Chapter 1 Childhood sweetheart cheats on his girlfriend for his future; it's a trivial matter.
A tremendous roar came from beside him, and Zuo Shan instinctively rolled to the side, dodging the fatal blow.
Without thinking any further, she scrambled to her feet and staggered toward the opposite direction of the roar.
The surrounding area was filled with tall, somewhat exaggerated plants, so tall that they blocked out the sun. It was impossible to tell what kind of trees they were, and each leaf was larger than imagined. Zuo Shan's heart pounded.
This dream is so exaggerated. It must be because I've been reading too many apocalyptic novels lately that I feel such a sense of realism.
After running more than a hundred meters in one breath, the roars of the beasts behind him stopped, replaced by shrill screams, followed by the crunching and smacking sounds of meat and bones being gnawed on.
She turned around, and in just one glance, she saw a scene that was enough to shatter her heart!
Just a few dozen meters away from her, a giant squirrel, the size of an adult Tibetan Mastiff, was opening its mouth wide, revealing its large incisors that were at least half a foot long, surrounded by dense, cone-shaped sharp teeth.
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Beneath its feet, strong claws were pressing down on an elderly woman in her fifties. Her hair was gray, and her thin, weathered face was covered with wrinkles.
Knowing she couldn't break free, the old woman gave up struggling and lay on the ground awaiting death.
Without hesitation, the giant squirrel bit the old woman's waist in two.
Blood gushed out like a tidal wave, staining its large incisors red and making it look even more terrifying.
The old woman was covered in blood, her face contorted with pain, but her cloudy eyes held no fear or despair, only a sense of relief.
In peacetime, Zuo Shan, now twenty-five, instantly forgot that this was a dream. Her whole body burst forth with astonishing power, and she took off running towards the tall, dense bushes beside her with the speed of a marathon runner sprinting to the finish line.
Perhaps the giant man-eating squirrel had caught its prey, or perhaps Zuo Shan was running too fast and the bushes were too dense to see it; in any case, it didn't chase after it anymore.
Zuo Shan slumped to the ground, panting heavily, feeling as if his lungs were about to burst.
A sharp pain came from the back of her head. She reached up and touched it, finding a large bump on the back of her head. Then, a feeling of dizziness came over her, and memories of another girl flooded into her mind like a tidal wave.
Half an hour later, Zuo Shan, who was shivering in the bushes, finally realized the reality: she wasn't dreaming, but had actually transmigrated directly from her dream.
Zuo Shan was utterly shocked!
The original owner was born in the wasteland era of the planet Green Algae. The 50th district where she lived was the poorest and most environmentally harsh place on the entire planet. The soil was highly radioactive, and the plants grown there would cause illness or death if eaten.
After the great catastrophe that struck more than 300 years ago, all the wild plants and animals mutated. The animals became huge and ferocious, and the plants also grew much larger. What was once an ordinary wild vegetable may now grow to three or five meters tall, and its leaves have become as big as palm fans.
Walking casually into a small thicket of bushes feels like entering a primeval forest with towering ancient trees.
However, even in such forests, a very small number of newly sprouted leaves have relatively low radiation levels and are barely edible.
Residents of this area go out every day to find these edible leaves and make a living from them.
They are called scavengers.
The original owner of this body shared the same name and age as her. Both of her parents were scavengers. In her memory, they would take their child out early and return late every day, searching for edible leaves and roots with low to medium radiation to barely fill their stomachs.
Here, even dreams become a luxury.
When she was twelve, her parents were killed by the sharp teeth of a mutated goat while they were out scavenging, leaving her and her adoptive brother Qi Yang to depend on each other for survival.
Qi Yang had a similar experience to her. When he was nine years old, his parents died in the mouth of a mutated beast, and the kind-hearted Mr. and Mrs. Zuo adopted him.
Although it's called adoption, the children in District 50 are actually able to go out with adults to gather resources and support themselves from the age of four or five.
