Chapter 1: Nine Stars

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"Big news, at ten o'clock tonight, there will be the second nine-star alignment in human history!"

"According to experts, the nine stars are aligned, once in 6,000 years, time and space will be chaotic, and there will be major visions in heaven and earth!"

"The city's news comprehensive channel will report the latest information about the Nine Stars for the first time!"

"Is the end of the world coming, or the door of time and space opening, tonight at ten o'clock, let's reveal it together!"

"Boring!"

The lights are dim, and it is in a rental house of less than 70 square meters.

A seventeen or eighteen-year-old short-haired boy wearing rimless glasses sat on a sofa, crossed his legs, and his eyes quickly shuttled back and forth on the TV screen.

After scanning around, he didn't find the program he was interested in, so the teenager turned off the TV, took out a cheap domestic smart phone, bowed his head and played the game.

In recent years, in order to fight for ratings, the news media can be said to dare to make up any content, which has long been commonplace for Chu Ming.

Just last year, someone in the city of Haizhou next door photographed aliens, and the news media reported it heavily.

It turned out that the so-called alien was actually an orangutan in a doll costume.

To add insult to injury, last month a water monster was spotted at Mirror Lake, which some experts say is a variant of an ancient creature, but is actually just a larger otter.

In modern society, novels and film and television works with various fantasy themes are prevalent.

Nowadays, there are many people who fantasize about the world changing, and then possess them with super powers, and become superheroes who save the world overnight.

In American science fiction blockbusters, the poor rely on mutation, and the rich rely on technology, and these people rely on conjecture in Chu Ming's view.

Not long ago, a piece of news broke out in the circle of friends.

According to reliable sources, an extremely rare celestial phenomenon will appear in the night sky tonight.

The nine planets of the solar system will orbit to one side of the sun at the same time, converging in a fan-shaped region with a small angle, commonly known as the "Nine Star Alignment".

Because it is a once-in-a-millennium astronomical spectacle, it is discussed on major websites, forums, and social media.

At the beginning, Chu Ming would flip through the relevant news, but with the emergence of various more and more mysterious remarks, Chu Ming soon discovered that this was actually a hype by the news media in pursuit of sensational effects.

Twenty years ago, for example, the Mayans prophesied that the Earth would enter the "Earth Renewal Period" in that year, the so-called end of the world.

At that time, the influence of this topic was even greater than today's, but after so many years, Chu Ming was still playing games at home intact.

Is there really so much unknown in the world?

This is completely fantastical for Chu Ming, an ordinary college student who has lived for eighteen years.

Although some similar news is often reported on TV, it will soon prove to be a farce after a maximum of two or three days.

For example, when Chu Ming was a child, he once saw a man dressed in black, like a light swift, skimming over his grandfather's rice field.

The local news reported the incident, but within two days, the television station changed its tune and said that it was a stunt show that had been choreographed in advance by the military.

The so-called flying in the sky is actually a helicopter in the clouds with a safety rope.

Due to the long time passed, Chu Ming had almost forgotten about the matter.

Now that I think about it, there seems to be a smell of conspiracy behind these news events.

However, this is just a frivolous guess.

Chu Ming was a staunch materialist, and this thought only stayed in his mind for a second before it flashed.

"The enemy crystal has been destroyed, is there a matchmaking for the next match?"

At the end of the game, Chu Ming felt a trace of sleepiness, and looked at the time, it was exactly ten o'clock.

It was September, the heat had not subsided, and the hot weather for several days in a row, even at night, was still very hot.

Today is Saturday, there is no need to go to class tomorrow, in normal times, Chu Ming will order a takeout during this time period.

Drinking Yuhua tea, eating duck blood fans on Wangfu Street, and then watching a few episodes of new documentaries in the geography column, if you don't stay up until one or two o'clock in the morning, you won't go to bed at all.

Chu Ming usually has nothing to do, and likes to delve into history and geography.

Jiangzhou is not only the capital of Jiangning Province, but also one of the six ancient capitals of China.

The history department of Jiangzhou University has a long academic tradition and is one of the main birthplaces of China's "modern historiography", which is why he applied for the history department of Jiangzhou University.

However, at this moment, his body was a little abnormal.

"Strange, how can you be so sleepy?"

This feeling was like drinking half a catty of liquor, at first Chu Ming was only a little dizzy, and in less than a moment, his eyelids were a little heavy and he couldn't open them.

His limbs were numb, as if there was an electric current, and it was up and down his body, as if it was painful but not painful, as if it was itching.

"No...... It's not like the end of the world is really coming, is it?"

Thinking of this, Chu Ming's heart was sad, he was only eighteen years old, and he still had a good youth that he had not squandered.

