Eleven o'clock at night.
Lin Chong fell asleep on time.
This has been his fixed life routine for decades.
Early morning hours.
There was a loud bang.
boom!
Lin Chong suddenly woke up and sat up subconsciously. He was confused and wondered if it was an earthquake? Should he run for his life?
But the whole room was very quiet, as if the loud noise just now was just a dream.
He glanced at the smartwatch on his wrist and confirmed the time was 3:15 in the morning.
Something seems to be wrong with the world.
Then Lin Chong discovered something was wrong.
One wall of his room was missing.
It is the wall opposite the bed. Originally, there should have been a 50-inch TV hanging on it, but now the entire wall has disappeared, revealing the world outside the wall.
Lin Chong lived in No. 704. If the wall disappeared, he should be able to see No. 703 - there was a newlywed couple next door who always made the sound of the head of the bed hitting the wall in the middle of the night.
But obviously the world outside the wall is not 703.
Instead, it was a vast expanse of white snow sparkling with silver light.
Looking higher, the sky is full of shining stars. The starry sky is so clear that the stars are arranged into the Milky Way. The brightness of the starlight is no less than that of the moonlight, making the snow surface sparkle.
Looking into the distance, there was a range of undulating mountains, which looked like an ink painting in the darkness, but all of them were lower than where Lin Chong was.
The world outside the wall is a very high mountain top covered with snow, perhaps as high as the Himalayas.
Lin Chong stared at this strange scene for three minutes. He should have felt very cold, after all, the world on the other side was as cold and quiet as the Moon Palace, but his body still felt the hot and humid temperature of Shanghai in midsummer, which made him feel psychologically uncomfortable.
"Am I dreaming?"
Lin Chong pinched himself and felt pain.
If it hurts, you are not dreaming.
Lin Chong looked around and suddenly found that the screen of the V13 laptop computer he had placed on the bedside table last night was on.
Seven words flashed on the screen:
'Congratulations, you have traveled through time.'
Time travel?
These two words have been overused in movies, television, novels, and all kinds of media. Lin Chong knows exactly what they mean, but he is very satisfied with his life and does not want to travel through time.
"But I... am still at my home." Lin Chong said to the computer, and then felt a little stupid.
"Sorry, there were some problems during the time travel, and you are stuck between two worlds." New words appeared on the computer.
Will there be any malfunctions during time travel?
Lin Chong has now gradually regained his sanity and ability to think. Regardless of the strange situation before him, he thought of a possibility.
"If I put on my clothes and leave this room now, will I not have to travel through time?" Lin Chong continued to ask as he walked out.
"You can try." The computer displayed the words.
Lin Chong walked out of the bedroom, came to the living room, opened the security door, and saw the corridor outside the door, the door of No. 703 next door, and the word "囍" (happiness) pasted on the door by the newlyweds. It seemed that the world was still intact.
Lin Chong tried to walk out, but he hit an invisible 'wall'.
Bang!
Headache.
Depend on!
"Bang!" Lin Chong punched the invisible "wall" and it felt like he was punching a real wall.
He felt around up and down, and found that the wall completely blocked his door, leaving no gap at all.
A transparent wall.
Not scientific at all.
Lin Chong thought about it and took out an electric hammer from the tool box in the kitchen.
Lin Chong bought the electric hammer specially for the renovation, and he also had various necessary tools.
'Tattt ...
The electric hammer made a roaring sound.
Ten minutes later, the invisible wall didn't react at all, and Lin Chong didn't even see what the wall looked like.
Lin Chong put down the electric hammer dejectedly, and suddenly an idea came to his mind. He picked up his mobile phone and found that there was still a signal, so he quickly dialed 110.
"Hello, I'm calling the police. This is Building 24, Room 704, Area A, Jinxiu Tiandi. I'm trapped at home."
"Did you forget to bring your keys? I can give you the phone number of the locksmith company."
"No, I am trapped at home by an invisible wall..."
"Sir, wasting public resources and making false alarms will be subject to administrative penalties. Please be careful with your words."
"I'm sorry, I'm actually out of town. According to the surveillance camera I installed at home, I saw a thief break into the house. Can you please find someone to check it out?"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, please come over right now! The thief is about to get away!"
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Half an hour later, Lin Chong, who was sitting on the sofa in the living room, heard a knock on the door. He ran to the door and looked out through the peephole, only to see two policemen standing at the door.
Lin Chong hurriedly opened the door, "Comrade police, I'm trapped..."
Why?
The policeman continued to knock on the door, as if he had not seen Lin Chong or heard him speak. The "bang bang" sound of the knocking was like an icicle piercing Lin Chong's ears.
What is going on? !
Why can't they see me?
The door was clearly open, why were they knocking?
Lin Chong stood at the door, feeling his blood freeze. He was so horrified that he could not comprehend the scene before him.
When no one answered the door, the two policemen began to talk.
"No one's home."
"The person who called the police must be the owner of the house. I see this is a combination lock. I want to ask the owner for the combination."
"I'll contact the police."
After a while, Lin Chong's cell phone rang. He picked it up woodenly. The person on the other end said, "Hello, this is the 110 emergency center. You just called the police to report that your home was burglarized. The police are now at your door. Can you provide the password to the combination lock so that the police can go in and check it out?"
"Seven, seven, eight, eight, nine, nine." Lin Chong said with a hoarse voice.
Then, Lin Chong, who had been holding the door open, saw that one of the policemen received a call and entered the password on the fingerprint lock. Then, another door, No. 704, opened and two policemen walked in.
They walked in.
It also disappeared from Lin Chong's sight.
The two policemen entered Room 704, but it was not the Room 704 where Lin Chong was.
Lin Chong and his house have left the real world.
“Why is this happening?!”
Lin Chong returned to the bedroom and asked loudly into his laptop.
“Sorry, it’s just stuck anyway?” The computer screen slowly displayed words, “But as long as you take a step into that world, you can enter a brand new world.”
"In that world, there are immortals who can fly and hide, and magic weapons that can destroy the heavens and the earth. The system has prepared a perfect upgrade path for you. As long as you can achieve the goal of dominating the three realms, you can return to the real world."
"I suspect by that time you won't want to go back to this dull, unattached reality."
The words on the screen really made Lin Chong's heart move.
"Why choose me?" Lin Chong continued to ask.
"Because you have no worries," the computer displayed.
"There are many people who have no worries." Lin Chong didn't believe it.
"Survivor bias. No matter which human being I choose, he will have this problem." The computer displayed.
"So the system you're talking about is you, and you're the one who got me here?" Lin Chong asked, "What abilities do you have? Can you exchange secret manuals? Can you exchange money for true essence or something? Can you directly upgrade my cultivation technique?"
"No." The computer displayed the words.
"Then what can you do?" Lin Chong frowned and asked, "And you can't talk in my mind, you can't display words in front of my eyes that only I can see, you can only chat with me on a broken laptop computer from ten years ago?"
A '?' slowly appeared on the computer screen.
"Yours is truly the most system-like system I have ever heard of and seen." Lin Chong sighed.