Chapter 3
Fu Le stood on the old-fashioned balcony, which was only a meter wide, and stared blankly at the distant green mountains and forests for a while. Suddenly, she was transported back to the autumn and winter of 1996. She was only sixteen years old and didn't know what to do.
Today is Friday, just one month into the second semester of my first year of high school.
In other words, she can rest for three days in a row.
Thinking about the exciting two years of high school life ahead, Fu Le almost pulled his hair out.
These past two years haven't been pleasant for Fu Le. The most heartbreaking thing is that his father suddenly said he was going to do business on an island, and then he was gone for three years. He would only call home at the end of the year, and he didn't send a single penny home. It was all Fu Le's mother who took care of everything.
Most women in this era had no income. Those who wanted to go out to work would be prevented by their husbands' families. People generally believed that once a wife went out and broadened her horizons, the family would fall apart. Therefore, men were responsible for supporting the family, while women, as in ancient times, were devoted to their husbands and raised their children.
As for her family, Old Fu went bankrupt and was in debt when Fu Le was only ten years old, and there has been no improvement in their situation over the years. Even though the family is struggling to make ends meet, Old Fu is still obsessed with his past success stories, living a life of debauchery and only wanting to be a boss.
They'd argued and made a scene, but Old Fu would either stay silent like a quail or go out to play cards and not come home all night. Just when it seemed the family was about to fall apart, Auntie appeared. With Auntie's help, Fu's mother started working as a deliveryman, earning six hundred yuan a month.
This income was naturally beneath Lao Fu's notice, given his past glory. But despite his words, Lao Fu would always ask his mother for a few dozen yuan to gamble before going out, claiming it was another way to generate income.
Fu Le couldn't do anything about Old Fu, who always took his mother's hard work for granted, even now that she's back in the past. But she could find a way to deal with her mother. Compared to Old Fu's stubbornness, Fu Le's mother was much more motivated to make money. If she could find a way to earn money for her mother, Fu Le's mother wouldn't be cursing Old Fu every night to fall asleep for the next three years—it was too harmful to her health.
As for herself, she tried her best to pick up her books again, to make up for the regret of her previous life, to get into the university she had always wanted, and to become a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine.
As for that damn bar exam, I'll never see it again in this lifetime.
At this moment, Fu Le had no idea that fate had arranged for her to return not so that she could smoothly pass the university entrance exam. Her future was destined to be fraught with peril!
Perhaps it was because she had returned to her 16-year-old self, but Fu Le, whose soul was now 32, used to never leave the house on her days off. But now, she couldn't stay at home for a moment. She wanted to go to the bookstore in the county town and find a few best-selling books for teenage girls. Of course, she didn't want to read the childish and brainless romance novels, but rather to find the publishers' addresses and submit her work.
As a seasoned novel enthusiast, writing novels is her side job, aside from her main job at the law firm. Although she only earns a few thousand yuan a month, it's enough to supplement her living expenses.
He pushed the women's bicycle that his mother had bought for a hefty six hundred yuan from the bottom of the stairs down the small slope in front of the door. "Mom, I'm going out to the trade city to buy some books. Don't wait for me for lunch."
Hearing this, Aunt Fu rushed out, "Don't come back too late!"
"Got it!" Fu Le, one with the car, had already disappeared around the corner.
We sped along, the sunlight hitting our faces, and the fragrance of the seedlings on both sides of the cement road made us feel refreshed and comfortable.
Youth! I'm back!!
Fu Le, with his big butt sticking out, was riding standing up when he accidentally gasped for breath. At another bend, unaware that the road was under construction, Fu Le and his bike plunged straight into a ditch more than a meter deep!
Fu Le: !!!
Oh my god! Is my brief journey of rebirth about to end?
Unaware that she had lost consciousness, Fu Le was unaware that the moment she plunged into the pit, she and the vehicle merged back into one and disappeared.
A toddler, just over a year old, who was living in a two-story building by the roadside, witnessed this scene. He burst into tears and ran off to find his mother with his short legs.
Fu Le was shaken awake, feeling dizzy and nauseous. When she opened her eyes groggily, all she saw was an endless expanse of lush green treetops, as if she were floating in mid-air, looking down over the primeval forest. She thought she was dreaming, so she closed her eyes again, but felt the wind whistling and stinging her face. However, the air was fresh and sweet, and smelled wonderful.
Something's not right... This feeling is too real. Fu Le's heart was pounding. Could she have time-traveled?
Slowly opening my eyes, I was greeted by a sea of green.
