Like closing his eyes and opening them again.
I don't know if it was an instant or how long it had been, but there was already light before his eyes-
Ethan found himself in a space with no end in sight, like the barren depths of space, with his feet seemingly stepping on a layer of completely transparent glass, and underneath the glass was endless darkness, as overhead, as all around. In front of a standing oval blue luminous body, seems to have no entity, is nothingness, the surface of the luminous body haunted by a layer of light dense, it is the only source of light in this space.
In addition to this, can not see a grain of dust, a point of light. The whole space is only himself and this standing oval-shaped luminous body, the blue light can not be illuminated, there is no object can make it reflect, this side of the world is still dark and can not see the boundary.
Ethan was dumbfounded, his mouth wide open, at this moment he should have been thinking, but he couldn't raise a single thought in his mind.
Apart from the shock, there was only a blankness.
This space gave him a strange feeling, like another world, but also like the centre of the universe, as if it had existed since the beginning of the universe.
And what was even more frightening was that he felt that from the beginning of the birth of this space, he had already been here.
There is a ...... feeling of becoming one.
Ethan stood dumbfounded for a long time before coming back to his senses, but he was still confused - he had absolutely no idea what had happened or where he was now. Even though he could feel the luminous body from a long way away, as if he had the same root as it.
"What's ...... going on here?" Ethan felt like some kind of surreal situation had befallen him.
Then as if he already knew what was going on, he reached out and made an imaginary pulling motion to the side, actually pulling a door directly through the void!
Bright, shimmering light filtered through the door, and the carpeted hallway appeared before him.
Ethan was stunned again, it was actually the hotel stairs.
Immediately he stopped thinking about it and ran out in a flash, clanking down the stairs.
What life changes, strange encounters, he could not care about these! Both of his parents had just died, and he was already satisfied that he was still alive. If he had really died just now, he didn't know how Elaine, a big girl with a bad personality and a bad temper, would survive if she was left in this world.
Running to the ground floor facade in a single breath, he sat down on the couch with his arse in the air, glancing at the stairs with a palpitating heart, taking a few deep breaths and glancing around before picking up a glass of water to drink.
The earthquake was obviously fake, Chicago's geology couldn't have been that big, it was all brought on by that space and the glowing body. And he still had no idea what had happened.
That luminous body couldn't talk and no one had told him what was going on, he didn't even know if it was good or bad.
A glass of water finished, and he gradually calmed down inside.
From what he had experienced, it seemed like the chances of it being something bad were low, but he couldn't see any shades of good either.
He fumbled for his mobile phone and glanced at it, the time showing it was the next morning with a full signal.
A night spent in a coma.
No calls, no texts.
Ethan couldn't help but sigh, he hadn't returned home for the night, that girl didn't even have a word of greeting, in the end, is it still the only closest relative in the world ah, said that we are dependent on each other?
Just when he gathered his courage, ready to go upstairs again to find out, the phone rang.
It was Elaine.
Ethan quickly picked up the phone, "Hello?"
"I called you last night to ask why you didn't come back and I couldn't get through." Elaine got right to the point, just sounding a little tired, "Nothing happened to you, right?"
"Of course nothing happened, I just ...... had a bit of a mix up over here last night, I was pretty busy late, so I slept at the hotel." Ethan explained, a little embarrassed.
"Didn't go out drinking, did you?" Elaine frowned, but she didn't ask more questions, and directly said, "Are you coming back for lunch, should I order you a takeaway?"
"...... There are still dishes in the fridge, right?"
"Hmm."
"Then I'll come back and cook." Ethan looked at the time, it's only ten thirty now, it's a short taxi ride back here.
"Okay."
Elaine hung up the phone after saying that.
Ethan put down the phone, shook his head helplessly, stood up and prepared to go out, but couldn't help but look back and inhale deeply, feeling unusually tired physically and mentally for a moment.
Walking out the door, when he was locking it, but he couldn't help but fold back again, taking a step outside the warehouse.
The door was firmly shut, all but indistinguishable from yesterday.
Ethan took a deep breath and reached for the doorknob, hesitating for a long moment before gritting his teeth and opening the door.
Inside the darkness, the space can not see the edge, an oval-shaped luminous body stands quietly suspended, dense long around.
Ethan gulped imperceptibly.
It seems that the sheets and covers, toiletries and other things have to be re-bought!
Why don't we just report it to the state?
Soon, he returned home.
