Xie Mingzhe had a nightmare. In the dream, a huge beast was chasing him. He ran forward like crazy. Seeing the beast opening its bloody mouth to swallow him, Xie Mingzhe opened his eyes in horror and looked around. The ceiling above his head was not the familiar ceiling of the university dormitory, and there were no familiar roommates around him. He was sleeping alone in a room in an unknown place.
He remembered that he went out to dinner to celebrate his roommate's birthday last night, but his roommate got drunk, so he carried his roommate back to the dormitory and went to sleep. It was about three in the morning, so why was he not in his bed when he woke up?
Xie Mingzhe was stunned and looked around carefully.
This seemed to be a hospital ward with snow-white walls. He was sleeping on a bed. Next to him was something that looked like a monitoring device, with messy wires connected to his body. On the LCD screen of the monitoring device were some numbers that he could not understand.
——Could it be that I fell ill in the middle of the night and was sent to the hospital emergency room by my roommate?
Just as he was wondering, suddenly a nurse in a white coat pushed the door open. When she saw him, her eyes widened instantly, as if she had seen a ghost.
Xie Mingzhe took the initiative to speak: "Hello, may I ask..."
Before she could finish her words, the nurse ran out in panic, shouting, "Doctor Qin, the vegetative patient in Ward 7 has woken up!"
Xie Mingzhe: “????”
Vegetative state? He was drinking with his roommates last night, how could he be in a vegetative state? Can't this nurse even recognize the patient?
Just as I was wondering, I saw a middle-aged doctor in his forties pushing the door open in a hurry, holding something that looked like an ECG monitor in his hand.
Xie Mingzhe smiled politely: "Hello, doctor. May I ask what disease I have?"
The doctor fiddled with the instruments in his hands, looked up at him, and said, "You've been in a coma for a month. Lie down first. I'll check your physical condition."
Coma for a month?
The nightmare and the unfamiliar circumstances when he woke up made Xie Mingzhe's mind a mess. He had no choice but to lie down and let the doctor examine his body carefully.
The doctor quickly came to a conclusion after the examination, saying with emotion: "It is truly a medical miracle that the patient can still wake up despite the severe damage to the brain tissue."
Xie Mingzhe looked puzzled: "Is the brain tissue seriously damaged?"
I've never heard of drinking alcohol turning a person into a vegetable. Could it be that he drank fake alcohol?!
The doctor looked at him in surprise: "Don't you remember? A month ago, you accidentally fell from the third floor and suffered a severe brain injury. You were in shock when you were sent to the hospital. We performed surgery on you and saved your life, but you became a vegetable and have been sleeping until today."
Xie Mingzhe: “………………”
Fell from the third floor? His dormitory was clearly on the seventh floor.
Xie Mingzhe smiled dryly and touched his nose: "Doctor, please stop joking. Why was I sent to the hospital last night? Was it alcohol poisoning? I remember that I didn't drink much... By the way, where is my roommate?" After saying that, he began to look around.
Hearing the boy's nonsense on the bed, the doctor's eyes flashed with worry, and he directed to the treatment device beside him: "No. 777, check his mental strength to see if his mental threshold has recovered."
The square-shaped treatment device started up immediately and quickly changed into the appearance of a robot. It stretched out its metal arms to hold the boy's head and placed two "electrode"-like objects on the boy's temples.
Xie Mingzhe stared at it with wide eyes. On its face, a 20-centimeter-wide LCD screen kept jumping with strange numbers. After a moment, it reported the result in a mechanical voice: "Peak mental power 300, EEG curve is normal."
Doctor Qin turned around and looked at the boy with a complicated expression: "Why is this happening?"
Xie Mingzhe, whose head was held down by the robot, was also confused - how could this happen? I want to know too!
Then, Dr. Qin seemed to have thought of something and said excitedly, "Such a rare case is really rare. I will arrange for you to have a comprehensive and thorough examination right away!"
The doctor left in a hurry, carrying the medical equipment.
Xie Mingzhe was left alone sitting on the hospital bed, feeling confused.
At this moment, he wanted to ask the classic three questions: Who am I? Where am I? What should I do? !
However, before he finished asking, the doctor came in again, this time with several instruments that looked like robots. The doctor pressed a button and the "robots" began to work quickly. Xie Mingzhe was surrounded by them like a "little white mouse in a laboratory". He could only lie flat on the bed and let the "robots" torment him without any resistance.
Xie Mingzhe found that something was wrong.
First of all, he has always been in good health and has a good alcohol tolerance. He was still sober when he returned to the dormitory last night. It is impossible for him to be sent to the hospital by his roommate in the middle of the night without any awareness. Secondly, the environment of this hospital is different from the hospital in his memory. The bedside monitoring device and the robots brought by the doctor all look very advanced and do not seem to be products of his time...
Xie Mingzhe's back shuddered suddenly - he had read a lot of time-travel novels, could it be that he had traveled through time as well?
The doctor finished the examination quickly and looked at him with a smile: "You are really lucky. The probability of a vegetative patient like you waking up is less than 1%. I have carefully examined your body and everything is normal."
Xie Mingzhe took a few deep breaths to calm his racing heartbeat, and mustered up the courage to ask, "Doctor, what year, month, and day is today? What is my name? My mind is so confused that I can't remember anything."
