MTL - Hidden Corner

Chapter 1 001 Confused 1

 Late night.

In the bedroom, the moonlight passed through the gap in the curtains and cast a line, falling on the ground and becoming the only light source.

 In the gray moonlight, the shadows of tiny insects crawling on the window were faintly reflected.

ˆ˜Woo~

A community vehicle passed by downstairs outside the window with a soft engine sound.

The pale car lights passed through the gap in the curtains, creating a fan-shaped halo on the ceiling, and then gradually dimmed as the vehicle moved away.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　click.

 The old tape is inserted into the machine, and then the lid is closed, making the sound of a switch closing.

 Li Chengyi frowned and plugged in the headphones and adjusted the volume. Suddenly, there was a subtle sound of music, quietly floating out of the headphones and entering the ear holes.

The music has no lyrics, just pure classical music mixed with guzheng and pipa.

 The rhythm is soothing and clear.

The sounds of the two musical instruments are like two slender and sharp threads, sometimes intertwined with each other, sometimes distinct.

 It's like telling an ancient story, and like two pale fingers that are constantly intertwined.

Li Chengyi lay on his side on the pillow, looking at the dark curtains, motionless, listening to the music on the headphones.

The cool pillowcloth gradually warmed up on the side of his face, and began to emit a faint scent of laundry detergent.

His eyes were open, as if he was in a daze or thinking about something.

He clearly remembered that twenty minutes ago, he was halfway up the mountain. Twenty minutes later, he just found a beautiful little flower. As a result, his head became dizzy. Everything changed. He inexplicably changed his body. Here we are, in this room. People are also much younger.

 After ten minutes of excessive emotions such as shock, disbelief, and disbelief, he began to accept the reality.

 At this time, a large amount of information and memories in his mind were quickly integrated with him. These are all the memories of another Li Chengyi who has the same name as him and has been in this world for more than 20 years.

 The information is not complete and much of it is vague. But it was enough to give him a preliminary understanding of his situation.

"I have a very important friend coming to my house tomorrow. You and Li Chengyi go out for a walk and find something to do. Come back after five o'clock in the afternoon. Do you understand?"

　　A deep young female voice came faintly from outside the bedroom.

Li Chengyi's mind stopped thinking, and the name automatically came out according to the sound - it was Li Chengjiu.

 This is his biological sister in this body, she should be talking to her parents.

“Okay, don’t worry, it will definitely not affect your affairs.” Mother Feng Yurong carefully replied.

Father was silent and didn't make a sound, but his breathing was a little heavier. This was his acquiescence.

“Nine, your brother’s job here hasn’t been settled yet, you see.” The mother then carefully mentioned another matter.

"Why are you so anxious? I haven't stabilized the situation yet. I'll talk about it later. Just don't make things worse for me." Li Chengjiu said impatiently.

“Don’t worry, it won’t happen, it won’t happen.” Mother Feng Yurong replied softly.

"Sleep, remember, don't come back early after twelve o'clock. If you see me going out with a girl with very fair skin, don't say hello to me, just pretend you don't know me, you know?" Li Cheng Nine continued.

“Don’t worry, don’t worry, if we go far away, we won’t miss your business.” The mother paused for a moment before answering in a low voice.

"That's right." Li Chengjiu paused, "I have to pay my class fee this month, which is about 190,000 yuan. You should pay it to me tomorrow."

“Didn’t I just pay 190,000 yuan which is a lot of money?” Mother Feng Yurong was a little embarrassed. She and her husband were a little tight because of frequent payments.

 Hundred 190,000 is not a small amount.

“This time it’s the material fee and the training fee!” Li Chengjiu said impatiently. "Don't you still have a pension? Just take it out and pay it to me, and then you can slowly make up for it later."

"This" mother Feng Yurong paused, "Okay, I will give it to you."

She didn’t say that her and her husband’s pensions had actually been withdrawn for Li Chengjiu to spend.

 The factory's performance has been poor recently, and their wages have been reduced repeatedly. The money on hand is really not enough.

Li Chengjiu snorted, pushed away the chair, stood up and walked away, going to the bathroom to wash up.

