Chapter 1: Adventures in Reality
"Hey! It's amazing, what the hell is this thing? ”
Li Qing lay on the white bed of the hotel, looking at the irregular sphere that emitted seven-colored light hanging in his hand was constantly changing shape, and his eyes exuded a strange light.
This thing!
Well, he really didn't know what to call this irregular sphere that could change shapes and colors.
It's called a colorful ball, the shape is wrong, if you have to describe it, you can only call it an irregular colored ball.
This irregular colored ball was not like this at first, it was bought by Li Qing when he was visiting an antique street in Xi'an City to be used as a souvenir of his visit to Xi'an.
Li Qing is not a native of Xi'an, but an ordinary person from a beautiful coastal city called Zhuhai in the south, and is a professional Internet writer.
In fact, at the beginning, he had a serious career, and the online writer was only a part-time job at that time, but he didn't expect that he had a talent in this area, and he wrote several books that were quite successful.
In particular, the book (Immortal Daoguo) is very good-looking, and his monthly income is higher than his own job, plus he is alone and has no girlfriend, so he resolutely quit his original job and became a full-time writer.
No, at the end of the last book, he wanted to come out to play and relax, and by the way to find some inspiration, he went to Xi'an to travel, wanting to see the legendary World Wonder Terracotta Army, the concubine out of the bath Huaqing Pool, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and the ancient Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum.
The colourful sphere in his hand that he had bought at night in an antique street was not like this, but a bronze ball covered in mud, carved with haphazard but pleasing looking wisps of hollow lines.
When I bought it, the gaps between the empty lines were still covered with dirt, as if it had just been dug out of the dirt.
Generally speaking, nine times out of ten, they are scammers, many of whom pretend to be honest migrant workers or farmers, covered in mud, and use a tattered snakeskin bag to carry a mud-stained and antique thing, specifically to deceive some novices who don't understand.
In order to find inspiration for writing novels, Li Qingyou specially learned about these, and he could see it at a glance.
It's just that he doesn't know what's going on, although he thinks it's a lie, but when he saw the bronze ball, especially the moment he touched the bronze ball with his hand, an impulse instantly surged in his mind and asked him to buy it.
To be honest, when he first bought it, he noticed the dark joy in the stall owner's eyes and the shaking of the heads of some passers-by around him, but he still gritted his teeth and bought it.
Ten thousand oceans replaced such a bronze ball covered with mud, and after returning to the hotel residence to clean it, the bronze ball automatically cracked.
That's right, even if you don't need to drip blood to confess the Lord, you don't need any mysterious ritual, it just automatically cracks open, revealing the ball of light that exudes colorful colors and constantly changes shape.
This extremely unreasonable scene made Li Qing dumbfounded, and it wasn't until the ball of light automatically flew in front of him and fell that he reacted and reached out to catch it.
He doesn't know how this thing suddenly recognizes him as the master, and in the novel, the protagonist needs to accidentally be injured and thrown blood onto the ball, and then the baby will drip blood to recognize the owner. At the moment, this is completely unreasonable, and he confesses the Lord for no reason, which makes him feel like he is in a dream.
However, he quickly realized that to be a writer is to have a rich imagination, a big brain, and a strong ability to accept certain things.
Where he signed a contract, there are all kinds of novels, and all kinds of strange situations have appeared, many of which he never thought of, and it is really common to have such an adventure like the moment to get a treasure and then recognize the master, basically the protagonist of every book will experience it, which is really not rare.
This ever-changing sphere is not a physical object, but a somewhere between the real and the unreal, which he can touch, but can penetrate the substance.
Just like now, the ball of colorful light hanging in his hand moved through his palm at the stroke of his mind, and he only felt something pass through his hand.
"Knock knock!"
Two crisp knocks on the door made Li Qing, who was having a good time, pause, he frowned, his heart moved, and the colorful ball of light flashed, burrowing from his forehead into his head, and disappeared.
Opening the door, a large hand reached in and pushed him in the chest, and he was caught off guard and pushed back a few steps before finally standing on the edge of the bed.
Rubbing his aching chest, Li Qing looked at the three people in front of him and asked in a deep voice:
"Who are you? What do you want to do? ”
He didn't have an idiot to reason with these people or call the police, because the three people who broke into his room were not good people in any way.
An old man who looked to be about fifty years old, but with a mean face, and his eyebrows were full of gloom. A big man who looked to be about thirty years old, a gray vest bulging with strong muscles, and his right hand grabbed a thin man in dirty clothes like a chicken.
He had the impression that this thin man was the one who sold him the bronze ball, but now that he was being caught, he seemed to be in a situation where something was wrong.
Seeing Li Qing, the thin man pointed at him and said loudly:
"It's him, the bronze ball was sold to him, you search it, it must still be in the room."
The mean-looking old man listened to the thin man's words, withdrew his gaze from looking around in the room, looked at Li Qing, and said lightly:
"Young man, you bought something you shouldn't have bought, now return the thing, I'll leave immediately, otherwise..."
Speaking of this, his tone suddenly became cold, and he snorted heavily:
"Otherwise, don't blame us for being rude!"
As if to match his words, the big man behind the old man grabbed one of the thin man's fingers in his hand and broke it hard, and a crisp bone breaking sound sounded, and the thin man immediately let out a miserable scream.
But as soon as the scream came out, he was slapped in the face by the big man and was killed.
The big man shook the thin man who couldn't stand in pain in his hand, and threatened Li Qing, who seemed to be frightened:
"If you don't want to cut off a finger or something, just hand over the bronze ball and hand it over."
It's all said so obviously, Li Qing knew that it was useless to say anything, so he glanced at the two of them deeply, and coldly dropped a sentence:
"Wait!"
The old man and the strong man looked at each other with a smile on their faces, they didn't expect to be able to get things back so easily.
After a while, Li Qing came out of the toilet, holding a bronze ball wrapped in a tissue in his hand, and handed it to the old man:
"I've got the things, let's go!"
The old man took the bronze ball and looked at it for a while, nodded, solemnly put it into a cloth satchel on his body, took out a stack of banknotes from his arms, and handed it to Li Qing:
"The young man is very wise, I hope you can forget what happened today, this is 10,000 yuan, you can count it!"
After speaking, he raised his chin to the strong man and walked to the door first.
When the strong man dragged the thin man away, Li Qing immediately closed the door and began to pack his luggage and prepare to leave.
The bronze ball was cracked, and the contents were taken by him, and he just casually wrapped it in a tissue, which he would definitely find if he looked closely.
He's going to leave before they find out, and if he gets caught, it won't end well.
It's just that he hasn't cleaned it up yet, "Bang! A kick at the door startled him.
"Damn, I found out so fast!"
Li Qing decisively threw away his clothes, ran to the balcony, opened the window, there was a water pipe on the edge of the window, and he was ready to climb down from here.
It's just that as soon as he stood on the edge of the balcony and stretched out his left foot, the door was knocked open, and the strong man rushed in angrily, and saw Li Qing who was about to escape at a glance, and subconsciously picked up a glass ashtray next to the bed and threw it out.