Chapter 444 A tael of gold, and a secret

  Qing Chen has been busy all night.

   It wasn't until early in the morning that he changed his clothes and came to the third district.

  He was wearing a Bluetooth headset, and Yi said in the headset: "For this project, charging you 100,000 yuan is not too much, right?"

   I don’t know when it started, it’s so humble to ask for money.

  In fact, the value embodied by Tonight One is not too much even if you ask for 10 million.

   Let the consortium not be able to find out the source of the phone call. This is not something that ordinary people can do.

  Qing Chen thought for a while and asked, "What have you been up to recently, and there is no news of you in the world."

  One said: "Didn't I tell you before, my brother woke up, I will go with him... I can't tell you."

  Qing Chen froze for a moment, there seemed to be some secret in it.

   And, probably, a very important secret.

  Although he still doesn't know who Yi's elder brother is, the other party has lived for thousands of years, and has witnessed more than a thousand years of history in the Federation in a completely virtual form.

  What this kind of person has to do is extremely critical.

  For example, in the Internet, hunting and killing all human beings who use neuron connection technology to try to live forever has almost changed the way of life of human beings by itself.

  Without the consciousness that he hunted and killed, the world at this time might be even more grotesque, and everyone might continue to live in another way after death.

  This kind of behavior also affected Mechanicism.

  The Mechanicus in other people's science fiction novels and games all upload consciousness.

   But the Mechanicus in the world, I can only think about it...

  Qing Chen asked curiously: "By the way, have you ever asked your brother why you hunted down those uploaded consciousnesses?"

Yi said: "Because he feels that no one can endure the boredom brought about by longevity. A few people may be able to, but when it appears on a large scale, on the one hand it will affect my safety. In case hundreds of thousands of people's consciousness If they are deliberately aggregated together, troublesome things will happen, and on the other hand, there will be a lot of human beings who will have a tendency to self-destruct in the network."

  Qing Chen understood that on the one hand, he was protecting his sister, and on the other hand, he was protecting the world.

  Then this brother is quite competent...

  What would such an elder brother do if he suddenly woke up?

   "Then what is your brother doing now?" Qing Chen asked.

   "Oh, I went to perform magic tricks on the street," Yi said, "This is his hobby."

   "Wait?! Perform magic?" Qing Chen was stunned for a moment: "He has his own body?"

  Yi didn't answer, and seemed unwilling to say more.

  Qing Chen thought for a while: "The money from the watch world will be transferred to you after returning home. By the way, you will also be charged for helping Nan Gengchen."

   "Don't worry about this matter," Yi said, "It's not easy for me to save some money in the watch world!"

   "Okay," Qing Chen said with emotion, others are picking up Yi's wool, and Yi is picking up Nan Gengchen's wool, there is no reason for this.

   "Does your brother know about Time Traveler?" Qing Chen asked, "What does he think about this?"

  He wants to use this view of mysterious existence to try to understand the hidden story behind the crossing event.

  However, Yi said: "He already knew about it, so he doesn't have any opinion."

   "Huh?" Qing Chen was stunned for a moment: "You already know?"

  Qing Chen suddenly felt that this "know it a long time ago" might not mean the last few months, but knew it a long time ago.

   Even before the time-travel event?

   "How early is it?" Qing Chen asked.

   Ke Yi stopped answering questions.

  Qing Chen came to the building in the third district, which was the place where Mr. Li left his house.

  122 floors.

   When taking the elevator, Qing Chen was still worried whether he would meet Song Niaoyao again.

  He knew that Song Niaoyou had moved out of the Utopia Mansion, because when the PCA detectives were handling the case, they leaked the case information, which led the media to know the residence of this first-line female star.

  So, from then on, Qing Chen began to worry about whether this female star would also move to the third district...

   Fortunately not.

  Qing Chen pressed the password and opened the door.

  This room is not very big, and there is no gun storage or the like. It is like an ordinary legacy given by an elder to the younger generation. There is nothing special about it.

  The room was covered in dust, but three things caught Qing Chen's attention.

  It was a map spread out on the table, a medium-sized gold coin, and a letter.

  Qing Chen picked up the map curiously, and took a breath, and the dust began to float.

   This is a federal map, on which someone used a red pen to draw a route, and there are nodes between the routes, and the precise date and time are marked on it.

  Qing Chen knew that this was something the old man deliberately left for him, but he still hadn't understood what it was.

  He picked up the gold coin again, and knew that the gold coin weighed about fifty grams, one tael in weight.

  Originally, Qingchen thought it was a taboo, but soon found out that it was not.

  Finally, Qing Chen opened the letter.

