Chapter 3 Inexplicable

Pitch black, endless pitch black......

Ji Qiu felt like he was in an infinite space, surrounded by loneliness and darkness of nothingness.

I can't feel the **, and I can't feel the passage of time, as if at this time he is only left with an indescribable invisible thing, floating in this lifeless space with a suction from time to time, I don't know how long it has been......

His mind seemed to remain stuck in the last moment in the rain, and only vague thoughts accompanied him, drifting forward with this gravitational pull from time to time......

Until a certain moment, he felt a tremor appear throughout the black space. In the next second, it seemed to be a glimmer of clarity in the chaos, and far ahead, a subtle light suddenly appeared, attracting him to swing forward.

Colorful streamers began to appear all around, streaking towards him from the darkness. In the process of passing by, they slid deeper into the darkness. The light in front of him became brighter and brighter, and as he approached, his thoughts became clearer and clearer, and his consciousness began to gradually recover, and in a vague way, a long-lost feeling rose from the bottom of his heart, as if he sensed his own hands.

Stretching out his invisible arm, he struggled to pull forward......

In the eternal silence, a sharp "tearing" sound came out, as if a silent movie had been suddenly interrupted, and the next moment, as if it was extremely quiet to extremely moving, the long-lost hearing sounded in his ears.

Suddenly I opened my eyes, and there was an unfamiliar ceiling above my head. Two or three worn-out wooden beams were lying above, the edges of the old beams showing a deep jet black, and the water was dripping at this time. Moonlight shone through the window, the only source of light in his vision. Bits of dust drifted under the light and quickly dissipated into view. The paint on the edges of the house peeled off the ground due to disrepair, revealing a few black stone bricks, and it seems that the owner of the house did not pay attention to it.

Ji Qiu was lying on a wooden bed at the moment, still wearing the semi-wet special forces uniform, and the dirt sticking to his clothes seemed to have just been splashed. The clothes on his body smelled of dampness, but there was no trace of being struck by lightning. Next to the wooden bed was a dusty table, on which the strange stone tablet was placed. Bursts of dizziness and pain came through his mind, and he tried to get up, and the wooden bed creaked with his movements.

"Where the is this?"

He struggled to recall that the last memory in his mind was the thunderbolt that fell from the sky in the night sky, and a strange dark crack that suddenly appeared around him, followed by a faint memory......

He staggered back to his feet, the sore nerves in his head gave him an unreal feeling in his eyes, the objects around him seemed to be constantly pulling away, and the air was filled with a special smell mixed with different smells. He sniffed his nose and shook his head again, letting his thoughts gradually become clearer.

Looking at the stone plaque beside him, Ji Qiu stretched out his hand and grabbed it.

The next moment, it was like a firework exploding in the air, and only a 'pop' sound was heard in his ears, Ji Qiu suddenly felt that the hand holding the stone plaque was hot, and subconsciously threw the stone plaque out.

The stone tablet flew along the force, but instead of hitting the wall as expected, it was eerily suspended in mid-air.

The slightest brilliance came out of the cracks of the brand, gradually getting bigger and bigger, and slowly, as the stone plaque shattered, a projection like a 3D screen painting appeared in front of Ji Qiu.

As the projection subtitles changed, a mechanically standardized voice sounded in Ji Qiu's ears.

"The second space of the reincarnation 598283 death confirmed"

"Data Removal ......"

"Substitute Data Entry ......"

"Replacement data confirmed"

"Retrieval Complete"

"Trial Scene Replenished"

The mechanical prompt sound echoed in his ears, and as the words disappeared, the stone plaque in front of Ji Qiu's eyes was completely shattered, and all that was left was the rest of the screen, only a dozen simple words on the screen-

"Task 1: Please arrive at the 'Chenor' subway station before 8 p.m."

Everything else is blank.

After five seconds, the light screen gradually becomes transparent, and finally fades into view.

Before the light curtain disappeared, Ji Qiu quickly stretched out his hand and scooped it in front of him.

As if in the air, looking at the already empty table, Ji Qiu's brain suddenly paused for a moment.

As the stone plaque disappeared, it seemed to send some information into his mind, and in an instant, he already knew where he was.

"Here it is...... The world of reincarnation?"

"So...... The so-called trial, is it real?"

"The brand is the key, and I triggered the key, so I was sent to the trial?"

He slowly sorted out the clues that appeared in his mind, and finally looked at the roof with an extremely painful look.

"What nonsense......"

After scolding, Ji Qiu looked around and felt that it was better to figure out the current situation first.

