Chapter 001:

Chapter 1: Card World
During the cold winter months, the temperature plummeted, and the heavy snowfall for several days turned the entire city into a world wrapped in silver.
The school has already had a winter vacation, but Xiao Lou was sent by the department to participate in an academic exchange meeting. The meeting lasted until the 28th day of the first month. After a day of rest, he packed up his luggage and flew back to his hometown to accompany his grandparents to celebrate the New Year.
My home is in the south. Even in winter, it is lined with trees and flowers, and the snowy north is like two worlds.
When he was young, his parents were too busy with work. Xiao Lou lived with his grandparents in the country for a while. At that time, he was too young, and he had vague memories of his childhood. But he will return to his hometown every year during the Spring Festival, because it is the tradition of the Xiao family to reunite, and father and uncle will bring their wives and children home for New Year's Eve and keep the New Year together.
When Xiao Lou arrived home, it was the afternoon of the thirteenth year. As soon as he entered the room, cousin Xiao Xinyue greeted him immediately and said with a smile: "Brother, you are the latest, grandma just missed you." She came over, He whispered in Xiao Lou's ear and said, "Why don't you find someone to marry?"
Xiao Lou: ""
Going home on New Year's Day will be urged to marry by elders.
Xiao Lou does indeed belong to the "Old Unmarried Youth". At the age of 27, he is still a single dog.
He went to school early, was admitted to medical school at the age of 17, and left to teach after graduating from his doctorate. Gentle personality, tall, handsome and handsome, according to the conditions like him, should be very popular in the blind date market
Unfortunately, he studied forensics.
When you hear the word "forensic", people naturally think of corpses, who like to be with the man who dissects the body every day
In fact, Xiao Lou is not a forensic doctor in the criminal investigation system. He does not need to go to the scene of the homicide to identify the cause of death.
After graduating, he stayed at his alma mater under the recommendation of his mentor. Most of the time, he usually teaches students in the school's forensic department. In his spare time, he will go to the city's forensic laboratory to help. The cases sent to the appraisal center were generally car accidents and injuries, as well as genetic test and poison test. Occasionally, he had not seen the body for a long time.
After coming to the living room, Xiao Lou greeted his elders politely and distributed the gifts they brought to everyone. My grandma looked at him with a smile and asked, "Small building, when do you bring grandma back to grandma?"
Xiao Lou said while pinching his shoulders, "Grandma, I'm too busy at work now. I want to think about marriage after I'm thirty."
Xiao Xinyue coaxed: "Brother, if you were to study clinical medicine and go to the hospital as a doctor, you will definitely have a lot of girls line up for you based on your face value. As a result, when I heard that you were a forensic doctor, most of the girls were Scared away, hahaha. "
Xiao Lou raised his head and looked at his sister with a smile: "This is professional prejudice. Forensic doctors do not dissect living people, not as perverted as in horror movies." He reached into his sister's ear and lowered his voice. Never touched a corpse. "
Faced with his smile, Xiao Xinyue's scalp was numb and immediately turned and ran away.
At the restaurant, my mother just called everyone to have dinner. Xiao Lou helped her grandmother to sit down in the restaurant and shifted the topic to ask Xiao Xinyue: "Do you want to enroll in any school next year?"
Xiao Xinyue, the youngest cousin, is 18 years old and will face the college entrance examination next semester.
Xiao Lou asked, the topic of the elders also turned into a girl reporting what majors are looking for a job in the future. Xiao Xinyue actively joined the discussion. No one mentioned Xiao Lou's marriage again, which made Xiao Lou slightly relieved.
After eating New Year's Eve, the elders started playing Mahjong, and Xiao Lou took his cousin to the next room to play.
Xiao Xinyue took out a new deck of playing cards and said, "Let's play with the three landlords. What about the losers who drink?"
My cousin Xiao Wei rolled up his sleeves and looked eagerly: "Come here, I'm the best at the landlord"
Xiao Lou is not interested in playing cards, but every year when he returns to his hometown during the Spring Festival, the elders always play a table of mahjong. The younger brother and sister are too boring to play cards, so he has to accompany them.
