Ruins of Time

Chapter 3 The Day It Stopped
The angel that I saw walking on the sea and on the earth lifted up his right hand toward heaven, and swore by the one who created the sky and what is in it, and the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, forever and ever : "There is no more time!"

—Revelation 10:5-6
【Day 1 · Signs】

In the long years that followed, Han Fang recalled that day thousands of times, trying to find the root of all this.And every time it goes back to that dream.That dream seemed to be suspended between the AD era and the Void era, emerging in the void of time rupture, full of deep meaning, but elusive.

It was a dream with only scenes but no clear plot.In the dream, Han Fang found himself standing on a cliff. The scene was somewhat familiar, as if he had been somewhere before, but he couldn't remember it clearly.It was pitch black all around, only the stars in the sky shimmered.With the faint starlight, he saw a slender female figure standing in front of him, just on the edge of the cliff, her long hair fluttering in the wind.

Somehow, he knew that he knew the woman, that they had loved each other for what seemed like a long, long time.He seemed to be calling her name, she promised to turn around, and walked towards him, he saw her pure and flawless face, bursting into a sad smile.But afterwards, he couldn't recall her appearance or her voice no matter what.

They embraced, her heart beating against his chest.He raised his head and saw the dark and deep sea under the cliff, like the abyss before the creation of the world.The sky was full of stars hanging over the sea. He had never seen so many stars, but they were arranged in strange patterns.There is also a milky white hazy band of light across the sky, protruding from the center of the sky with a giant core with two pointed ends and a thick middle.He looked at the core curiously, and slowly, he saw, in the center of the core, a circular deep darkness, dark, but with some kind of hidden life, as if a staring at him Huge eyes.

The entire night sky is like an expressionless face, with only one eye that does not belong to humans——

At this time, there was a loud noise from a distance.The Korean side never figured out what the loud noise was.He couldn't even remember the specific sound, but felt that it was extremely loud and sharp. This loud sound was like a giant hand stretched out from outside the world, tearing apart the strange starry sky, cutting through his dreamland, and making him With a shock, he woke up in a trance and opened his eyes.

It was still half dark, and the dormitory was still quiet, with a few roommates still sound asleep.Han Fang looked at the fluorescent watch in his hand. It was 6:47 in the morning, which was still early before the time to wake up.The loud noise disappeared, and there seemed to be some smaller noises in the distance, but Han Fang couldn't be sure whether there was a real sound or an auditory hallucination in his dream.He was so sleepy that he closed his eyes again, and soon fell into a deep sleep again.Later, he dreamed about many miscellaneous things, including a successful date with the senior sister he had a crush on, but he did not repeat that mysterious dream.

Just as Senior Sister Ji Bing was standing in front of Han Fang, he was woken up again by the noise outside.The noise outside the window poured in like a tide, with voices of people and cars, as if something had happened.Han Fang stood up anxiously and curiously, and saw that his roommate Xie Dong had already got up, opened the curtains and looked out, and the morning light came in directly.Ma Xiaojun on the lower berth hadn't gotten up yet, covering his eyes with his hands, and grunting indistinctly.

"What's wrong?" Han Fang asked lazily, still feeling sleepy.What he did last night, and how he got back to the dormitory, he couldn't remember for a moment.

"Let me take a look." Xie Dong looked around and quickly found the target, "Look over there!"

Han Fang looked in the direction he pointed, and immediately understood what he was referring to, and all sleepiness disappeared.Their dormitory is on the edge of the campus, close to the wall, and they can see half of the street beyond the wall.Han Fang saw a car with no recognizable brand slanting across the middle of the street. It hit its head on the guardrail of the green belt in the middle of the street.But this is not the root of the problem. There is black smoke billowing in front of the street, and the flames can still be seen faintly, as if something bigger happened.But the place where the accident happened was blocked by another dormitory building obliquely in front, so I couldn't see it.

"God, there won't be a big accident, right?" Han Fang murmured.

Ma Xiaojun sat up, saw the situation outside, and immediately became very excited: "Damn, bull!" He jumped out of bed, put on his slippers, and ran out wearing only a pair of underwear.

"This kid!" Xie Dong smiled wryly and shook his head, "It was just a car accident, look how excited he is!"

"Where did the car accident happen?" Liu Ye's lazy voice came from the other side of the dormitory.

"Where else can it be? Little Ximen." Xie Dong said.

"The car crash at Xiaoximen is still news?" Liu Ye didn't take it seriously, "It's the third time this year."

Han Fang stared out of the window and said, "But this time...it seems to be more serious than the previous few times..."

"It's terrible, it's terrible!" Ma Xiaojun came back from the door again, yelling, "It's definitely a super big accident! I just went to the other end of the corridor to look, and at least six or seven cars collided with each other in a mess. , The fire is burning to the sky, hundreds of people are watching there, I think dozens of people will die!"

Xie Dong snorted coldly, "I said a few days ago that if the intersection outside Xiaoximen is not properly repaired, there must be a big problem. What will happen in the end, it's right!"

The South Korean side asked, "Where are the police and ambulance?"

"It seems that there are a few policemen, and the ambulance hasn't arrived yet. But it's useless to come. Those cars are almost burnt to ashes. It's no wonder that the people inside are still alive."

"Should there be other injured people?" Liu Ye asked.

"Maybe there is, but it's too far away, and the fireworks are too loud, so I can't see clearly." Ma Xiaojun said while putting on his clothes, "I'm going out to have a look now, do you want to go?"

"Okay." Xie Dong said, "I'll go and see what's going on, where's Xiao Fang?"

Han Fang hesitated for a moment and said, "I'll forget it, that kind of scene will give me nightmares for several nights."

"I'm not going either." Liu Ye said, "I don't want to join in the excitement of the dead, I plan to read that "Big Breasts and Wide Buttocks" in the morning."

"What book? Enlarged breasts..." Ma Xiaojun laughed meanly.

"Where did you go?" Liu Ye said with some displeasure, "It's the famous work of Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan!"

Xie Dong smiled and said, "Yezi, you are really arty. Ren Mo Yan just won the Nobel yesterday, and you went to the library to borrow a bunch of his books and came back."

"What is arty, I will also study the works of masters, and in another 30 years, maybe I will be the next one to win the award!"

"You'd better go back to sleep again, you will definitely win the Nobel Prize in your dream, bye!" Ma Xiaojun pulled Xie Dong, and walked out the door laughing.

"Heartless guy..." Han Fang shook his head helplessly, staring at the black smoke outside the window.Many lives may have just passed away, and their life, all kinds of joys, sorrows, sorrows, and joys, just came to an end in a peaceful morning.But for unrelated passers-by like Ma Xiaojun and Xie Dong, they were just watching the excitement.Perhaps one day, when he dies, it will be an insignificant gimmick to others.In this world, people are strangers to each other.

"Hey, where are my books?" Liu Ye's cry brought back Han Fang's wandering thoughts, "Why is there no one left?"

"What book?" Han Fang asked back.

"The few Mo Yan novels I borrowed yesterday: "Red Sorghum", "Sandalwood Punishment", "Big Breasts and Wide Hips...why can't I find any of them?"

"Do you remember where you put it?"

"It's on the desk." Liu Ye pointed to his desk and said.Everyone in the dormitory has a small desk with two rows of simple bookshelves, which are very convenient for storing textbooks and books borrowed from the library.

Han Fang came down and took a look, "Are you sure? Maybe it's in your schoolbag or in a drawer."

Liu Ye was also a little uncertain, and searched around according to Han Fang's suggestion, but there was still nothing, and suddenly slapped his thigh, "I see! It was Ma Xiaojun who played a prank and hid it for me!"

"Xiaojun can't be so boring, can he?"

"Who isn't he? Look at his winking look at the end, this guy, I'll settle accounts with him when I get back!"

Han Fang laughed and shook his head, went to the sink to brush his teeth, and suddenly remembered that the old toothpaste was used up yesterday, it had been thrown away, and no new one had been bought.

"Yezi, lend me your toothpaste—" Before Han Fang could finish his sentence, he suddenly stopped, staring at the crumpled tube of toothpaste stuck in the tooth jar in a daze.After he finished using it last night, he obviously threw it away, why is it still here?
It must be a wrong memory, Han Fang thought, but there was a faint sense of uneasiness in his heart.Something seemed wrong, but I couldn't tell.

"Oh!" Sitting in front of the computer, Liu Ye yelled, "Xiao Fang, come and see!"

Han Fang leaned in front of his computer and saw that the Sina homepage was opened, and it looked normal, "What's wrong?"

"The news about Mo Yan winning the Nobel Prize! It's all gone! Last night it was all over the place! Look, Sina, Sohu, Netease...all disappeared! Baidu can't even find it!"

"What happened? They were all deleted?"

