Wu Xiangwang had been standing there stiffly for ten minutes.
He was still wearing his silk robe and pajamas, and on his face was the smile that once brought him success.
But at this moment and here, even though he had been smiling very charmingly for ten minutes, no one looked at him twice, and it was obvious that he was smiling in vain.
“…Shit.”
Wu Xiangwang lowered the corner of his mouth and put away his priceless smile.
When a smile cannot be converted into actual benefits, it means that the labor is unrewarded. He will never smile to anyone for free!
When he wasn't smiling, the young man's originally affectionate and charming eyebrows and eyes appeared cold and sharp because of the slightly upturned corners of his eyes, which was a completely different style.
He glanced at the people screaming not far from him.
"This isn't real! This isn't real! I'm dreaming! I must be dreaming!"
"Wake up quickly, wake up quickly! I just laid down on the bed and covered myself with the quilt, how could I suddenly find myself in this strange world? This must be a dream!"
"They say that if you can't wake up from a nightmare, you can just commit suicide. I want to commit suicide. I want to bite my tongue to death!"
Wu Xiangwang: "..." Seeing these people screaming so ugly, he decided to keep his emotions steady and stay calm.
As a top-notch handsome man, he must always maintain his status and never be brought down from the altar by anyone or anything taking ugly photos of him.
Wu Xiangwang maintained his composure while turning his head to look to the other side. There was a group of people who were completely different from these people who were excited and terrified when they first arrived here.
The style of that group of people was very... distinctive. Their clothes were mixed and matched, their hair was messy and shaggy, and they clearly looked like performance artists walking on the street, but their faces were filled with obvious sarcasm and contempt.
Their eyes were condescending without any trace of acting.
Don’t forget each other: “…”
This group of people looks a bit like high-level players, but why do they still lack any sense of aesthetics? Is this world in the era of the Shamatte mixed aesthetic?!
If the aesthetic of the times is Shamatte, then the only hairstyle color he can accept is Mary Sue's colorful rainbow!
Even if he is a Shamatte, he wants to be the coolest one.
Finally, Wu Xiangwang fixed his gaze on the air about three or four meters above the ground.
From time to time, one or more black cracks would appear out of thin air. When a black crack appeared, a ball wrapped in black mist would be thrown out from the crack. When the black mist ball fell to the ground and the mist dissipated, a human figure would appear inside.
Wu Xiangwang was also among those thrown from the chasm. After waking up with a start, he reflexively sat on guard, smiling for ten minutes. And beyond that, his usually peaceful and indifferent mind was finally forced into a whirlwind of activity.
From being confused to being shocked to finally judging the general situation, his brain worked frantically for ten minutes. Then, he subconsciously counted the cracks for ten minutes.
Obviously, this black crack must be the key.
On average, more than a dozen cracks appear in the sky above this area every minute, and those people thrown out wrapped in black fog include black, white, yellow, brown, male, female, old and young. It seems that this is not a special event for China, but a fair global selection.
What made Wu Xiangwang feel a little relieved was that there didn't seem to be any very young children among these choices. The youngest person Wu Xiangwang had seen being thrown out was about fifteen or sixteen years old.
However, after watching for ten minutes, Wu Xiangwang also had some enlightenment -
If you may think that this is a bizarre dream when you first wake up, as time goes by and you observe your surroundings, as long as your brain can still think, you will understand that the possibility of this being a nightmare is infinitely decreasing.
Wu Xiangwang also hoped that this was just a dream he had after reading "The Handbook of Fierce Animals", but he couldn't ignore the shouts that would come from time to time, shattering his pitiful, small, beautiful wish -
"Newbies, stay steady! Stay steady! Stop screaming and jumping around and crying like crazy! I'm saying this again, this is another world! This isn't a dream, this isn't a dream!!"
"Everything here is real! Biting your tongue or hitting yourself on the head with a rock will actually kill you! Don't try to kill yourself and end up getting seriously injured! It's too easy to die here if you're seriously injured! Just stand still and calm down! Wait until the rift closes, then I'll explain the rules here!"
