Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 133 Meeting (Part )

April 27, 1977, at sunset.

This was an ordinary day in history, but outside the house at the foot of Sichengxing, Gao Jin, a member of the Gao family and one of the four famous families rooted outside the Great Wall and the spokesperson for Marshal Zhang to contact the circle of aliens, had already driven here early and was waiting.

Wang Yi in the house also had people prepare wine and food, and put them together with the newspapers he had sorted out. He picked up the basket, covered with a cloth, and walked out the door.

"Brother Gao, sorry for the wait."

"It doesn't matter. Since the Marshal has agreed, I will personally accompany you. It will be good for both of us. I didn't expect that you really did it for that person."

Gao Jin was also surprised when he saw the food and wine wrapped in kraft paper and lotus leaves in Wang's basket and the newspaper in his arms.

"Why, from what you said, do you really want me to break out of the prison?"

"No, it's just that the Marshal had told me before I came here that if he could really name some key people, 12 hours would be enough for the Marshal to change his decision."

Wang Yi did not answer, but just picked up the wine, food and newspaper, put them in the back seat, and sat in the passenger seat himself.

"Brother Gao, drive the car. I told you, I'm just going to practice for this person. I won't do anything else. Besides, if he really wanted to say something, he would have said it long ago after being locked up for such a long time, right?"

"Yes, there are not many scholars like him who have such integrity in this world."

"He is more than just a man of letters..."

Gao Jin did not answer, but started the car and drove himself and Wang Yi to the place where they were held.

The car drove past the Beijing Police Headquarters and headed towards Deshengmen in Beijing. At Deshengmen, there was a special complex of buildings, its name was Gongdelin.

"Tomorrow is the execution day. The Marshal has already sent someone to transfer that person here."

"Marshal Zhang is quite cautious."

After these simple words, there was endless silence. The car carried the two men to the outskirts of Gongdelin, which was heavily guarded. Gao Jin showed his ID, and the guards checked the wine, food and newspapers that Wang Yi brought with him, and then let him pass.

After parking the car, Wang Yi, led by Gao Jin, entered Gongdelin, which was a temple in the Qing Dynasty but has now been converted into a prison.

The person he wanted to meet was also imprisoned in the Jiazi Prison of Gongdelin.

The gate leading to the Jiazi cell was opened. There was only one prisoner in the empty Jiazi cell. Wang Yi carried some food and wine, and a newspaper, and looked at the figure sitting in the cell in the dim light not far away, waiting for the final moment to come, and then looked at Gao Jin who was standing beside him.

"Brother Wang, I'll wait for you outside, don't do anything unwise."

Gao Jin was very tactful and handed the cell key to Wang Yi. He gave Wang Yi a final word of advice and asked the guards to leave with him. Wang Yi nodded, quietly closed the cell door, and walked towards the cell where the figure was. Under the dim, swaying light, only Wang Yi's footsteps echoed in the Jiazi prison area.

The figure in the cell heard the noise and turned around from his back to the window. He saw Wang Yi's figure looming in the dim light and couldn't see clearly. But Wang Yi had no such obstacles and saw clearly the pioneer who brought the spark of the future of this country.

The two men stared at each other across the cell for a long time before Wang Yi spoke.

“You are more impressive than in the photo.”

"Who are you?"

"A young man who is seeing you off."

"You are a young man who can come and go freely at this time. You are quite capable. If you are just seeing me off, I will accept your kindness. However, I have nothing now and cannot give you anything. But if you are using this opportunity to make me speak, I will have nothing to say."

"But I have a lot to tell you. Why do you want to go back to Beijing? I have asked someone to tell you that you should not go back to Beijing during these troubled times."

"So it was you, young man, who asked someone to pass on the message to me. I did receive it. Although I also knew that this was a troubled time, I still had a little bit of luck. I first dismissed the comrades who followed me and asked them to hide. I went to the embassy to confirm the situation. But I didn't expect that Zhang would dare to surround the embassy..."

"If you rely on mountains, mountains will fall; if you rely on people, people will walk. How we will navigate this road in the future depends on us trying it step by step. No matter how good outsiders are, they are still outsiders after all."

"We have to try it step by step...Okay! I didn't expect there is a young man as clear-headed as you among the strangers."

"It's not that I'm awake, but someone taught me this."

"The truth is very simple and easy to understand, but I am too idealistic and always think they will stand on my side."

"After all, we are human beings, and we are a great country. There are only interests between countries. Ideals and doctrines are very different from reality." "As an alien, you seem to agree with my views?"

“Who wouldn’t like the world to be one?”

In another room in Gongdelin, Gao Jin, who had left earlier, was wearing headphones and listening to the conversation between Wang Yi and the prisoner labeled a political prisoner by Marshal Zhang through the eavesdropping device installed in the cell in advance. He frowned from time to time.

Because he didn't extract any key information from the conversation between Wang Yi and the prisoner, Wang Yi just showed normal greetings, just like he said, just to practice for this person.

