Chapter 2: Back in 2016
The TV was suddenly turned on, and the man's face appeared on the big screen, the same as just now, the man was still wearing a mask, only showing a pair of eyes.
It was the first time Susandi had looked into the man's eyes, and there were so many things in his eyes that she couldn't see the difference, but she could faintly feel a little worry in those eyes.
"Are you ready?" The man asked.
"Hmm."
"Okay...", I saw the man speak slowly, "It's time to go back..."
It's time to go back...
The four words reached Susanti's ears smaller and smaller, and her body fluttered lightly, as if someone in her body was calling her.
So, at the man's voice, Susandy's head suddenly became dizzy, and even her eyes began to lose focus under the white light, and they collapsed to all sides.
I don't know how long it took for her body to be heavy enough to return to normal, and the change was resolved.
When her symptoms improved, she found herself still in her old cabin.
Was it unsuccessful?
Susandi was not disappointed, leaning back on the couch, waiting for the researchers' declared failure.
The moonlight outside the window spilled onto the ground, and the warm light in the hut shone on Susanti's body, and the hot and humid temperature was still in front of her.
Something is wrong, this is very wrong.
The sun was shining before the experiment, so why did night fall in the next second?
Susandi narrowed her eyes, unable to figure out why, until a thought suddenly crossed Susandy's mind, forcing her to find her phone on the coffee table.
Hopefully nothing goes wrong.
Susandi thought to herself, and then slowly pressed the phone button.
Just listening to the sound of the keys twisting, the word appeared in Susandi's eyes at 8:18 on August 18, 2016.
Looking at the numbers in front of her, Su Sandi was slightly stunned, and when the phone screen dimmed, she hadn't come back to her senses.
"I seem to have succeeded?!" Susandy couldn't believe it.
She originally thought that this experiment would end in failure, but she didn't expect this change to be so fast, so fast that Susandi was afraid that none of this was true, and quickly turned the phone back on.
I saw that the familiar and unfamiliar number in front of me appeared in Su Sandy's sight again, and it seemed that she had indeed succeeded.
The joy of success was only a moment in her heart, and the unfamiliar environment quickly pulled her back to reality.
Susandi went out onto the balcony to take in her surroundings and think about where she was and what to do next.
This is a residential building, which is a little unfamiliar to Susandi, but when she sees the convenience store opposite, her familiarity with the place is slowly restored.
It can be said that the convenience store is where she used to work for the summer vacation.
Just as Susandi expected, the convenience store downstairs opposite was still flickering.
In order to prove his conjecture, Susandi was no longer as calm as before, picked up his phone and keys from the coffee table and hurried down.
Her current residence is on the twenty-third floor, and as the elevator numbers continue to fall, she seems to be much younger with the numbers, although all this is her fantasy.
Coming out of the entrance of the community, a southern heat rushed to the face.
Xu is heart is too depressed, until now, Su Sandi's mood is like this hot fire, burning straight to the door of his head.
"Welcome~"
Pushing open the door of the convenience store, a mechanical female voice echoed above the wide room.
Without exception, Susanti's arrival shattered the peace in the store and at the same time made her mood drop dramatically.
The air conditioner in the convenience store was emitting cold air at this time, and Susandi stood at the door, letting the heat outside alternate with the cold air above the air conditioner inside, and she stood there dumbfounded.
"Okay, don't worry..."At this time, Caidong was talking to someone, and when he saw someone from the convenience store, he subconsciously blurted out, "Xiao Su, why did you come..."
Seeing the person coming, Caidong didn't distinguish it for a while, and the words he said blurted out in an instant, and when he reacted, he realized that the person in front of him was not someone he knew.
Caidong was suddenly stunned and looked at the phone suspiciously.
It was none other than Su Sandi's sixteen-year-old self, the slow-burning and sensitive Su Wangjun.
Sensing the other party's abnormality, Su Wangjun on the other end of the phone asked softly, "What's wrong with Uncle Cai?" ”
"It's okay, it's okay." The familiar voice quickly disrupted his thoughts, and Caidong hurriedly came back to his senses, "It's just that a guest is coming." ”
"Then Uncle Cai will go and get busy first, help me put the books in the locker, and I'll go get them tomorrow."
"Okay, goodbye."
After hanging up the phone, Caidong hesitated for a moment and looked at the door again.
"It turned out to be a guest, I recognized the wrong person just now." Cai Dong pushed the glasses on his nose, and then smiled gently, "What does this customer need?" ”
The head that was originally carried away by the excitement, but now under Caidong's words, Su Sandi gradually calmed down.
"It's fine." Susandi smiled, pretending not to care.
But her eyes still betrayed her, looking at Caidong's young appearance, overlapping with Caidong in 2022, she still has a lot of feelings in her heart.
She and Caidong have known each other for many years, and they first met when she was 14 years old, when their family had just moved in, and she naturally became acquainted with Caidong, who opened a bookstore at the time.
Caidong also likes to read, and there is also a daughter at home, so he also admires this child, and the two of them quickly become partners with similar interests.
Later, with the decline of paper books, Caidong switched to a convenience store, and his sixteen-year-old self also worked here for the summer vacation.
However, in terms of the current time, this point is indeed by Caidong to look at the store.
Susandi felt that her behavior just now was a little reckless, so she simply walked in silently.
The door of the convenience store slowly closed as Susandi left, leaving only a jingling sound.
Coming to the counter, Su Sandi followed Caidong's words and asked politely, "I'm here to buy some instant noodles, where is the instant noodles?" ”
It seemed that Su Sandy's words hit his heart, and Cai Dong smiled and took out a card from the drawer.
