Amid the crackling of firecrackers, smoke filled the air.
Colleagues from the factory, young men and girls who were joining in the fun were joking and pushing each other forward.
Two young and strong men in the team forcefully pushed out Chen Jianshe, who was wearing a starched shirt.
Getting married in this era is so simple. Chen Jianshe had a big red flower on his chest that symbolized the groom's official status, and his face was very oily... probably because he put on half a bottle of cream when he got up this morning.
Then Ou Xiuhua got out of the car coquettishly.
The car is very simple, not a sedan or car - in the 1980s, this kind of car was the equipment of leaders. It is too far away from ordinary people.
In fact, it is a small transport truck in the factory fleet.
There was something like a big red flower hydrangea tied on the front of the car, and there were colorful ribbons hung on both sides. A huge red Double Happiness was pasted on the windshield.
After the firecrackers burned out, Chen Jianshe, amidst the cheers of the people around him, picked up Ou Xiuhua, who had just jumped out of the car, and hugged her around the waist. He looked as proud as a general returning from a victorious battle. In front of everyone, Amidst the laughter, Ou Xiuhua strode home with her arms in her arms.
My home is still the dormitory in the original factory.
However, because of his marriage, Chen Jianshe went to the boss for a month and finally succeeded in getting the right to allocate this dormitory - it would belong to him alone from now on.
They also used their connections to give gifts. It is said that the names of the young couple Chen Jianshe and Ou Xiuhua were moved to a higher position in the list when houses were allocated in the next batch of factories.
Chen Jianshe carried his bride into the room, and two of his friends began to smoke outside one by one - the cigarettes were not good ones, just Dachongjiu or Zhongyuan.
In this era, let alone Huazi, Hongtashan is considered a top-notch luxury cigarette.
Not much wedding candy was scattered.
There was no way. In the early 1980s, supplies were in short supply.
In this era, sugar, tobacco, and alcohol are still subject to material control, and they are all owned by the state.
In this era, every place will have something that is difficult for people who have been around for decades to understand - every place will have a state-owned enterprise called a "Sugar, Tobacco and Liquor Specialty Company".
Wedding candy is mixed.
A small part of it was bought with candy coupons from the sugar, tobacco and liquor company, like White Rabbit or Double Happiness candy.
But this thing is a precious thing in this era, there are very few of it, and you don’t buy many of them.
Most of it was bulk sugar that Chen Jianshe had someone buy from the countryside - maltose made by farmers themselves, and then cut into small pieces.
Fortunately, in this era, not everyone is rich.
Having these things is enough to make people happy.
This is the factory living area, and the so-called neighbors are all employees of the same factory. In fact, everyone knows each other very well, and they all live very different lives.
Chen Jianshe's mother, the old lady, was naturally picked up as well.
Entering the house, the originally cramped single-room dormitory was neatly tidied up.
The bunk bed had been moved away long ago and replaced by a newly made wooden double bed with brand new sheets and pillows.
The washbasin stand, spittoon, and thermos bottle in the house are all new, and there are also double happiness stickers on the glass.
Home appliances...that's nothing.
Electric lights, plus a radio.
Don't even think about TV sets - in this era, anyone who has a black and white TV set at home is almost the brightest one on the street.
This radio was still a second-hand item. Chen Jianshe asked a friend to buy it from a home appliance repair department. After having it repaired by a friend, the radio station function was no longer usable.
But the single-card tape can still be played. It just occasionally gets disrupted - but it's bearable.
The single-room dormitory is not big, so don't even think about sofas and the like.
I have no money to buy one... Even if I hire a carpenter to make one, my house is too small and there is no room to put it.
So as the head of the family, the old lady could only sit on a stool and let the newlyweds bow to her.
A team director came to the factory and was regarded as the leader of the unit. He said a few simple words.
What is free: treat each other with respect as a guest, and be filial to the elderly.
Of course, I haven’t forgotten to add the basic national policy of this era: comply with family planning.
As for having a big wedding banquet - it doesn't happen in this day and age.
But the working class naturally has working class methods.
It's done in the work canteen.
