A Time of Wild Fantasy

Rumbling thunder and lightning, raindrops the size of soybeans mingled with the 86°F heatwave crashing down from the sky, hitting the earth with a loud din. At one in the morning, Katy City in Houston seemed somewhat restless, as if announcing that something big was about to happen.

In the Greenwood neighborhood, Su Yang quickly walked up to a somewhat dilapidated villa and kicked the door open with one foot.

On the coffee table facing the main door, a bowl as big as a face was filled with cigarette butts, white cigarette holders, black ash, all piled up densely, the smell of unknown alcohol and some rotten leftover food wafted over.

"Actually, there is a big villa, not the cheap kind made of light steel and wood, but it's about to become a garbage dump."

Putting away his thoughts, he turned and went into the bathroom, picked up a towel to wipe off the lake water from his body, saw the towel printed with the logo of the Houston Rockets, thought that it seems the original body is also a basketball fan, turned his head and saw his face in the mirror, with a bit of mud, messy beard and temples, a bit like the British actor Gary Oldman and Hong Kong actor Chen Hao, a bit handsome.

He put on hot water, lay in the bathtub, closed his eyes, and between breathing, he completely accepted the reality of rebirth.

Su Yang was 35 years old in his previous life, an ordinary two-book computer major, after graduation because of love for the game, joined as a programmer + planner, working overtime for a long time, accumulating 14 years of mobile game production experience, always wanting to develop a game that will be remembered in history, but unfortunately did not develop a big-selling work like "Genshin Impact", let alone the level of "The Legend of Zelda".

Fortunately, his other hobby of basketball did not fall behind, and in his spare time, he made basketball tactics, trade forecasts, playoff prospects, historical reviews, training and actual combat, and related secret rumors and other related videos, accumulating as many as 2 million fans on platforms like TikTok, and was given the nickname "Basketball Expert".

The embarrassing thing is that as a basketball UP master, the ability to monetize is too poor to earn too much money, and I still have to work overtime on games every day.

The last memory of the previous life was that the game that had been waiting for two years finally got the release number, worked overtime for 72 hours in advance, and then rushed home in the early morning, but the brake failed and suddenly accelerated, driving at a speed of 110 yards in the downtown area for nearly 5 kilometers, and there was no way to continue to control it. In order not to hit pedestrians on the road, he forcefully turned the steering wheel into the Fu River.

What's worse is that the car window failed and he quickly fainted, and when he regained consciousness, he struggled to swim out of the water, but he saw a villa, and the American star flag hanging outside the villa.

Lying by the lake for two hours, he finally confirmed that it was not a dream and he was not dead, fortunately, in June in Houston, the night is very hot.

Memory fragments flooded into his mind, the original body is also called Su Yang, 22 years old, the second generation of Chinese, with a Chinese father who has been missing for 18 years, and a mother who abandoned him and returned to the UK, completely out of touch ten years ago.

Over the years, Su has been supported by two aunts who came to the United States with his father, plus the house and a sum of money left by his father before he disappeared, and he is not hungry or cold, but after graduating from the University of Houston Victoria Branch, he studied what art major, and he couldn't find a satisfactory job, and he still has a student loan, and the savings for the mortgage are almost running out.

Under the impact of various setbacks, Su's mentality is a bit broken, and he has been drinking and worrying every day for a year, and unfortunately fell into the lake after getting drunk tonight.

Fortunately, I have reborn and crossed over to take over life.

"Goodbye, YoungSu, I hope you can think it through in the next life, I should consider my second life game."

After a brief recall, I am now 186 cm tall, not fat or thin, and a bit handsome, graduated from a key university community branch, with a good painting skill, two good aunts, and a mortgage + student loan debt of nearly 100,000.

There are no best friends, and there has been no serious love, and there is a second-hand Mazda in the garage in the backyard.

"The first task is to make money, strive to renew the mortgage first, so as not to be taken away by the bank and become a homeless person who is difficult to turn over again, this is not as simple as shooting 'When Happiness Comes Knocking', and then accumulate a sum of money to make a big money..."

It is now the beginning of June 2001, the Internet is experiencing a bubble crisis, the stock market continues to fall, and there are large-scale layoffs.

With my background in art, I can apply for Blizzard or other game companies, but I have been doing it for so many years and I am a bit tired, and I can only be a screw for the time being to execute other people's creativity, and wait until I have money to make a big work.

But if you don't do games, there is no other talent, copying songs and making movies are too difficult, going to do sales work is a choice.

Thinking about it, Su Yang suddenly remembered the towel with the logo of the Houston Rockets, and suddenly had a bit of a clue.

"I can try to be a scout or video analyst, these two positions require skills that I mostly understand, and the location of Katy is quite good, close to the Houston Rockets, far to San Antonio, and a little further to Dallas to try."