"Brother, buddy, get up. You have no money in your card. If you want to continue playing, please renew your Internet fee. People are queuing up behind you."
Li Mu wiped the drool dripping from the corner of his mouth, rubbed his groggy eyes, raised his head and saw the computer screen in front of him. A dialog box about insufficient network fees had popped up on it, and it was the fat network administrator who woke him up.
At that time, he was cursing and walked to the vending machine in the corner of the room, skillfully opened the machine with the key, took out a bottle of Coke and poured it into his stomach.
"Fat man, you've embezzled the drinks from the Internet cafe again." A joking voice sounded from someone approaching the seat. He was obviously a regular customer of the Internet cafe, joking with the fat network manager.
Li Mu touched his head. He felt that he had slept for a long time and had a strange dream. In the dream, he traveled to a world of immortal cultivators and embarked on the road to becoming stronger. He had many friends and beauties around him.
Confidants, Lin Qingzhu, Fang Yan, Nie Xiaoyu, Liu Long, etc., have their own parents. Although their biological mother died early, her aunt Liu Ruoying treats her as her own, as well as her brother and father, who did not have a harmonious relationship at the beginning.
, these faces appear so real in my mind.
"Hey, buddy, I said recharge the Internet fee, did you hear me?"
The loud voice of the fat network administrator interrupted Li Mu's memories. He quickly touched his pocket and took out a few bills. He stood up in response and paid the Internet fee on the bar. Looking at the rows of cigarette signs on the wall, he remembered
I seemed to be getting used to the taste of this stuff. I originally wanted to go to Bao Huazi to have a good time, but unfortunately I spent all my money and only had ten yuan left. In the end, I had no choice but to buy Bao Zhongnanhai before I sat back on my machine.
Bit.
"I remember that at the end of the dream, I seemed to have passed through a door in the Yunhe Sect. Alas, if the fat man hadn't woken me up, I probably could have dominated the world in the dream."
Li Mu muttered and complained that his dream of invincibility had been awakened. He moved the mouse skillfully with his hand, found the battle game he often played, clicked on it, and soon controlled his Gale Swordsman to kill everyone.
But when I was returning to buy equipment for the first time, an ordinary electronic prompt came, "Whatever you want to buy, young man, my store has everything."
The originally unremarkable notification sound surged through Li Mu's brain like an electric current. A series of words like Grandma Yodel, Brother Niu, Jueying Sword, and Shadow Cloak kept churning through Li Mu's memory.
After shaking his head a few times, Li Mu saw the word "defeat" appear on the screen to get out of the rush of memories.
Reluctantly quitting the game, Li Mu once again clicked on another icon with the letter w. After logging in, he chose his extremely powerful orc warrior character and entered the game.
"It's been a long time since I've played. Let's adjust the talents first, and then go and fight the Lich King. Hmm? The talents have been changed. What are spirituality, immortal body, and potential?"
Li Mu was confused by the talent selection page in front of him. He was not playing a game about cultivating immortals. Why were all these talent options so irrelevant? But when he rubbed his eyes hard, all the talent options changed back to
Li Mu couldn't help but frown.
"It seems that I am too tired from the overnight stay and am hallucinating. I have to go back and take a nap."
After reluctantly settling the bill, Li Mu left the Internet cafe. The cabin he rented was in an old-fashioned apartment on two small roads next to the Internet cafe. The outside of the old building built in the 1970s was already covered with traffic.
The vegetation and even the stair handrails are still made of red-painted iron pipes.
Li Mu's house is located on the top floor of the apartment. Apartments in this era, not to mention the heat-proof treatment on the roof, may even leak on rainy days. There are more than thirty households on the first floor, but they have to share two floors.
There is a bathroom and kitchen, and squatting is a compulsory course for Li Mu every morning. The middle-aged woman outside the door yelling and cursing can't affect his smooth plopping at all.
Li Mu has lived in a house with this kind of environment for five full years, for no other reason than poverty.
After his parents passed away unexpectedly, Li Mu never went to school after graduating from high school. He followed a few elders from his hometown to this city to make a living. However, he was unlucky and encountered an economic depression. His fellow villagers also
They dispersed and returned, but Li Mu didn't want to go back to his hometown to make a living by farming, so he stayed.
During this period, he worked many jobs, including delivering food, delivering express, being a convenience store waiter, etc., but because he had no skills, he was never able to stabilize. In reality, Li Mu, who was down and out, could only place all his yearnings in the virtual world, games, novels, and various other industries.
Fan dramas are his spiritual food.
He could feel an unparalleled sense of accomplishment and solace to his soul in these fictional worlds, but whenever he returned to the musty-smelling rental house, the coldness of reality always left him helpless and he had spent all his money.
It seems that I have to find a temporary job again, otherwise even eating will be a problem.
After going home and picking up his ID card, Li Mu went downstairs and went to a courier station next door. They provided temporary jobs with daily settlement. In fact, they just sorted the couriers sent from all over the world and sent them away according to the receiving address.
, a day's wages are two hundred yuan, which can already help Li Mu pay for a week's food expenses.
After entering the courier station, Li Muzhen received his work card for the day in a familiar manner. Others in the station were also very familiar with this young man who had come to work for a few days. He pointed to the piles of couriers on the construction site.
, Li Mu, who understood the situation, waved to these uncles with a smile, and then began to sort out the express delivery with the delivery address nearby.
After all, I was extremely poor, so I didn’t buy a battery car or anything like that. I could only rely on two legs to deliver the goods. Naturally, I had to find a nearby courier to deliver.
"Uncle Wang's express delivery and Aunt Li's are all delivered to my building in the evening when I get off work."
"Nie Xiaoyu, eh? Such a familiar name. It's also from my building, Room 1502. Isn't it just next door to me? Isn't it a new one? I remember that the room next door has always been vacant. It must have been rented out in the past few days.
I just wanted to say hello when I was delivering the express to her in the evening. After all, we are a new neighbor."
Although he felt that the name Nie Xiaoyu was strangely familiar for some reason, Li Mu did not have time to think deeply. After packing several express items, he started his day's work. Delivering express delivery is a science, and excellent route planning can improve work efficiency. Compared with
As an elderly courier, this aspect is Li Mu's specialty.
At 4:30 in the afternoon, Li Mu had finished all the work for the whole day. After getting back two hundred yuan in wages from the stationmaster, he picked up a few express items from his building and walked home.