HBWnovel Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Headache, dizziness, nausea, limb weakness, palpitations.
Jian Jing had just woken up from unconsciousness and found herself in the above five terrible states. There was a lot of water in her ears, muffled, her head dizzy and unable to think clearly. She instinctively wanted to struggle to sit up, but her limbs did not have any strength.
What's wrong with me? No, didn't I die?
She clearly remembered the moment when the knife cut through the flesh, the human body did not feel pain, only an enormous fear pressed down like Mount Tai, the chest full of panic and despair.
How did this happen? Did I die or was I saved?
[Warning, warning, indoor carbon monoxide content exceeds standard, host mildly poisoned, expected to lose consciousness in 2 minutes. After testing, the situation matches the activation conditions, now issuing an emergency task]
Such a voice rang in Jian Jing's mind. In the urgent need for survival, she was too busy to be surprised and was completely attracted by the content.
Soon, a panel jumped into her mind.
[Task Name: Escape Suicide Chamber]
[Task Description: Leave this enclosed room with too high carbon monoxide concentration]
[Task Reward and Punishment: Successful reward courage value 10 points, failure and you die]
In an instant, a lot of words poured in. Under normal circumstances, it would take a few seconds to understand and digest. But the system appeared directly in her mind, she understood all the content instantly without needing to read and analyze.
Jian Jing almost instantly realized that she had carbon monoxide poisoning!
The threat of death caused adrenaline to secrete rapidly. Her soft legs, even though unable to stand upright, barely supported her body.
Jian Jing crawled and kneeled, stumbled to the door.
She forced the door handle down and pulled inward, but the door just wouldn't open. After feeling it carefully, she realized that transparent tape had been pasted all over the door gap and bottom.
This was a sealed room.
Her vision spun and flipped, stars flashing before her eyes, her head muddled and about to plunge into darkness at any time.
She held her breath, gritted her teeth, and desperately scratched the edges of the tape with her fingernails.
The action was too violent. Her fingernails split and the nerve endings felt tremendous pain, but she showed no sign of stopping or reducing. On the contrary, the pain made her even more awake.
Jian Jing knew she had to tear off the tape at all costs, otherwise not only her hands, even her life would be lost here.
She frantically tore and finally tore off the tape at the bottom.
But this little fresh air was negligible, and the intense exercise just now made her inhale more air containing carbon monoxide, the weakness in her limbs further intensified.
Her fingers disobeyed orders, she even felt blurred about where her hands and feet were.
Give up. It's too late.
No.
Jian Jing bit her tongue, desperately telling herself not to give up. She had died once already, she didn't want to experience the despair of death again.
With the strong will to survive, she recovered some ability to think. She lay at the bottom of the door gap and took a deep breath of fresh air outside, then held her breath tightly.
She hooked both hands on the door handle, barely crawled up, braced her feet against the door frame, and pulled the door inward with all her might.
The adhesive strength of the tape was limited. Under such crazy pulling, it inevitably peeled off partially.
Unable to see exactly where the tape was, she scraped randomly. More fingernails split and her fingertips oozed blood, but the effect was gratifying, with several more sections of tape torn off.
She leaned close to the weak airflow at the door gap, inhaled, held her breath, and repeated the process.
[System warning: 30 seconds left before losing consciousness, countdown 29, 28, 27...]
Jian Jing erupted with unprecedented power. Her five fingers firmly gripped the handle, her leg muscles exerted force, and she kicked the door with all her might.
Snap.
The tape was pulled open.
Ghostwriting and plagiarism were unforgivable sins.
She was devastated.
When Jian Jing was reborn, it was the scene of her parallel world self's suicide.
After seeing these reports, she naturally had some doubts - the her in the other world was mediocre, and the web novels she wrote were always lukewarm at best. Could the her in this world really have become a genius?
She went to check "White Cat Detective".
It was a light fantasy story about a girl who saved an alien white cat and accidentally obtained the cat's abilities. Her agility became extremely flexible, she could climb trees and freerun effortlessly, and her sense of smell also became very keen, able to smell odors ordinary humans could not detect.
With these skills, she became a super awesome detective and cracked many complex cases.
The familiar writing style, the familiar brain holes, no one knew herself better than she did. Jian Jing was certain that White Cat was her own work, and the her in the other world had written this story too.
But she was in junior high at the time, and her parents did not want her to be distracted writing these things, so she gave up.
Destiny forked here. The her in the other world did not give up, but completed the story and polished it before submitting it to the publisher.
The publisher had keen insight, and accepted this manuscript.
Thus a new star rose.
Of course, the success here was not only Jian Jing's personal reason, but also closely related to the different developmental context of the two worlds.
But in any case, Jian Jing could confirm that White Cat was her own work, and ghostwriting was fabricated out of thin air.
This was a tragedy.
Unfortunately, what's done cannot be undone.
Jian Jing timely adjusted her low mood and began to consider another important matter.
What was that system ringing in her mind?
[Hello host, welcome to use this system. The system defaults to smart mode, concentrate and you can activate it]
[Emergency task completed, please collect your reward as soon as possible]
As expected of a smart system, it came when called, neither silly nor aloof, super beginner-friendly.
Jian Jing thought for a moment, and tried to convey information: "Where are you from, why did you choose me, what price do I need to pay to bind you, can I unbind?"
[Detection shows that the host's ability to survive in this world is weak. This system will provide guidance to the host and help the host have a healthy life.]
[No price needs to be paid to bind the system. When the system detects that the host has the ability to live independently, it will automatically unbind.]
Jian Jing couldn't help but wonder: "I'm fully able-bodied with a normal mind. How do I not have the ability to live independently?"
[System review in progress, system detection accurate.]
[Emergency task completed, please collect reward as soon as possible.]
Jian Jing thought about it and followed its intention: "Collect reward."
A settlement panel jumped up in her mind.
[Emergency Task: Escape Suicide Chamber (Completed)]
[Task Reward: Courage Value 10 points, additional 50% newbie task bonus, 10 * 1.5 = 15 points]
[Note: Courage value can be used to draw cards (ordinary), consuming 5 points each time]
[Start drawing cards?]
A gacha system... won't there be in-app purchases later? Jian Jing instinctively wanted to go wash her hands, but endured.
She was still on IVs, best not to make trouble: "Yes."
[Drawing cards...]