In 1980, New York State, USA.
This is a poor community.
Bad environment, rude people, terror and violence make up everything here. Cursing, smashing glass, gunshots, all kinds of sounds fill this place and nourish evil.
In a certain dark alley, there was a person lying face down. He lay there motionless, only blood was spreading from his body, and he didn't know whether he was dead or alive.
No one came to rescue him, and no one paid attention to him.
Not long ago, there was a battle across the street from here. A group of Caribbeans fought with a group of blacks. They even fired shots. Now those people have run away, but the people nearby dare not open the doors and windows.
Occasionally someone has to pass by, and they are in a hurry, and they don't pay attention to the people lying in the alley next to them.
Of course, even if they saw it, they wouldn't bother - that's what the police should do.
Of course, the police probably won't be able to come for a while. Those people in uniform are busy catching the troublesome black people next door.
Suddenly, the fingers of the lying man moved.
Cheng Hao felt that his whole body was sore and limp, and there seemed to be a hole in his stomach.
He had a car accident, or he was in an accident.
At that time, he had already parked his car and was walking towards a cafe not far away to meet his first blind date when a luxury car on the road suddenly lost control and rushed towards him.
He has been trained since he was a child and has a high level of alertness. If he was alone, he would definitely be able to avoid it. But in front of him, a young mother was leading a primary school student carrying a schoolbag. The two of them were carrying ancient poems together and did not notice the danger coming.
He pushed away the mother and child, and he was hurt.
Now... was he seriously injured? Why no one came to rescue him
Cheng Hao lay down for a while, and regained a little strength, but at this time, there was still no noisy sound around him.
Something wrong with his ears? There was a car accident on the street, why is there no one watching
Cheng Hao moved, opened his eyes, and saw some old houses.
He was clearly on the bustling street, why... suddenly appeared in the village in the city
Cheng Hao was stunned for a moment, and then fainted again. Some memories that did not belong to him just appeared in his mind.
As if watching TV, he saw a teenager's life.
He couldn't empathize with what the young man went through, but he summed up the young man's life.
The young man named Cheng Jinhao was born in 1964.
His parents are both from Hong Kong, with a wealthy family. Before he was born, the young couple took a boat for four months and came to the United States to study.
It was during their study abroad in the United States that they gave birth to Cheng Jinhao.
According to the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1868, all children born in the United States can obtain American citizenship. This young couple applied for American citizenship for Cheng Jinhao, and the little Cheng Jinhao became a Chinese-American.
However, Cheng Jinhao did not grow up in the United States. Soon after he was born, he returned to Hong Kong with his parents and grew up in Hong Kong.
Cheng Jinhao's parents love him very much. According to the couple's plan, Cheng Jinhao will finish high school in Hong Kong and then go to the United States to study in college, but an accident happened during this period.
When Cheng Jinhao was thirteen years old, his mother died of illness, his father couldn't stand the blow, he went abroad and lost contact with his family.
The Cheng family is a big family. Cheng Jinhao's grandfather had three wives and nine children. Cheng Jinhao's generation has more people. Because Cheng Jinhao's grandfather is still alive, the Cheng family has not yet separated, but they do not live together. together. Cheng Jinhao's parents have been living outside with Cheng Jinhao.
Before Cheng Jinhao's father left, he entrusted Cheng Jinhao to his half-brother, Cheng Jinhao's uncle.
Suddenly he lost his mother, his father also left, and he was sent to live with others... Cheng Jinhao, who was upright and rebellious, changed his temperament drastically. He started to get tired of studying after having excellent grades, and fought with others from time to time in school. got fired.
His uncle changed several schools for him, but in the end he didn't study for a few months. Not to mention, he also had contacts with people in the society.
Cheng Jinhao is too good at tossing around, and if he continues like this, he will fail to learn... When Uncle Cheng was in a state of desperation, he listened to his wife's persuasion and decided to send Cheng Jinhao to study in the United States, thinking that private schools in the United States should be able to educate Cheng Jinhao Well, no matter how bad it is, being locked up by the school and having no friends, Cheng Jinhao will definitely not be able to cause any trouble.
Cheng Jinhao, who was only fifteen years old, was sent to the United States just like that.
Uncle Cheng entrusted Cheng Jinhao to study for his wife. He asked his wife to find a good private school to send Cheng Jinhao to, and then find someone he knew to take care of Cheng Jinhao—although many Hong Kong people go to the UK to study, But there are also quite a few people going to the United States. It is entirely possible to find a suitable family and let Cheng Jinhao live there when he is not on campus.
