Chapter 1: Dead, alive, don't want to die
[Price: You lost a life. ]

【Compensation: A new life.】

……

Anti opened his eyes dazedly, and saw only darkness in front of him. There was a chill in the air, and he smelled a strange smell.

The smell of blood and burnt smell.

Sitting up from the ground, staring blankly at the scene in front of him, Anti was like a person who had just woken up after a long sleep, and his brain needed some time to respond.

"Oh, I'm dead." Then he reacted.

The specific way he died seemed to be that he was involved in a major car accident, and that section of the road was in chaos. I just hope that the driver who took him is okay.

Although it is estimated to be uncertain.

As for why he died and came back to life, and appeared in a completely unfamiliar place.

Of course he didn't know either.

However, before waking up, the two lines of dreamy words that appeared in my turbid mind should be related to that.

He blinked and suddenly felt something gathering in front of him.

A stream of white and a stream of purple-black condensed together in front of his eyes to form words that he could understand.

[The following will explain.]

"Yeah." Anti blinked. Although he had a lot to say in his mind, it would be better to finish reading quietly at this time. It is very rude to interrupt others when they are talking.

[We have jointly given you life in another world, but this is not a simple gift, it may even be endless torture and suffering. ]

"Um……"

[We will not restrict your behavior, only some individual goals need to be completed in your busy schedule. ]

He seems easy to talk to. Is this... called Golden Finger?
[In order to enable you to act better, we have compensated your inspiration. When your inspiration is triggered on a certain occasion, you can get compensation while bearing a certain cost.]

Anti blinked.

[We will also borrow your inspiration to provide you with additional help, but correspondingly, you have to bear the corresponding price to obtain this help, that's all. ]

After Anti read all of them, the words before his eyes disappeared.

"So I was able to survive and travel through time with the help of someone. According to the compensation given by this being, I died in a car accident over there, and the compensation I got was a new life..."

After Anti finished his calculations, he frowned slightly and said, "I feel like I've been taken advantage of."

Forget it.

Suddenly, the bright light appeared in front of my eyes again, but this time it was not communication, but directly entering the compensation mode.

[Event - "Gift upon Awakening": You can choose one of the following three types of help and the corresponding three costs.]

【Perfect Body Shaping: Your body will be fixed in perfect condition at all times. The price is that you will not be able to walk. 】

[Eyes of Night: Your fearless black eyes can see some information about things, especially those without an owner. The price is that the number of life locks is reduced.]

[Humble Remains: You can obtain a "desolate and lowly" "remains". The price is that its will has not died. 】

"The eyes, I guess." Anti chose the second option without much thought.

He doesn't like to think too much, and especially hates doing multiple-choice questions. If he can't do the first option and he doesn't know what the third option is, then he'll do the second one.

Although I don’t know what the “life lock” is, I can’t kill him again.

He just died and was fished out, so it doesn’t matter if he dies again.

After making the choice, there was no special effect and the text in front of me disappeared again.

Sonorous!

His head seemed to be suddenly hit hard, and then he felt as if his heart was being squeezed and then crushed!
My eyes went dark, followed by a severe tinnitus.

But soon, his vision returned to normal.

There seemed to be no special changes in his eyes, but no other magical words appeared in front of him. After Anti calmed down for a while, he did not stay there motionless.

Let’s first take a look at where we are.

If it is another modern city, that would be the best. If not, it should at least be a civilized society. In short, it is better not to start a wilderness survival game. I hope that the folks in the strange world can be warm and hospitable, but at least kind and gentle.

Following the faint light of the fire, he groped his way through a narrow passage in the darkness.

The view in front of him suddenly became clear, and the lights illuminated the cave in front, but the scene inside shattered all of Anti's previous luck and imagination.

The ground was filled with corpses, and the pungent stench was mixed with a strong burnt smell that seemed to have been incompletely burned.

There were a few people in the distance, one of them was holding a lantern, and the others were carrying and discarding corpses. Further back, several wooden carts could be seen, with bodies lying peacefully inside, casually wrapped in dirty cloth like insect pupae.

Well, we shouldn’t kid ourselves, that’s the corpse.

It was a truly happy family scene.

Anti smacked his lips softly.

The man holding the lantern looked around, and since Anti didn't try to hide, he was seen quite easily.

He was prepared to stray into remote mountains and bad waters, encounter evil and unruly people full of bloody and bad habits, and then immediately experience another process of hospitality.

"Ah!" As a result, a scream was heard from the other side.

Anti:?
The man holding the lantern screamed and attracted the attention of several people who were moving the corpse. He pointed a trembling finger at Anti and said something.

Then, their response was quite swift.

Abandon the corpse and pick up the weapons placed nearby, including pitchforks, stone pickaxes, wooden sticks and other things that fit the image.

Then, he turned around and ran away.

An Ti was stunned for a moment, and then he didn't have time to think: "Wait!"

Then he took a step and chased after them. It seems that the villagers here are not hospitable, but a little shy.

