Chapter 2

The morning light was dim, and the sun rose from the green hills in the distance. When the first ray of sunlight hit his eyelids, Jiang Li woke up.

The morning mist had not yet dissipated, and a layer of wet morning dew floated on his body. Jiang Li stood up and felt sore joints. No one would feel good after sleeping on the hard concrete floor for a night. He rubbed his nose. Fortunately, he was young and in good health, and it was not cold at night in the summer, so he did not get sick from sleeping.

But...

Jiang Li glanced at the terrace where he was and began to recall what happened last night.

If he remembered correctly, he saw a meteor falling from the sky and hitting him yesterday. The incident was too bizarre, and no one would believe it even if he told others. Jiang Li suspected that he was dreaming as soon as he thought about it. If there really was a meteor falling from the sky, he would have died long ago. Unlike now, he has no sequelae except the backache from sleeping on the hard ground.

Jiang Li got up from the ground in a daze.

If he was dreaming, why did he fall asleep outside?

Jiang Li had no memory of being hit by the meteor.

He rubbed his sore neck in confusion, unable to figure it out.

"Xiao Jiang? Xiao Jiang? Are you there?" Several voices called from downstairs.

Jiang Li looked over and saw that it was Grandma Chen, the neighbor who lived next door.

Grandma Chen had just gotten up and waved at him anxiously: "Come down quickly and take a look, how did your front door get broken?"

Jiang Li was shocked: "What?!"

Regardless of whether it was a meteor or not, Jiang Li hurried downstairs.

The first floor of the Jiang family is a supermarket, so the main door is naturally the main door of the supermarket. When renovating the supermarket, Jiang Li specially replaced the windows and doors of the storefront with new ones, which were made of tempered glass and could not be easily broken!

At this moment, one of the newly replaced glass doors has been lost, and the broken glass is scattered all over the floor, making a mess.

Jiang Li was heartbroken, and Grandma Chen was also angry: "Which child is so naughty that he smashes other people's doors for no reason? Do you have surveillance at this door? I will go with you to ask for an explanation!"

"Yes, I installed it at the beginning."

"That's good." Grandma Chen was relieved, and then began to wonder: "With such a big noise, how come I didn't hear any sound."

For no reason, Jiang Li suddenly thought of the shooting star last night.

He noticed something lying in the middle of the broken glass, which must be the culprit who broke the glass. Jiang Li strode in and picked it up. It was not a stone as he had thought before, but an hourglass with a circle of exquisite reliefs around it. It looked like a valuable work of art.

"Xiao Jiang, let me help you sweep the floor."

Jiang Li came to his senses, put the hourglass aside, and said quickly: "No, Grandma Chen, don't move, I can do it myself."

"Okay, then...then get me a bag of salt."

The supermarket has not yet opened, but it has already done its first business.

When paying the bill, Grandma Chen said with a smile: "Since your supermarket closed, I have to go a long way to buy a bottle of soy sauce. Now it's better, I can just go out."

Although the big supermarket has a full range of goods, it is still more convenient to buy a bag of salt and a bottle of soy sauce at the small supermarket near my home.

Jiang Li said happily: "Then I will rely on your care in the future."

There was not much time left before the supermarket opened. Jiang Li sent Grandma Chen out, then quickly cleaned up the broken glass on the ground, called the glass door manufacturer, and asked them to send another door. After hanging up the phone, he looked at the half-empty door and was quite speechless. He

encountered such a thing before the opening, and there was such a bad luck as him?

...

Uncle Gao kept his word and really sent a big flower basket. In addition, several of Jiang Li's friends also ordered flower baskets, and they arrived one after another, lined up in two rows at the gate, set off firecrackers, and it was very lively.

The supermarket had just opened, and a few days ago, Jiang Li asked someone to print a stack of flyers and distributed them. There were discounts for the opening, which attracted a lot of people. Most of them were neighbors who lived nearby, and many were regular customers of Jiang's Supermarket. People

came and went in the morning, and it was not until noon, when it was close to lunch time, that the store was empty. Jiang Li ordered a takeout and sat in front of the computer to check the surveillance.

The new door has been reinstalled, and you can see it at a glance. Every time Jiang Li sees it, his teeth itch. The surveillance camera at the door captured the scene inside and outside the door clearly. The mouse moved the time to last night and played it at double speed.

The supermarket door was quiet at night. Occasionally, a wild cat passed by and peeked in with its two lightbulb eyes. Jiang Li opened the lunch box, and when he glanced away, he raised his eyes again and saw only a pile of broken glass on the screen.

Jiang Li: "?"

He pulled the mouse back in confusion.

Rewind and replay. This time, he didn't dare to miss a single shot. Jiang Li watched it intently. His door was still intact in the previous second, but in the next second, it turned into a pile of broken glass. He

watched it back and forth several times, rewinding, slowing down, pausing frame by frame... No matter how many times he watched it, the result was the same.