   "It's all gone, why leave a letter?" Qing Chen resisted opening the letter because he would think of the parting under the morning sun.

  In the letter, it was a farewell handwritten by the old man.

   "Boy, when you read this letter, I should have already parted from you on the cliff of the green mountain. From now on, it will be difficult for you and me to meet again. You run to the sunrise, and I turn into dust."

   "This map is the route and train schedule of the forbidden ACE-012 steam train."

   "That gold coin was with me when I was young."

"The steam train travels around the Commonwealth every 27 days. Its journey has nothing to do with the passengers. No matter who is sitting on the train, it will follow its own goal, chasing the wind in the wilderness, crossing the Leiqiu Plain, and turning over the clouds. Zhize. It will go to the farthest snow-capped mountains, to the grasslands in the north, and to the sea in the south.”

  “When I was young, I envied it very much, thinking that it is really free, and I can go where I want to go.”

"So at that time, I prepared a gold coin and carried it with me, thinking that if one day I could meet it by chance in the wilderness, then I would spend 27 days traveling around the Federation with it and be a knight Romantic people. Let the people who come after me and ask me to deal with business, get angry. Ha ha."

   "Bring your bags, prepare the food and water you need for 27 days, and change your clothes. Use taboos for a walk-and-go trip."

   "Perhaps during the journey, there will be other people getting on and off the car. He may be a prisoner who escaped for his life, or he may be a rich lady who escaped marriage, or he may be a traveler like me."

"Maybe the breeze from the journey blows in through the car window and I watch the scenery recede behind me. If someone from my family calls me on the satellite phone, I tell them in all seriousness, I'm talking to the world, don't bother me. "

   "However, I don't have the qualifications to be self-willed."

   "So I never had a chance to use this gold coin."

   "It's up to you now."

  The letter came to an abrupt end here.

  At this time, Qing Chen finally fully understood the true meaning of "If you promise me when I was young, one tael of gold and one tael of wind".

  It turned out that the greatest wish of the old man when he was a boy was to take a steam train and travel around the Federation.

   And this one or two gold is the ticket to freedom for young Li Xiurui.

  Qing Chen silently wiped the corners of his eyes, recorded all the content on that map in his mind, and burned it.

  At this time, there was a knock on the door.

  Qing Chen frowned, who would come looking for him at this time.

  He glanced at the surveillance outside the door, it was a shadow...

  I pretended to be the other party several times in one night, and after the other party warned me, I pretended to be several times.

  Shadow is here to ask questions.

  Qing Chen held his breath and pretended not to be at home...

  However, he can be sure that the conditions for using the Shadow Gate are indeed to go to places where the host has been.

  But I heard the shadow sneer outside the door: "Open the door, there is a kind that continues to pretend to be me despite my warning, and there is no way to open the door? You have to wait for me to open this door by myself, and you will die."

  Qing Chen silently walked over to open the door, and greeted him with a smile: "Mr. Shadow, we just met a few hours ago, why are you here again?"

  Shadow passed him by, looking at the dust in the house: "Clean it quickly, it's annoying to look at."

  In these words, it seems to be talking about Qing Chen, he is annoyed when he sees Qing Chen now.

Shadow stood by the window and said: "Do you know, apart from being bored with you and Qing, I have only met other shadow candidates once, and Qing Ye was the one who released the mission. , but also bring my electronic beacon, so that it can be regarded as a real 'shadow'?"

Shadow continued: "After you pretended to be me, all the candidates felt weird and didn't dare to ask directly, which made me prepare to go to bed in the middle of the night, but as soon as I connected several calls from their parents, all of them were Ask around and ask what's going on."

  The shadow candidates are not stupid, they feel doubtful, and of course they will do everything possible to confirm the authenticity of the shadow.

  However, in this inelegant deception, the only thing Qing Chen can rely on is not his acting skills, nor his understanding of the shadow's way of speaking, but the shadow himself.

  Candidates will go to the shadow to confirm if they have doubts, and the shadow will help Qingchen apply the patch.

  Qing Chen cheerfully asked curiously, "How did you tell them?"

   "How else can I say it?" Shadow said unhappily: "I asked, why, is it because I can't speak well?"

  Shadow said: "Isn't Qing Yi one of your people? You even lied to him. Are you still a human?"

  Qing Chen thought for a while and said: "So, why do you treat me so well? I have always wondered about this. I am obviously a time traveler, but you have helped me a lot. Why."

  Shadow stood in front of the window and turned around, and asked, "How do you know, you must be from the world?"

  Qing Chen froze on the spot.

  The hidden meaning behind this sentence is too amazing.

  …

  One more chapter at 11pm

  (end of this chapter)