After returning to China, Song Xuanhe attended several parties, met with Zhou Nan and Xiao Shenglin, and had a meal with Wei Chen. He stayed there for less than a week and then bought another plane ticket to leave China.
Song Xuan had no particular purpose when traveling. Most of the time he would suddenly think of a city and would not even bother to plan a route. He would just book a flight and leave the next day. Because of his willfulness, he even went directly from his current city to a city in the magazine after seeing a landscape photo in it. During this time, he spent nearly five days on the road due to multiple transfers and various delays.
From the Southern Hemisphere to the Northern Hemisphere, from Asia to Europe and America, he goes skydiving and bungee jumping to pursue excitement, and on a whim he dares to run to the small theater to play an ensemble with others based on his memory of the piano he only learned for five or six years when he was a child. He can be seen in tattered clothes in the Amazon photographing jaguars and eye-to-eye with South American swamp deer cubs, and he can also be seen in fancy clothes in high-star Michelin restaurants.
For three consecutive months, Song Xuanhe hardly stopped.
By the time he realized that he had been cut off from everyone for a long time, he had already arrived at the territory of Country X. Here, there was no way to contact anyone even if he wanted to.
What are you doing here? 】The system was very puzzled: [There are still two months before you go home. Brother, you don’t want to survive in this place full of guns and cannons for two months, do you? 】
Having not heard the system's "big brother" for a long time, Song Xuanhe suddenly felt somewhat familiar, so his tone became unusually friendly: [What I said before about wanting to find the unique dyes and materials here was true, and I didn't say it to deceive Zhang Chao. 】
[But the danger level here is one of the highest in the world. 】The system said seriously: [Do you know how many people die here every day? An average of 67 people per day! Everyone here wants to escape, only you are trying to find a way to get inside. 】
Song Xuanhe knocked on the door of the hotel and raised his eyebrows and said, "This is a safe area, don't be afraid."
[There is no so-called safe zone in this kind of civil war area. 】The system said: [As far as I know, there was a gunfight here two days ago due to a dispute over factional territory. Three people were killed and fifteen were injured. It is not safe for you to live here. 】
The door was opened a crack, and Song Xuanhe greeted the people inside with a smile in American. He introduced himself and how he had contacted the accommodation here through a person from Country X whom he had met during his travels.
The person who opened the door was a middle-aged man wearing a turban. He was surprised after hearing what Song Xuanhe said. He first looked outside vigilantly, and after finding that there was no one outside except Song Xuanhe, he looked up at his smiling face, then moved aside a little, and said something in the local language to let Song Xuanhe in.
Song Xuanhe smiled, thanked in the local language and walked in. The system said in his mind: [I still suggest that you leave the country immediately. 】
“%^%&*^*(&*(&…”
The man took Song Xuanhe to a room and spoke a lot of local language. Song Xuanhe could barely understand a few words, but was still a little confused.
Seeing Song Xuanhe's puzzled expression, the man breathed a sigh of relief and switched to American: "Why did you come here? You should know that it is very dangerous here. If it is not a very urgent matter, I suggest you leave immediately. The people in power here are very xenophobic. As an Asian, you are very conspicuous. You may be discovered and arrested tomorrow morning."
[Brother, please leave quickly!] 】The system also said in Song Xuanhe’s mind: 【You can buy dyes anywhere. I told you before that this body is your own body. If you break your arms and legs here, it will be impossible to repair them even if you return to your own world! 】
Song Xuanhe just smiled and said to the man: "I come to pay my respects to Mr. Hashimi."
The man was stunned for a moment, then he frowned and said in a strange tone, "Mr. Hashmi left here with his family two days ago."
"Left?"
Song Xuanhe was also a little stunned. He came here despite the war just as he said, in order to find a kind of dye and dyeing method here. When he saw the colorful carpet from the Middle East in a book before, Song Xuanhe began to look up information about the carpet.
That kind of dye and bleaching and dyeing method came from Country X, which did not exist in Song Xuanhe's original world. Unlike other countries, it was impossible to find a correspondence with the history and culture of a country in his original world. Even the local language was not just Arabic, but mixed with local dialects, which was very obscure and difficult to understand. Therefore, Song Xuanhe had to search and analyze the information for several months, and even taught himself some Arabic, before he could barely find a clue.
When he was traveling in Country R before, he was very lucky to meet a businessman from Country X. They met because the businessman saw Song Xuanhe looking for information about Country Y. After they greeted each other, they had a great conversation. Song Xuanhe got a lot of information about Country X from him that could not be found in books or on the Internet.
