The Beginning of Crossing Over

"I'm so tired!" Wang Qiang returned to his doghouse and collapsed onto the bed in his Rental House.

Looking at his little doghouse, Wang Qiang calmed down. He could not help thinking how hard it was to make a living in a big city. This was already his third job in the city. As an orphan from the Starting Point Orphanage, he had to survive alone in this Steel Jungle.

Whenever he thought about work, there was endless work to do, and he still had to deal with his Old Fritter coworkers. Otherwise, who knew when they would slip him a pair of Small Shoes? The manager might fire him while he was still cluelessly working away, helping add bricks to his boss's luxury car. That was how he had lost his previous job.

"Old Fritters are so annoying! I'm just an innocent college student. Is it wrong for me to slack off after finishing my own work? Why should I help you? Finish your own work! Has exploiting newcomers become some old tradition?" Wang Qiang could not help complaining.

He could not beat them! He just could not. Big companies were easy to get into but hard to survive in. He might as well go screw bolts at a Big Factory. At least there would not be all that bullshit.

"Though screwing bolts is exhausting, the pay is pretty sweet."

Wang Qiang picked up the pay stub he had received today, and the corners of his mouth rose involuntarily. He then opened the Mobile Banking App and glanced at the four-digit amount that had just arrived in his bank account, planning to order himself a lavish delivery meal as a reward.

He happened to have the day off today. He did not want to do anything, only stay by himself. No social obligations, no girlfriend; once he was fed, the whole family was fed. Ah! What kind of loser talk was that? Besides, he had not even tasted the bitterness of love yet! Wang Qiang let his thoughts run wild.

Soon, someone knocked on the door. "Hey! Wait a second! Coming! Coming!" He had been lying in bed scrolling through Tiktok videos about Repairing Donkey Hooves while waiting for his delivery. Hearing the knock, he got up to open the door and immediately called out.

He opened the wooden door of his Rental House and accepted a large bag of food.

"Hello! Your delivery. Please remember to leave a good review! Thanks!" The Delivery Guy smiled, turned around, and went downstairs to deliver his next order.

"Oh! Thanks!" Wang Qiang said as he closed the door with today's feast in hand. He walked into the Rental House, opened the delivery bag, and placed the food on the Folding Table. Then he opened Sakura Video to watch the newest episode of the Douluo II anime while eating a Fried Chicken Family Bucket and catching up on the New Anime Episode.

"Gotta say, Mysterious Machine Goddess is still amazing! She really understands us Anime Fans!" Wang Qiang said, not forgetting to comment on the Stockinged Beautiful Legs in the anime.

Wang Qiang could not help imagining how great it would be if he crossed over into the Douluo Continent anime. There would be none of the pressures of real life, and he could look at all kinds of beauties crafted by Mysterious Machine Goddess. He could also experience the customs of another world. If he could really go to the Douluo Continent anime, Wang Qiang would definitely travel across the entire All-Continent, taste every kind of food, and admire beauties of every variety.

He kept eating and drinking while his mind wandered, his eyes still fixed on Huo Yuhao slaughtering the competition in the New Student Grand Competition.

"This drumstick is tiny! What a black-hearted business. I'll switch shops next time!" After Wang Qiang finished the last bite, he took a swig of Fatty Happy Water. "Burp!" He let out a full belch. After finishing the latest episode of Douluo II, he cleaned up the trash, lay back on the bed, and continued scrolling through Tiktok videos about restoring old antiques, Repairing Cow Hooves, and Wilderness Survival. Before he knew it, he fell asleep.

Perhaps he was too exhausted from all the recent overtime. After falling asleep, Wang Qiang felt his body grow heavy, then float and drift. He felt as if he were wandering through the Cosmic Starry Sky, uncomfortable all over.

When he suddenly woke up, he felt as if his body did not belong to him. His head spun painfully.

"No way! Did I catch it again? This feels exactly like last time! But I've been working overtime nonstop lately. I haven't even gone out to have fun! I feel awful. I want water." He struggled to move his body, wanting to get up for water and use the bathroom.

His hand felt as though it were pressing into cotton, soft and powerless. His mind also cleared a little. Wang Qiang opened his heavy eyelids and saw a pitch-black starry sky. Starlight drifted through space, faint and indistinct.

With a dumbfounded expression, he raised both hands and looked at his translucent palms, then lowered his gaze to inspect his translucent body. Wang Qiang felt that his brain had not fully woken up yet and that he was dreaming. It was just that this dream was far too real.

After fifteen minutes, Wang Qiang felt a little better. The muddled sensation from before had faded, and he accepted his current situation.

"Am I dead just like that? I haven't even spent all my newly paid salary! I haven't cleared my phone storage or deleted my apps!" Wang Qiang cried out with a pained expression. He knew overtime pay was not so easy to earn. It was only because the recent bonuses had been a little higher.

"It's over! Is my innocent life ending like this? What if someone sees the adult shows in my phone apps before I've finished watching them?" Wang Qiang dropped to his knees in the void, his eyes lifeless as he blankly stared at the endless starry sky ahead.

After a while, he pulled himself together and comforted himself. At least he had said goodbye to his life as a working dog. Goodbye to endless overtime and endless bolts to screw.

"By the way... where is this?" Wang Qiang looked around at the silent starry sky in confusion. He could not sense up, down, left, right, front, or back. He was simply floating.

"Wait, am I going to starve to death here?" he could not help thinking. Then he immediately noticed a very bright star not far away, several degrees brighter than the other dim stars.