Liu Ye scratched his head, "It doesn't look like that. Mo Yan has nothing serious. Yesterday he reported it extensively. It's strange, really strange. Which red line did this encounter..."

Before they figured out the problem, various noisy and chaotic voices came from outside. It seemed that some people were arguing, some were screaming, some were chanting slogans, and some were smashing something.

"Could it be that you are protesting against eating bugs in the cafeteria again?" Liu Ye was also surprised, "Didn't you hear about it yesterday?"

"I'll go out and have a look." Han Fang said.

"I'll go with you." Liu Ye said, standing up.

【"Wait!" When Han Fang said this, Liu Ye interrupted him unbearably, "When did you say this...? Why don't I have any impression? And Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize or something... Isn't that what happened yesterday? You said it as if..." He tried his best to find a suitable word to describe it, "as if there is no day between yesterday and today."

"Of course, you can say that that day doesn't exist," Han Fang said, "because it was the first day of the Void Period."

"I don't know what you said, but if that day comes, why don't I have any memory?"

"It's a long story, but compared to this..." Han Fang sighed in bewilderment, "What's even more inconceivable is why we remember everything that never happened."]

[Day 1 Vision]

As soon as Han Fang walked out of the room, he was almost hit by a person rushing towards him, and he dodged hastily before dodging.Han Fang took a closer look and found that it was Guan Jingwei who lived in the 420 dormitory.

"Old Guan, what are you doing? In a panic?"

"There... that..." Guan Jingwei pointed behind him, stammering, his eyes filled with indescribable astonishment.

"I saw it. There was a car accident over there." Han Fang said.

"No, it wasn't a car accident..." Guan Jingwei shook his head desperately, "It's... crazy, almost crazy."

"Who is crazy?" Han Fang became more and more puzzled.

"I'm crazy." Guan Jingwei said, his expression twitching strangely, "I must be fucking crazy."

He shook off Han Fang's hand and ran down stumbling.As soon as Liu Ye came out, he asked in a daze, "What's the matter, old man? What's the wind in the early morning?"

"I don't know what's going on." Han Fang said, looking at the somewhat gloomy corridor, he suddenly felt a little more fearful. He tried his best to suppress the fear in his heart, "Let's go over there and have a look." He walked in the direction that Guan Jingwei came from.

Another person came in front of him, it was Li Yongli, Guan Jingwei's roommate, who was also pale and out of his mind.Han Fang noticed that he didn't even wear shoes.

"Yongli! What are you doing? What's the matter with you sleeping in the latitude and longitude?" Liu Ye asked.

Li Yongli didn't seem to see them, they yelled a few times before looking up.

"It's you?" Li Yongli finally recognized them.

"What's wrong with you kid?" Liu Ye asked, "It's like losing your soul? You and Guan Jingwei..."

Li Yongli smiled wryly, and pointed to his dormitory, "Go in and see for yourself, I... I dare not go in."

Han Fang and Liu Ye looked at each other, and walked into Li Yongli's dormitory cautiously, preparing to find a tiger or a naked woman inside.

It turned out to be nothing.There was only one tall boy standing in front of the mirror and looking at himself with excitement on his face.

"Han Fang, Liu Ye? Why are you here?" The boy greeted them cheerfully, "Come in and sit!"

"Zheng Zhi." Han Fang breathed a sigh of relief, "It seems that you are a normal person, what happened to everyone else?"

"Ah—" Liu Ye yelled in surprise, which startled Han Fang. His face changed drastically, and he pointed at Zheng Zhi and said, "You, aren't you hospitalized?"

"What did you say, Zheng Zhi is hospitalized?" Han Fang hurriedly asked Liu Ye.

"Yeah," Liu Ye stared blankly at Zheng Zhi, "Yesterday afternoon, when he was playing football with others in the stadium, he broke his calf and was sent to the school hospital. He was put on a cast and will stay in the hospital for observation for a few days. Thank you Dong also discussed with us yesterday, asking if we should buy some fruit today and go to the hospital to see Zheng Zhi."

"How come I don't know about this?"

"You were not here last night, I don't know where you went."

Han Fang couldn't remember what he did last night for a while, but now, Zheng Zhi was standing in front of them, wearing only a pair of shorts, Han Fang glanced at his legs, his two strong thick legs were covered with leg hair , I can't see the details clearly, but there are obviously no signs of any wounds and bandages.How could it be broken? ?

"Zheng Zhi, Liu Ye and the others said you were hospitalized, where did they make a mistake?"

"I was indeed hospitalized yesterday." Zheng Zhi admitted, "The tibia of my left leg was broken, and it hurt so badly that I was so annoyed to death. You said that if my leg was broken, what would I do next week's game? But when you woke up this morning, you Guess what? My buddy is lying in the dormitory in good condition, nothing happened!" He said and jumped twice.

"Wait..." Han Fang felt a little dizzy, "You mean, you were lying in the hospital last night with a broken leg, and when you woke up this morning, you found yourself lying on the bed in the dormitory, and your leg was fine ?”

"No, I'm so happy." Zheng Zhi said happily, "But those people all seem to have seen a ghost, real food!"

"But..." Han Fang couldn't help it, "Don't you think that what you said... violates the basic common sense and is impossible to happen? Even if you were carried back in a dream, It is also impossible to heal the leg injury!"

Zheng Zhiman said nonchalantly: "How do I know what's going on? But it happens, it happens. Is it better than letting me lie in the hospital and can't move? Anyway, I can't ask for it."

"You... are really a born optimist." Han Fang said with a wry smile, and only then did he understand why both Guan Jingwei and Li Yongli seemed to have seen a ghost.

There was a burst of noise outside the building, much louder than before.

Han Fang winked at Liu Ye, didn't bother to ask Zheng Zhi for more details, just said hastily, "Then you take care", then turned and went downstairs.The answer to this series of weirdness may be out there.

Stepping out of the building is like being thrown into a boiling ocean.The situation outside is like the end of the world. As soon as Han Fang looked up, he saw a commercial building across the road burning brightly. It would have been big news at ordinary times, but it didn’t attract too many people’s attention at this moment. , Many people ran around like headless chickens, and some people shouted excitedly.Han Fang vaguely heard "The end of the world is here!" "Humanity is going to perish!" "Go back, go back!" "Let everything happen again!" "Down with Principal Zhou!"

Han Fang looked around and saw some familiar classmates under a tree, and rushed over to ask, "What's going on today?"

"We don't know either." Everyone said in one voice, they all went downstairs to look after being woken up, and now they don't know what happened, and their experiences are similar.

After saying a few words, the flow of people around became more and more crowded. Now, most of the students began to feel strange and came out of the dormitory.Many people obviously didn't know what was going on, but after joining the crowd, they were also infected by the emotions of the flow, either panic, surprise, or excitement, and yelled loudly.

Han Fang saw that there was no way out here, so he turned to Liu Ye and said, "Let's—" But when he turned around, he found that Liu Ye had disappeared.I don't know if I was dispersed by the flow of people or ran to find other people by myself.Han Fang yelled twice, but was drowned out by the surrounding voices, and no one answered.Fortunately, Liu Ye is an adult, and Han Fang is not too worried.He thought about it, and even though he was uneasy, he decided to leave the school to see if he could join Xie Dong, Ma Xiaojun and the others.

The situation on the street is more crazy and chaotic than that on the campus.In the middle of the road are cars that hit walls, guardrails, and others that were forced to stop. There are many rickety bicycles on the side, and the entire road is tightly blocked.Several cars collided with each other in front of them, and they had been burnt to iron frames, beyond recognition.The smell of gasoline and burnt gas filled the air. This is where they saw the car accident just now.But the South Korean side realized that an ordinary car accident could not be the root cause of this series of visions.

What exactly is that?
Something very scary, very strange, and very unbelievable must have happened, but now, the Korean side has no clue.And everything around him made him feel like he couldn't breathe.

He stood in a daze, and suddenly felt something dripping on him, and hurriedly took a few steps back.Only then did drops of dark red liquid fall to the ground, forming puddles.Looking up, there was a bloody corpse hanging on the sycamore tree branch, with long hair like a woman, the entire abdominal cavity was ruptured, and the intestines hung down like hanging sausages.

The smell of blood came oncoming, Han Fang couldn't bear it any longer, rushed to the side of the road, leaned on the wall and vomited, almost vomited out the last night's meal.

After Han Fang straightened up, he found that this corpse was not the only one in sight.Far and near, many limbs fell in a pool of blood in various strange postures.Han Fang didn't dare to look at it, but he couldn't stop looking at it. He felt as if he had fallen into the deepest nightmare, forgetting what he wanted to do. He stumbled to the Haidian Bridge like a sleepwalker, walking on the Haidian Bridge. To Xie Dong or Ma Xiaojun.With a wide view of the area, he could finally see what was going on.

