Chapter 78 (1/2)

Chapter 78: I Want to Go Home

Yue Qiang had become strong.

He had thoroughly smashed up his computer case with a single kick. This was something he could not have done with his previous strength, but now he could easily do it.

The connection between the computer case and the PC and broken apart. The power board also broke. However, the display continued to stay lit.

It was still that world, and it was still that small room. Inside the room, he was holding the bamboo scroll and s.h.i.+vering slightly.

He shook his mouse and touched his keyboard for a bit. He discovered that both external peripherals that were connected to the computer case could be used. However, the blue progress bar on the display had taken a huge leap forwards before he knew it!

95%.

A computer that could work without its CPU, a display that could light up without electricity…

Is this what it meant by 95%?

After Yue Qiang had kicked out the computer case like he was venting, he sank his entire person on the chair and panted slightly, feeling a little bit calmer than he was before.

When he touched the mouse earlier, he had clicked once. Therefore, another line of words appeared on the bamboo scroll, ”I know that you might not believe it, and this isn't something that any normal person could believe. Therefore, you can go out to take a look or make a call. Test it however you want to. This is the moment the 'Pause Module' made for… Use it. If the progress bar reaches 100%, it can no longer be used.”

Test it? Alright!

The in-game Yue Qiang took out the first bamboo slip, and then the scene inside the display suddenly froze. Objects, people, and himself included did not move even a single jot, and at the same time a timer of one hour began to count down on the display.

Yue Qiang felt a trace of weariness.

How should I test this?

It was night outside. The night sceneries of the city was both familiar and strange. He had already forgotten how long it had been since he last saw a normal night scenery. However, right now it still seemed to be quite normal.

Everything inside the rented house was very normal. A messy arrangement, a whole floor of smelly socks. Everything of everything was normal.

So why was it not the real world?

Should I go out and take a look?

Should I… He did not want to think of that option of calling his home. He simply walked out of the door while subconsciously grabbing his phone.

The door was the usual dim black color. It opened up with a 'creak'. It hadn't been used for a very long time. It was the familiar stairs outside the door, very familiar; he used to pa.s.s by them every day he went down to buy cup noodles. But at the same time, it was also very strange to him. After all, he really hadn't come out in a very, very long time.

The stairs deep in the night were silent. Of course, there was no one else around here.

Should I knock on the neighbor's door?

If he could disturb a sleeping person, that would be a good thing too.

Right now Yue Qiang wasn't thinking about anything. He simply wanted to see a living person.

He knocked on the door.

Dong-dong-dong.

There were three knocking noises, and some echos were generated amidst the stairs of the deep night. There was neither a voice asking 'who is it' nor the sound of slippers. .h.i.tting the floor coming from inside the door. There was nothing.

But a voice appeared in his head:

”This door is locked.”

Of course I know this door is locked, of course I know… Yue Qiang muttered to himself. Then, as if he had gone insane, he kicked the neighbor's door with the strength he used to kick the computer case just now, causing a loud bang. Then, he raised his head and looked above him, shouting, ”I don't need you system to tell me that!”

He ran out of the stairs and arrived on the streets.

There was no one in the neighborhood at night. No one.

At first, he was walking slowly. Then, his walk turned into a run, and he ran faster and faster as if he had automatically activated Run LVL 2. He ran unusually fast, all the way to the city center and the most bustling pedestrian street of the entire city.

There was still no one.