Xiao Ze had just arrived at the company in the morning. He got some water from the tea room and returned to his workstation. He looked down and saw a message from the childhood cram school on his mobile phone.
Since he last filled out the childhood test at the cram school, Xiao Ze has not been to No. 66 Sanhua Road.
He tried to analyze his inner heart and found that the inexplicable resistance was probably due to the pitiful self-esteem of an adult.
It was just a simple form, but he carefully wrote down the worst memory of his childhood.
If it was Xiao Ze at the age of sixteen, he might not feel so ashamed.
Now he is twenty-two years old, and his life is still a mess. It seems like a coquettish act to confide in someone he doesn't know well.
The more he thinks about it, the more unbearable it feels. The more he doesn't want to look back, the more he can't help thinking about it.
Xiao Ze returned to his apartment that night and decided not to go to the Childhood Tutoring Center anymore.
But these days, he has been keeping an eye on the center.
Dream Weaving Bubble Water and Emotion Bubble Water are very effective, and people share their experience every day online.
Last week, the tutoring center launched a new product called Good Mood Glutinous Rice Cake.
It is said that eating it can make you feel better. Xiao Ze knew that it must be the snack that the owner gave him that night.
Once it was launched, it was well received.
Someone sent the bubble water and glutinous rice cakes to the testing center for testing, and posted the report online. The results showed that they were all normal and common ingredients, and no foreign substances were detected.
Because of this small incident, there was a commotion online.
Some people think that the store owner sells ordinary goods, and the customers think that the products are effective, so they may have been hypnotized. In fact, it is a scam.
Real customers who have bought bubble water and sticky rice cakes do not think they were hypnotized, so this statement has been forgotten.
Xiao Ze is still using bubble water, but not very frequently.
When emotions are difficult to resolve, blowing bubbles for a while, or sleeping and having a dream will indeed make you feel much more relaxed.
He guessed that the store owner's ability is probably to attach something similar to "emotion" to a substance and exert influence on the surroundings.
Simply put, it is an atmosphere.
It's just that the store owner can materialize the ethereal atmosphere and even create illusions, so the relevant ingredients cannot be detected from the products.
Thinking in this way, if the owner wanted to inflict despair on the people around him, it would be easy to do so...
Xiao Ze pulled back his wandering thoughts and looked at the message on his phone again.
The Childhood Tutorial Center has just launched the most powerful props for childhood tutoring, and the owner asked him to try it out once.
The most powerful props?
It doesn't look reliable, especially since the owner has deliberately used brackets to emphasize the words "most powerful props", and the aura of an elementary school student comes to his face.
In the evening, Childhood Tutorial Center.
Xiao Ze stood at the door with his bag. He was struggling all day at work, but he finally came.
Erxin has now transferred to the cram school and has become the mascot of the store.
On weekdays, Lu Yao was busy in the back, and he would occupy the owner's recliner, sleeping on it, licking his fur, or observing humans through the glass.
When he saw Xiao Ze standing at the door and not coming in, he jumped off the chair lightly, stood by the door and scratched the glass, "Meow~" Lu
Yao knew that a customer had come when he heard the sound, so he got up and came out. Seeing that it was Xiao Ze, he greeted him, "I've been waiting for you for a day, come in, and show you our new teacher at the cram school."
Teacher?
Xiao Ze followed Lu Yao into the secret room that was not open to the public before.
The room was simply furnished, with only a set of tables and chairs, and the entire wall opposite the door was full of grids similar to small drawers.
Xiao Ze looked for a while before walking to the table and sitting down. He looked down and saw a giant dragon toy curled up and sleeping on the table. It also looked like a decoration.
The decoration was completely black, with only a few faint silver spots on the tip of its tail. The chubby little dragon held its tail with its two paws, curled up into a ball, and closed its eyes.
The details were well done, delicate and textured, and inexplicably gave people a sense of mystery.
And about one centimeter above the little dragon's curled body, there was a silver ball suspended.
The ball was slightly larger than the sleeping black dragon, but it seemed to be held up by the black dragon's body.
Lu Yao pointed at the ball and introduced: "This is Alfred, our new cram school teacher, and the most powerful prop I told you about in the text message."
Xiao Ze: "... Alfred... Teacher?"
