Chapter 87 The Lost Tiger
The benchmark time and space finally sent someone to pick me up, and Dang Paiguo led the team personally. Liu Yanzhi was a little moved and quickly stepped forward to shake hands with Professor Dang, but the other party took out a tablet computer, opened the album and pointed to a picture and said, "Did you shoot this tiger?"
On the tablet screen is a thin tiger with yellow and white fur lying in a cage, unconscious, with a carved feather arrow inserted into her body. Liu Yan was stunned. Isn’t this the tiger that he forced to jump off the cliff half an hour ago? Why did he run into the Party’s patriotism computer? Could it be that jump that even traveled through time and space?
Seeing Liu Yanzhi's expression, Dang Aiguo understood, and put away the computer and said, "The wormhole is indeed disordered."
This time travel was not only the Party Patriotic, but also Lei Meng, who was on the escort mission. He was wearing a mountaineering suit, wearing sunglasses, holding an automatic rifle, guarding nearby. He was dressed up completely in the 21st century. It seemed that this was just a simple rescue operation and did not intend to stay in this era for a long time.
After staying in the late Qing Dynasty for a year and a half, he was finally leaving. Liu Yanzhi was a little sad. He walked into the wooden house to pack his luggage, all kinds of furs, bacon, millet, salt, books, rifles and bows and arrows, and he was reluctant to take them down.
"No hurry, we're going to go back twenty-four hours, and you have enough time to decide what to take away and what to leave." Party Patriotic Road, "but I suggest you better keep these miscellaneous things in this era. By the way, where did that tiger disappear?"
"I'll take you there, an hour away." Liu Yanzhi said.
"Okay, I'll move my legs too." Dang Paiguo took off his stylish cashmere cloak and wore it in a bright red jacket. It seemed that he had already prepared.
In Liu Yanzhi's impression, Dang Aiguo has always been a gentle and elegant cultural person. He is very worried about whether the professor can keep up with his speed, but this worry is unnecessary. Dang Aiguo has excellent physical fitness and does not breathe through mountains and rivers. His movements are as agile and sophisticated as a mountaineer.
"Don't look at me like that. I've climbed Mount Everest from the north slope." In the leeward nest, Professor Dang unscrewed the thermos and poured Liu Yan a cup of hot chocolate. Snowflakes were floating outside and snow began to fall again.
Liu Yan took a sip and showed an intoxicating expression. High-calorie modern foods can replenish energy better than the bacon he made himself. More importantly, this cup of chocolate has the taste of his hometown.
After a short rest, the three of them continued to go on the road. After rushing to the cliff, Dang Aiguo raised the hiking watch on his wrist and looked at it. It was an hour and a half before he set off. It seemed that his physical fitness was not a little worse than Liu Yanzhi.
"The tiger jumped from here." Liu Yan pointed to the cliff and said.
Without saying a word, Lei Meng took out a safety rope and tied it to the big tree, tied the other end to himself, and put on his posture of going down the cliff to find out.
This is Liu Yanzhi's home court, how can he bother others to do it? He used the excuse of thunder and unfamiliar terrain to dissuade him. He did not use a safety rope and climbed off the cliff with his bare hands. He was as flexible as a monkey. The rock walls that had fallen into the abyss if they were not careful, and he would fall into the abyss. He moved down carefully, and after falling ten meters, he landed on a raised stone platform.
Behind the stone platform is a cave surrounded by thorns, and the mysterious cave on the cliff is the wormhole that Dang Maiguo calls? Liu Yanzhi looked up and shouted: "Professor, I discovered the wormhole you mentioned!"
The party patriotism came from above and said amused and wailed: "The wormhole is not a real cave, it is a scientific concept... Wait, are you saying that you found a cave?"
After receiving a positive answer, Dang Maiguo also came down. He tied a safety rope around his waist and held a strong light flashlight, and wanted to explore the cave with Liu Yanzhi.
Liu Yanzhi took the lead, holding a gun in one hand and flashlight in the other, and arched his waist into the cave. The cave was not as big as he thought, and the space was cramped and unable to raise his waist. What was even more terrifying was that there was a coffin in the cave.
"What's inside?" Dang Aiguo asked outside.
"Coffin." Liu Yan straightened his hand to lift the lid of the coffin and stopped in the air. If a zombie with fangs and wearing Qing Dynasty official uniforms popped out of it, he would not have any talismans on hand.
Dang Aiguo also crawled in and looked at the coffin: "I didn't expect that Jiangdong also has a hanging coffin. Forget it, don't disturb the peace of the deceased, let's go."
The two of them drew out of the cave one after another, but no one noticed the murals on the stone wall with a knife and axe chiseled. They were three portraits with a halo on their heads, and the people below worshiped them.
After some search, there was nothing suspicious near the cliff and time was limited. The Party Patriotic ordered the evacuation. The three of them traveled through mountains and rivers and returned to the crossing point. On the way, Liu Yanzhi carefully asked about the origin of the tiger.
According to Dang Aiguo, after Lei Meng and the other two returned, they immediately started a rescue operation and never abandoned their comrades in ancient times. However, it was difficult to determine the time for traveling again. If they came too early, they could not find anyone. If they came too late, they might have already married and had children and taken root in the Qing Dynasty. When they were in a dilemma, a tiger suddenly appeared in Cuiwei Mountain in 2017.