Wang Qiang usually liked reading all kinds of novels, so he immediately guessed that this might be his Golden Finger—something like Crossing Space or a Space Crevice. He was already dead and had become a translucent Soul Body. What else could not happen?

He immediately paddled with all four limbs, using the Dog Paddle Style to approach the brightest star. If his guess was right, that star was a New World or New Universe. Wang Qiang felt deeply unsafe in the mysterious starry sky, as if he were naked in Ice and Snow. A man's Sixth Sense told him to run. He felt that something was watching him.

After Wang Qiang dog-paddled desperately for what felt like forever, exhausted himself half to death, and finally felt his hand about to touch the brightest star, a dim star that had been hiding beside it suddenly appeared before him the instant his hand made contact.

"Fuck! An Old Six!"

In an instant, Wang Qiang felt himself being sucked in. It was like drinking Bubble Tea—he was the pearl.

His vision instantly rolled as if he were inside a kaleidoscope, filled with every kind of light and color. It was a dazzling mess that made his eyes spin.

Then his body suddenly felt light, and he arrived above a Cloud Blue Planet. Anyone with Megalophobia would have their scalp go numb at the sight. In the Cosmic Starry Sky, he could even see a giant fireball in the distance, glowing and radiating heat.

Wang Qiang felt as if he were about to burn up as he watched the gigantic planet slowly rotate before him.

Then he felt something pull his body down toward the planet. Wang Qiang could not put his emotions into words. He felt that High-Altitude Skydiving videos on Tiktok were pathetic by comparison. He was rapidly closing in on the ground, faster and faster.

"I'm not going to die again, am I? No!!" Wang Qiang screamed as he frantically swung his arms, trying to make himself fly.

Falling from the sky was so thrilling that he forgot he was already dead, just a Spirit Body. Yet as he drew closer and closer to the land, Wang Qiang instead calmed down. He felt that young shut-in men really had big hearts. He had already accepted his fate and started carefully observing the scenery of this world.

"How beautiful! Before, I could only watch skydiving videos on Bilibili. Now I've experienced it firsthand after dying. Is this some new kind of crossing over? It's so exciting!" Wang Qiang could not help thinking. By the way, when would he reach the ground? Would he randomly possess a corpse and Borrow a Corpse to Return the Soul, or be reincarnated?

His thoughts scattered again, filling his mind with every kind of rebirth and crossing-over scenario from novels.

"I wonder which kind I am? How did that pretending-to-have-amnesia thing go again?" Wang Qiang rubbed his chin.

"Forget it. I'll take it one step at a time. What if I cross over into a beast? That won't happen, right?"

Wang Qiang could not help shuddering. Just thinking about it was terrifying. He did not know what this other world was like or what genre it belonged to. But when he had been freely falling from high above, he had seen little squares scattered across the land. Those should be signs of civilization. At least he had not crossed over into the Ancient Primordial Era.

There was also a gigantic fish surfacing in the distant sea. He could see it clearly from the sky. He did not know whether it was because of his soul body, but Wang Qiang felt extremely good right now. All his senses had been amplified. He could even sense lively specks of light in the air, something he had never felt back on Earth. So he bet that this was a world with Supernatural Abilities. He did not know whether it had cultivation or magic. I'm here, other world! My new life!!! Wang Qiang thought excitedly.

In the Douluo God Realm, the God of Asura sensed something not belonging to this world falling onto Douluo Star. When he focused further, however, he could no longer sense it.

"Another world? Perhaps I can find the soul of an Otherworlder and send it to Douluo Star. The God Realm is truly too boring."

The God of Asura thought it was a good plan. To gods with ambition, the God Realm was like a prison. They repeated the same things every day, unchanged for ten thousand years. Those with a God's Residence and Position could not casually leave the God Realm, working 007 forever. He had grown weary of it.

Returning to Wang Qiang, as he got closer to the ground, his descent slowed. Then he saw a handsome older man of around twenty-nine lying unconscious beside a path in a small forest, his entire body filthy.

If not for the rise and fall of the man's chest, Wang Qiang would have thought he was a corpse. Wang Qiang watched as he was about to be drawn into that body. No matter how hard he paddled his limbs to get away, it was useless, and his expression changed drastically.

"Fuck! I aged ten years the instant I crossed over! Reincarnation would have been fine too! I could have accepted starting all over from the beginning!"

Wang Qiang cursed, but he also prepared himself. Since the person lying on the ground was still alive, this did not count as Borrowing a Corpse to Return the Soul. It seemed there would be a hard battle ahead.

He had not read all those novels for nothing. It was clearly going to be a Soul Game. He hoped his Golden Finger was strong enough. Back in the mysterious starry-sky space, he had subconsciously breathed and felt his soul strengthen by a tiny bit. He hoped he would not disgrace all the other travelers.

Because of this crossing-over business, Wang Qiang was no longer a materialist. Souls existed now, so stealing an Otherworlder's body was not such a big deal. An Otherworlder was not an Earthling. It seemed modern young people's moral boundaries were very flexible.

"Otherworld Brother! Sorry about this! I'll be taking everything you have!!"

After muttering to himself and psyching himself up, Wang Qiang followed the pull and plunged headfirst into the young man's head.

This is my first time writing a novel. If there is anything bad, feel free to point it out, and I will improve slowly. This humble author begs for Recommendation Tickets. Bibi Dong is the original version! Qian Renxue's mother is original! This book contains lots of original plotlines.