Chapter 1: Survival in Despair part 1
Minesweeper (Content Warnings):
- Growth-type heroine. In the early stages, the male leadâs personality lacks discipline; in the later stages, our precious girl teaches him how to be a decent human being.
- The author is careless and is slowly correcting typos. I apologize in advance if this affects your reading experience, babies.
- The revenge arc is not obvious in the early stages, and the foreshadowing is quite long. Readers who can’t accept this should enter with caution.
- The author does not have a glass heart and accepts suggestions. However, if you could tell me in the comments section beforehand, the author will fly with joy and blow you a kiss.
- Personally, I think the later stages lean towards Mary Sue. Just treat it as a sweet, fluffy novel.
“Hssâit hurts…”
How could there be such fatal pain? It felt as if her bone marrow was packed with glacial ice; every movement was agonizing.
Was she dead?
Su Tang endured the pain and slowly opened her eyes. The environment before her was blurred by the tears welling in her sockets.
A throbbing pain in her brain forced her to close her eyes again. Her mind was invaded by a flood of memories that didn’t belong to her. The sensation was far from pleasant, and Su Tang couldn’t help but cry out a few times.
She didn’t know how long passed before the soreness and swelling in her brain subsided, finally giving Su Tang a chance to organize the chaotic, disordered memories.
She had transmigrated.
Unlike her transmigrating predecessors who went to ancient times to become wealthy princesses, she had transmigrated into a very dangerous world.
This world was being invaded by alien creatures named the “Void.” The population had plummeted by fifty-two percent, and most of the land had been occupied by these alien creatures.
However, as the saying goes, survival of the fittest. Human genes had evolved due to environmental changes, producing “Spiritual Power.” Yet, the use of this power differed. Generally speaking, evolution was divided into two types.
To resist the alien invasion, a large portion of people developed highly aggressive spiritual power. These were called Sentinels. However, they were easily infected, and this infection was irreversible. Once a certain threshold was reached, a Sentinel would go into a “riot.” It was during these times that another type of spiritual power was born: the Guides.
Humans established the White Tower through their own abilities; it was the last spark of hope for humanity.
A Guide’s spiritual power was naturally capable of helping Sentinels purify their infection. However, this beautiful gift did not befall every Sentinel. The compatibility between spiritual powers was a galaxy-wide gap that lay between them.
The original host of this body was a trash Guide who had been abandoned by her family to linger on death’s door in the Abandoned Zone.
Her spiritual power was so depleted that it was hard for the testing charts to even detect it. She couldn’t even soothe the lowest-ranking Sentinel. Viewed by her family as a stain that brought them shame, they had tossed the original host into the Abandoned Zoneâoutside the protection of the White Towerâlike throwing away garbage.
Having organized her thoughts, Su Tang was finally able to take large gasps of air.
In her memories, the original host’s spiritual power had disappeared suddenly. Before that, her spiritual power had been quite abundant. There was definitely a conspiracy involved, but she didn’t have the strength to think about that now. The original host’s will to survive had been weak, practically suicidal. Su Tang found it difficult to even stabilize herself.
She had to survive.
“F*ck.”
Su Tang cursed under her breath, the taste of rust welling up in her throat.
What a disastrous start.
Couldn’t the heavens be kind to her just once?
Before transmigrating, she was an ordinary corporate slave with the heaviest resentment in modern society, living a grinding 996 lifestyle. She had finally welcomed a short vacation, but before she could start enjoying it, she was sent here. Oh God, you can’t bully people like this.
No, she had to live.
Enduring the pain, she gritted her teeth and used her elbows to prop herself up against the ground, inching outward bit by bit. Her fingertips touched cold gravel, and her arm felt a sticky sensationâshe didn’t know what the unidentified liquid was.
Click, clack…
A sound came from not far away, sounding like some kind of arthropod crawling.
Su Tang’s heart constricted violently.
In the original host’s memories, only one type of creature made this sound: the alien creatures.
These things fed on spiritual power. After sucking a person’s spiritual power dry, they would torture them to death while they were still alive.