Anti was thinking half absentmindedly, but his body was walking briskly. He was very happy that he had always maintained a minimum fitness habit, although he didn't know whether his current self was still related to his past self after being resurrected and traveling through time.

When those people saw Anti chasing them, they became even more terrified.

Although the man holding the lantern was the first to discover Anti, he was the slowest runner among them. While fleeing in panic, he directly threw the lantern in his hand at Anti.

Anti caught it carefully, took a look at the flickering fire inside, put it around his waist and continued chasing.

But they entered another tunnel, and when Anti arrived, it was so complicated that he was completely lost.

"..."

In speechless silence, he could only turn around and pace back to the empty pile of corpses.

With the lantern in hand, I took a closer look. This was a mine with traces of human activity. Judging from the tools scattered around, it didn't look like there was any advanced technology. It seemed to have been abandoned a lot, and was generally dilapidated and backward.

I thought back to the clothes the villagers were wearing, their simple appearance and unfamiliar style.

It seems that the place he traveled to has nothing to do with the modern city he hoped for. Or should he continue to comfort himself by saying that this is just some remote wilderness and that there is still hope for the dream of a modern city?

It is not impossible.

"Oh, by the way, I just saw..."

After taking a quick look around, Anti remembered that there seemed to be a black area in front of his eyes when he received the lantern.

He picked up the lantern again, and sure enough, there was a small black dot on it.

After staring at the small dot for a few seconds, it suddenly opened up and revealed black text.

[Lanterns of the villagers in "Gross Town": Workers in the Gross Mine always have this lantern with them. However, after everyone began to pursue the wealth brought by the "eyes", the place that this lantern often illuminated has unknowingly become a dark corner where curses breed.]

"...So this is how it is used!" Anti suddenly realized.

Those black eyes, after looking for a long time, didn't see anything special. It turned out that they were waiting for him here.

He held the lamp and looked for a long time until his eyes were hurt by the brightness. Then he looked at other things around him, searching for small black dots.

In addition to corpses, there are also many ores and mining tools scattered here.

Pickaxes were especially common, and he had seen them, providing much the same information as the lantern.

"This is a mining town. Something strange happened. The mine pit was no longer dug and turned into a pile of corpses. Then a curse started to grow in the mine pit... Does it mean there is some dirty thing?"

Anti scratched his head.

"So they treat me as a dirty thing, right?" Anti snapped his fingers and felt that he had found a way to convince himself.

"Great, it seems I'm not a dirty thing." He felt relieved.

Standing among the corpses, the nearest torch flickered, making Anti's shadow on the ground look like another moving creature.

Anti took a look and stomped on it a few times like a child, as if this would make his shadow settle down.

Wow...

Suddenly, it seemed as if some stones fell from the rock wall behind me.

Anti looked back at the sound.

On the rock wall, there was a skinny humanoid creature lying on the ground, with no clothes on. His ferocious face had empty eyes and an exaggeratedly open mouth, with teeth that looked like saw teeth.

The next moment Anti saw it, the monster let go of its hands that were clinging to the rock wall and pounced towards Anti.

Anti kicked the pickaxe next to him, held it in his hand and smashed it directly at the monster.

Bang!
The monster was beaten so hard that its body was bent and it fell to the ground in a miserable state, letting out an inhuman roar, but the roar was a bit embarrassing at this moment.

Anti stepped on the monster's back, preventing it from getting up.

The monster immediately began to struggle violently.

At this time, Anti also discovered that the monster was quite strong. After taking a look and finding no black spots, he raised the pickaxe and smashed it directly on the monster's head.

Click!

The monster twitched for a while and then stopped moving.

Anti added two more hits, and only released his legs after confirming that everything was correct.

However, it seemed that he hit the pickaxe too hard on the last time, and it went straight through the skull and nailed it to the ground. He couldn't pull it out in one go, so he gave up temporarily and squatted down to check the monster's body.

"Ah, the black spot appeared." He said in a flat tone.

Black spots appear on the monster's body after it dies.

[The cursed body of the Gross Mine: The resentment of the poor Gross townspeople who had their eyes removed before dying attracted a miracle of resentment. This miracle allowed them to move again after death, but unfortunately, even so, most of them are still weak. ]

[——Which is more important, eyes or wealth? ]

"I don't know." Looking at the question behind, Anti replied.

After saying that, he stood up and continued to try to pull the pickaxe out.

There were faint noises coming from behind me.

No one knew how Anti had offended them, but a large number of similar monsters crawled out from the extensive tunnels of the mine, roaring and chirping from their mouths.

They approached Anti, even though they had nothing to do with him, but they had already started to vent their anger on all living things.

boom!
Suddenly, there was a crisp sound, causing the monsters' movements to slow down slightly.

It turned out that Anti had pulled the pickaxe out with great effort, with one hand still kept raised high. He slightly side-glanced, and his eyes, flowing like the night, glanced behind him.

"But you guys helped me fish it out, so it's more important for me to get out alive and help you guys."

The faint sound echoed among the abandoned mines.

　new book!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)