Chapter 1 Emergency Call System Yellow-bellied Chicken (Revised)...
When the first ray of sunlight shone into the courtyard of the mountain outpost, Gu Yiliu had already finished washing up.
She looked at the courtyard, which was still shrouded in mist, walked to the center of the courtyard, and performed a set of boxing moves.
Three days ago, she was killing zombies in the apocalypse; now she has become a fresh graduate of the Chinese police academy in 1985.
Fortunately, I was a 1985 college graduate. I was guaranteed a job placement.
When she transmigrated, it was the day of assignment. She was assigned to the Hongbuya outpost in Yaohai City and became a forestry police officer.
After finishing her boxing practice, her two other colleagues at the outpost also finished washing up. One of them was Min Songyue, who joined the team on the same day as her, and the other was Ma Quan, a veteran policeman who had been at the Hongbuya outpost for 10 years.
"Xiao Gu, Xiao Min is off on patrol," Min Songyue called out.
Today is their first day officially starting their mountain patrol work.
"Remember to bring your water bottle and dry food, as well as a set of dry clothes. We won't be back until the afternoon," Ma Quan reminded the two young men.
Gu Yiliu nodded. She had already packed up and followed the two men out of the outpost.
The sky was foggy, and the light in the jungle was poor. The three of them carried torches and flashlights as they groped their way forward through the forest.
"Don't walk so fast, watch your step, don't step on a snake."
"Shouldn't snakes be hibernating right now?"
“It’s May now, and the snakes are gradually waking up,” Ma Quan explained patiently.
"What other animals might live in a forest?" Min Songyue exclaimed, his face full of curiosity.
Gu Yiliu rubbed his ears, glanced at Min Songyue, and thought he was too noisy.
When we arrived at the outpost, everyone introduced themselves and each other.
Min Songyue is a city kid; both his parents are factory workers. His decision to become a policeman was somewhat of a passive, go-with-the-flow approach. Judging from his behavior, he seems to be fitting in quite well.
Gu Yiliu came from a small county town. From what I can remember, he had never returned to his hometown during all the years he was in college, and they had always kept in touch by letter. His family was quite poor.
When Gu Yiliu transmigrated, there was a letter from home beside her bed. Looking at it, she felt that her relationship with her family was still okay. However, she had no memory of her family members; it felt like a long time ago.
She didn't even have much of an impression of Gu Yiliu's four years of university life. But since she had already graduated, not having university memories wasn't a big deal.
“There are all kinds of animals here. Wild boars, pheasants, squirrels, and snakes are common. Uncommon animals like bears and tigers are also present. As long as you don’t make too much noise to disturb them, you are generally safe,” Ma Quan said.
Upon hearing this, Min Songyue finally shut up and stopped making a fuss.
Ma Quan smiled and led the way, holding a torch. He explained the essentials of patrolling the mountain to them, emphasizing that their patrol duties were not merely patrolling, but involved ongoing work.
Some of the trees in the mountains are precious species and cannot be cut down indiscriminately. The animals in the mountains are also protected from poaching, and fire prevention is also a concern. These are all part of their job duties.
“When I went out to bring you back a few days ago, I received a task: to collect all the plants and animals in this forest this month and record them.”
It sounds simple, but there's actually a lot of work involved.
"Then why didn't we take notes?" Min Songyue asked in a low voice. They had come in from outside the woods without stopping, so they hadn't taken notes.
“First, find a coordinate point. Blindly recording will easily lead to confusion. Today, let’s record the animals in the mountains. Over the past ten years, I have thoroughly explored every inch of the mountains. I know where the animals are. Follow me,” Ma Quan said.
Next, Ma Quan led them to a relatively open valley with a small river running through it.
Ma Quan told them that there were many wild animals in the valley, but they were mostly squirrels, rabbits, pheasants and the like, and asked them to number these animals.
After Ma Quan finished his introduction, he let them start working.
The content sounds simple, but it takes a lot of time to do. Gu Yiliu spent the whole morning recording only two small animals.
Gu Yiliu walked to the riverbank, washed his hands and face, and then sat down to rest before having lunch.
"Uncle Ma, I got a chicken. Want to take it home for dinner tonight?" Min Songyue's voice came as Gu Yiliu was eating. He glanced at the chicken in Min Songyue's hand and paused in his chewing of the steamed bun.
"Help! Don't eat me! Don't eat me! Didn't Mom say that humans don't eat chicks?!"
She heard the chickens crying for help.
Gu Yiliu stared blankly, then his eyes met those of the chicken in Min Songyue's hand. It was a half-grown chicken with red and black combs and dense brown spots all over its body, making it look quite different from ordinary domestic chickens.
