H-OLDING O-NTO M-Y M-AN

1.1

Due to a lazy syndrome writer, for the sake of saving time, the prelude is skipped to quickly start the story. So when Gu Bai woke up, he had already died.

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Surrounded by a dark starry sky full of stars and nothing else, the coldness can't help but raise a sense of loneliness from the bottom of the heart.

Gu Bai's soul has been floating midair for a long time.

His body is transparent, and it feels too real to be fake. Gu Bai can't fool himself into believing it's a dream but his luck has never been good. There is absolutely no way he could have survived the airplane explosion.

"Do you want to live?"

Suddenly, a cold and steady machine-like voice sounded in the stars.

Gu Bai blanked and did not respond. Where is he? It doesn't look like heaven or hell. What the hell is this?

Gu Bai couldn't help but look around to find the source of the voice.

"Who are you?"

The voice paused and said, "I am not important. The important thing is that you are going to disappear. I can give you the chance to live..."

"What does it mean to disappear?" Gu Bai sharply seized the point.

"You are dead. You are now just a weak soul. If you disappear again, you have no chance to reincarnate, that is to say, there will never be..."

The voice is very patient.

Accompanied by that voice, Gu Bai could indeed feel that his body was becoming more and more transparent, and his soul was getting weaker and weaker, as if it were to disappear soon.

This feeling that he will forever cease to exist doesn't feel very good, and he doesn't want to actually die.

No matter how cruel the reality is, starting from the very first day he became sensible in the orphanage, there was only one thought in his mind.

Live and continue to live an even better life, this is his dream. But this pie that fell from the sky is unbelievable, so he still hesitated and continued to observe the empty darkness.

"...I want to live, but what are your conditions?"

"My condition is that you become my subordinate, enter the world that I appoint and complete the mission."

That voice is still cold and emotionless.

"What task do I need to complete?" Gu Bai continued to ask.

The voice did not hurry to answer. After a short silence, the dark space around it changed, and then books with flashes of light appeared and stayed afloat in mid air.
　
"As you now see, although these books are stories, they are actually small worlds. The characters in these books all have real souls the moment they're born..."

"I need you to enter the worlds' of these books to fulfill the desires of those who have sought for my soul. By then, when the mission is completed, you will continue to enjoy life in those worlds. If you fail, you will disappear forever. Even the present condition of the soul can't exist..."

"In other words, even if I live, I use the shell of someone else?"

Gu Bai was a little overwhelmed. He wanted to be alive. However, what's the point of living as someone else, is Gu Bai's life still meaningful?

It seems to have felt his hesitation, that cold voice was silent for a while then sounded once more.
"Yes, but if the mission is done well, I may give you a chance to be reborn in the future. Live in the state of a soul to complete tasks or disappear immediately? You have half an hour to choose..."