The person who shouted was a red-haired young man. He was standing on a big rock in the open space ahead with a helpless look on his face.
He spoke quickly and fluently, as if he had repeated these words countless times. This red-haired young man's appearance and attire were similar to those of the group of high-ranking "calm people."
He wore a strange, rough, woven straw cape, and the T-shirt underneath was a limited edition piece from a major brand that Wu Xiangwang knew about, but it was from six months ago. His pants were normal jeans, but his shoes looked like they were made of crystal.
Wu Xiangwang stared at the pair of shoes that looked so much like Cinderella's glass slippers, and a question that had been in his mind since he heard the story as a child surfaced in his mind: Wouldn't glass slippers hurt my feet? Wouldn't they break if I ran too hard or bumped into something?
Anyway, the red-haired young man's outfit is strange.
Totally abnormal.
But now the whole world seems to be abnormal.
The divine and beautiful man should never forget each other: "..."
He sighed deeply.
This must be the world's ill will towards this little fairy boy! They can't stand his paradise-like life!
Wu Xiangwang sighed and touched his face sadly.
If this wasn't a dream, and he couldn't wake up moved, then he hoped the world's aesthetics would be consistent with Earth's.
At the very least, don't stray too far, so that he can find a few suckers who appreciate his beauty.
He refused to compete with brains or strength.
Immortal men don’t need to use their brains, and immortal men don’t need strength!!!
Thinking is the most difficult labor to monetize directly.
Selling physical labor is the least cost-effective form of labor.
It's really not as good as lying down and selling your face!!
But he has been forced to use his brain for more than ten minutes, right?
Wu Xiangwang covered his forehead with his hands: "...Pain!"
He felt like he had used up a lot of brain cells and had a splitting headache, as if he had been forced to work overtime without triple pay.
Just when Wu Xiangwang sighed that he had done free labor, the black cracks that appeared one after another finally stopped appearing.
The red-haired young man standing on the big rock finally changed his slogan.
"Well, the last dark crack has closed! No one will come again! All the newcomers this month are here!"
"Everyone, move over to me and make sure you can hear what I'm about to say! I'm going to tell you something very important about this world, about how to survive in it, and how to leave it.
I'll only say this once. If you don't hear clearly, I won't say it a second time! Pay attention and come forward. "
After hearing the red-haired young man's shout, the excited newcomers who had landed here quickly gathered around the young man.
Wu Xiangwang was forced to think about the current situation, and finally took three steps forward helplessly, landing at the edge of the crowd. This position was not too close to embarrass him, but close enough for him to hear and see.
No matter what this red-haired guy wants to say, no matter whether what he said is true or not, or whether there is any conspiracy, as a newcomer who knows nothing about the weird world, all the information is valuable.
You always have to listen so that you can extract some useful information for later use.
Wu Xiangwang: “…Tsk.” He has to work thinking for free again.
"Okay! Look at me! I'll tell you everything you want to know. But I have a bad temper, so don't interrupt me when I'm talking."
"If you still have questions after I finish, you can go to your team or ask other people. After all, you've been here long enough, so you know everything you need to know and don't need to know.
Of course, if you join our team, our group will have a gentle and beautiful sister to explain it to you in detail."
The red-haired young man chuckled.
"But this isn't charity. Don't act like a big shot in front of me, otherwise... killing people here isn't illegal."
The young man, who was dressed in mixed clothes and had a scar on his face, lowered his voice deliberately for the last sentence, but it instantly shut up those crazy people who wanted to shout loudly.
"Okay, let's make it short."
"First of all, I want to tell you that this is not a dream. This is another world, and we are no longer on Earth.
We were all captured here by the Black Rift, for unknown reasons and at an indeterminate time. However, according to our team's analysis, this world and Earth's planes overlapped, and the collision created the Black Rift.
We, the unlucky ones, happened to be within the range of the [Black Rift] between the two worlds. The moment the rift appeared, we were captured by this world."
"Don't ask me where this is. I don't know either. I haven't been here long before you. But the elders who came here before me called this place the 'Strange World' based on the environment and the existence of life here."
