第三章 Chapter III.《时间线》/Timeline/

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突如其来的家庭装修加之难以接受的感情受挫，令木兰毅然选择离开多伦多去温哥华开辟自己未曾解决的谜团。当然，这似乎还有学院给木兰安排的特殊任务(Go every where she want in Canada.)。

A suddenly decoration of Mulan’s family house plus an unacceptable emotional break, make her dicede to left the Toronto City and go Vancouver to fight for the puzzle which she ever  couldn’t underestand of herself. Surtainly, it still seems have special task that issued by Mulan’s college – go every where she want in Canada.

为了按计划抵达机场，木兰在飞行的前夜甚至没有完全入睡。对于即将来临的飞行，她有种紧张和局促感。前段时间与公寓安保人员核自己腕表时间刚好快当地时间半小时，然而，晚上腕表与手机显示的时间却相差了两个多小时之久。腕表时间的错乱令木兰十分难受，她猜测这是由于地球磁场受力问题所引起的变动，无奈只得用手机作为计时工具并定好第二天早晨六点将她唤醒的闹钟。当然，对行程充满期待的木兰苏醒于闹钟未响之前就早已苏醒。洗漱完毕后，她开始在厨房为自己为期一周的行程准备最后一道补给：

把食物装好后，她向室友留下字条告别。木兰用物业通知他们公寓所在住所会迎来装修的空白信纸条写下一行行告别。末了，木兰看看腕表，时间是上午十点半；标注过离开时间后她背起书包带好补给装备后离开公寓。

似曾相识的警员送木兰抵达多伦多皮尔森机场附近加油站旁边的Tim Hortons，木兰在离开之际告诉他们自己还会回来。

In order to reach the Pearson International Airport by plan, Mulan even doesn’t fall asleep before the flight flying night. As for the coming trip of flying, she has a kind of feeling of nervous and paticipations. Time of previously she had checked her watch time with the appartment’s security and her time was just 30 minutes faster than the Toronto local time, however, the time which shown on Mulan’s mobile was turnned out 2 hours faster than her watch time when it cames at night. This messable time contralling makes Mulan really sufferring, she suppose it is because of the questions which about the inffulence of the earth magnetic gravity, so Mulan has to use her mobile phone as her counting time tool and set the time for wake her up at 6 o’clock in the morning. Of course, Mulan wakes up before the clock alarm by holding her full of expecting and interests with her coming trip. After complete her self washing, she start to make the last thing to supply her trip which lasting for 7 days:

After put the food finely inside her backpack, she left a paper message for her roommates. Mulan write the goodbye letters by using the appartment decoration noticement paper line by line. In the end, Mulan look at her watch on her wrists, the time is stopped at 10.30am; and after marked the leaving time then she get up with her backpack stuffs of supply and left the appartment building.

A familiar security officer sent Mulan arrive to a Tim Hortons where just on the right of a “keep it up” station nearby Toronto Pearson International Airport, and Mulan leaving them by telling that she will be back.

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木兰在多伦多皮尔森机场、在飞机飞行途中、以及在抵至温哥华YVR机场之后的首次离开；与好友Alex首次获得联系，但却在之后木兰执行自己与Alex见面之前的个人行程时被加拿大境内警方带领至VGH。

Mulan at the Tonronto Pearson International Airport, during the plane flying time of her trip, and the first leaving after she arrives Vancouver YVR International airport; get the first contaction with her goodfriend Alex, but then be leading by the police inside Canada board at the VGH when Mulan doing her listed items upon her schdule.

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【木兰在多伦多皮尔森机场的经历】

[Experiences when Mulan at the Toronto Pearson Airport]

木兰本无敌意，只是木兰不满于边境安检人员随意扔掉她为这次调研所准备的来之不易的水。她认为，水源的干净程度可以影响到整个地球。人类纵然睿智、强大，然而一旦脱离水源也会在某些方面脆弱到难以用语言去描述。那晚的航班延误了很久，在等待过程中木兰第二次与加拿大警方礼貌性对峙。双方对峙的交谈事关种族、地区（黑白黄种人、多伦多温哥华），但在双方交谈过程中话题却自然而然并且不可避免的涉及到子弹。

Mulan doesn’t have any offenssive meaning, it is just because she is unsatisfied with the board safty check staff throw her water which she has being prepared for this trip very causious. She thinks, the clean degree of water can be influenced by the whole world. The human does have wisdom, unattackable, but once left the water, human can be really weak so that couldn’t be described by any language. That night the flight missing it correct flying for such a long time, during mulan’s process of waiting she has a second politely confliction with the polices inside Canada. The conversation of both eachside’s confliction are mainly about races, areas (the people of black, white and yellow, Toronto and Vancouver), but the topic of their conversation are unavoideable speaks of the bullet.

