Chapter 1 China October 23, 2027

[Original story with two male protagonists, slow to warm up, the bottom talks a lot, the top beats the bottom, the top has a crush on him, not a traditional cool story, apocalyptic genre: meteorite impact causes disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis]

He Rui was awakened by a 3D surround sound of music that seemed to be right next to his ears.

He opened his eyes irritably, and what he saw was the dazzlingly luxurious ceiling chandelier.

This is definitely not his rental house.

"What the hell is this place?" He propped himself up, feeling an unfamiliar sense of weakness.

His eyes swept across the calendar on the bedside table, and a strange date caught his eye.

October 23, 2027

This date... the first sentence of the first chapter of the apocalyptic novel he opened last night was this! China, October 23, 2027.

An inexplicable panic came over him, but when he stood up, he found that the music, whose direction and distance could not be determined, was always around him like a shadow, moving in sync with him no matter where he moved.

He Rui's heart sank, and he stumbled into the bathroom, wanting to wash his face and wake up.

When his eyes fell on the pale and handsome face in the mirror, he broke out in a cold sweat.

He leaned close to the mirror and looked at his reflection as if he had seen a ghost.

The person in the mirror was handsome, with facial features similar to his, but not quite like him.

His skin was a sickly pale color and his body was so thin that he seemed malnourished.

What made his scalp tingle even more was that the calluses on his hands and the small mole on his ring finger... were all gone!

He Rui tore off his shirt and looked at his upper body in the mirror. It had no muscle at all and was thin, pale, and very unfamiliar.

An unrealistic guess popped up in my mind.

This is probably not his body!

Things developed beyond the normal scope, and He Rui's brain froze. The uncontrollable sense of incongruity that surged in his heart made him feel as if someone else's hand was grafted onto his body, which made him shudder.

And the annoying music, whose source could not be found and followed him like an invisible ghost, suddenly switched from the previous soothing minor tune to a rapid, sharp and extremely nervous rhythm without any warning.

The melody inexplicably brought out a sense of horror, which made his already panicked mood even more terrifying.

Walking out of the bathroom in a daze, He Rui grabbed a nearby phone that had been successfully unlocked with his face and called his relatives and friends.

However, the numbers he was familiar with were either out of service or the voices he received when he answered were completely unfamiliar.

He looked at the date on the calendar again. It was the same time as in the novel. Everything was weird.

A terrifying guess arose in my mind.

I'm afraid he has changed more than just his body.

Perhaps even the world is not the one he originally knew.

I feel like I have entered the apocalyptic novel that I only read the introduction and the beginning yesterday!

I remember the first sentence in the introduction was: [The end of the world is coming. Within a few days, China's population of over one billion will drop by hundreds of millions.]

With just a few words, the national population was cut in half and hundreds of millions of lives were lost.

Thinking of the frail "self" in the mirror, a chill rushed from the soles of my feet to the top of my head.

He Rui felt that with his current weak physique facing the end of the world, he might be the first to die.

He covered his face helplessly, not wanting to accept reality.

This annoying BGM... maybe it's the "golden finger" that comes with his time travel...

But what good is this golden finger for? Is it just for him to sing songs to relieve his boredom in the apocalypse?

Is this funny or deadly?!

The incessant melody surrounding him also became hollow and depressing, as if echoing his extremely depressed mood.

...

According to the clues found in the room and the fragments of information obtained from strangers after leaving the room, he has now become, or has replaced, a rich second-generation man who looks and has the same name as him.

The relationship between the other party's parents is complicated. It is known that they each have their own small families and neither of them lives with the rich second generation.

Out of moral obligation, he planned to give the rich second-generation's parents a brief warning about the impending apocalypse.

However, to his surprise, after searching through his phone's address book, he couldn't find the contact information of this person's parents.

The strange music kept playing without stopping, and there was no sign of him being able to quiet down for a moment.

He Rui experimented with it.

I found that even if I walked out of this huge manor house where I felt a bit lost, I couldn't find any music equipment around.

I asked the people I met in the manor and confirmed it from their own mouths. They all couldn't hear the music that followed them like a shadow, as if the sound only existed in their own minds.

And this music is very weird, the melody changes at any time.

It seems to change with the surrounding situation, or be affected by his mood, constantly adjusting and changing the melody.

He even suspected that there were surveillance cameras installed around him and someone was monitoring him in real time.

Otherwise, why would the sound of the music change with the surrounding situation and even his inner thoughts?

It was as if he was a character in the film, and an unknown existence provided him with suitable background music.

The music could even predict dangers that had not yet occurred, giving him an early warning when he entered the backyard and was almost bitten by a dog.

If he could successfully warn of danger every time, perhaps the BGM could even help him survive in the apocalypse in the future.

Putting aside the ability of BGM, which cannot be judged for the time being, what He Rui can rely on most at the moment is his financial ability as a rich second-generation.

If used properly before the end of the world, it can increase his survival rate after the end of the world.

He Rui wondered why not buy a battleship or an aircraft carrier?

He could store some food and all the supplies he needed for his entire life on it. Even if a major disaster occurred in the future, even if all humans in the world turned into zombies, he would not die for a while if he hid there.

But if you think about it carefully, I guess this money is not enough...

Although the second-generation rich's ability to save money is exaggerated, he is only relatively rich. He cannot afford a battleship at a normal price.

And if the laws of this place are similar to those of my country, private purchase of such items is not allowed.

Even if he could really buy it, things probably wouldn't go as smoothly as he thought.

If you have a warship or aircraft carrier, you need regular maintenance.

Then he would have to hire a maintenance engineer and a captain.

But people are selfish.

When the end of the world comes, these people will definitely want to take their entire family for refuge.

By then, it will be hard to say whether the warships and aircraft carriers are ours.

He Rui thought that he was so weak now. What if the captain, the engineer and the maintenance man teamed up to kill him? Then he would collect a shipload of supplies and become a clown who only gave away gold coins and experience points?

He remembered the synopsis of the novel he had read before.

According to the introduction, the protagonist was killed by his own brother five years after experiencing the apocalypse. He was reborn and returned to the time before the apocalypse with the golden finger "Absolute Domain".

In that realm, the male protagonist is an absolute god. No one can kill him, and even the end of the world cannot do anything to that guy.