The configuration in the room was very simple, desk, chair, bed, nothing else.

He straightened his loose clothes, then got up and walked over to his desk.

Reaching out and touching the tabletop, a layer of ash. I pulled the drawer hard, and there was a few 'clicks', and a certain part of it seemed to be stuck.

Ji Qiu frowned and slammed his backhand on the table.

Boom!

Sawdust scattered, Ji Qiu fanned the dust with his hand, and then bent down to pick up an object on the ground.

By the dim moonlight, he could see what he was holding - an ordinary black purse.

I opened my bag and took out a document that looked like a driver's license and looked at it......

His headshot was printed straight on it, with a few lines of English attached to it.

Eller Chen, Chinese-American...... This is who I am now? ”

He pondered, and turned and walked to the window.

As we get closer, the view from the window becomes clearer. Three or four meters away from this house, there is a gray-black stone brick wall, densely tiled, like the side corner of some classical building. Looking down, this room was about five or six meters above the ground, separated from the opposite side, turning the cement road below into a small alley that was not very wide, and in the dimness, Ji Qiu seemed to see the outline of several garbage cans and iron fences.

"Looks like I'm still on Earth." He muttered and walked slowly to the door.

Reaching out and turning the doorknob, Ji Qiu raised one leg and kicked the door, but as soon as he touched his toes, the door squeaked and opened automatically.

Suddenly, a soft yellow light flooded into his sight, causing him to squint.

He was standing in a narrow hallway, with a solid wooden floor beneath his feet, and a faint rocking lamp hung not far overhead, illuminating the surrounding walls in a dim light. After walking a few meters down the corridor, a bifurcated staircase appeared in front of him. Looking up at the top of the stairs, Ji Qiu estimated that it should be the same corridor as this floor. As for below, Ji Qiu leaned down and saw a long quadrangular cyan iron door. By comparing the distance between the room and the ground that he had just observed outside the window, he could be sure that it was the door of the house.

After muttering for a while, Ji Qiu grabbed the handrail and slowly descended the stairs.

A feeling of dizziness hit his mind, making him feel a little uncomfortable.

As he approached, sparse footsteps began to sound outside the door. Ji Qiu twisted the door lock hard, and then pushed the door open with a 'click'.

What caught his eye was a wide, slightly classical street, with a gray sky overhead, a drizzle of rain falling continuously, and people passing in front of him from time to time, most of them holding umbrellas, hurrying in a hurry.

The slightest cold wind blew, Ji Qiu exhaled a hot breath, lowered his head and bent down to pick up a newspaper on the ground, and flipped through it.

"April 27, 2006? …… Eight years ago?" He frowned, raised his eyes and looked around, and then saw a subway station in the distance, and the station sign had a few lacquered gold letters on it, which could be seen clearly from afar.

"So close...... Ji Qiu thought about it, raised his legs and strode over.

Bang!

After walking a few steps, there was a sudden loud thunderclap in the sky, and then the speed of the raindrops increased sharply, and in an instant, it turned from a wisp of drizzle to a pouring of rain.

In just an instant, the clothes on his body that were almost dry were half drenched.

Ji Qiu wrapped his clothes, followed the crowd around him, and walked quickly into the station.

The moment he stepped into the subway station, a mechanical voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

"Mission 1 was successfully completed."

"Mission two, search the subway and intervene in the melee."

A simple sentence made Ji Qiu's whole body tense suddenly.

He quickly looked around, and the people rushed past him like a tidal wave, all looking as usual, as if the loud voice just now was only audible to him. It was as if there was an invisible barrier in the void that split him and the whole world in half.

"What's the situation...... Ji Qiu looked around, and before he could think about it, he attracted the eyes of the two men in front of the crowd.

More than ten meters in front of him, there stood a big black man about 1.9 meters tall, the muscles on his body were full and swollen, his clothes were bulging, and his whole body exuded a fierce atmosphere.

Next to the big man was a white man in a trench coat, with a messy hairstyle on his head, like a bird's nest. Although his figure was not as muscular and tall as that of black people, he was also well-proportioned and straight.

From the outside, these two people do not have any other special features except for the slightly burly figure of the big man. But their strange walking posture still attracted Ji Qiu's attention at a glance.

The head is straight, the neck is shrunk, the buttocks are bulging, and the palms are shaving one by one, looking like a big bad wolf with a shrugging tail if it is a person.

Maybe in the eyes of ordinary people, this is just some small habits when the two of them walk, but in Ji Qiu's cognition, it is very unfortunate that there is a creature that has the habit of walking exactly like them.