Separated the two World

 Robert Charles Wilson (Canada), Geng Hui translation

Carlotta sneak into a really tall universe (from the Big Bang to collapse, through this process the universe has ended, and was sealed in a box), by calculation, static space-time coordinates of the path even more accurate and eventually she came to Arizona Comanche? Droop outside a mobile home. invisible she is just some of the virtual particles produced in Feiman Bu slightest disturbance Council, it can not affect the physical world. She unimpeded through the aluminum siding, suspended in the top of a mattress. a girl disturbed sleep there.
The young girl is her own past, the initial Carlotta? Bodai En. night hot air enveloped her Hanjin Jin's body, a cotton sheet wrapped around her legs . Despite the small window of the bedroom was open, the air but no trace of wind blowing through. far away, a coyote in the moan.
looked at himself, surprised Carlotta: shorts vest, skinny, Now she was sixteen - sixteen years but passed and - mapping the night in the moonlight, her breathing during sleep is so weak. the poor child could not even see her own soul. Oh, but she will see, Carlotta want to - she will see.
watching her sleep in their own body, to mind the familiar words, they have been buried for many generations. the stay away, do not be afraid, Do not hesitate to cast off your shackles, quick to leave.
poem she liked for a long time, always singing carols. In fact, these words to save her life.
before her own needs and share them, it's only perfect. And she knows all the material properties of the world indicate that this idea can not be achieved. maybe it ... ... But it does not try to stop her.
Carlotta began to talk, be patient, slow, silent. < br> girl, this is about the There are more than a thousand names, but we tentatively called it development, but no one on the planet knows it. I guess sometimes flood the ship will fall on the Earth, the spacecraft across the atmosphere, but ordinary meteorites with the same result: only one smaller than the fist of carbonaceous chondrites, all the signs are ordered material engulfed in flames - a spacecraft around the frequent losses, is negligible for the torrent of this family. torrent of all data (also can be seen as the consciousness) are irregularly distributed shared The. Ship birth and destruction, does not affect the flood of eternal continuation of this doubt.
Oh, I know you do not understand the special significance of the word, child! you listen - these words - not important important is that I have to say it. Why? because tomorrow (for me it is several billion years ago), It is with your body to leave the infant car Zheliang to westbound Interstate ride, luggage, only a bottle of water, half a dozen cocoa fudge, and a roll of twenty dollars bills and the latter is my old pocket from Tangao stolen. that night (tomorrow night: Remember the time) I am a man sleeping under the bridge overnight, woke up before dawn, the body cold and hungry, I looked up and his eyes covered with bird droppings across a cement arch, see the meteor in the sky clouds, I think that scene is like in the dark splash on Mars skin. Clearly, some of the night torrent is directed too close to the spacecraft's atmosphere, but I do not know I had these (like now like you, girl) - I thought it was a burst of meteors, although very nice, but does not matter. Then I went back to sleep for a while. the sun rises, I wait for the morning traffic rush up, because then I'll get to catch a car ... ... but all through the car was not around I just speed up the adoption, it seems that all people have just concluded a wild party, driving home.
I said. the decision you have to do. shows that Erasmus is not human. was his appearance as a mass of tangled shiny metal hooks, big enough to have microwave ovens. He suspended in the air, a pair of eyes seemed to street light for sale in souvenir shops precious stones. This shape is not necessary - he thought I would use that old incarnation leaves a deeper impression, but then I do not know, I'm just surprised that a little serious, I have forgotten shocked fear.
tower, because the mantle becomes unstable, the mainland began to slide out. then the similarities and differences between ordinary, but I convinced he has a certain sound quality (reminds me of actor Morgan? Freeman). In addition, I deeply feel that where something goes wrong, probably because a group of green clouds just before unknown rat-like teeth were arranged in distant mountains on the roll, and the sudden burst of hot air to, mixed with the smell of burning away, accompanied by thunder or something more terrible sound.

stay, the problem is so simple.
finally catch the car - just not my kind of expected that.
the whole earth tremble a bit, as if I'm beating the soles of the devil. said, If it were not thought of this sentence, the day I die. because billions of people lost their lives.
