Blind Date in Time and Space

"Master Chen Ji, this thing of yours is really magical! And it's very beautiful!"

Ogar, who has become younger, sighed in the car. He looked everywhere and was amazed by the decoration inside the car.

Chen Ji didn't know how to answer him for a moment.

As an aborigine, Ogar should be familiar with this kind of car, and might even be able to own one himself.

But now he is unfamiliar with this car.

The entire journey was silent.

The car returned to the river.

The villagers continued to dig, enlarging the hole in the ground. They stopped only after the orange phantom arrived and bright car lights illuminated it.

In the eyes of the villagers, the car landed at the bottom of the pit and floated steadily in mid-air.

Mu Xiaoxiao jumped out of the car for the first time and took a few steps to the edge.

Chen Ji and others then got out of the car.

The villagers at the bottom of the pit gathered around him after seeing him. They didn't dare to get close there before.

"It dug so fast."

Xia Shumin looked back and saw that the pit had been dug more than a hundred meters deep by the villagers and was in the shape of a funnel. There was no groundwater or rocks, and the bottom was all black soil like the ground.

"It's indeed very fast, and it bottoms out very quickly." Zhou Wan said and followed Chen Ji to the edge.

The so-called edge is the void.

The place where the soil was dug was dark and calm, no light could shine in, and the soil was isolated and inaccessible.

Looking inside there was nothing.

"Lord Chen Ji!"

Ogar explained: "After I heard something different appeared underneath, I came down to check and tried to touch it. I found that it was very strong and I couldn't press it in no matter how hard I tried. I thought of the guardian guardian giving us The void that I said.”

"Void...?"

Chen Ji raised his head. The pit was only over a hundred meters long. How could he reach the void after only digging such a short distance?

It's really unimaginable.

"Let me see."

Mu Xiaoxiao had seen "void" before, and she was particularly interested in it. After speaking out, seeing that Chen Ji didn't stop her, she squatted down and touched the void of this world with her white hands.

Likewise, she couldn't touch it.

No matter how she tried, her palm was always outside the darkness, and she didn't feel any feedback from the power. It was as if her palm hit the air, but her hand was blocked by the "void".

"I'll try too."

Zhou Wan closed her legs and squatted down, trying to touch it with her slender fingertips, and then using her hands.

The same goes for little ladies.

Green Bamboo and Cuizhu had already been shocked by a series of new things, just like going to the earth for the first time. They did whatever the young lady did. The master and the servant leaned their heads together and talked quietly.

Chen Ji did not join them, but looked at the quiet Ma Yien.

After seeing the void, her eyes seemed to change, and she stared at it steadily.

"Mayan?"

Chen Ji held her little hand.

"……Owner."

The girl raised her head to look at him and pointed her finger at the darkness: "The master is inside... I found the master inside!!"

"??"

Ma Yien's voice was excited, but Chen Ji was almost frightened to death by her words.

"What do you mean?" Chen Ji asked her.

"Maien has found his master~" The girl tilted her head and looked at him, looking innocent and happy.

Chen Ji twitched the corner of his mouth, rubbed the back of her head, walked to the edge of the void, squatted down with them, stretched out a finger, and pressed it on the void.

He thought he would be stopped by the void, but unexpectedly, his fingertips easily fell into the dark void.

The void shook.

Ding.

Along with the ripples of time and space, a massive amount of energy erupted, and the black soil around the pit was instantly dyed with color, turning into bright and gorgeous crystal stones of different sizes.

Red, yellow, blue, green, blue, purple.

Large crystals emitted beautiful light, illuminating all directions in an instant. The hole dug by the villagers instantly turned into a gem cave. Countless crystals glowed together, interweaving a gorgeous spectacle in the sky. !

Everyone was stunned.

Chen Ji was so shocked that he retracted his finger, but another time-space ripple shook out, and the surrounding crystal stones changed again, from single color to two colors, or even three colors, or four colors.

The light shines brighter.

The strange power emitted by the crystal actually spread into the air, causing the dark night sky to bloom with light. Countless changes appeared in this world, no, around this village.

The villagers were stunned.

Their village was brighter than ever before, and the air was filled with energy that made them extremely comfortable. With this energy, they didn't even need to eat!

"..."

The gem pit stunned everyone present for a long time.

Mu Xiaoxiao glanced at Chen Ji's fingers, then at the void that had returned to calm, and then at Chen Ji.

It's not his fingers, it's him.

"Chen, Master Chen Ji!"

Ogar stammered, "You, you think rice is too troublesome, so you just gave us so many crystal stones?"

"...Almost right!"