Elaine was wearing a pair of light blue denim shorts with a pure white short-sleeved t-shirt lying on the sofa, the hem of the t-shirt was tied into the shorts, a pair of snow-white jade-like long legs crossed, holding a book in her hand and looking at it.
She is one metre seven, tall and long legs, high face value, high IQ, is the character of high cold, bad temper.
Ethan said hello to her, she was indifferent, and Ethan didn't care, washed his hands, rummaged around in the fridge for a while for ingredients, and then went into the kitchen to start cleaning up.
The house was close to two hundred square feet and had been bought about ten years ago. At that time, the two professors, when they bought this suite was also quite cheap, and now it is a big profit.
It was a special time, and he was already too tired inside, so even though something so unbelievable had just happened, he was too tired to think much about it.
The last ten days or so had put him in the habit of not thinking much. Because if he couldn't help but think about it, if he stayed in this house during these ten days, any object could evoke the grief of his parents' death and the memories of his past. He would be lost in thought for a long time, wasting time, unable to extricate himself.
Perhaps the saddest part of the death of a loved one is not the moment of death, but after the cremation of their body and burial of their ashes. Later in life, any detail around us may remind us at any time that our loved ones have left us. Each time is a process of meeting the past, and coming to our senses is like stripping flesh and blood from bone.
The half-pack of cigarettes left on the coffee table, the room where the quilt is neatly folded but no one ever enters again, the green bushes swaying in the wind on the window sill, the moonflower blooming at the right time, and the quietness of the late night ......
All can bring back memories.
A son of ginger shredded pork, a fried phoenix tail, two bowls of rice, two people lowered their heads and ate in silence.
When the rice was almost eaten, Elaine contained the head of the chopsticks and examined Ethan, the girl also developed the habit of eating Chinese food, after a long time coldly said, "You are a little absent-minded today!"
Ethan looked up and frowned at her, "Huh?"
Looking at him, who was clearly distracted, Elaine frowned again and pursed her lips, "I said, you're a bit absent-minded today."
"Eh ......" Ethan froze, then revealed a pleased smile, "You can actually tell that I'm distracted, so it seems like you're really growing up... ..."
"Hey!" Elaine rolled her eyes and interrupted him by tapping the bowl twice with her chopsticks. Thanks to her, she thought that this guy was sad plus fatigued, and was afraid that he wouldn't be able to walk away, ready to patiently comfort him for a moment or two!
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"Can't you taste that one of the dishes you fried is very salty and one has a heavy MSG flavour?" She pointed at the dishes with her chopsticks.
"......"
Ethan stood up and put down his chopsticks, "There's something else going on over at the hotel, I'm going over there, you wash the dishes."
He had decided that he was going to go and find out what was going on.
"Hmm." Elaine responded faintly, seemingly a little uneasy, so she added, "Remember to give me a word when you run into trouble, and if there's anything you don't understand, you can also come and ask me."
Ethan's face darkened slightly, but he still managed to squeeze out a smile and returned, "You can check your results tonight, right? Remember to give me a call when you check. And ah, even though you've graduated from high school, college doesn't mean slacking off, no matter which college you get into, you have to study hard, got it?"
Now it was Elaine's turn to have a black face.
"Can you stop talking to me in such a parental tone?"
"Fine, but please also note that I'm the older brother and you're the younger sister! And one more thing, I'm your guardian now, and you chose it."
"Ridiculous, do I need you to worry about that?" After Elaine finished her sentence defiantly, she started to clean up the dishes with a dark face, her movements wide enough to show her inner dissatisfaction.
Indeed, she could have also chosen to have her grandfather in the countryside as her guardian, but she ended up choosing Ethan. everyone respected her opinion, and that's how the matter was settled. When she'd made the choice, she'd expected Ethan to run her through this one day, but it wouldn't be for long, and she'd be officially eighteen years old in a half-dozen years.
Or she could dump the guy early if she could prove she had financial independence-
The guy had been able to be financially independent his freshman year, and seemed to be making a lot of money in college, so there was no reason she couldn't do it.
Ethan went back to the hotel once more, and walked into the original warehouse once more.
On the way in he even thought it was just a hallucination, or a dream of his own, that maybe if he opened the door again he'd see a brand new change of sheets and duvet covers and toiletries and hygiene products. But the truth was that the space still existed, and the things in the original warehouse were destined to be re-bought.
Ethan held the door closed at nothingness, and reopened it with a pull out of thin air, and so on back and forth several times.
"Is it really a big warehouse?"
