The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 477 Loopholes in the laws of the universe?
Because it is in a state of weightlessness, the robot prepares bags of space food and drinks.

Luo Ji sighed: "It's a pity that there is no wine on the spaceship, otherwise we would have been able to drink and talk happily."

Cheng Ping smiled bitterly: "The same goes for drinks."

"There are still four or five days of sailing away from the earth, so I have time to listen to you talk about the accident you encountered." Luo Ji smiled and said: "Speaking of which, I'm still a bit ignorant, let's see if I can help you busy."

"You can really help me." Cheng Ping took out a blue drop-shaped object the size of a fingertip.

Luo Ji understands that this is a common quantum memory in the solar system, and it is generally used to transmit data or store data when there is no network.

The drop-shaped shape design was requested by Jiang Yu. It is said that he wants everyone to always remember the disasters that the Trisolarans brought to mankind, and the "water drop" is one of the representatives of the Trisolarans.

Cheng Ping said to Yinhe No. [-] of the spaceship: "Please copy the data inside and store it in the same way."

As he spoke, he shook the storage device towards the position of the multi-function camera, and a second or two later, a similar drop-shaped storage device popped up from the console.

Cheng Ping solemnly handed the memory card that had just been ejected to Luo Ji: "Please give it to the fifth person who shook hands with you after you got off the spaceship.

"Remember, it must be the fifth one. No matter who that person is, please give it to him."

"It's mysterious," Luo Ji said with a smile, "Have you joined the enemy country? Are you conducting espionage activities?"

In the current human world, how can there be an enemy country?
Cheng Ping smiled bitterly and said, "You will know everything by then, I swear, you will be very surprised by then!"

"Okay, okay." Luo Ji put the storage device in the portable pocket of his space suit: "Now can you tell me about your encounter?"

"Let me think about it," Cheng Ping took a sip of his drink, "Where should I start?
"Well, let's start with my dreams."

He said seriously, "Teacher Luo Ji, have you ever encountered such a situation? It is something that sometimes happens in reality, as if in a dream?"

Luo Ji was taken aback: "I don't have much impression of this, but a character in my fantasy has appeared in my real life."

Cheng Ping smiled and said: "I know that, the heroine in the book you wrote!

"The feeling I'm talking about is different, as if you encountered a difficult problem at work. This difficult problem was encountered for the first time, but when you encountered it, you felt that it was very familiar.

"It's also like when you go to a strange place, but somehow feel very familiar."

Luo Ji thought about it seriously, then shook his head.

Cheng Ping cleared his throat, and rubbed his hands nervously: "A century has passed since that day, and I woke up in the desert of Australia that morning.

"What disappoints me is that the migration of humans to the reserve is still going on, and the Trisolaran Fleet is also on its way.

"After that, every movement I made seemed to be repeated dozens or hundreds of times.

"But the next few days were a different experience, and that led to a lot of different outcomes."

Luo Ji frowned, "Is this your dream?"

"At first I thought it was just some dreams, but as these dreams became more and more clear over the past few years, I found that they were actually my memory." Cheng Ping stared straight:
"Several times I died in the riots in Australia, the Trisolarans finally completed the colonization of the solar system, and more times after Starship Earth made a cosmic broadcast, I was rescued.

"And then died in various accidents, in various diseases, and even died a few times in the dark forest strike of the two-way foil.

"This time is very special, because Jiang Yu didn't appear before, but this time because Jiang Yu fought to the death with the three-body star, the result has changed too much.

"I also seized the opportunity and took the opportunity to become the new rotating chairman.

"Thanks to your protection, I was able to serve the solar system country and served as the chief executive of the earth province for five consecutive terms. Even after I retired, I was still making use of my residual heat."

Luo Ji was a little worried, "Did you stay in space for too long, so..."

Cheng Ping started laughing, at first it was a shallow smile, gradually he started laughing loudly, and finally he laughed so hard that he leaned forward and backward.

After he had laughed enough, he wiped away his tears and said, "Sorry, I told you some weird things."

Then he put away his smile and asked: "Mr. Luo, do you think there will be loopholes in the laws of the universe in the process of operation?
"For example, we obviously shouldn't have met, but we met by chance."

"Loophole?" Luo Ji felt that Cheng Ping's spirit seemed to be a little off, but he still analyzed it seriously: "As far as the current situation is concerned, no loopholes have been found.

"If there is, the universe is so big that we only have a very small chance of encountering it."

Then he shook his head: "I am not the universe, and I have never seen the true face of the universe. I dare not make a conclusion about this kind of thing."

"Yes, I dare not make a conclusion." Cheng Ping looked at the timer on the spacesuit: "Sorry, Mr. Luo, I have to go back to my spaceship."

Luo Ji didn't intend to let him go: "Have a meal with me, and we'll have a long talk. We're going back to Earth anyway, so let's go back together."

He was afraid that Cheng Ping's current state of mind would cause some accidents in space, so he planned to watch him.

"Mr. Luo, thank you for your concern." Cheng Ping said, "But I can't go back to Earth."

Luo Ji asked, "What happened?"

"I can't tell you right now." Cheng Ping pointed to Luo Ji's pocket where the storage device was stored, "You will understand everything after you read the contents."

As he walked towards the door of the spaceship, he said with some reluctance: "I really want to chat with you for a while, but if we continue to talk, we may all be in unexpected danger.

"So, I have to go back."

Seeing that he couldn't keep him, Luo Ji patted the pocket with the storage device: "Don't worry, I will fulfill your order.

"As long as the task is not too urgent, go back to the earth to rest, there is no flaming mountain that cannot be passed."

Cheng Ping nodded solemnly and returned to his spaceship.

From the porthole, Luo Ji saw that the two spaceships separated quickly, and Cheng Ping's spaceship sailed into the vast dark sea of ​​stars.

Seeing the alluring tail flame getting smaller and smaller, Luo Ji suddenly had an illusion, as if he was getting farther and farther away from this old friend, not referring to the distance, but the feeling of getting farther and farther away.

Suddenly, the tail flame disappeared.

Luo Ji thought he was delusional, but when he looked carefully, he really disappeared.

Remembering the conversation just now, Luo Ji became more and more worried, so he hurriedly contacted Zhuang Yue.

Luo Ji asked, "What special mission is Cheng Ping doing recently?"

Just as Zhuang Yue was about to rest, she was a little dazed when she was asked: "You've heard about it? He is indeed doing a research mission, and I just went to sit with him."

"Ah?" As far as Luo Ji could remember, he hadn't been so surprised for many years: "What, what? You just met Cheng Ping?"

Zhuang Yue smiled: "Yes, his research team is in this city, and I go to see their progress almost every day."

Luo Ji paused for a while before saying, "Cheng Ping came to visit my spaceship just now."

Zhuang Yue suddenly lost her sleepiness: "Dad, you, were you dreaming just now?"

It was just past midnight, and according to Luo Ji's usual routine, he had already fallen asleep.

Zhuang Yue's words reminded Luo Ji of the dreams that Cheng Ping told him just now, which seemed to be some key clues.

Then he shook his head with a wry smile: "I won't get Alzheimer's, will I?"

(End of this chapter)