Changes

Chapter 1: Changes

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"Could it be that my transmigration to the Dark Matter World in the future Year 2028 was just a dream??"

Lu Yuanming had immense doubts about his experiences fighting in the Dark Matter World.

Up to this point, apart from his memories, Lu Yuanming couldn't find any evidence of his transmigration to the future Dark Matter World. And what about these so-called memories... could they also be just a dream?

After all, he had become a vegetative person. Perhaps all his previous memories were just a dream? He dreamed of falling into darkness, dreamed of transmigrating to the future Year 2028, and then dreamed of dying in Year 2028 and falling into the Dark Matter World. All that monster-slaying and leveling up... was it all just a dream?

It was all just a dream while he was in a vegetative state, and now he had woken up!?

If explained as a dream, everything would be logical and make sense.

A vegetative person lying in a hospital bed for nearly a year. During this year, his consciousness was immersed in dreams, having an exceptionally realistic dream. Then he woke up from his vegetative state and began to doubt if the dream was real.

(Should I go get tested to see if I'm mentally ill?)

During dinner, Lu Yuanming silently poked at the food in his bowl. His parents were chatting about household matters. Equally silent was his sister. The Gaokao was only four days away. Today was June 3rd, and the Gaokao would begin on June 7th. Lu Yuanmin was under a lot of pressure and had no interest in talking.

Fortunately, their parents were accustomed to this situation, so they just talked amongst themselves. Lu Yuanming and his sister remained silent until after dinner. Lu Yuanmin buried herself in a sea of practice questions, while Lu Yuanming returned to his room.

"...There's no physical evidence to prove I actually transmigrated."

Lu Yuanming pondered deeply in his room. He needed to confirm whether everything that happened was a dream or not.

If it was false, then that would be great. He had merely dreamed of being a hero. There would be no Dark Matter World in the future, no monsters or Unnamable horrors. Human Civility would continue to develop or degenerate, and he would just be an insignificant part of it. Then he would return to his normal life, each going their own way.

But if it wasn't a dream, if it had truly happened, and now it was because his soul had completely integrated with his physical body, making it impossible for his soul to leave his body, thus preventing him from transmigrating to the Dark Matter World. Then, as time passed, in Year 2028, ghosts and curses would appear worldwide, and humanity and human Civility would begin to fall into the Dark Matter World. That would be the end of the world.

So, the key now was to confirm whether it was all a dream, whether it was his hallucination.

"...Either my soul can leave my body, or my soul has been strengthened multiple times. Before, I was already two meters forty tall. This time, the enhancement is far beyond previous ones. So even if there's a limit to growing taller and stronger, after this enhancement, my height should be around two meters seventy? As long as I can see my soul, I'll know if I had a dream or if I truly transmigrated to the future Dark Matter World."

Lu Yuanming stared at the full-length mirror for a long time, but he saw nothing but himself. Whether he meditated cross-legged or tried to make his soul leave his body with his Intent, he felt no sensation of his soul separating. To put it bluntly, he was just an ordinary person's physical body.

"I can't make my soul leave my body, so it can explain why I can't transmigrate back, and it can also be interpreted as everything being just a dream... Then let's try another way to prove it. USA. The underground laboratory in New York, USA. According to the historical progression I know from the future world, the only Dark Matter Fragment obtained from the Little Sun Country is hidden there, being researched by a team of American scientists. As long as I can confirm that there is indeed a laboratory there, and a scientific team researching the Dark Matter Fragment, then it will prove that I truly transmigrated."

Thinking of this, Lu Yuanming couldn't help but give a wry smile.

He was just an ordinary fresh graduate who was hit by a car and became a vegetative person. Ordinary family background, ordinary academic qualifications, ordinary life experiences. Apart from the extraordinary point of transmigration, he was the same as ninety-nine percent of the people in this world. How could he investigate a hidden experimental base in the USA?

At this point, even if he sincerely confessed everything, who could he confess to?

His parents? They would just think Lu Yuanming was joking.

Should I go see a doctor? The doctor's first reaction would probably be to tell him to get a mental evaluation.

The police? Or the government? But he had no evidence.

So, forget about the possibility that he might have just had a dream and there's no Dark Matter World at all. Even if it did exist, he had no way of investigating the truth of it all.

"Then there's only one last path left to verify everything..."

Lu Yuanming walked onto the balcony. His home was on the twenty-seventh floor of Building A. This residential complex had four buildings in total, labeled A, B, C, and D, arranged in a staggered formation. From his position, he could see Building C Tower. Earlier that day, he had seen something resembling a Ghost or a Curse attached to a man's back. This couldn't have been a hallucination, right?

What he needed to do now was to investigate whether it was indeed a Ghost or a Curse. If it was confirmed, it would mean that the influence of the Dark Matter World had already begun four years before the collapse, not in Year 2028 as Tang Zhean and the others claimed.

