7. Who's the main character here?
A young man in his early 20's is sitting behind the steering wheel his eyes are hollow as if he is in a daze
Ling Fan, a 22 year old fresh college graduate sat dejectedly in his car after failing his job interview for the tenth time.
His family came from a foreign land, China, to America 22 years ago with hopes of Ling Fan having a better than theirs rather than working to death in a factory.
Originally Ling Fan thought that after he gets a college degree he can live up to his parents expectation but he never imagined competition for a work place in America would be so fierce even after 10 unsuccessful interviews it still seemed like hes far away from getting a job.
A virus has been going on for nearly 8 months now and everyone has pretty much adapted to it the government has sent everybody back to their respective work places so the economic can continue to function although there are still a few people who believe this is just a prologue to a world ending disaster.
But no matter how many people thought or feel about this situation they have no choice but to go back to their work/school and thankfully, 8 months have gone by without any problem.
However for Ling Fan these few months after he had graduated has been hell for him.
He is a prideful person he would never let another person help him without the ability to pay them back.
Also he didn't want to disappoint his parents therefore he didn't tell anyone about his current situation, his rent is a month past due and he hasn't been able to have a full meal for the past few days.
Thinking about his current predicament he couldn't help but breath a sigh of frustration he look up to see a long line of cars in front of him honking their horns non-stop.
"looks like the traffic tonight is busier than usual looks like life really is unfair even traffic jams are giving me a hard time I might be the unluckiest person in this world"
The most peculiar event about this whole situation is the red truck all the way up in the front of the line although he can't see it clearly it seems as if the driver of the red truck is yelling at the car in front of him.
The red truck driver even went as far as to get out of his car personally to confront the person in front of him, at the same time Ling Fan turned and saw the car in front had their windows rolled down Ling Fan sighed and thought.
'Looks like I am going to be stuck here for a while the red truck driver already reached his hand into the car he clearly isn't going to let this matter go easily f*ck I really am the unluckiest person'
Suddenly he felt a slight vibration from around his neck, he reached his hand under his jacket and pulled out a jade pendant that is shining with a flash of blue light.
The jade pendant is sculpted to form the shape of a flood dragon circling around a deep blue crystal having four claws on four limbs all latched onto the crystal which seems to leaking with a type of energy.
The jade pendant has been around his neck ever since he was born but apparently only he knows about its existence other people aren't able to see the pendant.
One time he tried to remove the pendant but he wasn't able to take it off his neck almost seems like an invisible hand is stopping him.
In his whole life the pendant has only shone this type of light a total of 5 times and every time it shines like this he is always in a life endangering!
Ling Fan is has cold sweat running down his palm this happens every time he is nervous he began rubbing his palms together as if he is rubbing lotion on his hands.
'sh*t was going to happen now'
He soon got his answer a loud 'bang' was heard beside him he turned around and saw a horrifying sight he will never forget.
Earlier he was too distracted by the shining of the pendant he didn't even noticed everything around him is already alighted with bright dazzling flames.
It can't be helped after all the pendant is an indication of his death of course he is going to be more distracted with it.
But what caused him to finally return to reality was someones knocking or more specifically 'its' knocking 'it' is wearing a shirt and tie which is formal which doesn't look all that expensive but the clothes that 'it' is wearing doesn't matter since 'it' most distinguishing feature is the dark blue skin, hollow eyes, and the limb that is swinging at an unnatural angle!
'WHAT THE F*CK IS THAT'
Having been in a life or death situation before Ling Fan reacted immediately stepping on the gas pedal his car charged through the cars that is in front or more specifically 'was' in front.
There is a huge passageway littered with hundred of cars all of which even extended onto the streets but in front of Ling Fan is a long empty road seemingly inviting him to go on this path.
Ling Fan didn't think much about it since the only thing that he wants to do right now is to get the f*ck away from the monsters, he is going way past the speed limit but this isn't the time to care about that.
After driving for about half an hour he finally started to slow down because his gas is about to run out and he has no idea where he is, all he knows is that the monsters are nowhere to be seen.