 Feng Yurong and his father Li Zhao were left sitting in the living room talking quietly.

“I don’t have enough pension here, so you can make up for it with medical benefits. My daughter’s business is more important.” Feng Yurong whispered.

"Xiaoyi has to find connections to send money to her for work. With all the money taken out, what should I do for medical treatment? Do you care about your back pain? You still have to prescribe medicine every day." Father Li Zhao replied firmly.

"Let's save some money later and we can make up for it soon. Don't worry. My waist doesn't hurt much now. It's okay." Feng Yurong urged in a low voice, "Okay, okay, my daughter's future is important, don't worry about it at this critical moment." Holding my daughter back.”

"I know, I know." My father responded impatiently, paused, and let out a long sigh, seeming a little helpless and uncomfortable.

 Then there was the sound of two people holding mobile phones and studying each other how to operate them.

Li Chengyi lay on the bed, opened his eyes, and sighed softly.

His mind uncontrollably flashed back to the scene the day before yesterday when he saw his father, Li Zhao, groveling alone on the balcony asking relatives to borrow money.

Although he was not yet familiar with the surrounding situation, the parents of this body and the same family affection as his previous parents still made his inner uneasiness slightly better.

 Different bodies, different worlds, but the dedication of parents to their children seems to be the same.

 Slowly, the sounds outside gradually became quieter. Li Chengjiu closed the door and went to sleep, and his parents also got up to wash up and go to bed.

Everything outside slowly stopped moving, and only the pure music in the headphones continued to loop.

 The music repeated over and over again, slowly seeming to get smaller and weaker in the ears.

Li Chengyi lay still, and as he sorted out his memories, he began to feel a little confused in his mind.

Scenes of memories kept flooding into his mind.

 ‘He’ has studied hard for twenty years, but in the end he will face unemployment after graduation.

The various certificates that I have worked hard for so long have now become worthless in front of the army of unemployed.

 In the six months after graduation, I sent out hundreds of resumes, but received very few responses.

 The ambition I had before graduation has now completely turned into confusion.

 ‘He’ doesn’t know what he should do or what he can do. He has no plans, no ideas, and no expectations.

 Just stay at home every day and live one day at a time.

 In addition to these, there are also scenes of the predecessor and his sister Li Chengjiu quarreling harshly.

 Sister Li Chengjiu has always regarded the family as a burden to her.

Outside, she is outstanding and dazzling, has a bright future, is strong and ambitious, and looks down on all those without talent.

But his parents, who are just ordinary factory workers, and his mediocre younger brother are also the targets of his impatience.

 The former Li Chengyi was dissatisfied and argued about his sister's attitude towards his parents and himself, but the result was meaningless. His parents were willing to give in, but it was useless for him to try to dissuade him, and they even talked about him in return.

 On the single-plank bridge of the college entrance examination, he worked hard, but he only got into an ordinary university. Compared to Li Chengjiu, who was recommended to a top military academy in his second year of high school, he was completely different. Although he also made a good internship resume, the biggest problem was that he chose the wrong major because of his naivety.

 What the **** is the plant care profession? Although I heard that high-end plant care does pay a lot of money, it is too expensive.

The only way out for students from ordinary schools is to join the Forestry Bureau or an urban greening company.

 It’s pretty good to be able to live on with 3,000 yuan a month.

 There is too much automation in this era, and there are still many people who cannot even find jobs.

  Turning over, Li Chengyi kept sorting out the memories of his predecessor. Although many places are a bit blurry due to people's own forgetting mechanism.

 But you can still get a lot of useful information from it.

 The night is getting deeper and deeper.

 Another car passed by outside the window, its horn beeping loudly, accompanied by the man's loud curses.

 “Who is messing with the parking space again!”

 “I*are the ancestors of your whole family!”

The voice cursed for a while, then gradually weakened and became quiet again.

 The mixed sounds of guzheng and pipa kept repeating in his ears, over and over again.

 Other noise around him slowly faded away, as if only the sound of pure music remained.

 Crisp, cold, quiet.

