Chapter 3 Rules
The final countdown disappeared.
Then a warm breeze came with the evening sunshine, burning away the weed-like darkness, and the lines of red and black text also dissipated like embers.
[Hint: The perspective of the first game character, "Gu Wenyu", has been successfully loaded. (After a period of buffering, the character's background memory will be loaded into your brain. There may be a huge influx of memory next, so please be mentally prepared in advance.)]
In the sunlight that hit his face, Ji Minghuan raised his eyelids with a slight tremor.
What caught my eye were books piled up on the table.
The overly loud ringing, the immature and frivolous laughter, and the rustling of table legs rubbing against the ground mixed together from all directions, as if forming a noisy giant hand that dragged him into this strange world without any explanation.
After a moment's pause, he raised his head and looked around - this seemed to be a classroom; students in blue and white school uniforms passed by the desks, and their footsteps never stopped.
Judging from the sky, school should be over by now.
The student on duty stayed behind to clean the room, and the rest of the students packed their bags and filed out.
Glancing outside, most of the people passing by in the corridor were in pairs, laughing and talking happily, and the setting sun gilded their silhouettes.
At this time, Ji Minghuan was the only one still lying on the desk, looking out of place, with his chin resting on his arms, and two textbooks under his arms.
He lowered his eyes and saw that he was wearing a blue and white school uniform that was no different from everyone else.
He had never been to school since he was a child, let alone "going to school", so the current environment was a bit unfamiliar to him. When his eyes swept across the bookshelf and blackboard at the back of the classroom, his gaze paused for a moment before slowly retracting.
“Is this true…?”
Keeping lying on the desk, he glanced out the window again.
It was sunset outside the window, and the setting sun was slowly falling towards the horizon, casting its afterglow on the city.
The last ray of sunlight before dusk comes, like a naughty child on a sled, sliding down from the blood-red mountain called "Sky Curtain", driving into a steel jungle made of neon lights and cables, lightly shuttling between high-rise buildings and streets, unconsciously dyeing the glass curtain walls along the way red.
Finally, the light shone through the classroom window onto Ji Minghuan, washing away the paleness brought about by a month of confinement.
Shrouded in the orange halo, the boy stared at the sunset on the edge of the city in a daze. Although his eyes were not yet accustomed to the feeling of falling into the sunlight, he still couldn't help but look directly at it - he hadn't seen the sun for a month.
When I came to my senses, the crowd in the room had mostly faded away, and the noise of the table legs rubbing against the floor gradually subsided. Instead, a voice behind me called out by name:
"Gu Wenyu, will you come to my house later?"
Hearing this, Ji Minghuan turned half of his body to look behind him.
The person who called him was a student in school uniform. He was handsome, slender, with medium-length black hair tied into a braid on top of his head. I guess his drawer had been stuffed with love letters many times.
Ji Minghuan looked at him curiously, thinking about how to respond, and said: "I..."
Just as he squeezed out a word from his lips, a low and hoarse neutral voice sounded in his ears again.
【Character memory has been loaded. 】
As soon as he finished speaking, broken and disordered memories flooded into his mind like a tide.
His head was buzzing, as if someone had made a crack in his skull with a pair of tongs and poured scalding water into it.
Amidst the burning pain, scenes from memories that did not belong to him flashed by one after another, as if playing at high speed before his eyes like slides, and even he couldn't help but tremble slightly.
In two seconds, he finished reading all the memories, as if he had lived another life in his mind.
These memories do not belong to Ji Minghuan, but come from the newly generated game character - "Gu Wenyu".
As I recall, this school was called "Lijing No. 5 Middle School".
In Gu Wenyu's interpersonal relationships, the seemingly sloppy classmate in front of him is actually his best friend at school, named "Li Qingping", a veritable "rich second generation".
Although everyone is a poor high school student, Li Qingping can get more than 10,000 or 20,000 yuan for living expenses every month. In addition, he is usually generous and open-minded, so he is quite popular in the class.
