Chapter 2 Joining the gang

The dizziness didn't last long. Ning Qi came back to his senses after about six or seven seconds. When he saw Tao Donglai putting away the thing that glowed green, he couldn't help but wonder: "You dragged me to the mountain in the middle of the night.

Are you here just to see this electronic flash bomb you made?"

"This is not an electronic flash bomb, this is a wormhole controller." Tao Donglai said seriously: "The green light you just saw is actually a wormhole that can connect two time and space. The one we are in now is already

It’s another time and space.”

"Haha, this is not funny!" Ning Qi pointed to his nose and said: "I have known you Tao Donglai for more than ten years, and I have never found you to be so capable of bragging. Do you dare to brag in a more reliable way?

?”

Tao Donglai didn't laugh, nor did the other three. They just looked at Ning Qi quietly.

Ning Qi shrugged helplessly and said, "Okay, even if what you say is true, then prove it to me."

"Follow me." Tao Donglai's tone was very calm, as if he had already expected Ning Qi's reaction. The other three did not speak at all, as if this was not the first time they had experienced such a thing. The more these people behaved like this.

Being calm made Ning Qi feel more uneasy.

After following Tao Donglai for a while, Ning Qi finally realized something was wrong. The surrounding environment was too dark at this moment. The visibility on this section of the road was not that bad when he came just now. After all, Yuexiu Mountain was in a bustling city.

In the urban area of ​​​​the city, standing on the mountain, the entire horizon is illuminated by night lights, but now there is no trace of city lights in the sky above the treetops. Tao Donglai pointed his flashlight directly at his feet,

Only a very small area was illuminated, which caused Ningqi, who was following behind, to stagger before he could keep up.

Tao Donglai suddenly stopped and turned off the flashlight, so the whole team also stopped immediately. Ning Qi vaguely saw the other four people squatting down, and he also squatted down subconsciously, and heard Tao Donglai's soft voice.

Said: "Look ahead."

Ning Qi squinted and looked ahead, and was suddenly shocked. The Zhenhai Tower actually had several strings of lanterns hanging on the eaves, and the city wall downstairs extended to the left and right. There was no end in sight in the vast night.

"No, there must be something wrong with this!" Ning Qi felt an unreasonable panic in his heart. He had also visited the ancient city wall near Zhenhai Tower, and the best-preserved section was only about 200 meters long, and what he saw in front of him was

The city wall is not only well-equipped with battlements and watchtowers, but the area as far as the eye can see is far more than 200 meters. The trees within a hundred paces outside the city wall have also been chopped down cleanly. No one within this distance can avoid the surveillance of the guards on the city wall.

, this is not the Yuexiu Mountain ancient city wall that I have seen in ruins at all!

"Let's go, let's walk along the city wall for a while." Tao Donglai's voice clearly reached Ning Qi's ears in the quiet air, waking him up from his meditation.

So this small team hid in the woods and continued to move along the direction of the city wall. Judging from the position between it and Zhenhai Tower, Ning Qi was pretty sure that he should be near the Guangzhou Art Museum now, but not only was there no

The art museum and even the mountain path we walked up the mountain have disappeared. And on the city wall that curves along the mountain, we can clearly see patrolling sentries carrying lanterns. In fact, no more evidence is needed.

, Ning Qi has been able to confirm that his current situation is just as Tao Donglai said - he has traveled through time! I have really traveled through time!

Sure enough, they didn't go far, and further evidence once again confirmed Ning Qi's guess: a city gate appeared at the extension of the city wall. Ning Qi clearly remembered that he had seen an introduction to the ancient city wall of Guangzhou in Zhenhai Tower, Yuexiu.

The city wall on the mountain was built under the leadership of Zhu Liangzu, Marquis of Yongjia during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, and this city gate must be the small north gate built at that time. In the 13th year of Chongzhen's reign, the North City of Guangzhou was added, and the height and thickness of the city wall reached two

The height of the city wall is seven feet, but the city wall in front of him is obviously not that high, only two feet at most. From this, Ning Qi concludes that the time and space he is currently in should be somewhere between Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty and Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty.

period of time.

The five people crouched in the bushes for about half an hour. Tao Donglai seemed to have no intention of leading the team to visit other places, so he returned to the previous camp along the same route.

Ning Qi realized after entering the tent: "Then we can go back?"

"Of course." Tao Donglai took out the "wormhole controller" while speaking and pressed a certain button.

Ning Qi was mentally prepared this time, and the dizziness lasted shorter than the previous time. As soon as his head cleared up, he walked straight out of the tent - yes, he had returned to the original time and space, and he could still faintly see it in the distance.

The neon lights emitting from the roof of the 200-meter-tall Zhujiang International Building.

Ning Qi was so shocked during this short time journey of just over an hour that he didn't even ask any questions on the way back to the hotel. It wasn't until he returned to the room in a daze that he

Recalling that when they broke up in the parking lot, Tao Donglai seemed to have said that he would come back to interview him in the morning. After what happened before, Ning Qi was almost certain that these people headed by Tao Donglai planned to travel to tomorrow to do a job.

Something happened, and the purpose of calling him to Guangzhou to show this miracle must be to get him to join the gang!

