I don't know how long it has been, Chen Ling finally calmed down.
He said coldly, "Captain Han Meng, if your questioning is over...
please leave my house." Han Meng did not speak again.
He stood up silently and walked towards the door.
He pushed open the door, and the dancing snowflakes floated into the room.
The four-lined black windbreaker fluttered slightly...
He paused for a moment and looked back at Chen Ling.
"Whether you believe me or not, I have always been fulfilling my duties...
If you really think this world lacks justice, why not become it yourself." "You passed the martial arts test as the top candidate, and now you are an official law enforcer.
You can report to headquarters tomorrow." "And..." "The qualification to enter the ancient military secrets is also yours." After saying these words, he stepped into the heavy snow, and the black windbreaker gradually disappeared at the end of the street.
Chen Ling's gaze swept over the empty room, his expression somewhat complicated...
When Han Meng walked far away, he also left the house and headed towards the back mountain.
...
The mass grave.
Chen Ling sat slowly in the snow, holding the box of uncut cake.
"A Yan, I'm here." He looked at the uneven pit he had dug in front of him and spoke softly.
Snowflakes stuck to the young man's temples, resembling white hair.
He took out the candles from the cake and inserted them into the snow.
"You have made a wish before, so I won't light the candles...
I'll cut the cake for you." Chen Ling took out a plastic knife from the packaging box and slowly cut the cake into two pieces.
He neatly placed one piece in front of the pit and picked up his own piece from the box.
Ice and snow covered the surface of the cake, and Chen Ling took a bite, not sure if it was cream or ice.
As he chewed, he mumbled unclearly, "A Yan, do you know?" "This world is really messed up...
This cake is so bad, yet it costs two hundred copper coins.
In my original world, a cake that costs two hundred is bigger and much tastier." "If there's a chance, I really want to take you back, even though I'm just a corporate slave, I earn enough money for you to eat and drink without worries." "But then again, if you go back with me, you'll definitely have a better life than me...
You're good-looking, sing well, and just become a short video blogger casually, you'll have millions of fans, a proper inheritor of traditional culture." Chen Ling's face was red from the cold wind.
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He took a few bites of the cake and looked up at the sky.
"But there are good things here too..." "The aurora here is beautiful, whether it's day or night." "But what's the use of being beautiful?" "Just surviving is already a struggle for me..." "The path you gave me seems powerful, but it also seems to affect my mind...
Is this what you call hardships?" "Han Meng asked me to join the law enforcers, but the 'world-ending' disaster on me is like a time bomb.
Once it erupts, I will become a target...
In that case, is joining that society a step in the right direction?" "Instead of letting them find me and capture me, wouldn't it be better to stand against them from the beginning?" "A Yan...
How should I proceed on the path ahead?" Chen Ling muttered to the pit.
Click— At that moment, something slipped out of his pocket and fell into the snow.
Chen Ling picked up the object, it was the silver square block that Chu Muyun had given him before.
In the chilling wind, it felt icy cold in his hand.
Chen Ling remembered that Chu Muyun had said that through this thing, he might understand them better...
But how should he use this thing? He fiddled with the silver square block in his hand for a while, gently pushed the tip of his finger, and a silver sliding cover separated from the main body, revealing a silver piece of metal with some square holes, looking like a standard...
"USB flash drive?!"Chen Ling looked at the USB flash drive in his hand in astonishment, feeling completely bewildered.
Ever since he arrived in this world, Chen Ling had always thought that the technological level here was probably stuck in the Republic of China era of the previous world - coal oil lamps, yellow horse carriages, salt for melting snow, old-fashioned pistols...
But when he saw this USB flash drive, Chen Ling was suddenly at a loss.
Could this thing...
really belong in this world? Where did the computers in this world come from? Without computers, where could this USB flash drive be plugged into? One question after another flashed through Chen Ling's mind, and he absentmindedly picked up the USB flash drive and inserted it into the snow beneath him...
The next moment, a string of deep green code automatically appeared on the snow! [Code 129439] [Reading...] [Reading complete] Chen Ling's eyes rolled back, and he fainted on the spot...
*Whoosh* The sound of rushing water echoed in his ears, Chen Ling suddenly opened his eyes wide, as if he had just awakened from a nightmare, cold sweat soaking his back.
Somehow, he had already left the chaotic burial mound and arrived in a small square space, the sound of toilet flushing gradually fading away, replaced by a series of urgent knocking on the door.
"Bro, are you done yet? I can't hold it anymore..." Chen Ling snapped back to reality, quickly scanning his surroundings...
"...A toilet?" Chen Ling stared in disbelief.
It wasn't the old, run-down toilet at Hanfrost Street, but a clean, bright, modern toilet.
Whether it was the sensor light above his head or the "TOTO" toilet behind him, everything made Chen Ling feel a strong sense of familiarity.
"Did I...
travel back?" Chen Ling's eyes were filled with confusion.
"Bro, if you're going to put on your pants, do it quickly.
I really can't hold it anymore..." The voice of the man outside the door was full of urgency.
Chen Ling immediately pushed open the toilet door, and the man in a polo shirt at the door was overjoyed, quickly entering the stall, slamming the door shut with a bang, followed by a comfortable groan...
Chen Ling looked around, subconsciously quickening his pace and leaving the toilet.
The first thing that caught his eye was "Heytea." Next to it were KFC, Muji, Zhouheiya, Grandma's Dumplings...
Looking at these familiar brands and the pedestrians walking around the mall, Chen Ling's pupils slightly contracted...
He seemed to have realized something, and he hurriedly stepped through the crowd, rushing out of the mall amidst countless strange looks! Witnessing the towering skyscrapers with his own eyes, only one thought remained in Chen Ling's mind...
He had truly returned.
"Did I...
just have a dream?" Chen Ling held his head in his hands, muttering to himself, "No, if it was a dream...
why would I wake up in a toilet?" "I was just at the chaotic burial mound, talking to Ayan...
then I inserted the USB flash drive into the snow, and then..." "Was it that USB flash drive??" Just as Chen Ling was talking to himself, the large screen in the opposite building suddenly flickered, "We interrupt this program for an urgent news flash.""At nine o'clock this morning, a red meteor grazed past the Earth, while at the same time, extremely localized earthquakes erupted across the country...
In just three short minutes, over a hundred buildings split and collapsed, including the Meishang Hotel, Jiangkou Football Stadium, and the Capital Theater...
According to incomplete statistics, the current death toll exceeds two thousand people..."