From to 1935 2020

Pastor Dong turned his attention to the so-called "student" who had "studied abroad" who was following Elena.

He was equally amazed at how the young man made him feel.

He is very young, definitely not more than 20 years old.The body looks unusually strong, and the height of about 1.8 meters is very rare among Chinese people in this era.Moreover, his complexion told Pastor Dong that this person's "nutrition" was excellent - it was presumed that his family of origin should be very good.

What surprised Pastor Dong even more was that this young man, who would never be older than 20 years old, gave him the feeling of being "senior" in his eyes.Compared with the flaming eyes of the foreign woman "burning with anger in confusion", this young man's eyes gave Pastor Dong a strange sense of "detachment that sees through the world".

"They are definitely not Chang Kaishen's spies. Those people will definitely not be able to find two people with such a temperament, but they will definitely not come to me for "charity."

There was a set of tea sets on the table, a gift from Huang Ke and Irene—absolutely foreign, and a product of the 21st century, which came from the kitchen of an unlucky time-traveled family in the United States.

The tea is a high-end product that Huang Ke bought from a shop outside. The top-quality Longjing tea has just been brewed.Pastor Dong's wife was both happy and nervous about the high-profile customers who came to the door suddenly, and she was a little at a loss.

"Pastor Dong, are you back? My surname is Huang, and each name is a gram. This lady's name is Elena, and she is my good friend."

Seeing Dong Jianwu enter the door, Huang Ke took the initiative to greet him, and first introduced himself, while Elena sat where she was—even though she had turned her back on God, some of her previous living habits were still branded on her.For example, as the No.1 under the gods, except for welcoming the gods, it is always others who come to see her, not her to greet others.

And her style made Dong Jianwu once again confirm that Elena's background must be extraordinary.

After the self-introduction and greetings, there is traditional Chinese tea making and drinking.During this process, Dong Jianwu noticed another detail: the young man in front of him really did not seem to have grown up in China, because he was incompatible with the Chinese people of this era in terms of speech and behavior.

"But he doesn't look like he grew up eating too much foreign bread abroad."

Pastor Dong has had countless contacts with the so-called "Students Overseas School", the ancestors who will be known in the future, and he also did not see the similar aura of those "Students Overseas School" in Huang Ke.

"Two weird guests."

He muttered in his heart.

Huang Ke talked with Elena for a while, and after explaining his intentions, he left a sum of money and left.

"Who are they? Are they spies?"

Pastor Dong's wife, Zheng Yulan, looked at the heavy two hundred oceans on the table, feeling a little overwhelmed.Two hundred oceans was a lot of money in the Republic of China. When the French currency was first issued in 1936, one hundred French currency was enough to buy two cows.Officially, one legal currency is exchanged for one ocean, but in fact the purchasing power of ocean is better than that of legal currency.Two hundred oceans is probably enough for an ordinary person to live comfortably in Shanghai for a year.Pastor Dong's family's annual living expenses are only more than 100 yuan.

Huang Ke and Elena came to the door today with the banner that: Sister Elena from Citigroup on the other side of the ocean wants to build a homeless children's rescue center in Shanghai, which is specially used to help the homeless children who go to the beach.She needs someone to help lead this charity work.Pastor Dong is a celebrity in Shanghai with a good reputation, so he was found, and the two hundred yuan was used as an advance payment for hiring Pastor Dong.

"Those two people have strange backgrounds, but they definitely can't be Shen Kaishen's spies. That foreign nun is too beautiful, and the spies couldn't find such a person to test us. But they definitely didn't just come to us for charity , there must be another purpose."

Pastor Dong unwrapped a tube of silver dollars, and was taken aback when he picked them up: the silver dollars in this period were "one by one", wrapped in paper and rolled into a cylinder.The silver dollar was wrapped in a sealed paper with the Bank of Communications logo on the outside.

Pastor Dong recalled the big robbery that happened yesterday in the Foreign Concession Bank.The mysterious robber held a machine gun and robbed the delivery car of the Bank of Communications, and took away a large amount of money—the amount stolen according to folk rumors exceeded 100 million.

Pastor Dong picked up the silver dollar and blew on it. It was real money.After thinking for a while, he tore apart several envelopes of silver dollars, and then told his wife, "Burn all these papers."

