"What the hell is going on!!!!" Zhou Bofu let out his first shout after opening his eyes. However, what came out was only "tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk" sounds.
One minute ago.
Zhou Bofu: Male, 29 years old. Optimistic and resigned to fate. Both parents are alive, has a wife and son. Company employee, no worries about food or clothing. Currently in the stage of closing his eyes before going to bed.
10 seconds ago.
Zhou Bofu: Male (perhaps?), ? years old. He suddenly felt a chill on his body, opened his eyes, and then petrified.
Now, he makes a chirping sound and looks around. In front of him is a thicket that blocks out the sunlight, to his left and right and behind him are stone walls, and under his body is a pile of branches. Moreover, it's clear that his own body has completely changed. Having suffered such a blow, Zhou Bosi instinctively began to escape, he wanted to sleep...
"Sleep, it must be a dream...... I'm too exhausted.........."
Then Zhou Bofu closed his eyes and tried to enter the dreamland. At this moment, his mind was like a flash of lightning, and some memories automatically emerged. "What's going on? I've crossed over?!?!?! I'm relying on it!!!!!!! Who wants to cross over?!?! Brother, although I've seen many starting points, it doesn't mean I want to cross over! ! ! ! Please, whoever you are, let me go back......" Unfortunately, the memories told him that he couldn't go back for the time being. Zhou Bofu calmed down and began to carefully examine this strange memory, finally understanding his situation.
He had actually arrived in a certain world, and he could go back. However, he must accumulate power to break through the outer membrane of this world and reach the next world, and so on, step by step, to return to his original world. Moreover, between one world and another, it's like interlocking gears, there is timing, in this current world, he must cross over in years that are multiples of 9, otherwise he will be randomly thrown into another world, possibly further away from his original world.
"So, what's the deal with these individual worlds?" Zhou Bofu continued to examine his memories. It turned out that all of these worlds originated from the Source World where he was from. These worlds were like a series of gears outside the Source World, all born from the fantasies of humans in the Source World. The countless fantasies, movies, and games created by humans in the Source World gave rise to these numerous small worlds. Zhou Bofu was just a lucky (or unlucky?) person who suddenly jumped into one of these worlds.
At this time, Zhou Bofu had a strange feeling, "he" was there, "he" was "me". The body of "I, Zhou Bofu" was in the distant world as numerous as the Ganges River sand.
"I can feel my body in the original world... I see it!!!" He saw himself lying on the bed, saw his wife and son, but they were all frozen images. It seemed like time had stopped..."As expected, it turns out that when I hadn't returned yet, time in the origin world was indeed at a standstill... How strange, it's as if I'm like an 'observer' in quantum physics - if I don't return, time doesn't move. Well, this way I can rest assured."
"So, what if I die in this world? Can I go back directly? Ugh, and there's no memory... Want to try my luck? Forget it, can't play like that... Let's just follow the rules, safety first."
A huge stone in his heart finally fell to the ground, and Zhou Bofu let out a sigh of relief. But at this time, the screen slowly disappeared.
"What's going on, no!!!!!!"
"Go home, must go home!! Although it seemed ordinary in daily life, but at this moment after crossing over, he clearly understood how important his wife and parents were to him, and made a vow to definitely return home."
After searching his memory, Zhou Bofu opened his eyes, and sleepiness was gone. His fighting spirit was full. "So, let's start with the situation of my body and surroundings."
"First, take a look at myself, 'what have I become?' Take a look at my body, it's obviously the body of a young bird, with a pair of wings that only have down feathers... But 'what the hell is this?!' There are actually claws on his wings!!! 'Isn't it normal for birds to not have claws on their wings? This situation is just like having two hands growing out of one wrist, isn't it ridiculous... Am I a freak? Even if I were an Archaeopteryx, it wouldn't be like this.' Take a closer look and move them around. The very flexible claws are clearly a pair of claws that have grown on the wrist, one is the normal wing tip, while the other has four toes that can grasp."
"It's fine, let's not worry about it for now and look at something else." Zhou Bofu simultaneously confirmed his field of vision "About 270 degrees in front...can distinguish colors, meaning my eyes are like a human's on the front. What I can see with my eyes, what I can touch with my front paws is a hooked beak, with small serrations on both sides...I am a bird of prey. However, this beak shape is relatively long, not like Strigiformes, nor as sturdy as Accipitriformes eagles, but rather similar to the beak of Ciconiiformes shoebill, just not that big or long. The neck isn't particularly long or short, and the head can only be described as neither big nor small, looking like a Galliformes chicken's head and neck. And what about the paws below?"
