Seven years after my death, the male protagonist of the substitute novel was criticized

Chapter 9 Meeting old friends

Ding Zitong received the task of "meeting with the time traveler Lin Lu to reminisce about the past" in the afternoon. At that time, she was dealing with the crazy Xu Jiayan.

"It really looks like Lin Lu before he went to Antarctica, exactly the same. I'm not exaggerating, even the age is the same! Pei Yizhou insisted that it was Lin Lu who traveled from Antarctica seven years ago, and he even threatened me to cooperate with him in the role. Do you think he is crazy?!" Xu Jiayan tried to express the shock he felt at that time 100% through his mouth.

Ding Zitong was testing the new generation of life detection robots in the laboratory. She pushed him away with a slap. She didn't look at him when she spoke, but her sarcasm was fully conveyed.

"Don't use questioning him to show your decency. Neither of you is a good person. Given how you allowed others to find a replacement for him, you should be very happy now. He doesn't have to spend his whole life guarding a dead person, and you can be promoted to the chief eunuch beside the new queen. You have made a great contribution in recommending her. With your cooperation, you can sideline Pei Yizhou and swallow up Linzhou Technology. How great."

Xu Jiayan: "...What kind of robots are you still researching? Your mouth can be used as a robot detection drill, and it can drill directly into the ice layer a hundred meters deep."

After saying that, he emphasized again: "I mean this out of kindness. You are Lin Lu's friend and I am Pei Yizhou's friend. I certainly can't just sit there and watch him go crazy. No, I'm getting off topic. Damn it, Ding Zitong, I'm telling you the truth. That person really looks exactly like Lin Lu, and Pei Yizhou said she remembers all of Lin Lu's memories before he was eighteen!"

Although it is not ruled out that Pei Yizhou was crazy and created the gimmick of pressing the girl's head.

Ding Zitong stood up and took out his cell phone. "I'll find a psychologist to recommend to him, or he can call me directly and admit that men's love is a physiological impulse that can be aroused by a face. Then I will consider changing jobs with the company's patents and not expose him to the media."

Xu Jiayan nodded: "Find a few more doctors. I don't think one person can solve the problem. He is very crazy now. I am afraid that he will turn around and tell me that he wants to travel back to seven years ago when the seven stars align."

Ding Zitong didn't fight back for a long time. He stared at Xu Jiayan for a while, took off his protective glasses and asked, "Is it really that serious?"

"Really!" Seeing that his words were finally taken seriously, Xu Jiayan said quickly, "Just wait and see. Maybe tomorrow I'll give you a performance appraisal item and ask you to develop a flying machine within a year."

"You're crazy. You want me to believe in time travel? You might as well revise the textbooks and say that Einstein was an immortal. What kind of pseudo-scientific rumor did he hear? Just like the old men and women who wait for free eggs, sooner or later they will be cheated of all their pension money." Ding Zitong said as she was about to call Pei Yizhou.

But before she dialed the first three digits, she received a message from Pei Yizhou.

Seeing her staring at her phone with sparks in her eyes, Xu Jiayan leaned over to take a look and asked, "Did he send it? What did he say? Did he ask you to act with him, or to build a time-travel machine?"

Ding Zitong raised his head, his eyes spitting fire: "He asked me to go to his house at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to meet the double. Very good, they dare to order me around like this for a salary of 20,000. I will be sorry to Lin Lu if I don't blow them to pieces!"

Xu Jiayan: "Calm down! Calm down! He is mentally ill now, don't bother with him!"

Then the next day, Ding Zitong and Lin Lu met on the seventeenth floor of Tanghu Mansion. They stared at each other for a long time without saying anything.

She felt that she was now mentally ill.

Lin Lu looked at his old classmate who had obviously matured a lot, and tried hard to find evidence of how he had been doing in recent years from his face. Seeing that he was staring at him intently, he scratched his face and took the initiative to speak: "Zitong, long time no see, although I remember it was only a few days..."

"I remember that Lin Lu has no cousins or cousins, but there are many genetic products in this era... Pei Yizhou, where did you find this person?" Ding Zitong asked absentmindedly. Pei Yizhou was standing by and was not surprised by her reaction. He repeated his words in a calm tone, "She is Lin Lu. She went out and disappeared in the afternoon on the second day of her 18th birthday. But she remembered that she went for a walk in East Lake Park in the morning, dozed off and came here. She has the memory and passed the verification."

As he spoke, he looked into Ding Zitong's eyes. The deep look in her eyes reminded her of what she had been told before: Lin Lu was traumatized and could not mention anything about the time between the ages of eighteen and twenty, especially anything about Antarctica and the proposal.

She suddenly came to her senses, with a conflict between “this is so fucking ridiculous” and “what if it’s true? After all, the world is full of wonders” in her mind. Finally, she tightly grasped Lin Lu’s hand: “It really is…”

"Really, really, I just dozed off and woke up to find that I was nine years later. Zi Tong, do you remember that I contacted you that day? I don't remember what happened that afternoon, but I thought that for such a magical thing as time travel to happen to me, there must be some kind of opportunity." Lin Luhui held her hand and looked at her expectantly.

Ding Zitong recalled with difficulty: "I really don't remember. After all, it's been...nine years."

It was terrible. She hadn't even accepted the idea that Einstein might really be able to cultivate immortality, but she had to help others maintain a lie and go against the principles of being a human being. She was in a daze and couldn't believe it.

Then he threw a sympathetic look at Pei Yizhou: the person he had been thinking about was back, but his relationship had regressed to zero. He had to bear the heartache and call her sister, so he must be on the verge of a heart attack every night.

Lin Lu didn't notice their eye contact, and she didn't force anyone to ask about what happened on the day of her disappearance. The past is the past, and there are more pressing things that need to be dealt with now.

So she did not give up, and asked about Ding Zitong's university, work, family, and how other classmates and friends were doing. After learning about the current situation, she sighed.

During the nine years she disappeared, some people got married and had children, some went on to further their studies and disappeared abroad, and some suffered unfortunate accidents and died... The world was functioning normally, but she was the only one who was still stagnant, stagnant in the physical sense.

After being in a daze for a while, Lin Lu perked up and remembered the ultimate purpose of today's meeting. He sent Pei Yizhou away and asked Ding Zitong for help in a low voice: "I want to go out and find a job. Do you think it's possible? I was just missing at the time. I should be able to use my identity information after some manipulation?"

Ding Zitong quickly glanced at Pei Yizhou at the other end of the living room and asked her in a low voice: "The identity issue is easy to solve, but why don't you go directly to your brother for the job you want to go out? Didn't you say before that you hope to win the lottery and never have to work? With Pei Yizhou's current assets, you can't spend them all in your lifetime if you squander them at home."

Lin Lu shook his head, his eyes clear, and said seriously: "I am not a responsibility that he must bear."

And how should I say it? Should I say that I need work, socializing, and the opportunity to go out freely, so that I can go and verify whether the man I know and love in my dream really exists? In the past, it would be fine to say it, but now... Last night's dream was similar to a young girl's love affair. It would be too strange to tell Pei Yizhou about it. Just thinking about it made me uncomfortable.

　Lin Lu: Brother, let me tell you something. I was dreaming with another man...

　　Pei Yizhou: Really? (Raises the gun and aims)
　　Lin Lu: ...It’s nothing actually.

　　Pei Yizhou: It’s too late.

　　(A loud scream from a passerby can be heard from the voice-over)

　　
　
(End of this chapter)