Everyone felt sorry for Wu Anping's failure to take the third phase of Huangpu exam, but he didn't think so. He could not apply for the third phase of the fourth phase of the fifth phase, but if Li Bo was not around when he was critically ill, he might not see Li Bo for the last time, which would be a lifelong regret.

The next morning, Wu Anping refused to see her off from her brothers and left early. He first found the landlord to explain the situation and paid the room fee for three months. Then he took the tram to the passenger terminal.

In this era, China's transportation conditions were very poor. Civil airlines had not been established. Railways were short of mileage and had basically no long-distance passenger services. Inland shipping and sea transportation were relatively developed. However, after all, it only involved the main streams of rivers and coastal areas, so it was quite inconvenient to go inland, and it took a long time to go on the road.

Wu Anping wants to go from Guangzhou to Qingyang. The fastest route is to take the sea pass to Qingdao, transfer from Qingdao to Jinan, then take a small steamer along the Yellow River to Xi'an, and then take a land route from Xi'an to Qingyang.

Needless to say, the bumpy journey was going on, after half a month, Wu Anping finally returned to his home in Xifeng Town, Qingyang.

Xifeng Town is located in the center of Dongzhiyuan.

Dongzhiyuan is less than 100 kilometers long from north to south, and is 30 kilometers wide on average from east to west. The surrounding area is wide and flat. It is known as the deepest loess layer in China, and it is the so-called "high fields and thick soil". In the past, the entire Dongzhiyuan was considered a district in Qingyang County, and Xifeng Town is only a little larger than the township belonging to Qingyang County.

In the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, Xifeng Town was located at the transit station between Chang'an foreign goods and Ningxia salt rice, and industrial and commercial trade gradually formed. There were many shops and all business industries, such as Tiansheng Jue, Sanweixiang, Yichengxing and other businesses. The funds were very strong and they hired clerks, with few people, and the few people ranging from a dozen to twenty or thirty people.

In addition to locals, businessmen also have people from other provinces and counties such as Shanxi Gang, Shaanxi Gang, Henan Gang, etc. Some of the business names are also located in Su, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi'an, Xingping and Liquan. They convey information and purchase goods. The Xi'an Yuanda Trading Company is responsible for transit and shipping. Tianjin fur merchants are also stationed in Xifeng to promote second fur jackets and Beijing-Guangzhou goods. Xifeng has thus become a commercial terminal in Dongzhiyuan. Gradually, there are more people, and it expands more rapidly compared with other towns.

In 1917, due to attack by Shaanxi bandit Fan Zhongxiu, Xifeng Town began to build a city wall, led by Zhang Zhaoguan, the battalion commander of each Longdong patrol battalion. The supervisor was Fu Mingyu, and was able to be built the next year. Although Xifeng Town was under the jurisdiction of Qingyang County during this period, its economic strength and political status were comparable to Qingyang County, which is known as the "first city in Longdong".

Although the Wu family is not rich in Xifeng Town, its family is much better than ordinary farmers. The two-entry brick house, Wu Anping's parents used to live in the front, but now it is empty. Li Bo lives in the west wing room, and the east wing room is divided into two rooms, one is Wu Anping's own room, and the other is Wu Anping's uncle. The backyard is very small, and there is a kitchen, two warehouses and a cattle shed.

It was almost evening when it arrived home. Wu Anping knocked on the door and called "uncle Li" twice. "Uncle Li" and heard panic and rapid footsteps in the yard. A few seconds later, his uncle Du Likui opened the gate to greet him.

Wu Anping rushed in and asked in a low voice as he walked: "How is Li Bo's situation now?" My uncle took Wu Anping's baggage and followed behind and choked, "It depends on the situation. You may not look down on this last glance for a few days later." Wu Anping red eyes and said, "But did you hire a doctor?" My uncle nodded: "Brother Li didn't allow him to invite him, but I still looked for the old Chinese doctor in Baoshengtang in the town and a foreign doctor in the county town. Strangely, he couldn't diagnose anything, but he watched as Li Bo could no longer hold on."

