Shen Shi'an told Yun Feiyang that he only suffered some superficial injuries in the car accident, which was actually not quite accurate.
The place where the car accident occurred was at a crossroads on the outskirts of City H. It was cloudy and drizzling, and the vision was dim and unclear. Shen Shian did not notice anything before the large truck filled with coal and soil suddenly rushed out. abnormal.
He drove a small car, which was a graduation gift given to him by his grandfather after the college entrance examination. The main promotional point of the manufacturer was that it was light and agile and suitable for novice drivers. Therefore, under the rapid impact of a heavy truck, it looked like a fragile matchbox. , was instantly knocked out and fell into a muddy puddle on the roadside.
After tumbling in the air for several weeks and then crashing to the ground, Shen Shi'an, who was tied in the driver's seat by a seat belt, could clearly feel that three of his ribs were broken, one of which penetrated the lung lobe and stabbed out from under his right side. Hot blood filled his chest and rushed out from his mouth, nose and wounds, quickly soaking his clothes.
He thought he was going to die. With both the left and right doors of the car being crushed by the impact and he was completely incapacitated, he really couldn't think of any possibility of survival.
But he didn't die.
In the darkness before death, the blood-soaked Buddha beads shone brightly. For a moment, the pain in his right wrist being burned by high heat almost exceeded the pain in his lungs being soaked in blood. When his vision became clear again, he came to his own place. The place where time stands——
In front of you is a strange and quiet space, about the size of a football field. The environment is not complicated. The most eye-catching thing is a three-story, antique bamboo building. There are two trees growing in front of the building, one is a peach tree, and the other one he doesn't recognize.
In front of the tree is an open space, surrounded by a sparkling stream. At the source of the stream, there is a slightly higher spring, and below the spring, there is a pool of gurgling spring water with a diameter of three meters. The Lingquan Pond, which is about 3 meters long and filled with steaming mist.
It was this Wang Lingquan that saved his life.
After the car accident, not long after the pain on his right wrist appeared as if it was being burned by a hot iron, he was "sucked" into this place by the Buddhist beads and placed himself in the spiritual spring. He studied clinical medicine, but no medical theory can explain the changes in his body:
It was as if countless warm currents poured into his body from the spring water, soothing, repairing, and healing the wounds on his body surface and inside his body. The almost maddening pain caused by the car accident soon subsided, and the broken ribs returned to their normal positions. , the punctured skin and flesh tissue healed quickly, and the congestion in the chest was discharged from the pores in a wonderful way...
The warm spiritual spring is like a mother's womb, continuously providing him with all the substances he needs to repair his life.
He didn't know how long he had been soaking in the spiritual spring. When the space "vomited" him out again, he was still tied by the seat belt in the overturned car. The beads on his wrists disappeared, leaving only a circle as if He was born with dark blue Buddha lotus lines, and the siren of an ambulance could be heard faintly in the distance.
The ambulance took him to the hospital, and the doctor examined him. The main injuries were superficial skin abrasions and minor soft tissue contusions caused by the impact. When Mr. Gu got the news and rushed to the hospital, the director of the surgical department personally gave him a thorough examination. I checked my feet again, and the result remained the same——
The most serious wounds on his body were deep and shallow scratches caused by broken glass. Because he cut several veins and blood vessels, the amount of bleeding was relatively large, which looked a bit scary. In fact, they were all skin injuries, and scabs would form within two days. , apart from that there was not even the slightest concussion. If Mr. Gu hadn't insisted on it, he wouldn't have needed to be hospitalized for more than a month.
The truck driver who caused the accident fled the scene long before the ambulance arrived. After investigation, the police found that he was a temporary worker hired at a mining site. The identity information, contact information, and home address on the work contract were all false. At present, Still at large with no news.
Only Shen Shi'an knew that on that rainy early winter afternoon, in that tragic car accident, in the cramped and bloody driver's seat of the car, what mysterious and wonderful things happened.
The temperature in the space seemed to be always around 25 degrees Celsius, so even with just a bath towel wrapped around my waist, I didn't feel cold.
It was extremely quiet all around, except for the gurgling sound of water at the spring. Shen Shi'an leaned against the wall of the spiritual spring pool, with the warm spring water just up to his chest, looking up at the snow-blue "sky" at the top of the space.
After the initial shock and disbelief faded away, all that was left was full of doubts:
What kind of existence is this space? Who created this space? What kind of origin and connection does it have with the Shen family? Besides him, does anyone know the secret of the beads?
…
There is no end to similar or completely different questions, but there is obviously no way to answer any of them just by sitting here and soaking in the hot spring.
