Being a Lucky Star in a Game [Holographic] - Chapter 2

His body was continuously falling, as if there were no end. Su Wenqi was a bit confused; no matter how high this mountain was, it shouldn’t be bottomless. He felt like he had been falling for a good ten minutes already.

During this time, facing the fact of his impending death wide awake, his heart still couldn’t calm down. It was as if he were a prisoner already on the execution block, not knowing when the guillotine would fall.

The continuous falling made Su Wenqi realize the seriousness of the situation, and his tightly closed eyes snapped open. He began to observe his surroundings. Originally, it should have been a mountainous landscape with lush trees all around, but now it was pitch black.

“Didn’t I fall off a mountain? What’s going on? Why is it so dark around here?” Su Wenqi was extremely puzzled. It was daytime when they were going down the mountain. How could it be dark when he had just fallen?

Suddenly, a beam of white light appeared before Su Wenqi’s eyes. As he plummeted downwards, he got closer and closer to the white light. It became increasingly glaring, and finally, he had to close his eyes to shield them from the blinding brilliance.

“Bang!! Hiss… It hurts so much…” After he closed his eyes, his falling speed slowed down, and then he felt his body crash onto a very soft sponge mat. Although the mat was soft enough, his speed of descent had still been quite significant, so he still felt pain throughout his body.

Su Wenqi was knocked dizzy and disoriented by the fall, unable to recover his senses for a long while. He sat up, slowly rubbing the sore spots on his body, and began to observe his surroundings.

This was an extremely vast and empty place. At a glance, he could see some strange machines around, and there was a house in the distance. Its metallic silver color appeared extremely cold. Just then, the machine right in front of him suddenly lit up with a red light, and the red light scanned him from head to toe.

A big question mark popped up in Su Wenqi’s mind. What was this doing?

After the red light finished scanning, the machine emitted a string of language he couldn’t understand.

Immediately after, someone walked out from inside the house. Su Wenqi hadn’t figured out the situation and didn’t dare to move recklessly. He had never seen these machines before. Terrified that he had trespassed into some unknown secret base, he watched the approaching person vigilantly.

The newcomer stopped about ten meters away from him and handed something resembling a pair of headphones to a robot behind him. A robot? Only then did Su Wenqi notice that behind the person was a chubby, cute-looking tin creature.

He watched this tin creature step by step close the distance between them, his vigilance raised to the maximum.

After the robot walked over to him, it stretched out its short, round, and cute arm to offer him a headset. Su Wenqi hesitantly took it, and then saw the person across from him gesturing for him to put the headset on.

After hesitating for a moment, Su Wenqi still put it on. He needed to figure out what was going on right now.

“Hello, my name is Jiang Yi. Welcome to the Interstellar World.”

Seeing Su Wenqi put on the headset, the newcomer, Jiang Yi, opened his mouth to introduce himself. And the information contained in this sentence was massive. The Interstellar World? Could it be that he had transmigrated? He tentatively took off the headset. Seeing this, Jiang Yi smiled and cooperatively said another sentence.

“Alright, he couldn’t understand it… Helpless, Su Wenqi put the headset back on.

He didn’t feel any malice from the smiling, mild-mannered man in front of him. Thus, he also opened his mouth to communicate: “Hello, my name is Su Wenqi. May I ask where this is? What do you mean by the Interstellar World?”

After a brief self-introduction, he raised his questions, wanting to clearly understand the current situation.

“Hello, Mr. Su.” Jiang Yi raised his hand, inviting him to walk toward the house. While leading the way, he also explained the situation to Su Wenqi. “This is the Interstellar Year 6066, separated from your space-time by thousands of years. The reason you came here is related to space-time ocean currents. Were you brought here by the wind?”

Su Wenqi was shocked in his heart. The other party actually knew quite clearly. However, out of caution, he did not open his mouth to answer Jiang Yi’s question. Jiang Yi was not annoyed either; he had previously received several humans from the past and understood their cautious behavior.

