Chapter 1 Uncle’s Legacy

Chi Heng was numb and stood at the door of the laundry, 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, and has lived here for 7 years now in 2005. The life he thought he was accustomed to has collapsed again.

Chi, this surname ranks 247th among ordinary people's families. It seems very rare, but in fact there are hundreds of thousands of people with this surname. It is said that it comes from the prince of the Qin Dynasty, Chi, and later generations took this surname.

But no matter how glorious our ancestors are, they have become ordinary people after being passed down for thousands of years.

Chi Heng's parents were just ordinary people, or worse than ordinary people. His father started a business when he was very young and caught up with the trend of the 1990s and made a lot of money. He didn't expect to indulge in it with his mother.

Due to gambling, he lost all his family property and owed a lot of loan sharks.

The society in the 1990s was very chaotic. If you didn't repay the loan sharks, you could really be raped. Chi Heng's parents simply ran away and left their children with relatives. They reportedly went to Shenzhen to make a living.

Whereabouts unknown.

Chi Heng's mother's brother, 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 and reached the pinnacle of his life. After getting to know his sister

After running away with her brother-in-law and leaving behind her only son, she felt helpless and simply brought Chi Heng to the United States and successfully naturalized him.

Chi Heng's uncle Chen Liu happened to have no children. His wife had died of cancer long ago, and he took care of Chi Heng as his own son. Where had Chi Heng received care since he was a child? It was the first time he experienced the feeling of family affection.

My uncle is treated like a real father.

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

Chi Heng was confused and thought of the movie 007 from the British MI6 he had watched, which had many magical and military equipment.

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

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

This electronic watch was so magical that apart from being used by the military, he could not think of the second possibility.

Chi Heng immediately went 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.

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

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

He pondered for a while and realized that the number would change with his pace, adding 1 with every step he took.

He became more and more suspicious, was his uncle really a spy?

No, if my uncle is an agent, how could he still evade taxes?

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

Chi Heng recalled the Casio electronic watch he had seen in the mall, but the Casio electronic watch had a black and white monochrome LCD screen and could not have color. Moreover, the dial screen was much more delicate than the color images on a TV.

"It's strange, my uncle has so much money, why does he say he can't pay the fine?"

What shocked Chi Heng was that the safe was filled with a large stack of cash. He quickly grabbed it out and counted it carefully. There was nearly 100,000 US dollars!

This is a huge amount of money!

Chi Heng, who is 23 years old and already an adult, is still at a loss when facing this situation.

Because of this, he dropped out of school before finishing high school in an American community and worked with his uncle in a laundry.

"And the number in the middle will change?"

Chi Heng was confused. The watch could also record the wearer's steps?

Life was good like this. The business of the laundry was very good. He thought it would be good to inherit the job 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 punish the laundry.

Before the matter of bankruptcy money was resolved, my uncle was in a car accident and was admitted to the hospital dying.

Before he burped last night, his uncle reluctantly held Chi Heng's hand and told him to live well and never forget to pay taxes in any job he does in the future. He must be a good citizen who pays taxes legally.

Moreover, the size of the dial screen of this watch is so huge that it is almost the same as the screen of the Nokia N90 flagship mobile phone that he saw was launched this year, and the resolution is higher and more delicate. He almost moved his eyes to the dial and did not see it.

Pixels of digital time.

"Is this for recording steps?"

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

Chi Heng was stunned for a long time. In addition to the cash, there was also a piece of paper and a watch in the safe.

He entered the password and opened the safe.

What's even more amazing is that when he put the electronic watch on his wrist with great interest and noticed that the screen was turned off, as soon as he raised his wrist, the dial of the electronic watch would light up immediately. It seemed that he could automatically detect when he raised his wrist.

?

“How amazing!”

"Huh?" Chi Heng was shocked.

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

Chi Heng has not saved much money in these years, and his total savings is estimated to be more than two thousand US dollars. He has to deal with fines and sell his uncle's small and dilapidated house.

"The laundry will definitely not be able to continue operating, but I don't have much savings, what should I do? Do I really have to do odd jobs?"

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

Let’s talk about this watch first. After Chi Heng took it out, he was surprised to find that this watch seemed to be a traditional watch, but the dial was pitch black, like a piece of ink jade. He inexplicably touched the dial with his finger. It turned out to be pitch black.

The lacquered dial immediately lit up, and clear numbers appeared - 14:20:15.

"Electronic watch?"

"Wait a minute, how come my uncle has such a powerful electronic watch? Is he an agent? Is this equipment from the FBI or CIA?"

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... there are more than two hundred sports modes that can be tracked and recorded!

He has been shocked into dementia.

"Right!"

Wearing this electronic watch that was far ahead of this era on his left wrist, Chi Heng abandoned the quartz watch that he had cherished before. After playing with it for a while, he took out the only piece of paper left in the safe.

There is obviously a long list of place names on this piece of paper.

"Maine..."

Translated, the address is a small town in Maine.
Chapter completed!