Chapter 11 Part Ten: Total Failure

I lowered my head and looked at Nevin.The inner text said: The Woman Volcano erupted suddenly. After the residents of Guxing Town heard the loud noise, the flames erupted from the crater had dyed half of the sky red. I also saw the time of the eruption recorded in the news, it was five hours after I left the crater. At that time, I was doing everything possible to rush to Mexico City, and I had no time to read the newspaper or listen to any radio at all. So I never knew about it. I stood in a daze. Now, I naturally understand why the deputy minister suddenly lost his temper. The eruption of the Woman's Volcano has not stopped yet, but I asked him to take someone to look for the spaceship under the crater of the Woman's Volcano!

After I finished watching that piece of news, I had nothing to say, what should I say?Originally, my words could be proven easily, as long as one arrived at the crater of the Volcano, one would be able to see the door. For convenience, I left the key at the door that leads directly to the spaceship at the bottom of the volcano. But now, the Woman Volcano erupted again, and a large amount of magma surged up, which would definitely cover the door. Moreover, the changes at the bottom of the volcano would inevitably cause the spaceship to sink again, that is to say, no one could find it anymore. That spaceship, unless the entire volcano can be removed.

That is to say, what I just said to the deputy minister has all become unsubstantiated lies, and it can be said that it is the most shameless lie in the world! Seeing that I lowered my head and remained silent, the vice minister's anger seemed to have calmed down a bit. He sneered and said, "Foreign friends, what else do you have to say?" I raised my head, gave a wry smile, and said, "No, I have nothing to say at all. No, there is one more thing I must say, Mr. Vice Minister, do you think I am such a stupid person?"Stupid enough to pick an erupting volcano to make up my lies?

The deputy minister heard me say that, and the anger on his face gradually faded.That proves that he is a very sensible person, because after hearing my narration, he was greatly annoyed. It's over. I sighed, and I was ready to give up, because I had no evidence, and I would never find that spaceship again, and who would believe my experience?Better stop talking! So I bowed to the deputy minister and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Deputy Minister, for bothering you. Don't take what I just said to heart and just pretend I didn't say it." The deputy minister gave a forgiving smile and said: I know, sometimes, people will have whims!

I had nothing else to say, just smiled wryly, and walked slowly towards the door. When I was about to open the door, the vice minister stopped me suddenly and said: Please stop, sir. I stopped and turned around.The deputy minister smiled and said: I'm sorry, I have a very ridiculous question to ask you, but I hope you can answer my question sincerely, will you? I spread my hands to the deputy minister and said: Excuse me, I am very happy to answer any questions. The deputy minister looked directly at me and said, "Is what you said about the spaceship true?" I never thought he would ask me such a question!

I was taken aback for a moment, and asked back: If I said everything was true, would you believe my answer? This time, it was the vice minister's turn to smile wryly. He shook his head. Of course he couldn't answer my rhetorical question, so he waved his hand and said, "Goodbye, Mr. Wei, I don't think I should ask you this question." . I shrugged my shoulders and walked out. When I walked through the long corridor, opened the big glass door, and walked through the square covered with colorful gravel, I stopped under a tree. , I stand against a tree, I want to make myself quiet for a while, and think about the whole thing again.

Originally, the matter had come to an end, but the eruption of the woman's volcano might have put things on hold again. Of course, I still have the diary. Gina and Mrs. Guido can also prove the existence of Mrs. Mirren, and my old antique friends also keep that batch of antiques. But all that can only prove that Mrs. Mirren is a mysterious figure, but it can never prove that she came from a huge spaceship.I'm the only one who knows about that spaceship, and I've lost all proof!If I hadn't lost that hat, things would have changed somewhat, or the volcano wouldn't have erupted

I wondered, but couldn't think of anything.Suddenly, I felt that there was a commotion in the people around me.I quickly looked up and saw a very beautiful big American sports car driving over under the sun.Even though Mexico City is an extremely modern and beautiful city, such luxurious cars are rare. Moreover, the owner of the car drove the car very slowly as if intending to show off the new car. I could see at a glance that the driver was a jeweled, indescribably ugly woman. Because of her jewels, I could hardly recognize her, but because of her peculiar ugliness, I recognized her at once as Madame Guido!

