Chapter 1: The Mysterious Crystal

  "Xiao Min, go call your brother to get up and eat," Wang Yuejiao shouted from the kitchen to Liu Min who was watching TV in the living room.

  "I just went to see him, and he's still sleeping. Let's eat first!" As soon as Liu Min heard that it was time to eat, she hastily jumped down from the sofa, quickly walked to the dinner table, grabbed a piece of stir-fried bacon with her hand and threw it into her mouth, while eating and muttering to herself.

  "Go wash your hands, you're almost in high school and still acting like a kid!" Wang Yue'e lightly patted Liu Min's head with a hint of annoyance before turning to Liu Daxing, who was sitting at the dinner table, and asked worriedly: "Daxing, where did you take Xiaojie yesterday? Why did he come back last night and go straight to bed, and now it's noon and he still hasn't gotten up? Is he sick or something?"

  "I just took him to the mine and turned around, didn't go anywhere! He likes crystal, right? I happened to have a very beautiful crystal, so I gave it to him. When I came back at night, he was fine, didn't see him getting sick!" Liu Daxing replied casually after drinking down the wine in his cup.

  "Mom, don't worry about it. I saw my brother sleeping soundly just now, so I didn't wake him up." Liu Min washed her hands and came out to sit on the chair with a plop, picking up her chopsticks to eat while saying: "Brother finally made it through university, he must be exhausted! He needs to rest and relax properly. If it were me graduating from university, I would definitely sleep for seven days and seven nights at home!"

  "Xiao Min is right, Yang Jie has been sensible since he was a kid. Now that he's graduated from university and been assigned to work back in the county, it's good for him to rest more before officially starting work. You can eat with peace of mind!"

  "Sister said that her husband has already mentioned Yang Jie's work to Director Zhou, but it's been almost a week and the county still hasn't notified Yang Jie of his specific work schedule. I hope nothing goes wrong!" Wang Yue'e served Liu Daxing a big bowl of dishes and sat down, looking at him seriously: "If the county can't arrange it, then you go find Li Mine Director and get Yang Jie arranged to work in the mine."

  "Go, go, go! Are you still waiting for news? Secretary Zhou and my brother-in-law are old comrades, my brother-in-law only has this one son, can Secretary Zhou not take care of him? If the county really didn't arrange a good job for Little Jie, I'll go find Director Li and have Little Jie transferred to the mine, that should be okay, right!" Liu Daxing knew Wang Yue'e was worried about Yang Jie, so he quickly spoke up.

  Liu Daxing's sister Liu Cailian, when she married Yang Jie's father Yang Xinhua, Yang Xinhua had just been promoted to platoon leader in the army. At that time, it was during the ten-year catastrophe period, and Yang Xinhua's parents had passed away early, and their family lived in poor rural conditions. Therefore, after Liu Cailian gave birth to Yang Jie, she always left Yang Jie with her brother Liu Daxing, who worked at Fuxin Tungsten Mine.

  Liu Cuilian and Liu Daxing, two siblings, like Yang Xinhua, lost their parents at a young age. Liu Daxing was raised by his older sister Liu Cuilian, who took care of him since childhood, so the emotional bond between them is very strong. They have always treated Yang Jie, their nephew, as their own child and taken good care of him.

  Yang Jie attended school from elementary to junior high at Fuxin Tungsten Mine's subsidiary school, living in Liu Daxing's home until he was admitted to County No. 1 Middle School and went to the county seat for further study, only then leaving Fuxin Tungsten Mine and moving out of Liu Daxing's home.

  Even so, every winter and summer vacation, Liu Daxing and Wang Yue'e would ask Yang Jie to come to Fuxin Tungsten Mine to stay for a while. Even after Yang Xinhua was injured in battle and transferred back, it was the same.

  Although Wang Yue'e is only Yang Jie's aunt, over the years she has come to regard Yang Jie as her own child. Whenever Yang Jie has something on his mind, she worries more than even his mother Liu Cui Lian.

