Chapter 2: The Traveler and the Reborn

Fang Bai changed cars, trains, and clothes many times, and spent a lot of time burning clothes and syringes in a secluded place, and when he returned to the rental house, it was already seven o'clock in the evening. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is a demolition and resettlement community with a history of only ten years. In Building 19, the landlord lives on the first floor of the first unit, and Fang Bai and his former colleagues share a two-bedroom and one-living room on the first floor of the second unit.

Within three minutes of entering, the landlady came and knocked on the door.

"Xiao Fang, I'll collect the rent."

Fang Bai invited her in and said straight to the point, "Aunt Li, I don't plan to renew the lease." ”

The landlady was a little surprised, but soon showed an expression of "sure enough", "Xiao Fang, you don't work in Zhonghai anymore?" ”

"No, I changed jobs, and in Xiqiao District, it's too far to live here."

"Oops, that's great! Congratulations. I heard that you were fired from the company, and I thought you were going back to your hometown......"

Fang Bai politely said a few words, and agreed with the landlady to move out in three days, and the arrears of the month's rent were directly deducted from the deposit, and the remaining money was deducted from the water, electricity and gas bills, and there was not much left.

This little money Fang Bai has long been out of his mind.

On the way, he looked at the task panel:

"Trial Quest 3: Death for Mercy has been completed. 40 trial points have been distributed; The task reward of RMB 500,000 has been distributed; The bonus item "Zhonghai City Shadow (Anti-Surveillance) Map" has been distributed. You currently have 55 Trials Points. Please be patient and wait for the fourth round of trial instructions. ”

Fang Bai checked his bank account with his mobile phone, and 500,000 yuan had arrived. The payer is still "Infinite Games Limited (INFI-GameCo.Ltd)", and the name is still "Consulting Fee".

When he first received the transfer money from Infinity Games, Fang Bai deliberately searched for its information, which is a company registered in the British Virgin Islands, whose main business is mobile game development, but has not released any games so far.

The person who registered this company obviously has some kind of bad taste, because the name of the person in charge of the company is "JIEGUNZHOU", a typical Chinese name, which translates to "Zhou Zhuba".

This simple name made Fang Bai even more convinced that Infinite Games Co., Ltd. had a great connection with all kinds of weirdness in this world.

Because, Fang Bai was not a native of this world, he was a soul traveler from a parallel universe. In his original world, there was a singer named Jay Chou who sang a song called "Nunchuck".

In this similar but not identical world, Jay Chou and "Nunchuck" do not exist. The cold joke of "Zhou Truck" only makes sense to visitors from parallel worlds.

A month ago, Fang Bai, who woke up from the bed in the rental house, found that the world had changed.

In the original world, he graduated from a major university and joined a well-known market research company. He did a great job, was appreciated by the president, was popular with his colleagues, and climbed to a management position in just three years. Then, he bought a house in Zhonghai, had a nice car, and took out a little loan.

Because of his work, he never got married. His girlfriend, who has lived together for many years, has never left him and silently supported him, and they have begun to plan their marriage. His parents live in a small city in their hometown and are retired, but they are healthy and love to travel, and often visit him in Zhonghai, and the family is harmonious.

If you want to choose the person who is the most reluctant to cross, Fang Bai should be able to be selected. But he just wore it.

Since you can't stop the wheel of fate, you can always give it a go. It doesn't matter if you wear it in ancient times, which man doesn't have the dream of making a contribution! It doesn't hurt to be reborn ten or twenty years ago, just start over. Who has no regrets in life? Maybe it's even more exciting!

Fang Bai's crossing was not like this.

After the crossing, the time is still 2014, the name and body have not changed, Fang Bai is still Fang Bai, one meter seventy-six tall, with slight astigmatism in his left eye and a mole on his right shoulder.

But his life experience was completely different.

The company that worked in the last world went bankrupt a few years ago in this world.

Fang Bai of this world, a month before the college entrance examination, his parents were in a car accident and both passed away. He played abnormally, was admitted to a third-rate university, and lived on the inheritance and compensation left by his parents. After four years of confusion, he lost all his savings.

