Chapter 1

"Am I about to die?"

Zhu Zilong leaned weakly against the cave wall, lifted his heavy eyelids, and glanced at the strange giant egg beside him, struggling to place his right hand on it.

Ha ha, the cold eggshell felt even gentler than his own hand. Indeed, he was about to die; he couldn’t even maintain his body temperature.

In the next second, Zhu Zilong's mind wavered, the blood vessels in his head throbbed, and his heart beat rapidly.

He couldn't feel the pain in his feet at all, yes, it must be that his brain couldn't control the nerves in his limbs anymore.

There seemed to be a light in front of him. What was this?

They say that when a person dies, they quickly recall their entire life in their mind, like a fast-forwarded movie.

Was it about to start now?

In a daze, some scenes and memories became clearer.

That was?

A snowy day, a woman with a blue floral headscarf holding a one-year-old boy, and a square-faced man leading the way in front.

Zhu Zilong's face, gradually turning cold, twitched once, a smile, perhaps.

This is the scene of me at one year old after I was born!

The scenes began to spin rapidly, and before Zhu Zilong's eyes, he grew up. His grades were good in elementary and middle school. However, in his first year of high school, due to early romance, he suffered severe pressure and eventually gave up, becoming obsessed with video games and various extracurricular novels, causing his grades to plummet.

He didn't get into a key university and attended a second or third-rate university. Living away from home, he lost his parents' supervision and, influenced by delinquent students, took a wrong path.

When he graduated, it was during the expansion of university enrollment without job placement. He could only go to work in the coastal provinces of Guangdong, a choice made by millions of young people in China in the 1990s.

In the coastal provinces of Guangdong, he changed jobs countless times, working as a chef, a barber's apprentice, a farmer, a salesperson, a temporary library worker, and more. He tried almost half of the seventy-two trades and met friends and enemies from all walks of life. Eventually, due to some special events, he returned home disheartened.

Facing his parents, the reformed Zhu Zilong, with the help of his father's connections, entered a county nitrogen fertilizer factory and became a county state-owned enterprise worker. He then got married, had a child, and lived happily for a few years.

However, bad news soon came.

First, Zhu Zilong's father suffered a severe cerebrovascular disease, depleting the family's savings and leaving them in debt. After treatment, he could still relapse at any time and could only rest at home, unable to work.

Then, the hepatitis virus that had been dormant in Zhu Zilong's body for many years flared up (China has hundreds of millions of hepatitis B patients). To treat him, the family had to sell their house.

And that wasn't all.

Zhu Zilong's wife, under immense pressure, suffered mental instability and became a semi-vegetative state due to a traffic accident, with the perpetrator nowhere to be found.

In summary, Zhu Zilong's father was elderly and severely ill, could relapse at any time, and could only rest at home, unable to work. Zhu Zilong had late-stage liver disease and could only wait to die at home.

Zhu Zilong's wife, due to the accident, became a semi-vegetative state, and there was an eight-year-old daughter to raise, with no house, the family renting outside, heavily in debt, and only a frail 60-year-old mother struggling to support them.

Thus, this family was completely in a desperate situation.

In the midst of despair, one day, Zhu Zilong suddenly remembered that he had once purchased a ten-year accidental death insurance policy.

By 2020, the insurance industry had flourished due to the state's push to delay retirement until 65. Even for accidental death insurance, the compensation amount was in the tens to hundreds of thousands of yuan, and the payout rate was guaranteed by the state.

Knowing his time was short, Zhu Zilong was concerned about his family's future.

He decided to trade his life for money. Taking advantage of the absence of his family, he took a taxi to the Jiulong Mountain Range near his hometown. He struggled to reach a peak and set up a scene of a fall from a cliff.

Finally, he closed his eyes and jumped.

However, fate seemed to play a cruel joke on him.

Because he was pretending to be a tourist, he carried a large travel bag (filled with many essentials for tourists or hikers, acting the part thoroughly), and the travel bag got caught on a branch on the cliff.

He didn't fall all the way down but landed in a hidden cave halfway down the cliff.

With both legs broken and severe internal injuries, no one discovered him there.

In the cave, he called out to heaven and earth, but no one answered. Only a strange giant egg in the cave accompanied him!

And then, there was nothing more.

Already on the brink of death due to his illness, he could only weakly wait for death to come.

This was the scene at the beginning of this chapter, where Zhu Zilong sighed helplessly!

"Wife, daughter, see you in the next life. Dad, Mom, in the next life, I want to be your son again!" Zhu Zilong weakly said his last words, his eyes moistening, and the pain on his face deeply etched the struggles of a common man.

Then, his head drooped, and his breathing nearly stopped.

However, at that moment.

The strange giant egg that Zhu Zilong was touching suddenly seemed to sense something and changed.

In the next second, it emitted a blinding light!

The entire egg became crystal clear, and ancient characters shimmered, emitting a gentle light that enveloped Zhu Zilong.

"Crack, crack"!

Then, a crack appeared on the eggshell, and a dragon's roar could be heard. Something like egg white and yolk flowed from the crack onto Zhu Zilong's hand.

These liquids, as if alive, quickly moved over his skin, covering his entire body, especially his eyes and forehead, which were covered the most.

Soon, the mysterious egg's liquid was all gone, and a pearl and a rectangular strange box slid out from inside.

The rectangular box, as soon as it hit the ground, emitted a bright light, forming a shadow of a Bagua array on the ground.

Then, on the ground.

The space distorted, and the light became hazy. The Bagua symbols corresponding to Qian, Kun, Xun, Dui, Gen, Zhen, Li, and Kan emitted light in sequence, like a set of mysterious and ancient codes.

The two yin-yang fish, like two strange doors, trembled and slowly opened a gap, seemingly connecting to a distant and unknown starry sky.

"Boom"!

A mysterious loud noise sounded, and the light suddenly rushed into Zhu Zilong's body.

Zhu Zilong, who should have died, a shadow rose from his chest, which was his soul.

In soul form, Zhu Zilong looked at the teleportation array and then at his body on the ground, somewhat dazed and confused.

However, at that moment, a huge suction force came from the teleportation array.

"Ah!"

Zhu Zilong's soul screamed in agony, split into two halves. Then, both his soul and body were sucked into the teleportation array, one after the other.

Then, a few minutes later, a strange light breeze blew through!

In the cave, the person was gone, the egg was broken, the pearl was gone, the rectangular box, and the travel bag were all gone, as if nothing had happened.

Only a few fragments of the eggshell remained, proving that someone had been there.

Was it a dream, or a rebirth? Or perhaps a穿越 (穿越 means "穿越" in Chinese, which can be translated as "穿越" or "穿越")?

What is the world after death like?

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