After returning from the City of Shadows, I called Shallow Shallow and Sis over, saying that I had something important to discuss with them. Speaking of which, I didn't use the wrong word this time, did I?
Sis looked at my serious expression and couldn't help but sigh. "Ah Jun, it seems that you brought back quite a bit of shocking news from your trip to the God Realm. I felt that you didn't finish what you wanted to say just now. Is it still related to the Gate of the Abyss in the God Realm? "
"No, this is considered a private matter. It happened when we were young." I thought for a while. "Sis, do you still remember the day you told Shallow Shallow and I that you were going to move? Did anything unusual happen that day?"
Logically speaking, most people wouldn't be able to remember something that had happened more than ten years ago. However, there was something special about that day. It was the first time that my elder sister had mentioned to me and Qian Qian about the possibility of moving in the future. This could be said to be one of the most significant events in my past twenty years of life. Not only did I have a deep impression of it, Qian Qian and my elder sister should also have some recollection of it. That's why I was filled with confidence when I asked about it.
"Ah, you suddenly asked about this?" Sis was obviously surprised by my question. However, she still frowned as she tried to recall. "I can't really remember the things that happened more than ten years ago. However, I do have some impression of the first time we talked about moving … That day, you and Shallow Shallow were both there. Shallow Shallow's parents went out and Shallow Shallow ate at our house."
Shallow Shallow's thoughts were more active than her sister's. At this moment, she actually remembered more things. She added loudly, "Stewed pancakes! Vegetarian stewed pancakes! Ah Jun even tricked people into putting rock sugar in the stewed pancakes! After that, Sis Chen Qian made Ah Jun eat the food in the bowl himself. "
I instantly felt ashamed. My face turned red as I poked Shallow Shallow's head. "It wasn't a trick. When you were buying snacks, you randomly put seasonings in the bowl. I was just giving you a suggestion!"
"Hehe, now that you mention it, there was indeed such a day." Sis smiled warmly. "Ah Jun, why did you suddenly think of this? Could it be that you want to go back to our original house to take a look? It became a shopping street a few years ago. "
"No, I just wanted to ask. Which one of you remembers what happened after that evening?" I shrugged. "Do you remember that the sky suddenly turned dark and Shallow Shallow cried from fear …"
After that, I told them about the miraculous events that I had experienced in the Goddess Shrine's "Traveler's Wall" in detail. Of course, in order to prevent Qian Qian and my sister's memories from being misled, I didn't mention anything related to the Goddess Shrine. I just told them that I suddenly remembered it. Qian Qian and her sister listened carefully. They waited for a full two minutes without saying a word. Qian Qian propped her chin at a 45-degree angle, looking like a cute little squirrel thinking about life. Her sister frowned and pressed her index finger between her eyebrows. After a long time, they shook their heads at the same time. "I don't remember!"
Shallow. Yang. Shallow of of God, Goddess of of of of of of God was was the Goddess..
If what we encountered back then was really related to the Abyss, that thing had obviously destroyed the memories of me, Sis and Shallow Shallow who were normal humans!
"However, I do remember that a few days after that, the flu in our area seemed to be rather serious." Sis said. "Almost half of the people in the old city were not feeling well. Many of them even fell seriously ill. You and Shallow Shallow took leave from school. I remember this very clearly. After that, the local newspaper reported about it …"
"Newspaper! Oh right, newspaper! " I smacked my head and quickly connected to the mental link. I sent Sieves a message. "Sieves, help me get the intelligence specialist to look for a local newspaper from K City from 15 years ago. It should be around September to October. I'm not sure of the exact date …"
Looking for a newspaper from more than 10 years ago sounded like a very technical task. Normal people might not even know how to do it. However, if it was handed over to the military intelligence specialist, it wouldn't be a problem at all. Sieves only needed to move her finger and say a sentence to complete the task that I had given her.
She pointed at Ling Meng and said, "Go, find Shumeimaru Wen."