She slowed the flow of time, so she can put this strange monologue embedded small but essential Carlotta's a breath between the two. Of course, she can not use a real voice. the past is static, being immersed in endless sleep. Her shadow space can not affect the movement along a path determined air molecules. With the dawn wake up, girl. stole that you will never spend the money - there is no relationship; important is left is the time.
cast off your shackles, quick to leave. regarding the Earth all memory of life in that she was impressed most: wakes up to find a ghostly figure, a white robe standing in a dark room, woman, in her time of need for her advice. Suddenly, Carlotta wants to loud cries of: the stay away -
However, she connected the ancient dust in the air can not touch a small Carlotta still sleeping.
from the bedside is a thrift shop Amoy bedside cabinets, covered by the traces of cigarette burns, a child above them the night light, the paper has faded shade close to the cotton ball clip art box. next to an expansion of the magazine, Carlotta afternoon hidden under a small break from the Tang Ao's bag stolen sedatives, (she inadvertently found) Tangao also placed the cloth in his pocket the cash, change and wash clothes, and a forged driver's license blue steel automatic pistol.
small Carlotta did not detect any ghostly presence ... ... two rooms, the Tangao angry voice and her mother rushed her breathing did not disturb sleep. Obviously, Tang Ao can not sleep, he saw his lost something. situation is very complicated.
But Carlotta did not want to rush.
torrent of the most difficult hurdle to join is no longer consider themselves to have the body, not that their physically present in a real place.
However, everyone - I mean every person rescued from the earth, listen to everyone Erasmus - the initial idea is that : We are still sound full. in the destruction of Earth before the image of Erasmus appeared in a variety of every human face, of which 2.5 billion people accepted his assistance, others left for dead, with the Earth disappeared in the magma in the continental plate.
survivors of the problem will naturally follow, children lost parents, parents lost their children, lovers separated forever. Any incomplete relief will also have the same tragedy and unpleasant, but this time scale to the entire planet. to leave the Earth, we all seem to reappear in an endless green fields, and it is as flat as Kansas, the blue sky above is a forgery. Each person's shoulders are a Erasmus, all in wailing, sobbing or asked to explain.
course, wilderness is not virtual body, but when we do not know. We still maintain the original shape of mind - even clothes are not changed. I remember looking down under their own store from Amoy to local charitable second-hand Reebok shoes They are also dirty. I thought to myself: this is paradise? not mistaken you?
indeed disturbing, PBS's a TV show, cable has been cut off after that we can only watch one channel.
br> I've never been to a real beach, close to the sea over.
stop. fighting soon broke out. You can not arrange billions of people in that environment, the results also expect anything else. But the crowd was dispersed, as a flood of people from their representatives where he received a similar proposal.
a sense of astonishment subsided, leaving only a little loss. I take off my shoes, try standing on the beach. sun sand hot step up is very comfortable. As the waves hit the sea from the blue coral, overflow between my toes full of water.
then reeled hit, I had to sit down.
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he landed on the beach beside me, like dragonflies and playing in the water ball with the variances of future generations, think the older generation that has been mentioned many times, so this is an indisputable fact. In addition, she knows, she remembers, the small Carlotta will wake up and found her on the side: the presence of a ghostly , tell the truth.
but how she can allow himself to be aware of the sleeping child do? feeling is actually spilled into the numerous and substantial electrochemical neural network information ... ... in some way she can with the perception in the quantum boundary implementation intervention? instant, Carlotta choose to use another's eyes the young self-observation, collection of molecular magnetic field gradient. her back view, in their own sense of revelry in the surging wander a bit short, and her endless noisy inside, a series of dream images as fractal bubbles pouring out, and spread out. At the same time, small Carlotta blurred skin and skull become transparent. even Carlotta can manipulate a boson - for example, changing a Association of an important junction of electricity -
but she can not do. Over the past can not change. where everything is OK, and will not be otherwise. intervention in the past equal to the change history, it is impossible .
next came the noise of a quarrel suddenly heated up. Carlotta felt that the young self to wake up from sleep soon.
in Erasmus's help, I finally understand the. Oh, boy, I would not bother with the first few years of experience you - God knows, I am also very troubled time.
we are certainly not in the that he must die, and they happen to believe in reincarnation of the kind of afterlife. In fact, this was not too far off the mark, but certainly nothing to do with God. the wisdom of life. many planets have been destroyed, Erasmus said, Games.
so I asked him, what led to the explosion of these planets.
