MMB Chapter 1490 Places Never Before Visited and Places Already Visited (Part 2)
Chapter 1490 Places Never Before Visited and Places Already Visited (Part 2)
Chapter 1490 Places Never Before Visited and Places Already Visited (Part 2)
What would it feel like to travel to the future and suddenly find that you have an important person in your life?
A bustling city in Beijing, a restaurant overlooking the river.
When she heard the young man across from her speak softly, that vague memory flashed through her mind again, and Ling, now an adult, quietly lowered her gaze.
here we go again.
If the previous attempt to get him to change his form of address could be attributed to wishful thinking, then this latest flashback has proven otherwise.
These are indeed memories I have experienced.
It was amazing, so amazing that it seemed unbelievable to her.
Leaving aside external factors and focusing solely on her future self, Ling felt that she hadn't changed much in the past thirty years.
Even existing in a data-driven state, any new technological advancements or developments are all within expectations, reflecting past or future ideas and plans—as if they have suddenly come true.
But the young man before him was the only one...
Ling couldn't fathom how she had managed to have someone so incredibly important to her in the future.
So what does it feel like to suddenly discover from your records that you have a close relationship with a stranger?
What wasn't mentioned before was that, in addition to understanding the current situation, Ling also investigated the cause of her abnormality—the hibernation plan.
Then it was quite natural to discover that it was she herself who had forcibly accelerated the hibernation process regardless of the risks, and that the reason 'she' did this was for 'Fang Ran'.
Upon waking up and discovering this, Ling was filled with disbelief and her imagination ran wild.
What kind of person was he? What was his status? Tall? Mature? Noble? Profound... Various images of a man came to mind, until a black-haired young man with a worried expression ran in.
'You are Fang Ran?'
As soon as she said that, Ling became curious.
She wondered why 'she' had accelerated her hibernation for him, and why 'she' had allowed him to borrow her armor, and even the Night Wanderer's Core.
I'm curious about how I met him, and what I went through with him.
He was curious about the relationship between himself and the young man in front of him.
It was out of curiosity that I came to this place, asked him those questions, and tried to find the answers from his answers, expressions, actions, and reactions to me.
It might be faster to search through past records, but this situation is too miraculous, rare, and unbelievable.
Ling wanted to experience it firsthand before making a definition.
And what I gained after the contact, thinking about the speculation I happened to overhear at the night office,
Illegitimate child? gigolo?
He was certain the other person wasn't some absurd gigolo; putting aside the question of why someone of that status would make him go to such lengths.
Ling couldn't believe that she would ever stoop to that level in the future.
As for the illegitimate child, if she hadn't been in her data-driven soul state all these years, she might indeed have had some doubts.
In that case, he is most likely his own
spouse?
With her eyes lowered, she repeatedly cut the steak on her plate. When she finally considered this most logical possibility, she felt a strangeness no less intense than the previous two guesses.
The refined and aloof woman looked up again at the young man before her.
Then I noticed that his earlier chuckle was gone, and after staring at me for two seconds, he looked away, somewhat embarrassed.
It doesn't look like it.
While pretending to admire the chandelier, Fang Ran suddenly paused slightly.
Wait, is it just my imagination that I feel like I was tested in a really unfair way?
The silver knife slicing through the porcelain plate was a well-known fact in the world of Night Battles: the higher the rank of a female participant, the harder it was for her to find a lover.
As for lovers, Ling had thought about it. She had wondered if she could fall in love with a man, and if she could spend the rest of her life with someone.
But she couldn't imagine what kind of person could touch her heart, which had been through so much, so that such a person never appeared in her long life.
Therefore, she found it hard to imagine that this young man, who seemed so inexperienced and naive that he would even feel embarrassed to look at her a few times, could be her lover.
But strangely, from his habitual action of being afraid of catching a cold before opening the door,
Ling could feel the familiarity that only comes from close interaction between them.
According to the other person, the two had only known each other for a little over six months.
This timing surprised Ling, not because Fang Ran had reached C-level in just six months—in her view, having an A-level superior to help him grow to this level wasn't surprising.
What surprised her was that only six months was such a short time compared to her century-long life.
What happened in the past six months that made him so important to him?
It's unbelievable that a young man is standing right in front of me, yet I know nothing about our relationship or past.
He's like a mystery.
After listening to the young man recount their first meeting and what happened afterward, the adult Ling's delicate and aloof face remained calm, unmoved by any of these thoughts.
Then she felt a stealthy gaze upon her, and as she lowered her eyes and sliced her steak, she spoke softly:
"Did you used to secretly stare at 'me' like this before?"
