When the apocalypse arrives, everyone else frantically stockpiles instant noodles and canned food. Lin Xun digs out her family heirloom, The Tomb Raider’s Guide.
Her neighbors look at her with pity. “Xiao Lin, you’re stocking up on the wrong things. You won’t find self-heating hot pot in a grave!”
Lin Xun silently hauls a sack of drought-resistant ancient rice seeds out of a Han dynasty tomb she has just explored. The next day, an elderly professor from the agricultural college clutches the sack and sobs like a child. “These… these are the hope that can keep an entire city alive!”
Then the government comes knocking. At the head of the group is Captain Lu, broad-shouldered, long-legged, and devastatingly handsome, though a little stern-faced. “Comrade Lin Xun, you’re suspected of illegally excavating and damaging cultural relics. Please come with us.”
Lin Xun points to the small mountain of seeds, ore, and ancient blueprints piled in her yard and asks earnestly, “Officer, does this count as turning myself in… or rendering meritorious service?”
A story about a woman digging up one treasure after another to donate to her country…