As a Tengu, a Tengu with ideals, ambition, initiative, a humble attitude towards learning, a Tengu who loved newspapers and gossip, Shumeimaru Wen had an incredible hobby. That was to not only interview the news, but also to collect old news — — She loved to cut newspapers.
I didn't know when she started doing this. In any case, it was said that Wen Wen had almost collected a set of all the newspapers in the history of K City. In the welfare room that the Space Administration allocated to her, there was a thick collection of newspaper clippings that could be used to build a fortification in the Middle East. It was said that it could be piled from the basement all the way to the ceiling of the second floor. When she heard that there was finally someone who recognized her passion for journalism, the Tengu girl was moved. She drove a small truck and transported her collection to my living room. I was so anxious that I almost beat her up.
With the help of a "senior writer" (as Wen Wen called herself), the reports from that year were quickly dug out. There was a shocking piece of news: "An out-of-season flu outbreak broke out in the city. Citizens please pay attention to the changes in the weather."
When I saw this headline, I decided that from now on, I would never believe anything written in the newspapers.
"Look, there's a line of words: … … Some of the patients are showing symptoms of mental confusion … … Looking at the southern part of the city from Xinjieqiao, the sky is gloomy … … Abnormal weather is attacking, please pay attention to your health … …"
After reading it, I asked my sister with a solemn expression, "Say, how did these experts determine that this was an influenza outbreak?"
No one answered my question. My sister only nodded, "It seems that such a thing really did happen in the past, but I've almost forgotten about it. Ah Jun, you said that you also heard some strange sounds? "
I nodded, "Today, they mentioned the Abyssal Submersible Ship again. Why do I feel that these two things are related?"
"Then they are related." Shallow Shallow immediately shook her head and said. Unfortunately, this girl's way of thinking was that everything in the world could be linked together at any time, so it didn't have any value as a reference.
"The time isn't right, but something like the Abyss can't be measured with common sense. If the Abyss really appeared in K City back then … … How is that possible? We were still ordinary people back then. If we really came into contact with the Abyss, there would be no more news about it." My sister waved her hand in a self-mocking manner, "Moreover, it has been so peaceful for so many years. How could the power of the Abyss be like this? It only appeared once in a world, and then suddenly left without doing anything. "
"Let's not talk about this for now. Let's make a hypothesis: If the Abyss really appeared once beside the three of us back then, what exactly did I hear — — Let's get straight to the point, I recalled the 'shout' mentioned in the Abyssal Submersible Ship's log. Speaking of which, what I heard a dozen years ago couldn't have been a message sent by the Abyssal Submersible Ship, right?"
Perhaps it was because of my interaction with Tawil that my mind had expanded. My imagination and my brain could almost be used as a script to read. Regarding the message that echoed in my head back then, the only thing I could associate it with was the Abyssal Submersible Ship. However, no one dared to confirm this conjecture. The only possibility was that the Abyssal Submersible Ship had sent out a shout from the Gate of the Abyss. However, this shout was delayed by tens of thousands of years due to the distortion of the environment within the Abyss. It was only until a dozen years ago that it suddenly appeared from another Gate of the Abyss that came and went in a hurry and reached the mind of a Void Creature like me. If that was the case, it would fit with Tawil's conjecture of 'all the Gates of the Abyss are connected internally', except for the fact that it couldn't explain why the power of the Abyss that descended on K City back then disappeared.
After filling in the gaps in my mind, I suddenly felt that this matter was too dramatic!
Just as I was lamenting that life was a melodramatic drama, it was either type A or type B. (Speaking of which, dogs don't seem to have any blood types … Why are we researching this!) Suddenly, I heard Lin Xue's voice from behind me. "Oh, you guys are here. What are you guys talking about?"
I turned around to look and almost choked on the spot. This brat definitely just came out from the kitchen. There were at least a dozen cucumber slices stuck on her face! She looked like a watermelon cream lozenge.
"What are you looking at? Have you never seen a cucumber before?" The missy's lips didn't move as she forcefully conversed with me using ventriloquism.