Lu Yuanming began to ponder how to investigate in his room.

Firstly, he didn't have the specific information of that young man. Secondly, Ghosts and Curses were not Monsters from the Dark Matter World. According to Tang Zhean's explanation, there were two possible origins for these Ghosts and Curses: one was the chaotic manifestation when Human Civility fell towards the Dark Matter World, and the other could be some phenomenon caused by those Unnamable horrors.

Ghosts and Curses in the material world were immortal. Furthermore, they possessed Supernatural Power, and it was impossible to fight these things with human technology.

So, if he wanted to investigate whether all this was true or not, he first had to protect himself. Otherwise, a single mistake could lead to the death of his physical body in the material world, rendering his greatest cheat useless. If there truly was a Dark Matter World, this was a consequence he absolutely could not afford.

As Lu Yuanming was deep in thought about how to investigate, he suddenly heard a series of police car sirens.

As the sound rang out, Lu Yuanming immediately looked down from the balcony. He saw about seven or eight police cars driving within the complex. These police cars quickly arrived at the base of Building C. Then, Police Officers emerged from the police cars. Some officers rushed into Building C Tower, while others began to set up a cordon outside Building C Tower.

Everything happened very quickly. From the sound of the sirens to the formation of the cordon, it took at most five minutes. Lu Yuanming watched everything carefully from the balcony, and then he suddenly realized that he could see everything happening on the ground very clearly. He could even see the specific appearances of the Police Officers.

This was impossible!

Although Lu Yuanming wasn't severely nearsighted, his years of study and life had caused his vision to decline. While he didn't need glasses, he did have mild myopia. His floor was the twenty-seventh, and looking down at the ground from this height, even a person with perfect vision could at most tell if a pedestrian was male or female. It was absolutely impossible to see specific individual appearances like he could now.

This was the evidence that he had indeed transmigrated!

"No, it's not enough. I still need to find evidence that Ghosts and Curses actually exist."

Lu Yuanming stared intently at Building C Tower, and then he saw Building C Tower gradually darken. It was around 8 PM now. Although it was June, the sky was indeed starting to dim. Before the sirens sounded, the residents in Building C Tower had started turning on their lights. The so-called "myriad lights of the city" referred to such lights. After the sirens sounded, especially after a group of Police Officers entered the building, the lights in the entire building began to go out one by one. From one household to another, the lights turned off. In less than a minute, the entire Building C unit was completely dark.

By this time, even residents who knew nothing had a sense that something major must have happened in Building C Tower.

Outside Building C, hundreds of residents were gathered at the cordon, asking questions. Some of them were residents of Building C Tower, who might have been out for a walk after dinner and found their homes cordoned off by the police, unable to enter. Others were residents from the other three units, mostly there to watch the spectacle.

Not only them, but Lu Yuanming also saw people coming out of the buildings in the other two towers and running towards Building C Tower. Many people were also looking down from their balconies, including his Parents, who were looking down from another balcony.

Suddenly, a loud commotion erupted from below. Lu Yuanming's vision was astonishingly good now. He immediately saw two figures at the eleventh floor of Building C Tower emerge from the stairwell window and then jump out without any hesitation.

The eleventh floor was about forty to fifty meters high. The mortality rate for someone jumping from this height was almost one hundred percent.

As expected, the two bodies bounced a distance after hitting the ground. From what Lu Yuanming saw, these two were absolutely beyond saving, their bodies shattered to the point where all their bones were broken.

And the next scene made Lu Yuanming tense up instantly.

He saw two souls emerge from the two corpses. With the enhancement of his vision, which allowed him to see facial expressions clearly, he could even see the terror displayed by these two souls. They slowly floated up from their bodies, looking down at their own dead flesh. Both souls wore expressions of disbelief.

"So there really is a Dark Matter World, and a world after death. Then they will fall..."

Lu Yuanming murmured. However, what happened next completely exceeded his expectations. These two souls did not fall towards the Dark Matter World. Instead, they were pulled by a force towards Building C Tower. Lu Yuanming then saw a faint, almost imperceptible line attached to the two souls. It was this line that was pulling them into Building C Tower. The two souls let out silent screams, struggling in terror, but they were still pulled into the darkness of Building C Tower. In less than ten seconds, the two souls vanished.

Lu Yuanming watched it all. He immediately darted back into the room from the balcony. Glancing around, he picked up an Ultraman Mask and then turned to run towards the living room. At this moment, his parents were still looking down from the balcony, and his Sister Lu Yuanmin was in the study. So, no one saw him leave the room. Lu Yuanming made no sound, quietly putting on his running shoes. He then left the main door slightly ajar and darted towards the stairwell and elevator.

He...

Was going to Building C Tower!