[Comprehensive British and American] Safe Neighborhood

After stopping her part-time job and finishing her thesis in the first semester of her senior year ahead of schedule, Sally went back to Nalei's house and simply packed her luggage and took some proofs and materials that might be useful.

Fearing that Berkeley and Holmes would worry, she said nothing about going to China.

She booked a ticket to T city online, and the day before boarding the plane, Lucas sent her a text message asking her out.

To avoid showing some flaws and causing unnecessary troubles, she didn't go to shirk it.

The next day, Sally took a taxi to the airport alone with her luggage. After checking in and a series of procedures, she came to the departure hall and sat on her seat to wait quietly.

It snowed heavily outside at some point, and the snow-white snowflakes were flying all over the sky, and soon there was a vast expanse of white scenery in front of her eyes.

She got up and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows and stared outside, feeling more and more familiar with everything in front of her.

It's been almost four years.

Since she came here on Christmas Eve four years ago, she has no relatives, friends, or everything she is familiar with... living here as an American girl named Ashley.

Like a headless chicken, in order to go home, she tried "sleeping", "suicide", and used her mobile phone to call the phone numbers of herself, her family and all the people around her that she remembered, but there was no response.

During the past few years, she searched the Internet for all information about traveling through time and space to a different world and movies, but she did not find any solution.

...it was the last one she could think of.

If she can go back to where she used to live, maybe she can find some secrets to get home there.

"..." Sally put her palms on the glass window, feeling the cold temperature outside, her eyes were slightly moist.

...Mom and Dad, I really miss you.

[Ladies and gentlemen, passengers flying from Pittsburgh to Beijing, please note that your flight QR24XX is now boarding.Please take your belongings and show your boarding pass, from No. 4...]

Hearing the announcement to board the plane, Sally suppressed the urgency in her heart, took a deep breath, put her backpack on her back and turned around to walk to the boarding gate.

Pittsburgh is far away from City B. She made two more transfers in Chicago and Doha, and finally arrived in the capital after nearly a day of tossing around.

At this moment, Sally has become exhausted from being full of energy. Since she has been sitting in the seat and cannot stretch her legs, her legs have become extremely stiff, and she once staggered when she walked after getting off the plane.

After arriving in China, as she had guessed, the languages ​​of this world were reversed.

During the past four years, her hard study and hard work were not in vain. After leaving the airport, she took a taxi and stayed in a hotel to communicate smoothly.

The bumps along the way exhausted her energy. She first slept in the hotel for a whole day, and woke up at 11 o'clock in the evening. She took a hot shower and changed her clothes. After recovering her energy, Sally managed to exchange some RMB , holding a bunch of Grandpa Mao she had acquired in the past four years, she happily decided to go outside to visit the night market and shopping malls first.

It may be because of the winter, the outside is not as lively as she imagined, Sally walked alone, looking at the deserted and desolate street, suddenly felt a little lonely...

In the end, she went to a hot pot restaurant by herself, booked a private room and ate several plates of shabu-shabu and vegetables.

"...It's so boring." After eating, Sally half-lyed on the chair with her swollen stomach and muttered to herself like a waste.

Looking at the messy dishes and hot pots in front of her, Sally suddenly missed the scene of getting together with her colleagues and leaders in the past.

...monotonous.

It turns out that if you go to a place or do something without someone to accompany you, you will lose your own fun.

After being paralyzed for a while, Sally took her wallet and went to the front desk to pay the bill.

After paying the bill, she wandered the streets bored again, passing by a jewelry store on the way, and went in to have a look when she became a little interested.

The lighting in the jewelry store is bright, and there are a variety of goods on the shelves. There are basically everything, but most of them are artwork on the table and jewelry that girls like.

Sally is more interested in those sparkling earrings with strange shapes. She stood in front of the mirror and tried several pairs. With the original heroine's delicate and exotic face like a Barbie doll, Sally suddenly felt that the appearance is king, let alone wearing it. Earrings and a rag wrapped around the head are all beautiful and fashionable.

She picked a few for herself, and then suddenly thought of Flynn and the Naleys.

Moving her eyes to the shelves, she carefully selected the gifts for them.

Hmm...the silver earrings are for Flynn.

...Berret seems to have a particular fondness for hats, and this brown checked beret is perfect for her.

Holmes likes to smoke, and he should like this nostalgic-looking brown pipe.

Finally, a flash of Lucas's face flashed through her mind.

...By the way, bring Lucas a gift too.

