Reconstruction

Baisha City, Wenhai District.

Summers in coastal cities are always difficult to endure. It was raining today, and the foggy and humid environment made visibility very low.

The community where Chu Zaizhou lived was an old-fashioned community with few people and average facilities, but it was clean and cheap.

In front of the noodle shop at the entrance of the community, there was a red lantern hanging, emitting an especially hazy and tempting light.

Chu Zaizhou smelled the fragrance of noodles, but his head ached from staying up too late, leaving him with no appetite...

He thought grimly in his heart that excessive overtime work would inevitably lead to early death, but please don't be bald before you die!

You have to die with dignity.

He entered the corridor, and his trousers and legs were already wet.

"Xiao Chu, are you not going to work today?" A neighbor who came out to throw away the garbage greeted him.

Chu Zaizhou put away his umbrella and smiled at her, "Good afternoon, Auntie. I've finished my work and came back early!"

He didn't know Auntie Li's full name, but he knew that she currently lived alone and had a son who was studying at a university, which seemed to be one of the best universities.

Auntie Li put the black garbage bag in her hand back to the door.

She said enthusiastically, "You should take a rest quickly. Look at how wet you are. Have you had lunch? I stewed some more pork ribs here. You can take them home to eat?"

Without giving him a chance to refuse, she directly took Chu Zaizhou's arm and walked towards home.

Chu Zaizhou hesitated to speak, but finally compromised.

For some reason, when he heard Auntie Li talking about pork rib soup, he suddenly felt salivating, even though he had no appetite just now.

"Auntie, you should also take more rest. Don't be too tired." Chu Zaizhou thanked her awkwardly, changed his shoes and walked into the room.

Aunt Li walked towards the kitchen, patting her waist: "It may be because it has been raining a lot recently. I feel so tired no matter how much I rest. Alas, I am old after all."

The room was very clean, but the moment Chu Zaizhou stepped in, his eyelids jumped suddenly, and he felt a little uncomfortable for some reason.

He looked around and saw a statue of Guanyin on the altar in the living room.

The Guanyin statue was different from the Guanyin statues on the market. The colors were rich, and the pupils were pure black, and there seemed to be black lines attached.

It looked a little weird.

"Speaking of which, Xiao Chu, did you pass by Jianren when you came back? I heard that several people are missing there, and I don't know if there is a murderer!" Aunt Li's voice came from the kitchen.

"Be careful when you go out. Things are not peaceful recently. I see news reports every day about something happening, like a wild animal invasion or an infectious disease..."

This kind of nagging chatter made Chu Zaizhou feel the warmth of home.

He smiled and comforted her, "If something really happens, the country will definitely take action, and you can't just believe the news. Think about the program 'Out of Science'."

The news reported that even the air in a certain place was electrified, and the villagers claimed that they were descendants of the god of thunder. As a result, subsequent investigations showed that it was just that

the electric pen was leaking electricity.

Aunt Li obviously remembered those oolongs, and she was angry and amused: "That's right."

Chu Zaizhou didn't tell the truth.

He does pass through Jianren District at work.

But today, for some reason, he felt uncomfortable as soon as he got close. He

deliberately took a detour, and was soaked.

Thinking about his strange panic today, Chu Zaizhou began to wonder if he had caught a cold.

He held the bone soup handed to him by his aunt, and his eyes fell on her back: "Aunt, where did you get this Guanyin statue?"

"This one?" Aunt Li looked back and smiled, "My sister gave it to me. I spent a lot of money on it."

"Hey, it's because my son was selected by the army last year. He secretly signed a confidentiality agreement and now he can't even go home. I can only pray to the Bodhisattva for him..."

Chu Zaizhou wanted to say something, but seeing that the other party had already picked up the garbage bag, he finally swallowed his words back, but turned his head again before leaving.

Hmm?

The Guanyin with rich colors now looks the most common and holy in its usual appearance.

Chu Zaizhou took a breath. He was so tired that his eyes were blurry.

Maybe he had a little arrhythmia and neurasthenia?

"Then I'll go upstairs, Auntie."

He hesitated a little, thanked his neighbor politely, and closed the door.

