Chapter 1: Foresight of the Journey
(PS: This book is not in the first person, don't worry.) )
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My name is Li Xijing, and I used to be an office worker.
I say once because I'm about to travel to another world.
I'm going to explain here that I'm not crazy, I'm not bragging, and I'm not suffering from any paranoia.
It all started seven days ago.
On that day, I went to work as usual, but when I walked to the alley downstairs of the company, I suddenly heard a "bang" sound behind me.
I subconsciously looked back, guess what I saw?
I saw a man planted head down on the ground, smashing a hole in the marble floor of the alley!
My first reaction was that someone had committed suicide by jumping off a building!
Although I wondered why even the floor was smashed and the "corpse" looked intact, I immediately took out my phone and prepared to call the police.
Outcome......
Attention! Here's the point!
Do you know what's going to happen next?
That "person" actually moved!
And in front of me, propped up on the ground with both hands, and pulled his head out of the pit?
Can you imagine how I felt?
I want to mention here that it was an old man who looked seventy or eighty years old, wearing a Taoist costume and a white beard, similar to Zhang Sanfeng's dress on TV.
Of course, I'm just talking about dressing up, and when I saw the old man's obscene face, I couldn't connect him with Zhang Zhenren anymore.
After he got up, the old man patted the dust on his body and giggled vigorously.
I don't know what he's laughing at, but I know he's smiling at me, because it's just me and him in the alley.
Of course I was so scared that I ran away.
To be honest, I'm not afraid of what kind of demon he is, in broad daylight, you can see people outside the alley, even if he is a ghost, can he eat me?
I'm afraid he's here to touch my porcelain!
At that time, I just felt that these people were working too hard to touch porcelain these days. also moved on the ground in advance, and the bag that just smashed out of his head, I really looked at it and hurt for him, but the old man still laughed, you say it's scary or not!
If I don't run away, he will rely on me to lie on the ground again, and I won't be ruined?
Although I didn't have any property enough for him to cheat.
As a result, I didn't run away.
Yes, as a young guy who insists on running five kilometers to work every day to exercise (by no means to save money on the bus), I actually ...... Can't outrun that old guy!
He jumped right in front of me, and when I wanted to turn back, he jumped behind me with a "whoosh".
So how do you run?
I thought that the old man was a hidden master who had practiced kung fu, and he had practiced the legendary iron head skill and flying on the grass.
It's all to blame that this world is difficult, even if it is such a powerful old man, he needs to come out and make a living by touching porcelain.
Maybe it's because some young people in the martial arts world don't talk about martial arts now......
Having said that, if such a master wants to lie to me, he deserves my bad luck, right?
I had no choice but to resign myself to my fate, and said to him, "I only have two hundred pieces in my body, and there is really no more." ”
As a result, he just asked me, "Boy, do you want to cross?"
Seriously, if someone stopped me and asked me about this, I would just treat him as a psychopath, and maybe call 110.
But I was speechless at that time.
The old man suddenly grabbed my shoulder and jumped, and we flew directly to the roof of the company building.
You heard it right, jumping straight from the ground to the roof of a 46-storey building!
He apologized to me and said that he didn't mean to scare me half to death, but that he had to take me to a different place to talk because someone was passing by.
At this time, even if he said that he was an immortal, I would have to believe it, right?
So I said it doesn't matter, just teach me a few immortal methods and even make up for it, otherwise it's barely acceptable to add a few more zeros to my bank card.
But the old man said he wasn't a god, but something that had passed through the Authority.
He said that all the time-traveling events in all planes were arranged by them through the Authority. And this time, he came to inform me that they were going to arrange my crossing in seven days.
So I asked him: "I used to read novels, and other people crossed into car accidents, struck by lightning or something, and wore them directly, why do you have to notify me in advance? Do you still have to bring any documents to go through the crossing procedures and so on?"
The old guy shook his head and said to me with a very weak look: "I didn't need to inform you, but we have run out of golden fingers for crossing the bureau." ”
So I asked him, "What does it mean to run out of goldfingers, does it have anything to do with me?"
"Absolutely. The old man explained to me:
"Originally, when everyone was crossing over, we would give them a golden finger in the crossing game, such as systems, panels, elves and the like.
But recently, the Fantasy Bureau has arranged too many traversers, and the golden fingers in the bureau have been consumed.
In other words, you don't have a gold finger to use this crossing. ”
"Isn't that crossing without a plug-in?" I said after listening to it, I was puzzled to accept.
If there is no plug-in, how can you do it to the local natives in the other world?
"So I'm here to give you other compensation. The old man looked disappointed and smiled at me.
As soon as I heard that there were other compensations, I became interested again: "What compensation, give me the whole emperor at the beginning, the richest man or something?"
