Le Jing was awakened by the loud banging on the door.

The next moment he regained consciousness, the first thing he felt was a chill that penetrated deep into his bones.

He opened his eyes dazedly and subconsciously tried to sit up, but his head was spinning and he fell back heavily, splashing water.

Only then did he realize that he seemed to be lying in the water.

He took several seconds to calm down, and the dizziness gradually improved. He finally got rid of the embarrassing feeling of the world spinning around, and was able to look at his current situation - it was like a murder scene:

A bathtub filled with blood, a bloodstained floor, and a floating corpse (himself) lying in the bathtub, soaked to a pale white.

Even though Le Jing's mental quality was different from that of an ordinary person, he was stunned for a second before he realized the current situation:

Apparently, the body he traveled through this time committed suicide by cutting his wrists not long ago.

The knocking on the door became more and more intense, and it seemed that the whole house was shaking.

Le Jing quickly pressed the cut artery on his right hand with his left hand to slow down the blood flow, then raised his right hand high and stumbled out of the bathroom.

He staggered through the shabby living room filled with junk - it seemed that the original owner was in poor financial condition.

When he stood in front of the door, he was a little dazed. There was no other reason. This white metal door didn't even have a handle. It was as smooth as a mirror. He really didn't know how to open the door.

He pondered for a few seconds, trying to dig out some clues from the original owner's fragmented memories, and then tentatively pointed his index finger at a circular indentation on the door. With a slight "click" sound, the door opened automatically, revealing the true face of the person knocking on the door.

Standing outside the door was a middle-aged woman in her forties or fifties, wearing heavy makeup and smelling of cheap perfume.

"You guys have owed two months' rent..." Her originally angry expression immediately froze after seeing Le Jing's current miserable condition.

Without looking in the mirror, Le Jing knew how miserable and miserable he looked. His clothes had long been soaked and bloody, his whole body was swollen, and his wrist was still bleeding from his raised wrist. He looked like a water ghost in a horror movie.

The woman covered her chest and let out a short scream, "Shi Jing! What's wrong with you?!"

Le Jing smiled weakly and said feebly, "Sister Zhang, can you help me call an ambulance?"

The landlord, Sister Zhang, glanced at the boy's wrist that was bleeding and roughly understood what was going on. "You are so young, why are you so upset? You need an ambulance, it's so expensive, you are so poor..." She hurriedly changed the subject abruptly: "The wound is not big anyway, I'll get the first aid medical kit to treat your wound."

"No, I need..."

Before Le Jing could finish his words, the woman left in a hurry.

He took a deep breath, his body swayed, and he could no longer stand. He leaned weakly against the door frame and slowly sat down, his vision going dark.

After an unknown amount of time, he heard Sister Zhang hurried upstairs, and heard her voice from afar: "Oh, I'm at a big loss this time. You must pay for my medical expenses when you get better!"

Le Jing wanted to speak, but his eyes went dark and he knew nothing.

When he woke up again, he was lying in bed.

He stared at the yellowed wall for a while, and his brain, which had been in a daze since he woke up from this world, finally slowly regained clarity.

He rolled his eyes and found that he had been changed into clean clothes. The wound on his wrist had disappeared, leaving only a shallow scar. His body was warm and no longer cold from excessive blood loss. It was obvious that he had been rescued from the brink of death by his landlord, Sister Zhang.

This kind of injury that can only be treated in the hospital can be cured by the emergency medical kit. It seems that he has come to an era of advanced technology.

A non-melodic tune came from the kitchen. It was the voice of the landlord, Sister Zhang.

Le Jing closed his eyes and took the opportunity to carefully examine the original owner's memory.

It is now the year 6017 in the star calendar, and he is currently tens of millions of light years away from the Milky Way.

Seven thousand years ago, the earth was destroyed. The remaining humans drove spaceships through wormholes in the universe to make space jumps, hoping to find a new earth suitable for human survival.

After nearly a thousand years of exploration, humans finally found a new home in a new galaxy tens of millions of light years away from the Milky Way, which was Peace Star where the original owner lived. In the following hundreds of years, the pace of human exploration did not stop, and they gradually occupied five other resource-rich planets. These six planets constitute the current Earth Alliance.