Many people think it is strange that the two can get along with each other.
"What's wrong with you? Are you still unhappy during the summer vacation?" Seeing him in a daze, Li Qingping leaned over and bumped his shoulder, asking with a grin.
"I just woke up and I'm still a little dizzy."
As Ji Minghuan spoke, he pulled out his packed schoolbag from the drawer and put on the shoulder straps.
"I have something to do today. I'll come to your house when I have time. It's summer vacation anyway, so there's plenty of time." As he said that, he stood up from his chair and walked out of the classroom without looking back.
He took a few steps towards the stairs and stopped in an empty corner of the corridor. He leaned against the fence and looked at the city shrouded in dusk. The city that came into his sight was undoubtedly the Lijing he was familiar with. When he was young, Ji Minghuan had looked at this city countless times in the attic of the orphanage, imagining what the world outside was like.
But he never took a step out of there.
At that time, he would never have thought that his childhood wish would eventually come true through such an absurd form of "controlling another body".
"So... I really returned to Lijing with my own supernatural powers?"
Ji Minghuan thought about it while turning his head and looking towards the welfare home from the top of the teaching building.
In the dusk, he could vaguely see the tall library in the welfare home and the attic on top of the library. His eyes lit up as if he had met an old friend after a long absence.
He lowered his eyes and looked at this body. "Speaking of which, did I take over someone else's body, or did I use my special powers to create a new person in the world and give him a complete life trajectory. Why did no one doubt me?"
Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan threw the schoolbag off his shoulder, turned over, spread his arms and placed them on the fence behind him, tapping the railing lightly with his fingers.
"Isn't this the equivalent of forcibly inserting a person who didn't exist into history... or to be more exaggerated, brainwashing the entire world."
"In another sense, does this count as directly creating a parallel world?"
"The butterfly effect is about a butterfly flapping its wings in different world lines, which can cause a storm. Not to mention directly inserting a non-existent person into history."
"In theory, no matter how small, humble, or insignificant this person is, or even if he dies in bed the day after he was born, he may significantly change the future direction of the world."
Ji Minghuan took a deep breath and lowered his head, his eyes blocked by his falling hair.
"I thought so..." He murmured in relief, recalling the experience of being locked up in the laboratory for a month. He couldn't help but chuckle with a hint of mockery on his lips, "No wonder the people in that laboratory think so highly of me. This is just the effect of the superpower inhibitor I was injected with. If the instructor knew about this, how surprised would he be? I guess my real body won't be able to step out of that laboratory again."
His thoughts were scattered and scattered, and at this moment, several high school students passed by him and gave him a strange look. After the last class of the day, summer vacation officially began. For most students, this bone node was several times happier than the Chinese New Year, and no one would stay in school.
Glancing sideways, he saw that the corridor was already empty, so Ji Minghuan did not stay there for long. He quickly went down the stairs and left the teaching building.
He put his hands in his school uniform pockets and walked out of the school while thinking: "Since my ability is a game, are there any game tasks I can do? For example, I can reduce the world's population by half by snapping my fingers, or I can start a world war just by failing the art exam?"
Just at this moment, he suddenly found a "gear" icon in the lower right corner of his vision.
No matter how he moved his eyes, the icon remained motionless, like a maggot attached to his bones. Ji Minghuan rubbed his eyes deliberately as he walked, and soon realized that the existence of this icon had nothing to do with his retina.
As a last resort, he found an empty corner behind the teaching building and tried to poke it with his finger.
The moment the fingertips touched the "gear", the icon suddenly moved to the center of the field of vision, then enlarged more than ten times, turning into a square text panel with several options arranged from top to bottom - players who have played the game will understand that this is the so-called system settings panel.
Ji Minghuan didn't look closely, but just took a quick glance, and saw - [Attribute Panel], [Task Panel], [Character Exclusive Training System], [Skill Tree System]...
(End of this chapter)
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