In the summer of 2012, in a 6-square-meter rental house in the fifth-ring suburb of Beijing.
As soon as a hint of fish belly white appeared on the horizon, Zhang Chuyi woke up at the urging of the alarm clock on his mobile phone.
Glancing at the wooden ceiling with several dents, Zhang Chuyi slowly turned over, stepped on the creaking escalator, and got out of bed.
There are two boxes on the ground, containing bread and instant noodles respectively.
There is a basket hanging under the bed with a dozen eggs in it.
When life is tight, eggs are the best choice to supplement nutrition.
In addition, there are several changes of clothes hanging on the wall, plus his mobile phone and induction cooker, this is all his belongings.
Land is at a premium in the capital. Even for a coffin room that is too big to be used as a toilet, one has to pay 1,000 yuan in rent every month.
There is no way, his salary can only support him living in this kind of place.
But even in such a cramped living environment, there is still a table in the corner of the room.
There was no sundry on the table, only a black wooden plaque with the words "spirit of my late grandfather Zhang Xilin" engraved on it.
Arriving in front of his grandfather's memorial tablet, Zhang Chuyi bowed his hands and bowed respectfully three times.
Thinking of not being able to offer incense to his grandfather, Zhang Chuyi couldn't help but sigh.
As a time traveler, his life has been really miserable these past ten years.
In his previous life, he was a boxing gym martial artist. Because he refused to give up in a boxing match, he won the championship that he shouldn't have won. As a result, he angered the boss behind the boxing match, and was killed by the boss with a dump truck.
After traveling through time and becoming a baby, he originally thought that he could rely on the memories of his previous life to become a child prodigy who entered college at the age of eight, abandoning martial arts and pursuing literature to reach the pinnacle of his life.
But when he was just three years old, his younger brother was born.
Dad and grandpa thought about it together for a long time and decided to give their younger brother a sad, no, it should be a very nice name: Zhang Chulan.
Hearing this name, Zhang Chuyi realized that something was wrong.
This Zhang Chulan has the same name as the male protagonist in an anime he watched!
Not long after, as his grandfather began to teach him the formulas of the Golden Light Curse and the method of transporting energy, he knew that he had indeed traveled to a world under one person.
In this world, there are very few people who can produce Qi by practicing various exercises, thereby gaining abilities beyond ordinary people.
And these practitioners with extraordinary powers are also called strangers.
In fact, he should have thought of it earlier. Grandpa Zhang Xilin's short figure and pair of striking ears are really recognizable.
I just didn't expect that he could become the protagonist Zhang Chulan's big brother.
Being familiar with the plot, he knew that their family would face a major crisis in a few years.
Seven years later, Grandpa feels that his time is coming and will deliberately show up to attract the remnants of the Jiashen Rebellion, and then single-handedly kill more than ten senior leaders of the alien world.
But in the end, he will still die under the Tang Sect's pill bite.
Zhang Chuyi didn't want all this to happen, so he practiced the Golden Light Spell desperately, trying to gain the ability to change his destiny before that day came.
It's a pity that even though he is very talented on the road of cultivation, only seven years are not enough for him to grow up to the point where he can fight against those old monsters.
In the end, the war inevitably broke out.
He still remembers the way his grandfather looked at the two brothers before he left.
Gentle, kind, and determined to die with generosity.
Grandpa definitely wants to watch his two grandsons grow up with his own eyes and watch them get married and start a family more than anyone else.
But for the safety of his family, grandpa chose to sacrifice.
Zhang Chuyi doesn't remember much about that day. He only remembers that it was a night of heavy rain. When his grandfather left, he never looked back.
After that, Zhang Chuyi never saw his grandfather again.
In order to avoid being taken over by his enemies, his father Zhang Yude gave him two choices after moving to his new home.
One was sent to an orphanage, and his younger brother Zhang Chulan was asked to leave with his father.
One is that the younger brother went to the orphanage, and he left with his father.
Zhang Chuyi asked what the difference was, and his father told him:
“If you go to an orphanage, no one will know your identity, and you may be able to live a stable life.
