Diqin Designer

Chapter 5: Cross-temporal search engine

Li Nian was lying on the bed, or to be more exact, on the couch, thinking about everything that had happened to her today and what to do next. Now that she was already dressed, she had to accept this reality and think carefully about how to survive and live well in this era.

"If my guess is correct and that person is the First Emperor, what should I do to ensure my personal safety? Should I act like a charlatan by relying on the knowledge of history like the protagonists in some novels?"

'From the fact that he sent Xu Fu overseas to seek immortality, it seems that the First Emperor was a bit superstitious. He might have been able to fool people.'

As soon as this thought came into Li Nian's mind, he rejected it. "No, I'm not cut out for this. My time travel today has already made me look bad. Even if I tell the Emperor about the future and say that I'm a god, I'm afraid the Emperor will be suspicious. How can there be such a weak god? By then, I'll most likely fail to fool him and even lose my life."

"And even if this path works, what if the First Emperor wants to be immortal and asks me for an elixir? Should I rub him one with my sweat pills? Even if I can fool him about the elixir, he will send someone overseas to seek immortality. Who do you think he will send?"

"You can't predict the future, you can't call the wind and rain, you don't have the elixir, and you don't want to go overseas to seek immortality? Do you think my strength is not enough?"

Li Nian seemed to have seen the ending of playing a charlatan: being cut into pieces, torn into pieces, or being made into human meat fried dough sticks.

"Since I can't pretend to be a charlatan, I only have one way left, which is to tell the First Emperor my origins. Should I tell him with reservations, or tell him everything?"

"If I tell them everything, then I will have to tell them what Hu Hai, Li Si, and Zhao Gao did. If the news leaks out and Hu Hai and Zhao Gao find out, won't that make me an enemy?"

Although he was worried about becoming enemies with Hu Hai, Zhao Gao and others, Li Nian really wanted to see the First Emperor's reaction when he learned that his eldest son Hu Hai slaughtered his brothers and sisters after taking the throne and Zhao Gao called a deer a horse.

"No, it's not just Zhao Gao and Hu Hai. If the news that I come from the future spreads, many people will be afraid of me because I can fabricate their historical deeds and comment on their loyalty, treachery, good and bad, which is a big threat to them."

'But if there is a reservation in the information, how can we hide it from the First Emperor and prevent him from seeing it? Although the First Emperor is an ancient man, it does not mean that he is stupid and can be easily deceived.'

"To be the first Chinese emperor, he must be a very smart person. How can I deceive him? If he finds out that I am hiding something, how can I get away with it?"

Li Nian felt pain just thinking about the Qin Dynasty punishments he knew. Cutting off noses, breaking legs, digging up knees, and quick death might be ok, but if he were subjected to these punishments, he wondered if he had such a strong will to withstand it.

He is just an ordinary person who is greedy for life and afraid of pain.

"So I can't lie. Although I come from modern times, I am just an ordinary person. If I play tricks on a peerless sage like the First Emperor who has left his name in history, I will die without knowing how I died. It's better to tell the truth."

'If I tell the First Emperor everything, I will inevitably become enemies with Hu Hai, Zhao Gao and others... There is no other way, let's be enemies. What I need to do now is to gain the trust of the First Emperor. The First Emperor is my greatest supporter in this era. Of course, the premise is that I can gain the trust of the First Emperor and the First Emperor is not dead! '

Thinking of this, Li Nian thought of another question. Even if he gained the trust of the First Emperor and the First Emperor did not kill him, how many years could the First Emperor protect him?

The Qin Dynasty lasted only fourteen years from its founding to its demise, and the First Emperor ruled the unified Qin Dynasty for only eleven years.

"I wonder what year this is? I saw the First Emperor tonight. Judging from his appearance, he seems to be very young and healthy. I don't have to worry about it for a few years, right?"

Judging from his own experience, Li Nian believes that after learning of his origins, the First Emperor would never let him go free, but would only put him under strict surveillance, both to protect his safety and to prevent him, a visitor from later generations, from escaping and causing hidden dangers to the Qin Dynasty. He might even order his execution before his death and take him away with him. Even if the First Emperor was magnanimous and would not order his execution before his death, how would the successor monarch treat him after his death? Moreover, the Qin Dynasty had too many ills, which could be suppressed when the First Emperor was alive. When the First Emperor passed away, the ills would break out and the chaotic times would come. Could he live well in the chaotic times?

In a sense, after Li Nian traveled to the presence of the First Emperor, his life was tied to the First Emperor. If he wanted to live long and well in this era, he not only had to gain the trust of the First Emperor, but also had to make the First Emperor live longer, and at the same time make the Qin Dynasty better.

"If I want to gain the trust of the First Emperor, I must not only tell you my origins honestly, but also show my value, so that the First Emperor will feel that killing me would be a loss, and that I am more useful alive."

"If I had known I was going to travel through time, I should have learned more things that would be useful after traveling through time, such as making paper, soap, and cement, but who knows?"

At this moment, a light lit up in Li Nian’s mind, and Li Nian "saw" a stripe box in his mind with two blue Chinese characters at the end of the box - search.

'Is this my golden finger? '

Li Nian was overjoyed. He opened his eyes and looked around. Seeing that the guards and eunuchs not far away did not notice anything unusual, he silently studied the striped frame.

After studying it for a while, Li Nian roughly understood the function of this thing.

This is a search engine that seems to be connected to the modern Internet. You can use your mind to input the content you want to search into it to search.

The search has limitations, and Li Nian has not yet figured out the rules. For example, when he input "If I travel back to the time of Qin Shi Huang, how can I survive and live well?", no results were found. However, searching for papermaking and cement making did yield results.

In addition, Li Nian also discovered that this search engine can search, view the search results, and even see the barrage and messages, but it cannot reply or comment, that is, don't think about asking modern netizens for advice across time and space.

Although there are limitations, for Li Nian, this search engine of unknown origin will be a strong guarantee for his survival in this era.

"With this thing, I can show my worth to the First Emperor without worrying about being executed for being worthless."

With the search engine in his mind, Li Nian's uneasy heart finally calmed down a little.

'Based on the results of my search just now, I should have really traveled to the Qin Dynasty!'

When researching the search engine just now, Li Nian searched for a lot of content related to the Qin Dynasty, all of which told him: If you really traveled to the Qin Dynasty, don't harbor any more luck!
"Well, I'll make the best of it. At least I'm in a familiar dynasty, and I'm still on Earth. They didn't throw me into another world. Maybe one day I'll wake up from a nap and find myself back in the modern era?"

"Sleep, sleep. The most urgent thing is to learn the language here. Solve the language problem first. If you don't understand the language, it will be useless to think too much."

After what happened today, Li Nian was already exhausted and fell asleep quickly.

(End of this chapter)