1221 Reunion (1/2)

The sun started rising, and the temperature rose rapidly. Zhang Zian took the elfins back to the hotel where they were staying. When they went upstairs, they passed by a muscular white man with a hearty smile. Fortunately, he'd tied Richard's beak in advance. Otherwise, he might have let out a whistle…

They'd woken up too early. Wei Kang and the rest still needed a few more hours to get there. They could thus use the time to get some much-needed rest.

Zhang Zian turned on the air conditioner, tied Richard down with a rope, stretched out, and laid down on the bed. At this moment, he made eye contact with Fina. It was not clear when Fina had jumped onto the bedside table and began looking down on him.

”What… What's up?” Zhang Zian looked fearfully at her claws. Was she still angry about yesterday's incident? She was simmering too long about this, he felt. She'd barely spoken to him since last night. She muttered nothing more than ”hungry,””thirsty,” and ”sleepy.” He was merely directed to serve her.

”I want to ask you, what is that 'Zhong Guangyin' thing that you were talking about earlier?” Fina's eyes were burning bright, and she flashed her two white tiger teeth when talking.

Knowing that he was in a somewhat compromising position, Zhang Zian swallowed, smiled, and said carefully, ”It is nothing. It is a fictional thing in a novel.”

”Oh. Why did you become so surprised when you heard the word?” Fina asked.

”That is...because the shape of the thing is a bit like a pyramid.” Zhang Zian saw that Fina was interested and decided to share with her the legend of Zhong Guangyin, albeit entirely from his memory of it.

The elfins other than Pi were also interested in this topic. They'd intended to take a nap but were now interested to hear the story.

”What is 'Inverse Entropy Field?' What is 'going against the flow of time?' Speak English!” Fina was impatient and slammed down hard with her claws.

Zhang Zian saw a deep scratch on the countertop and was so scared he almost peed his pants.

”Science fiction is always like that. They always deliberately put together some pretentious vocabulary and make it sound fancy.” He defended himself before continuing. ”In fact, what it means… is that deep within the coffin lies a unique space that connects the past and the future. That is the rough gist of it all.”

”Connecting the past and the future?” Fina repeated. ”It means… will you be able to see someone who has died and someone who hasn't been born yet?”

Zhang Zian nodded and then shook his head. ”In theory, yes. But don't take it seriously. It's just a setting in the novel.”

Fina thought seriously for a moment. ”Do you really think this thing does not exist?”

Zhang Zian smiled. ”It's just the setting of the novel. I won't dare to say that it is completely impossible. But the possibility of it really existing is low, very low, indeed… The chance of that happening is even lower than that of me winning the lottery every day.”

Fina looked out the window facing the southwest. She said thoughtfully, ”I believe it exists.”

Zhang Zian almost blurted that line out, ”Where did you get the confidence to say that?” but for the sake of his own life, he swallowed it back. If he had not done that, perhaps the hotel would've had to deal with a corpse.

He waited for a while, but Fina did not seem to intend to explain her idea in detail.