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Chapter 78 Back to the Past (4)
After Nan Chu finished speaking, she acted like an NPC issuing a quest, refusing to answer any further questions from Liu Chaoque.
What does it mean that the creation of a miracle requires the occurrence of another miracle?
Miracles are inherently rare events, so how could they possibly happen so easily?
These past few days, Liu Chaoque has felt like he's losing several strands of hair because of Zhou Man's situation. Mu Li even went to the pharmacy to buy some He Shou Wu (Polygonum multiflorum) and made a He Shou Wu chicken soup for Liu Chaoque.
A bowl was served, but there wasn't much chicken; it was mostly overcooked and tender he shou wu (Polygonum multiflorum).
"We can eat the chicken later, let's eat some he shou wu first." Mu Li said cheekily, staring at Liu Chaoque's head: "Let's see if he can grow a few hairs."
Liu Chaoque reached out his evil hand and plucked two strands of Mu Li's hair. Mu Li, with tears in her eyes, drank the He Shou Wu soup with Liu Chaoque.
She chewed it with relish; whether it helped repair her hair or not, the taste of the he shou wu was alright.
"Manman, what are you thinking about?" The cheeky Mu Li went offline, and now she was the clingy little pear.
He nuzzled her face and asked ingratiatingly, "How about I give you some advice?"
Liu Chaoque pressed down on his head, which was a little hot: "Stop fooling around."
Mu Li sat up straight: "Yes, sir."
Liu Chaoque propped his head up, looking at the patterns on the table: "What do you think a miracle is for Zhou Man?"
It's that police officer again, Mu Li thought for a moment: "Perhaps, it's because his father can stand in front of him?" Then he dismissed his own thoughts: "The dead cannot be brought back to life. This possibility is not a miracle but a shock."
But he didn't hear Liu Chaoque agree. He turned his head and saw that Liu Chaoque's confused eyes had become firm. Reviving something was too magical.
He recalled the AI conversation: "Perhaps technology can be used to resurrect Zhou Man's father, but we still need to know what he looks like, and we don't even know if he left any voice messages..."
Should he look in the pilot system? Mu Li thought for a moment, then wondered if he should ask Xiao Xiao.
"Okay." She nodded, then took out her phone and started calling Feng Tiantian.
"Hey, Auntie!"
"A photo of Zhou Man's father, let me see..." Feng Tiantian on the other end of the phone started rummaging through drawers. She didn't know what this young girl wanted to do with her husband's photo, but she figured it wouldn't be anything bad.
A little while later, Liu Chaoque received a photo. It was a very old photo. Uncle Zhou was standing in front of an airplane, wearing a pilot's uniform, with a bright smile.
Zhou Man and his father do look about seven or eight points alike.
After receiving the photo, she went out to a nearby print shop and had it printed in color. The black and white print really gave it the feel of a funeral portrait.
"Why are you printing Zhou Man's father's photo?" Mu Li followed closely beside her, acting as a silent protector, but seeing what she was doing, she couldn't help but ask.
Liu Chaoque remained silent, simply pulling Mu Li towards the alley. Thanks to Liu Chaoque's frequent calls to the police, the alley, which had previously been a hotbed of robberies and extortions, was now much cleaner.
No one passes by here at this time.
"What's wrong?" Mu Li asked when she saw her stop.
Liu Chaoque turned to look at him and said, "Mu Li, can I trust you?"
"Why not?" Mu Li patted her chest and assured him, "From reality to the game, I will always stand by your side. You can always trust me."
Liu Chaoque smiled, then placed her hand on Mu Li's shoulder and said solemnly, "I might have to disappear for a few days. Can you go to class for me?"
"Huh?" Mu Li blinked.
.........
Monday is the most depressing time for every student who has to go to school. Even college students who don't have homework get a headache just thinking about 8 a.m.
"Ugh, we're in college now, why do we still have to go to class at 8 am?" Every Monday, Wen Xia would say this, then she would pick up a book, prop her head up with it, cover her face, and nod her head little by little.
“You can sleep in a little later when you’re a sophomore,” Nan Chu comforted her. She looked at “Si Man” carrying her backpack and walking into the classroom, her brows furrowing deeply. But as the person approached, she put on a smile and said, “Manman, good morning.”
"Good morning," Siman replied indifferently.
Si Man usually dresses in a neutral style, so Mu Li didn't feel too uncomfortable dressing up as her. It's just that he wasn't used to the things that girls usually wear.
She wanted to reduce her breast size, but Liu Chaoque, who hadn't left yet, threatened her, so she didn't dare to do it secretly.
"Anyway, you should know my personality. The people you need to deal with are Nan Chu and Wen Xia. Just ignore the others," Liu Chaoque said.
As for Xu Wangchuan, well, they've both become rivals in love, let him do whatever he wants.
However, their first meeting ended in a major setback, and Mu Li really didn't know how to deal with her good friend Si Man.
"Manman, did you go out to play this weekend?" Nan Chu asked.
"I went to see Officer Zhou. What about you?" Mu Li answered truthfully.
