“Lu Yunchao, in my next life I won’t let you off even as a ghost!” Amid Yin Shan’s shrill roar, the cannibals cut her flesh away one knife stroke at a time. Watching herself turn into a dish on someone else’s plate, Yin Shan shouted in resentment. When the apocalypse came, she had stockpiled supplies for Lu Yunchao, killed mutant creatures, and protected him so he could stay alive in this apocalypse, and yet he had sold her to the cannibals for the sake of his mistress, just to get fifty catties of rice!
Yin Shan looked at Lu Yunchao and Wang Yun in resentment, and her parents’ faces flashed through her mind. She remembered that in the second year of the apocalypse, when her father’s ability awakened, the awakening failed because his health was poor, and he never woke up again. She remembered that her mother had told her early on that Lu Yunchao was not the right man for her, and that she had let love cloud her reason, and in the end her mother was surrounded by dozens of ability users from a criminal gang while protecting her, and not even her mother’s bones were left (shī gǔ wú cún, 屍骨無存, Idiom: annihilated so utterly that no remains are left). Yin Shan wanted to go back to the past, wanted to protect her beloved parents, wanted to tell them that over the next ten years she had step by step seen Lu Yunchao’s true face, and step by step arrived at the end of her own life. “Dad, Mom, see you in the next life… I really want to hug you…” Yin Shan closed her eyes in despair.
“Beep. Host’s wish index detected to meet the standard. Restarting the cycle…”
“Mom!” Yin Shan woke with a start and saw her mother beside the hospital bed looking at her, her face full of surprise!
“Shanshan, you’re awake! That’s wonderful! You’ve been unconscious for three days! Your boss called me and said you’d fainted at work, and then the doctor said there was nothing wrong with your body, but you just wouldn’t wake up, and you kept muttering something we couldn’t make out. Are you feeling better?” Guan Yunhua looked at her daughter, awake now, her face full of happiness, and fired off questions one after another, then hurried out to fetch the doctor.
Guan Yunhua watched the doctor nervously, and after the examination the doctor said to Guan Yunhua, “Ms. Guan, there is nothing wrong with your daughter’s body. She can be discharged at any time.”
Guan Yunhua saw the doctor out, and seeing that Yin Shan was still staring blankly, she quickly called her husband, who had gone downstairs to get food, and then said, “Shanshan, what’s wrong?”
Yin Shan came back to herself, and looking at that familiar face, her tears fell, but she could not say a single word. Guan Yunhua did not understand, but she still comforted her daughter. “Shanshan, don’t be afraid, Mom is here. In a little while we’ll be discharged and go home, and I’ll have your dad stew oxtail soup to build you up. You must have worn yourself out with overtime lately!”
“Is Shanshan awake? What did the doctor say, what illness is it after all?” Yin Zhiwen came back into the ward quickly, limping, and looked at Yin Shan, his eyes slightly red, but he put on a father’s authority. “I told you not to work yourself so hard. Why do you push yourself like this? What is going on, how could you faint?” Yin Shan looked at her father asking with hard words and a soft heart, and laughed. “Because my dad is someone who works himself to death, so I am too.”
“Beep. Abnormality detected in Yin Zhiwen’s cardiac artery. Mission issued: take Yin Zhiwen to a doctor. On successful emergency treatment, obtain three Marrow-Cleansing Pills. Effect: clears all disease from the body, strengthens the constitution, and with no outside force involved allows one to die of old age.” Yin Shan: “!! What is this?”
“Beep. Mission started. Countdown ten minutes. If emergency treatment is not carried out within ten minutes, Yin Zhiwen will die. Host, please complete the current mission.”
Yin Shan was shocked, but she still told Guan Yunhua to hurry and call the doctor, and told Yin Zhiwen to sit down at once. Guan Yunhua thought her daughter was feeling unwell again, so she quickly called the doctor. Because Yin Shan’s condition was unexplained, the doctor hurried over with the equipment and prepared to hook her up to the machine for an examination. Yin Shan raised her hand to refuse. “Doctor, please take a look at my dad, his lips have gone purple, something feels wrong to me, please.” The doctor was stunned, turned to look at Yin Zhiwen, and found that his lips were purple and his complexion was off too, so he quickly examined him. Two minutes later the doctor’s face changed completely and he called the nurse at once. “Prepare for emergency surgery, quick! Wheel him to the operating room, family come with me!”
