Chapter 1 Transmigration 1: What to do when you're turned into a child?
Pressing the right mouse button and tapping the ore on the game interface, Xu Xing watched with satisfaction as the last skill, [Gold Mining], which was not yet maxed out, was successfully upgraded to level 100.
She stretched and moved her stiff neck, then opened her personal panel and leisurely typed in the signature section: "Life skills all maxed out, DM me if you want them."
Within two minutes, the private chat channel received several private messages.
[Devouring]: Master Xu! You really put in the effort!
[Devouring]: Is this already max level?
[Devouring]: Quick, give me a hundred bottles of Spirit Gathering Pills.
Xu Xing raised an eyebrow, not surprised that this guy was the first person to contact her.
Xu Xing is a laid-back person. Although he likes to play with life skills, he doesn't make money from it and is too lazy to compete with script-based studios, so he doesn't have many buyers on his friend list.
Shi Sha is the leader of a guild that consists entirely of assassins. He has a constant stream of revenge killings and a frequent need for elixirs, making him a "major client" of Xu Xing.
【XuXuXingZhi】: Okay, this account doesn't have enough energy. I'll send you fifty bottles later, the price remains the same.
[Devouring]: It has to be you again! So impressive!
【Desperity】: If you have any enemies in the future, just say the word, and I'll kill them all until they quit the game!
Prices skyrocketed in the new level, and only players like Xu Xu Xing Zhi, who didn't rely on life skills to make money, didn't raise prices. Shi Sha secretly rejoiced that he had the foresight to recognize talent and had secured a friend spot early on.
Speaking of [Xu Xu Xing Zhi], a player who is almost invisible in all social activities in the game, Shi Sha is not very familiar with him. After all, he is a hardcore PVP player, while Xu Xu Xing Zhi is a "couch potato". He is usually either gathering herbs or mining, and never appears where there are people fighting.
Today, the game introduced a new level cap, raising the player level limit from 90 to 100. Players cannot craft the highest-grade elixirs if their crafting skills are not maxed out. Given that most players haven't even reached the character level cap, only hardcore players like those in bot farms or dedicated grinders like Xu Xu Xing Zhi can max out their crafting skills at this speed.
After agreeing on the transaction time, Xu Xing realized she hadn't eaten all day and stood up to get something to eat. However, she suddenly felt dizzy and her vision went black. She collapsed onto the computer desk, knocking over a water glass. To make matters worse, she accidentally pressed her hand against a water-soaked electrical outlet.
A blinding flash of lightning, and Xu Xing instantly lost consciousness...
"Tick-tock—"
"Tick-tock—"
Xu Xing was awakened by the sound of dripping water. She opened her eyes, and her body still seemed to be lingering with the intense pain of the electric shock. She couldn't help but feel fortunate that she was still alive.
In fact, Xu Xing has always been a casual player, only playing life skills in the game. This time, she only spent time grinding to the maximum level after hearing that the life skills had been changed in the new level. Who knew that an accident would happen.
With his mind a complete blank, Xu Xing vaguely thought, "I can't keep working this hard like this..."
Having just regained consciousness, Xu Xing's vision was still blurry, and his body was weak and powerless. He struggled to find his phone to call 120 for help, but after searching for a long time, he found nothing. Xu Xing, whose head was still spinning, finally realized that something was wrong.
etc……
She wasn't at her computer desk at all, and the dilapidated room in front of her was clearly not her small apartment. Xu Xing's still slightly dizzy head instantly cleared up a bit. What was even more surreal wasn't the place itself, but rather...
Xu Xing looked up and down at her body, which had shrunk considerably, and pinched her thin arms. She felt like she was dreaming. Otherwise, how could an adult like her have turned into a skinny child?
The next moment, an intense hunger made her feel a sharp pain in her stomach, which brought her back to her senses.
Xu Xing slowly sat up and looked around the dilapidated thatched hut with a blank expression. The roof had several holes, and a few rays of white light made the small house dimly lit. Looking around, it was practically bare.
The water droplet that woke her was dripping in from a hole somewhere in the roof.
The narrow bed was covered with a tattered straw mat that was a bit prickly, and a clump of grayish, fluffy stuff whose original color was hard to discern was probably the quilt. I could also smell the damp, musty odor. Everything felt incredibly real.
Xu Xing patted her sunken cheeks. Had she transmigrated?
