Main Text Volume Chapter 6: Jon's Past

"Father, Leon Pat invites us to have tea at the manor tomorrow night." Eaton read the invitation with doubts in his eyes.

The old man with a white beard was also stunned by the invitation for a moment, and soon he chuckled softly: "It seems that this family's fate should not be cut off tonight."

Eaton was stunned for a moment, knowing that his father was no longer prepared to let him go to the slaughterhouse tonight, so he also smiled and said: "You can be considered aware of current affairs, but I don't know why he changed his mind?"

The old man with a white beard smiled, pointed at the wooden box and said, "Maybe it's because of this wooden box."

The night gradually faded, and the bloody night did not fall on the Pat Manor. The sun the next day still shone warmly on every inch of the manor.

No one knew that they had escaped a murder. Naturally including Angel.

Early in the morning, Angel took several maids to the tea garden to pick the freshest tea leaves. Although this season is winter when everything freezes in the outside world, after Jon's greenhouse improvements, the tea garden is still as warm as spring.

For the evening tea party, Angel asked the maid to pick a lot of tea leaves with morning dew after the rain. Part of it is used for tea brewing at night, and the other part is given to Mana for tea frying. Only by rolling and ‘killing’ the tea leaves with high temperature can the tea leaves retain their original fragrance for a long time. He planned to give the roasted tea leaves to Earl Eaton as a souvenir.

Seeing that the tea was in the final stage, Angel left the tea garden with peace of mind and returned to the small courtyard of the Diaojiaolou.

Jon sat on the balcony on the second floor, basking in the rare warm sunshine in winter, and hummed a tune comfortably.

Angel stepped forward, took the ointment from the mute servant's hand, and began to apply it on his mentor's body. Jon glanced at it but said nothing. Even though he had explained the reason for the atrophy of limbs to Angel yesterday, he didn't seem to believe it. Jon doesn't care anymore, just treat it as his apprentice's filial piety... After all, the time he can enjoy his apprentice's filial piety is running out, maybe he won't be able to survive even the frozen soil moon, right?

Jon smiled into the wind and hummed an unknown tune.

A little sad, but also a little free and easy.

More of endless thoughts.

"If I could return to Earth, I would be willing to die the next moment." Jon didn't understand the principle of fallen leaves returning to their roots before, but now he understood.

Angel had melancholy in his eyes. He didn't know what to say to comfort his mentor at this moment. 'Separation' was the most painful, and it was the distance between the two worlds.

The quiet time did not last long. Jon suddenly pointed to a transparent crystal with half of it exposed in the flowerpot on the balcony and said, "Can you bring it over for me?"

Angel said "Yes", took out the transparent crystal from the wet soil, wiped it clean with a handkerchief and handed it to Jon.

This transparent crystal is oval in shape and looks like a glass bead from a distance.

Jon held the 'Glass Bead' and looked at it for a long time. The expression is sometimes angry, sometimes sad, sometimes with a wry smile.

"I abandoned it in the forest three years ago. I didn't expect it to appear in a flower pot." Jon shook his head, "Maybe this is fate?".

Angel looked at his mentor talking to himself, his face turned red, and after a while he hesitated and said: "I picked this up... I used to see my mentor often playing with it and looking at it. I just cried. I guessed that it belonged to my mentor’s family. That day, I saw you throwing it into the woods, and I thought it was because you didn’t want to see it and think about it. Then I picked it up and buried it in a flower pot. What did I think? One day the teacher regrets what he said, and it can still come in handy.”

Jon was stunned for a moment and murmured to himself in a voice that he could only hear: "Perhaps it is destined to be with you?"

After a while, Jon looked at Angel: "This glass bead does not belong to my family. But... it can be considered a thing from the earth, right? I don't know its origin."

"Let me tell you a story, about the glass beads."

…

As Jon spoke, the look in Angel's eyes became more and more surprised.

He thought it was just a commemorative glass bead, but he didn't expect that the origin of this glass bead would be so magical!

The story begins twenty years ago. When Jon was still on Earth, he was a scientific researcher. He was born in China. Later, because of a global mysterious project, he was invited to Long Island, New York, with his wife and daughter. , conducting a secret study that lasted for more than ten years.

The subject of this research is called: Montauk Project.

The Montauk Project is a famous topic in space physics on Earth. Jon was born in the middle of the 23rd century. Two centuries before he was born, the Montauk Project had already been launched. It has been stranded several times and has been studied for more than 50 years. The Montauk project that Jon participated in was launched for the sixth time.

The predecessor of the Montauk Project was the Philadelphia Experiment in 1942. At that time, radar had just been invented. In order to obtain the stealth ability of warships against radar waves, the U.S. military conducted experiments on the destroyer USS Edrich. The warship's main antenna is equipped with an omnidirectional antenna, and two energy coils are placed on the deck, powered by the ship's generator. Mutation occurred at the beginning of the experiment, and even greater disasters occurred in the second and third experiments. The generator ran wildly and was completely out of control. In the end, the Edrich disappeared from people's sight and moved to the seventh place in an instant. Thousands of kilometers away, the Philadelphia experiment was suspended, and a by-product was the discovery of long-distance teleportation of objects.

In short, the Montauk Project is actually a physics project that studies space travel.

In the beginning, the research direction of the Montauk Project was still inseparable from the Philadelphia Experiment, but unfortunately, there was no progress. It was not until the early 23rd century that an alien object excited all scientists!

This alien object fell in the southwest of the Sahara Desert in Mauritania, Africa, right in the middle of the famous Eye of the Sahara.

This alien object attracted the attention of various countries. As a small African country, Mauritania could not compete with the world's major powers. In the end, this object stayed in Long Island, New York, USA. China, Britain, France, Japan, Russia and other countries participated in the research and was named "Eye of the Sky".

During the research process, scientists discovered that the Eye of the Sky has energy fluctuations that violate most of the known physical coefficients. When it was initially stimulated by high-energy rays of a certain band, the Eye of the Sky even had the magical effect of teleporting objects in a small range.

It was because scientists saw the effectiveness of this space teleportation that the sixth Montauk Project was launched.

In the Montauk Project, Jon was actually just an ordinary researcher who recorded the impact of the frequency generated by the Eye of the Sky on plants.

One day, as usual, Jon brought several sealed plant seedlings to the heavily protected Eye of the Sky area to record and sample.

At first, it was normal. Most of the plants withered and died under the fluctuations released by the Eye of the Sky, but only one tea seedling brought from China survived.

Just when Jon took the tea seedlings to open the parasitic chip to record, it was unknown whether the operating table was wrong or not, and several high-energy rays hit the Eye of the Sky again, and then the laboratory changed dramatically.

The space collapsed, darkness spread, and the terrifying breath released by the Eye of the Sky instantly covered everything in the laboratory. The next second, Jon hadn't reacted yet, and he was swallowed up in the darkness with the tea seedlings in his hand.

With the Eye of the Sky, through many barriers, it came to the world today with scars.

Later, Jon was saved by Viscount Old Pat.

Later, the Eye of the Sky was no longer magical, and turned into an extremely ordinary... glass bead.