"Cough cough!"
Mingjing coughed twice, slowly opened his eyelids, and a few dark red bloodstains hung at the corner of his mouth.
Where is this?
She lay on a rock, the sea stretching endlessly before her, surrounded by a deathly silence.
Heaven or hell?
Mingjing turned her head and was startled for a moment. Sitting next to her was a mermaid with yellow hair and a tail covered with golden scales that drooped into the sea, smiling at her.
Mingjing's eyes widened suddenly, her heart filled with confusion, unease, and shock.
Mermaid?
Mingjing thought she was seeing things, shook her head and found that the mermaid was still there. She pinched her arm and confirmed that it was not a hallucination.
There really is a mermaid, and... she's actually alive!
In her past life, she went out to sea on a boat. She encountered a storm, and the waves capsized her small boat, causing her to fall into the sea. That's how she ended up here.
A moment later, a memory that didn't belong to her appeared in her mind; she had transmigrated into the body of a fake heiress in the 1990s.
The original owner shared the same name as her, was eighteen years old, and was the fake heiress of the Xu family. Several years ago, she was mistakenly reported as the real heiress, and the Xu family found her and drove the original owner away.
The original owner had no choice but to live with his biological parents. He was lazy, idle, and always thought he was superior because he was from the city.
The original owner was beautiful and attracted the attention of the men in the village, which displeased some of them. Taking advantage of the day when they went out to sea to fish, they were secretly murdered.
As Mingjing was thinking, the mermaid lifted Pu, took off the jade pendant from her neck, gave it to Mingjing, and then jumped into the sea and disappeared.
The jade pendant was white and mermaid-shaped. Before Mingjing could examine it properly, a wave of dizziness washed over him, and then a semi-transparent screen appeared in front of him.
Mingjing tapped the screen, and a menu appeared.
"Basic points: 0, praise points: 0, luck value: 0, seafood recipes."
Golden finger?
Mingjing blinked, then curiously clicked on the seafood recipe. A pop-up explanation box appeared: [Completing the preparation of the corresponding dish will earn the host corresponding points. These points can be exchanged for various fishing tools at the interstellar fishing tackle shop to catch bigger fish.]
Mingjing closed the commentary box, swiped the screen, and the recipe page had a rather antique feel, listing the names of seafood dishes, with points values following behind them.
Her hand touched the Luck Value again: [The Interstellar Fishing Tackle Shop is launching a limited-time Good Luck event. As long as the host uses the system tools to catch a turbot, they can get a moment of overflowing good luck for one hour.]
Additionally, using equipment from the interstellar fishing tackle shop will grant the host a luck boost; the more expensive the equipment, the greater the luck boost.
Star Fishing Tackle Shop?
Mingjing noticed an icon for an interstellar fishing tackle shop at the bottom and clicked on it out of curiosity. Inside, there were many fishing tackle items and a huge fishing cruise ship.
She glanced at the prices instinctively; even the cheapest fishing hook cost 100 points! Not to mention the cruise ship.
As if reading her mind, the system popped up a chat box at the bottom: "The more diligently you fish, the more expensive the ingredients for making delicious food will be, and the higher your score will be!"
Mingjing looked down and flipped through the menu at the back. It was indeed true. The best variety of salmon sashimi could be exchanged for 5,000 points, but you needed to have the right equipment.
"Newbie gift pack: The host now has 50 points, which can be exchanged for supplies."
Mingjing looked at the tools on the shelf and found that she could only exchange them for two fishhooks or a large colander.
Surrounded by the sea, exchanging for equipment wouldn't make much difference; the most important thing right now is how to get back.
"Then how do I get back?"
She remembered that the original owner had fallen into the deep sea, and few ships passed by here. Did she have to swim back?
He put away the screen, hung the jade pendant on his body, and looked around with the mirror. There wasn't even a bird in sight.
The reef beneath me was only about one square meter in size, and I had no idea when the tide would come in; I had to get out of there quickly.
Mingjing stood up, slipped, and fell into the water. She struggled for a while, then opened her eyes on the seabed, where she saw colorful corals.
Various fish swam past her eyes, and Mingjing felt her breathing become easier and her body became much lighter.
She struggled forward, her legs seemingly growing out of a fish tail, and swam at an extremely fast speed.
In half an hour, they swam from the deep sea to the shore.
Mingjing didn't feel tired at all. She tidied her wet hair, looked around, and saw many fishermen gathered on the shore, going out to sea and weaving nets.
A woman around fifty years old, wearing a blue headscarf, came over with unsteady steps.
Mingjing remembered that this was the original owner's mother, Sun Yunmei. She was a hardworking and resilient person who made a living by fishing. She worked hard year after year and gave birth to two daughters and a son. Her body was extremely weak.
"Mingjing, didn't you go out to sea with the villagers? Why did you come back by yourself?"
Sun Yunmei walked over and picked up the water plants and pebbles from Mingjing's body and threw them away.
"I fell into the water," Mingjing said softly, wiping the seawater off her face.
She claims she was pushed, but she has no evidence, and no one will believe her. This matter needs to be investigated slowly.
Sun Yunmei frowned. Before she could ask what was going on, a figure came running from not far away, shouting, "Yunmei! Something bad has happened! Bad guys are coming to take over your house!"
That was Granny Liu, the village's loudspeaker. As soon as she shouted, Sun Yunmei's face darkened, and she turned and ran home with her bucket.
Mingjing followed and came to a large courtyard.
The courtyard wall was low, and the courtyard was quite large, about sixty square meters, with more than a dozen bamboo poles on which various kinds of dried fish were hung.
The houses are built of stones, with four rooms in a row, and the roofs are made of wood. They look very old.
A group of people surrounded the courtyard, and the leader held up an IOU and shouted, "Uncle Dahai! Your son borrowed 30,000 from me. Here's the IOU. There are three days left. If you don't pay it back, I'll come and take the house."
"Since you can't pay it back, why don't you give me your city girl as my wife, and this debt will be wiped clean!"
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