Zhou Bofu looked down and saw that the hind legs were quite long, very similar to those of a wading bird, but not as long. The three toes had palms and opposable grasping toes. There was a fleshy pad in the palm... and the claws could even be retracted, similar to the claws of a cat...
"I'm telling you, judging from the fleshy pads on my paws, I'm a bird that's good at walking, and my entire foot is just like the hind legs of a large carnivorous dinosaur... anyway, birds are also evolved from dinosaurs, whatever. The problem is this retractable claw... damn it, am I a cat-bird or what!!!!!!"
"Wait, mom's most important thing was forgotten, what gender is the old man?!" The kid turned his head to look at his butt... Instant chaos!!!! "Birds don't have a cloaca, do they?!?! How can there be a little brother down there?! Hmm... this is good news, no mistake!! But does this world have rice and integrity?!?!?"
"Putting it all together, I have a chicken-like head and neck, a stork-like beak, but my face is owl-like. And don't even get me started on the wings, which just so happen to have claws. My hind legs are like those of a pheasant, with retractable claws... What kind of bird am I?! Hmm? It seems I'm somewhat similar to the great grey owl... But it doesn't have retractable claws or claws on its wings either..."
"Whatever, I don't want to think about it anymore. Whatever exists is reasonable. But... how big am I? There's no reference object at all..." He looked around and saw that the sky had already started to darken, with only one moon in the sky, but there was nothing around him that could serve as a definite length reference. "Ah, I'm getting a bit sleepy, let's talk about it again when the sun comes up..."
The sky was bright, and Zhou Bofu woke up with a headache. He had a chaotic dream all night. In the dream, countless birds appeared. The damned birds even automatically decomposed and rearranged themselves... Sometimes, cat heads, dog heads, human heads, **... and other messy heads and body parts would appear. And there was always a group of bastards in the dream singing loudly: "Take a look, take a look, what kind of bird are we?" In the end, a bunch of unreasonable Left Guards finally merged into a dead kid with a rice cake-shaped eyebrow performing an elephant dance.
So, after Zhou Bofu woke up, he not only had a headache but also felt extremely angry. He simply wanted to chop down the strange creature that appeared in his dream to vent his anger. Then, with a dejected expression, he moved to the entrance of the cave. He aimed his little brother at the gap in the bushes and started peeing, and then very embarrassingly stuck his butt out from the big gap to complete the work of the five grains cycle. Just as he was about to use his front paws to wipe with grass paper, after scratching for half a day, he suddenly remembered that he had traveled through time... The soft white toilet paper had already said goodbye to him. In the end, he decided to give up wiping his butt in despair.
At this time, normal things came to visit him in order. Mr. Hunger showed him his power. Zhou Bofu heard the ghostly cry of his stomach starting to rumble, and his mouth was so dry that it seemed to be smoking. Suddenly he remembered a serious and urgent question that had been ignored all along: where was the bird?
"Damn it, I'm a chick! Normally, there should always be a parent bird around... Now, who knows how many hours have passed, and yet not a single shadow of a parent bird. If this goes on, won't I be done for?! No way, gotta investigate carefully."
Then our comrade Zhou Bofu endured hunger and thirst and began to study these individual problems.
"Firstly, the entrance has grown thick with shrubs. For my body size, it's no problem to get out. However, based on the normal proportion of young birds and adult birds, adult birds should have a hard time entering without damaging the shrubs."
He stretched his head out of the bushes a little further to look around.
"Hmm, so this cave is located on the middle of the mountain, with a nearly vertical cliff above that has very little vegetation. Below it's a slope of about 60 degrees or more, covered in thick shrubs. But how high up it goes is invisible, all I can see is where it disappears into the clouds, and how far down it extends from the ground is also impossible to gauge, thanks to this damn lack of reference points... but at least... hmm... seems like it's around a hundred meters or so. A 60-degree slope is pretty steep, so that bird must have flown in and landed, rather than climbing up with its feet."
As Zhou Bofu moved, the branches that were originally under him began to crack and break, and started to weather. He bowed his head to carefully examine the lower branches. "They're already dry and crumbling, and seem to have been here for hundreds of years, disintegrating at a touch... what's going on?" Zhou Bofu immediately crawled inside and flipped over the eggshell to take a look. "Indeed, the surface of the eggshell has already started to petrify." The calcified eggshell was starting to petrify... hmm... how long had it been? Forget it, can't think clearly. It seems that I should have been a dead egg in an abandoned bird's nest? Pfft, children speak without thinking, and the strong wind blows by.