After falling on the bed, Ning Qi could not sleep peacefully. The Ming Dynasty, a feudal dynasty that ruled China for nearly three hundred years, this great era that has disappeared in the long river of history, could actually become so within reach! As a history

Lovers, as a fake fan, Ning Qi will never let go of such an opportunity to realize his dream, but it is not so easy to make up his mind to let go of everything now and return to the time and space hundreds of years ago!

Tao Donglai and his party arrived at eight o'clock in the morning. Ning Qi opened the door with a pair of panda eyes and welcomed them in.

It was Bai Kesi who spoke first: "Mr. Ning, I think you should now understand which period in history you saw before, right?"

Bai Kesi's words sounded a bit like a test, but Ning Qi had already deduced this many times, and now he had nothing to hide, so he just said his conjecture.

After listening, Tao Donglai nodded and said: "Your guess is indeed correct. To be precise, it should be the sixth year of Tianqi in the Ming Dynasty, which is 1626 AD."

Ning Qi couldn't help but be stunned: "How do you know such an accurate time? Have you already had contact with Akito from that time and space?"

Tao Donglai shook his head and said: "That's not true. If I had appeared in Guangzhou City dressed as a modern person at that time, I would probably have been kidnapped and beheaded as a Japanese pirate. The reason why I know the time is because I last time

I purposely stayed there until dawn, and used my telescope to see the notice posted outside the city gate, which was inscribed in the Bingyin year of the Apocalypse, and Lu Menglong, the Inspector General of Guangdong."

Tao Donglai presented such clear evidence. The ancient city walls and gates were also seen by Ning Qi with his own eyes, and they were consistent with previous speculations. Ning Qi had nothing to doubt about this, so he had no choice but to ask: "Can you tell me now?"

I, what is your purpose?"

"I hope you can join our team." Tao Donglai said while pointing at the people present one by one: "We are going to use this wormhole to go to that time and space."

"What are you going to do? Sell cultural relics or become emperor? Also, why did you choose me?" Now that the truth has been revealed, Ning Qi relaxed a little, and his tone became more relaxed when he spoke.

"What to do in that time and space is not decided by us and then imposed on you, but we make the decision together. Mr. Ning, as you said yesterday, the power of an individual is actually very weak in the face of an era, so we need to

Build a strong team first and be fully prepared before traveling through time." Bai Kesi took over Ning Qi's question and answered: "The reason why I chose you is mainly because of Boss Tao's suggestion. There are three reasons. First, you are in business administration.

Professional background, with certain professional skills and knowledge in management, which is very important for us to build a team with a reasonable structure; secondly, your job is to be a university teacher. If we want to take root in another era, then education and culture can be said

It is one of our foundations, and your understanding of the education system is exactly what we need; thirdly, Boss Tao said that you have a relatively in-depth study of history and culture, especially the history of the Ming Dynasty, which will help us formulate our future development plans.

It’s also very helpful.”

"Another very important point is that you are someone I, Tao Donglai, can trust!" Tao Donglai added, with Ning Qi's familiar smile on his face.

After hearing this, Ning Qi closed his eyes and meditated silently, and the other people did not rush to disturb him. This silence lasted for about five minutes, before Ning Qi opened his eyes and said: "I have another question, what if

If we really organize a team to travel to the past as you said, does that mean that we will never come back after we go there?"

"Let me answer this question for you." Tao Donglai took out the "wormhole controller" again and placed it on the coffee table in front of Ning Qi: "I got this thing accidentally three years ago.

We have used it more than ten times, and we found that this thing will display a scale when it is turned on. After repeated research, we think that is an indicator of its service life. Currently, there is about one-third left, that is to say,

We still have about a year to a year and a half to use it. Moreover, the size of this wormhole is controllable. Last year, Bai Kesi and I went to the uninhabited area of ​​​​the Taklamakan Desert for a test. This controller can at least reduce the size of the wormhole.

Zoom in to a distance of 500 meters in radius. Such a large space should be enough for us to form a large team and carry quite a lot of supplies. The problem we have to face is not whether we can return to this time and space, but to realize that in the end

A time-travel will definitely be one-way, and we need to make full preparations now for the time-travel that is bound to come."

"A year to a year and a half..." Ning Qi touched the stubble on his chin with his fingers and muttered: "We have to prepare various supplies and recruit people at the same time. The time is too tight, so we may not be able to complete the preparation work you want to achieve.

"

"Actually, the preparations started a year ago." Bai Kesi pointed to himself: "Boss Tao and I started planning and preparations last year. We brought in Yan Chujie and Gu Kai half a year ago."

Ning Qi glared at Tao Donglai and said, "Well, Tao Donglai, you still have the nerve to say that you trust me. You just want to play alone. It's already been a year since we formed a team, but you didn't even bring me in for a year?"

Tao Donglai smiled and said: "You have wronged me. I asked you to come to Guangzhou last August. You said you couldn't come to study at the provincial party school. Do you still remember?"

When Ning Qi thought about it, it seemed that this was really the case, and he said angrily: "I was studying to add weight to the evaluation of the professional title for promotion to associate professor. Of course, I can't just leave... Besides, I don't know who you are here.

The situation is so weird."

"It's not too late now!" Yan Chujie patted Ning Qi's shoulder hard: "Joining the party in the line of fire is just the right time to make meritorious service!"

"How about it? Join us?" Tao Donglai stared at Ning Qi with a hopeful expression and asked.

Ning Qi thought for a while and finally nodded heavily. At this moment, all five people had relaxed expressions on their faces.
Chapter completed!