The die fell from Carlo's fingers and stopped; 53. Check successful.
Carlo looked at Hamil: "What's your name?"
Hamil blurted out, " Li Jiehao."
After he finished speaking, the cell fell silent.
The pronunciation of the name is a bit strange, not quite in line with the naming format of a common language, as if it were a product of some other language system... Isaac thought.
Hamil himself was stunned, then abruptly covered his mouth, a look of panic flashing in his eyes.
"Stop trying to cover it up. You've already said it; it's too late to hide it now." Carlo raised an eyebrow. " Li Jiehao, where are you from?"
"I... I... I don't know, what did I just say?" Hamil began to feign ignorance.
"You really don't know? Looks like you've been possessed by an evil spirit. Drag you out and burn you."
"No, no, no! You can't burn it!"
"Oh? Then tell me, who is Li Jiehao?"
"I..."
Jacob Hamil, or rather Li Jiehao, was sweating profusely.
This script is wrong. Shouldn't the characters perfectly conceal their identities, so that no one else can detect anything amiss, and they gradually rise to power using their family's knowledge and special abilities?
How can a time traveler have their identity exposed so quickly?!
Li Jiehao was originally an ordinary high school student, living an ordinary high school life.
One day, he secretly stayed up all night playing video games, intending to catch up on sleep during class the next day, but...
"Class, today we're measuring 1000 meters."
And so, Li Jiehao, who had stayed up all night, stood blankly at the starting line.
He had initially considered taking leave to retake the test, but considering he would have to retake it later, he ultimately decided that a short, sharp pain was better than a long, drawn-out one.
He rushed out with the main group. The first lap was relatively easy, but he started to pant in the second lap. By the third lap, he felt dizzy, and the track seemed to stretch and shrink in his vision.
As he neared the finish line, Li Jiehao, hearing his teacher's urging, instinctively sprinted forward. Suddenly, his heart skipped a beat, and everything went black...
He just died like that.
This story teaches us not to stay up late, and especially not to engage in strenuous exercise after staying up late. If you feel unwell, be sure to report it promptly...
When he regained consciousness and opened his eyes, Li Jiehao found himself in a small rented room.
A magic circle was drawn on the ground in front of him, surrounded by runes he didn't recognize. A candle was stuck at a node of the magic circle and had burned down to the bottom, with wax dripping all over the ground.
Then, memories of the body's original owner Jacob Hamil, flooded back, and Li Jiehao became certain that he had transmigrated.
He spent some time digesting the original owner's memories and figuring out the era and environment he was in.
This is an alternate world resembling the Victorian era—though his knowledge of the period is limited to nouns and labels—and the city he lives in is called Vista, the capital of the Western Territory.
Of course, most importantly, this world contains extraordinary powers, gods, churches, and things known as aliens.
The original owner Jacob Hamil, was an orphan who grew up in an orphanage. After leaving, he made a living on his own, finding a job as a helper at Dorn Hospital and doing several other odd jobs. His salary was meager, and he lived a very frugal life.
But the original owner was unwilling to live like this forever; he craved power, even if it wasn't entirely clean.
He came into contact with many corpses at the hospital. Once, he accidentally bumped into a person who came to steal a corpse. The person claimed to be from a Cult. The original owner helped the person cover up the truth, and the person agreed to recruit the original owner into the cult. The person also gave him some books and taught him some basic things.
After studying for a while, the original owner attempted to perform a ritual to pray to " Morzul ".
After the ritual, the soul within that body became Li Jiehao.
Li Jiehao was initially excited. Time travel! This was time travel! In his mind, the protagonist either had a system or a cheat code, and in any case, they could thrive in this strange world, which was definitely more interesting than the boring high school life.
But after the initial excitement, reality quickly slapped him in the face.
He had no system, no cheat codes, only a penniless identity and a job moving corpses. His rented room was drafty, the food was bland, and his salary was barely enough to live on, but he couldn't save any money.
A week later, Li Jiehao couldn't take it anymore. What kind of life was this?! Where was his cheat code? Someone hurry up and tie him back to high school!
So, like the original owner, he placed his hopes for changing his life on those classic texts.
He tried to continue his research like the original owner, but the books were obscure and difficult to understand. The runes and ritual procedures were written vaguely, and he had to guess in many places. Li Jiehao also lost contact with the guide he had previously encountered.
Li Jiehao was depressed for a few days, but finally decided to take a gamble. Since he had transmigrated, he couldn't live such a pathetic life.
Of course, he didn't immediately perform any ritual to pray to Morzul. The original owner had already tried it, but died inexplicably and gave his body to him.
So he turned to studying the relatively simple content in those classic texts, such as how to refine the Shroud-Wrapped Walking Corpse.
He stole a corpse from the hospital, and, suppressing his nausea, painstakingly followed the steps in the book to refine it.
Although the technique was crude, the runes were crooked, and the shroud was wrapped improperly...
It's mostly complete, except for the final step: using a ritual to summon the Foul Spirit and merge it with the walking corpse.
Li Jiehao recited the prayer he had copied from the book. The syllables were difficult to pronounce, and his tongue got tied several times, but he managed to finish reciting it.
As the last syllable fell, the candle flame flickered, the zombie's hand twitched, and then it slowly braced itself against the ground, the entire corpse sitting up with a stiff movement.
Li Jiehao's heart was pounding. Had they succeeded?
But without any orders, the walker turned to Li Jiehao, its voice hoarse, "My lord... Morzul... has chosen... you..."
Li Jiehao was stunned. He'd made a choice? Could it be...?
A cheat code? The long-awaited cheat code has finally arrived!
He tentatively asked, "What will you choose me to do?"
"The Lord's Holy Relic... has fallen into Vista... it must be retrieved..."
"Isn't that a treasure?" he asked eagerly, pressing for details about what it was and where it was.
The zombie didn't answer directly, but walked towards the door and stopped by it, as if waiting for him to follow.
Li Jiehao hesitated for a few seconds, then grabbed a gun that the original owner had somehow acquired and followed them.
The zombie's gait appeared stiff, but its speed was not slow. Finally, it crouched down in the bushes outside a villa and stopped moving.
Li Jiehao tried it and found that the zombies seemed to be starting to obey his commands.
He leaned closer to the window and heard something about a "ring" coming from inside. That must be the Holy Relic, right?
Li Jiehao hesitated outside for a long time, then finally gritted his teeth. "Aren't treasures only obtained through risk? How can one achieve great things without being ruthless?"
Besides, he has Morzul's favor, he has walkers, and he has guns!
The advantage is in my hands!
Then he ran into two hooded robbers.
Then he was arrested and taken to the Joint Investigation Bureau.