CH 1

Here…..was very similar to the place where he lived in his first life before his third year of high school.

“Beep beep——”

The alarm clock trembled on the bedside table. The dark-haired and white-skinned teenager hugged the dark blue quilt, with most of his body exposed to the air, his white T-shirt turned up, and his flexible and fair back visible.

This extremely irritating noise made the young man frown, but he didn’t open his eyes. Instead, he buried his head in the pillow and said in a hoarse voice, “Chang Jiang, turn off the indoor voice control system and decline all visitors.”

When the words fell, the alarm clock stopped, the frown buried in the pillow loosened, and he was about to fall back asleep again.

However, within a second, the sound of “beep beep beep beep” sounded again, even with the obstruction of the pillow, it did not weaken its power even half, and the boy on the bed was shaken awake, sitting up instantly.

“Chang Jiang, I said to refuse all visits…..”

Jiang Chen’s half-open eyes blinked, his face froze for a moment, and then his brows furrowed.

“Liao Zhe?” He looked around and said with a cold face, “Don’t be joking with me again, I won’t change my mind, the holographic vision is useless towards me, withdraw it.”

“Beep beep beep——”

“Liao Zhe?”

Jiang Chen tightened his grip on the quilt, then raised his hand subconsciously, wanting to call the guards through his optical correlator, but when he looked down, it was only to see a fair and slender wrist, and the rolled up long sleeves even had a piece of thread hanging out limply on his wrist.

——This wasn’t his hand, and the classified military optical correlator he wore on his wrist was gone.

It was the newly developed optical correlator of the Alliance. Except for the special forces and the high-level personnel of the Imperial First Research Institute, no one knows the existence and power of this optical correlator. The wearer of this optical correlator would implant a piece of chip connected to the optical correlator. If the optical correlator left the wrist, it would automatically explode and bounce a protective film for the owner that could block even S1-type mecha.

If this was just a prank, it was absolutely impossible to separate his optical correlator from him. Jiang Chen, as one of the main developers of this optical correlator, was very confident about this.

Because of this, his face really sank.

Jiang Chen cautiously looked around the surrounding environment again, and in the flash of lightning, he finally found the reason for the strange familiar feeling after opening his eyes.

Here…..was very similar to the place where he lived in his first life before his third year of high school.

However, how was this possible? No one in the empire knew the furnishings of the room that he had vague memories of, and it was even more impossible to achieve such a realistic appearance. For example, the green plant beside the window was an existence that had never been recorded in the Imperial Plant Encyclopedia, nor did it exist in objective reality, even if it was thought projection. After two lifetimes, he would not remember an ordinary potted plant down to the minute detail.

While Jiang Chen was thinking, there was a knock on the door.

“Chen Chen.” The gentle female voice was similar to this room, both familiar and unfamiliar: “The alarm clock has rang many times, and if you don’t get up, you will be late.”

No response was heard, the alarm clock in the room continued to be noisy, and the knocking on the door gradually became anxious.

“Chen Chen?” The woman’s voice rose: “Chen Chen, have you got up? Mommy is coming in!”

With that said, the doorknob turned, and the wooden door was gently pushed open.

Jiang Chen’s brain had just been running fast, and he had already obtained a guess from the actual situation in front of him, but this guess was so unbelievable that he had not yet recovered from his emotions, when he looked up to see his first life’s mother. That beautiful but haggard face.

Or he should not say mother, but foster mother.

Recalling the novel and the contents of the novel that suddenly appeared in his room after attending the first session of the joint meeting, as well as the strange dialogue he heard inexplicably when he died in his first life, Jiang Chen couldn’t care about anything anymore. He urgently needed to determine whether his guess just now was correct or not.

Seeing her son get up and go straight to the bathroom in such a hurry. The worries that Yang Si had developed were instantly put down, and she shook her head amusedly: “You are still procrastinating in bed despite being this big.”

In the bathroom, Jiang Chen looked at the very familiar face in the mirror in astonishment. Professor Jiang, who was said that every minute and every second he thought could change the world, got the answer he expected, but his mind went blank.

In the end what happened?

Jiang Chen turned on the faucet, and the sound outside the door seemed to pass through to his ears in a trance like separated by a layer. The sound of rushing water was regular and encompassing, isolating other sounds, allowing him to gradually calm down, and began to search for a reason.

When he just woke up, he heard the shrill alarm sound and saw that everything had become retro, and only thought it was another one of Liao Zhe’s jokes.

His house was equipped with the highest level of intelligent protection. Only Liao Zhe, who had his iris recorded and a built-in secret key entered into his optical correlator, could enter his house, and Liao Zhe also happened to be the leading researcher of holographic vision, so his guess at that time was reasonable. It was more in line with Liao Zhe’s often mischievous personality, but everything now proved that holographic vision couldn’t be so realistic.

The joint meeting a few days ago was about the authority setting of the new generation of artificial intelligence. At the end of the meeting, there was a disagreement about whether to set an emotional index for artificial intelligence. The factions supporting and against artificial intelligence being given the ability to judge human behavior argued fiercely, each with their own reasons. And although Jiang Chen had decision-making power in this, he had always been part of the neutral faction and did not offend anyone.

Even if someone wanted him to change his position, their plan should be based on enticement, and angering him would do no good to those people, so there was no possibility of a factional conflict that accidentally hurt and killed him, causing him to return to his first life.

Then, it was the book that appeared so bizarrely in his bedroom.