"Why is it called this? You'll understand after you take a look around this Novice Village and observe the surroundings and... Most of the plants and animals in this world are different from what we know.
There are flowers, plants, birds, and animals, but the trees are crooked and move, the flowers are cannibalistic and can be uprooted, and they jump and run around everywhere. The birds flying in the sky have two or three pairs of wings or seven or eight claws, and the animals on land and in the water are even more haphazardly grown. In short, it's as weird and strange as it can be.
“That’s why we say this is a strange world.”
"Everything in this strange world is dangerous to humans. Some are even incredibly powerful and terrifying. So don't easily approach something just because it looks strange and beautiful. The more beautiful something is, the more dangerous it is. This is also true in this world."
"But compared to those weird animals and plants that have no thoughts of their own, the most dangerous things in this world are the 'weird ones' in the weird world, that is, the 'indigenous people' here."
"They have all sorts of appearances and exist in different ways. Based on the information we've collected so far, it seems likely that all the monsters and demons that appear in movies and novels imagined by humans exist in this world in a similar way.
Some of these strange creatures may even look exactly like humans, while others look very much like legendary elves and fairies.
But, don’t be fooled by them!”
When the red-haired young man said this, his voice suddenly became extremely heavy and stern:
"I'll say it again, don't be fooled by the weird natives here!!"
"In this weird world, all the 'weird' are different, but they all have one thing in common! They are crazy, cruel, cunning, and extremely fond of killing!"
"Each of these monsters is more cruel and insane than the serial killers and heinous drug dealers we know of on Earth! Killing and plundering are ingrained in their nature!
Don't lower your guard just because they look like humans or are beautiful. Even a newborn weirdo has the ability to bite your neck off in one bite!"
"So, in this world, you must always be vigilant. Always!"
The words of the red-haired young man made the faces of the newcomers, who were already excited and frightened, turn even paler. Even though they already had bad ideas in their minds, the reality that the red-haired young man told them was still worse than they imagined.
A strange world.
A world filled with all kinds of terrifying monsters and unknown things imaginable!!
How can they survive in such a terrible world? !
There were even faint cries coming from the newlyweds, and sounds of wailing were heard one after another.
As the atmosphere became unusually stagnant and silent, the red-haired young man clapped his hands quickly: "But we are not without means to deal with these strange forces! We are not trapped in this world forever!"
"Don't despair, everyone. There is always a way out!"
"Tonight, your first night in this strange world, everyone will have a dream.
"The dream will tell you the method and means of returning to Earth. To save time, I'll just tell you directly: if you want to leave here and return to Earth, you need to travel through the ten major cities of the strange world and obtain a recognized pass in each city. Then, place the pass at the Double Realm Gate in the Royal Capital, and pass through the Double Realm Gate to return to Earth!"
Suddenly, the atmosphere relaxed a little.
Wu Xiangwang also relaxed his brows, but couldn't help frowning again.
It sounds like it is not an easy task to visit all ten main cities and obtain a recognized pass in each main city.
And why does this feeling and pattern have such a strong sense of familiarity?
However, if there are cities and native people... I wonder what the aesthetic tastes of the weird people in this weird world are like? Can he make them laugh and get a pass?
The red-haired young man continued:
"If it's hard to understand, you can just imagine this as a weird version of Journey to the West or Around the World. The difference is that Tang Sanzang and his companions traveled all the way west to obtain the national seal and the true scriptures, while we need to visit all ten major cities and finally get a pass.
Compared to Tang Sanzang who traveled through more than 100 countries and took 17 years, we only need to travel through 10 cities in a year or two. Doesn’t that feel a lot easier?
Wu Xiangwang took a breath for a moment and said, why does this pattern look so familiar!
This is a routine that every Chinese person is very familiar with!
There were monsters along the way on the journey to the West, and the journey through the city was strange. This cannot be said to be exactly the same. This is the horror version of another world!
But Tang Seng had the protection of the Great Sage when he went on his journey to obtain Buddhist scriptures, he had the White Dragon Horse for transportation, and Sha Seng carried the burden while Bajie chatted with him.
