Chapter 106 Chapter 106 This won’t be a world from a book…

"...So, the five-fold is the future of communication equipment and computers?"

Fifteen minutes later, Ji Yinhe stared at the mobile phone in his hand, which was unfolded like a memorial, and turned it over and over curiously as if he had seen it for the first time.

Although she has been studying it privately for more than a year, she still doesn't dare to click on some icons. Some of them will only prompt that there is no Internet connection and cannot be used normally.

Now, thanks to Ms. Lian and Comrade Lao Ji’s explanation, she realized that she had not yet fully understood the magical functions of this smartphone from 2030!

"Yes." Ji Jianguo casually clicked on a user-friendly app. "We usually don't call or text directly. Instead, we use WeChat... You see, you can send texts, voice messages, and emoticons, and you can also make voice and video calls."

"—There's no 5G network and no signal base stations right now," Lian Qiao added, "but you can still use it as a portable personal computer and camera."

"call--"

Comrade Xiao Ji fiddled with it for a while, then suddenly looked up. "Dear Mom and Dad, don't try to fool me with the five-fold function... I'll be frank. Are you from the future?"

“…”

Her question was so direct and her idea was so unconventional that Lian Qiao and Ji Jianguo scratched their heads, not knowing what to say.

Ji Yinhe crossed his arms and analyzed seriously, "At first, I thought you were underground operatives assigned by the state to carry out secret missions. But after watching a few spy movies, I don't think that's the case anymore. After all, my mom is completely devoted to her culinary career, and my dad is focused on buying lottery tickets and tinkering with home appliances... If you're from the future, then everything makes sense!"

“…” Lian Qiao and Ji Jianguo looked at each other.

"Actually, our real situation is a little more complicated than that of people from the future."

Ji Yinhe's eyes widened. "Is it more complicated? Then could it be... a Super Saiyan?"

"No, no, no!" Lian Qiao waved her hands and sat up straight, "Your father and I don't actually belong to this world."

Comrade Xiao Ji's eyes widened even more. "Aliens?"

"You can think of it as a parallel universe." Ji Jianguo held his forehead speechlessly. "All the settings and historical backgrounds of this world have been experienced in our world."

"Ah..." Ji Yinhe counted on his fingers and thought for a moment, then suddenly slapped his thigh and jumped up.

"I understand! That's why Ms. Lian can cook so many dishes that no one else has ever heard of. Old Ji, you are always so lucky. It's all because you are very familiar with the inevitable development of this world!"

The clues she had stumbled upon earlier were now pieced together, and a flash of inspiration suddenly exploded from her mind like fireworks. "Wait! There's an app called Green River Literature City on Wuzhe. Recently, there's a book on my reading list called 'The Return of the Lost True Daughter of the 1970s.' The characters in it are Su Yue, Su Yiyun, and Ding Tongguang..."

Ji Yinhe straightened his back and took a deep breath, "Mom, this is not a world in a book, right?"

The living room was quiet for two seconds, and then applause broke out in unison.

Ji Jianguo and Lian Qiao were stunned and said in unison: "She is worthy of being my daughter!" "She is so smart!"

The guess was confirmed, and Ji Yinhe sat on the sofa in a daze, thinking about everything he had experienced since childhood.

...Am I just an insignificant supporting character in the book?

But this world is too real and detailed, every person is alive and has flesh and blood... This is far beyond what a novel of hundreds of thousands of words can encompass!

And how did mom and dad manage to get through with such a high-tech gadget as the Five-Fold?

Lian Qiao sat down beside her and explained, "You must have a lot of questions now, but to be honest, your father and I haven't figured out a lot of things yet. Now that we're wearing it, we can only live our lives in a muddled way—"

Ji Jianguo added, "Yes, and this isn't just a world in a book. When I came in, the book was clearly called 'River City Storm, Industry is King', and it came from a certain Chinese website."

Ji Yinhe slowly raised his head and felt that his brain was about to stop working.

Comrade Lao Ji calmly patted his daughter's hand and asked, "Do you remember Gong Xie's drug trafficking case?"

"Remember..." Xiao Ji sniffed, "Don't tell me he is the protagonist..."

"No." Ji Jianguo comforted his daughter, "It's his father, Gong Chenggong."

"...This isn't any better!" Ji Yinhe exhaled, "Dad, it was you who called the police to provide the clue, right?"

"Hey, I used a folk method taught in TV dramas to change my voice!" Ji Jianguo scratched his forehead and chuckled. "There are too many lawless outlaws in this Long Ao Tianwen. Of course, your mother's Green River novel is also pretty crazy. Yinhe, let me tell you, future online writers will dare to write anything to attract readers... Tsk, if characters like these were put into the real world, they would all be arrested!"

Comrade Xiao Ji used his overloaded brain to barely understand the meaning of the words "Long Aotian", "outlaw", and "online writer".

——Could it be that in this world, the characters involved in other vicious cases also appear in the two novels?

The scattered clues were mixed into a mess in her mind. She was just about to open her mouth to ask carefully when her cell phone suddenly started beeping!

