Donghai City, Nanfeng District, Shaning Town, in a second-hand grocery store.
Lin Xu squatted half-crouched, gently polishing the small objects in his hands.
This is an hourglass with a stale air.
On both sides of the hourglass, there is a colored translucent glass ball, connected by a rusty iron pipe belt in the middle.
Colorful hourglass filled with finely divided sand.
Lin Xu turned the hourglass over and saw grains of sand, like water from the sky, falling slowly but firmly on another glass ball.
It also fell on Lin Xu’s heart!
Lin Xu couldn't help but feel fond of this second-hand hourglass, and he also felt possessive of it.
Some men in this world like games, some like movies, some like women, etc., but Lin Xu prefers these mysterious little things.
However, his financial ability is limited, so he can only buy these cheap goods to comfort himself.
Lin Xu stood up, cast his eyes on the fat middle-aged man in front of him wearing white short-sleeves and a Mediterranean hairstyle, and asked calmly, "Boss, how much does this thing cost?"
"Little brother, you have a good eye. You picked out this wonderful treasure in my store at a glance." The middle-aged fat man grinned, showing his teeth blackened by tobacco, alcohol and tea, and said, "I bought this thing from Europe.
Yes. Let’s do this. I’ll earn some hard money and charge you three hundred.”
Lin Xu couldn't help laughing after hearing this. He glanced around the second-hand store and happened to see a book called "The Complete Collection of Fairy Tales from the World" on the bookshelf attached to the wall.
The paper of this book is sallow and there is a large dried black stain on the cover.
Needless to say, this is also a second-hand item.
Lin Xu pointed at the book and smiled at the boss, "Add that book, boss, one hundred yuan!"
"No! No! I can't even make a profit from one hundred yuan. Besides, that book has four to five hundred pages, and the original version is more than one hundred. Little brother, you are really good at business!" said the middle-aged fat man.
The man shook his head desperately, and after a pause, he said, "Well, I think you really want to buy it, so I'll sell it to you for 50 yuan cheaper, 250 yuan! The lowest price!"
You are only 250, and your whole family is 250! Hearing this price, Lin Xu complained about the middle-aged fat boss in his heart, but still maintained that decent smile on his face.
He took out his thin wallet from his trouser pocket and took out a brand new red banknote from the dark brown wallet.
This is the hundred dollar bill he just took out from the bank cash machine.
Lin Xu handed it to the middle-aged fat boss and said sincerely and seriously, "Boss, one hundred yuan! If it's okay, I'll buy it! If it's not okay, I'll go to other stores to check."
"It's really not possible, little brother, I won't make any profit for a hundred yuan..." the middle-aged fat boss said with a wry smile.
Without saying a word, Lin Xu put the hourglass on the table, turned around and left.
One step, two steps, three steps...
Seeing that Lin Xu was about to walk out of the store, the middle-aged fat man finally shouted, "One hundred yuan, one hundred yuan, I'll sell it to you."
Lin Xu, who had his back to the fat middle-aged boss, had a proud smile on his face. It disappeared in a blink of an eye and returned to his plain look. He turned around, walked up to the boss, and handed him a hundred yuan.
Then one in each hand, he picked up the hourglass and the "Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales from the World"!
The middle-aged fat boss had a heartbroken look on his face and said with a wry smile, "Young man is so good at bargaining! I really won't make any money on this order. Please pay more attention next time."
Lin Xu just smiled and nodded. If the boss didn't make any money from this deal, he wouldn't believe it even if he was beaten to death.
In this world, just listen to what the boss says, otherwise you will starve to death if you look at too many painted cakes!
"Okay! Do you want to get you a bag?" the middle-aged fat boss asked again.
"No. Thank you!" Lin Xu said politely, then took these two items and walked out of the second-hand grocery store briskly with a little joy.
He couldn't wait to go home and play with this stained glass hourglass.
As for "The Complete Collection of Fairy Tales from the World", that is just an addition.
When he reached the zebra crossing on the side of the road, Lin Xu looked up and saw that the light had just turned green. He glanced left and right, but there was no vehicle.
So Lin Xu raised his legs and left.
While walking, Lin Xu looked at the glass hourglass in his hand.
The more he watched, the more Lin Xu liked it and became more fascinated.
"ah!"
Suddenly, a scream from a woman next to her reached Lin Xu's ears.
"What happened?" Lin Xu raised his head curiously, and then saw a black car approaching infinitely in his sight.
Danger!
Lin Xu's pupils shrank suddenly, and he was hit directly by the black car. He flew seven or eight meters away and landed on the ground, with blood flowing out from under him.
The black car stopped, and a sweaty man in a suit stepped out of it.
He stared at Lin Xu who was bleeding continuously, his face was as pale as paper, and he looked at a loss.
"ah……"
"Call an ambulance!"
"Call the police!"
Other pedestrians also saw this scene and shouted.
The whole scene was in chaos.
And all this has nothing to do with Lin Xu.
When the car hit him, he only felt severe pain for a moment, and then felt nothing at all.
To him, it was as if the whole world had slowed down.
Facing death, he had no fear at all. He felt like a passerby, neither sad nor happy.
The temperature in his body was gradually draining away, and he just stared at the scene in front of him with his eyes wide open.
