Chapter 275 Life is like a play, and play is like life

This is a world of swords and magic, but it is postmodern, because the era here has almost reached the Industrial Revolution period.

In other words, the world he knows is more akin to Victorian steampunk.

Mystery, science, you are in me and I am in you.

As for his identity, he was a little beggar in the small town. He was abandoned at birth and adopted by a group of beggars. Of course, they did not do it out of kindness, but used him as a tool to make money by begging, stealing, and so on.

Fortunately, he was smart enough in his two lives, so he was not cut into pieces alive, but served those old beggars attentively.

However, yesterday, things changed.

A beggar leader was attracted by his looks and wanted him to sleep with him, so he naturally killed the beggar with a knife. In order to prevent retaliation, he also killed the other beggars one by one with a knife and sent them all to hell.

The price was that he himself was seriously injured. After all, he was just a teenager.

But at the moment of his death, he went to the shared space, met his selves in other worlds, and shared their power.

However, things seemed to be a little off.

According to themselves in other worlds, as the shared space increases, they should be able to directly share their complete power and instantly become a strong person, able to move mountains and fill the sea, and be omnipotent.

But the fact is, I didn’t.

Right now, he is still just an ordinary person.

In other words, he could feel the power within his body, but it seemed as if that power was squeezed into a ball by a big hand and began to be nurtured again.

In this regard, the wise man in the team, Li Harry said.

It must be that the laws of the world they live in are incompatible with their powers, causing these powers to be fused together and to break out again in the future.

The good thing is that his future is bright. He is like a dragon. As time goes by, he will naturally gain powerful strength.

The downside is that he has no way to achieve success overnight. Right now, and even for a long time in the future, he still needs to struggle to survive in this strange world.

However, if he really encounters danger, he can call on others to help.

The safety of life can be guaranteed.

“Huhu~~~”

The fire burned fiercely, reducing the beggar’s shack to ashes.
No one came to put out the fire because the beggar’s shack was not in the town, but outside the town.

Also, no one cares about the life or death of a group of beggars.

However, to be on the safe side, Li Zhongren changed himself, cleaned himself, changed into clean clothes, and left. But he did not go to the town, but walked along the road, heading towards a farther direction, that is, the direction of the city.

According to his understanding, the structure of this world is still similar to that of medieval Europe, with a city surrounded by several villages and towns. The city sucks the blood of the villages and towns to maintain its vitality. However, some towns have completed industrialization and started the vigorous steam machinery.

In short, if you listen to what those past travelers say, the world is undergoing great changes.

“Click…click…click…”

Under the cover of night, Li Zhongren suddenly heard a shattering sound. The sound came from his body. After those miscellaneous forces were reintegrated by the invisible big hand, it seemed that they had begun to break out of the shell and were born.

“only.”

Looking at the panel in front of him, he was stunned.

“Calling all the brothers, have you guys check to see if I’ve been invaded?”

Seeing this scene, Li Zhongren decisively called for support.

“What’s going on? Are you in danger?”

“No, my power has turned into a panel.”

“Let me see what’s going on.”

Li Harry teleported himself over and attached himself to Li Zhongren in this world. His powerful soul instantly invaded the backstage of the panel.

“I see.”

After a long time, Li Harry took back his power.

“What happened to you was not caused by this world, but because you have a so-called system on your body. It should be that when you traveled through time, you in this part of you bumped into this system in the void, but the system was killed by the shared space, leaving only fragments.”

“And when you shared our power, these fragments and power produced a special reaction, allowing the system to be reborn. But don’t worry, this system is now under the shared space, and there will be no hidden dangers.”

“That’s good, so what does it do?”

“To put it simply, this is a task panel. It will give you tasks, and when you complete the tasks, you will be rewarded.”

“Fuck, is it that awesome?”

“No, no, it’s not what you think.”

Lee Harry explained.

“How should I put it? It’s like a radar, but it doesn’t detect reality, but some causal entanglements. In more popular terms, it’s what we call a story. What you have to do is to play a certain role in the story and modify the possible ending of the story, which is the predetermined future.”

“As for the rewards, when the predetermined future is modified, this system will be able to draw strength from it. Under the action of the system, this strength will be transformed into various substances, skills, or other things to strengthen you.”

“I see. It’s like I’ve become a game player, and this world has become an open world game. All I have to do is clear the question marks?”

“It’s basically like that, similar to The Witcher 3. To be honest, I’m still quite curious.”

“Haha, you guys are successful and famous, so you’re naturally curious, just like those big stars who go to the countryside to relax. I’m different. I still have to run around everywhere.”

“If you don’t want to, you can choose to sleep. How about I play this game for you?”

“Forget it.”

Li Zhongren decisively refused.

“Although they are all Li Zhongren, once the time travel began, they were destined to be different people with their own lives.”

Close the sharing space.

Li Zhongren clicked on the panel, and instantly the panel was activated, with a map appearing on it.

It was exactly where he was, but the only things that were lit up were the small town behind him, the place where the beggars in the wild lived, and a long and narrow road. The rest of the place was shrouded in fog, which should be the so-called fog of war.

However, in the mist, he could see lights in some places, of course, some of the lights were very far away from him.

There is no doubt that these lights are the events that he can trigger.

The closest light to him was right in front of him, and he should be able to see it if he kept walking along this road.

“OK, let’s go, let me see what’s going on.”

Because he can call on his selves in other worlds to protect himself, for Li Zhongren, in a sense, this is just a game. He will most likely not be in danger of his life. Although it is less exciting, this is reality.

