Chapter 1 Where is this?
"Where is this?" Wei Ran muttered, he had been walking for nearly 3 hours, and he hadn't touched anyone, his coffee-colored business leather shoes were full of earthy gray, and he was only wearing a shirt and a sweater with a "V" neckline, and his lower body was casual jeans, and there was an autumn pants inside.
But in this weather where the breath immediately turns into white fog, it is very thin.
Wei Ran was cold, tired and hungry. He looked around in the middle of nowhere, and behind him was a mountain, from which he had just stepped down, and in front of him was the plain, with sparse trees and yellow weeds.
Although he had watched it many times, Wei Ran still refused to believe that he would come to such a strange place inexplicably.
My head was a little confused, and I thought about it carefully, he was drinking and socializing with customers last night, and he went home drunk, then took off his coat and lay down directly on the bed, and then woke up to find himself sleeping in a clearing in the mountains.
Is someone playing a prank on him? It's not like, who would make such a big joke. He is just a small white-collar worker, living alone, because he was relatively homely before work, and he has few friends. Kidnap? No, there are no kidnappers, no ropes and other tools to restrain themselves, and it is not profitable for the kidnappers to kidnap him. I have no relatives, I don't have much savings, and I only have a property that can't be turned into cash for a while.
Or rather, after tying him up, they found out that he was a poor ghost, so they threw him here. This also doesn't make sense, kidnapping is a high-risk and skill-testing job, which kidnapper will not do a good job of pre-work, start kidnapping people first, and then investigate whether the target is profitable? There is also a possibility that he met an alien and was brought here by an alien. This is Wei Ran's random speculation.
But then he became more and more inclined to this one, because there was a story circulating on the Internet that I don't know if it was true, about in the 80s of the last century, a strange thing happened in a village in Hebei Province, a young farmer who was about to get married in the east of the village suddenly disappeared while sleeping that night, and people searched for ten days and still did not hear from him.
That is, the next day, the young man appeared in Shanghai. Then he appeared in another place inexplicably several times in a row. And this young man revealed to the media that he was taken by someone.
Wei Ran thought about it carefully, his current situation was very similar to that young man. His home is in a second-tier city in central China, where the late autumn is not so cold, and there are air conditioners indoors, so Wei Ran did not wear much thick.
Assuming that he is still in China, it must be in the north of China. Although he studied science and the knowledge of high school has long been returned to the teacher, some basic things have not been completely forgotten.
It was already noon, and the sun was high in the sky, and from his position, it was noticeably lower. In other words, the sun angle here is smaller than that of Wei Ran's family. After a three-hour walk, from the morning to the middle of the road, Wei Ran had already determined that he was still in the northern hemisphere of the earth.
But now the question arises again, is he really in China?
Wei Ran wasn't sure, the air in this place was very fresh, and the sky was very blue, he couldn't remember how long he hadn't seen such a blue sky. In the endless blue, a few leisurely white clouds drifted in the wind.
If he is not so tired, so cold, so hungry, he will definitely have a pleasant and relaxed mood to enjoy the rare natural scenery in front of him.
Wei Ran began to be a little scared, in this empty and unfamiliar environment, there was really no sense of security.
If he can't touch anyone for a while, he plans to pad his stomach first. Along the way, Wei Ran found a lot of wild animals, such as hares and pheasants. Of course, he must have been unable to do anything about these little animals, let alone his current body. Tired and lacking much energy, even with a full body of energy, this body that sits indoors all year round and lacks exercise is unlikely to catch up with the wild animals that live in nature and bounce around every day.
Moreover, even if the blind cat touches a dead mouse and catches a person with a less bright head, there is no way to put it into its mouth, because there is no fire.
Wei Ran doesn't smoke, and he doesn't have a lighter in his trouser pocket. Could it be that he has become a living life, to become a wild man, eat raw meat, and drink blood? Don't be funny, he'd rather starve to death than do such a disgusting thing.
I think that in the novel, in order to survive, people may even be able to eat human flesh. Wei Ran could only hehe, he didn't have such great perseverance and courage. It's not just a matter of conscience condemnation, it's a nausea and fear that I can't bear at all.
For example, if you were dying of starvation and you had a fresh piece of stool in front of you, and you could live by eating it, would you choose to eat it?
Some would argue that the two simply cannot be generalized.
Well, let's change the question, if in order to survive, do you choose to eat human flesh or poop.
In fact, these two are the same, and they require great perseverance and the courage to endure disgust and fear, and in reality, this kind of person is rare, and Wei Ran thinks that he is not among them.
As for how to fill his stomach, Wei Ran noticed that the land under his feet was a bit like barren farmland, and occasionally a few plants such as wheat and soybeans could be found. When encountering this kind of plant, Wei Ran will certainly not be polite.
Wei Ran was not born and raised in the city, he lived in the countryside for a period of time when he was a child, and knew that there were many plants in the farmland that had fruits and could be eaten. Of course, some of the taste may not be too good, and it may be uncomfortable to eat.
But Wei Ran didn't need to eat too much, just to relieve his hunger.