The caller was Lu Zheng. "Yinhe, I just received a call from Yu Jing. A gang of interprovincial thieves is robbing and killing innocent passengers on a Spring Festival travel train! The next stop is Tiandu Station. The anti-pickpocket and railway police asked us to hurry over and help arrest them!"

Captain Ji's eyes tightened. When it came to the case, the big secrets of Old Ji and Ms. Lian had to take a back seat!

No matter what the situation in this world is, she only knows that every person is a real life, and since she is a police officer, she has the obligation to protect social stability!

"I'll be right there. Where are you?" She mouthed "there's a case" to Lian Qiao and Ji Jianguo, strode forward, picked up her backpack, and headed straight for the entrance.

"I'm downstairs, don't worry." Lu Zheng said calmly, "Let's warm up the Jeep's engine first."

"Okay." Ji Yinhe hung up the phone and pushed open the door. "Mr. Ji, Ms. Lian, let's talk about it next time we come back."

"Go ahead." Lian Qiao patted her daughter's shoulder. "When the time is right, we will tell you everything."

"Yeah!" Ji Yinhe went downstairs like a whirlwind.

Ji Jianguo was clearing away the leftover dishes on the table. Lian Qiao walked to the window of the master bedroom, looked at her daughter hurriedly getting into the car downstairs, and sighed softly.

Only after the big jeep disappeared from her sight did she turn around and pull open the curtain above the desk.

The once empty wall panels are now covered with photos and sticky notes.

These photos were taken by Ji Jianguo and Lian Qiao during their time staking out the important characters in the two original books, with the time, place and abnormal situations noted next to them.

Every related person or event is connected with colorful cotton threads, which are now densely packed and woven into one piece!

There were even a few people who had died accidentally and the photos were changed to black and white.

"...What will be the outcome of the fusion of the two worlds?" Ji Jianguo saw his wife staring at the mind map in a daze, walked over and hugged her shoulders.

"I don't know." Lian Qiao rubbed his brows. "But with Yinhe's clever brain, he'll definitely notice something unusual soon."

Ji Jianguo said in a deep voice: "Actually, what I'm most worried about is Yinhe..."

He didn't finish his words, and the two of them knew what was going on, but remained silent. The atmosphere became awkward.

As the product of the fusion of two worlds, the fruit of the love between two book travelers, Ji Yinhe may bear the most important connection in this world.

Although there is nothing abnormal now, if something really happens in the future, she may be the first to face the disaster!

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at the same time.

Jingzhou, Handong Provincial Prison.

——“Da!” “Da!” “Da!”

The supervisor's leather boots made a deafening echo as they stepped on the concrete floor.

Gong Xie, squatting in the solitary cell, shrank back and hurriedly stuffed the half-written draft book back under the mattress.

A few days ago, before going to work in the morning, his drug addiction came back and he lay on the big bunk bed sobbing.

The prison boss in the same cell came to see how he was doing, but he raised his hand and hit him on the nose, and blood splattered on the spot.

The jailer was furious, yelling at him for being ungrateful. There were a few people in the room who were on good terms with him and who loved to watch the fun, so they immediately split into two factions with the jailer's lackeys and started fighting.

A prison guard passing by noticed the commotion, came in with his police weapon, and hit each of them hard with a stick, only then did the fight stop.

Gong Xie fell to the ground in excruciating pain, his eyes like frozen ice, without a trace of life in them.

As the instigator of the incident, the prison guard dragged him into a solitary cell on the spot and asked him to reflect on his mistakes.

The confinement cell was so small I couldn't even stretch my arms. The walls were covered with scratches left by previous generations' fingernails. The head of the bed faced the squat toilet, and I couldn't go out for fresh air or to work. Except for the occasional muffled sound from the heating pipes bursting, it would return to dead silence.

In this place where time seems frozen, even despair and drug addiction seem to move at an exceptionally slow pace.

Only the steamed buns and pickles delivered by the supervisor on time told him that another day was over.

At this moment, the small window on the iron door was opened from the outside and a tray was stuffed in.

"Eat it."

A different smell from usual came into his nose. Gong Xie took a look with twitching eyelids. What was delivered today was not steamed bread porridge or pickles.

But it’s donkey meat hotpot and soy milk!

Even though there were only two pieces of meat, it was enough to make Gong Xie, who had lived a life of luxury for most of his life, drool!

With a breath that smelled of rust, he jumped up like a hungry tiger, grabbed the food from the tray and stuffed it into his mouth.

He burped halfway through his meal and suddenly raised his head.

"...The food today is so good." Gong Xie stared blankly at the dark figure under the iron fence. "The last meal?"

The shadow just laughed.

"Answer me!" Gong Xie threw the tray to the ground excitedly. "I'm clearly sentenced to life imprisonment, why are you sending me a last meal? I haven't died yet—!"

"Shh." The black shadow squatted down gently and raised a finger.

Gong Xie's eyes widened. He recognized the person in front of him—

"You, you are not a disciplined person, how did you get through this!"

The shadowy figure reached between the iron bars, pinched Gong Xie's greasy mouth, and said calmly:

"If you want to leave, stop talking!"