Chapter 17: The Dream I
"Hey, where is this?"
Lin Feng sat up and found himself in a strange place.
The noisy metropolis is full of flashing neon lights that emit dazzling light, and the gorgeous LED lights on the high-rise buildings illuminate the dark sky and the whole city.
At 23:30, this is the time shown by Big Ben in the bell tower.
However, even at such a late hour, the city was as bright as daytime, with people coming and going on the streets, and some people hurriedly walked past Lin Feng, accidentally touching Lin Feng, but passing directly through Lin Feng's body, and then glanced back and walked away. Several children frolicked past Lin Feng, but none of them looked at Lin Feng, as if Lin Feng did not exist.
Lin Feng slowly walked along the sidewalk next to the road, looking around like a bystander. He walked to a crossroads and saw a towering building on the other side of the road, he looked up and found that at first glance, this building was quite similar to the International Scientific Research Building in his hometown, Los Angeles City, but there were many differences, but the only thing Lin Feng was sure of was that these two buildings rose from the ground in the shape of DNA and went straight into the sky.
This mansion evokes Lin Feng's memories - memories of his parents.
"Xin'er, have you really decided?" A middle-aged man with glasses said to a young woman, "Feng'er, he's only 7 years old, should we just leave him alone?" ”
"There is no way, if it continues like this, that experiment will never succeed, and our efforts will not be in vain!" The woman said, buttoning up the suitcase.
"Is experimentation more important than children?" The man's expression became more and more ugly, "Do you know the risks of this experiment, if we continue to do it, we will lose our lives at any time!" ”
"But if we don't do it, who else will do it? If this experiment is successful, it can completely change the way of human existence and make human beings a more advanced civilization! ”
"But what do we know about that mysterious spaceship now? Even its surface is a new substance that we don't know, so let's stop it, release a press conference, and tell the world that the Xingchen research team will give up this research. "Men persuade women.
"Impossible, big deal, I'll go by myself, I don't need your help. I, Xu Xin, have never been a woman who can only rely on others. ”
"Alas, forget it, since you are so persistent, then I will go with you, complete that experiment together, and come back to accompany the child as soon as possible." The man sighed and went back to the house to pack his things.
The young Lin Feng eavesdropped on his parents' conversation and secretly ran to his grandfather's room.
"Yo, Feng'er, what's wrong? Do you want grandpa to play with you? The old man with a little gray hair looked at the young Lin Feng kindly.
"Grandpa, Mom and Dad, are they going to work?"
"Yes, your parents had to be separated from you and put into work for the sake of us all mankind." The old man took a deep breath and immediately regained his smile.
"So, are Mom and Dad heroes who contribute to all mankind?" Lin Feng asked.
"Yes, your mom and dad are heroes, heroes who explore the mysteries of the unknown universe for us humans."
The old man touched the head of the child sitting on his lap and looked at him, the smile on his face never disappeared, but his heart was full of bitterness and guilt. "Yes, they are heroes, but there are two kinds of heroes, one is a hero who has returned victoriously and is admired by the whole world, and the other is a hero who has died in defeat and has been mourned by the whole world, and then gradually forgotten."
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Lin Feng was still walking along the road, and saw that on the side of the road, there were three slightly older boys bullying a little girl, surrounding her by the wall, and constantly intimidating her, the little girl kept crying, everything seemed so helpless and lonely. Lin Feng wanted to help drive away those boys, but he remembered that he couldn't physically contact anyone in this world, so he could only watch this farce helplessly.
A boy who was a little younger than them was armed with a fake gun and tried to arrest three people like a policeman, but they disagreed, laughing at the boy's childishness and ridiculousness. The boy finally got angry, pulled the trigger hard with both hands, and the steel ball bullet hit one of them directly in the arm, he let out a scream, the boy continued to shoot, and in the end, the three were driven away by him, and he learned from the scene of the hero saving the beauty in the movie, and gently grabbed the girl's hand and helped the girl up. Lin Feng looked at the boy from the side and smiled.
Lin Feng walked slowly, looking at this city that was always somewhat similar to Los Angeles City, he inevitably felt a little complicated in his heart, and occasionally there were one or two buildings, which could always evoke the few memories he had left in Los City.
He stopped, looked at an ordinary restaurant in front of him, and was slightly distracted. This is one of the restaurants that his parents loved to take him out to eat before they left.
Lin Feng walked into the restaurant, looking at the busy waiters and the long queue of people, and inexplicably felt a sense of intimacy. The restaurant is simply decorated, but because the price of the dishes is affordable, there is an endless stream of guests every day, the manager is an old grandfather, almost seventy years old, is a friend of Lin Feng's grandfather, every time they come to this restaurant to eat, the manager always cooks for them personally, the manager who has been a chef for decades, once also known as the "God of Kitchen in Los City" to make the dishes, compared to the top seven-star hotel in Los City, the dishes are only strong. The years are a pig-killing knife, he has changed from an unruly and unruly young man to an old man with white hair, no one recognizes him as the "God of Kitchen in Los City", and he never thought of using this name as a sign for his restaurant, but he is loved by children, many children clamored to let their parents bring this restaurant, in addition to being attracted by the delicious dishes here, and also to meet the store manager and grandfather. The old grandfather died early, and Lin Feng passed away peacefully when he was 13 years old, and a large number of teenagers went to mourn this old man, whose hearts were the same as the white hair on his head when he left, white and flawless, spotless.
Lin Feng walked out of the restaurant and looked at Big Ben in the clock tower again.
23:45。 There are 15 minutes left, and it's midnight. In Lin Feng's heart, there was an inexplicably familiar and ominous premonition.
"The city, it really feels like the city of Los Angeles, as if it's a replica of the city of Los Angeles." Lin Feng thought to himself, "If according to the map of Los City in my memory, this place is very close to my original home, will I find a place similar to my home?" ”
Lin Feng walked towards his hometown in his impression.