Rebirth 2014: Original Super Technology

The severe dizziness receded like a tide, and Guo Jingshang opened his eyes suddenly. The dull pain in his chest had not completely dissipated, but a familiar yet unfamiliar musty smell lingered on the tip of his nose—a smell unique to the rental house in the urban village he rented in 2014.​ He struggled to sit up and looked around. The walls are mottled and yellowed, and the paint is peeling off the wooden desk. On the table is a laptop with a yellowed screen edge, and a badly worn anime sticker next to the power button. The old air conditioner in the corner hummed slightly, and the wind it blew was slightly moist and cool. All of this is too real to be true, and it is definitely not a hallucination before death.