Chapter 2: I Traveled Through Time 2
"That's all. Do you understand?" Gray Mouse talked freely, stopping from time to time to replenish water.
Wei Xi's eyes were dazed and it was unclear what he was thinking.
Seeing her like this, the gray mouse stopped talking and concentrated on chasing the pearls in the cup with a straw.
Firm.
Knock knock.
Knock knock knock.
Knock knock knock.
When the straw poked the cup and made a noise again, Wei Xi finally came to her senses.
"You mean, I'm the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of this family in the future. Because my great-great-great-grandmother was so useless, you came here from the 25th century. I was originally planning to leave you to my great-great-great-grandmother, but when I returned to the future, I unexpectedly encountered a time and space storm. In the end, my great-great-great-grandmother went to the 25th century, and I was left here? And because my brain suffered a severe electromagnetic wave attack, I fell into a coma after arriving in this time and space, and only woke up today?"
Wei Xi slowly told the gray mouse the information she had just received. Seeing it nod vigorously, she couldn't help but get furious: "Do you think I'm stupid? You are clearly copying the plot of the famous animation "Robot Dog". Even if you are lying, you should speak more professionally."
"You actually said I was lying?" The gray mouse cried aggrievedly, "Everything I said was true. If I said something false, punish me, punish me..." It rolled its eyes, "punish me by turning into a human."
"Oh my god, can you be more shameless? You said you were a newly manufactured domestic robot, and you said at least a hundred things like 'I wish I were a human' and 'Being a human is much better than being a robot'. If you become a human because of your lies, then you have achieved your wish."
The gray mouse actually began to twist its body and sway its shoulders, like a child who was playing tricks when he couldn't get candy: "Who told you not to believe me?"
"Your words are too weird, how can they be believed? No, not a single word of yours is worth believing." Wei Xi stared at the gray mouse and suddenly pounced on it. "You said you are a robot, then show me your components." She said as she grabbed the mouse's ears.
The gray mouse wanted to push her away, but Wei Xi was so quick that she grabbed its ear in one go.
The mouse's ears were soft and thin, and the fine fur on them rubbed against Wei Xi's palm, making it itchy. Wei Xi couldn't help but let go of his hand.
Gray Mouse took the opportunity to push Wei Xi away and ran to the wall: "Don't look at anything inappropriate, don't touch anything inappropriate, and don't touch men and women."
"What do you mean by 'don't touch what is indecent'? It should be 'don't listen what is indecent'." Wei Xi said unhappily, "I didn't expect you to know ancient sayings."
The gray mouse proudly put his hands on his hips and raised his head narcissistically: "I am the latest domestic robot in the 25th century. My job responsibilities include teaching children to do their homework. What does a mere ancient saying mean to me?"
Wei Xi thought of the ears he had just touched and said doubtfully, "Aren't you a robot? Why do your ears look so much like real mouse ears?"
The gray mouse said seriously: "Of course it is to make families with children accept me faster. Don't you think I am cute?" After that, he made a cute pose.
Wei Xi couldn't help but twitch her lips: "I'm sorry, I really don't see how you are cute, and you are too tall, right?" She narrowed her eyes, "Does a housekeeping robot need to be so tall? My robot dog is only one meter tall."
“Wow, wow, wow…” The gray mouse suddenly burst into tears. “You’re too much. You stepped on the places that matter to me the most. Actually… wow, wow… Actually, I was originally designed to be a robot that works on construction sites. But because the factory manager was careless and installed the wrong core components, I had no choice but to become a housekeeping robot.”
Wei Xi, whose ears were pierced by the devil's voice, had a headache: "Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, don't cry!"
The gray mouse sobbed and made a request: "Then you are not allowed to doubt my words anymore and praise me for being cute."
Wei Xi rolled her eyes and said weakly: "Okay, I believe you, and you are the cutest."
"Haha, thank you." As soon as Wei Xi finished speaking, the gray mouse seemed to have learned the art of face changing, and the sky immediately cleared up.
At this moment, the alarm clock suddenly rang, and the gray mouse jumped up as if its tail was stepped on: "Oh no, time to cook." After saying that, he ran out in a hurry.
Weixi waited for a while, and when she heard the footsteps of the gray mouse getting farther and farther away, she immediately stood up and looked out the window.
The sun was about to set, and outside were unfamiliar streets she had never seen before.
Wei Xi carefully opened the door and looked out, and found that it seemed to be an ordinary house with a red staircase next to the door. She immediately walked over and stood on the stairs looking down.
There was another floor below, and it turned out to be a duplex room. The staircase was probably the living room, with old-fashioned furniture. On a low cabinet, there was even an old-fashioned TV that had long been discarded.
She listened carefully and it was very quiet, with only the occasional sounds of faucets turning on and off and water running.
