The next breakthrough occurred seven days after he discovered his time travel. At ten o'clock in the morning, Jiang Youwei rose from his bed, facing the glaring sunlight as usual. He counted silently to the timer, and as usual, when he reached ten seconds, a spot of light appeared at the bottom of his field of vision. Jiang Youwei then focused his attention on the spot, which drifted to the front of his field of vision as usual. "Today's number is '7'. It must change every day." Just when Jiang Youwei thought he had found his blind spot, the spot of light shifted again.

"Signal source generated. Do you want to extract it?" The fat man subconsciously read the text in front of him. What is a signal source? How to extract it?

"Extracting..."

Eh! Eh? I didn't say extract. Does looking at it count?

Jiang Youwei noticed that this time, the spot of light didn't dissipate as before. Instead, it slowly shrank again, returning to his original path below his field of vision. He was about to focus his attention on the spot below him again to see if he could control it. But before he could, a ball of light suddenly appeared before his eyes, about a meter in front of the fat man's chest. The light then vanished instantly, and the surrounding scenery seemed to collapse inward, with a pitch-black hole appearing from the inside out at the center of the ball. As this "black hole" appeared, Jiang Youwei immediately felt the air and objects around him closing in on it. Sensing something ominous, he quickly ran to the door and grabbed hold of it. Fortunately, the suction force disappeared as quickly as it came. It lasted only about five seconds. Before he could even stick to the doorframe, the "black hole" gradually shrank and disappeared, like a rewind. Simultaneously, the scenery in the room returned to normal.

"Puff!" An object fell into the messy quilt on the bed.

"I should have kept a Geiger counter handy. I wouldn't have known if there was any radiation!" Of course, this coward couldn't just go pick up that object so brazenly. He stood outside the room for a long time, feeling anxious and worried. Only then did he calm down a bit and decide to make all the necessary preparations before checking again.

"Why not just call the police?" The guy started to think wildly again. "No, if I call the police, I can't explain what that thing is, or what I saw." A black hole, a black hole appeared out of nowhere in my room, then disappeared. No one can explain this, right? "Could it be the Trisolarans? When did the Trisolarans become able to teleport matter across hundreds of light years?"

Jiang Youwei finally donned a disposable raincoat, a few masks, and finally put on his shoes and gloves. He mustered the courage to open the door. Aside from the used tissues and other debris scattered across the floor, the room seemed exactly as usual. Fortunately, he'd put on shoes beforehand, so the scattered items didn't hinder his movements. Jiang Youwei, his expression intense, completely ignored the sound of the debris crunching under his feet as he carefully unrolled layer after layer of bedding and sheets. Honestly, if he could maintain his meticulousness, he might have a career as an archaeologist.

The object was eventually discovered in a pillowcase, and upon finding it, Jiang Youwei was still wondering how it could possibly be hidden. As for what the object was, we'll leave it for now. We never learn what was going through his head at the time, but the moment Jiang Youwei saw it, cold sweats ran down his spine. His body went limp, and he nearly fell over, then he exclaimed, "Water drops! I fucking saw water drops!"

Jiang Youwei was shamefully incontinent.

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Later, Jiang Youwei, who had already finished tidying himself, listened to the whirring sound of the dryer and played with the "object" with gloves on. "So, what exactly is this thing?" He focused his attention again on the spot of light below his vision. "Whoever you are, give me a clue?"

But there was nothing, the damn light spot flew to the front as usual, showing a "7".

Jiang Youwei shook his head and chuckled self-deprecatingly, "How lame!" Then, in the light of the lamp, he carefully examined the object in his hand: "Hmm, it's a palm-sized drop of water. Actually, it's not really a drop of water, as it's a flat object. Strictly speaking, it's more like a spindle or a rice spoon."

Its overall color was bluish, and its interior was transparent. Its surface seemed to have been processed; it wasn't round like a water droplet, but more like a multifaceted gemstone. Jiang Youwei held the crystal up to the light, and it shone like a polished diamond. "If only it were a gemstone! At least something this big would be worth a fortune!" the poor man beamed at the sight of wealth.

The next day, Jiang Youwei leaned listlessly against the pillow, his eyes fixed on the spot of light before him, which formed an "8." "Hey, this is so boring!" He felt like he was going crazy—he had been staring at the "water drop" all night. He clearly remembered that after he held the "water drop" under the lamp, something went wrong with him. He felt as if he had been dazzled by the refracted light, and vaguely, he seemed to have returned to the days before the time travel, when Jiang Dad and Jiang Mom played mixed doubles.

Let's not talk about the older generation's education methods, at least Jiang Youwei is not a good student. This guy has been wild since he was a child. In elementary school, he loved to tear down windows, climb over walls, and rip tiles off roofs. In middle school, he was always doing tricks under the class, going to the scrap market to collect a bunch of useful-looking garbage, and then making them into small cars, small airplanes, etc. But when he got to college, he started playing games, playing day and night, so much so that in the end he didn't even get a degree. Jiang's parents had no idea what he was playing, and they didn't have the time to find out. "It's all the games that ruined you!" they always said. "Study? Study shit," he replied. And then, of course, he was whipped.

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