<h4>Chapter 4: Survival is the First Principle</h4> <h4><strong>Trantor: </strong>Lonelytree </h4>


    “Lin Yun, you jinx, let me go, let me go...” the young man in Lin Xin’s hand stomped his feet, his face and ears red. He struggled wildly as he shouted in panic.


    His friends all said that Lin Yun had be a ghost. He was also afraid of ghosts.


    Although Lin Xin had experienced the apocalypse for five years, before the apocalypse, she was just an ordinary white-cor worker. Her hobby was reading webnovels, especially those that had themes of reincarnation and transmigration.


    She had chosen to self-destruct in the apocalypse. The memory of the pain was still fresh in her mind. Therefore, she was certain that she had died.


    However, she was still alive. Thus, the exnation was transmigration. Lin Xin calmly epted that fact after straightening out her train of thought.


    So now, she had to figure out the identity of her host. Why did everyone call her a jinx?


    Lin Xin lifted the boy, who was half a head taller than her, with one hand and heavily patted the boy’s shoulder. She shouted sternly, “Shush! Why are you shouting? If you call me a jinx again, I’ll p you. Do you want to test me?”


    Er Gou Zi looked at the fierce Lin Yun and was so scared that his face was as white as paper. However, his skin was very dark, so technically, the paleness wasn’t that visible.


    Afraid that the ghost would really smack him, Er Gou Zi immediately quieted down. His panic-stricken eyes and his fearful expression made the corner of Lin Xin’s mouth twitch involuntarily. ‘It seems like he really thinks I’m a ghost.’


    After all, even before the apocalypse, people believed in ghosts, not to mention in this olden era.


    Lin Xin put on a threatening face and warned sternly, “I’ll put you down now, but you’re not allowed to run away, do you understand? Otherwise...”


    However, Lin Xin didn’t realize that she was inhabiting the body of a eight-year-old child. Her thin and sallow face was really ipatible with a stern look. If someone else were there, they wouldugh because she was too cute.


    There was no one else other than Er Gou Zi, who was so scared that he almost curled up into a ball. He was in no mood to appreciate the cuteness of the contrast. Er Gou Zi hurriedly nodded. “Okay.”


    Lin Xin let out a sigh of relief. Her small body was thin and weak. She didn’t have the strength to carry Er Gou Zi, who was taller and stronger than her, anymore.


    The reason she was able to do so earlier was due to the training she had undergone in five years of the apocalypse. When she was attacked, she would counter in double her usual strength because the alternative was death!


    Once Lin Xin put down Er Gou Zi, thetter immediately ran away in a panic as his feetnded on the ground.


    Lin Xin anticipated this. Honestly, she was just scaring the brat. After all, she heard the children say that it was Er Gou Zi who kicked her host to death.


    Lin Xin ignored the escaping Er Guo Zi. She turned to look at her clothes from top to bottom. She was wearing a ck linen dress that didn’t fit her at all. The dress dragged all the way to her ankles. It was obvious that the dress didn’t belong to the original host. On top of that, there were numerous patches on the dress. They were probably done by the host.


    The dress was also covered in dirty patches as if it hadn’t been washed for a long time. There were also tiny footprints on the dress.


    Lin Xin suddenly felt itchy, as if ants were crawling all over her. She desperately wanted to take a bath.


    She raised her head and looked around. Other than the paddy fields and the small farms with seedlings, there were winding paths that were only wide enough for a single person.


    Lin Xin frowned slightly. ‘Is there no river around here?’


    Suddenly, her ears perked slightly, and Lin Xin’s face lit up with joy.


    She heard the sound of running water. It was only about a hundred meters away from her position.


    Lin Xin followed the sound of running water. She wanted to run, but her body had been seriously injured. Plus, the original host was severely malnourished. She felt devoid of energy. Even just taking a few steps would take the breath out of her.


    Lin Xin had no choice but to slow down, hold her chest, and make her journey slowly.


    The distance was around a hundred meters, but Lin Xin walked for a full twenty minutes, and her forehead was already covered in sweat.


    However, when she saw the clear and bottomless river, Lin Xin was ecstatic.


    This was a truly unpolluted river. She had only seen it at her grandmother’s house in the countryside when she was very young.


    However, as thend was developed by those unscrupulous bosses, the harmful elements polluted the river. In addition, there were more and more chemical factories on both sides of the river. All the wastewater was discharged into the river, and the river became a jet-ck stream with no signs of life. The crystal clear river from her childhood was gone.


    The river at her grandmother’s ce was so polluted, so it was even worse for the rivers in the cities.


    After the apocalypse, all the animals and nts on earth mutated. A red rain of blood had caused serious pollution to the water sources on earth. The water was not drinkable. In fact, humans could mutate into zombies when exposed to the rain. The blood rain almost made the mutated creatures more hostile.


    Now that she had been transmigrated to this pure, pollution-free, and safe era of the past, Lin Xin decided to focus on the goodness before her. She had to live well. That was the only way.


    Lin Xin walked to the riverside with excitement and caution.


    ...


    “Where is her?” A group of men and women armed with hoes, sickles, and sticks gathered together at the spot where Lin Xin had left. They looked around as if they were looking for a fight.


    “Xiao Ying, Er Gou Zi, didn’t you say that Lin Yun, the jinx, has returned as a ghost? Where is she now?” A middle-aged man with a ferocious face and beard asked loudly.