"I've seen cucumbers before, but I've never seen a rich lady like you." I smiled as I pointed at the cucumber slices on Lin Xue's face. "From what I remember, it's said that you are worth millions of gold. If you don't bathe in milk every day, spray perfume that costs 30,000 RMB per gram, and spend three hours tidying up your clothes, it would be a waste of the national economy. At least, that's what I thought before I met you."
Lin Xue arrogantly pushed me to the side so that I and Shallow Shallow were almost piled on top of each other. She sat down on the other side and grabbed my collar. "You're still the head of a country. Look at your Adidas."
I was momentarily speechless, but I still pulled off the cucumber slices on the missy's face. "Alright, stop messing around. If you still need to maintain your skin, then how many girls in the world would have to commit suicide? You're so tender that you're almost like a fish in the deep sea."
There wasn't a girl who didn't like people praising her appearance, even a girl like Miss Lin who was synthesized from rare materials. Although her cucumber slices were pulled off, she still had a happy expression on her face. However, she still tried her best to pretend to be angry. Looking at this almost irreproducible missy's cute expression, I couldn't help but pinch her nose. The two of us had been together for so long. The arrogant missy of the past could now calmly accept this level of intimacy. Of course, at the same time she accepted it, she couldn't help but stab me in the waist. How did this saying go again? If Miss Lin wasn't arrogant, then would this world still exist?
At this moment, looking at Lin Xue's face, I felt my heart skip a beat.
Some scenes slowly overlapped, a thought and a sentence echoed uncontrollably in my head: It can't be that bad, right?!
"Blockhead, why are you daydreaming again?" Lin Xue raised her hand and knocked on my head. "Are you really going to walk the path of a blockhead?"
"Hey, did you always live abroad when you were young?" I grabbed her hand and asked seriously.
"More or less …" Lin Xue tried to retract her hand, but it was futile. She could only blush and roll her eyes at me. "But when I was about eight or nine, I came back to China for a year. Because my dad realized that he was almost unable to communicate with me in Chinese. My mom said that if he didn't bring her daughter back, she would make him kneel on the television remote control every night. She would add ten minutes for changing the channel, and twenty minutes for changing the volume …"
Damn, Lin Xue's mother was so powerful. But this topic was secondary. Right now, I just wanted to say: What a bad fate!
"What's wrong? Why are you acting so weird today? You're getting distracted! " The missy waved her hand in front of my eyes. Her sister and Shallow Shallow both looked at me curiously. Shallow Shallow even took out a box of Stachys with a face full of concern. I didn't know what she was thinking.
"Hey, do you remember that year when you lost your way and wandered into a small, broken alley …"
I said slowly. There was at least a battalion of grass mud horses galloping in my heart. There were white hairs, yellow hairs, and even gray hairs. If Xue Lass agreed this time, I would order the City of Shadows to open up the lottery industry tomorrow. Life was indeed a little dramatic … ….
Lin Xue's expression was clearly stunned. She wasn't stupid. Even if she didn't turn on her prophet mode, she could still guess what I was going to say. Furthermore, with her IQ that claimed to have studied in Cambridge before she turned eighteen, her memory was probably better than any of Shallow Shallow's, or my sister's. Thus, she was stunned for a moment and looked at me in disbelief, "I remember that I found a dirty little brother to ask for directions. He was wearing a dirty elementary school uniform …"
"After that, they even exchanged gifts. Xue was such a cute and polite loli back then. How did life end up like this?" I was certain in my heart. I shrugged and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. In the end, I didn't forget to emphasize, "By the way, 'little brother', the impression that you have left from your childhood is actually this word. How can I bear it? You called me a blockhead for three years!"
"No way! It's you?! " The missy let out a weird cry and jumped over two meters from the sofa. She squatted down on a short table not far away. Lan, who was sleeping curled up under the table, immediately jumped out of the window. I shrugged my shoulders at her, "Why is it impossible? You know that I lived in K City since I was young. I even moved here from the old city. You left me a stamp back then. Wait a moment, let me look for it. I still have that thing!! "
The missy stared at me as if she had seen a ghost. Her eyes were 60% shocked, 30% expectant, and there was a determination that said, "If you dare to lie to me, I will kill you". My sister looked at me with her eyes wide open in disbelief. Shallow Shallow was daydreaming.