Landlord is one of the most common ways to play cards. The rules are very simple. When the "landlord" person can add several cards to improve the combat power, the other two "peasants" join together to fight two, and the two sides are divided into two camps. Whoever finishes the hand first wins.
Xiao Lou was very angry at the first place, and directly touched Wang Fang.
Seeing the big and small kings in hand, he said without hesitation: "Call the landlord."
Xiao Xinyue and Xiao Wei had to fight him together.
In this game, Xiao Lou ’s cards were a bit abnormal. In addition to the big straights of 9, 10, j, q, and k, there were several pairs, one three, four fives, and a pair of kings. Your opponent is alive.
The younger brother and sister looked at him with anxious faces and finished all the cards.
Xiao Lou smiled and said, "I won, and you all drink a half cup of Coke."
Xiao Xinyue and Xiao Wei had to drink Coke with a bitter face.
Next, no matter if Xiao Xinyue called the landlord or Xiao Wei was sitting, every time he was beaten by his elder brother, Xiao Lou ’s card tonight was really good. People could n’t evaluate it. He touched Wang fried several times, and his brother and sister drank drinks. Drink and vomit.
The three played cards until twelve in the morning.
The deafening firecrackers sounded outside, the younger brother and sister ran to the yard to set off fireworks, Xiao Lou wore a coat, and was about to go out, just then, his cell phone suddenly turned on, and a message popped up on the screen: "New Year happy."
Sender: Yu Hanjiang.
Seeing the familiar portrait of the snow scene, Xiao Lou's lips angled slightly and quickly replied: "You too, Happy New Year."
Yu Hanjiang asked: "what's the date back to school"
Xiao Lou said: "Go back after the seventh day of the new year."
Yu Hanjiang said: "Thank you for your help last time. Come back and invite you to dinner."
Xiao Lou laughed: "Yu team is polite, come back and contact again."
A "bang" sound came from the window, and fireworks of various colors bloomed one after another, making the night sky bright as day.
Xiao Lou stood in front of the window, watching the conversation record in the mobile phone, and the scene of Yu Hanjiang's first encounter in his mind could not help but come to mind.
It was a rainy day. A girl from the medical university fell to the death and alarmed the police in city a. Xiao Lou was not familiar with that girl, but the last lesson the girl took was his class. As a case-associated person, Xiao Lou was asked by the police to make a transcript.
When he walked into the criminal police brigade, he saw the man at first sight. The man was wearing a dark blue police uniform, standing straight by the window, tall, with long legs, and a handsome face like the most delicate statue.
It seemed that he was aware of the gaze from the side. The man turned to look at Xiao Lou, nodded toward him, and said, "Hello, I'm Yu Hanjiang, the head of the Criminal Investigation Unit's severe crime team, and asked Professor Xiao to come and cooperate with the investigation."
Xiao Lou also nodded at him: "Hello Yu, I must cooperate with all my strength."
Yu Hanjiang took him into the inquiry room, compared with a "sit" gesture, and said, "Name, age, occupation, these are all necessary procedures for taking notes, please answer truthfully."
In the process of taking notes, the man's voice was deep and powerful, his expression was extremely serious, his eyes were sharp like a sword, giving a strong sense of oppression, he stared, almost out of breath.
Even if Xiao Lou had nothing to do with it, he didn't want to look directly into his eyes.
Those eyes were deep and icy, like the frozen lake in the cold winter, making the back chill.
The speed of solving the case was much faster than Xiao Lou imagined, and it was determined to be murder. The police arrested the murderer the next day, and the girl's roommate pushed her downstairs. This incident caused a sensation on the Internet.
At that time, Xiao Lou greatly improved the efficiency of crime detection in the police team of city a.
He inquired about Yu Hanjiang through a forensic classmate he knew. It is said that Yu Hanjiang's background was fascinated, but he was suddenly airborne at a young age to serve as the team leader of the Criminal Investigation Unit. The serious crime team is an action team set up in city A to specifically detect major criminal cases such as murder and rape. Since taking office, Yu Hanjiang has solved many outstanding cases and greatly improved the efficiency of handling cases.
