Cannon Fodder Counterattack System (XIX)

“…”

The only response he got was Cui Lan's steady and gentle breathing.

"?"

Shang Li waited in the dark for a long time but didn't get an answer, so he leaned over to whisper in his ear, "You're not pretending, are you? Then I'll kiss you secretly."

The man still kept his eyes closed quietly, not even his eyelashes moved.

It seems that he really fell asleep.

"Humph, as expected, as long as I lie next to you, my sleep quality will immediately improve a hundred or eighty times."

Shang Li murmured in his heart, but in the end he did not give this body the first kiss on behalf of little Shang Li.

The sleepiness he had accumulated with great difficulty was swept away by the ups and downs of emotions just now, and he couldn't fall asleep at all.

After carefully looking at the man in front of him who seemed to be asleep, the child quietly crawled out of the quilt and crawled to the end of the bed, looking at the baby who was quietly immersed in his dream.

"In fact, according to the conditions given by that old man, you are the most suitable pet."

Shang Li squatted in front of Xiao Jiang and spoke softly.

I took the initiative to follow him home and he wouldn't leave no matter how hard I tried.

He poked the baby's forehead with his index finger and said, "I'm really worried that if I picked you up at this age, something terrible would happen to you."

The unconscious baby smacked his lips and blew a saliva bubble.

"Well, now it's time to test how loyal I am."

Shang Li touched his chest again and said to himself, "Don't let me down, the 'Shang Li' of this timeline, or I will come back from the future and expel you from the Shang Li clan."

The six-year-old soul sleeping in the body naturally couldn't hear it either.

But... out of Shang Li's attention, Cui Lan quietly opened his eyelids and quickly closed them again.

When daybreak came, the bird sounds outside the window changed from crows to roosters.

The lilac ball flew through the wooden door and swayed into the room.

[Host, grandma is awake! ]

568 received news.

Shang Li, who was sitting at his desk writing and drawing out of boredom, turned around when he heard the voice and set up a screen to hide the figure of Cui Lan who was still sleeping on the bed.

After a while, Grandma Shang, leaning on her cane, quietly pushed open the door and came to see if her grandson was sleeping well in the room.

Seeing Shang Li sitting at the desk, fully dressed and looking sober, she was a little surprised. "Hey, Xiao Li, why are you up so early?"

She thought that Shang Li, who secretly ran out to set off fireworks at night, would have to sleep until noon.

“Grandma!”

Shang Li immediately showed the innocent expression of a six-year-old child and ran to the old man, "Because I want to get up early to study!"

He held up the exercise book in his hand and showed her the rows of large characters written in pencil.

Each of these characters was crooked, with shaky strokes, even worse than that of an elementary school student. Grandma Shang took a glance at them, couldn't bear to look at them, and quickly looked away, instead rubbing her grandson's little head.

"You're working so hard. You still have more than half a year before you start elementary school."

Her tone was gentle.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up with others."

Shang Li put his hands behind his back, squinted his eyes and said obediently: "The grandfather who often came to borrow money said that everyone else went to kindergarten, but I didn't. If I don't prepare in advance, I will be the last one."

In a small town of that era, there was only one kindergarten in the entire town, which happened to be located at the farthest location from the old house.

Grandma Shang thought it was troublesome and she also thought her child was smart, so she simply didn't send Shang Li to kindergarten and let him play until he was old enough to go to elementary school.

"That old fellow finally spoke some human words."

Hearing Shang Li's speech, Grandma Shang made such comments.

Perhaps because the bedroom door was open, the cold wind blowing in woke up Xiao Jiang, who was curled up at the end of the bed, and the baby started crying loudly.

Since this child was not within Shang Li's protection range, he naturally attracted the attention of Grandma Shang.

"Xiao Li, where did this little baby come from?"

The old man walked quickly to the bed, and the wrinkles on his face became deeper. "You told me before that the poor old man would give you a pet. Could it be him?"

"Oh, you damned child!"

Grandma Shang raised her walking stick and poked Shang Li's buttocks twice, "You are pretending to be so good this morning, you must be up to no good."

"Tell me, whose child did you steal in the middle of the night?"

Her face, which had been as gentle as water just now, immediately became stern, "Hurry up and send him back, otherwise the other person's parents will tell the police and take you away and lock you up as if you were a beggar!"

"I picked this up in the snow..."

Shang Li covered his butt and weakly retorted, "I'm not interested in other people's children."

Grandma Shang paused for a long time before she understood what her grandson meant.

This child is an abandoned baby.

“…”

"Alas, what a sin."

She walked around the room several times on her crutches.

"I'm going to call the police now. Go to the kitchen and get something for my brother to eat." Grandma Shang walked towards the living room. "Didn't your father send two bags of milk powder a while ago? They're in the middle of the shelf."

"I know!"

