3 Sleeping Beauty

As Fu Jiu sat in the car and began to leave, he began thinking deeply.

I feel a bit muddle-headed, maybe its a side-effect? Because it's clearly my mind and...

Fu Jiu just closed his eyes, everything was unreal, but accepting it was the first priority.

Ah, how did I end up in the hospital? My memories right before this are way too blurry... Like a trauma?

"Xiaodong, what happened to me?"

"Young Master, are you sure you're okay? You didn't lose your memory did you?"

Fu Jiu simply stared at him with cold eyes.

"Ah, stop with your petty tricks won't you young master! I know you're trying to seem like you didn't offend anyone,-" Chen Xiaodong began to rant to which Fu Jiu paid no attention.

I was surely beat up, but who did I offend? He went through the memories of the previous owner.

"Owner"... Fu Jiu's lips became a straight line. A strange feeling came inside him, making him feel extremely uneasy.

Fu Jiu then slowly stroked a band which was around his hand. It was a cyber-band, primarily used as an identification of a person. A minor or an adult, country, graduated or not, several cards related to the person were all stored there. It was inspired by old-age health trackers, it was also used to identify if a person was dead or not, being a huge leap in medical science once again.

His cyber-band was white, just like his hair.

"So this thing can't scan injuries yet huh?" Fu Jiu just bitterly smiled. He was no doctor, he didn't know how we got hurt. This was too underdeveloped, only giving basic details and whenever the user's health got abnormal it would alert them and during accidents, a distress call would automatically be sent, it's a development in the preservation of human resources and the crime force. But unlike popular controversies, it couldn't record anything, because of privacy issues and mainly the way it was placed.

The era was behind the era the genius Fu Jiu came from, he was revered and feared for his hacking abilities from a young age. But that didn't matter to Fu Jiu, he trained himself to use any prototype or model and even the mechanisms inside these components and machines were inferior to what he learned.

Fu Jiu felt the feeling of helplessness to be really foreign. He wanted to do something, anything. Even though a master at adapting, something like this made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

Face reality...

If it weren't for the feeling to be so foreign, Fu Jiu might have thought he was trapped in some simulation.

Fu Jiu almost had half of his life in the virtual world in his previous life which made him very accustomed to the feeling. It wasn't entirely real but it felt real. Also, this world wasn't developed enough to have a simulation that exceeds the "virtual" realm, so he was able to confirm it.

A boon and a bane...

Thinking large amounts of information was never hard for him, but strangely, his headache returned and the discomfort in his body increased.

Don't tell me, even my processing skill degraded?

He felt drowsy and fatigue overwhelmed him, he just wanted a good night's sleep.

After reaching the empty mansion, Fu Jiu went to a deep sleep as his head ache slowly faded away and his brows ease.

"Young Master, if you could only sleep all the time, you'd look so charming!" Chen Xiaodong stared at Fu Jiu biting his nails and inwardly lamenting.

If Fu Jiu heard it, he'd think of the old classic "Sleeping Beauty" and then vomit a few liters of blood. How can the high and mighty hacker like him be compared to a fragile maiden who almost died by eating damn it!

His cyber-band slightly vibrated which signaled him of a call.

Oh, it's madam.

A machine similar to the old-age hearing aid was fixated in his ear, he just tapped the cyber-band once and began to talk.

"Yes madam, he reached home safely. He seems a little out of it as usual, but he hasn't asked for his clothes which is surprising..."

"NO! Madam, I didn't mean it in that way! It was the tacky clothes which Young Master asks, not clothes! I gave him clothes to wear! How can you do this to me!" Xiaodong replied teary-eyed.