The First Volume: The Female Protagonist's Prelude (Revised)

  "Ugh, how boring!" I supported my chin with one hand and randomly clicked the mouse on the webpage, then immediately closed it and repeated this action. It's more like daydreaming than surfing the internet.

  "Beep!" The QQ icon at the bottom right of the screen jumped up, I casually clicked it open, and found that a Q friend named Gao Xiaoxiao was asking to add me. After taking a look at her profile, she's an 18-year-old girl from Suzhou. Hmm, anyway, it's just killing time, chatting with her shouldn't be bad either.

  ……

  "Hello."

  "Okay." Too lazy to type, just gave a quick reply.

  "Are you Zhan Kong? I've read your article."

  "Haha, really? Which one?" Not bad, I don't have many articles to begin with, and they're all about niche topics. This little girl has actually read them, interesting.

  "It's about the Jin dynasty destroying the Northern Song, I think it's very interesting and want to discuss it more with you."

  I remember now, it was more than half a month ago when I read an article written by Song Shi, describing the process of the war between Song and Jin. The performance of Northern Song was simply appalling, it can only be said that when a country is on the verge of collapse, there must be evil spirits at work. At that time, Song had already become a tree that was rotten to its roots, and it would fall with just a slight push.

  "Oh, that article was indeed written by me. What's your opinion?"

  "Hmm, I'd like to ask, are your materials true? Was the Song Dynasty's Bianjing City really breached by the Jin people at that time, and even the two emperors Huizong and Qinzong were taken away?"

  Speechless... Nowadays kids, they don't even listen carefully in class, they don't even know this basic historical knowledge, and they still ask me if it's true? My god...

  With a sense of responsibility to the next generation of our motherland, I detailed the ins and outs of the Jingkang Incident, leaving Xiao Xiaosheng in shock and amazement, constantly exclaiming in surprise, until later he was utterly disheartened.

  "How scary, I really don't want to go back to that era." Finally, Gao MM blurted out such a sentence.

  "Huh? What are you talking about, have you been reading too many fantasy novels or something? Go back to that era if you want. I'm almost defeated by her, bringing up this kind of nonsense when discussing history. The purpose of studying history is to learn from it, remember the past and use it as a lesson for future generations, not for you to daydream about..."

  "Haha, just kidding. By the way, I have a website here with lots of interesting historical materials, do you want to take a look?"

  "What's this? You want me to click on a link? Is there something fishy going on here?" I suddenly felt apprehensive. "What kind of historical materials do you have, send some over and let me take a look."

  It's amazing that there are quite a few good things, such as Zhang Zeduan's draft of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", Cai Jing's handwritten manuscript, the clothing and especially underwear styles of Northern Song women, and the grand scene of the Lantern Festival in Bianjing on the first day of the first month, etc. All can be said to be precious materials for studying Northern Song culture, most of which are unheard of, I really don't know where this little girl got them from.

  "Whatever, the temptation is too great. Even if I get a virus, I'll admit it." Besides, I'm still just a little MM. I gritted my teeth and stomped my foot, opening all the firewalls, and with a trembling hand, I moved the mouse to that URL and clicked...

  "What the...? How can there be nothing at all, are you kidding me?" Entering a webpage and finding no content whatsoever is infuriating. What's the point of putting up an empty page online anyway?

  However, when I was about to close the webpage and exit, I found that the mouse pointer had disappeared.

  "Not good, I've been hacked! Pull out the network cable and restart the machine immediately! This is the safest approach."

  It's just... if you've already entered the webpage with your body, how are you going to pull out the network cable?

  Everything in my body seems to be out of control, or rather, it's as if they don't exist. All the sensations are gone except for sight and hearing. Besides the blank webpage in front of me and a strange, maniacal laughter in my ears, there is nothing else in my world.

  A shrill voice was yelling at me: "Hahaha, finally someone has taken the bait, I'm so excited, so thrilled, so stirred up, so incoherent..."

  This is not good! Although I've read a lot of fantasy novels and have heard all sorts of strange ideas, but when it actually happens to me, it's really bad. Even if I had clicked on a Trojan or virus, at most my computer would crash, but the scene in front of me is like being possessed by a ghost, my thinking is normal, my senses are mostly still there, but my body won't listen to me, if this is a nightmare, please wake me up quickly...

  No response.

  Things have really gone big, didn't I get transported to a different dimension? Although I've wasted over 20 years of my life, drifting around the world, with few friends and family, and not contributing much to society, one more or less doesn't make a difference, but if it's going to end like this, I'm not too willing to accept it.

  "Hey, stop laughing and say something!" The voice was still laughing maniacally. I hated it extremely, but this was my only source of information at the moment, so I had to find some clues from him.

  I don't know if he had laughed enough or my words took effect, but the laughter stopped abruptly: "Poor guy, you provided me with an opportunity to get rid of this fate, I should thank you instead."

  A chill ran down my spine as I sensed that this person's aura was not benevolent. Could it be that he was a powerful demon king who had been sealed away? "You are..."

  "Hmm, don't be in a hurry, you'll know everything soon, I'm running out of time, that's why I came!"

  "Wait, wait a minute..." My words had just left my lips when a massive white light flashed before my eyes, and my consciousness was sucked into it. After a dizzying spin, everything gradually became blurry, until it disappeared.

  Before I lost consciousness, I left behind a last thought (dying words?): "Comrades, from now on, when you see unfamiliar URLs, don't click on them, or it will cost lives..."