Hearing someone say "see you in the future" to a "dead man" stirred something in Meng Chuan, the man it had been said to.
Of all Meng Chuan's friends, as far as he knew, only the eccentric, slightly unhinged Shen Yuyu could have said something like that.
Besides, now that he had returned, he ought to see his old friends. This was his first home, after all, and it held many memories.
He could hardly slip back in and slip away again without a word.
Earth's Nations: Does this "alien" have some strange idea of what slipping in unnoticed means?
One visit to his old home, one look at an old friend, one final farewell—that would about do it for this trip.
And so Shen Yuyu appeared before Meng Chuan at just the right time.
If someone else had been the last to send him a "see you in the future," Meng Chuan would have chosen to visit that person instead.
Meng Chuan and Shen Yuyu had been classmates at university, and they had gotten along well.
Shen Yuyu was an orphan too, and after everything they had gone through at university, she and Meng Chuan had become good friends.
Of course, Shen Yuyu really was an orphan. Meng Chuan was not.
Shen Yuyu was not Meng Chuan's only friend. His "previous life" had not been so cursed that he'd had just one. She was simply unusual.
But she had been the last of his friends to learn of his "death," and the one who had sent the dead Meng Chuan a "see you in the future."
"Come to think of it, I remember how you used to dream of contributing to scientific research. You talked about that goal every day."
"You even went away for further study because of