Ding Yun, after waking up in the body of a corpse at the bottom of a reservoir and finally managing to activate her heart and lung functions, and then desperately swimming ashore, rested for a while by the bank.
Only then did she begin to sort through the original body's memories.
The original body's situation was very simple: an ordinary high school student, entering her second year of high school after the summer vacation. Her parents were both office workers. She had an older sister and a younger brother. Although her parents didn't stop until they had a son, they didn't show too much favoritism towards males.
At most, they often told the older sister to let the younger brother have his way, but in terms of daily food and clothing, they were treated equally.
The original body was also carefree. Apart from being a little unhappy that her pocket money was less than her brother's, she had no other complaints. After all, she was much better off than the girls in her grandmother's village who dropped out of junior high to work and get married.
As for why she died.
It could only be said that she had too little sense of security.
No matter what the experts explained, the environmental deterioration and the increasing extreme weather in recent years were facts. In the last few years, summer temperatures exceeding forty degrees Celsius had become commonplace.
And this kind of weather lasted for a long time, basically from the start of summer vacation until the end.
Even if the temperature occasionally dropped.
At most, it would only drop to thirty-eight or thirty-nine degrees.
In such hot weather, the original body's parents were unwilling to cook lunch every day after returning from work. It was fine when the three children were in school, as they could eat in the school cafeteria, and the parents ate in the company cafeteria.
There was no need to worry about cooking.
But when the children were on vacation, they themselves could eat at the cafeteria, but the children couldn't. Cooking lunch for the children every day was not only a waste of time but also extremely hot.
Eating takeout every day for the children made them worried about their health.
So, the original body's parents, in their cleverness, sent the children to the village to their paternal grandparents' home.
Not only was it hassle-free, but the air was also better.
The temperature was also slightly lower than in the city.
At first, the original body's grandparents were not very willing. The original body's brother, the original body, and even the original body's sister were not very willing to go. The former were unwilling because they only wanted to take care of their grandson, not their granddaughter, which was troublesome.
And taking care of one could be said to be missing their grandson.
If they took care of three.
It was likely that the other three sons would send their children over, and then nearly ten grandchildren would come at once. Their meager pension would not even be enough for porridge, and they would all be eating the northwest wind at home.
The main reason the original body and her siblings were unwilling to go was that their grandparents' house had no internet, and they were reluctant to turn on the air conditioning in the summer. They would rather stay at home and eat takeout every day than go to their grandparents' house.
In the end, the original body's parents installed internet and paid for the internet fees, and provided 1,500 yuan per month per child for food expenses, plus 1,000 yuan for air conditioning, totaling 10,000 yuan.
Only then did they manage to persuade both sides.
And sent the three children to the countryside.
Although the meals prepared by the grandparents were not very good, they were generally acceptable. At least they were healthy, and they didn't starve them. The only thing that made the original body very uncomfortable was that their preference for males was too obvious.
In the morning, no matter when the grandson slept until, they didn't care and would deliberately lower their voices to avoid disturbing him.
But if the original body and her sister slept in.
Grandma would sarcastically say at the door, "The sun is shining on your butt, and you don't know to get up. You're as lazy as a pig all day. What kind of wife would anyone want like this?"
She can't cook, and she doesn't know how to wash clothes.
If the original body and her sister pretended not to hear, Grandma would directly enter the room and pull off the quilt, saying she was going to air the quilt.
Then they would have to help with housework.
It was useless to say they had homework.
Besides that, things like putting all the meat dishes in front of the grandson during meals, saying they were lazy when watching TV, and being called wasteful for putting on a facial mask were even more numerous.
For this, both the original body and her sister were undoubtedly very angry. And they were not the kind of submissive wives who would endure and be enslaved. So, naturally, they fought with their grandmother.
They directly cursed, and fighting was unlikely.
But they could pretend to be deaf and mute, deliberately ruin the clothes when washing them, and break the bowls when washing them. Sometimes, when they were really angry, they would beat up their younger brother when their grandparents were not at home. Anyway, their brother was young and a little fatty, so it was easy for the two sisters to hold him down and beat him. He had thick skin and wasn't easily injured.
