Xing Yun's eyelids twitched, and then she opened her eyes.

"Why am I lying on the ground?" Xing Yun asked in confusion, pushing himself up with his hands.

His brain felt like it was being pricked by a needle, and he rubbed his temples with his right hand, turning his head left and right to look at his surroundings.

Xing Yun kept searching his memory for the time before he fainted, but this only made his headache worse.

"I don't think I've been drinking, so how did I black out?" Xing Yun stopped thinking, and the pain in her head finally subsided.

Just then, a joyful voice rang out from the side, "Old Xing, you're here!"

Xing Yun turned his head in the direction of the sound and saw his childhood friend Li Pengfei, who worked at the ironworks, coming out from around the corner and running towards him.

"Pengfei..."

Li Pengfei ran up to him and looked anxiously at Xing Yun, who was clutching his head. "Old Xing, did you hit your head?"

Xing Yun didn't speak, but simply shook her head slightly. "I always feel like I've forgotten something."

"Did you get hit on the head and lose your memory? Should I take you to the hospital to get it checked out?" Li Pengfei said, pulling Xing Yun toward the car.

Xing Yun did not refuse to be pulled along by him, and after walking for a short while, they arrived at Li Pengfei's bread cart.

There was a deep scratch on the left door, running from the front of the car to the rear wheel, exposing the brown sheet metal, with the edges curled up and rusted.

The rear bumper was wrapped with transparent tape, which was yellowed and curled into thin strips at the edges, causing it to shake in the wind.

There is a spiderweb-like crack in the lower right corner of the windshield.

Only one windshield wiper remained; the other, a bare iron frame, stood upright, rusted to an ochre red.

The rearview mirror was wrapped with two strips of black tape and was barely hanging there.

Upon seeing the car, Xing Yun's lips twitched, and he pointed to the dilapidated bread truck in front of him.

"Is this the luxury van you told me you were getting?"

Li Pengfei ignored Xing Yun and let her get in the car, then turned around and opened the door for himself, getting into the driver's seat.

"It's good enough if you can buy a car for 1000 yuan. Take it or leave it."

"Forget it, just take me home. I feel like your car will fall apart before it even reaches the hospital," Xing Yun said weakly.

His right shoulder was throbbing with pain, but he couldn't remember how he got injured.

"Okay, okay, okay."

Li Pengfei agreed, started the van's engine, and drove towards the city center.

Li Pengfei's speed wasn't fast, but this van was truly exceptional, constantly vibrating even on flat roads. For Xing Yun, encountering a speed bump was a life-or-death situation.

But coincidentally, there were three speed bumps connected together on the road ahead.

The violent jolting inside the car was like stir-frying vegetables, tossing the weakened Xing Yun around.

As the bread truck rolled over the third speed bump, Xing Yun instinctively grabbed the handle on the roof, causing her body to sway violently.

A hard object slipped out of his pocket.

It fell to the ground with a "thud" under the car seat.

Xing Yun thought she had dropped her phone and reached out to pick it up, only to find it was an unfamiliar object.

"This is..." The moment Xing Yun saw the summoner, his mind exploded, and the immense pain made him curl up in his seat instantly.

A large number of memories resurfaced, filling the gaps in my mind.

Xing Yun tried his best to suppress the pain and not cry out, but Li Pengfei in the front seat still saw his condition.

"Old Xing, you call this nothing! Hang in there, we'll be at the hospital soon!"

The old bread truck engine roared and accelerated instantly, intensifying the vehicle's jolting.

Unlike Li Pengfei's tension, Xing Yun's brain recovered all the missing memories after experiencing a period of pain, and her expression relaxed.

He simply rubbed his temples and returned to normal. He casually picked up the summoner that had fallen to the ground and put it in his pocket before leaning back in his seat.

His head was still throbbing a little. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't anything else, it was just that the car was too bumpy.

On the way thereafter, no matter what he said, Li Pengfei still didn't believe him and insisted on taking him to the hospital for a checkup.

Xing Yun was clearly not in good condition after being jostled all the way, but the test results were still normal. She was just too tired and needed to rest.

Xing Yun was sitting in a chair drinking the glucose water given to her by the doctor.