In the Jiazi prison area, Wang Yi also sensed the presence of eavesdropping devices through magnetic field induction, and detected through magnetic field radar that Gao Jin, who had left earlier, was monitoring his conversation with this person in another place. However, with his means, it was too easy to prevent this person from hearing any key information. The operation of the true Qi slightly disturbed the surrounding electromagnetic field, which was fed back to the monitoring side of Gao Jin and his team, and intermittent rustling sounds came from the headphones, making it impossible for him to continue monitoring.

The originally dim lights in the prison area also became brighter at this time.

Looking at the strange changes in front of him, the figure in the prison was not panicked. It was not like he had never seen the methods of the aliens before.

Then Wang Yi handed over the newspapers he had prepared during this period to the man. The newspapers were arranged in order according to the date, and the key points were circled in red. Seeing Wang Yi doing this, the man did not ask too many questions, but just sat there and read the newspaper. Wang Yi also stood outside the cell, waiting for the next words.

In the cell, the only sounds were the man's voice reading and flipping through the newspaper.

After reading everything that had happened during this period in the newspaper, this man became furious.

"They are selling out their country! They are sabotaging the Northern Expedition!"

"That's true, and our people are still trying to compromise and give in, thinking about handing over their guns."

"He is stupid! If he surrenders his gun, he will lose even the last bargaining chips. He will be at the mercy of others. In the end, these reactionaries will have the final say!"

"Like you said, people always have limitations. That person was too idealistic. Someone needs to correct him and make everyone understand that the guns cannot be surrendered. In fact, the Northern Expedition was not destroyed. At least the goal was achieved. In fact, by the end of next year, the Second Northern Expedition formally completed the unification of the country. Marshal Zhang sent a telegram to the whole country, changing the flag and banner to mark the end of the Northern Expedition."

These words left the man in the cell confused for a moment, because Wang Yi's tone was very firm, as if he was talking about something that had already happened, but there were several points in his words that puzzled him.

He could foresee the formal unification. In ancient times, sending troops to fight a war had to have a legitimate reason.

If the reactionaries, who had launched such a large-scale killing, finally chose to stay in Yingtian and stop the Northern Expedition, it would undoubtedly be a replica of the Southern Song Dynasty nearly a thousand years ago. In this era, if they were to replicate the Southern Song Dynasty, they would probably be sent to the execution ground by their warlords and soldiers as soon as they finished speaking.

But Wang Yi was able to get to the specific year, month and person involved, which really puzzled him. Especially since the person involved turned out to be the young marshal outside the Great Wall, and not the old marshal who was about to send him to the execution ground, which made him even more confused.

"Are you a warlock among the aliens? No, a warlock can predict the future for himself, but telling others the specific results of the prediction will backfire."

This man was well-informed, and even had some knowledge of the schools in the alien circle, but he quickly denied his own speculation. However, Wang Yi's firm words made him feel that what Wang Yi said was true.

"I'm not a sorcerer. I just have some cheating skills that allow me to predict the future like a sorcerer. Moreover, a sorcerer who tells others the results of his divination will not necessarily be retaliated against. It depends on whether the person being told has any connection with the result."

"So it's because I'm going to die tomorrow, and the result of this future tells me that I, a dead person, can't do anything about the future, so you're so calm."

"You can understand it that way."

"Then tell me, a dying man, why it was the young marshal who sent the message to the whole country, not the old marshal. He had an accident."

There was no doubt in his words. After all, given the old marshal's personality, it was impossible for him to let his son inform the whole country about such a big event. However, he also wanted to know what happened to the old marshal.

"Well, it was around this time next year. The old marshal saw that the situation was hopeless and sent a telegram to the whole country that the Fengtian Army would retreat to the outside of the Great Wall. He then took the Beijing-Fengtian special train back to Fengtian. When he passed Huanggutun, he was killed by explosives buried by the Japanese there. He died that day, and the young marshal succeeded him in front of the coffin."

Wang described the old general's ending in a concise manner. This ending surprised him a little. After all, considering the time between their deaths, it is not an exaggeration to say that they died almost exactly the same time.

"Oh, I didn't expect the old marshal to die so suddenly, and the young marshal to succeed him. Although this is reasonable. The old marshal has been paving the way for his eldest son for many years, and his death was so sudden. If the successor was not the young marshal, I'm afraid they would have fought each other first. But compared with his father, this young marshal is too immature in both methods and handling of things. Can he manage the territory left to him by the old marshal?"

"He couldn't manage it well, so in the 20th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army invaded the border and the area outside the Great Wall fell."

Wang Yi spoke of this cruel future indifferently, and this future made this man unable to sit still. He stood up and looked at Wang Yi, whose true face he could not see at the moment, and he could not help but question him.

"What? Who the hell are you?!"

Wang Yi picked up a basket of food and wine, opened the prison door, and walked towards him, replying word by word.

"Wang Yi, a man from the future, has met Mr. Li."

(End of this chapter)