Chapter 1: A Doomsday Tycoon Transmigrates into a Poor Little Guy
The icy river water submerged the girl, a chilling abyss.
"Gurgle...gurgle..."
The icy river water instantly filled her mouth and nose, suffocating foam spilled from the corners of her mouth, and tears welled up uncontrollably. The feeling of suffocation brought the girl to the brink of agony.
Her hands and feet felt heavier and heavier, and she couldn't paddle anymore; she had run out of strength.
She began to sink, the water pressure squeezing her chest, and all that remained of her world was a murky, churning green, the light growing dimmer as she sank into an abyss.
The girl felt that death was cold.
The chill of death was more intense than the biting river water, spreading from the depths of the marrow and freezing consciousness.
"...Am I...going to die...?" The last thought was vague and unclear, like a candle flickering in the wind.
"No—!" A silent roar came from the depths of her soul as she thought of her younger brother, Lin Zhian's, bright-eyed smiling face.
"I haven't avenged my mother yet! An'an is only six years old! I promised my mother I would take care of him!"
The thought of her younger brother's innocent face, now likely to be left alone and destitute, instantly overwhelmed the suffocating feeling of drowning, and a fear colder than the river water gripped her heart.
"Mom... An'an..."
Fear grips the heart; it's the piercing pain of thinking about loved ones who have no one to care for them.
"Someone...save me...An'an can't live without her sister..."
This is not a thirst for life, but the heart-wrenching pain of having no one to entrust one's loved ones to, and the overwhelming resentment of an unresolved blood feud!
Despair is like a heavy boulder thrown into the lake of the heart, stirring up a monstrous wave of resentment.
"Help...help me..." The silent cries faded into the cold water, and consciousness sank completely into darkness.
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An alternate dimension, a post-apocalyptic world, the ruins of a northern base.
"BOOM—!!!"
The deafening explosion seemed to tear space apart.
Amidst the ruins of the northern base, a blinding fireball soared into the sky.
The scorching heatwave, carrying sharp metal fragments and burning building debris, swept across like the scythe of death.
Xu Zhili didn't even have time to react before her body was violently thrown out like a broken doll.
In the instant she tumbled through the air, she clearly saw the Tree of Life, which she had painstakingly cultivated and which symbolized the last hope of the base, instantly carbonize and disintegrate in the flames.
The laboratory's reinforced glass walls shattered into countless glittering fragments, reflecting a hellish firelight.
Through the rain and shattered glass, Gu Cheng's face, twisted with ecstatic joy at his successful conspiracy, and Lin Wei's undisguised, venomous smile in his arms were reflected.
"Access to the supply depot... is in hand!" Gu Cheng's icy voice pierced through the roar of the explosion, each word like a poisoned ice pick, stabbing deep into Xu Zhili's soul!
hatred!
The hatred that consumed everything instantly devoured all senses.
The soul roars silently in the burning flames!
She wanted to pounce on them, gouge out their eyes with her fingernails, and tear their throats apart with her teeth, to make these two jackals experience the most excruciating torment in the world.
For the sake of her control over the vast supply depot that sustains tens of thousands of people in the entire northern base, these two jackals meticulously planned this deadly attack.
Use the entire laboratory and her as sacrifices!
In the end, there was nothing that could be done; there was nothing that could be done.
However, just as the shockwave of the explosion was about to tear her apart and her consciousness was about to be melted by the intense heat—
The key controller in Gu Cheng's hand, used to detonate the explosive, seemed to have suddenly exploded with an abnormal burst of electrical sparks due to the huge impact and operational error.
This unexpected secondary explosion became the final straw that broke the camel's back.
"Haha..." A twisted sense of pleasure flickered across Xu Zhili's remaining expression, "Retribution."
However, in that dying moment, like a spider silk that had traversed endless time and space, ignoring the roar of the explosion and the obstruction of space, it suddenly wrapped itself around the core of her collapsing will.
"You...you are...another me?"
A young girl's voice was weak, trembling with disbelief.
"Xu Zhili... I... I feel... I'm about to die... I'm so cold all over..."
The voice was intermittent, filled with boundless fear of "disappearance."
