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Chapter 2 The City of the Future

Long Xingyi woke up from the pain and found himself lying on the hospital bed. He was surprised. At that speed and the trend of falling, he would be killed even if he was not hit and killed. When he looked around, what surprised him even more was that even the ones on him were instruments and equipment that he didn't know.

A device that looked like a robot in a component factory was busy with his body, and a short blue laser shot out from the wound. Wherever he went, his wound was healing quickly.

What the hell is this? Why is it like a science fiction movie? What about Kobayashi? Long Xingyi's mind is full of question marks, but he didn't have time to think about it, and the severe headache forced him to calm down.

At this time, a girl in a strange dress pushed a bunch of medicines and reagents and walked in. From the red cross on her shoulder, Long Xingyi could probably guess that this beauty should be a nurse. What kind of hospital is this? Why are even nurses playing with the temptation of uniforms?

When the nurse saw him awake, her eyebrows raised slightly, "Are you awake? You can rest for a while and I'll inform them."

Who should I notify? Long Xingyi fell asleep again before he could think about it carefully. He was so tired.

When he woke up again, Long Xingyi felt that his body had improved a lot and all the instruments and equipment had been removed. He turned his eyes and looked around and found that there was a woman sitting beside him.

Seeing that he was awake, the woman raised the corner of her mouth slightly, stood up and said, "You are finally awake."

Long Xingyi observed the woman carefully and was surprised to find that she looked very similar to Yang Mi. She was young and beautiful, handsome and handsome. She was wearing a black windbreaker and her figure seemed to be a little plump than Yang Mi. No, right? I was injured by an industry injury and even alarmed the entertainment industry. I wonder if there will be an award ceremony later.

The woman hesitated for a moment and asked again: "You...are you called Long Xingyi?"

Long Xingyi squeezed out a smile and replied, "That's right, beauty, where am I now? Where is my colleague? How is he?"

The woman looked at him with a little awkward expression. She looked away and whispered: "I think...you'd better ask what year it is."

Which year? Isn’t this a joke with me? When I fell silly, Long Xingyi asked in a daze: “Isn’t it 2017 now?”

The woman breathed a sigh of relief, as if she felt that the problem just now was a little stupid. Then she shook her head again, walked to the other side of the ward, carried the wall, and said to Long Xingyi: "It's 2199 now, that is, the end of the 22nd century. I am the third-level police inspector here, Tang Yuting, we found you in a ruin in the old city." She saw Long Xingyi's shocked expression and added: "I didn't lie to you. When your physical condition is better, I will take you out of the hospital and go to the experts of the Academy of Sciences to explain your mystery."

Long Xingyi's mind was blank. If he wanted to ask him to make a movie, he didn't seem to have the qualifications or mentioned this need, not to mention that he had never seen a director or any lighting photography, and no one had ever asked for his advice. He just murmured: "Impossible, Impossible..."

Tang Yuting sighed and said, "When we found you, we compared the database, but did not find your identity information. We compared your DNA and searched it. We found you in the archives more than 100 years ago. The database shows that when you went out for a mission on August 31, 2017, you were unfortunately hit by the suspect and died of the line of duty, and the body was not found. Your colleague Lin Qingquan was rescued by someone else, confirming your disappearance. When we found you, you were indeed wearing the standard * from more than 100 years ago, so..." Tang Yuting raised her eyebrows slightly and made a helpless expression, indicating that she couldn't figure out what was going on.

"So you want to wait for me to wake up and ask me about my identity again?" Long Xingyi said this hoarsely and closed his eyes in pain. 2199, what does this mean? This shows that everything he cherishes has long disappeared. Now he is like an ancient man, living alone in this strange world, knowing nothing.

Tang Yuting said: "I know, if all this is true, it will be difficult for you to accept reality now. Don't think too much, have a good rest! I will take you to the Academy of Sciences tomorrow." After that, a comforting smile finally emerged from her complicated expression, she nodded to Long Xingyi, and walked out quietly.

Long Xingyi reached out to cover his forehead. At this moment, he felt a mess in his mind. I really hope that Xiaolin suddenly pushed the door and smiled at him and shouted: "Haha! Brother Long, are you scared? Just kidding you!" Even his stupid leader, Director Guan, would do it.

At this time, the door was pushed open. Long Xingyi leaned out to look at it, and he was shocked again. A finely crafted robot walked into the room, blinked his unconscious eyes at him, and asked, "Hello, what can I do to serve you? Your vital signs show that you need to eat."

Long Xingyi lay back on the pillow with a despair, and replied to the robot in a faint voice: "Thank you, I'm not hungry." The robot nodded and said: "If you have any needs, you have a caller on your left, and we are there anytime."

Long Xingyi didn't care whether the caller the robot was on the left hand side or above his head. He just buried his head in the quilt and tried to fall asleep again, hoping that it was a big dream.

