Wasteland World (v1c1)
Under the cover of night, outside the tall wall, a team of tens of thousands of people marched silently. The torches in their hands crackled and burned, barely illuminating the surroundings.
Ye Sheng stood among the crowd, wearing a cloak made of tattered rags to cover her whole body. She followed the flow of people with a numb expression on her face.
"They say good things come to good people," Ye Sheng thought bitterly.
What a joke!
On her way home from school, she had helped a kid who was crossing the road. As soon as she had sent the kid away, a truck driven by a drunk driver had hit her back foot.
Miraculously, she came back from the dead.
But when she opened her eyes again, she was in a different world.
The high-rise buildings had turned into dilapidated shacks, and she had changed from a handsome boy of 1.8 metres to a short winter melon. To make matters worse, her gender also changed from male to female.
She was so poor that she had nothing to eat. She had been starving for two days.
Others who were hit by a big truck traveled to another world to become heroes who defeated the demon, or went back to ancient times to be princes and generals!
She turned into a skinny little girl.
(ಥ_ಥ)
Ye Sheng raised her head with tears in her eyes, trying to push back the tears of grievance that had surged up to prevent her body from losing water and fainting. But when she looked up, she saw the huge red moon hanging in the night sky.
It was so bright that it hurt her eyes.
It was different from the bright moonlight of the Earth. The red light falling on her body felt strange.
From a distance, a group of people walked with their heads lowered under the red light, which looked like a scene from a horror movie.
The visual effects were stunning.
"Shengsheng! Lower your head quickly, be careful of being contaminated!"
While Ye Sheng was lost in her thoughts, another little girl standing next to her hurriedly raised her hand and pulled Ye Sheng down. Her body was so weak from hunger that she almost fell to the ground.
Ye Sheng struggled to keep her balance.
It was not a good thing to fall down at this time. She would be trampled into a meat pie by others!
Realizing that she had done good things with bad results, Zhou Lin quickly supported Ye Sheng. The two little girls swayed back and forth like drunk geese. Fortunately, they recovered after a while.
When she stood firm, Ye Sheng raised her hand and knocked a chestnut hard on Zhou Lin's forehead.
Zhou Lin's eyes welled up in pain, her mouth pouted, and she said unconvinced, "Shengsheng, if you raise your head for a while, your face will rot. Although the pollution radiation of the Red Moon is not high, it should not be underestimated!"
"......"
Zhou Lin was right. Just looking at the red moon for a while, Ye Sheng felt her skin tingling.
The world she had traveled to was not only unfamiliar, but also harsh.
To be precise, her social status was low and she lived in a shack outside the walled city.
The safe zone within the walled city had convenient transportation and high technology. Unlike the mitigation zone outside the walled city, it was backward and full of dangers. One day, crazy polluted creatures might break in and kill her.
Even if there was a stationed mercenary team patrolling back and forth, there was no guarantee that everyone would be rescued in time.
So they could only resign themselves to fate and pray that the polluting organisms would retreat.
This world was also very similar to Earth, but it had unfortunately encountered the doomsday crisis of poisonous mist radiation. Even without zombies, the radiation pollution had caused animals and plants to mutate, and the human living space had quickly deteriorated.
Poisonous mist radiation spread across the land, polluting even the air.
Countless people died, but some survived.
People had adapted to the harsh conditions.
The world was plagued by poisonous mist radiation, but some humans survived with grit and determination. They altered their surroundings and adjusted to the new reality.
This marked the beginning of the wasteland era.
A unified base was built and a safe zone was created to fend off the attacks of polluted creatures.
Life went on like this for hundreds of years.
But the living environment changed.
Most of the plants and animals that used to be edible had mutated due to the poisonous mist radiation and became toxic. Only a few could still be consumed, but they had to be tested by a detector.
Water was the only thing that remained uncontaminated.
Otherwise, humans would have no chance of survival, no matter how resilient they were.
