Chapter 840

【Earth's final mysteries were solved bit by bit by humans, but they did not include the "Blue Bird."】

【Every time there was a call for experimental topics, I would submit an application report to the Earth History Research Institute.】

【My reports grew longer and longer.】

【From the first time, when it could be written on three thin pages, to the twenty-sixth time, which was three times the length of my doctoral thesis.】

【Every time, I thought the "Blue Bird" would be selected, but the moment I looked forward to never arrived.】

【Until after the twenty-seventh experimental topic report was submitted...】

……

After submitting the report, Jiang Wenhan just exhaled gently and stood up to walk to the space station cabin wall.

Today, the space station was still quite quiet.

Rather than saying this was a reflection of the high quality of Foundation personnel, it was better to say that each space station was too large, and there were too few living people inside.

Inside the interstellar fortress, which was larger than a mountain, there were fewer than ten thousand people in total, and a considerable portion of them were just temporarily resting here, about to continue their expedition into the deep universe.

Jiang Wenhan made no other moves; he just silently looked at the universe, observing the gas giant not far away.

Gorgeous cloud belts flowed slowly on its surface, outlining vortices circling the entire giant star, and several storm circles as huge as deep red eyes rotated before the cloud belts.

What a wonderful sight... Jiang Wenhan felt a bit tired.

To write the twenty-seventh report, he had gone five days and four nights without sleep.

Even though he had already received a series of enhancements and treatments, there was still a risk of sudden death.

He laid the office chair flat, turned on the massage mode, took off his white lab coat to cover himself, and quietly closed his eyes.

When he heard a familiar sound of footsteps and surfaced from his dream, waking up, he saw a figure in a white lab coat sitting not far away, drinking tea one sip at a time.

That was Jiang Wenhan's old friend.

He had a name that, in the past, could make many people shudder—Ji Wei.

This guy, who is now a Level 4 researcher and concurrently a department head, put down his teacup and asked:

"Submitted a report again?"

"Yeah."

After saying this, Jiang Wenhan adjusted his seat posture until he saw the deep picture of the universe once again.

"I called you a stubborn ox before, but I don't think so now; no matter how stubborn an ox is, after hitting a wall twenty-six times, it wouldn't think about hitting it again," Ji Wei said.

"The logic is that logic, but there's no way, who told us this is our family's long-cherished wish?"

Jiang Wenhan yawned, woke up the screen, and looked at the current time; very good, he had slept for 8 hours.

"What's more, those projects more important than the 'Blue Bird,' one by one, have all been studied, and the truth has been found out."

"It should be the 'Blue Bird's' turn."

Ji Wei looked helpless.

Of course he knew all this; the two had played together since they were young, had even briefly been romantic rivals, and were even more solid "conjugate father and son."

"Then what if it's not your turn? Are you going to stare blankly? Or do you plan to write another academic monograph and submit it?"

"I bet that guy Qian Lunfeng has a headache just seeing your report now—other people's reports, just scanning a few glances is enough, but when it comes to you..."

As he spoke, Ji Wei gestured.

First, his index finger's first two joints and thumb were parallel, but it seemed the gap was a bit large, so he gestured with both hands.

"Whoa! Good guy, thicker every time, and he has to read it carefully with patience."

"Oh, I get it, you kid, you're forcing Old Qian to submit this way—so you old guy won't pass my project, right? Fine, who's afraid of whom? Come, let's hurt each other!"

Jiang Wenhan revealed a slight smile upon hearing this:

"That's still less than the 'Ten Thousand Calamities Calendar'; I saw that when the paper report for 'Ten Thousand Calamities Calendar' was submitted, it was pushed over with a handcart."

"'Ten Thousand Calamities Calendar,' huh..." Ji Wei first fell into silence, as if thinking about something, but gradually hung a smile on his face again.

"To be honest, there are a bunch of ancient myths in there; who knows how many divinities are involved, and how many are supreme divinities."

"And once it involves the supreme, you also know, They are the only existence in the multiverse; in parallel universes, we can at most see events with similar influences occur, and cannot use parallel universes to know our past."

"So their reports were rejected again and again..." Jiang Wenhan said casually.

