Miss Serena’s daily rent collection in American comics
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“Can you tell me what these two lumps on my chest are?”
【Please use the novice reward immediately. 】
“Well, can you please be flexible? I feel like there’s something wrong with my body.”
【If you like playing, play. If you don’t, get lost. 】
“…”
“Can you tell me how to use this thing?”
【Go to Baidu. 】
“Fuck…”
Forget it, I won’t bother with you.
With no hope in life, he looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, and tears flowed down his face. Coach, this is not the same as the time travel we agreed on. How can you travel through time without giving an explanation and let people search for it on Baidu?
But then again, this round thing seems to be edible.
After putting it to my nose and smelling it, I was even more certain that this thing was edible. Because it smelled like Maltesers, and it really tasted like chocolate when I took a bite.
[Get random draw x1, do you want to use it? ]
“Eh?! Are they really for eating? Use them! Use them quickly!”
[Congratulations on receiving a legendary ability box. Do you want to open it? ]
“I…what the hell!? Are you sure you didn’t say it wrong?”
[It’s a legend, you European seal! Hurry up and open the box! ]
“I’ll drive! I’ll drive!”
[Congratulations on obtaining the gold-level ability Cyclops, the ability fusion…begins…hahahahahahahahahahaha. ]
“Ahhh!! My eyes! My titanium dog eyes!”
[The ability levels in the King’s Game are Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond, Glory, and Legend. Legend is the highest, Iron is the lowest. You are the only one among 10086 players who can get a Gold ability from a Legend box. Please forgive me for being blunt, but lottery games are really not for you. ]
“My dog eyes, what on earth have you given me?”
After integrating the abilities of Cyclops, a certain otaku felt as if his eyes were on fire, and even the things he saw were covered in a layer of rainbow light.
[Gold-level ability Cyclops. Usually the guaranteed bonus for a Legendary Box is Diamond-level, and I find it incredible that you pulled out a Gold-level one.]
Wait! I took the worst ability from the best box? And it was the worst ability that skipped the guaranteed minimum!
A certain resident was suddenly startled, and instantly felt as if he could feel the malice of the entire world.
Chapter 357: For example, the fourth kind of contact
Although he was just a supporting actor on the set, Cheng Chen still believed that he had some experience in acting.
As long as the director says “fall”, he will definitely be the one who falls to the ground the fastest. Being one step ahead is the most important understanding of acting for this top extra who can run 11 or 12 crews a day. Because there are a lot of extras in Hengdian, and all the handsome men and beautiful women squatting or sitting in the seven or eight alleys around here, who has not eaten the lunch boxes of the crew?
We are all out to make a living, and everyone has a dream of being spotted by a mentor, becoming a movie star and reaching the pinnacle of life.
Unfortunately, today’s society is too competitive. Even if Cheng Chen only works for a crew for about an hour and runs back and forth more than ten times a day, it is still not enough to pay the monthly rent of his cheap house outside the Third Ring Road. When the income is not good, he either goes to the Internet cafe all night or sleeps under the bridge by the river.
Over time, he became a legend in the extras circle. After all, the more crews he went to, the more people he met. Everyone would affectionately call him Brother Cheng when they saw him, which gave him the illusion that he was one step closer to becoming an international superstar and reaching the pinnacle of his life.
However, something went wrong. Even if it was just a tiny flaw, the result…
“Family members, please sign.”
When his body was pushed into the morgue, Cheng Chen’s father Cheng Dazhuang was completely stunned.
“Doctor…is it really impossible to save him?”
he asked.
“How can we save him? He was already dead when he was brought here. Although modern medicine is advanced, it is still not possible to bring a corpse back to life. Please accept my condolences.”
Then, a heart-wrenching cry broke out around the doctor.
The dream of working hard day after day and reaching the pinnacle of life and leaving a name in film history was suddenly shattered at this moment. Before his sudden death, Cheng Chen, who still believed that he was not working hard enough and that he would be rewarded if he worked harder, disappeared from this world forever.
