Chapter 176 The World Opens (10)
Chapter 176 The World Opens (10)
On the bustling streets, there are endless streams of people and vehicles on the road.
On the other side of the commercial street is the urban village hidden in the shadow of high-rise buildings.
Various old and newly replaced black wires were intertwined and finally mixed into a ball above the electric pole.
It's ten o'clock in the morning, and many residents, having finished washing, stand by the walls of their houses, wringing out their soaking wet clothes. Water drips onto the ground, flowing down the roadside drain and into the sewer. Their still-dripping short-sleeved shirts hang on hangers, on the double-pole iron drying rack.
The early morning sunlight can only shine on the roofs of each house. Under the eaves is green moss that has spread, and there are a lot of weeds in the corners of the walls.
Only at noon does the sun fall on this path.
It was at this time that Gu Chang returned here. He rented a small room here and only paid 700 yuan in rent every month.
He was wearing a well-worn white T-shirt and knee-length denim shorts. In his left hand was a white plastic bag filled with various medicines, and in his right was a 4.5-liter bucket of mineral water.
A middle-aged woman suddenly poured a basin of water on Gu Chang.
Gu Chang clenched his hand holding the plastic bag and turned his head to look at the woman.
The woman seemed to have suddenly discovered that Gu Chang was here. She walked over in surprise and said to Gu Chang hurriedly, "Ouch! I'm sorry, I didn't see you. Wait a moment, I'll get you a towel to wipe it off."
Gu Chang let the water on his face slide down his chin. He felt that there was no need to wipe it off anymore. It would be better to go back and take a shower directly.
Besides, he was used to being ignored.
When the woman came out with a dry towel, she looked left and right but couldn't see Gu Chang who had already walked away.
"Oh - it's really strange, how could this kid walk so fast?" The woman muttered. She was clearly splashing water because she saw that there was no one outside, so how come she saw the boy there after she finished splashing?
She couldn't figure it out, but her clothes weren't finished yet, so she continued to wash them.
After climbing four flights of stairs, Gu Chang put down the mineral water bottle in his right hand and took out the key from his trouser pocket. He inserted the key into the lock and turned it to the right, and the rusty iron door beside the door opened.
He pushed the door open, pulled out the key, and propped his knee against the iron door. He first placed the bag of medicine in his left hand on the red plastic stool in the entrance, then picked up the mineral water bottle and walked in. After doing all this, Gu Chang closed the door with his backhand.
Gu Chang raised his hand and smoothed back the wet hair on his forehead, revealing his fair forehead and delicate and restrained eyes.
This room is only a dozen square meters, and there is not much extra space after putting a bed and a wardrobe.
Gu Changhui had chosen to live here because he had to juggle multiple part-time jobs. It was not only cheap, but the subway station was only a ten-minute walk away. Living in a residential complex would have doubled the rent, and he felt he'd be left behind in the elevator.
Gu Chang touched the bump on the back of his head. He turned on the bathroom light and walked to the mirror to see if the bump on the back of his head was better.
Actually, he failed to commit suicide by hanging himself, and got this bump because he hit the back of his head on the ground.
Gu Chang came out of the bathroom and leaned slightly. The bathroom wasn't very big, just a squat toilet, a sink, and a square mirror with a broken corner stuck to the wall. Even standing alone in it, he felt the bathroom was very crowded.
Gu Chang walked to the bed and began to take off his wet T-shirt. Fortunately, the water only splashed on his right half, and his phone was in his left trouser pocket, so it didn't get wet. He noticed the red rope of the trash can and remembered the past.
"Before he was twenty-six, he was a normal person.
After the age of twenty-six, his friends gradually began to forget him, and people around him began to ignore his existence. All kinds of misfortune would befall him.
Zhang Yi hadn't always lived here. He used to have a stable job, but he was in a car accident and was hospitalized after being diagnosed with a mild concussion and a broken leg.
During his hospitalization, he was taken care of by a girl he once had a crush on.
Why did he say "once"? Because now he doesn't feel anything when he thinks of that girl.
Gu Chang always felt that something was wrong, but his mind continued to recall what had happened before, as if it was playing a movie on compulsion.
"After Zhang Yi was discharged from the hospital, the company fired him for being absent from work without reason. Although Zhang Yi had sent messages and emails to inform his colleagues and superiors, they all said they had not received any messages from him.
Fortunately, the company and the driver who hit him gave him financial compensation, but Zhang Yi couldn't be happy at all.
Because he had to continue interviewing for jobs, and that meant he had to prepare to move.
Worse still, Zhang Yi had found a new job and was about to start, but the company had lost Zhang Yi's employment documents and had chosen someone else to take the job.
Zhang Yi's eyes went dark. This company was far away from the city, and after such an incident, Zhang Yi gave up on this company after careful consideration.
When he left, he called a taxi on his phone and prepared to go back.
The driver had already parked the car in front of him and was still calling Zhang Yi to ask where he was.
Without thinking too much, Zhang Yi knocked on the car window to let the driver know that he was there.
When he arrived at his destination, the driver seemed to ignore his existence and drove away.
Zhang Yi hadn't gotten off the car yet, so he could only pat the back of the driver's seat to tell the driver that he hadn't gotten off the car yet.
The driver seemed to be startled by the sudden appearance of Zhang Yi. He asked Zhang Yi when he got on the car.
Zhang Yi had no choice but to take out his cell phone and show the order to the driver.
Afterwards, Zhang Yi returned to the community where he lived. He didn't take this matter to heart because he had to find a new job.
