Chapter 488: Loneliness in the Company

Meng Juan and Xie Yuan walked along a dirt road deep into the woods. In front of them was a large, dark and dense forest, as if this road would lead all the way to the primitive and wild mountains.

It was dusk now, and the golden afterglow of the sun and the golden dead autumn leaves complemented each other.

However, the road ahead is long, and one cannot help but worry about whether one can reach the destination in time.

Meng Juan pulled a few leaves from the bushes by the roadside: "This road has become exactly the same as my childhood, and we can never go back."

Xie Yuan looked firmly at the boundless sea of ​​forests ahead: "Mr. Meng, I have a question. Everyone is willing to go with you. I always thought you had deceived them, but today I know that this is not the case."

Meng Juan casually threw the leaves she had picked into the bushes: "Do you want to explore the details here?"

"No need." Xie Yuan knew that Duan Ji Meng Juan's secret was not something he could spy on. There were rumors that a big man on Mars, Li Luan Hu Chen, was very interested in "secrets", but later he disappeared inexplicably and his body has not been found to date.

Xie Yuan didn't think he could compare with Liluan Huchen.

Li Luan Hu Chen can give orders and call for rain on Mars, while he can only lead a few poor and weak countries in the center of the earth. The gap is too big.

Therefore, Li Luan Hu Chen did not dare to offend anyone he could not afford to offend.

Xie Yuan thought that looking at the eight planets in the entire solar system, there were probably no more than a thousand people who could move Mr. Meng.

Meng Juan drove the "sun" down, the sky darkened quickly, and the moon rose high. He used the color of leaves and the setting sun that had not yet faded to color the bright and vast full moon. The golden full moon hung high in the sky and looked like the sun.

The air around them suddenly heated up, and the leaves turned green. The few fallen leaves that Meng Juan had just thrown into the bushes had now turned into black soil, and new shrubs grew from the black soil, over and over again.

The wind blew from all directions, bringing the sweet scent of grass. The leaves rustled, cool and refreshing, the evening breeze blew, and the shadows grew longer. The road rose from under my feet and meandered away, sending me to the right end of the road.

Meng Juan stood at the entrance of the village, looking at the QR code of the store at night: "No matter how long the road is, there will always be an end, and the longest-lived people will eventually die. The store in the village is still there, and it is run by the boss's daughter-in-law. The second sun is rising."

Xie Yuan remained silent. He had seen thousands of illusions before, but this one was the closest to reality.

The rotating sun in the sky looks like a false cover, and the fast-flowing time gives people a sense of trance, but Mr. Meng can lay out these trances and illusions in great detail, making people stay here willingly even though they know it is an illusion.

"Our childhood has ended, but the childhood of many more people is still continuing." Meng Juan paused and said, "Mr. Xie, the village was destroyed in the war in such a hurry that we didn't even have time to take a photo as a souvenir."

Xie Yuan suddenly woke up as if from a dream, and then he remembered the original purpose of his visit to Mr. Meng: to attack his competitors.

There is a famous saying circulating on Earth: "Before a war starts, whoever gets the help of Lord Meng Juan first will be sure to win."

Xie Yuan "truthfully" revealed his true intention: "Chen Ze gathered a group of untouchables, no, residents, he gathered a group of residents to make a big move on the border. It's not that I want to destroy their village, but they took my territory to build a village."

Meng Juan was not interested in the war, nor in the private affairs of Xie Yuan and Chen Ze. However, under his arrangement, Xie Yuan found him first, but Chen Ze was slow to act.

Meng Juan walked into the supermarket, scanned the code to pay, took out a chocolate ice cream from the freezer, tore open the package, scooped a spoonful into her mouth, and savored the sweetness and coolness melting in her mouth.

"If I told you that it was reasonable for you to take a picture of the village and then destroy it, would you do it?"

Xie Yuan said worriedly: "Chen Ze has set up many ambushes in the village. It will be difficult for our people to get deep into it."

"If I tell you that you will definitely lose this war, are you still willing to fight for it?" Xie Yuan was stunned: Definitely lose? Although I am only 70% sure of destroying Chen Ze, at most we will die together, how can it be a sure defeat? Has Chen Ze already found Mr. Meng?

"I don't want to."

"Very good, it's a pleasure to work with you. The journey is about to begin. The train of life has only one destination and one direction, but history can be reversed at any time."

The secret of Meng Juan's illness was officially revealed at this moment.

Two years ago, Meng Juan traveled to Earth and obtained the [Shelf Life System for All Things]. This system had no other function except giving him the ability of "shelf life for all things".

He had to take care of all matters, big or small, personally. The system had never given him any tasks or rewards. But he knew that in the process, he had grown into a leading figure on Earth and even on the eight planets.

Because he was best at guiding other people's childhood memories and making them "turn over a new leaf" to a certain extent, people respectfully called him "Duan Ji". Over time, his name "Duan Ji Meng Juan" spread throughout the solar system.

Everything around me changed rapidly. The sun rose in the west and set in the east. Trees two or three stories high shrank rapidly, becoming small saplings that could be broken with a slight twist.

Meng Juan patted Xie Yuan on the shoulder and said, "Childhood is short, but its shelf life is much longer than people imagine. I wish you a pleasant journey."

When Xie Yuan was three years old, his family got a corgi.

When he was five years old, the dog was sold.

He stood by and cried loudly, and "returned" the money for the dog to the seller. In order to prevent the dog from being snatched away, he held the dog leash and stood in a stalemate with the crowd.

The adults nearby laughed when they saw him crying. His father stood by and said, "I'll buy you something nice."

Finally, the buyer untied the dog leash and took the dog away.

When Xie Yuan was 30 years old, his parents went to the front line and died in the line of duty.

All colleagues came to the funeral. It might not be accurate to call them colleagues, as they were all his subordinates.

His subordinates didn’t know about the dog selling, and some of them kindly advised him to “take it easy”, but he was very happy at that time, and there was no happier moment than this.

Xie Yuan could hardly conceal his inner joy, and there was always a faint smile on his face. In such occasions, this effect would seem very frivolous.

Therefore, the second half of the funeral was presided over by Xie Yuan's wife, while he himself stepped behind the scenes.

Everyone thought that he was too sad to control his emotions, and they all praised him as a filial son and a good boss. Even his parents, like any other civilian's parents, had to go to the front line and might die there.

But in fact no one noticed his sadness, he just went somewhere to drink.

Meng Juan is not only a spectator of this journey, but also the leader. In this dream, he can do anything.

Meng Juan can make time pass quickly, from the age of three to thirty, and can also make all the past flow backwards, from the age of thirty back to the age of three, and can even start all over again and again to modify the future. People speculate that this ability is innate, and there are only a handful of people with innate time-related abilities in the entire solar system.

Du Diao is a natural born fisherman. He was born from human's hobby, and he has the instinct and talent for fishing. He also looks exactly like humans. But his thinking is different from that of humans.

(End of this chapter)