Reborn in the Forest

Lin Mu, a materialist, has been reborn from the apocalypse. That's right, the apocalypse.

Resources are desperately scarce, and technology has vanished. Overnight, humanity has returned to the age of farming. In contrast, plants and animals have mutated, while humanity seems to have been left behind by this great wave of change.

Humans are still the same as before, but without advanced technology, they're like tigers with their claws and fangs pulled out.

One disaster after another strikes: drought, earthquakes, tsunamis, epidemics, and bitter cold.

Lin Mu says: Don't panic. As a retired dog trainer, I've got a shotgun for enemies and fine wine for friends.

Back in the apocalypse, the first thing she does is stock up on supplies, then take her dogs back to the countryside.

The countryside is great. Her mother is there, her land is there, and so is Da Huang, her loyal dog.

But wait, this apocalypse seems a little different from the one before she was reborn.

For instance, why can she hear the haughty thoughts of her cat, which has grown as big and strong as a tiger?

"Mumu is such a bother, but it's enough that I love Mumu."

Lin Mu: utterly stunned.

The setting is a world where plants and animals run wild, and advanced technology has disappeared. The heroine has a golden finger: she can understand what animals say. No CP, with a focus on family bonds and adorable pets.

Unlike farming stories, this is more of a hunting story.

A shaman heroine reconciles with nature.

It's a gathering-and-hunting story. The heroine is a shaman offered in sacrifice to the mountains, so she can understand the emotions and words of plants and animals. It's a bedtime read with almost no plot, mainly about all kinds of delicious food and changes in the weather. The style is similar to the Japanese film Little Forest. An everyday-life story, very much about everyday life.

A similar novel: The Extreme Cold of the Apocalypse

Synopsis:

A solar storm affects ocean currents, and like a row of dominoes, the whole world plunges into an age of extreme cold.

Lin Xia survives only three or four days in the apocalypse before dying of a fever.

When she wakes up, she's back in the same warm, gentle world as before.

An era-transmigration System has come along with her.

This time, she chooses a water tower in an abandoned town with geothermal resources.

Not far from the water tower is a calcified lake, its surface glowing blue in the sunlight.

Two- or three-meter-tall grayish-yellow reeds surround the white-painted water tower. Snow falls softly in winter, and branches blossom in spring.

An apocalypse-set farming story, with a stockpiling theme.

The heroine has a space, and the story is like Stardew Valley in cold-weather mode.

It's super everyday: picking mushrooms in spring, planting crops in the warm summer, harvesting in autumn, then skiing and hunkering down for winter.

Second synopsis

Lin Xia gets a System, originally a transmigration sign-in System that was supposed to take her to a poverty-stricken area in the 1960s, where she would get up to all sorts of petty theft and live high on the hog through the sign-in System while everyone else went hungry.

The System seems to have made a mistake, turning her transmigration into a rebirth.

Lin Xia is reborn. If she hadn't obtained the System, she might have thought the events of her past life were just a nightmare. She doesn't understand scientific terms like ocean currents stopping because of a solar storm and the whole world entering an ice age.

She simply followed the crowd to the subway, then died of a fever because there was no water or food. Is an ice age an apocalypse for humanity?

If it is, she may be the earliest-dead reborn person there is.

But at least now she has this petty-theft System. No, a sign-in System. Lin Xia hopes she won't have such a miserable life this time.

Theme: Even in difficult times, you must keep striving.