"What happened?"
Cheng Linzhou looked at Du Yan, who was standing behind him, and asked him a question.
Du Yan, with a blank face and no expression, replied like an AI, "Consultant Wen has amnesia."
"Amnesia?" Cheng Linzhou was shocked, his eyes fixed on Wen Jingyan's face. Seeing the other's timid and foolish expression, he still couldn't accept this answer.
"Mr. Wen, this is not the time for jokes. Our society is in dire straits and desperately needs your wisdom..."
Cheng Linzhou felt that Wen Jingyan was faking it, but he didn't dare to use harsh words or methods to interrogate him. He could only appeal to his emotions and reason with him.
But Wen Jingyan remained completely bewildered, like a student with no social experience who had just stepped out of the ivory tower.
Cheng Linzhou, that old fox, only asked a few simple questions, and Wen Jingyan revealed all his secrets.
"I remember I was a sophomore in college. One day, I was passing by the artificial lake on campus when I slipped and fell in. I struggled in the lake for a long time before losing consciousness."
"When I opened my eyes again, I thought I was saved and had been taken to the hospital. But when I got up, I found myself in a strange room."
"Since I wasn't tied up at the time, I ruled out the possibility of 'kidnapping,' and by checking the calendar, I found that it was already ten years later."
"Based on various clues and subtle hints, I suspect I may have suffered from amnesia, losing ten years of memories for some reason. I was exploring this unfamiliar era when you brought me here..."
Wen Jingyan's explanation was rather brief, but Cheng Linzhou and Du Yan listened as if to a fantasy story, still somewhat skeptical.
"If you don't believe me, then I don't know what to say. Do whatever you want, anyway, I can't possibly fight back against you all by myself." Wen Jingyan desperate.
No one could understand his feelings at that moment. When he woke up, the hard bed in the dormitory and the rustling sycamore trees outside the window were gone, and there was no sound of his roommates joking around.
Looking out the window, the familiar green playground and school buildings were no longer there. As far as the eye could see, there was a dizzying scene of bustling city life.
His face was reflected in the smooth glass; he could recognize it as his own, only much more mature.
After the initial panic, he gradually calmed down and found his wallet and phone on the bed where he had woken up. The wallet contained cash and his identification documents. Smartphones have undergone many technological iterations, and it took him a while to barely figure out how to use them.
The phone calendar showed the date ten years in the future; he seemed to have amnesia, losing a full ten years of memories. Of course, it was also possible that his consciousness had swapped with his future self ten years later.
In either case, the disconnect between his youthful mindset and middle-aged body made him extremely uncomfortable. Having inexplicably lost ten years of his life, he was actually quite devastated.
For a fleeting moment, he even thought he had time-traveled, that after drowning, he had been transported to a parallel universe and into his future self, ten years in the future.
He learned through his smartphone that many bizarre and supernatural events were happening in the world, but he remembered that he lived in a materialistic world. So after thinking about it for a long time, he was still more inclined to believe that he had traveled to a Parallel World with magic and the extraordinary.
However, he did not voice his speculation to avoid having his tissues sliced and studied in the laboratory.
Cheng Linzhou didn't know what to do with Wen Jingyan now. Ever since realizing the value and importance of Wen Jingyan as an advisor, the Investigation Bureau had been searching for his whereabouts.
Today, someone spotted Wen Jingyan loitering on the street, so Cheng Linzhou immediately sent someone to bring him back to the Investigation Bureau.
I never expected it to turn out like this!
Cheng Linzhou was very helpless and waved his hand, signaling Du Yan to take Wen Jingyan away and settle him in.
Actually, bringing Wen Jingyan back at this point wouldn't change the increasingly dire situation. However, having such a powerful Ghost Tamer by one's side is better than having none at all.
Moreover, the naive and innocent young Wen Jingyan is much easier to manipulate than the cunning and calculating middle-aged Wen Jingyan. Cheng Linzhou is already thinking about how to trick him into becoming his bodyguard and protecting his personal safety in the Supernatural apocalypse.
Etc!
Amnesia shouldn't affect Ghost Tamer's ability to use Supernatural powers, right?
"Starting at 3 PM today, a large number of 'free purchase' events occurred in Washington., America government is urgently appealing to the public to remain calm..."
"South Korea airports were packed with people, as many South Korea felt unsafe in the country, and wealthy individuals, including chaebols, chose to flee abroad with their assets."
TV Tokyo is rebroadcasting Milky Way Ultraman.
"Renowned physics professor XXX and meteorology expert XXX stated that the unusual events currently occurring around the world are merely rare natural phenomena, not to be seen for thousands of years. They will not have a significant impact on the normal lives of Chinese people, and these phenomena will soon disappear. Doomsday theories are nonsense; please do not believe or spread rumors."
The internet is flooded with all sorts of information. Official media claimed that the doomsday theory was a rumor, but the public didn't buy it. Those who wanted to hoard goods hoarded them, and those who wanted to flee fled.
Supermarkets were packed with people, and prices were rising, especially for small, high-energy fast food. Even though prices had increased several times over, countless people were still snapping them up.
The supermarket owner was all smiles at first, but he soon realized that he couldn't sell all the goods. No matter how much he earned, he had to be alive to spend it. Moreover, money in the apocalypse might become worthless. The supermarket's supply channels had been cut off, so he had to keep some things for himself.
Long lines of vehicles formed on the highway. Some were returning home, eager to reunite with their families; some were fleeing the disaster, seeking safer places to hide; and others were migrant workers diligently clocking in to work without interruption...
In a car, the wife asked her husband, "Are we really going back to our hometown? The mountain village there is so inconvenient; our cell phone only has one bar of signal."
The husband said, "I have a friend who has connections; he knows a lot of inside information. He told me that these strange phenomena are actually Supernatural events, and they are more likely to occur in places with more people. Our hometown mountain village has fewer people, and there's no shortage of water or food in the mountains, so it's safer."
"Okay." The woman frowned and took out her phone to check real-time information online.
"Huh? Someone's still making money by livestreaming at a time like this!"
"Who is it? How can they be so careless?" The husband turned to look at his wife's phone.
[Ghost hunter Pinshishi teaches you how to survive in the apocalypse!]
"Gold, high-purity gold, is the most effective thing to combat apocalyptic disaster!"