Wu Anping wiped his face with his cuffs, lifted the curtain into the west wing. As soon as he entered the inner room, he saw Bo Li, who was wrapped in a thick quilt, weak and old, looking at him. His eyes were full of love, and tears couldn't help but burst out from his eyes. He knelt in front of the kang a few steps and cried bitterly.

Bo Li's eyes were still bright, but his face was pale and withered. He waved to Du Likui who was sobbing beside him and said, "Likui, Anping has been rushing back so far, and he must have not had enough food yet. You go down to cook a few side dishes, and then go to Huang Laojiu to get two braised pig hands to fill his stomach well."

Du Likui responded and went out, and only Li Bo and Wu Anping were left in the west wing.

Seeing that Wu Anping's eyes were red with tears, Li Bo shook his head and put a hand on his head and rubbed it, "Anping, don't cry. Li Bo tells you that this is not a disease, but my life span has arrived. Although it looks terrible, it has not suffered a little pain."

Wu Anping lowered his head and said, "Brother Li, don't comfort me anymore. When I went to Guangzhou after the New Year, you looked like forty years. In just a few months, you were so old that you were as weak as an old man in the eighty. Why did you say that your life is here? This damn God, he won't accept any life, but he kept urging him to force him."

Li Bo smiled: "Anping, you never blamed others so much before."

Wu Anping rubbed his eyes and slowly stopped crying: "I know there will be such a day, but I never dared to think that this day would come so early. Bo Li, I am still waiting for you to see me marry a wife and be a general. Don't you keep saying that if a fat boy grabs your beard and screams, will he laugh when he falls asleep?"

Bo Li turned his face into the wall, turned back for a moment, and closed his eyes and said, "I can't wait for that day, but I still think that's really interesting. Anping, you are a very good young boy. Really, you will definitely realize your ambitions and find a good wife, and of course you will also give birth to a fat boy."

Wu Anping grabbed Li Bo's hand and buried his face in the thick, hard and shriveled palm. An indescribable grief suddenly came again, and the silent tears would soon make the palm warm and wet.

Bo Li opened his eyes and his eyes suddenly became very strange. He stared at Wu Anping for a long time, and said in a strange tone: "Anping, raise your head, I have something to ask you."

Wu Anping raised his head and looked at Li Bo with bloodshot eyes. He felt that Li Bo might have to explain his affairs after his death. As a junior, he should be respectful and obedient.

Bo Li pondered, "You went to Guangzhou this time, no matter what your harvest is, now I ask you, are you still sure you want to go this way? The shadow of death will always follow you, the war will come unexpectedly, your teammates and brothers will leave you in the whine of guns and cannons, and in the end you may even feel that what you do is meaningless. You are a politician's pawn and you cannot control your own destiny. Can you predict all this?"

"I haven't thought about these things." When it comes to ideals, Wu Anping's attitude is very firm: "It's not that I dare not think about it, but that I find that no matter how I think, it will be all the way to one thing in the end. I have to do something. Li Bo, my strength is so weak that I can't do anything except join the army and die in the war."

Li Bo's eyes became softer and softer: "Anping, since you have made up your mind, Li Bo will no longer advise you." He hesitated and said: "I have not had much time, and it is useless to keep some things. It may be more useful for you."

Wu Anping didn't understand the meaning of the words and whispered in confusion: "Bo Li?"

Li Bo suddenly cheered up and said to himself, "This thing is the greatest misfortune of my life, but perhaps the greatest luck in you. The key is that it can bring you power, unparalleled power." Wu Anping's pupils shrank slightly: "Li Bo, what is it?"

Bo Li struggled to get up and sit halfway, untied the coarse inner jacket, revealing his dry chest. He pressed his hand in his heart for a long time, and gradually a circle of milky white condensed halos lit up from under his palm. Then, he put his hand in his pocket, held it, and opened it in front of Wu Anping's eyes. A thing as bright as a galaxy but as small as a peach pit appeared in this world in an incomprehensible way.

