Hello, World
1936 Words
“Uh——”
The boy woke up from the darkness, feeling a bit of a headache.
Before his eyes.
Was a completely unfamiliar scene.
Where is this?
Oh……
Some memories surged forth.
Lu Ming, sixteen years old, a student at a vocational technical college.
That’s his current identity.
“I’ve actually crossed over.”
Lu Ming rubbed his head and took a while to accept this fact.
Looks like I’m dead……
Lu Ming felt a bit dazed.
In his previous life, he was a programmer, working sixteen hours a day, dealing with various unreasonable demands, and unexpectedly, he ended up collapsing at his computer.
He remembered the last night, feeling extremely tired……
Because the product manager, that i***t, suddenly changed the requirements, hoping their smart app background could change color with the user’s mood……
Red for happy.
Blue for sad.
Purple for excited.
……
He: ???
If there had been a knife on the table at that moment, haha.
As he recalled, he worked late into the night, his head aching, and his greatest dream seemed to be to wake up in the morning and have a fight with the product manager.
“Looks like there’s no hope.”
Lu Ming felt regretful.
He even had a dark sense of humor, thinking about whether the product manager would be scared out of his wits if he found him cold and dead early in the morning.
“Heh.”
Lu Ming smiled.
This could be considered the end of his programmer career.
The things of the past life were thus concluded.
Family?
Nonexistent.
His parents had poor health and passed away when he was young.
Girlfriend?
Haha.
How could a programmer have a girlfriend? On the contrary, the product manager boasted every day, bragging about what products he made and showing off his girlfriend……
Ah, that damn product manager!
I’d love to beat him up!
If I could cross back, I’d definitely give that guy a good thrashing!
“Wait!”
Lu Ming felt his mindset was wrong.
Even though he had crossed over, even though he had gained a new life, if his ultimate goal was to cross back and deal with the product manager, wasn’t that a bit too low?
“Phew——”
Lu Ming took a deep breath and finally calmed down.
The things of the past life should be left behind, now he needed to focus on the present.
With this thought.
Lu Ming began to examine the room.
Five square meters.
Only a narrow single bed.
Lu Ming frowned. The cramped space brought back bad memories. He had lived in a similar rundown place near Renmin University.
“Could it be……”
Lu Ming immediately had a bad premonition.
Swish——
A flood of memories surged in.
He then discovered that the original owner’s memories seemed to be still there, like a complete film of a life that he could browse at any time.
Lu Ming!
Only sixteen years old!
A student at a vocational technical college!
Family conditions, good. Parents healthy, has an older sister, and he also received a good education. The basic conditions were quite good.
Why did he end up at a technical college?
Oh.
This sister is too extraordinary!
From the beginning of school, she swept all the first places, with full firepower, and after starting to cultivate, she was even more outstanding, far surpassing everyone.
In their place, almost no one was unaware of her.
And little Lu Ming grew up under such a halo, constantly compared and criticized.
Of course.
These are not the main points.
The main point is, when Lu Ming thought of this sister, he vaguely sensed some strange emotions from little Lu Ming, such as envy, inferiority, admiration, confusion, goddess, and sister complex……
Wait a minute.
Something doesn’t seem right.
Swish!
Lu Ming reflexively lifted the bedding and found a pile of strange books underneath, such as “My Big Sister Fell in Love with Me,” “My Sister Can’t Possibly Be This H,” “Overbearing Sister Kissed Me,” “Sister Strategy Guide”……
Lu Ming: ???
But on closer thought, it was understandable.
Kids……
Lu Ming reassured himself, then saw crumpled tissues in the trash can.
A little boy……
Lu Ming thought.
Having such a beautiful and talented sister, it’s normal for a little boy to have various strange thoughts, especially during puberty.
Of course.
Little Lu Ming knew this was wrong, so he decisively escaped.
He moved to this relatively distant city.
He knew he might never surpass his sister in a combat profession in this life, so he chose to become a card maker, hoping he could make a name for himself.
In the future, if he succeeded, he could help his sister a bit.
The result……
It goes without saying.
“Card maker?”
Lu Ming was a bit puzzled and began to browse this memory.
In this world, due to the richness of energy between heaven and earth, there are thousands of cultivation professions, everyone can cultivate and choose their favorite profession.
But undoubtedly, even though they are all cultivation professions, there are significant differences.
Some people like passionate, fist-to-fist combat.
That’s the romance of men.
Some people like graceful, spell manipulation.
That’s the pursuit of mysteries.
……
And card makers are considered a good auxiliary profession.
In simple terms, a card maker is someone who encapsulates various abilities, illusions, images, etc., into blank cards, making them into cards for convenient use.
In theory.
If you’re strong enough, you can encapsulate anything!
“Encapsulate everything?”
Lu Ming thought it sounded impressive.
