Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

"Liu Qiang! You can be discharged from the hospital. Family members should check their belongings..."

A few weeks have passed since Xiao Ran - or Liu Qiang - woke up from a few months of coma and then fell into coma again. His body barely returned to normal, but the hospitalization fee was about to run out, so he hastily left the hospital.

In the past few weeks, as long as he was awake, the fat black man nicknamed Tank and who claimed to be his little brother would follow the doctor's instructions and tell him some common sense and past events.

According to the doctor, it is normal for some memory loss to occur after being comatose for such a long time after a car accident. All he needs to do is wake him up.

Xiao Ran recovered fairly quickly, and within a few days he was playing with the thing called a "smartphone" as if he had it in his mouth when he was born.

His understanding of the world had recovered to some extent, but it was still difficult for him to remember much about his identity as "Liu Qiang".But according to what that person said, he seemed to be a... rotten person. Fortunately, he did a good deed before being hospitalized and sacrificed his life to save an old lady who was almost hit by a car.

While he was hospitalized and in a coma, the old lady's family paid most of the expenses. Tank used his "heroic deeds" to crowdfund some money, and secretly broadcast live broadcasts on him every day to collect rewards. Therefore, during this period of hospitalization, The cost is basically affordable.

"Brother Qiang! This is the settled money, a total of three hundred..."

The jar handed a pile of scattered money to Xiao Ran's hand.

"How much? Three hundred? Do you want to say it again..." Xiao Ran looked at the jar sideways with an expressionless expression.

"Um... I made a mistake. Three hundred is my own... What you have here is... two thousand and two..." Tank stammered.

"How much?" Xiao Ran continued to ask.

"...This is a bit of cash out from crowdfunding and rewards. There are more than 780 left. You still have to take supplements and medicines, and it doesn't count the donation fees... plus my , it's my personal condolences. Your..." Gu Zi's face turned red.

Xiao Ran took the money and still stared at the jar without saying a word.

"Brother Qiang... I'm really gone... Otherwise, I'll treat you to dinner, and then provide one-stop service for surfing the Internet and midnight snacks. All the money for cigarettes, water, and internet will be mine..." Guan Zi was already crying.

Xiao Ran raised his foot and kicked the tank's ass. While kicking, he said: "Eating, surfing the Internet, late-night snacks, and cigarette money are all gone, gone, gone..."

During the fight, Guanzi received the signal from Xiao Ran to let him go, and went to take a taxi happily.

Looking at the scattered money and a few coins in his hand, Xiao Ran suddenly remembered how "Liu Qiang" was hospitalized.

He only had a few coins left on him at that time, and he was thinking about how to deal with the next meal, but he lost one.The coin rolled in the middle of the road. An old lady in front saw it and bent down to pick it up. Liu Qiang rushed over and pushed the old lady away.

Just at this moment, a car sped by, and Liu Qiang was knocked away, but he saved the old lady's life.

According to what he learned later, the witnesses at the scene, the driver responsible for the accident, the old lady, and nearby surveillance cameras all proved that it was because he sacrificed his life to stop her that he saved the old lady's life. This is why the old lady's family later paid for her hospitalization. , as well as the crowdfunding and live broadcast of the tank.

"...Why is it so miserable...so ridiculous..."

Xiao Ran couldn't help but feel dumbfounded by his second uncle's last experience before time travel.But now there is no other way. He needs to adapt to this world more, retrieve more of Liu Qiang's memories, and then see what to do next.

Sitting in the car and looking at the tall buildings outside the window, Xiao Ran felt a lonely emptiness.This world is much more developed than before, but there are no magical weapons or powers, and there are no Hu Bayi or Fatty.

If so, he would probably be in jail.

Soon the car stopped at the entrance of an Internet cafe. Xiao Ran followed Guanzi out of the car. Guanzi went to the small supermarket next door to buy instant noodles, mineral water and some loose cigarettes, and was about to drag Xiao Ran into the Internet cafe.

"Don't you want to eat first?" Xiao Ran asked.

Jar shook the plastic bag in his hand: "Isn't it all together? The doctor said that if you want to recover your memory quickly, you have to do something you used to do before. These are all standard!"

Xiao Ran reluctantly entered the Internet cafe and sat in his "old seat" under the arrangement of the Internet cafe owner and Tank Zi.The computer in front of him gave Xiao Ran a strange yet familiar feeling.

Guanzi helped him turn on the computer. Xiao Ran imitated Guanzi's posture and put his hands on the keyboard. At this moment, a flash of inspiration flashed through his mind. As if he had no control over his hands, he quickly tapped a series of keys on the keyboard, and finally made a gorgeous move with his right hand. He turned his wrist and hit the space bar with his thumb.

The people around him looked at her like a fool. Xiao Ran quickly lowered his head and pressed other keys randomly with a red face, pretending to check whether the keyboard was working.

He felt more panic than embarrassment.Even if he traveled to his second uncle's world and body, what happened to this familiar muscle memory?

"Tank, what do I usually do when I go...online?" Xiao Ran asked.

Tank thought for a while and clicked on a series of websites, videos, games, etc. for him.Xiao Ran turned off the Japanese-American love action movie with a face full of embarrassment, and started looking for memories from other things.

But the more he opened and saw, the more memories about Liu Qiang flooded into his mind, and the sense of panic and loss in his heart became more obvious.

He gradually realized one thing: there was no Xiao Ran, and there was no time travel.Liu Qiang is him, he is Liu Qiang. The so-called Xiao Ran may be a long dream he had when he was in a coma, and he fictionalized himself into the novel.

