Chapter 1 Rebirth
Lu Xing is dead.
For an eighty-year-old man, death is not a particularly sad thing.
She lay in bed, calmly accepting her fate. Even in the last few seconds before she lost consciousness, she still had time to think about whether people go to the underworld or hell after death.
Consciousness gradually faded.
But reunited.
It was as if her recent death was just a dream.
Now awake, Lu Xing opened her eyes again, and at the same time felt her body lighter than ever before.
So light that it floats in the air?
Hmm? Something seems amiss.
She stretched out her hand and looked at her translucent body, not knowing how to react for a moment.
What was even more wrong was that a small glowing ball suddenly appeared in her room, and it was flying towards her.
At the moment the two people collided, a strange mechanical sound rang in Lu Xing's head.
[System binding...]
【Binding successful.】
【Welcome to the Dream Come True System. I am your all-powerful assistant 66.】
"Hmm..." Although I don't know what this dream system is, does it mean that all dead people are bound to a system?
Lu Xing hesitated a little whether to remind this unknown system that she was dead and still floating in the air.
But soon she didn't have to worry anymore, because the system was already screaming in her mind.
[Hmm? Help! Host, why are you dead?]
I don’t know why a system would react so strongly to a ghost, to the point that it kept shouting in her head for a full hour.
The rest of the time was spent complaining about his bad luck, as he had just found the target of the mission and the person had already died.
Lu Xing looked at her body lying on the bed, no longer breathing. As a deceased person, she didn't know how to comfort the system about her death.
This continued until daytime, when the village chief came to see her and found her dead body.
Soon, the whole village knew about it.
Everyone in the village came to help.
The system cried all night, and finally stopped when it was tired.
Lu Xing tried to comfort him, "I'm already dead anyway, so how about you just consider it your mission accomplished?"
[Woo woo woo—No, the main system can directly check the background data to monitor our task progress. There's no way to fake it.]
"So you can only bind to me?" Lu Xing asked the system based on his experience buying home appliances. "Or how about binding to another host?"
"Can't I return the product within seven days without giving any reason?"
[Wuwuwu, no, it's bound to the host and can't be changed unless the mission is completed.]
"Even if I die, it's not okay?" Lu Xing swore that she was just asking out of curiosity.
Unexpectedly, the system cried even louder. It was said that the system had previously tried to force the host to unbind, but after the main system discovered this, it stipulated that if the reason for unbinding was the host's death, the system task would be directly deemed a failure, and there would be a very terrible punishment.
This broken rule sounds quite difficult for the workers.
However, it seems that it is not aware of this and is still thinking about how to solve the current dilemma.
After he could no longer hear the voice in his mind, Lu Xing was no longer in a hurry to chat with the system. He floated to the village chief Lu Zhengde to watch his own funeral.
Because she never got married until her death, when she got older, Lu Xing began to slowly arrange her own affairs after her death, and she also chose the coffin herself.
The funeral was handed over to the village chief who seemed the most reliable.
Now it seems that her choice was right.
Only a few hours had passed since she was found dead and everyone was organized. Her body was now lying in new clothes.
Lu Xing squatted beside the coffin and looked at his new clothes carefully.
The system had asked other seniors for a solution and was just about to discuss it with the host, but unexpectedly saw such a scary scene when it came back.
What are you looking at?
"I'm looking at my own coffin. Zhengde is still reliable. There's a cushion in the coffin. I think it should be quite comfortable for me to lie on."
Uh—uh—
The system was so frightened that it burped twice, and the words it had prepared before were also scared away by the two burps.
Lu Xing saw the tombstone he had prepared earlier being carried out.
The stone tablet was inscribed with her life story, [Lu Xing, 1937-2018]
Most of the tombstones of other people in Xiaoshi Village say "x, daughter of xx" and "x, wife of xx".
She was different. She specially asked the master to carve the two words "Lu Xing" very big, so big that everyone could see her name at a glance.
The two characters "Lu Xing" were carved very beautifully by the master. She wanted to touch the stone tablet, but forgot that she was already dead, and her hand went straight through the stone tablet.
