Chapter 1 Rebirth
"Run!" A shrill scream came from not far away. Bai Tang turned around and saw that there were cannibals from the apocalypse lying in ambush in the ruins.
In the apocalypse brought about by natural disasters, cannibals are vicious and ruthless, disregarding life and death. Anyone who encounters them in this bleak world is almost certain to die.
Bai Tang turned around and saw that her other teammates had fallen into their ambush and were seriously injured. Bai Tang herself was also seriously injured, and her wounds were still bleeding.
Their team came out this time to find food sources for the mutated animals, because the people in the base had no other food to survive on, and the base's exploration teams had to risk going out in the polar night to find food sources for the mutated animals.
Who would have thought they would be so unlucky as to be ambushed by cannibals?
The cannibal leader laughed arrogantly, "Capturing them will give us enough to live happily for a few more days, brothers, let's go!"
Bai Tang's heart tightened suddenly. She hurriedly turned around and asked her teammates to help each other up, and they ran forward desperately in the dark.
The cannibal's roar grew closer, like the howl of a demon echoing in one's ears.
Bai Tang's heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was going to burst out of her chest. She didn't dare look back, and could only run as fast as she could, hoping to escape this nightmarish place.
The cannibals chased after Bai Tang and her group, letting out shrill screams as if mocking Bai Tang's overestimation of her abilities.
The injuries to their other teammates were getting worse, and they could no longer run.
"How is everyone?" Zhang Li, the squad leader, asked, panting heavily.
There was a long silence in the team, no one spoke, then suddenly someone pushed Bai Tang out.
Bai Tang was completely stunned when she collapsed, thinking, "What the heck? What happened?? Was I betrayed by my teammates?"
However, Bai Tang wasn't stupid for surviving the apocalypse for seven years, so she did her best to pull back the two teammates who were pushing her.
The cannibals slowly surrounded her, and Bai Tang thought to herself, "Since I'm going to die anyway, I'll take a couple of them with me."
The cannibals pounced fiercely. Bai Tang tried his best to dodge, but he couldn't escape and was stabbed to death by the cannibals. His other teammates didn't escape either and were captured and taken back to be the cannibals' food reserves.
"Get out!"
Bai Tang was awakened by a nightmare.
She sat up abruptly in bed, her chest heaving violently as she gasped for breath. Her forehead was covered in fine sweat, and large beads of cold sweat clung to her delicate face. She trembled uncontrollably as she witnessed the scene of her death in her past life once again.
After calming herself down, Bai Tang looked around and found the scene in front of her strangely familiar. She shook her head to try to clear her mind and suddenly remembered that this was her home before the apocalypse.
"Am I reborn?" Bai Tang wondered, then opened her phone and glanced at the calendar: July 1, 2090.
Upon careful reflection, this was two months before the impending apocalypse.
Suddenly, Bai Tang felt like she was God's favorite, that God had given her a second chance to live.
In the novels Bai Tang had read before, the reborn characters all had a space to store goods, so since she had been reborn, she should have one too, right?
Thinking of this, Bai Tang got out of bed, touched the bedside table, took out a key, opened a drawer, and took out an antique little box.
Inside the box was a bracelet, a red jade bracelet, a family heirloom of the Bai family, one of the relics left by her parents. In her previous life, Bai Tang did not get this bracelet because of the sudden flood.
She was certain that the bracelet was a spatial dimension. If it wasn't, she had so many old objects at home, so she wasn't afraid at all.
Bai Tang rushed to the kitchen, grabbed a fruit knife, and stabbed her own delicate finger, letting the blood drip onto Hong Fei.
As expected, the blood that flowed out was absorbed by the red jade bracelet, and the next second Bai Tang herself was in a space.
There was a small stream in the space, and a large piece of land beside it. In the apocalypse, water is the most important resource; as the saying goes, "water is the source of life." The land could be used to grow crops, ensuring a food supply.
Bai Tang tried to teleport within the space, and surprisingly, she could!
