Chapter 4: The Half-Step Immortal in Distress (I)

April 1, 2016 at 1:25 a.m.

After completing the meeting with Qi Jingtao in 1996 and the delivery of the ring, Lao Qi's mind was empty, how to describe it?

That old man crossed over, crossed with his ring, no, no, no, no, it should be the ring with his Yuan Shen crossing, right? Qi Jingtao thought silently in his heart.

If time and space are coherent, will the old man's return to 1996 cause turmoil in time and space, and will changing the past affect the future?

Thinking of this, Lao Qi couldn't sit still, and uneasily searched and browsed the Internet one by one in the best way for contemporary netizens to understand the world, and through the convenient and fast online world, to track and observe, and determine whether this world will happen, or unpredictable changes have occurred.

I stayed up until it was dark, and browsed news, reports, news, analysis, commentary, and other real-time information from various sources, and nothing unpredictable happened.

The big names who lead the world are still alive and active on their respective stages, playing various roles that fit their own identities, stirring, influencing, destroying, promoting, deciding, and solving all kinds of big and small things in this world. You see, oh my parents are still the president of the United States, Trump and Sheila are still spitting on each other to compete for posts, Orland's life is not good, and he is still as stable as Mount Tai in the presidency, Mercol's demeanor is still the same, and even Abe is still stirring up the storm in the East China Sea......

The stars of the entertainment world are all kinds of stars, outdated, popular, and newly announced, famous, unknown, well-known, and want to be well-known, or they still create all kinds of inhuman events, scandals, and highlights as always. I'm afraid that everyone doesn't know that the messy things in their circle are increasing their popularity, and at the same time, they are also entertaining the vast number of boring Internet melon-eating people.

By the way, today is April Fool's Day, and of course netizens have to have some fun, coax others, and deceive themselves.

What should be happening in the world is happening, and there is no shadow of what shouldn't happen......

Really, there is nothing in the world, and mediocrity disturbs themselves!

At dawn, Lao Qi left the computer room and came to his small garden. The things said on the Internet are not real, and they are too far away from themselves. Lao Qi planned to take another look at the neighbors around him who looked up and looked down, and whether there was anything wrong with them.

In the garden of Villa 502, Riverside Garden Community, Tashan District, Yunnan City, Yunnan Province, the blooming camellia is full of wonders, the crimson petals are dotted with white markings of the super heavenly warrior, the rose petals are draped with white spots, the pink Mrs. Laura, the bright cinnabar, and the shy little peach......

Lao Qi, who had been sleepless all night, bathed in the rising sun, strolled among the flowers, and always stopped to watch the camellia that he tasted in the past, but he failed to attract his wandering eyes. His feet were moving steadily, his eyes watching the movement outside the garden.

Wang Lu, the driver of Boss Lin's house, came at 7:11, and Boss Lin got on his two Audi A6s at 7:31 and left. It's not much different from the past.

Pan Fatzi jogged out at 6:20, and now he is staggering back early. Old habits, not changed.

Old man Zhou is still playing his Tai Chi on his tree that is claimed to be worth 30,000 yuan, and he doesn't know how to change the accompanying music, what kind of "Fishing Boat Sings Evening" early in the morning? After retiring from the position of director of the Forestry Bureau for more than two years, a set of 24-style Chen-style Taijiquan has become proficient, and it is normal. However, is his sky-hating tree worth 30,000 yuan?

Lao Ha is still so bored and nonsensical, he doesn't finish his meal, and watches a few sparrows jumping around and pecking in its rice bowl. It's very leisurely, and I have pets. Those rice, or I personally put it in its special basin last night, after eating the meat and bones, the rice is left to feed the birds, hey, you are normal, loving.

The flock of pigeons in Boss Qian's house still wander around the rooftops of the community, and they don't fly out to forage for food by themselves?

……

Everything works fine, nothing has changed.

Coming to the head of the lion in full bloom, fishing for a budding flower, and carefully observing the busy bees in the stamens, Lao Qi smiled heartily. At this moment, he was relaxed. The sun still rises, life goes on, and the world is still that world!

This world is normal, and what is abnormal is actually Lao Qi himself.

Lao Qi's abnormality today is due to the fact that what happened in just a few dozen minutes after midnight was indeed too weird, too sci-fi, and too unscientific.

Lao Qi is more worried and afraid than Qi Jingtao in 1996, and he is more afraid of this time-space dialogue, and throwing that ring will cause turmoil in time and space, and unpredictable world evolution will occur.

Lao Qi sat in the study and computer room all night in anxiety, like a god, thinking and deducing for the future development of the world, waiting for the results of the changes in time and space to him. As a result, the ashtray was full of cigarette butts, and he almost died in the computer room by smoke. Fortunately, my mother is at my sister's house, my wife is on a business trip, and my son is in college, so no one sees it, otherwise it would be even more faceless.

Lao Qi in 2016, who is middle-aged, is a real seventy-year-old mother and a son who is going to college, and he can't afford to hurt himself in middle age!

There are no wonders about the size of the world. Perhaps, there really is a parallel space in the universe, perhaps, there are really gods and ghosts in the world, perhaps, the little man is just an ant, and his power will not have any adverse effect on this world.

Lao Qi, who let go of his worries, untied the chain of the dog from the tree, called Lao Ha over and buckled the chain, and was dragged by Lao Ha to the outside of the riverbank community, which was their daily morning exercise.

The villa where Lao Qi lives now was purchased in installments before the house price rose in 2003, covering an area of 419 square meters, covering an area of 152 square meters, with a three-and-a-half-story building of 420 square meters and an independent small garden of nearly 250 square meters. In this small garden that belongs to his own family, Lao Qi did not plant anything else, so he planted nine varieties and twenty-four camellia plants of various tastes, which is called the tea garden, which is a very distinctive existence in this community.

This villa is what Lao Qi considers to be the most successful private investment in his life. At that time, he was still working in the information center of Nantian Tobacco Group, and his job was stable and he had this purchasing power.

In a fourth-tier city like Central Yunnan, since June 2003, the price of ordinary commercial housing has not exceeded 1,000 yuan, and when he bought it, the price of the villa floor area was 1,200 yuan per square meter, and the garden area was 500 yuan per square meter, which was within his affordability.

Lao Qi bought a house for living, not for investment, and not for reselling for profit. At that time, seeing that many colleagues were going out to buy houses, Lao Qi also moved his mind. To buy, or not to buy, that's the question. Lao Qi was very embarrassed at that time and thought about it for a long time. It wasn't until later, seeing the hard work of the old grandmother climbing the stairs to the sixth floor, that I gritted my teeth and stomped my feet and decided to buy it.