Chapter 751: Chapter 6: Big Face Cat, CC, Old Friends!
(Extra with Monthly Votes!)_2 Chapter 751: Chapter 6: Big Face Cat, CC, Old Friends!
(Extra with Monthly Votes!)_2 At this point,
Wei Shengjin paused, his expression sowhat blank,
“It’s hard for to describe this feeling to you in words.
It doesn’t really matter much if you don’t think deeply about it, since humans aren’t creatures that live in the past.
As long as the present is happy and free, it seems what or who we were in the past isn’t important.”
“But once I have so free ti and my mind relaxes, I can’t help but wonder…
am I really Wei Shengjin?
This question.
...
I find it hard to convince myself, especially now that I’m seventy years old.
I feel even more confused and more eager to know the answer…”
“I don’t want to leave this world without knowing who I am.”
Saying this, Wei Shengjin took off the large backpack he was carrying on his back and opened it.
Lin Xian saw that it contained a variety of outdoor equipnt, survival tools, food, notebooks, and things resembling power sources…
Uncle Wei rummaged through and pulled out a laminated photo, which he handed to Lin Xian.
Lin Xian took it and looked closely at it.
The photo seed very new, without any signs of age, and according to Uncle Wei’s earlier statent, it should have been taken shortly before entering hibernation.
Because…
The photo showed the inside of Tem Bank’s warehouse, featuring three hafnium alloy safes in a row in the middle.
The middle hafnium alloy safe had the number 724 on it, and the naplate bore Wei Shengjin’s na.
The safe on the left had an English na, number 723; the safe on the right was only half in the picture, number 725, and the text on the naplate looked like Russian but not quite, Lin Xian wasn’t sure.
The focus of the photo was clearly on the combination lock of Wei Shengjin’s safe.
Eight dials on the lock combined to form a code—
23730907.
“Uncle Wei, is this your birthday?”
Wei Shengjin smiled and shook his head,
“No, even a teenager like wouldn’t be so foolish as to use my own birthday for such an important safe’s code.
That would be too unsafe.”
“So what does this date signify?”
Lin Xian rembered that Uncle Wei had just said he was born in 2373.
Since this date isn’t his birthday…
What else could it be?
“Is it a holiday that holds special aning for you?” Lin Xian continued to ask.
“I don’t know.”
Uncle Wei shook his head again:
“I don’t know anything…
After waking up from hibernation, I lost all my mories from my youth.
Records show that my birth date is January 3, 2373, which is very far from the safe’s code of September 7…
definitely not related.”
“But then again, why would the teenage set the safe code to this?
Like you, I think there must have been sothing very special about it.
To a teenager about to enter a hibernation pod and head off to an unknown future…
What did he want to put into this ti capsule?
What did he want to leave for the older version of himself in the future?”
Uncle Wei chuckled to himself:
“After retiring, my grandson quickly grew up and no longer needed minding, my son is living happily, and my wife left so years ago.
I’ve been busy all my life and when I finally had so down ti, I couldn’t help but return to that original question.”
“Every evening, I sit in the yard looking at the stars, holding this photo, and wondering what young teenage might have deposited at Tem Bank in this ti capsule.”
“I really want to know the answer, I want to enter the password myself, unlock the seal of ti, and see it firsthand.
But this dream is destined to be unfulfilled…
The super disaster of 2400 didn’t directly affect Donghai City, but the subsequent earthquakes, wars, and abandonnt gradually leveled the city over the years, burying it under dust and debris.”
“Naturally, those hafnium alloy safes in Tem Bank also disappeared in those years of conflict and destruction; they might have been buried with the city, stolen, or destroyed.
In short…
they are impossible to find, not to ntion that Earth has long been abandoned and turned into a large wildlife reserve.”
“Yet ultimately, I decided to make the trip!
I want to find the answer!
To see what that teenage boy left for the old man I am now in the form of precious mories.”
Wei Shengjin smiled, raising the tal detector in his left hand:
“So I ca, finally, at the age of seventy, I took the first step in searching for myself.
I took a space bus from Mars to Earth six months ago.
After a few months of travel, I finally arrived on Earth and ca to what used to be Donghai City, this forest area, and began my aimless search.”
“I have been searching for over two months now, but have found nothing…
not to ntion finding my number 724 safe, I haven’t found any other safes either.”
Lin Xian spread his hands in resignation,
“It is indeed too hard to find, like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Moreover…
it’s uncertain whether those safes are even buried underground at all.
Not to ntion, the range of your tal detector isn’t very large, right?
If the safes are buried too deep, you probably can’t detect them.”
Wei Shengjin chuckled:
“I understand all that you’ve said, otherwise…
why do you think I hesitated and dragged my feet until I was 70 before coming to Earth?”
“I’ve thought about this for so many years, I know how difficult it is, and how slim the hope is.
But at my age, this is my last lingering thought…
to avoid any regrets in my life, I might as well give it a try!”
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