I don't know how long it has been, but it seems like only a few seconds have passed.

Andu said hoarsely.

"The Ring of Origin..."

Andu's silence blended in with the silence of the room.

Outside the window, on the far other side of the residential area, deserted streets.

The street, called MacDonald, runs through the entire residential area, and the street is named after the name of the neighborhood.

MacDonald's area is small, but it has a large number of residents, and it is one of the more famous slums in the neighborhood.

At this time, there were no pedestrians on MacDonald Street, and even the vendors went home to eat and did not come out to set up their stalls.

Except for a few wild dogs, there were no other active creatures on the streets at this time.

Todd, a middle-aged man, walked out of the house with a hangover haze, drooping his eyelids and yawning, muttering something from time to time.

But after muttering a few words, Todd stood still, looking strangely at the hundred-year-old locust tree not far in front of his house.

Then he rubbed his eyes vigorously, widened his eyes and looked at it carefully, the expression on his face slowly turned to surprise, disbelief, and finally panic.

His perennial alcoholic body began to tremble uncontrollably, and his fingers trembled and pointed at the old locust tree, and he screamed in horror.

"Hell yes!"

The cries spread farther and farther away, and nearby residents opened their windows to look at the noise, or appeared on the street.

As one of the cleaner settlements in the entire southern slum, most of the residents living on MacDonald Street have relatively stable low-paying jobs.

However, it was late afternoon, and the men had either not finished their day's work and had not returned home, or had just laid down to rest and replenish their energy to provide enough physical strength for the afternoon's work, so the residents who slowly gathered were mostly children and women.

As the residents gathered together, they let out the same exclamations as Todd and whispered discussions, while the children watched the incomprehensible scene before them and hid behind their mothers, looking frightened and curious.

As the most conspicuous landmark of this MacDonald Street, the old locust tree has completely lost the vicissitudes and heaviness of the past at this time.

The branches, which had already withered due to winter, had now turned into pitch-black, metal-like objects, scattered haphazardly on the ground around the locust trees.

The black powders seemed to be of such high quality that even the occasional howling wind could only carry a small amount of them, and they flew in mid-air with the winter winds, and the onlookers could even distinguish some with the naked eye.

There were no branches, only the bare main trunk was black, and even reflected a dazzling light that was impossible to see directly under the sunlight, and the torso that was originally full of wrinkles became smooth and flat, and even the volume was reduced by half a circle.

Just as the inhabitants were either in a round or in amazement, some of the black powder blown by the wind flew into the crowd due to the sudden change in the direction of the wind.

The crowd immediately clamoured, and some of the residents who had inadvertently smoked the black powder in the panic immediately turned blue and fell to the ground as if they had lost their strength.

However, in just a few seconds, more than a dozen people inhaled the powder because they couldn't dodge.

Most of them lost consciousness and fainted, leaving only a few of them struggling to get up on the ground.

"Run!" shouted from the crowd, and the crowd of onlookers was completely chaotic.

The children cried in the frightened looks of the adults, but were immediately dragged back home by their mothers.

A few minutes later, the streets that had just been filled with people chattering were all but the residents who had fallen to the ground and the black locust trees.

A few people who still had some consciousness struggled desperately, trying to cry out for help, trying to escape from here.

But the weak body could not provide them with the strength to stand up, and it was so difficult to even sit up.

Miranda curled up on the ground in pain in the new white dress her father had bought for her.

As the first few people in the crowd, Miranda didn't have time to react at all, so she inhaled the powder of the locust tree, and at this time she wanted to exert her strength, but the endless feeling of weakness from her body made it seem so difficult to even sit up straight.

She screamed hoarse and tried to cry for help, but when she got to her lips, she only made a small ho-ho sound...

"I'm only fifteen...... I still have a lot to do...... I don't want to die yet......"

Miranda hissed in pain, but the sleepiness from her eyelids was so unstoppable.

She became more and more frightened, and the strong desire to survive actually made her regain some strength and slowly sat up.

But the right hand that supported her body lasted only two seconds, and she fell again, and the white hem of her dress was covered with dust.

"Plop!"

Her head slammed into the ground with a dull thud.

"No...... I...... Don't ......"

The girl's consciousness began to drift, her thinking gradually blurred, and everything in front of her was so illusory.