Caught peeking again, Fang Ran was puzzled as to how Ling noticed him without even looking up. He immediately looked embarrassed and began to make excuses—no, to explain:
"Um... I was just looking straight ahead, no, I mean I wasn't secretly staring, I just glanced casually, cough!"
Feeling that the more he explained, the worse it got, he coughed forcefully to regain his composure, and then, scratching his cheek, he began to speak:
"I'm just a little curious, after all, Your Majesty, you're not quite the same as before."
Hearing his slightly unnatural answer, the tall, aloof woman cut off a small piece of steak, chewed it slowly, and then looked at him and asked:
What was I like before?
"Previous"
Conversing with the former queen, Fang Ran felt a sense of wonder upon hearing the former queen herself ask this question. Images of the familiar young queen flashed through Fang Ran's mind.
"Your Majesty, you looked much younger before, around fourteen or fifteen years old. I've only seen you look like this once before, as a grown-up."
"As for other places, there are no changes."
They all had an arrogant and haughty demeanor.
Finally, he silently added this sentence in his mind: "Is that so?"
I could roughly guess why he looked like a young girl. Listening to the young man describe himself thirty years from now, those thoughts flashed through my mind again.
Ling, now an adult, asked again in a calm and understated voice:
"So, what kind of person will I be to you in the future?"
"Um, Your Majesty?"
Seemingly without giving the question much thought, the refined and aloof mature figure remained silent upon hearing the young man's strange, thoughtless answer.
A quiet atmosphere once again settled over both sides of the dining table.
Then, after a while,
"Besides teaching you to become a participant, what else happened after you met 'me'?"
Hearing the grown-up queen bring up the previous topic again, Fang Ran, after recalling for a moment, decided to kindly embellish the parts where she acted domineeringly in the cottage.
So he scratched his head a little and replied with his eyes looking up:
"Ah, apart from that, it's basically just various crises we've encountered, like the syndicate, the syndicate, and the syndicate again. Nothing else has happened."
"And Your Majesty, you have been in hibernation for the past few months."
Ling didn't comment on his words, but instead raised her light gold eyes and glanced at him.
"You said before that I had 'again' amnesia, right? Was it the last time I woke up from hibernation?"
Upon hearing the Queen mention this, Fang Ran immediately broke out in a cold sweat, unsure how to explain the matter of the young Queen. Feeling inexplicably guilty, he whispered:
"Well... the situation last time might be a little different from now."
What did you and I do the last time 'I' had amnesia?
However, she completely ignored Fang Ran's words, her tall and aloof figure simply asking a question in a calm voice, which was suppressed by her concise and powerful aura.
Fang Ran hesitated for a moment before answering honestly:
"I went to the amusement park."
He seemed somewhat surprised upon hearing the answer, but didn't react much, reaching for the clean white napkin beside him.
Ling simply wiped her lips and nodded faintly.
"Is that so? Then let's go."
Then Fang Ran was left with a clear, bewildered expression, still unable to react.
"Ah? Where to go?"
Thirty minutes later, in the southern suburbs of Dongjiang District, Beijing...
Universal Studios
As a well-known amusement park in China on par with Disney, Universal Studios also boasts strong intellectual property and immersive experiences.
However, unlike Disney's dreamy fairytale style, this place leans more towards recreating movie scenes and thrilling adventure simulations, bringing classic scenes, characters, and storylines from various blockbusters into reality, making people feel like they are there.
At this moment, at the park entrance,
Fang Ran stared blankly at the crowd of tourists in front of her, then looked at the tall, elegant, and aloof figure beside her with long, light blonde hair and a formal dress.
When he realized that he and the Queen, whom he had never met before thirty years ago, had ended up in an amusement park together...
An inexplicable sense of wonder left him somewhat bewildered.
(△?) Wait, who am I? Where am I?
"My rented apartment really has a lot of cockroaches, but I don't know many people who are actually cockroaches." I really resonated with this when I saw it the other day, because I also play Arknights. I've played it since it launched, then quit for a year, and finally played for five years. When I saw that girl talking about her loneliness because she hadn't added any friends on social media, I felt a deep connection. I've played it even longer than her; I've almost reached the point of being used to it after a breakdown and rebuilding. Social pressure, life, work pressure, real-world difficulties, confusion, loneliness—except for a lucky few, everyone probably has these problems. I've been stuck for days, my mind is blank with any decent thoughts. In this era, young people in big cities are really all navigating the internet, then stranded in reality, haha.
(End of this chapter)