The journey of the heavens began with the superpowers of the frame count

March 1st.

The New Year had just passed.

At the foot of the green mountain, it was drizzling.

On a protruding dark brown rock, Cao Ren held a black umbrella and looked down at his grandfather's coffin, which was gradually covered by the workers who were hired to repair the tomb.

"Life is too short and fragile!"

Cao Ren murmured in his heart. He suddenly understood how Orochimaru felt about the loss of life in Naruto.

Life could not escape from birth, aging, sickness, and death. It was too short.

His grandfather had gone to the neighboring village to eat and drink a little wine, and then on the way back, he fell on the ground. It was a small fall that did not even scratch his skin.

However, this little fall was like the last straw that broke the camel's back. It directly broke the complete system of life that his grandfather had constructed, causing his life support to collapse like a pile of building blocks that was missing a corner.

When he got home, his grandfather did not eat or drink. He passed away the next afternoon.

When his grandfather passed away, Cao Ren witnessed his grandfather's death with his own eyes. His eyes were still open, but they were lifeless.

At that time, Cao Ren seemed to have sensed that his grandfather did not want to die. He was still reluctant to leave this world, and he wanted to…get up and eat!

But…life was too fragile and too short.

Birth, aging, illness, and death were not things that human beings could resist.

In the end, Grandpa still left.

Cao Ren was shocked when he witnessed his grandfather's death.

Whenever he thought about how he would die of old age or illness one day, he could not help but feel an inexplicable fear.

This fear wasn't the kind of fear where someone had a gun pointed at his head or a knife pointed at his throat. It was the kind of fear where one's life could end at any moment.

It was like when you went to the hospital for a check-up, and the doctor suddenly said that you had cancer, and it was in the late stages. It was the kind of fear that you would only have one year to live at most.

This fear wasn't direct. It had a time delay.

However, it was like letting you see the countdown to your own life. It would keep you in fear and then you would not be motivated by anything.

Those who knew that they only had one year left in their lives would still work hard to live a wonderful life. After all, they were the minority.

Cao Ren wasn't that kind of person. He was just an ordinary person.

He knew that he would die like his grandfather in a few decades. He knew that he would grow old in the future and would not be able to experience the beauty of life like his grandfather.

Cao Ren had not been motivated to do anything for the past few days. He always looked expressionless and indifferent.

Everyone thought that Cao Ren had become like this because he was sad about his grandfather's death.

Only Cao Ren knew that when he thought about how he would grow old and die one day, he lost interest in everything.

"Let's go. Don't be sad. Let's go home."

"We burned down the luxury cars and mansions and gave your grandfather a few hundred million yuan. Your grandfather is living very well there. Don't be sad."

After setting up the monument, burning the paper, setting off the fireworks, and completing all the procedures, she saw Cao Ren still standing on the protruding rock and looking at his grandfather's grave. Her mother, Li Mei, walked over and comforted her son softly.

"Got it."

Cao Ren gave his mother a mechanical smile, then put away his umbrella and left. He still looked like he was not interested in anything.

Sigh!

Seeing her son like this, Li Mei shook her head and sighed. She quickly followed her son.

When he got home, Cao Ren was about to open the door when he was suddenly stunned. He looked at the door handle, especially the few spots where the paint was peeling off. An image suddenly appeared in his mind. It was as if he was holding the door handle and preparing to open the door, as well as the few spots where the paint was peeling off. He seemed to have seen this scene in his dream or he seemed to have done the same thing and seen the same door handle.

"Again."

Cao Ren shook his head, pushed the door open, and went upstairs to his bed. He was stunned again.

There were three insects in a triangle on the sand curtain of the mosquito net on the top of the bed.

These three bugs and the scene he was seeing now.

Another scene flashed across Cao Ren's mind. It was exactly what he was seeing now.

It was as if he had experienced this scene before, but it wasn't. Cao Ren was sure that he hadn't experienced it before, including the scene with the doorknob.

These familiar scenes made it seem like Cao Ren's past self had foreseen that he would experience all of this in the future.

However, it was only now that he realized that he had foreseen this scene in advance.

Weird?

It was too strange?

Cao Ren had seen this kind of familiar scene before, but it was rare. It was just like when he was reading a novel. He suddenly felt like he had seen it before, but he was sure that it was his first time reading the novel.

But now, in the past few days, especially after witnessing his grandfather's death, Cao Ren felt like he had opened a trap. He felt like he had met someone before when he greeted them. He had also greeted them in the same tone at this time and place.

Even when he saw a tree or heard someone say something, Cao Ren felt like he had seen it before.

This caused Cao Ren to be distracted for the past few days. Everyone thought that he was sad because of his grandfather's death.

"Why did this happen?"

Cao Ren thought for a while and gave up thinking about it with the excuse that he was going to die anyway. He lay flat on the bed and did not think about anything.

But…why didn't he think about anything?

People often said that what one thinks in the day and dreams at night.

That night, Cao Ren had a dream.

However, this dream was very strange. He dreamed that a person was sleeping on a bed surrounded by a mosquito net. That person was him. In this dream, he was also dreaming. In the dream, there was also him lying on a bed surrounded by a mosquito net. That person was still him.

The room, bed, and mosquito net in the dream were exactly the same as the room, bed, and mosquito net in Cao Ren's current house.

And the man in the dream within the dream was also dreaming. The man in the dream was also sleeping on the bed. He was also dreaming.