She tried going out again, but the next second she was back in the kitchen, trying to put the bowl next to her into her storage space, thinking to herself, "Put it away, put it away!"
The bowl on the table was gone. Upon entering the space, the bowl was found sitting alone on the floor.
Bai Tang tried other things repeatedly, and they all fit. It seemed all those novels she'd read hadn't been for nothing, and neither had the old things she'd kept at home.
Bai Tang, who was enjoying the space, did not notice her younger brother Bai Jiyang standing at the kitchen door.
Bai Jiyang rushed over and grabbed Bai Tang's hand, saying, "I told you not to come into the kitchen, but you still came. Look, you've cut your hand, you clumsy thing. I'll go find a band-aid to put on..."
Bai Jiyang, who is clearly Bai Tang's younger brother, grew up quickly after his parents' plane crash in his previous life, and dropped out of school to take over the family company.
In their previous life, Bai Tang went to Beijing to pursue a master's degree, which prevented her from returning to Shengshi alone in the apocalypse. As a result, the two did not see each other again before Bai Tang died.
Bai Jiyang was still talking, completely unaware that Bai Tang's face was already covered in tears.
"What's wrong, sis? Does it hurt a lot...?" Before Bai Jiyang could finish speaking, Bai Tang hugged him tightly.
"It doesn't hurt. I just haven't seen you in so long, I feel like crying," Bai Tang said between sobs.
"What do you mean it's been a long time? We had lunch together at noon. Sis, are you still half asleep?"
Bai Tang grabbed her younger brother's hand and said, "Little brother, do you believe me?"
"I believe you."
"The world is going to end in two months," Bai Tang said anxiously.
Bai Jiyang laughed and said, "Sis, you must be having a nightmare. The weather outside is so nice, how could it be the end of the world?"
Bai Tang knew that her younger brother wouldn't believe her just by saying that; at most, he would think she was joking.
So Bai Tang pulled Bai Jiyang along, and in the blink of an eye, the two entered the space.
Bai Tang looked at her dumbfounded younger brother and said, "I even have a spatial dimension now, don't you believe me?"
"Where did this space come from? Are you dreaming or am I dreaming?" Bai Jiyang not only doubted what his eyes were seeing.
Bai Jiyang pinched his arm. "Ouch, that hurts."
"Now you should believe me, right? The world really is going to end in two months. This time it's a global catastrophe," Bai Tang said to his younger brother with a heavy expression.
"This space contains our family's heirloom red jade bracelet, look." After exiting the space, Bai Tang wanted to raise her hand to show Bai Jiyang the bracelet, but found that the bracelet had disappeared.
On Bai Tang's fair wrist, there was a red mark, like a birthmark.
"That's perfect! It saves me from worrying about someone taking over your space. Sis, don't tell anyone easily, lest someone have malicious intentions," Bai Jiyang said to Bai Tang.
Bai Tang smiled and said, "Your sister doesn't like being a pushover, she doesn't have that kind of saintly heart, don't worry."
While talking to her younger brother, Bai Tang walked to the refrigerator, opened the door, and saw that it was full of food. She decisively took out some leftover bread and stuffed it into her mouth.
Leftover bread smells so good! In the apocalypse, you can't even get a piece of moldy cake, let alone leftover bread.
Bai Tang's action startled Bai Jiyang, who asked, "Sister, are you alright? By the way, how did you know the apocalypse was coming? Could it be...?"
Bai Tang swallowed the bread in her mouth and said, "Just as you guessed, I died once in the apocalypse, so I know what devastating disaster is going to happen next."
"Didn't I protect you in my past life, sister?"
"In my previous life, the apocalypse happened after I started school. You were far away in Shengshi, the two cities were too far apart. However, a rescue base was quickly established in Beijing, and I was doing quite well. It's just that during the polar night of the seventh year of the apocalypse, there was really no food, so I had to go out to find food..."
"Don't say anything, sister, I promise I'll protect you this time!" Bai Jiyang said, his voice trembling with tears.