When I traveled through time and became a player, I just wanted to commit suicide

The torn wound in the abdomen sent waves of burning pain, and bloody liquid rushed up the throat, choking and causing waves of suffocating coughs.

"Cough... cough cough... ho-ho ...

It hurts!

The strength was lost along with the blood, the warm body gradually became cold, and the consciousness slowly became blurred.

I am dying... I am dying... I am dying...

He murmured silently, and fragments of memories kept flashing back in his mind.

A few hours ago, he was standing beside the road holding a plastic bag from a convenience store. A freight truck drove past him. In the blink of an eye, the road in front of him was replaced by a bustling street full of otherworldly style. A huge lizard pulled a carriage full of cargo slowly past him. Under the sunlight, even the original night was replaced by day.

It was not a dream, not a prank, not a mental illusion, he really came to another world.

Excitement, nervousness, uneasiness...all kinds of complicated emotions were rippling in his heart. He naively thought that he was the chosen one who was recruited, but he never waited for the so-called "power that can change destiny".

Everything seemed so ordinary. No powerful equipment, no extraordinary wisdom, no extraordinary charm. The few things he had on him were an old flip phone, a wallet stuffed with many video hall membership cards, a bowl of pork bone and soy sauce flavored instant noodles, a bag of corn soup flavored puffed snacks, a gray sportswear, a pair of running shoes that he had been working for two years, and...if he was killed, he would die.

Such an ordinary arrival, in exchange for such a not-so-unusual death ending, seems... understandable.

He thought so as he was on the verge of death.

After the arrival, he was driven away by the owner of the fruit stall because he was penniless. With nowhere else to go, he hid in an empty alley where he felt safe. Due to his carelessness, he was targeted by thugs who intended to rob him and kill him. He asked for help from passers-by, but was ruthlessly abandoned.

Miserable and helpless, there is probably no one more miserable or ordinary than him who travels to another world.

At that time, he thought he was going to die in obscurity at the hands of a knife-wielding thug, until... that girl passed by.

She looked young, only about seventeen or eighteen years old. She wore a simple yet elegant white dress. She had long silver hair as smooth as moonlight, a pair of moving blue-purple eyes, and soft facial features. Her beauty was mixed with a hint of naivety, and she exuded a noble yet dangerous charm.

Obviously he was in a hurry to recover the important items that were stolen, but the girl still rescued him. This was the first time he felt warmth from another person since he came into this world.

However, because he spent too much time on him, the thief who stole the girl's belongings completely disappeared.

In order to repay the favor, he decided to help the girl find her lost items.

They wandered around, walked through countless streets, asked countless passers-by, and helped a lost girl find her parents along the way. Finally, when night fell, they came to a warehouse suspected of selling stolen goods.

The warehouse was pitch black, without a trace of light, and looked dangerous and mysterious.

In order to ensure safety, he volunteered to go into the warehouse to explore the way...

Finally, danger arrived as expected.

The sharp blade was incredibly fast. In the darkness, no one knew where it came from. It cut through his abdomen in an instant, just like cutting a piece of warm butter without any obstruction.

He fell in a pool of blood and didn't even see the murderer. Only a pair of black leather boots appeared in front of him.

Time returns to the present.

"Ho...ho..."

His throat seemed like a broken bellows that couldn't make much sound. The knife just now seemed to have cut his throat as well.

Danger! Danger! Danger! ! !

Even though he was about to die, he still tried his best to issue a warning.

However, things did not go as he wished.

"Pleiades?"

The girl called out his name, a clear voice was heard, followed by the creaking sound of the warehouse door being pushed open.

Don't come in! Don't come in! Don't come in!!!

"Hmm... uh..."

He was hopelessly unable to make any sound.

"Well--!"

After a painful whine, the girl in a white dress fell in front of him, her snow-white arms only a few inches away from him.

He stretched out his fingers tremblingly and gently hooked the girl's bloody fingertips.

Don't die, I will definitely...save you...

Consciousness gradually blurred and the last bit of body temperature was about to disappear.