Country X is not at peace now because it is in the midst of an internal struggle. The current situation is somewhat similar to that of Song Xuan and a certain war-torn country in the original world, but because it is only an internal struggle within the country and no other countries are involved, it is not that dangerous.
Song Xuanhe was able to research information on this dye for nearly half a year, so he is certainly not someone who gives up easily. In fact, throughout his journey, from dangerous forests and grasslands to peaceful and prosperous cities, he has been thinking about whether he should take the risk.
As the system says, is it worth it for the bleaching and dyeing methods that may be found elsewhere.
He thought about it for a long time. A few days ago, when he saw the doves of peace flying in the square and the tall wall clock striking twelve o'clock noon, he suddenly wanted to go there.
So, on the same day, he contacted the businessman from Country X whom he met in Country R, and got from him the way to go to Country X. He also learned who made the carpet and who he should contact.
Then, Song Xuanhe set off.
Along the way, the system gave Song Xuanhe countless earnest advice and warnings, appealed to his emotions and reason, and even played the shocking video of the two factions in Country X fighting each other in order to stop him. The video contained real guns and live ammunition, and the dead humans were all real people who had once existed. It hoped that this would make Song Xuanhe retreat.
However, it did not expect that even so, it could not stop Song Xuanhe from doing what he decided.
The system suddenly realized that in the more than one year or nearly two years that it had been with Song Xuanhe, even though it had collected a lot of information about Song Xuanhe, it did not really understand what kind of person Song Xuanhe was. He was obviously calm and rational most of the time, and even seemed to care about his own safety more than many people, but he was unexpectedly crazy in some things.
Being able to take risks for something so trivial that no data analysis is needed to know that it is insignificant compared to life safety, the system sometimes suspects that Song Xuanhe does not care about life or death at all, but is deliberately seeking death.
At this moment, the system suddenly remembered what Song Xuanhe had said before - he had reasons to go back to his original world, but he had no reasons to stay in this world.
At that time, the system was thinking, Song Xuanhe and Xiao Yuanmu knew each other so well and were attracted to each other, wouldn’t this be a reason for Song Xuanhe to stay?
But now it seems that neither Xiao Yuanmu nor it may understand Song Xuanhe. The reason why Song Xuanhe wanted to go back so much might be because the people who knew him were in his original world. Even if those people no longer existed, he still wanted to return to the world where they once lived.
On the first night in Country X, the system asked what it wanted to ask: [You must return to your original world, is it because of your parents? 】
Song Xuanhe was thinking at this time that since the maker of the carpet he knew had left, should he stay here to look for other people who had the same craft, or leave tomorrow morning.
So when he suddenly heard the system's voice, he was stunned for a few seconds before he reacted, but he didn't answer for a long time.
Time passed little by little, Song Xuanhe closed his eyes and his emotions could not be seen clearly. The system knew through his brain waves that he was not asleep and thought that he was unwilling to answer.
The system was about to say that it was okay if Song Xuanhe didn't want to answer, but then Song Xuanhe opened his eyes. His clear eyes were blurry and dazed under the moonlight, and he said lightly, "I don't know."
The system knew that Song Xuanhe was telling the truth, but it could not understand what Song Xuanhe was saying.
So it honestly expressed its confusion: [How could you not know? You said you had a reason to go back. 】
Song Xuanhe blinked and asked, "Did I say that?"
The system affirmed: [You said so. 】
“Maybe there was.”
Song Xuanhe turned over and his eyes passed through the flowing moonlight and fell on the exotic dome building outside. Who would have thought that a place that looked so peaceful and comfortable at night was full of despair and fear during the day.
He himself did not expect that after cutting off all connections and walking alone in this world for three months, one night when he was sitting alone in a bar, when he thought that he might have to spend the rest of his life like this, he suddenly found it difficult to accept the day when Li Nian'an, Zhou Nan, Xiao Shenglin, and Xiao Yuanmu would disappear from his world.
This sudden emptiness made him want to do something. Unconsciously, he opened his cell phone and entered Xiao Yuanmu's phone number. Just before the call was dialed, Song Xuanhe heard the sound of the bell tower.
At that moment Song Xuanhe made a bet with himself. If he found Hashimi and came out of Country X safely, then he would stay in this world. If Hashimi was not there or maybe he was injured, then he would return to his own world.
The system asked again: [Is it gone now? 】
Song Xuanhe curled his lips and said: [Yes, Hashimi is not here, so I chose to go back. 】
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