那架从多伦多前往温哥华YVR机场的飞机很小，木兰的位置还是由一位西方老奶奶帮忙找到的。在“多伦多”飞往温哥华的航线中，总共用时二百四十分钟，木兰在飞行期间完全处于一种禁食状态。

The plane fly from Toronto to Vancouver YVR International Airport is very small, the seat position of Mulan is finded by an old grandma’s help. On the airline flying from Toronto to Vancouver, which are totally cost 240 minutes, and Mulan is completely in a food refusing condition.

【木兰抵至温哥华YVR机场并首次离开】

[The first leaving when Mulan arrived Vancouver YVR airport]

抵至温哥华YVR机场后，木兰从机舱与机场对接通道走出，她发现机场内的信息指示都是中英文并存的；由于当时飞机抵至温哥华的时间在子夜，木兰决定在机场内先简略调整时差，待城市交通在合理时间范围开始运营时，再正式开始自己抵达温哥华后的新工作任务。抵达温哥华YVR机场是在十月10号的午夜12:30：

木兰（在心内想）：距离清晨的到来还早。

（熬夜飞行的她打算找一个角落简单休息，机场此刻的人不算多。）

木兰（在心内想）：下午向送我去Pearson机场的警官们保证过，自己不会sleep around.

After arrive Vancouver YVR airport, Mulan walk out from the passengers compartment and ariport’s connecting access, she find that the information commands are both English and Chinese; Due to the flight of Mulan’s arriving time is at midnight (a second day in the morning), Mulan dicide to make a simple adjust with her time-tag inside the YVR airport firstly, and waiting the public transportation start to running in its feasiable time, then officially begin with the new task after she has arived vancouver. It is at the midnight 12.30am of Octomber 10^th when Mulan has reached the Vancouver YVR airport:

Mulan(thinking inside of her mind): Its earlier before morning.

(Due to stay up late for flying, she plan to find a conner to have some simple rest, it doesn’t have too much people inside the airport at that moment. )

Mulan(thinking inside of her mind): I promised to that police officer who sent me to Pearson airport that I won’t sleep around last afternoon.

所以她先礼貌询问当地机场内一名女警确认自己是否可以在她们所能看到的紫色区域进行休息。那名女警表示，因为非紫色座椅区域的空地在几小时后会特别繁忙，所以在紫色座椅区休息是相对来说比较合适的。而后木兰在休息期间被过往乘客及夜间寒流唤醒，已经醒来的木兰索性决定简单步行走走好去购买早餐而后寻找机场与地铁连接的入口。以木兰航班抵达在YVR机场的出口为原点向右走，她来到机场内部一个放置有演奏钢琴的下沉广场。简略计算时间后木兰决定在其旁边的一家星巴克购买她的早餐，彼时预测时间应是在凌晨，机场内人不算很多。木兰取到食物后选择紧邻下沉广场旁边可以同时看到钢琴和观众并也能够为电子设备进行充电的位置坐下。进食不久后，木兰收到来自好友老同学顾城敏的简讯：（具体对话内容大致如下）：

顾：Dear，我要结婚啦，你会来参加我婚礼吗？

木兰：我还在加拿大可能年底才会回，不过你可以邀请我妈妈代我出席你婚礼。

顾：好，等你回来。

So she then politely asks a female police officer to confirm whether she could sleep at that purpel areas where they both can see to take rest. That female police indicate that it is more appropriate take rest on that purpel areas, because the blank space which hold the color with unpurpel will become vey busy. Then Mulan go to that purpose areas to take rest but then be waked up by the passengers and the cold flow of night, Mulan is already waked up so she decide to take some simple walk to have her brakefast and find the connecting access of subway and the airport. According the basic point when Mulan arrives YVR airport and turn right, she reaches a subside plaza which inside the airport and with a perfessional pianno. After a faster counting of time Mulan dicide to purchase her breakfast at one Starbucks which just beside that subside plaza, time just be predict about the sunrise by that time, and the airport doesn’t have too much people there. After Mulan picked up the food she choose to seat down just next to the the plaza and could see the pianno, audience and charge with her mobile phone at the same time. A shortly feeding by herself, Mulan received a message from her good friend as well as her old classmate (the sepecific conversation content show as the fellowing):

Gu: Dear, I am going to be maried, will you come to join my wedding?