It made me even more sure that she belonged to Mrs. Guido, Gina by her side.Gina was originally an extremely beautiful little girl. At this time, she was wearing a white gauze dress and sitting in such a luxurious car. She looked like a princess. As soon as I saw Gina, I couldn't help raising my hand to greet her.But my hand didn't rise in the end, and I thought in an instant: let this matter end.It started with a big american touring car and ended it right when i saw Gina and her mother in a big american sports car! I am not going to stay in Mexico any longer, and I know that the money I give to Mrs. Guido makes her live very well, so why should I bother them?

The big American sports car drove past, left the square, went to the hotel, took a shower, slept, and made a long-distance call with Bai Su, and then, I paid attention to the news about women in newspapers, radio, and TV. Everything about volcanoes. Judging from the TV newsreels, the eruption of the Volcano Volcano was very violent, and there was no sign of it stopping yet. Therefore, I stayed in Mexico City for another two days before heading back home. After I went home, unexpectedly, there were already five or six letters from Gina at home, expressing that she missed me very much, and asking me why I said I would come to Mexico but didn’t come.She also said that she is living a very happy life now, and she also sent many photos, including the photo of her riding in that big American sports car.

Judging from the true feelings expressed in her letter, I can't help but regret that I didn't greet her that day on the streets of Mexico City! At this time, my regret was nothing more than regret for losing a chance to meet Gina.And half a month later, when I went to Mexico again to meet with Gina, I felt real regret, because Mrs. Guido had been murdered, and Gina disappeared. I have spent a lot of effort and entrusted many people to search for Gina's whereabouts throughout Mexico, but to no avail.It was not until a long, long time later that I saw Gina in another strange story, but that was not a strange story, so I just mentioned it briefly. As soon as my group of antique friends heard that I was back, they dragged me to their club in a hurry. During my absence some of them, without food or sleep, studied what they had acquired which belonged to Mrs. Mirren.But they couldn't find out why, because as far as they know, in the history of the earth, there has never been such a thing! I wanted to tell them that the original owner of these things came to the earth in a spaceship. Those things are not antiques at all, and they may not be things on earth at all. But I didn't say that, because they paid a lot of money to get those things, and their purpose was to get a batch of antiques.Anyone who likes antiques knows that the greatest fun of antiques is to provide you with textual research to prove that it is an antique.In textual research, in seeking proof, can produce endless fun.When it is proved that it is indeed an antique, I feel less interested. What's more, my words will show that those things are not antiques at all, so it's better not to mention them!I was in Mexico again ten months later, and that's when I knew that after three days of eruption, the volcano had calmed down and, by then, could be approached, the Mexican government had sent a team of volcanic surveyors The team, approaching the crater, observed why it suddenly erupted.This survey team invited experts from the International Society of Volcanology to visit.My doorway is finally wide, and this time I went, because I got a volcano expert to go there.We were all warmly received by the Mexican government, and the look on that mustache police officer's face when he saw me striding into the VIP room is something I will never forget for the rest of my life, and I couldn't even help it haha laughing out loud! On the second day, we took a special plane from Mexico and then transferred to a helicopter. There were more than 30 of us in our group, and a large helicopter took us to the foot of the volcano.My companions knocked out magma stones along the way and put them in the rucksack for research, but I was absent-minded and went straight to the top of the mountain. My purpose of coming to Woman Volcano is definitely not to study why Woman Volcano erupts, but to climb to the crater to see if I can still see the door leading to the spaceship! So, of many, I was the first to reach the rim of the crater.I didn't know how violent the eruption was until I reached the edge of the crater, because almost the entire shape of the crater was changed. I still couldn't get very close to the crater because the smoke was still coming out, but I didn't have to get very close to be sure I would never find the door again.That door, that elevator, that spaceship, have all been buried under the volcano, never to meet people again. It took a long time for me to stand in the crater before other volcano experts climbed up.But after they came up, I went down again.I didn't even linger much longer at La Mujeres Volcano and went back to Mexico City. From Mexico City, I went to the United States, where I met a wonderful friend of mine.This friend, because his work is very important, I can only call him by his name. The reason why I want to meet with