When the relatives from his hometown finish their feast and carry the coffin to the back mountain to bury him, Cheng Chen’s not-so-legendary life will come to an end. His story will be passed on by word of mouth in the Hengdian extras circle. Fortunately, his parents will not be sad and worried because the cemetery is too expensive… At least it should have been like this.
No one could have imagined that when the mother-in-law and aunts were discussing where to dig a hole in the back hill to bury Cheng Chen’s ashes, Cheng Chen himself was listening nearby with a confused look on his face, and was even more confused as he watched himself being buried.
“No, who chose this place? It’s not good feng shui to be facing away from the sun. Why is it buried under the willow tree… Wait, that doesn’t make sense. Why can I still think after I die? Damn it!”
Cheng Chen’s first reaction was that he felt like he had turned into a ghost. He had read a lot of novels when he was young, but they were not online novels at that time. Almost everyone in high school had a copy of Goosebumps or Boys and Girls.
“Could it be that… I am the legendary dead, but not completely dead?”
While being buried, he even remembered a joke he had heard before he died, which was that this job was pretty good, but it was a little rotten. If you think rationally, if he was buried, everyone would have food to eat, so it was a good job. But his body had already been cremated and turned into ashes, wouldn’t it be him who was rotten?
“Wait, that doesn’t make sense either.”
Maybe it was because of the rural wilderness, Cheng Chen’s coffin was a big box inside a small box. From the outside, the big coffin looked like it contained a pretty good whole body. In fact, if there were tomb robbers who dug up the tomb, they would definitely only see a small box. If the other party didn’t believe in the evil and opened the small box, his ashes would definitely choke people and cause upper respiratory tract infections.
“I clearly slept for eight hours a day, how could I die suddenly? There must be something wrong…”
The more Cheng Chen thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. If his mouth was still there, he would definitely shout that he was not dead. But now he was just a little ash, and just thinking about it was enough to make him feel a little anxious… on a physical level.
But his idea was correct. Although the autopsy report of the hospital stated that he died suddenly, Cheng Chen always had the feeling that he was hit on the head by something. Unfortunately, his brain was gone now. He didn’t even know where his memory was stored. To recall something that happened at least a week ago, he would probably need…
“About… a hundred years?”
It was at this time that he finally realized the terrifying fact that his thinking ability had degenerated into a single-core, single-threaded one, because since he started thinking, a full 100 years had passed in the outside world.
[Roleplay system charging completed]
[Retrieving script information]
“You’re the one who smashed me to death!”
Cheng Chen was furious at the time, so he said that he clearly remembered vaguely that he seemed to be hit by something. But the autopsy report insisted that he died suddenly. Although he had been working hard for five days and four nights, it should, may, maybe, probably not be to the extent of sudden death. This is the “truth” that took him 100 years to recall… at least part of the truth.
[Task detected: New actors have exceeded quota]
[It is detected that the advanced task “Dragon Set Career” has been completed in excess]
[Start matching a new scenario]
“Hey! Hey! Is your system dumb?”
Anyway, Cheng Chen didn’t know whether the system was dumb or not, but he was definitely dumb now.
[Get the world-class scenario: Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind]
[Time and space jump…begins]
A pale blue light flashed across the charred wasteland, and it seemed that no one noticed this strange force that distorted time and space.
“Fastachian flow detected! Have new Terminators been sent?”
In the Asian resistance base, a gray-haired middle-aged man wearing a worn-out bulletproof vest suddenly clenched the weapon in his hand. The war between humans and Skynet spread across all timelines of the planet’s past and future. Skynet, which has a time machine, always deploys T-series robots at some points that are enough to change human history.
People call them Terminators. This group of cold and ruthless blood-stained metal was created precisely to destroy humanity.
“Wait, this horizontal coordinate is…”
The chief scientist of the resistance army stared at the string of numbers on the screen. It was not the coordinates of any time and space node, nor was it the Terminator coming from the future. The superluminal particle flow opened a hole in the cosmic membrane, and the direction it pointed to…
“Parallel universe?!”
