Old days, dice and investigator's manual

The die fell from Carlo's fingers and stopped. 53. Check successful.

Carlo looked at Hamilton: "What's your name?"

Hamilton blurted out, "Li Jiehao."

After he finished speaking, the cell fell silent.

The pronunciation of the name is a bit strange, not quite in line with the naming format of a common language, as if it were a product of some other language system... Isaac thought.

Hamilton himself was stunned, then suddenly covered his mouth, a look of panic flashing in his eyes.

"Stop trying to cover it up. It's too late now that you've already said it." Carlo raised an eyebrow. "Li Jiehao, where are you from?"

"I...I...I don't know, what did I just say?" Hamilton began to feign ignorance.

"You really don't know? Looks like you've been possessed by a demon. Drag you out and burn you."

"No, no, no! You can't burn it!"

"Oh? Then tell me, who is Li Jiehao?"

"I……"

Jacob Hamilton, or rather Li Jiehao, was sweating.

This script is wrong. Shouldn't the characters perfectly conceal their identities, so that no one else can see through the problem, and then rise to power little by little by relying on their knowledge from their hometown and their special abilities?

How can a time traveler have their identity exposed so quickly?!

……

Li Jiehao was originally an ordinary high school student, living an ordinary high school life.

One day, he secretly stayed up all night playing video games, intending to catch up on sleep during class the next day, but...

"Class, today we're going to run 1000 meters."

Li Jiehao never expected that the PE class would actually win the revival match, and the PE teacher decided to take this opportunity to conduct a physical fitness test.

So, Li Jiehao, who had stayed up all night, stood blankly at the starting line.

He had been thinking about taking leave to take the test again, but considering that he would have to take a make-up test later, he decided that it was better to get it over with quickly than to suffer for a long time.

He rushed out with the main group. The first lap was relatively easy, but he started to pant in the second lap. By the third lap, he felt dizzy, and the track seemed to stretch and shrink in his vision.

As he neared the finish line, Li Jiehao, hearing his teacher's urging, instinctively sprinted forward. Suddenly, his heart skipped a beat, and everything went black...

He just died like that.

This story teaches us not to stay up late, and especially not to engage in strenuous exercise after staying up late. If you feel unwell, be sure to report it promptly…

When he regained consciousness and opened his eyes, Li Jiehao found himself in a small rented room.

A magic circle was drawn on the ground in front of him, surrounded by runes he didn't recognize. A candle was stuck at a node of the magic circle and had burned down to the bottom, with wax dripping all over the ground.

Then, memories of the body's original owner, Jacob Hamilton, flooded back, and Li Jiehao became certain that he had transmigrated.

He spent some time digesting the original owner's memories and figuring out the era and environment he was in.

This is a strange world resembling the Victorian era—though his knowledge of the period is limited to nouns and labels—and the city he lives in is called Vista, the capital of the Westerlands.

Of course, most importantly, this world contains extraordinary powers, gods, churches, and things known as aliens.

The original owner, Jacob Hamilton, was an orphan who grew up in an orphanage. After leaving, he made a living on his own, finding a job as a helper at Dorn Hospital and doing several other odd jobs. His salary was meager, and he lived a very frugal life.

But the original owner was unwilling to live like this forever; he craved power, even if it wasn't so clean.

He came into contact with many corpses at the hospital. Once, he accidentally bumped into a person who came to steal a corpse. The person claimed to be from a cult. The original owner helped the person cover up the truth, and the person agreed to recruit the original owner and gave him some books and taught him some basic things.

After studying for a while, the original owner tried to perform a ritual to pray to "Morzur".

After the ceremony, the soul inside this body became Li Jiehao.

Li Jiehao was initially excited. Time travel! This was time travel! In his mind, the protagonist either had a system or a cheat code. In any case, they could thrive in this strange world, which was definitely more interesting than the boring high school life.

But after the initial excitement, reality quickly slapped him in the face.

He had no system, no cheat codes, only a penniless identity and a job moving corpses. His rented room was drafty, the food was bland, and his salary was barely enough to live on, but he couldn't save any money.

A week later, Li Jiehao couldn't take it anymore. What kind of life was this?! Where was his cheat code? Someone needs to come and tie him up and take him back to high school!

So, like the original owner, he placed his hopes for changing his life on those classic books.

He tried to continue his research like the original owner, but the books were obscure and difficult to understand, the runes and ritual procedures were written vaguely, and he had to guess in many places. He also lost contact with his previous guide.

Li Jiehao was depressed for a few days, but finally decided to take a gamble. Since he had transmigrated, he couldn't live such a pathetic life.

Of course, he didn't immediately perform any ritual to pray to Morzul. The original owner had already tried it, but died inexplicably and gave his body to him.

So he turned to studying the relatively simple content in those classic texts, such as how to refine the Corpse Wrap.

He stole a corpse from the hospital, and despite his disgust, he painstakingly followed the steps in the book to refine it.

Although the technique was crude, the runes were crooked, and the shroud was wrapped improperly...

It's mostly finished, except for the final step: using a ritual to summon the corrupted spirit and merge it with the walking corpse.

Li Jiehao recited the prayer he had copied from the book. The syllables were difficult to pronounce, and his tongue got tied several times, but he managed to finish reciting it.

As the last syllable fell, the candle flame flickered, the zombie's hand twitched, and then it slowly braced itself against the ground, the entire corpse sitting up with a stiff movement.

Li Jiehao's heart was pounding. Had they succeeded?

But without any orders, the walker turned its head to Li Jiehao, its voice hoarse: "My lord... Morzur... has chosen... you..."

Li Jiehao was stunned. He'd made a choice? Could it be…?

A cheat code? The long-awaited cheat code has finally arrived!

He tentatively asked, "What role have you chosen me to play?"

"The Lord's sacred relic... lies in Vista... it must be retrieved..."

Isn't that a treasure? He quickly asked what it was and where it was.

The zombie didn't answer directly, but walked towards the door and stopped by it, as if waiting for him to follow.

Li Jiehao hesitated for a few seconds, then grabbed a gun that the original owner had somehow gotten his hands on and followed.

The zombie's gait appeared stiff, but its speed was not slow. Finally, it crouched down in the bushes outside a villa and stopped moving.

Li Jiehao tried it and found that the zombies seemed to be starting to obey his commands.

He leaned closer to the window and heard something about a "ring" coming from inside. That must be the sacred object, right?

Li Jiehao hesitated outside for a long time, then finally gritted his teeth. "Aren't treasures always obtained through risk? How can one achieve great things without being ruthless?"

Besides, he has Morzul's favor, as well as walkers and guns!

The advantage lies with me!

Then he ran into two hooded robbers.

Then he was arrested and taken to the FBI.