He waited for a while before he could object, so he clicked OK.
After registering Qin Zhilu, An Yu casually obtained identity permits for Jiang Xiao and Fengjian Tianyu. In order to avoid unnecessary conversations, he casually filled in their birthdays.
Then he thought for a while and registered an identity for Pat, who heard that he had not done anything unusual since he was alone.
An Yu typed the identity permission information of several people and sent it to the channel. Slade immediately opened the public channel and asked, "What about me?"
"Sorry." An Yu looked at the screen indifferently, "The equipment in the archives room is old and the S key on the keyboard is missing."
Slade gritted his teeth and said: "The keycap is gone, but the core can still be pressed. Please try it."
An Yu said, "The core has solidified. Maybe the staff who used it for the last time spilled nutritional soup on the keyboard."
"..." Slade said: "The system has a virtual keyboard function."
"No." An Yu said, "The equipment in the orphanage is not as good as the master——"
"This is not a high-tech technology. Computers already had this function more than a hundred years ago."
An Yu paused, "But I'm not good at using computers."
Slade couldn't bear it and took a deep breath, "Then do I have to use my real name?"
"Yes." An Yu calmly narrated: "I really didn't lie to you. The orphanage's genetic spot check will conduct identity verification. The world's population genetic database is synchronized. Although the database information here is in 2138 There have been no updates since the year, but you were born before that, right?”
"..." Slade gritted his teeth, "It seems that you really need a teammate by your side, at least someone who can use a computer. Please wait in the archives for a moment. I will meet you as soon as possible."
An Yu hung up the communication.
"An Yu." Qin Zhilu suddenly called him from behind the filing cabinet.
An Yu froze, "Uh...if you mind if I don't give it to Slade..."
"Come here." Qin Zhilu interrupted him.
What Qin Zhilu was holding was his file. Children in the orphanage would undergo physical examinations and add a record every week. However, because he slept most of the time, his file only had a few thin pages. He was admitted to the hospital. Registration and discharge registration are almost all information.
【No.】21301222
【Name】None
【Container】#019
[Physical features] White hair, golden eyes, human body
【Admission date】December 22, 2130
【Discharge date】December 22, 2138
[Containment Process] #019 discovered 21301222 during daily inspections of a high-frequency abandoned area (area A of the garbage incineration station near the main city). After preliminary identification, the baby is not aberrant, the gene has not been registered in the human gene bank, and the gene entropy is extremely low (0.2), is an abandoned baby with a high risk of deformation, so it is admitted to the hospital.
Everything matched An Yu's memory. He looked down and his eyes suddenly stopped.
There is also a [Containment Plan] below [Containment Process], which originally said, "If there are no abnormalities, he will be randomly assigned to an ordinary urban orphanage for care after 6 months." But that line was crossed out and rewritten to read - "It was determined that the orphan's shelter staff behaved abnormally, and the orphan himself showed abnormal sleeping behavior after being admitted to the hospital. Therefore, the risk level was determined to be extremely high, and permanent detention and observation was planned. Or until the abnormal sleeping behavior disappears.”
"Is the containment staff abnormal?"
An Yu was at a loss for a while, then walked to another cabinet and pulled out the staff files from it.
【No.】019
【Name】Yu Shen
[Responsibility] Detection and containment of orphans with high risk of aberrations
[Start of work] October 5, 2122
[End of work] December 22, 2130 (disposed of due to abnormality)
The written file did not record the reasons for the disposal, so Qin Zhilu searched the computer for relevant records.
He put his finger on the mouse and scrolled down slowly, and whispered: "Yu Shen joined the orphanage on October 5, 2122, and disappeared out of thin air in the orphanage on December 22 of the same year, until he suddenly disappeared on December 22, 2130. Reappeared and established a shelter for an abandoned baby... When asked about his whereabouts, Yu Shen denied that he had disappeared abnormally for 8 years and insisted that the time should be December 22, 2122. He could not accept the world's objective Since eight years have passed and his physical condition has also experienced the same level of aging, he is considered to be mentally disordered. After many treatments and communications, his mental disorder worsened, and it was finally decided to deal with it."
An Yu was stunned: "He disappeared for eight years, and then... took me back to the orphanage...?"
Qin Zhilu stared at the screen and said nothing for a long time, "I heard that every staff member in the orphanage will have a work diary."
An Yu recalled, "Well, I seem to have heard it from other children... It is said that every intern will write a personal work record before officially filing it, so that they can review the details of the incident when being interrogated. They rarely read it. "
Qin Zhilu has retrieved Yu Shen's personal records from the system.
Judging from the work log, Yu Shen has indeed disappeared for eight years, because he only has five documents in total, and the titles are all signed with the date of 2122 - the last one is about the process of containing An Yu, which records in detail the on-site activities of the waste incineration plant. Information, An Yu's physical characteristics at the time and description of genetic testing. This record should have been signed as 2130, but because he wrote it himself, An Yu's containment time was also incorrectly written as 2122.
But when Qin Zhilu clicked on the editing record of that file, a strange scene happened.
-Latest editing time: December 22, 2130.
- Last edited: December 22, 2122.
An Yu was stunned for a long time, and when he came to his senses, a creepy shiver crawled up his spine.
Suddenly, he remembered the prophetic poem again.
A person's time is messed up, silent in panic, and his death flows silently in the river.
The computer turned off, and a pair of blank golden eyes reflected on the dark screen.
