“Top secret content?!” Gu Nianzhi’s heart was pounding. She perked up and concentrated even more on the three-dimensional image in front of her.
He Zhichu felt a little uncomfortable at that moment.
He fidgeted twice in his seat and said expressionlessly, “I’m going out for a while.”
He stood up in a hurry and walked outside.
He Chengjian glanced at his departing silhouette and knew that he was embarrassed. His heart ached for him.
Gu Nianzhi didn’t know what was going on, but she quickly said, “Should we wait for Professor He to come back before continuing?”
He Chengjian smiled and shook his head. “No need. He’s a major general in our military. He already knows about this.”
Gu Nianzhi did not say anything.
He Chengjian continued on to play the video.
He said in a low voice, “Our people risked their lives to record this. The entire process took two years. This is the most important part of the excerpt.”
Gu Nianzhi nodded her head quickly and said seriously, “I know. I won’t tell any outsiders about this.”
Huo Shaoheng was not an outsider in her heart, but He Chengjian did not need to know that.
Gu Nianzhi could not take her eyes off him.
The only ceiling lights in the room dimmed, and the three-dimensional images before her became exceedingly clear.
The colors were so vivid and lifelike, it was as if something had changed within her.
He Chengjian sighed. His voice was bleak and desolate. “It’s said that when these two parallel dimensions first separated, the two sides were identical. Every human, every animal, every plant, and even the mountains, rivers, and other non-living things had their own corresponding points in the opposite space.”
“But since they were separated into two dimensions, they became two independent individuals.”
“The development of the two sides could not be exactly the same, so while some people died here, their corresponding points remained alive on the other side. Some people were seriously ill over there, but their corresponding points were extremely healthy over here.”
“Hence, there are many differences in the historical development of the two sides.”
He Chengjian finished speaking and began to play the first excerpt.
“This is the image we brought back from the first live transmission.”
At that moment, Gu Nianzhi saw four people appear on the stage in front of her. It was probably summer, because they were all wearing very ordinary-looking t-shirts and shorts as they walked towards the edge of the sinkhole.
One of these four people happened to be one of the kidnappers who had gone there to kidnap her!
The corners of Gu Nianzhi’s eyes twitched.
Immediately after, the three-dimensional image in front of her suddenly rippled, as though she was viewing it from an underwater view.
However, the slight ripples and blurry jumps were very short, and the scene quickly became clear.
He Chengjian explained, “We have already arrived at the world on the other side.”
It was also beside the Tunguska sinkhole in Siberia.
However, almost at the instant they arrived, something unexpected happened.
Among the four people who had gone with them, three people suddenly fell silently.
There were no flashes of swords, no sudden gunshots, and no bleeding wounds.
The three men were like a clock that had stopped. They had suddenly reached the end of their lives and were lying on the ground.
Of the four men who had gone with them, only one stood there in a panic.
This man was one of the kidnappers that Gu Nianzhi recognized.
He thought he had been ambushed. After recovering from his shock, he threw himself onto the ground, pulled out his pistol, and rolled into the bushes to the side with his head in his hands.
He had been lying in wait for a long time, but he had not seen anyone, let alone ambushed them.
After a while, he carefully walked out of the grass and returned to the place where the four of them had landed.
The three companions were still lying motionless on the ground.
The man quickly went to check on them.
He checked the breathing, pulse, and heartbeat of the three companions and whispered to the recording equipment on his body, “Breathing stopped, pulse stopped, heartbeat stopped. Their deaths are confirmed.”
It was extremely strange that three people had died as soon as they arrived.
He did not dare to continue the experiment and stayed by the bodies of these three people.
Not long after, the other party contacted him with a quantum communication device and found out that something had happened.
He Chengjian said, “We didn’t know what the reason was at that time, so we immediately sent four more people over.”
Immediately after, the three-dimensional image in front of them changed again.
He Chengjian began to play the second excerpt.
Gu Nianzhi saw another four people appear in the image in front of her.
Three of these four people were actually kidnappers that Gu Nianzhi recognized.
She sneered, thinking to herself that she had finally gathered all the kidnappers…
Then, the situation repeated once more.
After a series of ripples and a slight blur of jumps, the four of them entered the opposite space.
This time, they were stronger than the previous instance. Only one person had fallen, and the other three were all fine.
It was the three kidnappers.
Sure enough, the evil lived for a thousand years.
Gu Nianzhi thought coldly.
The three of them moved quickly. After contacting the colleague who had still been alive the first time, they immediately brought back the four bodies.
“How did they die?” Gu Nianzhi was puzzled. “No one attacked them on the other side?!”
