Chapter 1: Transmigration To Another World
Su Ran was woken up by the cold.
The campfire beside her had long since extinguished. She was lying on her side on the sleeping bag, looking at the pile of dark gray ashes, dazed for two seconds, then suddenly woke up completely.
The multi-functional watch on her wrist showed it was now 7:30 in the morning. Through the gaps in the densely packed branches she had piled up at the cave entrance, she could feel that it was already bright outside.
Sitting up from the sleeping bag, she couldn’t help but tighten the clothes on her body.
She didn’t know if it was because of the season or if this place was just like that, but the day-night temperature difference in this mountain was very large.
She sat in place clear-headed for a few seconds, then turned around and took the hiking backpack beside her.
There were many things in the backpack, but not much food left that could be eaten.
When the team planned this hiking trip, the estimated time was about two weeks.
The time wasn’t particularly long, but it was Su Ran’s first time participating in such an activity, and they were going to a sparsely populated mountain area, so just in case, she specially bought a set of outdoor adventure tool kit.
A whole backpack of tools, plus enough food for two weeks, made it bulging inside and out, and she was even mocked by the veteran team members for having as many supplies as a poor student with lots of stationery.
But now this backpack of things could save her life.
She counted the food still left in the backpack.
Two packs of military rations, two loose satsuma cakes, half a bag of beef jerky granules, a few small spicy strips, and six small ham sausages.
Oh, and a bottle of tea leaves in a chewing gum can.
That was originally what she planned to share with her teammates during the trip.
Now she could only enjoy it herself.
There was still a little less than half of the water left in the portable thermos, which she had poured in after boiling it in the stainless steel tea cup yesterday.
Su Ran ate a piece of satsuma cake and a ham sausage with this bit of hot water, then chewed the chewing gum that came with the military rations, and began to pack her things.
She was preparing to leave here.
Today was the fourth day she had lost contact with the team, and also the fourth day she had arrived in this world.
She was now completely certain that she had transmigrated.
She had only fallen a dozen meters behind the main group, and when she emerged from the dense woods, she inexplicably arrived in this even more vast forest.
The thick, rotting black leaves under her feet that were as big as basketballs, the enormous thick trees overhead whose crowns could not be seen, the small animals jumping around on the trees that she had never seen before, and that day by the distant riverside, the fierce beast like a pig but also like an elephant with a tiger-like mouth full of teeth.
Su Ran still remembered the fear she felt that day when she saw that animal, her feet going cold and unable to move.
At that moment, regret, fear, terror, and confusion almost surged into her brain all at once.
She regretted why her curiosity was so strong that she participated in this not-so-easy outdoor activity, and regretted even more why she fell so far behind the team just to take a photo of a bird.
She thought that she might not even be on Earth anymore now.
By the time she came back to her senses, the fierce beast by the riverside had disappeared without a trace, while she herself had broken out in a cold sweat in the most comfortable afternoon temperature of the day in this world.
Four days was enough time for her to recognize her current situation.
The situation couldn’t get any worse.
After confirming that she was no longer in the original world and couldn’t find a way back for the time being, the first priority was to survive.
The cave she was in now was one she found on the evening of the day she arrived in this woods.
Although it could serve as a temporary shelter, it wasn’t suitable for long-term living.
Su Ran didn’t know how the seasons changed here, but these past few days, the ten-degree temperature difference between morning and evening made her start to worry about the direction of the current season—whether it was about to enter winter or had just come out of winter into spring.
If winter was coming next, she would probably die in the unknown cold winter even if she could survive now!
Moreover, this cave was too small; the distance from the entrance to the stone wall inside was less than two meters deep, and the widest part inside was only a little over one meter.
This depth not only couldn’t keep out beasts, it probably couldn’t block the cold air of winter either.
After all, the current morning and evening low temperatures were already unbearable for her, who was only wearing a short-sleeved shirt and a stormsuit.
She rolled up the sleeping bag laid on the ground and put it away. These past few nights, she didn’t dare sleep inside the sleeping bag, afraid that if a beast broke in, she would become a turtle in a jar inside it.
Although even outside the sleeping bag, she probably couldn’t escape when facing a beast, people always need to give themselves a bit of hope.
She tied the packed sleeping bag on top of the backpack. After more than a week of journey, the food in the backpack was almost eaten up, and the weight had decreased a lot.
Now, besides that bit of food left in the backpack, the rest were the tools from the survival gear tool kit she bought.
Su Ran was now extremely grateful that when setting out, she brought everything from the kit intact, not even sparing the most inconspicuous paperclips or the simple fishing kit that probably wouldn’t be used in the mountains.
These things might seem insignificant, but at this time, they seemed extremely precious.
After packing the sleeping bag, she stuffed the large stainless steel tea cup, whose bottom had been burned black from use as a pot, into the backpack. Su Ran shouldered the backpack, slung the thermos diagonally on her body, then took the multi-functional entrenching tool switched to the hoe side in her right hand, bent over and walked to the cave entrance, and carefully looked at the situation outside through the gaps in the branches.
It was very quiet outside, with occasional unknown birdsong. Looking out through the gaps, she could only see rows of giant trees nearly one meter in diameter, standing quietly on the ground, extending into the depths.
She took a deep breath, silently giving herself encouragement in her heart, then raised the entrenching pickaxe, pushed down the branches piled at the cave entrance, and walked out.
It was already 8 a.m., and the temperature was slightly warmer than when Su Ran had just woken up.
The cave entrance she was at now was a bit below the mountainside of this mountain range. The mountain wasn’t high and didn’t look too difficult to climb.
However, the weeds on the mountain that looked half human-height would slow down her climbing speed.
Su Ran looked up at the mountaintop for a while, thought for a moment, then turned and walked toward one side of the mountain range.
This stretch of road was overgrown with weeds, but it wasn’t too hard to walk.
Because these past few days she had walked this way almost every day, the weeds on the path had been knocked open by her entrenching pickaxe, faintly forming the appearance of a small path if walked a few more days.
The end of the path was a pool, and above the pool was a gully where streams converged and wound down from the mountain.
Going up from here was much gentler and easier than climbing directly up from near the cave.
Su Ran looked at the slope of the gully above, without hesitation, and began to climb up.
She needed to climb to a higher place first to see the terrain of the forest below her feet, then decide which direction to go.
Although the animals and plants growing here were very different from those in her original world, Su Ran still held expectations that, what if this world also had human society?