. However, he planned to search for civilization and prosperity of the world, mark down, destroy it. . willing to let me see, however, vigorously trick, he put himself into a piece of the TV screen floating in the air, broadcast a
sinking blue asteroids ... ... I basically can not see, replaced by a mass of boiling red nose.
The two who the torrent has learned plenty of data on human civilization. I do not know how they do it. Erasmus paused, as if an invisible roster query, and then said: not with us together. Like I already know, painfully witnessed their deaths. There are a terrible scene also offer interactive in my mind, the night before disaster strikes, are like ghosts in white, a woman told me, soon to leave. < br> Abbey? Bo Daien and Tang Ao, lost their lives. And I was brought into this automated paradise. Alas, what a pity.
get some sleep. Then, a hard thing Tangao to hit the wall, it may be minutes, it was smashed, the sound is very loud. Carlotta's mother to respond by crying, crying as if to continue for several weeks.
together, is not it? alien as a machine, he is a very good partner. But this is an evasive answer. He would say I should be with a man.
I said I do not mind whether they will again look to others. man once told me how, ah!
his wrinkled brow - or rather, he will own the surface of visible distortion in some special way a bit, I already know this disagreed, .
You no longer the strict sense of the material form. You are a metastable nested loop, included in the torrent of the collective consciousness. However, nothing can be eternal, Carlotta. everything will flow. do not die of disease or cliff slip, he explained, but my stay at this beach, there is no restraint to swim, sleep late, and ate lunch out of Erasmus changed (although I do not need to eat), the screen to see through his abdomen before soap operas or reading celebrity magazines (these are all shared data collected in the torrent, but never updated), basically life is very sad. so, after a month, I have to admit, Erasmus may be right.
sleep screaming, > Some people use the data in the form of flood of new life after the particularly interesting behavior. In order for people with similar ways of thinking to find each other to build to accommodate their group, to provide convenient conditions Erasmus. Sometimes, those groups is called a small circle One of the most successful initiative of the strongest are those that have targeted small circle. goal to exciting. initiative is not strong in the small circle of indifference will soon gradually dispersed, pure hedonist soon shrunk to extremely dense collapsed singularity excited. But, if you are curious about the world, and with like-minded friends to spend, then there is a lot of things will let you keep thinking.
small circle for me, however no long-term to join. Of course, I made a few friends, but also learn something. For example, I learned to visit the flood of archived data - a trick must be treated carefully. If done well, can you think like the Google search that One thing, all the relevant information flashed in your mind, as if they were originally there. However, too often, or fanaticism access, to bring in data overload will be lost in their own risk - you may gradually form a be all-inclusive kind of huge mixed group, to explore the long history of the passage of time has been to enhance the non-human civilization torrent ... ... Later, the leader of this group of people, a Mingjiaonurui Jordanian students in the data dive too deeply, and completely disappeared. very focused look on his face, a moment later, his body began with the swirling flow of air into a silk thread, like the mist as the sun gradually dissipated. I'm trembling. I like Nurui - - inviting him to leave my thoughts.)
but through joint efforts, we managed to secure some interesting things to learn. (I guess that Erasmus could have told us directly, but we do not know how to ask to the point.) cite an obvious example of that: though each species will become immortal after being promoted - in fact, each species will eventually Nurui as poor as a little dissipation - real long survive not many survivors. In my view, that kind of individual than of their own kind live longer, there are ways in the face of the torrent poured over complex data saved when self-awareness.
Erasmus we ask ourselves , can meet with a long-term survivors.
Erasmus gives a negative answer, it is not possible. veteran - he called them - of life and our different time scales. They out of the way to preserve its real time.
Obviously, continuous called and movement you can use any length of time interval between the moment of his vibrant and open. want to live a thousand it? one second every one million seconds on the line active. Of course, subjective and will not live a thousand years feeling, but a thousand years will be gone in a short time. Basically, the older generation did just that.
