Chapter 71 Amnesia After Transmigrating "Cough, cough." Sang Zhitao...
"Cough, cough." Sang Zhitao coughed as soon as she opened her eyes because the room was full of dust.
After finally suppressing the itch in her throat, she had time to look around at her surroundings.
This was a small hut of three or four square meters built with sheet metal. Inside, besides the single bed where she slept, there was only a table and a cabinet, and nothing else.
A strong wind seemed to be blowing outside, causing the tin shack to shake and the tools hanging on the wall to sway, hitting the wall with a crisp sound.
Sang Zhitao looked down at her translucent hand. Her crystal-clear wrist was like a diamond, but unfortunately, it lacked the brilliance of a diamond and instead showed some dullness.
She didn't think about anything else, just looked at her arm and realized which world she had entered.
Princess Stardust of the Land of Jewels.
A book she wrote specifically for the Green River Fairy Tale themed event.
After failing to secure a visa multiple times, she angrily capitalized on the trend and wrote a fairytale-like novel about real and fake princesses.
And the body she has transmigrated into now is none other than the female protagonist of this book, Princess Blue Star.
In the original story, Lan Xing is an orphan living in a slum and making a living by collecting gem fragments, but after being corrupted, he unleashes a purification ability inherited from his bloodline.
The exposure of her power led her to be hunted down by the mastermind behind it all. However, this also led her to meet some friends, fall into the Floating Mirror Lake by accident, find three Starlight Keys, and fully awaken her powers.
She then led her people directly into the palace, exposed the Obsidian Duke's conspiracy during the Moonlight Ceremony, protected her country, became an excellent queen, and also solved the pollution disease.
"Could it be that the point I need to go back to is to find the key...? That would be terrible, and I wouldn't be able to go back anytime soon..." Sang Zhitao felt dejected as she thought about how she was fighting alone again.
"Ugh, so annoying... I don't want to do any tasks, lying down is so much better..." Thinking this, she threw herself back onto the bed, staring at the ceiling with a listless expression.
"I'm a little hungry, but I don't want to go out to find something to eat. I'll just wait it out." Hunger kept urging her to get up and look for food, but she felt completely drained and didn't want to move.
Just as she was about to fall asleep, a faint, almost imperceptible light appeared in her body, slowly absorbing the decay within her.
Sang Zhitao instinctively clutched her chest, shivering involuntarily. A glint slowly gathered in her eyes: "Never mind, let's go out and find something to eat."
He got up, changed into a protective suit covered in patches, grabbed a dilapidated cart with four different wheels, tossed a worn-out basket on it, and slowly shuffled out the door.
"It's so sunny... I really don't want to work..." She reached out to shield her eyes from the glaring sunlight.
"No, no, I need to fill my stomach!" My lazy nerves perked up again.
"But... I really don't want to work."
"No, no, we absolutely cannot go hungry!"
"Can……"
"No……"
And so, in a state of alternating between laziness and renewed energy, Sang Zhitao headed toward the garbage mountain.
Unbeknownst to her, the flickering light within her was engaged in a battle with the hazy, gray color.
"Wow!" Sang Zhitao exclaimed in amazement as she looked at the towering mountain of garbage.
Although she focused on describing the grandeur of the garbage mountain in the novel, it turned out to be even more astonishing than she had imagined.
It resembles a boundless gray ocean, interspersed with gray Mount Everest peaks.
Suddenly a breeze blew by, and a gray cylinder, no bigger than a finger joint, rolled from the hillside to her feet.
Sang Zhitao bent down to pick it up, held it up like the original owner, and looked at it for a while in the sunlight.
"Huh, why throw away such a fine gemstone?" This cylindrical gemstone fragment was crystal clear and without any impurities.
Such good things shouldn't be found in slums, but rather on the tables of the upper class.
"Now that I've seen it, it's mine." Unable to hide her joy, she tossed the gem into the basket on the trailer, but paused as she stood up. In the end, she carefully took the gem out and stuffed it into her protective suit.
She didn't want anything to go wrong and be robbed on the way. After all, she always had things she found taken away from time to time. If someone took this gem, she would be at a huge loss.
After about two or three hours, she was soaked in sweat, and the protective suit clung tightly to her skin, making her feel unbearably itchy.
Wiping her sweat, Sang Zhitao looked at the basket, which was only a quarter full, and saw figures approaching from not far away. After hesitating for a moment, she decided to go back first.
"Boss, that looks like Lan Xing's girl." The figures in the distance were a group of boys about her size. They were protecting two slender girls in the middle and looking at the boy in the lead.
The boy in the lead had a grayish-blue complexion, as if it had been stained with ink and hadn't been washed off, with black patches showing through.
He licked his lips, glanced at the two girls behind him, and then spat out a sentence through gritted teeth: "Forget it, today is mainly for my sister to get used to things, so let's not cause any trouble."
The boys behind her glanced regretfully at Sang Zhitao's receding figure. They guessed that she must have picked up a lot of gem fragments, but unfortunately, they couldn't get any today.
One of the red-skinned boys subconsciously glanced at the two girls with displeasure, but withdrew his gaze before the blue-skinned boy noticed.
The boy in blue frowned, subconsciously thinking that the malice he had just sensed was an illusion, but he became wary after seeing his sister.