"Please...save me...I'm so scared...scared that I'll just disappear without a trace..." The girl's voice was choked with sobs, filled with the fear of "disappearing." "The water...is so dark...so cold...no one knows I'm here..."
"You...you are the only...the only person I can find..." Her consciousness was weak but filled with a heart-wrenching obsession, like a drowning person grasping at the last straw.
"Please...please...save me..."
"Who?! Get out of my way!!!"
This call did not come from the ruins of the base, nor from the mockery of Gu Cheng and his companions. It was more like the desperate scratching of a drowning person in the abyss, carrying with it the same source of defiance against fate and longing for loved ones.
The voice was as faint as a spider's thread, yet it was like an invisible, resilient spider silk that suddenly entangled her will, which was about to dissipate like smoke.
"Get away! I won't..."
The dying instincts of a post-apocalyptic survivor made her resist this unknown pull.
However--
That desperate cry for help from another time and space, filled with resentment and longing, resonated with her own overwhelming hatred for the betrayer and her infinite affection for her younger brother An'an at the moment of death, creating an unprecedented and eerie connection!
Boom—!!!
It was no longer an explosion of flames, but a blinding, pure white crack that seemed to have been cleaved from the very edge of the universe.
It was as if the sky had been forcibly torn apart.
The icy river water and the scorching flames, two extreme experiences of death, collide violently in a vortex of time and space distortion.
Xu Zhili felt as if she were being swept up, torn apart, and reshaped by an irresistible torrent...
Extreme cold and excruciating pain acted simultaneously on the soul, causing the senses to completely collapse.
In the last instant before her consciousness was swallowed by the white light, she seemed to "see" the secondary explosion of light triggered by the controller, which froze the astonished and ecstatic expressions of Gu Cheng and Lin Wei before completely engulfing them.
He deserved it!
Two dying souls, each carrying their own blood feuds and lingering attachments, collide and merge in a rift in time and space...
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"Little Pear! Little Pear! Wake up! Don't sleep! My goodness, you can't scare your mother like that!"
A woman's voice, thick with a rural accent and shrill and piercing, exploded in my ears like a broken gong, making my eardrums buzz.
"Little pear"?
Who is "Little Pear"?
She vaguely thought that her consciousness was sinking into the depths of a cold, sticky swamp, so heavy that she couldn't break free.
Her body was being violently shaken by a pair of rough hands that smelled strongly of sweat and cheap soap.
"Cough cough cough—! Ugh—!"
Her lungs burned, and every breath felt like tearing at her broken wounds. She couldn't help but cough violently, and the murky, cold river water, mixed with mud, sand, and stomach acid, gushed out of her mouth and nose, choking her so much that she almost suffocated again.
"She's alive! She's really alive! Thank God! It's truly a blessing from heaven!" Another woman's voice rose in surprise.
"The Lin family's girl is tough; even if she falls into the river and chokes on some water, the King of Hell won't take her! Quick, get her back; the ground is cold," an old male voice commanded.
Did it fall into the river?
Choking on water?
Xu Zhili struggled to lift her heavy eyelids, her vision blurred and blurry, with double images swaying.
Under the glaring sunlight, several rough faces, stained with sweat and filled with concern or curiosity, swayed overhead.
"...What a lucky girl! Old Lin's daughter, in such deep water, she was pulled out and she can still breathe..."
"...Oh, what a tragedy! Her biological mother is gone, and her biological father is muddle-headed... She only has her six-year-old brother An'an left. If she were to die too... what would become of that child? Can a stepmother truly treat him well?"
An old woman wiped away her tears, her voice low and full of sympathy.
"...I heard it was her older sister in the floral blouse who pushed her? That doesn't seem likely; that girl was crying so hard just now, it looked so real..."
A middle-aged woman muttered in confusion.
"...Shh! Keep your voice down. What do you mean by 'older sister'? That's the 'golden phoenix' brought by the stepmother, Lin Wanwan! She's the stepsister. Don't you understand the difference between close and distant relatives? That girl looks like she has a bad heart. This family definitely looks down on the ex-wife's daughter."
The hushed whispers buzzed like flies, and Xu Zhili shook her head; her head still ached.
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