Douluo: Cutting me drops treasures; Bi Bidong got addicted

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"Bang!"

A gunshot rang out, and Lin Yi was shot in the back, a blossom of blood erupting from his chest.

His legs unsteady, he nearly fell to the ground, yet he forced himself to stand, then slowly turned around with an expression that was part shock, part anger, part unwillingness, and part confusion.

"Dying" so many times, he wanted to be unrestrained for his last "death."

The woman who shot him from behind was pretty and delicate. Her expression had been serious at first, but as Lin Yi turned around, her mouth twitched with surprise.

Lin Yi struggled to walk towards her, limping through the shocked gazes of the onlookers, as if he might fall at any second, yet never collapsing. His blood had soaked through his clothes, but he still stared intently at the woman who shot him.

"Cut!!!!!" An angry voice came from the side.

"What the hell, paid two hundred yuan for a day's work, acting in a scene worth two hundred yuan per minute, who the hell found this extra?!"

Amid the director's aggressive cursing, Lin Yi straightened up and said to the actress in front of him,"Your acting isn't bad, but you've forgotten the most basic rule of being an actor, which is not to stop acting until the director yells cut... Also, just to say, I really envy you for making two hundred yuan a minute."

Amid the cursing of the actress and director, Lin Yi left the set.

He was just an extra, with three years in the trade.

In those three years, he had "died" no less than five hundred times, and today was the day Lin Yi had decided to bid farewell to the acting profession, with that moment being the last "death" of his career.

After graduating from college, Lin Yi encountered a major setback in his life.

Sure enough, students who leave the campus are like flowers that have left the greenhouse, and Lin Yi hit walls everywhere in his job search. With no other option, not working was not an option either; he was close to not having enough to eat, and squeezed rent out from between his teeth, which forced him to follow a friend to run as an extra in a film city for some money to live on.

He had loved movies since he was young and greatly admired the acting profession, dreaming that one day he could become a big star. As a child, he had even secretly practiced his autograph on paper many times.

The first time he played a corpse on set, Lin Yi was thrilled. Lying motionless on the ground, he didn't utter a peep even when an actor stepped on his hand.

Latterly, his portrayal of a corpse became more and more professional, and his fellow "corpses" respectfully referred to him as "Brother Corpse."

Gradually, Lin Yi earned the right to live, to appear on camera for a mere second—but after that second, he had to die immediately or leave the frame altogether, which was as good as being dead.

After so many years of "dying," and gradually becoming numb to it, Lin Yi finally realized how unfathomably deep the acting world was, and how bewilderingly unclear the path ahead.

The New Year was approaching, and he dared not go home.

He remembered the last time he left home, his parents were still arguing. It seemed the couple could spend every day bickering, with "divorce" being their perennial mantra.

But all these years, they hadn't actually managed to divorce. The word "divorce" hadn't scared either spouse at all, but it had terrified Lin Yi for over twenty years.

The oppressive atmosphere at home was one reason he didn't want to return, but the bigger reason was after all these years drifting outside, he hadn't saved a single penny.

"The slowly falling maple leaves are like yearning~"

His phone's ringtone sounded, and Lin Yi took it out, didn't hang up, and just let it ring in his pocket.

It was a call from his college roommate, a close friend back in the day, the two were inseparable meal companions. The roommate was getting married, as he had mentioned in a WeChat message.

Lin Yi didn't reply to the message because he couldn't afford a gift of money for the wedding, and he had given up on the idea of ever being able to reclaim it when he got married himself one day.

Marriage for him seemed utterly impossible.

Single for so many years, he hadn't even touched a girl's hand, let alone dared to do so. What did he have to offer?

No car, no house, no savings, no special skills.

Could he let his girlfriend say to others, "My boyfriend's special skill is 'lying down', because his job is playing a corpse?"

Squeezing into the subway, he returned home to his one-room apartment in a decrepit building. The space was so cramped he sometimes had to eat on the toilet seat, and yet, the rent was still outrageously high.

Lin Yi knew he was tired in this steel forest where the sun was nowhere to be seen. Everywhere else the sun might shine brightly, but it seemed that he alone was forever in the shadows.

Perhaps, it was time to return home?

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Fortunately, there was still a friend from whom he could borrow some money for the trip home.

With that in mind, Lin Yi arrived at the convenience store by the entrance of the residential complex, ready to plan his trip back home after tonight was over.

Go home. No matter how chaotic home was, it was still home. At home, his lounging around had a reason, and he wouldn't be scolded by strangers.

To save on subway fare, Lin Yi only bought some instant noodles in a bag. When he went to pay, he noticed the shop owner was watching an animation on the computer.

"If you open your eyes in a nightmare, you face the cruel world."

"Whose heartstrings are touched by the wind, yet they linger without the chance to say goodbye."

Lin Yi smiled and said, "Wow, Soul Land, huh?"

He placed two packs of Sichuan pepper-flavored instant noodles on the counter.

The shop owner smiled back, "It's what my son watches. He asked me to boot up the computer for him, and only then did I realize this little brat wasn't studying at all, secretly watching so many episodes!"

Lin Yi laughed, "Kids, they like animations. Just don't forget to scold them."

Shop Owner: "Five yuan. You've seen this thing too?"

Lin Yi paid and took a deep breath, "I haven't watched animations for a while. Too many ads, and I'm not a member. But I did read the novels back in junior high, I'm off."

"Alright, take care."

Carrying the two packs of noodles, Lin Yi walked through the complex, where electrical wires crisscrossed overhead.

He still remembered reading Soul Land in junior high, using a feature phone to avoid his parents noticing he wasn't sleeping, and covering his head with a blanket to read.

He let out a relieved smile. People always enjoy reminiscing about various things. Suddenly recalling them, they sigh in their hearts, wondering why they can't return to those times.

Of course, they can't return.

In the end, this is just an escape from the real world.

If time could flow backward, why choose to go back to the past? Better make that time twist right now.

Exaggerate the twist a bit, and just arrange for me to have a time-travel adventure.

I don't want to live this absurd, dull, and boring life.

Give me a brand new life, please.

"Heh."

Lin Yi thought to himself and chuckled. The Lord above is too busy to hear everyone's prayers; he probably doesn't listen anyway.

Swinging the two bags of instant noodles in hand, Lin Yi headed towards Building 25. Upon entering, he threw the noodles on the table and comfortably sprawled out on the sofa.

I'll ask Xiao Qizi for some money to get back home tomorrow morning. Whoever wants to hustle in this steel forest can do so; I sure don't want to anymore.

Just as he dialed the number, the voice that came through wasn't Xiao Qizi's but a cold, mechanical sound.

The expression on Lin Yi's face changed. He sat up quietly from the sofa and listened carefully to the voice on the other end of the line.

[Congratulations on binding the Transcendent Divine Body and randomly assigning to any First-level Plane to begin your journey of dominating the heavens]

[Your initial growth Plane is: Soul Land]

"Thud!"

The phone slipped from Lin Yi's hand.

The entire small rented room suddenly started to tremble at that moment.

Lin Yi glanced at the two packs of instant noodles on the table and immediately lunged for them.