“Yes, their deaths weren’t caused by attacks.” He Chengjian said slowly, “Keep watching.”
Because two accidents had happened in a row, He Chengjian and the others decided to try again after a serious discussion once these people returned with their report. They would dispatch the same four soldiers who had been there once. Only the soldiers who hadn’t had any accidents would return again.
If they were killed, they would stop the experiment.
After the third experiment, the four of them were fine.
They followed the plan and entered the other side of the world. They blended in with the crowd and searched for the cause of the previous two accidents.
Next, they took a video from the other side of the world, the world Gu Nianzhi had been to.
The first video was from a small town. The four of them had found a family and they held out a photo to ask them, “We’re friends with this person. Do you know where he is?”
They were holding a photo of one of their comrades who had died.
This was also one of their experiments. They wanted to come to this world and look for a person with the same name and surname to see if there was any difference between the two sides.
In the end, the person they were looking for told them that the person they were looking for had suddenly died in bed a while ago. He was originally very healthy and did not have any illness.
After seeing this, Gu Nianzhi seemed to have understood something.
She looked down thoughtfully, and her heart beat even faster.
Then there was the second video. The same four people were holding a photo of their second colleague who had suddenly died. They went to the place where his counterpart was and asked for the whereabouts of this person.
Similarly, this person had died on the same day without any reason.
Then, there was the third and fourth video. Without exception, the counterparts of these dead comrades had all died at the same time when they came over.
Then, these people went to look for their counterparts in this world.
This time, they discovered that their counterparts in this world had all died long before they came over.
…
After the video ended, He Chengjian continued, “We asked them to look for their counterparts in the other world. It was originally a scientist’s request to conduct a comparative study of parallel space-time.”
“In the end, we accidentally discovered a fundamental property of parallel space-time that cannot be reversed.”
He Chengjian looked up at Gu Nianzhi and said word by word, “That is, even in parallel space, it is impossible for two people who are the same to exist in the same space-time at the same time.”
“When two opposites appear in the same space-time, it plays out the same way as when positive and negative atoms meet. They will definitely be annihilated.”
“Do you understand now?”
“In every space-time, we can only have one corresponding point.”
Gu Nianzhi’s heart skipped a beat, and she said, “You mean, the people who didn’t die immediately after going to the other space were in that space because their opposites had already died, so they were fine.”
“And the four people who died suddenly after going there were because their counterparts in that dimension were still alive! So when they went there, it was like a collision of positive and negative particles. The two lives were annihilated at the same time.”
He Chengjian nodded, “If there’s another Gu Nianzhi in the other dimension and if she was still alive when you went there, then Gu Xiangwen sending you there rashly would mean that the two of you would die together. It doesn’t matter if the two of you were not in the same place. As a counterpart, your human body’s magnetic field is naturally connected with it. This is an irreversible law of physics.”
“No one can break free from the laws of physics.”
“… do you think Gu Xiangwen is insane?”
Gu Nianzhi, “…”
He Chengjian’s eyes were deep as he said unhurriedly, “I said he was insane because a tiger doesn’t eat its cubs. However, he risked your immediate death to send you into the other dimension.”
Gu Nianzhi said subconsciously, “But I’m still alive, which means my counterpart on the other side was already dead before I got there.”
“Besides, my father probably didn’t know about this principle at the time…”
He Chengjian gave her a deep look, “… you can’t use the outcome to prove that the means was correct. Besides, all our scientists were able to predict this problem. Gu Xiangwen is a much better physicist than them, did you think that he would have been unaware?”
“Also, my son was unable to forget your disappearance in the beginning. After he was certain that you hadn’t been burned to death and had gone to the other world, he decided to go find you.”
Gu Nianzhi came back to her senses and said nervously, “Why didn’t you stop him?! What if Professor He’s counterpart on the other side was still alive?!”
“Yeah, what if he had been alive?” He Chengjian seemed to have aged ten years. “Do you know how I felt? I really thought that he would die on the other side if he went…”
“But he still insisted on going.”
“I couldn’t persuade him, so in the end, I agreed. Because I knew that if he didn’t go, he would be no different from a dead person for the rest of his life. In that case, I had might as well take the gamble, so that he wouldn’t be living like a walking corpse for the rest of his life.”.
“Wen Shouyi took the initiative to go with him. She also risked her life.” He Chengjian shifted his gaze. “Look, is Gu Xiangwen crazy? Just his willfulness alone caused so many of us to die?!”
The missions that followed were as risky as rolling the dice.
This time, in order to bring Gu Nianzhi back, they had sent the four people who were confirmed to be safe subjects.
