I'm wandering in the world

Chapter 11 Memories of One Year Old
The colorful world seemed to be a water transfer floating on the water. Suddenly, it was stirred up by a stick and turned into chaos, then into darkness, and then into gray...

This grey world has no up, down, left or right; no matter which direction you look, it’s all the same colour, endless.

call……

A small black dot whizzed in from the distant gray and landed on the "ground" with a bang. It turned out to be a completely black stone door with a door frame and a door leaf, but no door handle.

Rumble…

The door suddenly opened slowly with a dull sound, and a hand stretched out to grab the door frame, followed by a foot and a body.

Chen Qingyuan walked out of the darkness inside the door, and was stunned when he saw the gray world in front of him. Not only did he complete the task but he didn't get any reward, couldn't he be sent back to his original world?

He suddenly realized that his body felt much lighter. He looked down and his eyes twitched. Where were the demon-subduing pestle and the Bagua jade amulet that Yue Hua gave him?

look back.

There were two tiny lights emanating from the black stone door. He reached out and grabbed them. The lights landed in his hand and slowly expanded into a demon-subduing pestle and a Bagua jade pendant...

A row of words actually appeared next to these two things.

The first item: [The Demon-Subduing Pestle is a Buddhist instrument that Master Yue Hua has been worshipping in front of the statue of Sakyamuni for a long time. It has a certain ability to ward off evil spirits. If it is blessed by magic power, its power can be enhanced. If the Demon-Subduing Pestle is stained with blood, it will lose its effect of warding off evil spirits. It needs to be cleaned, exposed to sunlight, and chanting Buddhist scriptures to restore its effect. (The current item has been purified)]

The second item: [Bagua Jade Pendant, a gift from Master Yue Hua’s friend, a Maoshan bodyguard jade talisman that can resist some attacks from evil spirits. It will break if it bears too much force.]

Chen Qingyuan was speechless. If he didn't look back, wouldn't all the gifts be gone once the stone door closed?
Where exactly is this place?
He walked around and found that the place was almost endless and it didn't matter where he went. Fortunately, the black stone gate was the most conspicuous reference point here.

What a strange place.

It would be easy to get lost if he continued walking forward, so Chen Qingyuan had to go back. The stone door was now closed, like a rectangular black stone slab standing on it. Something strange happened, and dents slowly appeared on the stone door, winding back and forth and converging into two cursive characters [凶榜], and the whole door was shaking continuously.

Chen Qingyuan took a step back.

Suddenly, a baby cried and he felt goose bumps. It was the most terrifying thing to face unknown things in an unknown place.

He quickly hung the jade talisman around his neck, holding the demon-subduing pestle in his right hand to be alert to the surroundings. Something slowly appeared not far away. It was an old room with only three walls. A twenty-year-old woman was lying on the bed. She was sweating profusely, her hair was stuck to her forehead, her expression was extremely painful, and her abdomen was bulging high. It was obvious that she was pregnant.

Let yourself watch a pregnant woman giving birth?

Chen Qingyuan frowned and took a few steps back again...

There was a door in the room, and an old woman came in. She placed a basin of hot water next to her, carefully checked the woman's condition, rolled up her sleeves and skillfully prepared, and then began to deliver the baby. The woman was in great pain, but after a while, she successfully gave birth to a dirty baby, cut the umbilical cord, wiped it slightly with a cloth, and then wrapped it in a swaddle and placed it next to the delivery room, saying, "Mother and child are safe!"

The woman looked pale and weak, but she still tried to turn over and hold the baby under her armpits, with a happy smile on her face: "My child... Daddy has already named you, you... you will be called Chen Qingyuan." Soon, a 25-year-old young man rushed in: "Wife, everything went well, it's really great, let me see the baby."

The following scenes were like fast-forwarding a movie. The baby turned over in March, could sit in June, crawl in September, and even called "Dad" in a baby voice in December, which made his parents very happy.

Chen Qingyuan was silent for a while.

At this moment, a beam of light shot out from the crawling baby and sank into Chen Qingyuan's brow. He felt as if something in his mind was repairing itself. After a few breaths, a vague memory appeared in his head. Strictly speaking, this chaotic and vague memory in his mind was turned over again...

Many people, after they grow up, basically can't remember anything that happened before the age of five, and Chen Qingyuan is no exception.

But by watching the image of the woman giving birth from a third-person perspective, he understood that the woman and the young man were his parents, and the baby was himself.

I just don’t know what the point of watching “childhood” memories again is.

The image slowly faded, but the woman, man, and baby inside remained. The woman supported the child to learn to walk, and the man squatted a few meters away with his arms open, waiting for the child to come over. Their action was frozen, and the three of them turned into black stone statues standing in this gray space...

Chen Qingyuan didn't know why, but he felt a little uncomfortable.

This place...what exactly is it? Why did I bring myself here?

The gray space is more like a vast gray universe without planets. In this universe, only Chen Qingyuan and the stone gate stone man are here. It is so lonely...

Chen Qingyuan lay flat in the gray world for three days, neither shouting nor going crazy.

He guessed that his time travel should follow a pattern. For example, in the world of "The Evil List", the pager showed him a task, and he could leave after completing it! So if he wanted to leave this gray world, there must be another world that needed him to do something.

The gray world is not completely useless. He has not eaten anything for three days, but he does not feel hungry at all, and there is no problem with breathing here.

At this moment, the stone gate of the Evil List trembled again, and under Chen Qingyuan's surprised gaze, a small dark gray vortex slowly gathered beside the stone gate.

Chen Qingyuan hesitated for a moment.

He turned his head to look at the parents in the distance who were "teaching" their child to walk, then turned around and resolutely stepped into the small whirlpool.

Since it was a mission, it would have to be completed. This time, he would get one year of memories after completing the mission. Next time, he might get something else as a reward. Maybe the key to returning to his own world was in it. Although doing missions made him feel like a time traveler who was treated like a beast of burden, his intuition told him that the mission was very important, more important than returning to his own world...

Chen Qingyuan, standing in the small vortex, felt his body become transparent. The vortex slowly rose and swallowed his body. With a whoosh, the gray world in front of him suddenly disappeared...

Black and grey kept interweaving in the perspective. They were clearly in the same picture but incompatible with each other. You and I were chasing each other, just like the yin and yang fish in the Tai Chi diagram. Chen Qingyuan felt a little dizzy, but he forced himself not to vomit. No one told him that time travel would cause motion sickness.

(End of this chapter)