Thinking of this, she glanced over, and suddenly saw a super cute little pig in a pile of hanging keychains.

Hold it in your hand and look at it with great interest. The chubby Q-version ceramic piggy is doing a lying posture, a pair of black eyes are shining, and the limbs are short and short...

Haha, she can imagine the look of the bear with black lines when it was given to Lucas...

Just when Sally was excitedly picking up all the selected gifts and preparing to check out, she suddenly remembered something.

...if she makes it home this time, then these gifts...

I can't even send them...

…and she would never have the chance to see them again.

Because in the original world, Lucas, Nalai and his wife, and Flynn, none of them would exist...

They were originally characters from the movie...

"..." Thinking of this, Sally's body froze, and the corners of her lips that were originally raised slowly drooped down...

She looked at the selected product in her hand, and suddenly felt uncomfortable.

...or put it back.

[But what if... you can't go back? 】

Just as she was about to put the presents back in place one by one, she heard another voice asking herself in her brain.

...how could she not go back? !

She tried so many methods, in order to go home and work part-time...

...she can definitely go home.

...

Abandoning that momentary thought from her mind, Sally put the gift back in its original place, and raised her feet to leave the store, but when she actually walked out of the street outside the jewelry store, she hesitated again.

After struggling for a while, she walked into the jewelry store again, picked up all the gifts she had just picked up, checked out, packed up and left.

...If she really went back, wouldn't the money she had saved for nothing in the past four years be wasted?

Instead of leaving it there, it's better to squander it before leaving.

...If you really can't send it out at that time, you won't send it away.

The next day, Sally woke up early in the hotel, packed her luggage and put the gift she bought yesterday into the box, then dragged her suitcase to the high-speed rail station to buy a ticket to T City.

After thinking about it last night, she felt that she should not go back to her hometown first, but should go to her small rented house first.

She traveled here four years ago. If the timeline of this world and the original world are consistent and synchronized, she might as well make a bold guess as to whether her original body is still asleep...

In fact, it wasn't that her brain hole was so big at the beginning. The main reason was that she remembered a Korean comic that she accidentally saw before. The protagonist in it was a soul that exchanged two bodies. When the soul entered body 1, the body 2 will be in deep sleep, and when using body 2's body, body 1 will be in deep sleep.

So she imagined that her situation would be the same... Maybe it was because of a bug that the awakening method was incorrect or because the distance was too far away, so she couldn't wake up in her original body...

Of course, there is also a second possibility.

That's her soul swapping with Ashley.

She remembered the dream four years ago, in which the original heroine Ashley told her that she was going to disappear, but she didn't know where she was going.

So she most likely occupied Sally's body.

...If this is the case, things will be easier to handle, and she and Ashley can work together to find a way to exchange souls again.

In short, go to your own rental house to have a look.

Sally thought wildly along the way, imagining all kinds of scenes and problems she might encounter later.

However, when she really arrived at the rental house, she never expected...

"...Did you mean that girl named Sha Li?" Liu Dahai, the landlady who was originally bald and now has a bald head in his memory, said while scratching his head, "She moved away more than a year ago! "

"...What?" Sally was stunned for a moment, but she didn't expect such an answer, and asked anxiously, "Then do you know where she moved?"

"I don't know, I just know that not long after she was promoted and her salary was raised, something happened to her father. In order to take care of her parents, she checked out and left in a hurry without asking for a deposit."

"...Dad something happened?" Sally was shocked when she heard the news.

"Well, yes, it seems that I fell from a high place and broke my leg..." Liu Dahai said while recalling, looking at the foreign girl in front of him, squinting his eyes and asking, "...by the way, you and What's the relationship with that girl? You can speak Chinese very fluently at such a young age!"

"...She and I are...colleagues."

"Oh, so that's what it is."

After leaving the landlord, Sally became restless and had no time to rest. She bought another train ticket and went back to her hometown.

I hurried to the house, but I didn't expect that the building was empty.

She claimed to be a colleague of "Sally", and asked the neighbors about her parents, but was told that her parents were taken by her daughter to live with them in T City more than half a year ago.

"Then... her father's leg, should it be fine?" Sally asked cautiously.

Aunt Zhang next door waved her hand, and said in a bold tone, "It's okay!...People are old, with old arms and legs, and they always have this problem and that problem! I usually get sick for no reason when I walk on the road... Lao Sha was also stepping on a ladder to repair the light bulb that day and accidentally fell off, and his leg was broken at that time."

"Fortunately, his daughter is capable. She took him to a big hospital for several months to recuperate. The level of a big hospital is good. Now he is alive and well like a normal person."

