At the End of the World, I'm Going Home

"He has been waiting for this train for 30,000 years." Chen An traveled more than a hundred worlds. In some worlds there are two suns in the sky, in some worlds there are talking trees growing in the sea, and in some worlds people have no bodies and only their consciousness is floating around. He learned to speak using an organ deep in his throat that ordinary people don't have, he learned to sleep on the edge of the crater, and he learned to live alone for a long, long time. But he never learned to forget his way home. Thirty thousand years later he came back. Return to Qingshan City, return to that residential building with peeling paint, return to behind that iron door. His mother's apron was stained with oil, she was holding a spatula in her hand, her eyes were red and she said, "It'll be nice to come back." He ate his first meal at home in 30,000 years. Later someone asked him: "You have traveled to so many places, where is the most amazing one?" Chen An thought for a while: "My home." "... That's it?" "That's it." ——Because this is the only place where he doesn't have to think about where to go tomorrow. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.