Chapter 1 New Life

Author: Lin Zixie

Chapter 1 New Life

November 9, 1348.

Tingen City, Ahowa County, Loen Kingdom.

The cold wind of late autumn blew into Iron Cross Street. At the intersection of the street at three o'clock in the morning, except for the homeless vagrants or the unconscious drunks, no one stayed on the street. At least until about five o'clock, the vendors who were struggling to make a living came to the street.

They will come out to prepare for a new day of business. Now it is their rest time. Only rats crawled out of the sewer opening.

The broken board hanging on the "Vulture Bar" was swaying in the wind. Suddenly, a crackling sound came from the half-open door. The rusty iron chain in the upper left corner of the sign suddenly broke and half of it collapsed.

No one would come to see it. The tired people were taking advantage of the time before dawn to huddle under the blankets and rest. The alert small group knew that the owner of the pub disappeared out of thin air half a month ago. After the bartender took away the cash,

, all the remaining things that can be exchanged for money have been divided up by them. In a place like this, disappearing out of thin air is basically equivalent to news of death. No one will bother to run this shabby shop. Maybe in a few months, it will be gone.

There will be a new owner with a "Vulture Bar" or something like that and once again filling the basement with watered down bad alcohol.

At this time, in this empty underground storage room, a girl was slowly lifting her body from the ground.

Li Xing was awakened by the sound of explosions in front of her face. When she opened her eyes, her right hand was blocking her right eye, holding something tightly in her palm. She did not let go of her hand, but held it with her fist.

She stood up so that she could sit up and take a deep breath. It seemed that she had been holding it in for a long time, and she felt as if she had just crawled out of the bottom of the sea.

His body was so stiff that it almost didn't feel like his own. Li Xing shook his head vigorously, trying to wake up from the inexplicable feeling of dislocation.

A candle in the center of the floor provided her with enough light, but the candle was almost burned out.

[This is...where is this? How am I dressed...]

Li Xing murmured to herself. She raised her arms and glanced at the dusty and wrinkled suit on her body. This suit did not fit at all. Her shoulders and arms were a bit longer than hers. She shook her head and looked.

As for the hair hanging on the bridge of her nose, it was not the black she was familiar with, but a light cinnamon yellow with a slight curl, almost like golden frost and moonlight.

Li Xing shuddered suddenly, and wanted to use her free left hand to pull more hair strands down from her head, but she used too much force and tore off several strands. She stared at the hair between her fingers, frightened.

He walked up his back and climbed up to the back of his head: [This, is this nonsense?]

That's too much nonsense.

Li Xing has read a lot of time-traveling online articles. She is also a person who is keen to kill time on various software. Those fantastic and exciting articles will also make her smile. But Li Xing never wants this kind of thing to happen to her.

In her body, an ordinary person with a fixed social circle disappeared out of thin air, which was too cruel to the people close to her. Her nagging parents, the civet cat she kept, her good colleagues, and the college classmates she occasionally met, all shared enthusiastically

Interested netizens - how will they face her disappearance?

Just thinking about it for a moment, the memories suddenly began to fade, and the details continued to drain out like a broken hourglass. The faces and names of people who should have been extremely familiar in Li Xing's memory gradually blurred, leaving only the scene that made her heartache: the face of her parents.

She cried over the belongings she left behind, and brought home her tabby cat that liked to chew charging cables. Colleagues complained about the work she left behind when she suddenly disappeared, and friends sent text messages to her social account, but nothing came of it.

When will she come back?

The extremely sad despair that she felt almost overwhelmed Li Xing.

Li Xing couldn't hold back her tears. Being alone in this completely unfamiliar environment, more and more panic and loneliness overwhelmed her. She covered her mouth and sobbed softly.

Tears flowed down Li Xing's right fist and into her palm.

Something seemed to be squirming inside, and Li Xing realized that she had clenched her fists tightly before for some unknown reason, as if she had forgotten to release her hands.

So Li Xing opened his palms - this was a translucent little bug with circles and circles of circular patterns on its body. It looked like it had no head or tail at all, but this little bug was arching its body at this time.

Stand up one end and swing it back and forth on Li Xing's hand.

Although this little bug didn't make any sound, Li Xing did "hear the message" from it.

It was despising Li Xing's tears, and was expressing dissatisfaction with suppressed anger towards her, making Li Xing feel like she had been scolded inexplicably.

Li Xing cried even harder, holding the insect in his hands, and tears fell on it: "I don't know either! I don't even know why I am here, and where is this!? I really want to go home."

, I have no idea why I am here, and I don’t want to have such an accident!]

This scene looked very silly from the outside, but the insect seemed to feel Li Xing's emotions. It slowly lowered itself, and then curled up into a small ball, as if it had made up its mind not to talk to Li Xing anymore and let those tears go.

washed over the body.

After Li Xing's outburst, her emotions gradually calmed down. After a few minutes, she finally stopped crying. But when she tried to put the insect on the ground, it got into her sleeve at a completely unreasonable speed.

In the mezzanine.

"Hey!" Li Xing panicked and shook his sleeves desperately, but the insect had no intention of coming out.

Li Xing hesitated for a moment, then decided to say: [Then don't move around.]

Of course, she received no response.

After Li Xing stood up, she tried to move her limbs. Fortunately, the whole body was quite healthy and she didn't find anything particularly uncomfortable. In fact, she really wanted to find a mirror at this time to see what her "new identity" looked like.

