The next afternoon, in the city center, inside the "Degu Barbecue" shop.

"Brother Lin Fei, you're here. Xiao Ruiqi brought three glasses of lemonade.

"Eun, I've come to see you. Lin Fei looked at Xiao Ruiqi with a smirk.

Xiao Ruiqi didn't answer, just showed a shy look, smiled slightly, and revealed two sweet dimples.

"Little Brother Mo, I haven't seen you for a long time, I heard that you have been in a coma at home for several days, are you sick?" Xiao Ruiqi paid attention to Mo Zihan's side.

Mo Zihan is not an elm head, and he has not made a noise about sleeping for three days, but Xiao Ruiqi knew about it only a day later, without thinking too much, Mo Zihan immediately gave Lin Fei a look that he couldn't wait to cut him with a thousand knives.

Dinner time.

"What!?"

Lin Fei's screams echoed throughout the restaurant, the eyes of the two cows widened, and the people around them all cast disgusted glances at Lin Fei.

"Could you please be quiet. ”

Mo Zihan slapped Lin Fei on the head, Lin Fei seemed to realize that he was overreacting, he calmed down and chewed the barbecue piece in his mouth again.

"You said Shirley made you see the future, and W City became a "water city"?"

Lin Fei's tone became flat, but the doubts in his eyes couldn't be hidden.

In fact, it was Mo Zihan's intention to tell Lin Fei about this, and Shirley persuaded him to go in and out of his left ear and out of his right ear all morning.

Although the relationship between Lin Fei and Mo Zihan is not a friend of life and death, over the years, the two have always had something to say, except for the pranks on weekdays, they never hide anything from each other.

Moreover, in Mo Zihan's opinion, this kind of major event related to life and death, it is necessary for his good friends to know. As for why he didn't tell his family, it was because for now, even if he said all the saliva, his mother would only think that her son was just fantasizing.

"Then let's pack up and move. ”

Lin Fei said so, but he didn't seem to have any intention of giving up the food at this table immediately.

In fact, Lin Fei's words also expressed Mo Zihan's true thoughts. Mo Zihan, who was calm and calm on the surface, actually after hearing the news, he tossed and turned in bed last night and stayed awake, his home was about to suffer a devastating blow, and he knew in advance that he didn't even have the courage to convince his family.

Mo Zihan was raised by his mother and grandmother together, and his mother said that his father went to work far away, but when Mo Zihan grew up, he realized that it was just a white lie from his mother, and he often watched his mother through the crack in the door holding a photo of his father and crying silently.

As the 'big host' of the family. Grandma also cares for her two grandsons, in addition to endless phone greetings, her favorite thing is to cook a table of sumptuous dishes for Mo Zihan and Liu Keming.

Mo Zihan has had the idea of taking good care of his mother and grandmother when he grows up since he was a child, so deep in his heart, he has the same idea as Lin Fei at this moment: to take his family out of the city.

The heaviness in his heart made Mo Zihan have no intention of enjoying the food in front of him, he looked at Shirley sitting beside him, and stretched out two fingers at her. Shirley understood and remembered the two questions that Mo Zihan didn't ask last night.

"If you have any questions, just ask. She said.

"The first question, the three words I hear the most in my dreams......"

"It's explorers and explorers, right?" Shirley had already guessed that Mo Zihan would ask like this, and took the first step to help him say it.

Mo Zihan nodded: "What does this mean, this should be a character in the movie and in the book." ”

Shirley hurriedly shook her head and said: "In the future W City, 'explorer' is a new profession, the giant wave not only changed the operation mode of the city, but also expanded its territory, ten years after the successful disaster relief, the surrounding areas of W City have been more or less affected by the same huge wave, and the overflowing water sources of the surrounding cities are perfectly connected with W City to form a new "Water City". ”

"With the experience of W City, several other cities quickly restored their operations in the same way, and the state investigated the cause of the disaster, and at the same time handed over the management of all the cities that had been hit by the flood to Mayor Qiu Zhiming. ”

"Gollum~"

Lin Fei listened intently to Shirley's telling this fantastic story, not noticing that his milkshake had already drunk to the bottom.

