Zhou Lin - Chapter 187 Chapter of the Sacrifice (6)

Am I… dead?

Is this the world after death?

There are no five senses or desires. Although I am drifting alone in the endless darkness, my heart is surprisingly peaceful.

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What’s going on here? Why are you assigned to us?

Hehehe… this happens occasionally.

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Who is speaking?

Before that…why can I still hear sounds?

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Have you seen this before?

I’ve seen it a few times. It’s very rare… Simply put, it’s a special item that’s been ‘replenished’ from outside the ‘Sea of ​​Hell’.

Won’t this phenomenon affect ‘balance’?

Hehe… On the contrary, this is a form of maintaining balance; whenever a soul is ‘completely obliterated’, that is, it encounters the kind of obliteration that ‘cannot even go to the sea of ​​​​underworld’, this kind of foreign object is needed Fill in the amount subtracted.”

Then what should we do with it now? Should we use it?

Forget it, you look at it like this, it obviously comes from a material universe where there are almost no supernatural phenomena; in that boring universe, most creatures will not leave their souls at all after death, and even if they do, the rest of them will not. Psychic energy is also extremely weak, and most of it will float in the atmosphere without spiritual particles before slowly disappearing; that is to say… although it is considered a very rare heresy in that universe, here, it is not only very weak, but also comes with some Relatively subtle innate attributes…

Hmm…it looks like an ‘insulator’.

Yes, although this property can make it very resistant to all non-material supernatural abilities, it will also limit the upper limit of its spiritual power. In ‘our place’, there are no souls of this nature. What room for development?”

‘We’re here’? That means…are you holding back some bad ideas again?

Hehehe… I do know a good place for it. It should be more valuable there.

Huh, boring. I’m going to handle the next batch. Do whatever you want.

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They are talking about me.

It should be a terrible feeling to be judged and then pushed around, but right now I have no emotion at all.

There was neither fear of the unknown nor the slightest anger.

I didn’t even care whether those two voices just now were gods or ghosts.

This state of having no desires or demands is really not something people are used to.

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Hehehe… Don’t worry, once you regain your physical body, you will be out of this state immediately.

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can you hear me?

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sure.

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But I just said it in my head… Well, I don’t have a brain anymore, just like I don’t have a mouth and vocal cords.

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Hey, don’t think about those insignificant things. Let me ask you now… If I told you that you could travel to another universe and be reborn, would you like to be a man or a woman? A rich second generation or a powerful second generation? What kind of skin color do you want? What do you want your height and appearance like?

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Wow, I can choose all of these by myself, so isn’t it like creating a game account in EASY mode for me as a freshman?

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Hehehe… not really. I’m just asking you. Who said I have to meet your request?

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ha?

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The guy who liked to laugh obscenely didn’t respond to me anymore, and my consciousness gradually disappeared in the midst of his mean laughter.

And when I regained consciousness, all of my sense of being human had returned.

The intense discomfort throughout my body reminded me of the reality of being human.

Humans are indeed very contradictory creatures. When I was in the soul state, I felt that life was worse than death. But after I really came back to life, even if I am hungry, cold, and hurt all over, I still feel that death is worse than living.

The place where I woke up was an abandoned public toilet. According to my observation, the reason for the abandonment was that the pipes were clogged; the air here was filled with a smell that made people feel that it doesn’t matter whether you vomit or not, and the entire toilet floor There is a layer of sticky, yellow-brown liquid accumulated on the top.

Undoubtedly, the first thing I felt lucky about after my resurrection was that when I opened my eyes, I was sitting on the ground with my back against the wall instead of lying face down…

After about a minute, the intense chill prompted me to stand up, rubbing my arms and jumping up and down.

I didn’t even have to leave the bathroom, and I knew that the temperature outside was never more than five degrees Celsius at this moment. I was only wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt and a pair of sports pants, and I didn’t even have any shoes or socks on my feet.

Not long after, I came to the sink and saw what I looked like now in the broken mirror on the wall – an unshaven white young man with long and messy hair, and no part of his body, from his skin to his clothes, was dirty. Dirty, and ridiculously thin.

I sorted out my thoughts and quickly came to an obvious conclusion: I was probably reborn in the body of a homeless man who froze to death in a public toilet.

However, I didn’t feel any frustration about this. Instead, I felt that this was pretty good.

If I were reborn as an old man in his nineties, lying in a hospital bed and unable to take care of himself, then my second life might be hopeless.

But now, even though my body is cold and hungry, I still have a lot of bruises on my body that were probably punched by others, and I don’t have a penny in my pocket, at least he is still young.

A person who still has a lot of years to live, even if he falls into a miserable situation, there is still hope for his life.

Go find something to eat when you’re hungry, and try to warm yourself up when you’re cold. If you can live one more day, you’ve earned a day. If you can make yourself better every day, you’ve made a lot of money.

