Those who travel back in time

Chapter 22 One Year Later

On April 16, 2017, Li Qilin's subordinates made a transaction with the anonymous Sun Fan at the Bihai Hotel in Jiangxin City and purchased serum.

At that time, Li Qilin's focus was on the research and development of Yi Ruiqing, and because the serum was of "unknown origin", he did not pay enough attention to it.

On October 5, 2017, Yi Ruiqing made a breakthrough in its research and development, and Li Qilin then began to remember the serum that had been frozen for more than half a year.

On March 25, 2018, Li Qilin discovered that this serum might hold the key to conquering cancer, and began investigating the buyer.

2018年6月1日，李启林得知孙凡的身份，但是孙凡已经在4月15日在鑫源大厦坠楼身亡。

Regarding the serum, Li Qilin was completely open and honest, telling Chen Qing the whole story.

Therefore, the time and place that Chen Qing needs to travel to this time are very clear, which is the Bihai Hotel on April 16, 2017.

"To allow time for errors or accidents during the time travel, I think we need to go back to April 1, 2017, two weeks in advance," Chen Qing calculated.

"Chen Qing, whether you go back now or a year later, it doesn't really matter to the period of history you're going back to." Fang Xiande was far less anxious than Chen Qing. "You've just completed a time travel mission; you should rest for a couple of days."

"Let's correct the timeline as soon as possible." Chen Qing said, opening the time machine door. "The thought of the serum being in the hands of a group of unidentified people makes me uneasy."

"Why can't you relax? Are you worried they'll use the serum for something bad? They already did it, and that was the end of the world." Seeing this, Fang Xiande also walked towards the time machine's control panel. "That happened twenty years ago. Whatever happened, it's already happened, so you really don't need to worry."

"If I had obtained the serum this time, then this wouldn't have happened."

"Are you really not going to rest for a bit before you go?"

"No need." Chen Qing stepped into the time machine.

The first two times he crossed the sea, one was by the sea where he had to swim across, and the other he was hit by a car and thrown into the air. The strange things happened each time.

Fortunately, this time the crossing went smoothly, and I ended up on a lawn in a park.

An old man was practicing Tai Chi next to me when someone suddenly appeared in front of him, startling him so much that he fell to the ground.

"Sir, what day is it today...?"

"A ghost!" Before Chen Qing could finish speaking, the old man scrambled away.

"There are no ghosts in this world." Chen Qing didn't chase after the old man anymore. He walked along the cobblestone path in front of him and soon encountered a young man who looked like a college student, looking at his phone as he walked.

Chen Qing deliberately bumped into the other person, and her phone fell to the ground on the lawn next to the intersection with a thud.

"Can't you watch where you're going?"

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry." Chen Qing hurriedly bent down to pick up the other person's phone from the lawn, taking the opportunity to glance at the time on the phone.

April 4st was exactly the time set by the time machine, not a day more, not a day less.

Moreover, according to the location displayed by the weather, this is the Jiangxin City Development Zone.

Chen Qing thought there would be no error this time, so he was about to hand the phone to the college student. But at that moment, his eyes caught sight of the year before April 1st, which seemed to be 2018.

"2018?!" The college student had already taken the phone, but Chen Qing snatched it back.

Upon closer inspection, it is indeed 2018.

"What are you doing? Snatching my phone?" The college student swiftly snatched the phone back.

"Is this year 2018?" Chen Qing asked.

"You're crazy." The college student put his phone in his pocket and was about to leave.

Chen Qing grabbed the other person's collar, pulled them back, stared at their face, and asked, word by word, "Is this 2018?"

"It's 2018." The college student immediately backed down.

"How could it be 2018? How could it be 2018!" Chen Qing punched a tree next to him, and the trunk immediately began to sway from side to side.

The college student was so frightened that he ran away.

"The serum has been traded for a year already, so 2018 is meaningless." Chen Qing then thought of burying the box at Shuguang Hospital, asking Fang Xiande to recall him, and then traveling back to 2017 again.

However, he thought again that since he had come all the way to 2018, he couldn't leave empty-handed. Although he couldn't stop the serum trade, he could ask Sun Fan for more detailed information about the serum.

Li Qilin had also planned this, but he was too busy and never had the time. By the time he finally had the time, Sun Fan had died.

Sun Fan lived in Unit 3, Building 18, Binhu Wanli Residential Area, Development Zone. Chen Qing took the bus there, but after knocking on the door, a woman in her forties appeared before her, her face covered with cucumber slices: "Who are you looking for?"

Chen Qing first looked up at the door frame to make sure she hadn't knocked on the wrong door before asking, "Is Sun Fan home?"

There is no one named Sun Fan here.

"Sun Fan doesn't live here? Isn't this Sun Fan's house?"

"Maybe before. I just moved here too, so you might be looking for the previous tenant."

"Do you know where he moved to?"

"How would I know?"

Chen Qing knocked on several more doors, but none of the neighbors upstairs or downstairs knew where Sun Fan had moved to. Some didn't even know that someone else had moved into apartment 401.

Unable to find Sun Fan at his residence, Chen Qing decided to go to Sun Fan's workplace, Xinyuan Building.

Although both are called "buildings," the Xinyuan Building looks far more shabby than the Qilin Building. Not only is it only half the height of the Qilin Building, but its design and decoration are also inferior in every way.

That's understandable, after all, the Qilin Building is the building of Jiangxi's richest man.

After entering the lobby through the revolving door, Chen Qing found "Sunshine Real Estate" at room 802 on the floor index and took the elevator up to the eighth floor.

"Sunshine Real Estate is hiring 5 real estate agents..." As soon as I walked to the door, I saw a job posting on the door.

Chen Qing glanced at it casually and then went inside.

"Hello, welcome to Sunshine Real Estate." The receptionist was a young woman with slightly protruding canine teeth and a rather sweet voice.

"Hello, I've arranged to go house hunting with Sun Fan," Chen Qing casually lied.

"Sir, we don't have anyone named Sun Fan in our company," the receptionist said.

"Is this Sunshine Real Estate?"

"This is Sunshine Real Estate."

"Sun Fan, a real estate agent at Sunshine Real Estate."

"Sir, you may be mistaken. We do not have a Sun Fan here."

How long have you been with the company?

"Sir, I've worked here for two years and I've never met anyone named Sun Fan."

Chen Qing had never expected this situation. The information Li Qilin provided did not match either the home address or the workplace.

Chen Qing then took the bus to the Qilin Building again, hoping to find Li Qilin again and conduct a reinvestigation.