him is because he has extremely rich knowledge of space and astronomy, and he is an authority on this field. His house is by the lake, very quiet. After our meeting, we sat in comfortable chairs and drank the coffee he brewed by himself. We talked all night.Naturally, I will record this night's conversation below, and that would be the best way to end the story of Qimen. First of all, I told him all the whole story, from how I dodged the mangy dog ​​and collided with the big car driven by a woman, to the second time I came to Mexico and found nowhere to find Gina.I went into great detail, especially about the interior of that spaceship, and especially about that huge picture, and that red line on that map of the starry sky. He has been listening to me quietly, and when I finished speaking, he said: "So, what doubts do you have in your mind?" What he said made me stunned for a moment. What doubts do I have?I had so many questions that I didn't know which one I should ask him first.I stayed for a while, and then said: Do you believe everything I said, or do you not believe it? He sighed and stood up.His expression was so agitated that when he put down the coffee cup, because his hands were shaking, he spilled a lot of coffee.After standing up, he walked back and forth a few steps before saying: If you want me to believe it, I will believe it.I made gestures to emphasize my tone, and I said: It's not that I want you to believe, but you must believe it! He sighed again and said, "Okay, I believe it." I leaned back on the sofa and said, "Okay, then, based on your knowledge, where did the spaceship and its pilots, Mr. and Mrs. Mirren, come from?" He spread his hands and said, "Wesley, your question is really redundant. You know where they come from, and you know better than me." I shook my head and said: No, I don't know. If I had the answer, I wouldn't come to see you either. He didn't make a sound, just walked to the window and drew the curtains.That night, it happened to be the night of the full moon, and as soon as the curtains were opened, I saw the bright and bright moon, and I already thought of what he was going to say. Sure enough, he looked at the moon and said: You saw a lot of pictures in that spaceship, most of them were just the Mirren and his wife, right? I nodded, and said: Yes, there are some, there are no people, just strangely shaped planets. He added: But there are many people in the last picture. You describe that picture as a warm and grand farewell scene. I nodded again and said: Yes. He smiled wryly, and said: And in the upper right corner of that picture, you saw the exact same moon as today? I nodded again: Yes!And I immediately asked him again, saying: You mean, Mr. Mirren and Mrs. Mirren, as well as those who saw them off, are all earthlings?Earthlings like us? He stopped, stopped pacing, just looked at me, and said, "Wesley, your biggest shortcoming is that you don't have enough opportunities to receive rigorous scientific training. I waved my hand and said, "I didn't come to listen to your lesson, I just asked you, are you sure they are people from Earth!" He said: Don't interrupt me, listen to me.Since you have no serious scientific training, your question is unscientific.In science, to affirm something, you must have a lot of data to form an unshakable evidence before you can make affirmation, but now I just listened to your narration once. I was very frustrated, and said: In this way, I came to see you for nothing, and you can't help me at all! He shook his head again and said: No, I can provide you with information. I can tell you that until now, astronomers have discovered that there are not many planets with satellites, and there are even fewer planets with only one satellite. Moreover, astronomers I have not found any satellites of any planets that have the same shadow as the moon, this is where I can help you. I smiled wryly and said: What's the use of that? Of course it works, which means that what you see may be the moon, and the Mirrens may be people from the earth.We can regard this possibility as a hypothesis, and discuss this matter on the basis of the hypothesis instead of affirming it rashly. This is the scientific attitude. Okay, so if they are earthlings, I have also learned the so-called scientific attitude: but then the question arises, are we not earthlings?We have never heard of them, nor of such feats of spaceship travel. He was silent for a long time before he said: The mysteries of the universe are really too deep. He sighed, and said: The mysteries of the universe are so profound that not only people will never be able to understand them, but also they cannot imagine them. Now that we know the relationship between speed and time, think about it, if Mr. Mirren and Mrs. Mirren were people from Earth If so, they may be people on Earth thousands or even tens of thousands of years after us! I took a breath and said: You mean, they set out to travel in space in their time, but something happened during the flight, so that they could not return to their time, and when they returned to the earth, But in our time? He nodded and said: That's right, that's exactly what it means. I stayed for a while, what a terrible thing, a couple, went to a space flight that attracted worldwide attention, but