The next morning, Tang Yuting came to the ward again. At this time, Long Xingyi still had no sleep all night. Perhaps because he had been sleeping too much when he was injured before, he felt extremely awake at this moment, and his mind was full of thoughts that could not make him fall asleep.

"I asked the doctor and he said your condition is ready to be discharged from the hospital. How do you feel?"

Long Xingyi nodded, sat up, and said weakly: "It feels much better, let's go! After all, lying here, no problem can be solved."

The robot walked in and brought him a new outfit. The material of the clothes was very special and close to the body, as if he could adjust the size and shape of the clothes by himself according to Long Xingyi's figure.

The robot packed the blood clothes that had been washed and ironed Long Xingyi had returned to him. Long Xingyi looked at his somewhat broken uniform, and felt mixed emotions and fell silent again.

Tang Yuting gently patted his shoulder with her hand and said softly: "Let's go!"

Long Xingyi nodded, Tang Yuting turned around and asked the robot: "Have the discharge procedures been completed?" The robot handed Tang Yuting an electronic pen, and the electronic screen on its chest suddenly lit up. The robot said to Tang Yuting, "Just sign a letter, you can complete it."

Walking beside Tang Yuting, Long Xingyi looked at the beautiful woman in front of her again. The suit and shirt and trousers set off her figure with a concave and convexity. The two long legs were moving forward vigorously, highlighting the ability and confidence of the female police officer. The hem of the windbreaker gently floated backwards regularly with her pace. This is the legendary "walking with wind"! It seems that the clothes of this era are not like in science fiction films, except for white, they are silver, Long Xingyi thought of it.

Walking out of the hospital gate, Long Xingyi found that they seemed to be living on a series of built-up buildings. The roads and buildings were all located on a thick cloud. Is this the city of the sky?

Tang Yuting saw Long Xingyi's eyes and explained: "There are exhaust gases and harmful gases emitted from the 21st century, so the ground in your era has been sleeping under this smog for many years. Now, unless it is equipped with special equipment or robots, no one will fall into this smog." After that, she took out another small thing that looked like a key chain and said to it: "Benz, come here."

Long Xingyi made a face with a surprised expression and sighed, "Wow!"

Tang Yuting raised her eyebrows lightly and said to him: "Being a policeman does not mean that my family background is not good, right?" At this time, a cool Mercedes-Benz sedan automatically drove in front of them and opened the door. The car was very low noise, and it sounded like it was from electricity or other clean energy. Long Xingyi looked at it and walked to the passenger seat, and sat in.

Tang Yuting said to the navigator in the car: "Take me to the Academy of Sciences." The car started gently and automatically drove according to the navigation route.

"There are so few people on the street. Is this a small city?" Long Xingyi asked looking at the street scene. Indeed, there were not many cars on the road and there were not many pedestrians on the street.

Tang Yuting explained to him: "In the mid-21st century, due to severe pollution and toxins in food, the chance of human cancer has greatly increased. By 2071, nearly half of the people in the world died of cancer and the outbreak of various epidemics. Later, due to the genetic modification technology of biologist Anthony, transforming from the human gene chain, the incidence of cancer was greatly reduced. In addition, scientist Thomas's improved nanotechnology can kill cancer cells in the human body without surgery and save cancer patients. Our population has stabilized again. In the mid-22nd century, humans officially established a new living area on the moon, and are now building a second on Mars. Many powerful people avoided the smog of the earth and went to these two interstellar immigrants. So, the people you see now should be less than yours. Plus..." Tang Yuting pointed at it, "Some people go out by relying on aircraft."

Long Xingyi leaned forward and looked up. Sure enough, there were many small black dots floating in the sky in an orderly manner. He actually lived in a science fiction film. At this time, in despair, he was also attracted by this magical world, and his previous pain was relieved a lot.

Long Xingyi suddenly remembered something and asked, "You didn't seem too surprised when you learned that I was a person more than a hundred years ago. Is it possible that this era has time and space traveled through time?"

Tang Yuting nodded and said, "Space-time shuttle has been invented in the middle of this century. This is thanks to Einstein's special theory of relativity, otherwise it might have been earlier. However, the time-time shuttle was only used as a scientific research project and was banned by the United Nations - especially traveling back to the past. Because the time-time shuttle will disrupt the timeline and have unnecessary impact on this time or parallel space-time. A person's shuttle back to the past may change or create many different parallel space-time and space-time, and may also disrupt the social order at that time. If a person returns to the Tang Dynasty with a GR54 laser gun, it may reverse the entire history by a hundred years or more."

"That must be very interesting." Long Xingyi said with a little excitement.

"Is it interesting? I don't think it." Tang Yuting said with a slightly cold expression, "It is unrealistic for people to live in the present, and going back to the past and going to the future. After all, it is a big dream. Besides, the past you can change is not the past you want to change. By the way, why do you think I, a criminal policeman, pay so much attention to your origin? Because the time and space shuttle has been included in the Criminal Law. Please be blessed! Suspect."

