Chapter 1 Awakening from a Dream
"I don't know why I'm here, I don't know what to do, I don't even know who I am, I feel like a chess piece missing through the passage of time, using my own small strength to do something that I don't even know what I'm for."
- The Forsaken
"Have you ever been as confused as I am one day?"
I don't know what day it is, I don't know where it is, I just remember breathing a different air, at a loss.
My acquaintance with Zhang Xin has an air of fate.
"It's too late......" A panicked voice lingered in my head, like a nightmare hanging over me.
I came back to my senses and looked around as if I had just woken up from a dream, holding a book in my hand, and I was sure that I was reading in a bookstore and not dreaming.
Looking around, there was a girl who caught my eye, her hair draped over her shoulders, looking around as if she was looking for something.
When she passed me, she picked up the book in my hand with a somewhat dirty hand, glanced at the cover, and said in surprise, "Finally found ......."
Before she could finish speaking, I was surprised, "Are you?" ”
She stroked her sideburns and said excitedly, "I also like to read astronomical magazines." ”
There are a lot of people next to the other bookcases in the whole bookstore, but the science and technology section has a pitiful number of people, and I can't help but feel a little good about her.
She casually pulled out a book and flipped a few pages quickly, looking a little noisy, and she didn't seem to really like reading the book, but she accosted me and said that she also liked to read astronomical magazines, but it was certainly not because I was handsome or because my temperament attracted her.
I still have this self-knowledge, and she must have found me for something.
She put the book back in its place, and after chatting with me about astronomical knowledge in bits and pieces, she offered to invite me to sit at KFC across the road.
I was very surprised, so I took a closer look at her, and found that although she was a little sloppy on her face and clothes, she looked like a very comfortable kind of girl, and her still childish and somewhat baby-fat face could not hide her mature temperament at all.
I nodded and walked her into KFC.
She asked me to order a burger and a big coke for her and hurried to the bathroom.
When I paid the bill, I noticed that the 100 yuan bills in my pocket all looked old, and there was a black gel pen clearly written "Zhang Xin" on them.
Zhang Xin? Who is Zhang Xin?
There were a lot of people in line, and I didn't have time to think about it so much, so I paid for it first.
I found an empty spot with a plate of fast food and ate alone.
While eating, I thought, is this an affair or what?
It took her a while to come slowly from the bathroom.
It turned out that she went to the bathroom to clean the marks on her face and hands, giving me a new feeling.
She sat down to pick up the burger and ate and drank the Coke, and within a few minutes, she devoured the burger and the Coke as I watched in amazement.
"You're not hungry, are you?" With that, she took one of my chicken wings.
To be honest, I was a little disgusted by her behavior.
By the time she had gnawed the two chicken wings down to the bones and placed them in front of me, I was already impatient: "Have you eaten enough?" If I'm full, I'll go first. ”
"Let's go? I'll see where you go. She simply leaned back in her chair with her hands crossed, and struck a joke pose.
I was so angry that I walked to the door and stopped, "Where are you going?" Where do I go? Damn, I don't know who I am, or what I'm supposed to do? ”
Looking at the big push on the door, and realizing that I couldn't go anywhere at all, I thought she might be my savior, otherwise how could she be so sure that I couldn't go anywhere?
I returned to my seat and asked her, pretending to be calm, "Do you know me?" ”
She thought about it for a while, and then she said: "You have amnesia, you are persecuted by others and have lost your memory." If you want to get revenge on him or try to salvage the scene, you should listen to me! ”
I thought that such a conversation was a little unreasonable, but in my heart I kept trying to trust her for no reason, and in order to get more information from her mouth, I tentatively asked, "Why did you make me listen to you?" ”
I saw her take something out of her pocket and put it down and look at it a few times: "You have a total of 1,000 yuan on you, can you take a look now?" ”
I didn't take out all the money I had on my body and put it on the table and count it carefully, so that people would always look at me strangely, and I had a rough estimate of how much money I had on me when I paid at the counter.
As she said, I did have a total of 1,000 yuan on me at the beginning, and I couldn't help but believe everything she said, and according to the current form, I could only believe her, and the deeper emotion was that I took the initiative to trust her from the bottom of my heart.
"My name is Zhang Xin, can you see if all the money on you has my name written on it?" Listening to her tone, it seems to convince me.
Of course, I didn't look to see if every piece of RMB on my body was written in her name, what she said was not appropriate, at least the change that the waiter asked me for could not have her name on it, but this can only be regarded as a strong word at best.
I nodded, acquiescing in her words.
"So what should we do?" Although I chose to believe her to the most extent, I also thought it was funny for me to do this, why should I follow a girl's arrangement.
After fumbling in her pocket for a long time, her expression became nervous, and she said incoherently, "Our top priority is to find someone. ”
Found someone? Who are so many people looking for?
She leaned her head against the table, I couldn't see her face, but I could tell what she was trying to recall.
Her hands were shaking all the time, and from my gut I could tell her that she wasn't fear, but anxiety.
After a long time, she said intermittently: "He, his name, Hu Sheng!" ”
Hu Sheng? The name sounds familiar.
I paused: "Hu Sheng? There are so many people with this name in the world? How to find it? ”
The question obviously bothered her, and she almost broke down with her hands clutching her hair, unable to speak for a long time.
I also know that as long as this issue is not resolved, it is pointless for her and I to continue to talk about it.
Night falls quietly, figures outside the glass shuttle, lights flickering.
It wasn't until KFC was close that she suddenly said "Let's go"
Then he walked straight out into the street.
It was as if I could only know all the questions I wanted to know by following her, and it didn't matter who I was, I just wanted to know why I had amnesia.
I hurriedly trotted to keep up with her and looked at her with a sad face: "Don't be so unhappy, look, how beautiful this world is." ”
As soon as I finished speaking, she stopped, and I almost bumped into her.
"Huh, beautiful? You've forgotten so much. ”
I gasped: "You say this, am I really going to be the savior of science fiction dramas?" Even though I have amnesia, you don't even use this to fool me. ”
"Fooling you? Seriously, you don't have any value worthy of my foolishness, and the reason why I'm looking for you is to help you. ”
She made so much sense that I was speechless. Indeed, I am a man in his 30s, and she can't abduct me.
"So I'm leaving?" I don't think it's a way for me to follow her all the time, her hot and cold attitude towards me makes me unsure of what she really thinks about me in her heart.
"Stop." I hadn't taken a few steps before she stopped me.
At about the same time, I was snickering in my heart that sometimes, if you want to know something from a person, you don't have to keep asking them, but you can do something similar to trying to get away with it.
She walked up to me with a frown, pulled a bank card out of her pocket and raised it at me, "You may not need me now, but you do." ”
Without thinking about it, I reached out and wanted to get it.
She withdrew her hand, "You have to promise me a few things." ”
"No problem."
"First of all, you have to use the money to rent a store in the neighborhood and not open a print shop, and then, I am your boss, and I will pay you your salary regularly every month. However, I warn you, don't try to run away from me, or things will be in trouble! ”
Looking at the righteous and stern words on her face, I didn't think too much about it, took the card in her hand, and followed her into the shuttle of people.