Chapter 1 - Frontier Town 1
“Steamed buns, freshly baked buns~ thin skin and big stuffing, delicious and inexpensive buns~”
The aroma of the pasta came together with the warm greetings. Xia Ruize couldn’t help taking two more breaths. Why are the buns so fragrant today?
“Two meat buns and two vegetable buns.”
Xia Ruize routinely explained what he wanted for breakfast, lowered his head and reached for the phone in his trousers pocket.
“Okay, I’ll charge you five cents, the guest officer will come again next time!”
The clerk’s greeting was unexpectedly warm and funny.
“Ha ha ha ha?”
Xia Ruize was amused by the greeting from the clerk at the breakfast shop. He often came to this breakfast shop. It was the first time he knew that the clerk was very humorous.
As Xia Ruize took the bun, he raised his head and prepared to laugh that he only had a certain treasure and no five cents of money.
Then he just froze in place, and the laughter stopped abruptly.
I saw that in front of Xia Ruize was not a familiar breakfast restaurant at all, but two middle-aged couples dressed in ancient costumes, standing behind the steaming steamer, busy making buns and collecting money for customers.
? ? ?
Xia Ruize was stunned, and turned his head to look around subconsciously. He seemed to be standing on a busy commercial street. The surrounding buildings were all bungalows and courtyards. There was a rare small building with a wooden structure, and it was not a big devil at all.
What’s even more bizarre is that the pedestrians who come and go are all dressed in sackcloth and linen clothes.
Is he… transmigrated?
“Hey, little postgraduate, where’s your money?”
Seeing that Xia Ruize hadn’t paid for it for a long time, the merchant was unhappy and reminded him aloud.
At the same time, he looked at Xia Ruize with suspicious eyes. Although this young man was dressed strangely, he was white and clean. At first glance, he looked like a child of a wealthy family. Do you still want to eat free food?
Xia Ruize was reminded and finally came back to his senses. He subconsciously prepared to apologize and return the buns in his hands to the vendor. Out of the corner of his eyes, he suddenly noticed that behind him stood a person who was just like him and out of place in this environment.
Xia Ruize turned to the left to check before, this person was in the blind spot of his sight, but the other party obviously saw Xia Ruize long ago, and he was looking at him now.
Different from Xia Ruize’s simple dress in a plaid shirt and slacks, the man on the opposite side was wearing a full suit, with exquisite collar and cuffs, elegant and extravagant.
The tall, handsome man with distinct facial features was also staring at Xia Ruize, his eyes full of scrutiny.
? It turned out that he was not the only one who crossed over?
Just as Xia Ruize and the man in the suit were looking at each other, the surrounding scene suddenly came to a standstill. White gas emerged from the steamer of Baozipu and solidified in mid-air. The originally noisy street was instantly silent, and everyone’s movements were frozen in place.
The only thing that changed was that on the half-meter-high steamer between Xia Ruize and the man in the suit, a blank area similar to white paper appeared. A line of black text appeared from below the white paper and scrolled up to the center of the white paper.
[At the end of the summer, the barbarians invaded, the mountains and rivers were shattered, the people were struggling, and the fall began from Bianlu City…
main mission:
1. Survive for three days
2. Kill three barbarians
Mission Completion: Rewards 1,000 Survival Points
Mission Failure: Deduct 500 Survival Points
Special Note: Novices who lose two consecutive world survival points will be wiped out! 】
At the same time, there was a sense of vibration on the wrists of the two of them. Only then did the two realize that there was an inexplicable watch on their wrist. The screen of the watch was very large, and the same content as on the white paper was scrolling.
The black text firmly attracted the attention of the two of them, and the line of “500 Survival Points for Mission Failure” was marked in red and bold, indicating its importance.
Beneath this row of bright red characters, the special note with a slightly smaller font size appears to have a stronger sense of presence because of the word “erasure”.
Yo, it turns out that it’s not a simple time-travel!
Xia Ruize immediately realized something, and a sense of absurdity welled up from the bottom of his heart.
This world is too real, and his thoughts are so clear that it doesn’t look like he’s in a dream, and even excluding the possibility that someone is willing to pay a high price to trick such a small person like him, the most incredible guess is more like a fact…
Just when Xia Ruize wanted to say something to the man in a suit who looked more like the same person beside him, his eyes suddenly passed him and looked into the distance.