Gu Nianzhi recognized them at a glance.
Qin Zhining was another person who had risked his life to go.
He Chengjian had specifically requested to go because he was worried about handing Gu Nianzhi over to someone else.
“Because of this reason, we rarely come into contact with the space opposite us. Unless it’s absolutely necessary, we won’t open the Magnetic Resonance Channel.”
He Chengjian added, “Every time we open the magnetic resonance channel, it consumes a huge amount of energy. Although our side is much stronger than the other side, our magnetic field energy has almost been depleted over the years. We won’t be able to restore the magnetic resonance channel in the short term.”
Gu Nianzhi’s heart sank again.
Didn’t that mean that she wouldn’t be able to return even if she tried?!
Also, even if the technology in the other world suddenly developed, and even if they could open the magnetic resonance channel, the people they sent over would also…
Gu Nianzhi asked nervously, “… what if, I mean what if, the people over there could come over? Would there also be such a situation where the corresponding body died at the same time?”
“Of course.” He Chengjian said casually, “The laws of physics are not bound by space itself. As long as it’s parallel to space-time, it has to follow this law of physics.”
As he spoke, he warned Gu Nianzhi, “Don’t have unrealistic expectations. The only person who would risk his life to save you is my son, He Zhichu. No one else would do that.”
Gu Nianzhi pursed her lips. She wanted to retort that Huo Shao might, but she didn’t have much confidence.
Huo Shaoheng might be sad and upset that she was gone, but based on Gu Nianzhi’s understanding of him, he wouldn’t be like He Zhichu, who would risk everything to find her.
It wasn’t that he was afraid of death, but it was the responsibility and burden on his shoulders that wouldn’t allow him to do that.
He wasn’t the kind of person who couldn’t live without feelings.
Gu Nianzhi suddenly felt very sad when she realized this. It was as if someone had cut out the most important thing in her heart. Her chest was empty.
She touched her heart. It was still beating, but she felt that she had become a ‘Hollow person’.
He Chengjian glanced at Gu Nianzhi’s eyes, which had suddenly dimmed. He stood up and said very sincerely, “Nianzhi, as a father, I’m begging you to give my son a chance. He loves you. He really loves you very much.”
Gu Nianzhi’s body trembled as she tried her best to control her emotions, which were on the verge of breaking down.
She stood up without saying a word and pushed the chair behind her away. She stumbled back two steps and turned to run out.
She pulled open the door with a whoosh and saw He Zhichu standing at the staircase smoking with an indifferent expression.
“Nianzhi?” he noticed that her expression seemed rather abnormal. Hence, he quickly tossed the cigarette butt away and walk up to her.
Gu Nianzhi’s eyes were red. She pushed him away and rushed downstairs to the main entrance.
The He Family’s orderly soldiers surrounded her and said, “Miss Gu, running and making noise is prohibited here.”
However, Gu Nianzhi ignored them and continued to run towards the main entrance.
He Zhichu followed behind and quickly instructed the orderly soldiers, “Don’t touch her! Let her out!”
He ran over quickly and caught up with Gu Nianzhi. He tugged her by the arm and said, “Where are you going? I’ll drive you.”
Gu Nianzhi was confused as her eyes fixed on him. “I’m going to the special operations forces. I’m going to look for Huo!”
He Zhichu was slightly taken aback. He wanted to say that he didn’t know where Huo was, but when he saw her expression, he knew that something was wrong with her mental state. He changed his mind. “Okay, I’ll take you there.”
He drove his car out and let Gu Nianzhi sit in it. He took her out for a ride.
The bulletproof car with special license plates drove unimpeded on the imperial highway. Soon, they reached a flat and beautiful square.
The corresponding place here was the special operations forces in the opposite world.
Of course, there was no special operations forces here. This was just a wide square.
Gu Nianzhi got out of the car and stared blankly at the familiar place and the different environment.
The blue sky was clear, and the wind was blowing. There were tall lamp posts around the square, and the magnolia flower bud-shaped street lamps were simple and elegant.
The square was lively, and there was a small playground not far away.
She walked over and walked into the crowd.
The merry-go-round spun around her, and the children on the merry-go-round laughed happily.
Someone ran past her, laughing so hard that she couldn’t breathe. There were even couples flying kites in the square affectionately.
She was in the busiest downtown area of the capital, but she felt like she was in a deserted wilderness. She only felt lonely and miserable.
She endured it for a long time. Finally, she hugged her knees and squatted down. She sobbed softly, “Huo Shaoheng, I miss you. I really, really miss you…”