Cheng Jinhao was unwilling to go to the United States, after all, he was not familiar with the place there, but it was not up to him to object to what Uncle Cheng had decided, so he was sent to the United States after all.
After being locked up on the ship for a few months, Cheng Jinhao calmed down and thought that when he arrived in the United States, he had to study hard and take the university entrance exam his parents had attended. However, when he arrived in the United States, everything he encountered was completely different from what his uncle said .
He was not sent to a private school as promised, but to a public school in a poor neighborhood. Not only that, but the family he stayed with was not an intellectual family. On the contrary, the male The gambling of the alcoholic woman, the husband and wife are not serious people at all.
In the United States in the 1970s, people's living standards far exceeded those of other countries, but many places here were very messy.
There are the best schools in the world, but there are also schools full of drugs and violence where few people study.
Cheng Jinhao was sent to a school where few people studied.
This school recruits low-income people, the school gives these students free tuition, and provides them with free breakfast and lunch, but those students don't come to class at all, they only come to the school during meal times - here The children who study are basically poor. Even if they don’t eat the school’s free lunch, they still rely on the free lunch voucher issued by the social worker or the food provided by the relief center.
This is a very incredible place for Cheng Jinhao, who has been used to living the life of the rich since he was a child.
What made him even more angry was that he wanted to live here.
He was living in a host family with only a very small and dirty room. They didn't buy him clothes or food, so he could only wear dirty clothes and eat the nasty free meals given out by the school.
He had quarreled, quarreled, wanted to go home, and then was beaten by the man who lived in the host family, and that was fine. In school, he also became the bottom of the bullied.
The poorer the place, the more serious the discrimination, and there are very few Chinese in this place... Cheng Jinhao is alone, but he is at the bottom of the discrimination chain and has been severely punished several times.
However, Cheng Jinhao has never been wronged since he was a child. He learned martial arts in the Hong Kong Martial Art Museum when he was a child. He is fierce, after being beaten a few times, he will fight back, and even learned to chase others to beat him.
Just when Chinese kung fu was popular in the United States, no one dared to provoke him for a while, and he also got a few subordinates, and once again became a bully in the school.
Not only that, he was just playing around in Hong Kong, but he got deeper and deeper here. He stole, robbed, and even played with guns.
He has fallen.
It is impossible for an unaccompanied teenager not to fall in such an environment.
At the beginning, Cheng Jinhao thought about contacting his family, but the messages he sent fell to nothing, and he couldn't be contacted at all, or maybe no one wanted to talk to him... After a long time, he only thought that he had no family.
After being able to rely on various illegal means to get money, Cheng Jinhao left the host family, and also left the community that he hated, and came to other communities to hang out.
Now this place is Cheng Jinhao's latest foothold.
Not long after he came to this community, he wanted to find a place to steal some money before finding a place to live, but someone suddenly came and stabbed him in the stomach a few times, and he just fell down.
After reading the memory, Cheng Hao felt a "thump" in his heart.
Cheng Jinhao was dead, he lost too much blood.
As for him... He should have died too, but for some reason, he actually traveled here after death, possessed Cheng Jinhao, and became Cheng Jinhao.
Realizing this, Cheng Hao suddenly thought that he needed help right now.
Otherwise... He is afraid that he will die again.
The person who stabbed Cheng Jinhao wanted to kill Cheng Jinhao wholeheartedly, and his attack was very serious. It is unbelievable that he is still alive.
Probably because he passed through, his body gained some strength. Cheng Hao crawled forward slowly, and finally crawled out of the dark alley.
There is a small street outside the alley, which is a bit dirty. The surrounding houses look similar to those in China at the beginning of the 20th century. You can occasionally see some ten-story high-rise buildings, but the people on the street are mostly black. , a few are white, and there is no yellow person Cheng Hao is familiar with.
The eyes of these people looking over were full of disgust.
Cheng Hao had already crawled out of the alley, calling for help to a passerby: "I need help..."
However, the man ignored him at all, and instead scolded him a few words. Cheng Hao didn't understand those words with a strong accent. On the shoulder, he kicked him on his back, and then left with a smile.
Cheng Hao only felt that his strength had been exhausted and he was about to be unable to hold on anymore. At this moment, a boy with his head down and black hair turned out from the corner of the street... It was a man of yellow race!
Cheng Hao felt the surprise of meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign land, and he didn't know where the strength came from, so he crawled over and hugged the man's leg: "Help!"