Chapter 4

In the supermarket, Jiang Li stared at the five gold coins in front of him.

The gold coins were the size of ordinary coins, and the golden color was definitely gold.

Before he figured out why he and the supermarket had traveled together, he met the first customer from another world. And after the customer made his purchase, he actually left five gold coins for him? !

Jiang Li was in a very complicated mood.

Regardless of whether the gold coins were real or fake, he put them away for the time being. The adventurer just ran too fast, and he didn't have time to call him back. He could only wait until he had a chance to meet him next time and then return the gold coins.

As for catching up...

Through the newly replaced glass door, Jiang Li could see that the outside had changed drastically. It was no longer the familiar street where he had lived since he was a child. The buildings had become European retro style. Most of the pedestrians passing by were wearing coarse cloth, and there were horse-drawn carriages rumbling by. Except for his supermarket, everything became unfamiliar.

...Where on earth was he!

Except for Chris, no other customer walked into the store curiously, which gave Jiang Li enough time to slow down and think.

Jiang Li had watched a lot of works about time travel and other worlds with his roommates. Therefore, just by seeing the earth-shaking changes outside, he knew that he was no longer on the original earth.

However, other people had an opportunity to travel through time, so why did he come here?

Yesterday's meteor appeared in his mind, and Jiang Li's eyes quickly fell on the hourglass beside him.

If there is any opportunity, after thinking about it, it must be this hourglass. He remembered clearly that when he put down the hourglass, the adventurer guest named Chris pushed the door open.

Jiang Li picked up the hourglass again.

From the outside, this hourglass has no other special features except its exquisite shape. Due to the blockage in the middle, the original timekeeping function of the hourglass cannot be played out, and it can only be used as a simple decoration. Jiang Li turned it back and forth, trying to find some differences in it.

While turning the action, he seemed to catch a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye.

Jiang Li looked up and was stunned.

The street outside the glass door turned back into the familiar cement road, and a big orange dog was lying at the door, lazily basking in the sun.

He is back again? !

Thinking of something, Jiang Li stared outside without blinking, and turned the hourglass over in his hand again. He watched with his own eyes as the outside world spun around. In just a breath of time, the outside of the door changed drastically, turning back into the retro street he saw not long ago. Looking out through the glass door, even the moss on the door of the opposite store has not changed.

Turn over, cement road. Turn back, cobblestone road.

Turn over, T-shirt short sleeves. Turn back, coarse linen clothes.

After repeating the experiment several times, Jiang Li put down the hourglass. The outside of the door had turned back into the street where he grew up, but he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Suddenly, Jiang Li thought of something, he took out his mobile phone and saw that the signal had returned to full, and the message that failed to send was still on the screen. He tapped the red exclamation mark lightly, and the message that originally failed to send was sent out with a "whoosh".

Ding Dong!

[Are you still asleep?]

[Yes, yes, yes! Absolutely! God, please let me travel to a world where I don’t have to take the civil service exam. I’m a complete idiot. I’m really a complete idiot!]

Jiang Li slowly put down her phone.

That’s right, it’s still that Earth.

"Xiao Jiang?"

Granny Chen walked into the supermarket and saw him sitting behind the cashier. She wondered, "Where did you go just now?"

"Just now?" Jiang Li said subconsciously, "I've been here the whole time."

Granny Chen skillfully went to the shelf to get a bottle of vinegar. When she heard him say that, she immediately said, "When I came here to buy something just now, I saw that the door of your supermarket was closed. I was about to ask my grandson to run errands. When I came out again, your door was open again."

Jiang Li opened his mouth, thinking of his magical experience, he vaguely said, "Yes, I just went out for a while."

After sending Granny Chen away, Jiang Li turned on the surveillance again.

The camera has been diligently recording what happened inside and outside the door. Jiang Li pulled back time to a short time ago and watched nervously.

In the picture, he was sitting behind the cashier until Granny Chen walked into the supermarket, and no strange customers came in. If it weren't for the five golden coins in front of him, Jiang Li almost thought he was hallucinating. After

turning off the surveillance, he looked at the hourglass again, his eyes full of surprise.

Although he didn't know the origin of the hourglass, and didn't know why the surveillance didn't record anything, the incident itself was full of fantasy.

He and his supermarket can actually travel through time?!

...

In the next few days, Jiang Li did a few more experiments.

When he flipped the hourglass, he could travel between the two worlds. On one side is the earth, and on the other side is the Lalan Continent, a fantasy world with magic and magical creatures.

