"Can you see me?"
As this eerie voice sounded, a bone-chilling cold instantly enveloped Rosen's entire body.
Although Rosen could only hear this intermittent, strange sound, like a broken bellows gasping, he knew that death was constantly approaching him.
Two seconds later, a twisted figure, looking like something out of the horror movie "Grave Encounters," ran towards him from the street in the distance.
Upon seeing this, Rosen's scalp instantly prickled, he broke out in a cold sweat, and he felt completely unwell.
His life experiences flashed before his eyes like a revolving lantern.
Rosen, a Chinese transmigrator.
Male, likes females, dislikes heavy trucks.
Because Rosen clearly remembered that before his transmigration, he was hit into another world by an overloaded, speeding, oversized semi-trailer.
After transmigrating, his body reverted to childhood, and with his memories intact, he successfully lived for sixteen years.
When he first transmigrated, Rosen actually had no time to think about things like dragon-level protagonists or Ye Liangchen.
After all, besides reverting to childhood, he didn't have any golden finger that a Chinese transmigrator should possess.
After transmigrating, during his time in the orphanage, he even spent three years testing the "Schrödinger's Golden Finger" in various ways.
But in the end, besides earning the title of "not very bright" in others' eyes, Rosen found nothing useful for himself.
Finally, Rosen gave up on the fantasy and decided to live this re-started life well.
He planned to start a money-making life in this other world.
Because he had the memories and experiences of an adult, his subsequent life went quite smoothly.
After entering high school, his goal was set to study hard, strive to get into Todai, and find a respectable job like a teacher or lawyer to live out the rest of his life.
Getting married and having children was also necessary.
Although he didn't have a golden finger, he knew that familiar names including, but not limited to, Sakurajima Mai, Kato Megumi, and Kitagawa Kaimeng, were attending the same high school as him.
However, just as he set his initial Strategy target as Kato Megumi from the 'Mob Psycho' heroine, preparing to make a good go of it with his memories and plot knowledge from before his transmigration...
...he saw something different.
Although Rosen no longer excessively pursued the existence of a "golden finger," occasionally, when he was alone on the balcony after school, staring blankly, he would still wonder if there was something he hadn't done correctly.
Then.
As he glanced at the roadside, preparing to eat some instant noodles for dinner, the corner of his eye caught sight of something very peculiar.
It was shrouded in black, but it was still vaguely discernible as a decaying human figure.
Its rotten body and overly exaggerated face were enough to make the timid scream and the brave feel a lingering fear.
Rosen initially thought it was a prop from some horror movie set, but he never expected that just by taking that one extra look, the "prop" would rush towards him, hands dangling, like an unblemished giant.
Its rotten mouth opened and closed, uttering human words that he could understand.
Upon seeing this, Rosen felt a mouthful of old blood block in his throat, almost choking to death on the spot.
Who the hell could have imagined this?
He thought this was an ordinary everyday world.
But just as he had accepted his life, the world played a huge joke on him.
It's over.
It's completely over.
Rosen looked at the monster, which was now less than three meters away from him, feeling not much fear but immense melancholy.
So, this world also has anomalies.
It's just that he was an ordinary person and hadn't discovered them before.
The monster was two meters away.
At such a close distance, Rosen could clearly see the various patterns, bone structure, and exposed flesh on its body surface.
One meter.
Rosen could almost smell the strong stench and fishy odor from the monster's mouth.
A shadow loomed over Rosen's heart.
He felt like he was about to break.
Holy crap, what's going on with this monster?
What's with this bizarre development?
Even if you're going to go berserk, you should follow a procedure. Who just goes all out face-to-face right from the start?
This is completely chaotic!
Astonished, Rosen froze in place, and all of this happened in just a few short seconds.
The monster's mouth continuously widened when it was less than half a meter away, finally expanding to a size that could easily swallow an adult whole.
Half of Rosen's head was enveloped by the monster's mouth.
However, at this moment, an incredible thing happened!
The monster's mouth-closing action suddenly froze, and the foul wind it brought also stopped; the world seemed to stand still at this moment.
At the boundary between life and death, it seemed to break some kind of restriction on Rosen's body.
The power that had been delayed for sixteen years finally awakened from within Rosen's body.
A voice he had long awaited finally appeared.
[Ding~~~]
[life tree binding complete.]
This... what is this?!