I had high expectations, but the old guy's answer almost made me angry.
"The compensation for you is that you knew seven days in advance that you were about to cross," he said. ”
Watt law?
What kind of compensation is that? I wasn't happy about it at the time.
"Wouldn't you be able to come up with anything else good without a golden finger?" I think even though the other party seems to be remarkable, I still need to fight for my legal rights.
"You have to believe in yourself. I'm very optimistic about you, you can mix well without a gold finger in the other world~"
The old guy smiled hypocritically, and through his expression, I felt that what he thought in his heart was that there was no plug-in, and I would be led by a dog as soon as I arrived in the other world.
So I asked him, "What are your criteria for selecting the Crossing Authority, and why do so many people in this world choose me?"
The old man smiled and said, "Because you have no relatives and no savings in this world." ”
I understood what he meant, he felt that I had no concern in this world, and I didn't have any sense of existence, even if I suddenly disappeared, it wouldn't make a difference.
That being true, I felt sad about it and asked him, "Am I the only one like this in the world?"
The old man shook his head: "There are many people who meet such conditions, but at the same time, you are the only one who is so handsome and chic, and you are the only one who is wise and martial." ”
He started putting a high hat on me, and although I thought he was right, I wouldn't fall for him.
Pretending to be forced is only a matter of a second, and whether there is a plug-in or not is related to the living standard of a lifetime after the crossing, which I can still distinguish.
So I said, "No matter what you say, I would never agree to cross without other compensation." ”
I am a principled person, and no matter how much he coerces and induces, I will never give in.
Then the old guy smiled and pointed to the pustule on his forehead and asked me, "What do you guess I deliberately didn't eliminate this bag for?"
"You don't think it's useful to change the subject. "He asked inexplicably, and I didn't want to pay attention to him.
As a result, he said that if I didn't agree to cross, he would take me to the police station and say that I had beaten the bag on his forehead, and that it would not be good if there was no 108,000.
Is this Nima the work of a man?
I couldn't help it, I was scared by his trick. I had to retreat and ask him:
"Then you can always tell me where the plane I'm about to travel through, and I should at least know how I am going to prepare for these seven days, right?"
Fortunately, this time the old man did not disappoint me. Answered my little question.
What he said was: "Great Xia." ”
I still know something about Great Xia, the first hereditary dynasty in Chinese history.
I originally wanted to ask more, such as my identity at the beginning of the past time, when the emperor of the Xia Dynasty was in power, etc.,
The old guy interrupted me directly, saying that the time for him to come out had come, and if he returned late, he would be deducted from his salary, and he couldn't stay longer. Seven days later, at this point in time, I don't have to do anything, and I will automatically travel to Great Xia.
Then, he didn't know where he flew.
It took less than ten minutes to go back and forth, and the matter of my crossing was settled.
I guess they must have to arrange a lot of crossing events every day, right?
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So for the next seven days, I was preparing for the crossing.
To be honest, I really regret that I chose the programmer profession in the first place.
You said that the ability to type the keyboard was used by a bird in ancient times, so I decided to resign on the same day.
I still remember the stunned look on my boss's face when I handed my resignation letter to him.
I think that this black-hearted boss who asks us to work overtime all day but does not pay overtime must have lamented that the company lost such a hard-working and kind employee as me at that moment.
What I wrote on my resignation letter was: History is so long, I want to go to Langlang.
I think my dashing back must be very handsome in the eyes of my colleagues.
Then, I went home and made up all the history I could find about the Xia Dynasty on the Internet.
Not only that, but I also read "Three Hundred Tang Poems" and "Selected Song Poems" many times.
Due to the tight time, I'm not sure I can memorize them all, but I can remember the names of the heirlooms, and when the time comes, it will be a civilized-downing blow to the Xia Dynasty when the time comes.
At the same time, I picked up all the knowledge of physics and chemistry that I had lost for many years in high school, and I also learned the basic principles of making soap, glass, paper, and other techniques on the Internet.
Originally, I wanted to learn how to make gunpowder, lime, etc., but I couldn't help it, seven days was too short to be too late.
Fortunately, in the past seven days, I have learned so many things without sleeping or eating, and I think that with the knowledge in my head now, after crossing over the past, it should not be a big problem to mix food and clothing.
Of course, as long as you don't give me any hell of a start.
Ahem, that's exactly what I said.
The reason why I tell you this is just to leave some traces in this world, to prove that I have been here in this world.
Well, now it's almost time. It's time to say goodbye to you......
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On a certain day, a certain month, on earth, a young man named Li Xijing disappeared for no reason, and the police only found such a confessional video on the Internet.
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