(1) It all started with a bronze kettle

It's another sunny morning, and it's a brand new day. Chen Ze, a small blue-collar worker in an ordinary company, came to his position, worked diligently, and worked hard for his life and his future. is such an ordinary person, and today something will happen to him that no one else can encounter in a lifetime.

When he got off work, the sky was already a little dark, considering that the security in the neighborhood had been a little bad recently, in order to hurry home, Chen Ze chose to take a shortcut and crossed through an antique market, and happened to meet the last store in the antique market to close the stall. Although this road will save a lot of time, because Chen Ze has no interest in history since he was a child, and later because of some things that made him hate these, and even have a deep prejudice, and these antiques that are related to it are also drawn by him and hated by him, so even if he lives near this antique market for a few years, he has not "patronized" a few times, just regard this as a shortcut home. Chen Ze, who was not interested in these things, crossed the market as usual that day, but accidentally bumped into a bronze pot placed on the side of the road.......

"Young man, are you going to go?" An old voice rang out behind him.

"It's over, it's going to be entangled." Chen Ze secretly screamed in his heart. Because there was no one nearby, he also had the urge to run away at first, but Chen Ze, who had been more responsible since he was a child, still chose to admit it, turned around and smiled and said: "I'm sorry....... old man, you put it on the side of the road, I didn't notice it....... this is really what I accidentally bumped into, if you let me pay ......."

The old gentleman glanced at his lips and did not pay attention to Chen Ze immediately, but bent down to help the bronze pot up. "Compensation? Not necessarily. He picked up the bronze pot and glanced back and forth, paused for a moment and then said, "This thing is not so easy to break, and you don't need your stinky money to pay for it."

When Chen Ze heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, but the old gentleman said next: "But ....... you have to apologize to it!"

"Apologize? What kind of apology? Hearing the old man's words, Chen Ze was a little puzzled. How do you want me to apologize? ”

"Just kneel on it for the night tonight." The old gentleman said lightly.

"Kneel for the night!" Chen Ze exclaimed. Kneeling in front of this broken thing for one night and making compensation, Chen Ze would rather choose the latter, even if this thing is worth a lot of money, after all, dignity is more important than money in his heart.

"Sir, your request is too unkind, isn't it? I'm willing to pay you more, even if you want more. ”

"I said I don't need your stinky money, you just need to kneel!" The old gentleman said in an accentuated tone, and his face became serious. Chen Ze didn't reply to him, but looked embarrassed and stood there motionless. "I ......."

"I know, it looks like this old guy guessed right." The old gentleman looked at Chen Ze and said meaningfully.

"Who do you mean?" At this time, except for the old gentleman in front of him, no one around Chen Ze could be worthy of the title of "old guy" he said, which had to make Chen Ze a little puzzled.

The old gentleman held the bronze pot and pointed to it, saying, "The old fellow here." As he spoke, his face softened, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and he smiled faintly, "Old guy, did you guess correctly just now.......

Hearing this, Chen Ze felt that he had been fooled by him, "Old man, are you playing with me?" ”

The old gentleman did not reply to him, but continued the topic and said, "Young man, I will ask you whether you kneel or not?"

"Crazy old man......." Chen Ze shook off this sentence, and then walked home without looking back, after all, his temper also has a limit.

When the old gentleman saw Chen Ze leaving, he didn't catch up with him, but raised his voice slightly, just so that Chen Ze, who was gradually moving away, could hear clearly: "Young man, I can remind you, if you suffer any bad luck, don't come to me." I'm talking about the suffering of samsara......."

"It's ridiculous, you want me to receive more than ten years of education, and something like this feudal superstition still scares me?! Joke! Chen Ze thought to himself in his heart, and the pace of going home became faster and faster, and he was getting farther and farther away from the antique market and the old gentleman.

"What ......." Chen Ze spit out this sentence as soon as he stepped into the house, full of resentment, letting him kneel on the street in front of a broken pot for a night, in his eyes, it was not equivalent to trampling on his dignity. Besides, he accidentally bumped into it, and he also proposed financial compensation, but he didn't know that people had to kneel him, and it would take one night!

