Chapter 1

When Jiang Yunu regained consciousness, he felt that he was being dragged.

It is not accurate to say that she was dragged, because she did not feel how long she was dragged on the ground. It was as if someone grabbed her arm, and then the hand was unprecedentedly strong, and it lifted her off the ground easily like picking up a chicken, leaving her body hanging in the air, and her feet suddenly lost their footing in mid-air, unable to step on the solid ground.

What's going on?

Jiang Yunu had only regained a little consciousness and was not fully awake yet. She didn't understand the situation. In a daze, her first reaction was to think that she had not been trying to lose weight this year. Instead, she went to the gym diligently and reduced her body fat percentage by five percentage points. She should still be considered a healthy and strong young woman. Her height also exceeded the average value for women in the adult height report released by the country.

How could someone lift her up with one hand and lift her so high off the ground?

The situation was so abnormal that it was beyond comprehension, and Jiang Yunu subconsciously thought he was dreaming.

The person holding her swung her in the air for a moment. Her eyelids were heavy and she couldn't open them. She heard someone say, "Why is there another person here?"

What?

"What?"

There are other people nearby.

Another voice asked, "What's one more?"

Jiang Yunu thought this dream was quite intelligent, as there was someone in the dream expressing his thoughts.

The man holding the Jiang Yu crossbow said, "The number doesn't match. There's one extra here."

There were footsteps approaching.

Jiang Yunu's mind seemed to be immersed in sticky water. She couldn't open her eyes and couldn't wake up, but she still had a trace of consciousness, so she could listen and perceive the details of this "dream".

A strange light shone across her face, and she could clearly feel the light passing through her eyelids.

Then the light disappeared.

"No response." The person who came over said, "The detector is not responding. Let's deal with it together."

The man holding the Jiang Yu crossbow may have shrugged his shoulders, causing the Jiang Yu crossbow to sway in his hand.

She only had one arm to support the weight, and her shoulder joint had long been unable to bear the weight, so it made a "crack" sound when it shook.

Jiang Yunu:!

Is it possible to dream of a dislocated shoulder?!

"I guess the person doing the inventory didn't do it seriously." The man holding Jiang Yunu said this and brought her back to the place where he had lifted her up before. She felt the hand that was clamping her arm loosen, causing her to fall back to the ground.

But the "ground" is soft.

Jiang Yunu fell back onto the soft ground and heard the person he had been talking to say, "This place will be ruined soon anyway."

What to do?

What's wasted?

Jiang Yunu wanted to know more. This "dream" without a beginning or an end gave her an ominous premonition, and she was born with a strong intuition.

She always felt that there was something strange here, as if there was something she couldn't perceive. However, her consciousness was like an unfulfilled sneeze. It only existed for a short while, just enough for her to hear it for a while, and then disappeared without a trace.

Jiang Yunu was dragged back into a dreamless sleep by his heavy head.

The moment before her consciousness completely sank, she thought: Forget it, I’ll talk about it when I wake up.

It's just a dream anyway.

But the experience of our ancestors has long told future generations that sometimes people really cannot "set goals" for themselves.

Jiang Yunu woke up after sleeping for who knows how many hours. This time she opened her eyes and felt that she had finally regained control of her body.

Jiang Yunu felt her body was very soft. She thought she was still lying in bed at home. She closed her eyes and wanted to stretch, but her left shoulder suddenly hurt the moment her arm stretched, making her gasp. She stopped moving and reached out with her right hand to support her left shoulder, but when her hand passed in front of her body, she felt that her hand touched something.

——A handful of hair.

Jiang Yunu was in front of her, about half an arm's length away from her, and touched a handful of hair that did not belong to her.

They were smooth, cool strands of hair that seemed to hang from above, implying that their owner was somewhere above the ground.

Jiang Yunu didn't hear any other breath except her own. She was naturally quite courageous. After a brief moment of surprise, she closed her eyes and touched the hair again, confirming their location. Then, she prepared herself mentally and opened her eyes.

In front of Jiang Yunu, there was a long strand of white, silky hair hanging upside down. She followed the hair upwards and saw a pale, lifeless face at the roots of the hair.

He, or maybe she.

Jiang Yunu couldn't tell the specific gender of the owner of this face because it was the childish face of an underdeveloped child.

The little child was lying on a slightly higher surface, facing Jiang Yunu. Jiang Yunu then realized that she was in a hemispherical pit. She was staying at a higher position in the pit, while the child was outside the pit, but her upper body had already passed the edge of the pit, and her head lowered into the pit. As a result, her long white hair, like cotton wool, also fell into the pit, falling just in front of Jiang Yunu, who had just woken up and reached out to grab a handful.

“…I’m sorry.”