"Comrade, help me! Please save this chicken's life!" The chicken in Min Songyue's hand flapped its wings, its clever little eyes looking at Gu Yiliu.
At the same time, Gu Yiliu heard a "ding" in his mind, "Binding to the police call system, please wait..."
Gu Yiliu's pupils dilated, and the steamed bun in his hand fell to the ground.
What is that? The system?
Gu Yiliu's eyelids twitched violently. She glanced at Min Songyue and the chicken in his hand, picked up the steamed bun on the ground, stuffed it into her mouth, and silently digested the system that had suddenly appeared.
Having survived the apocalypse, she remained relatively calm, and a system workbench page gradually appeared in her mind.
"Hello host, the police system is at your service. I am customer service representative Diandian. There is a police report. Please receive, confirm, and handle it."
Gu Yiliu looked at the "Police Alert" that popped up on the system page and clicked on it as prompted.
After quickly reading through it, she looked at Min Songyue—the chicken in his hand.
The police report was about the chicken in front of them.
"Why did you bind to me?" she asked the system in her mind.
The system clicked: "The host selected me."
Gu Yiliu was taken aback. The system reminded her, "You were dealing with pollution sources during the apocalypse, and that's when you were bound to the system."
Gu Yiliu was taken aback. "Are you that stone?"
Before she arrived here, she and the other ability users in her team were dealing with a contaminated source stone. It was a multicolored stone containing enormous energy that gave people an inexplicable sense of danger.
When she cut the contaminated source stone, it exploded. It was because of the explosion that she came here.
"To be precise, that rock trapped me, thank you for saving me."
Gu Yiliu remained silent for a long time, lost in thought. Her silence made Dian Dian feel uneasy. "Host, don't you have anything to ask?"
Yes, "Did I die in the apocalypse?"
DianDian: "...I'm not sure either. Can I tell the host after I upgrade?"
Gu Yiliu chose to ask another question, "Am I obligated to complete the task assigned by this police intelligence system?"
"Yes."
"What if I don't want to?"
"I'll go back to the apocalypse and die immediately." After saying this, DotDot also felt strange, but it was certain that this was the outcome, so it stopped worrying about it.
Gu Yiliu lowered her eyes, staring at the weeds on the ground. The system kept changing its tune, sometimes saying it wasn't sure if she was dead, sometimes saying she would die soon. So, was this system task linked to her life?
The system avatar looked expectantly at its host.
Gu Yiliu nodded calmly, "But what benefits would I get?"
Dian Dian: "...You'll die if you don't complete the mission, so being alive is a benefit."
Gu Yiliu raised an eyebrow: "Right now, your life or death is more important. If I die, you'll probably be severely weakened, or even gone altogether, right?" This was just Gu Yiliu's guess; otherwise, a small stone wouldn't have trapped the system. The mission was indeed linked to her life, but it was also closely related to the system's survival.
The system remained silent. "Then wait for me a moment."
After the system finished speaking, it disappeared.
Gu Yiliu knew the system was still active, so she looked at Min Songyue and spoke.
"This chicken is too small, let's not eat it, let it go. It's not enough for the three of us to have a treat, and besides, there's no pot here."
After saying that, she looked at the chicken again, paused, and then said, "It's an endangered wild protected animal." She had just seen it in the system notification.
The chicken stared wide-eyed at Gu Yiliu and flapped its wings even more violently.
"So I'm a protected animal! Let me go!"
Gu Yiliu: "..."
“Yiliu is right, this is just a yellow-bellied tragopan, scientifically known as the Cabot’s Tragopan. Xiao Min, let it go.” Ma Quan said with a smile.
Min Songyue looked embarrassed. "Isn't this similar to the chicken we usually eat?"
Ma Quan shook his head. "Take a closer look. This chicken is quite different from domestic chickens. We can't just eat or damage the plants and animals in the mountains. That's a work rule. Remember that next time." The latter nodded quickly.
Taking the yellow-bellied pheasant from Min Songyue's hand, Ma Quan looked it over from left to right. "This chicken is so thin. It must have run away because it had nothing to eat."
The yellow-bellied pheasant in his hand clucked twice, and Gu Yiliu heard its crying voice, "That's right, police officer, I'm looking for food, but I don't want to be eaten by you!"
Gu Yiliu walked over to Ma Quan and said, "Uncle Ma, let me feed it something."
Ma Quan nodded, handed her the chicken, and took the opportunity to explain some of his work: "Sometimes when we patrol the mountains, we have to leave some food for the animals in the mountains. Otherwise, they won't be able to find food in winter and will come down the mountain into the village. If tigers or bears come down the mountain, they will eat people."
