Chapter 12

Brian Carter nodded blankly, then asked again, “May I ask, brother, what is an automobile?”

  David Brooks said, almost in tears, “An automobile is a means of transportation that can run really fast on the road!”

  Brian Carter asked even more seriously, “May I ask, brother, why can this thing run so fast on the road?”

  David Brooks replied weakly, “Because it has an engine.”

  Brian Carter humbly asked, “May I ask, brother, what is an engine?”

  “Engine, an engine is…” David Brooks was getting flustered by the questions and shouted at him, “Why do you have so many whys? Are you turning into Xiao Shenyang? And you keep saying ‘may I ask, may I ask,’ is there anything you don’t dare to ask? I just don’t get it, you never liked reading historical time-travel novels before, so why are you suddenly speaking in such old-fashioned language?”

  Brian Carter immediately straightened his expression and sensibly shut his mouth. Actually, he still wanted to ask, who is Xiao Shenyang? Are you very familiar with him?

  David Brooks kept a stern face, but inside he was filled with deep sorrow, because he suspected that his childhood friend hadn’t just lost his memory from being hit, but had been completely knocked into an idiot. Or maybe… sigh, anyway, his brain was definitely damaged!

  After walking for a while, David Brooks couldn’t help but turn his head and ask, “Xiao Kai, do you really not remember anything?”

  Brian Carter nodded, “I don’t remember anything at all!”

  David Brooks still refused to give up, “Not even a little bit?”

  Brian Carter tried hard to think, but his head started to ache as if it was exploding, so he quickly shook his head, “I dare not think, as soon as I try, my head hurts terribly.”

  David Brooks sighed softly and said helplessly, “Alright, let’s go to the hospital to see a doctor first, we’ll talk about everything else later.”

  Haiyuan City People’s Hospital was only one bus stop and two streets away from the Police Academy.

  Even though it was such a short distance, along the way, David Brooks was bombarded by Brian Carter with a lot of simple and idiotic common-sense questions. If this wasn’t his childhood friend of nearly twenty years, he really would have wanted to kick this guy into a trash can.

  But through all the asking and answering, Brian Carter finally learned that it was now the 21st century, the year 2012 AD, and the new era of socialism. The Tang Dynasty had long since fallen, over a thousand years ago.

  When Brian Carter learned this, he was completely stunned, because he just couldn’t figure out how, after closing his eyes and opening them again, he had ended up in the future.

  However, David Brooks finally figured out what had just happened to Brian Carter. When he found out that this guy had actually run into the girls’ bathhouse, he immediately became interested, “Hey, Xiao Kai, how did you end up in the girls’ bathhouse?”

  Brian Carter shook his head, “I don’t know how I got in either.”

  David Brooks asked again, “Was it that brute Kevin Harris who forced you in?”

  Brian Carter asked, “Who is Kevin Harris?”

  Heavens!

  This guy is acting weird again!

  David Brooks reached out and slapped his own forehead, patiently describing, “He’s the one with his hair parted in the middle like it was struck by lightning, and his face is covered in red pimples.”

  Brian Carter suddenly understood, “Oh, you mean him. I’ve seen him before. Maybe, perhaps, possibly, it was him who forced me in. I don’t really remember!”

  “That brute!” David Brooks pounded his fist indignantly, then winked and asked, “Hey, did you see anything in the bathhouse?”

  Brian Carter said, “What?”

  David Brooks rolled his eyes at him, “What else could it be, women! Did you? Did you?”

  Brian Carter nodded, “There was one!”

  David Brooks immediately perked up, his eyes gleaming, “What was the woman doing at the time?”

  Brian Carter said, “At that time…”

  David Brooks slapped his forehead, cutting him off, “Oh, what a dumb question, of course she was bathing in the bathhouse, what else could she be doing, taking a dump? So… was the woman wearing clothes? Uh, that’s another dumb question, who bathes with their clothes on? Just tell me, what was her figure like? Was her skin fair? Was her chest big? What did it look like down there? Like Sora Aoi? Or like Yui Hatano?”

  Brian Carter listened blankly. He could understand the first few questions, but the last two sounded like a dream, “Brother, that woman really wasn’t wearing any clothes, but… may I ask, brother, whose daughters are Sora Aoi and Yui Hatano?”

  “Whose daughters?” David Brooks burst out laughing, “You’re pretending to be clueless again! You forgot what you said yourself, ‘Diaoyu Island belongs to China, Teacher Cang belongs to the world,’ and now you’re asking me whose daughters they are? Haha, that’s hilarious!”

  Brian Carter didn’t find it funny at all, he couldn’t even force a fake smile, just looked at him expressionlessly.

  David Brooks laughed for a while, but with no one to join in, it felt pointless. Still, he couldn’t help but ask, “You saw her bathing, and she didn’t beat you up?”

  Brian Carter nodded, “Brother, you don’t know, that woman was really fierce. She hit my head several times in a row with a wooden basin!”

  Now, David Brooks finally understood everything: Brian Carter’s head wasn’t damaged by Kevin Harris, but because Kevin Harris forced him to sneak a peek at someone bathing, and then he got his head bashed in by the girl he saw.