As for the grandparents, even if they heard their grandson complain and wanted to hit them, they could run. They couldn't outrun two seventy-something-year-old men and women.
Finally, the only way the old couple could think of to punish the original body and her sisters was to confiscate the air conditioner remote control in their room, only turning it on for them after nine in the evening, and absolutely not turning it on during the day.
They were also not allowed to go to the grandson's room to use the air conditioning.
The original body and her sister had thought of many ways to deal with this, such as tricking the remote control from their brother to turn on the air conditioner, borrowing a remote control from the neighbors to turn on the air conditioner, or simply going to the neighbors to use their air conditioning. After all, there are policies from above, and countermeasures from below. How could a living person be suffocated by urine?
But today, the situation had changed.
The weather forecast for today was 41 degrees Celsius. The indoor thermometer showed 40 degrees Celsius, the outdoor temperature under the sun was 48 degrees Celsius, and the ground temperature was over 60 degrees Celsius.
But at nine in the morning, the power went out.
It was said that the lines were aging, and with the heavy load on the circuits in recent years, the power lines in their area had been burned. To ensure the safety of the electricians, they could only do some emergency repairs before ten o'clock, continue repairs after five in the afternoon, and work through the night to finish by tomorrow morning. At other times, it was too hot, and it was easy to die of heat while repairing under the strong sun.
A power outage in weather over forty degrees Celsius.
That was life-threatening, wasn't it?
Even though their air conditioning had been running continuously, the room temperature remained relatively low when the power went out. However, without a continuous cooling source, the indoor temperature would not be much different from the outdoor temperature before noon, exceeding forty degrees Celsius. Both indoors and outdoors were unbearably hot.
At this time, each household was helpless.
They could only pray for good luck.
Some went to cool ditches and streams in shady areas, some drove to another city that was reportedly not experiencing a power outage, and some targeted the power generation equipment of a nearby middle school.
The original body did not want to go to the crowded ditches and streams to soak in water to relieve the heat, so she specifically brought a swimming ring and ran to the reservoir, which she had been repeatedly warned not to play water in when she arrived, to cool off in the water.
She knew that several people had died in this reservoir and that the water was deep and dangerous, but she thought that with a swimming ring, what could be dangerous.
However, she forgot one thing: a reservoir with fish is different from a swimming pool. It might be safer to swim in a swimming pool with a swimming ring, but it was truly uncertain in a reservoir with many fish.
Not long after she easily swam to the center of the reservoir with the help of the swimming ring, several grass carp and even snakeheads curiously surrounded her, some even rubbing against her.
The smallest of those grass carp were estimated to be over twenty catties, and the largest nearly a hundred catties. Although the snakeheads were not as heavy, their heads really resembled snake heads, and their feel was also similar. The original body was naturally terrified.
Then her swimming ring slipped off.
The original body struggled desperately to grab her swimming ring, but was so scared by the grass carp and snakeheads that her calves cramped. She didn't struggle for long before sinking to the bottom, and then Ding Yun arrived.
After understanding this, Ding Yun was also helpless.
It seemed that the only ones she could blame for this revenge were the grass carp and snakeheads.
Otherwise, who could she blame?
At the same time, Ding Yun could also feel the scorching heat of the surrounding air. The temperature was indeed high, so high that it had long exceeded the range suitable for the human body and was unbearable.
Anyway, the electricity hadn't come back yet.
So Ding Yun was not in a hurry to leave the reservoir. Instead, she decided to check out the random golden finger she had received this time.
As she finished clicking to extract, this golden finger, very rarely, appeared in her hand in a physical form. It was a very exquisite golden container, not quite a tripod, not quite a jar, inlaid with many colorful jewels and reliefs on the surface, exceptionally luxurious.
On the front, three large seal script characters were clearly engraved—
Jūbǎopén! (Treasure Basin!)