Blood traced random patterns on the ground, and the hourglass and "Fairy Tale World Encyclopedia" that Lin Xugang had just bought were scattered not far in front of him, eroded by his blood.
Lin Xu watched his blood slowly seep into the colored glass ball on the hourglass.
Not sure if it was his imagination, but Lin Xu felt that the hourglass was glowing.
The light became brighter and brighter, filling Lin Xu's sight.
Lin Xu's world is full of light.
The next moment, Lin Xu completely lost consciousness.
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Lin Xu felt like he was constantly falling.
There is darkness all around!
Suddenly, a bright light appeared below.
Bright light enveloped Lin Xu.
Lin Xu suddenly found that his consciousness had returned to his senses at this second.
Feeling soreness all over his body, Lin Xu couldn't help but groan. His eyes opened naturally, and what he saw was the dark gray ceiling and walls.
"Is this a hospital? Isn't the ceiling of the hospital white?" Lin Xu murmured, and then found that the words he spoke were not the Chinese he was familiar with, nor the English and Japanese he was familiar with, but a strange
language.
He turned his head and looked left and right.
The place he is in now is a slightly dark room.
There is only a small window on the high wall, where light and wind come from.
A brown square high table, two chairs with backrests, and a few gray-yellow candle-like objects are the few daily necessities in this room.
"Where is this place?" Lin Xu's voice rose a little higher, with a trace of panic in his tone.
"Dong...dong!" At this time, there was a sudden knock on the door, "Master William, it's me."
It was the same weird language, but Lin Xu understood what it meant.
With a creak, the door opened, and a man in black clothes with a somewhat sad face walked in. He looked to be in his fifties.
"Master William, are your injuries feeling better?" The man with a sad face looked at Lin Xu and asked.
Lin Xu looked at the sad man in confusion, not knowing what he was talking about. He was not William, he was Lin Xu.
The man with a sad face looked at Lin Xu's appearance, and there was another wrinkle on his face. The distress in his eyes flashed, and then he said, "Master William, Master Andrew is deeply loved by the Grand Duke. The Grand Duke will not do anything for us."
To uphold justice, we'd better bear with it."
The man with a sad face was talking nonchalantly, but Lin Xu was completely confused.
He shouted at the sad-looking man, "Who are you? Where are you?"
Unexpectedly, Lin Xu was in a hurry. Chinese was mixed with this weird language, and the words he spoke were so messed up that it was completely unclear what he was saying.
Upon hearing this, the man with a sad face hurried forward, held Lin Xu's hand, and asked with concern, "Master William, what's wrong with you? Master Andrew's attack was really too harsh."
Lin Xu was now anxious to speak out, but the more anxious he became, the more he couldn't speak. The more he couldn't speak, the more anxious he became, and his head began to hurt.
The man with a sad face held his hand. As a conditioned reflex, Lin Xu pushed his hand gently, and a strong force came out. The man with a sad face was pushed three or four meters away, pushed to the door of the room, and fell to the ground.
"How could that happen?" Lin Xu looked at his hand in surprise. It was clear that he had only issued the command "lightly shake your hand" in his mind just now. How could the man with a sad face be pushed so far by him?
A pair of hands covered with calluses.
But not his hands!
Lin Xu's eyes widened, "This is not my hand!"
He suddenly groped his body like crazy. Under his clothes, there was explosive power hidden. His two chest muscles and six-pack abdominal muscles were clearly visible and extremely strong.
As for Lin Xu's original body, due to long-term inactivity, his six-pack muscles were reduced to one.
This is not his body either.
Lin Xu, who came to this conclusion, was so confused that he suddenly jumped up from the bed and stood on the ground.
His eyes swept across the room and saw a basin filled with water on the table.
He rushed to the basin in one stride.
Tilt his head forward, and his current face is reflected in the water - golden hair, slender eyebrows, green eyes, a tall nose, and thin lips.
The combined appearance looks somewhat handsome.
It's just that Lin Xu's eyes became more panicked. This is not what he looks like!
"Who am I? Am I not Lin Xu? Then who is this person? William? Where did William go?" In an instant, all kinds of confusing questions poured out, and Lin Xu only felt a splitting headache, as if he was going to explode.
Same thing.
He held his head, his face wrinkled, and after a scream, Lin Xu fainted.
The man with a sad face had been paying attention to Lin Xu's situation. Upon seeing this, he rushed to Lin Xu's side eagerly and carried him to the bed.
"Master William...Master William...Master William, wake up quickly..." The man with a sad face gently shook Lin Xu's body and kept shouting.
Several minutes passed.
Lin Xu let out a weak groan, then slowly opened his eyes, and said helplessly, "John, I'm fine, but if you keep shaking it, something will really happen to me!"
"Master, you're awake! You're finally awake, haha... great! Master, I'm so happy!" When the man with a sad face heard Lin Xu's voice, he was stunned for a moment, and then became ecstatic.
Said a little incoherently.
"Yeah." Lin Xu hummed slightly, but felt a little bitter in his heart.
In the few minutes after he passed out, Lin Xu's consciousness absorbed the memory of the man named William, and learned the name and identity of the sad man next to him, as well as his current environment. The most important thing was to determine a certain person.
thing.
That is - he traveled through time!
The body died in the previous life, and the soul traveled through time to this boy named William.
"Since Lin Xu is dead, I will call him William in this life!" Lin Xu, or William, said secretly in his heart.