Chapter 1: Time-Space Anomaly Point

  When a person guards an old warehouse of tens of thousands of square meters, he doesn't know what kind of strange thoughts will arise. Sima is now walking in this vast warehouse area, only feeling terrified.

  When he first took on this job, Sima didn't think that he would be afraid of walking alone at night. Although he had been working in this warehouse for two weeks, Sima still found it difficult to get used to the fear of being alone in such a large area. The warehouse was tens of kilometers away from the city, and the wind blowing through the trees always made strange noises, making the place even more terrifying.

  The company to which this warehouse belongs is also very good at saving money. Although it appears that one person has taken on the salary of two people, in reality, this one person has done the work of four people. While others sleep during night shifts, when it's Sima's turn, he can only sneak around the warehouse with a flashlight every night.

  "Dong...... Dong......"

  Gunshot? At this late hour, even the slightest sound would be clearly transmitted to Sima's ears, let alone this somewhat crisp and somewhat muffled gunshot, which was a bit like the sound of firing a cannon in a large tunnel.

  Is it an illusion? Or is it? Sima was somewhat indecisive, listening to the sound of gunfire seemingly coming from the warehouse. Would someone run into the big warehouse to kill people? As far as Sima knew, there didn't seem to be any treasure in this warehouse that would be worth risking one's life for, otherwise Sima himself would have taken it long ago.

  "Whoosh" With a forceful swing, the retractable baton was extended. This thing was the company's issued "weapon" for subduing thugs, if you could call it that. But at this point, having one was better than nothing.

  One hand holding a flashlight, the other grasping an extendable baton, almost trembling with fear, Chao rushed towards Warehouse No. 3, which was a nearly 1,000-square-meter brick-concrete warehouse.

  "Huff...huff!"

  At the corner of Warehouse No. 2, Sima took a deep breath and unlocked his phone's keyboard with the shortcut "110", which was set as required by the company, so that if anything happened, he could solve the problem with just one press.

  "Hmm..."

  Another muffled gunshot, cautiously poking his head out.

  "Huh? Nobody?"

  Simar carefully observed for a few minutes at the corner, and indeed there was no one. "What's going on? Could it be... seeing a ghost?"

  At the thought of this, Sima Heng's body trembled slightly, and he carefully walked to the front of the warehouse door. The chain lock on the door was intact and undamaged.

  "This is strange! The gunshot earlier clearly came from this warehouse."

  Simmer looked up at the high windows on the warehouse wall, several old high windows with broken glass that should have been damaged in the last century and still not replaced with new glass.

  "What's that?"

  Simar felt that the light coming through the window was a bit strange. Although there were lighting devices in the warehouse, the power switches for these lighting devices were all in the security room. If you didn't go through the security room to turn on the power, it would be impossible for there to be electricity here.

  However, the brightness that shines through the window is not possible unless all the lighting equipment in the warehouse is turned on. It's unlikely that a thief would carry a flashlight to steal things.

  Feeling that something was amiss, Sima hastily stepped on the dozens of old wooden crates scattered along the edge of the warehouse wall to take a look at what was going on inside the warehouse through the high window.

  "This..."

  Dazzling white light! What entered the eye was a bizarre and eerie light circle, with a diameter of about 5 meters, with wavy patterns on its surface. This light circle emitted an unusual, somewhat dazzling light. Through the ripples on the surface of the light circle, it even felt like this light circle was a channel, a passage made up of light.

  The bizarre scene before his eyes had apparently exceeded Sima's understanding, and he jumped into the warehouse through the window with a baton in hand, looking at this light circle that was full of many strange things.

  Fear? At this time, Sima's heart was filled with more curiosity than fear. Humans are always curious about unknown things, and of course, that comes with fear.

  Simar noticed that the steel baton in his hand was being attracted to something like a magnet, and he felt an urge to let go of it. Out of curiosity, Simar loosened his grip on the baton, and indeed, it hovered in mid-air towards the light circle. If not for the nylon strap tied around his wrist, the baton would have flown into this strange light circle.

  "Give it a try!"

  Simar felt a one-yuan coin in his pocket, with a hint of a smile on his face, muttering to himself. As soon as he loosened his palm, the coin flew out in a straight line towards the light circle like it was thrown.

  "Hmm...hmm"

  As soon as the coin is sucked into the light circle, the surface of the light circle is like a water surface that has been struck, scattering around in a continuous "ripple" pattern, and at the same time emitting a low, faint sound. If you don't pay close attention, you might even overlook this sound.

  "It's all over."

  Sometimes one has to admit a fact, most of the time people are always dominated by their curiosity, let alone Sima who never thought he could control his own curiosity.

  After walking carefully for several minutes, he arrived at the light ring and looked at the strange but exceptionally beautiful ripples on its surface due to fluctuations. Sima's curiosity grew stronger, and he stretched out his baton, about 50 cm long, which was now the most suitable object to explore the light ring.

  "Take a deep breath, calm down."

  Simida's unrelenting self-encouragement, however, has begun to somewhat oppress Ji Yue, this might be the greatest discovery of the century, a discovery?