Mulan: I am still in Canada and probably be back at the end of this year, but you can invite my mom to attend your wedding.

Gu: Okay, waiting you come back soon.

随后，木兰结束早餐，预备开启自己在温哥华境内第一天的ILM探索之旅。

Then, Mulan finished her breakfast, and ready to begin her first day inside Vancouver by the trip of Vancouver.

乘坐铁轨，木兰望着渐行渐远的小型停车台，伴随列车慢慢驶离夜幕。一对前来旅行的中老年夫妇在列车行驶中途下车，随后来往人群逐渐喧闹。木兰迎来对中国人有成见的男子，焦躁如受困猛兽，但好在木兰并非感受到那名男子过分明显的敌意。简略与之交谈后，木兰决定在他们二人对话适可而止的时间下车，而刚好在那一刻，木兰手机导航所显示的经停站与列车广播所报经停站匹配。当木兰走出地铁时，天还未全亮，天色是那种朦朦胧胧却又令人看得极为透彻的藏青色。街灯还在闪烁，木兰再次感受到了那种黎明与黄昏的时空交错。

By taking the subway, Mulan staring at the litle platform of the floor building of car gradually leaving far, fellowing the train slowly driving far from the night screen of the sky. A couple with their middle age are leaving from the train during the train’s passing station, then the environment start getting lively. What happen next, Mulan just get a meeting with an English Canada guy hold huge opinion with Chinese, who exausted like a maneater, but Mulan doesn’t feel that strong meaning of enemy through that man, which is good. After another simple communication with him, Mulan decide get out of the train before their conversation’s content turning huge, and just at that moment, the direction machine inside Mulan’s mobile phone showing that the passing station maches with the train’s broadcasting audio. When Mulan get out of the train, the sky have’t get the meeting with its daylight, the color of it should belong to that sort of dim hazy but can make people seen a real clean deep blue with a little bit dark green by their 19 percet transparency. The street lights are still glimmering, and Mulan has felt that kind of time space transfer between the drawn and the sunset.

在经过略有些年代气息的包豪斯风格建筑群落时，一位滑板少年引起木兰注意，那种行动感令木兰似曾相识；之后，木兰沿湖畔绕过一家还未开张的小餐厅来到一面湖泊前；在湖泊右方是充满工业与艺术气息的火车隔离栏，而根据自己手机导航上的显示ILM就在这不远处。最终，寻找入口的木兰在火车铁轨隔离区域外，发现一群在某一建筑偏僻入口处紧张交谈的小小团体，却意外看见滑板少年也在其中。

While Mulan passingby a building group which has a little bit smell of history, a skatebroad teenager drawing her attention, that kind movement motivation makes Mulan recall the feeling of familiar; After that, Mulan walking accorss an unopening restaurant and reach in front of a lake; on the right side of the lake is the train’s block steel protection net with full of industry and art atmosphere, and according to her mobile direction machine which shows that the position of ILM is just near here. In the end, Mulan who seeking for the entrence access find out a a group of people, whom speaking with them each other very cautious at the areas between the steel blocked train net and the hidden building entrence, but what makes Mulan find out surprising is that teenager skateboard guy also in it.

极力想向他们询问关于ILM的相关信息以促成某种合作的木兰，根据那群外国友人注意到自己向他们走来时的反应，更加确定这群人与自己此次出行的目的有着或多或少的必然联系。这群人中一名身穿黑色渔网袜的女人另木兰格外注意；此外，滑板青年与木兰抵达位置的路线大致相同，他们在途中也多次相遇，但滑板青年看到木兰后立刻就走的反应另木兰感到讶异，因此木兰决定走进他们，带着自己初恋未满的勇气[i1] ：

木兰（对着远去的滑板青年背影大喊）：On the other side.

Mulan extremely want trying to ask them the information about ILM in order to make a successful cooperation, according to that forign friend’s reflection when they get noticed while Mulan walking towards them, she is more percisely to confirm that her travelling purpose of this trip does have more or less connectios with this group of people. Between this group of people, a tall female with black net sock pants also drawing Mulan’s attention; what’s more, that skateboard guy have a similar routine with Mulan, and they meet with each other for several times during their own trip, but what makes Mulan get astonished is the reaction when that skateboard teenager seeing her and running away, therefore Mulan decide to get more closer to check with them, with an eighty percent courage of herself:

Mula(speak aloud to that skateboard teenager’s back): On the other side.

