The Cannon-Fodder Girl is Back

[Brain depositary, take it back after reading (dog head)]

[A warning that isn't really a warning (will come back to add more if I think of them later): the female protagonist is very selfish, super selfish. When poor, she looks after herself; when successful, she still looks after herself. Occasionally, she saves people she is interested in or likes (the vast majority being girls). Although a twist of fate led her to give the authorities a couple of "prophets," the heroine herself believes that her greatest contributions to the authorities and the general public are only obeying the law and clearing out monsters.]

[I wish the reader babies extreme beauty and wealth, good health, and fat wallets!]

"Damn it! Zuo Junhao, how is it you?! I f*ck your own dad--!"

Ming Jiu opened her eyes and sat up abruptly.

Then she froze--the meticulously decorated, large room in front of her was brightly lit, and she was sitting on the soft mattress, gripping the quilt tightly in her hands.

Everything before her was familiar yet unfamiliar, and it took Ming Jiu a few seconds to react--wasn't this her room? To be precise, this was her room before the apocalypse.

Yet wasn't she already dead?

Dead at the hands of her paternal cousin, Zuo Junhao--

Suddenly, a vibration mixed with a familiar ringtone rang out, and Ming Jiu almost jumped off the bed. After a good while, she found her phone from beside the pillow.

Ming Jiu picked up the phone, facial recognition unlocked successfully, and the phone screen displayed the time--January 23, 20XX, exactly 9:00 AM.

Ming Jiu swallowed hard, the fingers holding the phone trembling. She seemed to have truly been reborn, returning to seven years ago, back to half a month before the blizzard began.

She wasn't dead, she was still alive, she was back!

Ming Jiu grasped the phone tightly, her palms hurting from the sharp edges yet she didn't let go. Questions and messy memories surged into her head all at once, swelling her mind with a throbbing pain.

There was an unread message on WeChat--The World's Cutest Little Sister: [Breakfast is on the table, sister remember to eat when you wake up~]

Right, Xiao Rong, little sister!

Little sister was still alive now!

Ming Jiu practically jumped from the bed to the floor, opening the bedroom door. The house was very quiet, and the breakfast on the dining room table had gone completely cold.

It took her quite a while to remember that Xiao Rong should be taking her sign language class right now--Ming Jiu opened her phone and fumbled to make a video call to her younger sister, Ming Rong.

She could only feel at ease after seeing her little sister with her own eyes.

The video was connected quickly. First, Xiao Rong's face appeared on the screen, and then the camera shook, adding another person to the screen--a woman in her twenties.

Ming Jiu remembered her; she was Xiao Rong's and her own sign language teacher.

"Miss Ming, is there something wrong? Xiao Rong is in class. She said you weren't feeling well today, which is why you didn't accompany her here."

Ming Jiu stared at her little sister's face on the screen. Xiao Rong was only ten years old right now, untainted by the ravages of the apocalypse. Her little face was fair and tender, her eyes big and bright, and other than being a bit underweight, there was nothing wrong with her at all.

The stone in her heart dropped.

"It's nothing, Teacher, I was just a bit worried. Please continue the class, Teacher, I'll go pick her up at noon."

The video call hung up. Ming Jiu sat by the dining table, looking at the cold sandwich and boiled corn on the plate. Confirmed that Xiao Rong was fine, her attention returned once more to the matter of her "rebirth."

She died in the seventh year of the apocalypse, dying by human malice rather than natural disaster.

The one who killed her was none other than the cousin from her eldest uncle's family, Zuo Junhao.

The other party's actions were fairly swift. Before doing it, he used that deep, pleasant voice to say "I'm sorry" to her with unusual sincerity and grief, and then cleanly slit her throat.

A large amount of fresh blood gushed out, and Ming Jiu watched with her own eyes as her blood splattered onto the freshly whitewashed walls and the low ceiling, the dazzling scarlet filling her vision--she didn't feel much pain, only coldness, her vitality rapidly draining away. In less than a few minutes, she was completely dead.

Aside from feeling bewildered, she didn't suffer much at all.

Thinking of this, Ming Jiu couldn't help raising a hand to touch her own neck.

After death, she learned that the world she lived in was a male-protagonist apocalypse harem novel with Zuo Junhao as the protagonist.

Her consciousness awakened after she died, and flipping through this novel, she saw the plot of her own death, whereupon she immediately gave a passionate outburst--and then... and then she came back to life.

Ming Jiu frowned as she recalled the contents of the novel. She wasn't even a passerby cannon-fodder in this apocalyptic harem novel, and was only mentioned twice in the entire book.

The first time was four months before the apocalypse, when the male protagonist Zuo Junhao took time out of his busy schedule to attend the funeral of his uncle and aunt--meaning her mom and dad--and saw his "dazed and pale-faced cousin" at the funeral.

At this time, Ming Jiu didn't even deserve to have a name in this book.

The second time was when Zuo Junhao dealt her the fatal blow.

According to the novel, half a year before the apocalypse, Zuo Junhao began to frequently experience precognitive dreams about the end of the world. Being cautious, once he discovered that the disaster omens in his dreams overlapped and matched reality, he immediately set about preparing for the impending apocalypse.