He slows down to analyze his current location he look around to see a 2 half broken signs on one half of the broken sign it says 'caution' and the other sign is 'construction ahead'.
Ling Fan noticed this is a construction area he breathed a sigh of relief since at this time the people who is working should have gone home already therefore if there are any monster they would have already been here before.
But before he can relax he heard a sound approaching from behind, he turned to see a bright yellow steam roller approaching towards him at a speed that is at least 80 mph.
As of the right now it is quite late in the night all the lights are usually turned off at this point not to a mention a construction sight usually the street lights would show the path but the area looks incredibly dark since there is only 1 street light left.
It was clear that the whoever destroyed the lights did it on purpose it doesn't want Ling Fan to see its face.
As the steam roller approach closer Ling Fan already know its too late to escape he slowly close his eyes and accepted his fate all he can hear is a 'bang' the vehicle made contact with his body he went flying like a kite with broken strings.
Ling Fan can't feel anything other than intense pain that courses throughout his body his he had blood flowing down his face occasionally flowing into his mouth.
As of right now hes too weak to even breath, if he doesn't bleed to death he would choke on his own blood or die of suffocation.
Either way there is no second chance for Ling Fan to come back Ling Fan suddenly thought back to his parents the people who took care of him his whole life and tears of sadness began to flow out of his eyes.
"I am sorry mom, dad looks like your son has disappointed you guys after all"
at the last few seconds of his life on earth he can hear someone curse
"f*ck finally killed him hes like a cockroach I had to charge up my divine energy to descend here 5 times 5 f*cking times anymore and I would've gone insane but anyways I should harvest his soul my divination powers can't hold this substitute body any more"
He approaches Ling Fan only to see Ling Fan crying
"ah sh*t you're still alive? How resilient are you speaking up to here he pulled out a dagger and stab straight towards Ling Fans heart"
However instead of the dagger penetrating Ling Fans heart he heard a 'clink'
"..."
he searched Ling Fans breast pocket to find a watch, this watch was given by his crush when he is still in high school his crush eventually went with another guy.
However due to the fact Ling Fan couldn't forget about her he always kept the watch in his breast pocket wherever he went as a memory of her.
the person threw it aside and proceed to stab at Ling Fans chest again
'SKRRSHH'
the sounds of the blade shredding through a book this it is a thick covered book on the cover it writes 'ten easy tips for a job' interview this was give by his roommate in college.
The person in the dark seems to have a vein popping out of his head as he proceed to stab towards Ling Fans chest a number of times
This pendant was given to him by his aunt...
This silver ring was from his parents...
This packet...
......
After about ten minutes the face of the person in the dark is purple due to frustration he would have long slit his throat if it wasn't for the fact the necklace on his neck is currently fragile due to soul transfer.
Although he didn't say it out loud he cursed in his heart.
'WHAT THE F*CK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DORAEMON'
It was really a miracle that Ling Fan was able to survive until now apparently the brand new steam roller was a defect product that had a screw loosen when it was running towards Ling Fan direction effectively lowering its speed.
Also when it was charging towards Ling Fan the wheels skidded due to unnatural landscape made by little pieces of rock this combined with the fact when Ling Fan accepted his fate he leaned back a little which lessened the impact.
The steam roller sent him flying into a pile of sand bags so Ling Fan was able to survive all this time.
Right now the construction site is totally empty the only people who are there is Lin Fan who is injured lying on the floor naked, in front of a person in gold clothing filled with dragon patterns and veins which are bulging out of his hands.
He has removed every single piece of clothing from Ling Fan so right now nothing is left to protect Ling Fan from his blade he stabs his blade down without hesitation.
'splash'
blood flew out from the stab wound
'success'
... unfortunately for him, Ling Fan is born with Dextrocardia where his heart is located on the right side of his body so he lived from that strike.
The gold clothed man went absolutely crazy as he executed a knife technique not caring about the pendant anymore he went in for the finishing blow.
But just as he was about to finish the job Ling Fan suddenly dies of blood lost and his soul merged with the pendant and the pendant flew off into the distant night sky while Ling Fans old body turns into ash and flew along the currents of the wind leaving the mysterious golden clothe man to hit nothing but air.
