Walking into the night, Dong Xuebin returned to the Family Courtyard of the Public Security Bureau with anticipation, holding an English-Chinese dictionary. As soon as he entered the house, he hurriedly made some food as if in a hurry, heated up an egg custard in the microwave, and poured some soy sauce and sesame oil on it.
He hurriedly filled his belly. After burping, Dong Xuebin didn't even bother to smoke. He immediately moved his shoulders, sat firmly on the sofa, and continued to study the instructions.
menu!
A dial and a few numbers came out.
menu!
The dial and numbers disappeared again.
He tried it back and forth countless times, and pondered over and over again the string of numbers above. Suddenly, Dong Xuebin was thoughtful, as if he had figured out the meaning of the numbers. After pondering for a moment, he tentatively called out first
Clicked on the menu, and then said "back for one second". After swiping, the menu flashed for an instant. Dong Xuebin's eyes also flashed, and he had determined that the time had gone back one second. After that, he concentrated on the menu.
When I took a look, it was indeed the case. The number of digits in the row of unknown numbers above was one less!
From 4 to 3!
There is no mistake, Dong Xuebin understood that the number means his remaining back time!
Based on this understanding, the time displayed by the numbers is...three minutes and forty-three seconds, which coincides with the back time that Dong Xuebin is not entirely sure of.
Dong Xuebin was very happy. This menu helped him a lot. When he used back, sometimes it only took a few seconds or ten seconds. This kind of number was too cumbersome, and he couldn't calculate it mentally. Dong Xuebin was confused.
Xuebin has never been able to figure out how much back time he has. It would be unrealistic to write down every time he uses it with a pen and then calculate it slowly, because the moment he uses back is often very urgent, fighting, or doing something else.
, I don’t have time to write them down one by one, but I can’t remember them. It’s convenient to have a menu. I can clearly write down how much time I have left.
What a great function.
No, you need to confirm again.
Dong Xuebin waited until twelve o'clock at night, tick tock, tick tock. When the pointer reached the zero point, Dong Xuebin immediately called out the menu, and saw that the number of three minutes and forty-three seconds suddenly changed, becoming four minutes and four.
Thirteen seconds, one minute added at midnight every day, by the way, the above is the remaining time! After confirming this, Dong Xuebin rolled his eyes again. Since the menu was something he didn't know before, does that mean that there are also some instructions?
Didn't you realize it? Besides back and menu, what else is there?
This ability to rewind time has always been Dong Xuebin's trump card and his biggest trump card. Since he knows that he has not studied it thoroughly, he cannot let it go.
But how to find other instructions?
Dong Xuebin thought of a stupid way - read word by word!
Read them all again, if you don’t believe me you can’t find them!
With hope, Dong Xuebin seemed very excited. Even though it was past twelve o'clock in the morning, he had no intention of sleeping. He picked up the English-Chinese dictionary and started reading, one word, two words, three words.
, an hour later, Dong Xuebin was dazzled and his head was almost dizzy. He realized that this stupid method failed for no other reason than there were too many words. How long would he have to read hundreds of thousands of words? What's more, there were so many words above.
Dong Xuebin didn't even know how to pronounce it, and had to read the phonetic notation one by one.
No, if I continue to recite it like this, I won’t be able to finish it in two months.
So what should we do? Is there any simpler way?
Soon, Dong Xuebin thought of another trick. Since it was an instruction for his superpower, he could simply ignore the vocabulary of frigates, research institutes, buildings, etc. He only had to find some words that looked like instructions and jumped to read them.
You should be able to roughly find it out just by thinking about it.
Yes, just do it!
"on."
"off."
"left."
At four o'clock in the morning, Dong Xuebin couldn't bear it anymore and fell asleep.
In the morning, the alarm rang. Dong Xuebin rubbed his eyes and climbed out of bed. After brushing his teeth and washing up, he picked up the dictionary and flipped through it, reading word by word.
While reciting Dong Xuebin, I secretly vowed that if I review any English again in the future, my surname will not be Dong. This time, I kept reciting words day and night, which made Dong Xuebin nauseous. Now he wants to vomit when he sees English words.
, but in order to make better progress in the future, I have to read it.
While I was busy working, my cell phone rang.
