Retrograde for thousands of years

Chapter 154 Science Fiction Side Story 1
(This side story tells another possibility of scientific development. The protagonist Zhou Huan met the World Tree Mumu at the beginning of the second dungeon, but he refused the benefits offered by the World Tree.

Without Zhou Huan's permission, Mu Mu couldn't give Zhou Huan gifts, so he didn't exchange anything. He lost the ability to transform into animals, and he didn't have the ability to move Qi. Although Zhou Huan didn't kill Helian Iron Cavalry, something similar happened. , the marriage mission failed. On the day before the massacre, Zhou Huan knocked Chen Lihua unconscious. With the escape skills learned in the first dungeon world, he took her to escape back to the Liang Dynasty, and then invented firearms to help Chen Lihua rise to power step by step.

To put it simply, it is another line starting from Chapter 28. This side story goes from Chapter 150 Four to Chapter 170 Six. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to read it. It does not affect your reading. Just start reading from Chapter 170 Seven. It will smoothly connect to the main story. pass. )
Kong Li [-].

One of the shoes under his feet had been lost, and his throat was burning with pain, but at this time, Wang Xiuzhu could no longer care about so much and ran forward as hard as he could.

The family drove their car out of the city to play, but the engine stalled on a small road. They wasted too much time fixing the car, and finally decided to walk home as a family. It started to get dark.

As a result, while walking on the road, I encountered a group of robbers. My father, who was a reporter at the time, changed his expression, and my mother was even more frightened. There were several murder cases outside Haizhou City not long ago, and the methods were extremely cruel. According to the judgment of the police, It was done by a group of bandits who fled to the local area. The police are trying their best to track them down, but these people are extremely cunning. The police urge everyone to call the police immediately if they see these people.

The radio station has been talking about the ins and outs of the case for the past few days, and the family never expected to run into them!

"Run, go to the police!"

These were the last words Wang Xiuzhu heard from her parents, and then she saw her parents and sister rushing forward with bare hands to tear up the gangsters with malicious intentions.

Although she got rid of the group of thieves, she also lost her direction. She finally came to the road, but she didn't see a passing carriage.

Just when she was desperate, the headlights of a car appeared in the distance. Wang Xiuzhu rushed onto the road in one stride and stretched out his hand to block the middle of the road. Cars were far from common in this era, and it was better to catch a car driving at night than a horse-drawn carriage. A hundred times harder.

The car stopped, and a young man got out. Without swearing or getting angry, he handed over a kettle.

"Little girl, drink some water and tell me what happened?"

"My family was hijacked by a group of thugs. Sir, please take me to the police station as soon as possible."

"Where was it hijacked? How long ago? How many people were in the mob? Do they have any firearms?"

The young man lifted up his clothes, allowing Wang Xiuzhu to see a revolver on his waist.

"It's next to Xinliang Farm. About 15 minutes ago, there were a total of seven or eight gangsters with shotguns!"

Wang Xiuzhu said hastily. Only then did she notice that the young man was not actually that young. He had an older temperament on his face and body.

"Like This."

The young man frowned and asked, "Have you decided to call the police?"

"No, sir, please go to the police. I'll lend you your pistol. I want to save my parents. Please do me a favor, sir."

The girl reached out to grab the man's pistol, but was avoided by the man.

"Can you use a gun? Don't mess around."

"I can learn. It's like that in the movies. I want to save my parents and sister. Please, sir, I will regret it for the rest of my life if I don't go!"

"If a person who doesn't know how to use a gun singles out seven or eight people, he will die. This is a pistol, and it may not hit someone within three meters. Are you brave?"

"Big."

"That's good, I'll give you two choices."

The young man opened the back seat of the car and took out a box. After opening it, there was a semi-automatic rifle inside.

"First, if you drive forward for twenty miles now, you can see a police station, but by the time the police arrive, the bodies of your family members will probably be cold."

"What about the second option?"

"Come with me to save your family, I need your guidance."

The man pulled the bolt of the gun to make sure the weapon was intact, then turned his head and said with a smile. The orange light lit up behind him, and Wang Xiuzhu's heart suddenly felt warm.

"I'll go with you. If I die, I'll die. I'm not afraid!"

The little girl said firmly, trying to climb into the driving seat, but was grabbed by the man.

"Idiot, go to the passenger seat. Do you know why I want to take you to rescue people?"

"why?"

At this time, the man stepped on the accelerator, and the car suddenly turned around and headed towards Xinliang Farm.

"Your family should not be dead now, but they will be injured. When I send them to the hospital, everything will depend on you. It is not convenient for me to come forward."

"why?"

Wang Xiuzhu, who asked this question, still remembered the man's answer decades later.

"I don't have a gun license for this gun. It is illegal to hold a gun. Although the police usually don't care about it, if you kill seven or eight people with these guns, you will be in big trouble."

At that time, Wang Xiuzhu had many doubts in his mind. For example, illegal possession of a gun is a felony in itself, so why did the police ignore it? How could he be sure that he could kill so many gangsters? For example...

But at that time, Wang Xiuzhu, who was following the man, just followed him closely.