Such a magical feeling made Lu Xing couldn't help but try it twice more.
The system saw her actions, but mistakenly thought that she could not accept the fact of her own death, so she tried again and again to touch the stone tablet.
Remembering the extremely costly method mentioned by the predecessor, the system, which was originally hesitant, finally made up its mind.
【Okay... well, it seems like this is the only way. 】
"Do--"
What.
Lu Xing was having so much fun that she had no idea what the system meant. Before she could finish her sentence, she felt everything in front of her suddenly spin, as if she had been thrown into a washing machine.
After she stood still, she vomited immediately, "Ugh!"
"Ugh, ugh, ugh."
"You're going to die, Lu Xing. If you want to vomit, go home and vomit."
A familiar sharp voice rang in Lu Xing's ears, and she subconsciously replied, "Why, you died too?"
Angered, Grandma Lian reached out and tried to twist Lu Xing, "Bah! What are you talking about? Did you see a ghost? What are you talking about? You just came down."
The old sisters who were chatting gossip nearby, saw that one of the two men was about to hit someone and the other was still dizzy, so they hurried over to separate them.
"Can't you see that something's wrong with her?"
"Something's wrong." Grandma Lian took a closer look. Lu Xing's confused look was indeed a little strange. "Oh my god, I'm not going to be right, am I?"
Liu Hehua, the oldest, had seen this happen before and was considered relatively calm among the older sisters. "There was a man in our village who was possessed before. I remember his family finally called him back by pinching his fingertips and repeatedly calling his name."
Lu Xing was a lonely old man until his death, and now he has no family at all.
The old sisters looked at each other, and finally Liu Hehua looked at the sun and said, "Oh, I have to go back to cook. Let's go."
Seeing that the situation was not right, the other people also made excuses to leave.
The last person to leave patted Grandma Lian on the shoulder and said, "Good sister, I'll leave Lu Xing to you."
"No, I - she -" Grandma Lian looked at Lu Xing who stayed where she was, and then looked at the few people who had already walked away.
I want to make a sarcastic remark like I used to, but no one will listen.
After thinking about it, she realized that it was her own fault, so she took the man back home and asked her son to help boil some hot water.
As Da Zhuang boiled water, he couldn't help but mutter, "Mom, why did you bring Aunt Lu here? Did you two have a fight? Did you hit Aunt Lu?"
Lian Hua was annoyed when she saw her silly son. "Go away, you just hit me. Can you please hope your mom is okay? I'm just doing a good deed every day, understand?"
Even though Lianhua was very confident when she drove her son away, when there were only two people left in the room, she started to panic again when she saw Lu Xing lying on the bed, still groggy.
Thinking of the folk remedy Liu Hehua mentioned, she made up her mind and pinched it hard.
"Ouch." Lu Xing, who was already dizzy, sat up in pain after being pinched by Grandma Lian.
The pain overwhelmed the dizziness.
Lu Xing sat up and saw Lian Hua standing in front of him. He thought he had seen a ghost, after all, she had passed away a few years ago. "You turned into a ghost too? It seems that people really do turn into ghosts after they die."
"What the hell."
Seeing that the person was alive, Lian Huaxin stopped panicking and her hands stopped shaking. She even had enough energy to curse, "I just said a few unpleasant words, and you cursed me back, but why do you keep cursing me to death? I was just trying to save you."
Da Zhuang just finished boiling water and walked in. "Aunt Lu, are you awake? I thought my mom beat you up."
"Hey, you little bastard, what are you talking about?" Lian Hua looked at her son who was so careless with his words and beat him out.
When Lu Xing saw the young Da Zhuang, he realized that something seemed wrong.
The system that had been holding it in her mind for a long time, ready to give the host a surprise, finally couldn't help it.
[Host, it is now 1991, you are resurrected, are you happy? ]
Did she go back to '91?
There was a familiar scene outside the house, and familiar old friends in front of her. Her death seemed like a dream.
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