He felt that Shirley at this time was like a new-school storyteller, telling the sci-fi stories that young people like to hear the most, and he had already thrown the previous image of Shirley, who was simple and kind, and was sought after by thousands of people, and couldn't help asking:

"Then Shirley, what you said about this, is there any connection with Xiao Mo's problem?"

Shirley took the cherry tomatoes in the salad plate with a toothpick, "rolled" on the white salad, put it in her mouth, chewed for a while, and said:

In the "City of Water" in the future, not only have there been "air walkers" who can control breath and a small number of "xenospecies". What made a big difference in the world was the changes in the ecological environment that appeared inside and outside the "Water City" after the disaster, as well as the various forms of "creatures"

"Creatures, monsters?"

"That's right! These new creatures are of unknown origin, and their appearance and habits are unprecedented in the world today. ”

In order to deal with the unknown environment and those new creatures that have emerged, Qiu Zhiming used the resources at hand to organize a large number of "airwalkers" and "xenospecies" together, and assigned them to explore those unknown areas with high rewards. The "explorers" in Xiao Mo's mouth are a group of people who have made more achievements than the former on the road of exploration, and in the future, "explorers" are a group that is highly loved by people.

This may have been the most exciting moment for Mo Zihan in the first twenty-two years, he heard his favorite words in Shirley's mouth: "Adventure!", just like Edison knew in advance that he could invent the electric light, Mo Zihan couldn't wait to have that dream again, and travel to the future to see what the "City of Water" in the name of "Adventure" was like.

Mo Zihan stood in his seat, staring blankly at the blue sky outside the window, on the cloudless blue cloth, he seemed to see his back as an "explorer" alone in the future.

Don't be an "explorer", Mo Zihan quietly told himself: he wants to become a great "explorer". He even forgot that it was all built on the destruction of his homeland.

"There's one more problem. Mo Zihan suddenly remembered something, and looked at Shirley carefully with wide eyes and said.

"On the night of the summer camp, on the top of the mountain, the man you talked to......"

"Do you really remember?" said Shirley, with a look of delight on her face.

"Yes, but until I had this dream, until I got home in the car that day, I didn't have that memory of the rainy night in my head. ”

"Because my memory has been erased by me. ”

"Erase!?" Lin Fei and Mo Zihan said in surprise. And Shirley just nodded calmly.

"Manipulating other people's dreams is a first-order 'illusionary dream' ability, and mine's ability is even a higher level, and it can even erase the fleeting memories in your mind. However, when you woke up from your dream, you accidentally discovered these images in the flow of time, so these memory fragments that I had removed were returned to their original owners. ”

After Shirley finished speaking, the corners of her mouth turned up slightly, revealing a few snow-white teeth.

Mo Zihan pondered for a long time after listening, but in fact, he still had a lot of questions in his heart. Maybe you can't finish asking in a day and a night,

After eating the meat in the bowl and drinking the last bite of the milkshake, Mo Zihan looked up to the sky and let out a long burp, patted his stomach and looked at Shirley:

"What are you sending me to the future for?"

"I want you to save someone. Shirley's answer was a little unexpected for Mo Zihan.

"Shirley, are you sure? It's just saving one person, not the whole city?"

Shirley nodded in the affirmative again.

"You know that this city will suffer a catastrophe in the future, and it took a long time to work hard just so that I could save someone?"

Mo Zihan and Lin Fei really couldn't understand Shirley's intentions, and they couldn't imagine why Shirley didn't choose to tell everyone everything when they knew the future.

"I know what you're thinking," Shirley said through their thoughts, "This disaster is inevitable, and we can't change the landscape of the future." ”

"Then you have to think of a way, do you want to sit here and wait for death?"

Lin Fei became more and more anxious: "I'll go home now and tell my parents, we can move to the grandma in the next city to avoid for a while." With that, he stood up and prepared to leave. Mo Zihan took the first step in front of him and pushed Lin Fei back to his original seat.

"I said you don't have long ears, Shirley said, not only here but also in other places, but it starts with us. After thinking about it, Mo Zihan began to understand Shirley's thoughts.

"Say it, Shirley, who do you want me to save?" Mo Zihan turned around and asked.

