The Emperor of the Human Race, a Versatile Mage

Chapter 1 League of Legends, the quagmire of reality

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"...

on duty off duty

Buy groceries, cook

Wash the dishes last

trivial ties

Breeding dissatisfaction~”

Music can add some popularity to a house, otherwise a large room would be a bit empty if one person lived there alone, and an old song that was played randomly made Jiang Zhao feel a little dazed.

Copying the lyrics in the homework book seems to have happened yesterday, but in reality more than ten years have passed, and time does not stop for anyone.

The pot on the right is heating two portions of steamed vegetables, which are semi-finished products bought from the supermarket, and the pot on the left is cooking pea shoots. Just add a little lard and salt and they will be delicious.

Ding

The rice cooker next to it also jumped from cooking to keeping warm.

Then he opened the cupboard, took out a white porcelain plate, and then opened the locker. Inside was a can full of cans, neatly stacked.

Jiang Zhao hummed along with the music, touched the rows of cans inside, stopped with his fingers on a box of black bean dace, tapped twice rhythmically, then took it out, opened it, and poured it into a plate.

In order to prevent future food supply problems, he kept a lot of canned goods at home.

Anyway, canned food has a long shelf life, so you don’t have to worry about expiration. Many canned food can still be eaten after half a century.

But now it seems that the original batch was indeed a bit too much, and I couldn't finish it, which made me feel worried just looking at it.

After all, you can't eat this three times a day.

Take the hot vegetables out of the steamer, three dishes and one soup, including vegetables, meat and fish, and then go to the refrigerator to get a can of ice-cold soda. This dinner can be considered simple and sumptuous.

The most important thing is convenience. This way, you can cook in half an hour. There are meat, vegetables, cold, hot and soup. It is most suitable for nights when you are not in the mood to cook after working all day.

Serve yourself a full bowl of rice, use a rice spoon to scrape the pot clean, compact the rice in the bowl, and pile it on top of the bowl to create a beautiful curved top.

Then take out the inner pot of the rice cooker and soak it in some water for easy cleaning.

After putting the food on the coffee table, Jiang Zhao didn't eat in a hurry. Instead, he took out his mobile phone, turned off the music, and selected the TV program that was projected onto the screen.

When the classic dragon mark appeared, he started eating slowly.

"A flock of geese down the hill,"

"Hush and drive into the river."

"Falling into the river to catch geese cures hunger,"

"Go home and play after eating..."

An old movie from many years ago is playing on the TV.

Although Jiang Zhao could almost memorize the lines in it, he still enjoyed watching it.

I don’t know why, but he likes to watch some old movies recently.

If you think about it carefully, it's probably because the new dramas in recent years are so eye-catching. They are not as good as the classic old movies, and you can still enjoy them no matter how many times you watch them.

Going to and from work, buying groceries, cooking, and finally washing the dishes.

There were no trivial ties and no one to foster resentment against him because he lived alone.

The familial love sung in the song feels like something he will never have in his life.

How did you sing that song?

'I can't catch love——'

Because he didn’t reach out at all.

Elementary school, middle school, university, postgraduate entrance examination, work.

There seemed to be no trace of love in his life.

If anything, when he graduated from junior high school, he felt sad for a long time because he and his female classmate went to different schools. That was probably his first love.

But looking back now, it seems that he can't even remember what his parents looked like.I just remember that she wore glasses and printed clothes, she looked better than others, and she could copy the lyrics neatly. In comparison, Jiang Zhao's writing was more carefree and unrestrained.

They would talk about the wine and sword family on Jianghu Road, riding horses and talking about Fairy Sword and Fairy. They would give each of them an earphone during lunch break and copy the lyrics while listening.

Is this my life?

After washing the dishes, Jiang Zhao didn't even want to play the game anymore.

He has played the game "League of Legends" for many years, and maybe he is tired of it.

When I was in school, whenever I had free time, I would sit in front of the computer and ask my friends to play black games.

It was especially crazy when I first went to college, because I had to live on campus, had my own computer, and was surrounded by a group of young people who liked to play games. I would often stay up all night to make appointments to score points for the title of the strongest king. Stay up all night for a week and catch up on sleep during the day.

Of course, that couldn't be done now. He would feel like he had lost half his life once he stayed up all night.

I would be happier if I became a king then than if I took the postgraduate entrance examination later.

It's just that his friends are no longer online, most of them are at level 30, and Jiang Zhao himself no longer plays twice a day like before. Now, it's normal not to play once for ten and a half months.

Even my favorite rotation mode before, I don’t even bother to look at it now.

He liked Teamfight Tactics very much in the first few seasons, but later because he didn't have much time to play and the updates were too fast, he gave up and focused on ARAM.

However, after the Polar Brawl was updated again some time ago, looking at the updated map, Jiang Zhao never played it again.

The game industry is full of vitality, there is no shortage of masterpieces, small games are also full of surprises, and there are many ways to kill time.

He even didn't want to turn on the computer for a long time. After all, there are many entertainment projects that can be performed on mobile phones.

But sometimes I get bored.

After all, the fun on mobile phones is just that, war, sex, energy, idiots and celebrities...that's about it.

I ate those melons over and over again with different flavors, and after a long time I wanted to unload them.

Let’s log back into League of Legends and take a look.

I don’t know what the designer Xia Jiba changed in one day. If he didn’t like it, he would play Potato Brothers later.

I haven’t played it for a while, and I guess a lot of MODs have been updated. This little meat pigeon game is still very good at passing the time.

So Jiang Zhao turned off the light and opened the game on his laptop, only to find that it needed to be updated.

Why does it feel like every time I open this crappy game, I have to update it?

There was only the sound of the fan in the quiet room, and the laptop he bought when he was in college was still accompanying Jiang Zhao.

This machine is not much younger than League of Legends. When I was in college, I did a lot of homework with Jiang Zhao and spent many nights full of games. The sound of the fan spinning hard reminded Jiang Zhao of the countryside he would only go to during winter and summer vacations when he was a child. Back home, that old scalper.

The configuration is quite adequate. I replaced the solid state once, but it’s no problem if I just play League of Legends.

He has a better-equipped desktop computer in his study, but he hasn't turned it on for many days.

When he was in school, he really wanted a computer with good enough configuration so that he could play masterpieces without having to be a cloud player on a video website. But at that time, he did not have the financial ability and thought that he would be able to work in the future.

But when he later got rich and bought the high-end computer that he had always wanted to buy, he rarely felt like opening it again.

It was so cool when I was in college, one person had enough to eat and the whole family was not hungry, partying at the beginning of the month and eating junk at the end of the month, [-] a month, still laughing every day, and not wanting to look up while playing games.

At that time, all I had to deal with was exams and living expenses that became precarious at the end of each month.

Now there are more issues to consider. In addition, the work environment has not been very prosperous in the past two years. It is not impossible to lay off employees, let alone if there is any health problem.

He talked with his colleagues, and they all felt that their health was not particularly good, and they might go to the hospital to have liposuction on their wallets one day.

But he was helpless.

Colleagues who have resigned serve as a warning. After losing their current job, they cannot even maintain the status quo, let alone find a better one. Their lives are suddenly downgraded, and they complain endlessly.

None of us are geniuses. It’s not that society cannot function without a certain part of our society. We are all just screws. They can be used, but they can also be replaced.

Reality is like a quagmire. The harder you struggle, the faster it may sink.

Jiang Zhao's long-term experience is that only by standing still and rotting with the muddy leaves can the body last longer and not sink into the depths so quickly.

(End of this chapter)