Wang Cong sat up in bed again.
What's going on?!
Aliens destroying the world?!
Wang Cong grabbed his phone from beside his pillow and turned on the screen.
December 3rd, 7:00 AM.
The third rewind!
The third confirmation: he really could rewind after death!
As long as he died, he could return to 7:00 AM on December 3rd!
The biggest problem now was how to survive until the morning of December 5th!
Encountering aliens attacking Earth? This is just too ridiculous!
It seems a spaceship will descend directly above Pearl City.
They'll clear the area immediately, without even giving him a chance to negotiate.
This death rewind is basically letting him experience the apocalypse again and again!
What the hell is this?!
Wang Cong completely lost the will to go to work.
What the hell is the point of going to work when the world is about to end?!
He pulled out his phone, found his department head's number, and dialed it directly.
"Hey, Wang Cong, what's up?" The manager's sleepy and impatient voice came from the other end of the line.
"I want to take annual leave."
"Annual leave? Don't you know you need to apply half a month in advance? You…"
"Go to hell!" Wang Cong roared, slamming the phone down and blacklisting the manager's number.
An unprecedented feeling of relief washed over him.
He still had about ten thousand yuan in his account, saved up through frugality to take home for the New Year.
Now he couldn't care less.
Wang Cong opened his wardrobe, haphazardly stuffing a few changes of clothes into his backpack, then packed his laptop and some valuables.
Since the aliens were coming, he'd run, run as far as possible!
As long as he could survive past December 5th, he could see if the country had any advanced technology to repel the aliens.
Even if they couldn't, living a few more days meant enjoying a few more days of wonderful life!
After packing his luggage, Wang Cong stood at the door, thought for a moment, and then called his best friend, Li Hao. "Hey, Sao Ge!"
"Interested in a spontaneous trip?"
Li Hao's noisy voice came from the other end of the phone: "Stop messing around, Congzi! I'm helping Sister Sun look at houses, a big client! Hang up!"
"Beep beep beep..." Hearing the busy tone, Wang Cong shook his head.
Then he slung his bag over his shoulder, locked the door, and rushed to the airport without looking back.
Plane to bus, bus to motorcycle, motorcycle to walking!
Finally, Wang Cong arrived back at his hometown before dark.
Wangjia Village, a remote mountain village in Sichuan!
His only relative, his grandmother, was there.
"Grandma, come with me to the city for a couple of days!"
"No, no, it's rapeseed planting season these days!"
"There might be a natural disaster recently, it's not safe here!"
"It's just an earthquake? If the mountains aren't safe, how can the city be?"
Sichuan has experienced frequent earthquakes in recent years, and many people are used to it!
Wang Cong was speechless.
Yes, he wasn't sure where was safe either. He'd come back for Grandma after he'd figured it out himself!
He had dinner with Grandma.
That night, Wang Cong quietly threw away the expired health supplements in Grandma's cupboard and replaced them with newly bought ones!
He left early the next morning!
...Foggy City!
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, this was the last line of defense for the Dragon Kingdom.
If there's any safe place in the world, it must be here.
Wang Cong stepped out of the high-speed rail station, a wave of damp, cold air hitting him.
He searched the city and finally found a budget hotel closest to an air-raid shelter.
Then he went to a lottery shop and bought a ticket.
Next, he stockpiled supplies.
In case social order really collapsed, these things would be his lifesavers.
By the time he finished, it was already dark.
Wang Cong took a taxi to the gate of [Foggy City University].
There was another reason he chose this place.
His girlfriend, Zhang Ran, was studying for her master's degree here.It was dusk, and students were emerging from the school gates in twos and threes.
Wang Cong knew Zhang Ran's class schedule for the semester, and sure enough, he soon saw that familiar figure.
However, she was accompanied by a tall, thin boy.
The two were chatting and laughing, and the boy's hand was naturally holding hers.
Wang Cong calmly chuckled to himself, "As expected!"
He and Zhang Ran were high school classmates, but went to different universities—one at a mediocre second-tier university, the other at a top-tier 985 university—a world of difference!
Wang Cong had tried to get into the graduate program at his girlfriend's university, but his talent was limited, and he failed!
After graduation, he came to Mingzhu City to work, while Zhang Ran continued her graduate studies.
The gap between them widened, they had fewer and fewer things in common, and their arguments increased.
Wang Cong never initiated a breakup, always feeling that he had wasted the girl's youth and felt indebted.
Now it seemed he had been overthinking things.
What indebtedness? She had already found someone else.
She hadn't broken up with him before because she was after his meager salary.
She only saw him as a backup plan and an ATM after graduation.
Wang Cong took out his phone and dialed her number.
The phone rang for a long time before being answered.
"Hello?" Zhang Ran's voice was extremely cold.
"What are you doing?" Wang Cong asked calmly.
"None of your business."
Wang Cong said indifferently, "I think we should break up."
There was a moment of silence on the other end of the line, followed by a mocking question:
"After all this time of cold war, this is what you want to tell me?"
"Look back."
Wang Cong hung up.
He saw Zhang Ran's body stiffen, then she slowly turned her head and saw him across the street.
Zhang Ran's face instantly changed, and she forcefully shook off the hand of the boy next to her.
Wang Cong didn't look at her again.
He turned around gracefully and disappeared into the crowd.
Confrontation, face-slapping, and tearing each other apart—it's all too melodramatic and childish.
For someone with the cheat-like ability to rewind time and who has witnessed two apocalypses,
this kind of romantic entanglement is irrelevant… My turn around must have been so cool… She'll definitely regret losing me…
…Zhang Ran watched Wang Cong's departing figure, neither chasing after him nor calling out.
At this moment, the man beside her walked up to Zhang Ran and naturally took her hand.
"Is that Wang Cong?"
"Yes!"
…That evening, Wang Cong went to a karaoke bar alone.
He booked a small private room and ordered a bunch of beers and fruit platters.
He also ordered a "First Love"!
Unfortunately… He had the body of a first love, but not the feeling!
…December 5th, 7:00 AM.
Wang Cong was awakened by the light streaming in from the window. He washed up and got dressed.
Then he sat on the balcony of his hotel room and took out his phone.
The lottery results for the 4th were drawn at 9:15 PM that night. He was so caught up in the excitement of his first love yesterday that he hadn't had time to check! Wang Cong opened the lottery app and found the latest winning numbers from last night.
Red balls: 08, 11, 17, 21, 28, 32.
Blue ball: 09.
Wasn't the first number 06? How did it become 08? Did I get it wrong?
The first prize turned into a second prize!
Wang Cong took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down.
At least the second prize was still a lot of money.
As long as he didn't die today, he could still be a rich man.
Just as Wang Cong was daydreaming about the future.
Suddenly.
The sky darkened.
"No way!" Wang Cong's heart skipped a beat, an ominous premonition washing over him.
He slowly raised his head and looked up at the sky.
He saw a huge alien spaceship slowly breaking through the clouds and then hovering above the foggy city.
Why is it everywhere?!
The next second, the familiar light on the bottom of the giant spaceship lit up.
"Damn it!"