in the morning, Beijing time, and there are still 10 hours before 21 o’clock in the evening, there are still 15 hours before the safe time.”

And the gust of wind hasn’t shown signs of stopping yet, let’s not mention staying for a few more days of training, it’s difficult for them to even move now.

Liang Xian, who was lying down, opened his eyes at some point and struggled to get up when he heard Cui Heyu’s words, but unfortunately, he had no strength to try to climb up twice, so he had to lie down and said: “According to the worst case scenario, when we enter this world, the Earth has just stopped rotating, so it will take at least fourteen hours for the strong wind to subside, and we only have one hour to find the teleportation point that has been blown to nowhere.”

Cui Heyu was startled by his sudden voice: “Couldn’t you have coughed first to remind us?”

Liang Xian ignored him, but struggled to climb up twice, sat up with difficulty, panting, and said: “This will not work, we must think of a way to restore our strength as soon as possible, otherwise even if we go back, we will not be able to continuously enter the two worlds.”

This is also the reason why the organization is anxious to train team members who can act independently. At this stage, they must prepare at least two teams from different worlds in case of emergencies.

In the mind of Minister Yu and others, the Earth is now walking on a tightrope, once the other world team has an accident, the Earth will fall from the steel wire rope, directly to extinction.

“Have you ever experienced a ‘void’ two days in a row?” Liang Xian asked Tan Yan.

“Highest record, four days.”

“What?!” The three exclaimed in unison.

Such a terrifying world, for four consecutive days, is this the intensity that normal people can bear?

Tan Yan: “In fact, it’s okay, the first two worlds are relatively simple, and can come out within an hour after entering, the third is a little more difficult, I just came back before going to work the next morning, I was on duty during the day, and entered the fourth at night…”

Tan Yan doesn’t want to talk about it here, the last world is really a bit…

“You have to work during the day? Does the country not let you rest? Is there such a thing as squeezing the labor force?” Cui Heyu asked a series of questions.

Tan Yan: “…”

“What work do you do? On duty? The public security system or the judicial system? Isn’t your ID card age only 18 years old? Do state departments employ child laborers?” Cui Heyu continued to ask.

Tan Yan: “…”

He couldn’t answer a single question.

“Your face looks between 16-18, even if it’s well maintained, at most is twenty-five to twenty-six, right? Is there any need to hide this age? Suppose you are an old man with plastic surgery on your face, it’s still impossible that the age gap is too large, right? If hyaluronic acid can really rejuvenate to this point, celebrities have to buy it even if they sell their kidneys!” Cui Heyu is still asking.

Tan Yan: “…”

Don’t ask, if he asked again, he simply won’t be able to keep the secret.

Even Qiu Qizheng didn’t stop Cui Heyu from asking questions, because they were really curious about Tan Yan’s experience.

“Hey, I suddenly remembered something.” Cui Heyu had a flash of inspiration, “When you just moved into our dormitory, I hacked the household registration website and checked all the people named Tan Yan and Tan in the surrounding provinces based on your accent and local dialect…”

“Not right,” He shook his head again, “I searched in the wrong direction. A person cannot disappear into thin air. My scope should be narrowed down to the missing persons and those who have died in the past three years, and they must also be employees of the people’s police system, emmmmm… the auxiliary police and auxiliary police should also be included inside.”

Tan Yan: “…”

Liang Xian grabbed a stone beside him and threw it at Cui Heyu: “Shut up!”

“You…” Cui Heyu covered his head in pain, and was about to scold him, but found that he couldn’t find Liang Xian’s ‘murder weapon’.

Cui Heyu: “What did you hit me with just now?”

“Stones.”

“Are you kidding, stones are flying in the sky now,” Cui Heyu pointed to the sky and said, “Now the Earth’s gravitational force is far inferior to the power of inertia, deep-sea fish are thrown into the air, how can there be stones under the Great Wall?”

“But just now I…” Liang Xian paused.

He just saw the awkward and embarrassed look of Tan Yan, and couldn’t help but want to take something to hit Cui Heyu hard to shut him up, so he grabbed a ‘stone’ from his side and threw it over.

“That rock… is under your feet… I, I can see…” Yan Yongfeng also woke up, lying on the ground like a salted fish, stuttering, it seems that excessive consumption of consciousness has affected his ability to speak.

Cui Heyu found the place Yan Yongfeng was pointing at, touched it, and touched a ‘thing’ the size of a fist. He couldn’t see it, but he could touch it. Cui Heyu squeezed, but felt that the ‘stone’ in his hand suddenly disappeared, and he held emptiness.

He looked at Yan Yongfeng.

Yan Yongfeng: “Scattered, like… ice suddenly sublimated into a gaseous state, no… more thorough than the gaseous state, it directly became a particle state.”