If you wish, Erasmus said that we can 依葫芦画瓢. But to do that is a price to pay . we will not live longer, and may unwittingly commit suicide.
do not recommend you do. mission. an automated nanny fills. take care of your part, Carlotta. to do it, I did not think he will leave. This idea can be scared me, but I do not have to worry show it.
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older Carlotta observed that the enemy has arrived battlefield, covered the entire sky, whether it is head or feet. This case is like the photograph of the old paintings - What is the name? two of the world. human memory can be really interesting. girl, you hear your mother cry you?
small Carlotta sheets scattered on the move with the body disturbed.
two Carlotta know their mother's past, only the elderly can be poised Carlotta to recall that history. ah, that story is too long. Mingjiao Yi than her mother? Bodai En, high school drop out of school because of pregnancy, and left South Carolina the home of some boring, as one of only two year-old boyfriend sets and, again abandoned outside Albuquerque. She's an emergency room in California gave birth to Carlotta, but also a retired couple in the basement of raising her, Abby rent with household chores as until the old couple can no longer tolerate the constant cry of Carlotta. After that, she's a man and utilities hooked up together, to a little pocket money in the attic of his home cultivation of cannabis. the relationship maintained years, may even be longer, but Abby has been taking illegal drugs addiction, but also in cocaine and methamphetamine buy almost casual social environment, she could not restrain their dependence on drugs. Abby or indulge in the compulsory treatment During carnival, Carlotta was removed in several foster families. Finally, Abby picked up a ten years old Carlotta, a family when she was subjected to periodic suburban exile. Abby still in spite of his bail, car fled to Arizona.
not ever! The Carlotta that, but she knew that only a small Carlotta experience of suffering that they have been selected.
Well, children, Carlotta think the unknown evil creatures to be swallowed in a flood, you have to work hard as a distribution entity to survive, and then savor the taste of them look.
Carlotta know the feeling, however, did have a child is the same as
rusty screw like drill through the wall switch. small Carlotta sobbing in the unrest, opened his eyes all the time, then would you do? Although this is not change the past, suddenly giving a unpredictable feeling, accompanied by strange and dangerous.


glide in my time, when Erasmus with me. Then I realized the sacrifice he has much to do, but even before that, I'm very grateful.
early some time, I asked him how the flood, and it is born. He said, the answer has been with the defect and passing the information. He did not understand the world before the flood there - he can not understand, because the Iraqi Erasmus is the torrent, or at least it's a separate branch.
sure is created by a carbon-based species, to explore interstellar space. evidence that we have only a little bit younger than the universe itself. to maintain stability, Civilization reason? so as to classification of them? ). We hate to forget. But not all the places - like a false gas. Once the flood through the frequent enemy-infested space, our information defect rate will soar. their side of the expansion of the occupation of space, and destroy the bearing life while surrounded by world. > , Carlotta, and even can be said that my body and mind ... ... Si-mo is a good and reliable part of the flood, but in taxiing time, he is like the philosopher who, like loneliness.
However, once I determined he was to follow me. he not only belongs to flood, but also belong to me, so he and I together. how do you define this relationship, the girl? friendship? at least it. Later, I realize that this is love.
small Carlotta stealing these drugs (hidden in his present dirty to contingencies. swallow enough pills, the whole world will appear in front of you! not on the road will be able to have this experience, so this is one of her alternatives.
next came the cries , followed by a gunshot, then the situation seems bad, Tang Ao sound dramatic, slurred speech. Carlotta understand that this is an ominous sign, are like lightning strikes before the smell of ozone filled the air of in, and then the voltage is spiking upward, the current pour.
