God's Statue

Chapter 1
Liu Erlong was squatting in front of an old bookstall, holding a sealed plastic bag in his hand, which contained a tattered yellow-brown book.

Taking a closer look at the tattered book, Liu Erlong raised his head and said to the book seller: "I said, Boss Liu, you dare to sell five hundred for such a tattered copy of "The Heaven and Earth"? What's the matter? Change career, want to rob you!"

Boss Liu sells used books in this area all the year round, and he has known Liu Erlong for more than two or three years. He is very familiar with his bargaining methods. The key is that if Liu Erlong can export the used books , no matter what the final result is, he will definitely pay for it.

It just so happened that Boss Liu hadn't opened the store yet, so he was naturally very happy to see Liu Erlong open his mouth to bargain. Boss Liu smiled and said, "Brother Long, you don't know something. The original manuscript is the only one in the world. Just by looking at the title of the book, you can already tell what kind of book "The Heaven and Earth" is. This is Mr. Jin's most original and unmodified version. I just got it by shit luck, and the price is already cheap enough, that is to say, the friendship between our two brothers, if it is changed by someone else, it won't cost three to five thousand, and you won't even want to see it!"

"Stop fooling around with me, what is the original manuscript, if it is the original manuscript, how can it be at this price, and how can it appear here with you, don't talk nonsense, hurry up, one hundred!"

Boss Liu's heart suddenly turned cold, and he said with a bitter face: "Oh, Brother Long, please spare me..."

Before he finished speaking, Liu Erlong spoke again: "Two hundred!"

Boss Liu is still a dead duck with a stubborn mouth, and he will not let go after killing Wubai.

Liu Erlong said again: "Last chance, two hundred and five, I'll leave if I don't sell it!" As he spoke, he threw the torn book back into Boss Liu's hands, got up and was about to leave.

"Hey, hey, Brother Long, Brother Long, don't worry, add more, this two hundred and five is not good, does it, add more and you will take it away!"

"250 one!"

"Brother Long, you, oh, two hundred and six, can you give two hundred and six?"

"Okay!" Liu Erlong grinned, took out three hundred yuan bills and handed them over.

When Boss Liu saw Liu Erlong's appearance, he immediately understood, and he was fooled again, sighing: "Brother Long, I'm completely convinced, here, this is forty for you, and this "The Legend of Condor Heroes" 》The original manuscript——"The Heaven and Earth Are Missing"!"

Liu Erlong took the money and books, put them in his arms, turned and left.

Looking at Liu Erlong's handsome figure, Boss Liu secretly regretted that he had lost another 200 yuan.

Liu Erlong is 28 years old this year. He is an orphan. He grew up in Qidian Orphanage. His usual hobby is reading martial arts novels. He is considered a veteran martial arts fan. He even gave up his studies because of reading martial arts novels and fell from the eighth place in the school. It was the eighth last in the school, and finally dropped out without even finishing college.

Whenever he was sleepless in the middle of the night, Liu Erlong would always talk about why he didn't take martial arts knowledge in the exam. If there was such an exam, Liu Erlong was confident that he would be able to enter the top ten in the country.

Liu Erlong often visited the old bookstall before, and every time he found one or two favorite old books.

In fact, Liu Erlong has read most of the books, and he has read the few editions of "The Legend of Condor Heroes" no less than seven or eight times.

However, after reading books, Liu Erlong fell in love with collecting, not collecting antiques, but collecting these so-called 'original manuscripts'.

Ten percent of these so-called 'original manuscripts' are fake, and the torn books collected by Liu Erlong are even more fake. A collecting quirk.

However, compared with those who collect models, sneakers, bottle caps, comic books, and ice cream sticks, Liu Erlong's habit of collecting fake books is not unusual.

Liu Erlong carried the so-called original handwritten copy of "The Heaven and Earth" in his arms, and hurried all the way back to his rented place impatiently.

After entering the room, he first locked the door, and then carefully took the torn book out of the plastic bag, carefully studied and played with it in front of his eyes.

He took the torn book to his nose and took a deep sniff. The pungent smell of the book mixed with the musty smell of the paper penetrated into Liu Erlong's nostrils, followed his heart and lungs to his brain.

Liu Erlong thinks this kind of smell is the most beautiful in the world, it is thousands of times better than that virgin body fragrance, but this is also the reason why Liu Erlong has never tasted what is called virgin body fragrance.

Just as Liu Erlong was enjoying the delicious taste of broken books, he suddenly felt an unbearable itchiness all over his body. He reached out and grabbed a piece of flesh, which scared Liu Erlong half to death.

Just when he was panicking and didn't know why, he felt a piercing pain again, and his chest throbbed.

Pfft, a mouthful of black blood was spat out on the torn book in his hand, Liu Erlong's eyes darkened, and he fell straight down.

Three days later, the landlord came to collect the rent from Liu Erlong, knocked on the door, but no one answered, so he took out his mobile phone and called Liu Erlong.

"Sorry, the person you are calling has switched off..."

"Hey, what's the situation, Xiao Liu doesn't look like someone who relies on rent..."

The landlord was very puzzled, Liu Erlong had lived with him for a long time, and although he didn't have a serious job, he had never been in arrears of rent, so wondering, he took out the spare key and opened the door.

"what……"

Liu Erlong's body was lying across the door, and it had already begun to rot. The panicked landlord dialed the alarm with trembling hands.

……

After that, the landlord kept asking the police about the cause of Liu Erlong's death. After all, he died in his own house. If there was no serious reason, he would not feel at ease. Don't even think about renting it out.

However, the cause of Liu Erlong's death is also really weird, it is said that he was infected by an unknown germ, after testing, this germ came from the torn book in Liu Erlong's hands, but fortunately, This kind of germ is not airborne, and after being disinfected, there is no harm. The landlord who heard the news was completely relieved.

This sudden turn of events, which did not cause much loss to the landlord, was soon forgotten as time passed and the tenants came and went.

But for Liu Erlong, this was an unimaginable and miraculous journey. Even, for a long time, Liu Erlong still couldn't believe that everything that happened to him was actually true.

Because, the moment Liu Erlong vomited blood and died, his soul actually floated into an unknown space, and when he woke up again, everything around him changed drastically.

(End of this chapter)