In a filthy little room, a Ragdoll cat was flicking its tail, looking utterly weary of life. Its deep blue eyes shone with a light of wisdom. This Ragdoll cat was none other than the forcibly transmigrated Jiang Zhiying.
“Meow…”
She opened her mouth to sigh, but only a soft, delicate meow came out. Instantly, she slumped onto the floor, turning into a flat “cat pancake,” and stared mournfully at her reflection in the mirror opposite her: chubby and fluffy, with soft white paws. If she had encountered such a cute little kitten in her normal life, she would have smothered it with affection!
But now, she had actually become a cat herself!
Jiang Zhiying meowed twice in a sigh, her blue eyes listless. She had only stayed up playing on her phone until four in the morning last night. When she finally couldn’t hold out anymore, she had drifted off to sleep, only to wake up in a completely different world…
Thinking about how she had died suddenly from staying up late, Jiang Zhiying couldn’t help but feel regret. If she had known, she would have listened to her mother, gone to bed early and woken up early, and lived a healthy lifestyle!
After lying on the floor for a good while to calm her mind, Jiang Zhiying let out a deep breath, her gaze becoming determined. Even if she had become a cat, she was going to live well. She climbed up, instinctively stretched, and shook her messy fur. Only then did she have the heart to look at the ball of light in front of her—the culprit behind her transmigration, a damaged World Consciousness.
“Meow~ is what you said true? As long as I complete the mission, you’ll let me go home?” Jiang Zhiying asked seriously.
“As long as you can make this world function normally again, you can go home…” the World Consciousness said intermittently.
“What mission? I’ll do it!” To go home, Jiang Zhiying didn’t hesitate for a second.
“Find the protagonist…” The ball of light flickered in and out, the blurry voice sounding fragmented.
Finally, the ball of light plunged directly into Jiang Zhiying’s body. An explosion of information rushed into her brain. She let out a muffled grunt and collapsed unconscious onto the floor.
Jiang Zhiying soon woke up, her gaze complicated. It turned out she had transmigrated into a male-oriented web novel of the Post-apocalyptic Spiritual Recovery genre. However, the author had left the book with a rushed, unfinished ending, causing the world derived from the novel to become extremely unstable. To save this world, the newborn World Consciousness had pulled someone from another world.
She was that unlucky soul. What was even unluckier was that the World Consciousness was too weak to even provide her with a human body, leaving her to possess a Ragdoll cat. Fortunately, the World Consciousness wasn’t so weak that it failed to give her a Golden Finger. Thinking of the Golden Finger she had received, she let out a small sigh of relief.
Now she needed to bind herself to a person and give them the remaining Providential Luck of the World Consciousness. Thinking about her options, Jiang Zhiying paced back and forth on the floor. Should she choose the protagonist of this novel?
Logically, the protagonist was the best choice. But she really didn’t want to be with a greasy man who went around flirting and building a harem. Moreover, the protagonist should currently be in the south, tens of thousands of miles away from her. It was too far.
She needed someone nearby, but also someone with capability and a sense of responsibility…
Her fluffy paw stomped on the ground. He’s the one! Jiang Zhiying’s gaze was firm.
She hopped lightly onto the windowsill and observed the situation outside through the broken glass. There was no one on the wide road. Massive patches of dark red blood were splattered across the pavement, and she could see several mangled corpses lying in the street.
“Woof! Woof! Awoooo!”
Nearly twenty Mutant Dogs were fighting and biting frantically on the road. She could clearly see the splashing blood and shredded meat. Soon, one pack of Mutant Dogs won and began devouring the corpses of the other pack.
A dozen or so Mutant Dogs swarmed past the road below. Jiang Zhiying carefully pulled her head back and slumped dejectedly on the floor, her tail swishing weakly. Her blue eyes stared blankly at the floor as she wondered how many steps she could survive if she went out in her current state.
She’d probably be killed the moment she stepped out the door!
As she was thinking, Jiang Zhiying’s ears twitched sensitively. A faint sound came from downstairs. She tiptoed to the staircase and peeked her head out: a spider was fighting a Mutant Cockroach. The two mutant animals were locked in a tight embrace; the spider’s long mouthparts were plunged into the cockroach’s head, while the cockroach’s sharp claws were constantly slicing at the spider’s body…
The fight ended with both sides suffering heavy losses. The cockroach was dead, and the spider was at its last gasp. Nearly half of its body was destroyed, and pale blue blood flowed slowly onto the ground.
Jiang Zhiying was still hesitating whether to go down and scavenge when she saw the spider struggling to stand up. Its pale red eyes were full of a longing for survival. Its long legs slowly picked up its fallen limbs, trying to stick them back onto its body. After several failed attempts, the long legs slowly drooped, and the red light in the spider’s eyes gradually dimmed.
Suddenly, it slowly rolled its eyes, looking pleadingly at Jiang Zhiying on the stairs. Seeing the stubborn, tenacious little spider, she let out a soft sigh. “Alright, you’re the one!”