However, without adult supervision, the plant leaves that the children collect would be snatched by others. With the help of Zuo's parents, Qi Yang was able to keep the food he harvested. Occasionally, when he couldn't find food, Zuo's parents would give him a little bit of help so that he wouldn't starve to death.
Of course, Qi Yang is also sensible. Once he gets through the crisis, he will return the food he harvested to them and try his best not to become a burden to them.
Qi Yang was only half a year older than her. The two teenagers, who had lost the care of their parents, could only stick together for warmth and went out to scavenge together every day.
Children from poor families mature early. The two orphans, through their cleverness and diligence, managed to survive and grow up to be twenty-five years old.
They had originally agreed that once they had saved up a thousand silver coins, they would buy Zuo Shan a heat-resistant suit as her wedding dress, and then go to the management office to register their marriage.
Three months ago, Qi Yang went to the neighboring 49th district to buy a scavenging tool, a cutting knife. He was spotted by Lin Dandan, the only daughter of the shop owner, who dragged him to the marriage registration office, and they got married on the spot.
Afterwards, Qi Yang told her that he had concealed from Lin Dandan the fact that they originally planned to get married. He only told her that he was an orphan from next door adopted by Zuo Shan's parents, and that Zuo Shan was his sister.
He said he would work hard and save enough money to buy a house in District 49, then he would take over Zuo Shan and take care of her for the rest of his life.
The original owner of this body didn't believe the reason that he was dragged to get a marriage certificate by the girl he fell in love with at first sight, and neither did Zuo Shan himself.
Orphans who grow up scavenging in the wasteland are all incredibly shrewd. Qi Yang must have already hooked up with her, but he's just keeping it from her until things actually happen.
The original owner wasn't too heartbroken about this. In District 50, people would fight to the death for a bite to eat, let alone something as trivial as her fiancé cheating on her!
She wasn't head over heels in love with Qi Yang; they were just childhood friends who had grown up together and were scavenging partners she could entrust her back to.
As a modern young man from Earth, Zuo Shan cared even less about such things.
After all, no one in the wasteland will pay for your stomach, let alone something as trivial as feelings.
Qi Yang has found a better home, and the original owner of this body is genuinely happy for him. Zuo Shan feels the same way, after all, she has taken over her body. If she had a loyal fiancé by her side, she really wouldn't know what to do with him.
Let's part ways like this, so that everyone can be happy!
Qi Yang was a premature baby. His parents took great care of him in his early years. After his parents died, he always managed to find food to fill his stomach in places where no one could see him, thanks to his clever little brain.
In terms of wilderness survival skills, the original owner was actually better than Qi Yang. Now that's good, she no longer needs to share food with him to cope with the famine.
That's what I think, but it would be a lie to say I'm not sad at all. After all, from now on, we won't be able to huddle together in a corner to keep each other warm during the cold winter months.
During the three months of Qi Yang's marriage, he also took the time to come back and visit her a few times, each time bringing her an old tool he used for scavenging.
Qi Yang is not physically strong, but he is skillful. He has now partitioned off four square meters of space from his wife's small shop to open a repair shop. The tools he uses are all assembled by himself from scrap parts he bought at low prices.
Although Lin Dandan and her family were not very happy, their new son-in-law was quite skilled at repairing tools and weapons, and he earned more than enough to support himself. Now, he was just giving his sister some old tools assembled from parts salvaged from cheaply acquired discarded tools, so they could only turn a blind eye.
Furthermore, Qi Yang has a strong sense of principle and would never give her food from the Lin family, since food is the most precious thing in District 50.
In the original owner's mind, the matter with Qi Yang was now over. From now on, they would just be familiar neighbors. As for the old tools he gave her, she didn't refuse them out of politeness. She would just consider it a small way of repaying her parents for protecting him back then.
In the wasteland, the worst things are arrogance and cheap pride; survival is the most important thing.
What Zuo Shan found hardest to accept was that the old woman she had sympathized with, who had died in the mouth of the giant squirrel, was actually the murderer who killed the original owner of this body!
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