"What else did she say? Has she ever come to see you in any time since? Did she ever say what her name was? Why? ”

Faced with Shen Yu's ensuing questions, the female boss reached out and grabbed her hair without answering.

She waved her hand lazily and said, "It's been too long to remember." Maybe.... You can go to the store across the street and ask. She went there after she got out of me. ”

Shen Yuhuo turned his head and looked at a shop diagonally across the crossroads.

It was an old watch repair shop. Just looking at the front and the décor style should have been around for many years.

In this kind of shop, only the elderly will take watches, clocks and other items for repair. I wonder how the owner of this shop makes ends meet?

Shen Yu thanked him, took a photo of the tattoo pattern with his mobile phone, and hurried across the intersection to the door of the watch repair shop.

Here again he froze.

Because in the glass window of this watch repair shop, the internal structure of a mechanical watch of considerable age is displayed.

And the gears, parts, and other things inside this watch form a wonderful pattern!

This pattern is also in the pattern that Wei Xiong painted for him! It's engraved just above the swirl eye!

"What the hell is going on?"

Many questions surged in Shen Yu's heart, and he was almost certain that it was his missing and deceased mother who gave the pattern to the tattoo parlor owner many years ago!

Why did she do that? What's the purpose behind it? What kind of person is she? Is it really a gamer?

But what is the deeper meaning of participating in this kind of card battle besides obtaining rewards?

At least Shen Yu, who has participated in four battles now, doesn't see any meaning, just fighting and getting monetary rewards.

It's like most online games, leveling up, collecting cards, and earning rewards, and the loop is endless, seemingly endless, with no end in sight.

He gathered his thoughts, took a deep breath, opened the door and walked into the watch repair shop.

This watch repair shop is even smaller and more crowded than a tattoo parlor.

Perhaps it doesn't take much space to repair a clock, there is only a counter, two chairs, and a work table.

At this time, an old gentleman with mottled white hair on the workbench was wearing magnifying glasses for repairing clocks and watches, and was concentrating on fiddling with a watch in his hand.

Seeing Shen Yu come in, he put down the tools in his hand, looked up and said, "Young man, are there any watches that need to be repaired?" ”

Shen Yu pointed directly to the antique watch with the open shell in the window and asked, "Old man, I want to ask about the origin of that watch." The tower bears a lot of resemblance to one of my mother's old relics, and it brings back a lot of memories for me. ”

Shen Yu was simply messing around, his mother didn't leave him anything when she left home at that time, except for the few relics from a while ago.

The old gentleman with mottled white hair glanced at the old watch in the window and was stunned.

"Oh~ You said that watch, to be honest, I have repaired a watch all my life, and I have never seen such a fine mechanical watch. Its watch movement is different from all the brands and styles that can be seen on the market~! It's more detailed than I could have imagined! How to say it... In the words of you young people, it looks like it has traveled from the future! Hehehe~~"

"Crossing over?"

Shen Yu's heart moved slightly, and he hurriedly asked, "Old man, do you remember who put this watch here for you?" ”

The old gentleman's eyes subconsciously looked upward, as if recalling.

Immediately after, he showed a sudden expression and said: "I remember~~ Although it was many years ago, the owner of that watch impressed me!"

She deposited the watch with me and gave me a sum of money. That's right! It was a beautiful young girl with very long hair.

What did she say then.... Look at my brain! I've been old for a long time, I really can't remember it~"

Can't remember again? Another long-haired woman? Is it really his mother?

After earning the boss's consent, Shen Yu used his mobile phone to take a close-up picture of the internal structure of the antique watch.

He took his leave and stood on the road. At this moment, the raindrops in the sky have gradually intensified, and the pedestrians on the road are either blocking or running, all of which have accelerated their pace.

Only Shen Yu, he stood at the crossroads in a daze, quietly bathed in the drizzle, as if he didn't notice it at all.

"Swirling eyes... The futuristic traverse watch that makes up the mystical pattern... What does all this mean? ”

Suddenly, Shen Yu stood at the intersection and looked at the tattoo shop opposite, and then at the clock repair shop behind him.

Those two intricate graphics seem to form a perfect angle!

But this angle is still one point support away.... Could it be that there is still a clue left by the mother at this crossroads?

Thinking of this, Shen Yu began to look around.

His gaze swept over every shop and sign next to the street, and finally, his gaze stayed on an inconspicuous billboard on the side of the road.

It was an old billboard, rusty, mottled and peeling off the pattern, as if no one had dealt with it for years.

The original pattern on the billboard was no longer verifiable, and he quickly focused on a corner where the mottled pattern was still intact.

There, there are half tattoo parlor eyes, and half watch parlor watches. In addition, there is a string of incomplete numbers.

If you see the number under the billboard, it should be the contact number left by the advertiser.

It's just that under the washing of years and years, the phone number can only see five digits, and the front digits have long been unknown.

But soon, Shen Yu found out that the ownership of this billboard was in the street office!

If it originally belonged to an advertising company, it may no longer exist.

But if this billboard belongs to the street office, then no matter how many years have passed, it should still have a corresponding record!

Shen Yu no longer hesitated when he thought of this, and immediately asked some surrounding shops about the location of the street office.

Soon after, he found the neighborhood office to manage the area under a two-story temporary building at the back of an old neighborhood.

Since the time has pointed to six o'clock, the public service departments like these have long since passed their working hours.

However, Shen Yu was pleasantly surprised to find that the lights were still on in one of the houses, and there were still people.

Shen Yu lifted the curtain at the door of the temporary building and got in.

In the room, there is a row of half-height counters, on which are the names and job numbers of some clerks.

Most of the seats at the counter were empty at the moment, except for one of the seats, where a female clerk was no longer sitting.

She had glasses on the bridge of her nose, very close to the computer screen. The index fingers of both hands are clumsily searching for a certain key on the keyboard, which is very difficult to operate.

Seeing Shen Yu come in, the female clerk was slightly stunned, and then said, "We have already left work, what do we have to do, come back tomorrow morning." ”

Shen Yu nodded politely, took off his hood and said, "Hello, I just have a question I want to ask, and I won't delay you for too long." ”

Seeing that it was a young man who looked like a student, the female clerk took off her glasses, temporarily put down what she was doing, and asked with a smile, "What questions do you have?" Ask~"

"I would like to ask you, the billboard standing at the intersection is rusty and seems to have existed for a long time, but why hasn't it been removed to this day?"

The female clerk's expression was stunned for a moment, most likely she didn't expect the young student to ask this question.

She smiled and explained, "Harm! You're really asking the right person this question~~ If you ask these young people now, no one knows yet~!

The reason why that billboard has not been demolished today is because someone paid more than ten years of rental money in one go~!

At the time, I thought it was a lot of money, but now that I look back, the person who rented the billboard really made a lot of money~!

However, since we have received money from others and signed a contract, how to use the billboard is someone's business, and we have no way to interfere~

But... It should be almost time, and it is estimated that the contract will not be renewed with her at that time, after all, that billboard is too affecting the city's appearance, and it is likely to be demolished. ”

Shen Yu's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked, "Can I ask you, what kind of advertisement was originally on the billboard?" ”