Ark, I got cold a little early

Come to think of it, I haven't seen Chen Sir for so long since I traveled to Longmen, and today is the first time I see her.

However, in that illusion... no, in the past.

I didn't do what I promised little Chen Huijie to do, to save her sister. Instead, in the final moments before my death, in order not to leave a shadow on the little girl, I chose to erase her memory of me...

But, she said police?

What police?

I did not appear as a policeman. If, if all this is true, then perhaps I will appear in Chen's life again in the near future, in the form of a policeman.

"No, Mr. Chen, I don't know anyone named Wu Ming... Why are you suddenly asking me this question?"

Although he thought so in his heart, Hongyu couldn't help but deny it.

After all, this is just my guess, and no one can be sure what the truth is.

Even if that was true, and he really came to Chen Huijie again...

"It's just... you look a lot like someone I know. I'm sorry if I offended you." Chen turned his head away and didn't look directly into Hongyu's eyes.

This is not the expression that someone in a high position should have, Ms. Chen.

Hongyu smiled and said he didn't care.

Ah, yes, so what if I’m gone?

Chen is still alive, and she has even become a senior superintendent. As far as the current world situation is concerned, she is even, no, definitely being trained by Wei Yanwu as the successor to the Lord of Longmen City.

Isn’t this pretty good?

I really can’t imagine it... Has the little girl who was crying and grabbing her clothes grown up to look like this now?

Now you are fine, that's enough.

Then there's no need for me to show up again, right?

For a monster who can't feel emotions, I really can't imagine how to get along with someone I haven't seen for a long time, so, so, it's fine like this.

"Sorry, Mr. Chen, I don't know that person."

"Don't know...? No, it's nothing."

"Well, okay, bye."

……

Rubbing the rough edge of the letter, Hongyu put the letter back into the drawer.

Then, he took out a piece of paper that looked like a flyer that he had never seen before. It said...

"The emperor summoned talented and righteous men from all over the world to gather in Yan State to fight against the gods..." Hongyu muttered to himself as he read out the more important information above.

Fight against gods?

I remember that Dayan’s battle to slay gods ended thousands of years ago, didn’t it?

In daily life, Hongyu would just think that this was someone's prank and laugh it off.

It’s just that this piece of paper appeared in that strange mailbox, which forced Hongyu to take it seriously.

"If it's really possible to travel back that long ago... isn't that a bit too far-fetched?"

Thinking of this, Hongyu once again recalled the newspaper he had just read about the People's Republic of Ursus.

Although this name full of democracy seems a little unfamiliar in the Ursus Empire, a country with a thousand-year feudal system, Hongyu still examined the letter from Tallulah in his hand, which was not yet a country.

In his impression as a time traveler, the land of Terra seemed to have never lacked suffering, but the world he traveled to... was unexpectedly beautiful?

Ursus has become a republic, Casimir's capitalism is no longer as rampant, the Syracuse family no longer despises the existence of the law, and Kazdel has established a country and is developing prosperously...

The deep-sea nation of Agor has recently established connections with the mainland. Haisi roams around like an animal dealing with filth, and even its appearance has become much more beautiful than before...

Even the threat of oripathy was overcome thanks to the efforts of Rhodes Island Medical Company, a subsidiary of Kazdel.

These shouldn't have happened...

Hongyu should have been puzzled until he finally thought of the papers that appeared in the mailbox and his strange time travel.

Maybe all this is caused by me?

So, if I write another reply letter, can I change some of the established tragedies?

Hongyu was somewhat tempted.

But he was a little tired. Although he didn't want to sleep, he didn't want to start writing so soon.

He pushed up the pair of black round-frame glasses on his nose, making sure that his lifeless or even ruthless eyes would not be revealed, and then he laughed again.

With that fake expression, Hongyu walked out of the back door of the grocery store.

He wants to buy two candied haws to eat.

Even though the refrigerator is full of candied haws, isn’t it good to have more?

Candied haws is a good thing. The sweetness can make him put down the smile on his face, and the sourness can help him clear his mind.

It’s just a refrigerator anyway, I can finish it in a day.

On the way, Hongyu greeted his neighbors one by one with a smile. As a grocery store owner with a good reputation in this area, he would occasionally help people around him to the best of his ability.

"It's called a grocery store, so why not call it a handyman shop?"

The purple-haired little rabbit who came to his store from time to time to "purchase goods" had joked with him.

Then I think of the mailbox behind my shop that travels through time...

Hongyu's limited remaining knowledge of time travel made him grumble, "What kind of magical modified version of the Worry-Solving Grocery Store is this?"

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Chapter 3 Years Old (k)

With a bare stick in his mouth, Hongyu turned the pen in his hand and thought about how to write a reply to this strange "Great Yan Emperor's Order".

But... writing a reply to a flyer is a bit...

After careful consideration, I decided to write a reply to the unique textured paper I had received earlier, but...

How do I write this?

Hongyu thought for a moment, wrote the word "参" on the paper, and threw the paper into the mailbox at the back door. Then he scratched his head, spit out the stick in his mouth, opened the refrigerator, took out a candied haws and started eating.

The trash can at his feet was already full of skewers, which showed how many he had eaten.

He walked to the lounge and lay down on the sofa. He felt tired physically, but his mind kept wondering whether his previous speculation was true.

Maybe... it was just an accident?

Maybe, I'm just overthinking it?

Thinking of this, Hongyu still couldn't resist his sudden fatigue and closed his eyes.

……

……

……

Where the hell is this?

Rubbing his eyes, Hongyu woke up in a ruined house. After looking around, he couldn't help but ask a question.

