Chapter 619 The Price of Time Travel
The guard captain, who was in preparation for war, was looking around nervously.
Ten seconds ago, he received a warning and learned that someone was quickly dismantling the palace's defense formation, so he quickly came to the king's side as quickly as possible.
"Interesting formation." What was very scary was that Bai Mo came to the guard captain almost at the same moment.
Although the independently developed formation system on Mars seems very crude compared to the wisdom crystallization of countless people on Earth, there is also something about independent thinking that makes Bai Mo feel bright.
Unfortunately, it is only a flash in the eye. The level gap between the formation organizer and the formation breaker is too big, making it easy to crack.
"You...what the hell are you!" The guard captain's hands holding the knife trembled slightly, and his four legs trembled involuntarily. He shouted calmly.
Looking at this celestial being whose height was only as high as its own chest, it felt a sense of oppression on the life scale.
Every cell in the body is constantly sending signals to the nerve center to run fast.
Instinct warnings reminded him to stay away like snowflakes, but the will to do its duty required exactly the opposite action, and its will and instinct had a fierce conflict.
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Bai Mo ignored the guard captain's questioning and walked straight through the four-armed men and horses wearing heavy armor like a real ghost, and came directly to Qiu Yi.
The moment he was penetrated, the guard captain, who was covered in thick armor, had the illusion that his body was frozen and hollowed out. Then his legs went weak, his vision went dark, and he almost fell down on the spot.
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"Traveler." Bai Mo said in standard Chinese.
The moment he heard these three words, Qiu Yi's heart felt like it was struck by lightning.
During the decades on Mars, in order to prevent himself from being so lonely, he gradually introduced Chinese to various tribes, but he also knew very well that the civilization of the Mars tribes still remained in a semi-slave and semi-primitive society. It is possible to understand what the three words "traveler" mean, let alone say it.
"Are you really from Earth?" Qiu Yi, who met his old friend in a foreign land, was almost so excited that he wanted to throw a bear hug at Bai Mo, completely forgetting that the other party had forced his way into the palace.
Bai Mo, who was like a wandering soul, did not answer, but casually threw a slate with writing on it to the other party.
"Qiu Yi was thirty-five years old before he disappeared. He disappeared in 27 BC, one year after Linghe Autumn. He had a son, Qiu Zhiping, before his disappearance. His wife remarried after his disappearance, and his parents are still alive. My wife and children have now moved to the moon..."
The slate was filled with information that was like a personal file, which made Qiu Yi, who was originally extremely excited about meeting his compatriots on Earth, feel a chill down his back.
He had no idea what was happening.
"What do you mean?" Qiu Yi was also the lord of the city after all, and he quickly calmed down.
"No." Bai Mo looked at the other person quietly. As he was getting further and further away from the person, he didn't realize that casually sending someone else's family profile was really no different from the underworld threatening their family members.
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"who are you."
"You'll know."
"..."
"How strong are the people on Earth now?" After a moment of silence, Qiu Yi took the initiative to open up a new topic. There were so many things he wanted to ask.
"This is Mars."
"What! This is Mars?!!!!!!" He never dreamed that he was only so close to the earth.
Although this so-called closeness is only close in an astronomical sense, for most individuals, it is still a distance that cannot be reached until death.
"Then...then that is the moon?!"
"Maybe you should call them moon people."
"Wait, why them, you? And why moon people, Earth?"
Bai Mo still smiled and said nothing.
"You...!" Qiu Yi was about to get angry, but in the blink of an eye he realized that he didn't have the ability to go berserk. The ghost in front of him had overwhelming power.
Bai Mo, who didn't take it seriously, threw a light ball towards Qiu Yi this time.
"Transformation path? There is such a thing?!"
When he learned that there was a chance to return to the earth, he thought about this problem - he now has a four-armed centaur body, and it is impossible to get much recognition after returning to human society.
Even his own son would be frightened by this majestic appearance.
"We haven't seen each other for more than 20 years. My parents may have thought that my son was dead. She has indeed remarried. She just doesn't know how her son is doing..."
After Qiu Yi traveled through time, he thought more than once about how sad his elderly parents would be when they found out that he suddenly disappeared.
As for his wife, who has a very ordinary relationship and is almost entirely motivated by interests, he doesn't have much nostalgia. Qiu Yi only cares about his son.
When he disappeared, his son was still one month away from turning four years old. More than twenty years later, I am afraid that even the concept of father is blurred now. Thinking of this, Qiu Yi couldn't help but feel a little sentimental.
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"What do you want?" Qiu Yi knew that there would be no free lunch in this world. If the other party took the initiative to show up and was willing to give these things, he must have some conspiracy against him.
"No."
"I know that the free ones are the most expensive."
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"You call them a moon person, so you are an earth person? What happened between the earth and the moon?!"
Qiu Yi learned from the information Bai Mo gave him that only more than twenty years had passed. It stands to reason that nothing earth-shaking would have happened in this short period of time...
Bai Mo was noncommittal.
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"I owe you a favor." As the leader of a city, Qiu Yi naturally understood the great value of the Transformation Dao in his hands.
If all the four-armed centaurs under his command practiced this technique and transformed into human forms, then they could gradually integrate into human society with him.
Returning (surrendering) to the Federation with thousands of people loyal to you, and returning to human society alone are completely different things.
Being used to the feeling of power supported by thousands of people, it was not a pleasant feeling to leave home and return to the human side.
Furthermore, if he spreads the Tao of Transformation to the entire Mars, allowing humans to "liberate" Mars in a more peaceful way, who knows if he can take a further step forward in the Federation with this incredible power.
At this time, Qiu Yi, after knowing that the invaders of Mars were Earthlings, had completely tilted his butt to the invaders. Now he was thinking about how to sell the existing resources in his hands. Highest price.
ps1: py two books "Danger of the End of the World" (the author is a beautiful woman) and "Anti-Hero of a Certain American Comic" (they just py'ed each other)
ps2: Thinking about it carefully, behind every time traveler’s happiness in another world is the tragedy of a family in the original world hhh