If the time in the upper right corner had not changed, Jiang Li almost thought that someone had deleted his surveillance video.

He stared at the screen in the surveillance: What kind of supernatural incident is this? !

Who smashed his door? !

The time in the upper right corner jumped by second by second, but the culprit who smashed the door never showed up. Suddenly, Jiang Li thought of something and took out his mobile phone to check the time again.

He originally thought that the meteor he saw last night was just a dream, but the time shown on the surveillance was almost the same as the time when he lost consciousness last night... For no reason, Jiang Li shuddered.

He typed tremblingly: [Do you think there are ghosts in this world? ]

His roommates immediately jumped up: [Are you crazy? ]

[Are you still not awake from your nap? 】

【If the supermarket business is not good, it would be nice to come back and be a social animal with me! 】

Yes, why would the ghost smash his door for no reason?

And...

Jiang Li's eyes slowly fell on the hourglass-shaped ornament.

In the morning, he found this strange hourglass among the broken glass. Because he had a lot of things to do, he put it aside and didn't pay attention to it anymore. He just remembered it now. Jiang Li took a look and found that there was something wrong with this hourglass.

Although the ornament is in the shape of an hourglass, it is not filled with sand, but rather with sparkling powder of some kind of gemstone. The middle is blocked, and no matter how many times it is turned over, the sand will not leak out. The appearance of the hourglass is exquisite, and the aesthetic shape is strange. It is unlike any artistic style I have seen before. Looking closely at the carved pattern, it looks like some complex pictures and texts connected together, with two large symbols engraved on both ends. Jiang Li looked at it for a long time but could not understand it.

He fiddled with it for a long time, and when he thought of the strange origin of this hourglass, he did not dare to think about it carefully, and quickly put it down.

With a "creak", someone pushed the door open.

Sensing the presence of a customer, the electronic voice at the door rang: "Welcome."

"Hey, is this a newly opened store?"

Jiang Li stood up and was stunned when he saw the customer's appearance.

The visitor was a middle-aged man, but his style was completely different from that of ordinary customers. He had deep facial features and a rare Western face in this small place. He had short dark brown hair and emerald green eyes. The most eye-catching thing was that he was wearing armor, wrapped in hard metal from head to toe, and had a sword at his waist, like a character in a movie or comic.

Cosplay?

The customer with a strange style looked around and looked at Jiang Li: "Are you the owner?"

Jiang Li stared at him without blinking, convinced that the man in front of him spoke a language he had never heard of before, but his brain strangely understood the sentence.

In an instant, from last night's shooting star to the supernatural video, all the fantasy themes he had seen in the past, and everything that happened in the first half of his life flashed through Jiang Li's mind like a revolving lantern.

Noticing his silence, the strange guest looked confused: "Hello?"

"..." Jiang Li replied with a stiff face: "Hello."

He spoke in Chinese, but the guest strangely understood and did not feel suspicious.

The customer asked: "What kind of store is this?"

Jiang Li: "This is a supermarket."

The customer was puzzled: "What is a supermarket?"

Jiang Li: "It's... it sells everything."

"Do you have food and water?"

"Yes."

Thinking of the goods on the shelves and looking at the customer in front of him, Jiang Li thought: I just don't know if it's different from what you usually eat...

The customer breathed a sigh of relief and said: "My adventurer friends and I passed by this city and wanted to buy some supplies here. The last time I came here, wasn't this a supermarket?"

Jiang Li's mind went blank, and he subconsciously asked: "Adventurer?"

"Yes." The customer patted his chest, and the metal armor made a dull sound. He laughed and said: "You can tell from this that I am an experienced adventurer."

Jiang Li: "..."

He doesn't know!

What is an adventurer? ! Where is the profession of adventurer in the outside world? !

Where did this guest come from? !

And why does the sword on him look like it has a sharp edge? Is it legal? !

Jiang Li kept a wooden face and did not ask any more questions, fearing that he would be exposed as soon as he opened his mouth. He only handed the man a basket.

The guest took the basket and didn't know what material it was made of. He had never seen it before. He looked at it in surprise and then looked at this store called "supermarket" curiously. There were so many kinds of goods displayed on the shelves that it was dazzling, but none of them were things he had seen before. Looking at the rows of shelves, he didn't know where to go for a moment.

Jiang Li extended his hand to show him the way: "The food is over there."

"Thank you."

Watching this strange customer disappear behind the shelf, Jiang Li was silent for a long time, and tremblingly took out his mobile phone: [Do you think there is time travel in this world? ]

The message he sent turned around a few times and turned into a red exclamation mark.

Ding Dong!

[Your message sending failed, click to resend. ]

Looking again, the signal of the mobile phone has disappeared at some point.

Jiang Li: "..."

Help, help!