On top of that, he's still a virgin!

If you confess like this, you are really a little wronged.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly there was a strange noise outside the window.

In the depths of the solar system, the nine planets are at an angle of 14.9 degrees, converging into a strange straight line in a mysterious way.

The wind and clouds are surging, the stars and the moon are reflected, and there seems to be a door between heaven and earth that is slowly opened.

The world was gradually swallowed up by a cloud of black mist, and in the next second, Chu Ming could no longer see a trace of light in front of his eyes.

......

Darkness, no fingers visible.

The surroundings were so quiet that the sound of heartbeats could be heard clearly.

In a dark and unknown space.

A young man in blue overalls opened his eyes, patted the dust on his cheek, and then stretched out a calloused right hand, pulled out a white sand from his bosom, and lit it with a lighter with a "pop".

In the next second, the air was immediately filled with a strong smell of tobacco, and the fire was like a tide, surging towards the surroundings at a speed that was difficult to capture with the naked eye.

With the faint glow emitted by the cigarette butt, the man glanced at his surroundings, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help but shrink slightly.

It's a huge, enclosed space.

There is no border around, and in front of it, a pitch-black and hard road is like the Huangquan Road leading to the underworld, which is gloomy and mysterious, leading straight into the distance......

Ten minutes ago, he drove from the suburbs to Haizhou City, and when he passed by Phoenix Mountain, a dark blue lightning bolt slammed into the hood of the car with a "boom".

His name is Yi Han, a truck driver with five years of driving experience, and he is responsible for delivering goods to a large logistics company in the city.

Although he is only twenty-eight years old, the man in front of him has a maturity and vicissitudes that do not belong to his age.

It's a poignant memory.

His hometown is in Taihang Province, more than 500 kilometers away.

When he was ten years old, he was sent by his parents to a well-known local martial arts school.

In less than six years, he won the first place in the provincial junior martial arts competition.

In the process of arguing with someone, he accidentally twisted the opponent's cervical vertebrae, and the person lost his breath on the spot, and then squatted in prison for five years before being released from prison.

His family passed away in the past five years, and he came to Jiangzhou alone seven years ago to work.

During this time, he washed dishes in a restaurant, worked as a mason on a construction site, and even worked in the underworld for half a year, until four or five years ago, when he got a Class B driver's license, and then switched to driving a truck.

Yi Han spit out a cigarette, the whole person was surprisingly calm, although he usually had little time for entertainment, he had also watched several popular science fiction movies.

He wasn't a local, but he was extremely familiar with the terrain in this area, and he was sure that this was definitely not Phoenix Mountain on the outskirts of the city!

The situation at this moment is extremely similar to the bridge in the movie and the novel, and at the end of this strange passage, maybe there is an unknown treasure buried!

The corridor was extremely long, Yi Han took out a worn-out mobile phone from his jeans, turned on the lighting function, like the protagonist in a tomb robbery movie, step by step, slowly walked forward.

The warm white light converged into a beam of light, quickly lighting up the road under his feet.

At the same time, two huge stone pillars with a snow-white color and a radius of more than one meter appeared in his sight.

The stone pillars are carved with all kinds of strange and mysterious symbols, densely packed, like black tadpoles, beating flexibly.

Yi Han glanced at the stone pillar and didn't find any valuable clues.

These runes are so old that they can't be deciphered by non-professionals.

The place is so old that it looks like some historical site.

Located on the northern flank of the Yangtze River Delta, Jiangzhou has been around for more than 1,000 years and is a veritable historic city, and it is not uncommon to find these here.

I just don't know what is behind this ruin, and that mysterious lightning, why did he bring him here?

Putting aside the thoughts in his mind, his gaze moved down, and at this moment, a black unknown object under the stone pillar attracted Yi Han's attention.

The corners of Yi Han's eyes contracted, and the pores of his whole body exuded a fierce murderous aura, like a lion awakened.

He walked forward slowly, and when the light shone on, it turned out to be a teenager in a dark sweatshirt!

He wouldn't be surprised to find a beast here.

But at this moment, what appeared in front of him was a living person.

"Hey, are you dead?"

Yi Han kicked the other party with his foot, then squatted down and stretched out his left hand to probe his snort.

The breath was long and powerful, and it was obvious that he had just fainted.

Bounced off the cigarette butt in his hand, Yi Han pinched his middle hard, and three seconds later, the other party immediately reacted.

"You...... Who are you?!"

It seems to have been sleeping for a long time.

Chu Ming opened his eyes and found a man in a courier suit, squatting beside him in a strange posture, looking at him with a cold look in his eyes!

To be honest, it's good that he doesn't drink much water at night, otherwise he would definitely be scared to pee!

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