On the Seven Towers

Soft and exotic music, a female voice sang a song with an unknown meaning in a graceful tune.

The light was a little dim, making the wooden table and tablecloth in front of him look very textured. There were complex and tortuous patterns on the dishes, and chopsticks and knives and forks were on the side.

Xiao Chen realized that this was a double table in a restaurant. He glanced around. There were rattan-style decorations, wooden carvings of peacocks and elephants on the wall, and stone Buddha statues with different postures placed on the surrounding cabinets. The waiter standing not far away was wearing Southeast Asian style clothing.

There was no one opposite, but there was a set of tableware.

Am I waiting for someone? Xiao Chen thought to himself.

Sure enough, not long after, a girl came slowly under the guidance of the waiter and walked in front of him.

Luo Ling? !

"Sorry, a meeting delayed me for some time. You have been here for a while, right?" Luo Ling took off her coat and hung it on the back of the chair, put her bag behind her, smiled at Xiao Chen, and sat opposite him.

"Well, it's OK. I just got here too." Xiao Chen responded with a smile.

"How was the reading of the article last night? Did it exceed 10,000?" Luo Ling asked as she flipped through the menu.

"Article?" Xiao Chen was still confused.

"You're stupid." Luo Ling laughed, "Why do you look so confused when you come in today? Did you stay up late last night and sacrifice too many brain cells?"

She called the waiter first, ordered a few dishes quickly, then opened her phone, searched for it, and praised: "Not bad. It's over 20,000. It seems that the story is well written this time. Time travel..., um, um, and analysis... It's good, Lao Xiao, it's like a detective story, well-reasoned and convincing."

Xiao Chen had no idea what she was talking about, so he had to touch his nose and wait patiently for her to finish reading.

Luo Ling read very quickly, scanning the entire article in two or three minutes. She put down her phone, suddenly reached out, held Xiao Chen's hand and said, "Tell me, that day two years ago, if you hadn't ridden your bike to print and accidentally hit me, and then took me to the pharmacy a few steps away to buy Band-Aids, we would have been in school, and we would have disappeared with that half of the campus."

Xiao Chen's hand was held by Luo Ling's slender hand, and he suddenly felt a little hot on his face. This Luo Ling was intimate and natural in front of him. Could it be that they were already in that kind of relationship?

However, Luo Ling's words still made him a little concerned. The campus disappeared?

"You, are you talking about the day of time travel?" Xiao Chen frowned and asked.

"Oh, you, the WeChat editor, are you confused by the story you wrote? Are you so sure that it was a time travel?"

Luo Ling turned the phone around, and the screen was facing Xiao Chen, and it was a public account called "Lao Xiao Strange Talk". The article first showed a bird's-eye view of Huaxia University, except that the ground seemed to have been dug into a big hole, and most of the school disappeared from the ground. The title was "Traveling Through Time and Space: Huaxia University's Journey to Another World", and the following text was speculative, discussing what would happen if the disappearance of Huaxia University was a time travel.

"I didn't expect you would write that we both became magicians and became a couple over there. How much do you cling to me? You won't let me go even if you travel to another world?" Luo Ling smiled sweetly, and Xiao Chen's heartbeat accelerated.

Neither Luo Ling nor I traveled through time? Xiao Chen was surprised to read the article, but he always felt that what the article described was what should have happened. And the warmth here was just a dream.

Dream?

I finally remembered, the dream travel method...

Xiao Chen was filled with a sense of loss at this time.

"What's wrong? You are so strange today." Luo Ling squeezed her hands tighter, "What happened?"

Since he knew it was a dream, Xiao Chen let go.

"Let's eat first. I haven't had a good meal like this for a long time." The dishes have been served one after another. He filled a bowl of Tom Yum Goong soup and drank it in one gulp. It felt like his taste buds, which had been dormant for many days, finally revived. Then there was curry beef brisket and shrimp salad. Luo Ling watched Xiao Chen eat voraciously, revealing a thoughtful expression.

"Hey, how about we play a game now?" Luo Ling said.

"Game?" Xiao Chen was still eating voraciously.

"I think the article you wrote is quite interesting. You continue to deduce what happened to us after we traveled through time, and then I will help you find the flaws, how about that?"

Xiao Chen saw Luo Ling's enthusiastic look, shrugged and said, "Okay."

He picked up the napkin and wiped his mouth, and began to recall: "If we traveled through time, I should have been printing something at that time, and you went to the small supermarket..."

Xiao Chen briefly told his own experience, and talked for nearly half an hour in one breath, and finally talked about his experience in the capital. He wanted to stop several times, but Luo Ling encouraged him to finish the story and asked a lot of details.

Luo Ling seemed to be digesting the story, but Xiao Chen couldn't wait to continue eating.

"There's not much food there, right?"

"Yeah, that's right." Xiao Chen was busy eating and didn't think seriously about what Luo Ling said.

"Is there rice?"

"No."

Luo Ling drank a glass of juice and said, "I should have taken you to eat Chinese food earlier. It's not easy to come back once."

"What did you say!" Xiao Chen suddenly realized that the other party's words were wrong.

Luo Ling folded her hands, resting them on her chin, and said seriously: "You are Xiao Chen, and many of your subtle movements are still the same, but you are not my Xiao Chen, because you don't know much about our affairs and everything that happened after the school disappeared. I guess you are a Xiao Chen from a parallel world. In that world, you and I went to another world!"

Xiao Chen held a prawn in his mouth and looked at the other party in surprise: "You are so smart in your dreams! But since it is a dream, even you are fake, what else can I say?"

"How do you know that I am just a fake dream? I think I am a very real Luo Ling." She smiled cunningly.

"How is this possible." Xiao Chen waved at the spoon on the table, and the spoon floated in the air, "Look, this is very surreal, right? It can only happen in a dream."

"But, can you do this in your world?" Luo Ling asked back.

"That's right."

"So, how do you know that if you return to your original world, or come to my world, you won't continue to have this power? After all, this is just pure spiritual power, and it doesn't involve any magic, right?" Luo Ling quickly grasped the essence of the problem from Xiao Chen's previous description.

"I think you are real now, because I don't think I'm so smart even in my dreams." Xiao Chen murmured.