"Heaven is watching, earth is listening, the Xu family has a little fool, no mother to raise him, no father to love him..."
"Go away! You silly child, making up such rhymes at such a young age, I'll tell your parents!"
"Hehehe! I'm not afraid at all!"
There was a commotion outside the door, as if someone had run away. After a moment of silence, there was a knock on the door.
"Xu Xu, Xu Xu, are you there?"
This must be someone calling her. Xu Xing opened her mouth, but her dry throat couldn't utter a sound. She could only struggle to move her body, which felt like dough, and try to open the door.
If she really did transmigrate into this little girl's body, judging from how weak this body is, she would probably starve to death.
Before Xu Xing could even reach the doorway, the person outside, seeing that no one answered after calling several times, gently pushed the door open.
Xu Xing reacted a beat late and went to look at the door, only to find that the dilapidated door didn't even have a bolt.
As soon as Wang Lianhua pushed open the door, she saw the thin girl swaying as if she would be blown over by the wind. She quickly closed the door and rushed forward to support her.
"How come you've lost so much weight again? Have you not eaten for a while?"
Seeing that Xu Xing looked dazed and didn't respond, Wang Lianhua didn't care. She helped her to the bed as if she knew what she was doing, and then took out a water bottle from her bosom to feed her.
Xu Xing was extremely thirsty and her reactions were sluggish, but when the water was at her lips, her will to survive made her gulp it down. The water bottle didn't contain clear water; it tasted like diluted chicken soup. Although the taste was very bland, it was a delicacy to Xu Xing at that moment.
"Slow down, slow down..."
Wang Lianhua gently stroked her back, feeling the protruding bones there were quite uncomfortable to the touch. Heaven have mercy, after Doctor Xu left, only this little girl was left behind. She was not even seven years old, and her family was so poor, how could she possibly support herself?
The thin, bony girl drank a few sips of water and finally calmed down a bit. When she looked up at her and met those big eyes, Wang Lianhua instinctively looked away.
If it weren't for those strange eyes, she would have taken the girl home and raised her long ago, but...
"Sister Wang, we've already shown kindness by not chasing her away. You'd better stay away from her! Who knows what kind of monster she is!"
"Hmph! Doctor Xu? Who knows what his intentions are in hiding such a monster here? If we had known he was raising such a child, we wouldn't have let him settle down in the village!"
Thinking of the villagers' words, Wang Lianhua's hand stroking Xu Xing's back gradually slowed down.
She usually secretly brought a lot of food over, and this time, because her family had an emergency, she prepared several days' worth of food in advance. However, she didn't expect that she would be gone for more than a month. Wang Lianhua was worried about her, and sure enough, when she rushed back, she found that the little girl was almost starving...
Judging from her flushed face and drowsy appearance, she must have suffered a lot.
"Cough, cough..."
Xu Xing coughed, finally able to speak again after her throat had been moistened by the chicken soup. She looked up at the kind older woman, but had no recollection of her or how to address her, so she could only purse her lips in silence.
Wang Lianhua took out two more steamed buns and stuffed them into her hand, saying, "Eat slowly, Auntie has more."
Aunt...
This kind-hearted woman looked to be only around thirty years old. How could Xu Xing possibly call her "Auntie"?
However, her current body is probably only five or six years old. Xu Xing, who was already twenty-five years old before transmigrating, didn't know how to play a child, so he secretly decided to speak less to avoid making a mistake.
"Lotus! Lotus! Are you there?"
"You'd better go home! Your husband came running to the back hill as soon as you got back, and he's making a scene right now!"
Another urgent voice came from outside the door.
"Old Zhao is being foolish again!"
Wang Lianhua was startled and looked at the little girl silently eating her steamed bun with a troubled expression. She knew that her husband had been bothered by her secretly taking care of the Xu family's daughter for the past two years, but such a young child would definitely not survive without an adult to look after her.
Moreover, she didn't dare take more than that, saving a few bites from her own food rations. Even so, Wang Lianhua's husband, Zhao Youwei, became increasingly dissatisfied.
Xu Xing slowly swallowed the steamed bun in his mouth and said in a dry voice, "Auntie, thank you. You can go back now. I feel much better."
"You! You! You can talk?!"
Unexpectedly, Wang Lianhua's eyes lit up instantly, and she grabbed Xu Xing's wrist with excitement.
"..."
What does that mean? "She" couldn't even speak before? A child this age shouldn't be like that...
