Journey to the Heavens with a Punch

Chapter 3 Kidnapping?

The two finished ramen in a pleasant atmosphere.

"Ah, I'm so full."

Reiko Ina rubbed her stomach and exhaled a long breath.

"Mmm, thank you for your hospitality."

Chen Ye hummed, still thinking.

He has just signed the contract, and he has no money in his body, so where should he go...

"By the way, let me show you the house I rented."

Suddenly, Reiko Ina said to Chen Ye.

"Nani?!!"

Chen Ye was startled, what kind of development speed is this?

too fast!

"Let me tell you, there have been a lot of vacant rooms recently. If you think it's good, I'll lend you some money and live there first. Anyway, the rent there is not expensive."

Ina Reiko continued.

Chen Ye: ...

It was because he thought too much.

"This is too much trouble for you. You are helping me find a job and lending me money to rent a house..."

However, after receiving help from others one after another, even Chen Ye in this situation felt a little embarrassed.

"It's okay, it's okay, I just want to help you, can't you!"

Seeing Chen Ye's exaggerated refusal, Reiko Ina seemed a little angry.

Then there was no other way, Chen Ye had no choice but to reluctantly (openly) accept her kindness again.

After leaving the noodle shop, only a few hundred meters away, we arrived at the house Reiko Ina mentioned.

"This house looks so familiar..."

Chen Ye complained silently in his heart.

The house in front of me has only two floors and is made of cement.The exterior of the house is gray and white, but the paintwork appears to be recent.Outside the building is a wooden staircase connecting the upper and lower floors.

To put it simply, it is just a cheap apartment with country r characteristics.

"Come on, I'm in the fourth room on the second floor."

Ina Reiko led Chen Ye upstairs, took out the key and opened the door.

Although Chen Ye never entered a girl's room in his memory, he was not panicked at all.

Everything here is very ordinary, just like the homes of ordinary r country people.

The area of ​​the whole house is about 30 square meters. There is a small porch at the entrance, and there is a kitchen and bathroom inside.Further inside is the main room and the drawer cabinets on the wall.

There is nothing superfluous in the house, it is simple and ordinary.

"How is it? Is this room not bad? The room next door is similar to this one. It is empty. I get along very well with the landlord. I have the key. There are new quilts and household items in it. If you want to live in I'll give you the key when I come down, and I'll pay for this month's rent for you first."

Ino Reiko said with a smile on her face.

Now that it's all said and done, how can Chen Ye have any reason to refuse?
"Okay...thank you very much."

Sitting in Ina Reiko's room for a while, after drinking a cup of tea, Chen Ye took the key and went to the next door.

It's almost nine o'clock, he needs to settle down and start a new life here.

Afterwards, Reiko Ina went to Chen Ye's house to help him introduce and organize the room.

"Good night, Chen Yejun."

Before leaving, Ina Reiko winked at Chen Ye and smiled.

"Good night, Reiko..."

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"Jingle jingle jingle jingle!"

This sound...is the alarm clock in the house...

Chen Ye opened his eyes.

He is lying on the bed.

On the bed in the room next door to Reiko Ina.

not a dream,
I really went to another world.

Turning off the alarm clock that was set last night, Chen Ye immediately got up and took a shower.

Today is Fire Day, he saw it from the calendar in Ina Rei's room last night.

As the first day of his new job, Chen Ye naturally wanted to arrive early to give Anna a good impression.

It's midsummer now, and Chen Ye's clothes were hung on the balcony after they were washed last night, and they dried overnight.

After tidying up the house, before leaving, Chen Ye looked at the alarm clock, it was six o'clock.

Reiko Ina had pointed out the way to work for him last night, and Chen Ye had completely remembered it, and it only took about ten minutes to walk there quickly.

Speaking of this, Chen Ye also discovered a situation that he didn't know whether it was good or bad.

Since yesterday, whether it is the books he has read in the library or the route that Reiko Ina took him and explained, he can remember everything in his mind.

Chen Ye seemed to have become like the legendary genius who could remember everything with a single glance and ten lines.

From the perspective of learning, this is of course a good thing, but from other perspectives, Chen Ye was worried about whether there was something abnormal about his body.

"It's a pity, I remember everything clearly, but I can't remember who I am..."

Chen Ye knocked on his head while muttering and locked the door.

When passing by Ina Reiko's room, Chen Ye raised his hand in the air, after thinking about it, he put it down.

She is a senior in high school and still has to go to school, maybe she has already passed by, and Chen Ye can't think of a reason to knock on the door to call her in the morning.

Then...forget it.

Chen Ye straightened his clothes and walked towards the supermarket.

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"Hey, you came early, newcomer. Come here, come in through this door."

