Chapter 1423: Chapter 1: Amnesia, Broken Dreams, Intertwined Time_3

“Very good.”

The man nodded and stepped forward, extending his hand to the girl:

“Deal.”

The girl covered his large hand with her own, looking up at the man who was half a body taller than her:

“Deal!”

Suddenly.

She turned the man’s hand over to inspect it.

Delicate, fair, without any rough traces:

“Your hand… it’s so soft, and young, it doesn’t look like the hand of a middle-aged person.”

“Is it now.”

The man looked at his own palm and also felt that this palm was young and tender.

“About how old are you, you don’t remember either?”

CC inquired:

“From your voice, you sound quite young, yet you look old, like forty or fifty.”

“Uh…”

The man scratched his messy head:

“It’s unclear, maybe I slept too long? Oh, don’t ask me that kind of thing, I would like to know my identity, name, and age more than you, but to be honest, I woke up choking and don’t remember anything.”

“It doesn’t matter, let’s just call you VV, isn’t that fine?”

CC stood with hands on her hips, smiling:

“You’re VV, I’m CC, we’re a perfectly matched pair of partners!”

The man was somewhat curious:

“What about you? How old are you?”

“I’m 11.”

CC answered:

“But I’ll be 12 in a month.”

“What time is it now?” the man continued to ask.

“July of 2615… or August?”

CC could only estimate roughly:

“I’ve long lost the concept of time, ever since the village was destroyed, I can only roughly guess the month.”

“My birthday is at the end of August, oh, just a few months ago, I was so looking forward to it, but I never expected that in the blink of an eye, things would turn out like this.”

“Last night I even [dreamt] that my mom and dad made lots of delicious food to celebrate my 12th birthday, but when I woke up I found nothing but rocks and trees around me.”

“It’s quite pitiful.”

The man said softly:

“That feeling of waking from a dream, where things are no longer the same.”

CC looked at the bearded VV:

“Do you feel the same way? That sense of emptiness after waking from a dream?”

“I…”

The man was at a loss for words.

He carefully recalled:

“I seem to have no memory of dreaming, don’t remember having any dreams.”

?

The little girl CC was a bit puzzled:

“Everyone dreams, right? Didn’t you dream last night?”

“I didn’t… probably.”

The man wasn’t very sure:

“Might still be because of the amnesia, anyway, now I’m not amnesic, and if I can dream tonight, I’ll definitely remember it.”

“Strange person,” CC muttered softly.

The man stood up.

Surveying the directionless forest around him:

“So what should we do next? Go directly to observe near the enemy’s base camp?”

CC bowed her head, hesitated several times, wanting to say something but stopping.

But finally.

She raised her head, her gaze firm:

“Originally, that was my plan, to find the enemy’s base first… but now, I’ve changed my mind.”

“VV, if you help me, maybe we could first go to a mountain ruin in the southeast; my father accidentally discovered it while hunting, he said it was eerie, many buildings, though covered with moss and plants, were mostly intact, it seemed to be a secret research facility before the Great Calamity.”

“I wonder… if it really was a secret institute before the Great Calamity, could there be weapons and supplies we need hidden inside? I’m definitely too scared to go alone, but now that you’re with me, I want to take a chance there.”

“Sure.”

The man said with indifference:

“I don’t understand any of this, wherever you say we go, we’ll go.”

“It’s over there.”

CC pointed in a direction:

“VV, let’s go!”

At the girl’s command.

The strange combination of CC and VV set out, heading into the depths of the forest.

The dazzling sunlight spilled down through the gaps in the forest.

Illuminating the tracks of two sets of footprints, casting a multi-hued reflection, casting… two intersecting timelines.