These are his only two relatives; we absolutely cannot let our guard down and let anything happen to them.
Thinking about it, he also looked at Sang Zhitao. Of course, he also wanted to snatch some items from her, since she was a well-known lucky star in the area and could always find the most gem fragments.
But he also knew that his repeated successes were only due to the majority of people, and that the other party was not a truly obedient person. He did not want to challenge a wolf cub who had been driven to the brink of despair.
"Boss, how about we steal it tonight?" The red-haired boy bit his lip, but couldn't resist the urge and came closer.
"No way. If we all work hard today, we won't go hungry. If we steal and get reported to the management, we'll both be dead." The blue-haired boy glanced at him unhappily and refused outright.
The boy in red quickly lowered his head to admit his mistake, but the hatred in his eyes only increased the moment he lowered his head.
Sang Zhitao was completely unaware that the people she wanted to avoid were the same group of brats who frequently robbed her; she was simply instinctively trying to protect the near-perfect gem.
"Speaking of which, why didn't I see those brats today?" Sang Zhitao scratched her head as she opened the door.
"She's quite pitiful." She sighed softly, not blaming the boys for stealing her things, since they only took a small portion each time.
Moreover, the reason they fight over these things is simply because they have too many children to support and simply can't afford to raise them all.
"Nothing should go wrong, right..." Sang Zhitao recalled the plot of the original book.
I really couldn't have imagined what kind of accident those people would have?
She poured the gemstone fragments from the box into a bucket of water and washed them carefully for a long time before picking out a few and putting them in a bowl.
Looking at the grayish gem fragments, Sang Zhitao sighed, picked one that was still cool to the touch, and popped it into her mouth.
Instantly, a surge of energy flowed into his body, and the feeling of hunger intensified.
Sang Zhitao glanced at the perfect gem, swallowed hard, and ate a bowlful of crumbs with it before finally lying down on the bed, satisfied, clutching the gem. She rolled over comfortably and drifted off to sleep.
So she would go find food when she ran out of food, and spend the rest of the time lying lazily in bed sleeping.
"Why do I feel so tired..." Seven or eight days passed like this. She yawned and looked at the moon, suddenly muttering, "Speaking of which, I seem to have been supposed to do something, how could I forget?"
She looked at the moon, trying hard to recall what she had forgotten, unaware that the white light that had almost been completely devoured from her body was now shining with an unusual brilliance, retaliating against the tiny black spots the size of sesame seeds that were floating within her body.
“I…” Sang Zhitao looked at her hands in the moonlight. The once crystal clear hands were almost gone, replaced by an inhuman paleness. “I should be going on adventures, how could I be so obsessed with picking up trash?”
"Adventure? Why should I take a risk? I... who am I again...?"
Staring blankly at her hands, Sang Zhitao suddenly felt strange. She seemed to have forgotten something very important, but she couldn't remember it no matter what she did.
The white light within the body grew brighter and brighter, but unfortunately, the counterattack seemed unsuccessful. The scattered black spots slowly gathered here, as if they were launching a final siege against the white light.
"It seems like it's okay if I forgot, lying here is so comfortable..." Sang Zhitao felt dizzy and yawned deeply, her eyes slightly closed.
The white light, as if defeated, gradually dimmed until it could no longer be seen...
"Life like this is so comfortable, my older brother and sister should experience it..." Sang Zhitao murmured unconsciously.
"...Brothers and sisters? I'm not an orphan?"
"No!" Sang Zhitao subconsciously replied to herself, instantly waking her mind from ignorance.
"Damn it!" She frowned as she looked at the dark spots on her arm that had grown to the size of grains of rice.
"How could we have been outmaneuvered so quickly? The book doesn't say it's now."
Sang Zhitao looked at the black spots on her arm, unaware that the white light at her heart, which should have faded, suddenly burst forth with a candle-like brilliance, then fiercely rushed towards the surrounding black spots.
"What am I doing? Shouldn't I be sleeping?" Sang Zhitao was dazed for a moment, looked at her arm, and was about to lie down to rest.
"No, no, no! That's not right. I've been contaminated. I need to be purified immediately."
Thinking this, she quickly rolled out of bed, walked into the moonlight, looked at the hazy moon, closed her eyes tightly, and immersed her consciousness into her body.
This is a meditation technique she wrote about in her original book, which is how the original female protagonist awakened her dormant bloodline.
After a while, she opened her eyes and looked down at her chest. Sensing the strange movement, she reached out and pulled open her clothes, seeing a candle flame constantly devouring the darkness at the location of her heart. As it devoured the darkness, the candle flame also grew stronger.
Upon seeing this, Sang Zhitao quickly sat cross-legged on the ground and continued meditating.
As the sun rose and a ray of morning light shone on her, she finally opened her eyes.
Sang Zhitao let out a heavy breath and looked down at her wrist, which had returned to its original semi-transparent state. The black spots inside were no longer visible, but the grayish color remained.
She looked gravely at the shards of gemstone on the table, recalling the memories that had been obscured over the past few days.
Suddenly her expression changed drastically as she looked towards where the group of brats were gathered: "Oh no!"
Sang Zhitao didn't even have time to put on protective clothing before running quickly towards the gathering place.
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