It's wonderful to have the chance to relive your youth once in a while, but sometimes it's not so convenient.
For example, when occasionally encountering a road entrance with a gate to stop a car, the two of them can only find a place to park and wait for a while, because no matter who sees there are only two seventeen or eighteen-year-old people in the car, They must be cross-examined, not to mention that they don't have a driving license in their hands.
Generally speaking, this kind of spot check will last for about half a day, and the time will be extended by going back and forth. Rest is easy to say, if you set up smart driving, you can fall asleep in the car. You don’t have to worry about the tolls at each intersection. It will be automatically calculated on the owner’s head through the license plate. Mr. unified payment.
The only thing that was more problematic was… the food.
why? Because the two teenagers are poor and have no money.
In fact, it’s not that there is no money at all. All the assets are tied to the personal identity account these days. To spend money, you only need to swipe your fingerprints. As long as there are enough funds in the account, you can pay the bill normally.
But Chu Si and Sae Yang were punished for stealing the car not long after they left the sanatorium. As Jiang Qi predicted, in the process of time self-regulation, there is a situation where different time and space are connected, and it is likely that standing The place is the summer of a certain year, and two steps forward will lead to the spring four years later.
The places they passed have changed several times in time and space, such as Lane City in 5650, Mais County in 5528, and even Classical Rose County in 5419, etc. It is very rich! but…
There is no place where they can swipe their fingerprints for money! Because in these years they weren't even born, let alone fingerprint accounts.
After driving for nearly 18 hours, the black shuttle passed through the southern area of Butterfly Island and was heading for the northern area when the car suddenly bumped.
Chu Si, who was wrapped in a blanket and leaned against the co-pilot to bask in the sun, said lazily, "Entering a new time zone again."
Sae Young gave a "um", raised his head and turned his attention to the smart timer in the car, "Let me see what year it is."
Chu Si just woke up, still a little lazy, with a little smile in his voice, "Did you give birth?"
Sae Yang also laughed and said, "Congratulations, we should both be born."
Chief Chu, who had been hungry for 18 hours, couldn't take care of it too much. Hearing that the fingerprint account could come in handy, he immediately got up and straightened his seat to look out the window.
Butterfly Island is actually not far from the Emerald Port where he once lived. In his impression, Jiang Qi took him here many times, but each time he came and went in a hurry, as if he regarded it as a transit station, only passing by, not stopping.
As for why he had to pass by here, it can only be explained that Jiang Qi has a good impression of this comfortable town.
Coincidentally, the street where the shuttle was driving was exactly the one they used to pass by—Starry Night Avenue.
Chu Si was very impressed by the starry sky crawling on both sides of the street, and when he was looking for a parking space on the street, his eyes swept over a restaurant.
He looked at the name of the restaurant for a moment, and immediately patted Sae Yang's hand, "Sa'e, that restaurant!"
"what?"
"Mon Cummingfi." Chus pointed to the roadside restaurant.
Sae Young was stunned for a moment and then quickly remembered, "The restaurant mentioned in Esther Cabel's email?"
"Yeah." Chu Si nodded, and went over to adjust the intelligent driving settings from Sae Yang, "Remember, I said the name was a bit familiar at the time, I used to follow Jiang Qi to pass by here, but I didn't. went in."
Sae Young patted his waist, and scratched him twice like a cat with his fingers, "Change to manual, I'll stop."
Chu Si almost put his elbow on his face, but fortunately, Sae Yang reacted quickly, he tilted his head clearly, avoided it accurately, and hummed, "Normal people react with knee jerk, little sir. You are very talented, and you have an elbow jerk reaction?"
"Are you addicted to playing?" Chu Si was about to laugh angrily. Before the fight, Sae Yang found out that there was a particularly ticklish place on the back of his waist, and the reaction was very large when he touched it, and it began to be endless.
During this period of time, whenever Sae Yang seized the opportunity, he would be cheap and hard to guard against.
