57: Chapter 57 Second Simulation: Starting from a Seaside Fishing Village

[ Current Available Simulations: 2 ]

[ Start Simulation? ]

Su Fan chose [ Yes ] without hesitation.

[ Searching for Transmigration anchor point... ]

[ Locking onto anchor point... ]

[ Simulation starting... ]

[ Loading world background... ]

[ Current World Background: True Martial World ]

[ Generating traits. Trait Ranks are: White, Green, Blue, Red, Purple, Gold ]

[ Trait generation complete. Please select three traits as the character talents for this simulation. ]

Poverty (White): You grew up in a poor family, struggling to get enough to eat. In years of famine, your family would be at risk of starving to death, but poverty can better temper a person's will.

Strategizing (Blue): You contemplate within the tent, possessing your own universe of ideas. You can secure victory from a thousand miles away, mastering the overall situation with outstanding wisdom.

Survivor (Purple): In this simulation, there will always be certain factors that keep you from dying, unless you choose to die voluntarily...

"Sigh, there's no time left, I'll just go with these three!"

Su Fan gave them a quick glance, not bothering to look at the rest. Without a second thought, he selected these three traits...

The body of Qin Xiaoxiao in his arms was still warm, and she still had a breath of life left.

He had to hurry into the simulation, come back out, obtain the guaranteed reward [ hunyuan bead ], and save Qin Xiaoxiao...

Therefore, he didn't want to waste even a single second!

[ Trait selection complete. Start simulation? ]

"Start, start, hurry up and start!"

Su Fan urged anxiously, repeatedly reminding himself: "Live for 15 years, live for 15 years..."

[ Gentle Reminder: To alleviate the host's anxiety and ensure the host's well-being, some of your real-world memories will be withheld during this life simulation. They will be fully restored upon returning to the real world. ]

[ The time flow rate for this simulation is 15x. The simulation officially begins... ]

Immediately after, the familiar sensation of consciousness detaching, the familiar experience of being pulled into some indescribable vortex...

Who knows how much time had passed...

His mind was in a state of Chaos, and he opened his eyes groggily.

"Big brother, are you awake?"

Looking at the raggedly dressed girl in front of him, she looked only six or seven years old, with an innocent face, dirty, and bubbling with snot...

Su Fan only felt his head throbbing; he couldn't remember many things.

"Earth... My name is Su Fan... Must survive for 15 years..."

That was all he remembered.

He couldn't remember anything else.

Su Fan slowly sat up and was shocked to find that he was in a dilapidated room. The room was bare, without any decent furniture...

Just now, he had been lying on a simple wooden bed. The bed was only covered with straw, and the pillow was something picked up from who knows where, covered in over a dozen patches, and the tattered clothes on his body were also covered in patches...

Looking at the dirty girl with snot bubbles in front of him, Su Fan rubbed his head and asked her: "Who are you? Why am I here?"

"Big brother, did you forget? When we were begging, we got beaten up. You were hit in the head by someone with a rock, but don't be afraid, I stitched it up for you..."

Su Fan touched the back of his head—holy crap, his hand was covered in blood!

His head had really been smashed by someone?

This little girl had stitched it up for him?

Just now, feeling it, it seemed like she had stitched it several times. The key was, stitching it like that, wouldn't it get infected?

Never mind that for now, first figure out where he was.

"You just called me big brother?"

Su Fan looked at the little girl again.

Only then did he realize—holy crap, his limbs were so short!

Only then did he discover that his own body was also that of a little brat, at most ten years old!

"Big brother, are you okay? You didn't... get amnesia from being hit in the head, did you?"

The little girl stretched out a dirty hand and touched Su Fan's forehead, as if measuring his temperature, though she didn't seem to know what she was checking for...

And just then, a surge of memories washed into Su Fan's mind like a tide...

"True Martial World... The world is filled with True Qi, and everyone takes pride in becoming a warrior..."

"This is a small fishing village in the east of the Shanhai Principality..."

"My name is Su Fan. My family was poor since I was young. My parents and elders all died in the famine. The government used 'Sea Monsters eating people' as an excuse to seal off the sea, not allowing fishermen to fish more than five miles out..."

"And my family's fishing boat was also confiscated because we couldn't pay the fishing tax..."

"The one in front of me is my little sister. Her name is Su Ying, nickname Yingzi. Today we went to the small town to beg, were driven away, and my head was cracked open..."

...

After digesting this massive amount of information.

Su Fan finally understood his situation.

However, wait...

"Simulation, fifteen years..."

"Right, I am in a simulation world, I need to live for 15 years!"

But, why do I need to live for 15 years?

Why don't I have any memory of it?

Why can't I remember it!?

Sigh, let's not think about that for now...

While contemplating, Su Fan suddenly heard a rumbling sound coming from the little girl's stomach, so he reached out and touched his little sister's head: "Yingzi, are you hungry?"

The little girl nodded.

Then she pointed at Su Fan's stomach: "Big brother, your stomach is thundering too!"

Su Fan listened, and it was true; his own stomach was also staging an 'Empty Fort Strategy'?

Wait, Empty Fort Strategy? Stomach thundering...

Tummy-wummy is thundering!

Thunder-wunder is hitting the tummy!

...What kind of strange memories are these!

However, when people are hungry, they don't have too many thoughts; being able to fill one's stomach is the greatest desire.

Su Fan endured the pain in his head and walked to the corner, opened the earthenware jar used to store grain, and took a look. The jar was empty; there was nothing inside.

"Sigh, I must first find a way to solve the food and clothing problem."

Su Fan took Su Ying and walked out of the house. Looking around, the entire fishing village had many such thatched cottages, and not far away was the vast, boundless ocean...

The fishermen relied on fishing for a living, and many fishing boats were docked at the shore.

"Big brother, the fish within 5 miles of the shore have long been fished clean, not even the fry are left..."

Yingzi followed behind Su Fan with snot running, holding a stick and waving it around. Her young face was sallow, looking pitiful.

Su Fan still walked to the seashore.

A fisherman uncle saw how pitiful he was and handed him some fish fry as big as little fingers. These fish were a bit like bitterlings, with big heads and not much meat on their bodies.

"Brother Fan, this is all there is. This is what we eat too..."

The fisherman uncle pointed to the open-air stove to show Su Fan; what was boiling in the pot were also these kinds of small fish fry.

Su Fan noticed that the fishermen here didn't even have salt; they just boiled them in clear water and then added some perilla leaves before eating...

Su Fan accepted these few small fish fry, wrapped them in perilla leaves, said thank you, and then continued to the seashore...

Yingzi followed behind his butt the whole way, like a little tagalong...

After searching the seashore for a while, Su Fan didn't have any harvest and was just about to turn and leave...

Suddenly at this moment, he saw densely packed protrusions on a large rock, and his eyes lit up instantly!

"It's barnacles!"