"It seems that eight years will be added to your age." Qin Zhilu said thoughtfully: "Let's try to restore what happened at that time - in 2122, the year when the great disaster struck, Yu Shen was outside the main city. He picked you up at the garbage incineration plant. After the genetic test was correct, he took you back to the orphanage and registered you in this room. Before the formal registration, he wrote a personal diary in accordance with the regulations, but he was just halfway through-"
Qin Zhilu paused for a moment, stared at An Yu with his black eyes, and said softly: "There is a force that has set the time for you and him back eight years at the same time."
"In the objective world, you disappeared for eight years at the same time."
"Eight years later, you are still a sleeping baby, and he was secretly dealt with due to unexplainable time distortion."
The author has something to say:
[Scrap Book Pages] 25 The Silent Hub
In those years of disaster, countless lives were lost.
Some people died in the commotion, and some fell asleep in the silence.
The latter seems to be the majority.
Innocent or not, those deaths go unnoticed and unmemorized.
Just like people in the future only know to commemorate the winter solstice in 2148, but forget the beautiful heavy snowfall on the same day in 2149.
The greatest meaning in the world is often born in silence.
An insignificant person, with his silent demise, pushed the wheel of time.
Chapter 36 Orphanage with High Deformation Risk·36
Qin Zhilu took out a piece of paper and pen and wrote down December 22 of 2122, 2130 and 2138.
"From left to right, these are the time when Yu Shen picked you up, the time when you were officially registered in the orphanage, and the time when you left here."
"If calculated based on your birth in 2122, you should have been 26 years old this year. However, after the shuttle bus was attacked, your brain did a comprehensive test and found that your biological age is indeed only about 18 years old. In other words, when you and Yu Shen's time is speeding up at the same time, and his body is aging, but you are not affected in any way and are still a newborn baby."
The pen tip paused on the paper, and he said meaningfully: "According to experience, people who are not affected by supernatural powers are often the initiators of abilities."
An Yu was clumsily searching other children's files on the computer, and asked softly: "So you want to say that I was the one who pushed myself and Yu Shen to accelerate time back then? But I was just a baby back then, why did I suddenly activate my powers? ?”
"No one can completely uncover the past." Qin Zhilu walked to the half-open door, looked at the wind and snow outside and whispered: "Not long ago, you suddenly suffered a genetic infection on the shuttle bus and triggered your spatial ability. . 2122 is the first year of the Great Disaster. Maybe you were also suffering from some kind of pain or fear as an infant, which passively triggered the acceleration of time, allowing you to quickly escape from that difficult time."
Hearing this, An Yu subconsciously looked at the wound on the back of his left hand.
When the mirror was cracked and noisy, he felt inexplicable and deep pain, and at that moment, the speed of the wound stopping bleeding accelerated like an illusion.
Qin Zhilu suddenly asked: "Is your newly awakened second ability related to the acceleration of time?"
An Yu paused, "It doesn't matter."
To be honest, it's more like the other way around - the poet said that recalling memories is to push other people's time back, but it's just a mental level.
Qin Zhilu thought: "In fact, there is no time in the world. People have discovered that cells will age, flowers will wither, food will rot, two substances put together will gradually merge, and anything that is orderly will develop into chaos. , which is the so-called entropy increase. People created the concept of time and used it to record the process of entropy increase. Theoretically, if there is no external interference, the entropy increase is irreversible, so time will not flow back. However, your genetic entropy Once decayed from 0.2 back to 0."
An Yu raised his eyes, "What exactly do you want to say?"
Qin Zhilu stared at him, "If you really have the ability to control time, it may not just be acceleration. Maybe one day, you can make time go backwards and chaos reverse."
An Yu immediately said: "This is impossible."
"It is indeed impossible for ordinary people. Time is a river flowing in one direction, and ordinary people can only let it flow when they join it. But you are different - maybe you have never stepped into that river."
A familiar metaphor...
An Yu was stunned, "Do you know the poet?"
"Poet?" Qin Zhilu thought for a while, "Are you talking about the church's eyes? He doesn't seem to like me very much."
An Yu was a little surprised, "Why?"
Qin Zhilu shook his head, "He is naturally able to get along with everyone, but he only avoids me. I don't know the reason, and there is no need to delve into it."
"Poets are always very mysterious." An Yu entered the last string of IDs and looked at the records that popped up on the screen. "Sure enough, there have been no new admission records to the orphanage for ten years. Everyone we met in the cafeteria today is They came before 2139, and from the appearance, their age seems to have stopped before 2139.”
"The stagnation of time and space is not a rare phenomenon of disorder." Qin Zhilu nodded and asked: "When was the last admission record?"
An Yu sighed silently.
"On December 22, 2138, it was the child who happened to be admitted to the hospital on the day I went through the discharge procedures. He was the last one."
"That is to say, after you left, this place immediately fell into an abnormality."
An Yu didn't want to admit it, but he could only nod.
Qin Zhilu asked, "In that case, all the children here should have overlapped with your time in the orphanage. Is there anyone who impressed you?"
An Yu shook his head, "I haven't paid attention to anyone else."
"Then has anyone mentioned some names to you frequently?" Qin Zhilu said in a persuasive manner, "There are always some people who have a stronger sense of existence than others."
"Sir," An Yu whispered, "No one talks to me frequently."
"..."
"Growing up, only Ling Qiu always took the initiative to come and chat with me." An Yu recalled calmly: "He often said that I am lucky to know him."
Qin Zhilu nodded, "Indeed."