Then gunshots rang out, boom boom boom, boom boom boom!

three days later.

It was still cold and windy in March, but the two police officers who came to the gate of the patent office were sweating profusely.

"My leg hurts a little, Lao Li, can you go up?"

"I still have a wife and children. I can't handle this on my own. The day before yesterday, the director had a heart attack and was hospitalized. He pretended to be so good."

"This matter is fucking nonsense. Why did it fall on us? It stands to reason that those who came to the serious crimes team were dispatched to catch the gunman. Why did it fall on us and not let us carry guns."

The faces of the two police comrades turned green with pain, but they finally walked step by step to the door of a small office of the Patent Office.

"Excuse me, is Mr. Zhou Si Tan Zhou here?"

"Yes, please come in." A man's voice came from inside the door, but it made the two policemen hesitate even more. To them, it was as if there was an evil dragon inside, and they couldn't get out once they got in.

This is really not a good thing, and the two of them may be infamy for thousands of years.

But they finally gritted their teeth and walked into the office. There was a young man sitting there. He was looking at a document and nodded when he saw the two people coming in.

"Mr. Zhou Sitan Zhou, have you heard of the shooting in the south of the city three days ago?"

This young man's surname is Zhou, his given name is Si Tan, and he is the head of the Zhou family in Haizhou City.

Haizhou City is a thousand-year-old city close to the capital. It has produced many celebrities in history, but when it is mentioned by outsiders, they are always asked: Is it Haizhou City where the Zhou family is located?
After the establishment of the Republic (a system similar to the French Republic), the aristocratic families were wiped out. The nobles who thought they were noble and respected were sent to the guillotine one by one. Hundreds of thousands of nobles were killed. In the most radical times, even the emperor The mausoleum has been excavated by archaeologists. In modern society, anyone who dares to call himself a duke or a doctor will be strongly despised. Even Confucius was pulled out and criticized.

But no matter how the democratic trend surges, no matter how the political situation changes, the Zhou family in Haizhou City, the most famous family in China for thousands of years, has not been affected in the slightest.

Although the Zhou family has never called itself a noble family, nor is it known for its wealth, power or strategy, it is still a truly famous family and aristocrat in the hearts of the people of the Republic of China.

The Zhou family has been promoting science and technology from generation to generation.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties 700 years ago, a Hanlin named Zhou Huan left a prominent reputation in history.

His invention of gunpowder ended the nomads' military superiority. Afterwards, the descendants of the Zhou family began to promote the progress of science and technology, from papermaking, printing, and improvements in compasses to gunpowder, the three laws of mechanics, the laws of electromagnetism, and steam engines. , the Zhou family has produced talents from generation to generation.

Although at the beginning, it was regarded as crooked and heresy.

The Zhou family doesn't care about wealth. When they were at their poorest, they were living in poverty, and when they were at their richest, they were just a middle-class family. They used money as a tool, and no amount of generous gifts could buy them off.Power is even more troublesome for the Zhou family, who prefer to conduct scientific research.

This is a cursed family. If the population is not prosperous, it is often passed down from generation to generation. However, almost every generation has talents that are not born before. Even if they are ridiculed at the time, they will be known to others decades later. For example, Zhou De'er's research on pea hybridization and inheritance was considered a joke back then, but now it is a hot research topic.

But this is not a real curse. What the Zhou family faces is a more tragic fate. While talents are produced, the head of the family often does not die well - the Zhou family wants to stay away from politics, but the Zhou family has a good reputation, talents, and is not interested in external things. How can the court let go of such a great sage or someone who is tempted and insists on his opinions without fear of offending others?

For things that are beneficial to the court and the people of the world but will severely offend others, some scapegoats must be found.

Several heads of the Zhou family were thrown out and beheaded by the emperor after they had done a good job in sorting out the court's taxes and promoting officials. Some of them had their heads cut off, including Zhou Wasi, who blinked eleven times, or Zhou Bunuo, who was burned to death for being a crazy propagandist of heliocentrism, or Zhou Ling, who was forced to commit suicide in prison by taking poison...

This kind of betrayal, which was used as a urinal, gradually made the Zhou family have an ancestral motto: they would rather commit suicide than stop being an official with a sword and a pen.

The family faced the prospect of prison and would choose suicide to end their lives rather than survive in humiliation.

Some good people have counted the death experiences of dozens of generations of the Zhou family and found that none of them had a good death. The family seemed to have been cursed. Especially in modern times, seven generations of the Zhou family committed suicide, which shocked China and extremely Greatly promoted the progress of history.

Of course, the police in Haizhou knew the legend of the Zhou family. After this family was involved in prison, they often chose to commit suicide directly.

"I heard that I did it. Can you give me some time?"

After politely asking the two police comrades to sit down, Zhou Sitan began to organize the documents on the table and write a letter.

The two policemen had such expressions on their faces that when they arrived, the leader told them that if it was really Zhou Sitan who did it, he would definitely admit it and not resist.

The reality was indeed like this. Naturally, the two policemen did not take strong measures after Zhou Sitan confessed. They had no intention of urging him at all. Looking at this posture, Zhou Huan would not stop him if he said he wanted to go to the toilet and walked away.

