allendalepharm Chapter 1 Before I Became a Fisherman
Chapter 1 Before I Became a Fisherman
An infinite and weird game has come into the world, countless humans have fallen into the abyss of death, no remains have been found, and the global population has dropped by two-thirds.
God couldn't bear it any longer, so he said:
“Let there be light.”
Thus, Jiang Yuan was born.
But what God didn't expect was that this was a ridiculous light, a funny light.
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There is no doubt that Jiang Yuan is the Son of God.
His mother remained a virgin and carried him for three whole years. She waited and waited, and finally, on an auspicious day when the Purple Star was bright, Jiang Yuan was born.
On that day, the starlight of the crape myrtle blossomed brightly, and the stars in the sky dimmed.
On that day, Infinite Guiyou all fell silent.
There were no casualties worldwide that day.
God sent a dream to tell Ms. Jiang that her child was extraordinary and would be the future savior. So in order to protect Jiang Yuan from growing up safely and avoid disasters, she did not tell anyone about her child's specialness.
At the beginning, Jiang Yuan was still reliable. His natural intelligence made him famous among the neighbors since he was a child.
No matter who it is, as long as they fall into the strange cave game, they can successfully escape by making a phone call to Jiang Yuan for guidance. This is even more effective than asking for help from the Infinite Security Department.
This earned him the reputation of a gaming genius since he was a child.
However, apart from these minor incidents, what really made Jiang Yuan famous around the world was his feat of "fishing in front of the Buddha" in the game.
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In the 19th year of Guiyou, there was a sports meet at Liming No. 1 Middle School. All the teachers and students gathered in the playground to welcome the tug-of-war finals. However, after a piercing noise sounded on the radio, the whole school was sucked into the game.
The rating of this game's strange cave is extinction, which is rare to see in ten years.
The last time a level-destroying ghost cave landed was in Ping'an City. Afterwards, Ping'an City disappeared from the map forever.
After the teachers and students knew they had encountered the cave extinction, they knew they had no chance of survival and could only pray that they would not die too miserably.
But when the strange white fog dissipated, they found that they were not in a desperate situation of death, but a holy land of bliss that was as white as jade and exuded the wonderful fragrance of white lotus!
Under the Milky Way sky that was within reach, the pure stone slabs were spotless and shrouded in clouds and mist like a fairyland. In front of everyone, there was a large pond full of white lotuses, the lotus flowers were as plump as babies' faces, and the gentle sound of the wooden fish made them gradually let go of their fear.
At this moment, on the hundred-foot-high stairs opposite the lotus pond, a huge and solemn figure slowly emerged from the fog.
On the lotus throne, the giant sat cross-legged, wearing a cassock, with a Buddha-like bun on his hair, kind eyes, and a golden body. No introduction was needed, and four words echoed in everyone's mind -
Tathagata Buddha.
Seeing this gaming master, many people fainted on the spot out of fright.
The Buddha pointed to a row of bookshelves filled with scriptures beside the lotus pond and said, "Children, can you find a magic method from these scriptures to save an evil ghost from purgatory within one day and fulfill my wish?"
Sanskrit sounds rang in the ears, and the lotus pond that stood between the Buddha and the crowd trembled slightly. A few white lotuses slowly spread out, and the purgatory at that moment was reflected on the surface of the pond.
Countless naked crimson evil spirits with red faces and fangs were crawling and rolling, struggling in the thick sea of blood, looking either ferocious, desperate and miserable, or numb. They were like energetic lizards, making the teachers and students' scalps numb.
But going from paradise to purgatory and back, let alone in a day, they might not be able to do it even if they were given a year, let alone catching ghosts from purgatory?
The Buddha smiled and spread out his hands, indicating that if you can't do it, you will have to stay under the Five Finger Mountain forever.
Just when the teachers and students were in a state of panic, at a loss as to what to do and could only howl in despair and wait for death, a clear laugh came from the crowd.
"Buddha is merciful. Wasn't the answer already in front of us from the beginning?"
The spirited young man walked out of the crowd with a smile on his face, instantly attracting all eyes.
Under his thick black eyebrows, a pair of delicate peach blossom eyes were slightly upturned and sharp. His loose sleeves were casually rolled up, revealing his thin and strong white arms and his relaxed and carefree demeanor. If he were not wearing a school uniform, one might mistake him for a young immortal in this holy land.
It’s Jiang Yuan!
The Buddha looked at this ignorant young man without saying a word, his eyes curved with compassion, making him look even more eerie.
The young man walked to a white lotus by the pond, opened the petals, and found a jade spider napping on the lotus pod. He stretched out his slender palm, and the jade spider actually climbed onto his palm and spit out a thin spider silk.
The spider silk was crystal clear. Jiang Yuan hung one end of it into the lotus pond. Everyone saw this thin and long white jade spider silk hanging down to the human world, passing through hell, and actually going straight to the purgatory blood sea at the bottom!
But there is nothing above the spider silk. Which resentful ghost would be willing to come up?
