March 17, 2025, three o'clock in the morning.
The moment Wei Peifeng was debugging the quantum collider in the laboratory, a dazzling white light suddenly exploded in front of her eyes. When her consciousness regrouped, she was lying on the hard earth kang, with the smell of musty mixed with herbal residue lingering on the tip of her nose.
"A-Feng! A-Feng, wake up!"
The hoarse female voice startled her head. Sitting at the foot of the adobe wall was an old woman wrapped in a coarse cotton-padded jacket, with furrows on her face, wiping tears with her sleeves - this was the original owner's nanny, Aunt Wang, who was pushed into the river by the gambler's son three days ago. She was now soaked through and shivering with cold.
Memories came flooding back: the original owner was also named Wei Peifeng, thirteen years old, and a native of Weijia Village, Qingyang County. My father died early, and my mother contracted the epidemic last month. The family spent the last half of their money to pay for her mother's medicine, and now only an empty mud house is left. Aunt Wang was the only one willing to take care of her, but just now... She touched her waist and touched a cold hard object - the jade safety buckle worn closely by the original owner, which was glowing with a faint green light at the moment.
"System binding successful."