He stood up and patted his dusty clothes, and suddenly found that his clothes seemed to have changed.

He wore a tattered bamboo hat, and his medium-length hair was tied into a ponytail. His hair was messy, and strands of hair fell down, covering a little of his handsome face. The round-frame glasses on his face were long gone.

The black long coat was tied up with a brown bag at the waist, a long sword was hung on the waist, and a pair of soft but sturdy cloth shoes were on the feet.

This...how come it comes with a change of clothes?

Although considering the age of the paper, this outfit is quite appropriate.

Can’t you bring my glasses along... Never mind.

Hongyu tore off the bandage on his forearm and wrapped it around his head, covering only his eyes.

Now I feel like a blind swordsman.

Hongyu smiled, searched his mind for a while, and determined the direction of the so-called Emperor of Great Yan.

By using his power in this way, he found that the restrictions on himself this time were greatly reduced, which was very different from the last time he traveled to the young Chen Huijie.

If I had to compare it, it was that last time I had to work very hard to destroy a building, but this time...

Hongyu raised his hand and pointed it towards the small hill not far away. A red and black energy ball in the palm of his hand kept expanding and compressing. Then, Hongyu rapidly launched the energy ball towards its destination.

After a few loud booms, the entire mountain was completely destroyed.

It’s relaxing, although not as good as reality… oh no, it’s the self before time travel, but it’s good enough.

I have sensed it myself. Fortunately, the current time is probably the battle against gods in Dayan, so no one lives on that mountain. Otherwise, I would probably be responsible for several lives.

But... asking God for help?

Oh, God, it should be the legendary Sui, right?

No wonder the world’s restrictions on me are not as strong as last time. Is this the reason?

In just a moment, Hongyu arrived at a battlefield where a fierce battle was taking place. Looking at the giant beast in the distance that was covering the sky and wreaking havoc, he felt a sense of familiarity for no reason.

That giant beast... is "Sui", right?

It really is... a little familiar.

Hongyu pinched his chin with his thumb and index finger, constantly looking at the giant beast called "Sui", wondering where that unknown sense of familiarity came from.

By the way...it seems that before I traveled to the world of Arknights, in my previous life, I had analyzed that "Sui" seemed to be a plan left by the previous civilization?

Could it be that... I've lost my memory? Should I have actually traveled to a previous civilization and been turned into an old popsicle like the Doctor?

Forget it, this guess is a bit outrageous. Not to mention that I was not dug out of the coffin, just the fact that I don’t even have any impression of the doctor’s appearance, how could he be a pre-civilized person?

It’s better not to fool yourself. Your imagination is not even enough to trick Ah Lai into buying medicinal herbs from my grocery store.

"Hey! That ronin over there, this is a battlefield, get out of here!"

Behind him, someone shouted at Hongyu, warning him to leave this dangerous place.

Hongyu looked at the soldier in retro armor, then pointed at himself with his index finger. Did he mean "me?"

The soldier came to him and grabbed his arm and walked away from him in a direction away from "Sui". Hongyu still asked, "Were you talking about me just now?"

Looking at the soldier's increasingly impatient face, but still constantly telling him to leave, Hongyu continued to say with a smile

"Brother, I think... the announcement made by the Emperor of Dayan to the world... should not have a time limit, right?" Hongyu said to the soldier while maintaining a smile that seemed to deserve a beating to others.

"Hu, you'd better leave here. Let me tell you, two days ago there were indeed quite a few people who believed in the Order to Strike the Gods, and thought they could contribute their own strength in the war to strike the gods in exchange for fame..." The soldier lowered his voice, as if warning Hongyu.

"But once the war against 'Sui' began, those guys all died, and no one responded to your Highness's call... Phew, up to now, I haven't seen anything that can hurt that monster... I don't even think this battle can be won easily."

The strength with which he gripped Hongyu's arm gradually increased, which showed how greatly his emotions were fluctuating.

"So, don't go and die, leave the battlefield to the soldiers. We are soldiers, soldiers who protect the people, especially people like you... Leave quickly, I will take you to the military camp over there, at least it is safer there." He looked at Hongyu's eyes wrapped in bandages, and the meaning was self-evident.

Did he think I was some unlucky guy who got lost and had no one to care for him after being separated from the refugee group because he was blind?

Seeing that the soldier seemed to have misunderstood something, Hongyu did not rush to explain anything. He just asked curiously:

"If you can't hurt that monster in the slightest, what's the point of you staying here? Why don't you run away?"

"Escape? Where to escape? If I run away, then the other soldiers can run away too." He pulled Hongyu and suddenly paused while speaking. "If we all run away, who will protect this country? Even though that monster is difficult to defeat..."

As he spoke, there was a sudden earthquake that shook him so much that he couldn't stand.

It turned out that the "Sui" in the distance, facing the siege of the Dayan army and the Heavenly Master, summoned a large-scale thunder circle, and several of the huge thunders were striking towards Hongyu and the soldiers.

Just as the soldier's face turned pale and he was about to accept death, a faint voice reached his ears.

"Difficult to defeat? It just hasn't met me yet. I don't think that 'Year' is that difficult to defeat."

When the soldier opened his eyes, he saw a shocking scene.

The ronin in front of him, who he had just thought was blind, raised his right hand and stabbed out with his index and middle fingers. The lightning that was enough to destroy a city stopped steadily a few millimeters in front of him.

The man who performed such a miracle had a cynical smile on his face. He put his fingertips on the stage, turned his palm forward and clenched it, and the lightning was caught in his palm.