To block out noise, Lin Yuhui had slept wearing noise-canceling earplugs last night. So when he woke up early this morning, he looked at the pillowside and the headboard to see if any earplug had fallen out — none.
为了隔绝噪音,林语晖昨晚睡觉佩戴了降噪耳塞.所以今天一早醒来他看了看枕边,床头,看有没有耳塞掉出来,没有.
He felt around with his hand; there was nothing in his ears either. He felt a little puzzled — where did the earplugs go? The annoying family upstairs was still making the bed creak loudly, just like last night.
他又用手摸了摸,耳朵里也没有,他心里有点纳闷,耳塞掉哪去了.楼上那家讨厌的人还在压得床嘎吱吱直响,就像昨晚一样.
Lin Yuhui crawled out of the mosquito net and got up. He glanced at the computer desk — huh? That wasn't right.
林语晖从蚊帐中爬出来起床,看了一眼电脑桌儿,哎?不对啊,
The two earplugs were still sitting in their original spots on the desk. But he clearly remembered that after lying down last night, because of the noise upstairs, he had groped around in the dark, gotten up again, found them by hand, and put them in.
那两个耳塞依然在桌儿上原位置放着.可是,明明是昨晚自己躺下之后因为楼上噪音,又摸黑爬起来,用手摸到它们戴上的啊?
He also distinctly remembered being gentler when inserting the right one because the ear canal was torn — it seemed there had been a pimple in there, and last night while cleaning his ears he'd poked it with a cotton swab and it had bled.
自己还清楚地记得,往右耳塞的时候用力小一些,因为耳道内破了,好像是里面有个青春痘,昨晚掏耳朵的时候用棉签碰破流血了.
Then he looked at the other side of the desk — the cotton swab and iodine from last night's treatment were still there. Had he switched timelines the moment he woke up this morning?
再看看桌上另一边,昨晚上药用的棉签和碘伏还在,怎么自己今天一早醒来切换时间线了吗?
Thinking back to last night, while working out a new plot for his novel, he had asked the AI whether a black-haired version of himself could have a black-haired Shizuka with Liliya, who had red-orange hair.
想想昨晚在构思自己的小说新剧情的时候,还在问AI黑发的自己能否和红橙色头发的莉莉娅生出黑发的静香,
Shizuka was a fictional character in the novel, but he was serious and didn't want his work full of holes. The answer was yes, because black hair is a dominant gene.
静香是个小说中虚构的人物,但是自己很认真,不想自己的作品漏洞百出,答案是可以的,因为黑发是显性基因.
Then he asked the AI whether black-eyed him and green-eyed Liliya could produce a green-eyed, black-haired daughter. No — unless he carried the recessive gene for green eyes.
然后又问了AI黑眼睛的自己和绿眼睛的莉莉娅能否生出绿眼睛黑头发的女儿,不行,除非我有绿眼睛隐性基因.
Lin Yuhui thought about it — how could he cover up this flaw? Unless? He and Liliya had a boy who inherited Liliya's recessive green-eye gene, and then he and Liliya had Shizuka — that worked, haha.
林语晖想了想,这个破绽怎么圆上啊?除非?自己和莉莉娅生了一个男孩,他有莉莉娅的隐性绿眼基因,他又和莉莉娅生了静香,对上了,哈哈.
Lin Yuhui laughed at himself, but in the universe, what was impossible? He already had a shorter lifespan than Liliya, so to stay with her, it made sense for her to give birth to a body for him to use — sure, dreaming sweet dreams.
林语晖自己都笑了,可是在宇宙里,又有什么是不可能发生的呢?本来自己就比莉莉娅寿命短,为了陪伴她,她生一个身体给自己用也合乎逻辑,呵呵,尽想美事.
Then Lin Yuhui wondered, could the real blonde Liana be his daughter? He asked the AI — red hair carries the recessive gene for blonde, but he didn't have it.
然后林语晖又在想,那么真实的金发的莉安娜可能是自己的女儿吗?查询AI,红发含金发隐性基因,可是自己没有啊,
So he'd still need to solve it with him and Liliya having a boy. Then Liliya and the body of his descendant could produce a blonde girl, and she could then reproduce parthenogenetically into the current Liana.
那就还得用我和莉莉娅生一个男孩来解决.然后莉莉娅和我的后代身体的我能生出金发女孩,她再通过孤雌生殖就是现在的莉安娜.
Or her mother and the body of his descendant... alright, enough, don't make it messier. It was like he was taking advantage of Liana — no wonder she complained about Liliya's time jumps making everything such a mess.