The next second, the boy named "Nazuki Subaru" completely lost his life.

......

"341 East End Street."

Li Shanren looked down at the expired commission in his hand, then raised his hand and rang the magic response bell installed outside the gate of the villa.

"Ring ring ring..."

A light bell rang into the small blue villa with only one light on. After a while, a white-haired old man in butler's clothes walked out and hurried to the gate of the courtyard.

When the old housekeeper saw the well-dressed young man outside the door, he was slightly startled and asked, "Excuse me, what can I do for you?"

"Is this the home of Alice Yunafa?"

The old housekeeper's face changed. He looked around nervously for a while. After finding that there were no other suspicious people nearby, he said, "Miss Alice is not here. Now I am the only old man left in this house."

"I know." Li Shanren nodded slightly, "Alice is staying with me, I just want to confirm if this is her home."

The old butler's beard trembled slightly when he heard this. He asked excitedly, "Miss Alice is still alive?"

"Ah."

"Then...where are the master and the mistress?" asked the old butler with some hope.

"If you mean her parents, I'm sorry to tell you that they are dead."

Upon hearing the news, the old butler did not feel sad, but instead showed a look of relief, as if he had already expected this outcome.

"You don't seem surprised. It seems you know something?" Li Shanren raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, I have thought many times that the master and the lady might never come back, but I didn't expect that Miss Alice is still alive. Can I see her?" the old butler asked earnestly.

"I'll bring her over, but not now. I want to know something from you first. Is it convenient for me to come in?"

The old housekeeper hesitated for a moment, but still opened the gate and welcomed Li Shanren in.

Soon, Li Shanren was sitting in a simply decorated living room with a small crystal chandelier above his head.

The space around where the furniture was supposed to be placed seemed a little empty, as if it had been sold.

"Almost everything in the house that can be sold has been sold. If you had come two months later, even the house might have changed hands." The old housekeeper smiled bitterly and brought Li Shanren a cup of brown tea.

"Why?" Li Shanren frowned.

“Because they can’t afford the land tax.”

There was a hint of helplessness in the old butler's eyes.

"Houses in the East District have to pay a certain amount of land tax every month. If the tax is overdue for more than half a year, the tax office will reclaim the land ownership and auction it off. When the master was away, I sold some things at home and paid for a period of time, but later I couldn't afford it anymore and had to owe it. In two months, the six-month limit will be exceeded."

Li Shanren didn't say much after hearing this. In fact, his lakeside manor also had to pay land tax, which was essentially a means of collecting money from the rich and redistributing wealth.

However, there was one thing that surprised him.

"Didn't they leave enough money before they left? I heard that there should be a few maids here." Li Shanren asked.

"I have dismissed them. The master and the mistress only left me enough money to cover three months' expenses, and now it's basically all spent," said the old butler.

"Then why are you still here? They haven't been back for more than half a year."

"Where can I go?" The old housekeeper said bitterly, "I am a slave bought by the master and the mistress. If I leave here, I have nowhere to go."

Li Shanren nodded, and did not ask any more questions about this. He changed the subject and said, "Well... let's get back to the topic. Before we learn more about the cause of death of those two people, I can first tell you about me and Alice."

Next, he spent a few minutes briefly describing how he met Alice and how Alice's parents were stabbed to death in the street.

"...Do you have anything to say about their death?" Li Shanren picked up the teacup on the table and blew away the floating hot steam gently.

"I suspect...it may be related to the master's business." The old butler said after a moment's hesitation.

"Business?"

Li Shanren brought the teacup to his lips and was about to take a sip.

"that is--"

The old butler wanted to say something.

However, in an instant, the old man's movements froze, and the words he had not spoken seemed to be swallowed back.

"Ok?"

Li Shanren frowned, and suddenly a bad feeling arose in his heart.

He tried to put down the teacup and check what happened, but was surprised to find that not only the old man opposite him, but he himself had lost control of his body.

The next second, it was as if a touch of delicate gray fell into his eyes, turning the world he saw into a black and white photo.