At this time, he noticed that on the outside of the shrubbery towards the sunny side, there were a lot of small red fruits, probably about the size of his eyeballs. Driven by hunger, he didn't care if the fruit was poisonous or not, and without hesitation, he stuffed the fruit into his mouth with big gulps, muttering to himself "Damn it, chicks need animal protein, plant protein is useless... ...but the taste is actually pretty good...... Fuck, can I really taste? At least that's a good thing......" After eating about one-fifth of the fruits on the sunny side, Zhou Bofu patted his belly contentedly with his wings.
"Eating full, but the chicks should have animal protein after all... and four-fifths of it. This won't do, or else I'll really have to start finding insects for them to eat? It's truly too pitiful."
He began to look around, trying to find something different. As a bird of prey, his vision was very good. His sharp eyesight allowed him to discover something. In the distance below, there was a large area of broad-leaved forest, and in the forest, he saw a... wild boar? !!!! "There are actually wild boars? It seems that this place is indeed similar to Earth, it's really a fantasy projection. Right, now I have a reference object. Wild boar: The body length of Eurasian wild boar should be up to 2 meters, usually 1.6 meters, assuming the body length of this wild boar is 1.6 meters, and calculating the proportion of trees... ...about 16 meters. Hmm... ...the distance and step-by-step calculation come out, the trees below me should be about 20 meters tall, so the cliff to the cave entrance is about 120 meters away, as I estimated. So the height of the shrubs is... ...about the same as the wild boar, 1.6 meters, compared to my body... ...I'm shocked! What kind of bird am I? I'm already as big as a swan when I just hatched, standing up and raising my head to over 1.4 meters, my body length from beak to tail is about 1.6 meters, and my wingspan exceeds 2.2 meters!!! I'm shocked!!! How big will I be when I grow up? And I can fly! What kind of bird am I? Is it an Angus eagle or an Argentine giant bird? It seems that there are no natural enemies... If we look at the situation with wild boars, it should be at least the Pleistocene or Holocene epoch, and there shouldn't be any birds of prey bigger than me... The question is still the same, what kind of bird am I?"
Zhou Bofu's mind was much more at ease. Now there was only one goal, to find a way to survive until he grew up. But for a fierce bird like him to grow up, relying on eating fruits would definitely not work, and the fruits could only last for 2-3 days before running out. The most pressing issue now was how to get his hands on some meat, otherwise, forget about going home, or else he might starve to death soon. After all, he didn't dare bet that after hanging in there for a bit, he would definitely be able to return to the original world.
"For now, I'm in a cave on the mountain. It's better not to go down for the time being, as it's hard to climb back up once you're down. If I go down now and can't find food in time, I might run into some predators and be done for. Let me finish eating the fruits at the entrance first. It's only been a day since I hatched, my claws are still not strong enough. Maybe wait two more days until I have a bit more strength."
He didn't even know what kind of fruit he had eaten - Zhou Bofu's botany wasn't very good, and he would often make mistakes when buying vegetables. However, this fruit was clearly non-toxic, or else he would have died already, and it was also very filling, until the sun set in the west he didn't feel hungry at all. "Looks like I can hold out for a few more days," Zhou Bofu thought to himself as he looked at the remaining four-fifths of the fruit outside.
For a whole day, Zhou Bofu was bored to death, with no TV or internet, he could only spend his days by staring blankly and dozing off. In the evening, in the midst of emptiness, he saw himself again in the original world, still frozen, time still not flowing. He let out a deep sigh and sighed for a long time.
As the night wore on and the moon reached its zenith, Zhou Bofu emerged from his melancholy and prepared for sleep. However, as he drifted off, the moonlight shone down on him, and a tiny warmth began to emanate from within his abdomen. At first, Zhou Bofu didn't notice, but from an outside perspective, it was clear that a faint silver glow had begun to seep into his body.
As the night deepened, the warmth in his abdomen transformed into a cold current, in harmony with the celestial Taiyin's movement, and began to flow through Zhou Bofu's body. At first, he felt comfortable, cool, and completely immersed in this sensation, without thinking about anything else, still in a state of semi-sleep.
As the moon climbed higher and the night grew darker, by midnight, the faint cold current had become a raging ice river, surging and churning as if it could freeze his very soul. Zhou Bofu was already tragic, trying to stop "What's going on?! Why is this happening in my body?! Stop! Otherwise, I'll turn into a popsicle!"
He couldn't control the cold current within him, so he let it rampage, gritting his teeth and enduring, while trying to intercept the flow. "Can't pass out!!! If I do, I'll freeze to death!!!! Although this is said to be the most comfortable way to die, but I haven't even had a drink yet!!"