  Liu Daxing's home is located in Fuxin Tungsten Mine No. 1 worker district new staff building, with an area of 80 square meters, three rooms, one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom. Although it was a new house that had just been moved into two years ago, Yang Jie had already moved out of Liu Daxing's home five years ago, but Wang Yue'e still prepared a bedroom for Yang Jie.

  Liu Daxing and his family, who were having dinner, did not know that Yang Jie, lying in bed at this time, was extremely excited.

  It is said that the father of a hero will be a good fellow, Yang Jie's father Yang Xinhua was a fighting hero, he was an iron-blooded soldier who came out from the hail of bullets and gunfire. As the son of Yang Xinhua, Yang Jie has been independent since childhood, with a bold and generous personality, and is also smart and eager to learn. He took the college entrance examination and entered the Economics Department of Yenching University, where he received modern higher education from this prestigious university. After living in the capital for four years, his understanding and acceptance ability are much stronger than ordinary people's.

  Everything that happened on him last night still made him feel unbelievable, and he was like in a dream.

  Yang Jie likes crystal, and at the age of five, he was completely fascinated by the crystal after seeing Liu Daxing bring back a piece of purple crystal from the mine. In Yang Jie's bedroom, there are colorless, gray, purple, yellow, pink, and smoky crystals everywhere.

  Liu Daxing knew that Yang Jie liked crystal, and every time he saw a beautiful crystal in the mine, he would keep it to give to Yang Jie. Yesterday, when Yang Jie followed Liu Daxing to his contracted mine to play, Liu Daxing gave him a thumb-sized, crystal-clear natural six-sided transparent crystal as a gift.

  Yang Jie saw that the crystal was extremely clear, with a transparent interior and a smooth, glass-like surface. The crystal felt cool to the touch and had a distinct texture, with sharp edges and six equal sides of moderate weight, making it almost perfect.

  Couldn't bear to put it down all the way back home, after dinner returned to the bedroom, lay on the bed, left thumb and index finger pinched the crystal's diamond-shaped edges, against the incandescent lamp, placed the crystal in front of eyes, wanting to see through the crystal at the room.

  Who would have thought that Yang Jie, who just wanted to take a look at the crystal's transparency, accidentally discovered that there was a faint glow flowing in the crystal. Before he could react, he felt a sharp pain in his fingers, and then a beam of light shot out from the crystal and into Yang Jie's eyes.

  "Blood verification complete..."

  "Meets system requirements."

  "DNA verification complete..."

  "Mongolian ethnicity, Huaxia Han Chinese ancestry."

  "Confirmed that DNA is the ultimate control code for the system."

  "Brain wave frequency scan complete..."

  "Confirmed that the thought wave frequency is the system control password."

  "Vocal cord phonation system scan complete..."

  "Confirmed host voice as system backup control password."

  "Host program started..."

  "Initiate primary bio-energy supply mode."

  ……

  Yang Jie's mind was suddenly filled with a string of magnetic and feminine voices, the sound was very emotional, but the words that came out made him shocked and confused, wanting to shake off the crystal in his hand, only to find that his body was no longer under his control.

  Yang Jie, lying on the bed, held up the crystal, his eyes wide open, and watched as the transparent crystal that had pierced his finger melted away like ice, slowly entering his finger.

  When the crystal completely entered Yang Jie's body, the wounds on his left thumb and index finger healed strangely quickly. After a moment, it was as if he had never been injured at all. What made Yang Jie even more shocked was that such a large piece of crystal had entered his hand, yet his fingers didn't swell in the slightest, as if the crystal had vanished into thin air on his fingertips.

  Sometimes seeing is not believing. When the crystal disappeared completely, a bright light flashed across Yang Jie's eyes, and then Yang Jie's eyes went black. The familiar bedroom in front of his eyes suddenly turned into groups of data, with 0s and 1s filling his eyes. If someone were standing in front of him at that moment, they would definitely see binary computer code on his pupils.

  "Primary bio-energy supply established, system running normally, host program complete..."

  A familiar female voice echoed in his mind again, and Yang Jie, who was now completely panicked, tried to open his mouth to shout for help. However, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't make a sound, and the intense hunger pangs made him feel dizzy and disoriented. Before he could react further, he fainted in a very tragic manner.