They want to travel the world on foot, how can this be called easy?!
The young man standing on the stone smiled again when he saw everyone's expressions become ugly again. He suddenly clapped his hands, attracting everyone's attention to his hands again.
"Fire!"
Everyone saw the red-haired young man condense a ball of fire out of thin air in his palm. As everyone stared at the fire with wide eyes, the young man suddenly swung the fire in his hand outwards, directly onto a branch that secretly protruded into the fence of the Novice Village. The branch looked like a willow tree but had sharp thorns.
"grumble--"
That tree demon? A tree monster? Anyway, the strange tree let out a sharp, unpleasant scream, quickly retracted its branches, and quickly slapped the large ball of flames spreading across its branches.
The young man who had successfully attacked laughed loudly and said:
"See? I told you, we're not powerless against the strange powers here! Although we don't know where this special power comes from, newcomers here can unleash their own 'superpowers' within three days of arriving in this world!"
"You should all know about superpowers, right? Controlling the elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, having immense strength, clairvoyance, super hearing, running, and teleporting—even the special and powerful powers like those seen on TV, like Western superheroes or Eastern martial arts heroes—can all be called 'superpowers'!"
"And we can possess such supernatural powers!"
"As long as you're lucky enough and determined enough! You can become a superman, a magical girl, or a mortal cultivating immortality! There are countless types of superpowers, and there's nothing you can't awaken, except for those you can't imagine."
"But... quiet! Don't make noise!"
The fireball in the red-haired young man's hand suddenly shot out in one direction, scaring the people who were whispering below into shutting up quickly.
"But since we're all human beings on Earth, let me give you some advice: don't expect to be able to dominate everyone with your superpowers right from the start. Giving you abilities doesn't mean you can cheat. All abilities require practice and upgrading!
In addition, no matter what kind of superpower you awaken, there is no need to complain. A strong superpower may give you an advantage in the early stages, but it will cost more energy and understanding to advance.
On the contrary, ordinary superpowers may be mediocre at first, but they are relatively easier to advance, and when trained to the extreme, they can even surpass ten powers with one force."
The red-haired young man's expression became very serious when he said this: "So, there are no useless superpowers, only people who don't work hard!"
"No matter what your identity, status, or personality were on Earth before, in this new and strange world, everything must start from scratch!"
"No one can help you! If you want to survive, you can only rely on your own efforts!!"
"No matter when or where you are, you must work hard and stay vigilant. Forget about 996 or 007. As long as you're alive, you must fight every minute of every day!"
As the red-haired young man shouted the last words with his fist raised, the hundreds of newcomers looked excited and excited, wishing they could awaken their special powers right now and start their adventure in another world!
But Wu Xiangwang sighed deeply at this moment.
What a sin!
Is there anything more unfortunate and horrible than this?!
The good days of just relying on your looks are gone, and the crazy working mode is about to begin.
What is a corporate slave?
The beasts of fate are the real beasts.
Don't forget each other. Suddenly I feel hopeless about life.
Or he'd just die?
In my next life, I will be a peerless immortal who relies on my looks!
But what if he doesn’t have an immortal face in his next life?
Wu Xiangwang twitched his lips and said, "No, no, no, I'd better struggle a little longer."
Let’s first take a look at what the superpower is. What if it’s a superpower that can summon the Great Sage, or a level 999 sword attack, or a superpower that can kill anyone with a glare?
At the very least, maxing out your charm is fine! Just a simple smile at weirdness will earn you acceptance and make life easier!
Wu Xiannan smiled at the thought and suddenly regained his confidence! He felt that he was still very likely to activate the next ability.
After all, he is recognized as a top-notch handsome man!
At least he has to have the most gorgeous and charming superpower to be worthy of him!
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The author has something to say:
Wu Xiangwang: With my looks, I will be the most beautiful face-selling person wherever I go!
Monsters: That's right! We are the most beautiful! We are colorful and beautiful, with hundreds of eyes and countless legs.
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