Across the road, the middle of a building was burning, billowing thick smoke, and some people trapped on the roof couldn't stand it and jumped down, screaming in the air; In the gold shop, the clerk seemed to want to stop him, but he was knocked to the ground on the spot, blood spattering.

On the Fourth Ring Road under the bridge, all kinds of vehicles are also lined up in a long line of intimate contact, which can't be seen at a glance, like two steel centipedes lying side by side.If it was a car accident, it must be the scene of the longest car accident ever recorded in the world.There were almost no places where there were no crashes, and countless car bodies were smashed into pieces, like dominoes falling.At least a few dozen overturned cars are still burning.In some places, dozens of vehicles even rear-end together, and incomplete corpses can be seen faintly between the gaps between the vehicles.Han looked in the direction of the city center to the east, and saw black columns of smoke rising in the distance, like the smoke from a beacon tower, which made the already smoggy sky even more gloomy, and the pale sun had just risen. It appears and disappears in the dark clouds.

An unbelievably horrific nightmare.Yes, it is a dream, it must be.

Han Fang bit his own finger, as expected in a dream, he felt no pain.Is it really—

A moment later, piercing pain came - the extreme shock even delayed his physical reaction.

Han Fang shook his hands, telling himself that he must calm down and try his best to keep his brain functioning normally: Obviously, this is not just a temporary chaos in a corner of the city, but the whole city must be included in it, and it may even include the entire country and the entire world.

But what happened?Everything seemed to have happened an hour or two ago, yes, the moment before I woke up, at that time, what happened?
Han Fang felt a chill that made his whole body icy cold.Never in his life had he encountered such a commotion.Of course, there was SARS in the past, and there were some regional riots and mass incidents, but none of them can be compared with it.What suddenly appeared in front of my eyes was nothing but the sudden collapse of a world.Han Fang faintly felt that no matter what happened, everything would be completely different in the future.

And he was totally unprepared for all of this, oh my god, although he had heard some sayings like "the end of the world in 2012", he never believed a word in his heart.Yesterday, he and his classmates planned such "life events" as postgraduate entrance examination, work and finding a girlfriend, but today, the familiar world fell apart in front of him.Maybe his life will be over in a few hours too, maybe he should hurry up and say goodbye to his family.

Afterwards, Han Fang realized how ridiculous this idea was.But in a panic at the time, he just wanted to contact his family and hear his parents' voices.It seemed to be the only consolation he could count on in the world.

Han Fang took out his mobile phone and wanted to call his parents in his hometown. There seemed to be something wrong with the screen of the mobile phone, but he didn't pay attention and dialed the number at home directly.

Busy, always busy.Come to think of it, there must be tens of millions of people who want to call their relatives and friends now.

After calling [-], the Korean side had to put away the mobile phone, and now the only one he can count on is himself.He regained his composure, and found that there was an early morning stall not far behind him, and the owner of the stall was busy packing his things and wanted to leave.Han Fang ran over as if grabbing a life-saving straw, stopped him and asked, "Wait a minute... May I ask what happened to you?" He was horrified to find that his voice was full of tears.

The stall owner shook his head in fear, and said with an accent from an unknown place: "I don't know, how would I know?"

"But why is it so messy around here?"

"It started all at once..." said the stall owner, with a look of lingering fear, "I was sleeping peacefully in the house, and suddenly I came here..."

"Wait, what do you mean by 'here here suddenly'?"

"I said," the stall owner tried his best to speak in Mandarin, "I was sleeping well, but suddenly I felt a cold wind blowing, and then there was the sound of a car crashing. I opened my eyes, and when I woke up, I found myself sitting here. Don’t scare me to death! What happened in the middle, no matter how I think about it, I can’t remember it.”

Just another Zheng Zhi, Han Fang thought, these things must have some kind of connection with each other, some kind of fundamental common reason...

"Do you... usually set up a stall here?"

"Yes, I come here before six every day. Many people get up early to go to work, buy breakfast and newspapers at my booth, and the business is pretty good. But today, everything is messed up. First, there was a car crash, people died, and then many people started running. I ran, crying and screaming, as if the sky was about to collapse, who would come to buy newspapers... I was so scared that I ran to the side and hid, and just ran back to clean up."

"Wait, do you have a newspaper here?" Han Fang asked.

"Yes, there are "Beijing Morning News", "New Beijing News", "Beijing Times"..."

"Okay, give me a copy of today's newspaper!" Han Fang asked, thinking with luck, maybe the newspaper will provide some information?

"This is the strange thing." The stall owner said, "There is no today's newspaper, and all the newspapers are yesterday's. No matter how you think about it, you can't figure out what's going on. Look!"

He took out a newspaper and gave it to Han Fang. Han Fang first saw the date on it:

September 2012, 10 (Thursday)

It was indeed yesterday's newspaper, at noon on October 10, that announced that the Chinese writer Mo Yan had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. That was yesterday.But the newspaper didn't have any latest news such as Mo Yan's award.

Yesterday's... Han Fang's heart moved.He raised his left hand and glanced at the dial on his wrist.It was a black Citizen quartz watch that his father gave him when he was in college, with a date display.

2012年10月11日，08:36。

The time is stuck at yesterday morning, no, not "stop", at least the second hand is still moving.

The Korean side was still not sure, and took out his mobile phone again. The date was also on the 11th. No wonder he felt something wrong just now, because the date was wrong.

"Do you have a mobile phone or a watch? Show me the time." Han Fang said to the stall owner.

The stall owner showed him the electronic watch on his hand. Sure enough, it was also October 10, around 11:08 in the morning.

Yesterday morning.Han Fang thought that the time was yesterday morning, 24 hours ago, and the key might be here.

His tube of toothpaste was still there yesterday morning.

Yesterday morning, Liu Ye did not borrow any of Mo Yan's novels either.

Of course Zheng Zhi didn't break his leg when he kicked the ball.

Of course there will be no news and newspapers this morning.

So it all makes sense.Although the whole incident is still a mess, the Korean side finally understands the key point:
However improbable it sounds, the truth is that time has somehow regressed back to a day ago.

【"Wait..." Liu Ye said, "You mean time travel? Did you time travel to a day ago?"

"It's not that I traveled, but the time of the whole world went back to a day ago."

"What's the difference?" Liu Ye was puzzled.

"This..." Han Fang said with a wry smile, "Of course there is a difference, a very, very important difference."]

[Day 1 Panic Tide]

"Every teacher, classmate, and school worker, here is an urgent announcement: According to the measurement of the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, due to the unexplained distortion of the local time and space near the earth, the global physical time has regressed by about [-] hours. The specific data and Relevant experts are stepping up research on the cause and will give detailed answers soon. At present, please stay indoors as much as possible and do not go out. Repeat, please stay indoors as much as possible and do not go out..."

The loudspeakers hidden in every corner of the Yanda campus are like lurking militiamen, mobilized in all directions at a critical moment, broadcasting meaningless so-called notices over and over again tirelessly, but at least conveying a message to the terrified listeners Clear signal: We're still here, still picking things up.Today, this is more or less a reassurance.

It was past twelve o'clock.Han Fang followed his roommates out of the TV room of this building, and he still remembered the temporary TV speech made by the President of the State. Although he verbally reassured everyone, what Han Fang remembered most clearly was that the old man’s pair of hands holding the manuscript was not in the room. Hold the trembling hands.

A few hours ago, Han Fang returned to the dormitory from the outside in a daze, and met Xie Dong and the others again. Their knowledge of each other was similar, and they confirmed that everything around them had returned to the state of a day ago, except for human memory.This point is further confirmed by the major Internet forums of Boiling Reverse Yingtian, where people who encounter various incredible phenomena exchange information and spread rumors.Then there was the national leader's televised speech, declaring a state of emergency across the country. According to news on the Internet, other countries in the world did the same.

"Damn time is infected with the virus." Ma Xiaojun cried, "Maybe in a while, we will go back to 30 years ago, when we didn't exist anymore!"

Han Fang was startled. Although Ma Xiaojun's statement was incredible, at this time, no one dared to say that it would never happen.He glanced nervously at the dial, and the three hands were leisurely turning around at his own pace, no different from usual.

"It doesn't matter if it doesn't exist all of a sudden." Xie Dong said, with an uncontrollable chill in his voice, "If we go back to a day or two ago, maybe we will be on some road or in a car. Just like today... ..."

Han Fang understood what he meant.They have roughly guessed the main reason for the large number of deaths and injuries in the morning: everyone's consciousness was thrown back from three or four in the middle of the night to more than six in the morning of the previous day, and many drivers appeared in the driver's seat while they were still asleep. With the steering wheel in hand, most accidents happen within seconds.Of course, even if the person involved is very sober, they will not be able to react in an instant to this completely incredible scene change, and the final result will not make much difference.