Fortunately, most of the time this car is driven intelligently and controlled by itself, otherwise it would have hit the tree and the wall for 800 times.
After switching to manual driving, Sae Yang was surprisingly calm, parked the car in the parking space, and washed himself in the rear compartment that automatically switched to life mode, and then got off with Chu Si. The car, into the restaurant called "Mont Caminfield".
This restaurant is not big, and the layout inside is very... academic - whether it is floor lamps or various decorations, all kinds of galaxy models are used, the ceiling is painted black and blue, and the lamps clamped on it are very It is finely chopped, and it is cut into a drill surface. Even in the daytime, it shines with fine light against the background of the sun. At first glance, it looks a bit like the Milky Way.
Chus: "..."
Sae Young: "… "
It does seem like a place that those who do research might like.
However, the designer arranged it well, and the colors of these decorations are mostly clean and distinct. With the music in the store and the sunlight outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, there is a different kind of indescribable sense of comfort. If it is night, those symbols symbolize The lights of the stars are lit up, maybe even more brilliant.
Esther Cabel once wrote in that e-mail - "If we can really wait until the day when everything is back on track, we can have the most comfortable dinner in Moncaminfi, I love it so much, of course , no one knows this except you. It actually has another name, it's just too long, I doubt no one knows it, and you certainly don't, and I'll show you if I get a chance."
Perhaps because of the deep impression of this sentence, Chu Si wondered from the moment he entered the door, "If there is another name for this store, what might it be?"
"Who knows, go back and ask the boss." Sae Young replied.
At the time when they came, there were not many people in the store, but there were already people sitting in the last seat by the window, so they chose the previous seat, which also leaned against the floor-to-ceiling windows. There is a hollowed-out partition between the two positions, which is half-covered. From Chu Si's point of view, after crossing the opposite Sae Yang and then passing through the hollowed-out partition, you can only vaguely see the back of the man's head. Do not interfere with each other.
Both of them felt that Esther Cabel liked it in large part because of the layout, and as for the taste... they didn't expect too much.
Fortunately, the menu here is not as academic as the layout here, and the dish names are honestly written.
“Cran Mayee with prawns, smoked eel with beetroot, puff pastry…”
Chu Si had never eaten here, so he ordered a few items at will. Sheng Sheng was hungry for 18 hours, and now as long as it is something to eat, he can basically eat it. As for Sae Young, it doesn't matter, after all, he can eat fried cod.
Perhaps because there were not many people, the restaurant served food very quickly, and they didn't have to wait long.
The taste of this shop was unexpectedly good, and the two ate quickly until only the last piece of pie was left, and the hunger slowly disappeared. During the process, they chatted casually one after another, and the topic mainly revolved around the grid program, but since there were still people in the back positions, they spoke very vaguely.
Chu Si divided the last piece of pie in half to Sae Young, and when he was passing it with a fork, he suddenly remembered something: "Wait, what year did you just see now?"
"Huh?" Sae Yang questioned, thought for a while and replied, "Year 5655." Just after he finished speaking, he also realized something.
Chus: "..."
Sae Young: "… "
"In 5655, I was two years old, and if I'm not mistaken, you are at most two and a half years old." Chu Si asked blankly, "Dear Mr. Yang, tell me, how much money did you have in your account when you were two and a half years old? I don't have a point anyway."
Sae Young coughed with his hand to the tip of his nose, "Theoretically, it's similar to you."
"Okay, so you don't have a point." Chu Si leaned on the back of the sofa with his arms crossed.
That's great, it's still two poor teenagers... the kind that accidentally ate the Bawang meal.
"what should I do now."
Sae Yang also simply leaned on the back of the sofa, and said with a half-smiling smile: "How about we discuss with the boss to leave an IOU? Sign the name and write the future chief executive of the Security Building? Just wait for another fifty years, we will definitely return."
Chief Chu, who had eaten Bawang's meal for the first time in his life, moved his lips: "...I found that I haven't walked the right way since I met you."
"I am very honored."
