Chapter 1: An Encounter of Fate

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In the South Pacific, on the luxury cruise ship Ark Royal, a young Chinese man wearing sunglasses was sitting on a lounger near the fence by the pool, drinking coffee comfortably, enjoying the blue sea and blue sky and a cool sea breeze. While keeping an eye out for all kinds of beautiful women who pass by from time to time, wearing sexy swimsuits, and laughing and jumping into the pool. You know, it's hard to enjoy such a "blazing sun" time in China.

Ark Royal, a subsidiary of the Australian Coastal Tourism Company, is a 68,000-ton gross tonnage, 200-meter-long, 1,800 passengers of luxury entertainment offshore cruise ship. Since its launch in 2007, it has carried countless guests. The protagonist Zhang Yu, the Chinese young man who wears sunglasses and tastes life, is now one of them.

Countless seagulls fluttered up and down around the cruise ship, and from time to time a few little ones who did not recognize their lives landed on the fence or deck, staring blankly at the alien race in their eyes, humans, and tasting the delicious food thrown by these aliens.

Flocks of dolphins flickered on the surface of the sea not far from the sides of the boat. Sometimes he raised his upper body and chirped happily, and sometimes he shuttled quickly in the sea, leaving a white waterline behind the snow-white dorsal fin crossing the sea.

The mobile phone next to him vibrated non-stop, Zhang Yu lazily looked at the name displayed on the phone, and connected the phone.

"Xiao Yu, why did you go to sea alone? Just leave a note, how uneasy this is! I made an appointment with you with a beautiful girl who was studying here, but you ran away! How can I explain this to others?"

"Sister, stop! Don't mention girls to me, okay? Relatives in Huaxia say every day, I finally hid from you for a few days, and you still give me such a show! I just went to sea for two days to play, and I will go back the day after tomorrow. At this time, they have already taken a boat and left a long way away, and it is impossible to go back! Do you want me to swim back? Hehe, thank you sister for thinking about my brother's life! But buddy is not in the mood to think about this now. You're tired of finding a way to push it!"

"Alas~ I really can't help you! Okay, just pay attention to safety! Auntie entrusted you to me this time, but I can't have the slightest problem, you know? You kid is really a headache!"

"Don't worry! It's not like I'm sailing! Haven't you also read the introduction of the Royal Ark? are all experienced sailors, and they will be fine!"

"Okay, I'll ask your brother-in-law to book you a direct flight from Melbourne to the capital in four days. After you come back, you can rest for a day and then leave for Huaxia. ”

"Thank you, old lady, I know you're the best! Then let's do it first, you and your brother-in-law should take care of ourselves! Wait until I go back and make you authentic braised pork to eat! Haha, I'll go for a swim." There are so many beauties in front of you! If you don't swim at this time, when will you stay? If you have an encounter or something, won't it save a lot of things? I'm hanging, bye-bye!"

"I'm really convinced of you!Go, go! Don't have a needle! If you have the ability, you can soak a foreign girl and come back!

Hung up the phone, Zhang Yu was still sitting there drinking coffee, just said that he was going to swim, just to find an excuse, otherwise he didn't know how long his cousin would nag.

Looking at the sea from afar, I admired the vastness of the sea in my heart. At this moment, Zhang Yu felt as if he was about to merge into this world.

Blowing the sea breeze, watching the sea view, sipping high-quality freshly ground coffee, and eating the unique food of the South Pacific, Zhang Yu spent a lazy and comfortable day.

The sky is getting darker, and the sea breeze is getting a little cooler. After drinking the last sip of coffee that was already cold, Zhang Yu stood up and stretched.

"How many years? I've been conscientious, but I'm still just a soldier. This squad leader is really ...... Alas~!There is wine today, let's get drunk today!" Zhang Yu said to himself with a bit of Ah Q spirit.

As one of the hundreds of millions of blue-collar workers, Zhang Yu has a career that makes people feel no extra emotions. Working from 9 to 5 every day, I get a dead salary all year round, and it has been like a day for more than ten years. Although this salary is not bad in the eyes of some people, it depends on who you compare it with.