What does it look like.

After rummaging through all the pockets on her body, except for a white handkerchief, Li Xing only found a dark brown wallet, but she didn't recognize the denominations of the coins and banknotes inside, and the Arabic numerals she was not familiar with were not used.

There were several extremely sharp blades hidden in the secret compartment of the folder. Li Xing almost cut his finger when he touched it. Apart from that, there was nothing else inside, no ID card or driver's license, and no contact information.

Or place names.

He didn't touch his mobile phone. This was what confused Li Xing the most. Would a person with money and a suit have no money to buy a mobile phone?

Then she glanced at the candle on the ground and felt something in her mind: Even if this person didn't have a mobile phone, there wouldn't be any circuits or networks here at all, right?

After rolling up his cuffs and trouser legs twice to make sure that he would not trip while walking normally, Li Xing picked up the copper base of the candle, reached the edge of the wooden stairs and walked up.

Fortunately, the wooden board above the underground storage room was lifted, so Li Xing did not have to move it by herself. She saw that there was a lot of brown liquid on it that was difficult to identify. Mei Li walked to the front room, which was as messy as the back room. She could see the

The long bar with holes and some damaged tables and chairs, the floor was covered with thin dust, and the clearest footprints were consistent with the shoes she was wearing.

Li Xing didn't see any electrical appliances, but there was another oil lamp broken behind the bar.

Then she walked out of the house.

Facing the crimson red moon in the sky, Li Xing tightly covered her eyes, and uncontrollable laughter emerged from the corners of her mouth intermittently, gradually turning sad.

Despair was so clearly pressing in Li Xing's heart - this was definitely not the world she remembered.

Where can she go?

——

Li Xing sat on the empty crate at the door of the Vulture Bar until dawn. She looked up at the sky in silence, from the setting of the red moon to the rising of the sun.

Li Xing, who kept thinking about what to do, was afraid of the future. Such fear made her not move anywhere, hoping that no one would disturb her.

Li Xing felt that an invisible barrier appeared around her, isolating her from the outside world, but she didn't think about it.

Until the other end of the street started to gain popularity, Li Xing watched all kinds of people passing by. The noisy shouts and footsteps gradually diluted the chill around her. But these people all had something in common - poverty.

Traces were imprinted on their clothes, words, deeds, and the darkness of their faces, and the most important thing in such an environment was criminal behavior. This made Li Xing curl up uneasily, and her eyes followed the others closely, observing them.

Fortunately for Li Xing, she could understand what these people said. She tried to absorb any information she could get from them, eager to understand the world.

Li Xing imitated several passers-by and tried to whisper to himself "good morning", "the weather is good today", "praise the goddess", "the storm is coming" and "stay away from me you little thief", so that

To Li Xing's surprise, she found that she could actually speak this language, and she was so proficient that it seemed like she had been speaking it for a long time.

But soon, Li Xing felt something twisting in her sleeves. She felt that the little insect understood what she was saying and was mocking her.

Li Xing spoke to it in a low voice this time in the language of others: "So do you know where this is? Or do you know me?"

This time, the meaning conveyed by the little bug was more clear and specific. Li Xing felt that it disliked her for being an idiot. Although the tone of the words was not so intense, she could completely feel the other party's contempt and disdain for her.

Why is a bug so arrogant?

Li Xing curled his lips and looked at the stalls set up on the nearby streets. The shops were all open, and the aroma of baking bread wafted over. Li Xing touched his stomach and surprisingly found that he was not very hungry. Li Xing immediately

She decided to save the money. She didn't know how much the money could buy, so she had to save as much as possible.

As this small street became more and more lively, it also began to become chaotic. Someone threw smelly rotten fish into the ditch not far away, and a pungent smell gradually came over. Li Xing didn't

She liked this environment so much, but because she had nowhere to go, she could only sit on the uncomfortable crate and continue to experience it all.

Fortunately, no one noticed here, Li Xing said with emotion, as if they couldn't see me.

Wait, she won't become a ghost, right?

Just when Li Xing was thinking wildly, there was a sudden commotion in the crowd, and a female voice shouted: "Catch that thief quickly! It's that child!"

Almost at the moment when the boy in the gray shirt wearing a beret approached, Li Xing thought about catching the thief, and her hand reacted far beyond her thinking. She accurately clasped it on the boy's forearm and quickly

The running boy was almost dragged down by her. The boy's hat fell to the ground. He looked at Li Xing in shock, as if he had just noticed that there was someone here.

Li Xing, on the other hand, was shocked by his reaction speed and stared at the boy. The child's skinny cheeks looked like they had never been full, not to mention the bruises on his forehead and chin.

Qing, this made Li Xing subconsciously relax his grip. The shouts from the crowd behind him were getting closer, and the boy slammed Li Xing away and ran forward. The moment Li Xing stepped back, his hand subconsciously fell into the boy's arms.

After fishing it out, she let the boy run into the crowd in the other direction.

"Catch the thief! There is a thief - phew..." The gray-haired middle-aged woman beat her waist with her hands. She finally squeezed out of the crowd, but lost track of the boy. The woman held on to the crate and panted heavily.

She was so angry that she almost cried because she had lost this week's salary and all the money for food at home.

At this moment, the spinner's rough red cloth bag was handed to her. The woman snatched it away and held it tightly to her heart. Then she looked at the girl opposite: "Thank you, thank you, thank you, very much."
To be continued...