In the workplace canteen, Chen Jianshe gritted his teeth and spent two months' salary to set up a few tables.
As for Chen Jianshe's triumphant look, Ou Xiuhua was actually a little confused today.
In fact, she herself was a little confused.
From falling in love with Chen Jianshe to getting married, everything seemed to go too fast.
It was so fast that the young Ou Xiuhua felt that she was getting married without even reacting.
In fact, Chen Jianshe's conditions did not meet Ou Xiuhua's conditions for choosing a spouse.
Although he has a good skin, he looks unreliable. He is good at talking but not practical at work. He likes to dress up and be in the limelight, but when it comes to doing things, he will push back and hold back.
Moreover, there are also some bad habits.
Ou Xiuhua was the most popular person in the factory, and countless young and talented young men were secretly watching her.
But why did she end up marrying Chen Jianshe?
In fact, Ou Xiuhua herself couldn't explain clearly.
Thinking about it carefully, it turned out that a few months ago, the young boy who appeared inexplicably, and then caused himself to be inexplicably implicated, Chen Jianshe was taken to the factory security office and beaten...
Because of that incident, I got to know Chen Jianshe inexplicably.
But Chen Jianshe always avoided him.
Until a few months ago.
The factory held a staff party for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Chen Jianshe, who was eloquent, presented a program on behalf of the team. It really stole the show.
At the dance after the party, the two bumped into each other inexplicably.
In the early 1980s, this kind of dance party held by young people in factories was particularly popular.
In fact, the wind of fashion has just blown into a long-closed society. The so-called dance party, that is, after the Mid-Autumn Festival party, took the opportunity to occupy the factory auditorium. Young people took the tape recorder borrowed from the factory office and played
There were several recorded dance music tapes, and everyone danced the disco that was very popular in this era.
In this era, the hottest and most popular singer among young people is a female singer named Zhang Qiang, the eldest sister with an afro who appeared in variety shows decades later.
It was at the dance that night that the marriage line between the two people, which had been severely cut off by Chen Nuo, was inexplicably renewed.
That night, after drinking two glasses of wine, Chen Jianshe gained some inexplicable courage. He even forgot about Chen Nuo's previous warnings and threats to him, and then ran to chat with Ou Xiuhua for a few words.
As for Ou Xiuhua, because she had previously caused Chen Jianshe to be inexplicably taken to the factory security office and beaten, she felt a little guilty. So when Chen Jianshe came to talk to her, Ou Xiuhua was rare and did not give him a cold face.
He exchanged a few pleasant words with Chen Jianshe.
A few days after the dance, Chen Jianshe seemed to suddenly become bolder and began to wander around in front of Ou Xiuhua in the factory intentionally or unintentionally.
As for Ou Xiuhua, every time she wanted to refuse, a voice and thought would come up in her heart for no reason and tell herself: Seeing is better than hearing. Maybe this Chen Jianshe is not as unreliable as the rumors say?
Ou Xiuhua had the idea that "it's okay to just get to know each other."
Chen Jianshe held the idea that "that little evil star has left and no one cares about him."
After the two people came into contact a few times, they became confused and fell in love.
There were also a few minor unexpected episodes in the middle.
For example, once Ou Xiuhua sprained her foot after leaving the factory after get off work. It happened that Chen Jianshe drove by in a factory truck and picked Ou Xiuhua up.
For another example, the factory distributed labor insurance and welfare materials. When Ou Xiuhua came home from get off work, Chen Jianshe helped to move them. However, when they arrived at Ou Xiuhua's door, her clothes were torn by hooks protruding from the wall.
Ou Xiuhua could only ask Chen Jianshe to keep the coat. After all, the girl was kind-hearted and sewed it up herself, then took it to the factory and returned it to Chen Jianshe the next day.
Just such a small episode, a small accident, and a good opportunity happened in just a month or two.
Then...the two of them fell in love in a confused way.
Ou Xiuhua gradually felt that although Chen Jianshe was a bit impetuous, he was still very enthusiastic towards her after all, and he was eloquent.
Moreover, in this era, working as a driver in a large state-owned factory is a very good job! If you tell people about it, it will basically mean that you will introduce to others that you are a lawyer or doctor forty years later.