The door closed, and a mass of black mud surged around the white and compassionate Guanyin statue, accompanied by a sticky and dull sound, gradually submerging the altar.

Aunt Li turned her back to the altar without noticing.

She picked up the garbage bag at the door and walked out humming a little tune.

****

Return home, take a shower, eat, and change into comfortable cotton bear pajamas.

Chu Zaizhou wanted to deal with the documents at work, but he still felt uneasy.

He looked at the plan that he had drafted N times in front of him, and the sadness of being a social animal instantly overwhelmed the rest of his feelings.

When will this day-to-day life end!

Thinking of Aunt Li's sigh, Chu Zaizhou couldn't help but check the news.

"The city of Taylor in the state of South Dakota, the United States, is under lockdown. It is suspected that the local government is conducting a biological experiment. Residents marched in protest."

"Residents of Huaicheng City saw floating people with their own eyes. It is suspected that aliens stole local pumpkins."

"The white mist is spreading over Lunguang Mountain. Experts warn that the magnetic field is disordered and it is easy to get lost. Please do not go there casually."

...

There are many netizens laughing and eating melons under these messages, and many official media have refuted the rumors.

Chu Zaizhou looked at his eyelids twitching, and felt that the current news is really getting more and more exaggerated.

It is not without precedent. In the past, there was a citizen who said that he saw five aliens stealing his bicycle. He chased them for 300 miles with a stone, and finally scared the aliens to death.

——Aliens these days are really shameless.

Chu Zaizhou gave up his wild thoughts and decided to play a game to relax.

He plugged in the power, opened the silver-white holographic cabin, and placed a row of cassettes beside it.

Chu Zaizhou chose a stand-alone game called "Savior".

This was a game cartridge he found in a garbage dump when he was in high school. Chu Zaizhou has been playing it until now, and he knows the content of the game by heart.

It can be said that this game has accompanied him through too many difficult years.

This is a game with a very high degree of freedom.

Players can randomly set up characters, fight monsters and level up, and each character setting may trigger new adventures and achievements.

Holographic monster fighting is beneficial to relaxation. As a game planner working in a large factory, Chu Zaizhou comes to relieve stress every now and then.

In addition to the collecting addiction, he has also created countless small accounts to grind for various achievements.

[Task refresh detected 0/2, do you want to jump to the interface? 】

"Yes/No"

Chu Zaizhou lay quietly in the holographic game cabin and chose "Yes" with ease.

The general tasks were simple, so he directly chose a random account.

[Character Card]

Name: Ka Xiu

Gender: Male

Superpower: [Jade as mud]

Inherent attributes:

[Forgetfulness] You often forget what you have to do.

[High concentration] You are serious about your work and are not disturbed by external forces.

[Fighting instinct] You are a natural fighter.

On the card, a slender young man with black hair and green eyes is playing with a scalpel, and the thin blade is flying at his fingertips.

His eyes are wandering outside, as if he is distracted.

"This card is good!"

Chu Zaizhou muttered, "I hope I can have more fun this time, and not be chopped off again in a few strokes."

[Strange traces detected, preliminary rating D, players please be prepared... Scene jump]

The characters merged, and abundant power filled the body. As the feeling of weightlessness came, Chu Zaizhou closed his eyes.

*****

"Buzz! Buzz!"

The phone on the table vibrated, and the young man sitting next to him who was looking for information picked up: "This is the special service detachment, I am Qing Qing, who is this?"

"...Strange energy fluctuations detected? Where is the location?"

"Is the location Wenhai District? Okay, I got it."

The door opened and another team member came in: "Where's the captain?"

Qing Qing answered the phone and gestured to him to keep quiet: "Captain and the others are dealing with the weird things in Jianren District."

The team member sighed: "It seems that the bills can only be reimbursed tomorrow. Shall we go for dinner together?"

Qing Qing hung up the phone and couldn't help rolling his eyes: "Dahai, don't think about eating all day. Something weird has happened again. We have to go out for a trip."

Dahai frowned: "Have you noticed that weird incidents have become more and more frequent recently? There were one or two incidents every half a month before, but now there are three or four incidents a week!"

