Chapter 2: 2. The Disappeared Twenty-Eight Years

Lin Kailun was currently holding a glass of fine wine, standing on the deck of a luxury cruise ship, gazing into the distance at the surface of the sea.

It was a rare trip out for him to have some fun, and incidentally to relax his mood and soothe the mental exhaustion brought on by intense work.

Just as Lin Kailun was leisurely sipping red wine and admiring the azure horizon, he suddenly discovered a cruise ship appearing ahead.

It seemed as if it had appeared out of nowhere; Lin Kailun couldn't help but rub his eyes, thinking he was hallucinating.

However, Lin Kailun didn't pay much attention to it; perhaps his mind was too relaxed and a bit dazed, causing him to miss this luxury cruise ship sailing over.

He began to admire that luxury cruise ship and found that it seemed quite nice, so he became interested and looked at the name engraved on the side of the ship.

"Goddess of Destiny? A pretty good name, and it sounds quite familiar, too; it seems I've heard it somewhere. Let me see which company it belongs to, and I'll book it next time." Lin Kailun started to pick up his phone to search.

But the result of the search gave him a sense of horror, and the hair on his body stood up instantly.

And at this moment, he also remembered why he felt the name was familiar; wasn't this the luxury cruise ship that had suddenly disappeared twenty-eight years ago?

The incident with this luxury cruise ship back then had caused quite a stir; although so many years had passed and not many people remembered it, those like him who enjoyed taking luxury cruises still knew about it.

The final conclusion announced was that this cruise ship had suffered a shipwreck.

Moreover, he had not heard of the name Goddess of Destiny being put back into service, and the news he searched for online was all from twenty-eight years ago.

"Is someone playing a joke? Or has someone already put this name back into use?" Lin Kailun couldn't help but think.

In fact, it wasn't just him who discovered the Goddess of Destiny; everyone else had seen it too. Some people clearly knew the situation better than Lin Kailun, so this news didn't need to be spread by Lin Kailun at all; it quickly spread throughout the entire cruise ship.

Half an hour later, the two cruise ships were docked not far apart, both sides gazing at each other from a distance, though everyone's emotions were far from calm.

The people on the Goddess of Destiny were panicked, stunned, and in disbelief, along with various states of daze and confusion.

The people on the Minglun Hao were excited, surprised...

Another half hour passed, and some people on the Minglun Hao had already started excitedly boarding the Goddess of Destiny, simultaneously confirming that this Goddess of Destiny was indeed the cruise ship that had disappeared twenty-eight years ago, and that not a single person on board was missing.

Others checked photos from back then and discovered that the appearances of these people were exactly the same as they were twenty-eight years ago, without the slightest change.

This news made these people incomparably excited, as if they had discovered a new continent; they could be considered to have witnessed a miracle with their own eyes!

At the same time, some people started taking various photos and videos to upload to the internet; having encountered such a huge, mysterious, and horrifying event, how could they not go online to show it off?

On October 3, 2018, at one o'clock in the afternoon, a piece of news suddenly spread wildly online.

Moments were flooded, forums and websites were occupied; at this moment, this news spread throughout the entire world.

The Goddess of Destiny that disappeared twenty-eight years ago has reappeared; pictures and truth included!

At first, everyone thought it was some kind of hype, or someone trying to grab attention.

But very soon, these people knew they were wrong, and wrong in a very outrageous way.

Because someone had already started a live stream, and everyone could clearly see the current situation.

There were many capable people online, so it didn't take long for the information about the people originally on the Goddess of Destiny to be dug up again, along with various photos.

With photos for comparison, everyone discovered that these people really were the people from twenty-eight years ago.

Those who were still skeptical were no longer skeptical now, because the facts were right before their eyes; everyone was so shocked by such a fantasy-like scene that they were speechless.

At the same time, various speculations and various rumors were also spread one after another.

Anyway, at this moment, the entire world's internet was boiling, and it also alarmed the authorities of various countries.

Because there were people of various nationalities on this cruise ship, and this matter was also quite fantastical; if it were true, then everyone would want to figure out what was going on.

Added to the fact that it spread so quickly and so widely, the news could not be blocked at all.

Zhang Ran looked somewhat blankly at these tourists who came from the Minglun Hao, watching them wear fashionable clothes, holding those smartphones that were still far off in his memory, and speaking the internet slang of this time period.

He was actually the one who accepted it the fastest, because his very existence was an irrationality, but at this moment, he did not want to accept it.

And the abnormality of the game in his mind just now was also constantly reminding him.

Zhang Ran did not want to come directly to this era of convenient living, filled with various high-tech products.

He had hoped to live with that girl and come to this era together.

At this moment, there was only one sentence in his mind: "Damn heaven, you're fucking playing with me!"

Zhang Ran suddenly grabbed the person next to him and said with a trembling voice, "Friend, can you let me use your phone?"

Lin Kailun didn't expect that this person in front of him would see at a glance that what he was holding was a phone, but he didn't think too much about it; perhaps this person had just heard others talking about it.

"Of course you can. Tell me the number, and I'll dial it for you; you might not know how to use it for the time being," Lin Kailun said.

Zhang Ran still had some sanity left, so he nodded and recited the number that was deeply etched in his memory.

Lin Kailun understood the mood of the person in front of him; after all, anyone who arrived twenty-eight years later in the blink of an eye would be like this.

He dialed the number, but the phone gave the sound of a disconnected number; he shrugged, guessing that this would be the case.

"Sorry, this number is disconnected," Lin Kailun said.

Zhang Ran was stunned; how could twenty-eight years have passed in just a moment?

Twenty-eight years... he didn't even know how that girl had lived.

Had she forgotten him?

Was she still waiting for him?

For a moment, Zhang Ran's heart was in turmoil!

Because this was near the territorial waters of Huaxia, the Huaxia warships arrived very quickly; everyone was shocked by this news.

Very soon, the Goddess of Destiny began to be taken over; not only them, but the Minglun Hao was the same.

But no matter what, the news of the Goddess of Destiny reappearing in the world had already spread across the entire globe.

And there was no need for public opinion control, nor was there any need to adopt other plans, because the accuracy of the news had long been confirmed.

No one had the power to find so many people who were exactly the same as they were twenty-eight years ago.

And the return of Zhang Ran and these people also caused a great impact on society, especially for those related to them.