Xiao Ze had just arrived at the company in the morning. He got some water from the tea room and returned to his workstation. He looked down and saw a message from the Childhood Tutorial Center on his mobile phone.
Since filling out the childhood test at the cram school last time, Xiao Ze has not been to No. 66 Sanhua Road.
He tried to analyze his own heart and found that the inexplicable resistance was probably due to the pitiful self-esteem of an adult.
It was just a simple form, but he carefully wrote down the most tragic memory of his childhood.
If it were the sixteen-year-old Xiao Ze, he might not have felt so ashamed.
Now I am 22 years old, and my life is still a mess. Telling my true feelings to someone I don't know well is like acting like a spoiled child.
The more I think about it, the more unbearable it feels. The more I don't want to look back, the more I can't help but think about it.
When Xiao Ze returned to his apartment that night, he decided not to go to the Childhood Tutorial Center anymore.
But these days, he has also been secretly keeping an eye on the tutorial center.
The effects of Dreamweaver Bubble Water and Emotion Bubble Water are outstanding, and people share their experience of using them online every day.
Last week, the tutorial center launched a new product called Good Mood Glutinous Rice Cake.
It is said that after eating it, one can see hallucinations that make one feel better. Xiao Ze knew that it must be the snack that the owner gave him to try that night.
Once launched, it was well received.
Someone sent bubble water and glutinous rice balls to a testing center for testing and posted the report online. The results showed that the ingredients were normal and common, and no unusual substances were detected.
Because of this small incident, there was quite a stir on the Internet.
Some people think that the store owner is selling ordinary goods, and the customers feel that the products are effective, so they may have been hypnotized and it is actually a scam.
The real customers who bought bubble water and glutinous rice balls did not think they were hypnotized, so the rumor was forgotten.
Xiao Ze is still using bubble water, but not very frequently.
When you feel overwhelmed by your emotions, blowing bubbles for a while or taking a nap and dreaming can really make you feel more relaxed.
He guessed that the shop owner's ability was probably to attach something like "emotion" to objects and exert influence on the surroundings.
Simply put, it’s the sense of atmosphere.
It’s just that the store owner can materialize the illusory atmosphere and even create illusions, so the relevant ingredients cannot be detected in the products.
If you think about it this way, it would be easy for the shop owner to inflict despair on the people around him...
Xiao Ze pulled back his wandering thoughts and looked at the message on his phone again.
The Childhood Tutoring Center has just launched the most powerful prop for tutoring children, and the owner asks him to go and experience it once.
The most powerful tool
It doesn't look reliable, especially when the owner put emphatic brackets around the words "the most powerful props", giving off an elementary school student vibe.
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In the evening, at the Childhood Tuition Center.
Xiao Ze stood at the door with his bag. He had been struggling with the whole work day, but finally came.
Erxin has now transferred to a tutorial center and has become the store's mascot.
On weekdays, when Lu Yao was busy in the back, Er Xin would occupy the owner's recliner, lying on it to sleep, lick his fur, or observe humans through the glass.
Seeing Xiao Ze standing at the door without coming in, it jumped off the chair and stood by the door, scratching the glass, "Meow~"
When Lu Yao heard the voice, he knew that a guest had arrived. He stood up and came out. Seeing that it was Xiao Ze, he greeted him, "I've been waiting for you all day. Come in and I'll show you our new teacher at the cram school."
teacher
Xiao Ze followed Lu Yao into a secret room that was previously not open to the public.
The room was simply furnished with only a set of tables and chairs, and the entire wall opposite the door was covered with grids similar to small drawers.
Xiao Ze looked for a while before walking to the table and sitting down. He looked down and saw a giant dragon toy curled up and sleeping on the table, which also looked like a decoration.
The ornament was completely black, with only a few faint silver spots on the tip of its tail. The chubby little dragon held its tail with its two paws, curled up into a ball with its eyes closed.
The details are well done, exquisite and textured, and it gives people an inexplicable sense of mystery.
And about one centimeter above the little dragon's curled up body, a silver ball was suspended.
The small ball is slightly larger than the sleeping black dragon, but it seems to be held up by the black dragon's body.
Lu Yao pointed at the ball and introduced it: "This is Alfred, our new tutor at the tutoring center. He is also the most powerful prop I told you about in the text message."
Xiao Ze: "... Alfred... Teacher?"