At the end of the year, the company issued a considerable bonus, and the north of China was in the middle of winter. So, Zhang Yu very simply took the money and the visa in advance, and asked for annual leave (a vacation that will be invalid if it doesn't stop). In the name of visiting his cousin's family, he crossed the ocean to Melbourne, Australia.

Seeing that half of the ten-day holiday had passed, Zhang Yu, who had already disliked the hustle and bustle of the city, decided to go to sea to have a look and appreciate the world from a different mood and perspective. So he hid from his cousin, spent more than half of his prize money, and boarded the royal ark.

Just as Zhang Yu was sighing about this fucking life alone, a sweet voice rang out.

"Dear guests, it is getting late, dinner is ready in the restaurant, please come to the restaurant to eat. The beautiful and lovely hostess came to Zhang Yu and reminded softly.

"Thank you, beautiful young lady!" As one of the hundreds of millions of descendants of Yan Huang, politeness and humility have always been respected by Zhang Yu, not to mention that the other party is still a beauty. Fortunately, in order to chase American dramas, Zhang Yu's English honed many times is not bad, or I really don't know where I will be embarrassed.

After drinking the already warm coffee, Zhang Yu got up from the recliner he was sitting on and prepared to go to the restaurant to enjoy a delicious dinner, after all, he drank a lot of coffee, but there was not much oil and water in his stomach.

But at this moment, the sky, which had only a few strands of clouds, was overcast in an instant, and then a fierce wind blew up! Several lightning bolts streaked across the sky and scattered on the surrounding sea. The scene was extremely eerie. Shocked that the people on the deck, who had not yet had time to return to the cabin, rushed to the hatch, which was not very spacious.

Heavy raindrops mixed with the wind hit the cruise ship. The waves continued to scatter on the surface of the sea, even stirring up layers of white foam. The sound of rolling thunder seems to be lingering in the ears, which makes people frightened and frightened!

The crowd exclaimed, huddled with each other, jostling for the first chance to enter the cabin.

Everyone understands the truth that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, but at this time, how many people remember this sentence, it's hard to say. However, Zhang Yu remained sober and humble, and his hands tightly grasped the fence, leaving the opportunity to enter the cabin first.

The big waves hit one after another, and the cruise ship that seemed to be a behemoth was like a bamboo leaf, swaying in the stormy waves, as if it would cease to exist in the next moment.

Zhang Yu's hands were trembling, and he struggled to hold on to the slippery fence, and when the last passenger stepped into the cabin, his feet slipped, and his body fell out with the strong undulation of the hull.

"Puff" With the sound of falling water, Zhang Yu's figure disappeared into the rolling waves.

"Is this just the end of it? This painful life! beautiful legs, delicious food! My 2,000 Australian dollar ferry ticket! Damn!" Zhang Yu did not give up struggling. But in the face of turbulent seas, what can a person with weak strength do? Gradually, as his strength was exhausted, he slowly sank into the sea.

In the dark deep sea, Zhang Yu's consciousness had long been closed with the exhaustion of oxygen, and he didn't know that there was a strange light around him "swimming around".

I don't know if it's a coincidence, or an arrangement in the dark. As Zhang Yu sank into the sea, the wind and rain stopped, the clouds opened and the moon brightened, the thunder and lightning disappeared, and the waves slowly receded. Only the white foam of the sea water struck by lightning on the sea surface is particularly eye-catching.

The messy cabin gradually returned to calm, and people were glad that the cruise ship did not capsize, nor was it struck by the dense lightning just now. But no one noticed that a young Chinese boy was missing.

Somewhere in the deep sea......

Zhang Yu coughed while rubbing his swollen wrist and looked around.

"I'm dead? Could this be the Netherworld? Won't I see the king of Hades for a while? But this place doesn't look like the legend. Zhang Yu worked very hard to make up for his brain.

The scene before the crash came to his mind. In his opinion, under such a scale of wind and waves, the chance of his life is zero at all, and there is no possibility of survival at all. So he can't be blamed for treating this place as a netherworld.

It is a platform built from a large rock that extends from the mountain wall. Zhang Yu walked and stopped along the edge of the platform, and from time to time he reached out and touched the "void".

