Some people say that when humans are asleep, their souls can travel between parallel universes and experience some strange dreams.

But the stars will add one to it. The soul during sleep will not only shuttle between parallel universes, but also the past and future of the real world.

Wei Xingchen thinks so because he can always dream about the future, which makes him study the classics of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism since he was a child, and he is fascinated by the traditional Chinese civilization of cultivating immortals and the alien civilization described by Sakyamuni Buddha.

Xingchen lives in the year 2046 on Earth in the parallel universe. He is 38 years old this year. Earth-star technology is advanced but the natural environment is harsh. The extreme climate causes huge temperature differences. It is either hot drought weather or cold snow and rain weather. Outdoor sandstorms and acid rain are raging continuously. A large amount of nuclear wastewater and toxic liquids are discharged into the sea, and the sea level is constantly rising. The rise, coupled with the nuclear war eleven years ago, has left very few areas suitable for survival.

Although Xingchen is a top artificial intelligence engineer, in Dixing, where natural disasters occur frequently and food is scarce, intellectuals do not actually earn as much money as farmers. To make ends meet, he worked part-time as a bartender.

He has an unfulfilled wish: to turn back time so that the environment and climate of the Earth will always be good, so that people can live and work in peace and contentment, and every household has fresh food to eat, can afford medical treatment, and has a house to live in.

Xingchen likes to go to Tacheng's viewing garden to lie on a bench and watch the stars. Whenever a shooting star passes by, he makes that wish, which is the wish of most people on Earth today.

In Pyramid City, bartending is a good job. Only men who are handsome enough and good at bartending can become bartenders. In addition, most of the people who can spend money in bars are nouveau riche or rich. Because the harsh natural environment of Earth Star has reduced food production, only a small amount of food will be brewed into wine. Wine is a high-end luxury product. Therefore, bartenders are paid higher wages and their income is guaranteed.

Most of the people who can enter the bar are beautiful women. They combine beauty and wealth, and all the rich are willing to buy them drinks. In addition to bartending, Xingchen's daily job is to watch beauties flirting with rich men, and then pretend to stand still while wearing display glasses, while his hands are wearing transparent keyboard gloves, tapping gently in the air, and concentrating on writing his artificial intelligence code.

Xingchen's mother often laughs at him, wondering if he wants to design an artificial intelligence girlfriend, or else he is almost thirty-eight and still doesn't bring the girl he likes home.

Xingchen always answered: You must not be distracted when editing a perfect artificial intelligence. If you find a wife, you will have no time to program. It’s almost time. Give me another year to complete this artificial intelligence named"Xiaoxu". Find you a satisfactory daughter-in-law.

Born in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, he has been immersed in the strong Sichuan and Shu culture since he was a child. The I Ching and Bagua are hung in the Qingyang Palace where he often goes. Although Xingchen could not understand the hexagrams in the"Book of Changes" when he was a child, when he grew up, he discovered that the eight trigrams were related to the binary system of computers and the arrangement of DNA. He wondered whether the eight trigrams revealed the origin and rules of the universe. So he added the moral constraints of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism when designing"Xiaoxu", and used Bagua as the quantum neuron sorting rule for artificial intelligence.

He didn't know why the future he dreamed about would repeat itself in real life. He thought it might be related to the universe information database called Zhongfu described in Laozi's"Tao Te Ching", but why not everyone can dream about the future? Questions kept puzzling him.

I remember that when the Sanxingdui ruins of the ancient Shu Kingdom were unearthed in 2023, he was still a 15-year-old child. In order to study this mysterious source of Chinese civilization, he not only watched relevant videos on the Internet, but also took his mother to the Sanxingdui Exhibition Hall.

What fascinates him most are the bronze sacred tree and the Zongmu mask. Xingchen believes that these two sacrificial instruments are the medium used by the ancient Shu people to communicate with the gods. Perhaps because of his admiration for ancient civilizations, he even naively believed that the Zongmu mask made based on the original appearance of Cancong, the first monarch of the ancient Shu Kingdom, had the characteristics of clairvoyance and wind-proof ears, symbolizing Cancong's ability to predict the future. Silkworms are especially worshiped.

The cultural relics unearthed in Sanxingdui confirm many things described in the"Book of Mountains and Seas". The pair of bronze sacred trees in Sanxingdui confirms the existence of the ten sun-dwelling fusang trees recorded in the"Book of Mountains and Seas". In addition, it is said that several generations of ancient Shu kings have reigned for more than three hundred years, and there have been scenes of resurrection from the dead, which confirms the true existence of the elixir of life recorded in the"Book of Mountains and Seas".

For this reason, Xingchen often imagines that he has obtained the elixir of immortality and lives for a long, long time until the end of time in the universe.

He also believed that the ancient civilizations and science and technology during the"Book of Mountains and Seas" period were extremely advanced. Nuwa's creation of humans corresponded to DNA technology, Hou Yi's shooting of the sun corresponded to changing the hot climate, Dayu's water management corresponded to building canals to guide water and dredge floods, and Shennong's tasting of hundreds of herbs corresponded to his superb skills. Medical skills.

Xingchen always hopes to obtain the technology of ancient civilizations and change the harsh ecological environment of the earth and stars.