Just when everyone was worried, they saw a naked little ghost stepping on his compatriot's head, climbing up the spider silk, and climbing up dozens of meters in the blink of an eye!
When the other evil spirits saw that the little ghost was trying to escape from Purgatory, they followed suit and crawled over.
The densely packed evil ghosts formed a huge mountain, pulling the spider silk downwards. Seeing that Jiang Yuan was about to be dragged down, the teachers and students came to help quickly. Then the evil ghosts and the teachers and students started an extreme tug-of-war with a spider silk that spanned the sky and the earth.
Eighteen hours later, the little devil had already crawled to a place not far below the lotus pond. Victory was imminent, and the teachers and students were so excited that they increased their efforts. However, the spider silk could not bear the weight and broke with a bang.
broken!
Under the influence of inertia, everyone fell backwards and scattered on the ground.
Before everyone could despair, the skinny red little ghost jumped out from under the lotus pond, lotus petals flew all over the sky, water splashed everywhere, and the evil ghost actually smashed into Jiang Yuan's chest!
It turned out that the spider silk broke right under the little ghost's feet, allowing him to use the last bit of strength to leap out of the lotus pond and reach paradise!
The salvation was successful, and the Buddha smiled and turned back into his kind appearance. He opened the door and let more than a thousand people leave the paradise.
Jiang Yuan became famous with just one fishing hook after leading the whole school through the level-killing game without any injuries. People then discovered that he was the Purple Star that fell from the sky and silenced all the games!
Jiang's mother had no choice but to explain to the Security Department that Jiang Yuan was a son given by the original spirit, who came to save the world.
The name of the Son of God spread quickly, shocking the whole world!
However, Jiang Yuan realized one thing from then on: the Buddha's game of saving ghosts was not to make things difficult for them, but to convey a Zen message to them.
"Mom, all beings are equal. I not only want to save humans, but also save those beings who are suffering in the game!"
Mother Jiang was very moved and hit the Son of God on the forehead with a spoon: "You are dreaming."
Let him give up on this idea.
However, this spoon did not stop Jiang Yuan's ambition.
Five years later, he "built a bridge to the underworld", creating an amazing feat that alarmed the owner of the game and also became an important turning point in his life.
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Twenty-four years into Guiyou's reign, on the night of the Ghost Festival, the moat of Xijing was bustling with activity.
Originally, people gathered by the river to light golden lotus lanterns and burn paper to mourn their deceased relatives and friends. Unexpectedly, a strange hole suddenly appeared on the river surface, sucking away thousands of souls, leaving only empty shells of flesh all over the ground.
After the Security Department determined that this was a disaster of annihilation level, they immediately chose to evacuate the people. However, Jiang Yuan, who was still in his internship at the time, disobeyed the order and took the initiative to enter the strange cave to save everyone on his own.
After he entered the ghost town, he found the ten masters who sat high in the palace of Hades.
Ten Halls of Hell.
They are competing to see who can capture the most souls, not only in reality, but also in the game. So far, they have captured more than 10,000 people. If they continue, the consequences will be disastrous.
Jiang Yuan said all the nice things he could, but the King of Hell not only refused to listen, he also punished him by sending him to the eighteenth level of hell.
Good words could not persuade the damned Hades, so Jiang Yuan had no choice but to fight them for three hundred rounds. Finally, with the enthusiastic help of the executive martyrs, he successfully killed the Hades one by one.
The ghosts shrank their necks and hid to the side. More than ten thousand souls marched out of the city in a mighty manner. But as soon as they arrived outside the ghost city, they were in trouble, because whether they wanted to return to the world of the living or to the reality, they had to cross the surging Yellow Springs.
The Yellow Spring is more than a hundred meters wide, and there is only one small broken boat on the river, which is totally not enough!
Time is running out, if it’s any later, their physical bodies will really die!
Just as the ghosts on both sides were preparing to fight each other over the boat, the leader Jiang Yuan hit the boat with a stick and smashed it into pieces.
Just when all the souls were confused, Jiang Yuan used the ghost-beating whip he had just snatched from the King of Hell. He first ordered the broken boat to turn into bridge bones, and then ordered the lotus lanterns on the river to gather onto the bridge bones and turn into the bridge body. In less than half a day, he built a lotus lantern bridge that spanned the Yellow Springs with dazzling golden light, illuminating most of Hell!
Afterwards, the white-shirted Son of God, holding a little ghost from another world beside him, stepped on thousands of paper golden lotus flowers, led the souls of the two lives, and rode on the lotus bridge back to where they came from, step by step.
Jiang Yuan once again became the focus of the world after he killed Yama in the underworld and saved thousands of ghosts with one boat. When a reporter asked him why he wanted to save the ghosts in the game world, he smiled and said something that would directly break his smooth life:
"It's not just us who are tortured by the Infinite Game, but also the ordinary people in the game, and even the sect leaders, who are all victims of the game. We should not hurt each other, but unite and fight against the culprit, the evil god."