  Maybe! What's behind this halo? Sima didn't know, but he knew that he might be the first person in human history to discover such a strange phenomenon. Maybe those leaders will regret their decision at that time.

  "Ah——"

  As soon as the baton pierced the light circle, Sima felt a pulling sensation on his wrist. Before he could react, he realized that he had forgotten to remove the wrist strap and struggled to free himself, but it was too late. His arm had already been sucked into the light circle, and the absorbed arm sent a numb pain like being electrocuted by a small electric shock.

  I felt my footsteps were even a bit floating, and the whole person was like being swallowed by the light circle, slowly being pulled into the light circle. The ripples on the surface of the light circle also surged up with it.

  Regret! Sima's heart was filled with regret to the extreme. Death? Disappearance? Countless thoughts flooded Sima's mind.

  Dry grass, desolate hills, yellow earth gullies, and a blue sky that intoxicates the heart form a bewildering picture. Sima looks at the scene in front of him, this kind of somewhat bleak beauty is probably only seen in pictures that have been processed online in the past, while the refreshing air that is slightly sweet to the senses is so real.

  "Is this true?"

  Lost in the scenery of the vast sky, Sima muttered to himself. No wonder anyone who suddenly emerged from a dark and dilapidated warehouse into the bright sunlight would feel an eerie sense of strangeness. But somehow, everything that happened today seemed strange.

  Bend down to pick up the coins that have fallen on the yellow earth, and if not for discovering a piece of space behind and the scenery afterwards seems somewhat unintentionally mismatched, as well as the yellow earth and weeds in that position are obviously different from the surrounding area.

  Simma found it hard to believe that this was actually the exit of the light circle he had seen, Simma stretched his hand into this slightly mismatched strange circle again; a slight electric shock sensation came from his arm again. "Time-space anomaly?" Simma suddenly thought of a term from a foreign TV series "Ancient Invasion" he had watched years ago.

  Just then, a low moan was heard not far away, and it was indeed a moan! Sima, who had fallen into an inexplicable excitement, immediately ran towards the direction of the sound.

  A man covered in blood was lying under the tree, his eyes tightly closed, his body stained with blood, and a low groan came from his mouth. A large patch of blood was on the ground beside him.

  Simma lifted up the man's head and shouted anxiously: "Hey, hey, wake up!"

  Simma was so big, it was the first time he encountered such a situation, and he was flustered and didn't know what to do. The man's eyes lightly opened, and a faint flush appeared on his pale face.

  The man seemed to want to say something, his lips slightly parted, but no sound came out! Sima hastily put his ear to the man's mouth, still unable to hear. Suddenly the man's body convulsed, his head drooped, and he passed away in an instant.

  Simma held the man whose body was gradually cooling down, motionless for a long time. This was the first time in his life that he had encountered someone dying in front of him, especially dying in his own arms, and for a while, his heart was turbulent with anxiety.

  It took a long time for Sima to put down the man in his arms and gaze at the man lying on the ground who had already died. The man was wearing an old-fashioned suit, which was stained with blood, but from the details, it could be seen that the suit was relatively clean, indicating that this man was a person who loved cleanliness.

  "What a terrible day it has been. Someone actually died in my arms." Looking at his clothes, he found that they were stained with blood. Sima couldn't help but sigh and shake his head.

  Looking at the man's body lying on the ground, Sima hesitated whether to bury him. This was a crime scene, after hesitating for half a day, Sima finally took off his suit and gently covered the man's body.

  It was then that Sima discovered a dark brown leather case beside the dead man. "Ah! It's a medical kit, this man is a doctor."

  "No way! Is this modern?"

  Short hair, western suit, medical box. Sima couldn't help but stare blankly at everything in front of him. Just then, a series of voices came from afar, and Sima, who was already somewhat nervous, didn't wait for a reaction before hearing several shouts behind him.

  After a few hours in this small town filled with the stench of cow and horse dung, after asking many passersby, even using my broken English to gesture to a foreign priest at the church for half a day.

  Although the priest's fluent Chinese later made Sima feel a bit embarrassed, adding several newspapers and looking at the date on the newspaper, Sima finally confirmed that he was in the 4th year of the Republic, May, also known as AD 1915.

  For this era's China, many understandings are based on history books. In half a year, the former president who was called as stealing the fruit of revolutionary victory in history books will usurp the throne, and the southern local warlords will launch a war of protection of the country in the name of Mr. Yuan Shikai, and the result of the war is that the former president will step down and die soon.

  Losing a strong figure may not be a good thing for China, the originally powerful northern army was fragmented due to his illness and death, and the southern provinces' forces also began to rise, causing China to fall into a state of warlordism.

  Fortunately, everyone still maintains a nominal central government and a nominal unity. In order to expand their strength, hundreds of large and small warlords across the country have been fighting each other, with the central government being replaced by different factions one after another.

  Those European homelands were at that time embroiled in an unprecedented war with countless deaths and injuries. It seems that the understanding of the year 1915 was limited to this as well.