Chapter 2 The mysterious tavern, clocks and another world
At the entrance is a bright dining room.
There are four simple small dining tables, no more than half a meter high.
There are four wooden stakes at the front and back of each small dining table, and there are solid growth rings on the seat surface. They must have been cut out with a saw, and then simply polished and smoothed to use as chairs.
On the right side of the main entrance, there is a U-shaped table.
It was empty above, except for a high stool placed in the middle of the table, which looked like a place for the bartender to entertain guests while mixing drinks and resting temporarily.
Is this a tavern?
Or is it a merger of China and the West?
Mai Fan's eyes were on the cash register behind the dining room.
There are many nails hammered into the wall behind the cash register, which look like the place where the drink sign is hung in a martial arts drama.
It's just that this wall doesn't have a single water sign on it, and it looks very depressed.
My eyes moved to the left side of the cashier, and there was a door with a tattered cloth curtain hanging in front of it.
It was sandwiched, with flowers still exposed in the middle, and the sour smell hit my face, it was terrible to see.
Mai Fan covered his mouth and nose, walked forward, lifted the curtain, and found a small kitchen of less than ten square meters behind.
There are not many pots and pans, just a large stove, a small stove, an empty spice rack, and a lonely large vat.
Mai Fan let go of his hand and returned his gaze to the front hall.
The clue must be in this tavern, look for it here at the end.
As for where there are the most likely clues... Mai Fan looked at the cashier.
As the settlement center of a tavern, valuable and valuable things are most likely to be stored there.
Mai Fan bent down and got behind the cashier. There was indeed a huge drawer there.
The drawer was unlocked, half open, and there was a pocket watch alone.
it's wired!
There is so much dust in this tavern, but this pocket watch has been wiped spotless, not even a speck of dust has fallen on it.
Mai Fan carefully picked up the watch strap and held the pocket watch in his hand. With a click, he pressed the button on the dial and the watch cover popped open.
"Weird!"
This is not a real pocket watch. Whose pocket watch has only one pointer and one scale on the dial?
This pointer is like a small arrow, suspended on the dial, trembling with Mai Fan's movements.
People can't help but reach out and want to push the arrow of this pointer... into the red groove.
Mai Fan thought so, and he actually did it.
'Click'
The pointer went from 0 to the only 1 on the scale, and then...buzz...
The pocket watch underwent an astonishing change. The entire dial lit up, and the hands shone brighter and brighter. It was so dazzling that Mai Fan couldn't help but squint his eyes...
'boom!'
It was so bright that the pocket watch exploded in Mai Fan's hand and turned into dots of starlight, shrouding the entire tavern and Mai Fan's body in it, pulling it towards the void like a net.
…
Brush, after a brief pull, it disappeared into the night sky with Mai Fan.
And the tavern, which was shrinking, took advantage of the last moment when the light network disappeared, and turned into the size of a keychain. With a stab, it got into Mai Fan's pants pocket, got on the last train of the shuttle, and started with Mai Fan.
for the next trip.
Wow, the disappearance of the tavern had no impact on the world at all. It only brought with it the dead leaves in the alley.
They swirled around as if nothing had happened, as if nothing had ever appeared here.
Mai Fan, who was dragged away, didn't know what the pocket watch had done.
All he knew was that when he opened his eyes again after the bright light passed, he would be in a completely different world.
The surrounding environment is both familiar and unfamiliar.
‘Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang’
He was sitting on a green train bound for the unknown,
Before Mai Fan had time to observe this strange environment, he was attracted by the sudden appearance of two policemen from the other end of the carriage.
"What era is this uniform from?"
White short sleeves, red epaulettes, and an armed belt around his waist.
Looking at the passengers around him, the clothes worn by the people in the carriage were too old-fashioned.
As for himself, Mai Fan opened his palms and found that his Adidas sportswear had transformed into a white undershirt and corduroy pants along with the environment.
Don't panic, the clothes are just different, the most important thing is this body...is the body still yours?
Mai Fan's inspection didn't matter. He found that the small mole on his chest was still there, and he was still the same person, but there were watches tied with ropes around his chest, lower back, and even on his thighs and calves.
!
Electronic, black, with a wild dial. He had never seen such an outdated... electronic watch.
Mai Fan saw this and looked up at the two people's policemen who were getting closer and closer to him...
They are checking the documents and luggage of the passengers in this carriage.
Do you need to check your luggage when taking a train at this time?
The fact that those electronic watches appeared on his body in this way shows that they must be prohibited items that cannot be detected by those two comrades.
If he were caught by these two police comrades, the consequences would not be pretty.
No, he has to do something!
Regardless of why he's here, the way he's covering up these electronic watches is a little too stupid.
Thinking of this, Mai Fan first looked at the surrounding environment. Without knowing anything, he didn't know which of the bags on the shelf belonged to him.
Calm down, Mai Fan, calm down, Mai Fan took a deep breath, stood up, turned around, and walked towards the other end of the car.
There is a toilet there, and the message on the door of the toilet is: No one is there
Mai Fan's movements were natural. The police officer responsible for the routine inspection just glanced at him with the tip of his eye and continued with the next work.
‘Wow’
Mai Fan locked the toilet from the inside and quickly took off the electronic watches from his body.
The toilet space in the simple carriage is quite small. When you open the window, you can see the warm wind whistling by outside the train.
Throw out the window?
No!
These watches must be very important if they are tied in this way.
Hiding in the toilet? Nowhere to hide.
Just when Mai Fan's smart head couldn't think of any good solution for a while, he was suddenly burned by his trouser pocket.
What?
Mai Fan put his hand into his pocket, and the structural diagram of a shabby tavern appeared in his mind.
This is?
With a thought in his mind, he sent a disassembled watch to the structure diagram, and whoosh...
The electronic watch he was holding in his hand just now disappeared. When Mai Fan went deeper into the tavern, he found that the watch was placed in the cashier of the tavern.
Can I still take it out?
Just as Mai Fan thought of this, the watch appeared in his hand again.
What? Storage bag? Ring space? Using a dilapidated tavern as the medium? It’s a little special!