There was thunderous applause from the audience, which made the evil god sitting in front of the TV very angry.
He crushed the TV remote control, and that night he condescended to sneak into the Son of God's dream, shrilly and mockingly said:
"You are a rebellious bastard, an arrogant fool. Sooner or later, you will die in my game with your eyes wide open and no trace of your body will be left!"
Jiang Yuan smiled cynically: "Oh, Your Excellency the Evil God, are you so angry that you're jumping up and down?"
Facing the evil god surrounded by black fog, he casually produced a piece of white paper, wrote and drew on it, and handed it to the evil god.
"This is the mistake I found in your game. Tsk, it's so sloppy. There is still a lot of room for improvement, Wuyin."
The evil god grabbed the paper, stared at it for a long while, and then suddenly laughed angrily.
"Hahahaha! Okay, you're brave, you're amazing, don't regret it later!!!"
After saying that, he turned into a black mist and left.
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After the friendly talks ended, Jiang Yuan waited eagerly for regret, but after waiting for a long time, just when he was bored, he finally received the retribution for provoking the evil god.
Jiang Yuan still won this time.
But it came at a very painful price.
That shameless old man actually turned Jiang Yuan's mother into a ghost!
He viciously turned Ms. Jiang into a flesh and blood door connecting two worlds. The strange and ever-changing sarcoma virus inside the door continued to spread outward. Jiang Yuan had no choice but to slaughter the entire security department, including his mother, in the shortest possible time.
As if to mock him, just when Jiang Yuan was also infected and was about to die in the sea of fire before he mutated...
He was saved.
His master, Lao Jiang, risked his life to find the antidote from the tumor. It took only three minutes from Jiang Yuan killing his mother to the master getting the antidote.
In just these three minutes, the favored son of heaven fell from the altar and became an eternal sinner. The victim's family members cried heart-wrenchingly and rushed into the court, demanding that he be sentenced to death.
"He just wanted to win so badly! He even killed his own mother!"
"You've been playing games so hard that you can't even tell reality from reality!!! You lunatic, die soon!"
"Fuck you, Son of God! You treasonous beast! How could you have the heart to do that to so many people?!"
Perhaps he was frightened into insanity by the huge shock, or perhaps he was born abnormal. In short, people's criticism, wailing, and murderous intentions did not make Jiang Yuan reflect. Instead, the almighty Son of God couldn't hold it in anymore and went crazy.
There was a flash of white light, and in the courtroom, a sharp spider silk was placed across the neck of everyone.
"Be careful, my Fanwen has a bad temper and can easily hurt people."
He still smiled brightly, but every word he said was filled with warm murderous intent. His unstable mental state frightened everyone into not moving, fearing that he would pull the spider silk and the court would be littered with heads.
Jiang Yuan removed his handcuffs, walked to the center of the court, and announced to the world in front of the camera:
"You ignorant and dull mortals are not qualified to judge me."
"I am the only God, the savior of the world, the light of the Dharma Ending Age, and the principle of the operation of the universe. Only by believing in me, worshiping me, singing praises to me, and following in my footsteps can you be redeemed and escape from this infinite hell."
He walked out of the court in a dignified manner, and as soon as he walked out, he established an extremist organization headed by himself under the support of countless fanatical believers.
In the name of God, they conquered the game, rampaged, acted recklessly, robbed players, and punished pagans.
Wherever they go, they are like a swarm of locusts, making the entire society chaotic and uneasy.
It is said that some people were considered disrespectful because they passed by Jiang Yuan without saluting, and were thrown directly into the game and killed; others said bad things about Jiang Yuan, and their entire family was forced to be killed in the game that night and became decorations in a certain sect leader's cave.
It is extremely cruel and inhumane. How can this person be called the Son of God? He is just a cult leader!
As the number of infinite games decreases, people's resentment towards Jiang Yuan's atrocities grows, making him seem like a clown in peacetime.
Fortunately, he didn't stay at large for long.
One day three years later, he boldly robbed the prop library of the Security Department, led his fanatical followers into a game, and then...
There was no news anymore.
People were in tears, and they told each other that the damn clown had finally been taken in by the evil god! It was so gratifying! Everyone celebrated!
After a few more years, everything returned to normal, the game was effectively suppressed, and gradually became an ordinary disaster like typhoons and fires. Although it occasionally caused damage, it was all within the controllable range.
Even the props and technologies within the game can provide positive help to human society.
Just when everything was going well and people were beginning to forget about that clown, guess what?
Jiang Yuan was not dead at all, he was just tired of everything and hid himself under a different name.
When I have no money, I go to an illegal factory to do odd jobs for daily wages, producing some no-name products and earning a hundred yuan or so. When I have money, I go fishing by the river.
Earn money every day, go fishing for three days, come up empty-handed every year, and never get tired.
After seven years of such a mess, I thought that the rest of my life would be like this. However, things did not go as I wished because my right foot took half a step back while fishing.
This scourge has fallen into another tricky game.