【Hello, Host. Welcome to the Transmigration Apocalypse Zone. I am System 1066.】
【I will guide you in obtaining Goodwill Points. Once you have enough Goodwill Points, you can exchange them for anything you want, such as money, power, beauty, lifespan, and so on.】
【Host? Are you all right?】
Her head was so dizzy…
Yu Lehuan felt as though her head was about to explode. Everything around her seemed to be spinning, while a voice kept chattering incessantly inside her mind.
“Shut up, you annoying thing!”
Yu Lehuan’s entire body was weak. She lay stiffly on the floor, and when she finally opened her eyes in a daze, the first thing she saw was a spiderweb clinging to the wall.
As she moved her eyes around, she found herself in a dusty European-style room. The leather sofa inside was tattered beyond recognition, with scattered dark red stains splattered across it.
Yu Lehuan let out a muffled groan and propped up her limp body. When she lowered her head and saw her little hand covered in dust, she pursed her lips in displeasure.
“Kidnappers, get out here! Just tell me how much money you want and stop wasting my time. Where’s that person who was rambling just now? Come out!”
Once Yu Lehuan recovered a little, she immediately lost her temper. Before she had passed out, she had still been lying in the ICU. She had been born with a congenital heart condition, and the doctors had said she would not live to adulthood.
However, she was the pampered young heiress of the Yu family. With her wealthy and doting family supporting her, she had somehow managed to survive until the age of twenty.
Before losing consciousness, Yu Lehuan vaguely remembered that the doctor had already issued a critical condition notice. So how was she still alive now?
【…Host.】
“Who’s there?”
Yu Lehuan stared blankly and suddenly saw someone inside her mind. No, not someone.
It was an egg.
The egg had a nose and eyes, and it was staring at her with glowing eyes. Its tiny limbs were waving around excitedly as it gestured wildly.
【Host, Host! I am your System 1066. You are the first host I have ever been assigned to.】
Yu Lehuan stared at it with her large, glassy eyes, her soft, moist lips slightly parted in astonishment. Her mind had completely short-circuited, leaving her speechless for a moment.
The egg inside her mind gradually quieted down when it saw Yu Lehuan, silently staring back at her.
“Am I dead now?”
【…Not yet.】
“What’s going on? Am I about to die?”
The egg inside her mind immediately became serious upon hearing this. It sat upright with a solemn expression.
【Simply put, you transmigrated. You know what transmigration is, right? If you want to return to your original world, you need to obtain enough Goodwill Points. Of course, I will help you.】
After saying that, System 1066 puffed out its nonexistent chest proudly.
【I am 1066. Although I have never guided anyone before, you can rest assured if you follow me.】
1066 looked extremely confident.
Yu Lehuan glanced at it. “Then what do you want?”
【Well, I only need a portion of the Goodwill Points you obtain. That will allow me to rank up.】
Yu Lehuan roughly understood. Over the years, there had been plenty of transmigration dramas and novels. Since she had been sick, she rarely went outside and would occasionally read novels to pass the time.
She stood up and looked around. As she walked, her little nose wrinkled when she caught the unpleasant smell of decay filling the air. The dirty and disorderly surroundings immediately became unbearable for her.
“You sent me to this lousy place? 66, hurry up and send me home. I’m not going to collect some stupid Goodwill Points for you.”
Yu Lehuan had never stayed somewhere this run-down in her entire life. In truth, the place itself could not really be considered dilapidated. It had simply been unoccupied for several years and had become dirty.
She had been raised like a precious princess for twenty years, and the damp, stale air alone already made her feel somewhat short of breath.
【I don’t have enough energy to send you back. You were swept into a space-time tunnel. Only people who are on the verge of death and possess an extremely strong desire can be selected by the system. Without Goodwill Points, even if you return, you will not survive past the next day.】
That was true.
Yu Lehuan was extremely afraid of death. She did not want to experience the helpless feeling of lying in a hospital bed while no medicine or treatment could save her ever again.
Yu Lehuan noticed a full-length mirror in the corner of the room. She walked over and saw the person reflected in it.
It was herself.
Her fair, delicate skin and curvaceous figure were complemented by a head of light tea-colored, seaweed-like curls that fell all the way to her waist. Her long eyelashes were naturally curled, framing a pair of innocent, worldly eyes that seemed capable of making anyone soften toward her.
Being pampered all these years had left her looking so youthful that she appeared barely old enough to be an adult.
“Since this is my own body, do I still have my heart condition?”
Yu Lehuan desperately hoped that she could finally escape that wretched illness.
1066 hesitated before answering.
