Chapter 1: The Ghostly Crossing

  My goodness!!

  Qin Lan forcefully threw the wireless mouse in her hand out, and this high-end gaming mouse of the Logitech brand immediately came into close contact with the solid wood floor of Qin Lan's home, shattering into pieces that flew everywhere. The high-end solid wood floor was clearly an innocent bystander, and in the face of the poor mouse that had suffered such a fate, the silent floor could only express its condolences by sinking in a noticeable dent.

  Qin Lan was extremely angry. This was the fifth time this month that he had attacked the imperial city of Luoyang, but this terrifying city had once again silently swallowed up all of Qin Lan's forces: five million iron cavalry, 500,000 bed crossbows, 100,000 charging chariots, and 400,000 trebuchets. Even with a dozen or so top-tier, fully-equipped generals taking turns to violently assault the city for six hours, they had still failed at the last moment. The system had re-spawned the full military force of Luoyang just as it was about to be occupied...

  That's right, Qin Lan is playing a game. Qin Lan has been a standard Three Kingdoms enthusiast since childhood, and he likes to collect everything about the Three Kingdoms, including books, comics, toys, and now games. In Qin Lan's computer, there are no other things except for Three Kingdoms games, such as "Three Kingdoms: Heroes of Legend", "Dynasty Warriors", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Cao Cao's Conquest", "Zhao Yun's Legend" ... He has cleared all these games countless times and is extremely familiar with them. As for now, he is playing a classic web game called "Hot Blooded Three Kingdoms". This web game appeared only half a year ago but has swept the country like crazy, and its advertisements are well-known to everyone who plays games. Qin Lan was one of the first to rush into this game, and after half a year of development, he has risen from being a commoner to becoming a king, with nearly twenty cities under his command, including two state capitals, eight county capitals, and eleven townships... Now it's just one step away from completing the game, as long as he can conquer the capital city Luoyang, capture Emperor Han Lingdi, force him to abdicate, then "Hot Blooded Three Kingdoms" will be perfectly completed.

  But... the accumulation of half a year, after four tentative attacks, Qin Lan sent all his strength this time, thinking that he could settle it once and for all, but unexpectedly the system played him like this, all troops were completely wiped out... The next time he wants to come again, it will be at least one or two months later.

  She took out her mobile phone and dialed a call to her friend, who happened to be the administrator of the game "Hot Blooded Three Kingdoms", also known as GM. He had given Qin Lan considerable convenience in the game, which was why she was able to develop to this scale in such a short time. The full military strength that the system finally brushed out was clearly abnormal, and this was definitely a major BUG!! Qin Lan expressed her dissatisfaction to her friend and asked him to request compensation from his superiors.

  However, his friend's words instantly made Qin Lan feel a chill. It turned out that when his friends had given him many benefits before, the company knew about it and even tacitly approved of such behavior. This was because only by establishing several strong player models could more players be encouraged to increase their investment, as people have a competitive mentality - why can you be so powerful while I'm not? If you can catch Guan Yu, then I want to catch Zhao Yun! The game company's goal is to make money, without a doubt. Qin Lan had always played the role of the company's pawn and had indeed been invincible, with at least 60 or 70 top-ranked generals in the game, including Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Cao Cao, and Sun Ce, all concentrated in his hands. However, the game company did not expect that Qin Lan would develop too quickly and was now attempting to attack and occupy the Imperial City. Without a doubt, no company wants its game to have only half a year's lifespan, so when Qin Lan was about to make his final attack, the GM intervened, which is why the system suddenly displayed full military strength...

  Qin Lan fell silent for a while before hanging up the phone.

  He re-logged into the game and gave all his famous generals to his friends in the alliance, and also gave away all the famous cities without leaving any. Then he put his account on indefinite holiday.

  Qin Lan's heart turned cold and he decided to give up? Of course not. Since childhood, Qin Lan has been someone who won't give up until he reaches the Yellow River, it's not an exaggeration to say that he is stubborn, he just thinks that since you want to make money and extend the game for a while longer, then I'll just wait... During this time, I'll go buy my own server, build my own game, and attack Luoyang myself, no one will interfere with me anymore.