Iron rice bowl, good benefits, and many invisible benefits.
As for being impetuous, just be impetuous.
They are all young people, how many of them are calm?
It shouldn't be a big problem... right?
Besides, Chen Jianshe is not without his merits.
He... is so good-looking!
Handsome guy!
What girl doesn’t like a handsome guy?
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As for Chen Jianshe, he originally likes beautiful women.
Although I was scared by Chen Nuo's little evil star who suddenly appeared before.
But Chen Nuo hasn't shown up for several months, so... Chen Jianshe is no longer afraid.
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Amid the cheers from the neighbors and colleagues who were watching, Chen Jianshe smiled and took out the marriage certificate the two had obtained on the street, placed it in the mezzanine behind the wedding photo frame, and hung it on the wall solemnly.
The wedding photos were taken in the photo studio in the factory.
Then everyone started cheering and went to the factory cafeteria in groups to eat and drink wedding wine.
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Chen Nuo saw all of this.
He and "Ling" stood among the crowd of onlookers on the roadside, looking inconspicuous.
The appearance of the two people looked ordinary, standing among the crowd, they were inconspicuous.
Chen Nuo couldn't help but sigh when he saw Chen Jianshe getting out of the car and entering the house with Ou Xiuhua in his arms.
Finally...
"Be happy, after all, after today, you will be born in a year." Ling stood beside Chen Nuo and whispered with a smile.
Chen Nuo shook his head: "This is really hurting Ou Xiuhua. That guy Chen Jianshe is really not a good guy."
At this point, Chen Nuo suddenly frowned and glanced back at Zero: "So... the historical trajectory... Chen Jianshe will get worse and worse when he gets angry. He abandons his wife and children and loses his conscience. It's all because of your guidance.
Bar?"
Zero didn't say anything, but it was obviously his acquiescence.
Chen Nuo frowned: "Is everything just for me? To create an environment and identity for me to exist?"
"You have to understand that the reason why you are who you are and all your situations are composed of your life experience, family background, encounters... everything."
Chen Nuo squinted his eyes: "Tell me carefully."
Zero sighed.
Suddenly, he waved his hand, and the two people disappeared from the place silently.
No one around him noticed.
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A second later, Chen Nuo and Ling appeared on the riverside.
This is not far from the factory's riverside transportation terminal.
A hundred or ten meters away is the busy dock transportation.
The two of them were standing on the flood control embankment by the river.
Looking at the river rolling by in front of him, Chen Nuo squinted his eyes and examined Ling.
Although this appearance is definitely not Ling's true appearance - in fact, Chen Nuo suspects that this guy named Ling may not have a fixed physical image at all.
"You have manipulated me for so long, you should let me know something, right?" Chen Nuo raised his eyebrows.
Ling smiled.
"You have to be Chen Nuo.
What I mean is...from Chen Yanluo to Chen Nuo of Jiangning No. 8 Middle School."
Chen Nuo's face changed slightly!
Sure enough, it was just like what I had guessed before!
This Zero...he knows the secret of his rebirth!!
"No need to doubt, I know more than you guess." Ling looked at the Yangtze River in front of him and said with a leisurely smile: "You know, there is probably nothing in this world that I don't know.
Even if I don’t know now, if I want to know, I will know.”
Chen Nuo's face turned ugly. After a long time, he slowly squeezed out a word from his mouth:
"Omniscience?"
"Well, yes, omniscient, and... almost omnipotent." Zero answered calmly.
Chen Nuo took a deep breath and said in a difficult tone: "Omniscient and omnipotent... wouldn't that mean he is a god?"
"Not yet...because I am only nearly omnipotent, not really omnipotent."
With that said, Zero raised his left hand and lightly snapped his fingers!
Snapped!
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Chen Nuo felt as if in an instant, his whole person was wrapped in a ball of invisible energy!
It's like being in water!
And looking around, in all directions, the world is beginning to change rapidly!
The river water rises and falls!
In the distance, the hillside on the opposite bank turns green and gray, as spring comes and autumn passes!
From hot summer days to snowy days!