When the surrounding picture is still, sporadic movement will be very obvious.
It was only then that Xia Ruize discovered that on the other side of the street across a group of pedestrians, there were two other people clearly dressed in modern clothes.
There was a man and a woman over there. The girl turned her back to Xia Ruize, and could only see the other side’s long curly chestnut hair, white dress and shiny high heels.
The man facing Xia Ruize’s direction was dressed as a fresh and sunny college student in a T-shirt and jeans, but the expression on his face that was about to cry was no longer sunny at all.
The two seemed to know each other, and the girl clenched her fists and beat the boy’s arm in a huge panic.
The man in the suit in front of Xia Ruize also followed his gaze to the back, and found two other “companions”. If you guessed correctly, they were the unlucky **** who were “traversed” together.
“Hello…”
The man in the suit turned his head, smiling in such a circumstance, looking gentle. He tried to say something to Xia Ruize, but the surrounding scene suddenly resumed and everything became alive again.
The noisy voice filled his ears again, and the pedestrians who had stopped moving resumed their actions. The merchant in front of him stretched out his hand to ask Xia Ruize for money for the buns. After realizing that Xia Ruize was only in a daze, the enthusiastic smile on the merchant’s face disappeared. is suspicious.
At this moment, Xia Ruize felt the ground under his feet vibrate slightly. Is there an earthquake?
He immediately looked around, but found that the street was still prosperous and peaceful just now, but at this time everyone had a look of horror on their faces, and all of them subconsciously looked at the end of the street on the north side.
Even the middle-aged couple who sold buns didn’t care about entanglement with Xia Ruize, and looked at the end of the street with a horrified expression. The wife clutched her husband’s shirt tightly, and her body was half turned in one direction, as if ready to run away at any time.
Xia Ruize and the man in the suit moved in their hearts, and followed the crowd to the north. They saw a city wall at the end of the street, but at this time, the door of the city wall was wide open, and more than ten fast horses rushed through the door without any scruples. Come in.
The horse’s life is savage, his face is covered with black lines, his head even grows horns, his mouth emits an insolent grin, and he quickly rides his horse through the crowd. .
The speed of the war horse was fast, almost in the blink of an eye, along with the screams of the wounded, the sound of the hooves was getting closer, and the hideous face on the horse’s back became clearer and clearer.
“The barbarians are coming!”, “The barbarians have killed!”, “Run!”…
There were screams of horror in their ears, and the crowd fled.
Xia Ruize watched helplessly as the stump and blood flew in the air, no matter how he thought to remind him, “Danger! Get out of the way!”, but his body couldn’t respond in time and just stayed in place.
“Be careful!”
The man in the suit suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed Xia Ruize fiercely, dragging him from the center of the road to the side of the road, dodging the galloping horses and the barbarians holding butcher knives on their horses.
However, this is not the end.
I saw that the direction of the city gate was noisy again. It turned out that the barbarians without horses rushed in from outside the city, and raised the butcher knife at the civilians who were dodging their heads.
“Hide!”
The man in the suit didn’t have time to say anything else, and pushed Xia Ruize into the alley beside him, signaling him to hide, while he himself ran to the other alley, the two spread apart, and it was possible that they would survive.
Xia Ruize was pushed and staggered, but his body finally reacted and obeyed the brain’s orders. He took a last look at the horror in the distance, and hurriedly ran into the alley, trying to find a place to hide first.
There were four families in the alley, but the courtyard doors were all closed. Xia Ruize tried to knock on the door, but there was no response. He had to continue running deep into the alley.
Unfortunately, his luck is not very good, this alley is a dead end, where is he going to hide?
Xia Ruize looked at the tall courtyard wall, and there was basically no possibility to climb over it. Instead, there were piles of baskets in the corner of the alley.
Xia Ruize’s eyes lit up, he rushed to the pile of baskets, quickly selected a basket, lifted the basket and squatted in, then covered himself with the basket.
There is a pungent smell in the basket, but at this time, I can’t care so much, and it’s not bad to find a place to hide.
The basket that Xia Ruize chose was located in the middle of a pile of baskets, which was relatively hidden. There were some baskets in front of him to help block his figure. Through the gaps between the baskets, he could barely see the situation in the alley.
The alley is not straight, it has a certain curvature, Xia Ruize can only see the corner closest to him, and he can’t see the main road of the commercial street before.