Shang Li responded crisply.

After Grandma Shang left, he turned around.

Cui Lan had woken up and put on her coat and scarf.

All the things that happened before going to bed were tacitly suppressed in the hearts of the two of them, and their faces returned to a harmonious state.

"Shall we go now?"

Shang Li narrowed his eyes.

"Um."

Cui Lan looked past the young child and the wide-open bedroom door and saw Grandma Shang reporting the case to the police in the living room.

"Let's go."

Before the old man hung up the phone, the silver light in his hand condensed into a blade, cutting a crack as high as a person.

Shang Li's soul then left his body, and he gave control of his body back to the child.

"Anyway, we can escape from time and space and walk in a narrow space. Even if we don't have a specific location, we will eventually find it if we walk around more."

"During this period...just treat it as a trip."

Cui Lan stepped into the dark room and reached out to the ghosts who were still outside. "We have so many unfinished conversations. We can talk about them all right here, alone between the two of us."

"Hmm, come to think of it, I've never traveled alone with you, Xiao Cui."

The ghost smiled, placed his hand on the man's, and floated into the narrow space.

At the last moment when the crack closed, he turned around and looked at the six-year-old child who was sleeping soundly on the bed.

Just treat it as an Easter egg.

Shang Li thought.

See you in the future, “031”.

When Grandma Shang returned to the room, she saw little Shang Li sleeping with half of his body lying on the bed.

"This kid, he really has been playing outside all night and just came back now, tricking me into getting up early."

"Tsk, you couldn't even make milk powder."

She pushed her grandson awake without mercy.

Xiao Shangli rubbed his eyes, stretched out his arms and yawned.

A bright red light flashed in his eyes, and then quickly disappeared into the dark color of his pupils.

"Hmm, how come I'm back home when I woke up...ah, grandma!"

Seeing his only relative, Xiao Shangli immediately said excitedly: "Grandma, do you know that I met a very tall and handsome big brother in the snow!"

Hunters say that some mother cats will give their kittens to chosen humans.

So he looked around and found the baby, hugged him, and held him up to Grandma Shang, "Look, he gave his son to me as a pet!"

Grandma Shang: “…”

On the other side, in the dark and narrow room, Cui Lan, who had unknowingly become a father, sneezed softly.

"Did you catch a cold when you were sleeping?"

He covered his face and muttered.

The ghost came over and said, "It must be the little ghost that possessed me before that is talking about you."

"We just met once, what's there to talk about?"

Cui Lan tightened the scarf around her neck and said, "Tell grandma, 'I met a bad guy with bad intentions in the snow'?"

"How is that possible?"

Shang Li said.

During the hours that should have been used for sleeping, he kept writing instructions to the children in his exercise book.

As long as the small business opens the first page of the contact book, you can see the above content.

To my past self:

1. The baby is given to you to raise, so don't cause trouble for grandma.

2. Don’t forget the big brother with silver eyes. He looks like this: [Front view of Cui Lan.jpg]

3. Remember to go home early on x month xx day when you were ten years old, and don’t buy a cake.

…

These things created by supernatural powers are only viewed by Xiao Shangli, so he is not afraid of being discovered by the police who come to investigate.

Even if he happened to run into someone from the Superpower Bureau, his information-based superpowers, whose level was lower than his, could only detect the residual energy fluctuations above.

It is absolutely foolproof.

But even if all the necessary reminders were given in the exercise book, Shang Li, as a ghost now, could not be completely sure what Shang Li in this timeline would actually look like.

Whatever, no matter what it looks like, it will eventually be restored to factory settings with one click when the world is restarted.

Now all he could do was concentrate on searching for the anchor points he had set, and move forward in the dark and narrow space with his beloved wife.

With Cui Lan's special power, the signal he sends out can directly pass through the barriers of time and space and connect with the "source file" with the closest coordinates, that is, the positioning anchor point.

Although we cannot be sure of the exact time point they are heading to, we can at least guarantee that it is after the time they just left.

However, after moving forward for a long time, the two found that:

Forget about trying their luck at finding an anchor point; they hadn't even found one.

"Ah - my luck is so bad."

Shang Li, who had turned into a pixelated man, held the sleeping 568 in his arms. Tuan said in a low voice, "How could this happen? Even if Shang Li was killed, the location would not disappear."

“…”

Cui Lan pondered for a moment. "But the problem could only be on the other end. Maybe... someone blocked the location you left behind."

"Well, but if you want to block the location I set, you have to know it first."

Shang Li flew out, put his two square hands on his head, and squeezed his eyes into a “> <” shape, "Who is so crazy to search my soul?"

Cui Lan casually guessed, "Maybe it's someone who knew about it from the beginning."

After these words were spoken, the two looked at each other silently, and the image of a certain person emerged in their minds at the same time.

Jiang Mingyu.