She walked down the stairs to the first floor and saw the gray mouse busy in the kitchen with its back to her. She tiptoed to the door, slowly turned the doorknob, and slipped out.
Wei Xi stood at the door and looked around the house.
It was a very ordinary two-story single-family house, not very big, with walls painted in ordinary white and an orange-red roof, no different from the surrounding houses. There was a metal fence outside the house, with green vines growing on the fence, full of vitality.
Wei Xi walked out of the fence and found a small with "No. 32 Shuizhongyue Street" written on it in white paint.
This street has a nice name.
Wei Xi thought.
She looked around and chose to go right.
Although she had just acted as if she completely believed what the gray mouse said, in fact, she did not believe a single word of it.
This wasn't a movie, how could I wake up and become a different person? And what exactly was this place, Wei Xi also had to figure out.
Maybe she was kidnapped while she was sleeping, or maybe this was all a huge prank.
No matter what, she will not sit still and wait for death, she must find out the truth.
Now it seems that it was not kidnapping.
Her family is not wealthy, and her parents are still abroad. Her only guardian, her uncle, spends all day in the laboratory. He is often too busy to take care of her and forgets her existence. If she was really kidnapped, maybe she couldn't even get through to her uncle and her parents. Not to mention asking for a ransom, maybe her uncle didn't even know she didn't come home.
Then why did she suddenly come to such a strange place and be given such a strange and bizarre life story?
People from the future in the 25th century, this is too ridiculous!
Could it be that……
Plots about time travel from countless novels and movies flashed through her mind one after another.
“Beep beep—”
A horn blew Wei Xi out of her thoughts, and she realized that she had run a red light because she was thinking too hard. The owner of the red car honked at her and waved his hand desperately, signaling her to pass quickly.
Wei Xi's face was burning, and she quickly crossed the road, but in doing so, she forgot which direction she had come from.
However, Wei Xi did not hesitate for long. Since he couldn't remember the direction, he just kept moving forward.
There were few pedestrians and vehicles on the clean and spacious street, it was very quiet, and the crisp chirping of birds could be heard from time to time from the camphor trees on both sides of the road.
"It's too quiet here, and there are so few people." She thought a little confused.
After walking two streets, Weixi stopped at the red light at the intersection.
She was a little scared because she saw almost no one along the way. She was also a little tired because she had been walking for a long time, and her stomach was growling.
Wei Xi reached into her pocket and found it was empty.
"Oh." She withdrew her hand in disappointment, but suddenly froze.
Isn't this black and white dotted babydoll the pajamas she often wears? She chose to buy this outfit because it doesn't look like pajamas, but more like going out clothes, which saves her the trouble of changing clothes when she opens the door to get takeout.
Wei Xi also clearly remembered that she was wearing this set of clothes before going to bed, so why is this set of clothes still in this strange world?
Just as she was thinking hard, she suddenly heard someone calling her from across the street: "Wei Xi?"
Is there anyone here who knows me?
Wei Xi looked across the street with surprise, but when she saw several people standing on the zebra crossing opposite, she was stunned for a moment - she didn't recognize any of those people.
At this time, the red light turned green, and people from the opposite side of the road walked over quickly. Three of them surrounded Wei Xi.
The three people are about the same age as Weixi, two boys and one girl.
The girl was very cute, with big eyes, fair skin, a petite figure, and long black hair tied into a high ponytail with bangs hanging neatly in front of her forehead.
The two boys were one tall and fat and the other short and thin, both carrying bags with the words "×× Tutorial Classroom" printed on them. The bags were bulging and seemed to contain a lot of tutoring materials.
Wei Xi looked at them nervously, and was about to ask about their identities and why they knew her when the girl spoke first.
"Tsk tsk tsk, Wei Xi, how dare you go out shopping? If I were you, I would have been so embarrassed that I crawled into the ground and never came out." The girl said in a contemptuous tone.
Her words made Wei Xi very angry, so Wei Xi fought back without any hesitation: "Why am I too embarrassed to go out shopping? Why did I have to crawl into the ground? And who are you?"
The girl laughed as if she heard a very funny joke. "Oh my, is this a new way for Wei Xi, the last in the class, to escape reality? She actually asked me who I am, hahahaha!"
Wei Xi's original plan had already disappeared due to the girl's hostility. She turned around and wanted to leave, but the short boy stood in front of her, blocking her way.
"Wei Xi, you won't forget me too, right?"
The short boy had a face full of freckles and a neatly combed bowler haircut, and looked like a large thumbtack no matter how you looked at him.
Wei Xi said sharply, "You are not Daniel Wu and Takeshi Kaneshiro, nor are you Wallace Chung and Li Yifeng, nor are you Kris Wu and Jing Boran. You are even a million miles away from Wang Junkai, Wang Yuan, and Jackson Yee. How dare you ask me if I have forgotten you? If you want others to remember you, you should go back to the drawing board eight or ten times before you can say anything."