"I wonder when the factory will be repaired and reopened," Li Pengfei said, looking at the video in his hand.

"We can take a break for a while, but we also need to start finding ourselves a new job."

Xing Yun drank all the glucose water in the cup in one go. If the ironworks had this problem, then they would most likely lose their jobs.

Given the factory manager's poor and stingy appearance, he'll probably just run away.

"Let's go." Xing Yun casually tossed the used cup into the nearby trash can and completed the payment on her phone.

After experiencing the ordeal once again, Xing Yun returned home safely.

I went to the sofa, lay down, and fell asleep. When I woke up again, it was already 3 p.m.

"I'm so hungry..." Xing Yun wasn't awakened from sleep, but simply woken up by hunger.

The battle was too exhausting; my stomach is still cramping when I wake up.

Xing Yun rushed into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and took out the leftovers from last night.

Ignoring the cold, they started eating it with their hands.

Only after he finished all the leftovers did his hunger subside.

Still feeling hungry, Xing Yun made herself two more packets of instant noodles, which finally made her feel a little full.

He looked up and saw that it was already past four in the afternoon; it was time to pick up his daughter from kindergarten.

……

The afternoon sun slanted into the kindergarten gate, casting long shadows on the iron railings.

Xing Yun stood at the door, her hand on the railing, peering inside.

There were also many motorcycles parked around, and some parents were also peering inside.

In the yard, a few children were still chattering away by the slide.

A little girl was squatting by the sandpit, digging at something, unaware that her skirt was covered in sand.

The teacher stood at the door, holding a stack of pick-up and drop-off cards, and smiled when she saw him.

"Hello, Uncle." A chubby-faced little boy ran past him and was picked up by his mother.

Xing Yun took a few steps further in and searched through the crowd.

Actually, there's no need to look; that little girl in the pink dress is already running this way, her short legs moving incredibly fast, her schoolbag bouncing on her back.

"dad!"

Xing Yangyang rushed over, hugged Xing Yun's legs with both hands, and rubbed her face against his knees.

Xing Yun took Xing Yangyang's little hand and started walking back.

"Daddy, what are we eating today?" Yangyang asked, looking up at her.

What would you like to eat?

"I want to eat... Dad's noodles!"

Xing Yun smiled and said, "Okay, I'll cook you noodles when we get home."

When passing by a convenience store, Xing Yun went in and bought a bag of noodles.

The TV next to the cashier is playing the news:

"...The following is the latest news from our station."

The scene shifts to the exterior of a steel plant, where several excavators are clearing away the rubble.

"This morning, relevant departments held a press conference regarding the steel plant accident the day before yesterday."

Preliminary investigations indicate that the accident was caused by a partial collapse due to aging equipment, resulting in injuries to several workers.

All the injured have been taken to the hospital for treatment and are not in life-threatening condition. The specific cause of the accident is still under further investigation.

In the video, a middle-aged man in overalls says to the camera, "I heard a loud bang, and molten iron just flowed out... It was terrifying."

According to witnesses, the scene was chaotic when the accident occurred, but fortunately the rescue was timely and no greater casualties were caused.

Xing Yun glanced at it, not paying much attention, and was about to look away when the news switched to the next item.

"...Following the collapse of the ironworks at noon, another missing person case has been confirmed in Dongcheng District of this city this afternoon."

The missing person is a 35-year-old male who did not return home after get off work. He was found missing in his rented apartment this morning, and there were no signs of a struggle at the scene…

The convenience store owner muttered a few words under his breath.

"What era are we living in? People still believe in this ridiculously absurd cult propaganda!"

As he spoke, he casually crumpled a flyer into a ball and threw it into the trash can.

Xing Yun glanced at it and vaguely saw the words "divine descent" and "eternal life".

Without saying anything, they scanned the code to pay and then left with Yangyang in their hands.

When they got home, Xing Yun let Yangyang watch cartoons in the living room while she went to the kitchen to cook noodles.

After finishing her noodles, Xing Yangyang fell asleep in bed at nine o'clock that night.

Xing Yun returned to his room. For some reason, he felt a vague drowsiness after eating.

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