Pastor Dong's wife, Zheng Yulan, is also an underground party member. Without further questioning, she took the paper to the kitchen and threw it into the stove.At this moment, Reverend Dong picked up the exquisite teapot on the table and looked through it, assessing its price.This set of tea sets is extremely exquisitely made, Pastor Dong estimated that it would cost at least a hundred silver dollars, and then he accidentally saw a line of small characters engraved on the bottom of the pot: Made in a.

"It's absolutely impossible for them to be spies, but they came to me for a purpose. Everything can only be done by tricks..."

His wife, Zheng Yulan, came back after a while after burning the paper, and asked Pastor Dong, "What do you plan to do with these silver dollars?"

"After the retreat of the headquarters, we have lost contact with the organization for more than a year. The few comrades who stayed in Shanghai are living a very difficult life now, and this money can help a lot. As for these two people, they cannot be spies. But they must have come with a special purpose, today they are just testing us, let’s see what happens.”

Zheng Yulan said: "When those two people entered the house, the man looked around, as if he was looking for someone. Just now when you were talking with them, I went out to ask the children, and I discovered something very important."

"what's up?"

"Before the man entered the door, he found our children first, and then asked them about other children in our family..."

"what?"

Pastor Dong suddenly became nervous.

"How did the children answer?"

"Xiaojie is very sensible, he didn't say anything according to your order. But..."

"what happened?"

"The man just smiled at that time, and then told Xiaojie, he said that we will definitely question them later, what did today's guests ask you, he asked Xiaojie to tell you, he said these days for you, Bao Dayang The papers are not clean, so we have to count the money and burn it, don’t keep it.”

"what?"

Pastor Dong now understands that the money must have been robbed from the Bank of Communications as he guessed.

"Are they people sent by their superiors? Or are they contacts sent by the Communist International?"

He thought about it, and felt that this was impossible.

"Are they members of the Ax Gang, Wang Yaqiao?"

After yesterday's robbery of the mortgage car, the entire concession was shaken. According to folklore, it was suspected that Wang Yaqiao did it.Because in Shanghai, only Wang Yaqiao dared to be so lawless.

-------------------- Chapter 26 Gap in Time and Space--------------------

On the other side, on Xiafei Road, Elena looked at the sycamore trees planted on both sides of the road, and asked Huang Ke, "Why don't we just explain to him why we are here?"

"We don't have a letter of introduction, and we haven't introduced anyone. If we rashly reveal our identities, he won't trust us. Now, it's best to deliberately leak a little information and let him guess our identities. Those who persisted in this white age and were not eliminated, each one is an elite among the people, we give such a big gift, Pastor Dong will definitely bite the hook, he will take the initiative to approach us, observe us, and finally can't bear it. Don’t take the initiative to ask us about your identity, that’s the best opportunity to communicate.”

"Humans on Earth are so complicated!"

"It's not complicated, it's freedom! In your world, the consciousness of all living beings is completely controlled by the gods, and all living beings have no secrets. Everyone lives like a brain in a vat, a program in the Skynet matrix, and is completely captive. Animals are not mentally free at all, and their behavior is programmed, so naturally they don’t need such complicated means of interpersonal communication.”

"Brain in a vat?"

Unlike the witch, Elena, who was strictly controlled by the gods, had a huge lack of knowledge, and Huang Ke had to explain it to him before he could understand.

Huang Ke originally thought that he could find Chairman Li's two children at Pastor Dong's house, but he did not.I communicated with myself in another time and space last night and learned that from 1935 to 1936, Chairman Li’s two children had been wandering the streets in Shanghai until they were found by Pastor Dong.At present, it seems that this is not the case. Either Pastor Dong has not found them, or Huang Ke from another time and space has found the wrong information on the Internet.

"Tonight, I explained the situation to another questioner and asked him to investigate this period of history in more detail. Big Shanghai is quite big, and Chairman Li's children live on the streets. It is quite troublesome to find them if there is insufficient information."

Elena was very disapproving of Huang Ke's speculative idea of ​​hugging someone's thigh in advance.When she and Huang Ke were walking on Xiafei Road, her head was always looking in the direction of Zuwai to the east.

"What are you looking at."

"There, the gap in the space-time channel is there, and the concentration of magic particles in that direction is the highest."

So she took Huang Ke to walk there, and when she finally stopped, she was about a kilometer outside the concession.Huang Ke looked around. Based on the experience of "later generations" living in Shanghai for many years, Huang Ke recognized this place at a glance - the famous Jiaotong University (old campus) in Xuhui District, Shanghai is not far away.

