Night falls.

Su Ziyu sat on the stone steps at the door and looked at the stars. Recently, for some reason, he kept recalling some things in the past, and he missed the leisurely life on Earth. In the past two days, he felt that the attitude of other people in the village towards him had changed a little bit. This was an unfriendly change. Ordinary people might not feel it, but it was quite obvious to Su Ziyu, who had been living under someone else's roof since childhood. Here we have to mention his past. Originally, Su Ziyu should have had a happy family and a wonderful childhood, but his father was not up to the standard and got addicted to drugs, and finally everything became fragmented.

I don’t remember many things from my childhood.

Su Ziyu has been fostered in his uncle's home since he was five or six years old. His childhood life was not very good, because his uncle had a son and a daughter, and the family conditions could only be described as very ordinary. At the beginning, Su Ziyu's life was actually very difficult, because his aunt was very realistic and didn't like him very much, thinking that his uncle had added a big burden to his family. But fortunately, Su Ziyu was very smart and sensible since he was a child. He knew how to adapt to the environment instead of waiting for the environment to adapt to him. In this case, he started to help with housework at the age of six or seven, and little by little, he changed the views of the entire family on him.

His sister and brother became much friendlier towards him and no longer thought of him as an enemy who would take away their parents' love and care. His aunt also treated him much better, at least knowing that he was an easy child to raise.

It was not until Su Ziyu started school that his childhood became much better.

The reason is simple.

He can read, and is better at studying than other children, and his grades are basically among the best. For a child like him who has no parental protection, being able to read is the best amulet. Because he can read, he will not be bullied in school. Even if someone calls him a "wild child", as long as he tells the teacher with a crying face, the teacher will teach that person a lesson and ask someone to call his parents. Because he can read, his aunt's attitude towards him has become better and better. She thinks that this is a child with a promising future. She no longer regards him as a burden, and later even treats him better than her own son. When Su Ziyu was eight years old, he said, "I will study hard, and I will repay you in the future when I have a promising future." He said this twice later, once in high school and once in college.

How helpless it was to let a young child always talk about repaying someone, but he really had no other choice.

For a weak child, reading is his best protection.

In that era, the proportion of rural children dropping out of school was quite high. Su Ziyu never worried about tuition fees. After his sister and brother didn't like studying, he became the hope of the whole family. Because he was good at studying, he lived well in high school. In that era, there were a lot of hooligans in the school. It was normal for adolescents to fight privately because of trivial matters. After entering junior high school, the teacher could no longer be his umbrella. He studied more and fought more fiercely than others. He picked some fierce places to attack. After fighting once or twice in private, no one dared to bully him anymore.

When facing a rebellious child, he must learn to protect himself.

Su Ziyu made a smooth transition to college and was admitted to a very good university, Fudan University.

After high school, Su Ziyu worked as a bricklayer at a construction site for a while, mainly to earn some living expenses, because the tuition fees had already brought a great burden to his uncle's family. The construction site is a good place, as long as you are willing to work hard, you can get money, and there are no requirements, and the salary will not be delayed. By the way, you can also exercise.

During his college years, he was truly independent. He no longer needed to carefully please the people around him, no longer needed the care of his uncle, no longer needed the protection of his teacher, and no longer had to live by the face of others. He worked part-time while looking for his future direction. In the end, he studied computer science, but after graduation, he worked in mobile games. At that time, mobile games happened to be booming. Basically, as long as you did well, you could have a monthly turnover of tens of millions. He successfully entered the management level a few years after graduation and joined the ranks of those with an annual salary of one million, which was considered a little bit of achievement.

During this period, Su Ziyu had several relationships, which were on and off, but none of them lasted to the end. He might be a little lonely by nature and didn't know how to love someone.

After work, he helped his family rebuild the house. He also helped his cousin buy a house in the city when he married his wife. Originally, Su Ziyu wanted to pay off the house and give it to his cousin as a reward for his uncle’s upbringing. But his uncle stopped him. This man, who often dared not say a word when his wife scolded him, shook his head and refused, insisting that he only give a down payment and that his cousin should return the down payment to him later. This man who rarely speaks has his own persistence, just like Su Ziyu, who never owes favors to others and always repays them. Since then, he has settled in Shanghai and later raised a fat orange cat.

