Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Back to the Future
"You're really capable, Chen Luan. How could you get yourself into this state by drinking so much?"
Chen Luan opened his eyes, and the glaring light made him squint.
The instrument at the bedside made a steady beeping sound.
He subconsciously wanted to rub his sore temples, but unexpectedly saw the IV tube on the back of his hand.
here it is……?
Wasn’t I torn to pieces by wild beasts along with my mecha while I was defending the base?
"Speak, Chen Luan. Are you mute? I remember that alcohol poisoning and gastric perforation don't have such side effects, right?"
From the direction of the end of the bed came a slightly hoarse voice, unique to teenagers in the voice change period, but with a hint of dissatisfaction and malice.
"I……?"
drink wine?
Due to the invasion of interstellar beasts and the rampant mutant creatures, humans have retreated to bunkers and precious grains are no longer allowed to be used for brewing wine.
Chen Luan lived for 28 years and only found a bottle of expired beer in the ruins of the city.
How could it be alcohol poisoning?
"Where is this?"
A swollen and stinging sensation came from his throat, and the hoarse voice surprised Chen Luan himself.
Another sneer came from not far away.
Following the sound, Chen Luan turned his head with some effort. His brain was still idle when two identical beautiful faces caught his eye.
Two young men, about fourteen or fifteen years old, were standing at the end of his bed, looking down at him condescendingly.
One of them was dressed neatly and appropriately, his spotless suit and uniform ironed perfectly, his shirt buttoned tightly at the top, his thick eyelashes like crow feathers drooping, he held some books in his arms, his eyes full of indifference.
The other man's uniform jacket was casually open, with the top two buttons of his shirt unbuttoned, revealing a part of his collarbone. The hem of his shirt was sticking out unruly, and he even raised one foot and stepped on the edge of Chen Luan's bed, leaning over to look at him.
Is this the one who just spoke?
The sharp stabbing pain came from his brain again, and Chen Luan could only shake his head.
“You are…?”
"Ha, you're such a forgetful person! It seems like you've drunk your brain too. Please pack up and come back to the Jiang residence with us, and don't embarrass yourself outside."
The boy put his legs down and nudged another boy next to him with his elbow.
"Let's go, brother. Just know he's not dead. I have a game tomorrow morning. If the old man hadn't insisted that we come so that the media can take pictures to pick him up, I wouldn't bother making this trip."
As he said this, he was about to drag the other one out.
It was not until this moment that Chen Luan realized that the place he was in seemed to be... a hospital?
"You wait..."
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by another cold voice.
"We've warned you many times not to get involved with Zhou Jing and his gang."
The young man finally looked up at Chen Luan, but after just a glance, he immediately looked away in disgust as if he had seen something dirty.
"Chen Luan, you asked for it."
Zhou Jing?
who?
What's going on???
However, Gemini did not give Chen Luan any explanation, nor even a glance, and left the room.
"Bang--"
The door of the ward was slammed shut, and the glass window on the door only faintly reflected Chen Luan's surprised eyes.
Chen Luan didn't come to his senses until the phone on the bedside table buzzed.
It's a text message.
Mr. Jiang Luan: Your employment application has been reviewed by our school. Please bring relevant documents to our Human Resources Department at 9:00 am on August 20 to complete the employment procedures.
—Federal Military Academy, August 15, 2914]
Chen Luan subconsciously picked up the phone, but his eyes were instantly fixed on the signature.
2914...
2914.
2914???!!!
Wasn't it only the year 2704 when I died?
Chen Luan sat up suddenly and pulled out the IV tube on the back of his hand.
The sudden standing up made his vision go dark, and the dizziness almost made him unable to stand.
However, his pounding heart pumped blood, rushing to his head, and an unbelievable idea rose up in his mind like an explosion.
Almost stumbling, Chen Luan rushed to the windowsill.
His pale fingers trembled slightly as he grasped the curtains, forcing himself to suppress his pounding heart.
Suddenly——
The heavy curtains were drawn wide open.