Just then, his computer sounded with an email notification again.

"Take a look?" Ji Wei immediately became interested, leaned toward the screen, full of joy.

That appearance was no different from asking about gossip in his student days.

"You're already a grandfather, and you still have no proper behavior all day long; go aside, go aside!"

Jiang Wenhan casually patted Ji Wei's big face away and clicked on the email.

Immediately, the email title entered his eyes.

【Twenty-Seventh Parallel Space-Time Jump Experiment Topic Solicitation Notice (8/26/2096)】

Such notices are mass-sent every time; there is no advance notice, nor will the "winners" be notified separately.

Previously, Jiang Wenhan had received twenty-six such notification emails and had been disappointed twenty-six times.

In the repeated rejections, he had long been accustomed to it, or rather, numb.

If it weren't for an old bastard today, he would probably just take a casual look, then continue working, and wait for the twenty-eighth solicitation to begin.

"Hehe, I'm just caring about an old friend." Speaking of this, Ji Wei lowered his voice.

"Exactly the same as when you were heartbroken in middle school."

"Say one more word, and you can get the hell out!"

"Alright, alright, you are a Level 5 superpower, and I am just a Level 4 small fry."

After Ji Wei's fuss, Jiang Wenhan was completely awake.

He rubbed his face and began to read.

But after reading just a few lines, his gaze froze, and then a sense of unreality surged into his heart.

【To all members of the Foundation Shenzhou Branch:】

【I am very happy to tell everyone that after a week of topic solicitation and public voting,】

【for the twenty-seventh experiment, we will adopt the proposal submitted by the Earth History Research Institute to study one of the greatest mysteries in the history of the Shenzhou Branch—the "Blue Bird."】

【Its number is "SCP-C-1559," which was also an Anomalous Studies file, numbered "Anomalous Studies Ninety-Nine."】

【This file occupies a very important position in the research on the development history of the Shenzhou civilization's cosmic view.】

【This file records the legend of a small blue-white bird that appeared in the airspace near the Yangtze River basin during the late Shang and the entire Zhou Dynasty.】

【Legend has it that this bird would dance in the sky every spring at dusk.】

【Its appearance aroused the curiosity of local residents about the sky, causing the number of people observing the starry sky during the same period to increase sharply.】

【We found that many concepts about the universe in Shenzhou civilization, including constellations and many cosmic myths, and even the earliest astronomical work in Shenzhou history, "Gan Shi Star Classic," 】

【may all be related to the curiosity that this bird aroused in humans about the firmament and the universe.】

【For so many years, we have never found any direct evidence related to it, but the Foundation has always believed that it really existed.】

【Everyone should know that the records of anomalies on bamboo slips are very accurate; it has no reason to make a mistake on such an important anomaly.】

【We still don't know what this bird is to this day, but we have been looking for it.】

【It may not have any anomalous properties, but it planted the seeds for the opening of our current cosmic era.】

【This is the sentiment of all Foundation voyagers in the interstellar era exploring the origin.】

【Qian Lunfeng】

【Dean of the Space Academy, Foundation Shenzhou Branch】

【Earth Calendar August 26, 2096】

【At Station-C-62028】

".. Well, you really managed to do it, you stubborn ox." Ji Wei looked at Jiang Wenhan, who was so excited he couldn't speak, and followed him in silly joy.

It was as if the project he was in charge of had made a major breakthrough.

"It wouldn't be right if you didn't treat us today."

"Wait, let me slow down first." Jiang Wenhan read the content of the email again, looked at the two characters "Blue Bird" repeatedly, and finally leaned back, lying on the chair, soft.

"It really passed..." He looked silently at the ceiling of the cabin.

The bright light seemed to turn into a flying bird, circling in the sky, singing, inviting him to cross time and space to go.

……

【On the day of the official experiment, I was invited to go to Station-C-62028, where the headquarters of the Space Academy is located, to watch the Foundation's exploration of Earth during the Warring States period.】

【We selected 324 BC as the target time for exploration.】

【In this year, Qu Yuan became the Zuo Tu of the Chu State, and my ancestor became the Zuo Shi of the Chu State the year before.】 ===== CHAPTER 842 =====