Chapter 1 The Rebirth of Destiny (Revised)
The cold night sky, the dark streets, and occasionally a small whirlwind will be rolled up. Everything here is so lifeless, making people feel extremely bad.
Cheng Ran staggered, as if he was a walking corpse. He raised the bottle of wine in his hand and pointed it into his mouth from time to time and poured it into two sips. The wine made people feel so intoxicated. At this time, he could forget everything and even numb the past he didn't want to remember. He liked this feeling.
Chengran was very depressed, and even said that his heart was dead. His mother left him in this world just after being born, and since then he spent his student days under his father's strict discipline. Later, he had a quarrel with his father due to work, which forced him to come alone to the bustling metropolis Shanghai to wander alone. In a strange environment, he had no relatives and no connections, and his workplace was repeatedly frustrated, which led to the urgent and dangerous life situation.
Since then, Chengran has become self-deprecating and has the habit of drinking, and his temper has become rude. He often fights at people's universities because of a word. In this way, classmates, friends, and colleagues have stayed away from him.
Just today, he finally attacked his boss again, and broke the bridge of the other person's nose with one punch. While he relieved the aura in his heart, he not only lost his job, but also put all the savings on his body into the other person's medical expenses. He was so empty-handed.
But two hours ago, the landlord called him to ask for rent and issued a final ultimatum. If he didn't pay the rent tomorrow morning, he would be swept out, and Chengran could not remember how many landlords had swept him.
Cheng Ran's irritable heart is a little worse. He kicked a stone under his feet hard, and he couldn't vent his depression. At worst, he would go to sleep on the street corner tomorrow. Anyway, he has fallen, so why fear he will fall even more.
"Help...who will save me..."
Suddenly, a girl's cry for help came from a remote alley, which made Chengran even more bored after hearing it.
A man's voice immediately threatened: "Girl, you'd better not shout if you know the truth, otherwise I'll strip you naked now!"
The girl widened her eyes and looked at the man in front of her with fear. Her beautiful face was covered with crystal tears. Her pitiful expression made any man feel moved when he saw it.
"Hahaha, Brother Kai. This girl is so beautiful. She is simply the best in the world. Look at her skin, her breasts, and her thighs, tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk
"Brother Kai, when did you make such a fairy? If you don't take such a person for yourself today, it would be unreasonable. If you are a man, you have to be more aggressive." The man holding the girl's other arm said with a lewd smile.
The man who was called Brother Kai laughed and said, "Okay, since she doesn't obey me, then let's have a bully today. As for whether to marry this girl, I will have the final say."
"Ah, stop! Yang Kai, you are a beast that is worse than a pig or a dog, you won't die well!" The girl struggled desperately, but her arms were tightly bound by two young and strong men, and everything was futile.
"Damn it, a group of inhuman bastards." Cheng Ran staggered up, raised the bottle of wine in his hand, and smashed it at the head of the perpetrator.
"Bang", the wine bottle instantly shattered on the head. The other party yelled in pain, covering the hit head with his hands, and blood suddenly flowed out of his fingers.
"Damn, this kid actually dares to take ruthless action. Go ahead and kill him!" Yang Kai grinned in pain, covered his bleeding part, and issued an order to both his subordinates.
The two boys rushed up viciously, but Cheng Ran was knocked to the ground within a few moves, but he was punched several times in the face. Because Cheng Ran was drunk at this time, his movements and reactions became slow and his feet were not in control. He had been in the Sanda club for three years in college.
Cheng Ran seemed to have woken up a lot after being punched twice. When he looked up and saw the girl in front of him, his whole body instantly turned into place. At the same time, the girl seemed to see him, her beautiful eyes were filled with surprise or sadness.
Isn’t the beautiful girl in front of me the person Cheng Ranye thought about?
Her name is Zhen Yue, and she is the daughter of Chengran's first landlord. In a blink of an eye, three years have passed, but she didn't expect that she was still so beautiful and more mature. The past with her three years ago is vivid in my mind, and Chengran feels that it is the most beautiful memory he has come to this city.
Danger often occurs inadvertently. A bright dagger suddenly appeared in Yang Kai's hand. With Zhen Yue's scream, Cheng Ran felt a biting pain in his chest, and his clothes were instantly stained with blood.
Yang Kai knew that he had caused a big disaster, so he hurriedly fled with his two subordinates.
Seeing Cheng Ran lying in a pool of blood, Zhen Yue held Cheng Ran's face with her trembling little hand, tears burst out from her eyes and kept calling: "Chengran, Cheng Ran, please open your eyes. I am Zhen Yue, I am Zhen Yue. Look at me, please see me..."
The consciousness seemed to disappear completely at that moment. When he heard Zhen Yue's heart-wrenching call, Cheng Ran seemed to understand, awaken, and realized that he was wrong. He was alive in his self-deprecation and self-deprecation and suddenly woke up when facing the coming death, but he was only blamed for the fact that this moment was too late.
The scenes of the past are no longer a manifestation of Cheng Ran's self-destruction, but have become unfulfilled regrets and wishes. At this time, they quickly flashed in Cheng Ran's mind, and then flashed away.
Chengran tried his best to reach out his hand, trying to grab some and then keep them, but he couldn't. When the light of life gradually faded away from him, those things eventually turned into eternal darkness, and at the same time ended his short life for twenty-eight years.
In the darkness, Cheng Ran shouted loudly, constantly repenting about his sins, but even though he tried his best to shout, he did not get a response until he screamed in a dull voice.
