Chapter 1: A Thousand Years Later

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A thousand years later, the world is long without me...

Ahem... It's 3020 and I'm still here, why is this happening? I think it's all because of a copper furnace.

Here's what happened: a thousand years ago, that is, in 2020, I was just a little security guard in a museum, I had no education, my family was poor, I didn't have a girlfriend, and people like me should have lived a plain and peaceful life, who knew that one day I was patrolling at night, and a copper furnace placed in the venue suddenly emitted a green light, at that time I thought there was a ghost, and I fell into a coma before I could run, and then I woke up a thousand years later.

What will the world be like in a thousand years? You may not believe it, but at this time, science and technology were quite advanced, and the intelligent robots that were developed and created became a new race, which not only rebelled against mankind, but also occupied several galaxies and had a long-term confrontation with mankind.

What's even more surprising is that in the 1,000 years of rapid development of science and technology, human beings have opened up several extraterritorial spaces, and the connection of different interfaces has caused various unknown energies to infect and exchange with each other, and then the aura appeared, and the Xiuzhen civilization began to develop.

This is an era when missiles and flying swords coexist.

So in this world, no matter what you encounter, don't be surprised, otherwise, you will appear uninformed.

I'm used to it, and yesterday I saw two people fighting in the Chengdong Trading Market, one with rockets and the other with wind blades, which is really ruthless.

It's getting dark, and I have to pack up my things and get ready to close.

I'm busy with the fact that the shop is an antique shop, the name of the shop is "Youyuan Antiques", there are 30 square meters, divided into front and back rooms, the front hall is the exhibition hall, full of shelves, and the back is a storage room, in addition to a safe, there is also a folding bed, yes, that folding bed is my nest.

This antique shop is not mine, I am just a clerk who looks after the store, and the owner of the shop is an uncle in his fifties, I call him Boss Hu.

A year ago, on a night of thunder and lightning, Boss Hu found me in front of the store.

According to him, I was unconscious, my clothes were in tatters, and he didn't want to get into trouble, but a copper stove in my arms caught his attention.

Boss Hu is an upside-down antique, and the things that can make him look at a glance are naturally not ordinary things, and now it is popular to buy ancient artifacts in antiques, maybe the copper furnace in my arms is an ancient artifact, so Boss Hu got me into his shop.

Of course, there is no shortage of stories of murder and treasure grabbing in this world, but fortunately, Boss Hu is a principled person, he wants my copper furnace, and he doesn't want to use immoral means, so he can only choose to save me.

After I woke up, Boss Hu first learned about my origin, and the result was, of course, chicken and duck, and both sides felt that they were being played. If I hadn't reacted normally, Boss Hu would definitely send me to a mental hospital.

Since he couldn't figure out who I was, Boss Hu didn't bother too much, and directly offered his conditions, he was willing to bid 100,000 federal coins to buy my copper furnace.

I didn't know what federal coins were at the time, I only knew that my copper furnace was the one I saw glowing green before I fell unconscious, and the cause and effect of all this was related to it, and of course it couldn't be sold.

Boss Hu thought of a compromise again, he was willing to take me in, be his clerk, 3,000 federal coins a month, the copper furnace had to be studied and studied by him, no matter what the final value of the copper furnace was, its ownership is mine, which he can use as a basis.

I don't have a choice, I can only agree to Boss Hu's conditions, and this is not an unequal treaty, judging from the current situation, this condition is still beneficial to me.

In this way, I became a clerk in an antique shop in the Chengdong Market.

When I learned about this future world, Boss Hu also spent a lot of time studying the copper furnace, and he not only used various instruments to detect, but also showed a magic technique.

This is of no use to my copper furnace except to let me know that he is a Taoist monk.

To be precise, my copper furnace is unresponsive by all means.

Transmission scan, normal display. Energy detection, which is displayed as zero. Dating detection, showing antiquity. Using scientific and technological detection methods, it was concluded that this is an antique.

It is useless to confess the Lord by dripping blood. Infused with aura, it's useless. Imperial refiner, useless. Trying to conclude with the magic of Xiuzhen: this is an ordinary antique.

The cruel reality not only killed Boss Hu's interest, but also shattered my illusions, I thought I came here with treasures, and since then I have become a hanger, and I began to perform all kinds of pretending to be forced to slap my face, but I didn't expect that I thought too much, how to live this day!

The Chengdong Exchange Market was closed at 6 p.m., and yesterday some people openly fought the law here, killing several people, and the impact was very great, and the market management office today issued a circular saying that it would rectify the situation, cancel the night market, and standardize the operation of the market.

Rectify it, rectify it, anyway, it's my business, close the door early, I'll rest early.

I put the two pots of flowers in the door into the front hall, and with a wave of my hand, a light screen appeared in front of me out of thin air, I clicked the button to close the door above, and a wall like a water curtain slowly appeared.

In early winter, when the temperature drops quickly, I put my hands in my trouser pockets and prepare to go shopping in the nearby snack streets.

There are six floors in the Chengdong Market, each of which is a street layout of shops with four horizontal and four vertical streets, with antique shops on the third floor and a snack street on the sixth floor.

There is a floating island in the empty part of the trading market, which specializes in selling things from the cultivation realm, known as the seventh floor of the trading market in the east of the city, except for monks, ordinary people will not go up.

