Falsifying history is good business

Chapter 209 Chapter : Setting of Time Travel

In 214 BC, in the Mediterranean Sea, in the southeast corner of Sicily, the Roman legions began a two-year siege of Syracuse.

After communicating with the crystal skeleton at close range, Lin You still did not begin to rewrite the logic of his worldview. Instead, he traveled through two thousand years of time through the portal opened by God and saw this famous historical battle shown in the fifth "Indiana Jones" movie.

The stories that I read and heard when I was a child about Archimedes designing war weapons, such as the grappling hook designed using the lever principle, the bronze mirror that used the focusing principle to burn the sails, etc., whether true or false, all originated from this siege that lasted for two years.

In the sky, a twin-engine bomber from the World War II era that had long been eliminated in the real dimension flew over the Roman Navy; the outstretched wings and roaring piston engine of the He111 were mistaken for the roar of a dragon, and it was attacked by the Roman Navy's ballista.

Because the He111's flight altitude was not enough, and the Roman Navy's crossbows were too dense, of course it could also be the natural blood suppression of the Germanic people by the Roman Legion in its heyday; in short, this classic German bomber in World War II was hit by two crossbows in succession.

Although airplanes are high-tech products, their structural strength is actually not very high, especially in weak links such as the engine and cockpit glass. Even a hit by a sparrow could cause a catastrophic accident, not to mention a sharp crossbow.

As luck would have it, one of the two crossbow bullets that hit the He111 hit the engine under the wing.

Not long after, the plane plunged to the ground with billowing smoke. Its greatest counterattack against the Roman legion was to use its onboard machine guns to strafe the beach before the crash, killing a hundred or so Roman soldiers.

As for the protagonist, Dr. Jones, and his goddaughter, the heroine of the movie, Helena, they grabbed the parachute pack before the plane crashed and parachuted out in time to escape.

Then comes what Lin You believes is one of the few highlights of the entire film, the meeting between Dr. Jones and Archimedes across two thousand years.

Yes, the fifth Indiana Jones movie received worse reviews than the fourth. Especially the main tone of the whole movie, which Lin You thought was simply incomprehensible.

Are you trying to capture the sadness of a hero in his old age, or the ambition of a man who is still sharp? The excitement is not complete, and the sadness is not complete; the emotions on both ends are not well-developed, and the result is that you cannot please either side.

In the end, only the elderly Dr. Jones, when talking to Archimedes, expressed his desire to leave behind everything two thousand years later, stay in the world before Christ, and integrate himself into history; this brought together a sense of fate and sadness, and achieved a small degree of emotional sublimation.

Unfortunately, this sublimation is only superficial, and it comes too late and too short for the entire movie; not to mention that this feeling of fate and sadness is dispersed by the heroine's punch.

Stop, stop! I'm here to observe the details of time travel in the movie.

Lin You patted his cheeks and stopped his endless thoughts. There was nothing he could do. Seeing this movie IP that he had loved since childhood end in a sad ending made him want to complain uncontrollably.

When the seventy-year-old Dr. Jones kept on chattering about his desire to stay in BC, and the heroine Helena failed to persuade him and lost her patience, and was about to punch him, a "immobilization spell" flew over and temporarily rescued Dr. Jones.

"You...you...I remember you." Although he is already in his seventies, the doctor's memory is not bad, and the impression Lin You left on him was too deep. More importantly, Lin You "transitioned" directly from the end of the fourth movie, and his clothes and appearance did not change at all.

"I know, I know. It's nice to meet you, Doctor. But we'll catch up later. I need to talk to Mr. Archimedes first." Lin Youlian said almost the same thing as he did more than a decade ago, except that the person he wanted to talk to changed from the crystal skeleton alien to Archimedes.

And then… “@#￥%…&*”

"Fuck, I don't understand ancient Greek. It's completely different from the language of the Olympian gods." Lin You was scratching his scalp with the dark wood wand, feeling distressed.

There was no other choice but to ask Dr. Jones for help. "Can you help me translate, doctor?"

"Of course. What do you want to say?"

Lin You asked: "Please help me ask how this Antikythera Wheel works; can it only locate the time of the Siege of Syracuse?"

Dr. Jones nodded to show that he understood, and then turned to talk to Archimedes. After a while, he nodded to Lin You again.

"You guessed it right. This turntable is actually more like a locator; it locates a space-time channel. One end of the channel is fixed at this time and place, while the other end is not fixed and can be any time in the future. Archimedes' original intention was to use this turntable to understand the future progress of the war and summon reinforcements from the future."

Lin You asked again: "How long will the space-time rift near Syracuse last? Are there other space-time rifts in the world?"

Through the doctor's retelling, Lin You got another answer: "The space-time crack will last for several hours, at most a few days. Archimedes has done relevant calculations. Theoretically, there are similar space-time cracks in other places, but the number is very small."

“That is to say, no matter whether it is two thousand years, three thousand years, or even ten thousand years in the future, as long as someone uses this turntable, they will only come to this moment in time.” Lin You looked up at the sky. Unlike the blue sky and white clouds seen by others, he could actually see a faint crack in time and space.

"That's the theory, but what's the problem?" Although Dr. Jones still had a good memory, he was old and had been shot, so he was lacking in energy and his thinking was a little slow.

"Then in theory, as long as the turntable continues to circulate in history, new travelers will continue to appear in that space-time rift. Even if a space battleship from thousands or tens of thousands of years later appears, it won't be surprising." Lin You seemed to be thinking, "But why are there only two planes of yours?"

Dr. Jones frowned for a moment, then smiled suddenly, "Because this turntable will not turn anymore; this is a closed time loop. I came here and stayed here just to complete the closed loop. History will not be changed, and new travelers will not be allowed to enter this closed loop."

"You really are good at finding excuses for yourself to stay!" Lin You teased, and then removed the "immobilization spell" on the heroine.

"I'm sorry, Miss Helena, I was so offended just now." Lin You said "sincerely", "I know you have a lot of questions, but the most important thing now is not to listen to my explanation, but to do what you should do. You also heard what Dr. Jones said just now, that is the problem you should solve first."

Because of acting as a translator and thinking about the time loop, the elderly Dr. Jones was already a little dazed; he also heard what Lin You said to Helena, and felt vaguely familiar with it.

It seems that I heard something similar in the ancient city of Ector. What did he say? I remember that he asked the female spy Elena to continue the original plot...

Before Dr. Jones could figure it out, he saw his goddaughter walking up to him, with a cold face and without saying a word, and then punched him in the face.

(End of this chapter)