The Beginning

This was a small village deep in the mountains, home to only a dozen or so families who lived by farming and hunting.

At that moment, the setting sun dyed the horizon red, while birds cried in the mountains and forests. Cooking smoke rose from the village, mingling with crowing roosters and barking dogs.

"Second Dog, you're sitting on the ridge spacing out again. Hurry home and eat."

"Woof woof woof~"

The large yellow dog named Big Dog wagged his Tail excitedly, circling around a three-year-old Child.

The Child shouted in a tender voice, "Got it!"

Then he muttered under his breath, "My name is Su Hao. I told them not to call me Second Dog."

He patted his butt, stood up, and swaggered home with the gait of some grand old uncle.

Big Dog followed happily behind him.

A village woman had a baby strapped to her back and bustled about inside and out. After setting out dinner, she looked outside. The moment she spotted Su Hao, her face broke into a smile.

The village woman was Su Hao's mother, and the baby on her back was Su Hao's younger sister.

At the head of the table, a burly man puffed away at his pipe. His brows bore some resemblance to Su Hao's. This was Su Hao's father in this life.

Within three days of waking up, Su Hao had figured out everything that had happened to him.

Even calling it a coincidence did not seem quite accurate.

After quitting his job, Su Hao had planned to drive across the country.

He had driven on the highway for a full hour without seeing another car. Apart from his own vehicle, the entire highway was empty.

On a whim, he slammed his foot down on the accelerator. His speed swiftly soared to 160, and kept climbing as he savored a taste of speed and passion.

Yet accidents always happened when people were at their proudest.

His car hit standing water and skidded, crashing uncontrollably into a mountainside. Man and car alike were crushed into a pancake.

Then, the coincidence happened.

A tiny wormhole suddenly appeared. Su Hao's consciousness, knocked free by the crash, somehow entered the wormhole. After undergoing an inexplicable transformation, it temporarily settled inside the wormhole, faintly showing signs of merging with it.

The wormhole vanished the instant it appeared, carrying Su Hao's consciousness into the unknowable depths of the universe. Like a tiny marble, it bore every scrap of information about Su Hao, from his beginning as a fertilized egg to his death in the car crash, as it wandered alone through the boundless cosmos.

The wormhole marble abruptly appeared in one stretch of starry sky, then abruptly vanished again, freely passing through bizarre dimensions. Throughout this process, Su Hao was unable to think.

When Su Hao's consciousness had temporarily settled in the wormhole, it had merely preserved all of his information without providing a vessel for thought. Thus, throughout that long wandering, Su Hao had no awareness.

He did not know how long had passed. It seemed like only an instant, yet it also seemed as though millions of years had gone by, until Su Hao regained the ability to think.

After recovering that ability, Su Hao used his faint connection to the wormhole to inspect the information stored within it, and thus learned everything.

He also understood why he had become a human infant. The wormhole marble had accidentally struck a young Child, and the Child's brain had become the vessel for Su Hao's thoughts.

It looked as though Su Hao had transmigrated into a Child, but that was not the truth of it.

His information and consciousness remained inside the wormhole. He was merely borrowing the Child's brain in order to think.

On the surface, he was no different from an ordinary person.

At first, even Su Hao believed that he had transmigrated. Only after examining the information stored in the wormhole did he understand what had happened.

If he wished, he could even watch himself develop from a fertilized egg into a grown man.

"This is simply a miracle."

That was Su Hao's sigh after learning the truth. He named the wormhole marble Marble Space.

"Clang clang clang~"

Suddenly, the urgent sound of gongs rang out through the small village, accompanied by frantic barking.

Su Hao's father and mother went pale.

"Find somewhere to hide, quickly. I'll go take a look." While Su Hao was still utterly confused, his father threw down his bowl and chopsticks, gave the instruction, and ran outside. As he passed, he grabbed the hunting bow and machete from the wall.

Su Hao stared blankly at his mother, seeking an answer.

