Speaking of which, in addition to being far away from high-quality institutions and resources such as commercial centers, hospitals, and schools in the central city, the outer ring is much more comfortable to live in than the ordinary inner ring residence.

The disadvantage is that public schools are all half-day, not to mention law and order, robbery and riots are commonplace, and the people in the inner ring mock the people in the outer ring usually call the monkeys living in the trees.

"Xiao Zen, I'm back from my part-time job. "Sliding past the neighbor Lao He's house, half a mountain of meat emerged from the yard, and this fat woman had her hair and exploded like a mushroom.

Through the flowers and trees, it was an inverted gourd figure that almost broke the nightdress, Xia Chan set his feet on the skateboard, and after thinking about it, he remembered that this was the fat aunt of the neighbor's old He family, and what made him remember deeply was that there was a child of the same age as him He Guangwu in this family: "Well, I just finished work." ”

"You kid is sensible, unlike my family Guangwu who goes to the martial arts hall every day, and that bastard doesn't know how to be considerate at all. ”

"Where can I compare with Brother Guangwu, I'm afraid I can only be a big soldier as soon as I graduate from high school. Xia Chan casually coped with the kick under his feet, and continued to slide forward, He Ma always kept her youngest son in three sentences, her son has been transferred from the Outer Ring Half-day Public Middle School 17 Middle School to a private middle school in the Inner Ring this semester, it is said that the blood roots are fully awakened, and next year is expected to be admitted to a first-class practice side college, which is a famous 'other people's child' in this area.

"You kid is down-to-earth, Auntie is optimistic about you, hehe. ”

The young figure went away with the wind, Xia Chan didn't pay attention to the pride and ostentatiousness that could not be hidden in the smile on He Ma's face, smiled casually, stepped lightly on the side of his feet, and the skateboard flipped with his feet in the air, and landed just to avoid a pit.

After the front corner, the Lou family is in front of you.

Xia Chan suddenly braked the skateboard with a big side slide, and a lengthened flying car with a low-key and luxurious atmosphere stopped at the intersection not far from the side of his house, just blocking his way.

This scene instantly pulled his memory to the past of a certain timeline, and he couldn't help but take out his mobile phone, and the small screen with raw edges displayed the date in bold: 305-01-15.

It turned out to be this day.

It was the afternoon when he was forcibly dragged to shoot the cover of the magazine, which triggered the beginning of a turning point in his life one after another.

Damn, I've been in a mess since I came back, and I almost missed a big deal.

Shouldn't he repeat the rebellious psychological performance of a young man according to a certain timeline?

In that timeline, he had lived for more than forty years.

In the turn of Xia Chan's fierce emotional confrontation, the car window suddenly lowered half silently, revealing a small face the size of half a palm, with angular lips that were silver and pink, his eyes with a hint of dexterity, and his face was hidden in the gloomy light in the car, faintly revealing a bit of delicacy.

"Hey, your name is Xia Chan?"

The voice is crispy and numb, and it is very good.

Xia Chan stared directly at the one-way transparent window, trying to see the complete, long-lost face, and he couldn't hold back a slight tremor all over his body, unable to speak back for a long time.

At this time, another undisguised middle-aged mature man's voice sounded in the car: "Miss, I have confirmed the intelligence results, you are afraid that you will be disappointed, look at it, this child has shallow roots, the probability of awakening of blood roots is almost zero, and I am afraid that it will stop at the Qi refining period for the rest of my life." ”

"Are you sure?"

"Miss, I'm a professional in this area. ”

"I recommend this book to you, "The Self-cultivation of a Servant". ”

"Miss, I don't understand. ”

"Oh, I'm thinking about firing you. ”

"Miss, what did I do wrong. ”

"I'm not happy that you're loud!"

“......”

"Forget it, today is not the time, by the way...... Goodbye, Xia Chan. ”

Without waiting for Xia Chan to react, the window of the car was closed again, and he floated silently for half a foot with the speeding car, and deftly turned around and got into the boulevard in a blink of an eye.

At the same time, there was a cooing croaking sound from an oak tree next to it, and a silver-white shadow rose into the air like an arrow from the string, and chased after it.

In Phoenix City, it is said that there are no more than three thousand people who are qualified to put the rune-powered speed car on the road, and this girl can only belong to the blood nobles at the top of the pyramid and the descendants of a few war heroes.

Anyway, the first meeting of this timeline ended in such a hurry, and Xia Chan didn't even have time to choreograph his acting skills in his head.

Before the next encounter, he must completely reverse his fate.

The self in that timeline is a fool who has gotten headlong into his own world.

Xia Chan laughed at himself, stepped on the skateboard, turned around and walked towards the wrought iron gate welded by Lou's father, a few towering beech trees shrouded the three-story dilapidated small building of the Lou family, and many thumb-thick vines hung down from the tree, crawling with spore creatures.

When the wind suddenly rose, a long-legged woman in her home clothes brandished a firewood knife and jumped back and forth between the branches and the roof, the sword flashed, the vines and the wild branches were constantly cut down, and the courtyard sprinkled branches with branches.

"I don't know what the hell I saw today, but when I came back from school, things on the trees started to grow like crazy. A girl with a double ponytail waved a large broom to sweep away the rain of branches.

"Maybe it's the three old trees planted by the old man who are about to be revitalized. Downstairs, the father who was reading the newspaper on the recliner in the front fence of the courtyard raised his glasses and said slowly.

"Whether the activation alarm is broken or not, it doesn't respond. The building mother with an apron leashed a spatula and inserted a sentence from the kitchen.

