A certain day, a certain year, a certain month, a certain hour, a certain minute, a certain second.
The world below is as usual, the observable area is clear, windless, and the clouds are thin.
Gao Wen quietly looked at the distant land from an absolutely overlooking perspective, quietly thinking about life - after all, he couldn't do anything else.
He can no longer remember how many years he has been in this state, nor does he know what he looks like now. Although he can roughly judge the time based on the alternation of day and night, to be honest - in After alternating between day and night hundreds of thousands of times, he no longer bothered to count.
Is this considered time travel?
To be honest, Gawain is quite open-minded about the matter of "time travel". It's not that he has enough consciousness to regard life and death as nothing, but that he fell from a plane in his previous life. When he was a child, he realized that life and death in the world are impermanent. After all, in a situation where he was already dead, having a chance to travel through time was better than actually landing in a box. The main thing he couldn't bear to see was that after he traveled through time, Why did it float in the sky...
It floated for God knows how many thousands of years.
Gawain didn’t know what kind of state he was in now. He couldn’t change his perspective and couldn’t feel the existence of his body. In fact, except for his vision, he had completely lost all awareness of the external environment. Perception ability, so he can't be sure whether he is a remnant soul or a space corpse floating in orbit, but the only thing that is certain is that he is definitely not floating here in a normal human state.
Because he was certain that the mental structure of a normal human being would never be able to allow him to have the same clear thinking and complete memory as he does now after floating alone in the sky for tens of thousands of years, and even have free time to think about life here.
A normal person would have gone crazy.
But he is not crazy. Not only is he not crazy, he also has an extraordinary memory.
The passage of tens of thousands of years has not affected Gawain's memory at all. To this day, he can still clearly recall the things he experienced in the last moments of his previous life - the ear-piercing screams, The alarm, the violent vibration of the cabin, the rolling sky and earth outside the window, the respirator mask that the neighbor could not put on, and the loud noise when the plane disintegrated in the air.
Everything was as clear as if it happened yesterday, and he could clearly remember that after the loud noise, he opened his eyes again, only to find that he was floating above such a strange planet. How shocked I was.
From the moment he opened his eyes again, he knew that what he was looking at was definitely not the land and ocean of the earth, so he spent a little time to deduce and accept the fact that he had come to a different world. Then I spent a longer time studying how to stop myself from drifting like this.
Unfortunately, the second thing did not succeed.
He found that he was "fixed", or that his current form may not have the ability to move at all. He became a "fixed vision" overlooking the earth."Horn" and was tightly restricted to the current position. He could look at the earth, but he could only look at the earth, and even he could only look at a restricted area on the earth - this area was an irregular continent. A circle of ocean can be seen around him, but his field of vision cannot see the wider surrounding area.
He cannot turn his eyes left and right, so he cannot be sure whether there is any other land outside the ocean. ——For the same reason, he has not been able to take a look at what the starry sky in this world looks like.
He is not even sure if there are other celestial bodies in this world - maybe he can change his perspective. When I turned around, I saw a white-bearded God holding a spotlight to shine on everything.
Damn it, I really want to backstroke...
Even if I can only do it after backstroke. It's okay to see a white-bearded man holding a spotlight to shine on everything. However, it's all hope. This perspective of looking down on the earth cannot change the direction.
But I try hard. After a long time, Gawain finally found an operable part of this perspective - although he couldn't move left and right, he could zoom in and out within this field of vision, or zoom in and out of his perspective.
After discovering this, he was really happy for a long time, and then tried to zoom in and out of his field of vision in various ways. Although this field of view was stretched to the limit, he could not observe what was beyond the circle of the ocean. Things, but at least he can choose to zoom in and see what is on that continent.
It is lush and full of life. It is obvious that there is life.
If he can. It’s good to take a look at the daily life of people in other worlds. Although I can only float here, at least looking at the customs and customs of people in other worlds can relieve some boredom, right?
Then he He zoomed in as close as possible, until he could clearly see every plant and tree on the earth.
That day, he desperately discovered that the mammals on the earth...
No one has learned to walk upright...
But it doesn't matter, Gawain is very patient - maybe his patience was limited when he was alive as a human before, but after traveling and becoming a bird After looking at it, he discovered that he really had a lot of patience.