那是木兰首次搭乘从国内飞往加拿大航班时登机口检录人员对木兰说的最后一句话。然而利用语言的交流来获取某种信息置换的方式总是相互的，当木兰对着滑板青年背影留下那句话的同时，这群人中也同样对木兰的行为举止产生随之而来的反应：

一名先生(小小团体内):“What do you mean by ‘on the other side’?”

木兰(思索几秒)“By 80 percent.”

That the last sentences of the flight check in stuff told Mulan when she take the airplane leaving from HK China and first flying to Canada. However, it is interactive by using the communication to gain some kind of information, when Mulan sepak alould on the back of that skateboard teenager, this group of people have the fellowing reflection actions when Mulan start to move:

One gentalman(with the group): “what do you mean by ‘on the other side’?”

Mulan(with I second thinking): “By 80 percent.”

无法在飞机飞行过程中为自己仅有电子设备充电的木兰对自己所接触到的异国内容进行与自己专业领域相关的筛选和过滤，这是木兰搭乘最近一次航班使用的纸巾上所显示的信息，木兰似乎条件反射似的将自己知道的信息脱口讲出。聚集到那栋建筑后门的小小团体也随着木兰的到来开始分散自身行动。结束对话后，木兰发现自己手机导航上仍旧未曾显示出ILM的准确位置。

 Can not charge for her only one electricity during Mulan's flying journal, (so she use the part of discharged) made a selection and refresh for the new country's content by using her current major fileds, and these part of information coming from the nearliest flight class that Mulan has taken as a passenger, and she seems speak what she knows without any realization. The small group which gathering together behind that building also start to move apart by fellowing the arriving of Mulan. After end of the conversation, Mulan just find out it is still can not show the percisely location of ILM upon the direction machine of herself.

不知不觉间，木兰来到一栋名为“Alexander”的建筑面前。这另她想起在国内时自己在麦当劳写作的某一深夜，曾偶然识得的一位从美国远道而来的朋友 Alex。恍惚间木兰只觉与这栋建筑似曾相识，它并不算高，并且周围环境也很安静，看上去绝大多数在其内部努力工作的人都还没有出现。木兰猜测或许工业光魔公司就在这栋建筑中的其中一层，当她走到这栋建筑的入口，一名穿着棉质夹克的男子用自己的卡片帮她开门，之后他们一同进入这栋建筑的电梯：

男子（穿棉质服装）：“你要去哪一层？”

木兰：“顶层。”

Still without any realization, Mulan has came in front of a building named of "Alexander". This has made her recall one night while she still has been staied at her home country and has written inside the McDownload, once she has picked up one guy who named Alex has came far from the U.S. by accident. Soon of a sudden Mulan just thought that she has had a farmiliar feeling for this building, it can not be count too high, and the atmosphere around there also quite, looking like most of woring hard people who has been worked inside it haven't shown up. Mulan guss that maybe ILM has been taken as one of the floors of this building. When she walking more closely towards the entrence of this building, one man wear a cotton jacket use his card opened up the door for her, and then they get into the elevator of the building together:

Man (wear the cutton jacket): Which floor are you going to go?

Mulan: Umm...maybe the top floor.

显然，木兰并没有打算询问他关于工业光魔在这栋建筑中第几层这样的问题，因为她认为这会使得陌生人轻易知道这来之不易的计划，尽管那名男子看起来并不像是什么不务正业之人：

男子（穿棉质服装）：哦好，但顶层现在还没开门。

Abviously, Mulan don’t have any content to ask him like “which floor is the ILM floor” this sort of question, because she thinks it will let people know this dedicated plan, inspite of that man doesn’t looks like the person who has nothing to do:

Man (wear the cutton jacket): Hum okay, but the top floor hasn’t open for today.

木兰按照自己所能听懂的内容去听去理解并敏捷而快速的给出他们交谈信息的反馈，反应就像她是一个高速信息数据交流机器人：

木兰：那我在下一层楼层停止时出去。

(那名男子立刻按下电梯按钮)

木兰：谢谢。

Mulan quickly gives out the feedback from there conversation according the part which Mulan could fellow up and understand well, her reaction seems like a robot can read the dataflow in a fast paecd:

Mulan: Fine then let me out during its next stop floor.

(That man push the elevator’s button right away)

Mulan: Thanks.

之后，木兰离开Alexander建筑，继续寻找ILM。

Then Mulan left the Alexander building, keep seeking the ILM company.

