If life is a great adventure, then for most ordinary people, the difficulty of this adventure is only moderate at best, and although there may be various dangers and tribulations along the way, most of them always make it to their final destination.

Of course, if you are born into a powerful family, the difficulty of the adventure may become very low, and it may not even take much effort to obtain money, power, status, and an enviable and luxurious life.

But if you are born in a slum where violent crime is rampant, or in an area where war is frequent, the difficulty will instantly rise from ordinary to purgatory, and you will be killed by bullets flying out of nowhere before you live to adulthood, ending this great adventure early.

For Zhang Cheng, his original difficulty in life should be like most people, having a fairly happy childhood, a job that is not enough to support himself although he doesn't make much money, maybe wait a few more years to find a girlfriend to talk about, and then get married and have children, and spend the rest of his dull life step by step.

But the dullness didn't last, and a drunken complaint changed everything......

Now, the difficulty of his life adventure is probably far beyond the scope of ordinary people's comprehension, and it seems to inspire the madness that is suppressed in the subconscious.

Ever since sending Polman away, he has been studying the notebook full of mystical symbols, experimenting with combining them to see if they can trigger the corresponding magical resonance.

You must know that this is equivalent to using the most primitive method to open a combination lock composed of 2,500 characters, and it is almost impossible to completely crack it, and any reasonable person will choose to give up decisively.

But luckily, there are many ways to combine the right combination of mystery symbols than a combination lock that only has a single correct entry order.

In just three or four days, Zhang Cheng relied on the book "Principles and Introduction to Arcane Runes" borrowed from the Dalaran Library to find a trace of pattern, or common ground, in the vast number of symbols of different shapes.

To prove that these patterns were not his own delusions, he quickly melted down a gold dinar and imprinted several of the runes on either side of a dining knife in order.

Then, with the help of the energy contained in the gold coin, each rune was forcibly activated.

Moment!

A blinding glare burst out of the first rune, followed by the second, third, and fourth......

In less than a minute, all the runes were lit up, and a faint frost emanated from the vicinity of the blade.

Feeling the biting chill coming from his palm, Zhang Cheng raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and muttered in a voice that only he could hear, "Interesting! It's so interesting! The manifestations of the energy of this world seem to be more subtle and difficult to control, but at the same time, they are also more diverse. The combination of just eight runes can produce such a strong frost effect, and the two thousand five hundred runes on the note are definitely a complete set of ......"

Before he could finish speaking, the table knife in his hand suddenly began to shake violently for some reason, and cracks that were almost indistinguishable to the naked eye began to spread in all directions with the runes as the center.

"Damn it!"

Zhang Cheng cursed in a low voice, and hurriedly threw the gadget, which already looked very dangerous, far away.

I saw a table knife with a silver-white light slicing through a graceful parabola in midair, and before it could hit something, it split into countless pieces.

Next Second......

Rumble!

With the violent release of energy, all the fragments scattered like bullets!

He didn't have time to think about it, and his first return to Beijing was to hide behind a wall to prevent being stabbed.

Less than half a second after he hid, there was a crackling sound from the outer basement.

After about three or five seconds, the sound gradually faded away, and he poked out half of his head to glance at it, and was surprised to find that it had become a world of ice and snow.

Tables, chairs, floors, walls, ceilings, bookshelves, etc., were covered with two finger-thick ice, and the fragments of knives were mixed in with the ice.

There is no doubt that it is the energy carried by these fragments that causes the amazing scene in front of the eyes.

However, the solid ice formed by energy came and went quickly, and it began to slowly vaporize in less than ten minutes, and finally disappeared completely, leaving not even a drop of water.

Zhang Cheng bent down and picked up a sharp fragment, and sighed with a wry smile: "Okay, it seems that the effect of those few runes is not the additional frost energy I imagined, but a dangerous energy explosion." It doesn't matter, as the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning, and now that there is an initial breakthrough, I believe it will be much easier in the future. ”

Just as he was about to summon the spirit life inside the bracelet and clean up the mess in front of him, there was a sudden knock on the door to the first floor.

Bang! Bang!

"Who?" Zhang Cheng asked with a subconscious frown.

"It's me, Gracie. Sir, there is a beautiful lady outside who wants to see you. The girl's voice came through the wooden door.

"Send her away! Didn't I say that no one will be seen?" Zhang Cheng's tone revealed strong impatience.

After all, the research was at a critical stage, and he didn't want to waste his time on some "pretty lady".

Gracie sighed helplessly and explained, "I told you, but she insisted that if you don't come out to see her today, she won't leave." Oh, and by the way, she also claims to be your girlfriend. ”

"What?!" Zhang Cheng was taken aback, and then recalled his identity as an impostor, as if he really had a girlfriend.

According to Polman's description, the other party seems to be a rare beauty.

"Sir, I advise you to hurry. That young lady must have misunderstood the relationship between us a little, so the expression on her face was very scary. Gracie kindly reminded.

"Okay, I got it. Zhang Cheng rubbed his somewhat swollen head.

To be honest, he also had a bit of a headache when he encountered this situation, and he didn't know how to deal with it at all.

After all, it was the girlfriend of another person with the same name and surname as himself, not his, to be exact, the two had never even met.

But now, this woman actually came to the door with a posture of asking about the guilt, how embarrassing and embarrassing it was.

Zhang Cheng would rather face the sinister and murderous Forsaken than push open the door and walk out to face a jealous woman......

But unfortunately, when things have come to this point, he can't escape it, not to mention that he doesn't want to give up his legal identity and become a black household.

After much hesitation, he took a deep breath and mustered up the courage to open the door to the basement.