Isn't it? I was a policeman two days ago, but now I have become a suspect. Long Xingyi looked at Tang Yuting in shock. Instead, Tang Yuting turned around and smiled at him, and then he realized that the subsequent part was a joke.

When he arrived at the Academy of Sciences, the guard scanned Tang Yuting's face recognition with a mobile phone and asked her to press her fingerprint for identity verification. Tang Yuting explained his purpose, and then the guard said, "Okay, Inspector Tang, you have an appointment with Dr. Murong today, please come in." Then he let it go.

"Murong Shaokang, an academician of the Time and Space Department of the Academy of Sciences, has great research on time and space shuttle. I hope he can explain your bizarre experience." Tang Yuting said, and manually drove into the gate of the Academy of Sciences.

Academician Murong is a thin middle-aged man. After Tang Yuting introduced the two to each other, Murong Shaokang pushed his glasses upwards and said to Long Xingyi: "You are that person?" Long Xingyi nodded silently.

Academician Murong briefly said to the two: "Come with me." After that, he took the two to his own laboratory. When passing by a giant device like a hand-cranked generator, Tang Yuting said softly to Long Xingyi: "This is the prototype of the time shuttle."

"I checked the local quantum field around the night you appeared and did a simple simulation analysis. Now I need to cooperate with the police to retrieve the memory fragments of your time for replay. Is it OK?" Murong Shaokang asked.

Long Xingyi said, "Yes, I want to know the whole story." Murong Shaokang and Tang Yuting looked at each other and nodded. Murong Shaokang turned around and walked to a row of cabinets, opened one of them, took out something like a helmet, and said to Long Xingyi gently, "Don't worry, it doesn't hurt, it's like watching a movie." After that, he helped Long Xingyi buckle on his head.

Academician Murong asked Long Xingyi to sit down and then turned on the instrument. In an instant, all of Long Xingyi's memories suddenly emerged, from the first time he could remember that he was held in his grandmother's arms, to the 50 cents tightly when he was a child to buy spicy strips, to the 38th parallel drawn by his deskmate in elementary school, to the gangsters in junior high school... The past scenes are one by one, time is rapidly moving, from the young student days to the vigorous vitality of just working.

Finally, the picture replayed to the day when he had an accident. When he saw half of his face under the memory hood again, he felt even a little strange. Then he fell rapidly, and then a white light flashed...

Someone took off his peeping, and Long Xingyi had not yet fully reacted, and his consciousness was still a little confused. He could only vaguely hear Murong Shaokang say something to Tang Yuting. "The wormhole... is not an artificial phenomenon... the quantum at that time... might be a joke made by the four-dimensional space creatures!"

Long Xingyi usually likes to watch science fiction movies. He said in the movie that people are creatures living in three-dimensional space, and four-dimensional space creatures sound very high-end.

His consciousness gradually became clear. When he saw the two people in front of him, he looked at him with sympathy at the same time. He felt a little aggrieved and at a loss.

"Then do it like this! I will report to the organization and proceed according to Plan B. Thank you Academician Murong!" After Tang Yuting said that, she stretched out a white and slender hand and pulled Long Xingyi to get up.

Walking out of the Academy of Sciences building and returning to the front of the car, Long Xingyi suddenly felt a little confused and didn't want to get in the car. He suddenly remembered and asked Tang Yuting, "What is Plan B?"

"This time travel was caused by a time wormhole that was unknown. It was not intentional by you or others, so you are innocent. I will report it truthfully to my superiors, but..."

Damn, in our era, if you want to do something deliberately, you have to have a time machine! Long Xingyi thought. He heard a "but", so he asked, "But what? Are you not going to send me back?"

Tang Yuting sighed and shook her head, "Just as I said before, when traveling through time and space to the past, it may not necessarily return to your original time and space, but enter another parallel time and space, that is, you will never be able to return to your original past. Moreover, traveling back will also disrupt other time and space, which is not allowed."

In fact, when Long Xingyi heard Tang Yuting say those words just now, he had already guessed it, so he was not too surprised or disappointed. He just asked, "so?"

"Now the whole world speaks Chinese, don't be old-fashioned in English. So in order to avoid public opinion pressure, we will conceal your identity and arrange a new identity for you to live in this era. So, what are your plans for the future, ancient people?" Tang Yuting curled her lips and asked helplessly.

Long Xingyi looked back at the building of the Academy of Sciences. Fortunately, I was not a scientist, otherwise by 2199, I would probably be worse than a primary school student. After thinking about it, he turned his head and said, "Of course... I'm doing my old job back! Be a policeman."

Tang Yuting turned her face and smiled from the bottom of her heart. The wind blew across her hairline, and a black black hair fluttered in the wind, making Long Xing feel distracted.
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