"I've gone to my grandma's house," she said. "Is Officer Zhou still not awake?"
Siman shook his head and sighed, "I'm still unconscious. I still can't figure out what you said back then."
Nan Chu breathed a sigh of relief. She had only said this to Manman. This imposter was probably quite close to Manman.
There was no suspicion that someone had possessed Manman, mainly because the Gu poison she left on Manman's leg hadn't died, but now there was no trace of that Gu poison on Manman's leg.
She initially thought someone had captured Manman and impersonated her, but what was the point of all this trouble? She couldn't figure it out.
Hearing this again, she finally felt relieved; Manman should be alright.
But where did Manman go? She looked at the person who looked almost identical to Manman and fell into deep thought.
.........
On a rainy night in a narrow alley, a little beggar with a broken bowl shivers in his makeshift house made of cardboard boxes, because a person has suddenly appeared on his bed, which is made of piled-up newspapers.
The little girl, who looked to be about ten years old and had her hair in braids, was wearing a red wool coat. She suddenly appeared next to him, startling him so much that he almost dropped the only bowl he owned.
Liu Chaoque rubbed his head and fell silent with the beggar.
"Hello……"
The beggar opened his eyes wide and shouted, "A ghost!" He then crawled out on all fours.
As the beggar disappeared into the rain, a dark gray figure appeared beside Liu Chaoque.
"Where did you send me the caviar?" Liu Chaoque asked, exasperated.
“Hangzhou fourteen years ago,” Caviar replied truthfully.
She stood up, touched her bottom, and found it was a little wet.
A flame appeared in her hand. She looked around and, as she expected, found some empty cardboard boxes and newspapers. However, some of the newspapers were damp, probably because of the rain outside.
The beggar who had just left, she belatedly realized: it seemed that she had unintentionally robbed him of his house.
She touched her pockets, forgiving herself for being empty because of the convenience of online payments.
Although she had no money, she had food. She conjured up a sandwich, still warm.
I need to apologize.
The rain was drizzling outside. Liu Chaoque held an umbrella and strolled with Caviar through Hangzhou fourteen years ago. Fourteen years ago... it felt like he was 26 years old in real life. He almost laughed at himself for being so old.
Based on their actual ages, she and Zhou Man are still 10 years apart.
She shook her head, unwilling to admit that she would be almost forty in the future.
This game character is only a few years old at this time. Due to the time paradox, Liu Chaoque, who has traveled through time, cannot meet Si Man, nor can she use Si Man's name. She tried to tell Caviar that her name is Liu Chaoque, but unexpectedly, there was no system warning.
Caviar tilted his head in confusion, blinking one eye. The chuunibyou boy usually had one eye covered, and he also wore a hat and mask, making it very convenient for him to do makeup if he wanted to cosplay.
“The God of the Void told me that you seem to be thinking about something strange,” Caviar said.
Don't use your superpower in this way! "No." There never was!
Caviar nodded, bewildered: "There aren't any now."
The beggar was found in front of a convenience store. When he was found, he was squatting in front of the store, sheltering from the rain. Because it was late, the people in the convenience store did not notice him.
The beggar's clothes were soaked through, dripping wet with brownish water that had seeped onto the ground.
He had his head drooping, as if he were sleeping.
Liu Chaoque tiptoed over and placed a sandwich and a large lotus leaf in his bowl.
They then quietly left.
When the beggar woke up, he felt something poking him. He turned around to see what it was and saw a sea of green and lotus stems.
He stood up in fright. The lotus leaf, having lost its support, fell to the ground and smashed into his broken bowl. There he saw the sandwich.
When the shop assistant saw the beggar, he chased him away, but then felt sorry for him and placed some bread scraps in front of him, saying, "Go away, you're affecting my business."
The beggar, clutching the bread and sandwiches, nodded cautiously to him, then staggered away with the large lotus leaf that had appeared out of nowhere.
Although he's a ghost, he's a good one.
……
"Where do you think Zhou Man's father works, Zi Jiang?"
The caviar was quite eye-catching. Liu Chaoque used various precious medicinal materials, such as azurite, cordyceps, and ginseng, to bargain with the medicine shop and exchange them for several thousand yuan before taking him to change into ordinary clothes.
To be honest, compared to his shark suit, he still chose a gray hooded shirt and insisted on buying an eye patch, saying it was his sealed left eye.
Sooner or later, we'll upgrade him to five stars and make him take off this mysterious blindfold.
Looking in the mirror, Liu Chaoque saw her current appearance, almost exactly the same as when she was twelve or thirteen years old. She touched her face, which was full of collagen.
A look of nostalgia; it's that age when you could eat as much as you wanted without gaining weight, that adorable age.
Because Zhou Man's father lives far away, and both of them are unregistered residents, it's impossible for them to hitchhike on a train. It's not like the 70s or 80s anymore, where there are surveillance cameras everywhere. If you go onto the tracks, you'll be caught.