"Let's go less in the future." Chen Ze walked to the side of the bed while muttering, and his tired body just saw the bed, he lost his strength and fell down to the bed.

"I don't like those things in the first place....... but why don't you change houses? Anyway, the rent in this place is going to rise again......." After a while, he fell asleep.

(2) The first stop of reincarnation

"King! King! Chen Ze's ears kept ringing this title, accompanied by a wave of fatigue and pain in his body. When he struggled to open his eyes, instead of the familiar ceiling and bed, he saw a man in ancient armor....... oh no, because his beard ....... should be called "uncle.......

"You're finally awake!" Seeing Chen Ze open his eyes, the uncle shouted desperately around as if he had been beaten with chicken blood: "Brothers! The king is awake, let's hurry up and prepare and retreat to Wujiang! ”

"The king? What is the king......." Chen Ze muttered while being set up by him, and in his gradually clearer sight, what he saw clearly was not his bedroom, but a messy battlefield, with broken corpses lying everywhere, and the only ones alive were a few people who seemed to be on guard not far away, as well as the uncle and Chen Ze himself.......

Suddenly frightened by this, Chen Ze suddenly became vigilant, pushed the uncle who set him up, and said with a little vigilance: "Where is this?" Why am I here? A voice he had never heard before came out of his throat, breaking the silence of the battlefield like a lion's roar.

"King! What's wrong with you? The uncle who was pushed away by Chen Ze looked at Chen Ze with a puzzled face, and the people around him who he called "brothers" also cast puzzled glances at where the two were.

"The Suffering of Reincarnation....... King......." Chen Ze suddenly remembered what the old gentleman said about the suffering of reincarnation, and what the old gentleman said when he left:

"If you have any bad luck, don't come to me. I'm talking about the suffering of samsara......."

The broken armor, the deep voice, the thick body, the irregular size scars scattered all over the body....... there is no part of this body that belongs to him Chen Ze! Despite this, Chen Ze still had a glimmer of hope and slapped himself hard, but he did not wake up from what he thought was the dream, on the contrary, the pain on his face after being fanned by himself was clearly visible.

"Is this true?" A bad feeling welled up in my heart.

"Impossible, impossible, that broken thing can still let me cross? These must be fake! Chen Ze kept shaking his head, he still didn't want to believe it, he didn't believe that there really was such a supernatural power in the world, although he had now been really brought to this ghost place by this supernatural power.

"Old sir! Come out! I know you made it! You come out! Chen Ze yelled around, and there was already a trace of fear in his tone.

"What's wrong with you, King?" The uncle saw Chen Ze desperately yelling around, and said in a hurry, but he didn't know that although the appearance of his king's body had not changed, his consciousness had become a modern person from two thousand years later.

"What's wrong with you, King?" Seeing that Chen Ze was so weird, the people around also came over and asked.

At this time, a person suddenly appeared galloping on a white horse, "King! King! The chief of the Wujiang Pavilion is already waiting on the riverside, so the king should withdraw quickly! The man shouted as he approached, but when he rushed to Chen Ze's side, Chen Ze and the people around him did not move.

When he was still some distance away from Chen Ze, the man turned over from his horse, knelt down in front of Chen Ze, bowed his head and said, "King, the Wujiang Pavilion Chief has prepared a boat and is waiting, so let the king leave quickly!"

At this time, everyone's eyes were focused on Chen Ze, and their eyes were full of exhaustion, stubbornness, and the fear that they had just had, a fear of losing their leader.

"What to do? What am I going to do? Chen Ze was very entangled in his heart at this time, he didn't know how to face the situation he had to deal with now, and he used an identity that did not belong to him to solve it.

"Let's go......." Chen Ze lightly spit out these two words in his mouth. In the face of the current situation, Chen Ze can only accept the facts head-on, first use this body and identity, and take a step by step. And he could also see from what had just happened that continuing to use this identity would allow him to have a few more followers loyal to him, and for now, it would only help him better understand the details of his current identity, so that he could survive and find the ultimate goal of returning to his original world.