  This year, Qin Lan, who is exactly thirty years old, is at the peak of his life as a man. He now owns and operates his own listed company, has a car and a house, and his girlfriend changes frequently - if not every day, then at least the woman by his side this week will be different from last week's. After the company's affairs were on track, he hired a professional manager to take care of things, so generally speaking, unless there was something important, he rarely went to the company, which gave him the opportunity to play "Hot Blooded Three Kingdoms", and of course, his rich family background was the fundamental reason for his smooth sailing.

  It only took Qin Lan one day to contact several friends, from whom she bought the source code of Hot Blooded Three Kingdoms at a high price. Then, she spent three more days asking someone to make it into a complete server-side program. In order to run it, Qin Lan even specially upgraded her computer, replacing it with the most powerful configuration currently on the market... Finally, after struggling for a week, Qin Lan was able to re-enter the game of Hot Blooded Three Kingdoms once again.

  This time, however, Hot Blood Three Kingdoms is opened solely for Qin Lan alone. Throughout the entire game, there will only be him as the sole player.

  The game is actually not that interesting, Qin Lan just wanted to attack the royal city from the beginning, so there was no plan to develop it slowly. Playing a private server would take half a year to be able to attack the royal city, which is simply brainless... After the server was officially set up, he directly entered the game's system settings as a GM, adjusted all resource production to normal times ten, all houses could accommodate population normal times ten, all building construction speed and troop training speed to normal times ten. Set up the newbie gift package when entering the game, regardless of whether the items in the mall are useful or not, send 1000 of each, set newbies to have 9999 full jewels on their body after coming out, set initial resources to 1,000,000, and all initial inventory to 10,000,000.

  After setting it up, Qin Lan excitedly clicked the mouse to start the server, Wang Cheng Luoyang! I'm here!!

  But... BAM!! Accompanied by a loud noise, a bright light suddenly filled the air, and Qin Lan's last thought was, "Damn it, I'm not that unlucky, am I?"

  ————————Elegant Separator Line——————————

  "He's awake! Look at his hands and feet moving."

  "It's fine if he just wakes up, what a useless guy... He fainted after I only hit him twice... Let's go, don't bother with this trash."

  Qin Lan felt her head spinning, her eyelids were heavy and she couldn't open them no matter what. The mocking voices in her ears were all female voices, very young, but they seemed to be related to herself. Her hands and feet moved a few more times before she realized that she was now lying on the ground.

  She flipped over and landed on her back, instantly a sharp pain shot through her heart, Qin Lan forcefully opened her eyes, the entire world clearly reflected in her pupils.

  I've never seen such a blue sky, with white clouds that seem to be within reach. The air is so clean it's unbelievable. Where am I? Qin Lan struggled to lift her arm and found a deep gash on it, as if she had been whipped... Seeing the deep wound, Qin Lan immediately knew why her back hurt! Oh my god, someone actually whipped me?! But why don't I have any memory of being beaten? My last memory was clearly...

  BOOM!!

  At this moment, a large number of memories from another person suddenly flooded into Qin Lan's mind... It was as if she was watching a fast-forwarded movie, from the beginning to what had just happened, Qin Lan saw it all without missing a single detail.

  Then he realized, he had crossed over.

  This is a completely different world from Qin Lan's original world, with many ethnic groups and high-level intelligent life forms everywhere. Humans are just one of them. The development of this world is not towards technological civilization, but rather towards magical civilization. Humans live in the central part of the Pastoral Continent, with dozens of countries. Qin Lan's name in this body is also Qin Lan. His father, Qin Buqun, is the Minister of Rites and Internal Administration of the Starwind Empire, an official with some real power but little influence.

  Qin Lan was the fourth child in his family, with three older sisters: Qin Ying, Qin Yun, and Qin Zhuo. Among them, Qin Zhuo and Qin Yun were twins, and Qin Ying was only four years older than Qin Lan. As the only male in this generation who could carry on the family line, Qin Lan should have been extremely pampered... However, the reality was completely opposite. Qin Lan's mother was not Qin Buqun's original wife, nor was she the second aunt who gave birth to Qin Ying first, but just a maid in the Qin mansion. Qin Lan existed because of a night more than ten years ago when Master Qin returned from socializing with his colleagues and got drunk.