Cuiwei Mountain was originally a nature reserve, and it was not surprising that there were wild animals, but it was outrageous that this extinct South China tiger appeared. That day, several camping hikers first discovered the tiger, and took photos with a SLR camera, and posted it online, but it did not cause a sensation. Instead, it was ridiculed by netizens as a new generation of "character dragons and tigers".
The tiger in the photo has an arrow inserted into it. This is an important basis for netizens to think that fraud is important. Whoever takes a bow and arrow to hunt in the mountains and can still shoot a tiger. Isn’t this a test of the IQ of netizens? However, this incident attracted the attention of the Party’s patriotism. He organized a hunter team and set up traps all over the mountains. Finally, the tiger was caught. Sure enough, the tiger carved with arrows on it, and it was not hunting arrows used by modern people, but classical wooden pole carved feather arrows. According to research, arrows were a green camp system in the Qing Dynasty, and tigers were by no means artificial feeding tigers from zoos and circuses, but a South China tiger that has truly survived in the wild for many years.
The Party’s patriotism was based on this vague clue that Liu Yanzhi had already been waiting at the Cuiwei Mountain crossing point, and resolutely traveled through it himself and brought his subordinates back.
"There are wormholes on Cuiwei Mountain, and there are more than one place, everywhere and fleeting. We have long understood this, but it is just an imaginary. This tiger gave me a clear answer. I missed a lot of information. There is no record of hunting tigers in Cuiwei Mountain in history, so I guess that arrow was shot by you." Dang Aiguo said, "Do you know what the concept of wormholes is?"
"I know, it's the time and space tunnel." Liu Yan said straight, "But what I don't understand very much is why our time traveling machines can only pass back to the past, not to the future."
Dang Paiguo Road: "This... is actually possible. We can travel through time, but we can only do it. It's like handing over a car to the Ming Dynasty people. Maybe they can learn to drive, but it's impossible to rebuild one."
Liu Yan said straight: "I understand a little bit, there are people from the future in the organization."
The Party was breathing heavily and refused to comment: "Maybe."
"There is another question. What are you going to deal with Zhou Jiarui and let him stay in this era?" Liu Yan said straight.
"We don't have the energy to take care of Teacher Zhou's problem for the time being, and it is not worth driving a time traveler alone for him." Dang Maiguo smiled bitterly, "But it is worth it for you."
Liu Yanzhi shrugged, thinking that the Party’s patriotism was exaggerated, so he asked casually: “Isn’t it just a little power?”
Dang Paiguo stopped and said seriously: "Yanzhi, the cost of our time traveling is about 100 million yuan."
"How many?" Liu Yanzhi widened his eyes.
"That's how the cost of amortization of power plants is." Dang Aiguo explained, "Do you know the Manhattan plan in the United States? The Americans spent $2 billion to create an atomic bomb. That was the dollar in the 1940s. Although we were not making nuclear weapons, it was almost the same. Maintaining the opening of the wormhole requires an artificial substance. The expense of this thing is the big deal. The key is that even if you have money, you can't buy it..."
Through popular science, the Party’s patriotism finally succeeded in understanding two things: one is that the cost of time travel is extremely high, and the other is that his value in the minds of the leaders is very high. The benefit of these two highs is that Liu Yanzhi gave up most of the time travel subsidies and only received 300,000 according to the original plan.
Back at the time travel point, Liu Yanzhi made a fire and cooked. While barbecuing the meat, he took the Boston Evening News to show the Party Patriotic.
After reading the patriotism, the Party put the newspaper aside.
"What? Something went wrong?" Liu Yan felt something was wrong.
"You have completed the task, but the Cunningham family is still passed down. Maybe there is something wrong with it in one link, but this is no longer important, because Cunningham is not the focus, and the people on the list are the focus." Dang Paiguo drove the bonfire and took out a small metal wine pot from his arms and handed it to Liu Yanzhi: "Drink some?"
When Liu Yanzhi reached out to take it, Dang Aiguo saw the jade ring on his thumb, and couldn't help but hold his glasses and sit up straight: "Can you show me the ring?"
"Yes." Liu Yanzhi took off his finger and put it in the hands of the Party and Patriotic, and said inadvertently, "What Cixi gave me is for archery."
"Can you sell it to me?" Dang Aiguodao, "I'll give you a reasonable price."
"If you like it, take it." Liu Yan said straight.
"A jade of this level is rare. It is worth at least 100 million yuan. With the background in the palace, it is at least 50 million yuan or 150 million yuan. Do you really plan to give it to me?" Dang Aiguo said with a smile.
"A gentleman's words are as good as a horse." Liu Yanzhi's mind and nature have undergone subtle changes after living in seclusion for a long time. In his eyes, this jade ring is not as practical as an iron pot. Besides, he also believes that the party and patriotism will not take their own things in vain.
When it was time for the return trip, Liu Yanzhi only brought more than a dozen fox skins, and the rest remained in place. Looking back at the wooden house, he remembered many things, many people, Teacher Zhou who stayed in the Qing Dynasty, Xia Feixiong and Yan Shengnan, who were tall and high in Beijing, Liang Dingbang, the ancestor of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Shanghai Shuyu Mr. Shen Xiaohong, Lin Huaiyuan, Empress Dowager Cixi, and his fiancée, Lin Su, who had a skin relationship with him.
Chapter completed!