Li Chengyi's consciousness was constantly sorting out, watching it as if watching a movie. As his spirit continued to be consumed a lot, his body began to feel inexplicably extra tired.

This tiredness is getting heavier and heavier, causing his consciousness to gradually become blurred and he is about to fall asleep.

My predecessor fell asleep like this every day. The long-term lack of rest and the unhappiness caused by not being able to find a job made him more taciturn and less communicative.

As time passed slowly, Li Chengyi became increasingly sleepy and his mind fell into chaos.

 He closed his eyes and adjusted his sleeping position, planning to take a short rest.

                                                        Ka.

Suddenly, a clear and crisp sound woke him up from his drowsiness.

His eyes slowly opened, and the sleepiness that had just emerged began to disappear.

'what sound! ? ’

 He half sat up and looked around, but found nothing. Then I found that there was no movement in the headphones.

 ‘Why is there no sound?’ Li Chengyi picked up the tape player. This old-fashioned music player was a collector’s item that he bought from the flea market.

In this gray-white tape player with some peeling paint, through the glass-like plastic shell, you can see the tape inside spinning, but there is no sound in the headphones.

The music just now has disappeared, and now in the headphones, there is only a little bit of subtle current noise left.

Frowning, he picked up the machine and shook it, but there was still no music.

Li Chengyi took off his headphones and looked at the bedroom.

 The streetlight outside the window disappeared at some point, leaving only darkness.

There are not many furnishings in the bedroom, and with white walls, it looks a bit cold.

 Wardrobe, desk, utility cabinet, two high-backed metal chairs with two backpacks hanging on them at an angle, and a pair of white plastic slippers with toes facing each other.

 There is nothing else but these.

　　‘I always feel that something is wrong. ’

Li Chengyi frowned and felt a slight strange feeling in his heart.

I have slept in this room for many years. Every place is obviously familiar to me, but now

 ‘Is it possible that something happened to me as soon as I came here, even though my predecessor was fine for more than twenty years? ’

 He looked around again, his eyes slowly stopped, and stopped at the door of the room.

 The door is open!

 He felt a little cold in his heart.

 Obviously, I locked it when I went to bed!

Now, the door is open a crack.

In the darkness outside, there seemed to be a vague humanoid figure squatting at the door and peeking inside.

 In the darkness, Li Chengyi's heart was pounding and his eyes were fixed on the crack of the door.

Outside of the gap that was only as thick as a finger, I don’t know if it was an illusion or an illusion. There seemed to be a black eye staring straight at the bed through the gap, staring at him sitting on the bed.



A gust of cold wind blew into the room along the crack of the door.

 The bedroom door was pushed open wider by the surge of air.

Li Chengyi had a faint cold sweat all over his body, and his eyes were slightly dizzy.

At this time, he looked carefully again and found that there was only darkness in the crack of the door, no eyes, and no figures.

 Everything just seemed to be his illusion.

 He paused for a while, sitting quietly on the bed without making a sound.

 After waiting for several minutes, until the body was no longer overly tense, I slowly relaxed my breathing, put on my slippers lightly, and slowly got out of bed.

 Take a deep breath, let your chest rise and fall, and calm down. His hand gently grasped a metal bat standing in the gap between the bedside and the closet.

 That guy was bought by his predecessor specifically for self-defense.

 The cold bat brought a hard texture, which made him feel a little more at ease.

He lifted the bat silently, walked slowly, took steps, and walked around to the back of the door where the crack could not be seen.

Standing behind the door, from this angle you can see the night scene outside the window and the gap between the curtains.

However, what surprised Li Chengyi was that he just glanced at it from the corner of his eye and found that there was still nothing but darkness outside the gap in the curtains.

‘Hallucination? dream? ? ’

He felt his throat was a little dry, swallowed, held the bat tightly with one hand, and slowly grasped the door handle with the other hand.

Phew!

 Suddenly he pulled hard.

 Turning around to face the opened door, he raised the bat high and was about to hit it down.

   The new book sets sail, thank you for your support to Lao Gun~

 (End of this chapter)