Ring ring ring, ring ring ring, it’s Secretary Hu Silian’s phone number.
Dong Xuebin counted the pages of the dictionary and pressed the answer button, "Hello, Sister Hu."
Hu Silian smiled and said: "Xie County Magistrate asked me to tell you that you can go to her office when you are free today."
"Okay, please excuse me, Sister Hu."
"By the way, after you go to the China Merchants Bureau and take up the post, according to the rules, you can bring someone with you, and it will be displayed in the China Merchants Bureau office. You can also give it to a deputy director. In fact, he will be your secretary, responsible for helping you handle it.
For some miscellaneous matters, I think County Magistrate Xie wants you to bring someone over. After all, the Investment Bureau used to be Secretary Xiang... Do you understand? But it doesn't matter. Well, if you don't have someone, I'll find one for you at the county government office.
A suitable one?”
Can a buddy also have a secretary?
This Dong Xuebin really hasn't thought about it, "What about that, Sister Hu, I haven't thought about the secretary thing yet, but there is still an old subordinate of mine, and I want to get him an investment agency. Look at this.
Are you in trouble? My name is Guo Panwei, and he is currently working with the Beijing National Security Bureau."
"It's a bit far, isn't it? Are you familiar with the leader there?"
"Okay, as long as we can pick people up here, I'll call the National Security Bureau, and they will definitely be able to release them."
"It shouldn't be a big problem, then... let me help you talk to County Magistrate Xie."
"Hey, I'm sorry to bother you, Sister Hu."
"Haha, why are we so polite?"
Hu Silian was not at work, so it was convenient to talk to her family. She had not seen Dong Xuebin for a long time. In addition, what happened in South Korea made Hu Silian very interested, so she chatted with Dong Xuebin for a while. In the end, Hu Silian smiled
Hehe said: "Director Dong, did you just wake up? Your voice sounds a little hoarse? Or do you have a cold?"
Dong Xuebin cheered, "Don't mention it, I'm just reviewing English."
"ah?"
"After reciting words for a day, my head feels heavy."
"Haha, so that's it."
Dong Xuebin opened the dictionary, patted it, and complained: "Why do you think there are so many English words? I read them almost all night, and I still haven't finished reading them. I still skipped and read them, alas."
, he pointed at a few words at random, "song, sorry, stop, look, it will probably take two days to read."
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Suddenly, the surrounding air suddenly solidified, as if the air pressure had suddenly increased countless times!
Dong Xuebin frowned subconsciously, "Sister Hu? Sister Hu? The line is disconnected?" No one answered on the other end of the phone.
Dong Xuebin didn't react at first, but a second later, he realized something was wrong. The phone in his hand was very hard, as if it was frozen in the air. He held it to his ear and tried to change his position, but he didn't move it.
, Dong Xuebin was stunned and stood up!
The world in front of him simply stunned Dong Xuebin!
The English-Chinese dictionary was floating in the air on the sofa, the iPhone was fixed in the air, the second and minute hands of the clock on the wall stopped motionless, and even the kettle on the gas stove in the kitchen that was making water, the flames underneath seemed to have been photographed by a camera.
The photo was fixed there dryly.
How is that possible!
Holy shit! What is this?
Dong Xuebin was a little panicked and ran to the window to look at the courtyard downstairs.
Seven or eight sparrows maintained a spread-wing posture near a telegraph pole. They were stunned and seemed to have cast a body-holding spell. Qin Yong, who was about to go to work, raised his left leg in the air with a bag under his arm.
, the expression stays on the smiling scene, and there is a young man riding a motorcycle who is about to drive out, as well as all the pedestrians and vehicles on the road outside the compound, as well as the light in the sky, bugs, birds...
Everything stood still!
The only one who can move is Dong Xuebin!
"God!" Dong Xuebin was dumbfounded. He didn't understand what was going on now. There was no sound around him. Plop, plop, he could only hear the beating of his own heart. It was as if the whole world was just a photo, as if the whole world was just a photo.
Only Dong Xuebin is left!
Dong Xuebin's face turned pale. Realizing that this might be related to the instructions of his ability, he immediately called menu!
Four minutes and eleven seconds!
He clearly remembered that his remaining power time was four minutes and forty-three seconds, which was absolutely correct, but now it was actually less, and it was still decreasing little by little!