  Although she gave birth to a son for Qin Bugun, Qin Lan's mother did not end up in a good situation. Not only did the first and second madams join forces to oppose Qin Bugun taking her as his concubine, but they also made things difficult for her in every way possible during peacetime. She silently endured all these hardships for the sake of her son. Qin Lan, on the other hand, had enjoyed very good treatment since birth, but at the age of three, he was sentenced to death after a talent test. The master in charge of the test told Qin Bugun with great difficulty that his son was completely useless, unable to practice magic or learn martial arts.

  Alright, without the talent for cultivation, being an ordinary person is fine too, as long as he's clever enough, it's not like he can't climb to Qin Feng's position... Qin Feng was consoling himself like this, but looking at Qin Lan who still couldn't speak at three years old and often looked stupid, he ultimately just sighed and completely gave up on this son.

  After Qin Lan's departure, it was only natural that his days would no longer be worth mentioning. Except for his mother, there was no one in this world who looked at him with a straight face; even the servants in the manor often found amusement in bullying him.

  It was just now, Second Sister Qin Jin was practicing horse riding, but at only 17 years old, she wasn't tall enough to climb onto the horse's back directly. So she had this useless younger brother lie on the ground as a stepping stone. As a result, for some reason the horse moved slightly, causing Qin Jin to almost fall off, so she took advantage of the situation and whipped her brother several times with the riding crop, ending up knocking Qin Lan unconscious.

  Qin Lan could hardly believe that she had actually crossed over into the body of such an idiot + fool + useless martial artist. Hadn't something gone wrong? In this strange world, people were always talking about some Sword Saint or Magic Master or giant dragon, but she didn't have anything, so how was she supposed to survive in this world??

  Although Qin Lan was given a sixteen-year-old body, this guy is useless, what to do in the future? Should Qin Lan, who is actually thirty years old, be bullied by several maids and servants in the future? Qin Lan stared at her hands, which were obviously much younger and whiter, but she was thinking about what to do... Run away from home? It seems that doing so would be foolish. With Qin Lan's sixteen-year-old body going out, but herself not being familiar with this alien world at all, she might not even be able to find a job, only to starve to death.

  In the palm of his hand, that one red bloodstain was extremely eye-catching. Qin Lan subconsciously followed it to look down at his arm, and suddenly saw a familiar symbol on the right wrist, which looked like a short straight line inserted into a circle. This symbol was too familiar, wasn't it the power button??? Qin Lan didn't dare to believe it, closed his eyes, and then opened them again, no mistake, there really was this pattern on the inside of his wrist.

  With a slight tremble, Qin Lan lifted his left hand and pressed down on the pattern with force. Because he touched the blood stain, he suddenly felt a sharp pain and gritted his teeth.

  Drip~ A sudden startup prompt sounded beside her ear. No way, did the computer also travel with me? Where is it? Qin Lan was still bewildered when a mechanical synthesized voice started beside her ear, "System detection in progress, please wait..."

  "This sound, is it inside me? Qin Lan noticed this time, there was no such sound outside, which means nobody else could hear it. Did the computer merge into my body when I crossed over? What kind of international joke is this?"

  "System detection failed... System anomaly detected, start self-repair program?"

  Qin Lan was stunned, how to choose? There were no selection patterns in front of him, and he didn't have a mouse or keyboard.

  "System detection failed... System anomaly detected, start self-repair program?"

  "Yes!" Seeing the system again, Qin Lan repeated it in a low voice, but...

  "System detection failed... System anomaly detected, start self-repair program?"

  “……”

  "System detection failed... System anomaly detected, entering self-repair program in ten seconds."

  "Self-repair program started, please wait..."

  "Discovery of similar unknown program, fusion is about to begin..."

  "Merge complete...... System repair complete, please restart."

  "Merge complete...... System repair complete, please restart."

  Qin Lan gave up any action and waited blankly for her own outcome.

  "Restart automatically after 10 seconds."

  "Drip! ~ System detection in progress, please wait..."

  "System check complete, ready to enter."