Su Ziyu did not have much demand for material things, so when he had some money he liked to travel and collect some strange collections, until he bought a golden hourglass said to be from Egypt from a middleman.

Then, he was badly cheated.

"Oh. I don't know what happened to my Fatty Orange!" Su Ziyu couldn't help but sighed as he looked at the night sky.

There is no need to worry about his uncle and his family, as his cousins ​​are all by his side. They have a villa in the countryside and a small house in the city. After Su Ziyu made some money, he arranged everything for them and bought them pension insurance to repay their kindness in raising him. Since he started living independently, he would basically go back to visit during the Chinese New Year. There is nothing to worry about there. He has almost no real friends. People in big cities are very realistic. It can only be said that Su Ziyu is good at getting along with people. The only thing that worries him the most is the orange cat, because it has been with Su Ziyu for a long time, and later he made it too fat and it has almost no ability to hunt.

"I hope someone will adopt it. I hope it doesn't become a stray cat." Su Ziyu murmured.

He patted his butt and stood up. The whip marks on his back had healed a lot, but he still needed to rest. When he got up, he heard a commotion outside. When he pushed the door open, he saw a young man holding a sword. His name seemed to be Roth, which should be the pronunciation. The other party's eyes were not friendly. Recently, the attitude of the people in the village towards him has been slowly getting worse. Although Su Ziyu did nothing, these people have been increasingly rejecting him.

Exclusivity.

Maybe he had offended someone unintentionally, and the villagers sometimes pointed fingers at him.

"Su." Fortunately, Lina was very friendly to him. She brought food to Su Ziyu and pushed away the young man who was blocking her way. The two sides had no way to communicate normally due to the language barrier, but Su Ziyu felt that something must have happened in the village, something very bad.

Lina didn't teach him swordsmanship today. They set traps around the village.

There were two villagers outside watching him, and he seemed to be restricted in his activities. The young man named Roth looked at him unfriendly, and Su Ziyu didn't know why, but he suddenly became very rude to him in the past two days. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he vaguely smelled a bloody smell, which was easy to distinguish, coming from the second wooden house in front.

Time goes by day by day.

Lina came less often, and she looked a little depressed every time she came. The young man named Roth often followed behind, his eyes always on Su Ziyu. The man named Ken rarely showed up. When he was seen occasionally, he seemed to have a wound on his arm, which was wrapped in a bandage. Su Ziyu didn't know what happened. He couldn't communicate normally with these natives, and his range of activities was limited to the vicinity of the wooden house.

"I must learn to be patient." Su Ziyu told herself.

He is a person who is good at adapting to the environment. He knows that it is easy to cause trouble if he makes trouble now, especially when the natives are becoming more and more hostile to him. Because of the golden hourglass, Su Ziyu may not stay in this world for long. To be honest, the people here are a bit fierce and he doesn't want any accidents to happen at this time. To be honest, he is also very confused now and doesn't know what he should do. Every day, he waits for his spirit to recover to study the mysterious golden hourglass, trying to understand the extremely complex and cumbersome runes engraved on it.

But he gained little because it was an extremely mentally exhausting task.

However, he did gain something. He found a rune similar to a scale with some special marks on it. What was different from when he encountered the snake man was that he found an extra rune mark on it. This was most likely the world coordinates recorded by the golden hourglass. One of the symbols inside might represent the location of the earth.

Night falls.

Su Ziyu's injury has almost recovered, so he goes to bed later than usual. In the past, he used to go to bed at 11 or 12 o'clock, and this habit has not been completely changed. Because he has no mobile phone or computer to play with, he can only look at the stars in the sky at this time. When he is bored during the day, he draws a chessboard on the ground and plays chess with himself.

It turns out that life on Earth is rich and colorful. Life here is so boring.

As a game developer, he has a legitimate reason to play games for a while every day, but here he has almost no entertainment options.

"ah!"

Just when Su Ziyu was about to fall asleep, a shrill scream suddenly woke him up. There was chaos outside, with footsteps and panicked voices. Many torches were lit. He finally couldn't help his curiosity and quietly put on his clothes and slipped out of his room.

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