Ye Sheng thought of this and rubbed her empty stomach. Food was scarce and precious, and she was so hungry that she felt like eating dirt.
But even the soil was tainted by the poisonous mist radiation. She had to use a detector to test it before she could eat it...
Ye Sheng felt like crying.
She had been an ordinary male high school student.
Before she came to this world, she had a happy family and good grades. She was about to take the college entrance exam and enjoy her college life.
But now she was stuck here, barely surviving.
Zhou Lin saw Ye Sheng's hopeless expression, and she, who had been sulking and angry, softened a bit. She awkwardly patted Ye Sheng's back and said comfortingly: "Shengsheng, you have to be strong and live well!"
"Yeah, I will."
Ye Sheng sighed inwardly, not knowing if she was lucky or unlucky.
She had transmigrated to this world just a few days after Ye Sheng's parents had been killed by polluted creatures while looking for edible plants in the wilderness.
The original Ye Sheng, was just a little adult, she had been so scared that she had died on the spot.
It was then that she had taken over.
She didn't have any memories of the original Ye Sheng, so she was clueless. Luckily, Zhou Lin, the youngest daughter of the Zhou family next door, had patiently explained everything to her, and she had learned about this post-apocalyptic world.
She couldn't change what had happened, so she had to accept that she had become a girl.
Under normal circumstances, she might have trouble accepting it. After all, a handsome boy had turned into a little girl... But now that she was starving, she had no energy to think about anything else.
Her expectations were not high.
She just wanted to stay alive.
When her parents had died, she had inherited nothing but a shabby shack and a finger-sized tube of nutrient solution.
That nutrient solution could only keep her full for a day.
So Ye Sheng, who had been hungry for two days and only had enough water, had no choice but to go out and look for food. Even though her legs were weak, she had to follow the others and pick up trash.
That's right, just picking up trash.
Today was the day when the safe zone dumped trash once a month.
The poor people in the mitigation zone formed a team and went to the garbage dump to look for anything useful before it was destroyed and burned.
The safe zone was divided into numerical zones, with zones 1 to 5 belonging to the central zone.
Zones 6 to 10 were the inner city sectors, while zones 11 to 18 were the outer city sectors.
Beyond the fence that surrounded the safe zone, there was the mitigation zone, which resembled a slum. There was no guarantee of safety there... If the polluted creatures launched a raid on the safe zone, the people in the mitigation zone would be the first to die.
It was hard to accept this reality.
In this merciless world, food was the ultimate temptation.
If they couldn't bear this injustice, they had to earn enough money to buy a house in the safe zone. But the credits needed to buy a house were astronomical. The cheapest one in zone 18 in the outer city started at one million credits... They might as well dream on, nothing would happen in their dreams.
They just focused on the present and worked hard to fill their stomachs.
The garbage from all sectors of the safe zone was transported to the garbage dump. Even the trash discarded by the powerful people in the central zone was very valuable!
"I hope I can find something good this time. Shengsheng, you have to be quick later. If you're slow, others will get the good stuff."
Zhou Lin talked nonstop, and she didn't forget to fantasize. For example, if she found unused energy stones, she could go to the swap shop to trade them for some starchy fruits, and she would be full!
The nutrient solution tasted awful. Where could she find delicious food?
As she spoke, a loud bang sounded, and the door to the garbage dump opened.
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1) Short winter melon - It is used for short people. It's a affection slang.
2) Hit chestnut hard - It's like hitting on forehead by finger it can be in anger or affection or frustrated. Here it can said it's not in hate or anger.
Starcat
It is a translation
Original name - 甜妹捡的小可怜竟是凶残恶毒美人
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Starcat
Starcat
It is a translation
Original name - 甜妹捡的小可怜竟是凶残恶毒美人
Author- 终点之后
Original name - 甜妹捡的小可怜竟是凶残恶毒美人
Author- 终点之后