But he could hear screams and cries in the distance, as well as his nervous heartbeat.
Only then did Xia Ruize realize that because he was too nervous, he was still holding the bag of steamed buns wrapped in oiled paper tightly in his hand, and the buns were still hot, because all these incidents happened within a few minutes.
Xia Ruize took out the mobile phone in his pocket. Sure enough, the mobile phone had no signal, and he couldn’t make emergency calls. He had to turn off the mobile phone to mute and study the watch that suddenly appeared on his wrist.
The watch has a large screen, touch screen, and easy and simple operation.
There are currently three bright icons on the display of the watch, namely [Personal], [Space], and [Tasks].
Xia Ruize clicked on his personal information, and saw that it displayed:
【Name: Xia Ruize
Sex: Male
Age: 25
Strength: 1
Agility: 1
Constitution: 3
Spirit: 1.2
Life: 30]
As a game designer, he was all too familiar with such a list of attributes, and Xia Ruize couldn’t help showing a wry smile, turning himself into a character in a game for the first time.
There is nothing to see in personal information, and there is no comparison, and Xia Ruize does not know what level of his data is.
He clicked on [Space], and the display showed an empty box with “1” written on it.
Xia Ruize seemed to feel something, and brought the mobile phone in his right hand close to the watch. With a thought, the phone disappeared in his hand and appeared in a box on the screen of the watch.
After several repetitions, Xia Ruize confirmed that this so-called space can indeed store and take out items according to his wishes.
This is not happy news. Based on Xia Ruize’s shallow understanding, his civilization’s development of space equipment depends entirely on imagination.
But now, as a “novice gamer”, he can easily obtain a one-cubic-meter space device. The fact reminds him again and again that he is not dreaming now.
In the end, the information in the [quest] was the same as what he had seen on the steamer before. Before Xia Ruize studied it twice, he watched a shocking scene from time to time through the gap in the basket.
The young boy in the T-shirt and jeans that the world had seen when the world paused before appeared around the corner crying and ran towards the depths of the alley.
Xia Ruize saw that his face was full of tears, one arm had disappeared, and the blood had dyed the whole white T-shirt red.
Xia Ruize wanted to get up subconsciously, but the next second, the boy slashed with a big knife behind his back, and with one slash, the boy fell to the ground, his head fell off, and he died instantly.
Xia Ruize froze in place, and watched two barbarians turn around the corner with a height of more than two meters. One of them kicked the boy on the ground aside, and then the two barbarians stared at a closed courtyard door. .
The two barbarians didn’t notice Xia Ruize who was hiding in a pile of baskets in the corner.
Xia Ruize, on the other hand, stared at the watch of the same model as his own on the wrist of the fallen boy, clenching his fists and clenching his teeth.
A woman’s screams came from the small courtyard next to her, and then, a woman stumbled out, without running two steps, was dragged by the barbarians who followed, unable to stand firm, and fell to the ground.
“Help! Don’t! Help!…”
The woman cried out for help, but the only response to her was the wanton laughter of the barbarians.
The barbarian threw the big knife aside, and leaned down to pick off the woman’s clothes. A pair of big hands easily suppressed all the resistance of the woman, and shredded the woman’s clothes in a few strokes.
Xia Ruize watched helplessly as the woman was slapped by the barbarians for calling for help repeatedly, blood was spitting out, and he couldn’t even make a sound. He also looked at the boy who was lying on the ground wearing a T-shirt and jeans. He knew that if he wanted to live. Go down, he can no longer hide.
Xia Ruize’s thoughts moved, and the basket on his body was directly received into the system space. He slowly stood up and approached the violent barbarian along the corner of the wall, or, in other words, to the big sword that was thrown to the ground by the barbarian. near.
Xia Ruize’s shoes were comfortable casual shoes. Under his deliberate control, he hardly made any sound when he walked, not to mention that the barbarian’s attention was now on the woman under him, and he was approached by Xia Ruize step by step unknowingly. .
The struggling woman saw Xia Ruize. Immediately, her eyes lit up. Instead of blindly calling for help to expose Xia Ruize, she struggled with all her strength, causing the barbarians to focus all their attention on her.
Xia Ruize moved to the side of the big knife, carefully picked up the big knife on the ground, raised it high, gritted his teeth, and quickly swung it down at the neck of the barbarian!