Unexpectedly, an incomparable vastness of colorful lights rushed into Chen Luan's eyes like a tsunami.
The high-rise buildings stand in a row and reach the clouds. The angled corners of the panoramic glass walls reflect a psychedelic blue color. The neon lights stand in the night sky, intersecting and diverging with the traffic flow like the Milky Way, flickering and gathering.
The holographic advertisement in the air projected the beautiful face of a young girl. An advertising airship drifted slowly by, dragging a light curtain banner. Then an aerial rail car passed through the city at high altitude. A group of patrol planes flew over the city, dragging long clouds and shattering the dazzling light and shadow in the sky.
The level of science fiction was even higher than the huge city scene before the world disaster in Chen Luan's textbook, and it collided with Chen Luan.
In an instant, the memories of the dilapidated city ruins, the rampant mutant creatures, the dark and damp underground base, the cries of despair over humanity's fate, the scarlet and hot blood when bodies were torn apart by wild beasts, and the painful cries of teammates were all crushed into the grand and prosperous scene before their eyes.
Chen Luan saw a huge light curtain banner hanging from the tallest building in the city center. On the entire outer wall of the building, only a line of large characters shone:
Warmly celebrate the 209th Victory Day!
A numbing sensation like an electric shock spread rapidly from the fingers that were clenching the curtains to every nerve ending in the body.
Chen Luan stared blankly at the peaceful and prosperous scene before him, and could only hear the cry of his heart as it contracted.
Bang, bang, bang!
"We... won?"
"We won..."
An irresistible sour feeling rose from the throat to the nasal cavity.
Chen Luan looked at the scenery outside the window almost greedily.
So, is this what the world is like without wild beasts and degenerate species?
When he died, humans had been fighting wild beasts for 52 years.
He grew up in a dim underground base and participated in combat training. It was not until he was 12 years old that he climbed out of the bunker for the first time to participate in a collection mission.
Until he was 28 years old, Chen Luan led his team to fight against the beast tide until his death in order to defend the base. He had only seen the original prosperity of those huge city ruins in textbooks.
Chen Luan had imagined countless times what the world would be like after humans completely drove the wild beasts out of the blue planet. Would it be like what was described in the textbooks?
But he didn't expect that he would now witness the world after victory in this way.
Travel through time and be reborn.
It's as absurd as those fantasy novels used to kill time.
The light reflected from the glass revealed the face of a young man.
Chen Luan was stunned for a moment before he realized that this face was his own - or rather, his own body.
The young man looked pale, but his eyebrows were delicate and long, and he was surprisingly similar to himself.
Who am I dressed as?
Chen Luan reluctantly moved his gaze away from the window view and fixed it on the phone in his hand.
As soon as I opened it, I was overwhelmed by all kinds of messages popping up on the holographic screen.
Move the screen slightly further away, and a few news items will suddenly pop up on the top page.
[Federal ministerial re-elections will be held soon]
The Beta Equal Rights Organization once again organized a march to protest the Finance Department's General Manager's discriminatory remarks against Beta.
At 8 o'clock last night, Jiang Yongting, the current director of the General Affairs Department of the Federal Ministry of Natural Resources, attended the charity gala with the Jiang family twins Jiang Xun and Jiang Ling.
In the picture, next to the middle-aged man in a suit and tie stood the pair of pretty children who had just stared at him with their noses not noses and eyes not eyes.
Further down, there was another piece of tabloid news whose title suggested it was not serious:
[Wealthy Cousin: Last night, a wealthy family's adopted son was rushed to the hospital due to suspected bullying. Is the Jiang family going to issue an obituary?!]
The accompanying picture is a blurry but still recognizable profile of a person on a dimly lit street, with the owner of the profile lying on a stretcher being carried into an ambulance.
The comment section was in chaos.
"No way, no way, how could a rich man be bullied into the ICU? Just because you look down on him for being a beta doesn't mean you can hit him? Director Jiang doesn't want the beta's votes anymore?"
