A Heart Transplant

As the Super Soldier Company talked, Yun Ming's simulation continued to advance.

Rage flared in your heart, urging you to fight the squad leader who had humiliated you to the death. But reason told you that once you made a move, the consequences would be unbearable. You chose to endure for the time being, burying your anger deep inside.

During that month in the Military Camp, you felt as though you were trapped in a swamp. You gained nothing, yet suffered the squad leader's bullying every day. You began to think of escape and even entertained the idea of secretly harming those in your squad to take revenge.

You planned to poison them and prepared to visit the Medicine Hall to buy arsenic. However, just as you were about to act, the Military Camp suddenly received a conscription order.

Mobei was urgently stockpiling supplies for the winter. With the powerful Jin Kingdom to the east, Mobei had no choice but to raid the Qi Kingdom to the west. Your unit was an irregular force, with neither armor nor regular training. You knew this expedition was fraught with danger, but you also saw an opportunity to earn merit.

Ideals were beautiful, but reality was harsh.

Half a month later, your unit encountered a thousand-strong force of Mobei Iron Cavalry. Before the battle even began, the unit completely collapsed, and everyone fled in panic.

The Mobei Iron Cavalry grinned savagely, raised their sabers, and charged toward you on horseback. The yellow sand kicked up by their hooves swept the fleeing Qi Army into its midst like a sandstorm.

On the screen, the thunder of hooves shook the heavens as yellow sand filled the air.

The Hu Cavalry swept in like a raging storm, devouring the fleeing Qi Army soldiers ahead one after another.

"Squelch!"

As sabers flashed, blood splashed like blooming red flowers. The Qi Army soldiers ran in blind panic, their bodies stained with blood and mud, their faces twisted in terror as they repeatedly cried for mercy.

Some soldiers even fell to their knees, pressing their palms together as they begged the Hu Cavalry for mercy.

But the only answer they received was the cold edge of sabers and the trampling of hooves.

"Hahahaha!"

Wild, cruel laughter echoed among the Hu Cavalry as they celebrated this bloody slaughter.

The sky was dark and overcast. Across the desolate earth, spears and swords lay broken and shattered. Severed limbs and heads rolled into corners everywhere. Those unclosed eyes still stared fixedly at one corner of the sky, telling of endless resentment and despair.

Blood flowed into rivers, and corpses carpeted the ground. This brutal battle seemed to have turned the human world into hell.

"This is simply too cruel!"

"It's unbelievably bloody. I can barely stand to look at it!"

"They didn't even censor it! This is unbearable!"

The Blue Star People outside the screen had never seen such a brutal slaughter with cold weapons. Fear rose in their hearts, and it seemed as though they could smell the thick scent of blood in the air.

Qiang Wei of the Super Soldier Company looked livid as she cursed furiously, "They deserved it! They broke down in fear the moment they saw the enemy. So what if they ran fast? They still got slaughtered with ease!"

Qi Lin gritted her teeth as well and said indignantly, "I said long ago that these troops were useless. Tyrants at home, cowards outside—they're no better than a bunch of street thugs. Their total annihilation was their own doing."

As a liberal arts student, Ge Xiaolun felt that this was his time to show off. He pretended to ponder before saying, "Fleeing upon seeing the enemy is the highest form of courage. Fleeing at the sound of danger is middling courage. Fleeing over a mistaken alarm is lesser courage. This army only fled after seeing the enemy, which is already quite remarkable."

"Cut the bullshit. Can you just shut up?"

A barrage of scolding immediately rained down on him.

Ge Xiaolun: "."

"I'm more curious about what happened to the protagonist." Zhao Xin stared at the screen, full of doubt. "Will he escape death?"

The next second, Zhao Xin's eyes widened as he cried out, "Th-This... his heart got pierced right through? Isn't he the protagonist?"

On the screen, the protagonist was covered in blood, his heart viciously pierced by a long spear, pinning him to a large tree. Clearly, the Hu Cavalry had impaled him with the spear before brutally nailing him to the tree.

The protagonist hung his head low, blood streaming from his mouth as the world before his eyes grew darker and darker.

At that critical moment between life and death, a blurry figure appeared before him—a woman with flowing purple hair.

With only a faint breath left, Simulation Yun Ming trembled as he raised a hand. His desire to live made him weakly call out, "Save me..."

As soon as the words left his mouth, the screen was suddenly swallowed by darkness, as if foretelling the protagonist's death.

Your heart was pierced by the Hu Cavalry's spear. Gravely wounded, you were on the verge of death.

At that desperate moment, a Heretical Doctor happened to pass by. She was collecting corpses for research when she heard your cry. Seeing that your chest had been pierced through yet you still retained a trace of life, she was greatly astonished. She decided to give you a chance at survival.

Using her unique medical skills, the Heretical Doctor gave you a new heart and pulled you back from death's grasp.

Yun Ming blinked, a suspicion rising in his heart. "Could that have been the legendary Zombie Ancestor Jiang Chen?"

That blurry, purple-haired woman, coupled with the heart-transplant plot, immediately made him think of the mysterious and unpredictable Zombie Ancestor Jiang Chen from the original work.

"This luck is way too insane."

Yun Ming had once thought that this simulation was about to end, but he had never expected such a dramatic reversal.

He turned his gaze back to the screen and, sure enough, it lit up again, displaying a new scene.

His simulated self slowly sat up from the bed, white bandages wrapped around his left chest. He looked somewhat weak.

"You're finally awake. Otherwise, I really would have lost my patience."

A careless voice rang out. A Purple-Haired Woman with skin as smooth as jade and enchanting eyes slowly emerged from the darkness. Her appearance seemed to add a touch of brightness to the dim space.

"Kid, you really are hard to kill." Jiang Chen spoke blandly. "I didn't expect this heart transplant to actually succeed."

"A heart transplant?" Yun Ming in reality was startled and asked in disbelief.

"That's right. This is your heart." Jiang Chen casually waved a hand, drawing an exquisite box to her from afar before tossing it to Yun Ming. "It's already been cleaned. Take a look."

Simulation Yun Ming carefully opened the box. A shriveled heart, torn open by a huge gash, came into view. The horrifying sight made his heart skip a beat.

Outside the screen, countless viewers were also stunned by this sudden development.

"A heart transplant? How is that possible?"

"Judging by the setting, this should be a feudal era, right? How could they have such an advanced heart-transplant surgery?"

"That trick of retrieving something from afar just now proves this definitely isn't some ordinary feudal society."

"Can they censor this? Looking at it makes me feel sick!"

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The viewers discussed it heatedly, shocked and curious about this sudden twist and astonishing development.

On the screen.

"Although I gave you a new heart, that doesn't mean you're safe and sound. Your original heart is gone. You could say that you are now incomplete. You must replace your heart once every three months."

Zombie Ancestor Jiang Chen spoke unhurriedly, her tone carrying a trace of coldness and indifference. "Saving your life was already an act of great mercy on my part. As for replacing your heart every three months, where would I find the time? Even if I had the time, I couldn't guarantee it would succeed every time."