After graduating, he went to Zhonghai to find a job, was hired by a newly established novel website, became an editor, met Xiao Wang, who joined the company at the same time, and shared a house together. Xiao Wang is a caring person, polished for two years, and jumped to the largest literary company in China, "Yuanhang Group". Fang Bai had to get by, until the website closed down and became unemployed, and he found several jobs in a row and was quickly dismissed, and finally he was recommended by Xiao Wang and also entered the "Voyage Literature".

But he had a loose attitude, often arrived late and left early, did not care about his work, and was fired from the company again a month before (was) crossed.

After losing his job, Fang Bai did not cheer up, and after working for a few years, not only the moonlight clan, but also borrowed money everywhere, often defaulting on the rent.

As for girlfriends...... A few hundred gigabytes of *** in the computer is.

Fang Bai had no memories of inheriting his predecessor and knew nothing about his own situation. Most of this information is summarized from logs and blogs, explored from clues, and also inquired from the mouth of roommate Xiao Wang.

Knowing his situation, he became completely angry.

Waste wood! I don't want to live your life!

This **** world! Give my parents back!

And a girlfriend!

And work!

……

When the anger receded, Fang Bai, who had calmed down, was inevitably deeply suspicious.

"In a world full of malice, isn't it just my life that has been changed?"

According to the known information, the big change he suffered began a month before the college entrance examination, and when did the change in the world begin?

Fang Bai wanted to know.

His first thought was to Baidu it.

However, after opening the "Orange" brand laptop owned by the predecessor Fang Bai, clicking on the browser named "365", and finding that the homepage was set to "Chihiro Search", Fang Bai was shocked.

There is no such thing as a search engine called "Baidu". He even found an old piece of news on the "Inspur" news portal: "Qianxun Network Group has registered a batch of affiliated trademarks", and at the bottom of the list in the appendix of the article is written the inconspicuous word "Baidu".

This is no coincidence!

Just as "TT" replaces "QQ", "Feixun" replaces "Tencent", "Yibao" and "Sesame Open Door" replaces "Taobao" and "Alibaba".

And the replacement of "Google" and "kwitter" by "loogle" and "twitter" in the United States is even more worth pondering.

These are just the most visible and easy to spot.

Fang Bai searched for current political news in recent years and found that international events were plausible: the Peace Church was still not popular, but Trump was elected president of the United States; A South China Republic inexplicably appeared in the South Pacific, but it was dropped by the Great Wall of the Internet, and there was very little news; Eritrea in Africa has risen rapidly as the leader of the African Union; Northern Ireland became independent, Britain left the European Union, and played isolationism......

Huaguo has changed even more: the Great Ryukyu has long since returned, taking an aggressive and aggressive posture in the South China Sea; Ethnic and religious policies are tough, but the cultural atmosphere is very relaxed; There are many fewer keyboard fighters, and online public opinion tends to be rational; Most of the names of the Central Great Elder are familiar, but there are also names that they have never heard of......

He also turned his investigation to the cultural and entertainment circles. Of all the world changes that have left traces, the most jaw-dropping thing for him is that "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" has become a Chinese original.

This magic novel, published in China in 1988, sold poorly, and was cut in half by the publishing house, and there was no follow-up. The identity of the author cannot be found on the modern Internet, and only one pen name "Ji Luo" has not been claimed.

A few years later, single mother JK Rowling's "Harry Potter" series of novels sold all over the world, and the Chinese novel "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was turned out of the pile of old papers, and "plagiarism" became a crime that Rowling could not get rid of, which once made her discredited and anxious.

Not to mention the human comedy caused by the "plagiarism turmoil", Fang Bai focuses on the origin of world changes.

Assuming that "Kira" is a reborn and the novel was published in 1988, the starting point of rebirth should be 1987 or even earlier, considering the time required to write.

Perhaps, the truth is that there is Fang Bai's kind in this world, a visitor from another world, and a reborn.

He came earlier, took the lead, flapped the wings of the butterfly, changed the world, and left behind a bunch of cold jokes that only Fang Bai could understand.

The changes don't stop there, the world's technological progress has accelerated slightly.

"Daqin Technology" has promoted electric vehicles to third-tier cities, and the output of practical flywheel batteries has increased steadily.

The "L-wave" multinational energy group has built two experimental controllable nuclear fusion power stations, one in China and the other on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean.