Realizing what was happening, Fu Le turned around and looked around, only to find that she wasn't dreaming, but was flying in mid-air. Her cotton coat was being held in the mouth by a sharp, large mouth, and above the mouth was a blood-red eye as big and round as a watermelon.
"Aa ...
Fu Le's scream startled the animal carrying her. With its mouth open, Fu Le was sent soaring into the sky, plummeting downwards.
"Ahhhhhh..." Fu Le's eyes rolled back, and she fainted from fright in mid-air. So she didn't know that a bird, comparable in size to a modern airplane, swooped down, caught her with its back, and quickly returned to its previous height before disappearing into the blue sky.
After a harrowing journey, the unfortunate Fu Le was once again faced with a scene that made her tremble with fear upon waking up. But this time, she didn't faint. She found herself seemingly thrown into a junkyard filled with the carcasses of wild beasts. It was a large, round pit filled with huge, ferocious animal carcasses, all with menacing fangs.
Elephants are large enough, but these dead beasts are three or four times the size of elephants. Fu Le, who is 156 cm tall, was sitting in the middle of the corpses and was hard to spot. If he had crawled under those ears, which were about 20 or 30 square meters in size, even a god wouldn't have noticed that there was an uninvited guest under his ears.
The stench was so strong that it almost made Fu Le faint.
Fu Le pinched his nose and looked around, confirming that this seemed to be a garbage disposal plant, and all the garbage was animal carcasses, the bottom layer was already rotten, while the top layer was still fresh.
Judging by appearances, this garbage dump was over a hundred acres in size. Calming down, Fu Le got up, trying to figure out how to get out. Just as his hand touched the corpse beneath him, a line of text appeared before his eyes: 'Gulu Beast, genes similar to real-world pork, non-toxic, edible.'
Fu Le: !!!
She has a system? The legendary system?!
Is this really a pig from another world? Fu Le's mind was in chaos. The system, the other world, and the fact that it was a pig from another world left her feeling complicated and at a loss.
Click-clack, thump-thump-thump... Click-clack, thump-thump-thump...
Fu Le heard a loud thud in the ground. Someone was coming!! What if they found her? Would she be killed?!
It crouched down in a panic and burrowed under the ear of the Gulu Beast. The next second, a pile of huge objects crashed down on the slope in front of it. The flesh and blood of the objects, which were still oozing bright red blood, were torn apart and the hearts were gone.
Looking at the other unnamed behemoths, it seems that only their hearts are damaged, while the rest of their bodies are perfectly fine. So, what kind of wealthy person would eat only the heart and discard the rest? It's all meat!
Fu Le waited until the crackling and thumping sounds on the ground gradually faded away before he crawled out.
She stepped forward and touched the still-warm Gulu Beast, her eyes filled with regret. If she could take it home, would her family ever lack meat? One Gulu Beast had so much meat; they could eat it for three years straight.
'Collect?' Yes, No! Two blue buttons appear before your eyes.
Fu Le: !!!
"Awesome, my system!" "System, can you hear me? System? Where am I? Can I go back? Did you bring me here?"
There was no sound, no words.
Fu Le spoke in her mind and then aloud, trying everything, but the system still didn't respond. She had no choice but to accept that her system wasn't intelligent enough, but it seemed to be able to collect information from her mind.
Just now, when she wanted to collect it, the system asked her if she wanted to.
Fu Le nodded "Yes," and a huge Gulu beast disappeared before their eyes, leaving only some bloodstains.
"Holy crap!! Where's the beast? How do we get it out?"
'Do you want to take it out?'
Fu Le clicked "yes" again, and the Gulu Beast appeared on the spot.
"Wow... Wow... How much can this hold? System, how many supplies can you carry?"
Suddenly, the three large characters 'Shuttle' appeared before my eyes, and they even jumped around, as if the system had developed emotions.
Fu Le roughly understood what it meant. "You're a shuttle? Shuttle is your name? You're not a system?"
This time, the shuttle jumped again, confirming the claim.
"Can I go back?" Fu Le asked again.
This time, the shuttle responded, displaying a circular timer showing 22:23:10, in the countdown.
"Is this a countdown? When the time comes, I can go back?" Fu Le's eyes lit up.
'yes'!
"Shuttle, where are you? Can you show yourself and let me see you?"
There was no sound, no other movement, and even the timer disappeared.
Fu Le: ...
Fine, if you don't want to talk about it, then don't. Since you can take it with you, hehe, it would be foolish not to.
Fu Le began wandering around the area, the green lights of the detectors constantly flashing. Aside from a small number of poisonous animals, most were non-toxic, and their genes were mostly similar to or identical to those of animals from the modern world: pigs, cows, sheep, horses, dogs, deer…
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