Lu Yao smiled and said, "Don't be so surprised, let me explain to you."
The main body of Lu Yao's time machine is divided into two parts. One is a small silver ball on the table, which carries a huge energy source and assists the store owner in taking guests through time and space.
The main material of the small silver ball comes from Harold's scales, and the energy source is a **battery made by fusing high-purity magic stone and crystal core energy liquid.
After testing, it was found that the battery needs to be replaced approximately every ten time travels.
The second is the key to the soul, which is an important prop to open up childhood.
If you want to return to a specific time and space coordinate, you must have rich and accurate coordinate data.
How can we get back the time that has passed
This requires an instrument to record time.
Childhood tutoring only requires going back to the client’s past, so the client’s growth line is needed.
The growth line can also be called the life line.
It records all events, big and small, from the birth to the death of a living being, just like the small dots strung together on the key of time and space that record history.
As the seasons change, spring grass grows and then turns into rotten mud.
Time never stops.
Is there something that records all the information about human beings from birth to death
This is the most important medium for making soul keys.
Lu Yao tried many kinds of materials, including hair, skin, nails, and teeth.
Unfortunately, as we grow older, these have been replaced one after another.
Even if there are records left, it is only for a very short period of time.
Xiao Ze widened his eyes slightly. From the moment the shopkeeper explained the time machine, everything was heading towards the direction of a fantasy novel.
It was too absurd. Xiao Ze couldn't even give a more exaggerated response. He asked calmly, "You mean, you need a piece of my finger bone to make a key?"
Lu Yao nodded: "Bones, like the growth rings on a tree trunk, record all the growth of an organism from birth to the present."
Xiao Ze stretched out his hand, "How can I take it? If you take away a piece of finger bone, I will be half disabled."
Lu Yao took out the bone box from under the table and put on gloves: "Don't worry, what we need is the information recorded on the bones. After taking away this finger bone, we will replace it with an identical bone. The only difference is that the replaced finger bone will not have your previous growth information."
This is when the convenience of copy magic comes into play.
As he spoke, Lu Yao had already used tools to remove a small piece of bone from the tip of Xiao Ze's left little finger. "Okay, wait for thirty seconds."
Xiao Ze: “…”
You took it away now? That's too fast.
And it doesn't hurt at all, I don't understand why.
Lu Yao put the extracted finger bone into the bone removal box, and thirty seconds later he took out two identical pieces of bones.
She put the duplicate finger bone back into Xiao Ze's fingertip, stood up, took the new bone and walked into the newly created room on the side of the wall, "Wait five minutes."
The bones that record the guest's lifeline and the scales of the little black dragon are combined to create a prop that is the spiritual key that belongs to this guest.
The appearance of the Key of the Heart is similar to that of the Key of Time and Space, except that the lines used to outline the shape of the key are black and the small round beads strung on the lines are white.
The Key of the Soul is more than one circle smaller than the Key of Time and Space, and is delicate and compact.
Xiao Ze took the strange black and white key from Lu Yao. He couldn't believe that it was made of his own bones. His brows were knitted tightly. "Is this a toy? I still think you are kidding me. You even made a huge prop setting for it and even got a prop model. It's like writing a novel."
Lu Yao sat down, picked up the suspended silver ball, and revealed the small hole below. "Put it in and try it."
Xiao Ze didn't expect that the small silver ball had this kind of structure. At this time, he just thought that the owner was playing a game with him and directly inserted the key into it.
“Pah—”
The silver ball decomposed into pieces radially, and the dazzling light overwhelmed Xiao Ze and the shop owner.
When Xiao Ze opened his eyes, he found that he was no longer in his childhood cram school. The scene before him was strange yet familiar.
Hawksbill City Community Conservation Center.
He spent most of his time here until he was six years old.
Xiao Ze’s earliest memory of childhood began with the fence beside the playground of the daycare center.
Before he was five years old, he liked to sit on the steps under the ivy fence at the edge of the playground, waiting for his mother to pick him up.
The memory he wrote on that childhood test form was here.
The key was real and the owner had not lied to him.
"Is this where you lived as a child?" Lu Yao walked out from behind the flower bed and looked around.
Xiao Ze was surprised: "Shopkeeper."
Lu Yao heard the footsteps, pulled Xiao Ze to hide behind the flower bed, and then secretly poked his head out.