"There are also trains, subways, and especially planes during take-off and landing." Liu Ye stared at his Lenovo notebook and said, "There have been many news of plane crashes at home and abroad. An Airbus fell in New York and directly hit the ground. On the Empire State Building, the whole building collapsed, the damage is comparable to 911/[-], look, someone here just took a picture and posted it."

The first reaction of everyone was not to look at the photos, but to see if there was any trace of the plane outside the window. Fortunately, there was no sign of it.

"Here, now Obama is also giving an impromptu speech at the White House." Liu Ye added, "That guy Obama was crying on the spot... It seems to say that the situation in the United States is worse than ours, and there are dead bodies everywhere..."

In hindsight they knew it had something to do with time zones.The East Asian region is relatively lucky. After six o'clock in the morning, most people are asleep. After waking up, they gradually discover the truth, and they have some psychological buffers.But in the Western Hemisphere, before the "time jump", it was 11:11 pm London time on the [-]th, [-]:[-] pm Eastern time on the [-]th, and [-]:[-] am Western time. In an instant, he jumped back to a certain moment of the previous day.This completely incredible phenomenon has set off unprecedented chaos on a global scale.The world collapsed in an instant. On the originally smooth and orderly street, everyone exclaimed at the same time, yelled, and fled everywhere, but they didn't know where to run. Cars flew into each other, and planes fell to the ground like meteorites, trampling each other to death There are countless.

People have never had time to carry out the exact statistics of the dead.But according to a rough estimate, in the first few hours of the first day, at least 9000 million people around the world died inexplicably due to various reasons in the chaos, such as car accidents, fires, plane crashes, riots, and so on.More than the two world wars in history, perhaps more than their sum.

Later, this was called the "derailment era" of the void period.

Discussions naturally yield no results.Ma Xiaojun went out to inquire about the news, and Han Fang made a few more phone calls to his family, and finally got through. His father said on the other end of the phone that he and his mother were fine, but there was a cousin who couldn't be reached, and he was helping to find him now.Several other roommates also contacted their relatives in their hometown one after another. Each of them had some losses, but they were all still there. The most serious one was Xie Dong's aunt, who was hit by a car and died.

"I said, what are you still doing in the dormitory?" Ma Xiaojun suddenly opened the door and rushed in, "Hurry up and buy something to eat!"

Han Fang didn't feel hungry, but his stomach growled twice as if responding to a call. Looking at the time, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon.He just remembered that he hadn't eaten since he woke up.

Seeing that the three people in the room didn't seem to understand the situation, Ma Xiaojun became anxious, "The cafeteria is not open today, and there are internal reports that the school plans to hoard all the food in the cold storage, and a rationing system will be implemented in the future, one steamed bun per person per day! Now everyone in the building is going to the supermarket outside to grab food, and they can’t even grab dog food if it’s too late! I don’t care if they’re all gone, let’s hurry up!”

"The supermarket is still open now?" Han Fang asked in surprise.

"Several large supermarkets just opened in the afternoon, and I just heard the news."

"But the school radio won't let us stay in the dormitory?"

"Do you believe in the school radio? Just wait until you starve to death!"

Fifteen minutes later, the South Korean party walked on the streets of Syrian towns that looked like they were in a civil war. The whole city was under martial law. There were armed police patrolling the streets and tow trucks cleaning them up. However, it would take an unknown amount of time to clean the roads.Many shops that are usually crowded with people in the city are closed, and it is desolate, but there are many pedestrians rushing from all directions to the Carrefour supermarket in Zhongguancun Square with shopping bags.

As soon as I entered the supermarket, a heat wave mixed with ear-piercing noise and various smells hit my face.Contrary to the desolation and solemnity outside, here is a sea of ​​people, and the shelves are crowded.People stuffed grain, bread, ham and other foods into their bags as if they didn't want money, and many shelves were already empty.

Of course, it's not really that you don't need money, you still have to queue up to pay the bill.In extraordinary times, there are many security guards and police officers with guns standing at the checkout counter at the exit, staring vigilantly at the surging crowd.Under the batons and guns, no one dared to make a fuss.But it was different in the supermarket. Many people began to fight over the ownership of a bag of peanuts or a bag of cereal. There were scattered goods on the ground, and the scene was chaotic.Han Fang saw a middle-aged aunt pushing a full shopping cart, struggling towards the exit, and suddenly saw a few packs of instant noodles left under the shelf, and bent over to get them.Who wants to wait for her to get up, the shopping cart has been surrounded by a group of white-collar men and women, competing for the rice, flour and dried meat inside.The aunt sat on the ground beating her chest and stamping her feet, crying and scolding, but no one paid any attention.

And these people were still shopping for Barbie dolls and imported cosmetics on Taobao yesterday, Han Fang thought.The world is like this, our order is built on the basis of food, clothing and safety, once these are threatened, civilization will fall off like a thin veil, revealing its naked nature.Especially in our country, the first thing that comes to mind is hoarding food when encountering anything, grabbing instant noodles during SARS, and grabbing salt during the Japanese nuclear leak. Although most people today have not experienced famine years, this sense of urgency is still retained in the national genes.

But does today's catastrophe really require hoarding food?Or is it the herd mentality that everyone has not thought about?Of course, it is true and possible, this is a disaster like never before seen, and we don't know what will happen in the future...

"Xiao Fang, who do you think is over there?" Xie Dong tugged at his sleeve.

Following the direction Xie Dong pointed, Han Fang saw five or six girls arguing with someone in front of the shelves. Upon closer inspection, they were all acquaintances, and the leader was the class secretary and "class flower" Jiang Xueting.Most of the girls standing behind are also girls from this class: Lin Shasha, Xing Na, Peng Yun, Luo Fei, Shen Dan...

"Xie Dong, Han Fang!" Jiang Xueting saw them, her eyes lit up, "Come and judge, we obviously got this box of cookies first, these people are unreasonable and insist on grabbing it!" She hugged her chest. Holding a gift box of biscuits, which is not too big or too small, it seems that this is the root of the dispute.

"We found it behind the shelf first." On the other side, a tall and thin man with glasses said unconvinced, "You saw that we wanted to take it, so you came here and grabbed it first!"

After listening to a few words, Xie Dong had already understood the general idea, and took a step forward: "Brother, where there is a rule of seeing it first, it's yours, otherwise you can see all the products on the shelf at a glance, so it's all yours! "

There are seven or eight people on the other side, both men and women, who originally had the upper hand, but seeing that four boys with big arms and round waists are here to help, there may not be a chance of winning.After a moment of confrontation, the man in glasses waved his hand pretending to be generous, "Forget it, isn't it just a box of biscuits, I'll leave it to you, let's go!"

"Who told you to let it go? It was originally ours!" Jiang Xueting fought back not to be outdone.

"Forget it." Xie Dong calmed down and turned to Jiang Xueting and the others, "Why are you here?"

Jiang Xueting sighed, "We also wanted to buy something to eat. There was nothing in the store in the school, so we had to venture out. As a result, there were not many things here, and some of them couldn't be grabbed. We found this box of cookies, those People are unreasonable to fight over, thank you for your help." He said with a sweet smile.

When you meet an old friend in the supermarket, you will see the truth when you are hungry.When everyone gathered together, you and I talked for a long time, and it was much closer than usual in class.Xie Dong saw that this was not the way to go, so he suggested dividing into several groups, two or three people in each group, for the sake of safe male and female matching, go and sweep different corners of the supermarket to see what they can find.This suggestion was endorsed by all.

Han Fang, Lin Shasha and Peng Yun were grouped together to find canned food.Lin Shasha is a shy and shy girl, and she has never spoken a few words to Han Fang.Peng Yun also looked indifferent. She ranked first in her class and was known as a "super girl in learning", and she didn't like to deal with boys.

"Are you okay?" After walking for a while, Han Fang couldn't help asking Lin Shasha when she saw her pale face and frowning.

Lin Shasha rubbed her chest, wanted to say something, but before she could say anything, she suddenly turned her head and retched.

"I did the same thing in the morning." Han Fang consciously understood her feelings, "The dead bodies on the side of the road are just..."

Lin Shasha straightened up and smiled at him weakly, with tears in her eyes, "I...I'm really going crazy. I didn't want to come out at all, but I was afraid that everyone else would come and I would be the only one. That would be even more terrifying ,so……"

"I understand that no one can bear what happened today..."

Halfway through Han Fang's speech, he suddenly couldn't continue, and was so surprised that his eyes almost fell out.He saw Peng Yun leaning against an empty shelf, conjuring a pocket "GRE Vocabulary Handbook" out of nowhere, and reciting in a low voice.

"Are you still reading the GRE at this time?!"

"All of this will pass." Peng Yun said coldly, "It's all about scaring myself, just like the time when I grabbed the salt. It will be fine in two days. I signed up for the GRE test in December, and now the score counts."

"However, there has never been such a time jump in history..."