I rummaged through the dimensional pocket, but it wasn't easy to find a stamp from more than ten years ago. Thinking back to when I first got the dimensional pocket, I was so cocky. I happily threw all the useless things into it and almost decided to go on a journey alone the next day. At that time, I was thinking like this: I would use the dimensional pocket to store all my belongings and go to the South Pole to build a hut. Then, when the expedition team came over, I would wear a red cotton jacket and a white beard and coincidentally meet them. I would then lie to them and say that all Santa Claus went on strike this Christmas …
This stupid plan didn't come true because of an even more stupid reason: I still couldn't find a deer that wouldn't freeze to death at the South Pole … Alright, it's all the fault of youth. Now, I am no longer envious of those idiots who carry a dimensional pocket and go on a journey alone. What's so good about being outside? They can't even eat a chives box.
"Look, it's this." After rummaging around for a long time, I found a small metal box. It was a large pencil box that I used when I was in elementary school. At that time, it was fashionable to open it, and there were several layers of plastic lattices inside. It contained all of my treasures from before middle school, including an eraser with words engraved on it, a small wooden sculpture, a dime with a round hole in it, two iron nails flattened on the train tracks, polished into small darts, and a commemorative stamp that had almost turned into a black and white photo.
Seeing the small piece of paper, Missy directly fell off the short table. Then, she rushed two and a half meters away and snatched the item from my hand. "You … It's really you! You really can't … Oh, speaking of which, did you really use this stamp? "
Missy couldn't help but cry out when she found that there was a layer of paper on the back of the stamp that hadn't been completely torn off.
I looked up at the sky. "Ah, didn't you say that you wanted me to write a letter to you? I took it seriously …"
Lin Xue: "… That, I don't remember that I needed an address to write a letter, so …"
"So the post office took me out."
Lin Xue: "…"
After being silent for half a minute, Missy's expression became more and more strange. It was as if she had already fought three hundred rounds with someone in her mind. Just as I was about to ask her if she ate something wrong, she suddenly let out a long sigh. "What an ill-fated relationship!" Then, she took out a small lump from her portable space and threw it at me. "Your Zhu Bajie, blockhead!"
When I saw it, I immediately beamed with joy. It was the "wooden sculpture" that I gave to the girl who dressed like a little princess. It was a crooked wooden handle with a small hammer head. Of course, I always insisted that it was an incomplete Zhu Bajie, even if it was finished, it would at most form a rake.
"Why are you laughing? You must be thinking about unhealthy things in your head!" Missy gritted her teeth and looked at me. "Don't let your imagination run wild! I was only nine years old that year, did you hear me? Nine years old! You should save up your hormones for me until I was thirteen years old. I just put it beside me and forgot to throw it away. After a few years, I felt that it was a waste to throw it away. No matter what, it is still a childhood memory … Hey, what's with that expression! "
In the end, Missy's face couldn't help but turn red. She looked up to the sky and sighed again. "What an ill-fated relationship!"
For the first time in my life, I felt that maybe fate wasn't so f * cked up.
Shallow Shallow finally recovered from her daydream. She jumped up from the sofa and grabbed my neck. "Ah Jun! You have to explain it to me! "
I looked at Qian Qian's ferocious face and wanted to cry. "Release … Release what release! Didn't you hear Xue Er say that we were only eight or nine years old that year? Our combined IQ couldn't even reach the table's height. Who would have such cunning thoughts? What do you want me to explain! "
Shallow Shallow let go of me and sat back on the sofa as if nothing had happened. "It's nothing. I just saw the female lead on TV say the same thing. Oh right, I want to eat sugar fried chestnuts. Let's buy some tomorrow!"
Me: "…"
Lin Xue was stunned for a while. Suddenly, she used our mental connection to talk to me. "Do you know how much trouble Shallow Shallow's brain has saved you, blockhead?"
Me: "…"
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