When everyone around Chen Ze heard this, they immediately came to their senses. This also confirms Chen Ze's guess: the real owner of this body has established undoubted prestige in their hearts before he now takes possession of this body. Even after witnessing Chen Ze's strange behavior just now, without a trace of words and explanations, they chose to obey. It seems that as long as it comes from the swollen throat of this body, most of them will choose to accept it, let alone in this time of crisis. The people around Chen Ze also immediately got ready when Chen Ze's words fell, and the uncle also brought a black foal from the side and walked towards me.

"Your majesty, this is your child."

"Wuzhi....... am I him?" Chen Ze heard this somewhat familiar name, and muttered in a low voice. Although hearing the name made him somewhat sure of who he was, his consistent personality did not make him immediately identify the answer. "Alas....... then you know the benefits of studying history." Chen Ze was a little lucky, glad that he could still make a judgment based on some trivial information, which also gave him the courage to go through the world as a "history idiot......

"Are you the mount of this so-called king? You're mine now. Chen Ze muttered in his mouth as he turned over and got on the horse, and there was a little timidity in his heart, because Chen Ze had never seen a real horse in his previous life, let alone ridden a horse!

Although Chen Ze still had a trace of fear in his heart, he still rode on, but for some reason, as a person who had never ridden a horse in his previous life, he rode this king's treasure horse for the first time, but he was extremely skilled, and the process of getting on the horse was completed in one go, and he didn't overturn it and get off the horse. "Is it because my current body is the king?" Chen Ze thought silently in his heart

When Chen Ze got on the horse, everyone around him was also ready to go, got on the horse, and looked towards Chen Ze, although they were a little tired, they were still very energetic and waited for Chen Ze to give the next order.

"In which direction is the head of the Wujiang Pavilion?" Chen Ze was a little unaccustomed to using other people's voices and began to give orders.

"King! In that direction! The messenger pointed in one direction.

"Okay! Come with me, boys! Chen Ze learned from the actor's version of "General" that he had glimpsed on TV before, and said that at this time he was a little glad that he could still remember this, but he couldn't ride a horse as chic as the people on TV. Just when he didn't know how to control the horse, his brain was like an encyclopedia, and as soon as he asked his question, a bunch of answers to the manipulation tricks flashed.

"What a god!"

With these tricks that suddenly appeared in his mind, Chen Ze began to skillfully control the good horse called "Wuzhi" under his crotch, so that his originally overwhelmed hands knew how to hold the reins, and his legs also cooperated, and he slammed the horse's belly, so that the horse under the crotch galloped in the direction of the man's fingers.

(3) Rather be the overlord and look at Jiangdong

On the way to Wujiang, Chen Ze kept searching for people who were similar to him in the only historical knowledge he had in his mind.

Dawang, Wujiang, Wuzhi, with these things, he already has an answer in his heart, but he still wants to be sure, and is sure that he is "him" now.

As we got closer to our destination, the river, which was originally a faint white line, gradually expanded and turned into its original appearance.

"Slow!" Chen Ze tightened the reins and stopped the horse, and the people around him also followed him, stopping at his left and right. "Is this where we're going to be?" Chen Ze asked.

"Yes, King!" One person returned.

"You go check it out first!" Chen Ze said to the man, and the purpose of his doing this was just to hope that he would have time to ask some questions at this time to prove his guess.

"No!" The man didn't say a word, but ran away.

Chen Ze, who had gained time, also immediately started his action, "Our enemy is Liu Bang....... right? Chen Ze asked with some caution towards the uncle who had been by his side from the beginning.

"The king......." The worry that had disappeared from the uncle's face began to resurface, "What's wrong with you?" Why did you call that dog thief all the way around....... since you just passed out from the fight with the Han army, you have been ......."

"It feels strange....... Chen Ze said with a sigh of relief, hearing this answer, even if his original history was not good, he now knew who he was.

Chen Ze saw that there was still a trace of worry on his uncle's face, so he smiled at him easily and said, "I'm just asking casually, you don't have to worry." After saying that, he turned his back and looked in the direction of the riverside.

