002 The Vanishing Heroine
"It's ...... Where? ”
I don't know how long it took, Chen Wei woke up, opened his eyes, and looked at this small and messy room, looking a little dazed.
The room in front of me felt strange and familiar at the same time.
Inexplicably, a somewhat absurd thought came to mind.
"Who am I?"
A memory came flooding back to me.
I'm Chen Wei, 30 years old, an orphan who dropped out of junior high school and learned boxing in a gym and quickly showed his talent.
Later, in order to earn money, he joined a gang, and was sentenced to five years for serious injuries during a debt collection. After coming out, you can only work as a water delivery worker and a parking lot security guard......
No, no......
Chen Wei broke out in a cold sweat, and felt that nothing was right.
"It's not me!"
Soon, he remembered.
I am twenty-nine years old, my parents have graduated from college, and I have stayed in the big city to work for five years, no car, no house, no girlfriend, and my savings are pitiful......
That's what he remembers.
But......
Chen Wei fell into a huge chaos.
Why is there another memory?
"I'm—"
"Crossed?"
Chen Wei only felt that his mind was buzzing.
Although, when he read the novel and saw some hearty plots, he also fantasized about traveling to another world.
But that's just a fantasy.
Who would have thought that one day, he would really cross over.
"What the hell is going on?"
"That's right, that game!"
Suddenly, Chen Wei's heart was agitated and he almost jumped.
It must be because of that game.
He remembered.
Before crossing over, he ordered a takeout, and when he was waiting for the takeout, he wanted to play a game......
Think again about the operations before the crossing.
"So, I've traveled into the world of that movie?"
Chen Wei roughly figured out the cause of the incident, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
No way?
Who would have thought that a mobile game would be such a black technology!
If you had known, you should have chosen a good movie.
He regretted it in his heart.
At the very least, it's better to choose a protagonist with a better background.
Now this protagonist, an orphan, has been in prison, has no money, no relatives, no friends, and it is difficult to find even a serious job, so he can only do odd jobs.
What a miserable word.
This is the bottom of society.
What's even worse is that it's only been six years now, and smartphones haven't even appeared!
There are no mobile games, no short videos, no convenient food delivery software......
For people like Chen Wei who are accustomed to smartphones and the Internet environment, without these, it would be the end of the world.
The more Chen Wei thought about it, the more cool he felt in his heart.
"Ding Ding Dong Ding Ding ......"
Suddenly, an old-fashioned cell phone rings.
Soon, he found the source of the ringtone, a straight phone next to his pillow.
Really, dreaming back to the 00s, when he was in high school, his first mobile phone was the straight mobile phone that his mother eliminated.
The call came from the owner of the bottled water shop, asking Chen Wei why he didn't go to work.
He made an excuse, saying that he was a little uncomfortable and took two days off.
Now, he works as a water delivery worker during the day, doing manual labor. It's much harder than sending a courier.
In the face of such a big change, he needs to be alone.
Chen Wei hung up the phone, got up and went to wash, looking at himself in the mirror, it was still the same face, but it was a little different, and it looked a lot more vicissitudes.
It feels like seeing myself ten years later.
Obviously, he is also twenty-nine years old, and after a few years of prison life, he is really a training person.
He suddenly felt that compared to his current self, the setbacks he suffered in reality were nothing at all.
After Chen Wei finished washing, he went out, he wanted to see the world with his own eyes.
……
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Two days later.
At night, in a single room of less than ten square meters.
Chen Wei sat on the only low stool in the room, summarizing the information he had gathered in the past two days.
This time and space, the time is 2006.
The location is a provincial capital city on the Yangtze River, and the name has not been heard.
It's not just this city, many cities have different names.
It can basically be seen as a parallel world.
The real world derived from a romance movie?
Or is it a virtual world like the metaverse?
For him, there is not much difference.
As far as the experience of these two days is concerned, his feelings are completely real, no different from the real world.
You will be hungry, sleepy, tired, painful, and you will also have some kind of physiological reaction......
Chen Wei still wants to find out and see if there is another self in this world.
I called the fixed line at home at that time, and the mobile phone number of my parents, all of which were empty.
He also wanted to log in to the number of the previous instant messaging software, but when he looked for it, there was no such software at all.
Here, the most popular instant messaging software is called penguins.
In addition, there are too many things that are different, such as car companies, mobile phone brands, and brands of daily necessities......
Everything reminded him that this was a strange world.
Chen Wei has been a little depressed in the past two days.
He is just an ordinary person, he has long been accustomed to the original life and does not like to change.
This sudden upheaval made him very uncomfortable.
If life gets better, of course, you will be able to adapt quickly.
The situation here is that life here is much harder and more stressful than before.
He only has more than 2,000 savings on his body, and according to the speed at which he spends his money, it will be spent in a month.
Working two jobs, the combined income is less than 3,000, and after deducting rent, water and electricity, it is just enough to spend.
Moreover, in this era, there is no convenient online borrowing. Not to mention credit cards.
What's even more terrifying is that he doesn't have family and friends yet, and once the money is spent, he can really only go to the street to ask for food.
Chen Wei thought of the serious economic problems, and had a strong sense of urgency in his heart, "No, I have to find a way to go back quickly." ”
But how can I go back?
In the past two days, he has tried various poses, but he has not been able to summon something like a panel.
No matter how much he shouted quit, it was useless.
"Do you want to go through the whole plot?"
Chen Wei thought helplessly.
This is the world of the movie, he has become the male lead, and when it is over, he should be able to return to reality, right?
After much thought, he picked up the phone and dialed a number.
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…………
The entrance and exit of the underground parking lot of a building, there is a security booth.
Chen Wei sat in a narrow pavilion with his hands in his pockets, and a small fourteen-inch TV was playing the news.
His attention was not on the TV, he was staring outside.
"Why haven't you come yet?"
As time passed, the person he was waiting for never appeared, and he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
Waiting, it's one night.
Until six o'clock in the morning, the shift change came, and Chen Wei did not wait for the person to wait.
"How so? Didn't you say that the male and female protagonists met in the security booth? ”
Chen Wei remembered that in the synopsis, it was written like this.
……
Seven days later, Chen Wei still didn't wait for the heroine.
"What the hell went wrong?"
His mind was full of question marks.
Could it be that he missed it because he took two days off?
So what to do?
If you can't meet the heroine, the plot can't be advanced, so how can you go back?
Chen Wei suddenly thought that before entering this movie world, there was a database loss.
This black technology doesn't look so reliable.
"It's not an option to wait like this."
He felt that he had to change his mind.
"Take the initiative to find it, she must live not far from the neighborhood, she is so beautiful, and she is blind, it shouldn't be difficult to inquire."
That's right, the heroine of this movie is a blind person who is not only blind but also lost her parents because of a car accident. It can be said that it is very miserable.
In terms of plot synopsis, this is a story of two-way redemption for the male and female protagonists.
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In the next few days, Chen Wei inquired around, and indeed many people had seen the heroine, but no one knew where she lived.
Looking for someone like this, you can't rush it, you have to try your luck.
But it's another thing that needs to be put on the agenda.
That's to make money.
Part-time jobs are not a long-term solution.
Chen Wei doesn't know how long he will stay in this world, maybe for several years?
He couldn't stand the cramped, damp musty smell of the rented room anymore.
Cheap fast food is also about to vomit.
He wants to earn money, move, and improve his food.
Chen Wei decisively resigned from the job of delivering water, and then sacrificed one of the magic weapons for the traverser to make money - copying online texts.