【终于收到好友Alex来信】

[Finally received the letter from good friend Alex]

走出“Alexander”建筑后沿着街道一直走，木兰询问一名看起来友善的陌生中年男子关于手机导航上的位置显示。尔后按照交流后信息的指示方向，木兰逐渐远离似曾相识的伦敦风格喧闹街区，迷失在某一商场入口。正当自己情绪低靡想要放弃访问ILM计划决定返程时，木兰收到来自好友Alex的来信。Alex告诉木兰她有两个时区并认为木兰独自一人前往温哥华的行动很疯狂，表示愿意与她在指定时间和位置见面并带领她在约定位置附近四下走走转转；木兰期待着与好友Alex即将到来的会面，而后她重整装束准备迎接他们二人的相遇。

After has walked out of the building “Alexander” (she) walk stright along with the street, then Mulan has asked a streetman who looked kind to gain more information about the present problem with her mobile direction machine. After that Mulan fellow the indicate dirention of the conversation, and she get more and more far from her similarly livly and noizy block street, lost in the entrence of one mall. On the time she is really upset and going to quite of her ILM Vancouver travel plan and dicided back to Toronto, Mulan received the letter from her old friend Alex. Alex has told her Mulan she have 2 time zones which makes him really suprresing and also she has come to Vancouver all by herselve’s movement does crazy, but he could still show Mulan around to take a walk if she can stay at vancouver until few days later; Mulan expecting the future meeting with Alex, then she back to hold her couragement again and ready to take their next meet by being such a long time.

之后木兰找到地铁入口，筹备返回机场和规划在未来两天内自己与Alex相约碰面之前的个人行程。在乘坐铁轨返回机场途中，木兰再次接到来自Alex的微信来电，然而以木兰的听觉记忆识别系统来判断，Alex的声线似乎不似之前那般年轻。木兰与Alex之间的谈话止步于木兰重返机场途中Sky Train快轨的某一经停站，她很惋惜听到Alex类似老者般声线的声音，却不知Alex那边正在发生何事；而后木兰用简讯与Alex继续沟通，并把自己在加拿大境内的手机号码留给他。木兰相信着Alex，相信无论发生何种状况，Alex都会尽最大努力按照约定尝试与自己相遇。

木兰原路返回机场，穿过几台铁轨售票机再次来到首次抵达温哥华YVR机场时的出口入口。此刻时间已将近中午，木兰以入口为原点向左走，再次来到放置有演奏琴的下沉广场。第一天的午餐是在不到下沉广场，位于其下一层位置的星巴克；木兰在那里进行午餐，那是一块体量刚刚好的巧克力蛋糕（Cup-cake/ Muffine），木兰在其附近位置进食、二次为手机充电、并继续阅读自己随行带来的GRE书籍；结束午餐、阅读和为设备充电这一系列行为后，据木兰手机显示，其电量依旧低于百分之三十但好在略高于原先来时电量。而后木兰决定暂时休息十分钟并利用这段时间简略观察机场；然而，木兰当天似乎并未进食晚餐，她与一群即将飞往美国的一些朋友进行了简单的餐前交流，一对姐弟令木兰印象十分深刻，弟弟前来送姐姐去美国某地，而弟弟并未随姐姐同去而是留在加拿大境内，他返回时其余伙伴还并未出发，于是弟弟再次加入对话而后与团队告别。

那晚木兰再次来到机场的紫色座椅区域，遇到的中方旅行团游客。之后，木兰有尝试询问住宿，但并未成功入住。之后，木兰为自己电子设备进行第三次手机充电，并随自己个人卫生进行简单梳洗清理。她遇到前来参加投票会议的加拿大境内以英语为母语的人，他们二人尖端交流后，那名男子说自己要出来走走，而后便与木兰say goodbye; 而后木兰也外出机场散步。

#钢琴广场星巴克站点- 将要飞行去美国的伙伴–洗漱为手机充电遇到另一前来参加投票的伙伴–首次离开机场在机场外围散步而后返回机场

【木兰醒来后的第二天 – 木兰最后一次离开机场】

[The second day after Mulan waken up – the last time when Mulan has left the airport]

这次乘坐地铁来到该市城市远郊的木兰在出地铁后彻底来到一个全新的陌生环境。方向感稍有迷失的她决定先以乘坐公交的方式抵达昨天她确定下来的ILM在该市城市中心的附近位置。

This term Mulan take the tube going to the remote areas of the city, what