Liu Chaoque had no choice but to spend money to get a certificate with Liu Zijiang's name on it (Yu Zijiang's name; since Liu Chaoque was still a minor, Yu Zijiang had to be his older brother). He also bought a cell phone, a SIM card, and two train tickets. After all that, he only had 300 yuan left in his account.
Due to the limitations of his cheat ability, Liu Chaoque could not use the same method to earn money for three days.
Well, I'll be frugal. Anyway, I can still get food. Sitting on the sleeper berth that will take two days, Liu Chaoque opened the disguised backpack.
Take out the sandwich, the bubble tea book, and the orange juice.
Occasionally, I'll grab a packet of instant noodles and make myself a cup.
Because Caviar is a Food Soul, it doesn't actually need to eat. After all, it is a dish in itself, and eating would always give people a terrifying feeling of cannibalism.
But people can't go without eating, so Liu Chaoque could only take two instant noodles and have Caviar pretend to eat them when people came back, and then shovel the noodles into his own bowl after they left.
Exactly, it's really bad for his stomach. I should have sent Laba porridge instead. I can't just let him eat caviar all the time. That stuff is so salty, it doesn't look like something a human could eat on its own. He put bread in his sandwich and ate the toast. You can't let a food spirit eat its colleagues!
But the ID card had already been issued, and the die was cast. With tears in her eyes, Liu Chaoque ate two sandwiches and two packs of instant noodles.
So cloying!
I narrowly escaped repeated inspections and the stares of the person in the opposite bed, holding my breath and enduring the occasional whiffs of smoke, snoring, and foot odor.
On the third day, Liu Chaoque finally got off the green train looking haggard.
If she didn't leave soon, she wouldn't have enough food in her backpack.
Because the backpack space was limited, she was afraid that someone would suspect her, so she took out less and less food as time went on. Sometimes it was two pieces of bread, sometimes two pieces of chocolate. The person in the opposite bed was kind-hearted and worried that the two of them would not have enough to eat, so he gave them five pieces of the naan he had brought from home.
Liu Chaoque expressed his gratitude profusely and ate the whole thing with tears in his eyes.
Fortunately, she was able to eat it.
She filled some hot water using the same bottle she used for orange juice.
Zhou Man's father lived in a certain northern region. Because it was a secret, this was all Feng Tiantian knew. Their trip to Yang City was just a gamble.
The caviar has seven days left to cool down. In the meantime, search Yang City thoroughly. If you can find him, great; if not, just wait for the caviar to take her somewhere else. She definitely doesn't want to take that old-fashioned train again.
"Let's go exchange some money first," she said, taking out black truffles, Da Hong Pao tea, Lushan Yunwu tea, white truffles, and the three medicinal herbs.
However, since these teas were all pretty much the same, only those who knew their stuff could tell the difference. Liu Chaoque had a mountain of gold but no way to get the money. In the end, he still made about 9000 yuan by relying on those three things and black truffles. Unexpectedly, the black truffles were the highest grade, surpassing ginseng to become the most expensive one.
After receiving nearly 9000 yuan in the transfer, Liu Chaoque put the card away and quickly went to the bank to withdraw 3,000 yuan. He put some of it into his golden finger and kept only 500 yuan in his pocket.
I never expected that such a small amount of money would attract someone's attention.
Having his phone stolen, his money robbed, and finally tied up in a car, Liu Chaoque thought, "I've made the most of my value."
She originally wanted to resist, but when she heard that they were going to a certain place, she seemed to remember it, as if they could pass through a base in Yang City.
I'll just consider it a ride.
As a result, they ended up tying up a little boy along the way, which gave Liu Chaoque a headache. If they were to take a child away, they couldn't just knock him unconscious. They had to make sure it fit the character of a child.
So, a situation arose where the child tricked one trafficker into going to the toilet and thus eliminated one, and the child tricked another trafficker into going to the toilet and, upon returning, eliminated another.
Actually, it's not very reasonable.
During their escape, Liu Chaoque learned that the boy's name was Xi Jingrong.
“Finance, you’ll definitely do well studying finance in the future,” she said instinctively.
The boy looked confused.
"Which 'jing' and which 'rong' is this?" It seems that the student council president was also named Jing Rong.
“The ‘Jing’ in ‘Jingzhe’ (惊蛰), and the ‘Rong’ in ‘Zhengrong’ (峥嵘),” the boy replied earnestly.
Liu Chaoque chuckled. This brat really is the student council president? Maybe it's just a coincidence of names. Let's take another look.
Liu Chaoque didn't want to get involved with Xi Jingrong. According to the tropes of novels, what if he mistook her for his white moonlight? And often, the white moonlight is impersonated, and because of the impersonator's hatred, the man might hurt the white moonlight because of that person.
A classic case of repaying kindness with enmity; the pursuit of his wife will end in disaster.
She didn't want to get herself into this kind of trouble in the future.
She originally intended to leave the person at the police station, but registering their name and posting a missing person notice was enough for her to do her best.
As it turns out, this kid is quite a handful. He was just kidnapped, but he secretly ran away and started chasing after her. Liu Chaoque herself is still a child, yet she has to worry about another child.
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