Chapter 2

The South River Orphanage was originally a church built by European missionaries in the 19th century. During the war in the 20th century, the church was destroyed and rebuilt after the war. It was later converted into an orphanage. It was renovated and repaired in the 1980s, and several brick bungalows were built nearby. .

The bungalow where Xu Ran and his aunt Xu Yueying's family lived was separated from the orphanage by a wall. Since Xu Ran's parents and uncle died, Xu Ran, who was only seven years old, was raised by his aunt.

But at that time, my aunt Xu Yueying was busy working to support her family and had no time to take care of Xu Ran and her younger cousin Zhou Ting. So the cousins ​​were often sent to the orphanage and the old dean Yalin took care of them.

Later, the aunt was laid off and family life became more difficult. To make a living and provide for her children to go to school, her aunt was even more exhausted.

It can be said that the brothers and sisters Xu Ran grew up in an orphanage since they were young

To this day, this orphanage that has experienced 70 years of wind and rain is very dilapidated, but he is Xu Ran's home, which has already carved a mark in his soul.

A bag of rice and a bag of flour weighing a hundred jins were carried on his shoulders. The load did not make Xu Ran bend over, and he walked into the hospital steadily.

"Brother, you are back!"

Cousin Zhou Ting graduated from junior high school this year, Ting Tingyu stood like a flower in bud, and was admitted to Xiacheng No. 1 Middle School with honors.

Now during the holidays, the sensible and mature little cousin does not play around like other sleek girls, but stays in the orphanage to help volunteers and teach the younger siblings some basic homework.

Xu Ran carried the rice noodles to the canteen. Zhou Ting and a nearby grandma Liu who worked as a volunteer in an orphanage to help the children cook after retiring to vacate the space.

After the rice noodles entered the cabinet, Grandma Liu took the chicken feathers to help him remove the dust from his body, and said: "Xiao Ran, have you eaten dinner? The children have finished eating. There is still food left. I will give you a bowl?"

"Ok!"

Xu Ran did not eat, and nodded.

Grandma Liu went to help him serve a large bowl of food, Xu Ran cleaned the back of the bowl and squatted in the corner of the cafeteria to chew. Within a few minutes, she wiped her mouth after eating and took her sister to help wash the dishes.

Grandma Yalin is an elderly Jewish descent. She has established an orphanage for more than 70 years. There are countless children raised here.

Because it is a privately established orphanage, the infrastructure and conditions are relatively backward. Now the country's economy is strong. After the local government of Xiacheng re-established a public children's orphanage, this old orphanage with a long history takes in every year. There are fewer and fewer children.

Now there are only 21 children in the orphanage, all of whom are under nine years old, and they are all abandoned babies and vagrants who were picked up by people in the surrounding area of ​​Xiacheng who were impressed by the old orphanage. Children with disabilities occasionally have one or two adopted by families every year.

Xu Ran returned to his hometown to start his own business. Part of his online shop sells handicrafts made by the children in the orphanage taught by Mrs. Yalin and people idle nearby to learn about arts. They belong to charity auctions, and he does not make any money from them. .

In addition, most of the parts are the second-hand goods he collected from various places. After being sorted by him, repaired and refurbished, the types are more diverse. Most of them are more practical items, and the prices are relatively affordable.

The online shop was opened in the 100-square-meter warehouse Xu Ran rented to Bo He, which was filled with all kinds of used goods he collected.

A small compartment of only 9 square meters in the southeast corner of the warehouse is his office. The office has only one bed, one desk, two chairs, one wardrobe, one desktop computer, one laptop, and one smart phone. Mobile phone, an access network cable, the working environment is very simple.

Although the online store is broken, Xu Ran also has two part-time salesmen, one temporary worker, and four partners.

Two part-time clerks often walk around the city to collect junk and tattered goods, a simple and illiterate uncle and one from the countryside. During the slack, they will drive their own electric tricycle to travel around the surrounding countryside. Farmer's aunt.

And there is another temporary worker, that is the little cousin Zhou Ting. If there is nothing to do in the orphanage after school, she will come here to help Xu Ran as a temporary customer service after finishing her homework.

As for the four partners, they are naturally the owner of three small stores selling department stores and a courier company near the suburb of Nanhe.

In addition to these, there is an artificially built sealed room in the northwest corner of the warehouse, which belongs to Xu Ran's'laboratory'.

However, this laboratory, which looks extremely rudimentary and may even be ridiculed by people, has two precision instruments and equipment worth tens of thousands of dollars, some experimental equipment that Xu Ran has scoured from old goods and modified, and A secret unknown to the world.

Boom!

In the evening, although the sand storm outside is weak, it will be accompanied by a sound of drought and thunder from time to time.

After Xu Ran returned to the warehouse from the orphanage, he did not go back to the office to see if anyone had placed an order, and continued to sort some of the used goods that he had received this morning.

Zi Zi Zi!

Suddenly, when another continuous thunderstorm fell, there was a sound of firecrackers on the roof. It should be that the external antenna was destroyed by lightning.

Xu Ran first heard the sound of a strong voltage from the laboratory that caused the magnetic field coil to react.

Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of light and dark blue luster in the laboratory, which quickly attracted Xu Ran's attention.

With a little surprise and expectation, Xu Ran took off his mechanical watch, mobile phone, and a bunch of keys, put on an electrostatic suit, and quickly trot into the'laboratory'.

I saw two rectangular coils placed in parallel. Among the two vertical series matrix coils, the force field generated by the uniform magnetic field made a flat elliptical piece of metal that was only the size of a quail egg. Floating in the air.

Now, that piece of metal is suspended in the air, the whole body is crystal clear, blooming with a dazzling blue light, it looks magnificent and mysterious.

Seeing that a progress bar similar to an energy mark in the faintly transmitted luster on the metal block was full, it also indicated that his energy was full, Xu Ran couldn't help feeling excited.

It's been half a year.

In order to study this piece of metal of unknown origin and structural characteristics, Xu Ran gave up his job at Xidu University of Science and Technology and returned to his hometown to start an online shop. He devoted most of his savings and most of his time and energy to this experiment. Just for this moment.

Through the interaction of the force field of the uniform magnetic field, Xu Ran spent half a year arranging the coils to continuously introduce dry thunder and lightning, just to fill the energy in the unknown metal block.

The blue light blooming from the floating metal block is actually a kind of particle beam.

Amazingly, when Xu Ran conducted an experiment, he found a mysterious folded debris space in the metal block.

Only at that time, the unknown metal block had insufficient energy. Xu Ran discovered that mysterious debris space rushed in and explored it, but after only exploring the tip of the iceberg, the metal block ran out of energy.

At that time, Xu Ran brought back a wooden board in the mysterious debris space.

But it was just a wooden board from a different space, but it had scratched Xu Ran's itch. He felt that the metal block was most likely a key to the space that could open the mysterious and different space.

Therefore, he will try to use various methods to store energy for the metal block of unknown origin, intending to enter the mysterious debris space again for exploration.

Now, after six months of persistence and experimentation, Xu Ran has finally made breakthrough progress.

After turning off the switch of the experimental instrument next to it, after the force field disappeared, the unknown metal block was still floating in the air, no longer blooming with blue light beams.

Xu Ran held it in his hand, feeling as if there was something like nothing, as if it were illusory.

When it was installed in a miniature transmitter similar to a flashlight, when Xu Ran pressed the switch button, the blue beam shot out.

When Xu Ran courageously entered the beam, the whole person disappeared.