Chapter 1325 Ricardo M Road
Chapter 1325 Ricardo M. Lu
"Passengers going to the Line 8 platform, please prepare, the train is about to arrive at the transfer platform, please be careful of the gap between the train and the platform."
The high-speed old train slowly slowed down until it stopped at the edge of the platform. The yellow light in the carriage flashed, accompanied by the alarm, and the door opened quickly with the sound of mechanical knocks. Perhaps due to old age and disrepair, the door panel was still retracted into the car body, making a worrying huge collision sound, which made people worry that the door would collapse if it stopped at the platform several times.
When the train arrived at the station, Lin Nian walked to the open door of the carriage and looked out. Instead of walking out, he turned back to look at Yelena, who was lying on the cold chair with her palm raised and playing with her fingers.
The blonde girl didn't seem to want to pay attention to Lin Nian. After playing, she rolled up the hair that fell on her side and wrapped it around her fingers, rolled it up and loosened it. After the hair tip was curved, she changed another strand of hair and continued to repeat this action. If the conductor didn't drive her off the train, she could lie here and entertain herself all day.
"Don't you want to say something?" Lin Nian asked her, looking at her who was obviously angry.
After getting out of Line 4, she has been like this, appearing by his side from time to time, and then she doesn't talk, and doesn't play tricks like usual. She just squats in a corner or sits in a place to play her own things, occasionally glancing at him, and when he glances back, she avoids his gaze, saying nothing, but it seems that she has said everything.
Lin Nian certainly knows why she is like this, and he doesn't want to say anything about the contradiction that makes them temporarily unhappy, because he thinks that saying more is nonsense, some things don't have to be explained clearly, and she is not a three-year-old child, otherwise she still needs to ask him for an "explanation"?
"Really don't want to say anything? That's it?" Lin Nian pointed to the situation outside the carriage and asked.
He stood at the door and didn't go out, the train door didn't close, the yellow light alarm kept ringing, he didn't get off the train, the subway seemed to stay here, everyone just waited, whoever gave up first would be a grandson.
The blonde girl didn't reply, but twisted her body in the chair, adjusted to a more comfortable position, and continued to play with her beautiful and smooth hair, her delicate nose twitched and hummed "Rolling in the Deep", or the "Explicit" version.
God knows how she hummed to let people know whether she was humming the "Clean" version or the "Explicit" version, anyway, she succeeded in making Lin Nian get this meaning.
Mandy Gonzalez sang "Someone like you", Lin Nian listened to "Don't You Remember", she hummed "Rolling in the Deep", everyone has a bright future.
Lin Nian narrowed his eyes as he stared at Yelena, who was leaning sideways. Psychologically speaking, turning your back to someone is a strong physical signal of dissatisfaction and alienation. This guy seemed to be serious. In the past, this guy would always pick some insignificant moments when he was upset, but this time, when the arrow was on the string and the sword was ready, he actually got upset, which really caught him off guard.
He pondered for a moment, thought about it, turned his head to look outside the door and said expressionlessly, "Su Xiaoqiang would not be like this."
Fuck you.
Although no one really cursed this vulgar swear word, Lin Nian clearly felt the resentment that was about to erupt the moment he finished speaking.
He turned around to see if she had any reaction, but he saw the girl with her back to him raised her slender white middle finger and performed the highest etiquette in the world of contempt for him.
"." Lin Nian knew that this guy could not be relied on now, and he could only face the weird scene in front of him alone.
He sighed inaudibly and turned his sight back to the outside of the carriage. What he saw was not the old and shabby platform as usual. On the contrary, the platform outside the door was quite clean and fashionable. The tiles on the ground seemed to be newly pasted, reflecting the clean and white light. The surface was mopped by the cleaners to illuminate the bottom of the girl's skirt.
On the contrary, such a platform would not be desolate and empty. There were simply crowds of people here! A large number of office workers and students wandered on the platform, and the sound of the crowd resounded throughout the space. The fiery "life" diluted the dead silence and desolation in the Nibelung in one breath, giving people the illusion that it was like another world outside the carriage door!
Lin Nian observed that the passers-by coming and going on the platform seemed not to notice that this outdated subway stopped on the platform. He stood at the open door of the carriage for a long time, and no one looked up at him. It seemed that no one could see him. He was in a bubble.
So was he a bubble, or were all these things he saw illusory? Or, are they both just reflections in the mirror?
Lin Nian didn't know this. Some things can only be confirmed by seeing them with one's own eyes and touching them with one's own hands.
He ignored the angry blonde girl behind him and walked out of the carriage. After stepping onto the yellow blind road, the people waiting for the train on the platform suddenly rushed towards him, passed by him and got into the carriage behind him.
Lin Nian stood in the crowd and looked back, and found that the old train he took when he came here had disappeared at some point. Instead, a brand new, all-white subway train was parked at the side of the platform. The lines on the front of the train were as sharp as bullets. Unlike the old iron train, the materials used alone were steel, aluminum alloy, and carbon fiber composite materials, which were beautiful and advanced.