"As for his daughter, she is really a good girl. She is filial and can make money. It didn't take long for the old couple to move to the big city to enjoy life... Unlike the two of my family, who know how to squat all day long. At home, do nothing!"

Aunt Zhang nagged and dragged Sally to talk a lot, and when Sally heard that her father was fine, she finally felt relieved.

"Then do you know where their family is now?" Sha Li asked, interrupting Aunt Zhang, who was fine and chatty.

"I don't know! But the neighborhood committee will have a registration, why don't you go there and look for it?"

"Well, good." Sally nodded, "Thank you, Aunt Zhang..."

"Eh? How do you know my surname is Zhang?" Aunt Zhang asked in surprise.

"Uh... It was Sally who told me!" Sally quickly found an excuse to prevaricate, pretending to look at her watch in a hurry, "I'm going first, auntie, thank you very much, you have been very helpful."

"Alas! A trifle! Thank you so much!"

"Then I'll go first... goodbye auntie."

After saying goodbye to Aunt Zhang, Sha Li went straight to the neighborhood committee and successfully got the address of her new home.

"Sally"'s new home is in T City far from the city center.

Sitting on the train all the way, she looked at the address above and fell into deep thought.

...she knows the address.

When she first went to work, she fantasized that she could buy a house in T City in the future, and then she could take her elderly parents over to live together, so she would inquire about the price of a house in T City when she had the opportunity, and the address at this address The location was exactly what she had in mind at the time...

But because after going to work, she gradually lost herself and her ideals, realized that money was hard to earn, and gradually drifted like others in this big city...so she naturally put this idea behind her, and even later I have also become a moonlight family. Every month, besides sending some money to my parents, the rest is to buy a lot of beautiful clothes and bags...

What exactly is going on?

...that "Sally", who is it?

Sally came to the address she wanted to go to the neighborhood committee with questions. It was almost 7 o'clock in the evening and the sun was about to set.

She entered the community where her parents and that "Sally" lived, and found Lou standing at the door of the room number, but she didn't know how to get in.

Across a door, voices kept coming from inside, and she was all too familiar with this voice.

...in what capacity is she going to face them?

Sally stood where she was, staring at her toes. She was exhausted physically and mentally after a day of running around, and she felt more and more absurd about her existence and behavior.

Obviously, when she couldn't see her parents, she had a thousand words to say, but when she really came back, her mind went blank.

She stood at the door for a long time, and heard that "Sally" inside was kindly acting like a baby and talking to her parents...

...gut told her that she shouldn't bother them right now.

...

Sally left and stayed overnight in a hotel near the community without closing her eyes.

The next day, she sneaked to the vicinity of the community.

She saw that Mama Sha was the same as before, carrying a basket to the market to buy vegetables before dawn. Every time she bought a vegetable, she had to negotiate the price with the vegetable vendor for half a day. When acquaintances talk, they smile and speak softly...

She just went shopping with Mama Sha all the way, because she looks like an American, it is very obvious when she walks in the market, and Mama Sha also looked back at her several times...

But it was a completely unfamiliar look, looking at an irrelevant person.

Sally's mood is very tangled, she really wants to go up and talk to her mother...

But what is she going to say?

...If she told her that the Sally you've been with for the past four years is a counterfeit and that I'm your real daughter, would she believe her?

Or, she believed it, but couldn't bear the stimulation?

...in or, in this world, were her original parents... still her parents?

...The bitter taste spread on the tip of her tongue, and Sally's mood became extremely depressed.

She observed secretly for a day like this, and saw that Sha's father and Sha's mother seemed to be in good health and seemed to be living happily. She was happy for them, but she felt deeply guilty...

She'd never... never made them smile so happily.

Ever since she graduated from university and went to work in T city, she always spends less time with her parents and leaves more...

Every time I go home and want to leave, I remember the eyes of my parents who don't want to give up...

From sunrise to sunset, she just watched the original life that should belong to her as a bystander for a whole day.

In the evening, when night fell, she sat on a table under a tree, and finally waited for that "Sally" who had just come home from get off work, stood up and stopped in front of her.

"Can we...can we chat for a while?" She asked with a tired and lonely look.

That "Sally" looked at her with a pair of pure black eyes full of puzzlement and doubt. He looked around, as if hesitating whether this foreign girl was talking to her.

Originally, she wanted to refuse, but for some reason, seeing the sadness in the blonde girl's eyes, she suddenly softened her heart, and agreed in a strange way.