He continued to introduce to Su Wenqi the formation and origins of this house and this area.

“Technology is highly developed nowadays, and we can detect humans brought by the currents. Through the unremitting efforts of scientists, we have done our best to control the rifts to specific locations. Although there is currently no way to completely deal with them, at the very least, when humans arrive in this space-time, we can provide them with the greatest help.” As they spoke, they had already walked to the front of the house. Jiang Yi pushed the door open, entering and leading him to a strange room containing something similar to a medical treatment cabin found in modern hospitals.

He motioned for Su Wenqi to take off his shirt, because when he landed, there were some obvious abrasions on his face and arms. After walking in from the outside, the corridors on both sides of the house also had various text explanations. He had even seen familiar Chinese characters among them, so he believed Jiang Yi’s words a bit more in his heart.

Following Jiang Yi’s instructions, he took off his shirt and sat in the cabin. The cabin door closed. After he saw Jiang Yi press a few buttons on the control console outside, some mist was sprayed around him. Accompanied by a soft light, he distinctly felt the wounds on his body healing and the pain vanishing.

About ten minutes later, Jiang Yi opened the cabin door from the outside and handed him a white shirt. After taking the shirt, Su Wenqi lifted his arms and looked them over. Those wounds had completely disappeared. If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he could never have imagined that in such a short amount of time, wounds could actually heal completely as if they had never been there.

“Mr. Jiang, this is too amazing!” he marveled.

In the following time, Jiang Yi briefly introduced the regional divisions of the current world to him, and handed him a key, a light brain terminal, and a star card.

The Federal Government was still very generous to transmigrated individuals. If they had special abilities, their welfare benefits could be taken to an even higher level. Unfortunately, when Jiang Yi asked him, he could only spread his hands and shake his head, indicating that he was just an ordinary student.

Jiang Yi was obviously a bit disappointed, but he hid his emotions very well. He added Su Wenqi’s light brain number, stating that if there was anything he didn’t understand or if he needed help later on, he could contact him. The Federation would provide him with three thousand star coins every month to maintain his livelihood, and also provide half a year of free housing.

This period of time was to let him adapt to interstellar life and be able to find a job to support himself. After Su Wenqi thanked Jiang Yi, someone led him toward his residence.

They got onto a means of transportation that looked no different from a car. Once Su Wenqi sat steadily, autopilot was initiated. Su Wenqi curiously looked out the window, but because the speed was too fast, he couldn’t see anything clearly; instead, it made him dizzy and lightheaded. He gave up on the idea and closed his eyes to rest.

Half an hour later, the vehicle stopped outside a residential community. Unlike the simply-equipped community Su Wenqi had imagined, this community was fully equipped and looked at a glance to be of the rather high-end sort. He felt a bit apprehensive.

Unskillfully opening his light brain, he sent a message to Jiang Yi: Mr. Jiang, aren’t these accommodation conditions a bit too good? I really am just an ordinary student with no special abilities. Isn’t this a bit of a waste of resources…

After receiving the message, Jiang Yi replied instantly: There’s no mistake~ This is our care and love for our compatriot. After all, for many years, the ones falling out of the space-time rifts were all foreigners; only you are our authentic Huaxia compatriot! It’s not a waste of resources at all, just live here with peace of mind. Besides, there might be some work later on that will require your cooperation.

With this, Su Wenqi’s mind was put at ease. He didn’t have anything on him that the other party could plot for. If there were absolutely no conditions attached, he really wouldn’t dare to stay. Since Jiang Yi brought up a condition, he was reassured.

Jiang Yi’s side had long since arranged for the input of his fingerprints and pupils for the community, so they entered the community very easily. However, unexpectedly, there was no sign of anyone walking around inside the community. Feeling a bit confused, he asked the staff member about the situation.

The staff member also answered his question. Nowadays, technology was advanced and online shopping was convenient; things could be delivered within five minutes after placing an order. Therefore, to save time, everyone was unwilling to go out and instead preferred to surf the internet.