Wu Anping noticed that Li Bo seemed to have aged a lot again in this moment. He asked in great concern but was extremely surprised: "Bo Li, are you okay? What is this thing?" Everything that happened in front of him posed a great challenge to his imagination. Li Bo's impression of his mind also became blurred from his family and relatives.

Liber was a little confused: "Its name contains many professional terms, which is very troublesome to explain. According to the language habits you can understand, it can be called the 'space-time engine'. What you need to note is that it comes from 2145 AD."

"Two hundred years later?" Looking at the countless light spots that kept rising from that thing and quickly disappeared into the air, Wu Anping felt an indescribable sense of absurdity: "Then Li Bo, you..."

Li Bo sighed: "You guessed it. This is also my biggest secret. I thought I would take it to the grave."

Wu Anping opened his mouth wide and wanted to refute, but when he thought of the strange things about Li Bo, he felt that this was the real one.

Bo Li took a breath and smiled, "You used to always ask, why did I happen like this and how I did that? Now the most correct answer is revealed. I wonder if you are still satisfied." He also said, "I told you not to be sad about my death. The reason is here. In that era, although the development of science was still not enough to make people immortal, the phased achievements produced by the research on "Science" were enough to make people live for two or three hundred years, and to be free from disasters and diseases, and to be energetic until the body suddenly collapsed and aging before death."

"My current age is 117 years old. Due to the time and space engine, my lifespan has been reduced by more than half. Although I am so old that I am not as good as I am, I actually have no illness. These are just signs that will inevitably appear before death."

It is difficult for Wu Anping to associate Li Bo with future people more than two hundred years later, but reason tells him that all this is 100% true.

Li Bo said jokingly again: "I believe what you want to know most now is how I was wandering in this time and space. I was about to tell you, but this story is very long, I hope you won't be impatient."

"Of course not." Wu Anping's mind stopped rotating now, and he couldn't think about anything else, but based on his intuition, he thought that Li Bo could make the decision to let him inherit the time and space engine, which was closely related to the next story.

Li Bo explained while recalling: "You can't imagine how rapid the development of science and technology will be in the future. The research on time and space has always been the topic that top scientists attach the most importance to. In 2097, all countries on the earth agreed to form the Earth federal government, and governments of various countries successively abolished it. This enabled the effective integration of scientific and technological resources, and then entered the most magnificent Great Leap Forward era in the history of human science and technology development in the next thirty years."

"By 2124, the basic space-time theory was initially verified, and then more than 20 marginal scientists formed a laboratory together and began a crazy space-time shuttle experiment. I was a security guard in the laboratory at that time, and I was greedy for high salaries. Later, I joined the experiment. Of course, it was not about research, but about living bodies being studied. I have to say that the more crazy scientists are, the more genius they are, their research was successful. By 2135, the more complete super-time and space engine had been manufactured."

"The basis of space-time shuttle is parallel space-time theory. At that time, eight super-time and space engines were built. Eight people, including me, were selected as engine drivers, dividing human history into different sections, and constantly retracing forward in the order of time and space far and near. The purpose is to verify the engine functions and make them more perfect, and on the other hand, it is to study the interaction relationships of different time and space. This large-scale backtracking is successful to a certain extent. We constantly sneak into different historical space-time, make good markers of time and space, and then continue to set out towards longer time and space."

"Countless experiments have allowed us to accidentally see the secrets of space-time, and thus came to an astonishing conclusion that the theory of space-time is actually wrong. We found that for the past history, time is actually static. When we sneak into that static point, a variable will be generated immediately. When this variable reaches a certain value, this time and space will be activated, thus making the originally static time evolve into another living history. Therefore, a space-time and space parallel to reality will be produced."

"Isn't it difficult to understand?" Li Bo stopped and asked.

"I really don't understand." Wu Anping's head was wide.

Li Boluo said proudly: "Actually, I can't understand it. Anyway, you understand it this way. Parallel space did not exist. It was because of our infiltration that history had forked and parallel space was created." His originally thin body naturally produced a powerful momentum. This momentum Wu Anping had never been discovered by anyone. It was like the light of God and the gift of the Creator.
Chapter completed!