That day, humans discovered the multiverse.
Chapter 358 Not the entire universe speaks Chinese
The explosion and flames echoed in the small cabin. Cheng Chen, who had just finished the novice lottery under the guidance of the system, felt a physical dizziness before he could see clearly what he had drawn.
“Fuck (a plant)!!!”
It felt like locking a person in a washing machine and then dropping him directly from Mount Everest. Although he had his body back, it was a bit too exciting to do something like this right away. Not to mention, Cheng Chen was a little afraid of heights. This endless feeling of falling made him wonder if he had actually traveled into the world of Halo and was now airborne to Reach with the Master Chief.
“Gan (a kind of liquid metal)!!!”
But such an obvious feeling of falling told him very clearly that he was not living in a dream.
“Aaaaaaah (screaming like an animal in heat)!!!”
In the end, this feeling of falling that lasted for dozens of minutes ended its stomach-churning and sinful life with a hard landing that almost crushed Cheng Chen.
“vomit……”
Unfortunately, he couldn’t help but vomit. It wouldn’t have mattered if he didn’t vomit, but he was shocked when he vomited… The stomach acid he sprayed out was blue! Do normal people have blue gastric juice?
“I… this… I turned into an alien?!”
Through the reflection of the glass in front of him, Cheng Chen finally saw his current appearance clearly. It looked like some kind of keratinous black body and exposed sharp teeth on the face. Although he had been dead for 100 years, he could still tell that this thing was definitely not a species that could appear on Earth.
[Worldwide Scenario: The Fourth Kind of Contact Has Begun]
[Script details: The Sko expedition team from a million light years away was attacked by some unknown life form while passing through the solar system, and all the crew members were killed. However, the ship was not completely destroyed, but it crashed into the home planet of mankind, Earth, carrying this terrifying and evil creature.]
[Scene goal: rule the world]
After that, there were a lot of branch choices, but Cheng Chen no longer had the heart to continue reading. If he guessed correctly, he… was probably the “horrible and evil” unknown life form described in the script details.
As an actor, although he was just a minor role, Cheng Chen knew very well that for a low-level extra like him, it was impossible to have the room to choose the role he played. This system could be a gift or a burden to him. He had never seen what a serious script looked like before, but the Internet was already very developed at that time. He just hadn’t seen it with his own eyes. He could see everything on the Internet.
If nothing else, the script was written in a very straightforward way. If it were made into a movie, it would definitely be a horror sci-fi movie about alien creatures, such as “Alien” and “Xenomorph”. The only difference is that those things only play on the screen, while he needs to experience it in person.
Asking him to slaughter the humans in the parallel world like a real alien monster… To be honest, he couldn’t do it. Even if this behavior was put into online novels, it wouldn’t be considered as the protagonist’s decisive killing. As someone who has gone through nine years of compulsory education, Cheng Chen thought that his world outlook was relatively normal, at least at the level of the general public.
If this system really allows him to carry out a massacre…wait!
Suddenly, Cheng Chen seemed to realize something.
Although Alien is a horror sci-fi film, its essence is still a space opera. Monsters attacking humans are only the components of a horror film, but there is also an overriding sci-fi element in it!
The third kind of contact refers to humans and aliens, which in religion represents Adam and God. Its meaning refers to the process of humans discovering unknown things and making contact with them. If you think about it this way, the meaning of the script title “The Fourth Kind of Contact” is actually very straightforward.
The contact between humans and the Sco expedition team was a proper third kind of contact, but halfway through, a Cheng Yaojin like me showed up and killed the unknown part that was originally going to come into contact with humans, becoming the third party in this incident. So the name of the script “Fourth Kind of Contact” refers to this thing – that is, the process of being changed.
This changed process is exactly what Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind is all about…
So what the system asked him to act out was not actually a blood-thirsty film about alien monsters slaughtering humans. He was misled by the details and goals of the script!