when they came back from the flight, the husband died unexpectedly, the wife stepped out of the spaceship and saw that the world had changed .She is on the earth; she has come to one of the nine planets in the solar system, the third planet from the sun, but that planet no longer has any relationship with her, and the people on the planet still seem to be related to her. The same, but completely different, she became a lonely person! This is such a terrible thing that anyone who encounters such a thing will sit all day without making a sound.Poor Mrs. Mirren, under what misery had she passed those ten years! When I was in a daze, my friend didn't make a sound. We kept silent for ten minutes before he said: What I said just now is just one possibility. The other possibility is that Mr. and Mrs. Mirren , who were millions or tens of millions of years before us. I widened my eyes and stared at him in astonishment. He continued: "My friend, you naturally know that the age of the earth is billions of years old, but the history that human beings can trace is only a few thousand years. Even including the apes, it is only ten million years old. Do you think that in tens of tens of millions of years before this tens of millions of years, there will be a blank space on the earth! I froze and didn't make a sound. He took several puffs of the cigarette, and the pipe in his hand sizzled, and then said: After the formation of the earth, since the environment on the earth is suitable for the growth of living things Yes, why did it take billions of years for advanced organisms to appear?Why couldn't advanced creatures appear earlier? I smiled wryly, and said: If there were people on earth long before our generation, then where did they go? He continued to smoke, and then said: Then how do I know?Don't say that it happened hundreds of millions of years ago, even thousands of years ago, we have no way of knowing!Let me ask you, where did the Inca Empire go?Why did the Mayan culture in Mexico suddenly disappear?Where did those highly educated people who originally lived in Angkor Thom on the Indochina Peninsula go? I was dumbfounded. All these things, in terms of the age of the entire earth, did not happen very long ago, but human beings have no way of knowing the truth of these things. He paused for a while before saying again: "Wait for me to read a record to you, you listen carefully!"Then, he read in a slow tone, and said: Thick smoke rose, like thousands of suns burning together, and then, everything was surrounded by darkness, and then the clouds rushed straight to the sky, red as blood The color of the earth, the whole earth was burned in the fire. After a few days, the hair and nails of all people fell off for no reason, the feathers of the birds turned white, and the bird's claws issued a series of blisters. He read here, paused for a while, and said: Listen, what does this record describe? Nuclear war of course!I answered without hesitation.He smiled wryly, and said: But, this record is in the Mahabharata, the oldest Indian Sanskrit epic among the books known to mankind.You said that it was a scene of nuclear war, but it was recorded in such ancient books, why is that? Naturally, I couldn't answer his question. The passage he read just now was completely about the situation after the explosion of a nuclear weapon. So, is there a nuclear war on the earth a long time ago, and that nuclear war destroyed Mrs. Mirren's generation of human beings?I can't answer the same, because we don't even know everything about our own generation! So how do we know about earlier events? His voice became even more slow, and he said: From our knowledge, there is only one hypothesis that is more likely. The Chinese have long had seven days in the mountains. According to legends in the world for thousands of years, in high-speed space flight, the speed and The time has changed. Astronauts blinked during spaceflight. In the spaceship, the time is only a hundredth of a second, but on the earth, it may have passed for several months. What he said at that time was part of Einstein's theory of relativity, and I just listened quietly. He continued: From your point of view, the journey of the Mirrens is very far. They are flying in space. They were destroyed due to some reasons, and new people and new cultures appeared on the earth, which have nothing to do with them. When they returned to the earth, it was like coming to the second planet, but their mood was different. It is more painful than going to the second planet, where they managed to go back to the earth, and now, they have returned to the earth, but they are lost, they can no longer find their time, They are completely lost! I smiled wryly, and said: Yes, your analysis is very reasonable. The two possibilities you mentioned have their reasons. Mrs. Mirren also knows that she has returned to the earth, and she once told me that she has returned! My friend didn't say anything, just walked out slowly, I followed behind him, we went out the door, the night was very quiet, we looked up at the dark sky together, the sky was full of stars, pregnant With infinite mysteries, the creatures living on one of our small planets want to fully understand the mysteries of the universe, isn't it too overwhelming? (End of the book)