Chapter 2907: A Regretful Ending and the Black Invitation Letter

"Regardless, you have finally waited for her now. What will you do next?"

Xia De asked, and the old man did not look at Xia De, but at the tea cup on the counter in front of him:

"What can I do? I have waited for too long, this is truly too long. Sometimes I also think, am I waiting to reunite with her, or just simply wanting to answer my own doubts."

"Has time diluted your feelings for her?"

"No, I still remember the throbbing when watching the stars on the haystack at the entrance of the village that summer, but... after all, it was missed, wasn't it? When she was young, although I was young, we were born in different eras; after I came to this era, she was still young, but I was already old."

The old man poured himself another cup of tea and sighed, making up his mind:

"I have already decided, I want to leave this bookstore to her. Although this life can be considered missed, at least leaving a gift is not a wasted trip. I will not see her again. If she opens her mouth to call me Grandpa Berkeley, I am afraid I will really faint immediately."

Xia De actually wanted to say "whether her liking books could be because she got a bookstore for free," but such words were obviously not suitable to say now:

"I admire you very much. Traveling through time just to find a lover from your youth is a romantic plot that even knight novels don't have."

"But after all, it was missed."

He continued to sigh, but added:

"But fortunately, after all, I still saw her. My body has clearly become worse in recent years. In the middle of the night, I also worried that I would not be able to meet her until I died. Please rest assured, I will not disturb her life. The love story that belongs to me has ended, but the love story that belongs to her has not yet begun."

"How old was she when you met her?"

"Sixteen, I was seventeen that year."

Xia De calculated, A Jie Li Na said just now that the girl was fourteen years old, just because of long-term malnutrition, she looked relatively thin and small, that is to say, at least within two years, the world would not be destroyed, and there would still be normal people.

But this still needs to calculate the girl's date of birth, and estimate the date when she traveled through time. If she traveled on the first day after sixteen, and today is the last day of her fourteen, in fact, there is not much time left.

The old man's body no longer allowed him to drink alcohol, so he just drank tea cup by cup, telling Xia De the story of his past.

Although the ending of the story is the regret of missing, it is a joke of time, but Xia De thinks that compared to other time-travel stories, this is definitely a good story.

The time travel of the Kaming family created a distorted family ethical relationship, Bronte's time travel turned into a monster for longevity, Director Gede's time travel was a story about demons and greed, and even the story of Kindel and the dragon did not end satisfactorily in the end.

Only the story of this old shop manager, although simple, is very pure. If it is in Dorothy's words, this embodies something of the most beautiful human beings, although this is indeed a regret...

The letter sent by the girl was actually not blank. It contained the photo "printed" by Dorothy. Xia De originally wanted to leave it to the old man as a souvenir, but he didn't want it:

"I have this, this is what belongs to me."

He shook the pocket watch in his hand at Xia De. He was obviously referring to the girl he met when she was sixteen in the pocket watch.

The old man could also see that Xia De cared about time travel, so when sharing the story, he also told Xia De in detail about his magical experience.

After he came to this era, he no longer remembered how he participated in the secret gathering, what reward he gave to exchange for this opportunity, and even less remembered who the person he traded with was.

He only remembered that the other party said that he could not do anything that would be paid attention to by many people in his life, and it was best not to kill or be killed by others. In short, living quietly in a corner, waiting for the favor of fate or dying of old age alone, could ensure that this opportunity was not wasted, otherwise the journey might end early.

And the old man also lived according to the requirements in his memory, until he welcomed the young man from the North who came to visit.

But Xia De was still puzzled by this. The time of the material world has a strong self-correcting nature, so the old man's doing so indeed has the possibility of avoiding the generation of "paradox bugs" for thirty years—this probability is actually very small, but in any case, it should not be impossible to be sensed by the "beacon acorn."

So the power of the so-called "gathering" should not be as simple as sending people through time, not to mention that Xia De didn't think this old man was the only one who reached a deal:

"So besides the family holding the tree hole, there are others helping others travel through time..."

The old man also told Xia De how to use this invitation letter:

"It only works on Saturday, which is tonight. You find a crossroads in the city that is dark enough, and then open the invitation. Then the invitation will guide you to the destination."