Panic surged in her heart. Disregarding everything else, a fierce desire for survival drove Su Tang to use both her hands and feet to burrow into a deeper crevice ahead.
Due to the uneven terrain, Su Tang couldn’t grip the shifting sand beneath her and rolled to one side. In her panic, her back suddenly slammed into something hard and scorching hot, bringing her to a stop.
This feeling… it wasn’t a rock.
This object carried a searing temperature, like a red-hot branding iron. It was very hot.
In this freezing environment, Su Tang couldn’t help but press against it. It felt as if her entire body was being soothed; the pain from earlier was reduced by more than half.
So magical.
Greedy for this sensation, Su Tang couldn’t help but press her body closer to that scorching heat, rubbing against it comfortably.
“Get lost.”
A raspy voice belonging to a man rang out above her head. Su Tang’s body trembled slightly.
Raising her head with difficulty, through her blurred vision, she saw a pair of blood-stained military boots. Looking up further, she saw a messy black combat uniform.
Especially the chest areaâit looked as if something had rubbed messily against it, mixing mud and blood. The culprit, Su Tang, couldn’t help but blush.
“S-Sorry.”
The fragmented voice sounded as if it were squeezed out of her throat.
A very fragile small animal.
That was the man’s first impression.
Seeing that he didn’t speak, Su Tang secretly sized him up.
The man had a very tall and broad physique. At this moment, he was leaning against the broken wall with his eyes closed, his entire being filled with a violent aura.
And on the man’s shoulder perched a semi-transparent creature.
Its fur was silver-white. It was the legendary Spiritual Entity of a Sentinel.
It was a wolf in a mini form. Right now, it was baring sharp fangs, its icy blue vertical pupils staring dead at her, a threatening growl emanating from its throat.
Legend had it that a Sentinel’s spiritual entity could change size at will to cope with different dangerous combat environments.
The little silver wolf was snow-white all over, which made the black mist wrapping around it even more obvious.
This was…
Spiritual pollution caused by alien erosion?
Su Tang’s heart beat wildly.
She couldn’t be this unlucky, right? Alien creatures threatening her from the outside, and a top-tier Sentinel who might go into a riot at any moment right beside her.
That’s right. Just now, Su Tang had found information about this man in the original host’s memories.
Mo Xiao. Captain of the White Tower’s First Squad. A Super S-Class Sentinel. Famous for his ferocity and coldness, he was the sharpest and most dangerous blade in the White Tower.
It was said that his spiritual power was so berserk that even the top Guides dared not approach him.
How could such a big shot appear in the Abandoned Zone?
Before Su Tang could figure it out, the silver wolf originally coiled on the man’s shoulder suddenly moved.
It leaped down from Mo Xiao’s shoulder, bringing a gust of bloody wind with it. Su Tang subconsciously closed her eyes and shrank her neck.
No way, no way. Is my second life going to end like this?
A cold sensation touched her cheek. Su Tang shrank her neck even harder. Did this thing treat her as food?
Fine, if she dies, she dies. Maybe after dying, she could transmigrate back. Being exploited by an unscrupulous boss in modern times was still better than losing her life in this hostile environment.
Su Tang squeezed her eyes shut and tilted her neck up, waiting for the silver wolf to deliver the final blow. However, after waiting and waiting, the anticipated pain did not strike.
A cold nose tip rubbed against her cheek. It had a slightly rough texture but was unexpectedly non-aggressive.
Su Tang attempted to open her eyes and saw that the silver wolf had climbed onto her shoulder at some point and was nuzzling her cheek in a very ingratiating posture.
Seeing her look at it, it even jumped down into her arms, arching its head to nudge her wrist, emitting a whining sound from its throat similar to a canine acting spoiled.
Where was even half of the ferocity from just now?
Su Tang: “?”
This development isn’t right.
The man beside her seemed stunned as well. That cold gaze landed on her, carrying obvious surprise and scrutiny.
Mo Xiao felt a wave of pleasure transmitted from his spiritual entity. He looked at the silver wolf and, seeing that much of the mist on its body had dissipated, frowned.
“Your spiritual power…”
“Did you drug me?”
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