Chapter 1 Life Countdown
"You have 1 hour, 32 minutes, and 19 seconds left to live..."
Even with his eyes closed, Chen Ke could see this line of small words in the upper right corner of his vision.
There is everything in dreams.
Chen Ke didn't take it to heart, turned over and continued to sleep.
"Ouch! Hiss!!"
Suddenly, a violent pain woke him up with horror, and he felt as if his heart was stabbed by a dagger, and the pain was unbearable.
Could it be a sudden heart attack!
At the same time, in the lower left corner of Chen Ke's vision, a row of light golden small words suddenly appeared from bottom to top:
"Super Skills: Lost"
"Mortal Skills: Checking..."
"Central Axis Heavy Lock Shooting: Mastered"
"Krav Maga Fighting: Mastered"
"Kali Fighting: Mastered"
He opened his eyes suddenly and found that he was not lying on the bed, but lying on his side on the cold floor.
The surroundings became clearer as the sight extended. Rows of desks with computers came into view. Not far away, there was an English sign on the glass door that was pushed open a crack. It read: Office Area
A sense of withering rose from his heart, as if something was taken out of his body. He knew that he had traveled through time.
Chen Ke wanted to get up from the ground, but his body seemed to be hollowed out and weak. He couldn't move his limbs for a long time.
His eyes rolled around, and he found that he was wearing a dark blue woolen windbreaker. His left arm hanging on the ground was cold, and he felt sticky from his fingertips. He looked down and found that he was lying on his side in the middle of a pool of blood.
This doesn't feel good... It can't be his own blood...
Chen Ke looked down and was almost scared to death. He saw a dagger stuck in his heart, with only the handle left outside, and his white shirt was dyed dark red.
Chen Ke's facial features were twisted together because of fear.
Calm down! Calm down!
Chen Ke stared at the dagger on his chest, his stiff body trembling inexplicably.
His heart was most likely pierced... He lost so much blood, he should be dead, right?
But he was still alive, and he didn't even feel any pain, which obviously went against common sense!
He suddenly noticed the small words in the upper right corner of his vision.
"You have 1 hour, 29 minutes and 12 seconds left to live..."
Time was getting shorter.
The seconds were still ticking, 11, 10, 9, 8...
"You have 1 hour, 28 minutes and 59 seconds left to live..."
This is for real!
Chen Ke was horrified, looking down at the dagger inserted into his heart, thoughts surging in his mind.
According to medical common sense, a sharp weapon inserted into the human body actually has the function of pressing the wound to prevent heavy blood loss. Even if it is sent to the hospital, doctors will not rashly draw the knife before properly treating it, otherwise you will just have to wait and see the human fountain.
But Chen Ke's current situation and circumstances made it unrealistic to find a doctor, not to mention that there was only more than an hour left, and it was a question whether it was enough for rescue...
Pull it out or not?
Will I die of blood loss if I pull it out?
I'm still alive, I can still think, I can still move, this injury is not a big problem...
I can do it...
While he kept suggesting to himself and had a fierce ideological struggle, the countdown jumped another minute.
Chen Ke gritted his teeth and pulled it out!
"Consume 30 minutes of life to treat fatal injuries."
The life countdown in the upper right corner of the field of vision suddenly scrolled a line of small words, and then something magical happened.
The dagger inserted in the chest suddenly trembled slightly, and then slid out of the wound with a swishing sound, falling to the ground with a pleasant "ding" sound.
The dagger bounced a few times on the smooth floor, and then emitted an orange light. As the orange light flashed, the dagger shrank into a small, dim orange transparent diamond, only the size of a thumb cap.
Chen Ke was stunned. He subconsciously looked at the life countdown and couldn't help but take a breath.
"You have 57 minutes and 42 seconds left to live..."
He subconsciously reached out and touched his chest. Looking down, he found that there was no scar on his blood-stained shirt except for the hole pierced by the dagger. Moreover, he couldn't even feel his heartbeat...
This countdown was really fair. It said that it would be cured, but now he had no heart and could only live for more than 50 minutes. Chen Ke didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
After a few seconds, Chen Ke felt that he could control his body. He took a breath and got up from the ground with a "hi!".
Maybe he got up too quickly. His eyes went dark for a second. He stumbled and fell on the office chair beside him.
He looked around. This was an office of dozens of square meters, with three managers' offices, 28 workstations, 16 computers, and a copier.
The lights were not on. It was time to get off work.
There are no windows in the room. The office should be in the center of the building. The exhaust is from the central air-conditioning duct. The floor height is about four meters. Hmm... a complex office building. This should be the internal office of the building management.
Chen Ke was a little surprised at his observation ability. He only took a quick glance and got so much information.
He bent down to pick up the orange diamond that was transformed from the dagger and put it in his palm to examine it. The diamond was very beautiful. It was hard to imagine that it was transformed from a dagger. How could it change back?
"Consume 30 minutes of life to summon the holy object. The remaining life is 26 minutes and 58 seconds."
A line of small words scrolled by, and the orange diamond in Chen Ke's hand turned back into a dagger.
Chen Ke took a breath. Is he mistaken? This is simply fatal! He looked at the dagger, and a transparent frame appeared in front of him, showing the information of the dagger:
[Blasphemy Dagger]
[鈥斺�敱怀瑾 �
[鈥斺�敱怀瑾 �
[鈥斺�斠燕褂漫�
Unable to understand, Chen Ke blinked his eyes, and the transparent frame disappeared.
The dagger turned into a small orange diamond again. Chen Ke vowed never to think about it again, so as not to waste his limited life.
