Subtitle of this chapter: Who is the future?

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"Mr. Yuan, do you have anything else to say to the American people?"

The person who asked this question was Miss Emma Pulitzer. It seemed that this "priestess" knew the "fool", so she simply threw a straight ball to Master Yuan.

Unfortunately, Yuan Yanshu is not very convenient for a home run this time. The problem of offending the future commander of the US imperial system is not very big, and offending the current US imperial secretary will be big.

"Oh, of course I have it." Master Yuan Zhan Yan smiled, "I wrote a novel in my cell last night. I hope everyone will like it..."

"One Day Prison is a short science fiction novel published by Mr. Yuan Yanshu in Le Monde on March 7, 1921. According to the author himself, it took only one night to go from conception to completion, and that night he spent in the cell of the Fort Myer Police Department. In this novel, the protagonist Mr. Y was sentenced to time for a certain crime. The punishment method is to stay forever on March 6, 1921. This day was the day when Mr. Yuan was arrested for violating the prohibition order."

"The Garden of the Cross Path" is a sci-fi novel created by Jorge Luis Borges in the 1940s. The protagonist is a Chinese. It tells the story of Yu Zhun, the protagonist who was a spy for Germany in the United Kingdom during World War I, and in order to report the important situation to the German boss, in order to report the important situation to the German boss. The story tells the story in the way Yu Zhun was arrested and imprisoned after being arrested, and it is clever to use the delay of a major event in the history of European wars as the starting point."

"The common point of these two novels is that they both take time as the theme, and the central thoughts also have similarities, that is, time and space are inexhaustible, time and space are infinite, like the King's Golden Ring that is constantly growing in Zeus's hands. The world is a mess, time is cyclical and intersecting, and space coexist at the same time, full of endless chances and possibilities. People live in the world like walking into a prison or a maze, losing their purpose and not finding a way out."

"Time may be an insurmountable prison, or a garden of cross paths."

"Yuan Yanshu and Borges have been pen pals since 1921. According to Borges, Mr. Yuan was his leader in literature and art, and his literary creation "Bo Le". Although the two were only five years apart, Borges always regarded Mr. Yuan as his teacher. "The Garden of the Cross Path" was also named to Mr. Yuan."

"Borges once said that in the world, time is the god who ultimately controls everything. The passage of time becomes synonymous with death. In fact, it is not time passing, time is just an illusion brought about by our own disappearance. Time flows from the single dimension of the past, present, and future, making time a river that cannot step on people twice. We are always changing, and we are always throwing ourselves forward, like throwing a stone, and then walking to the point where the stone lands. Then, the tyranny of resisting time may be the inner intention and desire of all great souls."

"The first to carry the banner of tyranny against time was Mr. Yuan Yanshu. He portrayed a world of nonlinear time for the first time in "One Day Prison". Of course, he himself admitted that this novel has some logical flaws, but Mr. Yuan proposed a 'parallel universe theory' on this basis. This theory successfully solved the 'maternal grandfather's paradox', at least making time travel less obvious violations of logic."

"In April 1921, Mr. Einstein arrived in Washington, and he was also very interested in Mr. Yuan's parallel world theory. Because general relativity allows people to return to the past, its theoretical basis is the wormhole theory. Simply put, we can travel time and space through a tunnel similar to a wormhole. So Einstein once said that the parallel world theory explains why we have not seen future people who have returned to the present from the future. Perhaps our world is a world that future people have never appeared."

"But Mr. Yuan Yanshu has different opinions on this. He told Einstein that if we meet future people, we may not realize that we are future people. For example, Mr. Einstein, you are likely to be a future person. Otherwise, how could you propose such a breakthrough discovery as relativity?"

"Although the famous British science fiction novelist Herbert George Wells published "Time Machine" in 1895 and was the first to propose the concept of time travel; and the first time travel novel "Conneidiger at the Arthur court" was written by Mark Twain. However, the first writer to take the literary theme of time travel seriously was Mr. Yuan Yanshu."

"In 1922, he published his first Chinese novel, just as he embarked on his hometown, which had been violating for five years, to be precise, a super novel, that is, "The World". It tells the story of a young Chinese intellectual in the 1920s traveling to the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty due to a car accident, and went from a villager to a generation of treacherous ministers...well, a famous minister."

"There are many historical views in this novel that are very novel. Many people did not accept it very much at that time, but they had to admit that these views have credible historical basis. So Mr. Yuan Yanshu became a recognized historian with such a novel. Moreover, the observation angle in "The World of the World" is very consistent with the viewpoint of historical materialism, so the descendants of the Demons love this book. They once said that as long as they are a Communist, they must read "The World of the World" and "Dream of the Red Chamber".

"In addition to academic success, this novel caused a huge sensation in China at that time, claiming that 'there is a talk of the priest' where there is a well water.' Both intellectuals and ordinary people are attracted by the wonderful and tortuous plot, and are also inspired by the protagonist's spirit of striving for progress. Of course, what they long for the most is the rich and powerful democratic Northern Song Dynasty." (The author's note: The original text is that if there is a well water, you can sing the lyrics of Liu)

"The "Zheng Zheng Tianxia" is so successful that it naturally has a large number of followers. So much so that almost all Chinese literary worlds in the 1920s and 1930s were occupied by time travel novels, but their achievements were not as high as Mr. Yuan Yanshu..."

——Excerpt from "Time Travel, Starting from Others"

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Chapter completed!