Erasmus construct a special virtual reality, we were in the process of sliding time spent in there. In fact, it is a spacious and comfortable rooms there side of the floor to ceiling windows overlooking the entire galaxy.
constitute flood of billions of small but dense component, flowing just under the speed of light. But the time seems faster slide so that the whole scene - frighteningly fast . The whole universe seems to fast forward, while the observer knew that this process can not be regressive. on the real time extension of the first few months, we abandoned the spiral arms where the sun traveled a long time. torrent of a child Set my sense of self storage, run around the galactic core in the elliptical orbit over the quality of the black hole, in the past days, from the elliptical orbit of the end, watched the Galaxy at the foot of gradually falling, it looks more like a mass of bright pearl.
not in the room, I went to visit the rest of the time slider, some of them will come to visit me in the room. We are a group of radical self-select out of the Rangers, adventurous, each of room very well. Oh, girl, I really hope that I can introduce you to the tribal self-imposed exile in that all of the friends. Many of them are human, but not really. I've seen several so-called old-timers of other races, I managed to friendly exchanges with them. You sound surprised? I guess, very strange, at first I have this feeling, but they usually like or even love my people (mostly) or biological (organisms also can be a person), but they also love me. Yes, they loved me. weird character to us, the time slider together with the virtual wall of resistance to the rapid passing of the darkness. and - how should I say , we're survivors. until all the remaining human survivors die, we spent more than a month. In other words, even our souls were gone. unless we also count as the soul.
Iraq Si-mo a bit jealous of my friends. He gave me a lot, maybe I should be more grateful to him. However, he also maintained the same time, a temporary real-time connection, which is different from those of us into the human the time slider. He agreements through some sophisticated set of symbols to keep abreast of the torrent of changes in the core of thinking. In this way, any time he can help us understand the movements of flood - to save the world from the upcoming destruction of new species and sort of thing. But the time to watch our transcendent to, the existence of these new members is short. I asked Erasmus, why torrent with short organisms (such as we humans) have to worry about. He said all species will eventually disappear, but not a sufficient reason to kill more trouble - can not therefore go to pot. This flood of nature that goes beyond the scope of self-propagating machine clusters, also show that the flood has a moral.
Erasmus and therefore not just a set of complex calculations of the nested loops. Carlotta, who later became my favorite.
in our process of waiting, time, and the stars become more and more illusory - a thousand years, hundreds of thousands of years, millions of years, or even more distant galaxy like a huge white dial. No matter how the race belongs to, we all think he is the last extension, the other contrary to this concept were abandoned.
if you can hear me, girl, I guess you might ask what is worth I'm addicted to the experience of being so strange. In fact, I have said, is a friend - this is not enough? and I find a lover. In order to communicate with each other, like humans, Erasmus even started using humanoid avatars.
Frankly, I found a home, Carlotta, although essentially a bit special - but this is my life The first real home.
So, it started to fall apart when I was very scared.
next door, Abby can not believe that Tangao will turneth away wrath. Tonight, Austrian Abbey anger and the feeling of being insulted at the same time high, the unexpected outbreak coming.
Abby's anger is not hard, however, Tang Ao is authentic Henjiao Se. At first, she was the first time arm The man's arm to go home, small Carlotta on him to see that. his eyes cold, mechanical smile, disguised disdain prisoner tattoos, hide the true sense of the idea of the ego, the body comes out of the ice plant chemical odor, make the Hupenggouyou, and lawless elements in her home for the dirty deal (this is because his own rented filled the jar with the illegal chemical agents), are telling him the man of small Carlotta, Carlotta even more angry is Abby? Bodai En or Wal-Mart cashier, when Tangao actually taking methamphetamine regularly to the Abbey, her addiction, and Abby as the faithful servant, as the weekly signed to Tangao salary.
Despite many bad habits, Tang Ao lanky body is still strong. older Carlotta hear Tangao Abbey stole a sedative in the blame - which in his dictionary is unforgivable crimes. Abby angrily denied after the fist came Tangao banging sound. Carlotta know all this happened, her memory is not archived. Little Carlotta still sleeping, But she really want to wake up. the decisive moment is approaching from. Carlotta remember my own dirty look Tangao bags, they found a pistol, a blue metal barrel, black non-slip handle, she After watching a short hand Dian Ledian, finally put it back with disdain.
us back along the elliptical orbit, girl. Suddenly, as if water droplets fall on a hot pan, torrent began to disappear. Desiderius Erasmus first discovered the situation, because he is part of torrent. He's gone to live on the flood, so I can see what happens: the torrent of the cluster in the larger context of galaxy clusters as a wildfire, they gradually dim down, so that