His name is Liu Qiang. He was born in a small southern village and lost his mother when he was young.His father was an alcoholic all day long and would beat and scold him when he was drunk.Naturally, this kind of family could not afford for him to go to school, so he dropped out of junior high school before graduating and became a gangster in the village.

When he was 15 years old, his father finally fell into a pigsty after being drunk. He was found dead early the next morning, with only his upper body left.He was also completely relieved. Hearing that there was money to be made in Shenbu City in the south, he went south with great ambition.

But when he arrived in Shenzhen, all his illusions were shattered.He worked as a security guard, a cleaner, and a handyman in a small restaurant, but he didn't last long in any of them.Although he didn't know what he could do, he always felt that he could do something big.It wasn't until he was chatting with a coworker one time that he arrived in Sanhe and seemed to have found a place of his own.He worked a daily salary job every day, and after taking the money, he went to Internet cafes to play games, browse forums, and read novels, and became one of the "great gods" among people.

In order to read novels, he saved his little money to recharge and pay. He even went so far as to create pornographic rumors in order to read new chapters for free in order to gain forum points based on the popularity of his posts. As a result, he was detained administratively for fifteen days.

Even so, the various "diaosi counterattack" plots in the novel still made him want to stop.He is even more certain that all the so-called successful people now should be his steps to transcendence and become saints.One day I will accomplish something great and crush these people under my feet.

But he still doesn't know what a big cause is.The only thing that is better than other "great gods" is that he doesn't want to rent with others and rents a ten-square-meter single room by himself, which makes people around him look up to him.

Speaking of which, I have been owed rent, water and electricity for a long time...

The retrieval of his memory left him exhausted and sweating profusely.He has no other world to return to, and no infinite time to cycle through.

He can only continue to live his life in one line with his true identity, Liu Qiang.

Xiao Ran...or Liu Qiang, he felt dizzy and his back was soaked with sweat.He silently packed his things, stood up and walked to the door of the Internet cafe, looking up at the front.

At this time, night has fallen, and the stars in the sky and the lights of the buildings complement each other, like a canvas with countless paints splashed on it.

There is no place in the sky for him to ascend to immortality, become a saint, and become immortal.But he should still have time to find a place for himself on the land beneath his feet.

Guanzi hurriedly chased him out and asked, "Brother Qiang, you don't have access to the Internet anymore? Then I'll transfer your internet fee to mine."

Liu Qiang took a cigarette from the jar, lit it, and took a deep breath.It felt equally strange and familiar, but one bite was enough.He threw the unfinished cigarette on the ground and turned to leave.

"Brother Qiang, what are you going to do?"

"I...want to change my way of life..."

Guan Zi scratched his head and suddenly remembered something. He took something out of his pocket and handed it to Liu Qiang: "Brother Qiang, I almost forgot to give you your amulet."

Liu Qiang took the "talisman" and smiled dumbly.

That was the so-called Bei Jiuguo. He just bought it at a street stall after leaving his hometown and arriving in Shenzhen. It cost him ten yuan.This was also the first thing he bought in Shenbu. Although he had always regarded it as a symbol, it was definitely impossible to speak.

He put on his hat, said goodbye to the pot, got a clean haircut with a ten-yuan clipper, went to the public bathroom to take a shower, and then returned to the rental house.

As soon as I opened the door, a musty smell came out. The floor was covered with cigarette butts and mineral water bottles filled with unknown yellow liquid. The bedding was as dirty as a ball of felt.

Liu Qiang pinched his nose and disposed of the garbage, wiped the floor, wiped the table and wiped the windows. In a short time, the whole house was almost brand new.

There was a sudden knock on the door. Liu Qiang hurried to open the door and bumped into the landlord.

"Liu Qiang! I said you..."

As the landlord said this, he opened his eyes wide and looked Liu Qiang up and down, then stretched his head in to look at the clean room, straightened the barcode hairdo on his head and muttered: "It's very clean. I changed my gender…”

Liu Qiang suddenly thought of the landlord's purpose, took out 2000 yuan from his pocket and handed it over: "This is two months' rent. I will find a job tomorrow and make up the rest."

The landlord took the money and settled, turned around and left, leaving behind a sentence: "I owe you five months, and there are still three months left. If you don't pay next month, I will kick you out..."

Liu Qiang looked at the landlord's back and couldn't help grinning.If you don't pay next month, I will kick you out. The landlord said the same thing five months ago.

This world is not as cold as I thought before.

Later, Liu Qiang found a stable job and also worked part-time.Rather than achieving a great career, he now prefers to say "God rewards hard work."

In his spare time, he still regards reading novels as his greatest happiness.In addition to the complexity of life, it is also a beautiful thing to imagine yourself adventuring in another world.

Among the many novels, his favorite ones are still the tomb-robbing novels.Every time he saw the dialogue between Hu Bayi and others, he would transform himself into Xiao Ran and imagine how he would join the conversation and what kind of response he would get if he were present.

The house where he lived often had power outages, so he used to put a candle on the table.Whenever he finished reading a novel before going to bed, he would blow out the candles, then look at the floating white smoke in the dark, smell the aroma of the candles, and fall asleep.

Sometimes, he would dream that he was still Xiao Ran, and that he, Hu Bayi, and the others would continue to break into the Worm Valley, search for King Xian, break the curse, and return to the ruins.The dreams were so vivid that he often felt lost after waking up.

But he will soon remind himself that life is the greatest adventure.Tomorrow, there will be more adventures and rewards waiting for him...

The way is:
The secret technique of touching gold, the hair Qiu technique, and the extraordinary magical artifacts.

Even though there are hundreds of strange things in the world, they are just a dream.

(end……?)

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