"Have I really become Xiang Yu?" Faced with this indisputable fact, Chen Ze fell into deep thought. With the only historical knowledge he has, he knows that Xiang Yu is in front of him, which is the end of his life today. He would stand on the riverside, in front of the Han army that was about to catch up, and end his life in a tragic way. In the next thousands of years, he will turn into a generation of heroes and heroes under countless swordsmen and pencils, or a chaotic minister and thief; In the mouths of countless poets, it is praised as a generation of heroic overlords, or a king or a loser; became a generation of war gods under the rendering of dramatists, and turned into a sad song in the singer's mouth. But none of this is important to him now, what he cares about is whether he can return to the world that belongs to him if he dies, and if he doesn't die, whether there is a chance to find a way back.......

"King! There was no ambush ahead, and there were more than a dozen brothers who had broken through. ”

"Is the person looking at it back?" Chen Ze groaned, "But I don't know what to do yet......."

Chen Ze took a deep breath, turned around, and looked at the people behind him who had been following him, in them, Chen Ze saw tenacity, perseverance and stubbornness, and a spirit of not admitting defeat seemed to be connected with their body bones.

"Let's go!"

"No!"

Chen Ze rode Wuzhi and galloped towards the riverside. In his mind, he actually had no choice but to choose to play the role of Xiang Yu in history, take a knife from himself, and end himself. He already regretted his decision a little, after all, in the face of survival, his so-called dignity inevitably seemed a little "chicken".

Of course, he can also choose to continue to live and get through Jiangdong quickly, or abandon this identity incognito, and then slowly find a way to get back; or make a comeback, after dominating the world, use all your strength to find a way to get it back, and you can still be the son of heaven. But Chen Ze didn't know why, he felt that the current situation didn't even have the courage to fight anymore for Xiang Yu's kind of capable person, let alone his later juniors.

"King!" When Chen Ze approached the ferry boat that had been prepared on the riverside, all the people standing around the ferry dismounted and fell to the ground, and there were just twenty-six people around them.

"Get up!" Chen Ze said lightly.

"King Xiang?" A middle-aged man's crisp voice came from the ferry, and as soon as the words fell, the owner of the voice walked out of the ferry.

"You are?" I saw that the person in front of me was wearing a plain robe with a smiling face, looking like a good old man.

"Contemptible Wujiang Pavilion Chief." After speaking, he bent down and made a wave, and then said: "I have been waiting for the king for a long time to prepare the ship here."

"Thank you....... but ......." Chen Ze just wanted to speak, and there was a shocking shout of killing in the distance.

"King! It's the Han army catching up! ”

"Get on board!"

"yes, we're here to buy you time."

"The King's ......."

"Don't talk about it!" Chen Ze interrupted everyone's words, and his face suddenly changed, "I don't want to leave .......!" ”

Everyone looked at Chen Ze with an incredible look in their eyes, looking at their king. "King!" The uncle standing next to me was the first to show dissatisfaction.

At this moment, the prestige of "Xiang Yu" seems to be less useful, and there are indeed reasons for Chen Ze's strange behavior, but the most important thing is that they don't want to watch their leader die, in this case, staying and not leaving means death, staying and not leaving means complete defeat, and staying and not leaving means that their stubbornness and tenacity have lost the meaning of existence.

"I don't know what it tastes like when Xiang Yu said the words that have been passed down through the ages before he died....... in my mouth" Chen Ze thought silently in his heart, at this moment he looked at the blue sky of more than two thousand years, and it seemed that time had stopped.......

Because of that accidental incident, he became the Xiang Yu he is today, and Xiang Yu, one of the only historical figures he has ever understood. Because of that accidental incident, his words and deeds now will affect history and become history. Although he still has the ability to change history, he still doesn't have the courage to change it all and take this first step. What "comeback is unknown", he is somewhat unconvinced. It is neither objective nor realistic to examine the mistakes of the ancients from the perspective of a future person. If you are not in your position, how can you truly understand the pressure and difficulties faced by your predecessors? If he is not in his position, how can he dare to say that the judgment he made as a descendant is absolutely correct?