【…About that illness, well, you still have it…】
“What?! Little Six, send me back right now! I’m going to die no matter where I am, so I might as well die comfortably at home! I want to go home!”
When Yu Lehuan was in a good mood, she called it 66. When she lost her temper, it became Little Six.
Now, however, Yu Lehuan was furious. She did not want to stay in this horrible place for another minute, not even another second. She had already had enough.
1066 panicked.
【Yu Lehuan, don’t get angry! As long as you have enough Goodwill Points, your illness won’t flare up! If you accumulate enough Goodwill Points, you can even have your illness completely cured!】
The moment she heard the word “cured,” Yu Lehuan calmed down.
“How do I obtain Goodwill Points?”
1066 cleared its throat.
【Goodwill Points come from other people’s positive feelings toward you, such as admiration, recognition, interest, affection, and so on. You just need to do good deeds.】
This left Yu Lehuan at a loss.
She had never deliberately done anything good for anyone. As the Yu family’s pampered young heiress, her status meant she had never needed to do good deeds to gain other people’s approval.
She was spoiled, willful, selfish, and self-centered. If anything, she had done enough bad things to fill an entire list.
But as long as it could give her a healthy body, she supposed she could reluctantly do a little charity.
Thinking this, Yu Lehuan headed toward the door. She was going to go outside and help an elderly woman cross the street.
【Stop! Stop! Yu Lehuan, what are you doing?】
“What do you think? Of course I’m going out to find Goodwill Points!”
【Wait. Go to the window and take a look outside first.】
Yu Lehuan dusted herself off and walked over to the window. She pulled back the curtains and glanced outside.
She saw several swaying figures in the distance.
One of them slowly turned its head.
Yu Lehuan’s eyesight was exceptionally good. She widened her eyes and stared straight at the figure.
That thing could perhaps no longer be called a human.
A thin layer of flesh hung loosely over its bones. Where its eyes should have been, there were only two dark, hollow sockets. Its mouth hung open, exposing its teeth as it wandered aimlessly around.
It was clearly a human corpse that had already been reduced to little more than a skeletal husk. The tattered strips of fabric clinging to its body were the remains of clothing.
Yu Lehuan felt a dull pain in her heart.
She had never watched a horror movie. Her family had never even allowed her to watch them. Her understanding of zombies had been limited to the descriptions she had read in novels.
The visual shock was far beyond anything she had ever imagined.
【Yu Lehuan, are you all right?!】
1066’s anxious voice echoed inside her mind.
Yu Lehuan pressed a hand against her heart and took several deep breaths before gradually calming herself down.
“You useless Little Six, explain what’s going on! You knew I had a heart condition, yet you still made me look at that! Are you trying to kill me?! Why are there things like that here?!”
1066 lowered its head with a pitiful expression.
【I told you from the beginning that this was the Apocalypse Zone. Of course there are zombies in the Apocalypse Zone.】
Yu Lehuan was too dizzy and overwhelmed to remember hearing anything like that.
She was extremely timid, especially when it came to things beyond her understanding. She could behave however she wanted at home because someone was always there to protect her, and no one dared to frighten her.
But now that Yu Lehuan knew this world was the apocalypse, she simply did not want to live anymore.
She would rather die than face those things.
“Since you’re a system, you should be at least a little more powerful than me. Get rid of those things outside right now.”
She immediately began ordering 1066 around.
1066 looked troubled.
【But… I don’t have enough energy. Without Goodwill Points, I have no energy, so there’s nothing I can do.】
Yu Lehuan took a deep breath and glared at it.
“But I’m scared of those things! Think of something!”
Her tone sounded exactly like that of a beautiful wife scolding her useless husband.
The white, chubby creature inside her mind blinked its eyes twice. Its mouth puckered, and then it burst into tears.
【Waaah… I’m scared too… What did I do to deserve being assigned to the Apocalypse Zone… Waaah…】
“…”
Looking at the white, chubby egg screaming and crying inside her mind, Yu Lehuan did not even want to say another word.
She walked over to the bed and saw a thick layer of dust covering the mattress. She wrinkled her nose in disgust, grabbed the blanket, rolled it up, and threw it onto the floor.
She then searched through the cabinet beside the bed and found some old clothes and an old quilt, both carrying a strong, musty smell of mold and aged wood.
Yu Lehuan had always been extremely particular about cleanliness. Her pampered princess temper was acting up again, and hearing the crying in her head only made her angrier.
“Stop crying! You useless system, surely you can at least get rid of the smell from the quilt, right?”
1066 immediately stopped crying.
Seeing how furious Yu Lehuan looked, it answered cautiously.
【Yes, yes, yes! I don’t have enough energy to deal with the zombies, but removing the smell is something I can do.】