Prologue to Volume IV The Man Who Rises from the Dead

How many times can you see the blue sky in your life?

When we look up, we see a world that we can't touch.

What is hidden in the universe and does not want to be discovered—how many are there?

The advent of the world is a coincidence, or an intentional arrangement.

The more you try to explore, the more you will find that the world is bad. Ordinary life, the same pattern, your own small luck, can not change the world, can not discover the world, but can change your own way of life.

Students – Wake up, go to class, get out of school, and go to bed as usual.

No matter what stage it is, even if it is university, this is the stage that some people praise as "showing individuality and unleashing freedom". I also live an ordinary life that remains the same.

There is nothing wrong with this, and there are no complaints, and some people will think that it is a manifestation of the lack of responsibility of the widows of small countries. But it's true that for me, living my own life is already a blessing.

There is no magnificence of comics, no surging novels, and no God's gifts that some people receive.

Everything is so ordinary, ordinary without complaints.

December 7th, the heavy snow season, whether it is heavy snow or the Spring Festival, it is just an ordinary day for me. An only child, an ordinary family background, and his parents are 'busy people' with ordinary salaries. Living in the northern suburbs of Qianshan City, my parents took advantage of the cheap land price to buy a single house, and the construction of the neighborhood has been rising recently, and it may slowly get better in the future. Studying at Qianshan University of Economics, he is now in his second year and has had an ordinary year. I don't live on campus, so I go home almost every day, but there is usually no one at home, so I don't know what to do when I go back.

Today, soaking in the library, our library is open all night, when I was relieved, it was already after 23 o'clock, I hurriedly packed my schoolbag, barely caught the last bus, the bus did not go directly to the vicinity of my home, I could only get off at Beihu Road Station in the North District, and walk along Beihu Road to the north, walking for about 20 minutes. The road is indeed relatively long and very troublesome, and the news says that the Ministry of Science and Technology has recently been working on a 'point-to-point teleportation' teleportation device similar to any door. If there was such a thing, the whole world would have to change the way transportation is carried out dramatically.

But I can't see it yet, so when I go to school, I usually ride a public bicycle from my neighborhood to the station. But now the night is dark, the lights on both sides of the houses have been turned off, only the trucks pulling goods are hurrying on the wide road, and large construction is rising nearby, and at night it is common to see trucks full of sand and steel, and only at night trucks are allowed to run. In order to catch up with the project, and because there are no people on the road, the speed of the truck is usually not slow, and even when standing on the sidewalk, the truck can feel the pressure gap caused by the air flow when driving next to the edge.

Under these circumstances, coupled with the poor view, I gave up cycling and chose to walk home.

At the end of the sidewalk, I was alone.

A little hungry.

My stomach screamed, and I fumbled into my shoulder bag, but I couldn't find anything to feed my hunger. In retrospect, it seems that there is nothing to eat at home.

Is there a convenience store nearby? I searched for my memory, as if I could turn right ahead to Xiuzhu Road, and I remembered that there was a convenience store open 24 hours a day.

I turned into Xiuzhu Road, and the convenience store was still far away. - Sleepy.

Hungry and sleepy, he staggered a little when he walked. I've been suffering from insomnia lately, and there's no particular reason for it, and there's nothing special to think about.

The dark circles under the eyes are getting heavier and heavier, and if they go on, they may become national treasures.

“……”

I looked up, and not far ahead, there was a figure.

From the back, she looks like a girl, and her back is quite straight when she walks, which is completely different from my kind of rickety person. Her pace was slightly slower than mine, and I gradually approached her at my usual pace. She was wearing a beige knitted sweater jacket, her hair was tied into balls, and she had headphones in her ears, probably listening to music. That's why I didn't notice me behind me.

It might not be good to disturb him, and I slowed down, knowing that I didn't do anything bad, but I felt a little sneaky.

After a while, she pulled out a notebook with a translucent cover from her pocket, with a sling hanging from it.

“……”

She pulled out another pair of glasses from her left pocket and looked at them as she walked.

It's not a good habit, why she's in such a hurry to read it.

Phew——————

It is worthy of the heavy snow season, although there is no snow, but the wind is indeed not small.

I tightened the zipper of my coat, put my hands in my pockets, and walked with my whole body curled up - I felt more suspicious about my appearance, could I be mistaken for a stalker.

Phew——————

Another gust of wind blew, this time even more fierce than before.

"Ah......h

The girl in front spoke up. The notebook in her hand was blown to the road by the wind—

She didn't hesitate and walked straight onto the road.

"Hey ......"

When I turned around, a van was driving behind her.

"Wait a minute——!"

I shouted, and she was wearing headphones, unresponsive, still going her own way, not even noticing me and the van.

The van showed no signs of slowing down.

“……”

I sped up, and for a moment, I wished time had slowed down, why had I been so far away from her just now.

And then there is, why am I doing this thing – is it a reflex?

With all the strength he could muster, driving his legs, he saw that the front of the truck was getting bigger and bigger, closer and closer to him.

The girl picked up the notebook.

"Dangerous ——!"

I shouted, and she finally noticed me, but at the same time, she noticed the truck that was already close by—

Boom——————————————!