The doctor replied good-temperedly, "Your name is Xie Mingzhe. Today is August 1, 3001, which is your eighteenth birthday. It's written on the data card." He opened the LCD data card beside the bed and showed it to Xie Mingzhe, as if to prove that he was not lying.
Xie Mingzhe: “…………”
It is clearly the year 2018, but what kind of strange era is the year 3001?
Xie Mingzhe's mouth twitched violently. Thinking of the possibility of time travel, his brain hurt so much that it almost exploded. He couldn't help but stretch out his hands and hit his head hard. The doctor saw his action and immediately grabbed his hands: "Don't move. You have been in a coma for a month. It is normal for your brain memory to be partially damaged when you just woke up. It will recover slowly."
Xie Mingzhe stared at his pale fingertips for a moment, then asked, "Do I have any other relatives?"
The doctor looked at him sympathetically: "The data shows that you have been an orphan since childhood."
Xie Mingzhe: “…………”
How come I’m still an orphan after traveling through time?
Seeing the young man's pale face, the doctor reached out and patted his shoulder, comforting him: "Don't be discouraged. It's not easy for you to wake up. Take care of your body first, there will always be a way to get better in the future."
Xie Mingzhe forced a smile and said to the kind doctor, "Thank you, doctor."
**
After the doctor left, Xie Mingzhe struggled to get up from the bed and went to the bathroom in the ward to wash his face, trying to calm himself down.
His face was reflected clearly in the mirror.
Because of being bedridden for a long time, the boy's face was a little sickly pale, but his facial features were still exactly the same as his original self. However, the boy's face looked very pale. He should be himself when he was about 18 years old and had just graduated from high school.
Xie Mingzhe buried his face in cold water with a headache. He really hoped that this was a dream within a dream and that the nightmare would end soon.
After a long while, he raised his head...
Still in this bathroom, the boy in the mirror still looked the same as when he was eighteen years old.
Could it be that this Xie Mingzhe is myself in another time and space?
Not only were the names and appearances the same, but memories of the body's original owner actually began to gradually emerge in his brain.
The original owner was an orphan since childhood and had been living on government subsidies, living a very frugal life. However, the government's subsidies for orphans only last until they reach adulthood at the age of 18, and Xie Mingzhe is already 17 and a half years old. This summer, he passed the entrance exam to the Fine Arts Department of "Imperial Capital University" through his own efforts. He was afraid that he would not be able to pay the tuition after entering university, so he said goodbye to his hometown and came to the Imperial Capital to work in advance.
However, in today's era, physical work such as washing dishes, sweeping the floor, and moving bricks have been replaced by robots, and it is difficult for a student who has just graduated from high school to find a job. He lived in the capital for a week, living in the slums with the worst conditions, running around to find a job, and suffered a lot of cold stares.
Once, when he went for an interview, he accidentally fell out of the window. Fortunately, the floor he was on was not very high and he was not smashed into a pulp, but he was seriously injured and his brain was severely damaged. He was sent to the hospital by ambulance and became a vegetative state and was in a coma for a month.
Xie Mingzhe in this world is a very serious and hardworking teenager, but obviously, he is not as lucky as himself living in the 21st century.
Xie Mingzhe, who lived in the 21st century, was also an orphan, but he won the top scorer in the science subject in the county in the college entrance examination that year and received a lot of scholarships, which was enough to cover his entire college expenses. He was also very frugal during his college years. Not only did he not spend all the bonus, but he also saved some money by tutoring and doing odd jobs.
He originally planned to find a job in a second-tier city with low consumption level after graduating from college, save money to buy a small house, and live a stable and peaceful life from then on, enjoying the rest of his life happily. However, just going out for a drink with his roommates, he inexplicably came to another time and space and saw another pitiful self.
It's really unlucky that his father opened the door for bad luck - it's really unlucky!
Xie Mingzhe rubbed his pale face hard.
The clear touch transmitted by his fingertips and skin seemed to tell him: Stop struggling, you have already reshuffled and started over!
His life had finally turned around, but God threw him into the hands of this down-and-out young man. Is this reasonable?
If I commit suicide now, can I return to the Earth in 2018 AD?
Xie Mingzhe pinched his thigh hard, and the severe pain from his leg made him completely sober - this body is a living human being, he really doesn't dare to take the risk of suicide, what if he commits suicide and then travels to a strange place, or dies directly? At least the current world seems to be technologically advanced, which is much better than traveling to some chaotic ancient times, wearing leaves and eating weeds.
Xie Mingzhe comforted himself in this way, and he seemed to feel a little better.
Since he was alive, he should first find a way to survive. He did not ask for much, as long as he could support himself in this world and live a stable life.
Xie Mingzhe took a deep breath and reluctantly accepted the fact that he had been inexplicably reborn.
Xie Mingzhe in this world does not live as smoothly as Xie Mingzhe on Earth.
Today is Xie Mingzhe's 18th birthday. The 18-year-old boy looked a little pitiful. Even though he became a vegetable and lay in the hospital for a month, no one except the doctor cared about his life or death.
He has no relatives or friends. Even if he dies like this, no one will shed a tear for him.
He was a failure in life.
But it doesn't matter, from today on, everything will be different.
Xie Mingzhe looked at the boy in the mirror and clenched his fists gently.
——The past cannot be changed. But let me work hard for our future!
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