The next time Xiaochen woke up he had a severe headache. He opened his eyes to see that he was in some sort of damp and smelly place. This place smelled like a moldy old basement that had been harboring dead mice for over 2 weeks. He got up to check his surrounding. As Xiaochen got up he saw that he was in some sort of smelly bedroom.
He was lying on a small and smelly mattress. That mattress was lying on the corner of the room. While the rest of the room was filled with all kinds of junk. There were barrels, large boxes, ropes, gunny bags, etc, all lying around the room. And in a small portion at the end of the room, he was lying on the mattress.
Xiaochen's head was ringing like someone had beaten the crap out of him. But still, with a sheer effort of will, he got up. And before he could do anything he started checking out his body. Xiaochen checked his legs, arms, his ears, and vision. All of them seemed to be in perfect working condition. And was a good sign.
Xiaochen also had a bunch of new memories in his brain. They were the memories of the child whose body he was in. This boy was called Solaris. Solaris lives with his parents in this place that they called home. And boy oh boy this child had it hard…
Solaris's father is bald, an alcoholic, and an abusive guy. He was a local bar owner. He is a gambling addict and is in a tone of debt. As for his mother, she is a plane and simple whore. Whenever his father is away at the bar, she opens her gate to strangers who could pay money so that she could buy her flu medicine. Xiaochen realized now that her flu medicine is some sort of drug.
This boy Solaris is around 12 years old is a hard-working gal. He works at the bar to make a few cash that is snatched away by either his mother or father when they need money for alcohol or drugs. From his memories, Xiaochen saw that Solaris had lived a very troubled life. Solaris had decided that he would leave these fuckers and get out of this hell this year. That is why he was hiding some money from the parents on a crooked floor by his bed.
Solaris is a big skinny boy. He is malnourished but somehow he had gained a lot of height. He was taller than any kid of his age group. But he was skinny as hell. From what Xiaochen observed he had no body fat at all. He had some muscles from all the manual labor that this guy had done in his father's bar but that muscle mass was not enough to make him look good.
As now Xiaochen had a good body, he focused on the task at hand. He needed to get out of here. He needed to go out in this world, get strong, see all that this world has to offer and kill a few immortals. And to do all that he needed information about this world. And he needed top-level information.
To Xiaochen, finding immortals should be an easy thing. After all, as a guy who had lived for about 2500 years himself, he could tell that an immortal is bound to leave behind some sort of trail throughout history which he could follow. It is just that he needed to take a very close look at the history of this world. And for that, he needed to get out of here…
Xiaochen found the crooked floor near his mattress. There he found a small cloth pouch that had 20 brown bronze color coins in it. He didn't know the values of these coins in this world. From the memories of Solaris, Xiaochen knew that one bronze coin was enough to buy a loaf of bread that could he could eat two times a day. That meant that this here is enough money for Xiaochen from which he could survive for 40 days. In which in sense was not bad but not good enough too.
This money would be enough to eat food, but he needs to buy some weapon or any useful tool then he would need a lot more money. Xiaochen then searched through memories of the Solaris to see whether there was any way from which he could procure more money. And he couldn't find anything else in the memories other than the fact that his parents might have some money. And as there was no way that they would just fork up the money, so Xiaochen had to take matters into his hands.
With the help of Solaris's memories, Xiaochen made his way out of the room. As he walked out of the room he was greeted with what looked like a dining room…
On the dining table, Solaris's old man was lying buck naked. It was not a very pretty scene. But Xiaochen had seen the far worst scene in his lifetime. But this scene still burned his eyes. Xiaochen walked up to the old man. He was reeking alcohol. Xiaochen looked at his pathetic state with disdain in his eyes. Then he went to the adjacent room.
The room next to the dining room was the bedroom of Solaris's parents. Just on the bed, a woman was lying fully naked. One could see semen flowing out her smelly pu*sy. Xiaochen felt an urge to vomit at this sight. But he controlled himself. The woman in front of him was supposed to be Solaris's mother. He went towards the woman and tried to open her eyes. As he did that he found that her eyes were non-responsive. That meant that right now she was high on drugs.
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Xiaochen didn't care about these guys' welfare. But he wanted some money for his venture. So he started rummaging through the whole house to see whether he could find more money or anything valuable that he could sell off.
In the end, he got 50 bronze coins from the house. As for the valuables, he found a stupid wooden ring that Solaris's mother was wearing. Xiaochen also found a satchel. Xiaochen then packed all the neat clothes that he had. And then he was ready to move out of this godforsaken place.
He had to do just one thing before he sets off. Xiaochen couldn't find anything in the boy's memories that suggested that he had died when Xiaochen took over this body. This suggested that Xiaochen when took over this body, he observed the soul of Solaris. He killed an innocent kid. Xiaochen was not the kind of guy that feels guilt of some sort. But he is the kind of guy that repays favors.
Solaris had lived a very troubled life because of these so-called parents. As he didn't have any money and nowhere else to go he didn't leave that household. Xiaochen could feel the grudge that Solaris was harboring for these people. So to repay the favor, Xiaochen just had to do one thing…
Xiaochen got a sock and inserted one-half of the sock in an alcohol bottle that his father had. He then burned the other end of the sock thus making a Molotov. Xiaochen was smart enough to know to not get out of the house from the front door. So he took the back alley exit. And before going out he tossed the Molotov in the house.
With that Molotov, he would burn away all the bad memories that this kid had…