After measles, hepatitis B has been added to the immunization list, and one dose is just around the corner.

The artificial intelligence unsupervised algorithm developed by "Madrigal Information Technology" has made a substantial breakthrough.

The first unattended mining base on the lunar surface operated for 100 days without failure.

……

And so on and so forth.

Originally, Fang Bai wanted to make a list of all the businesses founded by the suspected reborn. In the end, it turned out that the project was too large.

Too many companies have been affected by the reborn, and the butterfly effect has spread so much that simply comparing the "original world" will not complete the task.

But he still listed a dozen of the most suspicious listed companies. Of course, these include "Qianxun Group", "Feixun Technology", "Yibao", "Daqin Technology", "L-wave", as well as "loogle", "kwitter", "Tangerine Mobile" and so on.

The annual reports of these companies are easy to find on the web. Fang Bai cross-compared the list of shareholders and found that they all had a common shareholder, a Huaguo company called "Future Investment".

In Fang Bai's view, the name of "Future Investment" itself is a hint that this company is likely to be opened by a reborn.

Mirae Investments is not the founder of any of the "suspect companies", but it always enters as a strategic investor after the "suspect company" has been established for some time.

"Future Investment" always strongly promotes the company's listing and cashes out a large amount after the "suspect company" has stable profits and shows good future expectations, but does not completely withdraw, but retains the shares that can exert a certain influence.

Fang Bai didn't dwell on inconsequential details, he just wanted to find out the person behind the "Future Investment".

But the company, which has been hailed as "the world's most strategically oriented investment institution in the past two decades", is not a listed company, and its shareholding structure is still shrouded in a fog.

In fact, a U.S. news organization once issued a bounty for anyone who provides identifiable information about the person behind the helm of "Future Investments" can receive a million-dollar bounty.

THE BOUNTY HAS NOT YET BEEN CLAIMED, AND THE CLOSEST ANSWER TO THE ANSWER IS THAT THE "FUTURE INVESTMENT" IS FUNDED BY AN OFFSHORE FUND REGISTERED IN THE CAYMAN ISLANDS CALLED "ZHANGTIAN".

"If I find out the reborn and get a bounty, I will also have the capital to make a comeback." When Fang Bai, a former market researcher, followed up on the clues, he did not have such thoughts in his mind.

However, the clue ended in the "Palm Sky Fund". The manager of "Zhangtian" on the bright side is called "Li Jun". Some tabloids claimed that "Li Jun" was just a person who had been fabricated by fake documents and electronic data. There are also media assertions that the real controller of the "Palm Sky Fund" is a mysterious committee.

The foggy, bewildering "mystery of the master" can be called the Goldbach conjecture of the media world. With Fang Bai's economic ability and social status, an in-depth investigation can only be imagined.

In the first week after the crossing, Fang Bai Duozhai went online in the rental house to collect information; The rest of the time, take the bus to various places in Zhonghai to observe the changes in the parallel world.

There is not much difference between the two Zhonghai. For example, the construction and extension of subway lines and the reconstruction of streets are mostly traceable. On the contrary, it is the core area of Hedong New District, and the architectural style and floor height of several buildings are very different from those in Fang Bai's memory. He did a brief investigation and found that the buildings belonged to companies that were suspected to be owned by the Reborn.

After a few days of waste, Fang Bai had no money.

Because he didn't know the password of the bank card, he had to go to the bank with his ID card, falsely claiming that he had lost the old card and reissued a new one. The new card is ready, the password is set, and the balance is checked again, and there are only 200 yuan left!

What is 200 yuan enough? In the metropolis of Zhonghai, a single meal can't last more than a week! The house leak happened to rain overnight, and the landlord came to collect the rent again. Fang Bai said that the landlady had only forgiven a while.

What to do in the future? Unable to think of a way for a while, he cheekily asked his roommate Xiao Wang to borrow money.

Xiao Wang boldly borrowed 2,000 yuan from him, and after giving the money, he persuaded Fang Bai to find a job quickly and not to mess around. Fang Bai's face flushed, and after listening to his roommate's lesson, he only felt that he had never been so ashamed in his life.

"That's it. No matter how much trouble you make for the reborn in the future, for now, let's find a money-making business first, and let's talk about it later. ”