When you read a novel, you naturally hope that the story will be full of ups and downs, and then bring yourself into it, experiencing those magical and ghostly things. However, if you were to play the role yourself, not many people would really want to experience the hardships of the game protagonist.

He is the same. After having the guarantee, his mentality has changed directly. Life is like a play, and a play is like life.

Mission: Broken Carriage.

On the road leading to the main city of Dekeburg, you saw a stranded carriage. For some reason, the carriage’s bearing broke, the carriage lost control, hit a tree on the side of the road and overturned. The cargo on the carriage was scattered all over the ground, and the coachman seemed to be crushed under the cargo due to the overturn.

Mission content: You can choose to save the driver, kill him, occupy the goods, or do anything else you want. The system will make a final settlement based on your actions and give you corresponding rewards.

Friendly reminder: Every action you take will have a certain impact on the world, and these impacts are irreversible.

Friendly reminder: Your every action will also determine your own position. The position refers to the camp attributes of the nine-square grid. The theory is that the camp attributes can be changed, but it requires the recognition of the world. That is, if you are an evil person and you want to whitewash yourself, you need to get enough people to recognize you to do it.

“Hey, are you okay?”

Li Zhongren came to the carriage and looked at the driver whose legs were crushed by the cargo.

“Help.”

The driver looked at Li Zhongren with a glimmer of hope for survival in his eyes. It was now dusk, and after dark, there would be all kinds of dangers in the wilderness, such as wild beasts, poisonous snakes, robbers, and ghosts. Originally, he could have reached the city safely before dark, but the axle suddenly broke and the car overturned, hitting his legs underneath.

“I can pay you.”

“Ten gold coins! How about that?”

“Wow, you’re rich.”

Li Zhongren was born a beggar, but it is precisely because of his beggar background that he is more sensitive to money. The purchasing power of gold coins in this world is roughly equivalent to that of 2024 yuan. And this is not the yuan of , but the yuan of the s, which has very strong purchasing power.

“I am a businessman. I specialize in spices.”

“But the brain is not very good.”

“what?”

“Think about it, if I kill you, won’t your money and goods also belong to me?”

“Hey, you.”

“So, don’t show your money to others, idiot.”

Li Zhongren came to the carriage and moved the goods away with great effort. Although he did not successfully share the powerful strength of others, after taking the magic potion prepared by Li Harry, his physical fitness had made a qualitative leap and he was no longer powerless.

Naturally, this stupid businessman was easily rescued by him.

“thanks, thanks”

The businessman was breathing heavily as he sat on the side of the road.

“My name is Alex, I thought I was dead. Thank you, young man, I will definitely pay you and invite you to my house for dinner.”

“The good news is that you are still alive and your legs are not broken, thanks to the soft soil here which absorbed a lot of the impact.”

“The bad news is that your axle was broken intentionally.”

“??”

“As you can see, I’m a detective, a wandering detective.”

Li Zhongren began to introduce himself.

“I like to get involved in various things, whether it’s meddling in other people’s business or something else. In short, I can’t sit still, so I’m always wandering around, triggering various things, and then solving them.”

“Then, based on my observations, I discovered that your carriage was deliberately tampered with.”

Li Zhongren did not lie about this. The function of the task system is to display all existing detailed intelligence and analyze it. Of course, this analysis can only be based on the present, for example.

According to the system, the cause of the car’s bearing fracture was human-induced rather than mechanical damage.

“How is this possible?”

The businessman was stunned.

“I haven’t offended anyone.”

“Then I don’t know. Just look at this. The fracture here is obviously man-made. If you don’t believe it, you can ask some experienced drivers. They should be able to give you an accurate answer.”

“call”

Hearing this, the businessman stopped talking. After pondering for a moment, he spoke.

“Then I’ll hire you to investigate this matter for me, okay?”

Mission: Broken Su’s carriage.

Mission accomplished, you chose to save the owner of the carriage.

Mission reward: 5 experience points.

“Wow~~”

Li Zhongren felt as if hot water was flowing through his body, and he had upgraded.

Although it is the first small task.

But as we all know, it is easy to upgrade when the level is low.

However, this upgrade will not give him strength directly, but will give him a skill point.

He can use this skill point to strengthen one of his skills, but at the moment, he has no skills and the system will not provide him with any skills, but he can use the skill points to learn the native abilities of this world.

Serial tasks: The carriage owner’s doubts.

Task Description: You chose to tell the carriage owner the truth. After a moment’s hesitation, he decided to let you investigate the truth behind it.

Late at night, the jungle was quiet, and occasionally some strange bird calls could be heard.

Li Zhongren was trekking through the jungle with the businessman.

The reason was very simple. Someone wanted to kill the carriage owner. Simply destroying the carriage was only one aspect, because he might not die. After dark, it was very likely that someone would be sent over, disguised as a robber, to kill him. Therefore, Li Zhongren took him along the jungle path and walked to the main city.

In fact, this is true. Four red dots have appeared on Li Zhongren’s mission map.

This showed that he had encountered hostile people, and that these four people were following the traces they left behind, and they were obviously very experienced veterans.

“Are you sure someone is following us?”

“Of course, there are four of us. Don’t underestimate the detective’s intuition.”

“What should I do?”

The businessman finally panicked.

“Don’t worry, besides being a detective, I also take on bodyguard work.”

As he spoke, Li Zhongren left a few detonating talismans under one of his footprints.
(End of this chapter)