The original owner's name was Shi Jing, and he was a director by profession, but he was a poor director, so he owed Sister Zhang two months' rent.

From Shi Jing's memory, he knew that with advanced technology, any minor injury could be treated with a home medical kit, so calling an ambulance was not cheap. At least Shi Jing, who was penniless now, could not afford the price of an ambulance.

This time, I really owe my landlord, Sister Zhang, a big favor.

"Are you awake?" Landlord Sister Zhang came out of the kitchen. Seeing that Le Jing had opened his eyes, she breathed a sigh of relief, put the chicken soup in her hand on the bedside table, and turned on the Internet TV. "I made chicken soup for you. Let it cool down before drinking."

The lively advertising song sounded in the cabin, adding a bit of liveliness to this cramped and dull cabin.

Le Jing nodded gratefully, "Thank you, Sister Zhang. If you hadn't saved me this time, I would have died long ago." The boy's eyes were slightly red, and there was sincere gratitude in his eyes: "I will never forget your kindness to me in my life."

"I wonder how much the medical expenses are? I will pay you back when I have money."

Sister Zhang patted his shoulder gently and said, "Alright, let's talk about it after you get better. You are so young, what's there to worry about? You still have a long life ahead of you, no matter how big the difficulties you encounter, you can't worry about it! If you die, you will have nothing."

She paused, then added stiffly, "Don't forget that you still owe me two months' rent, and I saved your life this time. If you really want to thank me, take care of yourself and make money for me in the future."

Le Jing laughed. This Sister Zhang looked rude and mean, but she had a sharp tongue but a soft heart. She was a truly good person.

He nodded heavily, looked seriously into the woman's tired eyes with bloodshot eyes, and answered word by word: "I will live well, and I will definitely repay Sister Zhang's kindness in the future."

The young man's voice was resounding, as if he had made a vow that would last his entire life.

Zhang Yanfang didn't take the boy's words to heart. Everyone can say nice things, and she didn't seek any reward when she saved the man. After all, it was a living life. If the man really died in front of her, she would feel guilty for the rest of her life.

She replied nonchalantly: "Okay, then I'll wait for your reward."

The TV commercials had just ended and a movie was playing. Sister Zhang took a look and her eyes lit up. "Ah! It's 'The East is Red'!"

Le Jing looked up, and after a few breaths, his smile slowly cooled down. "Do you like this movie very much?"

Sister Zhang didn't notice Le Jing's strangeness and nodded vigorously. "Yes, after the thousand-year migration, our ancient civilization on Earth was broken. Today's children are even more impetuous, and few are willing to study these outdated antiques. This movie was able to draw on ancient Chinese history and produce such an excellent work, promoting ancient Chinese culture. It's rare, rare." She seemed to remember something, "I heard that Director Tian Hui was a classmate of yours? Do you know him?"

Le Jing gave a weird smile: "Of course I know him, but I'm afraid he doesn't want to see me now."

Sister Zhang misunderstood, "Yes, he is a big director now." She glanced at the chicken soup on the bedside and urged, "Drink the soup while it's hot. I put the rest of the chicken soup in the kitchen warmer. Remember to drink it. I'm leaving first. Call me if you have anything."

"Okay, I understand. I'm sorry to have troubled you. Thank you." Le Jing nodded obediently. After the door closed, the smile on his face finally disappeared completely.

He looked up at "The East is Red" playing on TV and found it extremely dazzling - this should be the emotions left by the original owner.

The name "The East is Red" is a double entendre. It refers to the name of China's first artificial satellite, and also to the red enthusiasm of the Chinese people who worked hard to build their country in the early days of the third scientific and technological revolution (that is, the 1950s in the ancient Earth calendar).

Because of the historical gap, the plot of the film has undergone a certain degree of artistic processing and imagination. It tells the story of the different choices made by a group of senior intellectuals, led by Wang Ying, under the tide of the times. It vividly shows the lives of ordinary Chinese people on ancient Earth thousands of years ago and has great educational significance.

Why does Le Jing know this so clearly?

