Time Travel: The Survival of Li Zhi

The stars are shining brightly and the moon is hanging in the sky like a hook.

The hazy moonlight covers the earth like a veil, and the faint silver light shines through the gaps in the clouds and gently falls on the vast land.

Perhaps because of what the old man had just said, Mr. Li from the neighboring village was distributing meat for charity, so even though it was already night, the village was bustling and not as deserted as Li Zhi had imagined.

Li Zhi looked at the situation outside the old man's house and saw a chicken coop next to it. There was only a skinny old chicken in it. It was skinny and its feathers were falling sparsely.

I'm afraid the egg Li Zhi just ate was laid by it.

As soon as Li Zhi approached, the old chicken seemed to know that Li Zhi had just eaten the eggs it laid. It flew up with a puff and pecked Li Zhi in the face.

Li Zhi hurriedly stretched out his hands to block it. Although he managed to protect his handsome face, he still lost his balance and was pecked to the ground by the old chicken.

After seeing Li Zhi fall down in a mess, the old chicken started to cluck like a victorious rooster, then returned to its chicken coop with its head held high and its chest puffed out.

Li Zhi was angry but dared not say anything. He had to use his hands and feet to crawl away from the chicken coop.

After brushing off the chicken feathers and dust on his body, Li Zhi looked around again, but he was unfamiliar with the place, so he didn't dare to walk too far. He looked around but didn't see anyone else. Li Zhi thought: They should all be going to divide the meat.

After all, eating meat was not an easy thing in ancient times, and ordinary families could only eat meat during the Chinese New Year and other festivals.

Li Zhi, who had nothing to do, walked around and returned to the old man's house. Li Zhi lay on the straw mat, waiting for the old man to come back.

As soon as he lay down on the straw mat, Li Zhi was overwhelmed by sleepiness. He yawned and fell asleep unknowingly.

In a trance, Li Zhi seemed to have returned to the modern era, back to the time before he traveled through time.

He was drinking milk tea and bragging with his friends outside a beverage shop in the park.

At this moment, a lunatic rushed out from nowhere.

He held a fruit knife in his hand and waved it madly at everyone around him.

It was Saturday evening, the peak time when crowds were densely packed. The lunatic was like a wolf among a flock of sheep. In an instant, several people were scratched and stabbed by the knife in his hand.

Faced with such brutality, Li Zhi made the same choice he had made before. While everyone was fleeing from the psychopath in panic, Li Zhi did the opposite, picked up a chair beside him and rushed towards the psychopath.

The chair hit the psychopath hard, knocking him to the ground. The fruit knife in his hand was knocked away and fell far away.

Li Zhi immediately took the opportunity to pounce on the psychopath and pin him down, hoping to subdue him. However, an accident happened. Li Zhi never expected that this psychopath had a fruit knife on him in addition to the knife he had just held in his hand!

As a result, just like what he had encountered before, the lunatic smiled at him ferociously, pulled out the fruit knife from behind his back, and stabbed Li Zhi in the chest amid the noise of the crowd around him!

At the moment when the tip of the knife pierced his chest, the lunatic's face suddenly twisted and changed in Li Zhi's eyes, and finally turned into the appearance of the old man who saved Li Zhi's life.

The lunatic who transformed into an old man gave Li Zhi a strange smile.

Li Zhi shuddered, and the scene in front of him changed instantly. The knife that had stabbed into his chest disappeared, the lunatic that was pinned under him also disappeared, and the noisy crowd around him also disappeared.

Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, then he looked up and realized that he was actually in his own home.

Li Zhi was a little confused and puzzled, and seemed unable to react.

While Li Zhi was still trying hard to recall something, a familiar and strange meaty aroma floated towards him from the kitchen and entered his nostrils.

Li Zhi walked to the kitchen following the smell like a puppet.

In the kitchen, Li Zhi's mother was cooking. She turned her head and saw Li Zhi. She showed an inexplicably strange smile on her face and called Li Zhi over, saying, "Come and try the broth I just cooked. It's so delicious."

Li Zhi walked closer and saw that a large pot was boiling and the minced meat in the pot was rolling.

Huh?

what is this?

Li Zhi picked up the long spoon beside him and scooped it into the pot.

With a "clang", Li Zhi collapsed to the ground with a look of horror on his face.