The little kid in overalls, holding a brown bear doll, ran to the ivy fence, looked around, walked down two steps one step at a time, and then sat down.
Lu Yao turned around and looked at Xiao Ze.
Xiao Ze lowered his head slightly, avoiding the owner's gaze, and his ears turned red.
The little bean is Xiao Ze when he was young.
While other children were having fun on the playground, he was sitting on the steps, counting the ants crawling by.
The teddy bear in his arms was a gift his mother gave him before she left in the morning. His mother said she would come back in the afternoon and take him to have his favorite children's meal.
Until the sun went down, the other children were picked up by their parents.
The little kid is still sitting there.
The mother did not show up.
This day was Xiao Ze’s fifth birthday.
Xiao Ze’s earliest memory of childhood is this afternoon when he waited for his mother to come back.
The duration of a time travel is three minutes, but the speed of time in the past is different from that in reality.
During the three minutes in Sanhua City, Lu Yao and the adult Xiao Ze squatted behind the bushes, silently watching the little Xiao Ze, and spent the afternoon.
Back at the Childhood Tutorial Center, Xiao Ze talked about the follow-up to what started that afternoon.
Late at night, the mother called the childcare center and said that she had to attend an emergency before leaving get off work. The operation had just ended and she couldn't come back to pick up Xiao Ze.
Douding Xiaoze stood at the feet of the nanny, his sight reaching to the wood grain on the table legs.
After that, his mother didn't come to pick him up for several days, so he stayed in the daycare center.
When going to bed at night, Xiao Ze heard the nanny whispering outside the door.
He is already five years old, and only his fingers can glow. I'm afraid he won't be able to awaken again.
His mother must have given up on him.
And a week later, the mother came back.
She bought Xiao Ze a big bag of snacks and some small toys.
The little kid finally saw his mother and ran over happily with a smile on his tender face.
A strange man appeared, put one hand on my mother's shoulder, and scratched Xiao Ze's cheek with his rough fingers.
My mother remarried.
It was during these days that she left him in the nursery that she went to get married and go on her honeymoon.
Unfortunately, the overture was probably already written at this time.
Less than three months after her remarriage, my mother became pregnant.
The day she learned the news, she and the man took Xiao Ze to the amusement park.
After a crazy day of playing, the mother smiled and took Xiao Ze's hand and put it on her belly, "Xiao Ze, you are going to have a brother or sister."
Later, my younger sister was born, a very gifted child.
In the tenth month, my sister awakened her abilities.
Nature type, can manipulate water element.
When she was two years old, her sister awakened her abilities for the second time.
On the premise of being able to control the water element, you can also change the properties of water.
On the third day after his sister's second awakening, his mother took Xiao Ze to the mall to buy new clothes, a new school bag, and new stationery, and then arranged for him to go to school for boarding.
That year, Xiao Ze was just in the second grade.
Xiao Ze said that the gift is a signal.
It is a cloak of lies, a sign that something is about to be lost.
It's like this every time, without exception.
So for him, there are absolutely no free gifts in the world.
If there is, the price must have been secretly marked long ago.
Lu Yao nodded: "Indeed, I have already calculated the price for our time travel."
Xiao Ze was not angry at being interrupted. In fact, he did not like to reminisce about his childhood. He smiled bitterly and began to take out his wallet. His expression relaxed: "That's good."
The deficiencies in his childhood could never be made up for.
Even if there really is a time machine, all the weakness and cowardice buried in the old times would be brought out again, and would only make him see clearly once again the fact that he had been abandoned step by step.
Lu Yao took out a silver-white key from his clothes, picked up Teacher Alfred, who had returned to his ball shape, and called Xiao Ze: "Don't rush to pay, the childhood tutoring has just begun."
Xiao Ze was puzzled: "You saw it all. My childhood can't be changed."
Lu Yao nodded: "The past cannot be retrieved, that's the reason, so we call it a tutorial center. Tutoring, tutoring, to make up for the deficiencies and acquire concepts and skills that can redirect the path of life. The original intention of tutoring is not to change the past, but the present, right now."
Seeing Xiao Ze in a daze, Lu Yao directly started the key and started the second stage: "Tutor No. 1 Xiao Ze, please note that the childhood tutoring has officially begun."
A bright white light appeared in front of his eyes, and Xiao Ze opened his eyes again, returning to the familiar ivy fence at the Daimao City Conservation Center.