[At the last moment, with inertia, I pushed her away hard-]

Then the world as I saw it spun around—

“……”

I couldn't even make a sound anymore, my consciousness became confused, and then slowly weakened, and after a while, I didn't seem to be spinning, I couldn't control my body, why couldn't my hands and feet move—

In my blurred vision, I saw a patch of blood red, and my right foot, which was several meters away from me, what kind of form I am now, was torn apart? I can't imagine it, it's too late to even be afraid.

Consciousness – complete interruption.

2

Light, I see the light.

In the chaos, pain—I don't even have the right to pain.

Heaven is light—

I didn't expect my life to be so short, and I didn't know what happened, so it ended in a hurry.

Is my life worth remembering? Only then will I begin to remember what I had done in the past - as if there was nothing, just an ordinary life, nothing brought to the world, nothing changed, nothing affected anything, just lived passively, no anger, no sadness, no fear, even joy was ordinary. - Is my life worth remembering?

“……”

Gradually, I felt the light become regular—and after a while, a sense of familiarity came.

Signboard of a convenience store......

It turns out that there are convenience stores in heaven, too-

No, this is the convenience store I remember.

"You're awake—"

I heard a voice - open my eyes.

"W-What ......?"

I lay down on something warm and opened my eyes to a young girl in front of me—judging by the costumes, she was the one I had just pushed away. But she now had her hair down, and her medium-long brown hair was unusually dazzling in the light.

"Welcome back."

She smiled softly.

I got up and found that I was lying on her lap, which is the legendary knee pillow.

"Why, what's going on?"

I looked at my body - unexpectedly, everything was complete. What I just saw was a fantasy. As far back as I can remember, I should have been run over by a truck and separated. Theoretically, it is impossible to survive that.

"You're dead just now."

Immediately, as if confirming my imagination, the girl said calmly.

"Is this heaven?"

I said.

"No, it's still [the world you live in]."

“……”

I looked incredulous, what the hell was going on.

"I have resurrected you."

The girl still said in a calm tone.

“……”

I couldn't believe it when I heard about it. Although there are indescribable superpowers in the world, they are just jokes that are dubbed "God's Gifts", and at most they are magic tricks. Never reached this level of ability.

"I know you're hard to believe, but ......"

She hesitated.

It's hard for me to imagine, but there's no second way to explain the situation.

“…… Thank you. ”

She bowed her head and thanked me.

“……”

I was silent, not knowing what to look on.

"What should I do?"

For a moment, I felt lost-

"Suddenly I became a person who came back from the dead, what should I do with this second life."

"It's actually very strange – you don't just have a second life. And even – this has never been the case. ”

Her speech was choppy and incomprehensible.

"I must follow you, not only because you have discovered my secrets, but also because there is something unusual about it, and maybe something can be discovered."

"That...... What are you talking about......"

I don't know anything about it.

"Follow me."

She pulled me into an alley and pulled out the transparently covered notebook from her pocket.

【“dlerkosrkbmcyihiwlirqmrke,tircsrkivglyhiwlirkqmrkpmpmerk,

nmerkcyvirnmerwlirkqmrkhibmaerkfe”】

She uttered a string of incantation-like things, with a noticeable pause in between.

Then, the transparent notebook in her hand began to glow—a dark green enveloping her, and after the light passed, the transparent skin of the notebook turned brown.

["A notebook with life force—"]

“……”

"It can bring people back to life, just like you just did—"

"Rise from the dead, rise from the dead."

I can't believe it.

"With this power—"

"It's like a god who controls life."

"Well, the notebook notes that refer to people who used to have this kind of power as—"

"God of life. ”】

Bringing the dead back to life is what many people have been pursuing for thousands of years, from emperors to ordinary people, no matter who they are, they are eager to get this kind of power. However, this life force is now in front of me, even in me.

"You just ...... That's it...... ...... me."

Deliverance from the abyss of death.

"Well- I can bring people back to life, but that's all. At best, there's a little bit of bluffing, but you're different. ”

"...... me?"

"All resurrected people leave notes in my notes, but yours is unusual—"

“……”

She showed a page with my name on it.

Jiang Lian, [immortal].

"Your name is followed by the note 'immortal'. It's something I've never encountered before, where the hell something has changed. ”

"I ...... Immortal. ”

"You've been given the power of immortality, but why are you-"

She said skeptically.

"Ah...... Indeed, why me. ”

I am an ordinary person who can't be more ordinary, even if I die, it won't have any impact on the world, why would it give me such power.

"I don't know. Looks like I need to give you a check. ”

"Check ......? To a man who has just died and has come back to life——? ”

I heard the word and felt a crisis.

"Well—it doesn't matter, soon, is your apartment convenient?"

"No, no, no, it's inconvenient—"

I simply refused.

"If you want, as long as you cooperate with me, I can ......"

She squirmed, blushing and swaying from side to side.

The knitted sweater jacket was open, and she wore a shirt underneath, and the shirt was quite loose, and when she lowered her body, it loomed.

“……”

I was embarrassed to look away.

Then he peeked diagonally into his shirt again—

"Y-What's your name?"

I said hurriedly.

"Ahh

She straightened up and let me breathe a sigh of relief.

"Hello. Senior Jiang Lian, we are classmates from the same university - Su Hongyuan from Class 2 of the Department of Economics, a freshman year. ”