He recalled the related memories, hmm……
Card makers have something called original cards. When someone releases an ability towards the original card, the original card will encapsulate this ability and then, through the card maker’s craft, transfer this ability onto a card for use.
“This thing……”
Lu Ming pondered, “Is it like burning a disc?”
Colleagues!
At least it’s the same IT industry!
Of course.
Although card makers have no combat power, they are still a good auxiliary profession.
It’s just……
How to say?
After undergoing the training at the vocational college, little Lu Ming also participated in the college’s ‘professional training’ and had become a qualified brick-moving worker.
The only card-making skill he mastered was the one-star energy card.
Because the energy in energy stones is somewhat unstable, with variable values and inconvenient to carry, card makers can encapsulate the energy from energy stones into blank cards to make energy cards.
One card per hour, up to 20 cards a day, a daily net profit of 5 yuan, a hundred a day.
Large quantity, enough to fill up.
No worries about sales.
“Calm down!”
“Must stay calm!”
Lu Ming’s hands were shaking a bit.
He vaguely remembered his previous life participating in a certain training class to become a Java programmer, and unexpectedly, little Lu Ming was doing the exact same thing.
Damn it?!
He continued to browse the memory.
Although it was a bit hard, little Lu Ming’s life was relatively stable until one day, when his genius sister came to visit him, little Lu Ming was terrified.
To avoid embarrassment!
To maintain his meager little boy’s dignity in front of his sister!
To show that he was doing well here, little Lu Ming did something that a normal person couldn’t even imagine.
He took out a loan!
He took out a loan to open a card shop and became a small boss!
And it was a campus loan!
Fruit loan!
Because little Lu Ming also looked very delicate, like his sister, so he bought a wig and women’s clothing, took some half-body photos, and borrowed a batch of campus loans.
Lu Ming: ???
Damn it!
Do kids in another world dress up like this?!
The result……
You know the rest.
When his sister came and saw that Lu Ming was doing well, she just left.
Very plain.
Not even a word of praise.
After all, at her level, Lu Ming’s little business was just a small fry, but because of this, Lu Ming was stuck with the daily struggle to repay the high-interest loans.
However……
Little Lu Ming’s card-making level was too low, and the only card he could sell was the energy card, so the shop’s business was almost zero, and soon he couldn’t even pay the interest.
“Sure enough, something went wrong.”
Lu Ming sighed.
Everyone who takes out a campus loan usually ends up with the same outcome.
He didn’t have to think to know what happened next and could guess why he ended up crossing over.
It’s simple.
Little Lu Ming, clearly died.
Lu Ming continued to browse the memories.
Sure enough.
The campus loan company soon came knocking, directly grabbing little Lu Ming to sell himself. Then, unsurprisingly, after discovering Lu Ming’s real gender, they gave him a beating and threw him out, demanding he repay the loan within a month, or he’d be taken to meet some special clients.
Little Lu Ming was terrified and, after returning, worked like crazy!
Making twenty-two cards a day, sleeping only two hours!
Half a month later.
He collapsed and died.
Lu Ming: ???
Damn it!
Shouldn’t he have been beaten to death by the loan company?!
Why did he die of overwork?!
Lu Ming felt that this world was full of malice towards him.
Really.
Dying of overwork as a programmer in the past life was bad enough, but now this kid died of overwork too? Lu Ming felt a deep sense of grievance.
Is it the kid?
Or is it himself?
Heh.
What a wasted hand of good cards……
Such a good sister, if nurtured from a young age, oh, no, if he had just latched onto her from the start, maybe he’d have been thriving by now.
But……
“The pride of a little boy.”
Lu Ming reflected deeply.
Clearly.
Little Lu Ming died under his own pride.
In fact, even if he had told his sister or parents, things wouldn’t have been like this, but teenage boys are always like that.
His past self……
Hey.
“It was pretty good.”
Lu Ming thought.
The little kid had clearly been suffering all along.
With such a sister, he probably could never hold his head up, especially with his feelings for her, it was even worse, never able to hold his head high in the next life.
It’s good he’s gone.
However.
The troubles he left for Lu Ming were not small.
Lu Ming stood up.
He pushed open the small door of the bedroom.
Outside was a clean and tidy room, with transparent glass windows on both sides, and various unfamiliar instruments displayed on top, and neatly arranged boxes of cards.
Clean.
Tidy.
A completely different world from the messy bedroom behind.
Clearly.
This was the shop the little guy worked himself to the bone for.
He walked to the door, opened the shop’s main entrance, and the bright sunlight streamed in, making the whole world seem to come alive at that moment.
Tall skyscrapers.
Bustling crowds.
Passing cars.
Fresh morning air.
Lu Ming took a deep breath, and it felt like all his troubles disappeared.
This……
Is the world he crossed into!
This……
Is the beginning of his new life!
“This world, I’m here.”
Lu Ming decided to use one sentence to bid farewell to everything from his past life and embrace this new world——
“Hello, world!”
- Writer