"So what? There has never been 911/[-] in history. Didn't it happen? At that time, there were rumors that the United States would restrict the visas for foreign students, which made people panic. Didn't everything go away?"

Where and where?Han Fang couldn’t help but smile wryly. There are always people who are insensitive to the drastic changes in the world, such as Zheng Zhi and Peng Yun. The meaning of their lives is completely based on their own life orientation, and they are steadfast in it.For Zheng Zhi, it is playing football, and for Peng Yun, it is studying abroad. It seems that everything in the world revolves around this point.

"Huh?" Peng Yun rarely put down the book, and looked up at a 45-degree angle.Han Fang saw that other people were also looking up, and followed their gaze.The long overdue TV news appeared on the TV hanging from the ceiling, and finally there was a report of today's events:

"Hello, audiences: Due to the time and space anomalies near the earth, a temporary time jump phenomenon appeared around the world this morning, and our country was also affected... the broad masses of the people, under the leadership of the party and the government...overcame the The disaster has guaranteed the great situation of stability and unity..."

"It's this time and you're still talking nonsense!" Someone scolded angrily.

But then there were further claims.

"We have invited Mr. Wang Zukang, a famous scientific... theorist, and I will ask him to analyze the cause of the time jump for us."

The noise suddenly died down, Han Fang and others looked up together, people were anxiously looking forward to knowing what was going on today.

An old man appeared on the screen with a half-white beard and hair. He looked like a respectable old professor.The voice is old, but with convincing authority, "I have predicted this time jump. This is a rare but real cosmic physical phenomenon, which I call 'cosmic tsunami'."

"According to contemporary cosmology research, in the initial stage after the big bang, due to the effect of anti-gravity, the universe experienced a period of accelerated expansion. This period of inflation was extremely short, after which anti-gravity turned into positive gravity, and the universe entered a decelerating expansion until today. The juncture of the two phases produced a dense solitary wave in the universe itself. This original wave was always at the leading edge of the expanding universe. However, once the expansion of the universe stopped, the wave reflected at the boundary of space-time, turning around and sweeping' Inner universe', causing the universe to shrink, time and space reversed, so the phenomenon of time flowing backwards. However, due to the 'anti-reduction' of human consciousness, consciousness did not flow backwards, which caused today's chaotic situation..."

Han Fang was getting dizzy with a bunch of unclear terminology, and other people probably felt the same way.However, the host interrupted his theoretical analysis in time and asked a question that everyone cared about, "Mr. Wang, do you think today's abnormal phenomenon will continue to happen?"

"Probably not, as I said, this is a solitary wave generated when the universe was born, and it will disappear soon. Even if there is a second wave, considering the large-scale space-time of the universe, it may not come until hundreds of millions of years later, But it won't come back in our lifetimes."

Everyone finally understood the words, and cheers of joy ignited the crowd, "So that's what happened!" "

Han Fang was also lighthearted, and turned to Lin Shasha and said, "So that's what happened! Unexpectedly, we have experienced the end of the world this time, and 2012 was not in vain... What's wrong with you?"

Lin Shasha's face was pale, her arms were lowered, and her pink iPhone 4s fell to the ground, as if she was still on a call.

"My father is dead." Lin Shasha murmured, her eyes straightened. "On the train, another train hit me..."

Han Fang couldn't speak anymore, but just stared blankly at Lin Shasha's teardrops, and wept slowly.She turned around and lay down on the shelf, weeping loudly, her slender arms beating the iron plates that had been swept away.

[Day 1 Deathstroke]

"I want to donate blood." Han Fang said to the tired-looking female staff in front of him.

"Student, what's your blood type?"

"Type A."

"Okay, please go over there and line up. We have too few people, so it may be slower."

Han Fang was at the end of the line. In front were Xie Dong and Liu Ye. There were more than a dozen people with their sleeves rolled up, waiting in line to donate blood.This is a temporary blood collection point, just in front of the cafeteria where they used to eat.Han Fang turned his head to look at another avenue, and could vaguely see the back of Xing Na holding Lin Shasha away.

Due to the affairs of Lin Shasha's family, the rush-buying in the afternoon failed to achieve its goal. I only bought a few packages of snacks, some vegetables and useless hot pot bottoms, which were not enough for so many people to eat.When Hanfang walked out of the supermarket, he realized that it was just a futile act of panic.

It was already evening when I came out, and the setting sun nestled against the side of the west mountain, casting its afterglow on the streets that survived the catastrophe. However, the dilapidated city was not desolate, but was extremely busy.The current situation is quite different from a few hours ago. Many newly transferred green army uniforms are working on the road, dragging the wreckage of the vehicle aside, and cleaning up the corpses and blood. The main roads have resumed operation, and many citizens have spontaneously taken to the streets help.It seems that Wang Zukang's explanation is still effective, people's hearts gradually stabilized, and they began to help and rescue each other, so as to get rid of today's unprecedented nightmare as soon as possible.This atmosphere also infected Han Fang and the others, who were ashamed of their selfish behavior in the afternoon.

Back at school, the cafeterias were already open, and the rumors of the rationing system proved to be self-defeating, which proved that the rush to buy in the afternoon was just a waste of time.Temporary blood collection points are now set up everywhere.Han Fang and a few classmates, except for Lin Shasha who couldn't hold on and was helped back to the dormitory, and Peng Yun went to self-study immediately, most of them were obliged to come to donate blood.

"Korean recipe?"

When he was about to line up for Han Fang, a girl with long hair and a beautiful face appeared in front of him, with the afterglow of the setting sun draped over her shoulders.

"Senior Sister Ji?" Han Fang called out in disbelief.

Senior Sister Ji's name is Ji Bing, she is not a senior in the Department of Korean Medicine, but a graduate student in the Department of Biology.The two got to know each other last year when they sat together at a lecture and chatted for a few days.There were not many opportunities encountered in school later.Han Fang secretly had a crush on Ji Bing, and wanted to get closer, so he invited her to watch a movie, but unfortunately there was no follow-up, and he did not expect to meet her here today.

"Senior Sister Ji, what happened today... are you okay?" Han Fang asked.He saw that Ji Bing's white skirt was dyed a large area red, and there were shocking bloodstains on her slender calves and canvas shoes.

"What are you doing here?" Ji Bing asked anxiously.

"I want to donate some blood. Doesn't it mean that many people are waiting to use blood?"

"Only you?"

"There are still a few classmates." Han Fang pointed to Xie Dong and Liu Ye who were resting with their eyes closed after donating blood, "They have all donated before, and they will come to me soon."

"Let's offer it later." Ji Bing suddenly grabbed his hand, and Han Fang couldn't help but shudder, "Come with me first!"

Han Fang didn't understand what was going on, so he couldn't help running after her. Looking back, Liu Ye just opened his eyes and watched him running away with a beautiful woman in amazement. "What's the rush?" Han Fang asked.

"Now all the hospitals in the city are full, and our school hospital has also sent a lot of wounded people. There is not enough manpower at all, and we need help. I just went to our department to find some boys, and I happened to meet you again. Come and help us carry them. A stretcher." Ji Bing explained while walking.

"Senior sister, why are you in the school hospital?"

"I'm a biology student. I have a little something to do with medicine. I'll go there to help in the afternoon."

"But on your skirt..."

"It doesn't matter." Ji Bing turned his head and smiled, "It's all the blood of the wounded, it was stained when I bandaged them."

The school hospital turned into a field hospital in half a day, crowded with people everywhere, and the wounded were put in the corridor if they couldn't let go. The thick smell of blood mixed with the pungent smell of medicine permeated the corridor, and there were groans and cries of pain one after another.Han Fang couldn't get in at all. He saw a little nurse at the door and said a few words in a concise manner. The task assigned to him was to move some of the patients in the porch to another building two or 300 meters away, which had just been opened up. For temporary wards.

Han Fang and another fat boy brought by Ji Bing carried the stretcher together. The work was simple but required physical strength.One patient weighed at least a hundred catties. Although Han Fang was 1.8 meters tall, he was only a frail scholar. He felt sore in his arm after lifting it two or three times.He hasn't eaten anything all day, and his body has long been exhausted.

When lifting the fourth patient, halfway through the lift, Han Fang felt more and more strain on his hands, and just wanted to say to take a rest, but the boy who was helping him put his hands down first.The stretcher fell to the ground with a slam, and the patient on it rolled to the side of the road, letting out a feeble groan.

"I'm sorry..." The boy collapsed on the ground gasping for breath, "I... I really... can't do it anymore." It seemed that he couldn't get up for a while.This fat boy is probably also an otaku, and his physical strength is worse than that of Han Fang.

"Forget it, I'll do it myself." Han Fang said helplessly.