Four minutes and ten seconds...
Four minutes and nine seconds...
Four minutes and eight seconds...
Relating to the scene in front of him, Dong Xuebin seemed to understand that he could stop time? The stopped time would be deducted from the one minute accumulated every day? One second would be deducted for every second that was stopped? So the remaining time was reduced little by little?
That’s the only way to explain it!
Be good!
But...how to go back?
Dong Xuebin suddenly remembered something. When he was on the phone with Hu Silian, he seemed to have recited a few words? Yes, he did. What was it? What was it? No one could keep calm at the abnormal scene in front of him.
, Dong Xuebin was no exception. He forgot everything in a hurry, and hurriedly walked over to grab the half-empty dictionary, but he took it off after grabbing it, and the dictionary didn't move!
Just like a mobile phone! Dong Xuebin couldn’t pick it up!
Or should I say, everything in the world is now at a standstill!
Dong Xuebin did not believe in evil, so he grabbed the dictionary and increased his strength. Sure enough, this time the dictionary moved, and he pulled it forcefully in front of him. It was very heavy, and it felt like he was moving a dictionary that was several times heavier than the dictionary.
It was like a dumbbell, and then Dong Xuebin let go, and the dictionary stopped in mid-air again. It did not have the usual tendency to fall freely. It looked like the magic book in Harry Potter, just floating like this.
Dong Xuebin couldn't care less about his surprise and quickly took a look at the dictionary.
By the way! I remembered it!
It’s stop! I said stop before, which means stop in Chinese!
Dong Xuebin took a breath and shouted: "Stop!"
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The air is relieved!
With two bangs, the English-Chinese dictionary fell to the ground along with the mobile phone. The kettle in the kitchen whined, and the clock on the wall continued to tick. Looking out the window again, Qin Yong smiled with his bag between his arms.
Hehehe walked out of the compound, and the sparrows also flew over!
Time is restored in vain!
Stop is a command! A command to stop time!
"Hello? Director Dong? Director Dong?" Hu Silian's voice came from the mobile phone on the ground.
Dong Xuebin quickly lowered his head and picked it up, "Hey, Sister Hu, it's me, it's me."
"What's wrong? Is the signal not good? Haha..." Then she continued what she just said: "It seems that I have to learn from you. I have put down English for several years. I will also review it another day."
Dong Xuebin looked left and right, "What, just now...are you okay?"
"Just now? What happened just now?"
Didn't she notice? She was the only one who knew? Dong Xuebin said: "Uh, it's nothing. The signal seems to have been interrupted."
"Okay, let's not talk about it for now. Oh, it's already this time. I should go to work."
After hanging up the phone, Dong Xuebin sat down on the sofa with sweat dripping from his back and wiped his forehead. He felt a little frightened for a while, but he was really not mentally prepared at all.
stop?
Is this also my own ability?
back time? stop time?
Dong Xuebin lit up a cigarette and took two deep puffs. He was surprised and happy in his heart. It was naturally a good thing to have one more trump card. After calming down for a few minutes, Dong Xuebin quickly accepted the fact. He had no choice but to back up.
Things that can rewind time have appeared in my body, and now a stop that can stop time is nothing. In the past, I only discovered back, and thought that my ability was to rewind time, but now it seems,
This ability should be to control time. It can go back and stop. The dial under the menu also indicates this.
Manipulate time?
Dong Xuebin immediately became excited.
From the experiment just now, back and stop share the remaining time, which is one minute that can be saved every day. Also, stop is not like back, which defaults to one minute when you shout it. Stop is similar to the menu command. You shout it once.
Execute and shout recovery again.
Dong Xuebin couldn't help but try it a few more times.
stop……
stop……
Finally, Dong Xuebin thought of a possibility. Could it be that after the initial car accident, something unexpected happened to him after his death, and then he gained one minute longer than everyone else in the world every day? That time he died and was resurrected.
, which is almost a minute. Could it be that this minute is not counted in the time of this world? So I have these sixty seconds more than others every day? But this minute cannot be synchronized with everyone in the world, so
The accumulated time, whether it is stop time or rewind time, can be freely used by yourself? Because this is your extra free time?
This is the most reasonable explanation that Dong Xuebin can come up with.