"Although the levels are not high, working overtime without rest can really lead to premature aging and baldness!"

Qing Qing subconsciously touched the top of his head with a bitter expression.

He said, "It is said that the higher-ups are discussing how to make a smooth transition after the release recently - it should be soon, right?" "

I'm still hiding my job at home." "Everyone is the same." Dahai raised his hand to show off his muscles, grinning, "My girlfriend thought I was a special forces soldier." D-level power enhancement, isn't that a special forces soldier? Qing Qing put the certificate with the words "Special Events Management Bureau" on the table into his pocket. The Special Events Management Bureau, as the name suggests, handles incidents that cannot be resolved by conventional means. They hide in the dark and ordinary people don't know about them. But as strange things happen frequently, the countdown to revealing the truth has begun. Dahai said, "I'm going to get the psychic bullet. There shouldn't be any casualties, right?" Qing Qing said, "No, it's just a suspicion. The peak value of the special energy is not high." At this moment, Qing Qing's phone rang again. He picked up the phone and said a few words with a strange expression. Dahai asked, "What's wrong?" Qing Qing hung up the phone: "The police said that the special energy fluctuations disappeared. It may be that there is something wrong with the equipment." "Then let's... go eat?" Dahai asked tentatively. "That won't work. The equipment is not that easy to damage. The police are ordinary people who assist us in the investigation. They don't know how expensive the high-end equipment that detects strange fluctuations is." Qing Qing put on the navy blue coat and walked out: "Take the psychic bullets, let's go to that community to have a look!" Dahai responded and hurriedly chased after him: "Let's eat there!" ***** Wenhai District, Happy Community. The players who are unaware of it have already completed the task. He controlled the character and nimbly jumped between the positions that were not attached to the black mud. "Kaxiu" has the attribute of [High Concentration], and there is only weirdness in his eyes. The exhilarating feeling brought by the battle cannot be replaced by any other form of entertainment... The young man slightly bent his body, stepped on the wall and rushed forward, like a cheetah hunting, and instantly closed the distance with the shadow. Swish! The thin and sharp scalpel was gleaming, and it slashed along the direction of the arm's force, cutting off a large part of the squirming and deformed shadow. The black viscous liquid squeezed together, as if trying to escape, it stretched and contracted, knocking the things in the background into chaos. Then, at the critical moment, it went up along the water pipe. This kind of escape is also very common, Chu Zaizhou threw out the props calmly. [Jumping Coordinates] [Excellent thieves from the starry sky will release their prey through coordinates and then catch them all in one fell swoop.] [Select a target within 3 meters and perform a one-time jump] The black windbreaker blended into the shadows and disappeared in the next moment, leaving only an overturned Guanyin statue in its place.

Chu Zaizhou caught up with the strange and gave it the final blow without hesitation.

The silver light passed through the strange's core, piercing through the black shadow and shattering the glass behind the strange.

Snap! With a crisp sound, before Chu Zaizhou could react, he heard the abnormal "beep" alarm of the machine.

The severely damaged game cabin automatically turned on the safety mode, the cabin door rose, and the power was automatically cut off.

Chu Zaizhou's vision changed abruptly, as if it was a split-screen scene on a mobile phone.

In one vision: an indifferent young man in a black windbreaker, half of his body melted into the shadows.

He stepped on the strange wreckage, his dark green eyes reflected the damaged game cabin, and a barely audible flash of confusion passed through his eyes.

In another vision: the young man in bear pajamas was half-sitting, propping up his body, looking up blankly, his eyes were also full of dullness.

The double-opening instinct of playing games on weekdays worked, and with a blank mind, Kaxiu squatted slightly and reached out to poke Chu Zaizhou's cheek.

Without the sensory shielding of the holographic game cabin, a 100% real touch came from the contact point, warm and soft.

Chu Zaizhou blinked, and at the same moment, Kaxiu's eyelashes trembled slightly, sweeping a shadow under his eyes.

Chu Zaizhou: "..."

Chu Zaizhou: "!!!"

Help! His game has broken the dimension!