"Ha!"
A chill rose from the soles of his feet. Chen Ke suddenly felt very cold. He was sleepy and his eyelids became heavy.
He kept rubbing his hands to keep warm, but it was useless. Chen Ke knew that this was due to hypothermia caused by the decline of vital signs.
It had only been half an hour since he came here, and he hadn't even stepped out of the door. He was going to die here?
Chen Ke was not convinced. Although he had no idea, he didn't want to just sit there and wait to die.
"Miles, is that you?"
A hip-hop voice came from the corridor outside the door, accompanied by the sound of thumping footsteps.
Chen Ke's muscles tensed and he stood up immediately, although he didn't know why he was so nervous, as if something bad would happen in a moment.
The door of the office was pushed open, and a bald black man in a dark green jacket walked in with a gun. Chen Ke estimated that he was about 180 cm tall and stronger than himself.
The black man saw Chen Ke at first sight and immediately pointed his gun at him. He widened his eyes, and his left hand holding the gun trembled a little. A strange emotion of fear and curiosity climbed up his face.
And Chen Ke not only knew that he was afraid and curious, but also could feel the murderous aura flowing from him!
"Absorb the murderous aura and convert it into life"
"+30 minutes"
"+30 minutes"
"+30 minutes"
"+30 minutes"
"+30 minutes"
...
The life countdown suddenly jumped from more than 20 minutes to 2 hours and 30 minutes, and it was still increasing at a rate of half an hour per second!
This is all right? !
Watching the countdown keep increasing, Chen Ke was stunned at first, and then he was secretly happy in his heart.
"You? What good thing did you do? Lin? This is not the same as agreed. Hey! You'd better raise your hands, then slowly kneel down, and tell me clearly, where is Miles the fuck?" The black man seemed to know Chen Ke, and spoke in a black man's unique hip-hop emphasis like a machine gun.
I don't know why, but Chen Ke can understand the English spoken by the black man instantly now.
"Who are you?" Chen Ke slowly raised his hands, holding a small orange diamond in his right fist.
"Want to play games with me, Lin? You yellow-skinned people, don't think you are so smart. The problem now is that several of us are acting according to the plan, but you didn't die according to the plan, which confuses me. Ouch! Man! Where is Miles? Tell me quickly, otherwise I promise to fill your head with lead bullets!" The black man shook his head as he spoke.
"What plan?" Chen Ke asked while staring at the countdown in the upper right corner of his vision.
He delayed time as much as possible, and his lifespan was still rising rapidly, and soon broke through 4 hours.
"Don't play tricks on me, what do you have in your right hand?" The black man noticed Chen Ke's clenched right hand.
"Do you want it?" Chen Ke continued to tease the black man.
"What do you have in your hand? Don't play tricks! Yellow-skinned ghost!" The black man opened the safety of the gun and threatened.
Chen Ke took a step back at the right time and showed the orange diamond in his hand to the black man.
"Where did you get it? Why don't you give it to me? You can't use it anyway." The black man stared at the diamond and said.
"Come and take it." Chen Ke spread his palm and held the diamond out to the black man.
The black man slowly approached Chen Ke and stretched out his right hand to take the diamond in Chen Ke's palm.
When the two were only one step away.
"Consume 30 minutes of life to summon the holy object."
At that moment, the diamond turned into a dagger.
In less than 1 second, Chen Ke grabbed the dagger and stabbed it from the bottom to the top of the black man's neck, all the way to the brain, and twisted the handle of the knife.
The black man's eyes rolled back, and he fell to the ground without a scream, his face buried in the small blood pit where Chen Ke had been lying, and the dagger left in his throat turned into a small orange diamond again.
Life timer: 3 hours, 59 minutes and 52 seconds.
Chen Ke didn't want to look for the small diamond in the flesh and blood, so he picked up the black man's Glock 17 instead.
He removed the magazine, turned the slide, and a copper-yellow 9mm bullet popped out of the ejection port. The double-row magazine was filled with 17 rounds of bullets.
This gun is a civilian model with only single-shot shooting mode, while the Glock used by the military and police has a full-automatic mode.
Although it was his first time touching a real gun, Chen Ke felt inexplicably familiar and comfortable, as if he was a long-term professionally trained shooter. The speed of the action and the accuracy of the knife that killed the black man in seconds also made him doubt his ability.
What did the previous owner of my body do?
When he crossed over, Chen Ke felt a sense of withering. That should be the feeling brought to him by the death of the original owner's soul. The current Chen Ke is himself, but he has changed his body.
He suddenly recalled the three mortal skills before he crossed over.
The central axis relock system is a close-range rapid response shooting technology that integrates multiple tactical skills such as shooting posture, gun grip, loading technology and aiming. It is a complete advanced shooting system.
Maga and Kali are two types of fighting skills. One is the famous close-range bare-handed killing technique, and the other is a mixed unarmed and armed fighting technique. There is no fixed routine for these two fighting techniques, and the first move is a killing move.
Chen Ke is not a military fan, but he has watched countless Hollywood blockbusters, so he still knows these things.
These three skills are killing techniques, and Chen Ke, or the previous owner of this body, has mastered all three techniques.
What Chen Ke cares about most is the extraordinary skills marked as "lost".
When the soul dies, the extraordinary experience of the original owner disappears, and the skills are lost.
But after long-term training and use of mortal skills, they are stored in muscle memory and brain nerves, so Chen Ke naturally inherited these abilities.
Since there is the existence of "supernormal", Chen Ke believes that there must be a way to break the "life countdown" on his body.