Xia Chan looked at this scene and laughed in his heart, this was naturally a prank by 'her'.

"Ah, our cover model is back. The sharp-eyed Lou Mulan found the young man standing in front of the door and not moving.

"No, it's our rising star who is back. Lou Juli's long legs squatted back to the courtyard, and the rusty firewood knife in his hand was thrown casually, and it was nailed to the warehouse column.

The breath is mixed with the smell of cooking smoke and earth, which is the smell of home.

In the last timeline, the last time he stayed in the Phoenix Spirit Land was ten years ago, at that time, there was no family and no one left, only the little sister who settled in the Northland.

There was a layer of tide in his eyes, Phoenix City was still so beautiful at this time, even if he could only go to a half-day school, and he had to work to earn tuition by himself for half a day.

The bereaved family has not yet made a comeback, the peaceful life of more than ten years has not been broken, and everyone in the family is still there.

When dinner was served, the seven members of the Lou family gathered for the first time.

The dead rule of the Lou family, eat without saying anything, and sleep without speaking.

Xia Chan, who was the first to finish eating at the end of the long table, silently wiped his mouth, put down the napkin, sat down quietly, and wandered on the faces of the most familiar relatives in front of him with a safe and detached gaze.

is burying her head in the struggle with a big fried steak.,Even eating is a cute little girl who is serious.。

Chewing slowly, dignified and serious, the two calloused eyebrows are tangled together, and the eyebrows reveal the heavy heart of Lou Dad.

Lou Ju'an, the eldest brother with a thick bookish atmosphere, just went out to answer a phone call and sat down again, and was silently exchanging glances with the second sister Lou Ju Li opposite, as if asking.

I don't know the taste of food, and my eyes sweep over to glance at him from time to time.

Near the left, there is a grandmother of the Lou family who has not taken a sip of the mouthwash soup, and next to it is a bronze smoking gun that is full of meters long and full of the breath of time.

The faces that overlap with the memories have been lost for a long time, even if it is the grandmother of the Lou family who has just passed her one hundred and twentieth birthday, no one would have thought that she would live to the end of her life at the age of one hundred and fifty, you must know that she is just an ordinary person who can't refine qi.

The eldest brother Lou Ju'an works as a professor assistant in the Iron Armor Academy, and it is rare to go home on weekdays when he is busy with affairs, Lou's father often works the night shift to patrol, and the second sister, who is a junior in the School of Magical Beasts and Life Medicine, is a busy person in the school community, and it is rare to see a person once in ten days and a half months.

That's right, today is Xia Chan's coming-of-age ceremony at the age of eighteen.

But that's not the reason why Lou's dad called the whole family back.

This is the Lou family, but he has a foreign surname on his back, and he raised this issue when he was very young in the last timeline.

At that time, Lou's mother always laughed and joked about him that he was an orphan picked up under the overpass.

If you ask more, it will become a trash can and a pick-up from the station.

I had the courage to ask Lou Dad, but Lou Dad just casually told him that it was just to commemorate the surname of one of his sacrificial comrades, don't think about it.

Later, when he was older, he secretly asked his grandmother who loved him the most.

Grandma just touched his head lovingly and said nothing.

Later, the talkative neighbor would always leak some rumors, although he questioned his mother, and his mother denied that it was rumor.

Xia Chan, who was getting more and more aware, fell silent and no longer dwelled on the past.

But suspicion was deeply rooted in his heart, until the truth was revealed on the day he turned eighteen.

That is, today.

Seeing Lou's father put down his chopsticks and was about to speak, he saw Xia Chan get up: "Dad, I want to go out for a walk alone with you." ”

Dad Lou, who was stunned, in the strange atmosphere of the whole family looking at each other, nodded for a long time, grabbed the coat on the back of the chair, and went out of the hall door first, followed by Xia Chan unhurriedly.

The father and son walked on a tree-lined path, and Xia Chan broke the silence and said, "Dad, this alloy prosthetic leg has been around for almost fifteen years. ”

"I've had several major repairs, and it's probably going to last for two years. Lou Dad raised his left hand, which was wearing labor protection gloves all the year round, and moved it, and there was a subtle dry sound of mechanical friction.

"Dad, you don't have a comrade-in-arms surnamed Xia, do you? ”

Lou's father trembled, stopped, but didn't look back: "How much do you know?"

"I think, maybe I know what you know, and I probably know some of what you don't know. Xia Chan didn't dare to look at his father's face, so many years had passed in that timeline, and he found that he was still so fragile when he touched something.

The atmosphere between the two of them was heavy, and the breathing could be heard.

"Who, who told you. Lou Dad restrained himself from trembling his body, and seemed to have used all his strength to turn around, and there was a trace of weakness in his deep voice.

"I don't know who she is, I just got a declassified file from the man about the undead attack in Oak Town eighteen years ago. ”

"Bastard-" Lou Dad suddenly collapsed, turned around and punched, and then Xia Chan watched as the huge bowl mouth thick red pine collapsed with a bang.

"After all these years, they still won't let you go. ”

Looking at the hideous-looking and angry Lou Dad, Xia Chan's heart trembled, knowing that Lou Da had misunderstood something, and rushed forward to hug his father who couldn't find a place to vent like a mad cow, "Dad, Dad, you think too much." ”

"Thinking too much?" Lou's father gasped violently for a few breaths, pushed his son away, sat on the ground with his butt on his shoulder, and looked blank, "Yes, you have nothing, what are they looking for you to do." ”