Chen Ji, who was speechless by his words, could only say this.

He rubbed his head, rubbed his eyes, and looked around again.

That's right.

He created a large area of ​​crystals with one finger, and many of them seemed to be stronger than the red crystals and contained more energy!

But what the hell is going on?

"Let there be light~"

Zhou Wan looked at him with a smile in her eyes: "You are the G~O~D~ who created the world"

At God's word let there be light, and the world was created.

Chen Ji gave Zhou Wan a look: "I would rather chop it down with a hoe and separate the turbid world from the earth~"

"Hahahaha."

The little lady covered her mouth and laughed.

She seems to know what GOD is in Sister Xiaowan's mouth. The young master is talking about the creation of Pangu, so she only agrees with the young master's statement.

"That's okay, come on, I'll give you a hoe~ You can split the void with a hoe~"

Zhou Wan became a little naughty at this moment. She picked up the hoe that the villager put at the bottom of the pit and gave it to him.

"Don't make trouble."

Chen Ji didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Just when he was about to say something, bursts of thunder came from the sky.

Everyone looked up and saw that the sky was covered with dark clouds, and it looked like a thunderstorm was about to begin.

"……ah?"

Ogar was confused and frightened.

The same is true for the villagers, they have never seen rain!

"Quick! If it's thundering or raining, go home and collect your clothes!"

Chen Ji urged them to leave and shouted: "Get in the car with me!"

The thunderstorms in this world are unknown. Considering the strength of this group of villagers, Chen Ji did not dare to stay outside for too long.

In the little lady's little exclamation, Chen Ji hugged her slender waist, hugged Zhou Wan smoothly, called the empress, and quickly returned to the orange phantom.

Green bamboo and green bamboo follow closely.

Then Ogar reacted, and other villagers who were close to the car also got into the car.

The orange phantom spun around and brought many villagers with it, but more villagers spread their legs and ran towards the village quickly.

When everyone returned to the village, the heavy rain finally poured down. The raindrops emitted light and splashed out after falling to the ground. The ground was filled with light spots.

The black land is moistened by rain and becomes sticky and compact, and the air is filled with moisture and becomes vibrant.

A heavy rain changed the whole world.

"strangeness."

But Chen Ji still has countless questions.

For example, how are crystals produced? Why does it rain again after the spar appears? There is a wall above the village, and dark clouds are condensing underneath?

However, it also answered some questions. For example, this world should have a lot of crystals, relatively normal weather changes, and flowers, plants, and trees might also exist.

Everyone stood at the village gate, watching the heavy rain fall. The gem cave on the river bed in the distance was still emitting light, but the light was slowly fading.

The villagers talked a lot, and many rushed back to the village to take out pots and pans and put them outside to let the rainwater fall in.

The lively scene continued until Cassian shouted in surprise:

"Lord Guardian?!"

Chen Ji turned around and saw a burly middle-aged man standing not far away. He looked the same as the villagers, but he was wearing very novel clothes and had a strange watch on his wrist. , eyes calm, different from the surprise and joy of the villagers.

The villagers fell silent and looked at him.

Chen Ji didn't speak for a moment and looked at this seemingly ordinary guardian.

A long while.

The guardian sighed softly and said, "The rain in my memory turns out to be like this."

Is this the first time he has seen rain?

"The magical outsider."

The guardian's eyes fell on Chen Ji and the others, "Thank you for bringing changes to our world. I'm sorry. Although I know about your arrival, my responsibilities prevent me from leaving easily."

Chen Ji nodded slightly, "You're welcome... I have many questions. I wonder if you can answer them for us?"

"Lord Guardian!"

Cassian couldn't help shouting.

The guardian's eyes fell on him and said: "I know you don't understand, and you may even blame and complain about me, but all of these are choices that must be made over the long years, and the sufferings that the Maien people must endure! "

Maien people?

Chen Ji heard Ma Yien again, and for the first time knew the identities of these villagers:

Maien people.

So, Mayien is the ultimate AI created by the Mayien people?

Mayion's supreme creation, version 1.1.

There were mixed reactions from the villagers, but no one got emotional, and no one rose up and shouted for the guardians to hand over their children.

Mayien people are calm and rational.

"Magical outsider, please come with me."

"Ogar, if you can accept the tragic future of the Maien people and bear such pain, you can also follow."

The guardian turned around and walked towards the center of the village, "But please don't have high hopes, the guardian system doesn't give me much memory."

Guardian system?

His name comes from this system? That altar?

Besides, the Maien people are doomed to a miserable future... This is not a good thing to say.