Shen Shi'an lowered his head and poured a handful of water on his face. You've already died once, so make peace with it when it comes, and it's useless to think about it too much.
About half an hour later, feeling the energy and strength in his body, he jumped up from the spring with one hand on the ground, wiped the water droplets on his head and body with a bath towel, wrapped it around his waist again, and then walked along a green grass velvet The velvet path leads to the bamboo house.
The feeling of the grass being stepped on is very strange, with a very slight sting accompanied by a dense itching. The land next to it is soft and fluffy, glowing a fertile black color under the skylight.
He walked around the two huge trees in front of the building and stepped onto the steps outside the corridor. Shen Shi'an stopped at the door, picked up the neatly folded towel on the bamboo stool, wiped his feet clean, and then put on a pair of cotton slippers next to the stool——
He asked his bodyguard Fan Guoping to buy these two things while he was hospitalized, and later brought them in when he was testing the laws of space: as long as they were in direct contact with his body, he could send them into the space according to his will.
Passing through the living room in the middle of the first floor of the bamboo building, Shen Shi'an turned around and came to the study on the right.
The furnishings in the study are simple and elegant, and a landscape painting hangs on the wall near the window. It depicts a secluded paradise with clear mountains and clear waters, the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers, with extremely vivid and flexible brushwork.
Shen Shi'an's eyes swept across the painting, past the desk with all pens, inks, paper and inkstones, and went straight to a bookshelf opposite the desk.
The bookshelf was huge, as high as the entire wall, but there was only one book on it. Shen Shian picked up the book, and the four large characters with flying phoenixes on the cover came into view again:
Return to the ruins technique.
Shen Shi'an has read this book back and forth many times. He can feel that this book and the spiritual spring should be the two most important things in this space. If he can master the contents of the book, he should be able to read it. Gain a deeper understanding of space.
It's a pity that most of the books in the book are in traditional Chinese, which is difficult to read. The most important thing is that the words and sentences are obscure and the word order is chaotic. He obviously knows every word, but there is no sense in connecting them together. For him, It's no different from the Heavenly Book.
After patiently turning over two pages, he found that he was still confused and had made no progress as before. Shen Shian could only put the book back and turned back to the living room.
In the innermost part of the living room is the wooden staircase connecting to the second floor. Shen Shi'an walked up the stairs. When the stairs turned halfway, he was stopped by an invisible barrier as expected.
Sure enough, I still can't go up.
There were too many things he couldn't figure out about this space.
After walking out of the bamboo building, Shen Shi'an once again focused on the tattoo on his wrist, and appeared in the bathroom as soon as his mind moved.
The heat from the shower had dissipated, and his figure was clearly reflected in the mirror. The flow rate of time in space is different from that in the real world, about two to one, which means that if you stay in space for two hours, only one hour will pass in the real world.
It seems like a good choice to cram before the exam.
After taking off the towel and getting dressed, Shen Shi'an walked out of the bathroom.
With Yun Feiyang's help, the house has been completely cleaned, but since no one has lived in it for more than a month, there are still a lot of places to clean up.
The quilt core and pillow were taken to the balcony to be exposed in the sun. The changed sheets and bed covers were stuffed into the washing machine. The fruit supplements brought back from the hospital were put into the refrigerator and sorted. Shen Shi'an carried a small watering can and walked around the sweeping robot that was wandering around. Go to the balcony and water the green plants.
The green plants were planted by my grandma and grandpa. When my grandma was still alive, the entire balcony was decorated like a three-dimensional small garden. From common vegetables such as pumpkins and peppers to various wisteria flowers, it was colorful and lively, and it was full of life all year round. exuberant. After my grandma passed away, a lot of vegetables and flowers died. Later, my grandpa regained his energy and took care of it carefully, and it became lush and green again.
Until his grandfather passed away, Shen Shi'an didn't know what to do with the plants on the balcony.
He tried to take care of them according to the planting manual and the habits of various plants he found online, but the plants that had received careful care seemed to be more fragile than human life. No matter how hard he tried, one or two plants died and withered every day.
Later, he gave most of the surviving plants to his neighbors upstairs and downstairs who liked to take care of flowers and plants. A small part was kept, perhaps out of "wanting to prove his gardening ability," and now only one is left. A pot of cactus, a pot of aloe vera and a bush of pothos are still lingering in his hands.
However, no one has watered it for so long, and the pothos that likes humidity has almost turned into hay. The aloe vera that doesn't like humidity seems to be unable to breathe for much longer because it has been exposed to too much sun.