He kept giving himself encouragement, telling himself jokes, trying to forget the pain of being ground by an iceberg, completely unaware of what was happening or what to do, with only one thought left: "Hold on."
Time slowly passed, and Zhou Bofu suffered for so long that he couldn't even count it, every minute feeling like a million years. The cold sweat on his body froze into hard ice beads.
Just as the eastern sky began to show a hint of red, suddenly, amidst all the icy coldness, a warmth appeared, spreading throughout his entire body in an instant. That moment was indescribable, with his whole body feeling incredibly comfortable, transformed from extreme cold to warm and cozy...
Zhou Bofu had no idea this would happen, only feeling as if he had walked the thin line between life and death, with a thrill of having escaped that was so strong "No wonder some people like extreme sports..."
Zhou Bofu's bad luck had not yet passed, and he tried once again to stop the warm current that had become a cold current, but it was still uncontrollable. The sun rose higher and higher, and the warm current in his body began to turn into a rolling fire flow. The cave where his body was located had already been frozen by the cold air at night, and now it was being melted by the rolling fire flow, causing the walls of the cave to turn into flying ash. The branches under him had long since disappeared, and even the shrubs at the entrance of the cave had turned gray. Guoziyao had already been destroyed, and due to thermal expansion and contraction, a huge radial crack appeared around the entrance of the cave. It was another painful struggle, and several times Zhou Bofu thought that it would be better to just let himself be burned away... But his desire to survive was extremely strong, and he managed to hold on until noon, with only three words left in his mind: "Cannot die".
The sun finally reached its highest point, and Zhou Bofu's body had already transformed into a scorching hot flame. Just as the sun reached its peak... all the heat disappeared, leaving only a hint of coolness. Then... "What's going on?" Zhou Bofu suddenly woke up from his nightmare-like meditation, feeling refreshed and energized, with a strong body and an exceptionally good state. He immediately checked his body and found that not even a single hair was out of place. "What's going on? This body doesn't feel right! Why did nothing happen when I slept yesterday?" He recalled that the only suspicious thing from yesterday was eating those red fruits. "Could it be that the fruit had a problem? Speaking of which, what's with this cold and hot flow? Is this internal energy? That's ridiculous!!! But... how else can I explain it? Ah! This world!!!!!! This world must have some weirdness to it, maybe it's generated from some fantasy or something. Not enough information..."
It wasn't until later that Zhou Bofu realized that what he had eaten earlier was a type of red fruit. Its function is to supplement and benefit the middle, which can easily make people feel energized. However, what interested Zhou Bofu more now was that he could speak!
Yesterday, he could only chirp and call out, but after a night of torment, he was actually able to speak like a human. All of this, combined with the many years of tempering, finally made him certain that this is a world where immortals and heroes are possible!
"Absorbing the essence of the sun and moon... I've already activated my spiritual wisdom. Yesterday's should have been some kind of luck method, but it was completely out of control, probably a spontaneous operation, and the efficiency shouldn't be great. However, after this physical body has been messed with, it seems to have become much stronger, and can even stand up immediately, which wasn't possible yesterday."
He had eaten the Zhu fruit and gained a sense of energy, but due to his lack of cultivation experience, he suddenly opened up his spiritual intelligence, causing the Moon Flower to automatically flow within his body. It flowed from the Lesser Yin to the Greater Yin, from extreme yin to rebirth in yang, then from the Lesser Yang to the Greater Yang, and finally from extreme yang back to yin. Generally, wild beasts that open their spiritual intelligence are all old monsters that have lived for a long time, having undergone the baptism of many years of essence and spirit. None of them had directly guided energy into their bodies like he did. As a result, he almost lost his life, and even if he had relaxed just a bit, it would have ended in his soul flying away and dispersing into nothingness. However, this accidental discovery allowed him to create a cultivation technique, which was called the "Yin-Yang Technique". This technique is basically known by all cultivators, but few people actually practice it. It's truly one of the most stupid techniques, with low efficiency and extremely painful to cultivate. The only advantages are that it's easy to learn and has good effects on cultivating the body. At least among ordinary cultivators, it's usually used for newbies to train their energy sense, but they wouldn't let themselves reach extreme yin or yang, instead controlling the flow of internal energy themselves. Therefore, Zhou Bofu's suffering was far greater than that of ordinary cultivators, but there were also benefits - the effects on cultivating his body were excellent, and as he progressed in his cultivation, there might be other advantages that couldn't be said for sure.
Since the harvest is already over, but the fruit at the entrance of the cave has withered and the cave itself is in a state of disarray and may collapse at any moment. It seems that it can't be lived in anymore, now Zhou Bofu only has one choice, to go down the mountain.