Of course, ordinary people can also take the floating car to the seventh floor, but it doesn't make much sense to go up, and ordinary people can't afford to buy the things inside, and they can't use them.

And like what kind of elixir, magic weapon, talisman, spirit pet or something, they are all priced according to spirit stones.

At this time, the currency was the federal currency, and at this time there were no countries on the earth, so the currency language was unified.

In terms of purchasing power, the federal currency at this time is comparable to the dollar a thousand years ago.

In addition to the federal currency is a legal tender with purchasing power, another kind of general denomination is the spirit stone, but one spirit stone is equal to one million federal coins, and the places where the spirit stone can be used are all places for high-end players to play, and ordinary people may not see a spirit stone in their lifetime.

There is not just one street in the snack street, but the whole floor, where you can eat, drink and have fun, and the snacks are the most famous, and I just wanted to fill my stomach and didn't stay in this overcrowded place.

When it comes to overcrowding, the world is really overcrowded. A thousand years ago, there were only 7 billion people on the earth, and at that time, various experts claimed that the earth was overloaded, and the earth could not support so many people.

And now, there are four trillion people in the world, and that's just counting what remains on Earth.

At this time, human beings have already mastered controllable nuclear fusion, superconductivity, atomic synthesis, and other awesome technologies, and in addition, there are immortal cultivators who move mountains and seas, so what difficulties cannot be solved?

Speaking of which, there are indeed difficulties in this era that cannot be solved.

The first is the war between humans and robots, this war has been going on and on for a hundred years, and the robots are getting stronger and stronger, if it weren't for the fact that robots can't cultivate immortals, humans will definitely be wiped out.

The second is the invasion of extraterritorial races, these extraterritorial races can be understood as aliens, and there must be two brushes to come and invade humans, but every time aliens come, humans and robots will be allied, which is enough to ponder.

The last is the civil strife of the cultivators, this is a historical problem, since ancient times, the monks have divided the good and the evil, the world is divided into the fairy road, the demon road, the ghost road and the demon road, this thousand years have been developed, the poor are put aside the dispute, the big is since ancient times, there are contradictions and fights, but at present no one dominates the world.

Having said all this, it actually has nothing to do with me coming out to eat, and besides, I won't tell you what I eat.

In fact, I don't have to come out to eat, I can knock a pill of Bigu Dan in the store, this kind of pill is also a product of the combination of science and technology and cultivation, ordinary people can eat a tube for a day, and they can eat it for a long time without adverse side effects.

This Dan itself is colorless and tasteless, but after eating this Dan, you will let out a very stinky fart.

I think that if you can't even eat well, then life is one less fun. Therefore, I usually go to the snack street to eat, and I don't eat Bigu Dan to cope with the past.

I have the mark left by Boss Hu, so the water curtain wall in front of the store will not hinder my access.

Lying back in my little bed, I didn't feel sleepy, and I didn't know what to do for a while.

Boss Hu said: If I am bored at night, I can use his computer to surf the Internet.

At first, I was interested, and a thousand years later, the Internet is even more colorful, and I was addicted to all kinds of free video movies alone for three months.

Later, my interest gradually decreased, and the more I wandered on the Internet, the more empty I became, especially when I saw all kinds of news and videos on cultivating the truth, which made me feel that being a person without cultivating the truth was no different from dying.

Cultivate the truth, cultivate the truth, how to cultivate it?

Boss Hu is a Taoist priest with magic power, I went to beg him, and he said that I have nothing to do with Taoism.

His sister, he just doesn't want to teach me, anything is fateful or not, it's all an excuse.

Feeling irritated at the thought of this, I got up and took a step to pick up the copper stove I had placed on the shelf.

After Boss Hu knew that this copper furnace was just an antique, he didn't force me to sell it to him, and not only that, he didn't say anything to let me leave here.

Now the copper furnace is still mine, but what is it for?

The small copper furnace has the size of an ordinary teacup, the color is golden, the three legs below support a big belly, the upper two ears are long at the neck, the furnace body has various patterns, it looks like a variety of rare birds and beasts, clouds, rain, thunder and lightning, there are two ancient characters on the front of the furnace body, according to Boss Hu's research, these two words are called "red dust", and there is an inscription on the back, which probably means: Yin and Yang balance all things can be refined, and the world is one.

Boss Hu said that this furnace is very strange, it is obviously the style of the Dan furnace in the record, but it is so small, the monk uses a Dan furnace of this size, and the hair can't be practiced.

In addition, this Dan furnace should also have a top cover, and now that the furnace cover is missing, it can't be sold for a good price as an antique.

Boss Hu asked me if I knew the whereabouts of the furnace cover, and I tried to recall it to no avail, as a security guard, how could I care if a copper furnace had a lid or not? Besides, there were thousands of exhibits in the entire exhibition hall at that time, and if I hadn't looked at it before I fell unconscious, I wouldn't have cared that there was a copper furnace in the exhibition hall.

What I said was true, so Boss Hu was completely dead to the copper furnace, in his opinion, this is an ordinary antique without a furnace lid, he said that this furnace is nothing special, and it doesn't cost much to sell it, so keep it as a souvenir. I don't know if to believe him or not, but I've seen him inspect the copper furnace, and he looks very professional.

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