Hard Work Makes Me Stronger, but a Reborn Exposed Me!
Chapter 1

Reborn Su Qingxue!

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Northwest Military Region.

An underground secret base.

Su Qingxue sat in a specially crafted alloy chair.

Her wrists were locked tight in heavy shackles.

Opposite her.

Two military interrogators in regular uniforms sat upright.

Chief interrogator Zhang Hao stared fixedly at Su Qingxue, his fingers tapping on the tabletop.

"Three months ago."

"You single-handedly broke into a restricted military zone."

"On the day of your arrest, you confessed to five things."

"Crude oil futures in South America plummeted."

"A glacier fracture in Northern Europe triggered a tsunami."

"A localized armed conflict broke out between two countries in the Middle East."

"An unprecedented mega forest fire suddenly broke out in Kangaroo Country."

"And... a magnitude 7 earthquake occurred on our country's southwestern border."

"..."

With every item Zhang Hao read out, his tone grew a fraction heavier.

Fine beads of sweat had already seeped onto recorder Li Ming's forehead.

It was too bizarre.

These five events spanned finance, natural disasters, and international politics.

They had no connection whatsoever.

Yet over the past ninety days.

All five prophecies had come true, down to the exact detail.

"What intelligence organization do you belong to, exactly?"

"Did you people plan these things in advance?"

"Or have you mastered some kind of superweapon capable of interfering with the global situation?"

Zhang Hao's reasoning was entirely logical.

No one could predict the future.

The only explanation was that the organization behind this woman was manipulating it all.

Su Qingxue raised her eyelids, her gaze sweeping across the two men.

Her voice was slightly hoarse, yet it carried an unquestionable coldness.

"I've explained countless times."

"I don't have an organization."

"I came back from eighty years in the future."

"I am someone who has been reborn."

Zhang Hao slammed a hand down on the table.

"Cut the hocus-pocus!"

"Time travel? Rebirth?"

"Do you take this place for a Hollywood movie set?"

Li Ming also hurriedly flipped open a thick dossier, attempting to find loopholes in Su Qingxue's words.

Su Qingxue leaned back against the chair and closed her eyes.

It was useless.

It was simply impossible to explain things to people living in this era of peace.

They had no idea what kind of despair humanity would face eighty years later.

Mountains and rivers shattered, civilization fractured.

In a boundless sea of blood, there were only the severed limbs and broken arms of humanity.

"I want to see the highest-ranking officer here."

"I've said it many times."

"Send someone with stars on their shoulders to talk to me."

"As for future events, the two of you are too low-ranking to have any right to intervene."

A moment later.

Su Qingxue opened her eyes again, her tone extremely tough.

"A general with stars?"

"Who do you think you are?"

"Today, you must clearly explain the source of your intelligence!"

Hearing this, Zhang Hao laughed out of anger.

Su Qingxue stopped speaking and simply closed her eyes.

No matter how hard Zhang Hao pressed and interrogated her, she remained like a stubborn stone, completely unresponsive.

The interrogation fell into a stalemate.

Time ticked away second by second.

Just at that moment, a soft electronic lock release sound suddenly came from the heavy metal door of the interrogation room.

Click.

The door opened.

Zhang Hao and Li Ming turned around at the same time, preparing to angrily scold whoever dared to barge in.

"General!"

Yet the instant they clearly saw the newcomer, the two men abruptly stood up and simultaneously saluted with a standard Military Salute.

The person who walked in was a vigorous and spirited elderly man.

His crisp military uniform and the dazzling golden star on his shoulder proclaimed his status as a general.

The elderly man waved his hand, signaling the two to lower their hands.

Behind him, two close Guard armed with loaded weapons also followed.

Hearing the commotion, Su Qingxue opened her eyes as well.

When she clearly saw the elderly man's face, her pupils contracted slightly.

"Nie Dingguo, General Nie."

Su Qingxue directly called out the other person's name.

"You two go outside first."

Nie Dingguo pulled out a chair, sat down opposite Su Qingxue, and gently waved his hand.

"General, this woman is extremely dangerous and has undergone very professional anti-interrogation training..." Zhang Hao hesitated somewhat.

"Out."

Nie Dingguo's voice was not loud, yet it carried an unchallengeable majesty.

Zhang Hao and Li Ming could only pack up the case files and exit the interrogation room.

