When the last ray of the sun sank into the horizon, Yun Ming woke up.
There was an escort mission tonight. In order to maintain his energy at night, he had been catching up on sleep during the day, but when he woke up, he was hungry.
After swallowing some synthetic food, Yun Ming packed up his equipment. Having participated in 40 or 50 large and small missions in the past six years, he has long since become a seasoned veteran in this industry. However, he was extremely serious when checking the equipment today.
Without him, this is the last single of his career, and he wants to bring a perfect end to his six years.
The reason why he quit this industry is not "tired", "tired", "lonely and seeking failure" and other reasons that are deeply rooted in success and fame. His reason for changing careers is very simple: he can't survive anymore...
First of all, let's take a look at Yun Ming's career. In a sense, he is a freelancer in the underground society.
He can do anything, but most of what he does is on the edge of the law... This kind of person is similar to a mercenary, but his customer base is much wider. As long as the price is right, it is possible to catch mistresses and find cats and dogs.
The year 2043 was the peak of his career. Several years of accumulation had given him a very good reputation in the industry. The orders I receive will definitely not be about catching mistresses and looking for cats and dogs. They are all about "protecting important witnesses", "assassinating important witnesses", "escorting valuables", "robbing valuables", etc...
The danger is certain, take "escorting valuables" as an example. The possibility that the so-called valuables are gold, silver and soft is very small. If not, they may be weapons, living people, nuclear waste, mutated organisms...
But opportunities and risks coexist. Yun Ming entered the industry at the age of fourteen and stayed until he was twenty-two. He is undoubtedly a genius in this area. He has never failed in eight years. Yi Ran is the youngest person on the ladder list in this industry.
So how did he fall from the top of the pyramid? Why can’t I continue in this business now? The reason is actually quite simple: because he is not Yun Ming...
"Yun Ming"'s body is still his own, but what lives in this body at the moment is the soul of an ordinary young man of eighteen years old from our world, from Yanhuang.
This young man is also familiar with Yanhuang fantasy novels and Heguo light novels, and he figured things out soon after his soul came here. Thinking of Xiao Yan Tang San Caiyue Subaru and other time travel bosses, his heart was burning.
Reality gave him a slap in the face.
This world is not an imaginary alien world where fighting spirit and magic are rampant. Instead, it is very similar to our world... at least 2000 years ago.
Why is it different after 2000? Because the "1999 incident" that exists as an Internet meme in our world actually happened on this earth.
On December 31, 1999, at 8.50 pm local time, a huge aperture wormhole with a diameter of about 20 kilometers appeared over the city of Canberra, the capital of Australia. Later, people learned that it was an alien technological achievement specially used for long-distance migration. Human beings called it a "bridge".
The "Bridge" remained calm for several hours after the arrival of this world. It seemed that nothing came from the other side of the "Bridge", but this did not prevent humans from feeling like they were facing a formidable enemy:
Within a quarter of an hour after the arrival of the "bridge", all the world's heads of state were informed of the incident, and a meeting was held urgently; Australia's entire Capital Territory began to be evacuated. On the contrary, air forces across the country gathered in Canberra, and Royal Air Force fighter jets were deployed in the city. The skies are in full alert; while the global summit has yet to come up with a solution and countries are in a wait-and-see mode, the U.S. Pacific Fleet has already sailed to the Tasman Sea...
The "extraterrestrial channel" could not be concealed, and various information that was difficult to distinguish between true and false was circulated on the Internet. Speculations, hypotheses, and conspiracy theories emerged one after another, and there were many opinions. The big debate is: peace or war?
This problem did not bother people for long. Three hours and eight minutes after the "bridge" descended over Canberra, a large number of alien spacecraft swarmed out from the "bridge entrance". Those spaceships come in a variety of styles, including round, square and fusiform shapes; there are also more exotic shapes, such as U-shaped or cylindrical. The specifications are also different. The larger ones are as big as human aircraft carriers, while the smaller ones are only the size of a car... In short, these alien spacecrafts look quite complicated, but humans still found the same point: no matter how they look, they don't look like "alien." Civilian airship".
The Royal Australian Air Force was reduced to nothing in two minutes. The flash and sound of the aircraft explosion were far more breathtaking than the New Year's fireworks show originally scheduled by the Canberra City Government today.
When the last human plane is shot down, alien forces take over Canberra's airspace. At this time, the New Year's bell rang, and hundreds of RAAF aircraft turned into fireworks to welcome the arrival of the new century.
Humanity has entered a new era in every sense. This first encounter between human civilization and alien civilization is known in history as the Millennium War. Subsequently, mankind began a 22-year self-defense counterattack against aliens, known in history as: The War of Fire.
At this point, this parallel world that was originally very similar to ours has completely separated from us and embarked on the development path of saving the nation from extinction.
After the War of Fire, the pattern of this earth changed greatly.
The entire earth has become a Commonwealth of Independent States, the form of the country has been cancelled, and the Earth Federation has become the speaker of the planet, referred to as the "Federation".
More than 3 billion people died in the War of Fire, but the baby boom after the war quickly added a massive population. The current population of the Federation has reached 8 billion, far more than before the war.
Because of the inheritance of alien technology, Earth's technology has advanced by leaps and bounds. It completed post-war reconstruction in a very short time, completed the transformation of the earth in ten years, and devoted more than ten years to developing space. By 2049, it took the Federation less than 30 years after the war to raise Earth's civilization to a higher level.
However, although the Federation is flourishing at this time, many social problems still exist. Let’s take the protagonist of this book as an example.
Yun Ming, who was occupied by a dove in front of the magpie's nest, was born in 2021. He was an orphan, whose biological father and mother were unknown, and was adopted by an orphanage under a federal charity. The dean originally gave him a name, but he later changed it himself. "Yunming" is the homophone of "destiny" in reverse. He believed that he was different.
The fact is exactly what he thought. When he was very young, he realized that he had great potential for development in the underground society, so he took this as his goal. He left the orphanage at the age of 12 for some reasons, and officially became a "mercenary" at the age of 14. "After debuting in this industry, he was invincible in eight years.
If he hadn't awakened his "power" at the age of 22, he would have been replaced by the real protagonist of this book. His story will most likely be like the "low-key soldier king" written in Shuangwen novels: beautiful women from all walks of life throw themselves into his arms and live a life of luxury and wealth.
Unfortunately, there is no if in our world, and there is no if in this world.
In 2043, our protagonist passed through his soul. Through some of the remaining memories in Yun Ming's mind, he gained some understanding of the world and "Yun Ming".
Our protagonist opened his mouth wide and murmured:
"This worldview...this imagination...this author..."
"Bullshit!"