If you follow your father, the world will think you are the descendant of Qi Ti Yuanliu, and you may face endless pursuit in the future. "
"I am the eldest brother, so I will leave the safe days to Chu Lan. I will go with my father on the dangerous roads!"
This is Zhang Chuyi's answer.
The father, who had always been rough and arrogant, gently rubbed his head for the first time and smiled happily: "My baby has grown up."
Every human growth is always accompanied by hardships and pain.
In the next few years, he followed his father around, from west to east, from the inland to the coast.
But living anywhere doesn’t last long.
Those strangers who covet the origin of the Qi Body are like maggots in the tarsus. They can always quickly find the father and son, and then a fierce battle will begin.
Over the years, he has experienced no less than twenty battles, large and small, and only half of them were full-sex monsters. Except for a few unidentified ones, the rest were from so-called famous and decent families.
Of course, Zhang Chuyi knew how tempting the Qi Ti source, known as the "End of the Technique", was to others, so he did not dare to slack off for a moment in his cultivation over the years.
After more than ten years of hard training and many battles between life and death, he gradually gained the ability to protect himself.
Three years ago, my father disappeared into the sea of people because of an anonymous text message without leaving a word.
In the past three years, he has been living in seclusion in the capital to avoid pursuit.
After all, this is the foothold of the emperor, and those bad guys who want to cause trouble will definitely have concerns.
Perhaps because of this reason, he has lived a relatively stable life in the past three years.
Counting the days, in three years the main plot will officially begin.
I just need to endure it a little longer, and this hard life will be over.
Withdrawing his thoughts from his memory, Zhang Chuyi patted his face and went to the public bathroom next door to wash up briefly.
His job is as a stuntman, and he has a shoot this morning and is in charge of brunch.
So Zhang Chuyi got on his bicycle and rushed to the set with an empty stomach.
In a crew, an actor can be the first to arrive or the last to arrive.
Zhang Chuyi's crew was filming a low-budget action movie.
The protagonist is a popular third-tier young man, and the filming was scheduled to start at nine in the morning, but it was not until ten that this man came to the scene in anticipation of everyone on the crew.
When I arrived, I didn't talk to the director about filming. I just asked the assistant to bring a bench, then I lay down calmly and opened Fruit Ninja.
Zhang Chuyi has seen this situation countless times over the years he has been an extra.
Although everyone in the crew was unhappy, no one dared to speak out.
After all, this star is the protagonist appointed by the investors. If he is upset, anyone on the crew can be replaced, including the director!
"Attention all units, we are going to shoot a dangerous scene next." The director didn't say anything more, but directed the staff to start setting up the set.
The content of the first scene was that a motorcycle fell from the sky, and the protagonist below rolled to avoid it.
"Xiao Zhang, wait a minute, stand under the motorcycle and turn forward when you hear the instructions. The movements must be clean and handsome. Is that okay?" The director called Zhang Chuyi, who had already changed into costume, and repeated the essentials of the movements to him. Read it again.
"No problem director, I'll shoot whatever you want." Zhang Chuyi nodded and was very cooperative.
"This scene is still very dangerous, you have to be extra careful..."
Before the director could finish speaking, the steel wire holding the motorcycle suddenly broke and the motorcycle hit the ground with a bang.
"Props master!" The director suddenly became furious, "What did you do? Didn't you check the wires before hanging!"
Zhang Chuyi turned a deaf ear to the director's roar and turned to look the other way.
At the entrance of the studio, two uninvited guests appeared.
The two men, one tall and one short, walked slowly towards Zhang Chuyi side by side.
The taller one was wearing a blue and white sailor T-shirt. He had a strong build but a silly expression. He still had his fingers in his mouth. He looked like a childish child, but there was a big circle of beard at the corner of his mouth.
The short one is an old man with a stooped back. He wears a green short-brimmed hat and an old-fashioned green military uniform with a sense of age. Ever since he appeared, he has been staring at Zhang Chuyi sinisterly. Smiling.