Speaking of this, one had to mention this world’s internet surfing mode. By connecting a light brain to a helmet or a gaming cabin, one could enter a virtual world that was completely immersive. However, at this moment, our Little Su didn’t know this yet.

After walking for about ten minutes, they arrived in front of the building assigned to Su Wenqi. The buildings in this community weren’t very tall, roughly the same as in modern society. His room was on the 25th floor. The staff member didn’t follow him up; after greeting him, they took their leave.

Left alone at the entrance, Su Wenqi took a deep breath and stepped into the first-floor lobby. Unlike what he imagined, there were no real humans on duty in the lobby either, but rather two lifelike androids. After greeting Su Wenqi, they continued to stand guard with smiles on their faces.

Following the signs, he walked into the elevator and pressed the button for the 25th floor. In less than ten seconds, the elevator doors opened, making Su Wenqi experience that speed once again.

Taking out the key to open the front door, what met his eyes was a room decor leaning towards beige tones, which slowly eased Su Wenqi’s tense heart. After closing the door, he toured the facilities inside the room, which were all smart home appliances. Walking into the bedroom and seeing the large, soft bed, he couldn’t hold on any longer. He threw himself directly onto the bed and fell asleep. The home robot, detecting that its master had fallen asleep, automatically dimmed the lights and drew the curtains.

He slept deeply and soundly, plunging into utter darkness. Su Wenqi had many bizarre dreams, but upon waking up, he couldn’t remember anything. He was woken up by hunger. After waking up, he found the kitchen and was in a bit of a predicament when he discovered there was no food in the refrigerator. At this moment, a small robot slid out.

“Hello Master, I am Robot No. 001. I detected that you haven’t eaten in a long time. You can order nutrient fluid on your light brain.”

The sudden voice gave Su Wenqi a start. He looked over in the direction of the voice and saw a robot similar in appearance to the one he had seen this morning.

After understanding the situation from it, he also realized that this was a gift from Jiang Yi to make his interstellar life more convenient. After sending a message of thanks to Jiang Yi, he took the little robot and went out.

He didn’t intend to order online; he planned to go to the mall in the community to check out the interstellar prices. The little robot led him to the mall. From far away, he could see many robots carrying things, heading to every household in the community to deliver goods. It was quite convenient.

The scale of the mall was massive. Following the little robot’s footsteps, he arrived in front of the counter selling nutrient fluids, where there was a dazzling array of all kinds of flavors. He selected some simple fruit flavors that were safe bets, and then went to the ingredients section. The green vegetables were fresh and tender, dripping with moisture, but the prices were also beautiful—a small handful of greens actually cost 100 star coins!

Looking at the balance of only 3000 in his light brain, he fell into deep thought. It was better to just drink nutrient fluid. He strolled through the other daily necessities sections, where the prices were still quite reasonable and hadn’t reached the unreachable heights of the ingredients. After buying some home goods and daily necessities, he went to check out.

“Hello, your total is 1065 star coins. Please pay using your light brain.” Unexpectedly, he had spent a third of his money all at once this time. Su Wenqi took a deep breath but still paid; after all, these daily necessities had to be bought.

“Today is the 500th anniversary of the Wen Corporation. By spending over one thousand star coins, you can get a chance to enter the lucky draw, and there is a chance to win a top-tier gaming cabin~ Would you like to draw the lottery now?”

Right after paying, he heard the robot in the mall tell him this good news in a cheerful tone. He didn’t expect there to be such a good thing. However, since it was a free chance, he might as well take it, so he directly tapped to draw on the mall’s light brain terminal.

He thought it would be great if he could draw some ingredients, considering how expensive they were.

“Pop! Congratulations on winning the grand prize, one gaming cabin!” Accompanied by the congratulatory voice, party poppers went off on both sides of Su Wenqi, raining colorful ribbons all over him.