Not only him, but even the air seemed to be frozen. The dust stagnant in the air was clearly visible, as if a pair of invisible hands were firmly fixing everything in place.

Breathing, heartbeat, and even the sounds outside, all stopped, and suffocating silence took over everything in an instant.

This feeling......

For a moment, Li Shanren suddenly remembered the last scene in Yanan’s dream. It was also like this at that time. The time of everything was frozen, and only he could move freely.

But that was a dream! And this is the real world, how could such a nonsensical thing happen? !

And this time, even he couldn't move freely.

Li Shanren kept holding the teacup and sat on the sofa like a sculpture.

At this moment, a purple-black mist suddenly filled his eyes, and a pair of black twisted arms slowly emerged from the mist and grabbed his face.

Li Shanren could only watch the disturbing purple-black arm approaching him, but he was unable to take any action.

However, when the purple-black fingertips were about to touch his body, a pattern of four perfect circular rings nested within each other suddenly emerged in his eyes, dyeing his eyes golden. At the same time, the circular pattern on the back of his left hand also vaguely emerged.

A thin layer of golden light instantly covered his entire body.

In the golden halo, the purple-black arm seemed to have fallen into an oil pan. The black air on the surface rolled violently, and wisps of purple-black mist floated up and evaporated.

Under this threat, the arms were quickly retracted without any hesitation.

But a temporary setback does not mean that He will give up.

In this still world, the purple-black mist in front of Li Shanren, the only one that could move freely, began to expand rapidly, like black lights, naturally filling every space and every corner, even wrapping Li Shanren completely in the purple-black mist, as if swallowing him.

"trade......"

Suddenly, a voice without any emotion and of unknown gender sounded in his ears.

"Deal, deal, deal..."

The voice seemed to just keep repeating this sentence.

Trade? What?

Li Shanren looked confused.

Then, the purple mist in front of his eyes surged and condensed into a human figure.

It seemed to be a boy of only sixteen or seventeen years old, with ordinary appearance, except for a pair of sharp triangular eyes that were impressive. He was wearing modern sportswear and a pair of running shoes, and was holding something that looked like a plastic bag in his hand.

When he saw this person, not to mention that Li Shanren had no impression of him at all, his modern look alone was enough to surprise him.

"trade......"

The voice still repeated the word.

Li Shanren couldn't help but complain in his heart, what's the deal? What on earth are you talking about? You keep repeating here, who knows what you want to do? !

Unfortunately, he couldn't speak, and the consciousness in the purple-black mist seemed unable to read his thoughts. It seemed as if there was an unbridgeable communication barrier between them.

However, the purple-black mist did not seem to intend to waste any more time. After conveying these simple and incomprehensible messages, the mist quickly dissipated, and the world returned to the gray and white picture frozen in Li Shanren's eyes.

In a world where time has completely stopped, everything is quiet, there is no sound, no air flow, and only consciousness can barely survive.

Although the time stop has not been lifted.

But Li Shanren instinctively realized that something seemed to be happening!

The next moment, the originally frozen black and white world moved rapidly in his eyes, as if he was sitting in a high-speed vehicle, and scenes whizzed past his eyes at an incredible speed.

At the same time, his position was changing every moment.

One second ago, he was standing at the gate of the villa, about to ring the doorbell. One second later, he was sitting in the small negotiation room of the Extraordinary Guild, watching Hummingbird hand him a business card with a faint smile...

The next second, he returned to the hotel room, touched Alice's head, and told her to stay in the room and not run around...

The next second, he was walking on the street with Alice, enjoying the bustling street scene along the way...

Then, he returned to the lobby of the Extraordinary Guild and was placing his emerald badge on the table...

After a series of scene changes, he sat in a quiet restaurant, picked up a cup of bitter tea mixed with milk, and was about to put it into his mouth.

The frozen world began to flow again at this moment, and the black and white colors faded quickly like the tide.

Li Shanren held the teacup and sat in the chair in a daze.

At this moment, the world returned to normal.

But it's not that normal.

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