Lu Yao smiled and said, "Don't be so surprised, listen to my explanation."
The main body of Lu Yao's time machine is divided into two parts. One is the small silver ball on the table, which carries a huge energy source and assists the owner to take guests through time and space.
The main material of the small silver ball comes from Harold's scales, and the energy source is a liquid battery made by fusing high-purity magic stones and crystal core energy liquid.
After testing, it is necessary to replace the battery about every ten times of time and space travel.
The second is the mind key, which is an important prop to open childhood.
If you want to go back to a specific time and space coordinate, you must have rich and accurate coordinate data.
How can you retrieve the time that has passed?
This requires an artifact that records time.
Childhood tutoring only requires going back to the guest's past, so the guest's growth line is needed.
The growth line can also be called the lifeline.
It records all the major and minor events of a creature from birth to death, just like the small dots on the key of time and space that are strung together and record history.
As the seasons change, spring grass grows and turns into rotten mud again.
Time never stops.
Is there something that has been recording all the information of human beings from birth to old age?
This is the most important medium for making the key of the mind.
Lu Yao has tried many kinds of materials, hair, skin, nails, and teeth.
Unfortunately, these have been replaced one after another as we grow older.
Even if there were any records, it was only for a very short period of time.
Xiao Ze widened his eyes slightly. From the moment the shop owner explained the time machine, everything was running towards the direction of a fantasy novel.
It was too absurd, Xiao Ze couldn't even give a more exaggerated reaction, and asked lightly: "You mean, you need a piece of my finger bone as a key?" Lu
Yao nodded: "Bones, like the annual rings on a tree trunk, record all the growth conditions of organisms from birth to the present."
Xiao Ze stretched out his hand, "How can I take it? If a piece of finger bone is taken away, I will be half disabled."
Lu Yao took out the bone box from under the table and put on gloves: "Don't worry, what we need is the information recorded on the bone. After taking away this piece of finger bone, it will be filled in with an identical piece of bone. The only difference is that the replaced finger bone will not have your previous growth information."
At this time, the convenience of copying magic is reflected.
While talking, Lu Yao had already used tools to remove a small piece of bone from the tip of Xiao Ze's left little finger, "Okay, wait thirty seconds."
Xiao Ze: "..."
Just taken away? Too fast.
And it doesn't hurt at all, I can't figure out the principle.
Lu Yao put the removed finger bone into the bone box, and took out two identical pieces of bone thirty seconds later.
She put the duplicate finger bone back into Xiao Ze's fingertip, got up and took the new bone into the newly created room on the side of the wall, "Wait five minutes."
The bone that records the guest's lifeline and the scales of the little black dragon are combined to make a prop that belongs to this guest.
The appearance of the mind key is similar to the key of time and space, except that the lines used to outline the shape of the key are black, and the small round beads strung on the line are white.
The Mind Key is more than one circle smaller than the Space-Time Key, and is delicate and small.
Xiao Ze took the strange black and white key from Lu Yao's hand. He couldn't believe that it was made of his own bones, and his brows were tightly knitted: "Is this a toy? I still think you are kidding me. You even made a huge prop setting for this and even got a prop model, just like writing a novel."
Lu Yao sat down, picked up the suspended silver ball, and exposed the small hole below, "Put it in and try it."
Xiao Ze didn't expect the silver ball to be this structure. At this time, he just thought that the owner was playing a game with him and directly inserted the key.
"Click--"
The silver ball decomposed into pieces radially, and the dazzling light came, and Xiao Ze and the owner were both submerged.
Xiao Ze opened his eyes and found that he was no longer in the cram school where he had spent his childhood. The scene in front of him was strange yet familiar.
Daimao City Community Childcare Center.
