Late at night.

In the bedroom, the moonlight shines through the gaps in the curtains, casting a line and falling to the ground as the only source of light.

In the gray moonlight, the shadows of small insects crawling on the window were faintly reflected.

Woo~

A community vehicle passed by the window with the soft sound of the engine.

The pale headlights cut a fan-shaped halo on the ceiling through the gaps in the curtains, and then faded out as the car faded away.

Click.

The old tape is embedded in the machine, and then the lid closes, making an opening and closing sound.

Li Chengyi frowned and plugged in the headphones, adjusted the volume, and suddenly there was a subtle sound of music, which quietly floated out of the headphones and drilled into the ear holes.

The music has no lyrics, just pure classical music mixed with guzheng and pipa.

The rhythm is soothing and clear.

The sound of the two instruments is like two slender and sharp threads, sometimes intertwined with each other, sometimes distinct.

It's like telling an old story, and it's like two pale fingers that are constantly intertwined.

Li Chengyi lay on his side on the pillow, looking at the black curtains, motionless, listening to the songs in the headphones.

The cool pillow towel was gradually heated by the side of his face, and began to emit a faint fragrance of laundry detergent.

His eyes were open, as if he was in a daze, as if he was thinking about something.

He clearly remembered that twenty minutes ago, he was still halfway up the mountain, and twenty minutes later, he just found a beautiful little flower, and his head was dizzy.... Everything changed, he inexplicably changed his body and came here, this room. People are also much younger.

After ten minutes of shock, doubt, incredulity, and other emotional excesses, he began to accept reality.

At this time, a large amount of information and memories in his brain quickly merged with him. These are all the memories of another Li Chengyi, who has the same name as him, in this world for more than 20 years.

The information is not complete, and a lot of it is vague. But it was enough for him to have a preliminary understanding of his situation.

"Tomorrow I have a very important friend who is coming to my house as a guest, you and Li Chengyi go out for a walk, find something to do, and come back after five o'clock in the afternoon, you know?"

A deep young female voice could be heard faintly outside the bedroom.

Li Chengyi's mind was broken, and the name automatically poured out according to the voice - it was Li Chengjiu.

This is his own sister in this body, and she should be talking to her parents.

"Okay, don't worry, it will definitely not affect your business." Mother Feng Yurong replied cautiously.

The father didn't make a sound, but his breathing was a little heavier, which was a tacit acquiescence.

"Nine, your side... Your brother's job is still unsettled, you see...," Mother then cautiously mentioned another matter.

"What's the hurry, I haven't stabilized the situation yet, and I'll talk about it later. Don't mess with me. Li Chengjiu said impatiently.

"Don't worry, it won't be." Mother Feng Yurong replied softly.

"Sleep, remember, after twelve o'clock, don't come back early, if you meet me going out with a very white-skinned girl, don't say hello to me, just don't know me, you know?" Li Chengjiu continued.

"Don't worry, don't worry, let's go far, we won't miss your business." The mother's voice paused, but she replied in a low voice.

"That's right." Li Chengjiu stopped, "I'm going to pay the class fee this month, about 190,000 yuan, and you will pay it for me tomorrow." ”

"190,000... Didn't you just pay a lot of money? "Mother Feng Yurong is a little embarrassed. She and her husband are a little tight because of the frequent payment.

190,000 is not a small number.

"This time it's the cost of materials, and the cost of training!" Li Chengjiu said impatiently. "Don't you still have a pension? Take it out and hand it over to me first, and then go back and make it up slowly. ”

"This...."Mother Feng Yurong paused, "Okay, I'll hand it over to you." ”

She didn't say that she and her husband's pension had actually been taken out for Li Chengjiu to spend.

Recently, the efficiency of the factory has not been good, and their wages have been lowered repeatedly. There really isn't enough money in hand.

Li Chengjiu snorted, pushed away the chair, stood up and walked away, and went to the bathroom to wash.

Feng Yurong and his father Li Zhao were left to sit in the living room and talk quietly.