Although we arrived at the supermarket at [-]:[-], what Chen Ye didn't expect was that store manager Anna was already in the store.She was waving to Chen Ye through the glass window.

When Chen Ye entered the store, she found that the store manager was nibbling on a sandwich, while her other hand was flipping through something similar to a purchase order.

"I spent a lot of money to set up this store. It's too wasteful to hand it over to others. That's why I checked the accounts here early in the morning."

Manager Anna said, and handed Chen Ye a sandwich: "Didn't you eat this morning?"

"Thank you."

Chen Ye took it, put on the clerk's clothes, opened the sandwich and ate it.

"The automatic water dispenser and microwave oven are over there, and there are disposable cups. In the supermarket, three meals are free. If you want to go out to eat, then wait for another clerk to take over when there are no people. But go quickly Come back quickly."

"Okay, I know."

In the morning, Chen Ye followed store manager Anna to learn the basics of the supermarket.

The supermarkets and convenience stores in this world are the same as those in country r, with machines for selling food and making.

With Chen Ye's current memory and physical coordination ability, it is natural that he will be able to learn it once, and he will become proficient soon.

"What a pity."

The store manager saw that Chen Ye was able to work in the store with ease in less than two hours, and sighed: "With your memory and action, it's a pity not to continue studying or find a better job."

In the morning and noon, apart from Chen Ye, there was a young clerk in the store, who looked about 20 years old.

But he is different from Chen Ye, he is a part-time shop assistant.

The afternoon sun was very venomous, and it was rare to have a quiet moment in the store.

"Chen Ye, don't be like them."

After lunch, the part-time clerk was sent away, and store manager Anna said solemnly to Chen Ye: "For example, the part-time clerk who worked with you this morning. To be honest, I don't really want to use these people."

"They are what the society calls the 'wasted generation'. They have nothing to do all day long. They eat the old when they have no money or come to do odd jobs to make a living. But...it is also a problem of this society..."

Manager Anna sighed and stopped talking.

Chen Ye recalled that the clerk was doing his own thing all morning and didn't communicate with Chen Ye at all. He just mechanically did what the store manager Anna ordered, and turned on the phone to play with it when he had nothing to do.

Chewing the old people...

Chen Ye felt a little uncomfortable. After all, he didn't even know his identity. For him, gnawing on the old man was a luxury.

"By the way, the part-time job in the afternoon is Reiko. You two brothers and sisters should have a tacit understanding, so that it won't be too troublesome during the evening rush hour for shopping, huh."

Store Manager Anna wiped the sweat off her brow, changed the topic, and talked about Reiko Ina again.

Chen Ye just chatted with the store manager who was checking the shelves while collecting the cash.

There are not many guests in the afternoon, and they will slowly increase until the evening.

"Strange."

Just as Chen Ye was thinking about how to solve the food problem in the library during the holiday tomorrow, store manager Anna suddenly walked over.

"what happened?"

Chen Ye questioned.

"Reiko's part-time job appointment time is four o'clock in the afternoon, and she is never late. But now it's almost five o'clock, and she doesn't answer the phone. What's going on?"

Manager Anna raised her hand and looked at the time: "No, I'm worried, do you have her parents' phone number?"

As soon as these words came out, Chen Ye was really stumped. The store manager Anna didn't know anything about Reiko Ina's family situation.

"No, no."

Chen Ye could only answer truthfully.

"You should be temporarily staying at Lingzi's house. Now go home or go to school to see where she is. I will give you special permission to take this leave, go and go."

Manager Anna tore off Chen Ye's clothes and pushed him out the door.

Chen Ye didn't know Reiko Ina's school.

Helpless, Chen Ye had no choice but to rush back to the rented house, hoping to find her.

Chen Ye stepped up his horsepower and ran at full speed, and arrived at the house in less than half a minute.

"Reiko? Are you there?"

Chen Ye went upstairs, went to Ina Reiko's door and called twice.

No one responded.

Chen Ye could only go forward and knock on the door.

"squeak……"

The door was unlocked, and it slowly opened under Chen Ye's knock.

Realizing something was wrong, Chen Ye immediately opened the door and rushed into the house.

!!!

He was shocked by what he saw inside: the floor was covered in signs of vandalism, and the sliding paper doors of the cabinets were ripped apart.

Even the kotatsu in the center of the room was overturned in the corner.There was another cup poured over on the tatami next to it, and the tea spilled all over the floor.

"This... what's going on?!"

The only word Chen Ye could think of was "kidnap".

But why would someone kidnap Ina Reiko?She has nothing...

Have.

Chen Ye's right eyelid trembled, and he thought of the only possibility that Reiko Ina was kidnapped.

That is Reiko Ina's person, and her appearance.

"But... what should I do?"

On the second day of living in another world, Chen Ye fell into a major crisis.

(End of this chapter)