"… "
When the two were worried, the person who was dining at the table behind rang the bell and then stood up.
A tall man with black hair could be seen vaguely through the partition, wearing a simple gun-smoke blue shirt and trousers. He stood with his back to this side for a while, raising his head slightly, as if looking at the decorations or paintings on the wall opposite him.
It was not until the waiter walked to his seat that he bowed his head and said a few words to the waiter, and then paid the bill with his fingerprints.
He spoke in a low voice, with a faint trace of exhaustion, or maybe it was because the sun was too good and the shop was too comfortable, so he was a little lazy. Chu Si was worrying about how to settle the bill, so he didn't pay much attention and didn't hear what he was saying.
After a while, the tall man exited the back door of the dining room near his seat. But the waiter who paid for him came to Chu Si's table and said warmly, "The gentleman settled the bill for the two of you just now, so if the two of you have finished eating later, remember to bring your belongings. "
Chu Si was taken aback, "Why?"
"He said that he accidentally overheard your two chats and felt sorry, so he settled the bill as an apology." The waiter replied.
Chu Si and Sae Yang glanced at each other, remembering that when he said that he was going to make an IOU, Sae Yang leaned on the back of the sofa and was very close to the man, probably overheard. The other party not only paid the bill for them kindly, but also gave such a reason thoughtfully.
"Wait here, I'll sign a note." Chu Si said to Sae Yang, and then chased out the back door.
However, it was still a little late, and he only saw the man walking to the corner and disappearing at the end of this piece of time and space. But... that back...
Chu Si frowned and turned back to the dining room.
"Why this expression?" Sae Yang asked at a glance at his expression.
"Why do I think that person's back looks a bit like..." Chu Si hesitated for a while, then turned to ask the waiter, "When the person checked out the bill just now, what did the identity information show his surname?"
Generally speaking, the identity will be displayed on the fingerprint reader when payment is made, but the information will be appropriately obfuscated and only the last name will be displayed.
The waiter didn't look at the fingerprint reader in his hand, smiled and said, "The surname is Jiang, Mr. Jiang is a regular customer in the store. He has come to eat here almost every day for the past six months, and he has always sat in that position, but just now Mr. Jiang said that it may be possible in the future. Can't come."
Hearing the surname, Sae Yang was also stunned: "So coincidental?"
But thinking about the waiter's words, it's not a coincidence, after all, the other party comes almost every day.
Chu Si suddenly understood who the recipient of Esther Cabel's email was, his adoptive father Jiang Qi. The year 5655 was the year when the military department was purged after the death of Esther Cabel. At this time, the military department was in chaos, and the gang of time experimenters were too busy to pay attention to the small room mentioned in the email. Dining room.
The reason why Jiang Qi said that he might not be able to come in the future is because the big purge is about to end. If he continues to come, it is very likely that a series of related people will be exposed.
While Chu Si was silent, Sae Young suddenly asked the waiter, "What does Monka Mingfei mean? I heard that this restaurant has another name?"
"Another name?" The waiter was stunned for a moment, then smiled as he remembered something, and introduced: "Many decorations in our restaurant were added according to the design of the guests. One lady chose to add a sentence. Later, the boss felt that It's very interesting, so I annotated that sentence behind the store name."
He said, stretched out his hand and asked, and brought Chu Si and Sae Yang to the last position, pointing to the wall that Jiang Qi had been looking at for a long time: "Writing here, it's quite a coincidence, That lady used to like to sit in this seat, but it's been a long time since..."
Chu Si looked at the wall. The arrangement on the wall was the same as the ceiling. There were small lights cut into drilled surfaces. Even if they were not turned on, they were as bright as a galaxy in a summer night under the sunlight. On that, is the name of the restaurant, Mon Cummingfi.
The waiter explained: "This is an old saying before Butterfly Island, and the translation means eternity."
And below eternity, is a line of smaller words, especially gentle handwriting—
The galaxy is bright and the sun is clean. Among all the beautiful existences in the world, whether alive or dead, I always love you the most.