The situation in front of him was too strange, but for Jiang Chen, it seemed that it was not so difficult to accept.

Jiang Chen still remembered the shock and anxiety he felt when he was reborn in the 75th year of the star calendar, a little radish head who was less than three years old and had no parents.

At the beginning, he would still recall all kinds of details from his past life, think about the strange dialogues he heard before dying, and worry about how his parents would accept the reality after his death, but that world had too much knowledge and information that he needed and wanted to learn. Therefore, after a brief period of caution and panic, he quickly accepted his new identity and realized his dream step by step.

It was a brand new era, but the best era for him.

Just when he was completely integrated into the new world, and as one of the leading researchers of artificial intelligence, he was about to set off an artificial intelligence revolution that was about to change the world and change the lives of all human beings. God pulled a prank on him and made him come back to his first life.

Jiang Chen twitched the corners of his mouth and found that he couldn’t smile at all.

He stared expressionlessly at the mirror, his nameless anger slamming against his chest for a while, eventually taking a deep breath. He had to accept the reality.

“Chen Chen?”

There was a knock on the bathroom door, and the tone of the knocker was worried and urgent.

Jiang Chen pursed his lips and relaxed his tense body.

At least this was not completely without any advantages.

He looked at the frosted door of the bathroom with a complex gaze, and when he thought of the contents of the book, his gaze became firmer.

Since he returned to this world again and was reborn during his high school years, it should be destined that he should verify whether the novel called “Dominating Life” was true, and allow him to investigate whether the car accident that killed him when he was 25 years old, was accidental or man-made.

More importantly, those things in the first life have not happened yet, and he still had time to stop all the tragedies regarding his parents, so that the family would no longer be displaced and return to its original warmth and happiness.

There was only the sound of rushing water in the bathroom, and Yang Si became worried. She raised her hand and knocked on the door again: “Chen Chen, have you finished brushing your teeth? Breakfast is ready.”

“I know.” Jiang Chen opened the door and saw a worried woman who was a head shorter than him, and his eyes gradually warmed: “Mom, go eat first, I’ll be down soon.”

“Okay.” Seeing his calm expression, Yang Si breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, “Mom made you your favorite beef patty. After you brush your teeth, it will have almost cooled, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.”

The long-forgotten name of the dish made Jiang Chen dazed for a moment, and then a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: “Thank you, Mom.”

After washing up, the beef patties on the table were indeed the most suitable time to eat. He sat down opposite Yang Si, took a sip of milk, put it down and asked, “Where’s Dad?”

“Your dad…..” The smile on Yang Si’s face faded, and she said softly: “Dad still can’t accept that he is no longer Chen Chen’s superman, he is a little shy and a little sad, so he doesn’t want to appear in front of us for the time being. Can you forgive your dad for ignoring you during this period?”

Jiang Chen pursed his lips and said helplessly: “Mom, I’m no longer a child, don’t coax me like that.”

The smile on Yang Si’s face deepened, but after a moment, it dimmed again, and said: “Even if you are all grown up, you will still be your parents’ precious son. Chen Chen does not need to worry, no matter what happens at home, your parents will protect you. You don’t have to worry about the economic situation of our family, there is only one thing you have to do, and that is to go to school and study well, you know?”

Looking at the gentle smiling face on the opposite side, Jiang Chen suddenly remembered that at this time in his first life, his mother also said something like this, but how could he turn a blind eye to his high-spirited parents gradually becoming haggard, not to mention what happened at home later made him unable to concentrate in class at all.

“Mom.” Jiang Chen put down his chopsticks and said calmly but seriously: “I’m seventeen, and I’ll be eighteen soon, I should bear everything regarding the family with you, you can’t treat me like a child anymore.”

Without waiting for Yang Si to speak, Jiang Chen continued: “And I am very willing to share in all the worries with you and Dad, we are a family, aren’t we?”

“You’re right.”

It was not Yang Si who spoke, but Jiang Zhuo, who had been out of sight the whole time.

He manipulated the wheelchair to come to the dining table. The tall man had a haggard face, but his smile was very gentle. He smiled and said, “It’s Dad’s fault. I’ve been immersed in my emotions all this time, and did not think about Mom and you. Dad apologizes to you both.”

“Dad!”

Jiang Chen got up, but he choked up a little when he spoke. During the twenty-odd years in the interstellar world, he had been very calm and rarely had any mood swings, but at this time, he did not know that this seventeen-year-old body was so easily emotional. The excitement of seeing his father again after a lapse of two lives suddenly rushed over him, making his eyes redden unconsciously.

“It’s beef patties.” Jiang Zhuo stopped at the dining table and said with a smile: “Our family has not had such a good breakfast for a long time. Now that we have eaten this meal together, all the bad things that happened before are over. From now on, our family of three will start afresh, okay?”

Jiang Chen and Yang Si looked at each other and said yes at the same time.

When the warm but brief breakfast was finished, Jiang Chen almost missed the time to go to school.

“Go quickly.” Yang Si straightened the neckline of the school uniform for Jiang Chen, and said with a smile, “Have fun at school.”

Jiang Chen looked at his parents who were seeing him out at the door, their eyes unable to hide their worries. Following the memory of what he was like before his father’s accident when he was seventeen, he made his eyes smile and grinned showing white teeth, saying: “Don’t worry, later Mom and Dad.”

Under the lessening worry of the two, Jiang Chen closed the door, stood expressionlessly for a while, and then made his way down the stairs.