A ball of light the size of a fingernail floated onto the spider. Instantly, the wounds on the spider’s body began to heal rapidly…
This was the first Golden Finger the World Consciousness had given her: to contract a Mutant Beast. Under the transformation of the world’s Providential Luck, the potential of this Mutant Beast would be enhanced, becoming limitless.
Two hours later, a spider the size of a washbasin was crawling rapidly through the streets with Jiang Zhiying on its back, heading straight for the villa complex halfway up the mountain.
The person she was looking for was there.
By evening, Jiang Zhiying finally found the target villa. After circling the villa and finding no danger, she let the spider go off to forage for itself, while she quickly flipped into the villa and scurried up to the second floor. Unsurprisingly, she found a frail man on the floor of the second-floor living room.
He lay on the ground, half of his handsome face ruined and looking hideous. Dark red blood had coagulated beneath him. A sharp dagger was plunged into his heart, and his hands and feet were a bloody mess, twisted at bizarre angles that exposed white bone. There were several bloody holes in his abdomen as well…
She slowly approached the man. He was the person she was looking for—Xie Anze, the villain of this novel.
Using both paws, she pulled the knife from his chest and tossed it aside. Then, her pink nose touched his cheek, and a ball of light the size of an infant’s fist floated from her body into Xie Anze’s. Instantly, Xie Anze’s dying breath gradually stabilized, and the wounds on his body began to heal.
Seeing his injuries slowly improve, Jiang Zhiying lay on the floor beside him and began to reflect on the plot of the book.
She clearly remembered that the Post-apocalyptic World in the book began with a massive extraterrestrial meteorite. This meteorite, carrying strange energy, crashed into Earth, and the energy it emitted slowly changed the planet’s energy field. Five years later, once the energy reached a certain concentration, all living things began to evolve. Even originally insignificant weeds could silently take human lives, and Mutant Beasts tore through the streets at will. Almost overnight, humanity’s dominant status was overturned, and they were forced to band together to resist the attacks of mutant plants and animals.
At the same time, humans were also evolving: their constitutions were greatly enhanced, and they had a chance to gain various abilities. Whether human or beast, once their evolution reached a high enough level, they could use an energy called Spiritual Qi. From then on, the evolved were renamed Spirit Users, marking the beginning of the era of spiritual recovery.
Besides Spirit Users, there was another type of person who could fuse with plants and animals, gaining some of their abilities. These people were later called Controllers.
During evolution, most mutant plants and animals would become violent and bloodthirsty. The novel’s author claimed this was a negative side effect of the meteorite, but the story was dropped before the details were explained…
Snapping back to reality, Jiang Zhiying looked at Xie Anze. He was the tragic villain of the novel. Before the end of the world, he had been a favored son of heaven, but unfortunately, he was sabotaged by those around him, leaving him with a frail body. At the start of the Post-apocalyptic World, he was betrayed by a close friend while fleeing. He managed to evolve and survive through great difficulty and began a journey to find his family, only to have his relatives die one by one before his eyes. He was eventually captured for human experimentation. After escaping the lab, he completely blackened into a villain, engaging in a life-and-death struggle with the protagonist…
The author must have had a grudge against this character to make his setting so miserable, Jiang Zhiying muttered to herself. Then she looked at Xie Anze lying on the floor; his face had suddenly turned bright red, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
He had a fever!
Remembering that a fever was a characteristic of evolution, Jiang Zhiying guessed that the big villain was currently evolving. She looked at Xie Anze on the floor, looking hesitant. Feeling that he might suffer brain damage if he were left like this, she planned to get some water for him first.
She had already made up her mind. She would take care of the villain now and save his family later. That way, he certainly wouldn’t turn into a villain. Then she could just cling to his thigh, and in the later stages, she could follow him and live the high life.
This was her best option right now.
Arriving in the kitchen, Jiang Zhiying faced a dilemma with her fluffy paws. How was she supposed to get water like this? After thinking about it, she dipped her paws under the faucet to get them wet, then pattered back to Xie Anze’s side. She extended her wet paws toward his mouth, letting a few drops of water drip in. His parched throat instinctively swallowed the cool droplets. She went back and forth several times until her paws felt weak with exhaustion. In the end, she simply soaked her big, fluffy tail and let the water drip into his mouth bit by bit from the tip of her tail.
After feeding him some water, Jiang Zhiying was exhausted. She lay on Xie Anze’s chest to rest, her wet tail conveniently resting across his forehead to cool him down.
After resting for a bit, Jiang Zhiying looked at Xie Anze on the floor. Lying on the ground like that made it easy to catch a cold. She ran to the bedroom and laboriously dragged out a blanket, biting it as she walked from the bedroom to the living room.
Panting as she covered Xie Anze with the blanket, Jiang Zhiying lay on the floor with her mouth open, huffing for breath. Her paws were numb, and her jaw felt sore.
Being a little kitten is just too hard for me!
When would the Golden Finger from the World Consciousness arrive?
[Ding: Obtained skill: Appraisal, LV.1.]