或者她的妈妈和我的后代身体,哎呀,好了,就到这吧,不要再弄得更乱了,好像自己在占莉安娜的便宜,怪不得她对莉莉娅的时间跳跃把一切弄得很乱颇有怨言.
So last night's hypothesis or conjecture was logically feasible — meaning physically achievable. Could it be that this morning he had really been shifted onto a new timeline by higher-dimensional beings?
所以昨晚的设想或者猜想逻辑上是可行的,就是说物理上可实现的,难道今天一早上,自己真的被高维存有切换时间线了吗?
Lin Yuhui turned on his computer. The screen read: 6:24, June 30, Tuesday, 2026.
林语晖打开电脑,屏幕显示,6点24,6月30日,星期二,2026年.
His old knee injury had hurt again last night. He'd thought it was the Earth's ascension energy again, and he also had a headache on the left side — all neurological.
昨晚膝关节旧伤又疼了,他以为又是地球扬升能量,而且还左侧头疼,都是神经性的,
The headache was different from before, but thinking about it now — could benevolent beings be using their energy to shift his timeline according to his设想?
头也疼这与以往不同,但是今天再想想,难道是有善良的存有在用他们的能量,按照自己的设想,改变了自己的时间线吗?
But this involved another person's free will, didn't it? Wait — no. This only involved which body Liana used to come into this world; it didn't involve whether she, using that body, would fall in love with him.
可是这涉及到另一个人的自由意志啊?哎?不对,这只涉及莉安娜用哪副身体来到这个世界,不涉及是否她用这副身体爱上我,
Once she arrived in this world, her free will couldn't let her choose her body's origin anymore — that would be changing bodies, which was a matter of her pre-incarnation agreement.
她来到这个世界后的自由意志不能让她再选择用什么身体来源了,那相当于换身体了,那是她投胎前协议的事情,
And the choices in her life's path in this lifetime were made on the basis of her having forgotten that agreement — or perhaps her agreement had retained something.
而今生她的人生道路选择,是在她忘记那个协议基础上做出的,或者也许她的协议保留了些什么.
Those higher-dimensional beings had indeed mentioned that they were here to help humanity manifest the future it desired.
那些高维存有确实提到过他们是来帮助人类显化自己想要的未来的,
Lin Yuhui just hadn't expected that his imagined novel plot would count. Well, it wasn't just the novel plot — he also wanted to care for his daughter Liana.
只是林语晖没想到自己设想的小说情节也算,好吧,不只是小说情节,他也想爱护自己的女儿莉安娜.
Regarding the operating style of those higher-dimensional beings, after all this direct and indirect contact over time, Lin Yuhui seemed to have more or less understood and grown used to it.
对于那些高维存有的行事风格,林语晖经过这些时间直接的间接的接触,似乎多少也了解和习惯了.
It wasn't just the positive ones — even the negative ones would act toward what a person had said or imagined.
不只是正面的,就连负面的也会朝着人说的或者设想的方向去实践.
For the positive, benevolent beings, that was easy to understand — they simply wanted to help others fulfill their wishes.
对于正向善良的存有,这好理解,他们就是想要帮助别人实现愿望.
But what about the negative ones? The things he'd previously warned Liana about had all been spun into rumors targeting her, used to attack her.
可对于负面的那些呢?自己之前提醒莉安娜注意的内容,都被编纂成了针对她的谣言,用于攻击她.
Fine — he'd just assume those negative higher-dimensional beings lacked imagination. Yes, they were disconnected from the Source; they had lost empathy and imagination.
好吧,就认为是那些负面的高维存有缺乏想象力吧.是的,他们从源头断开了,他们失去了同理心和想象力.
Since the timeline had shifted, Lin Yuhui went on calmly living his life — cooking, working, and then continuing to write his novel:
既然时间线切换了,林语晖就依然安心过他的生活,做饭,工作,然后继续写自己的小说:
Shizuka left Captain Lübeck's San Jacinto and returned to one of her rest bases — an island in the Pacific Ocean on Earth, except the time period was ancient, with no one to disturb her.
静香离开了吕贝克船长的圣哈辛托号,回到她的一个休整基地,那是地球上太平洋中的岛屿,只不过时间是古代,无人打扰.
The combat spacecraft she piloted had been left to her by her mother Liliya; it had the ability to cross time and space.
她所驾驶的这艘战斗飞船是她的妈妈莉莉娅留给她的,具有跨越时空的能力.
She hid the ship, hovering it above the small island, and used a tractor beam to descend to the ground.
把飞船隐身悬停在小岛上方,静香使用牵引光束降落到地面.
Rather than calling it a rest base, it was more like a vacation base, because the facilities only reached the simple level of wilderness survival on an island — overall, one could only say it was fairly in tune with nature.
