Chapter 45 USB Disk
After an unknown amount of time, Chen Ling finally calmed down. He said coldly:
"Captain Han Meng, if your questioning is over... please leave my house."
Han Meng did not speak again. He stood up silently and walked out the door.
He pushed open the door, and the flying snow drifted into the house. The black windbreaker with four stripes fluttered slightly... He stopped for a moment and looked back at Chen Ling.
"Whether you believe me or not, I have been fulfilling my duties... If you really think that this world lacks justice, you might as well become it yourself."
"You passed the martial arts test as the first in the reserve seat. Now you are a formal law enforcer and can report to the headquarters tomorrow."
"And..."
"The qualification to enter the Bingdao Ancient Collection is also yours."
After saying this, he stepped into the heavy snow, and the black windbreaker gradually disappeared at the end of the street.
Chen Ling's eyes swept across the empty room, with a complicated expression... When Han Meng walked away, he also left the house and walked towards the back mountain.
...
Mass grave. Chen Ling carried the uncut cake and slowly sat down in the snow.
"Ayan, I'm here." He looked at the pit he had dug in front of him and spoke softly.
The broken snow stuck to the boy's temples, like white hair. He took off the candles on the cake one by one and stuck them in the snow.
"You have already made a wish before, so the candles will not be lit... I will cut the cake for you."
Chen Ling took out a plastic knife from the box and cut the cake into two pieces bit by bit. One of them was neatly placed in front of the pit, and he took his own piece from the box.
The ice and snow covered the surface of the cake with the wind. Chen Ling took a bite and didn't know whether it was cream or ice chips.
While chewing, he spoke vaguely:
"Ayan, do you know?"
"This world is really ruined... This cake is so bad, but it costs two hundred copper coins. In my original world, the cake I bought for two hundred yuan is bigger than this one, and it tastes much better."
"If I have the chance, I really want to take you back. Although I am also a social animal, the money I earn is enough for you to have food and drink."
"But then again, if you go back with me, you will definitely live better than me... You are beautiful and you sing well. You can be a short video blogger and have hundreds of millions of fans. You are definitely the inheritor of the traditional Chinese style."
Chen Ling's face was red from the cold wind. He took a few bites of the cake and looked up at the sky.
"But there are also good things here..."
"The aurora here is beautiful, whether it's day or night."
"But what's the use of being beautiful?"
"I have to do my best just to survive..."
"The path you gave me seems very powerful, but it seems to affect my mind... Is this what you call a bumpy road?"
"Han Meng asked me to join the law enforcers, but the "world-destroying" disaster in my body is a time bomb. Once it explodes, I will become the target of public criticism... So, does joining that club count as a one-step solution?"
"Instead of letting them find me and arrest me, why not go to the opposite side of them from the beginning?"
"Ayan... what do you think the next path should be?"
Chen Ling muttered to himself facing the pit.
Click--
Just then, something slipped out of his pocket and fell into the snow.
Chen Ling picked up the thing. It was the small silver cube that Chu Muyun had given him before. In the cold wind, it was icy cold to the bone.
Chen Ling remembered that Chu Muyun said that through this thing, he might be able to understand them better... But how to use this thing?
He fiddled with the small silver cube in his hand for a long time, and with a light push of his fingertips, a silver slide cover separated from the main body, revealing a section of silver metal with some square holes, which looked like a standard...
"U disk?!"
Chen Ling looked at the USB flash drive in his hand in astonishment, his heart full of confusion.
Since coming to this world, Chen Ling has always thought that its technological level is probably stuck in the Republic of China in the last world, with kerosene lamps, rickshaws, salting to melt snow, old-fashioned pistols... But when he saw this USB flash drive, Chen Ling suddenly became confused.
This thing... should appear in this world?
Where did the computer come from in this world?
Without a computer, where should this USB flash drive be plugged in?
Questions flashed through Chen Ling's mind one after another, and he picked up the USB flash drive and inserted it into the snow under him...
The next moment, a string of dark green codes automatically appeared on the snow!
[No. 129439]
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Chen Ling rolled his eyes and fainted on the spot.
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"Hua——"
The sound of rushing water rang in his ears.
Chen Ling suddenly opened his eyes, as if he had just woken up from a nightmare, and cold sweat soaked his back.
At some point, he had left the mass grave and came to a small square space. The sound of the toilet flushing gradually disappeared, replaced by a series of compact knocks on the door.
"Brother, are you okay? I can't hold it anymore..."
Chen Ling came back to his senses and quickly scanned the surroundings...
"...Toilet?"
Chen Ling's eyes widened in surprise.
It was not the shabby toilet at home on Hanshuang Street, but a clean, bright modern toilet. Whether it was the sensor light above his head or the "TOTO" toilet behind him, Chen Ling felt a strong sense of familiarity.
"I... am back?" Chen Ling's eyes were full of confusion.
"Brother, if you want to wear your pants, put them on quickly. If you don't wear them, I really can't hold it in anymore..." The voice of the man at the door was full of anxiety.
Chen Ling immediately pushed open the toilet door. A man wearing a Polo shirt at the door was immediately overjoyed. He ducked sideways into the cubicle and closed the door with a bang, followed by a comfortable moan...
Chen Ling looked around, subconsciously quickened her pace and walked out of the toilet.
The first thing that catches the eye is "Hitea".
Next to it, there are KFC, Muji, Zhou Hei Ya, Da Niang Dumplings...
Looking at these familiar brands and the people walking around in the mall, Chen Ling's pupils shrank slightly... As if he thought of something, he stepped forward like crazy, passed through the crowd, and rushed to the scene amid countless strange looks. Outside the mall!
The moment she saw the high-rise buildings with her own eyes, there was only one thought left in Chen Ling's mind...
He's really back.
"I...did I have a dream?" Chen Ling held her head in her hands and muttered to herself, "No, if it was a dream...why did I wake up in the toilet?"
"I was at the mass grave just now, talking to Ayan...and then inserted the USB flash drive into the snow, and then..."
"Is it that USB flash drive??"
Just as Chen Ling was talking to herself, the big screen in the building opposite suddenly flashed.
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"At nine o'clock this morning, a red meteor passed by the earth. At the same time, extremely small earthquakes broke out across the country..."
"In just three minutes, hundreds of buildings split and collapsed, including the Merchant Hotel, Jiangkou Football Stadium, and the Beijing Grand Theater...According to incomplete statistics, the current death toll exceeds 2,000 people..."