When Wei Ran lowered his head and walked, he walked forward while paying attention to the fruits of the plants that could satisfy his stomach. A black shadow in the distance caught Wei Ran's attention.
If you look closely, it's easy to see that it's something like a horse-drawn carriage.
Wei Ran shouted excitedly, feeling that his originally tired body suddenly had new strength, and he rushed towards the black shadow excitedly.
"Hey, hey." He ran and shouted.
When I got closer, I found that there was a road that people had stepped on in this suspected barren farmland. In the middle of the road, there was a middle-aged and elderly man whose age could not be seen at a glance, and a donkey cart.
The reason why he can't tell his age at a glance is because he is very bloated, wearing a shabby cotton jacket, his hair is slightly long like a peacock with an open screen, and he has a gray beard, and he looks like a porter who travels to the east. The face is earthy and not very clean, plus the folds of the face.
Wei Ran was amazed by the image of the person in front of him, which poor ravine in China was he? Even if it were, there are very few people dressed like this in this day and age, like a beggar walking down the street, but apparently he is not a beggar, because he is driving a donkey cart, and the donkey cart has goods in sacks.
When it came to the donkey cart, Wei Ran noticed that not only was the bag containing things such a retro thing as a sack, but even the wheels of the cart were made of wood.
"Uh, hello fellow!" Wei Ran hesitated for a moment, but felt that it was better to call the fellow, no matter what, he finally met someone.
"Taijun?" 'Kwantung Han' didn't respond immediately, paused, looked Wei Ran up and down, and then asked.
"Huh?" Wei Ran didn't understand the situation, thinking that he had misheard, and introduced himself, "Fellow, I am a traveler who came to travel, and I got lost when I got here, can you tell me where this is?" ”
"You're Japanese?" 'Kanto Han' asked with a wary and scrutinizing face.
This time, Wei Ran understood, and with a look of surprise, he naturally answered this inexplicable question, "Japanese? I'm not Japanese, I'm Chinese. ”
Wei Ran could feel it, and after hearing him answer that he was Chinese, the expression of 'Kanto Han' was obviously much more relaxed.
"Haha, don't blame it, don't blame it, my old man's eyes are not good, I saw it wrong." 'Kanto Han' laughed, and when he opened his mouth, he could see a mouth full of yellow teeth, "This is Ping'an Town, I want to go to the county seat to deliver goods, if you go, just drop by." ”
Wei Ran was even more confused now, and there was a series of questions he wanted to ask. Why does this old man in front of him think he is Japanese? He was also driving a two-wheeled bicycle made of wood.
However, he didn't ask much, quietly agreed, and followed this old man to the county seat, intending to understand the surrounding situation first and judge where he was at the moment. He didn't want his strange appearance in this place to be known by the media, and the Chinese all over the world knew about it.
This kind of thing happens to someone else, maybe it can be an after-dinner entertainment, but it doesn't mean a good thing when it comes to yourself.
Wei Ran and the old man sat on the donkey cart left and right, the dirt road did not have serious potholes, but it was not smooth and a little bumpy. There are also some plants growing tenaciously on the road, and on the whole, this is not a specially built road, but has been stepped on.
On the way, Wei Ran struck from the side and also learned some information. But he couldn't believe his speculation.
When they arrived at the gate of the county seat, there were more people.
Wei Ran stood under the city gate, and the three words "Ping An City" seemed to have a kind of magic, making him raise his head and look at it in a daze.
The gray cloth shirts that come in and out of the city gate, and the Japanese soldiers who can only be seen in anti-Japanese dramas stand on both sides of the city gate. All this reminded Wei Ran that he really came to the period of the Anti-Japanese War of the Republic of China.
No wonder the old man who drove the car would ask him if he was Japanese, and when he was in a hurry, he was always in front of the Japanese devils, and the Japanese devils were chatting with him behind him, full of broken thoughts about the Japanese.
Wei Ran's clothes were very abrupt in the crowd, just like a Hong Kong comic-style character appearing in the Pleasant Goat and the Big Big Wolf.
People who came in and out of the city gate would look at him curiously, and several Japanese soldiers standing at the city gate also looked at him with curious eyes.
The old man who drove the car sent him here and left alone, Wei Ran was very unfamiliar with this era, and only knew some about books and film and television dramas. However, most of the film and television dramas in the current Republic of China period are made up randomly, and few of them are really filmed in accordance with the environment at that time.
I came to this place in a daze, and it is still unknown whether I can go back, and the top priority is to solve the problem of food and clothing, and it is not easy to live well in this era.
As for the protagonist who travels to the Republic of China period in the novel, who lives a good life, either a warlord or a wealthy businessman, Wei Ran does not have the slightest confidence, he knows his abilities very well. I believe that most of the people who have crossed over to the Republic of China in modern society will not have much success.
Wei Ran noticed that several Japanese soldiers at the city gate were pointing at him, obviously discussing him, and had the intention of coming over to interrogate.
Hurriedly walked into the county seat, he didn't want to have any contact with the Japanese soldiers, in this era, the Japanese soldiers are synonymous with ferocity, and they have to take off a layer of skin if they don't die.