He waited for the day when the monkeys learned to walk upright.
And then many years later, he saw it with his own eyes. Witnessed the moment when the first artificial fire was made from flint.
It was also after the birth of fire. Gawain didn't know what happened, but after the birth of the first fire on the earth, he felt that everything suddenly "speeded up", or that there was a problem with his own perception of the passage of time - things on the earth It began to evolve rapidly, just like a video that had been played countless times. He saw those humanoid races quickly building primitive tribes, and then the tribes became early city-states.He saw those humanoid races mastering incredible abilities and using magic-like skills to expand their territories. But before he could see clearly what was happening on the earth, those early kingdoms turned into one after another. The ruins, and then new humanoid creatures repopulated from every corner of the ruins...
Humans and various other races began to compete for the living space on the continent, and they established various Such kingdoms and various beliefs chanted the names of various gods to fight against each other, and then quickly dissipated.
The process was accelerating, and Gawain gradually began to be unable to process the massive information he saw. He saw creatures like giant dragons suddenly burst into view, but he did not know what those "dragons" were. Did it evolve on a continent or come from beyond the ocean.
He saw the rise of weapons and the war that almost burned the entire land, but in the blink of an eye a new civilization was established.
It took a long time after that for him to realize that it was not that the process on the earth had accelerated, but that he had "skipped" a large amount of information.
His "observations" are becoming intermittent. From the initial continuous observations, he will only record a few pictures every few years or even ten years, and these pictures with a huge time span are continuous. Getting up gave him the illusion that the process was speeding up.
He could not realize this before because during the time when the observation perspective was interrupted, his own thinking was also static.
And when the observation perspective restarted, his thinking continued as if seamlessly connected.
So he was not aware of the problems that happened to him.
It will be a serious disaster.
These three words flashed through Gawain's mind like lightning, but the thought that flashed through his mind probably took hundreds of years.
Because he clearly saw the vicissitudes of the earth - at the same time as these three words came to his mind, another kingdom fell from its peak to ruins.
Gawain didn't know what was going on, but he knew that this was certainly not normal. From those pictures that kept passing by and the time span was measured in years, he realized that his thinking was actually about to disappear.
Every hundred years, the total time he can think is probably less than one second.
And his "thinking interruption period" is still lengthening.
Because he realized that things on the earth were jumping to an incredible extent, and those "slideshows" that switched quickly like fleeting glimpses were almost incomprehensible.
If this continues, maybe after a certain moment, the mind named "Gawain" will completely dissipate in this inexplicable place. He will sleep forever in that moment and never restart. opportunity.
For the first time in countless thousands of years, Gawain felt a sense of urgency. He began to think crazily, trying to get out of this situation.He felt that his mind was spinning very fast (if he still had this organ), and countless thoughts came out like a spurt. However, looking at the "slides" that were constantly switching on the ground, he knew that his thinking had actually slowed down to a thousand years. The extent of one frame.
Of course, this is a bit exaggerated, but the real situation is not much better.
Get out of this situation, get out of this situation, get out of this situation, get out of this situation...
No matter what method, no matter what form, you must get out of this situation, even if you let yourself We can't go back to the plane that is about to crash and die in this inexplicable way in this inexplicable place!
Gawain felt that his thinking began to become chaotic, his consciousness gradually blurred, and the original "seamless connection" of thinking seemed to have problems. He thought angrily and tried his best, but when he traveled through time, he became With a fixed perspective, he could not change the situation no matter how angry he thought.
But at the moment when he felt that his thoughts were about to completely dissipate or stop, a voice suddenly came from nowhere:
"Energy failure, the host failed to restart.
The escape program has been activated."
The next moment, the fixed perspective disappeared - Gawain's eyes went dark.
But his thinking did not stop.
For the first time in countless years, he was still thinking when he "closed his eyes".
He didn’t know how long he had stayed in this darkness. He felt as if he was rolling and falling. As he entered a cold and cramped place, various unfamiliar sensations spread from his limbs. Come over and make his brain confused, and in the chaos, he vaguely heard a young female voice, which sounded quite panicked:
"Don't... don't kill me yet. ! Compared with this coffin board of your ancestors!”
(Everyone! I’m back!)