[What do you know about this, the person above? Can this marketing account that keeps spouting nonsense die? That street is obviously the famous bar street in the Aurora District. Who knows what Jiang Luan did in that bar?]
A beta is prettier than an omega, hasn't reached her caloric period yet, and is extremely difficult to conceive. She was dragged away from a bar late at night. Haha, those who understand will understand.
[People with a bad heart see everything as dirty! Senior Jiang received a top scholarship every year when he was at the Federal Military Academy. Some people must be really unfortunate in their own lives to always be so prone to making malicious assumptions about others! What happened at the bar entrance? Couldn't it have been an accident?]
[I ordered it. What's wrong with going to a bar as an adult? Did it cost you money? If you envy Jiang Luan for being adopted by a wealthy family, you can say it directly. I'm so jealous.]
[Even if you flatter Jiang Luan, you won't be able to marry into a wealthy family. Please understand. Everyone knows that Jiang Luan is just a marginal figure in the Jiang family.]
If you want to marry into the Jiang family, it's best to start with Gemini. Jiang Luan is nothing. If you go back a few years, his last name wasn't even Jiang!
By the way, the Jiang family twins will be 16 next year and will start to differentiate into a second gender? No prizes for guessing! Will they differentiate into beta or omega?
[You're thinking about Taozi. They're a close couple. My second aunt's third aunt's sixth nephew works at their school. It's said that his glandular pheromone concentration was close to the alpha differentiation value in his physical examination report last school year.]
【……】
Chen Luan frowned as he read through the news. Combining search engines and text messages, he finally pieced together his identity two hundred years later.
Jiang Luan, formerly known as Chen Luan, is 21 years old.
His father is unknown. His biological father is Chen Duan, a male beta who works as a security guard at the Qiwei City Administrative Building, commonly known as the gatekeeper.
Six years ago, Jiang Yongting, who was still a member of the Mingguang City Council, was assassinated by radicals on his way to a meeting at the Administrative Building.
Fortunately, the gangster stabbed six times, five of which were blocked by security guard Chen Duan. Jiang Yongting only suffered minor non-fatal injuries, but Chen Duan, who blocked the knife for him, was stabbed in vital organs and died on the spot.
So Jiang Yongting adopted Chen Duan's beta only son Chen Luan and changed his name to Jiang.
The Jiang family also has a pair of fifteen-year-old twins, the older brother is Jiang Xun and the younger brother is Jiang Ling.
As for Jiang's current wife, Zhang Lingyi, she is not the biological mother of the twins. It is said that she is in poor health and has hardly appeared in public since her marriage.
The twins' biological mother was Li Junfu, who passed away eight years ago.
The original owner, Jiang Luan, had just graduated from the Federal Military Academy this year. Due to his excellent grades, he successfully applied for the assistant teaching position through the school recruitment.
Started work five days later.
Unfortunately, he drank too much in the bar yesterday and suffered from acute alcohol poisoning, and died young.
Chen Luan, who was delighted to be adopted by a wealthy family, frowned. Looking at the complicated family relationships of the Jiang family, and thinking back to the twin brothers with whom he obviously had a bad relationship, he suddenly felt overwhelmed.
...Being a big brother to the twins from a wealthy family shouldn't be that difficult.
Bar?
The phone buzzed again, another message:
Zhou Pei: I'm sorry, Xiaojing and the others are still young and naive, so I'm sorry to bother you. I'll cover all the medical expenses this time. I'll visit you in the ward tomorrow.
Xiao Jing?
…
Zhou Jing?
Is it that Zhou Jing that Gemini forbids himself from associating with?
What is his relationship with Zhou Pei?
Chen Luan was thinking about how to reply when a quick ring of his cell phone interrupted his wandering thoughts.
He subconsciously confirmed the answer.
The boy's harsh tone rushed into Chen Luan's eardrums: "Chen Luan, I want you to pack up your things and come down quickly. Did you die in the ward?"
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