He mumbled in a voice that could only be heard by himself, afraid that if he was loud enough for anyone to hear him he would feel offended.
Then he forked his feet and looked down at the nothingness at his feet, forcing himself to calm down first before boldly walking over to stand in front of the glowing object.
"What on earth are you ...... May I ask your honour's name?"
"Hello?"
"Switch on!"
"System?"
No response!
And then Ethan tried various methods to test the space and the luminous body.
There was practically nothingness under his feet, and when he crouched down and reached out to touch it, his hand could go down easily, but when he stepped on it it was very hard, and he would not fall down himself.
This made him feel very strange.
He felt more "science fiction" than "mysterious".
As it seemed, this oval shaped blue glowing body was nothingness, no entity, the belt can be reached in, can also be pulled out intact.
Even a hand can go in, and most of the time you can't touch anything, but once, Ethan did. ......
Water!
That's right, water, and it scared him so much that he jerked his hand back.
The water smelled odourless and seemed to be just plain old water, but he couldn't confirm it.
It made him think that the ghostly blue glowing body was probably connected to somewhere else, and that this place was in fact constantly shifting-unless it had just been someone at the other end who had picked up a glass of water for him to touch.
"The Rosen Bridge? Does it look like this?"
"Or a metaphysical space gate?"
"Or maybe we should report it to the state!"
Ethan muttered to himself, but a sudden stirring in his heart, a feeling that really baffled him.
Thus, he revealed a confused look again.
Adolescent young boys will still sigh after the first time: ah this feeling turns out to be like this ah! ...... But he didn t even know how to name this feeling.
Without having time to experience this unfamiliar feeling, he heard a sound, if any, coming from the source, and the source of the sound was the luminous body.
The rhythm was generally calm, with slight ups and downs, and the syllables changed very quickly, not in any of the languages he was familiar with. It was like someone chanting, a pale, persistent voice, gradually moving from far to near, from fuzzy to clear ......
Ethan hastily pulled out of thin air and opened the door, standing at the edge of it, cautiously watching the luminous body, ready to snatch the door open and slam it shut again!
Suddenly, the syllables stopped!
A slightly old hand reached out from the luminous body and clasped the edge part of the luminous body. At the same time, dense and complicated symbols appeared steeply in the dark space, flying haphazardly in the air.
He opened his eyes wide, his black pupils reflecting the blue oval-shaped luminous body and the flying mysterious symbols.
A foot came across the border!
The shoe is quite strange, with a patch.
Ethan looked down.
When both feet appeared at the same time, he looked up and saw that a person was already standing in front of the luminous body. The man was staring at him with a calm face and a kind expression, and the sky was filled with obscure symbols that flew around him without stopping, uncountable numbers of them, spreading into the distance in the dark space.
Gulp!
Ethan gulped again.
He quickly burrowed out, slamming the door shut with a backhanded thud! In one last startling glimpse, he saw a look of consternation on the old man's face.
With his back against the door, he kept gasping for air.
It was too damn scary!
Instead of rushing away, he pressed his ear against the security door and listened to the movement inside.
Nothing could be heard.
No knocking either.
Yes, the door was invisible on the inside, even void and non-existent. When he wanted to open the door, he could do so with a pull of his hand, no matter where he stood, but he wasn't sure the old man had it in him.
He went downstairs and drank a glass of water to calm his nerves, and sat there for a long time before he was sure that the old man, who looked like an otherworldly hobo, really couldn't open that door.
In other words, he was probably the only one with the ability to open the door, in which case his senses were correct - that space could be considered his "half home".
Well, half.
Ethan was torn between turning it over to the state or not for a while, but then he felt that the old man didn't look like a bad guy, so he plucked up his courage and decided to go up and take a look.
Curiosity killed the cat.
He opened the door a crack and glanced inside very calmly, and saw nothing before he widened it again with confidence.
At that moment, a force suddenly appeared out of nowhere, pulling him in forcefully, and he was unable to resist it in the slightest.
A few moments later-
That old man stood in front of him, his hand leaning on a staff inlaid with a crystal ball the size of an apple, his expression remained calm, his eyes were already a little cloudy, but they were flickering with an unattainable light of wisdom as he looked at him, "*&%¥#$%#......"
Ethan: "????"
The old man frowned slightly, then nodded, raising his staff slightly as a blue light flashed from the crystal ball.
"My name is Nathan, probably ...... a caster from the Otherworld, nice to meet you."
"???"
Ethan inclined his head to stare at him, confused.