In fact, Han Fang also felt overwhelmed, but he couldn't leave the wounded alone. He gritted his teeth and stood up to check on the patients on the stretcher.The man was lying on his side on the ground, with disheveled long hair, like a young girl.Han Fang turned her over and found that her head was covered with bandages, and her face could not be seen clearly. One leg seemed to be broken at the knee, hanging down limply without any treatment.The most frightening thing was that there was a large piece of glass stuck in the abdomen, and the exposed part was the size of a palm, which was shocking.

Han Fang didn't dare to touch her wound, so after thinking about it, he hugged her, stretched his hands under her body, only to find that the girl's spine was also broken, and his heart became more and more horrified.He struggled to lift her up. The girl herself couldn't be said to be very heavy, but Han Fang was still struggling, his legs were trembling, and he gritted his teeth and walked forward.

He thought the girl was still in a coma, but after walking for a while, she grabbed his arm with a still intact right hand and murmured something.

"What did you say? Did I touch your wound?" Han Fang asked anxiously. He had no experience in caring for the seriously wounded.

"2...5788..." A soft and barely audible voice came from under the bandage, "2...57885..."

Han Fang stopped and looked down at the girl in his arms: "What did you say?"

"257885..." The girl repeated the numbers weakly, "Remember, 2578851..."

She must be insane, right?

"It's okay, the ward is in front of you, just hold on a little longer." Han Fang comforted her and quickened her pace.

The girl got a burst of strength from nowhere and struggled in his arms.Han Fang was also at the end of his strength, so he couldn't stand stably, and fell to the lawn on the ground with the girl.The girl's wound was touched, and she groaned in pain.

"Are you okay?" Han Fang hurriedly got up to check her situation, "Don't move around..."

"It's useless..." the girl said angrily, "I can't do it...but you have to remember, 257885161..."

"what is this?"

"You remember it first... 257885161..."

"25788..." Han Fang read it again, "What exactly is this?"

"All the secrets are here..." The girl's chest couldn't help heaving violently, "At any time, as long as you read this number...the world will...will...unravel..."

She stretched out a still intact hand towards the sky, flexed and stretched her fingers a few times as if she wanted to grab the stars in the sky, as if she wanted to express an obscure meaning, but the next second, her arm fell softly again.

"I'll be back...we'll...again..." The last few words were barely audible.

The girl let out her last breath and died.Her eyes were still wide open, but the spirit in the pupils gradually faded away, like a lantern fading into the night.

Han Fang stared at her blankly.This was the first time someone died in front of him, and it was still such a young girl.Suddenly, he couldn't hold it anymore, and knelt down beside the girl and began to cry.Not just for her, but for everything I've seen and heard today.Everything, the collapse of the world, and the suffering of hundreds of millions of people, all turned into a long river of mourning in the death of the painful girl.

How do you say that? "Ask not for whom the death knell tolls, it tolls for you." Our lives are interlinked and cannot be escaped.

And so is death.Those dead strangers, they will not have nothing to do with you, but you have never known it.

"257885161." In front of the girl's body, Han Fang read with some grief and curiosity, but nothing happened.

"257885161." He read it again, but still nothing happened.The girl must have been deranged on her deathbed, maybe it was just her own phone number or a lucky number.And the secret apparently died with her.

[Han Fang temporarily stopped talking, immersed in his own memories.Through gradual situational recall, he finally remembered that number.

"I still remember that number," Han Fang murmured, "I still remember. I should have been able to say it yesterday, but I was nervous and didn't remember it... But what is that number? What does it represent? She Did you come back to me just for these numbers?"

"Yesterday? What happened?" Liu Ye asked from the side.

"It's a long story." Han Fang smiled bitterly, "I'll tell you later. Let's talk about the next thing first."]

【Day 1 · Explanation】

"Student? Classmate?"

After an unknown amount of time, Han Fang felt someone patting him on the shoulder.He turned his head to look in a daze, and vaguely saw a middle-aged man looking at him with concern in his tearful eyes, and passed a handkerchief in his hand.

The man has gray temples and is at least over 50 years old. He looks familiar, but Han Fang really can't remember it right now.He mechanically took the handkerchief and wiped his face, still confused. "She's dead." He said without beginning and end.

"Too many people have died, but the living must live on." The middle-aged man looked at the girl's body on the ground and sighed, "Is she your family?"

"I don't know her." Han Fang choked up, "She is a sent patient...she asked me to remember a number..."

The Korean side really wanted to find someone to confide in and tell the whole story.The middle-aged man listened to him patiently, nodded, "I understand, you did nothing wrong, don't think too much about it. Your hands are covered with blood, wipe it off." He immediately picked up the girl's bruised body. body, "I'll take her...to the mortuary."

The middle-aged man walked back to the hospital with the girl in his arms. Han Fang's brain was still in chaos. He stood up and followed behind him in a daze.

Walking back to the hospital, I saw Ji Bing who had just come down the stairs.Her eyes widened all of a sudden, "Han Fang, Teacher Tian? Why are you together?"

"You are...Xiao Ji?" The middle-aged man seemed to recognize Ji Bing, "Are you here too?"

"Teacher Tian, ​​this is..." Ji Bing looked at the dead girl he was holding.Teacher Natian shook his head: "A wounded person died of serious injuries."

Ji Bing sighed softly, "Oh, you still look very young... But Mr. Tian, ​​how can you do this?"

"Why, you also think I'm a bad old man who can't do anything?" Teacher Tian said with a smile.

"Of course not. But you are a respected academic authority, and this kind of thing—"

"What authority is not authoritative? At this time, everyone is the same, and they will help if they can."

Listening to their questions and answers, Han Fang finally remembered that this teacher Tian was Tian Huajie, a professor in the School of Biology, an authority on molecular biology.Of course, Han Fang has never attended Tian Huajie's class, but he also knows that he is the pride of Yanda Science, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is said to be one of the few popular candidates for the Nobel Prize in China.Han Fang often saw posters with a large photo of him in the triangle. Such a famous scientist would unexpectedly come to help in the hospital, and Han Fang was deeply moved.

Several other male and female students who knew Tian Huajie also came over, "Teacher Tian, ​​let's come." They took the girl and carried it away.Tian Huajie said politely: "Thank you."

"Mr. Tian, ​​you are so kind." Ji Bing said sincerely, and only then did he notice Han Fang, "Han Fang, your complexion is not very good, what's wrong?"

Han Fang couldn't speak, and couldn't help looking at the girl who was carried away.Ten minutes ago, the girl was breathing and still telling him the number, as if she had signed a life-and-death contract with him that he would never forget, but now she was a female corpse that had nothing to do with him, and he would never Will meet her without even knowing her name.

Ji Bing probably understood something, and hugged Han Fang's shoulders like a big sister, "It's all like this. When I first came here in the afternoon, I saw so many living people dying in front of me, and cried several times, but Now I'm numb...Han Fang, stop thinking about these things and keep working. You can no longer help the dead, but you can still help the living."

Han Fang cheered up a little and nodded.Tian Huajie handed him a piece of chocolate, "Little classmate, eat this to replenish some energy, huh?"

The stick of chocolate seemed to turn into a flame in Han Fang's mouth, giving him renewed motivation.Soon, he and Tian Huajie started to lift the next patient.And the matter of the girl was gradually faded in his mind.

Hour after hour passed.When the Korean side finally had time to take a break, it was already 10:30 in the evening.Han Fang and Tian Huajie sat together at the door of the hospital, gulping down the mineral water they had just been given. "Teacher Tian, ​​you are really amazing." Han Fang said pantingly, with sweaty heat in his words, "I can't do it anymore, you are still not out of breath."

"This kind of work is nothing." Tian Huajie smiled easily, "When I jumped in the queue in Yunnan, I did ten hours of farm work in the fields every day, and I couldn't stand upright at all. You young people can't understand how tired you are. of."

"It must have been difficult for you at that time." Han Fang said sincerely.He was born late, and even his father had never experienced going to the mountains and going to the countryside.

"How should I put it, of course there are difficult and painful times, but it is also an experience that cannot be replicated. The storms and waves have come, and I will be more calm when encountering various things in the future, such as what happened today. I remember that time It’s really indescribable to secretly read advanced mathematics and do exercises in addition to farm work... But then I went to the United States and had a reading environment, but it felt strange.” Tian Huajie sighed.Han Fang thought that he might not usually talk about this with ordinary students, but today's catastrophe seemed to bring everyone closer.

"By the way, Teacher Tian, ​​may I take the liberty to ask you a question?"

"You said."

"You are a great scientist. Now that you have encountered such a thing, haven't the relevant departments asked you to study and discuss it? How can you be a volunteer in the hospital?"

Tian Huajie smiled, "I'm a biologist, not a physicist or an astronomer, and I can't get involved in things like time reversal."

"I forgot." Han Fang said embarrassingly. It seemed that he was too tired. "However, your understanding of science must be much deeper than mine. What do you think about today's incident?"

