In a café around the corner.

The rich coffee flavor is full of aroma, and the bitterness is interspersed with a hint of sweetness.

S City is a city in the south, and winter has always come relatively late, but it is now the beginning of November, and the temperature that should have been more than ten degrees Celsius has suddenly dropped below ten degrees this morning.

Gao Qingzhu sat alone at the round table in the open air, wrapped her coat tightly, and compared to the couples around her, her back looked a little lonely.

Nearly a week has passed since the last incident of alien escape, and she has never been to Linhai Station again, Xu Nanxing seems to have disappeared from this world, as if she has a dream, real and a little unreal.

Looking at the various pedestrians passing by, Gao Qingzhu sometimes wonders, is there also a monster among them?

"This girl?" A calm voice came from the side.

Gao Qingzhu tilted his head slightly, and a silky white robe came into view.

Looking up, a man in ancient costume stood aside, he bent down slightly, with one hand behind his back and the other in front of him, looking at Yiban politely.

The man was dressed in white, with a delicate face, a bun on the top of his head, and long black hair on the back of his head, like the image of a handsome son. This made Gao Qingzhu's mind pop up a word that is rarely used in modern life - warm as jade.

But what is he doing? Filming? cosplay？

Gao Qingzhu didn't respond to him, but looked around a few times, guessing that there might be another comic exhibition nearby, presumably he came to ask for directions.

"This girl?" The man bent his waist deeper and asked again politely.

Seeing that he looked good, Gao Qingzhu suddenly became a little interested, raised his eyebrows to learn from him, and replied in the tone of the ancients: "What's the matter?" ”

"I wonder if I've ever seen a girl your age, dressed in a strange garment, said to be from the year 2130." He spoke unhurriedly, and there was indeed a little bit of the demeanor of an ancient prince in his conversation, but when he said that it was 2130, Gao Qingzhu interrupted him.

"Stop, what are you talking about?"

The man was stunned when asked, his expression was dazed, thinking that Gao Qingzhu didn't hear clearly, so he repeated what he said before.

In this modern 21st century, strange clothes will indeed get attention, but the man in front of him does not look like he is pretending, Gao Qingzhu can see sincerity in his eyes.

But this sincerity is far from enough, after all, there are many people who can act in this world, and there are many people who have brain problems.

Thinking of this, Gao Qingzhu didn't want to pay attention to the abnormal-looking person in front of him, and got up to leave.

Unexpectedly, a strong hand grabbed her arm, Gao Qingzhu turned around, and the anxiety in the man's eyes was about to come out: "Girl, she is very important to me, I must find her as soon as possible." ”

"There are so many people around, only one of them?" Gao Qingzhu was dissatisfied.

Seeing this, the man hurriedly withdrew his hand and leaned over to apologize: "It's a loss, it's rude." There is a reason for the matter, and such rude things will be done in the future. ”

The apology was very sincere, but Gao Qingzhu didn't appreciate it.

"Under the name Murong Bai, it is the fruit of a Bodhi tree a thousand years ago, and it flows through the river of time——"

The man who claimed to be Murong Bai was patiently explaining, but unexpectedly, four familiar words flew into Gao Qingzhu's ears.

Time Flows?

"You say it again? What time? Gao Qingzhu confirmed it with him.

"Time, Liuhe ......" Murong Bai's volume became softer and softer, he felt that although the girl in front of him looked quite normal, her ears didn't seem to be very bright, and he was still hesitating whether it was necessary to continue to talk to her, Gao Qingzhu spoke again.

"So, you can find a few monsters nearby and ask if you know about Rinkai Station?" Gao Qingzhu's face was happy, and he thought of a way to quickly find Linhai Station.

The rest of the passers-by who were sitting in the same coffee shop looked at each other, thinking that the two had escaped from some kind of psychiatric hospital.

Ignoring their puzzled gazes, Gao Qingzhu didn't wait for Murong Bai to answer, and asked him again, "Then what is the name of the person you are looking for?" ”

……

Linhai Station, inside the gazebo.

“2309？” Xu Nanxing's voice was not small, startling the birds on a tree outside the pavilion.

Across from him, a young girl in a strange costume was looking at him with a glass of water.

"Wait, wait, that's not right, who calls 2309? No matter how casual it is, it's not such a random method. Xu Nanxing held his forehead, not knowing how to respond for a while.

The girl has beautiful long hair, and if you don't look at the silver dress she wears with a very plastic texture, it is also very refreshing.

She put down her cup and straightened her sitting posture: "The name is just a code name, it doesn't matter, Mr. Xu Nanxing, please listen to me first about the reason for coming here." ”

"Okay, you say." Seeing her serious face, Xu Nanxing couldn't get to the bottom of it, but now that he knew that she was from the future, it was not easy to say what would happen in the future, and it was possible to become anything, let alone a name.

"I've been in the flow of time since 2130, I don't know what went wrong, causing alien creatures to continue to flow out, and now our era has been completely messed up, after my investigation, I found that it was you who had a problem at this point in time, so I was sent to find the reason."

The girl looks young, but she speaks with a clear eye.

"That 23-" Xu Nanxing wanted to call her by her name, but as soon as he said this, he felt awkward, and after thinking about it, he still gave her a nickname.