Cui Heyu: “…”

“Your power is also too terrible.” He is so jealous that his nose is about to turn crooked. Liang Xian’s ability will become stronger in the future. Doesn’t it mean that he can have whatever he wants? As long as he can remember the structure of what he wants, he can reorganize the environment of the free particles to combine.

“No, that’s not a stone.” Yan Yongfeng shook his head, “It’s probably the same principle as my big dagger, it’s just a phenomenon of particle condensation in the void, but his ‘stone’ structure is more stable, unlike my dagger, falling apart after one move.”

“…Let’s discuss how to regain strength and when to leave here.” Cui Heyu refused to discuss the issue of abilities anymore.

Qiu Qizheng feels sorry for Cui Heyu, he has always been proud and never loses to others, but now everyone has the power that he envies, while Cui Heyu has nothing, it is really hard.

Qiu Qizheng himself also feels bad, but he is not anxious, he has been able to ‘see’ the dots of light, which means that awakening is a matter of time, sometimes it’s not a bad thing to settle down a bit more, it’s something he can never run away from. But Cui Heyu is not the same, slower than others this thing in itself makes him difficult to accept!

Quickly restore the power, this matter still needs to ask Tan Yan, after all, he is the only one with experience.

This is difficult for Tan Yan, he doesn’t really have much time to recover, after all, he has to be on duty during the day. Often after entering the ‘void’ at night, the next day the headache will explode. But he endured it, endured it, and found that the recovery speed was getting faster and faster, and the endurance was getting stronger and stronger. Afterward, there were very few headaches.

Just like the last time in the water world, everyone lying down after returning, only Tan Yan alone opened his eyes on time, his experience and tolerance were different.

“It seems that there is only one way, to practice more,” After hearing what he said, Cui Heyu said helplessly, “How many years have you been practicing?”

Tan Yan: “…”

The topic is back again.

At this time, he couldn’t hide it anymore, he just rubbed the curious baby Cui Heyu’s hair, and said softly: “When we get back, ask Minister Yu, ask him if you have permission to know this matter, we are companions, I don’t want to keep it from everyone, but the organization has confidentiality regulations, so we have to abide by it.”

“Oh.” Cui Heyu nodded not very sincerely.

Tan Yan felt that something was wrong, he remembered what Cui Heyu said about the black household registration network, so he asked again: “You are not allowed to investigate privately.”

“Oh.” Cui Heyu replied absent-mindedly again.

He will definitely check it secretly. Everyone thought at the same time.

Tan Yan already regards himself as the teacher of all team members, and he also hopes that one day his past can be disclosed internally, and everyone can call him ‘Teacher Tan’, so that he will be very happy. But it’s precisely because he is a teacher, he can’t just watch his students go down the wrong path.

Tan Yan said: “If you’re freelancing, or even hacking, then I won’t stop you. But you are cultivated by the country with great painstaking efforts, and you will become an excellent soldier in the future, so you can’t do this. Once you do, then I will arrest you as a civilian police officer.”

He spoke so solemnly that Cui Heyu have no doubt that once he really crossed the line, Tan Yan would never show mercy.

“Then…then don’t check.” Cui Heyu replied aggrievedly.

Qiu Qizheng could not help but look at Tan Yan in a different light. From the day he met Cui Heyu, this kid is the kind of person who even without wings can go to the sky by wearing fake wings, Qiu Qizheng has always been worried that he would fall into the sea on his way to pursue the sun on his heart, just like Icarus in the ancient Greek mythology. Qiu Qizheng is trying to stop Cui Heyu from doing something stupid, but at most, he could only restrain him a little, but he couldn’t really persuade him.

But now, Tan Yan has done it.

“Speaking of which,” Cui Heyu said suddenly, “Since I was a child, I have been better at computer operation than Liang Xian.”

This does not mean that Liang Xian is not good, but compared to his hacking skills, he is indeed slightly inferior.

“Maybe my ability is on this, but what ability can hacking technology have?” Cui Heyu said to himself.

“Programming.” Qiu Qizheng replied.

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The author has something to say:

The knowledge points of this chapter, Icarus¹伊卡洛斯 Yī kǎ luòsī: Icarus., in ancient Greek mythology, was the man who carried artificial wings to the sky, but the wax on the wings was roasted when he gets too close to the sun, and he fell into the water and burned to death.

In fact, I think there are often similarities between the myths of various countries, such as China’s Kuafu²夸父 Kuā fù: Kuafu. chasing the sun, it seems that mankind’s pursuit of the sun knows no time nor borders.

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  伊卡洛斯 Yī kǎ luòsī: Icarus.
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  夸父 Kuā fù: Kuafu.