The door closed once more.

Inside the room, only Nie Dingguo, the two Guard, and Su Qingxue remained.

Nie Dingguo crossed his hands on the tabletop, his profound gaze appraising the young woman before him.

"You know me."

Nie Dingguo spoke.

"The supreme commander of the Dragon Country Northwest Military Region."

"Eighty years from now, your name is engraved on the Yanjing Monument to the People's Heroes."

Su Qingxue smiled.

"You keep insisting that you come from eighty years in the future."

"And the five things you prophesied three months ago have indeed allowed you to prove your worth."

"Now I am here."

"You can confess now."

Nie Dingguo narrowed his eyes slightly.

He was an extremely pragmatic man.

He did not care whether the other party was truly a rebirth traveler.

He only valued the accuracy of intelligence.

Since the first five predictions had all come true.

Then this woman definitely held extremely astonishing secrets in her hands.

"Six months from now."

"Spiritual Energy Revival will happen globally."

"The ecosystem of the entire Blue Star will be completely subverted."

Su Qingxue looked straight into Nie Dingguo's eyes.

The interrogation room was dead silent.

Nie Dingguo did not refute her immediately.

The two Guard, however, exchanged glances, both feeling that this woman had lost her mind.

Spiritual energy revival?

Wasn't this just some made-up plot from web novels?

"Tell me in detail."

Nie Dingguo's expression remained unchanged, as if he were listening to an ordinary combat intelligence report.

"There is a high-dimensional energy in the universe, which we will call spiritual energy in the future."

"Six months from now, this energy will flood into Blue Star in massive quantities."

"All animals and plants will undergo crazy mutations."

"Docile house cats will turn into three-meter-long bloodthirsty Ferocious Beasts."

"Tigers in zoos will even be able to shatter the armor of main battle tanks with a single slap."

"We call them Ferocious Beasts."

"Conventional thermal weapons are still somewhat useful against Low-Tier Ferocious Beasts."

"But in front of High-Tier Ferocious Beasts, missiles and nuclear weapons are nothing more than fireworks."

"..."

Su Qingxue spoke at a very fast pace.

Yet Nie Dingguo frowned.

He had originally thought he would hear top-secret intelligence regarding great power games.

Instead, it turned out to be a sci-fi doomsday drama.

"Miss Su."

"My time is very precious."

"If you only plan to tell me bedtime stories, our conversation ends here."

Nie Dingguo's tone grew cold.

Su Qingxue understood.

Words alone carried no proof.

Things that violated modern physics common sense were hard to make these iron-blooded soldiers believe.

Subsequently.

Su Qingxue glanced at the heavy, pure iron interrogation table in front of her.

"General Nie."

"I will prove to you right now what the power after the Spiritual Energy Revival is like."

As soon as her voice fell.

Su Qingxue suddenly raised both hands.

The two Guard instantly drew their sidearms.

The pitch-black muzzles pointed straight at Su Qingxue's glabella.

"Don't move!"

The Guard shouted.

Nie Dingguo raised his hand, signaling the Guard not to fire.

Su Qingxue paid no attention to the muzzles at all.

She mobilized the meager energy within her dantian.

Three months had passed since her rebirth.

Although the spiritual energy had not yet fully erupted.

Extremely thin spiritual energy was already dissipating into the air.

Relying on her extremely rich cultivation experience from her past life.

Su Qingxue had already barely touched the threshold of martial arts.

The next moment.

Power gathered in her right palm.

Su Qingxue struck the pure iron tabletop in front of her with a single palm strike.

Bang!

That interrogation table, cast from raw iron, actually caved in from the middle under this palm strike.

Immediately following.

A piercing metallic tearing sound rang out.

The edges of the tabletop shattered like a spiderweb and directly collapsed to the ground.

The interrogation room fell into a dead silence.

The eyeballs of the two Guard were practically popping out.

Was this something a human being could possibly do?

That was solid raw iron!

Even if one used a heavy sledgehammer to smash it with full force, it would at most leave a white dent.

She used her bare palms to shatter an iron table directly?

Nie Dingguo remained seated in his chair.

However, his hands were gripping the armrests of the chair so tightly that his knuckles had turned white.

Because the scene before his eyes had completely shattered the materialist worldview he had upheld for decades.

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