"There is no one in the world who lives like a purgatory, I don't cry and I don't have the dignity to give up......"

The man riding an electric car, pouting his bones and gritting his teeth, walked retrograde on the cold street covered by wind and sand, which caused the ringing of the missed phone that always showed 'Xiaoyi' to echo for a long time.

The man, covered in heavy dust, walked away on the cold street with less than ten meters of visibility.

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Xiacheng is located in the north, on the verge of a desert environment, and years of greening projects and environmental transformation make this kind of sandstorm weather rare in several years.

The scale of this sandstorm is not as large as the previous dark dust and yellow sand dome that swept the world into darkness, but it is still like a dim yellow devouring beast, invading the city.

Near the suburbs of Nanhe, there are gradually pedestrians rushing on the road, mostly those who live in the middle and lower classes of the city, still busy with life despite the wind and sand.

The electric car stopped in front of a grain and oil store in the suburbs, and when Xu Ran slapped off the heavy mud and sand on his body, he was still a native who had rolled in the mud and sand, dressed in new clothes and old clothes.

The owner of the grain and oil store is a widowed middle-aged man who is only forty-seven or eighteen years old and has experienced the vicissitudes of the world, but he likes to be called Uncle He.

After Xu Ran entered the store, the wrinkles on Uncle He's face when he smiled were like the wrinkles carved by the knife of the years deepened: "Xiao Ran, the rent of the warehouse this month is about to expire, if you are nervous, then give it to me next month!"

"Thanks, Uncle Ho!"

He Bo is a kind person and has always taken care of Xu Ran, and there is no need to say more words of gratitude, so he will keep it in his heart.

As he spoke, He Bo helped Xu Ran carry a bag of flour and a bag of rice that had been prepared to the electric car together.

He Bo didn't talk much, Xu Ran didn't chat, and after thanking him, he pushed the electric car to the Nanhe Orphanage, which was three hundred meters diagonally opposite.

The Nanhe Orphanage was originally a church founded by European missionaries in the 19th century, and was rebuilt after the war in the 20th century, and later became an orphanage, renovated and renovated in the 80s, and built several brick bungalows nearby.

Xu Ran and her aunt Xu Yueying's family used to live in a small bungalow courtyard separated from the orphanage only by a wall, and since the death of Xu Ran's parents and uncle, Xu Ran, who was only seven years old, was raised by her aunt.

But at that time, her aunt Xu Yueying was busy with work to support her family, and she had no time to take care of Xu Ran and her younger cousin Zhou Ting, so the cousins were often sent to an orphanage and taken care of by the old dean Yalin.

Later, my aunt was laid off, and the family life became even more difficult, and my aunt worked even harder to make a living and provide for the children's schooling.

It can be said that the Xu Ran brothers and sisters have been children who grew up in an orphanage since they were children

To this day, this orphanage, which has experienced 70 years of wind and rain, is very dilapidated, but he is Xu Ran's home, and it has already carved a brand in his soul.

A bag of rice and a bag of flour weighing more than a hundred catties were carried on his shoulders, and the weight did not make Xu Ran bend over, and he walked into the courtyard with steady steps.

"Brother, you're back!"

Cousin Zhou Ting graduated from junior high school this year, Tingting Yuli is like a budding little flower, and was admitted to Xiacheng No. 1 Middle School with excellent results.

Now during the holidays, the sensible and mature little cousin does not play around like other beautiful girls, and has been staying in the orphanage to help volunteer and teach some basic homework to the younger siblings.

Xu Ran carried rice noodles to the cafeteria, and Zhou Ting and a nearby grandmother Liu, who had retired and volunteered to help the children cook, vacate the place.

After the rice and noodles were put into the cabinet, Grandma Liu took a chicken feather catcher to help him remove the dust on his body, and said, "Xiao Ran, have you eaten dinner, the children have just finished eating, and there is still a surplus of food, I will serve you a bowl?"

"Hmm!"

Xu Ran really didn't eat, and nodded.

Grandma Liu went to help him serve a big bowl of food, Xu Ran picked up the bowl and squatted in the corner of the canteen to swallow it, wiped his mouth after eating in less than a few minutes, and took his sister to help wash the dishes.

Grandma Arlene is a Jewish elderly woman who has been building an orphanage for more than 70 years, and has been raised by countless children here.

Because it is a privately built orphanage, the infrastructure and conditions are relatively backward, and now that the country's economy is strong, the local government of Xiacheng has re-established a public children's welfare home, and this old orphanage with a long history has fewer and fewer children every year.

At present, there are only 21 children in the orphanage, all of whom are under the age of nine, all of whom are picked up by some people in the surrounding areas of Xiacheng who are impressed by the old orphanage and send them here on their own initiative.

