Chapter 1: My Daughter, My City
"Liangfen, grilled cake, Jiang rice lotus."
"Sugar gourd, sweet and fragrant sugar gourd."
“……”
The noisy shouting made Lin Mu suddenly wake up from the unconscious darkness.
When he opened his eyes, he found that the computer was gone, the desk was gone, and the office building was gone.
In front of him was a straight bluestone avenue that ran from east to west, and on both sides of the road were all kinds of vendors dressed in period costumes, and it was they who shouted.
"Why did you cross over?"
Lin Mu rubbed his eyes, this scene made him understand that this was no longer the world it used to be, and the extra fragments in his memory also proved this.
Not long ago, he was in his office, and a second before he lost consciousness, he only saw a white light falling from the sky enveloping the entire city, and when he opened his eyes, he came here.
"Daddy, Daddy......"
Lin Mu hadn't recovered from this gap yet, and at this time, a creeping children's voice came from far and near.
Looking in the direction of the voice, he saw a girl with a disheveled hair running towards him.
The girl was about three years old, her face was dirty, her clothes were a little old, and there were holes in them, and she was clutching a steamed bun in her hand as she ran.
Coming to Lin Mu, the girl's somewhat flustered little face suddenly bloomed with a smile and handed the steamed bun to Lin Mu.
"Daddy, steamed buns, eat quickly." The girl looked back in the direction she came from and pushed Lin Mu.
The smell of steamed buns just out of the pot came to his face, and Lin Mu was suddenly surrounded by a strong sense of hunger, which made people almost crazy.
didn't have time to think, Lin Mu grabbed the steamed bun and devoured it.
While eating, Lin Mu looked at the girl with an innocent smile on her little face, and her memories began to flow......
The name of the owner of his body is also Lin Mu, his father was a well-known wealthy businessman in Jiangning Mansion, and a year ago his father was taken to Beijing by the imperial court for being involved in a military fraud case, and all the Lin family's property was confiscated.
As a rich second generation with no worries about food and clothing, Lin Mu has lived a life like social waste since he was a child, and he naturally doesn't know how to make a living when he is penniless.
Under the poverty and destituteness, the wife he was marrying suddenly disappeared half a year ago, leaving only this daughter who was less than three years old.
"Slave, you should eat." The girl drooled, and the look in her eyes looking at the steamed bun made Lin Mu suddenly feel a little embarrassed.
"Daddy, the slave is not hungry, my mother is gone, if you starve to death, no one will want the slave." The slave rubbed his eyes and suddenly began to cry.
Lin Mu's mood was a little complicated, the poor child in front of him didn't know that his father had actually starved to death, he was just a dove occupying the magpie's nest.
And as an unmarried young man with a ready-made daughter, this feeling of picking up a man is also a little weird.
"Thief girl, dare to steal steamed buns, see if I don't chop off your hand!"
An angry and brutal shout suddenly rang out.
At this time, a woman of five big and three thick came to the two from the shop diagonally opposite, holding her waist in her left hand and a kitchen knife in her right hand.
When the slave heard this, her little face was full of fear, and she cried "wow".
Lin Mu glanced at the steamed bun that he had eaten half-eaten, and his heart suddenly became sour, it turned out that this steamed bun was stolen by a slave.
"Little bastard, old lady, look where you're going!" The woman's footsteps were fast, and in the blink of an eye she was in front of the slave, and she grabbed the slave's hand and made a gesture to slash with a knife.
The slave shouted even louder in panic, tears streaming down her eyes.
"Stop!"
Lin Mu was furious.
This scene reminded him of his lonely and unbearable childhood, in that world he was alone, he came to this world he was also alone, and this poor child was similar to him, this sense of identity made him have a choice.
"I'm the slave's father, what's coming at me!" Lin Mu roared.
The woman obviously didn't expect Lin Mu to suddenly get angry, and the moment she was stunned, the slave broke free of her hand and hid behind Lin Mu.
"Hey, it's reasonable to steal, right, you have the ability to buy it with silver." The woman's momentum softened.
Lin Mu didn't know what to do now, he knew very well that he was penniless now.
Seeing that Lin Mu didn't squeak, the woman sneered again and again, "What's the matter, isn't there a copper plate, poor ghost, what kind of garlic is put in the green onion in the pig's nose!" ”
Lin Mu was angry, the movement here caused many people to stop and watch, he knew that in the face of such a fierce woman, if he didn't give her a result today, it would not be good.
As he was at a loss, he noticed a white mark on his wrist, which was exactly the same as the white light he saw.
And as he focused on the white mark, he suddenly returned to his familiar office.
The change of scene made Lin Mu shocked, but when he calmed down, a more strange picture appeared that made him feel even more weird.
There was no one in the office, no one on the street, and at the edge of the city there was not a gray haze, but a dark void, as if the city had been cut out of the space of the world.
"Where have all the people gone?" This is the most incomprehensible thing for Lin Mu at the moment.
Downstairs, he drove along the road to the end of the city.
He kept shouting and looking along the way, but no one answered him, and no one appeared until he came to the dark edge of the void.
Now he was finally sure that he was the only one left in the city, and the edge he saw was also real, and at the end of the city the road was cut off by darkness, leaving only an endless abyss.
Standing stunned for a while, Lin Mu realized that this was not a dream.
He and the city may have lost contact with the previous world, and he took this empty city to this time and space similar to the Song Dynasty.
Silently saying goodbye to the previous world, Lin Mu got out of the car and returned to the center of the city.
The current situation is not too bad for him.
His city is the premier international metropolis of Xia, rich in supplies and one of the world's top 10 cargo ports outside the city.
With these things, he has a chance to turn over.
Walking into a gold store, Lin Mu picked out the smallest pendant.
Thinking about going out, the antique picture was presented in front of him again.
When he was in the city, he clearly felt the difference in the flow of time.
For the outside, time here seems to be frozen, and he can only come to this space in mental form, his body is still outside.
"Give." Lin Mu spread his fist, and a golden pendant appeared in his hand.
This made him rejoice in his heart, it seemed that everything was real, and it was able to bring out the objects of the city through the spirit.
"It's... This... This. Seeing the gold, the woman opened her mouth and stammered, her face changed several times and then turned into flattery, she gave herself a mouthful, and said with a cheap smile, "This uncle, just now I was just scaring this little girl, you can eat as many steamed buns as you want." ”
Lin Mu snorted lightly, he took the slave's thin little hand, and said loudly: "Good daughter, you can eat whatever you want today, Daddy is rich." ”