Tian Huajie shook his head, "I have no idea. Based on my knowledge of the frontiers of science, there is no theory that can explain this phenomenon. I believe that even experts in physics and cosmology will not be able to figure it out in a short time, and now even a little rough guess Can't find it either."

"But the scientist Wang or something said that this is some kind of shock wave caused by the contraction of the universe..."

Tian Huajie laughed inexplicably, "Hehe, what Old Wang said is quite interesting."

"Old Wang? Do you know him?"

"I don't know. But old Mr. Wang Zukang is a famous science fiction writer."

Han Fang just spit out a mouthful of water, "What? Science fiction writer?!"

Tian Huajie shrugged, "It's not surprising. Someone has to speak up at a time like this. No scientist is sure to say something like this. If you lose your professional reputation, you have to find a science fiction writer."

Han Fang suddenly realized that it was no wonder that Wang Zukang’s university and research direction were not listed on the TV subtitles, but he only vaguely said that he was a "scientific theorist".The scientific research department did not draw any conclusions, and no scientist dared to endorse it, but there is always a need for a set of arguments to appease the public, so this trick was made.Anyway, after a few days things calm down, even if the truth is exposed, there won't be any disturbances.

"Then what Wang Zukang said... Is it really..."

"Frankly speaking, I personally doubt it. From my intuition, even if the collapse of the universe exists, it is a change in the nature of space, which has nothing to do with the regression of time. As for the idea that human consciousness can not regress with everything, it does not make sense. Of course , I'm not an expert, maybe I'm not right." Tian Huajie left room for it.

"It's really unreliable to say that." Han Fang couldn't help but smiled wryly, "Isn't this fooling the common people? Don't scientists all over the world have any clues?"

"It's really not..." Tian Huajie shook his head blankly, and suddenly seemed to think of something again, "No, maybe a little...but I can't be sure..."

"No, tell me." Han Fang asked eagerly.

"This is a statement I saw on the Internet today. Although there are a lot of nonsense on the Internet, I think this statement is relatively possible: it is said to be caused by the LHC experiment."

"LHC?" Han Fang seemed to have read this word somewhere, and he struggled to recall, "It seems to be a... nuclear fusion device?"

"It's not nuclear fusion, it's the Large Hadron Collider." Tian Huajie said, "It's the largest particle accelerator in the world."

Han Fang thought about it, "That is to say, the kind of instrument that may create a black hole and destroy the earth? Is it a large ring several kilometers long? I remember it was in...Switzerland?"

"In Geneva, it's about 27 kilometers long." Tian Huajie said, "It is true that there are various rumors in the society that it can destroy the world, but most of them are nonsense."

"Then why do some people say that it can create a black hole that swallows the earth?"

Tian Huajie told him that the function of the hadron collider is to accelerate certain thick elementary particles, such as protons and neutrons, give them as much kinetic energy as possible, and then let them collide.Just like two high-speed vehicles colliding together will be smashed to pieces.Physicists hope to "crush" elementary particles in this way to observe their inner structure.

"Of course, elementary particles are all particles as small as one billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a needle tip." Tian Huajie further explained, "Even the most violent collisions produce negligible energy. But don't forget that these energies are between two extremes. Produced on tiny particles, the ratio of energy to space, that is, the density of energy is astonishing, far exceeding that of a car crash or even a nuclear explosion. In such a tiny space, it is theoretically possible to generate a huge amount of energy Anything that happens, it might even tear space itself! So the public will have all sorts of imaginations that this kind of experimentation is very dangerous."

"Then why do it?"

"This is the only way to reveal the mysteries of the universe." Tian Huajie said, "Besides, the current impact energy is still very limited. The so-called creation of black holes is just a misunderstanding and distorted imagination of basic scientific principles. In fact, LHC has also done Tried many times and nothing happened."

"Then how did today's incident have something to do with the LHC?"

"That's the problem. The day before yesterday... yesterday... on October 10 at about 10:03 p.m. European time, a collision experiment was carried out, and the collision energy reached an unprecedented 30TeV - TeV is Tera electron volts, too La electron volts is... In short, it is more than twice the energy produced by any previous experiment! Although this matter has been reported by several scientific and technological media, it has been safe and sound for several previous experiments, and the public is not very interested, so this time is very important The experiment has never been in the public eye."

"The result caused a time jump?"

"It can't be said that the time jump happened more than a day after the experiment, and there seems to be no direct connection. But the LHC experiment was the most important scientific event before the jump, and it is said that the Higgs glass was also discovered in the experiment. There are some traces of dice—a deeply hidden elementary particle—so it is no wonder that some people will establish a relationship between the two. However, this is a post hoc ergo propter hoc, and the sequence relationship is regarded as a causal relationship. I It is important to stress that there is no scientific theory that can explain why a high-energy physics experiment would cause a time jump."

"But you also said that with such a high energy density, anything can happen."

"That's just an extreme assumption. What's more, this kind of energy density is only the highest level that humans can create. In cosmic rays, there are actually many higher-level energies, but they have not caused any problems."

Han Fang tried hard to think, but still couldn't figure it out, scratching his head in distress.Tian Huajie stood up, "Okay, I don't think anyone on earth can figure out what's going on. It's getting late, and our work is almost done. I'll explain it and go back."

"Wait, Teacher Tian!" Han Fang stopped him and said, "No matter what theories are, do you think the time jump will still happen?"

"I can't say for sure." Tian Huajie frowned, "Everything is possible now, but I think there should be a critical moment..."

"What critical moment?"

"This is it." Tian Huajie stretched out his finger, drew a line in the air, and said slowly, "Time is a vector with a direction, which can be regarded as a point that keeps moving forward on a time axis. We know that time is about Jumped from around 12:3 am on the 11th to around 20:11 am on the 12th, that is to say, the first advance of time is normal, which is what we remember as 'yesterday'. But the time suddenly went backwards by more than [-] hours, causing us to move forward again along the timeline we have gone through today. So we are now in a time interval that has already existed, that is, from [-]:[-] am on the [-]th to more than [-]:[-] am on the [-]th. The key The point is the end point of this interval."

Han Fang thought for a while and understood what he meant, "You mean, this time will be around three o'clock in the morning tomorrow?"

"Yes, as long as it's past three o'clock in the middle of the night, for example, after three past ten, it will return to the normal timeline. So as long as this turning point has passed, maybe there will be no next jump."

"But what if this turning point has not been passed? Will time go back again? When will it go back?"

"I don't know." Tian Huajie shook his head and sighed, "Maybe it will jump to the Cultural Revolution, maybe it will jump to Qin Shihuang, maybe it will jump all the way back to the Big Bang."

"But if that's the case." He looked at the road and the crowd in the distance, and said leisurely, "I don't mind jumping back to the time when I went to the mountains and went to the countryside. The youthful years at that time are really unforgettable..."

【Day 1 Reunion】

At 11:30 in the evening, Han Fang pushed open the door of the dormitory and couldn't help being stunned.There were men and women in the room, and a circle sat around the table: Xie Dong, Liu Ye, Ma Xiaojun, Guan Jingwei, Jiang Xueting, Lin Shasha, and Xing Na.Cups and plates were scattered on the table, and everyone was eating.

"Why are you all here?"

"We just came back." Xie Dong greeted him and said, "The school organized students to go to various units to help temporarily. It was ten o'clock after finishing, and the small shops outside were not open. I think we bought so many hot pot ingredients in the afternoon, put It's a waste, so I asked Jiang Xueting and the others to come and eat together. As for the old man, you know, where there are beauties, can you miss him?"

Guan Jingwei grinned, "Xiao Fang, we specially reserved a portion of sheep for you... oh, no more... but there are still fish balls, come and eat!"

Stuffing fish balls into his mouth, Han Fang told them what he had heard from Tian Huajie, but found that this was not an exclusive secret, and similar claims were already flying all over the Internet.Everyone believed that three o'clock in the morning was the key, and they waited for that mysterious moment with fear and excitement.

After the meal, everyone started to play Three Kingdoms Kill during the long wait, but everyone was absent-minded.Eyes are staring at the time on your phone or computer more and more often.There was only one thought in everyone's mind: Will that really happen again?
Playing cards has never been so boring as it is today. Not only is there no usual laughter, no one even cares about the outcome.The clock passed one o'clock in the morning, and no one was in the mood to play cards.But the girls didn't leave, and the boys didn't feel sleepy either.Everyone chatted one after another, tacitly waiting for that moment to come.As if watching a dawn that comes only once in 1000 years.

When the hour hand was close to three o'clock, everyone was still awake, not just the eight people in the dormitory, not just the tens of thousands of people on this campus, but almost everyone in the entire country, the entire continent, and the entire planet. of humans.Perhaps this is the first time in human history when no one is sleeping, waiting with bated breath for something to happen or not happen.