He felt lonely and knew the taste of fear throughout his life, which made him think of his father, his friends and even Zhen Yue. These guilt eventually made him shed tears of regret.
Why do you feel heartache and cry? Do you still feel heartache and cry because of your heartache after death? If you weren't dead, why did you feel so real? Or maybe you were not dead at all, but dreaming?
Chengran tried to move his eyelids, and the scene he saw in the cracks of his eyes was very blurry, but he didn't realize that it was actually caused by tears.
In the hazy state, Cheng Ran just looked at everything in front of him in confusion. But when he found that he seemed to be in a place he once remembered, he sat up suddenly.
Looking around in confusion, Cheng Ran looked at everything in front of him in confusion. Isn’t this the two-bedroom and one-living house he rented here three years ago? But seeing this house made him think of Zhen Yue, this is the house of Zhen Yue’s family.
"What? Is it still in a dream? Am I dead? No, this is not true! I must be dreaming." He shook his head suddenly, and Cheng Ran blinked hard again, but this dream still existed in front of him.
"Is there something wrong with my brain? Is there really a time-turning thing in the world? No! Absolutely no!" Cheng Ran was afraid of this dream that was as real as reality.
He opened his mouth and bit it hard. With the pain coming from his arms and the howl of his own, Chengran completely believed what had happened.
By the bed, the old computer that had been following Cheng Ran since college was still lit. Cheng Ran leaned forward and saw the digital perpetual calendar set in the background. It was really three years ago.
"If I really went back three years ago, I could have everything started over?" Cheng Ran's heart was intertwined by surprise and anxiety, afraid that this moment would disappear immediately like a dream.
Cheng Ran thought of the unbearable past in the past three years from time to time in his mind. Many things slipped away from him for his own reasons, leaving regrets.
After learning from the pain, Chengran began to think about how to grasp this opportunity that could not be obtained in any case and start his new life. So he closed his thoughts a little and returned to reality for the time being. His dull eyes unconsciously saw a window narrowing in the taskbar: "Prayer" China Server Official Website...
"Pray? Could it be..."
I hurriedly clicked on that window, and the Chinese official website of the large-scale high-simulation online game "Prayer" was gorgeously displayed in front of me. At the same time, a striking official announcement was posted in a prominent position on the website in a conspicuous red font.
"Official announcement: Mengdong International will open all servers in China in seven days, and then open this magnificent masterpiece that everyone has been looking forward to. We hereby inform the majority of players that all players who have obtained this precious internal test qualification should download the intelligent upgrade patch of the game helmet at 0 a.m. today so that the game will be successfully experienced as soon as the game starts testing. New players can order the "Prayer" special game helmet in two days, please hurry up and buy it. - Mengdong International Network Development Co., Ltd. "
Cheng Ran realized at this time that he had not only returned three years ago, but also happened to be seven days before the online game "Prayer" was launched.
Looking back at that time, Cheng Ran was a limited and precious internal test player of the game, and later it naturally conducted the public test and official operation stage. Although it was a good start, Cheng Ran did not take the game seriously at that time, so at best he was just an ordinary player, a small person who no one knew and did nothing. Now think about it, those top experts and big figures who were powerful in the game, Cheng Ran was also full of envy or look up to them.
Maybe it was fate that played a joke with Chengran, or maybe it was the goddess of fate that favored Chengran, not only allowed him to be reborn three years ago, but also fixed the time seven days before the "Prayer" test.
So, going back to three years and back to the age of twenty-five, Cheng Ran, a soul with three years of extra memory, will start from scratch and completely change the confused self three years later.
Cheng Ran still remembers that he did not have a formal job at this time, and he had only been in Shanghai for a short time, and there was nothing he could do. So he thought that perhaps he could rely on some of his previous understanding of the game and use the things he earned in the game to make a living.
"Then, the glorious life in the future starts with the game. Try to seize this rare opportunity to be ahead, let yourself take the lead from the starting point, and try to develop the strength that can be compared with those powerful figures. No, it must be stronger than them." Looking at the extremely precious limited edition internal test game helmet waiting quietly by the table, Cheng Ran's heart was inexplicably excited at this moment.
"Hehe, "Prayer", I'm here. It's bound to be, from this moment, in this huge virtual world, I have to do something this time!"
After taking a look at the time, 23:52 points are displayed in the lower right corner of the computer screen. The system prompts that there are still eight minutes left to make update patches for the game helmet, so the preparations must be done quickly.
So the data connection cable between the computer and the helmet was quickly retrieved and connected them. Then the web page was pressed to the location where the patch was downloaded and updated. Once the time arrived, the intelligent system could automatically transmit the update patch to the helmet. The update process took about three hours, so there was no need to stay here at all.
Cheng Ran realized that his stomach had been protesting for a long time, and his mouth was dry. He opened the refrigerator and found that there was not much inventory inside, leaving only some instant noodles and some other snacks.
Alas, I was so depressed at that time. Cheng Ran shook his head with a wry smile, took out the Coke from the refrigerator and started drinking it. As for his stomach, he had to use instant noodles to fill it.
After taking care of his belly, Chengran looked at the messy room and frowned. Seeing this, he decided to change his former self who only knew how to blame others and did not seek progress. From now on, he began to refresh himself and recreate his temporary new life.
It took an hour to finally make the room look brand new. After looking at his own achievements with satisfaction, Chengran then lay on the bed, but his eyes were unwilling to close. Because he was afraid that once he woke up, this wonderful dream would disappear.
Chapter completed!