Standing on the edge of a small western-style building, Elena looked up at a certain place in the sky, and said to Huang Ke: "It's right here, a little above the roof of the third floor of this building, that's where the gap is, the magic element from my world, It's leaking out of here."

Huang Ke closed his eyes, felt carefully, and immediately felt the slight fluctuation of magic elements.It's just that he is a "novice" in this area, and it is completely impossible to judge how high the specific concentration is.

"How much higher than the place we crossed in Nanxun, Huzhou?"

"Three times, 3.5 times to be exact, and it's still slowly expanding—I'm talking about its area of ​​influence, which is about half a meter wide."

Elena rubbed her hands together as she spoke, and a fireball ignited on her fingertips - the witch Sophia had also demonstrated it to Huang Ke. At that time, the flame was about the size of a lighter, and this time, the fireball in Elena's hand About the size of a ping pong ball.

Elena looked at the sky and said:

"I must get the house opposite the door. In the future, it is best to build a tall building here, and then build a magic laboratory there. The key to whether we can return to the time and space we are in must be here."

Huang Ke looked at the house and was taken aback for a moment.

It was a western-style building, three stories high, and surrounded by a wall. It seemed that the status of the residents was not low.

Huang Ke said: "It seems to be a little troublesome. The residents seem to be foreigners. It's a bit troublesome to get it. Isn't the house next door okay?"

"No! The laws of this world are extremely unfriendly to magic elements. If it is more than one meter away from the gap, it will attenuate by half, and after ten meters, it will decay to only one thousandth. The closer to the gap, the better!"

Huang Ke said: "The houses of foreigners are not so easy to get. If you directly ask to buy them, you are afraid that the other party will open their mouths."

Elena snorted coldly: "It's okay, I'll sneak in tonight and kill everyone inside!"

"Hey, hey, don't just kill people and destroy families, okay? Although I don't like foreigners in this period, I can't get the house if I kill someone. If there is a murder, this is the scene of the murder. The police can at least It will be sealed for several months before it can be unsealed. It is easy to be suspected when we come forward to buy a house...."

The current Elena is completely broken mentally.Don't look at Huang Ke who seems to use his mouth to persuade her to agree to join TG on the surface. In fact, she is now completely confused and desperate for medical treatment. As long as anyone can give her an acceptable one, She will join whoever has the reasons and beliefs to live.

Although the current Eileen wanted to revolutionize the fate of the gods, she only wanted the fate of the gods literally, and she was eighteen thousand miles away from a real revolutionist.She's essentially an Avenger now, a Godslayer.Now she wants to "change" the life of the gods because of her personal "anger", not because of "compassion" and "justice" and wants to change the life of the gods.

"In that different world, Elena repeatedly did one thing. After she killed monsters or all kinds of higher creatures that crossed over from other worlds, whether they were intelligent or not, she would "sacrifice" them to all of them. God, she has not felt any guilt about this since the incident. In the process, when she met the traversers who traveled through the past on this side of the earth, she basically could only collect the corpses for them. Afterwards, these corpses were regarded as "A rare, precious and delicious food in the twilight era", they smashed into pieces and ate it! In their eyes, life on the earth world is just a low-level life, and they would not eat it in normal times, but they eat it in the twilight era of the end of the day Absolutely not polite."

"The reason why Elena feels pity for those orphans is because she is "broken", because she once sacrificed countless such children under the control of the gods, so she still treats the young children of the "lower earth world" Compassionate, but adults, in fact, in her eyes, are no different from those demons, angels, giants and dragons killed by her "actively". Kill some."

The Huang Ke in the world in 1935 and the Huang Ke in the world in 2010 are the same except for the three outlooks on life.As a high IQ academic bully, he doesn't understand women just because he used to disdain and look down on women.When he really valued a woman, the situation was quite different.These days, Huang Ke, who is "greedy about her body", has not diminished his psychological analysis of Elena.

"Murdering and seizing houses are the least effective means, and it's quite troublesome to finish afterward. First find out who the people live in, and then find out the most effective means."

Huang Ke was in the process of persuading Elena, when a few people came out from the big iron gate outside the wall of the small foreign building, and after only one glance at them, Huang Ke knew that Elena's so-called plan to kill and seize the house was even more serious. not possible.