"The pension is not enough on my side, you can take the medical money out and make up for it, your daughter's business is important." Feng Yurong whispered.

"Xiaoyi's job also has to find a relationship to send money, and take it out, what should I do if I see a doctor? Do you have low back pain? I also have to prescribe medication every day. Father Li Zhao replied hard.

"Let's save a little more when we go back, and we will be able to make up for it soon, don't worry. My back doesn't hurt much now, it's fine. Feng Yurong urged in a low voice, "Okay, okay, my daughter's future is important, don't drag your daughter back at a critical time." ”

"Got it, got it." The father responded impatiently, paused, and let out a long sigh, as if he was a little helpless and uncomfortable.

Then the two of them held their mobile phones and studied each other's movements.

Li Chengyi lay on the bed, opened his eyes, and sighed softly.

Uncontrollably, the scene in his mind automatically appeared that the day before yesterday he saw his father Li Zhao alone on the balcony in a low voice to ask relatives to borrow money.

Although he is not familiar with the surrounding situation, the parents of this body, the same family relationship as his previous parents, still makes his heart a little better.

Different bodies, different worlds, but the dedication of parents to their children seems to be the same.

Slowly, the sounds outside gradually quieted down. Li Chengjiu closed the door and went to sleep, and his parents also got up to wash and sleep.

Everything outside slowly died down, except for the pure music in the headphones that kept looping singles.

The music was repeated over and over again, slowly becoming smaller and weaker in the ears.

Li Chengyi lay still, and as his memories were sorted out, he began to feel a little chaotic in his mind.

Memories of the scenes kept pouring out of his mind.

He studied hard for twenty years, but eventually he was going to lose his job after graduation.

The various certificates that I had worked hard for so long before have now become worthless in front of the army of unemployed.

In the six months since graduation, hundreds of resumes have been submitted, and few responses have been received.

The ambition before graduation has now completely turned into a blanket.

He doesn't know what he's supposed to do, he doesn't know what he can do, he doesn't have a plan, he doesn't have an idea, he doesn't have expectations.

It's just a day to stay at home every day, and it's a day to live.

In addition to these, there is also a picture of the predecessor and his sister Li Chengjiu quarreling with cruel words.

Sister Li Chengjiu has always regarded the family as a burden to herself.

On the outside, she is excellent and dazzling, has a bright future, is talented, ambitious, and looks down on all talented guys.

And the parents of ordinary factory workers, and the mediocre younger brother, are also the objects of his impatience.

Li Chengyi, the predecessor, was not convinced, because of her sister's attitude towards her parents and her attitude towards herself, she also quarreled, but the result was meaningless. His parents were willing to pay, but it was useless for him to dissuade him, and he was turned around by the two.

On the single-plank bridge of the college entrance examination, he worked hard, but he was only admitted to an ordinary university. Compared with Li Chengjiu, who was escorted to a top military school in his second year of high school, it is completely one day and one place.

Although he also made a good internship resume, the biggest problem was that he chose the wrong major because of his naivety.

What the hell is a plant conservation major? Although I heard that high-end plant maintenance does pay a lot, it is too rolling....

The only way out for students who come out of this kind of ordinary school is to join the forestry bureau or the urban greening company.

It's already good to be able to barely get off with 3,000 yuan a month.

In this era, there is too much automation, and there are many people who can't even find a job.

turned over, Li Chengyi kept combing the memories of his predecessor in his heart. Although many places are somewhat blurred because of the forgetting mechanism of man himself.

But there's still a lot of useful information to be gained from it.

The night is getting deeper.

Outside the window, another car passed by, honking its horn and accompanied by the loud voice of a man.

"Who the hell is messing with parking spaces!"

"Lao Tzu * the ancestors of your whole family!"

The voice cursed for a while, then gradually weakened, and was quiet again.

The mixture of guzheng and pipa kept repeating in his ears, over and over again.

The other noises around him slowly faded away, as if only pure music remained.

Crisp, icy and quiet.