The villagers followed in silence. Their emotional management was indeed extraordinary. They could stay calm even at this time. On the contrary, their emotions fluctuated the most when they saw Chen Ji arriving, taking out food and making crystal stones.

The door to the silver-white altar has been opened, but you can't see inside. It must have undergone space transformation.

"Your children are inside. If you are sure you want to take them out, I can return the children to you."

"But I hope you make this decision after I've said what our current situation is."

The guardian stood in front of the altar door and said to the villagers.

The parents of several children couldn't help but stepped forward, stood at the gate and looked inside, and saw their children lying in transparent boxes, seemingly sleeping comfortably.

They were relieved and returned to wait among the villagers.

Facing the villagers, the guardian fell silent.

"I'm hesitating, maybe you have guessed..."

The guardian looked at Chen Ji again and sighed with emotion: "The magical outsiders have given you hope of survival, allowing you to live freely for many years. The population will reach hundreds of thousands or millions... But I still don’t know how to tell you, maybe it’s you who should create, discover, and understand this world… This is the right way!”

After hesitation, he changed his mind.

Previously he wanted to tell everything, but now he said he would let the villagers explore for themselves.

"Do you know what he means?"

Zhou Wan uses her mobile phone to send messages in the group, and they can all hear her voice. Some words can only be communicated using the mobile phone.

"He probably doesn't want to tell the truth and cause pain to the Mayien people."

Chen Ji looked at Ma Yien, and the girl was silent.

This silence seems to be inherited from the Maien people?

"Luckily, there are magical outsiders helping you!"

The guardian smiled and said, "Thank you Mr. Chen Ji, and thank you to the two Miss Zhou Wan, Miss Mu Xiao, and Miss Xia Shumin. Thank you to your two servants. The village has changed because of your arrival!"

"Thank you Master Chen Ji!"

The villagers' gratitude remains sincere.

Chen Ji smiled at everyone, "It's nothing...and it's not necessarily my credit."

The guardian also smiled and made a gesture of invitation: "Please come in and talk... I have etiquette for entertaining guests in my memory, but I'm not sure whether it is complete. If there is anything I didn't do well, please tell me. Mr. Ji forgives me."

He invited Chen Ji and others, but did not say that the villagers were not allowed to enter.

Chen Ji took the initiative to call Cassian and the village chief, and asked them to follow him into the altar.

Zhou Wan guessed his intention:

The villagers may not know, but at least one person must know the truth about the world.

Enter the altar.

Mountains of crystal stones immediately came into view.

They were stored in the corner of the spacious hall, cut and stacked one by one like gold bricks.

The colors are basically two or more colors, blue-green, red-green, etc.

Let Ogar and Cassian be stunned.

Before Chen Ji created a large number of crystals, they had never seen so many crystals, not even red crystals.

But everything here is in color!

"sit down."

There was only one set of tables and chairs in the hall, and the guardian directly created more than a dozen chairs, drinks, food, etc., which was very similar to Maien's creative ability.

Everyone took their seats.

"Are these children sleeping?" Cuizhu, the maid, couldn't help but ask. She was frightened when she followed the young lady and witnessed such a scene.

Those children are sleeping in transparent glass cabinets, even newborn babies, which makes people feel horrified.

In addition to the child and the crystal, there is also a door, which seems to be the core of the altar.

"Yes, I brought them back because I couldn't bear for them to die like the people outside... and also to leave some hope for the next guardian."

The guardian calmly explained: "A hundred years ago, the altar created me and gave me memories. I went out to investigate the reason why the altar did this, and finally found a piece of spar on the river bed."

"I calculated that the energy contained in these crystals is enough to allow some Maien people to live for hundreds of years, so I took out some preserved children from the Maien network and raised them."

Before anyone could ask, he continued: "Five years ago, most of the spar on the river bed was hollowed out, and the Maien people were about to become silent again, so I brought their children back and kept them here, hoping that the next guardian would see them. Once you reach them, you won’t quickly lose your faith in your heart.”

The guardian explained the origin of the village and the causes and consequences of the incident.

However, there are still many problems.

At least Cassian looked at the piled up colored crystals and hesitated several times.

Chen Ji pointed to the crystal stones in the corner of the hall and asked for him: "Aren't there a lot of crystal stones there?"

He probably figured out the pattern. White and blue crystals contained the lowest energy, red was in the middle, and colored crystals had the highest energy.

Although the exact data is not known, there are so many colored crystals that are enough for the village to use for a long time.

"They are the last of the Maien crystals."

The Guardian explained.

Xia Shumin blinked and whispered, "You mean it's gone after you use it?"