Before the age of six, he spent most of his time here. Xiao Ze's earliest childhood memory began with the fence beside the playground of the childcare center. Before the age of five, he liked to sit on the steps under the ivy fence at the edge of the playground, waiting for his mother to pick him up. The memories he wrote on the childhood test form were here. The key was real, and the owner did not lie to him. "Is this where you lived when you were a child?" Lu Yao walked out from behind the flower bed and looked around. Xiao Ze was surprised: "Owner." Lu Yao heard footsteps, pulled Xiao Ze to hide behind the flower bed, and then secretly poked his head out. The little kid in overalls holding a brown teddy bear ran to the ivy fence, looked around, walked down two steps one step at a time, and then sat down. Lu Yao looked back at Xiao Ze. Xiao Ze lowered his head slightly, avoiding the owner's sight, and his ears turned red. The little kid was Xiao Ze in his childhood. While other children were playing wildly on the playground, he sat on the steps, lowering his head to count the ants crawling by. The teddy bear in his arms was a gift from his mother before she left in the morning. His mother said she would come back in the afternoon and take him to eat his favorite children's meal. Until the sun went down, the other children were picked up by their parents. The little kid was still sitting there. His mother did not show up. This day was Xiao Ze's fifth birthday. Xiao Ze's earliest memory of childhood was this afternoon when he never waited for his mother to come back. The stay time of a time travel is three minutes, but the speed of time in the past is different from the reality. During the three minutes in Sanhua City, Lu Yao and the adult Xiao Ze squatted behind the bushes, silently watching the little Xiao Ze, and spent the afternoon. Back to the childhood cram school, Xiao Ze talked about the sequel that started with this afternoon. Late at night, the mother called the childcare center and took the emergency department before leaving work. An operation had just ended, and she couldn't come back to pick up Xiao Ze. Little Xiao Ze stood at the feet of the nanny, and the wood grain on the table legs was within his sight. After that, his mother did not come to pick him up for several days, and he stayed in the daycare center. When he was sleeping at night, Xiao Ze heard the nanny whispering outside the door. He was already five years old, and only his fingers could glow. I'm afraid he won't wake up again. His mother must have given up on him. A week later, his mother came back. She bought Xiao Ze a big bag of snacks and small toys. The little kid finally saw his mother and ran over happily, with a smile on his tender face. A strange man appeared, put one hand on his mother's shoulder, and scratched Xiao Ze's cheek with his rough fingers. His mother remarried. It was during the days when she left him in the daycare center that she got married and went on her honeymoon. Unfortunately, the prelude was probably written at this time. Less than three months after remarriage, the mother was pregnant. On the day she learned the news, she and the man took Xiao Ze to the amusement park. After a day of crazy play, the mother smiled and took Xiao Ze's hand and put it on her belly, "Xiao Ze, you will have a brother or sister." Later, the sister was born, and she was a very talented child. In the tenth month, the sister awakened her ability. Natural system, can manipulate water elements. At the age of two, the sister awakened her ability for the second time. On the premise of being able to control the water element, she can also change the nature of water.
On the third day after his sister's second awakening, his mother took Xiao Ze to the mall to buy new clothes, a new school bag, new stationery, and then handled the boarding procedures for him.
That year, Xiao Ze had just entered the second grade of primary school.
Xiao Ze said that a gift is a signal.
It is a coat wrapped in a lie, bringing a signal that something is about to be lost.
It is like this every time, without exception.
So for him, there will never be free gifts in the world.
If there is, the price must have been secretly marked.
Lu Yao nodded: "Indeed, I have already calculated the price of our time travel this time."
Xiao Ze was not angry when he was interrupted. In fact, he did not like to recall things from his childhood in depth. He smiled bitterly and began to take out his wallet, and his expression relaxed instead: "That's good."
The shortcomings of his childhood could never be made up.
Even if there really is a time machine, all the weakness and cowardice buried in the old times will be turned out again, which will only make him see clearly once again the facts that have been abandoned step by step.
Lu Yao took out a silver key from his clothes, picked up Teacher Alfred who had returned to a ball shape, and called Xiao Ze: "Don't rush to pay, your childhood tutoring has just begun."
Xiao Ze was puzzled: "You have seen it all, my childhood can't be changed." Lu Yao nodded
: "The past cannot be retrieved, that's the reason, so we call it a tutoring center. Tutoring, tutoring, make up for the deficiencies place, learn concepts and skills that can redirect the path of life. The original intention of tutoring is not to change the past, but the present, at this moment. "
Lu Yao saw Xiao Ze in a daze, and directly activated the key to open the second stage: "No. 1 tutor Xiao Ze, please pay attention, childhood tutoring officially begins."
A white light shone in front of him, and Xiao Ze opened his eyes again and returned to the familiar ivy fence of the Daimao City Conservation Center.
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