He handed the black envelope to Xia De. The envelope had been kept by the old man for more than thirty years, but it had not faded at all. As soon as Xia De touched it, he felt the existence of four elements: miracle, blasphemy, enlightenment, and whisper.

"Speaking of which, haven't you considered going back?"

Xia De asked when he took the invitation letter:

"I don't mean considering going back during the years of waiting before, but now do you consider going back? You can be considered to have fulfilled your wish, haven't you considered returning to your 'hometown' to be buried?"

The old man laughed. He looked at the shop he had run for many years, and then explained to the young man:

"Sometimes I almost can't figure out what era I belong to. Since she is in this era, I will stay too. Besides, I am so old, and I am not used to the era without city-wide heating. If I have to say the greatest thing in this era, it is city-wide heating."

Xia De nodded to him, and then left here with the invitation letter.

【Maybe he will still look for that girl, maybe he will commit suicide in his bookstore the next day.】

"She" in his ear said softly when the bell at the shop door rang, but Xia De didn't look back:

"You know, it's hard for me to evaluate this story."

【Because in this story, there is no villain who needs you to take action?】

"No, no, that guy who sends people to other time and space is obviously not doing good things, he is a bad guy. Just like I said just now, the stories about time travel that I ended with my own hands in Vista City always end in tragedy, always because time travel produces a dangerous enemy that we need to defeat, even the story of the dragon and Kindel is not an exception.

But this story..."

He came to the street and looked up at the gloomy sky:

"This story, after all, is too regrettable."

Xia De planned to arrange for someone to monitor this old bookstore remotely later, but this was not the most important thing at the moment.

He returned to the Accordion Hotel with a melancholy mood, and then told this story to Miss Deng En and Fu Luo La, who happened to be all at home today.

This was like when everyone first arrived in Vista City, telling a bizarre story while touching the cat, and then everyone expressed their opinions on it. Fu Luo La and that red-haired girl were full of emotions about it.

"A missed story... Regretful and tragic stories are always more able to touch people's hearts. Although Dorothy said she doesn't like tragic endings, I feel this story is still quite good."

This was what Fu Luo La said. She had been communicating with Dorothy a lot recently, and the red-haired girl looked at Xia De with a somewhat stern expression:

"When one person was born, the other hadn't been born yet; when one person went to find the other, one of them was also going to die. Even if you try hard to pursue, you still can't get what you want in the end, and can only wait for the end with regret... Xia De, although I have always believed in your honesty, is this story really not about you and the teacher?"

"Cough, cough!"

Fu Luo La, who was holding a tea cup, was choked. She originally wanted to ask Deng En why she thought so, but after thinking about it carefully, she found that what Deng En said seemed to make sense:

"Yes, this story is really very similar to the story of Xia De and that Miss Helena Carter."

"Fu Luo La, although everyone realized it, you don't actually need to say this sentence."

Xia De reminded, putting a period to this story:

"Missed is missed, this is also no way. I admire Mr. Berkeley of the old bookstore for traveling through time just to see his lover again, but I know that traveling through time for personal matters is wrong."

The red-haired girl nodded:

"But the harvest of this trip is really amazing. Vista City actually really exists an existence that can help people travel through time... but this sounds familiar. Accepting the price and then fulfilling the wish, this time it won't be an ancient evil spirit again, right?"

"It shouldn't be."

After all, if there were still demons locally, the doctor couldn't have failed to sense it before leaving:

"I think it should be an existence related to trees. Fu Luo La was right when eating lunch at noon. Now is the peak of local time instability. There shouldn't be only a single-digit number of time travelers.

And the hermits in the forest also said that the number of bugs sealed in Vista Forest is thousands. If a time traveler only appears every few decades, when will it be possible to accumulate so many bugs?"

Xia De said:

"Today is Saturday. I will go to that secret gathering tonight to take a look. I have a hunch that after I come back, most of our doubts will be answered."

"Does anyone need to go with you?"

Fu Luo La asked with great expectation, feeling that if Xia De wanted to find someone to go with, she must be the chosen one.

"I'll go by myself, and I don't think I'll go too far. An invitation letter that can only be used on Saturday, it's really interesting." ===== CHAPTER 2908 =====