Guan Yunhua was stunned, and she hurried after the doctor and signed the surgery notice. The doctor told her it had been caught very much in time and the operation would succeed, and said Guan Yunhua could go back to the ward and wait, or wait here.
Guan Yunhua’s head was empty. She thought back to the way Yin Shan had looked at her after waking, as though she had not seen her for years, and she thought of how anxiously Yin Shan had called the doctor to look at Yin Zhiwen. Nothing about it was right. After thinking it over, Guan Yunhua decided to go back to the ward and ask Yin Shan what was really going on, and then come back to keep watch over her husband.
In the ward, Yin Shan was trying to communicate with the voice from before. “Who are you, what is going on, how am I in the hospital?”
“Beep. Host, please send your consciousness into this space…”
Yin Shan did not understand. “How do I enter?”
“Host, please touch the medium and enter with your consciousness…”
Yin Shan broke down. A medium, what medium? All she had on her now was a hospital gown, nothing else, where was there a medium? Suddenly she saw the necklace at her neck. It was a jade pendant, a small necklace she had bought two years ago while traveling in D Province, just to satisfy the tour group. Yin Shan thought, “Could it be this thing? Jade pendant, jade pendant… enter the space…” The moment she thought it, everything swayed before her eyes, and she found her consciousness in an expanse of nothingness. What she could see in front of her was a huge screen. On the right were ten things that looked like warehouse doors, with writing on them: “Static Warehouse. Current total warehouse area: 200 cubic meters.” On the left was a stretch of grass fenced in, with writing on it: “Active Farm. Current farm bonuses: plant growth rate 0%, animal health rate 0%.” And behind the screen was a villa the size of a three-story building, with writing on the door: “Movable Villa. Currently cannot be entered.” Behind her was a huge lake, and the sign beside it read: “Spirit Lake. The water source is unpolluted, can improve physical constitution, and will never dry up.”
Yin Shan looked at everything in her consciousness, then asked the space, “What is this? I should already be dead, and what was that mission just now?” Then Yin Shan saw text appear on the big screen in front of her:
Zero Degree Space
This space can only awaken when the wish index meets the standard, and it binds to the host. The space is unique and cannot bind to a second person.
Static Warehouse: living things cannot be stored in the Static Warehouse. All items undergo no change with time once they are placed in the Static Warehouse. The Static Warehouse can be upgraded, and its area increases after upgrading.
Active Farm: all living creatures can be stored in the farm (there are only creatures you cannot think of, no creature the farm cannot hold!). The farm can be upgraded, and after upgrading the plant growth rate and animal health rate increase.
Spirit Lake: the legendary spirit lake water, KOs all health supplements, healthy and harmless, drinkable~ drink more and no poison can touch you~
Movable Villa: can be moved out of the space to serve as a base, at full level it can withstand a nuclear strike.
Yin Shan read the space’s introduction and accepted the fact that she had a golden finger (jīn shǒuzhǐ, 金手指, Slang: a protagonist’s cheat-like unfair advantage), then asked impatiently: how do I upgrade?
The big screen: “Complete system missions or collect the corresponding materials to upgrade.”
Yin Shan: “Then my dad’s illness, is it cured? You told me to call the doctor within ten minutes just now. Does that mean my dad’s life is out of danger?”
The big screen: “Mission completed. Rating: S. Reward: three Marrow-Cleansing Pills, Static Warehouse level raised by one.”
Yin Shan looked at the Static Warehouse and found the writing on it had changed to: Static Warehouse. Current warehouse area: 400 cubic meters. Then three large pills that looked like Liuwei Dihuang pills appeared in front of her. Yin Shan was still thinking about how she could get these three pills into her hands when she found the pills had dropped into them. Yin Shan’s mind swayed, she came out of the space, and found three more pills in her hand.
Yin Shan finally recognized one fact: she had been reborn. There were still two months to go before the apocalypse arrived, and now she had the space and could stockpile a lot of supplies, making sure her own family survived the apocalypse. At this thought Yin Shan grew happy. Living this life over again, she would protect her parents and not let them give their lives for her again!