Lin Nian was very sure that he got off from the position of this train, but when he looked up at the electronic screen high on the platform, it showed that the train's terminal was Babaoshan and the next stop was CBD. Obviously, this was no longer the Nibelungen he knew, but the coastal city where he had lived for decades.
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"What's going on?"
Lin Nian stood in front of the subway line map on the wall. The glass reflected his somewhat dazed and frowning expression. Countless people passed by behind him. Occasionally, a few young girls dressed in student clothes would blush and whisper to each other when they saw Lin Nian standing in front of the subway line, as if they were encouraging their best friends to come forward and chat with him.
Judging from the subway line, this is indeed the coastal city he knows, his hometown, but he doesn't believe that he can take a train from the north to the southern coastal area in Nibelungen. This is a subway, not a high-speed maglev train, and it can't take him across most of China in a short time.
Moreover, after Lin Nian walked into the platform, he observed countless interesting details in less than 30 seconds.
First of all, the mobile phone models in everyone's hands have become unfamiliar. Those LCD screen mobile phones are definitely not iPhone series. They are much more advanced and beautiful than the flagship Apple models that Lin Nian knows. His amazing eyesight can glimpse the logos on the back of those mobile phones, which are brand symbols he has never seen before.
Secondly, the clothes and dress of most people gave him a more fashionable feeling, as if this was a trendy mecca like Williamsburg in New York. He even saw many boys and girls with dreadlocks, which was clearly a product of American black culture, but it could be seen in this small border town (from the perspective of second-tier or third-tier cities in 2011, it was indeed a rare thing to see the popular products of American black culture).
The last and most decisive factor was time.
Lin Nian glanced at the timetable on the electronic screen just above the platform service station, which clearly reminded him that the current Beijing time was: 13:10:53:32 on May 12, 2021.
The world 10 years later.
"Hey! Yelena!" Lin Nian shouted the name of the blonde girl.
All that came to his ears was the noise of the crowd in the subway, the "beep" sound of swiping cards at the gate, and the yawning security inspector at the security checkpoint perfunctorily swept the metal detector over the passengers, and the alarm sounded continuously.
He touched his pocket and took out his phone, which was still the iPhone 5. It was originally considered a high-end mobile phone model, but now compared with the overall level of the platform, it is not even as good as the cheap phone in the corner where the old cleaner kept swiping strange short videos!
Lin Nian glanced at the signal in the upper right corner of the phone, and surprisingly it was full. He opened the phone book and found Lu Mingfei's number and called him. Their phone cards all had long-distance roaming activated, which was nothing more than a higher call fee. As long as the call could be connected, it would be fine.
He had actually prepared that the call would not go through, but he didn't expect that after waiting for more than ten seconds, the other party actually answered the call!
"Hello? Who is this?" The person on the other end of the phone asked, his voice was a little lazy, with a little decadent feeling, but more tired, a kind of working class who was under pressure after a day's work.
"Lu Mingfei?" Lin Nian didn't think he would recognize Lu Mingfei's voice wrong. It was Lu Mingfei who answered the phone on the other end of the phone, but he caught the strangeness in the other party's voice.
"It's me. Who are you? Wait a minute. Isabel! Do I have an appointment this afternoon? Didn't we say that today's business would be over after the meeting?" The boy on the other end of the phone seemed to be calling out to someone, and after getting the answer soon after, he came back and said, "Uh, didn't you make an appointment with Isabel? What do you want to talk to me about? If it's about the student union, you can just call the student union's hotline, or talk to Isabel. She can help you solve 90% of the problems, and her efficiency is definitely higher than mine. If what you encounter happens to be that 10%, then you don't need to look for me, because most of the time I can't help you. There's nothing I can do. "
Lin Nian was stunned by the official language and the skillful passing of the buck. He didn't speak until the other party said that he was fine and hung up. "I'm Lin Nian."
"Lin Nian? Who?" The boy on the other side was a little confused. "Are you a member of the student union? Or a freshman? Sorry, I have to remember a lot of names. I can't remember everyone's names at once. If I have seen you before, I apologize to you first. I didn't forget your name on purpose."
Lin Nian lowered his chin, shrugged his eyebrows, and his eyes widened a little, as if he couldn't believe that the other party would play this trick on him.
But after a moment, his mind quickly turned back, combined with the current environment, he sorted out the situation he might encounter, and then pinched his nose and said, "I'm not a member of the student union, I'm a member of the Lionheart Club. You are Lu Mingfei, right? MingFeiLu. "
"It's Ricardo·M·Lu, Ricardo. Are you from Senior Brother Chu Zihang's side? Did Senior Brother ask you to help him pass on a message to me?" The boy on the other end of the phone became interested. "I heard that Senior Brother has been interning in the Executive Department and running field missions, traveling around Korea, Italy, and the Middle East. Recently, it seems that he is going to the North Pole again. Does he have anything to tell me before he leaves?"