This dream was like a Russian nesting doll. It kept on coming.

Cao Ren felt that his consciousness was like Little Plum in Inception, constantly being pulled into a deeper dream.

It was until Cao Ren almost couldn't feel his existence after countless layers of protection.

Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Dong dong! Thump! Thump... A series of chaotic sounds like two hearts beating at the same time suddenly sounded.

Then, Cao Ren felt as if he was suddenly pulled into a pitch-black space.

In this space, Cao Ren couldn't see or touch his own body, but he could clearly feel his own existence.

Cao Ren curiously " looked " at his surroundings. It was pitch-black, as if he had arrived in a starless universe.

Only the sounds of two huge hearts beating at different frequencies echoed in this pitch-black void.

"What is this place?"

"Am I still dreaming?"

" But this dream is too real!"

Although Cao Ren couldn't see or touch his own body, he was like a soul. He could think, but he couldn't speak or make a sound.

However, Cao Ren felt a sense of reality when he looked like this. It felt more real than when he slapped himself in real life.

It was just like the feeling of realness when one swallowed a golden pill and realized that he was himself.

However, the more real it was, the more Cao Ren feared it.

In this pitch-black place where nothing could be seen, it was as if they had come to the pitch-black deep sea. If they were trapped in this place forever, who could bear it?

However, whatever he was afraid of would come!

This damned place seemed to have no concept of time and no boundaries.

Cao Ren felt like he couldn't take it anymore after only two hours.

"F * ck…"

"I…"

Cao Ren didn't persist for long before he started to get frustrated. He started to curse, but he didn't make a sound. It was as if he was in space where sound couldn't travel.

The only sound that could be heard here was the sound of two hearts beating chaotically.

It was also because Cao Ren could " hear " this voice that he didn't go completely crazy. He still had a trace of clarity in his heart.

Just like that, time seemed to have passed for a few years, or decades, or tens of thousands of years.

Cao Ren couldn't sense the change in time.

However, Cao Ren no longer had the strength to go crazy, or rather, he no longer had the ability to think. He was like a person who had reached 99.999% clarity and was about to disappear into nothingness.

In such a pitch-black environment, even a person with strong psychological resistance would not be able to withstand it for ten days to half a month.

Cao Ren felt as if he had been through a few years or tens of thousands of years. His spiritual consciousness had become extremely thin, leaving only a bit of spiritual light that was about to disappear completely.

"Dong! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Dong!"

"Dong! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Dong!"

Just as the light in Cao Ren's mind was about to disappear, the two heartbeats that were beating chaotically suddenly synchronized, as if they had merged into a more powerful heartbeat.

Then, the first heartbeat sounded.

A silver water droplet suddenly appeared in the originally pitch-black void.

Then, with every heartbeat, a silver drop of water would appear.

With the appearance of the silver water droplet, Cao Ren's almost transparent body gradually solidified.

Just like that, in the pitch-black void, the sound of heartbeats continued to ring out, and more and more silver water droplets appeared.

In the blink of an eye, the silver water droplets gathered into a small water ball.

Cao Ren's body finally solidified and he regained consciousness.

At the same time, Cao Ren opened his eyes.

As soon as he opened his eyes, Cao Ren subconsciously grabbed his neck and panted heavily, as if he was a drowning man who had regained his breath.

Everything in the void was too real.

His body was transparent and he could not feel his own existence. It was as if he was really drowning.

As soon as he woke up, Cao Ren subconsciously took deep breaths.

After a while, Cao Ren finally calmed down. He tilted his head and looked out of the window. The morning sun was a little dim through the deep white clouds, but it was undoubtedly daytime now.

In other words, everything in the void was a dream!

Thinking of this, Cao Ren placed his hand on his forehead. Just as he was about to heave a sigh of relief, his eyes suddenly froze.

He stared blankly at the series of arm afterimages in front of him. It was like when he was watching TV when the signal was suddenly bad, and a bunch of arm afterimages were directly stuck.

"Are you seeing things?"

As he thought, Cao Ren subconsciously waved his hand in front of his eyes.

This was…real!

Cao Ren's hands moved, and a series of afterimages followed behind him. It was just like when he watched Duan Yu of the Eight Heavenly Dragons perform the Rippling Wave when he was young.

However, unlike Duan Yu's Wave Subtle Steps, Cao Ren's afterimage wouldn't disappear.

Instead of calling it a shadow, it was more accurate to say that the slightly dim projection of Cao Ren's arm stopped at the spot where Cao Ren's arm passed.

No matter how Cao Ren rubbed his eyes, they wouldn't disappear.

He rubbed his eyes with his hands, causing a series of hand projections to appear in his eyes, blurring Cao Ren's vision.

" What is this?!!!"

At this moment, Cao Ren quickly lifted the blanket and got out of bed.

Then, he turned around and was stunned.

From the moment he lifted the blanket to the moment he got out of bed, a slightly transparent Cao Ren would freeze in place every thousandth of a second, forming a shocking scene.

But…this was reality, not the special effects in movies.

How could it be possible in reality…

Just as Cao Ren was wondering how such a thing could happen in reality, his body suddenly stopped. He stood still as if he had entered an epiphany.

After a while, Cao Ren came back to his senses.

His afterimage disappeared. Then, he suddenly disappeared as if he had teleported and instantly appeared on the bed.

At this moment, Cao Ren looked at the ceiling and couldn't help but smile.