"The Overwatch System is activating. 1%, 2%, 3%, 4%..."
Li Wei jolted awake from a nightmare. He tried to roll over, let out a yelp, and tumbled off the bed.
The icy floor woke him right up. He rubbed his eyes and looked around. His expression changed instantly.
The familiar monitor was gone. So was his computer desk. The room was no longer filled with figurines and models.
Instead, he found himself in an unfamiliar room with no computer. There was even a Captain America poster hanging on the wall!
"Have I been kidnapped?"
Li Wei tried to remember what had happened before he woke up. He recalled coming home from work and sitting down at his computer. He hadn't even eaten dinner before launching Overwatch.
Oh, no—Overwatch.
It was a payload match on King's Row, and they were attacking. They'd started strong and pushed all the way to the final stretch. But in the last phase, the enemy had fought back fiercely. Bastion and the turret were laying down a withering hail of fire, Pharah was harassing them from the sky, and Genji kept attacking their backline.
The countdown had begun. There wasn't much time left.
At the crucial moment, Li Wei sent D.Va's self-destructing mech crashing down from the sky. He got a four-kill and won the match. In his excitement, he knocked over the lemon tea on his desk. The drink spilled all over him and splashed onto his keyboard and power strip.
And then Li Wei met a tragic end...
Li Wei certainly wasn't the first person to get electrocuted while gaming, and he wouldn't be the last.
When he woke up again, he was in this unfamiliar place.
His instincts told him something was wrong. He hurried out of bed, and spotted a huge full-length mirror beside it. Staring at his reflection, he exclaimed in surprise, "Who is this guy?"
The person in the mirror had refined features, light blond hair, and blue eyes. He was pretty handsome. There was no way he was Chinese—not unless he was wearing a wig and colored contacts.
In other words, he was a foreigner, and from his looks, a young man with European-American ancestry.
"Did I transmigrate?" Li Wei touched his face. Just like in movies and novels, he knew that after dying, his soul had probably ended up in another world and taken over someone else's body. But who was this person he'd possessed?
"William..." Li Wei murmured the English name. Memories surged through his mind like a tide. They didn't belong to him, but to a man named William:
The unlucky man he'd possessed was called William Lister, an ordinary person who'd grown up in Brooklyn, New York. His mother had died of an illness when he was young, and his gambling-addicted father had been sent to prison. He also had a younger brother who went to high school in another city.
He now worked delivering pizzas for a local pizzeria. His monthly pay was already pitifully low, and on top of his daily expenses, he had to send half of it to his brother far away to pay for school... In short, he was dirt poor.
As for romance, his love life was practically nonexistent. Li Wei couldn't help covering his face. He'd never imagined that even with such a handsome face, this guy couldn't get a girl!
"From today on, my name is William Lister," William said to himself. Now that he'd arrived in this new world, he had to leave his old name behind and accept his new identity if he wanted to survive here.
Wait, no... First, he needed to fill his stomach.
William turned his room upside down. Apart from an old television and two pairs of knockoff sneakers, he couldn't find anything valuable. The previous owner of this body didn't even have a laptop. What a poor guy.
"Too bad about my D.Va. Too bad about Overwatch," William thought with a mournful expression. He wondered if Overwatch existed in this world, but even if it did, what difference would it make? He couldn't afford a computer.
"98%, 99%, 100%!"
Suddenly, a sound seemed to ring in his ears. More precisely, it wasn't something his ears could hear—it had appeared directly in the depths of his mind. William found the sound strangely familiar. After all, it was what had woken him up.
As the mysterious voice sounded, white points of light appeared in front of William. They flew through the air before finally settling on the back of his left hand, where they formed a mark like a tattoo.
William froze. It was the Overwatch game logo!
Speaking of Overwatch, of course he had to mention its famous game icon.
The Overwatch logo was actually made by overlapping a capital O and W. OW stood for Overwatch. Since the game also had FPS shooting elements, the icon looked like the crosshairs of a gun.
But William's favorite explanation came from the rumors about Overwatch's behind. If you looked closely, didn't the icon look like a butt?
Ahem, enough digressing.
William looked at the Overwatch mark on the back of his hand. His curiosity got the better of him, and he lightly touched it. To his surprise, the logo lit up, and dazzling white light transformed before his eyes into a series of breathtaking scenes:
They were all battle scenes featuring Overwatch characters: Soldier: 76's Tactical Visor, Pharah's Justice Rains From Above, Reaper's Death Blossom, McCree's High Noon, Roadhog's Whole Hog...
The Overwatch heroes looked so lifelike, it seemed as if they could step out of the scenes at any moment.
At last, all the scenes merged into one, forming a vast world that seemed to have no end. At its center, a giant Overwatch logo slowly rotated.
"I am Athena. Welcome to the Overwatch System."
Accompanied by the familiar Overwatch theme music, a gentle voice sounded in William's ears.
Athena? This Athena wasn't Miss Saori, the frequently kidnapped heroine from Saint Seiya, but the artificial intelligence of the Overwatch universe—ATHENA.
In the Overwatch universe, Athena was a powerful artificial intelligence. She had appeared in the new-player tutorial, and her image could also be seen on the computer screens at Watchpoint: Gibraltar.
Players had long speculated that her physical form might be the sexy white robot from the official animated short, but the hero had never appeared.
William pinched the bridge of his nose. It was a lot to take in, and he couldn't process it all at once.
He'd only been electrocuted while playing a game, yet his soul had transmigrated to another world.
He'd only just woken up in this world, and already he'd unlocked the Overwatch System. He'd read plenty of transmigration novels, and the male lead usually got some kind of cheat.
An old man in a ring, a sealed demon king, an invincible system... So, was Athena his cheat?
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