Because the people who came out of the building were all dressed as scholars.Afterwards, after a little inquiring, he learned that the people in this building were all teachers and their family members from the attached Jiaotong University.In other words, the residents here are all elite talents that are extremely scarce in China in this era. After confirming this, Huang Ke said that it was impossible for Elena to hurt them.

As soon as he rolled his eyes, he had an idea in an instant.

"You mean, the space-time gap is one or two meters above the roof, right? I have a good idea. In fact, we don't need to kill people. With a little trickery, we can live in it."

-------------------- Chapter 27 Starting with the Librarian --------------------

Chapter 27 Beginning with the Librarian

"I graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a major in electromechanical. After graduation, I worked for two years in the Springfield Armory in Massachusetts (not far from MIT). I am proficient in metal heat treatment, forging, and cutting. I have also dabbled in the latest welding technology. In short, no matter whether it is hands-on ability or theoretical knowledge, it is not a problem. I turn and mill the workpiece for full-scale tolerance +-0.1 wire, Position and shape tolerance +-0.1 wire (because the mechanical measuring tools during World War II can only measure up to [-] grades here, so I changed it) In addition, I also know precision shoveling..."

"Well. Are you here to apply for a job? To be a librarian? With your skills, you should go to the Jiangnan Manufacturing Factory or the Concession Area to have a look. The foreign bosses of any factory will be full of praise for your skills. You are very Young and an excellent engineer, a librarian is too small for you."

"When I finally returned to China a week ago, my luggage was stolen on the way. The loss of belongings is small, but the loss of graduation certificates and various documents is fatal. Fortunately, my girlfriend still has some money. Life is not a problem, but It is very troublesome to have no documents, but the reason why I came to Jiaotong University is because I went to Japan before returning to China. The atmosphere there is getting more and more disturbing...I don't want to waste time, I want to do more for the country earlier Contribution, so I came to Jiaotong University first. The librarian is just a springboard, I want to get in touch with the teachers in the school through this position, let you recognize my ability, and then make further plans."

"I see."

In the principal's office of Shanghai Jiaotong University, the current principal, Li Zhaohuan, looked at the young man who was obviously still a little "baby" with surprised eyes. His eyes were strange, and his mood was equally strange.

The reason is very simple. The young man who came to the door on his own initiative looked like he would never be more than 20 years old, but he claimed to be 25 years old. This first put a question mark in Principal Li's heart.

If Huang Ke wanted to seek a job as a professor at Jiaotong University, he might just drive him out as a liar—there are actually quite a few liars like this in Shanghai, but the problem is that what the other party wants is just a "library manager" "Library"—Principal Li didn't know that librarians were actually one of the most terrifying hidden professions in the Republic of China.

But the reason why President Li sat here patiently and listened to the "bragging" of the young man who wanted to be a librarian in front of him was because his "foreign girlfriend" who came with him was so beautiful. At the same time, his temperament is too special, and he doesn't look like an ordinary person at first glance.

And the outfits of this pair of young men and women with strange backgrounds are also amazing.

The two of them did not wear jewelry, but a foreign watch on their left wrists - Rolex couple watches.This is a relic given to another world by a certain unlucky traveler couple, and it was recovered by Elena after picking up the corpse.The well-informed Principal Li knew at a glance that this watch alone is definitely not ordinary.

"What is your real purpose?"

"Waiting for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to give me a diploma and identity certificate will take several months or even a year. I can't wait. I want to invite the professors of mechanical and electrical majors from Jiaotong University to come forward and use the relationship assessment Let me tell you, I have proved with practice that the self-proclaimed "Senior Technician" and "Senior Engineer" are genuine and have real knowledge, not a liar!"

Huang Ke opened the box beside him, and pushed four gold bars in front of Principal Li - the gold bars were naturally obtained by Elena from robbing the Bank of Communications.

"This is my donation to Jiaotong University. Theoretical exams, practical operations, and all the testing methods you can think of can be used!"

"really interesting......"

After a short moment of astonishment, Principal Li looked at the young "returnees" in front of him and laughed.

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Speaking of universities in the Republic of China, most people's first impression is Tsinghua University and Peking University, but the history of Shanghai Jiaotong University is as long as it.

Huang Ke himself graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University with a major in mechanical and electrical engineering—but he went to Shanghai Jiaotong University 70 years later.During school, Huang Ke saw a photo of Principal Li in the school history room and read some of his deeds.