"I don't want any more accidents." Jiang Xueting murmured, "I'm going to Australia for the winter vacation, and the visa is almost ready."

"I don't want it either." Xie Dong said, "My girlfriend is still in Tianjin, and I agreed to visit her on the weekend..."

"I don't want it either. I still have a lot of plans for this semester." Xing Na also complained.

"Actually, it's good to jump again." Ma Xiaojun said, "... But just do it again, don't make too much. Han Fang, what do you think?"

Han Fang hadn't spoken yet, but Lin Shasha said with an unusual fervor: "What should happen will always happen, maybe it's God's will." Her cheeks were blushing with excitement, but her face was terribly serious.

Of course!Han Fang's heart moved, her father died in an accident today, but if everything goes backwards again, then her father may...will...

resurrection.That magic word - resurrection.

Tens of millions of people, maybe hundreds of millions of people, maybe they will all...

Unbelievable, unimaginable.

Han Fang took a deep breath, put his watch on the table, and people sat around it, watching with bated breath the silver second hand moving unhurriedly on the dark blue dial, crossing the arc of fate, Complete a complete circle...

It was past three o'clock.Then it was three past five.Three past eight.nine past three...

Ten past three.

The second hand passed the 60-second position, and then continued to move one frame at a time. People have never felt that the second hand moves so slowly.But it still turned a full circle, and the minute hand moved to the 11 grid.

"Are... all right?" Jiang Xueting carefully broke the silence.

"Perhaps the time of the last jump was not exactly three o'clock," Xie Dong pondered. "Maybe it was eleven or twelve. Around ten past three."

Eleven past three passed, then twelve twelve, and nothing happened.

Gradually, the sound of firecrackers came from somewhere outside, and then cheers gradually sounded from inside and outside the dormitory building. Not only the campus, but the whole city, the whole country, and the whole world were ignited by the spark of passion, as if they had gained a new life.

Infected by this joyful atmosphere, smiles bloomed on the faces of the young men and women in the dormitory.Jiang Xueting lay down on Liu Ye's bed regardless of her ladylike image, and let out a sigh of relief, "It's finally over..."

"I will never read time travel novels again..."

"I will never forget what happened today..."

Lin Shasha stood blankly in the room, dejected, as if a little lost.Han Fang couldn't bear it, "Well, Sasha..."

Lin Shasha raised her head suddenly, with a strange light in her eyes, she said dreamily: "It will definitely happen—"

Everything around me slowed down eerily.Han Fang saw that Lin Shasha's beautiful face was suddenly frozen in witch-like eyes, and her voice was frozen as if frozen by an icicle.The whole room seemed to be wrapped in a thick mass of resin, and even light could not escape.Han Fang wanted to move, but couldn't, wanted to scream, but couldn't make a sound.

But that is actually just a moment without length.Afterwards, everything around them disappeared like bubbles.Han Fang seemed to be thrown into nothingness, and then fell endlessly and endlessly.

【Day 2·Return】

As if falling from another dimension, and floating in space, for a moment, Han Fang felt dizzy as the world turned upside down, as if his body disappeared into nothingness and scattered into all corners of the boundless universe.

But that feeling was fleeting, he fell safely on his own bed, in his own quilt, and fell into the dormitory in the twilight of the morning light, and the world suddenly became quiet.

Then, there was an unknown loud noise, explosion, and exclamation one after another outside the window.

The exclamations of Xie Dong and Ma Xiaojun immediately reached their ears, "No way!" "Damn!" "How is this possible..."

Han Fang sat up, there was no one else in the room in the early morning except the four boys under the quilt.He was stunned for a few seconds, and suddenly he laughed nervously, not because he was happy, but because he was faced with a totally absurd reaction.

"Xiao Fang? What are you laughing at? Are you okay?" Liu Ye asked in a daze, as if he had just woken up from a dream.Everyone is abnormal now.

Han Fang hurriedly glanced at his watch (it naturally returned to his wrist from the table): 6:47:58, the same time as yesterday, and of course it was October 10.He glanced out the window, the car hit the green belt guardrail in almost the same way yesterday, and the crash was still terrible.The nightmare repeated itself.

This is the truth of the time jump: it is not jumping back to 20 years ago, it is not jumping back to ancient times, and it is not the big bang of the universe, but it is precisely returning to 6:47 a.m. a day ago, which is not bad by a single point.

"Those car accidents...dead people..." Han Fang muttered, and the phantom of the tragically dead girl appeared in front of him again.He yelled, jumped out of bed, and ran out the door.I vaguely heard Liu Ye say behind him: "What happened early in the morning, this one or two..."

Han Fang rushed out of the dormitory building in his pajamas, and a gust of morning wind blew, but he couldn't feel the chill.There are many people who rush around like him.Many people shouted excitedly: "It happened again!" "It's the same time again!" I don't know whether it was fear or joy.

Tens of millions of people, in just a few seconds...again...

Han Fang thought in confusion, ran out of the school gate, and ran to the side of the road.He saw yesterday's hell on earth again.The endless car dragons collided with each other in a series, and the wreckage of steel was scattered everywhere. Some places had already started to burn, and the painful cries of the dying could be heard in the flames.

"Help... me..." A well-dressed middle-aged woman stretched out half of her body from under a pile of scrap metal cars and shouted to Han Fang.Han Fang woke up like a dream, ran over and pulled her out.

"How are you?" Han Fang asked while supporting her.

The woman frowned in pain, her right foot seemed to be sprained, and there were several bloody wounds on her waist and legs, and the beautiful clothes were covered with dirt, but compared to those wounded that Han Fang saw yesterday, the injuries were considered very minor .Her figure and clothes looked familiar, as if...

Han Fang suddenly remembered and stopped in horror: she is the corpse hanging on the tree yesterday!The corpse that made him vomit!
"Can you take me to the hospital..." the woman said helplessly.

"Where were you yesterday?" Han Fang interrupted her.

"What do you mean?"

"It was the car accident yesterday, you..."

"I don't know what's going on, is it sleepwalking? I slept well at home, but suddenly a car passed by..." There was still fear in the woman's voice.

Han Fang understood that the woman was knocked into the air at the beginning yesterday and died on the spot, so she didn't feel anything.She probably didn't know that this was the second time she had been hit by a catastrophe.

But it's true, she's fine today.Oh, it can't be regarded as all right, but at least he survived, his life was unharmed, and he was not seriously injured.

Han Fang gradually understood the situation in front of him.The car accident is still bad, but it is significantly less than yesterday (can it be called yesterday?), at least more people crawled out alive, and there are even quite a few intact vehicles.Those who were lucky enough to survive the previous car accident and know the situation, when they were thrown back into the original situation again, they obviously made some repairs in time.Therefore, the problem has improved compared to yesterday morning, and many people have been able to escape.

"I'm going to the hospital..." The woman continued to demand, not knowing what happened.

Han Fang helped the woman to sit down on the side of the road, and said to her: "Your condition is not very serious. In this situation, you can't see a doctor even in the hospital. Look, there is a pharmacy across the street. You can buy some medicines." Pain tablets, if you don’t open the door, just smash open the door to get it. Oh, someone over there has already started smashing.”

The woman stared in horror, looking at the situation far and near, speechless.

"Since you are walking, I think your home should be nearby." Han Fang said, "You can walk back by yourself, take more medicine, and the day will pass quickly."

"What are you talking about, what's going on?" the woman yelled.

"You went back to 10:11 am on October 6." Han Fang said succinctly, "And I think you will come back again. Be careful next time and jump to the side of the road before being hit by a car."

The woman let go of Han Fang this time, and even though her ankle was sprained, she still bounced back a few steps, "Crazy, you are a lunatic!"

"It's not me, it's the world."

Han Fang said with a wry smile, looking at everything around him.There are more and more people on the street, and people are looking at each other.Most of the people had the same bewildered eyes that seemed to be expecting something, like a group of blind people who had never seen the light and opened their eyes for the first time.

An incredible new world has been opened, and they seem to be standing at the door of that unprecedented new era, no, it should be said that they have been pushed into that world, and there is no way out.

A world without tomorrow, an era without history.Time is like a huge roulette wheel, carrying the fate of endless beings, rotating around the invisible mysterious center.

Han Fang suddenly remembered the girl who died in pain last night. Today, she will survive in a corner of the world, just like the woman just now, perhaps unscathed.

"I'll be back...we'll...again..." Those were her last words, weren't they?So she expected all of this yesterday?
No matter how treacherous and terrifying the world has become, we have a chance to start over.

【"That's it." Han Fang said calmly, "The jump in time continues. This is the second day of the void period, then the third day, and the fourth day. We, all human beings, the whole earth, maybe From now on, the whole universe will cycle forever within 33 hours and [-] minutes, without end.”]

(End of this chapter)