Introduction to "Back to the World of the 2000s"
In the mid-21st century, Qin Fuchun, a social worker who was squeezed by capital to the point of physical and mental exhaustion, collapsed at his cold desk due to overwork after working overtime for 72 consecutive hours. I thought my life would end here, but when I opened my eyes, I found that I had traveled back to the millennium. The exciting events of the Sydney Olympics were being played on the old-fashioned TV sets, magazines with celebrities from Hong Kong and Taiwan were still on the street newsstands, and the mobile phones still looked like flip-top chords - all of these reminded him that he had really returned to the year 2000.
However, the gift of fate has already been secretly marked with a price. Time travel brings not only time back, but Qin Fuchun accidentally awakens to the mysterious space. This seemingly ordinary storage space actually hides a secret: the items stored in it will mutate over time, expired instant noodles can be transformed into nutritious compressed food, and rusty iron nails will transform into fine steel weapons. What's even more shocking is that he discovered a yellowed notebook deep in the space, which densely recorded major events and technological changes in the next twenty years.
Just when Qin Fuchun was ecstatic about changing his life against the odds, he met the equally "special" Huang Kechen in the talent market. This young man wearing black-rimmed glasses and full of bookish air was able to accurately tell his secrets that had not yet been revealed. It turns out that Huang Kechen was also a time traveler and returned to this era half a year earlier than Qin Fuchun. The difference is that his golden finger is a "precognition dream" - he can see fragments of the future every night when he dreams, but he suffers from headaches due to overuse of his abilities.
The encounter between the two time-travelers broke Qin Fuchun's solitary life.