The dock of the factory in the distance is full of ships. The dock has grown from a dilapidated and simple dock to an expanded one!
Later, it gradually became deserted and dilapidated...
On both sides of the river, the flood control dams changed from earth and stone to granite.
Then there were Binjiang Avenue on both sides and the cable bridge across the river in the distance.
Towering factory chimneys were torn down and replaced by new buildings...
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With this snap of the fingers, it was as if the speed was sped up a hundred times or a thousand times in an instant.
Decades of change in an instant!
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Chen Nuo was shocked!!
This ability to control time, which is similar to "a thousand-year glance", allowed Chen Nuo to experience it personally and witness it with his own eyes. The feeling was so real that he could only touch it! He couldn't help but be shocked!!
Zero, on the other hand, smiled softly.
He snapped his fingers again.
Snapped!
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All changes suddenly retreated, like a fast rewind, and the towering buildings turned into factory chimneys again.
The cable bridge across the river disappeared.
The beautiful riverside avenues and landscape strips have been turned into bare flood control dams again.
The transportation dock in the distance has returned to its dilapidated and shabby appearance.
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Chen Nuo swallowed the spit in his mouth hard, but found that his mouth was dry.
"So...you can control the speed of time at will?"
"No, no, no, it's not that I can control the time of this world, but that I can travel through this time stream at will.
I’m not telling time to move forward, I can just jump to any point in time at any time.”
After Zero answered seriously: "This is my first ability: time."
"Since there is the first one, there must be a second one."
"My second ability is space."
Chen Nuo frowned: "Space... this ability, many seeds have it, and I also have it. It's space teleportation!"
"No, they don't. Neither do you." Zero shook his head seriously: "What you have is a 'subspace' ability, not a space ability."
"……What's the meaning?"
"You exist in this world, so you can only perform space teleportation in the world where you exist."
After hearing these words, Chen Nuo thought carefully: "...this world...the world that exists...you mean, there is a world outside of us?"
"This is not difficult to understand... you know the parallel world."
"understood."
The concept of parallel worlds was already out of fashion in various film and television literary works in the era that Chen Nuo later experienced.
This does not require any further explanation from Zero.
"Theoretically speaking, for example, if you are Chen Yanluo, then there are actually countless parallel three-dimensional worlds, and there are countless Chen Yanluo's existences.
Unless... you become a fourth-dimensional life!
Then when you become a fourth-dimensional life, Chen Yama in countless dimensions will no longer exist, but there will be only one Chen Yama.
This Chen Yanluo became the only life in the four-dimensional world, or the only four-dimensional life.
You can overlook the entire three-dimensional world.
Well, to put it in a very pretentious way.
It jumps out of the Three Realms and is not in the Five Elements."
Chen Nuo pondered for a moment, then suddenly took a breath of cold air and stared at Zero: "You mean, you?"
"Yes, in all parallel worlds, there is only one me. I am the only existence.
In every parallel world, there are you, there are other seeds, there are deer Xixi...
But in all the parallel worlds, there is only one me!
I am the only existence."
Zero's tone was very calm: "And the 'space' ability I possess is not the 'teleportation' you think it is.
But...I can jump to any parallel world I want to go to!
This is true spatial ability!”
As he spoke, Zero sighed softly: "Time and space, these two abilities allow me to do many, many things."
Chen Nuo's face turned even uglier!
"They are also seeds, why are you so much stronger than... are you so much stronger than West Germany?"
"Because I am a backup." Zero shook his head: "The backup of the mother body.
West Germany has told you a lot about the origin of the mother's body.
About the path of evolution.
Regarding the mental virus that is fatal to the mother's body, what it says is correct and it has no reservations.
As a purely spiritual life form, there were serious bugs in the evolution of the mother body, so it ultimately did not jump to the fourth dimension and stopped before the threshold of the fourth dimension.
So for the mother body, if we want to solve this problem, we can only make a lot of assumptions.
Sid and the cat and the octopus and all the other seeds like them were an attempt by the mother.
They represent an attempt by the mother body: to start over, from the starting point of three-dimensional life, to evolve again, and to find a way to make up for the bugs before evolving.
