Chapter 14: The Extra Ten Minutes (1)
July 12, 2045 at 23:13. The young man from the pet store pounced on Wu Chen, who fell to the ground, and grabbed his neck with both hands.
Wu Chen struggled weakly, and Ma Gan, who was on the side, grabbed the young man's shoulders and wanted to move him away, but it was in vain. Wu Chen only felt unconscious and blurred vision.
Countless pictures flashed in his mind: in his former home, his mother Zhu Ying, who was cooking for his little self, in the coping group, his father Wu Guang, who was pointing to his uniform, Zhang Yang, who was playing with him in a remote control spaceship in the West District Primary School, Zheng Jun, a teacher who was severely criticizing him in the mecha school, and Gongsun Hong, who was looking at his Gongsun Hong with tearful eyes in an amusement park......
Ten minutes later, Malone drove the best mecha in the team to the soul friend pet store. Along the street, I saw two corpses lying on the ground, belonging to Wu Chen and Ma Gan. "No!" , he let out a roar of infinite grief, jumped directly off the mecha, and walked in front of the two.
"Ma Gan! Didn't I tell you that you should contact me as soon as you find the aliens, and I'll rush to help? "He didn't have the power to shake Ma Gan awake.
"Wu Chen! Didn't I tell you not to move, I'll be there in 30 minutes? He also had no ability to shake Wu Chen awake.
In fact, that night, after killing Wu Chen and Ma Gan, the frenzied pet store employees killed 19 people living nearby, including a young boy who was only 6 years old. Then he disappeared without a trace, and no matter how much the police agencies and several squads searched, no trace of him could be found.
A few years later, the entire Xingchen 10 return incident was finally investigated, and at that time, countless people in this world had already died due to this incident, and the earth was almost paralyzed.
Ma Long was depressed all his life, always asking himself: "Why can't I be faster at that time, why ......"
The normal timeline was supposed to be like this, but a chance one happened. Malone had an extra 10 minutes on July 12, 2045.
At 20:35 on July 12, Wu Chen had just finished talking to Ma Gan on the phone to explain the results of the investigation of the lost pet, "Just tell Ma Gan the information, I really can't face that girl." Wu Chen was thinking.
At this moment, the waiter of the second moon walked to his table with a box, and then put the "fish dragon diving moon" he had ordered earlier on the table.
The waiter smiled at him and said, "Hello, please use it slowly." With that, he went to greet the other customers in the store.
"I didn't shirk it just to eat this lobster and abalone, I was because of that girl. In fact, after seeing the name Gongsun Hong just now, my heart was mixed, I had no appetite at all, and I couldn't eat anything at all. Wu Chen thought as he symbolically took a bite of the dish with chopsticks and put it in his mouth. It smells so good! β
"It smells so good!" A customer smacked all the meat on the skewer into his mouth, and then praised it while chewing: "It's still the best handmade barbecue, and no machine can replace it." β
The owner, who was struggling to fan the grill next to him, heard the praise of the customer, and felt that his life was full of meaning, as if he was the god of barbecue, looking down on the table of people who were hungry for food.
And in the spirit of great mercy and salvation, he grabbed a large handful of spices, and sprinkled them evenly and elegantly on the skewers of meat in front of him, which were grilled with a sizzling sound, just as he had grilled them and was ready to give them to the suffering hungryβ
"Boss, I want 100 skewers of this, 100 skewers of that, oh yes, and 100 skewers of beef, I've wanted to eat them for days."
The boss raised his head and saw a very beautiful girl in front of him, with long hair combed into a single ponytail, about 1.78 meters tall, a melon-shaped face with a high nose bridge, and a cherry mouth. But he has a pair of big eyes, the eyebrows are very long, and they are all curved into a natural arc, and in the big sockets are a pair of azure eyes, like two sapphires shining with light.
And now she is looking at the boss with these eyes, while talking to him about her needs.
"Okay, find a place to sit first." The boss was very happy to have received a big business.
"Roast it, bake it!" The girl may have been really hungry and was now staring at the grill with her eyes. It looks like saliva is dripping out of my mouth.
"Girl, sit down first and eat some snacks, I suggest that you wait until all your friends are here before starting to roast, because the newly grilled barbecue is delicious." The owner kindly gave his own recommendations.
"If you don't have any friends, I'll eat alone, so you can roast it." The girl said in a hurried tone, staring at the grill incessantly.
The god of barbecue has seen countless hungry sufferers and redeemed countless hungry souls. But the person in front of him who ordered food in units of 100, he saw it for the first time.
The god of barbecue would rather not make money than allow the waste of food: "Girl, we have an authentic big skewer, I suggest you order two skewers for this, one skewer for that, two skewers for beef, and if not enough, you can have another ......"
"Roast, roast, I can eat it, you roast it!" The girl's face was almost on the grill.
In order to avoid death, the boss hurriedly put all the meat skewers on the grill and began to get busy. The girl didn't go to the seat and sit down, but still stood there, watching the boss roast with wide eyes, and while smelling the smell of the barbecue, she exclaimed: "It's so fragrant!" β
"It smells so good! Wu Chen wiped the food crumbs from his mouth, then put his finger in his mouth, and after a few clicks, the several plates on the table were already empty.
At this time, the waiter came over with another box of different colors and took away a few plates: "Hey, what about the fake flowers used for decoration in the dish?" β
After she took away the plates, she wiped the table clean with a rag. After Wu Chen finished settling the account with his mobile phone, he looked at the time, it was 9:50. Satiety doesn't make you forget the unpleasantness, only the brief pleasure of chewing while eating.
Although Wu Chen's stomach is very full now, when he thinks of Gongsun Hong and what happened in the amusement park that day, he suddenly feels a sourness and emptiness in his heart.
"Can I sit here a little longer?" Wu Chen asked the waiter.
The lovely waiter looked at this very handsome but melancholy little brother, and looked around again, and there were no customers at this time.
She simply sat down directly on the seat opposite Wu Chen and said, "Okay, I see that you are very unhappy, it can't be that the food in our store is not delicious, right?" β
"No, your food is delicious, I just remembered something I didn't want to think about." Wu Chen shook his head and said.
"So what's the matter?" The waiter looked at Wu Chen with a smile and asked. Wu Chen lowered his head and did not respond.
The waiter learns that something is bothering him and won't reveal it to strangers. "Then listen to my previous advice." The waiter had a different idea.
Wu Chen raised his head and looked at the waiter: "Huh? What's the suggestion? β
"It's just a pet, I think a cute and docile hairless dog is the most suitable for people like you who have an empty heart." The waiter explained.
Wu Chen felt that this suggestion was not very good: "Ah, the hairless dog should forget it, it feels like a human, and it gives me goosebumps just thinking about it." β
The waiter smiled and raised his index finger and shook it from side to side: "No, this is what a person with an empty heart like you needs most." You think, at night the lights are turned off, and you're holding the hairless dog in the bed, and it's snuggled up in your arms, and you're petting it, and it's really likeβ"
Before the waiter could finish describing, Wu Chen interrupted her: "What you said, how do I feel very similar to a certain large silicone product that was popular before." β
The waiter wanted to continue Amway: "It's so much better than that fake thing, this is-". Wu Chen hurriedly got up and walked out, "Ah, it's not early, I'm going home." β
Wu Chen walked out of the store quickly. Behind him, there was still a waiter's silver bell-like voice: "Listen to me, there is a pet shop on this street, you can go and see it, just take a look at it and you will find that you need it......"