Those who travel back in time

Chapter 27 The Uncle Who Saved My Life

2025 years.

In a ward at the First People's Hospital, Li Qilin lay on the hospital bed, while Li Mengfei sat on the edge of the bed, peeling an apple with a fruit knife.

"Dad, I've told you before that you don't need to work so hard, but you wouldn't listen and kept staying up so late every night. Now look what happened, you've gotten sick."

"I have appendicitis, it has nothing to do with staying up late."

"How can it be okay? Staying up late weakens your immune system, and a weak immune system makes you susceptible to illness. It's not just appendicitis; any illness is related to staying up late." Li Mengfei handed the peeled apple to Li Qilin.

"Weren't you going to Jeju Island this month?" Li Qilin took the apple, took a couple of bites, and asked, "Aren't you going?"

"We were going to go, we even bought the tickets, but you were suddenly hospitalized." Li Mengfei picked up another apple and started peeling it.

"Appendicitis, it's just a minor surgery. You don't need to stay here with me." Li Qilin tucked the pillow behind him back in. "You dare to take a plane?"

"Dad, you underestimate your daughter. What happened three years ago really scared me, but it was just a small fruit knife. I've long forgotten about it. I was able to get over what happened seven years ago, so what's three years ago?"

When the topic of seven years ago came up, both father and daughter fell silent.

It was in 2018. Li Mengfei, who was still in junior high school, fell in love with dancing under the influence of her roommates and enrolled in a dance training institution. Because she was good at it, she was selected to go to the headquarters for intensive training. However, on the second day after arriving at the headquarters, a thug appeared with a gun and attempted to kill Li Mengfei. If someone hadn't taken a bullet for Li Mengfei, her beautiful life would probably have ended forever in 2018.

To protect his daughter, Li Qilin used his connections to cover up the incident, and the media did not report on it.

The daughter of Jiangxin's richest man was nearly shot and killed, causing a sensation among Jiangxin's top officials. Police from all over the city were mobilized and, in just half a month, the murderer was arrested, and the mastermind behind him was also brought to justice.

From that day on, Li Qilin assigned Li Mengfei a personal bodyguard to protect her wherever she went.

This protection lasted for three years, until Li Mengfei went to university and lived on campus, at which point this close protection ended.

Seven years have passed, and the incident that almost scared Li Mengfei to death has only become a topic of conversation between the father and daughter. When it is brought up again, it is like telling someone else's story, without stirring up any emotion in their hearts.

Li Mengfei could barely remember the gunman's face.

But one face remained etched clearly in her mind, and no matter how time passed, that face could not be erased.

To be precise, it wasn't "a face" because the person was wearing a mask, so she didn't know what the person looked like at all. She only remembered the person's deep eyes and blood-stained gray trench coat.

After the shooting, Li Qilin went to great lengths to find his savior, but seven years later, he still doesn't know who saved his daughter.

"Dad, can't we still find the uncle who saved me?" Li Mengfei had already brought the peeled apple to her mouth, but she had no appetite for it anymore.

"I've tried every method imaginable, used all my connections, but I can't find any information about that person." Li Qilin shook his head. "It's like he's vanished into thin air."

"Even if we can't find him, we should at least know whether he's dead or alive, right?" Li Mengfei moved her chair closer to Li Qilin. "He must be alive, right?"

"Good people are rewarded; I believe he's alive." That was all Li Qilin could say to comfort Li Mengfei, then he asked, "You're not hallucinating again, are you?"

Sizzle~

The lights in the ward began to flicker.

"Dad, I don't know when those hallucinations started," Li Mengfei said, looking up at the ceiling light. "Even seven years ago, I only had one hallucination. Don't worry, Dad, it won't happen again."

"That's good."

"I wonder if I'll ever have the chance to meet him again..." Li Mengfei recalled the scene of the mysterious man taking a bullet for her, feeling somewhat dazed.

boom!

Just then, a voice suddenly rang out from behind. Li Mengfei turned around and saw a person covered in blood lying on the ground.

The person was wearing a mask, so their face was obscured; only a pair of deep-set eyes were visible.

He was wearing a gray trench coat, and blood was constantly gushing from his back.

The situation was exactly the same as it was seven years ago!

Mengfei's eyes widened instantly, and the apple in her hand fell to the ground. For a moment, she thought she was hallucinating.

Time seemed to freeze at that moment, and everything around her fell silent. Li Mengfei could no longer perceive any information. Her eyes were fixed on those deep eyes and that blood-stained trench coat, as if she had been frozen in place, unable to move at all.

After a moment of stunned silence, she raised a trembling finger and pointed at Chen Qing on the ground, stammering, "Dad, it's him, the eyes, the trench coat, exactly the same, it's him!"

Li Qilin was shocked to see a blood-stained person suddenly appear in the ward, but having been through many storms, he quickly regained his composure, got off the bed, and went to Chen Qing.

"Li Qilin, my body has a secret, keep it a secret." Chen Qing pulled off her mask, used all her strength to say these words, and then fainted.

"Mr. Chen?" Li Qilin was also stunned when he saw Chen Qing's face, then shouted loudly, "Doctor!"

Twenty minutes later, outside an operating room, Li Qilin sat there, while Li Mengfei couldn't sit still at all and kept pacing back and forth.

"Mengfei, can you stop wandering around like that?" Li Qilin turned his head, glanced at the operating room door, then at Li Mengfei. "You're making me dizzy."

"Dad, he'll pull through, right?" Li Mengfei walked to Li Qilin's side, grabbing his arm. "He'll survive, right?"

"Don't worry, he will definitely survive," Li Qilin reassured him.

"It was him! He was the one who saved me?!" Li Mengfei murmured, still feeling a sense of unreality even after so long.

Seven years ago, she witnessed the person who saved her disappear on the spot. Her psychologist told her that it was a hallucination she had experienced in extreme fear.

For seven years, she had believed this to be true.

However, just now, someone suddenly appeared in front of her!

His mask, his eyes, his clothes, and the gunshot wounds on his body are exactly the same as they were seven years ago!

This forced Li Mengfei to come to a conclusion: the person she saw disappear seven years ago was not a hallucination; that person had truly vanished into thin air and then reappeared seven years later!

Li Qilin also told her that this was time travel, with people from seven years ago traveling to seven years in the future.

Time travel seems to be the only reasonable explanation.

But does time travel really exist?