与其说这个小岛是她的休整基地,不如说更像休假基地,因为设施建设真的就只达到了海岛野外生存的简单级别,只能说整体上比较亲和自然.
Chunhui maintained everything here and provided food. He had dark brown hair and blue-gray eyes, and looked German, but for some reason Shizuka called him "Chunhui."
这里的一切都是春晖在维护,并提供食物保障,他有着棕黑色头发和蓝灰色的眼睛,看起来像德国族裔,但是不知为什么静香叫他"春晖".
Just as the food was nearly ready, Shizuka chose this moment to return. In addition to the high-protein open-flame grilling of seafood, there were also sweet potatoes cultivated from outside sources, serving as the starch.
赶到食物快准备好了,静香选择了这个时间点回来,除了海产高蛋白的明火烧烤,也有外面带回来培育的番薯作为淀粉来源.
"Yattina, you're back just in time — our dinner is almost ready," Chunhui greeted warmly when he saw Shizuka return, as if he'd only just seen her today.
"雅缇娜,你回来得正巧,我们的晚餐快准备好了,"春晖看见静香回来,热情地跟她打着招呼,好像今天才见到她一样.
"Great, I'm a little hungry," she said, sitting to one side.
"好啊,正好我有点饿了,"说着坐在了一边,
The protein of the sea fish was already giving off a faint aroma under the flames, but it would take a while longer to be fully cooked.
海鱼的蛋白质在火焰炙烤之下已经飘出一丝香气,只是要熟透还得等一会儿,
At that moment, Chunhui, sitting beside her, placed his hand on her waist, then slowly slid it toward her hip.
这时候坐在她身边的春晖,把手搭在了她的腰间,然后又慢慢滑向她的臀部.
Shizuka wasn't quite used to being around men, but Chunhui had been helping her run this supply point for this entire phase, so she tacitly allowed his little moves.
静香还不太习惯和男性相处,只是春晖这一阶段以来一直在帮她运行这个补给点,她也就默许他的小动作了.
But he didn't stop there — while fondling her, he also gave her butt a pinch.
但是他并没有就此住手,而是一边抚摸一边还掐一把她的屁股.
"Alright, stop touching me," Shizuka said, turning her head to look —
"好啦,不要再摸我啦."说着静香扭头一看,
Chunhui's hand wasn't on her at all; it had been gesturing in the air the whole time.
春晖的手没在自己身上,而是一直在空中比划着,
It was her again — Shizuka was just thinking —
又是她,静香正想着,
At that moment Chunhui was also explaining, "I didn't! You're the one touching my butt."
这时春晖也在解释,"我没有啊?是你在摸我的屁股."
With a string of giggles, a little girl appeared behind them.
随着咯咯咯的笑声,一个小姑娘出现在了他们身后,
"Oh, this is my sister," Shizuka explained to Chunhui.
"哦,这是我的妹妹,"静香给春晖解释着,
Chunhui looked at this little girl who had appeared out of nowhere, then at Yattina — strange, one blonde and one black-haired, one with pale blue eyes and one with green — how were they sisters?
春晖看着这个凭空出现的小姑娘,又看看雅缇娜,奇怪了,一个金发一个黑发,一个淡蓝眼睛,一个绿眼睛怎么就是姐妹了呢?
"Call me Mommy. Your name was given by me," as these words came from her sister's mouth, Yattina tilted her head sharply back, rolled her eyes with a helpless look, and pursed her lips.
"叫妈妈,你的名字是我给你起的,"随着这句话从她妹妹口中说出,只见雅缇娜把头往斜后方一仰,无可奈何的眼神往一旁一翻,嘴一撇.
But Chunhui was serious and pressed on,
但是春晖很认真,紧跟着问,
"Yeah, why am I called that? It's so weird."
"是啊,我为什么叫这个名字,好奇怪啊."
Shizuka glanced at her mischievous, meddling sister and had to explain to him again,
静香看了一眼调皮多事的妹妹,只好又给他解释,
"Your name means 'warm light' — isn't that nice? Don't listen to her nonsense; this is your name."
"你的名字是温暖的光的意思,不好吗?你别听她乱说,这就是你的名字."
"Oh, I see," Chunhui said, glancing at Yattina's sister, and added,
"哦,是这样,"春晖说着,看了一眼雅缇娜妹妹,说,
"You came at the perfect time — dinner's almost ready. Eat here with us."
"你来的正好,晚餐马上就好,和我们一起在这吃吧."
"Alright," Yattina's sister answered with a laugh, squeezed in, and sat between the two of them.
"好啊."雅缇娜妹妹笑着答应,然后挤了挤,坐在了两个人中间.