The card was covered with drawings and words, giving you a rough idea of where you wanted to go.
"Phew, here."
Cai Dong lightly tapped the pattern on it with his finger, and his tone still had a hint of pride, "Isn't it clear?" ”
"Hmm." Susandi nodded, she recognized that these were her former paintings, and a little relieved smile appeared on her face, "It's good." ”
"Of course." Cai Dong smiled and handed the card to Su Sandi, his flawed glasses instantly slid to the tip of his nose, and he was full of shrewdness.
"You've just moved in, and I hope this card will be useful to you."
"Okay, thank you." Although Susandi was already familiar with the environment, she still accepted the card, stroked the lines on it with her fingertips, and walked straight to the bubble.
There are many types of instant noodles, Susandi randomly selected a few packs of instant noodles as an alternative, bought some daily necessities, and aimlessly searched for the next target, and finally stopped at the drinks in the refrigerator.
Picking up a few of them, she went to the cash register.
For some reason, after putting down the things, Susandi felt that Caidong's eyes were a little weird when she looked at her, so weird that she felt as if she had done something wrong.
"Minors?" Glancing at Susandi, Caidong asked uncertainly.
“... Well. ”
"Minors can't drink alcohol."
Twenty-two-year-old Susandi at the time: ......
After being reminded by Caidong like this, Su Sandi saw that the beer she was holding was standing on the cash register, and immediately understood what was going on with Caidong's eyes just now.
"Sorry, I got it wrong."
With that, Susandi put the beer back, pondered on the fridge for a moment, and exchanged for another bottle of Coke.
"It's thirty-three dollars."
Cai Dong was in a good mood, he hummed briskly, took out the plastic bag from the counter, and put all the things Su Sandi had bought.
And Susandi quickly paid the money and took the bag from Caidong.
Probably because the person in front of him was too much like the person he knew well, Caidong still couldn't help but tell her, "It's better to drink less." ”
Hearing Cai Dong say this, Su Sandi's hand paused, and then returned to normal in the next second.
"Okay."
"Eh, you're welcome..."
Under Susandi's closing door, Caidong's voice was quieted down until finally the voice disappeared.
As soon as the glass door of the store closed, Susannedy's world began to be noisy.
The chirping of cicadas in summer, and the cool breeze blowing from the lake not far away, brings a touch of coolness to the sultry night.
It was now half past eight, and it had been ten or twenty minutes since she had returned to 2016, but she was not feeling sick at all, and was going to walk home with her bag.
The word "homecoming" was clearly imprinted in her mind, and now as soon as she received the message of homecoming, her hands and feet unconsciously took her to her previous residence.
In this way, when Susandi was in a familiar neighborhood, she realized that going home had become an instinctive consciousness.
Thinking of returning to this home, she couldn't help but stop where she was, looking at the brightly lit place.
It was only the fifth floor, and from the bottom up, she could see the faintly floating curtains in the window, and the approaching figure.
Worst.
Susandi froze in her heart, and immediately ran to the corner next to her in a panic, trying to cover her with the shape of the building.
She could be sure that the person standing in front of the window was her former self.
How so?
Susandi thought, but found that everything was traceable, such as Caidong.
If Cai Dong didn't know herself just now, she could show understanding, but now, she saw exactly the same self and suddenly understood Cai Dong's previous performance.
It's not that he doesn't know her, but there is already Su Wangjun in this world, and there will never be a second one.
In this way, there are still many uncertainties in the time machine, but no one tells her that she will meet another self.
If you don't find out in advance, I'm afraid you will get into unnecessary trouble.
I don't know how long it took, looking at the crowd coming in and out, Susandi knew that this place was not suitable for a long time, so he lowered his head in annoyance, and then turned around and walked in the direction he had just come.
Susandi now lives in the neighborhood opposite Caidongkai's convenience store, so she quickly relied on her memory to find her original location.
She now lives on the twenty-third floor, and she is not the only one who lives on that floor, but also a family.
Knowing that it was not too early, Susandy did not go over to say hello again, but opened the door of his house.
The appearance of the home is no different from the match in the time machine, Susandi quickly found the air conditioner and turned it on smoothly, blowing it for a while, and then blowing the heat off his body.
Summer in the south seemed to be like this, and after only a few minutes of going out, her sweat soaked some of her clothes.
Susandi was not in a hurry, just sat on the sofa, opened the can of Coke with one hand, and then took a sip.
The soda-flavored drink started in her throat and rushed straight to her nose, making Susandi frown.
She has never liked these sweets, especially when she has something on her mind, sweets will only make her feel tired, but she feels that the bitterness in beer is the taste of her life.
Why did you become like this?
Susandi pondered, and even her memories began to follow, and her eyes became sharp.
She is very aware of the suffering she has suffered, and if it weren't for that incident, she wouldn't have changed so much now, and in the final analysis, it's still her heart that is at work.
It seems that after all these years, she still hasn't been able to let go of everything.
Thinking of this, Susandi didn't dwell on this matter anymore, but carefully sorted out all the things she had now.
In fact, long before she returned here, the man told her that he had already helped her deal with her identity in this world, and that she could use it whenever she wanted, which made her not forget to fall on the coffee table.
There were a lot of things on the coffee table, but Susandi still found what she wanted to see at a glance.
The man was talking about a machine that could produce any information, including her information.
There is already a Su Wangjun now, so she should be herself.
It is no exaggeration to say that Susandi is a true careerist.
If you can go back to the way things were, why not try to change?
With this thought, she had no way out.
Holding the information in her hand, Susandi rubbed her temples, she was constantly alerting herself.
I hope to stop what happened, even if she has to pay for it, she is willing to do it...