As for me, it’s another attempt.”
"Another attempt?" Chen Nuo frowned.
Lingxiao said: "You have played video games, right? It's not an online game, it's an old-fashioned video game.
The kind that can be archived and read.”
"If you're talking about stand-alone games... of course I've played them."
"Okay, then let's use a single machine as an analogy.
Assume that the evolution of the mother body is a single-player game. After reaching the last level and facing a final BOSS, it suddenly realizes that it cannot defeat it no matter how hard it fights.
Because it may be that in the past levels that have been played before, it may have missed a certain prop, a certain clue, or a certain condition that meets the requirements to defeat the final BOSS.
Of course, this is just a guess and not certain.
But what is certain is that the mother body cannot defeat the final BOSS and cannot pass the level.
So, at this time, the question comes - if you were this player, what would you do?"
Chen Nuo thought for a while: "It's confirmed. Why can't you defeat the final BOSS? No matter what, you can't pass the level?"
"Yes, sure."
Chen Nuo said slowly: "Then... I might open a new level... and then play it again from the first level! Let's see if I missed any tasks or tasks in the process of playing all the levels again.
Key props.”
"That's right...this new batch is the seeds from West Germany!
They represent the mother body's re-try, starting from the starting point of evolution, re-walking the path of evolution, re-searching for the missed things, and trying to solve the bugs."
Chen Nuo nodded: "I understand this...but, what about you? West Germany has reopened a new store, so you..."
Ling smiled.
It smiled calmly, but its gaze gave Chen Nuo an indescribable and meaningful feeling.
"Let me ask you...what do you do before you play a game and open a new game?"
"I will..." Chen Nuo's eyes suddenly lit up!
He took a solemn breath: "I will save it first!"
"Yes, if we talk about West Germany, they are the new ones.
Then I...I am the file that the mother body conveniently saved before giving up when it was unable to defeat the final BOSS!
Because there will always be such a practice.
Save a file, just in case, maybe the new road doesn't work, then save a file on the old road, maybe you can try again...
After all, after playing the game for so long, you have reached the last level, so there is no need to give up completely.
Stand at the door of the final boss, save a file, and then restart."
Ling said slowly: "Of course, we are using games as metaphors.
But in actual operation, as far as the problem we encountered is concerned, there is actually a more cost-effective way!"
Chen Nuo thought about it seriously, and suddenly, his eyes became extremely scary!
There was even a trace of deep fear flowing in Chen Nuo's eyes!
"I see!"
"Do you really understand?"
"I really understand." Chen Nuo sighed.
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Games are games, reality is reality.
The game is just a metaphor.
But in practice, there is a smarter and more efficient way!
that is……
The newly opened new file allows the seeds led by West Germany to evolve again!
In the process of evolution, find bugs and solve them!
Then what?
Then West Germany completes their evolution?
No!
That would be too much trouble!
Because after fixing the BUG, it may take a long time to evolve, countless years!
After all, it will still take a long, long time to reopen the game, start over from the first level, and reach the last level.
Isn’t it too troublesome?
What's the easy way?
The guys from West Germany who opened a new file found the bug and found a solution to the bug...
No need for them!
There is no need for them to continue evolving!
Just let...
The save file already standing at the door of the final BOSS——Zero!
It is already standing at the door of the final BOSS!
It is only one step away from the completion of evolution!
It doesn't require playing the game all over again from the first level!
It's at the last hurdle!
It doesn’t have to start all over again from the starting point like they did in West Germany!
It is already one step away from the finish line!
At this time, as long as Zero got the solution to the bug from those guys in West Germany.
It can just push the door in and defeat the final BOSS directly by solving the bug.
The game is cleared!
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[I have been quarantined for the past few days... I encountered an accident. I went to a meeting out of town, and I just arrived at the hotel where the meeting was held. Because there was a close contact among the participants, I and all the participants were quarantined in the hotel...
…I originally planned to go there on the same day and come back the same day, so I didn’t bring my computer, laptop, or anything else. I didn’t even bring a change of clothes.
Fortunately, I finally ended my quarantine and went home today.】