Li Chengyi's consciousness was constantly organized, watching it as if watching a movie, and with the continuous consumption of a large amount of spirit, his body began to produce inexplicable extra tiredness.

This tiredness became heavier and heavier, and his consciousness gradually began to blur, and he entered a state of almost falling asleep.

The predecessor fell asleep like this every day, and the long-term poor rest and inability to find a job brought about the unhappiness made him more and more silent and not good at words.

Time passed slowly, and Li Chengyi's body became more and more sleepy, and his mind fell into chaos.

He closed his eyes and adjusted his sleeping position, intending to take a small rest.

Click.

Suddenly, a clear and crisp sound woke him up from his stupor.

His eyes slowly widened, and the sleepiness that had just welled up began to fade.

'What sound!?' ’

He half-sat up, looked left and right, and found nothing. Then I found that there was no movement in the headphones.

'Why is there no sound?' Li Chengyi picks up the cassette player, an old-fashioned music player that was a collectible item from the thrift market.

Now in this gray-white tape drive, which has some paint peeling, through the glass-like plastic case, you can see that the tape inside is spinning, but there is no sound in the headphones.

The music just now has disappeared, and at this time, in the headphones, there is only a slight electrical noise.

frowned and picked up the machine and shook it, but there was still no music.

Li Chengyi took off his headphones and looked at the bedroom with a blink of an eye.

I don't know when the light of the street lamp outside the window has disappeared, only it is pitch black.

There are not many furnishings in the bedroom room, and with the white walls, it looks a little cold.

Wardrobe, desk, utility cupboard, two high-backed metal chairs with two backpacks hanging at an angle, and a pair of white plastic slippers on tiptoe.

Nothing but that.

'I always feel like something is wrong. ’

Li Chengyi's brows furrowed, and a subtle sense of weirdness welled up in his heart.

This room used to sleep for many years, and obviously every place is familiar, but now....

Is it possible that my predecessor has lived for more than 20 years and is fine, and something will happen to me as soon as I come? ’

He looked around again, his gaze slowly stopping at the door of the room.

The door is open!

His heart was slightly cold.

Obviously, when I went to bed before, it was locked!

And now, the door has opened a crack.

In the darkness outside, faintly, there seemed to be a black figure in a humanoid shape, crouching in the doorway and peeking inside.

In the dark, Li Chengyi's heart was furious, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the crack in the door.

Outside the slit that was only the thickness of a finger, I don't know if it was an illusion or an illusion, there seemed to be a black eye, staring straight at the bed through the slit, staring at him sitting on the bed.

Squeak.

A cold breeze blew into the room through the crack in the door.

The bedroom door was swelled by the air current, pushing it open a little wider.

Li Chengyi faintly broke out in a cold sweat, and there was a faint flower in front of him.

At this time, he looked more closely, and found that the crack in the door was only dark, and there were no eyes, and there were no human figures.

Everything just now seemed to be his delusion.

He paused for a moment, sat still on the bed, and made no sound.

After waiting for a few minutes, when my body was no longer excessively tense, I slowly relaxed my breathing, put on my slippers lightly, and slowly got out of bed.

Take a deep breath, your chest rises and falls, and calm your emotions. His hand gently grasped a metal bat standing between the head of the bed and the closet.

That's the guy that the predecessor bought to defend himself.

The cold bat brought a hard texture, which made him feel a little more settled.

Silently lifting his bat, he walked slowly, striding around the back of the door, which was not visible through the crack in the door.

Standing behind the door, you can see the night view from the window and outside the curtain.

However, what shocked Li Chengyi was that he just glanced at the corner of his eye, and found that outside the gap in the curtains, there was still only pitch black, and there was nothing.

'Hallucinations? Dream?? ’

He felt a little dry in his throat, swallowed his saliva, and gripped the bat with one hand and slowly grasped the doorknob with the other.

Call!

Suddenly, he pulled hard.

Turn around and face the door that has been pulled open, raise the bat high, and be about to smash it down.