She opened her mouth helplessly, trying to make a sound, and finally slowly closed it again, her eyes unable to resist it anymore and gradually closed.

"This ...... It's light...... ......"

A soft milky white light appeared in front of the girl's eyes, and the world that had been gradually blurring began to become clear again.

In the clear world, the white figure appeared in front of her eyes.

Roy frowned slightly, and it was not until the girl in front of him slowly opened her eyes that she finally felt a little relieved.

He slowly withdrew his right hand that pressed the girl's abdomen, and at the same time, the milky white light on his right hand silently subsided with his movements, and finally turned into a wisp of smoke, returning to the milky white ring on his right index finger.

Roy, who looked to be about forty years old, was dressed in a white priest's robe, with bright blonde hair that stood out in the winter, and his figure was not particularly burly, but it gave people a sense of solidity and reliability.

Roy gently flattened the girl, and hurriedly got up to find the next person who needed to be rescued.

Miranda lay flat on the ground, feeling her strength recovering little by little, and despite the fact that her face was covered with mud, she mustered up all her strength and shouted in a low voice.

"Thank you......"

Roy's body, which had barely taken two steps, stopped, turned back to meet the girl's grateful gaze, left a warm smile, and took another step.

The girl looked at Roy's back, and the horror in her heart finally gradually dissipated, and tears flowed silently.

......

Andu didn't know what was going on outside, even though he was in the same MacDonald district, but he was far away from him, and he had no idea of the disturbance that had just occurred.

At this time, Andu didn't know that because of him, several innocent civilians almost left this world forever.

Andu's shock turned his attention to the silver-white ring on his hand.

"If the Ring of Origin really exists, then is the world in Life a game or a reality?"

"Maybe I'm really in the game?"

"If I die, can I still be resurrected with the help of the system?"

The more Andu thought about it, the more bizarre it became, and finally turned his mind to what he had experienced.

The last image in Andu's memory was that the speeding Porsche crashed into him, and then there was no more.

"In this case, I should have crossed over after death, right?"

"Or did I become a vegetative person? Everything that happened now was actually my imagination, and I was lying in a hospital bed?"

"But it's too real, even in "Life", which claims to be 100% realistic, I can perceive it, there's no reason......"

"Or am I in the game now? No way, I can't use the system ......"

"And after all these years, with my knowledge of Life, it's impossible not to find myself ...... in the game"

While Andulu was thinking quickly, a large number of possibilities were ruled out, and more and more problems could not be solved.

"At the moment, the most likely thing is to cross..."

Andu looked at his hands in despair, and sighed after a long time.

"I do live in reality, but the difference is that I am now in this world called Akmund. ”

"How did the Ring of Origin appear here, and why did everything in Life look exactly like the real Akmund?"

"It's the same cards, rings, and history, what the hell is going on? Or was someone here before and then traveled back in?"

"But this one's name is Andu, and his name is the same as mine......

"He must have died before I came......"

"If there really are gods, there is an underworld, if people have souls, then shouldn't I go to the underworld?

Andu couldn't help but think of some fantasy novels that he had occasionally read in his previous life, and felt more and more incredible.

After sorting out his thoughts, he began to think about some practical problems.

"I'm in a really special situation right now!"

"But this time, although I came back to life, if I die again, I am afraid that I will not be able to resurrect it. ”

Andu thought about it and felt that the matter of the second crossing was still too forceful.

"Actually, if you think about it, it's a miracle that I'm still alive, but I have to be careful in the future. ”

"Staying alive is the most important thing now, and those who are dead and resurrected may not be able to verify it at all, in case you can't go back, it's over......"

After sorting out his current situation, Andu let out a long sigh.

Now the matter is clear, although many places are too bizarre and quite troublesome to research, but they can be verified slowly in the future.

As for the rest, let's wait until I can get out of bed......

Andu was just about to breathe a sigh of relief, when he suddenly reacted.

"When exactly am I going to get out of bed?"

Andu pinched his chin with a wry smile on his face, and his eyes unconsciously scanned the furnishings in the room again.

"It's always embarrassing to use someone else's body..."

He said to himself, the fingers of his right hand began to rub together slightly, and his gaze turned from the room to the window.