The front and side of the platform are surrounded by an invisible but clearly felt wall, like a pair of invisible hands, blocking the connection between this place and the outside world. Through this magical barrier, all you can see is a deep darkness all around.

Behind the platform, a bluestone avenue nearly 30 meters wide and hundreds of meters long stretches straight. On both sides of the avenue, there are two rows of pillars with no visible material, and at the top of the pillars are "lights" that only shine brightly.

"Is there anybody? Harrow? Oh hayo?...... Your uncle, is there anyone!?" Zhang Yu went from being cautious at the beginning to being restless later, all of which showed the silence and weirdness here.

shouted several more times, but no one answered, so Zhang Daxia walked along the avenue and towards the mountain wall deep in the platform, hoping to find a way out there.

The distance of a few hundred meters is not close, let alone far, in three or five minutes, Zhang Yu has been standing near the front of the mountain wall, and then there is a hard rock. stepped forward and reached out to touch it, feeling a trace of cold air emanating from the rock, which cooled down Zhang Yu's obviously somewhat restless heart. But then he smiled wryly.

"It's over, I have to be so unlucky to be able to encounter such a touching thing! Damn! Am I just dying here? I've only been thirty years in my fucking life, isn't that fun, God?! I haven't married a daughter-in-law yet!" Zhang Yu said to himself with his back against the mountain wall.

Now in a mysterious desperate situation, no matter how high the mind and tenacious will, in the face of such a predicament, it will be at a loss, and suddenly feel powerless. What's more, our Zhang Daxia does not have the conditions that a strongman should have.

"Hehe, it's really like you in the past!" A playful voice suddenly sounded, frightening Zhang Yu's hair upside down, and he broke out in a cold sweat.

"Ghost~~!!!" Zhang Yu exclaimed. Then he muttered, "No, I'm not dead too?"

"You're alive and well, you're not dead!" the playful voice rang out again.

"What kind of person? sneaky, come out quickly! Get out of here!" Zhang Yu looked around for the source of the sound, but after looking for a long time, he found that the voice seemed to be in his ears.

"Are you asking me, silly melon!" the playful voice sounded for the third time.

"You~You~You~Are you a human or a ghost in the end!Tell you, Lao Tzu Zhang Yu, if you don't change your name or change your surname, I'm not afraid of you! You give me out~ Come out!" Zhang Daxia, who threatened to be not afraid of heaven and earth, said stumblingly. It's so weird, there's wood?

"I want to know who I am, and I'll see you through the wall, and I'll wait for you!And oh, I'm sure and sure to tell you, you're not dead!

"I'm not dead? That's better! What else will I be afraid of if I don't die? I'm afraid of death, I'm raised by you! Who is afraid of whom?" Zhang Yu gritted his teeth and walked into a portal that was like a terrifying mouth, pitch black, and impermeable to any light.

"Is this...?" Looking at the tall and bright, epic and brilliant palace-like building in front of him, Zhang Yu's little heart beat wildly, and he completely entered a state of dementia. I finally relieved myself and looked around, only to realize that my current position seemed to be inside a hollowed-out mountain.

"Hey~~ Who is that!I came in as you said, where are you?Don't sneak around, okay?It's really not the husband's doing!" Zhang Yu shouted boldly.

"What do you know I'm a big husband?" retorted playfully.

"This~~ Where the hell are you?Don't hide and seek, okay?" Zhang Yu was about to lose patience.

"Okay, I won't tease you! go straight and see me when you enter the main hall in front of you!"

Zhang Yu sorted out his nervousness and walked towards the hundred-meter-high super-large palace in front of him.

Thousands of bright white steps are made entirely of unnamed stones. At both ends of the staircase are stone pillars made of stone with similar marble textures, and an unknown flame burns in the stone plate at the top, illuminating the entire front steps of the main hall very brightly. But it's impossible to know exactly what is burning.

After a "long journey", Zhang Yu finally entered the main hall. While panting, he muttered nonsensically, "What a broken place, what are you doing building so tall! So many steps, walking to death! The owner of this house is really a pervert!"

