Chapter 2: My Name Is Lu Xing, and I Am a University Student
Preliminary interrogation concluded, Chen Xing tidied up and addressed the “16-year-old human girl and member of the Human Rebel Alliance, Jiang Xuannu” before him: “I don’t know what’s going on with you, but I have to tell you, if you are deliberately pretending to be mentally ill out of fear of the consequences of breaking the law, then you are gravely mistaken!”
“Mentally unstable patients cannot attend university; they would be advised to withdraw or take a leave of absence!”
Chen Xing emphasized, his eyes fixed on the other, who remained indifferent, calm as if raised by robots—showing little emotional fluctuation.
After a long pause, Chen Xing sighed. “Alright then.”
He rubbed his head and said, “Based on the current situation, you have severe schizophrenia and have imagined yourself as an underage girl.”
“Jiang Xuannu” looked down at her ample chest and shook her head. “Are you sure this isn’t a virtual network? In a virtual world, people can easily change forms.”
Chen Xing shook his head and said, “Your real name is Lu Xing, you’re twenty years old, and a junior at Haicheng University.”
Seeing Lu Xing still unmoved, Chen Xing sighed again. “You deliberately damaged someone else’s property. Fortunately, the amount isn’t large enough to file a case. Plus, you’re a student at Haicheng University, a prestigious school; your studies aren’t easy… Fine, I’ll first contact your counselor to come over.”
With that, he instructed Lu Xing to stay in the interrogation room and stepped out with the transcript in hand, muttering, “What is all this about… Could it be that the pressure of studying caused schizophrenia?”
Afternoon.
When Lu Xing opened his eyes again, he saw his counselor, Li Xiao, staring at him in astonishment, as if she had just heard something unbelievable from his mouth.
“Counselor Li?”
Lu Xing tried to ask, and Li Xiao hesitated before asking him, “Lu Xing, you’re… back?”
“…Yes!”
Lu Xing’s expression was a mix of amazement and wonder. He had just experienced the most incredible event in his twenty years of life. One moment his eyes opened, and he found himself in a futuristic, dreamlike city full of astonishing scenes.
The next moment, he was back in the present!
It felt like a dream, but everything he saw and heard was unprecedentedly real.
“Let me confirm.”
Li Xiao, who had been his computer science class counselor since freshman year, asked seriously, “You are now Lu Xing, a twenty-year-old human male, not Jiang Xuannu, a sixteen-year-old member of the human rebellion, right?”
“Her name is Jiang Xuannu?”
Lu Xing finally grasped the situation. He was most likely not dreaming or time-traveling but had swapped souls with a slender, short-haired girl with a small face—Jiang Xuannu!
It was similar to the movie “Your Name,” which Lu Xing had watched before.
“Counselor Li!”
He took a deep breath and forced a smile. “I’m Lu Xing, a student at Haicheng University. Just now… just forget what happened!”
Li Xiao frowned. “Forget? Then what was that just now?”
“Uh!”
“Also, why did you break someone else’s phone?”
“What?”
Lu Xing looked surprised, wanted to explain, but found no words.
At that moment, Chen Xing came in from outside, chatted briefly with Li Xiao, then asked about Lu Xing’s condition. Seeing he had returned to normal, he patted his shoulder meaningfully and said:
“Now you can tell virtual from reality, right?”
“Virtual? So that place was a virtual world?”
Lu Xing finally understood why that world felt so strange.
The two exchanged a glance. Damn, this guy is still not right!
...
Evening.
After borrowing two thousand yuan from his counselor to pay back the person whose phone he “broke,” Lu Xing dragged his weary body back to the dorm.
“Sixth bro’s back?”
Qi Wenyu, playing games in the dorm, casually said, lowering the volume.
“Yeah.”
Lu Xing weakly tossed his things on the table, glanced at his impressive 15-2-8 gaming record, and sighed, “If only I hadn’t gone out during the National Day holiday. Today was bad luck—I lost two thousand yuan!”
“What?”
Qi Wenyu quickly glanced at him, then returned to his screen. “What did you do today? Got caught at a massage parlor in the village?”
The village was Chengdong Village, not far from the West Gate, home to over a hundred massage and foot bath shops.
Lu Xing was from the south, and his name sounded like “Six,” hence the nickname “Sixth Bro.” His parents had passed away early, he had few relatives, and relied on loans for university. Two thousand yuan was his two months’ living expenses.
After a brief chat, Lu Xing sat in his chair, pondering the day’s events.
He was almost certain he was neither dreaming nor schizophrenic but had swapped souls with a girl from the future world named Jiang Xuannu.
He had crossed over into Jiang Xuannu’s body, and she into his—a soul exchange.
But whether it was a one-time event or repeated, regular or random, he didn’t know.
Wait!
Suddenly, Lu Xing remembered something. He hurriedly took out his phone, opened WeChat, and scrolled down. Sure enough, he found a mini-program called “Life Experience Game”!
Opening it, a few words appeared:
“Currently in gameplay…”
“!!”
Lu Xing’s expression twisted. This mini-program was an annoying splash ad he’d found while opening some app, which redirected him after a shake.
“I remember the ad had several beautiful girls of different races, all with distinct charm, in a style very much to the old-school anime taste, with slogans like ‘Exciting and thrilling’ and ‘Dreamlike and beautiful,’ so I casually clicked a few times…”
Recalling that morning, Lu Xing tried clicking inside the mini-program but nothing happened. Closing and reopening it, it still stuck at “Currently in gameplay.”
After hesitating, he didn’t dare delete the program.
Not because he wanted to become an underage girl—he wasn’t that perverse.
But because he was deeply curious about the virtual world of Earth’s far future.
What was the human world under AI rule like?
How advanced was future technology?
How did Jiang Xuannu and the rebel alliance resist the AI that imprisoned all humans in the virtual world?
Moreover, was it possible that he had brought back some future technology, like two-dimensional foil, quantum particles, space elevators, wormhole ships, or quantum teleportation?
At worst, bringing back controllable nuclear fusion, magnetic levitation, or superconductors would launch him to the pinnacle of life!
As for AI technology, forget it. The future people had already lost control, and Lu Xing dared not touch it—he had learned about that world from Counselor Li but was told little out of concern for his mental state.
“Sixth bro, daydreaming again? Still thinking about your two thousand yuan?”
A game round ended, and Qi Wenyu laughed over.
“No. By the way, if I suddenly become someone else, remember to explain it to me.”
“What?”
“...Never mind, forget I said anything!”
Lu Xing shook his head. He was caught between hope and fear. The “Life Experience Game” ad was full of beautiful girls—what if the next swap turned him into a girl again?
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After some thought, Lu Xing picked up a pen.
“My name is Lu Xing. When you see what’s written on this paper, please don’t panic…”
He wrote down his personal information, school, dorm roommates, meal card, phone payment password, and so on, intending to reassure anyone who might cross over into his body that this world was AI-free and the dorm was safe.
—He even gave the payment password just in case the other person wanted to buy something. His bank card had little money, less than the meal card.
After finishing, he remembered a blonde foreign beauty from the ad and wrote an English version as well.
An hour later.
Filled with anticipation and anxiety, Lu Xing lay in bed and slowly drifted into sleep.