The blizzard snowed continuously for half a month, and Zuo Junhao accidentally unlocked a mysterious spatial dimension. Without any hesitation, he immediately braved the freezing cold that could easily freeze a person to death, went out, and stored all the supplies he had prepared in advance and scattered across several large warehouses into his space, avoiding any loss of supplies.

After that, Zuo Junhao established a connection with the authorities relying on his supplies, leaping from a wealthy merchant to the management of City B in the capital, leading his family to safely tide over the natural disaster period.

Until the third year of the apocalypse, a large number of plants and animals mutated, and variants appeared. The world, which had just gained a breathing space from the frequent natural disasters, once again ushered in a major reshuffling.

Zuo Junhao awakened thunder and mental abilities, quickly assembling a powerful team of ability users, and decisively breaking away from the official authorities to rapidly gather resources in the drastically changing world and expand his own forces...

During this period, countless heroines endowed with both beauty and strength were conquered by Zuo Junhao's charm, crowding into his harem one after another--

And his spatial cheat came from Ming Jiu's family, being a miniature rockery ornament carved from jade.

It wasn't some antique; it was just a modern artwork that Ming Jiu bought back as a souvenir when she went traveling with her mom and dad when she was little.

At that time, the relationship between her father and her eldest uncle hadn't completely broken down, and their family hadn't moved away from City B yet, so they still had some contact during holidays and festivals. Once when Zuo Junhao came to her house as a guest, he really liked this ornament and took it away.

No one expected that this ordinary-to-the-extreme little ornament would become his reliance for rapid rise in the apocalypse.

In the 7th year of the apocalypse, Zuo Junhao saw Ming Jiu, who was still alive and well, in the City B Base.

First, he acknowledged her, and then Zuo Junhao used his connections and subordinates to investigate her. After multiple tests, when he confirmed she posed no threat, whether out of a guilty conscience or fear that the secret of his golden finger would be discovered by Ming Jiu, he decisively silenced her.

That was everything Ming Jiu had read in the novel.

Since she knew what the space was, she had to find a way to get her hands on it first; she still had half a month, so there was still time.

Ming Jiu took a deep breath, temporarily suppressing her anxiety, and picked up a sandwich from her plate to nibble on slowly, while clumsily booking the nearest flight to City B for herself and her younger sister on her phone.

The existence of the space had a massive impact on hoarding supplies and building a temporary shelter, so she had to get her hands on the space in Zuo Junhao's hands as soon as possible.

If she could successfully use the space, then the probability of her and Xiao Rong surviving in the apocalypse would increase significantly.

Even if she couldn't use it, she would rather destroy it than ever let the space fall into Zuo Junhao's hands.

No matter what, she definitely had to make a trip to City B first. As for Xiao Rong... having finally seen a living, breathing sister, Ming Jiu wished she could tie the girl to her own belt; she had never once considered the possibility of leaving her sister alone in City G while she went to City B to handle matters.

After she got her hands on the space, she would bring Xiao Rong back to hoard supplies and modify their house to cope with the extreme weather.

It wasn't that Ming Jiu didn't want to stay in City B. Compared to survivor bases in other provinces and cities, City B had always been very orderly with guaranteed safety, which was why she had tried every means possible to travel and settle down at City B Base in the fourth year of the apocalypse.

The reason she chose to return to City G to spend the early natural disasters of the apocalypse was because she didn't want to miss her own golden finger.

That's right, she had a golden finger too.

It was precisely because she had a golden finger that Ming Jiu felt her death was exceptionally aggrieved. If she had the chance, she would definitely give Zuo Junhao a couple of big slaps across the face before he made his move.

Well, it would be limited to just a couple of slaps; as an ordinary person, she simply couldn't beat an esper.

She had lived so cowardly and low-profile, cautiously scraping by for a full seven years under natural disasters and mutations, only to lose her life in the end due to the "male lead's" suspicion.

Was a golden finger amazing? As if anyone didn't have one!

Ming Jiu's golden finger was a farming system that called itself the "Super Farmer", a system she had accidentally bound to in the City G survivor base during the second year of her past life.

There was no medium, and she hadn't done anything special. At that time, she had lost her sister not long ago and was muddle-headed all day, doing hard labor and moving bricks at a base construction site. As she was moving bricks, the system's voice rang in her head.

The system was just like a farming management game she used to play; as it leveled up, it could unlock farmland, orchards, breeding areas, various factories, and a system mall. If not for the system, an ordinary person like her with no combat strength, no espers, and no special skills could never have lived to the seventh year of the apocalypse.

The only regret was that the system's appearance was a bit late; if it had been half a month earlier, Xiao Rong wouldn't have died.

Therefore, Ming Jiu did not plan to arrive early and settle in City B. For the sake of the farm system, she had to stay in City G for at least the first two years of the apocalypse.

She couldn't miss her own golden finger, and she had to get her hands on Zuo Junhao's golden finger as well!

Right at that moment, a mechanical voice devoid of any emotional fluctuation rang out clearly in Ming Jiu's mind -- [Host, are you calling me?]