"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"
......................
The pendant is currently traveling at an extremely rapid speed towards a specific directions similar to how a magnet is going to connect together it is going in a direction as if being attracted by something.
At the very same moment a handsome youth around the age of 15 enters his house his face is all bruised and he has blood leaking down his mouth but only adds to his handsomeness he has hand and feet that are skinny like a girls due to being malnourished for long period of time and he has silky long hair.
He lied down on his bed with heavy breathing and cursed inside his head
'They will pay for this one day!'
but just before he is able successfully lie down a beam of light shot through his roof landing right onto the center of his chest.
The light is Ling Fans soul that is merged with the dragon pendant as soon as it landed on the youths chest it began merging the 2 souls together the proccess flowed smoothly as if the 2 soul are originally 1 to begin with the only problem was the memory.
The memory has some ideas contradicting each other due to how differently they lived, one lived as a fresh grad student, and the other lived as a commoner in a world where killing is as common as cabbages on the street.
Cruelty in this world isn't something new but Ling Fan who has grown up living a peaceful life can't accept that therefore both ideas has a clash in the mind of the young man.
"The pendant carried the legacy of an ancient dragon and he spoke to me while I was in the middle of soul merging saying I was the chosen one or something"
"And then after 2 days and 2 nights my soul and his merged apparently he was from one of the major family but they offended someone they couldn't offend now he is left with nothing not even his family name so you can just call me by my earth name Ling Fan"
After narrating practically the entire event of his reincarnation he finally stopped because he got thirsty in front of him sit a young man about his age sitting with a straight face but the tip of his mouth couldn't stop twitching
Mo Duanren originally wanted to ask some question so he can probe some secrets in which if things go south he can always throw the guy in front of him as a bait but never could he have imagine this chatterbox not only spilled the entire secret but he also gave him the whole reincarnation process.
'f*ck i thought this was suppose to be your greatest secret of all time but your spitting it like a chewing gum, and you say your unlucky? f*ck you got 5 chances to get isekai and one of those chances is by a truck! oh my god thinking about it makes me just angrier'
According to what Ling Fan explained of the pendant depending on how much divine power is used he will have different levels of reincarnation and unsurprisingly this is the highest level of reincarnation.
'As for beating him up or threatening him? The dude is loved by the heavens more than Ouyang himself if I mess with him I just get my ass kicked. Stealing the pendant? I can't even see it.'
After thinking of every violent measures he could take something inside him clicked
'Oh if I can't beat a plague might as well help it spread'
As the old saying goes 'if you can't beat them join them'
Ling Fan had just finished drinking his tea he prepared to give another long speech about his parents this time but Mo Duanren immediately stood up and said
"Well brother Ling it has been really nice meeting a fellow earthling since we have such a coincidental meeting can you forgive me for my families action earlier."
"of course! to be honest I was pretty scared coming to a foreign world but seeing someone here with the same origin really puts my mind at ease.
"Well said since brother Ling has been so generous as to tell me your secret legacy I might as well tell you that I inherited the alchemist legacy."
Ling Fans eyes lit up when he heard alchemy as someone reborn as a commoner he is so poor he literally need to eat grass to survive so forget about pills he can't even gain access to a healthy meal.
Mo Duanren saw the visible changes in Ling Fans eyes and said
"say brother Ling do you want to team up since you inherited the Dragon legacy I am sure you possess unimaginable strength while my alchemy is more of an auxiliary so you protect me while in return I give you pills"
"yes yes brother Mo sure came up with a great idea hahaha"
"well then writ- shake hands as a form of agreement"
'phew that was close I almost said write a blood contract if I said it he would definitely be suspicious of me'
Then they proceed to shake hands but what made Mo Duanren hand twitch midway is when Ling Fan complained
"But seriously getting kidnapped on the first day I am seriously the unluckiest person in this world"
"yes I do agree"
'agree my a*s if you are unlucky then my whole 18 generations are probably the origin of bad luck'
'But seriously why do you have all these abilities I'm really starting to doubt my existence'
'Who's the main character here???'