Because the movie script of "The East is Red" was written by the original owner. However, it was stolen by his classmate Tian Hui, who registered the intellectual property rights first and made it into a movie, gaining both fame and fortune and becoming a cutting-edge director.

The original owner Shi Jing had no money, no background, and no connections, so he could not do anything to Tian Hui, the rich second generation, and could only swallow his anger. In addition, the next movies he made were not popular, and he was so poor that he could not even afford to eat. Tian Hui, who stole his script, was very proud of himself. So he could not think straight and simply committed suicide by cutting his wrists. Then Le Jing traveled through time.

As for revenge for the original owner, let's wait until Le Jing has no worries about food and drink.

The tempting aroma of chicken soup whetted his appetite, and Le Jing picked up the porcelain bowl and drank it all in a few gulps.

It was unknown how long the original owner hadn't had a good meal. After drinking a bowl of chicken soup, Le Jing not only didn't feel full, but even hungrier. He struggled to sit up from the bed, moved to the kitchen with one foot deep and one foot shallow, opened the warming cabinet, and drank the whole bowl of chicken soup. Only then did he finally feel full.

Le Jing touched his arm and felt that it was still sticky and smelled of blood, so he decided to take a shower. When he walked into the bathroom, he was caught off guard by a pool of blood, and the smell was as strong as a slaughterhouse.

The household cleaning robot that the original owner used had long been scrapped and he had no money to buy a new one, so now he had to do all the cleaning by himself.

By the time Le Jing finished cleaning the bathroom and taking a shower, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.

He dragged his aching body to lie on the bed, turned on his computer, and prepared to earn enough money for food for the next few days.

The way to make money is simple, just make paid movies.

In the interstellar age, the rapid development of science and technology has led to technological innovations in the film industry. A new way of shooting and producing movies has swept the star network, allowing ordinary people to participate in the shooting and production of movies.

Traditional movies are always inseparable from real actors, props and sets, which often require a large budget. Once the movie fails, the investors will lose all their money. So AI movies came into being.

AI movies, also known as virtual movies, are computer-generated simulation materials for actors, props, and scenery. Intelligent AI can also imitate human joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness through calculations. The only drawback is that intelligent AI is slightly lacking in imitating delicate emotions, which is also an important reason why real actors have not been completely replaced by AI.

The original owner had shot a few AI movies before and uploaded them to the Internet, but there were very few viewers, and the money he earned was less than 100 star coins.

The original owner was indignant about this, but Le Jing knew the reason - the film shot by the original owner was too artistic!

Not to mention the interstellar era, even in the ancient Earth era, the box office of art films was not very good, and some were not even shown in theaters.

Le Jing respects the original owner's pursuit of art, but art does not mean that it is only for the masses; it can also be appreciated by both the elite and the masses.

This is the best of times, it is the worst of times.

The development of science and technology has brought about the impetuousness of life. The cold technology cannot fill people’s yearning for truth, goodness and beauty.

This era is confusing. The only home planet Earth has been destroyed, and they have been wandering in the endless universe for a thousand years before finding a new place to settle down.

The insecurity and confusion accumulated over thousands of years are deeply engraved in the hearts of every member of the Earth Alliance - regardless of race, gender, age and belief, they are just rootless earthlings.

During the long wandering of one thousand years, due to various accidents, most of the historical records of the Earth's civilization have been lost, and the new Earthlings of later generations will never be able to find their complete roots.

So they ask questions, they are confused, they explore, and they are bewildered.

That’s why “The East is Red” became such a huge hit.

Lejing has discovered its own advantages.

He remembers.

He came from the ancient Earth era, and he remembered what kind of civilization the Earth had created - the pyramids and sphinx of ancient Egypt, the Great Wall and oracle bones of China that stretched for thousands of years, the Hanging Gardens and Tower of Babel of ancient Babylon, the religion and science of ancient India...

And there are the stars of humanity dotted in the vast river of time - saints, heroes, revolutionaries, kings, generals, brave men who fought against fate, and the little people who flashed by in the great history...

Just one of them is enough to make a TV series of dozens of episodes!

They are Earth's long lost treasures.

Now it's time to return them to Earth.