Chapter 5330
The older man froze for a moment.
A friend...
All right.
Compared with a stranger, an enemy, or someone he disliked...
"Friend" did seem like a relatively suitable word.
"Yeah."
The older man smiled ruefully.
"What a coincidence."
He didn't tell Zhang Lei much about the long-unseen "friend" he'd met—the unusual old man from the story he'd told Zhang Lei.
After all, there wasn't much to say about this meeting.
The old man had been as strange and inexplicable as ever.
It left him feeling rather stifled.
For now, he didn't want to bring the old man up.
Besides, Zhang Lei was happy that his niece had escaped her bad luck. He didn't want to spoil the mood by complaining.
After chatting a little longer, Zhang Lei hung up.
The older man put away his phone.
Zhang Lei's call today had reminded him of what happened that day...
His second encounter with that unusual old man.
Looking back now...
Both times he'd met the old man had been rather extraordinary.
The second time especially.
The old man's peculiar words and actions, along with his unusual appearance, had lent their encounters a strange, almost unreal quality.
He'd felt it while he was there.
Looking back afterward, that feeling had only grown stronger.
Sometimes it left him feeling a little dazed.
That day...
Had he really seen the old man again?
Was the old man really not a figment of his imagination... but someone who actually existed?
Come to think of it...
One thing after another had happened recently...
And they'd all revolved around that peculiar experience from his past that had never been resolved...
And the source of it all...
The older man froze.
He remembered.
It was that young man.
That young man's