In fact, putting all this aside, Chen Ze's truest thoughts just wanted to gamble, gambling that this death could go back, and he believed that the old gentleman would not take his life because of this. He remembered that the old gentleman said that this was "the suffering of reincarnation", and since it was "reincarnation", there would be a chance to "return", so he might be able to go back if he died. Besides, he doesn't know how to fight and can't kill the enemy, how can he make a comeback? He is even less familiar with later history, how can he predict the future? What is his advantage in changing history? Thinking of this, he can only gamble, he can only accept history, to become history, he believes that the old gentleman will not take his life because of this.

"Sir....... I really know it's wrong! You must not really take my life......." Chen Ze said to the sky, as if the old gentleman was really looking at him from the sky.

"Xiang Wang...... Let's go! The chief of Wujiang Pavilion, who had been silent on the boat, spoke, "I don't know why the king is reluctant to leave, if he thinks that Jiangdong is small enough to help the king make a comeback, then the king is underestimating Jiangdong's strength." Seeing that Xiang Yu didn't want to leave, the chief of Wujiang Pavilion first felt that Xiang Yu thought that Jiangdong was small, "King!" Although Jiangdong is small, the land is 1,000 miles long, and the people are hundreds of thousands, which is enough for you to be king. I hope that the king will cross the river soon. Besides, now I am the only one who has a boat, and when the Han army gets closer, I will not be able to cross it. ”

Chen Ze smiled and shook out the words that were vaguely remembered in his mind: "I know you think my decision is a little strange, and even think I'm crazy, but I Xiang Yu just don't want to fight anymore......" With a hint of sadness, Chen Ze gradually interpreted the Xiang Yu in his mind, and the Xiang Yu in history, with his "acting skills", "God wants to destroy me, what else do I do across the Wujiang River!" Besides, I and 8,000 of Jiangdong's children crossed the Jiangxi expedition, and now none of them have returned, even if Jiangdong's father and brothers love me and let me be king, what face do I have to meet them? Even if they don't say anything, don't I, Xiang Yu, feel ashamed in my heart? As he spoke, he looked at the twenty-six Chu soldiers who were still beside him now, and he found that a trace of respect for him Chen Ze appeared on their faces.

"The King's ......"

Chen Ze followed the fragments that he still vaguely remembered in his mind, and deduced in the direction of Xiang Yu in history little by little.

"I know that you are a loyal elder" Chen Ze then turned over and dismounted, recited his "lines" to the chief of Wujiang Pavilion, and put Wuzhi's reins in his hand: "I have ridden this horse for five years, invincible, once traveled thousands of miles a day, I can't bear to kill it, now give it to you!" As he spoke, he glanced at Wuzhi.

"Xiang Yu! Your time of death has come! When Chen Ze said this, the Han army had already surrounded them.

"There's one last bit left...... You guys are here by yourself" Chen Ze did the last step according to what he knew about Xiang Yu's words and deeds before he died: fighting with the Han army, and this is also the most difficult, after all, he has never killed anyone, nor has he been on the battlefield.

"Now I really can't leave, which of you wants to catch two pads before dying with me?" Although he didn't know the bottom in his heart, Chen Ze still made this decision.

"I do!"

"I'm willing to ...... with the king"

The feeling of responding to a hundred calls, Chen Ze can be regarded as experiencing it once, "Okay! Everyone, get off the horse and have a good time! Everyone dismounted according to what Chen Ze said and prepared for a battle, and the chief of Wujiang Pavilion saw that they were ready to fight to the death, so he did not persuade again, but led Wuzhi to the bow of the boat and rowed the boat a little towards the middle of the river.

"Kill!" Without too many worries, Chen Ze, who was holding a gamble, finally really stepped on that step and rushed towards the Han army, and the twenty-six people gradually disappeared in the camp dozens of times his own Han army, and were overwhelmed by the crowd of the Han army. Thankfully, Chen Ze did not make a mistake in this bet, as he hoped, he really left here and left this reincarnation. But that's just the beginning......