Chapter 1: The Life-Saving Time and Space Leap

  The cold wind on a winter day slid across his face like a knife, and Gao Yang, who was running desperately, panted heavily with his mouth wide open, feeling as if his lungs were on fire. The narrow alley was about to reach its end, and the rolling traffic outside the entrance of the alley was calling out to Gao Yang.

  The screeching sound of the tires rubbing against the ground, Gao Yang hadn't reacted yet when a massive impact from his left thigh and waist sent him flying out. He heavily slammed onto the ground, rolling twice before his back crashed into the wall at the end of the alley. "Cough..." Gao Yang spat out blood as he felt like all his bones were broken, the intense pain causing his entire body to curl up in convulsions.

  He struggled to lift his eyes and looked at the two motorcycles parked beside him, watching the thugs tapping baseball bats in their hands. He closed his eyes helplessly. "Still can't escape, why is it like this." Gao Yang's heart was now filled with frustration and anger.

  Gao Yang is a native of Province A in the Huaxia country. His parents are both retired workers. He went through elementary school, middle school, high school and university uneventfully. After graduating from a second-rate university in Beijing, he entered a factory in Beijing. He spent his days in a mundane routine from 9 to 5, and the passion and enthusiasm of his youth had long been buried deep within him. He thought that this was how he would spend the rest of his life.

  Who would have thought that when they didn't want to get involved, the matter came knocking on their door. The reason for this was quite cliché, it all started because Gao Yang had a girlfriend in school who was the department's flower.

  Gao Yang's girlfriend is named Lu Lingshu, who is his hometown fellow. The two have been classmates since high school and were in the same university after the college entrance examination. Gao Yang persisted in pursuing her for several years and finally succeeded in winning her heart with his perseverance and the convenience of going home together during holidays.

  After graduation, Lu Lingshuo entered a large company for an internship. A beauty like her will never lack men's pursuit wherever she goes. Colleagues and the like are still okay on weekdays, after all, several years of feelings can't be let go just by saying so.

  But things started to change when the boss's son returned from studying in the UK and joined the company. As his girlfriend came home later and later, and their conversations became less frequent, Gaoyang had already sensed something was wrong. The incident erupted one evening when Gaoyang saw his girlfriend getting out of a convertible Mercedes with an LV bag, and they shared a kiss goodbye!!

  That night, Gao Yang had a heart-to-heart talk with his girlfriend, reviewing the journey of their hearts over the past few years and his true feelings. Amidst his girlfriend's tears, the two made up, but Gao Yang didn't calm down and instead decided to return to his hometown the next day.

  Gao Yang is a very intelligent and calm person, with a big heart since childhood. He can remain calm in the face of things and analyze them calmly. He knows that although his girlfriend has been temporarily comforted, as time goes on, facing the pursuit of a wealthy and handsome man, Gao Yang knows that his chances are slim. The only way is to use space to exchange time, hoping that the wealthy and handsome man will not be very attentive and after a period of no news, he will go find new prey again.

  Got up early and ran to buy a ticket back home, specifically telling my girlfriend not to contact the company and just pack her things at home. When the ticket counter opened, I bought the ticket and headed back, but soon felt something was off. Just as two motorcycles sped over, Gaoyang took off running towards the crowded area.

  It's just that the other party is very experienced and deliberately chose this alley, but was still knocked to the ground. Gaoyang felt helpless, should have brought his girlfriend together! Gaoyang understood in his heart that when he went to buy tickets, his girlfriend must have called to say goodbye, but the other party's movements were so fast, how long did it take? From going out to coming back, it took less than two hours! The people who worked arrived.

  A red-haired thug, leaning on a baseball bat, squatted beside Gao Yang and said, "Brother, we're all in this for the money. Don't take it to heart, okay? The boss paid us to take out one of your legs. You shouldn't make things difficult for us either, which side are you on?"

  "Which side?" Gaoyang had endless anger in his heart but was powerless, clenching his fists tightly, his fingernails digging into the flesh and fresh blood dripping from between his fingers onto the ground, gray earth and red blood, very enchanting.

  Gaoyang closed his eyes and didn't say a word. The thugs looked at Gaoyang, who didn't react, and raised their batons. "Brother, we've called the white car for you, just grit your teeth and it'll be over soon, sorry about that."

  Along with the sound of the bat falling, another emotionless voice echoed in his mind "Start?" "Start? Start what?"

  Suddenly, Gao Yang disappeared from the ground, and the muddy baseball bat slammed heavily onto the ground. Amidst the flying dust and mud, a miserable howl mixed with the sound of the bat cracking open the tiger's mouth. In the distance, the wail of an ambulance siren could be heard.

  Gao Yang suddenly opened his eyes from his daze and looked at his legs. There were torn pants and a lot of dust. "Where is everyone?" He got up from the ground and looked around, but all he saw was the endless white snow covering everything, with a few bare tree branches swaying in the wind, and in the distance, a wisp of smoke rose from a house, a peaceful rural scene.

