silence

Chapter 1 The Uncle's Legacy

Chi Heng was numb, standing at the door of the laundry and staring blankly at the sunshine outside.

Chi Heng, born in 1982, is 23 years old this year. He came to the United States in 1998 when he was 16 years old. He has lived here for 2005 years now in 7. The life he thought he was used to has collapsed again.

Chi, this surname ranks 247th in the common people's family. It seems to be very few, but in fact there are tens of thousands of people with this surname. It is said that it comes from the son Chi of the Qin Dynasty, and later generations use it as the surname.

But no matter how glorious the ancestors were, they have all become ordinary people who have been passed down for thousands of years.

Chi Heng's parents are ordinary people, or worse than ordinary people. His father started a business when he was very young, caught up with the trend of the 90s and made a lot of money. He didn't expect to be addicted to gambling with his mother. , Then he lost all his family property and owed a lot of usury.

The society in the 90s was very chaotic. If you owe usury and don’t repay it, you may be punished. Chi Heng’s parents simply ran away and left the child to relatives. It is said that he went to Shenzhen to make a living, and his whereabouts are unknown. .

Chi Heng's mother's brother, that is, his uncle, went to the United States to wash dishes when he was very young. Relying on the diligence and hard work of the Chinese, he finally used his savings to open a laundry shop and reached the pinnacle of his life.After knowing that his sister and brother-in-law ran away and left their only son, he was very helpless, so he took Chi Heng to the United States and successfully naturalized him.

Chi Heng's uncle, Chen Liu, happened to have no children. His wife had already died of cancer, and he also took care of Chi Heng as his own son.Where did Chi Heng get care from when he was a child? It was the first time he experienced the feeling of family affection and treated his uncle as a real father.

It's a pity that the 16-year-old child has already been formed. No one in China cares about Chi Heng's studies. His academic performance is very poor. When he came to the United States, he couldn't even speak the language, so how could he keep up with the progress here.

Because of this, he dropped out of American community high school and worked as a helper in the laundry with his uncle.

Such a life is not bad, the business of the laundry is very good, he thought it would be good to inherit the work of the laundry in the future, but what he didn't expect was that his uncle actually evaded taxes and was fined a large amount by the tax bureau, which was enough to make the laundry The bankrupt money, this matter has not been resolved, and my uncle was in a car accident and was admitted to the hospital dying.

The 23-year-old Chi Heng, who has grown up, is still at a loss in the face of this situation.

Before the fart last night, my uncle reluctantly held onto Chi Heng's hand and told him to live a good life. Don't forget to pay taxes when doing any work in the future. He must be a good citizen who pays taxes legally.

"The laundry shop will definitely not be able to continue, but I don't have much savings, what should I do? Is it really a part-time job?"

Chi Heng hasn't saved much money in these years, and his whole body is estimated to be more than 2000 US dollars. He has to deal with fines and sell his uncle's small dilapidated house.

"correct!"

He suddenly remembered that his uncle had told him the password of the safe before he died.

Chi Heng immediately went up to the second floor of the laundry, went to his uncle's room, opened the closet, and saw a rusty safe. Although it didn't look very good-looking, it was worth a lot because the safe could be used electronic password.

He entered the code and opened the safe.

To Chi Heng's shock, the safe was filled with a large wad of cash. He quickly grabbed it out and counted it. There were nearly 10 US dollars!
This is a huge amount of money!

"Strange, uncle has so much money, why does he say he can't afford the fine?"

Chi Heng was stunned for a while. Besides the cash, there was also a piece of paper and a watch in the safe.

Let’s talk about this watch first. When Chi Heng took it out, he was surprised to find that this watch looked like a traditional watch, but the dial was lacquered black, like a piece of black jade. He touched the dial with his fingers inexplicably. The lacquered dial immediately lit up, and there were extremely clear numbers——14:20:15.

"Huh?" Chi Heng was shocked.

There are also scales around the entire dial, and as the digital time moves, the circles of hands are also changing.

What shocked Chi Heng was that the hands and numbers on the dial were colored. The numbers were light green, and the hands were blue. Compared with the quartz watch in his hand, they were completely different concepts.

"digital watch?"

Chi Heng recalled the Casio digital watch he had seen in the mall, but the Casio digital watch has a black and white monochrome LCD screen, it is impossible to have a color screen, and the dial screen is much more delicate than the color image of a TV.

After 30 seconds of dazed time passed, the dial of this magical electronic watch fell into darkness again.

Chi Heng pointed his fingers again and found that the electronic watch was activated again.

What's even more amazing is that when he put the electronic watch on his wrist with great interest, and realized that the screen was off, the dial of the electronic watch would light up immediately when he raised his wrist, as if he could automatically detect that he raised his wrist ?
"so amazing!"

Chi Heng can be sure that there is absolutely no such electronic watch on the market!

"Wait, why does uncle have such a powerful electronic watch? Could it be that uncle is a secret agent? Is this the equipment of FBI and CIA?"

Chi Heng was in a state of confusion, thinking of the movie 6 in the British MI007 that he had seen, there were many miraculous and military equipment.

This electronic watch is so miraculous that he can't think of any other possibility except that it is used by the military.

"And the number in the middle will change?"

After pondering for a while, he realized that this number would change with his steps, adding 1 with each step he took.

"Is this to record the number of steps?"

Chi Heng was stunned, the watch can also record the wearer's steps?

After Chi Heng figured it out, he slid the dial, and a new interface appeared, including barometric altimeter, heart rate, blood oxygen, sleep, alarm clock, compass, and... more than 200 sports modes that can be tracked and recorded!
He has been shocked into dementia.

Moreover, the size of the dial screen of this watch is almost the same as that of the Nokia N90 flagship mobile phone screen that he saw launched this year, and the resolution is higher and more delicate. Pixels of digital time.

"Can it track altitude, record heartbeat in real time, record blood oxygen, track sleep, and even have a calculator function?"

Chi Heng was dizzy and couldn't figure out where his uncle bought such a magical electronic watch.

He became more and more suspicious, could uncle really be a secret agent?
No, if uncle is a secret agent, how could he still evade taxes?

Wearing this electronic watch far ahead of this era on his left wrist, Chi Heng abandoned his precious quartz watch like a shoe, and after playing with it for a while, he took out the only piece of paper left in the safe.

This piece of paper is obviously a long list of place names.

"Maine..."

The address translates to a small town somewhere in Maine.

(End of this chapter)