Time passes quickly in the hourglass cycle, flowers bloom and wither, year after year, and in the blink of an eye, it is Zhang Ming's 12th year in the Sea of Demon Gods.
Counting the 8 years on Turtle Island, it has been 20 years since we left the earth!
20 years is a long time, and 20 years is also a short time. For Zhang Ming's relatives and friends, after waiting for twenty years, they finally did not wait for this guy to come back, and they slowly accepted it - just treat him like this person. Go live abroad!
Although the government attaches great importance to Zhang Ming and often condolences to his family and sends small gifts, no matter how strong the family ties are, they cannot withstand 20 years...
I have to admit that humans are very forgetful creatures.
With the birth of a new life, Zhang Ming's parents' attention also shifted to the next generation.
Children always bear more hope and beauty, and require more time and energy to raise them.
As for the son who is far away overseas, almost 45 years old, and doesn’t even have a girlfriend...
When they heard that he was still alive, the second elder could only sigh and say with emotion: "It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive!"
Neighbors in the community sometimes gossip and ask the elders what happened to their 45-year-old son, is he married, and does he have children? What does it look like?
They could only wave their hands and say perfunctorily: "I work abroad and make a lot of money, but I'm not married yet."
Anyway, they have accepted this!
Of course, Zhang Ming's presence in the minds of his relatives is getting lower and lower, while his presence in major paranormal research institutes is tending to rise.
The "Zhang-Peter Theorem" and the "Zhang-Ma Formula" are all named this way in the scientific community when a formula is discovered.
The exchange of drifting bottles has brought about an unimaginable wealth of knowledge.
It is said that everything is difficult at the beginning. For these smartest people in the world, a little heuristic information can bring about a huge chain reaction.
That name is in the researcher's mouth all day long. How can Lao Zhang's name not have a sense of existence?
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So on this day, Comrade Lu Tuyu took a train to Donghua City, the city where the headquarters of the "Paranormal Anomaly Investigation Bureau" is located.
The clouds are rolling in golden and orange colors, and the rising sun is shining on the blue ocean in the distance. Every corner of this new city is showing a vibrant development.
After getting off the train at the train station, the roar of machines was extremely loud. Roads were being built and houses were being built everywhere.
Lu Tuyu moved around on the road for a long time, and his spotless suit finally got a little dusty.
After more than ten years of development, the "Paranormal Anomaly Investigation Bureau" has indeed become a behemoth on the earth.
The organization has a high reputation among the people due to its successful solutions to many supernatural and vicious disasters. Under the various tactics of General Manager Qin Yiwei, some more special remarks have emerged among people from various countries: Can broader and more all-round cooperation be carried out through this organization?
Ten years is indeed not a short time!
"Lao Lu, long time no see!" Wang Fumin shook hands with Lu Tuyu.
Lu Tuyu's face was filled with a warm smile, and he said with some envy: "After all these years, you haven't aged at all! Are you about to break through the second level of human limits?"
"When I am buried in the coffin, your second spring has just begun."
After so many years, Lu Tuyu is 44 years old; Wang Fumin is 55 years old.
Compared with 20 years ago, Lao Wang's appearance has hardly changed, and he still looks like he was in his thirties.
On the contrary, the younger Lu Tuyu had wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and some of the hair on his temples began to turn gray.
The gap in life span between the strong and ordinary people is slowly widening, and this is something that cannot be done.
Faced with the ridicule from his friends, Lao Wang smiled bitterly: "My body has not aged, but my mental age has aged a lot. I am no different from an old man in his 70s or 80s. I wish I could lie down and die immediately."
"How can you say that?"
"Let's not talk about various work matters for now. My daughter is really worrying. How old is she this year... 26, and she doesn't have a boyfriend! She is too lazy to practice such a good thing as human breathing. Do you think her brain is all muddled? She will be 27 next year and 28 the year after that!"
"Well, there's really nothing we can do about getting married and having children." Lu Tuyu spread his hands and said with a smile, "How about I help you see if there are any suitable boys and arrange a blind date?"
"If she is willing to go on a blind date, I can save a lot of trouble."
Wang Fumin drove Lu Tuyu to his residential area in his car.
There are not too many cars on the wide streets, and fuel vehicles have been completely eliminated by the times. Since the merger of Pangea, oil production has been significantly reduced, and humans can no longer squander these precious chemical materials at will. As for electric vehicles, many things in terms of production capacity have not been restored yet.
Lao Wang suddenly said: "How are your father-in-law and mother-in-law?"
Lu Tuyu said with a smile: "My health must be in great shape. There is no problem in living to ninety or one hundred years. If you can't cultivate to the limit of human beings, your life span of one hundred years is actually about the same."