Xu Xing clutched the steamed bun tightly, her heart pounding. Had she already been exposed? If she died, could she go back to her old world? No, she was probably electrocuted before she transmigrated, so going back seemed like the same thing...
"What? The Xu family's daughter can talk?"
The woman outside, who was hesitant to come in for some reason, peeked through the crack in the door.
"Cui Cui, come and see! Xu Xu looks like she's gained some intelligence!"
Wang Lianhua was extremely agitated, tears welling up in her eyes. Xu Xing finally understood; it must be Doctor Xu's spirit protecting him from heaven!
Dr. Xu Zhen was a good man. Seven years ago, he went into the mountains and came back carrying a baby girl, claiming she was his child. At first, no one knew anything and everyone congratulated him. But as time went on, the child opened her eyes, and the villagers realized something was wrong.
Look at those eyes, how could Dr. Xu have given birth to a child like that?
It's probably left behind by mountain spirits.
Moreover, Xu Xing was dull-witted and couldn't even speak when he was five or six years old; he was not a normal child at all.
It wasn't that no one had advised Dr. Xu to abandon her in the mountains, but Dr. Xu insisted that Xu Xing was his own son and that he must raise her.
Over time, the villagers also distanced themselves from Doctor Xu. They used to come to the back mountain for medical treatment often, but later they all avoided him.
More than a year ago, Dr. Xu went into the mountains to collect medicinal herbs, but was unexpectedly bitten by a venomous snake and died from his injuries...
On the day Dr. Xu passed away, not many people came to see him. Among them was Wang Lianhua, who had received his kindness. She always remembered the look in Dr. Xu's eyes when he looked at Xu Xing before he died.
Sadness, guilt, worry...
Xu Zhen died with his eyes open. He couldn't bear to leave behind the child who couldn't take care of himself, but life and death are predestined, and no matter how unwilling he was, he couldn't continue raising Xu Xing.
"Good child, it's good that you're better, it's good that you're better. Dr. Xu would be happy if he knew this in the afterlife..."
Wang Lianhua turned her head away to wipe her tears. No matter what, Xu Xing regained his senses. Although he was still young, he had more hope of surviving.
"This is amazing..."
Jin Cui, who came to call Wang Lianhua home, was also very surprised. She thought that Xu Xing, this unlucky kid, was born with a bad brain, but she didn't expect that he would recover from being confused for the past few years.
Muttering to herself, Jin Cui didn't step into the house. Although she had given Xu Xing a half-steamed bun out of pity, she still thought, like most people in the village, that Xu Xing looked strange and was a bit unlucky.
Jin Cui urged Wang Lianhua, "Now that Xu Xing is better and can find food on his own, you should go back quickly! Don't come back! I think your old Zhao made a big scene this time, and he probably won't let it go easily. Your Lingling was even scared to tears!"
Hearing this, Wang Lianhua didn't dare to delay. She put the few pieces of dried bread she was carrying on the small table. "Xuxu, eat your fill and rest well. Auntie will come to see you again tomorrow."
Xu Xing probably guessed a bit about the previous situation of this little girl named "Xu Xing". She nodded obediently, "Auntie, go back quickly, don't worry about me."
"I was sick for the past few days, but now that I'm better, I feel like my mind is much clearer than before."
"Okay! Okay!" Wang Lianhua nodded repeatedly, turning back to follow Jin Cui back every few steps.
After the two left, the cabin returned to silence.
Xu Xing slowly finished the steamed bun in his hand. He was probably starving and couldn't eat too much all of a sudden.
With something in his stomach, the cramps finally eased a lot. Xu Xing glanced at the water vat in the corner and wanted to get some water to wipe his sticky body. Fortunately, the vat was right above a hole in the roof, and it was filled with rainwater.
However, the water vat was about the same height as her, so Xu Xing moved a small stool and stepped on it. When she looked down and saw the water surface clearly, her hand holding the water ladle stopped.
She didn't remember what she looked like when she was a child, and there were no photos in her family, but this childish face was five or six parts similar to her adult self. But what stunned Xu Xing the most were those eyes.
A pair of dazzling golden eyes were reflected in the fairly clear water, staring coldly at her.
A note from the author:
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This article participated in a seedling cultivation activity on October 1, 2025 (which has now ended). Thank you to all the lovely readers who helped cultivate it! [heart emoji]
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