This man is selfless, cold-blooded, and ruthless, and the criminals are embarrassed. Just a savage look at the past can scare the guilty. It is said that his trial is very simple, and even the tenacious suspects will obediently plead guilty at his trial. In just two years, Yu Hanjiang's name has become the legend of police in city a.
After hearing his story, Xiao Lou admired the man very much, and felt that Yu Hanjiang was young and promising.
I thought there would not be much intersection with him, but within a few days, Yu Hanjiang suddenly found the office of the forensic laboratory and asked Xiao Lou to help identify an extremely rare poison. Xiao Lou specializes in forensic toxicology identification at the graduate level. He has published several high-value papers and is well-known in the industry. Yu Hanjiang approached him. The two also left WeChat and phone calls.
Xiao Lou assisted the police in solving this poisonous poisoning case. Yu Hanjiang's "thank you for your help" refers to this kind of help. The two did not have a deep friendship. They only met four times before and after, all because of work, but they also knew each other.
Standing at the window, Xiao Lou, who was caught in the memory, did not find that the playing cards on the table suddenly appeared a layer of blood-red luster at this moment, and that luster gradually formed a vortex, as if to everything around Into the card.
On the seventh day of the new year, Xiao Lou said goodbye to his family and flew back to city A.
Thinking of the WeChat conversation in the 30th year of the New Year, Xiao Lou sent a message to Yu Hanjiang when he arrived home: "Yu team, I am back. Someday you have time to have a meal together"
The message did not respond.
He thought that the other party might be busy, so he sat on the sofa in the living room and brushed the news while waiting for a reply.
Seeing that the time for dinner had passed, Yu Hanjiang still did not reply.
After all, the Yu team has a special identity. If they do n’t reply, they may have encountered a difficult case and are investigating evidence on the spot. Xiao Lou did not bother the other side very interestingly, and went downstairs to eat the bowl noodles.
After eating the noodles, he wanted to go to the supermarket to buy some daily necessities, but when he was crossing the road, he suddenly saw a bus around the corner rushing towards him
Xiao Lou's eyes widened, his heartbeat almost stopped
He ran agilely and ran, but the speed of the bus was too fast. As soon as he took a step, his body was slammed out.
Then he completely lost consciousness.
When I woke up again, there was a white mist in front of me.
In the fuzzy fog, an icy mechanized voice passed to my ears clearly: "Xiao Lou, congratulations on your selection by the card world, you now face two choices
a: Die in peace, forget everything, your soul will die out completely, and there will never be any pain.
b: Retain the memory until the card world is reborn, and accept new challenges. However, the rules of survival in the card world are very cruel, and maybe living here might as well be dead. "
Xiao Lou was a little puzzled. Was the voice an illusion and gave him two strange options?
Because he didn't respond, the cold mechanical voice spoke again: "Give you 10 seconds to consider, in the countdown of memory clearance, 10, 9, 8"
Xiao Lou said decisively: "I choose b."
Regardless of whether the sound was an illusion or not, he could only choose the latter of the two options.
He hadn't lived enough, he was only 27 years old, and he didn't want to clear his memory and completely die. Just give him a chance to come back, no matter how hard and dangerous the new world is, isn't it alive?
There is hope for life.
Xiao Lou quickly calmed himself down and asked, "Who are you?"
The other side said quietly: "I am a system spirit of the card world, a highly intelligent creature. You can't see me, but I can see you."
The feeling of being watched made Xiao Lou frown, he took a deep breath and continued to ask, "What is the card world you are talking about?"
The next moment, there were countless cards before him.
It was the playing card he used to play with the siblings on the night of the Spring Festival with his brother and sister. The back was the familiar blue diamond pattern, the most common type in the kiosk.
Playing cards of various colors, such as red peach 5, square 8, plum 10, and j, are strung into a long chain and quickly pass in front of him, like a movie film played at four times the speed.
In the white mist, the card chains are quickly arranged horizontally and vertically, and the four suits are mixed together. There is no rule at all. The densely packed playing cards form a huge side within 10 seconds with the speed visible to the naked eye Card wall.
System: "Player Shaw, welcome to the card world."