"That Xiao Jiu, how did you get here? It won't be from ......"

"Yes, I'm from the river of time."

She answered her words quickly, Xu Nanxing was speechless for a while, he never thought that the future time river could be freely used to travel through time and space, presumably the technology of 2130 has reached the point of unspeakable.

Maybe it was because she answered too quickly, and the girl called Xiao Jiu reacted in a daze: "What did you just call me?" ”

Xu Nanxing lay back, fell into the sofa, scratched his head, and was a little embarrassed: "Your name is too strange, anyway, there is a number nine in 2309, so it's good to call you Xiao Jiu." ”

Xiao Jiu lowered his head, his eyes darkened, his expression was stunned, seeing that she was suddenly sad, Xu Nanxing was not easy to answer, so he had to wait for her to speak first.

After a long time, she said slowly: "There was a person who used to call me that. ”

Tsk –

An extremely shrill sound of the train rubbing against the rails suddenly sounded, attracting the attention of the two.

The atmosphere was awkward just now, and Xu Nanxing and Xiao Jiu didn't even notice the red train coming.

As the sun sets, Sunset dresses the red train in orange, and the gentle sunlight seems to make everything soft, and a man and a woman get off the train, and even they seem to be assimilated by the scenery, which makes them look extraordinarily gentle.

But when Xu Nanxing saw who the person who came, he didn't think she was gentle and elegant.

"Don't say hello when you see an old acquaintance?" Gao Qingzhu was the first to speak.

"Why are you coming with you again?! Is it the depth of love that I love, so I am entangled? Xu Nanxing was extremely dissatisfied with Gao Qingzhu, and wanted to erase her memory immediately, but thinking that the heart was still in her body, she could only endure it silently.

"I'm here to bring you business today, and by the way, take a look at the sea at Linhai Station." Gao Qingzhu had a smile on his face, and when he said the second half of the sentence, he deliberately glanced at Xiao Jiu, who was sitting opposite Xu Nanxing, and Xiao Jiu was looking at Gao Qingzhu blankly.

"You'd better give me right away—"

"Yo, there's business, it's just right, I'm ...... here" Gao Qingzhu could always interrupt Xu Nanxing's words accurately, she turned her gaze and fell on Murong Bai beside her, but who knew that Murong Bai stared at the gazebo and looked at the pavilion in a daze.

Gao Qingzhu understood now.

It turned out that the girl opposite Xu Nanxing was looking at Murong Bai.

That is to say-

The person Murong Bai is looking for is her, 2309.

"You know?" Xu Nanxing glanced at Murong Bai, who was still in place, and saw that the two knew each other.

Murong Bai nodded lightly and was about to walk towards Xiao Jiu, but unexpectedly, Xu Nanxing stepped to his side first, approached him, sniffed and began to smell.

Like a drug detection dog with only a keen sense of smell.

Gao Qingzhu really thought that he was a half-demon born of a dog demon and a human.

Shocked by Xu Nanxing's move, Murong Bai was so frightened that he retreated again and again.

"Well, there is a smell of leaves, could it be that you are the same as Su Mu, you are a dryad?" Xu Nanxing straightened up, asked casually, and then looked puzzled, "But what is the situation with your clothes, you are dressed like an ancient." ”

Gao Qingzhu: "Because he was meant to be." ”

Murong Bai was stunned for a moment, then bent down politely and began to introduce himself, "In Xia Murong Bai, it was the fruit of a Bodhi tree a thousand years ago, and he came here through a strange creature called Dislocation in the River of Time, just to find a girl. ”

When he introduced himself, his eyes were clearly looking in the direction of Xiao Jiu.

It didn't take much effort to get here, Gao Qingzhu didn't expect that it would be such a coincidence, and he would be able to meet the person he was looking for as soon as he came to Linhai Station.

As soon as Xu Nanxing heard the flow of time, his eyes immediately lit up: "What did you say?" Alien creatures in the river of time? What is it called? ”

After only half a day in this era, Murong Bai only felt that the ears of the people here were not very good, in his eyes, maybe people's hearing had deteriorated a lot after a thousand years, so he repeated very patiently and carefully: "I came here through a strange creature called dislocation in the river of time. ”

At that time, when he first met Murong Bai, from his words, he just heard the river of time, and Gao Qingzhu ignored the words alien creatures.

Now that I think about it, Xu Nanxing mentioned to Hong about the escape of alien creatures a week ago.

"And where is it now?" Xu Nanxing asked him anxiously.

"That's not clear below."

Dislocation is a kind of alien creature that can overlap different points in time, it can overlap Murong Bai and Xiao Jiu at a certain point in time, and the two meet; It can also coincide with the time point and separate again, so that Murong Bai can stay in this era.

But the mislocation has always been uncertain, and if you want to know where it is, Murong Bai naturally doesn't know.

The clue he got was broken, Xu Nanxing sighed again and again, and his heart was depressed.

"Xiao Jiu?" Murong Bai whispered in the direction of the pavilion, but there was doubt in his tone.

Gao Qingzhu and Xu Nanxing looked at it, and there was no Xiao Jiu in the transparent pavilion in the four directions, leaving only the cup of warm white water.