It was actually a human head!

A boiled human head!

 …

"Young man, young man..." A voice pulled Li Zhi back from his sleep.

Li Zhi slowly opened his eyes and looked at the sunlight coming in from the window. It seemed that it was dawn.

Looking at the smiling face of the old man in front of him, Li Zhi's heart skipped a beat for some reason.

Only then did he realize that his whole body was soaked with cold sweat.

"What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?" the old man asked puzzledly.

Then, he picked up the meat soup in his hand and said to Li Zhi, "Come and have a bowl of meat soup. This is the meat I got from the kind-hearted Mr. Li Man last night. It's so delicious."

Looking at the broth in the old man's hand, Li Zhi somehow thought of the human head cooking in the pot in his dream just now.

Suddenly, his stomach churned. Li Zhi summoned some strength from nowhere and quickly pushed the old man away. He ran out of the house and vomited in the chicken coop.

Li Zhi vomited until he seemed to have vomited out all the stomach acid.

The old man followed Li Zhi out, and when Li Zhi had almost finished vomiting, he helped Li Zhi up, patting him gently on the back with one hand, saying, "Why did you vomit like this? Are you okay?"

Li Zhi wiped his face, waved his hands weakly, and said in a hoarse voice: "It's okay..."

The old man didn't say anything more, but just helped Li Zhi into the house.

The featherless old chicken that attacked Li Zhi last night slowly walked out of the chicken coop, came to Li Zhi's vomit, and started pecking at it.

The old man helped Li Zhi sit on the bench, picked up a bowl of meat soup and wanted to feed Li Zhi.

Smelling the strange meaty aroma, Li Zhi felt his stomach churning again and he resisted the urge to retch.

Li Zhi turned his head away and said, "Uncle, please eat by yourself. I can't eat right now."

"Your body is not in good condition. You need to eat more meat to replenish your body." The old man said with concern.

But Li Zhi still shook his head and refused to eat. Seeing this, the old man said nothing more, picked up the bowl and started eating.

Smelling the strange aroma of meat and listening to the grunting sound of the old man eating meat, Li Zhi's stomach churned again.

Li Zhi frowned and told the old man that he would go out and sit for a while.

Opening the door and looking at the hairless old chicken eating his vomit, Li Zhi picked up a stone on the ground and threw it at the old chicken.

The stone didn't hit the old chicken, but passed by it.

But the old chicken was also scared and started clucking and its feathers flew everywhere.

A smile finally appeared on Li Zhi's pale face, which was considered revenge for being pecked by the beast last night.

The warm sunlight fell on Li Zhi, and his originally wet body was slowly dried.

After a while, the old man finished his meal, carried the bench and walked out.

The old man put the bench in place, sat on it, then patted the other side of the bench and said to Li Zhi, "Young man, don't just stand there, sit for a while."

Li Zhi didn't act pretentiously and just sat down on the chair.

"Are you full?" Li Zhi said.

The old man chuckled and said, "You are unlucky, young man. If you don't eat such delicious meat, I will eat it all."

After saying that, the old man lifted up his clothes, revealing his round belly. He touched his belly with one hand and picked his teeth with the other. He looked comfortable and seemed very happy.

When Li Zhi thought of the meat, he felt nauseous for some reason, but he couldn't show it in front of the old man, so he could only smile and agree.

"Who is this kind-hearted Mr. Li you are talking about? Is there so much meat that you can't finish it? Why is he so kind as to share the meat with you so late at night?" Li Zhi asked.

After hearing this, the old man looked strange and said, "Rich families don't like to eat these."

Li Zhi nodded without thinking too much. After all, rich people couldn't afford anything, so it was understandable that they were not interested in eating just a little meat.

The old man went on to say: "This Mr. Li is a well-known wealthy man in Youtian Village. His name is Li Man..."

Li Zhi chatted with the old man, but the old man didn't know much, so Li Zhi didn't get much useful information.

Seeing that it was getting late, Li Zhi planned to walk around the village and see if he could visit the home of the old man who had been an official to see if he could get some useful information.

So Li Zhi said to the old man, "Grandpa, it's getting late. You should take a rest first. I will go for a walk by myself."

Unexpectedly, the old man who was originally talking to Li Zhi with a smile suddenly changed his expression and shouted gloomily: "You are not allowed to leave!"