For this reason, Xingchen asked Xiaoxu to help him compare everything recorded in"The Classic of Mountains and Seas" with today's mountains, seas and rivers, and create a modern map of the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Nowadays, many creatures have become extinct due to the harsh environment. Unfortunately, even if the exact Location, divine grass and elixir no longer exist.

At three o'clock in the morning, Xingchen dragged his tired body back home after get off work. His home was on the 38th floor above the bar. The entire Pyramid City has more than two hundred floors, and the bottom floor is more than 600 meters wide. The layers narrow and take on the shape of a pyramid, forming a small self-sufficient society in the tower. Due to scarcity of food, energy and extreme climate, living and working places are no longer separated.

The Pyramid City where Xingchen lives is located halfway up the Himalayas and is home to nearly 100,000 people. The more than 6 billion people who survived on Earth consider it very lucky to get a bed in Pyramid City, but Xingchen’s mother 20 years ago , relying on her sixth sense and prediction of the global environmental deterioration trend, she bought a three-bedroom apartment with an area of ​​more than 80 square meters in Pyramid City through advance reservation. She spent nearly 5 million yuan at that time, but now it is a lot of money. Hard to find.

The giant pyramid in the tower city can prevent acid rain corrosion, hurricane resistance, self-supply energy, its own indoor plantation, and its own air water absorber (which can absorb water vapor from the atmosphere to generate fresh water). It has complete supporting facilities and is equipped by artificial intelligence robots. In operation, it can accommodate a population of 120,000 people. Through this incident, Xingchen believes that her mother can also predict the future, and her ability is inherited from her mother, otherwise she would not be so farsighted.

"Son, you are back. Did you meet a girl you like today? Xingchen's mother He Lin said half-jokingly. She was almost sixty years old, and she and Xingchen looked like they were two siblings. They were very well-maintained.

"If you want grandchildren, you are stupid. Xingchen said mischievously:"Why are you still growing these fruits and vegetables indoors? The monthly electricity bill is so expensive that I have to work two jobs to support you and those plants." Why not rent out the room? The monthly rent will be enough to support us."

"I want to leave a place for my future daughter-in-law and grandson to live, but those tenants refuse to leave once they come. Besides, who knows whether the food supply will be as abundant in the future as it is now. By then, these fruits and vegetables will be life-saving food, and no amount of money can buy them. Look, under the influence of the pyramid energy waves, these fruits and vegetables grow much better! And the naturally dried fruits in the tower can be stored for a long time. The environment of the earth and star is deteriorating so fast. I don’t know how many years it can last. It seems that when I sold my property and bought this small place, it was the right decision. Now I just want to turn this room into a Noah's Ark for you, your future daughter-in-law, and your grandchildren."He Lin recalled that she had a strong premonition that there would be a crisis of rising sea levels and desertification on Earth, so she decided to take out a loan to buy a small property in the Pyramid Ark project, and was laughed at as a madman. Then she worked two hard jobs to pay the debt. I have paid off my mortgage for 20 years, and I just paid it off in the first two years. After I retired, I started to grow these indoor crops.

"Well, my mother is Noah who is favored by God, and I am Noah’s son! Xingchen approached the densely planted fruits and vegetables in the hall, looked at the sun spotlight, and pretended to be worried about the electricity bill and said:"Mom, this consumes too much electricity. Instead, I will buy you a human-powered generator, so as not to worry about the electricity bill." Even if there is no electricity, you can still rely on human power to generate electricity, and you can still exercise."

"right! This is a good idea. In troubled times, you should prepare for a rainy day. You are such a good boy. He Lin thought to herself that her son had thought carefully. Although the waterproof and windproof shell of the pyramid was extremely hard, the lighting and ventilation inside the tower had to rely on solar energy, plant fuel and air flow generators outside the tower. If the generator broke one day , human power generation can become the key to the survival of these indoor crops.

"Mom, you said that the ancient Chinese civilization was so advanced, is there any way to solve the problems of rising sea levels, extreme climate, sandstorms and acid rain on Earth? Xingchen recalled the park he often went to when he was a child, with its singing birds, shady trees, and small bridges and flowing water.

He Lin thought for a while and said melancholy:"It's difficult. Unless we turn back time and use the high technology of ancient civilizations, maybe we can There is help. For us ordinary people, it’s good enough if we can survive. Don’t think too much."

"yes! Just being alive is already pretty good. Tomorrow I have to go outside the pagoda to perform the planting and laboring obligations of the pagoda residents. When I come back, I will bring you some fruit and vegetable seedlings. Go to bed early. It is not suitable to go to bed late to do your beauty work."After Xingchen finished speaking, he dragged his tired body back to his room to sleep.

He Lin sighed and thought to herself: I don't sleep so late just to talk to you. I work until two or three o'clock every day and sleep until noon during the day. She was addicted to artificial intelligence programming and didn’t even have time to chat with me.

He Lin caught up with the divorce trend in the 21st century. From getting married, meeting a scumbag, to getting divorced, she became a single mother. After suffering the hardships of the world, she He suddenly realized that marriage could not bring happiness to himself and Xingchen. From then on, he devoted himself to raising Xingchen, carefully managed the small family, and successfully avoided the natural disasters of Earth and Star.

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