Not to mention that I now have sound limbs and normal senses; even if I have a few disabilities now, I don’t think it’s okay.

It’s so good to be alive. Those who are desperate for life because of a little setback… because of a little nonsense in studies, relationships, or work, don’t understand the value of life at all.

Perhaps because I died once, I see many things differently now.

With this thought in mind, I walked out of the public toilet.

Look at the sky, it’s still early morning. The original owner of my body must have spent the night in the toilet because the weather was too cold last night and he was desperate. Unfortunately, he was still frozen to death, otherwise there would be no me. This episode of Borrowing a Corpse to Revive a Soul.

In fact, the inside of the public toilet is not much warmer than the outside, because this is a toilet in a park. The entrance is designed with a T-shaped partition and a concealed outer wall. There is no door at all, and the cold wind rushes in.

The first thing I did after I came out was to wipe the dirty water off my feet on the nearby dirt ground. Wetting my feet would only make me colder.

Then I started digging through the trash cans nearby, and successfully found a few rags to wrap my feet in, and also made myself two sleeves.

While going through the trash, I saw a lot of half-eaten food. Although some of it was still wrapped in wrapping paper, I thought about it and decided not to eat it after all.

There are too many bacteria in the trash can. Even if the food is wrapped in paper, I can’t take the risk. After all, I am just hungry now. I can survive on my own, but if a bad stomach causes inflammation or internal diseases, I must Need medical support.

It didn’t take me much time to get clothes. About half an hour later, I walked out of the park and prepared to beg for food.

When I was passing by an alley outside the park, a few guys who were warming themselves around a metal barrel suddenly talked to me. I turned around and saw that they were all dressed in rags, but they were dressed in shabby clothes. Much thicker than me, at least they are real clothes.

I originally thought these people were showing kindness, but I soon realized something was wrong… The leader of them said to me in a mocking tone: Your ‘new clothes’ are quite fashionable, but I still like them better. You’re wearing an old outfit. After saying that, he pointed to the tattered windbreaker he was wearing and laughed, and the two guys next to him also laughed with him.

Through their few words, I quickly understood that these three guys robbed me last night. They beat the former owner of my body and took away his coat and shoes, which led to his final Frozen to death in the park toilet.

Therefore, there is some truth in the saying that only naked hatred exists between peers, even in the homeless industry.

After a while, I walked away.

I ignored them and had no desire to retaliate against them.

People like them are not worth remembering.

One day, they will die painfully, alone, and helplessly in a filthy shack, tortured by a disease they don’t know what it is.

I don’t have to go out of my way to do anything to them.

Some people have hope while they are alive, and some people can only be freed by death.

For such people who are willing to sink and slowly decay, letting them go is already a punishment.

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At noon, the temperature picked up a bit. Sitting in the sun, although it was still cold, it was basically bearable.

This body is very weak, and even though I think I have a strong willpower, I don’t have the energy to move around anymore.

I need to eat to replenish my body’s calories, otherwise I may die again when the sun sets…

Of course, I also had a backup plan: if I couldn’t survive, I would find a chain fast food restaurant, rush in, climb over the counter, grab a handful of food and stuff it into my mouth, then chew it while rushing to the street to find a police car. I lay down on the hood of the police car before the store clerk chased me and beat me… If this plan goes well, then I will have a place to sleep tonight.

But this is just a last resort, and I don’t want to cause trouble to others if possible.

I was lucky. Around one o’clock in the afternoon, a young man walked up to me and handed me a newly bought hot dog.

I’ve been squatting here watching for a long time. When he and his few friends pointed at me and laughed from a distance, I guessed that they might be trying to play some prank.

Sure enough, I opened the hot dog and took a look, and found that there was a lot of yellow mustard squeezed into it, but I still pretended not to see it, took a shallow bite, and then pretended to be spicy as hell, and made an exaggerated gesture with tears in my eyes. reaction.

When those young people saw my reaction, they laughed across the street and jumped with joy. After a while, they felt it was no longer interesting and left.

It seems that the universe I came to after traveling is the same as the place I was originally in at least one point – enough for being a fool in society.

This is a good thing.

After they left, I stopped my performance and ran to a nearby fountain to drink some water. Then I removed all the mustard from the hot dog and ate it slowly with the water from the fountain. I still had a small piece left at the end. The bread was carefully re-wrapped in wrapping paper and put into the pants pocket.

This meal can be regarded as a high-calorie meal. With this meal as a foundation, it will not be a problem to survive until tomorrow. The next thing to solve is the problem of keeping out the cold and a place to sleep.

I always feel… I seem to be engaged in some kind of survival activity. The irony is that if I am surviving in the wilderness, I can take almost everything around me at will, but in a city where resources are extremely abundant, there is even a lot of waste. Where, I have a lot of restrictions.