"On the other hand, my two daughters' academic performance is very average, only the average level in the class. As they grow up, they become less and less interesting. Even their uncle from another world seems to have lost interest in them. He keeps writing in his letters. Why are you asking?"
Wang Fumin laughed loudly, it was funny to think about losing the favor of his uncle from another world.
But this kind of thing is normal. Only children are cute and can be hugged and kissed. When they grow up to be grown-up girls, men and women will already be different. What intimacy can there be?
In the end, the two children, Lu Tuyu, could not come up with the word "good".
But he himself doesn't care about men and women. He has been raised so big, so who still bothers about it?
Wang Fumin sighed: "It doesn't matter if your grades are average... As long as you have a normal personality, you don't have to worry too much."
"If I were to deal with someone like my daughter, I would suspect that I owed her a debt in my previous life! After finally correcting her bad habits, she turned into a dead nerd again, playing games every day!"
"Does she know you think of her this way?"
"I'm already lying down, let her do whatever she wants."
The two chatted about some light gossip.
Only in front of his old friends could Lao Wang take off his disguise and say something about his family's strengths and weaknesses. Who could have imagined that this man in plain clothes and sunglasses is the strongest man on earth and the main cadre of the huge organization "Paranormal Anomaly Investigation Bureau"...
The two walked into the yard and basked in the sun.
At this moment, the slightly aging old Comrade Li Xianfeng also joined the party. Hearing their conversation, he smiled slightly: "We are talking about children again. Guess what Lao Zhang will send back this time." nice one?"
Li Xianfeng, 68, has been broadcasting for 20 years. He has no talent for cultivation. His hair has long since fallen out and there are wrinkles on his face. Only his mental state is still strong.
In addition to broadcasting, Li Xianfeng is also the head of a large research institute and a serious scientific researcher.
Li Xianfeng's residence is right next door to Wang Fumin's, so he can visit him from time to time.
Wang Fumin saw him and said with a smile: "What's there to talk about, Lao Zhang? This kind of strong man who is close to the spiritual limit, if he doesn't use nuclear bombs, he can overthrow the most elite special forces here by himself." .”
The three of them gathered here, naturally, to wait for the arrival of the drift bottle.
After so many years, the average time for a 14-month drift bottle has shortened to... 13 months and 13 days?
Ahem, at this rate, Lao Zhang will be able to return successfully in another 260 years.
As soon as they talked about the year 260, Lu Tuyu picked up the coffee on the table, drank it in one sip, and sighed: "It seems that I, Xiao Lu, have been waiting for Lao Lu, and then for the death of Lu, but I still can't wait. It’s the day my brother-in-law comes back.”
"But it doesn't matter. I left him descendants who are still his direct blood relatives..."
Lu Tuyu said with some sadness and humor: "As long as my two daughters continue to have children, their children's children's children's children should be able to wait for him, right? Anyway, as long as they continue to have children, they will be able to wait for him. When the time comes, , how should we call him Lao Zhang? Grandpa, grandpa, my grandpa is Lu Tuyu, and his wife is your sister, please take care of me!"
The wrinkles on Li Xianfeng's forehead trembled, and he couldn't help laughing: "Things like seniority don't feel that way if they are too far apart. If you count the ancestors from thousands of years ago, no one has any blood relationship with anyone. Ah. Paleoanthropologists believe that humans had the same grandmother named Lucy 140,000 years ago, and all humans are descendants of Lucy."
"What the great scientist said is different." Wang Fumin said, "I think it's better to call him uncle. He can obviously accept the title of uncle best, because uncle is the closest to him and the most imaginable. Call him seventh uncle, grandpa, where can I And the so-called family ties? As for ancestors, ancestors, and grandpas, I have no idea at all."
Lu Tuyu shook his head: "Oh, that's right. The key is that the descendants a few hundred years from now must be good-looking. Regardless of male or female, if they are too ugly, who will be related to you?"
"If you look similar to him, Lao Zhang, you can naturally become relatives, so you don't have to worry about me here."
Li Xianfeng, who owned the [Reincarnation], fell into silence listening to their funny and somewhat sad conversation.
He is already 68 years old, and his cultivation results are not very good. Obviously, in this life cycle, he really cannot wait for Zhang Ming to return.
As for the next "reincarnation", it may be difficult to wait.
But will I still be me after reincarnation? Li Xianfeng didn't know either.
Among the three, only Lao Wang, who has broken through the first level of human limit, may be able to wait until Lao Zhang comes back.
If Lao Wang can break through the second level, his remaining lifespan should be more than enough.
(End of chapter)