But his mother seemed not to notice. With an anxious expression, she grabbed Su Hao in one hand and paced frantically around the room, unable to find a suitable place to hide.

Su Hao realized danger had arrived. Rather than scream and make trouble, he simply allowed his mother to hold him quietly.

By then, shouts of killing and screams had already risen outside, mixed with the wild laughter of men as it drew nearer and nearer.

In desperation, his mother moved aside the firewood, placed Su Hao and his sleeping sister beneath it, then covered them tightly with the wood.

Su Hao stayed silent, without making a sound.

"Second Dog, listen to Mother. Don't make a sound. Don't move."

After whispering those instructions, his mother grabbed a kitchen knife and rushed outside.

Yet the moment she ran through the doorway, she was immediately forced back inside.

Two scruffy burly men, bare-chested and half-naked, followed as they barged in.

"Third Brother, come look at what we found—a young little lady. Hehehe!"

"No rush. Capture her first."

Hearing this, Mother knew what awaited her.

She was a woman. If she obediently complied, she might have a chance to survive. But her two children were still in the house. If they were discovered, neither child would survive. She had to make these two bandits leave as quickly as possible.

Mother hesitated no longer. She raised the kitchen knife and sliced it across her throat. Blood sprayed out as she slowly collapsed.

By the time the two bandits reacted and tried to stop her, it was already too late.

"Running into a woman like this—what bad luck!"

As Mother fell, her gaze happened to land on the pile of firewood. Her two children had to survive.

With hope in her heart, the light in her eyes faded away.

Blocked by the firewood, Su Hao could not see anything. But from the sounds, he understood what had happened. His heart was full of rage, yet he was helpless.

The two bandits ignored Mother's corpse, dug out the food, and were about to leave.

"Waaah waaah waaah~"

The rummaging had been too loud. Su Hao's little sister woke at that moment, and unable to see her mother, immediately burst into loud tears.

Oh no! Su Hao inwardly cried. It was already too late to soothe his sister.

Very quickly, the two bandits threw aside the firewood.

Facing the two burly men holding bloodstained broadswords, Su Hao could only spread his arms and stand in front of his sister.

"Third Brother, should we take them away, or..."

"Kill them! Crying children are the most annoying."

Shhk! A blade flashed.

Su Hao fell into a pool of blood.

Shhk! Another blade flashed.

The crying abruptly stopped.

"Transmigration... and I'm dying just like this?"

On the verge of death, Su Hao felt somewhat unwilling. He had been filled with curiosity about this Otherworld and had already planned his future. He wanted to leave the mountain village and see this broader Otherworld.

Yet he had died before even reaching three years old! Su Hao lost consciousness.

Marble Space carried Su Hao's now-stagnant consciousness and continued Roaming.

Marble Space moved endlessly forward through the vast universe, encountering the influence of all kinds of Force Fields—attraction, rebound, acceleration, stoppage... turning toward unknown depths.

Time flowed on. After an unknown span, Su Hao opened his eyes once more and regained consciousness.

Through the information Recorded by Marble Space, he understood that he had crossed an infinite distance and arrived in another new world.

His body was that of a two-year-old boy.

A two-year-old Child had not yet developed a strong sense of self, making him easy for Su Hao to invade and turn into a vessel for thought. If it had been an adult, Su Hao's consciousness would have been repelled by the original consciousness and could not have become the vessel. That was why both times he had awakened in a Child's body.

Because of this, Su Hao came to realize what an astonishing miracle his transmigration was.

The universe was so vast, yet Marble Space had managed to carry him in aimless wandering twice in succession, ultimately succeeding in transmigrating into the bodies of two-year-old children.

How fortunate was that? Su Hao sighed. "This time, I'll definitely cherish it properly. I'll live a life that shakes heaven and earth. Because I might not be this fortunate afterward."

Then.

When Su Hao was three years old, a plague suddenly broke out in the Small Town where he lived. He was accidentally infected and died.