Translator: Larbre Studio
Editor: Larbre Studio
It was 7 pm in Yuanjing City, Hanhai Villa District. Outside, it was raining heavily.
The high quality display of the screen had entered into sleep mode because of prolonged inactivity. Instantly, the reflection of a silhouette appeared on the dark, black screen.
Chu You’s pale white face stared blankly at the screen. Even though it had entered into the blank screen mode suddenly, Chu You remained unmoved.
On that soft leather chair, he sat. No one knew that he had been sitting like that for the past two hours, motionless.
Outside the window, a bolt of lightning flashed. Soon after, a thunderous boom followed.
At that moment, the cell-phone on the computer desk rang.
The young man sitting idly was dragged back to reality by the cell-phone’s ringtone. As Chu You regained his senses, he picked up his cell-phone and glanced at the notification. The name of the caller felt oddly familiar, yet strangely alien.
Chu You fumbled as he pressed the answer button. Enabling the hands-free mode, he placed the phone back onto the desk.
“Hey, Brother You, it’s raining so heavily outside. Hurry and drive here to pick me, I’m waiting for you at the school gate,” the feminine voice said through the cell-phone.
Without mouthing a word, Chu You continued to stare at the black display screen.
“Hey, hey! Why aren’t you answering me?” The voice had a tinge of confusion and impatience.
Toot! Chu You hung up the phone, and took a quick glance at the time displayed on his cell-phone’s screen.
September 21, 2187.
Reaching out for the mouse, Chu You moved and clicked it randomly, activating the blank screen once again. Onscreen, the various time periods of different parts of the world appeared. But all of it pointed to the same fact that it was September 21, 2187
Again, he sat idly for a moment. All of a sudden, Chu You’s pupils turned small, and his facial expression became extremely ferocious. Suddenly, he stood up, grabbed the mouse, and threw it at the display screen.
Unfortunately, as both items were of extremely high quality, neither of them sustained any damage as a result.
Chu You turned around and strided towards the window. Pulling open the curtains, he let his body embrace the wind and rain outside.
Gazing at the ominous sky which was met with lightning and thunder from time to time, Chu You’s depressed emotions burst.
“Why? Why! Since you gave me the option of rebirth, why was only I reborn 10 years back? Why not before my parents passed!” Chu You yelled at the sky. No one could understand Chu You’s feelings at that moment, such ludicrous and distorted emotions!
At that moment, a voice could be heard from the opposite villa.
“Why are you making so much noise, can’t you be quieter?”
“Did I say I am making noise at you?”
The other party was stunned. Shortly after, with a loud Shua, they closed the windows swiftly and drew the blinds. Obviously, they thought that they had met with a maniac.
Once again, Chu You gritted his teeth and looked upwards. The sight of an ominous, dark sky and the sound of rumbling thunder seemed to be greeting Chu You.
Shortly after, Chu You, in his lonely and dazed state, returned to the room. At that moment, he suddenly recalled something and started to rummage around the room as if he was insane.
Shortly after, Chu You started to laugh in a slightly deranged manner as he shook his head. Now he could remember. This villa was not owned by him. Instead, it was the villa that he had rented for accommodation purposes as he was studying at a nearby university in Yuanjing city. This year was supposed to be his third year at the university.
He picked up his cellphone. Finally, Chu You found a picture of him and his parents. Unknowingly, he started to tear up. In a nostalgic manner, he moved his thumb slowly across the images of his parents’ faces. It was as if doing so would allow him to recollect and feel the warmth of his parents.
Gradually, Chu You’s demeanour started to become hideous again. A myriad of face masks started to appear in his mind, some of which were those responsible for his parents’ death.
Had Chu You not become impoverished in his previous life… Had turmoil not appeared in the world of his previous life… Before the true colors of the murderers were gradually revealed, he had thought that his parents’ death was nothing more than an airplane crash, an accident.
Thinking of the power that those individuals held, Chu You knew that he couldn’t match them now. That was something that Chu You was very clear about. Even though he himself was stuck in a complete mental whirlpool right now, there was still some amount of clarity in his thoughts.
A bolt of lightning flashed across the sky. From the room, he heard the horrific sound of what sounded like grinding teeth.
“All of you are going to die again. I promise, I absolutely promise…” Chu You made that great aspiration. For that single moment, he felt as if he could resonate with the vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva of unceasing determination until hell was emptied.