But no matter how many jobs he applied for, the final result was that he was chosen, but then another person was chosen.
Zhang initially suspected that these companies were playing tricks on him. He found a company and questioned the human resources department, asking why they agreed to let him join the company but then replaced him with someone else.
The HR department looked confused and asked who Zhang Yi was.
This kept happening, and Zhang began to doubt whether there was something wrong with him. He even doubted whether he had gone to the interview at all.
But every order on the taxi app on his mobile phone reminded him that he had been there.
In addition, the lease on his house was about to expire, and Zhang Yi had no choice but to not renew it. Fortunately, he had already found another house and signed the contract.
However, the landlord didn't remember that he was a tenant and often forgot to ask Zhang Yi to pay the rent.
In order to prevent the landlord from forgetting him as a tenant and renting the house to someone else, Zhang Yi had to pay the rent on time on the specified date.
One day, Zhang Yi was tired of looking for a job, so he went to the park near the community to relax.
Zhang Yi was tired from walking, so he sat down on a park bench to rest. Then a couple ignored him and the man sat on Zhang Yi's lap, hugging the woman and kissing her.
Zhang Yi pushed them away on the spot, and all the emotions that had been pent up in him burst out at this moment.
However, the couple said that they did not notice Zhang Yi sitting there and thought that there was no one there. Then they apologized to Zhang Yi frantically.
After the couple left, Zhang Yi became more and more angry.
Is he so invisible?
What happened next completely confirmed Zhang Yi's thoughts.
For example, Zhang Yi bought a plate of fried rice at a snack stand. There were only two people in front of the stall owner, but he only fried rice for the other person.
It was Zhang Yi who reminded the stall owner that he noticed that Zhang Yi’s fried rice was still not cooked.
For example, even if he was walking normally on a street with not much traffic, he would still be hit by passers-by several times. After that, Zhang Yi would actively avoid passers-by because he really didn't want to be hit.
There were more and more things like this that were ignored, so Zhang Yi wanted to talk to a friend about it.
But his good friend deleted his contact information. When Zhang Yi called him, the other party asked, "Who are you?"
Zhang Yi tried to explain, but some people remembered, while others thought he was a scammer and hung up.
Friends who added Zhang Yi back later would forget about him and delete him again.
Later, Gu Chang got used to being ignored, so he moved to where he lives now. Firstly, it was to save money, and secondly, he wanted to reduce contact with people.
Now the only thing that can prove that he is alive is his mobile phone. Electronic information will not forget him, and he will still receive harassing text messages at least every month.
Later, because he had had enough of being invisible, he went to a remote place with a rope on a rainy night, hoping to find a tree to commit suicide. However, the branch broke, and he returned to his rented house in a daze, holding the rope in the heavy rain.
He has no family and is an orphan.
He finally reached adulthood, finished college, and found a stable job. He thought he would have a happy life, but a car accident changed the trajectory of his life, and everything he once had was gone from him.
Text narration: [He died on a rainy night, but was reborn.
A brand new soul came into his body, his name was Gu Chang.
Gu Chang came back to his senses a little, and he blinked. What did these two sentences mean?
He subconsciously turned around and searched for his ID card in the closet. After a while, he took out his ID card. Gu Chang watched as the two characters "Zhang Yi" on the ID card gradually twisted into "Gu Chang".
Gu Chang was stunned. He took out his mobile phone from his pocket and opened a bank app. After entering his password, he turned to his personal information.
Gu*
Gu Chang opened his lips slightly. His name was Gu Chang.
Who is that Zhang Yi?
Gu Chang felt that he was Zhang Yi, but the memories in his mind were both strange and familiar, but the two lines of narration said that he was Gu Chang.
This made Gu Chang unsure of who he really was.
Could it be that he is Zhang Yi's second personality?
Gu Chang looked at the bag of medicine in the entrance hall. He remembered that he had gone to the hospital today. After telling the doctor about his experience, he was treated as a mentally ill person and transferred to the psychiatric department.
The psychiatrist asked him to take some medicine first and then go for a follow-up checkup.
Gu Chang walked to the entrance and took out the receipt from the plastic bag with his name on it.
It still says "Gu Chang".
Gu Chang frowned slightly, but the name on the ID card changed right under his nose. Was he dazzled?
Gu Chang felt that it would be better to take medicine first, as he was confused about the situation now.
Gu Chang suddenly thought of the two lines of narration that appeared after he finished reading the memory of Chapter 1.
He himself was amused. Gu Chang couldn't help but wonder, could it be that he was really some kind of wandering ghost, who entered Zhang Yi's body when Zhang Yi died, and then used his magical powers to erase Zhang Yi's name?
In a certain space.
The Lord knocked on the system's head and asked it through gritted teeth, "Why is the narration coming out?! And it's a text version!"
The system screamed, "I didn't do it, I didn't do it!"
"Fortunately, I sealed his memory in advance, otherwise the truth would be exposed when the text narration came out!" The Lord God stopped what he was doing and said with great pride.
In front of him was an oversized electronic display screen, and on the screen was Gu Chang's figure, but his exposed upper body was blurred.
The Lord God snorted disdainfully, "It's just a body like a bamboo pole, what's so good about it?"
The system dared not say anything.
There was a rule at headquarters that pornography was forbidden, and pornography was strictly prohibited. This was because the Lord God had issued an order prohibiting the display of any pornographic images or information, hence the mosaics that appeared on the screen.
Now the Lord God sees the mosaic, and He is still not satisfied.
The system couldn't help but grumble in secret that the Lord God was only complaining here but would not really cancel this rule.
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