“Don’t run!!”
A well-dressed adult man, running, yelled in panic, “That’s my daughter’s medical expenses! Give it back to me!!”
Not far ahead of the man, a ragged little boy clutching a black leather bag, dodged the crowd, darting forward while looking back at the man, sticking out his tongue and laughing, “Heh~~ I’m not giving it back! You adults are all liars!”
But the little boy was too thin, and hadn’t eaten for days, his stamina clearly inferior to the man’s, and he was quickly caught!
Just as the man was about to grab the little boy,
The boy, quick as lightning, leaped onto a passing public hovercar and yelled back to taunt the tear-streaked man, “Just you wait, I’ll return it when I grow up, hahaha!”
Taking the public hovercar to the final stop, the boy then walked for another two hours, finally arriving at the deserted Sector 19 of Xianxia City.
Inside a dilapidated high-rise building,
Several men snatched the black leather bag from the boy’s hand, took out the money inside, and laughed as they counted it.
The boy said happily, “What about the bread we talked about? I stole so much money for you, you have to give me three big bags, right? Hahaha!”
The five men in front laughed sinisterly. The tallest man in the middle said, “Xian’er, Xian’er! How many times have I told you! Adults are all liars, why don’t you learn your lesson? Hahaha!”
Xian’er froze for a few seconds, then suddenly understood and glared furiously at the men, yelling, “You promised to give me bread after stealing the money! My sister hasn’t eaten for three days!!”
Without a word, the men grabbed Xian’er and threw him from the second floor!
Xian’er, feeling like his body had fallen apart, endured the sharp pain and crawled up, looking back with fierce hatred and cursing, “Liars! You’re all liars!!”
“Get lost! Starve to death if you want, who cares! Hahahahaha…”
Xianxia City was bustling with activity late at night,
Holographic neon lights adorned the city in a riot of colors.
Hovercars zipped through the sky at high speed, and pedestrians bustled on the streets.
With his back to the colorful lights, Xian’er slipped into a dark, cold alley.
At the deepest part of the alley, there was a small cardboard house made of corrugated cardboard.
“Sis! I brought you bread!” Xian’er shouted excitedly.
Pushing aside the paper door, a little girl lay on her side inside.
Xian’er gently nudged his sister, placing the stale bread near her mouth.
But his sister didn’t move at all.
“Sis? Sis!” Xian’er panicked and pushed her harder!
His sister, still in a lying position, stiffly turned over!
“Crack—!!!”
A thick bolt of lightning struck the dark alley, and a torrential acid rain instantly poured down.
The egg-sized raindrops quickly soaked the small cardboard house.
Sister, is she dead?
If only I were older, if only I could have gotten bread a day earlier, if only I could have awakened my ability sooner, if… my sister wouldn’t have died…
Xian’er picked up his stiff sister and walked out of the alley step by step, into the colorful crowd holding umbrellas.
Sister was my only family.
Revenge!
I want revenge!!
For my sister, I’m willing to do anything!!
“You’re really willing to modify your body? If you have no objections, press your fingerprint here,” a disheveled old man asked with an evil grin.
Xian’er pressed his fingerprint on the holographic screen without hesitation.
“Bet is placed, no take-backs!” The old man quickly removed the holographic screen and beckoned Xian’er, “Come in!”
Xian’er’s eyes were fierce, and he said coldly, “If you dare to trick me, I’ll kill you!”
The old man curled his lips and said, “Your value is higher than my life! Heh!”
The dirty metal gate closed. In less than ten minutes, Xian’er’s painful and shrill screams echoed from within.
But soon, the metal gate was opened again.
The old man, holding Xian’er in one hand and his sister’s corpse in the other, threw them out of the shop forcefully and roared, “Damn it! You little bastard girl, acting tough! Get lost! Get lost with the corpse!”
With a “clang,” the shop door was heavily shut!
The pouring rain instantly soaked Xian’er’s frail body. Ignoring the injuries, she hurriedly hugged her sister’s corpse and hobbled away.
To support her sister, Xian’er impersonated a boy to commit crimes, even selling her organs for mechanical power to avenge her sister.
But in this world, the lower class have no value even for living.
Xian’er, whose abdomen had been ripped open, clutching her sister’s corpse, finally collapsed in the dark wasteland.