Jiang Yunu apologized to the child at the edge of the pit, even though the other party should not have been able to hear him.

The child was obviously dead.

Jiang Yunu's fingertips still felt the touch of the other person's hair. She apologized softly to the child who couldn't hear, "Sister didn't mean to pull your hair."

On the other hand, Jiang Yunu was preparing to stand up from the pit.

There are many confusions and many things that are still unclear. For example, Jiang Yunu couldn't understand how she suddenly got here. Everything here seemed unfamiliar to her, and she almost suspected that she was still dreaming. She also wanted to know where this place was and wanted to have a clearer general understanding of the environment she was in.

Jiang Yunu doesn't like to sit and wait for death. She has always been a person who dares to explore and is very adventurous. The first step to explore this completely unfamiliar environment is to get out of the pit.

But Jiang Yunu still paused for a moment.

Because the "bottom of the pit" that Jiang Yunu stretched out her hand to support was soft, and the "ground" under her feet was also soft.

In a dream not long ago, she had the impression that the ground she was thrown back to in the "dream" was also soft. Now, looking around, she finally understood why the "ground" here was soft.

The pit was filled with children with hair like white cotton wool. Their small bodies were piled up one on top of another, like stiff yet resilient building blocks, forming a lifeless "human tower".

The pit was originally quite deep. Jiang Yunu was lying on the top of this "human tower", so she could easily see the edge of the pit with her current body.

Yes, her current body.

Jiang Yunu subconsciously apologized to the child on the edge of the pit, and reached out to find a place to support herself, trying to stand up. At this time, she heard a voice that was obviously not that of an adult, and saw her shrunken arms.

Jiang Yunu: "..."

Jiang Yunu gently patted the body closest to her, and she spoke in a childish voice like an older sister: "I'm sorry, but I really have to go out and take a look. I may have to step on you."

While negotiating with the silent bodies in the pit, Jiang Yunu finally walked out of the pit while apologizing.

As he used his thin and short arms to support himself on the edge of the pit, exerted strength in his waist and abdomen, and pushed himself up with a sudden force, Jiang Yunu also saw his hair swinging from behind to in front of him.

The same white hair hung down on her chest, and she seemed to have a head of white hair like cotton wool.

But Jiang Yunu just glanced at it and decided to put these unimportant details aside for later.

She stood on the edge of the pit, her feet finally touching solid ground.

Jiang Yunu surveyed her area again, realizing it resembled an underground base. Everywhere she looked, she could see exposed rock formations between the walls, and scattered traces of human activity remained around the pits. Not far away, she spotted a set of alloy cabinets leaning against the wall, most of their doors open. On the other side, several similarly open boxes lay at the base of the wall, their lids carelessly tossed to the ground. One lid flew particularly far, landing next to what looked like a mobile transport rack leaning against the wall.

At least, this is where human activity once occurred.

Jiang Yunu walked forward on the stone tunnel, feeling the rough gravel under her feet. She noticed that the yellow sand on the ground was different from the dark stone path. It did not look like it came from the base, but was brought in from outside through human activities.

These yellow sand traces, which were different from the stone paths, extended in a certain direction, and Jiang Yunu guessed that they were most likely leading to the entrance or exit.

Jiang Yunu still remembers the conversation between the people in her previous "dream". She clearly remembers the last sentence she heard: "This place will be ruined soon."

Wasted, does it mean that this place has been abandoned and all the people who used to be active here have left?

Or have not all the people here left, and there are still one or two people left somewhere?

Jiang Yunu couldn't tell whether it was better for her if everyone had evacuated, or if it was better if there was no one else here. She didn't even know where this place was. Maybe in this situation, it would be better for her not to meet anyone first.

So Jiang Yunu slowed down his movements and acted more carefully.

She moved cautiously with her body, which had now turned into a child, hiding her body with the boxes and cabinets scattered around, listening carefully with her ears perked up, and explored all the spaces she could go to.

The final conclusion is that the base is deserted.

Besides her, there were also the bodies of children in and around the pits.

Jiang Yunu returned to the edge of the original pit. She had measured the base on foot, which was not as big as she had imagined. Not only did she conclude that there were no living people here except her, she also came to another important conclusion, which was that it was really impossible for her to still be dreaming. She probably really traveled through time.

Jiang Yunu pulled a handful of her white hair that hung on her shoulders. She stared at the white, silky hair for a while, and also at the children in the pit for a while. Finally, she sighed and picked up her optimistic and positive nature.

"Anyway, let's try to survive first!"

Jiang Yunu encouraged herself. She had walked too many miles barefoot, so she found two plastic bags from the scattered boxes, put them on her feet, and wore them as very fussy shoes.