Chapter Seventy-Five: Illusion and Reality

The coming facts, what is that? Prophecy? Or is it crossing?

I remembered the letter I received before, as well as the notebook that Liu Rumei said, whether these things belong to the same nature as the fat man's forward-looking words, and they all belong to the future. This is so unscientific that I can't understand how there can be such a transcendent thing in the world of normal people.

I didn't say anything more, stood up and walked behind the fat man, and opened his collar with my hand, revealing two wound marks the size of a coin. The mark was already very faint, and it looked like it had been there for a long time, and the fat man had only been injured for ten days now, and the wound would never have become like this in ten days. What happened to the fat man? Is the flow of time completely different from ours? Or did he really come back from a year later? If he returns from the future to the present, where does he go now?

With a full stomach full of questions, I sat down again and set my eyes on Liu Rumei.

Liu Rumei shook his head and said: "I can't say it clearly, I've been confused about it for a whole year, originally I thought that things had changed since I interfered with you and was deceived, but after listening to Wang Bo's words just now, I knew that everything was still happening." ”

The things she wrote in her notebook should be consistent with some of the things that the fat man had just said, otherwise she wouldn't have said so.

I asked, "Do you have a record in your notebook about the desert, Stone Town, or any other army?" ”

Liu Rumei nodded.

I thought about the things mentioned in the letter again, and continued to ask, "What about the fat man's injury?" ”

Liu Rumei continued to nod.

The fat man was about to look confused on the sidelines, and when he heard me mention him, he hurriedly said, "My injuries have healed early, I don't believe you." ”

As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeve, revealing his right arm. There was a scar of more than ten centimeters on his arm, irregular in shape, with stitch marks.

I frowned at the scar, it didn't feel like it could be made in a few days.

"The wound on the stomach is also healed, you see......"

The fat man probably saw that I only frowned and didn't speak, and as he spoke, he opened the corners of his clothes with his hands to expose his belly. There is a crescent-shaped scar on the right side of his stomach, which is also more than ten centimeters long, and there are also traces of stitching, and it has been a while to see how it has healed.

I silently helped the fat man straighten his clothes and patted him on the shoulder, not that I didn't want to speak, but I didn't know what to say at all. The messy thoughts in my head have been messed up with a pot of porridge, and I can't figure it out at all, and the only thing I know for sure at the moment is that the person in front of me is a fat man, but not the fat man I was a few days ago.

The fat man saw that I didn't speak, scratched his head and continued, "Waste, why are you always weird?" Not feeling well? ”

I shook my head and said, "I'm fine, it's just that there are some things I don't understand." ”

Fat man: "It's okay, I look at you, I just think too much." ”

"Hey! Maybe. I sighed, sorted out my thoughts, and felt that there were some things that I hadn't figured out yet, so I asked, "Fatty, how long did you say this antique shop has been open?" ”

The fat man was puzzled: "Why are you asking this?" You don't know how long you've been driving? ”

I looked at the fat man and said seriously, "Of course I know, I just wanted to ask you." ”

The fat man thought for a while and said, "It's been a year, I remember that we went to Gushan at this time last year, and then you and Ye Zi partnered to open a store." ”

I stuck out a finger and said, "One month, this store has just been open for a month." ”

"Waste, don't be funny." The fat man smiled and pushed my hand back, and then said, "A year has passed, can there be anything wrong with this?" ”

I shook my head, not sure how to explain it.

The fat man reached out and patted me on the shoulder again, and then said, "There have been too many things that have happened in the past year, everyone is fine, and nothing else matters......

It's okay to be fine, looking at the fat man in front of me, I nodded heavily, although what is happening at the moment is chaotic, but this point is still worth affirming.

At this moment, the fat man's hand that was patting me on the shoulder suddenly floated, and gradually the whole person became illusory, and the whole person looked like a shadow and became transparent. He still had the same smile he had as usual, and he continued to say something, but I couldn't hear anything anymore. I hurriedly tried to grab him with my hands, but the moment I touched him, the fat man in front of me began to shatter, like broken car glass, dense and small cracks crawled all over his body, and then with a soft "bang", he had turned into countless small fragments, falling and drifting until he turned into nothingness.

"Fat man...... Fatso...... Fatso! ”

I screamed trying to keep him, when suddenly I felt someone shouting at me.

"Qin Fen! Qin Fen! ”

The scene before my eyes suddenly changed, everything in the antique shop was distorted and faded away. I found myself sitting at a small table by the window at a dessert station on the pedestrian street, and it was Liu Rumei who was calling me, sitting across from me with two empty cups of ice cream in front of her. She looked at me anxiously, and after seeing that I was relieved, she asked, "What's wrong?" Got a nightmare? ”

I looked around, thought about it again, and nodded.