In the middle of the main hall was a large mechanical body, which could even be said to be huge! The whole body was as blue as the deep sea, and from time to time a brilliant light flashed. Seventy or eighty meters high, about a mile long, like a strong city wall! This machine as a whole looks very much like a ship, but there are many things that are wrong, completely out of a normal person's cognition! The most powerful thing is that this thing actually keeps a distance of nearly one meter from the ground!

"Hey~!You're lying to me again!There's no one here, right?,How can you do this?," Zhang Yu grumbled a little angrily.

"Not really, aren't you standing outside me this time?" explained in a playful voice.

Zhang Yu looked at the boat in front of him, (uh~ let's call it a boat) and felt a little messy in his heart. He couldn't believe that playful voice was coming from the ship.

"Can't believe it, can you? Look more closely, welcome to the Etoile," the playful voice said as a non-existent door opened in the hull, and an escalator peeked out of it.

Zhang Yu was also a bold man, ruthless, "Fight!" stepped on the escalator, and then the escalator contracted, and then led him into the mechanical body.

"If you follow the cursor on the wall, you can see my main body, and you can visit this place by the way."

Zhang Yu looked at the cursor on the wall flashing and pointed in a direction, so he followed the cursor's instructions and came to a place similar to a cab. Everywhere he passed along the way, there were some things that could not be found on the earth, which was an eye-opener for Zhang Yu!

A ball of light flowing with a colorful halo appeared in front of Zhang Yu, which made him a little stunned, could it be that this beautiful ball of light was the initiator of that voice? Also, these devices are so advanced, what are they used for?

"You're finally here, hehe! I've been waiting for you for a long time! I can't remember how many years it has been!" As the voice sounded, the color of the ball of light also changed, further confirming Zhang Yu's guess.

"This is your body, a ball of colorful light?" Zhang Yu asked, still uncertain.

"Yes, my stupid master!" the ball of light made a sound, which also made Zhang Yu completely believe everything in front of him.

"Wait, I'm a little confused, what do you call me?Master?!Is there something wrong?Let's meet for the first time, okay?" Zhang Yu said with a ghostly expression.

"I know you can't figure it out right now, but that's okay. Watch a story, and then you may understand," he said, and the light group reflected a ray of light, pointing to a display screen in front of Zhang Yu.

The man in the picture has a pair of sword eyebrows, a pair of bright, wise, but not lacking simple eyes, an angular face, and a long flowing silver-white hair, scattered casually on his shoulders. A tall man, dressed in purple, with a jade belt around his waist and flying cloud boots. Holding a three-foot green blade in his hand, he is fighting with an unknown terrifying beast!

The most important thing is that the man in the picture is eight or nine points similar to Zhang Yu in reality!

"This~~ This is... Your master?" asked Zhang Yu in surprise, pointing to the image on the screen.

"Yes, this is the owner of my Chenxing!

"So your name is Chenxing, the name is very good!" Zhang Yu also praised Chenxing, after all, it is now a relationship under the fence, say something nice, maybe you can get some benefits, no matter how bad it is, you can return to reality, right?

"Yes, this name was still given to me by you back then, but unfortunately you don't remember it now!Alas~" Chenxing, who was still in high spirits, suddenly dimmed.

"Don't be sad first, tell me about it, why am I your master? Where do you start with this thing?" Zhang Yu decided to ask to understand, otherwise he would always be called the master for no reason, how uncomfortable it was, and it would be like a slave owner!

"It's a long story, are you really sure you want to listen?" asked Chenxing.

"Say it, or you keep calling me master, I think it's weird!" Zhang Yu insisted on his thoughts.

"So~ do you believe in reincarnation? Chenxing asked mysteriously.

"I don't know whether to believe these things or not, but I think all the myths and stories shouldn't be groundless, right?" Zhang Yu said with some uncertainty about it.

"That's okay, right? Then you'll know where you really come from, and you'll be mentally prepared. Tatsuxing seemed to be very happy

Zhang Yu was curious and full of curiosity, found a seat and sat down. Patiently listened to Chenxing's story.

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