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In the afternoon, I took an empty jar I picked up and asked passers-by for change. Perhaps it was the elegant rag look on my body that gave me extra points. By the evening, the harvest was really good, with a total of eleven yuan. .

By the way…the currency abbreviation of this universe is RMB, which makes me feel quite awkward, and its purchasing power is similar to the RMB I know.

In the evening, I used the ten yuan I had on hand to buy the cheapest disposable umbrella. Then I waited until dark, took advantage of the darkness, and entered a community with very poor security. I found a used clothes donation box and put it in The end of the umbrella handle is inserted to hook clothes.

These clothes should be sent to people in poor areas, but considering that I am also very poor now and about to freeze to death, I guess no one will care about me because I have omitted several of the processes. Well; when I have money in the future, I will buy a plane ticket and fly to a poor area, and then collect it through formal channels.

In this way, I quickly got out two sweaters and a coat, put them away before being discovered, took the clothes and left.

I went to a deserted place to put on my clothes, and then used my last dollar to enter a public toilet on the street.

I like this place during the day. It has a self-service design, like a phone booth. There are five in a row. You can open the door by putting in a dollar, and you can get two pieces of tissue paper at the coin slot. As for the usage time…there is no limit.

I was delighted when I opened the door with a coin, because I found that it contained a toilet instead of a squat toilet, which meant I could sit up all night instead of crouching in a corner with my legs spread apart.

I walked in, sat down, closed the door, and started eating what little bread I had left over from the day.

Although this toilet is small, it has everything it needs. There is also a simple sink with a mirror on the back of the door. After all, it is a place two hundred years ahead of my original universe. These civilian toilets are The facilities have indeed improved.

After eating the bread, I used a piece of broken lamp glass I picked up from the garbage dump and hand lotion from the toilet to shave my beard. As for my hair… I thought about it and shaved it off too. ; Although keeping my hair can protect me from the cold to a certain extent, the image is really bad, it will prevent me from going to various occasions, and it is easy to breed a lot of bacteria. It is better to shave my head, and if it is really cold, I can find something to make into a hat or wrap. Just on the head.

Then, I took a bath in the self-service toilet.

Of course, the water flow in the sink is not big, and there is no shower head, so I can’t take a shower; my method of washing is… take off the T-shirt you are wearing and rub it clean in the water, using it as a wet towel. Then squeeze on the hand sanitizer, wash yourself from head to toe, and then rinse it off bit by bit with the water squeezed out of the T-shirt.

This process took a long time. After all, the space was small and the place was not originally designed for bathing. Fortunately, it was quite warm inside, and the cold shower made me feel warmer the longer I took it.

After washing it roughly, I twisted the T-shirt and wiped my body. Then I used the hot air of the dryer to dry the T-shirt quickly. At the same time, I tried my best to dry myself in a few awkward positions, and finally put on those hanging clothes. Dry clothes next to it.

After finishing all this, I was so tired that I just sat on the toilet and fell asleep.

This is my first day in the world after time travel, and I think I will always remember this day, because the first step is always the hardest. After that, the next difficulty I encountered was finding shoes, and after that…it wasn’t really that difficult.

Because I had tidied myself up a lot, I had shoes on my feet, and the old clothes on my body were not too shabby, so I didn’t look so much like a homeless person when I walked on the road. In this way, I can spend the night in a subway station with central air conditioning without having to worry about being cold.

During the day, I pick up rags and sell them for money. Occasionally, I can get odd jobs, such as carrying things for others, shoveling snow, etc. If I get dirty and smelly, I go to the one-dollar toilet to take a shower… Of course. Later I could afford soap and towels.

When the weather gets warmer, my life becomes easier and easier, because summer clothes are cheaper, and I save enough money to buy cheap T-shirts and pants. I put on new clothes that made me look completely different from someone living on the street, so I started pretending to be a college student and did some summer jobs such as painting and repairing roofs.

Yes, I can pretend to be a student. My current body is actually one or two years younger than myself. In addition, there are many college students in foreign countries who look like they are forty years old, so it is not difficult to pretend.

In addition, the languages ​​of this universe are mainly Chinese and English. People of all skin colors can speak these two languages. This also makes my daily life a lot easier. After all, my English is a bit poor…

In this way, the days passed day by day, and before I knew it, it had been a year since I came to this universe.

A year ago, I woke up in a public toilet and was on the verge of death from cold and starvation. A year later, I had already moved into a cheap shared apartment, with food, clothing, housing and transportation guaranteed.

I also went to the federal government to get a new citizen ID on the grounds of amnesia. Since they really couldn’t find any previous information about my face, I could still choose my own name, so I gave myself the name John Smith can be regarded as obtaining a legal identity.

At this stage, I have survived stably.

Then, the next step is to make a decision. In this second life in another universe, should I spend it peacefully and peacefully, or should I do something else?