She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You can really do it, you can fall asleep while eating ice cream......

I replied with some embarrassment, "Maybe I'm a little tired." ”

After Liu Rumei thought about it, she frowned and asked, "By the way, have you rested since yesterday?" ”

I nodded and said, "I haven't closed my eyes since I went up Lonely Mountain yesterday and returned to the store......

"Ahh Liu Rumei was surprised, and then said a little embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, blame me for only worrying about my own affairs, and I didn't notice that you didn't rest at all." ”

I shook my head, smiled and said, "It's okay, I wasn't sleepy at first, probably because the environment was too quiet just now, and sleepiness hit me for a while." ”

Liu Rumei: "No matter what, you better go back and rest first." ”

"Hmm." I nodded, and then said, "I care more about the dream I just had than this." ”

Liu Rumei: "What dream?" I just saw that you suddenly whispered and shouted fat, did you dream of Wang Bo. ”

"Hmm." I then told her what I had just dreamed about, succinctly. I thought that she might persuade that the dreams were all illusory, but she didn't say so after listening to them, but said: "The key words you said are all recorded in the notebook I got." ”

I was surprised and asked, "Isn't it?" I've seen it in a letter about Desert Stone Town or something, but I don't have any impression of what the troops are, are you sure you have it in your notebook? ”

Liu Rumei nodded, and then said: "I remember it, but I don't remember the number either." ”

Hearing Liu Rumei say this, I was a little unsure if I was still in a dream, so I secretly twisted my inner thigh with my hand. The pain in my heart made my hairs stand on end, and it was clear that what was in front of me was not a dream.

Liu Rumei probably saw the sudden change in my face and asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”

I was a little embarrassed and said, "Uh...... It's okay, I'm just trying to make sure I'm still in a dream. ”

"That's right." Liu Rumei thought for a while, and said after a while: "I sometimes wonder if I am living in a dream, and I feel that the boundary between reality and illusion is becoming more and more blurred, making it impossible to distinguish what reality is and what is a dream." ”

Hearing her say this, I thought of the incredible things this girl had been going through all year, and I even dared to think about the strangeness she had endured.

Liu Rumei sighed and said, "Forget it, let's send you back to rest first, it's not good to stay up like this." ”

"Hmm." I couldn't agree with her because I was already feeling dizzy, a little light-headed, and even lightheaded when I stood up.

……

"Dingding......

Just as the two of us got up to leave, Liu Rumei's mobile phone rang, and she picked it up: "Hey...... Father...... Good...... But he needed a break now...... Oh...... Got it...... See you in one minute. ”

Liu Rumei put away her phone and said to me: "You can't rest again, my dad just called and said that there is something important to ask you over." ”

Zhang Bancheng suddenly called me over, which made me a little curious, and asked, "Oh? Didn't say anything? ”

Liu Rumei shook his head and said, "No, but he repeatedly insisted that you should go over." ”

I continued to be curious and asked, "Is it just me?" ”

Liu Rumei frowned and said, "He said that he wanted me to take you over, but I think what he wants to see is only you, and I think something should happen." ”

I patted my swollen forehead with my hand and said, "It's useless to think about it so much, let's go and have a look." ”

"Hmm." Liu Rumei nodded, and then said, "Then let's go, the driver is already waiting." ”

"Oh."

……

Nanshan Thatched Cottage.

This is a mountain forest in the south of Hedong City, about seven or eight kilometers away from the city, sandwiched between a narrow saltwater lake, and the city across the lake, is a paradise-like secluded place.

"Dad, what's the matter with you coming to us in such a hurry?" As soon as Liu Rumei saw Zhang Bancheng, he began to question: "Qin Fen hasn't closed his eyes for two days, what an important thing has to come over now." ”

Zhang Bancheng completely ignored Liu Rumei's series of questions, just looked at me with a smile, and then said to me: "There is news of Wang Bo, is it worth a visit?" ”

"What? Is it true? "I'm a little surprised, in the matter of finding the fat man, Liu Rumei spared no effort to send people to look around, and there was no progress, but Zhang Bancheng, a person who is nowhere to be found every day, suddenly told me that there was news, which really feels incredible.

"Of course it's true." Zhang Bancheng smiled and said, "He is safe now and is being treated." ”

Listening to what he said, the fat man seemed to be injured again, and I hurriedly asked, "Is the fat man injured?" Where is it treated? Can I go over and have a look now? ”

"Of course you can go over and see him, or I'll let you come here for something." Zhang Bancheng continued to smile and said, "The place where he is is not far from here, just in the mountains. ”

"Shouldn't the treatment be in the hospital?" I was puzzled and asked, "How to treat in the mountains?" ”

"You'll know when you get there." Zhang Bancheng didn't explain, but sold it.