The torrential rain pierced her thin body like myriad sharp swords.
Xianxia City, magnificent and grand, lay ahead, but it did not belong to Xian’er.
Xian’er’s consciousness gradually blurred, and her vision darkened…
Suddenly, her vision was consumed by a dazzling white light.
Xian’er saw a person covered in blue light walking towards her and entering her body.
When Xian’er opened her eyes again, the acid rain had stopped, and her wounds had healed.
She could feel a powerful force gestating in her chest. With a casual wave, a semi-transparent blue light holographic screen appeared before her.
【Ding! Mech Mechanic Talent Contract Successful】
【Main Mission Activated: Kill the five men who stole your money】
…
Ning Yu wiped away her tears, buried the past in her heart, looked up at the magnificent, towering forest of Xianxia skyscrapers, and walked into the familiar dark alley of her memory.
At the deepest part of the alley, in the small cardboard house, a little girl about five or six years old, chewing on cardboard wet with rain, stared at Ning Yu with watery eyes, looking timidly.
Ning Yu sniffled, suppressed the excitement in her heart, and asked with a smile, “Where’s your sister?”
“Sister went out to find food… Do you have any food?” the little girl replied obediently.
“Yes!”
Ning Yu couldn’t hold back her tears any longer and embraced the little girl with trembling hands.
“Sister has food, sister can let you eat your fill now!”
Just then, a slightly older child with short hair rushed into the alley entrance, followed by a man!
“Little bastard, so you live here! Give me back the money! This is my daughter’s medical expenses!!”
Ning Yu disappeared instantly and reappeared between the child and the man.
“Here’s the money, you can go,” Ning Yu said calmly, sliding all her savings from her communication bracelet into the man’s bracelet.
The man stared at the amount and became flustered, quickly saying, “This… this is too much! I… I can’t use this much…”
“Take it if I give it to you, consider it…” Ning Yu’s thoughts instantly reverted to the past.
She had indeed avenged her sister, but the man whose money she stole had lost his beloved daughter due to a lack of funds for her treatment.
“Consider it for me.”
Ning Yu left the words behind, took the child’s hand, and walked back to the depths of the alley.
“From now on, you’ll be called Ning Yu, and your sister will be Ning Qin. I will protect you,” Ning Yu said softly, picking up the two little girls.
Little Ning Yu still didn’t quite believe it and asked doubtfully, “Then what’s your name, sister? Why are you helping us?”
“Silly child, sister is you when you grow up…”
Little Ning Yu asked excitedly, incredulous, “Will I be as strong as you when I grow up? Will I have a lot of money too, right? I can also buy lots of nice things for my sister!”
“Yes! You will, you’ll have everything.”
Amidst the excited and happy laughter of the two children,
Ning Yu summoned a black mecha and flew towards the direction of Wuhe City.
Due to Gu Ya, the timeline had changed.
The little Ning Yu in this world did not encounter those five wicked men and naturally was not chosen by the Mech God's Urn.
Upon returning to Wuhe City, Ning Yu sent the two little girls to the new home of the Proletariat Alliance and created three nanny robots to take care of them around the clock.
Seeing their happy faces, Ning Yu’s long-standing heartache was finally redeemed.
“Are things settled?” Gu Ya appeared at the door of Ning Yu’s new home and asked calmly.
“Everything is settled, let’s go.”
Ning Yu and Gu Ya left the house and walked towards the Dun Saxon community.
On the way, Gu Ya asked lightly, “If everything is resolved, do you want to stay or…”
Ning Yu said decisively, “I want to go back. This is not my world, and my world is still waiting for me to save.”
“But there is no hope for return…” Gu Ya said with a hint of regret, “Even after traversing countless universes, you might not find your original world.”
“I still have to go back!” Ning Yu said firmly.
“Although my sister is dead in my world, there are still many people worth protecting waiting for me.”
“I can’t abandon them.”
Gu Ya nodded and stopped trying to persuade her.
The candidates selected by the Mech God's Urn all shared a common personality trait: protection.
Regardless of character or ability, protection was always the first imprinted thought of every divine power user.
For the sake of protection, they were willing to pay any price, even sacrificing their lives.
“Tell me briefly, in your world, what kind of person am I.”