The short boy had never expected that Wei Xi would interrupt him like this, and was so angry that he couldn't say a word: "You..."
"Oh, you took two days of sick leave and suddenly became eloquent." The girl said sarcastically, "But what's the use? You will always be the idiot who drags down the class."
She leaned closer to Miki, narrowed her eyes, and said viciously, "You're an idiot who's not even qualified to attend cram school."
Wei Xi was shocked.
For Wei Xi, who has been an excellent student since childhood, "poor student" is a word that has no meaning for her.
Even after she did a lot of rebellious things, she was still a good student with high hopes, and she never thought that one day she would be classified as a "bad student". Now she was labeled with such contempt by a girl she didn't know at all, and she didn't know how to refute it.
"Let's go quickly. If we don't leave now, we'll be late. Today's teacher is the strictest. If we are late, we won't be allowed into the classroom."
The tall and fat boy, who had been standing nearby as if it had nothing to do with him, suddenly raised his wrist to look at his watch and then urged.
"That's right, people like this are not worth wasting our precious time." The short boy weighed the options of "continue to mock Mi Xi" and "get punished for being late" on the scale in his mind and made a choice.
Since her companions said so, the girl stopped pestering them, but when she was about to leave, she suddenly bumped into Wei Xi.
The defenseless Wei Xi was knocked back a step. At this moment, the girl quickly stretched out her foot to block Wei Xi from behind.
"Ah!" Wei Xi was tripped, fell backward in embarrassment, and sat on the ground, almost crying in pain.
"Ha ha!"
The girl cheered and high-fived the boys, then walked away.
Looking at their backs, Wei Xi tried to stand up, and suddenly she saw a public telephone booth. She hurriedly walked into the booth and picked up the receiver. She was about to dial, but she remembered that she had no money.
what to do?
Just when she was confused, an idea suddenly flashed through her mind: "I can call the police! There is no charge for calling 110 or 119."
She hurriedly pressed 110, but found that the receiver was silent.
Is her luck so bad that any phone booth she enters happens to be broken?
While Wei Xi was thinking, a dirty pickup truck stopped beside him. Two middle-aged men in blue work clothes and yellow safety helmets jumped out of the car and walked to the telephone booth.
"Girl, this phone booth is broken. Please move aside. We are going to start repairing it."
The uncle drove Wei Xi out, took out four green panels to surround the phone booth, and hung a yellow warning sign on the panels: "Under repair, please do not approach."
Wei Xi looked at them and another thought came to her mind.
She smiled and approached them: "Uncle, hello. This is what happened. I'm lost and can't find my way home. Can you lend me your phone to make a call?"
Unexpectedly, the uncles showed surprised expressions at the same time.
"What is a cell phone?"
"Is it braised chicken? This is the first time I've heard that braised chicken can make a phone call."
Wei Xi was stunned by what the uncles said: "Uncle, are you joking?"
"You are the one making fun of me, little girl." The darker-skinned uncle said, "We have never heard of the cell phone you are talking about."
Wei Xi looked at the uncles in surprise, thinking they were joking, but the uncles looked very serious and didn't look like they were teasing her at all.
At this moment, the gray mouse's words rang in her ears.
"Because of the cracks in space and time, the time machine had an uncontrollable error, so we deviated from the original track and did not reach the time and space of a hundred years ago where grandma was, but jumped to a more distant past. Fortunately, we still found our ancestors successfully, but misfortune still happened when we met our great-great-great-grandma, that is, our great-great-great-grandma was teleported to the 25th century where we are."
"Hey, are you stuttering? Why do you say so many 'were's?"
"Because I really don't know how many years ago my great-great-great-grandma was. I haven't had time to investigate exactly which time and space we are in, because repairing the time machine has consumed a lot of my electricity. So during the time you were unconscious, I was only awake for four hours a day."
Wei Xi asked in a trembling voice: "Uncle, what year is it now?"
Just as the uncle was about to answer, loud heavy metal rock music suddenly came from the road. It turned out to be a van promoting the opening of a new supermarket.
Because the traffic light was red, the van stopped. There were four large speakers hanging on the roof of the van, and the powerful and intense music spread in all directions, shaking the air and the ground.
The uncles covered their ears, ran into the dirty pickup truck as if they were escaping, started the car and drove away.
Wei Xi also covered her ears and walked away quickly, but the music was too loud. She didn't even dare to look back and ran to the next intersection. She didn't dare to let go until the music became very faint.
A hand suddenly rested on her shoulder from behind: "Wei Xi!"
Wei Xi was so scared that she turned around quickly and slapped him.
"Snapped!"
A few seconds later, an earth-shaking cry rang out, and like an atomic bomb, a huge mushroom cloud exploded from the ground.
"Wow, Weixi, you hit me again..."