"Yes." The Guardian heard her and answered her.

Young Cassian couldn't help but asked in a bitter voice: "So, we are destined to only survive for a hundred years? Is it already destined that everyone will die one by one?"

If it were other intelligent races, they would probably be agitated or even collapse at this moment.

But Cassian, a Mayian, still maintains his sanity.

"Yes."

The guardian answered him calmly.

The atmosphere fell silent.

The few blue crystals that appear in the riverbed are only enough for a few hundred Mayien people to survive for a hundred years.

After a hundred years, the village is destined to die.

All but the children, who were brought into the altar and preserved, could only die.

This is undoubtedly a cruel and unusual thing. As an audience member, Zhou Wanmu Xiaoxiao can't help but sympathize with them.

but.

The two Maien people silently accepted this fact, as if their memory, way of thinking, and emotional expression limited them from being too pessimistic.

"You can only live for a hundred years...why..." Luzhu couldn't help but say.

"Because I, as well as the altar, need a meaning to exist and a hope to have dreams for the future."

The guardian answered her, with a hint of apology in his tone. He looked at Cassian and the two: "It's not that you need me, but that I need you, and the altar also needs you."

"Lord Guardian..."

Cassian and Ogar's voices were trembling, and they were affected by the emotions of the Guardians. Especially Ogar, he recalled the memories of getting along with the Guardians at the time. Although the Guardians at that time looked like grown-ups, they could protect them. But adults will play with them as children, study together, and fool around together.

The Guardian is almost indistinguishable from them, except that he knows a lot.

"Only life can give time meaning."

The guardian sighed and said, "Without life, there is no need for the altar to exist, and the same is true for us guardians."

The meaning of time lies in life.

The significance of the altar's existence is to protect the lives of the Maien people and allow them to continue.

"Aren't you from Mayien?" Chen Ji asked him.

"I'm not, I'm just the guardian of the altar created to record what happens in every time fluctuation."

His words are rather difficult to pronounce.

"Time fluctuations?" Mu Xiaoxiao asked him: "Is it something similar to the appearance of crystals on the river bed? What does this have to do with Chen Ji's creation of a large number of crystals from the void just now?"

The guardian shook his head in a rare move, and answered simply: "I don't know. I have never encountered such a thing in my memory."

He looked at Chen Ji and others with surprised and curious eyes.

His memory comes from the altar, but the altar has never recorded the emergence of crystal stones on the river bed, and there are still people who can create a large number of crystal stones from the void.

Chen Ji thought for a while and asked him: "What happened to the previous guardians?"

"Blank."

"Blank?"

"Yes, there is no record. After every guardian is created, he quickly returns to the altar without leaving any record."

"That is to say,"

Zhou Wan glanced at Chen Ji and asked the guardian: "Is our arrival the only thing you have recorded in your long years?"

"Yes!"

The guardian answered affirmatively again.

The hall fell silent for a moment.

"Do you know Ma Yien?"

Chen Ji asked the guardian.

"Mayen is our self-proclaimed name, and it also has a very important meaning in literature and poetry."

the guardian replied.

"Then...do you know her?"

Chen Ji looked at the girl with white hair and red eyes sitting next to him: "Her name is Ma En, the supreme creation of Ma En."

Everyone looked at Ma En.

"Her name is Mayne?"

The guardian was puzzled, "But she looks different from us. She is the highest creation? I'm afraid that's not right. The altar is the crystallization of the Mayien people's highest technology."

"It's also the last hope."

he added.

The girl was not shaken by his words. She remained calm and silent. She only spoke softly: "Master, let's go outside and take a look."

"That's fine."

Chen Ji nodded with a smile and asked the guardian: "Do you know what is outside the village? We plan to go out and have a look. Do you have any suggestions?"

The guardian did not know about Ma En's existence. Chen Ji estimated that he, or the altar's database information, was limited. Even if he asked something, it would not play a key role in finding Ma En's life experience.

You still have to look outside.

"Outside?"

The guardian shook his head, "There is nothing outside...but if you want to go, I can take a look with you."

"Okay, thank you."

Chen Ji looked at the wall. He wanted to see if there was anything like a clock, but he didn't see it. He could only look at his phone and said, "It's just lunch time. Let's go have a meal before going."

"That's fine."

The guardian smiled: "I have never seen food from the earth in my memory. Thank you Mr. Chen Ji... Your arrival has changed the future of the village. I will make a new plan and ask Mr. Chen Ji to give it to you when the time comes." some advices."

"good!"

Chen Ji nodded with a smile and walked out of the altar with them.

Put aside everything, lunch is the most important thing.

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