The Blacklist

Chapter 1: Crossing and the Crime Slayer System

Early in the morning, in a mid-range apartment in the West Side of Washington, Richard Carey woke up automatically under the influence of his biological clock. He opened his eyes and looked around for a while before he sighed resignedly and got up to wash.

While it was still early, he sat at the small table in the living room, made a double cup of instant coffee to refresh himself, and once again sorted out what had happened in the past few days.

Almost three days ago, he was still Li Kairui, a little-known film and television critic living in China. The year was 2033. He wrote something after dinner, and then took a short nap on the chair in the study. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself traveling to the United States in 2013!
Fortunately, Carrie had just completed a dangerous mission and got three days of rest, so he didn't have to face the outside world right from the beginning. This gave him buffer time to adapt to this world and this body both mentally and physically.

Li Kairui is an ordinary man who is 38 years old and has not yet married. He has never been abroad and is not a highly educated person. He graduated from a junior college and worked as a salesman and a trainer. He also served as a militiaman for two years. At the age of 33, he resigned and went home to work as a film and television experiencer, looking for dramas to watch everywhere, and then writing articles and comments online to earn some royalties from film review websites. He lives an ordinary and peaceful life, but he has become a homebody. In fact, he has a very extroverted and cheerful personality.

He didn't understand the mechanism of time travel, but he believed that it was his soul that traveled here, occupied the body of this young man, and merged with his memory. After learning about the situation of this 28-year-old Richard Carey, he felt that he was much better than his original self.

After graduating from the law department of Miami University at the age of 23, Carey was admitted to the IRS (Internal Revenue Service), starting as a junior auditor and within five years becoming a senior auditor in the Corporate Division of the Washington Branch. Although he mainly does clerical work, he loves sports and often takes part in training. He is good at fighting and shooting!

However, three months ago, Kerry had a disagreement with his supervisor over a case and was subsequently transferred to the tax collection office to do field work. The work he did was relatively dangerous, and his targets were all dangerous elements with a tendency to resist taxes violently, which made him quite embarrassed.

Fortunately, now that he was here, things might get better in the future, because as a time traveler, he also received corresponding benefits: a... system appeared in his mind! In his opinion, how could someone with a system live a bad life? That would be unless the person holding the system had a big problem himself.

During this time, he had been studying this "crime-eliminating system", but he could only "see" a translucent light screen, which displayed: "The system is updating the world..."

As a writer who has written many drama reviews, he felt that the content displayed was grammatically incorrect, but he didn't know how to modify or rewrite it, so he could only read it countless times in the past few days!
At exactly 7 o'clock, when he had finished half of his coffee, a slight but clear vibration came from his mind, making him realize that it was definitely not an illusion!

Li Kairui... no, it would be Kairui from now on. He immediately used the "inner vision" that he had mastered in the past few days to look at the system screen in his mind. It clearly read: "The first world update is completed, and the system is activated."

If he wasn't afraid of scaring his neighbors early in the morning, he would have laughed out loud! It turns out that the legends are true: time travelers all have systems! Then he checked carefully...

"The Crime-Slaying System is a customized product of the 10101 Universe Spacetime Administration. It is distributed to selected individuals of a specific intelligent race who have innate abilities and are expected to complete crime-slaying missions. There can only be one system in the same main spacetime universe and its parallel planes."

"Before the system is officially launched, it will be updated and adjusted accordingly based on the current space-time environment. The time it takes depends on the strength of the cosmic energy index of that space-time plane."

"The system uses the current world as the host's main plane and establishes rules and standards based on its situation."

“The system consists of four basic modules: personal, space, mall, and task.

"The personal module displays the host's own data, equipment, environment, status, etc., and updates in real time."

"The space module provides the host with basic services for storing and accessing non-living items." "The mall module provides the host with services for buying and selling items, and for transforming and upgrading items. Ordinary goods are priced in the current world's main currency, and special goods are priced in crime-killing value."

"The main missions released by the mission module must be completed, and rewards or penalties will be given at different stages depending on the degree of completion. When a mission is triggered, the host can decide whether to execute it. There is no penalty for not executing it or failing to execute it, but there is a reward for completing it."

"Note 1: Crime elimination points are gained by the host by killing criminals and eliminating crimes."

"Note 2: The final right of interpretation of all the above contents that have been displayed and may be displayed in the future belongs to the Space-Time Administration. No rebuttal or any form of appeal will be accepted."

"Note 3: The system is officially open, and the host has three chances to draw a lottery."

After reading the system's instructions, Carrie couldn't help but shake her head and sigh. The system is very powerful, but also very overbearing. Could it be that these overbearing clauses are universal in the universe?
Of course, this was just a casual comment, the lottery was more important.

Through the lottery, he obtained a set of equipment, a talent and a skill.

The equipment is a planetary warrior-level protective suit, which can protect the user from ordinary energy and physical weapon damage, assist the user in completing combat and related tasks, and the appearance is changeable.

The talent is "early warning" - the ability to have a corresponding intuition about the dangers that may endanger oneself.

The skill is "Read" - obtain the target person's current thoughts through physical contact, each time consuming 10 points of crime-killing value.

Carrie feels that the protective suit is powerful and the skills are impressive, but the early warning talent feels a bit weird, as if it is an enhanced version of the sixth sense. As for its specific effects, she can only practice it slowly in the future.

Of course, this is already very good. With these, I believe I should be able to do well in this world and will not embarrass myself as a time traveler!

He studied the system with great interest for a while, and even experimented with the storage and access functions of the space. He tinkered with things around the house and was able to use it skillfully and quickly.

At this time, the alarm on the mobile phone rang. It was eight o'clock. Today was the day to go back to work after three days of rest.

If he was a little nervous about going to work before, now he is very excited. Is being an IRS auditor and going out on field work still a big deal?
He couldn't wait to go out, the new world was waiting for him to explore! But when he thought about meeting those "familiar strangers", he still wondered if it would be a bit awkward.
Well, that’s not a big deal, he’s a completely different Richard Carey now!

(End of this chapter)