It hurts, my whole body aches, and I can faintly smell a burnt smell in my nose.

etc!

Zuan remembered that he had just been debating with the scholars on the forum. Even though it was thundering outside, it did not affect his state at all. He really made the heroes speechless and silenced all the horses... uh, no, I call it winning people over with virtue.

Then a loud clap of thunder, and a bolt of lightning the size of a basketball suddenly shot through the wall from outside, emitting a hazy red light and shifting erratically in the air.

Zuan only felt a mournful and desolate howling sound in his ears, a feeling that was hard to describe accurately in words. Then he saw the keyboard on the table turn into ashes little by little, then his hand, the annihilation going up along his hand, and then he knew nothing more.

Did I just get struck by lightning?

What is that thing? Ball lightning? As a keyboard warrior, he had read Liu Cixin's "Ball Lightning". With his peculiar way of thinking, he was not afraid, but excited instead. Could it be that I have become the Flash, or the Quantum State Warrior?

He tried to open his eyes, but everything was blurry, and he couldn't distinguish up from down from left from right. Suddenly, a tingling, stinging sensation came from his fingers, and he quickly turned his head to look—in truth, he wasn't sure if he was seeing with his eyes or with his mind:

A keyboard faintly appeared near his fingertips, just like the keyboard he used every day. The only difference was that the keys were all dark gray. He tried to press the keys, but none of them could be pressed, as if they were all welded to them.

"Keyboard Warrior title successfully bound. The corresponding functions will be automatically unlocked after the conditions are met." A cold voice rang in his mind. Zuan was startled. Everyone else was Flash, Spider-Man, Iron Man, each one more cool than the last. Although the title of Keyboard Warrior was somewhat in line with his personality, it still sounded so awkward.

"What conditions are required to unlock it?" Zuan asked hurriedly.

"Collect the secret codes from 12 unknown places in this world and embed them into the F1 to F12 card slots in sequence. Each time you collect a code, you will unlock the corresponding function," the cold voice replied.

Zuan then noticed that the F1-F12 keys on the keyboard had some strange engravings, which probably corresponded to the 12 secret manuals.

"Good luck, keyboard warrior!" After leaving these words, the keyboard twisted and turned into a phantom, disappearing into his fingers. Zuan hurriedly asked, "Wait, what are the 12 Unknown Lands? How can I find those secret texts?"

Unfortunately, no matter how he called out, that cold voice never appeared again, and even the mysterious keyboard had vanished without a trace.

Zaun couldn't help but curse. What a crappy keyboard! Other protagonists start with awesome cheat codes, so why do I need such demanding unlocking conditions? This "Unknown Land" sounds like a dangerous place. Do you think you can just give away secret manuals like that? And it requires 12 books? This is ridiculous!

Then the surroundings gradually cleared up, and a light seemed to be able to be felt before one's eyes. The faint sound of people talking could be heard in one's ears.

"Strange, a thunderclap suddenly struck when the sky was clear. It doesn't make sense."

"He must have done something heinous that God couldn't stand by and watch."

"Hey, this looks like that notorious good-for-nothing son-in-law of the Chu family. It's already a miracle that he was chosen by such a fairy-like figure as the eldest daughter of the Chu family, but he's still not satisfied. I heard that he actually went to the second daughter of the Chu family's bed on their wedding night."

"Wow, is he trying to take all the sisters?"

"Hehehe, which brother-in-law doesn't like his sister-in-law?"

"He deserves to be struck by lightning!"

"It's a pity that the eldest daughter of the Chu family was as beautiful as an angel, yet she became a widow at such a young age."

"Keep quiet, or the Chu family will hear you. They're out there trying to catch this beast."

Zuan was completely bewildered. What nonsense was this? The world is going to the dogs! These people were gossiping on the sidelines and didn't even call an ambulance. When I wake up, I will definitely expose and condemn your shameless behavior online!

"Make way, make way, the coroner is here!" someone shouted.

"Coroner?" Zu An was dumbfounded. Shouldn't it be called a forensic doctor? Was this some kind of period drama?

Soon he felt someone squat down beside him, pressing their fingers on various parts of his body: "The corpse's flesh is charred yellow, its body is soft and black, its hands are clenched, its mouth is open and its eyes are split, and there are large patches of red and purple on its body but the flesh is not damaged. These are indeed symptoms of being struck by lightning."

Zu'an was both angry and scared. It was one thing for him to die, but he couldn't stand the way he died. He didn't know where he got the strength, but he suddenly sat up and said, "Could you do my makeup before taking pictures?"

"It's a zombie!" The onlookers scattered instantly.

Zuan was also stunned, because he saw that the clothes and attire of the people around him were indeed ancient attire, and the quality of the materials was generally very poor, unlike the glamorous and beautiful clothes in period dramas. What was even more creepy was that there were no cameras or cars nearby, and there were no cell phones, telephone poles, cars, or any trace of the world he was familiar with.

So he wasn't dead after all. Did I time travel? He'd seen this kind of scene too many times in novels; he was used to it.

"You... what... what kind of monster are you?" The coroner, who had just fallen to the ground in fright, pointed at him, his lips trembling.

"What a monster! You can't even tell the difference between the living and the dead, what kind of coroner are you? Cough cough..." As soon as he opened his mouth, smoke kept coming out of his mouth and nose, and he was choked for a moment, probably a side effect of being struck by lightning.

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