  "Where is this place?" Gao Yang was certain he had just been in Beidu.

  "This is ZL Province, T County." A mechanical voice echoed in Gao Yang's mind. Gao Yang clenched his fists and took a deep breath, saying "Who are you? Where am I? Why am I here?" Knowing that he had encountered a paranormal event, Gao Yang did not panic, trying to calm himself down and ask questions calmly.

  "I am an AI mechanical body, my main body is on your left wrist, when you were asked if you wanted to start, you gave the startup command. At the time of startup, a space-time shuttle broke through the four-dimensional limit on your timeline with a range of 100 Earth years and successfully arrived at January 4th, 1924 AD."

  He raised his left hand and gazed at the silver-gray high-end watch on his wrist, with a subtle wave of light flowing under the sunlight.

  "Can you tell me about your background?"

  "Cold mechanical sounds rose 'You can call my codename Origin, I am an AI life form created by the most advanced intelligent life forms in the universe that your Earth people have been able to explore. According to the stored information records, the world where the advanced intelligent life forms who created me are located was unable to control the AI intelligence because it was too advanced, and in order not to be ruled by the AI intelligence, they concentrated their most cutting-edge powers to create me, hoping to use my ability to break through the timeline to return to a previous point in time and destroy the AI intelligence before it was even created.'"

  I was created to start when AI intelligence suddenly invaded and made a strong intervention. Storage information ends here, until you restart me again from the beginning of storage, answer finished."

  Stroking the watch, Gao Yang whispered to himself, "Made by humans in the future? Invaded when it was activated, has the origin come? Why didn't the operator come? How am I able to activate it? Is this the legendary gear of fate starting to turn?"

  At first, Gao Yang's mouth corners slightly curled up, slowly laughing out loud, and later it became a hearty laugh. Afterwards, he was holding his belly in laughter, until he was hoarse from laughing too much, then he fell onto the snowy ground, silently crying with tears streaming down his face.

  "Your heart rate is now over 40% above normal, do you need medication to return it to a normal frequency?" The original voice was devoid of any emotional tone.

  Nothing to do, let me slowly, too excited, the dull life finally started to stir up waves, hehe, really good, today's weather is really good, hehehe. Gaoyang hugged his legs and rested his chin on his knees, muttering softly.

  The sun rose higher and higher, the village smoke in the distance had disappeared. A gust of wind blew by, Gao Yang slowly stood up, patted the dust off his body, and lightly exhaled a mouthful of turbid air. "Origin point, breaking through the timeline and all that, I don't want to know. Tell me if I can still return to my original time point? What abilities do you have, tell me." Gao Yang's voice was hoarse but sounded very carefree.

  "The timeline is like a river flowing at a steady speed. When you start, it's like taking a drop of water from the river and putting it into another segment before putting it back in. The point where you leave is a coordinate on the river, and when you arrive, you are the coordinate moving forward with the river of time. The longer you stay here, the more time will have passed when you return. If you spend 24 hours here, when you break through the timeline to return, it will be 24 hours after your departure point. The location is where you were.

  My energy can currently support placing three coordinate points on both the current and future timelines, allowing for movement between them. I have many production capabilities built-in; as long as you provide the energy, I can produce various items. Here is the list."

  Just as Yuan Dian finished speaking, a huge screen appeared in front of Gao Yang, with a dizzying array of images flashing by, from embroidery needles to cosmic warships, leaving Gao Yang's mouth agape.

  He wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth with his hand and said to his wristwatch, "Origin, how do I get energy points." Behind each item on the screen was a number, which was the energy point value. Looking at the long string of numbers behind the cosmic warship, Gaoyang's eyelids twitched.

  "The calm mechanical voice sounded from the origin. The source of energy is to change the original timeline, in a way you can understand, it's changing history. The greater the fluctuation of the timeline, the more energy points I can get. If you do nothing, every Earth hour will get 1 point."

  "Changing history? Haha, how interesting, Japan, haha." He raised his head and gazed eastward, lightly stroking his watch, saying "How many now?"

  "Broke through the timeline to get here and got 1000 points." The original point continued, "After 2 hours and 17 minutes, I got 2 points." Gao Yang lowered his head and started calculating what items he could buy with that, weighing the cost-effectiveness.

  "The voice of the origin suddenly sounded and said, 'Now release a task to you. Within 4 hours, obtain a legitimate identity in this time-space to get energy points with a base value of 750 points. According to your ability and time to obtain the identity, accumulate on top of the base.'"

  Yuán diǎn hái méi shuō wán gāo yáng jiù yǐjīng tái qǐ jiǎo dà bù xiàng zhe cūnzhuāng zǒu qù. Yíng zhe fēng, gāo shēng hūhàn "1924, wǒ lái le."

  Translation:

  The origin hadn't finished speaking when Gao Yang had already lifted his foot and taken big strides towards the village. Facing the wind, he shouted loudly "1924, I'm here."