"I can't tell you this yet," Shirley's eyes hesitated, "but I'll find a way to send you back to the future world one more time, and you'll know by then." ”

"Or, Shirley, you can use your ability called 'Dream' to let me dream once this time, and I'll see what I'll be like in the future. Lin Fei's mood was moody, and he was still anxious to fly out of the city, so he smiled and begged Shirley.

"No way!"

"Why?"

"I can't say no, it's not okay!" Shirley was actually a little angry: "Besides, even if you are sent to the future, you may not be able to see yourself, my ability is only to let your consciousness occupy someone in the future through dreams,"

"So the body that Xiao Mo controlled in the dream was not his own. ”

After Lin Fei heard this, he sat down on his chair in disappointment, and turned his head to look at Xiao Ruiqi in the cash register. But Mo Zihan learned a lot from Shirley's words:

"No wonder there are many people around me over there, who seem to call me Mo Chenfeng or something, it's strange, who is it? ”

Shirley smiled after hearing this: "It seems that you haven't forgotten, tell me, who did you see?"

"A man in a dark gold trench coat, a little fat man named Lin Ran, a blue-haired boy named Ouyang Lan, and a curly-haired girl. Mo Zihan snapped his fingers and said while recalling: "Oh, by the way, there is also a woman in white. ”

Shirley suddenly raised the corners of her mouth slightly: "That girl in white, is it good-looking?"

Mo Zihan was stunned by this sudden question, his smart little head turned rapidly, he went to the future thirty years later, at that time Shirley was in her fifties, the young woman in white would definitely not be her, after confirming in her heart that this was Shirley's test for him, she replied calmly:

"Of course you're not as good-looking as Shirley. ”

After speaking, he also gave Shirley a sweet smile.

"Flim Flam, I don't want to pay attention to you. Shirley turned her head to the side and looked out the window, and before she knew it, it was evening, and the setting sun burned the white clouds on the horizon red, and the afterglow of the setting sun covered the city with a veil of cicada wings.

"Is that person important to you?" Mo Zihan asked as he looked at Shirley's back.

Shirley nodded: "The person you want to save, he is the faith of all future explorers, and one of the most feared people of all unknown creatures." ”

The golden sunlight shines through the glass and reflects on Shirley's delicate face, and Mo Zihan recalls at this moment what Shirley said under the stars that night: I want to protect everyone I love.

"Okay, don't worry, I will definitely help you fulfill your wish, I controlled the person named Mo Chenfeng in my dream, but it is amazing, the body is like iron. ”

Mo Zihan's eyebrows fluttered when he said it, and then Shirley just shook her head in disappointment after hearing it:

"That's a lot of power, but it's ......"

"But what?"

"It's just that after you and Ouyang Lan clashed, your ability was deprived, and now I'm going to send you back to the future, cultivation is secondary, you must find the murderer. ”

"Then how do we start?" Mo Zihan was suspicious, he was inexplicably brought into a dream by Shirley last time, although it was a very magical thing, but he was still afraid that he would often be controlled by this unknown ability, and it would cause harm to his body.

"Let's start now, climb down. Shirley immediately turned her head.

"Now, now?" Mo Zihan couldn't figure out Shirley's unexpected answer, and even Lin Fei on the side couldn't figure out how he could choose such a location: "Shirley, do you want Xiao Mo to sleep in the barbecue restaurant for three days and three nights?"

"It was only your first exposure to this ability, and it took a long time for your body and brain to get used to it, and I slept for a whole week when the ability first came to me. The time in the dream is not proportional to the time in reality, and the time from falling asleep to waking up this time may be about an hour. ”

"Okay. Mo Zihan obediently crawled on the table and asked, "Then how did Shirley activate your ability, and will there be physical contact?" Mo Zihan showed one eye and stared at Shirley with a sparkle.

"Wishful thinking. ”

Shirley stretched out her hand to cover Mo Zihan's pair of thief eyebrows and rat eyes and said:

"Remember, that curly-haired girl is called Qiu Shuyu, she and Lin Ran are your partners, the last time I used the ability on you, it took me too much mental power, this time I can't guarantee that I can send you back to the point in time when you fainted. ”

"But if you are lucky and the time is right, the person who dies in front of you is the person you want to save, your enemy is very strong, if you can't save him, promise me, Xiao Mo, you must remember the appearance of the murderer. ”