"Uncle Ma, you've worked here for so long, have you ever seen animals come down from the mountain and eat people?" Min Songyue looked scared. He saw Gu Yiliu feeding the chickens with steamed buns, so he went over to feed them too.
Ma Quan nodded. "Of course. When I first arrived here, I encountered a tiger coming down the mountain to eat people one winter night. The tiger was beaten to the point of near death. It was so thin from hunger that we really couldn't have subdued it. It was lucky to survive. After some treatment, it came back to life and was later sent to the zoo."
“If you encounter large animals during your patrols, make sure you are safe first. Climb trees if you can. Climb trees for half an hour every day.” Ma Quan leaned against a tree, rambling on as he watched the two young men feed the chickens.
Gu Yiliu hummed in agreement.
Just then, she heard the yellow-bellied pheasant pacing back and forth, calling out that it was hungry. "Comrade, I'm still hungry, I want to eat more!"
Gu Yiliu's eyes flickered. She could actually understand what the chicken was saying, which must be due to the system. She tore off another steamed bun and gave it to the yellow-bellied horned chicken.
"You ate quite a lot. Aren't you full after eating two steamed buns?"
The yellow-bellied pheasant clucked twice, "If only there were two more steamed buns, I'd call my two sisters out to eat."
Upon hearing this, Gu Yiliu said, "Then let your two sisters come."
The yellow-bellied pheasant was taken aback and couldn't help but look up at the girl. It felt as if the girl in front of it understood what it meant.
"Giggle"
Can you understand what I'm saying?
"What are you all standing there for? Go and call them!"
Gu Yiliu touched its comb and urged it on.
The yellow-bellied pheasant turned its head and went into the woods with some doubt.
Its sisters are hungry too, just like it!
“Gu Yiliu, why are you still talking to it! Can it understand you?” Min Songyue asked curiously.
"Perhaps he can understand it." Gu Yiliu smiled.
Ma Quan chuckled twice. "The animals in the mountains are very intelligent; some of them can actually understand what you're saying. Don't disbelieve me."
The Yellow-bellied Horned Chicken returned not long after, bringing with it two other chickens with the same markings.
They came up to Gu Yiliu, gesturing for him to give them some food.
Seeing this, Min Songyue truly believed it this time: "This chicken really does understand human speech."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the yellow-bellied pheasant he had caught glance at him, but he only saw the pheasant eating. He thought to himself that he must have been mistaken.
"Big brother, is this the guy who wants to eat you?"
"Yes, but he doesn't dare."
"Does this woman really understand what we're saying? Does that mean we can follow her? She seems to be a police officer."
The king of chickens, the yellow-bellied pheasant, nodded, "Okay."
Gu Yiliu glanced at the three chickens. Although he spoke softly, the three chickens still heard him. "No, I won't raise idle chickens."
The three chickens stared wide-eyed, astonished that Gu Yiliu could actually understand them. They even stopped eating their steamed buns and just stared at her.
At the same time, Gu Yiliu heard the system's voice again.
"Host, I'm back. I've made up my mind. From now on, for every police incident you handle, I'll reward you with a lottery draw. Whatever you win will be yours. How about it?"
Gu Yiliu wasn't satisfied. Suddenly, she thought of something, "I still want my superpower. I'm so used to it, it feels so unsafe to suddenly become weak..."
The system hesitated: "...Is there nothing else?"
Gu Yiliu's eyes lit up. Could the system really bring back her superpowers?
"That's all for now. We'll talk about the rest later. You should agree, right? If you don't, I won't do any work for you."
The system remained silent for a long time, then whispered, "...Okay, I promise you." It added, "You have to be good to me."
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The first major thing He Xiaocui did after taking charge of the household was to find a son-in-law who was willing to move in with her family.
Just as she was looking for someone, the village secretary heard about it and approached her.
He Xiaocui thought the village party secretary, this old-fashioned man, was going to lecture her, but it turned out he was there to introduce her to a son-in-law.
"Xiao Cui, what do you think of this man as your son-in-law?" The village secretary pushed the man forward.
“I found this man in the mountains. He is strong and hardworking, so he is perfect to be your son-in-law.”
The man was dressed strangely, but he was handsome. He Xiaocui was particularly attracted to his well-developed biceps, so she asked him to demonstrate his strength. The next second, the man easily lifted a cow with both hands.
He Xiaocui's eyes lit up, and she immediately took him home. With him, how could she not become rich!
——
Meng Zhangzhang was seriously injured and fell into a coma. When he opened his eyes, he found himself in a country called Huaguo.
Upon his arrival, he was packaged up like a piece of merchandise and handed over to a woman, "..."
A general who commands the three armies, when has he ever been so wronged!
Later, Meng Zhangzhang actually fell in love with it.
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