Xu Ran returned to his hometown to start a business, and part of the online store he opened sold handicrafts made by the children in the orphanage taught by Grandma Yalin's grandmother and the people in the neighborhood who came to learn art.

In addition, most of the other parts are old goods that he collected from all over the place, which were hand-sorted, repaired and renovated, and the types were more miscellaneous, mostly more practical things, and the price was more affordable and close to the people.

The online store is opened in the 100-square-meter warehouse rented by Xu Ran, which is stacked with all kinds of old goods he has collected.

A small cubicle of only 9 square meters in the southeast corner of the warehouse is his office, and there is only a bed, a desk, two chairs, a wardrobe, a desktop computer, a laptop, a smartphone, and an access network cable in the office room, and the working environment is very simple.

However, although the online store is broken, Xu Ran also has two part-time salesmen, one temporary worker, and four partners.

The two part-time salesmen are honest and illiterate uncles who often walk the streets and alleys in the city to collect old goods and rags, and one is a farmer aunt from the countryside who drives her own electric tricycle around the surrounding countryside in her spare time.

And another temporary worker, that is the little cousin Zhou Ting, usually after school, if there is nothing to do in the orphanage, she will come here to help Xu Ran act as a temporary customer service for a while after finishing her homework.

As for the four partners, they are naturally the owners of three small shops selling department stores and a courier company near the outskirts of Nanhe.

In addition to these, there is a hand-built sealed room in the northwest corner of the warehouse, which is Xu Ran's 'laboratory'.

However, in this laboratory, which looks extremely simple on the outside and can even be ridiculed, there are two precision instruments and equipment worth tens of thousands of dollars, some experimental equipment that Xu Ran has scooped out of old goods for modification, and a secret that is not known to the world.

Bang!

It was already evening, and although the sandstorm outside was weak, it would be accompanied by a dry thunder from time to time.

After Xu Ran returned to the warehouse from the orphanage, he didn't go back to the office to see if anyone had placed an order, and continued to sort some of the old goods he had received this morning.

Zizizizi!

Suddenly, when another continuous thunderstorm fell, there was a sound of firecrackers exploding from the roof, which was supposed to be destroyed by the external antenna.

Xu Ran first heard the sound of a strong voltage from the laboratory triggering the reaction of the magnetic field coil.

Immediately afterward, there was a flickering blue glow in the laboratory, which quickly attracted Xu Ran's attention.

With some surprise and expectation, Xu Ran took off the mechanical watch and mobile phone on his body, as well as a bunch of keys, put on an electrostatic suit, and trotted into the 'laboratory' quickly.

I saw two rectangular coils placed in parallel, and in the two perpendicular series matrix coils, the force field generated by the uniform magnetic field made a piece of metal that seemed to be extremely dense in the shape of a flat oval, the size of a quail egg, float in the air.

Now, the piece of metal is suspended in mid-air, crystal clear throughout, blooming with a dazzling blue light, which looks magnificent and mysterious.

Seeing that there was a progress bar similar to an energy logo in the faintly transmitted luster on the metal block was full, which also indicated that his energy had been filled, Xu Ran couldn't help but feel excited.

It's been half a year.

In order to conduct in-depth research on this piece of metal of unknown origin and unknown structural characteristics, Xu Ran did not hesitate to give up his job at Xidu University of Science and Technology and returned to his hometown to start an online store, and devoted most of his savings and most of his time and energy to this experiment, just for this moment.

Through the interaction of the force field of the uniform magnetic field, Xu Ran spent half a year arranging the coil to continuously introduce dry thunder and lightning, just to fill up the energy in the unknown metal block.

The blue light that now blooms from the suspended metal block is actually a kind of particle beam.

Miraculously, when Xu Ran was conducting an experiment, he found a mysterious folded fragment space inside the metal block.

It's just that at that time, the unknown metal block was not enough energy, Xu Ran found that the mysterious fragment space rashly went in to explore, but only after exploring the tip of the iceberg, the metal block ran out of energy.

At that time, Xu Ran brought back a wooden plank in the mysterious fragment space.

But it was just a wooden board from another dimension, but it had already scratched Xu Ran's itch, and he felt that the metal block was very likely to be a space key that could open the mysterious alien space.

That's why he tried to use various ways to store energy for the metal block of unknown origin, intending to enter the mysterious debris space again to explore.

And now, after half a year of persistence and experimental attempts, the hard work has paid off, and Xu Ran has finally made a breakthrough.

After turning off the switch of the experimental instrument next to it, the unidentified metal block was still suspended in the air, no longer emitting a blue beam.

Xu Ran held it in his hand, and it felt like nothing, as if it was illusory.

When it was loaded into a miniature transmitter similar to a flashlight, when Xu Ran pressed the switch button, a blue beam of light shot out.

When Xu Ran had the courage to enter the beam, the whole person disappeared on the spot.