The hourglass seemed to be tied to his supermarket. If he took it to other places for use, nothing would happen. Jiang Li even asked others to look at it, but no one except him could see the existence of the hourglass.

Jiang Li guessed that the hourglass and the supermarket were both the medium for him to travel between the two worlds, and neither was indispensable. As for why only he could see it, it was probably because... he and his supermarket were the only ones hit by the meteor that day?

After repeated experiments, one day when business was not so good, Jiang Li turned the hourglass over and went to another world with his supermarket.

Dolei City.

The door of a store with an ordinary appearance was opened from the inside.

Jiang Li stood at the door and looked around. He should be in a commercial street, with all kinds of shops on both sides. Jiang Li couldn't understand the words here, so he could only guess based on the decoration of the store entrances. For example, diagonally opposite, there were several human models standing behind the window. It should be a clothing store.

He touched the five gold coins in his pocket and bravely stepped out of the supermarket door.

Jiang Li originally wanted to learn about this world from the supermarket customers, but he waited for a few days, and no one else stepped into his supermarket except the customer on the first day.

There was no way, so he had to take the initiative himself.

He went to the clothing store to buy a set of ready-made clothes to change into, and then walked along the shopping street. Although he couldn't understand the words, the communication was very smooth, perhaps it was an additional benefit brought by the hourglass. As he walked, he occasionally stopped to observe and inquire about things related to the continent.

After half a day, Jiang Li also had a new understanding of this world.

This is the Lalan continent, and the city he is in is Dolei City.

In addition to humans, this world also has various magical races that only exist in fantasy works, dragons, elves, dwarves... Jiang Li saw a dwarf walking out of the blacksmith shop with his own eyes. As for the others, it is not so easy to see. Dolei City is a human city, and most races like to live in seclusion.

Jiang Li bought a map of the Lalan continent and several books, mainly for... reading.

If you want to explore this new world, learning is urgent!

In addition, Jiang Li also basically understood the prices in Dolei City.

The gold coins Chris gave him were the most valuable currency, in addition to silver coins and copper coins. For ordinary people, five gold coins are a huge sum of money, not to mention that these five gold coins only bought a few bags of instant noodles.

Jiang Li felt even more guilty towards the adventurer guest...

However, Jiang Li also understood why Chris had such a misunderstanding.

He accidentally entered a store selling magic tools. A magic lamp that can glow is just a desk lamp in Jiang Li's eyes, but the price is sky-high. Other commodities, even if they are inconspicuous gadgets, are also expensive. Five gold coins can only be regarded as a small change. However, Jiang Li also found some interesting things in it, such as the backpack sold in this store has a space expansion belt, which can hold items several times its own size. It is a specialty of the magic world.

Of course, he couldn't afford it because he was short of money. After a regretful look, Jiang Li walked out of the store clerk's almost tangible contempt.

At dusk, the shops in the other world closed one after another, the lights in the tavern were turned on, and the adventurers rushed back from outside the city in groups.

Jiang Li returned to his supermarket, had a simple dinner at a small restaurant outside, and then went home to open the books he bought from the other world.

Take out your notes and start studying!

...

On the other side.

The forest outside the city of Dore.

When the sun set from one end of the sky, Chris lit a bonfire.

Chris and his companions accepted a mission to capture monsters. Before the mission was completed, they stayed outside the city. Therefore, after accepting the mission, they prepared the necessities that would support them to live in the wild for many days.

When Chris was about to string the meat on the branches as usual, his companions beside him immediately made a painful sound: "No, no, no... I don't want to eat barbecue anymore!"

Chris: "Then boiled?"

The companions all wailed in pain.

Most of the time, adventurers eat the monster meat they hunted in the wild, either roasted or boiled. No matter how delicious the food is, it can't stand tasting day after day, not to mention that most monster meat is not that delicious.

The companions complained: "Don't we have any other food?"

"We finished the bread a few days ago."

"It would be nice if there was wine here."

"I'm starting to miss the last meal I had in Dore City..."

The companions were talking at once, and Chris listened, and suddenly remembered something and sat up straight.

"No." He said with shining eyes: "We have one more thing."

"What is it?"

Chris opened the backpack and searched inside for a while. Under the gaze of his companions, he carefully took something out of it.

"This!"

Chris held it up with both hands and said carefully: "The food I bought from that mysterious store-" "

Instant noodles!"