In fact, if it were other trivial matters, the police would not even touch Zhou Huan, and would just ignore it, but what this person did not long ago was really too big.

Three days ago, a major criminal case occurred outside Haizhou City. In order to save people, someone launched a surprise attack from behind and shot at a group of bandits. After he shot nine thugs in the head in a row, he also shot them from behind. After killing the escaping bandit leader, he calmly drove the injured to a hospital and then left.

What journalists like best is this kind of contradictory story, in which people are saved in order to kill people. This massacre quickly made the headlines of major newspapers.

Ten people died at once, which caused the Haizhou City police to take action quickly. Although the rescued lady forgot the face and license plate of the person who rescued her, and her parents said it was too dark to see clearly, but The police found clues quickly.

But what makes the police chief extremely painful is that he would rather not find the murderer, because the murderer is Zhou Sitan, the only child of this generation of the Zhou family.

Zhou Sitan's father, Zhou Laiming, was a pharmacist. The penicillin he discovered saved countless lives. The combination of oxytetracycline and isoniazid he developed made tuberculosis, a terminal disease, history.

The police chief still remembered that when he was a child, his father was troubled by tuberculosis and suffered from coughing and discomfort every day. As a result, the combination of oxytetracycline and isoniazid made his father's pain disappear in seven days.

You know, at that time, there were tens of millions of tuberculosis patients waiting to die in the Republic, plus patients from other countries. This drug made most people grateful.As for penicillin, it is a miracle drug for treating diseases. It can be called an invention that changed the world.

Zhou Laiming did not choose to use these drugs to make money, even if it made him the richest man in the Republic, he gave up the patent and made the scientific research results public, benefiting countless people.

But his ending made everyone regretful.

Zhou Laiming committed suicide. The drugs in his laboratory were targeted by pharmaceutical companies because he announced that he would not register a patent. As a result, the big company stole the technology and registered the patent in advance. They bit back and tried to force Zhou Laiming to back down, and at the same time bribed him. He won the case with the judicial authorities and even bribed many newspapers to smear Zhou Laiming.

Then Zhou Laiming committed suicide directly to prove his innocence.

"The Zhou family are all crazy!"

The boss of a bankrupt pharmaceutical company said this before jumping from a sixteen-story building. He never understood why Zhou Laiming committed suicide until his death?It was originally an ordinary business method, making money while fighting a lawsuit, and then losing money after the Zhou family finally appealed and won the lawsuit. Why did they encounter a suicidal lunatic?
Zhou Laiming's suicide made the angry people refuse to buy any products of this company, and also refused to buy products of companies related to this company. The company's employees resigned one after another, and people were ashamed of having anything to do with this company.

This kind of behavior is understandable. Drugs like penicillin and oxytetracycline were considered miracle drugs in that era. Countless terminal diseases were easily cured, and the inventors morally gave up the patent rights, and finally suffered such an end.

This shouldn't be the case!
The boss of the pharmaceutical company did not expect that Zhou Laiming would commit suicide, or he underestimated the nerves of the Zhou family - just like when Zhou Sitan's grandfather made the rabies vaccine and founded the immunology department of modern medicine and other things that made him famous, But he bluntly stated that it was not advisable to write a letter to the emperor to establish an imperial system, and that returning the people to the republic was the most appropriate thing to do. He also pointed out that the royal family was greedy and corrupt, and was already the public enemy of the world.

The enraged emperor did not chop off Zhou Sitan's grandfather's head and ordered him to be sent to prison. However, Zhou Sitan's grandfather committed suicide directly in prison, which triggered more people's pursuit of a republican system.

Going back and forth, the Zhou family members always committed suicide or begged to be killed in different ways. Some people have even studied the Zhou family members who were beheaded by the emperor, and those who reported to the emperor could not do anything.

The prince is immoral and cruel, the eunuch is in power, the people are in dire straits, and so on. They just pointed at the emperor's nose and shouted:
You are an idiot. You actually believe in religion and welcome bones. Sensation between gods and humans is nonsense. What I say is the truth. You should wake up and wait.

How could the emperor spare him after those memorials were filed?

After finally holding back his anger and sending him to jail, who would have thought that the Zhou family would be even more steadfast and kill him immediately!
After Zhou Laiming's death, Zhou Sitan, as his son, naturally attracted a lot of attention, but he did not choose the pharmaceutical industry. He even attended university by correspondence and graduated in an ordinary way. He then found a job at the Haizhou City Patent Office. I got a job, went to work in an ordinary way, and then published two papers in an ordinary way.

Well, if the Zhou family hadn't published this paper, it is estimated that the physics community would have severely criticized this heresy. No one can understand the mass-energy equation, the theory of relativity, and all kinds of anti-human thinking.

But no one dares to ignore it.

Just like the Three Laws of Mechanics were founded by Zhou Dun, the history of the Zhou family digging up their ancestral graves is not just once or twice. Science itself is a process of denial and denial. Everyone knows the monsters of the Zhou family.

Maybe Zhou Dun will get tripped up by Zhou Sitan, right?
(End of this chapter)