With his fingers, he pinched the wilted leaves of the aloe vera that had shrunk by more than half. Shen Shian frowned subconsciously. After thinking about it for a moment, he disappeared from the place in a flash. When he reappeared, the watering bottle had been replaced with spiritual spring water.
Since the spiritual spring can repair wounds, it should also be able to nourish plants, right?
Shen Shi'an was not particularly sure. After all, the nutrients needed by the human body were completely different from those of plants, but for now, he could only try it as a doctor.
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but after pouring the spiritual spring water, the condition of the aloe vera and green radish seemed to have improved a lot at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The cactus was watered just before being hospitalized, so it shouldn't be needed yet. Shen Shi'an stared at the spikes for a while, then stretched out his hand to hold the flower pot where the cactus was planted. With a thought, the cactus and the flower pot disappeared into the palm of his hand.
It seems that not only "dead objects" such as slippers and towels can be transferred, but also plant life forms such as cacti can be brought into space. I don’t know if animals are allowed?
It seems that we need to find opportunities to conduct further experiments.
He looked up at the sky and saw that the sun was already setting. He decided to go to the supermarket to buy some daily necessities before it got dark.
My grandfather was a teacher at H City Medical University during his lifetime, and he was a colleague of many residents in the community. These colleagues all knew Shen Shi'an and took care of him more or less after his death.
News cannot be hidden in the school. Many people have heard about Shen Shi'an's car accident. In addition, he has a code of conduct of "doing one good deed a day" and often helps the elderly carry things and press the elevator. He is very popular, so During the journey from the door of his home to the door of the community, he had to stop many times to respond to the elderly people's greetings.
Two bodyguards stayed behind very dutifully. Both of them have professional military training backgrounds. If he were to sneak around quietly, Shen Shi'an should not be able to notice it. However, thanks to the warmth of the spiritual spring, he is now sharper than ordinary people in terms of hearing, vision and observation. Many, the two shadows in the distance were not difficult for him to spot.
The supermarket is not far from the community, just cross the road and walk a few dozen meters to get there. Shen Shi'an bought some fresh ingredients, picked out a few bottles of fresh milk and juice, grabbed some snacks, and replenished the bathing and toiletries. When he was about to check out, he thought about it, pushed the shopping cart to the produce section, and spent a long time looking for it. Only to find a few packets of vegetable seeds at the bottom of the shelf.
After all, it is not a specialized crop seed base station. The types of vegetable seeds in the supermarket are limited. Shen Shian took a bag of tomatoes and a bag of melons. When he walked back to the community with the paper bag in his arms, he was still thinking about which location in the space would be more suitable for planting.
I was so engrossed in my thoughts that I accidentally stumbled on the steps. My body stumbled forward and I steadied myself in time. However, a pack of lunch meat fell out of the bag and rolled far away.
After chasing for a few steps before he could pick it up, a dark shadow suddenly rushed out from the bushes, grabbed the lunch meat in one mouthful, turned around and lowered his two front legs towards Shen Shi'an, and the hair all over his body exploded from his throat. Let out a threatening growl: "Ouch!"
Super fierce.
Shen Shian stopped. Looking at the dirty puppy in front of him, which was no bigger than one of his feet, he narrowed his eyes, pointed at the lunch meat in his mouth and said coldly: "Mine."
"Ouch!!" became even more fierce.
Shen Shian, who had no interest in pets at all, felt that he had been provoked.
The environment of the community is very good. He has never seen a stray cat or dog in all the years he has lived there. Where did it come from? It's so small, and it looks like it's only two or three months old at most. Did it get lost in another resident's home, or did it accidentally break in after being abandoned by a bitch?
No matter what, it's always wrong to snatch his lunch meat.
He put the paper bag aside and squatted down, quickly grabbing the back of the puppy's neck before it could attack. The puppy was very light. When I brought it closer, I realized it was a male. At the same time, the sour smell of it, which had not been bathed for an unknown amount of time, became more obvious.
Shen Shi'an frowned and took the dog away with some disgust.
The skin of the back of the neck was held in someone's hand. The animal's instinct made the puppy's whole body stiffen, but it was unwilling to be controlled by others, so it rolled its eyes and held its neck, and its limbs stiffly thrashed back and forth in an attempt to break free from Shen Shi'an's hand - look It looks like a neurodevelopmental mop.
Even so, it didn't spit out the lunch meat in its mouth.
Shen Shi'an looked at it eye to eye for a while, unmoved by the other's fierce eyes and constant threats.
Remembering that Yun Feiyang had persuaded him to get a dog before, and he was not particularly satisfied with today's good deeds, Shen Shi'an hesitated for a long time, and shook the small thing in his hand twice like a prune:
"...How about coming home with me?"