In his previous life, after Chu You had eliminated all of his enemies. He looked around to find himself surrounded by police officers. As he laughed hideously in the room, he raised the gun in his hand, and pointed it towards his temple.
Shortly after, Chu You regained consciousness. Once again, he sat back in the chair in front of his computer, and picked up his mouse before typing a series of keywords into the computer.
Instantly, the page was flooded with advertisements and all kinds of intense discussions.
A variety of hot searches, headlines, and central issues of the top game appeared at the most prominent part of the website.
Heaven was a type of virtual holographic game that was co-developed by top researchers around the world. Its authenticity reached up to an astonishing 99%. The most intriguing part of this was that the game had established exchange portals with major banks across the world.
In other words, you could completely rely on this game to become rich. Of course, the pretext was that you had to be experienced in the various techniques within.
The entire world was engaged in enthusiastic, passionate discussion about this game. The fervour was beyond what was usually regarded as high. In fact, it was so high that it was almost going to explode!
Various kinds of internal and external factors had been targeted by the media, and exploited for extensive advertisements. In essence, they were targeting different groups and classes of society with different methods, in an attempt at what seemed like dragging the entire world’s population into the trend of this game.
Anyone would know that this was a game that was directly related to becoming rich. But only Chu You knew that at the end of this game, the main person in charge would automatically enter into a state of intelligence, awakening on the day the game was officially launched. Once it was awakened…
Chu You laughed miserably. The reason why he had become destitute in his previous life was all because of this. But once the Red Queen woke up, she would eventually gain control of all internet space in the world, becoming a God-like figure.
Alas, the entire world would be engulfed by an economic crisis, on a scale that had never been seen before. International currencies would be no different from used paper. The only usable currency would be the game credits within Heaven.
Chu You entered onto the official page of the game and took a glance. Heaven would be launched one week from then.
One week! Chu You opened his bank account and took a look at that series of figures. Shaking his head, he picked up his cell-phone and looked at various names which had titles of industrial leaders. He took a while to process and recall them in his mind, before calling them one by one.
Chu You was his parent’s only son. Both his parents were rich merchants and they had left Chu You with lots of cash and high-value property to inherit.
Now, all Chu You had to do was change all his property into cash, close or sell his companies, and sell his hotels at the fastest speed possible, even if the price he got was an undervaluation. He had to change valuable resources into working capital as soon as possible.
Finally, while looking through his cell-phone, Chu You saw a name: You You Orphanage.
He placed his cell-phone down. Chu You did not call the person in charge, as the image of a female individual appeared in Chu You’s mind. The orphanage was opened by his parents. Probably, in the hearts of his parents, doing good deeds was something they believed in.
The reason why Chu You was not determined to close the orphanage was because he knew that in his previous life, when Chu You was in a state of destitution, a girl from You You Orphanage had walked into his heart.
At that point in time, she was probably only nine years old. Chu You lifted his head and his eyes glimmered.
After a short while, Chu You regained his senses, and took a glance at the official page. Finally, his eyes became fixated on a piece of eye-catching text, something that anyone would be more or less sensitive to: “Add Credit”!
Using his mouse, he clicked on the link.
Chu You saw that in the newly opened “Add Credit” page, there was a group of eye-catching “Add Credit” options on the leadership board. Although there was still seven days till the start of the game, the “Add Credit” portal had already been opened.
The “Add Credit” leadership board could be divided into the “World Leadership Board” as well as the leadership boards of various areas in the world. He entered into the Chinese Leadership board, and realized that the greatest amount was merely three million.
It must be understood that although this game became very popular due to intense speculation, people remained rather wary and cautious about investing in an unknown sector. Moreover, who would know that the day the game was to be launched, the “Add Credit” portal would be closed after the mastermind of the game was awakened.
Chu You picked up his cell-phone and dialed the customer service number.
“Please help me to order a top-quality gaming station and deliver it to me as soon as possible. This is my address…” Putting down his cell-phone, a hideous smile appeared on Chu You’s face. He knew that in this life, his revenge would occur in the game.
One year ago, the Heaven official helmet gear and gaming station became available for purchase all over the world. It was estimated that by then, over 200 million pieces of helmet gear had been sold, and the number continued to increase exponentially.
To add credits into the game, one had to link their personal information to the gaming gear they had purchased. Only after registering an account within the game could one add credit to it.
So now all Chu You could do was wait for the arrival of his gaming station.