Catch a Highland Monster and Sell It to Time

Clean streets, rows of towering buildings, and vehicles of every size and shape operating in orderly chaos along both sides of the road. Small vehicles carried Highland monsters, while large ones brought humans who had traveled through time to the Highlands.

Motion-sickness oranges became a specially supplied good.

But the good times didn't last. Three years later, rubbish covered the streets, and the towering buildings had fallen into ruin and become dangerous. It was all because the Highlands had become the greatest place for humans to steal from through time travel.

The Highland monsters had planned to steal humanity's happiness elements, causing their dopamine levels to spiral out of control. The authorities discovered this, and after humans were barred from entering, the Highlands had been in ruins for years!

From then on, the authorities banned the production of entry passes!

And the capture nets, which had been upgraded with the ability to clean up rubbish, now regarded rubbish as their nemesis!

The Highland monsters cared only about their own happiness and ignored the greater good and the future. To avoid capture, they even hid in filthy heaps of rubbish.

Humans are now forbidden from traveling to the Highlands.

It's not only Highland monsters whose dopamine runs wild when they have too many happiness elements. Humans can also develop emotional cycles when they lack happiness elements...

But orange peels from motion-sickness oranges became a clue that helped uncover an operation producing counterfeit entry passes!

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Zhou Luyu, an administrator with a forum followed by millions, was one of the victims. But after the authorities banned the production of entry passes to the Highlands, she still had one valid pass left. She returned to the Highlands and saw with her own eyes the splendor of three years ago and the ruin of the present day!

Her goal was to get the happiness elements back!

But here's the problem: the capture nets, which had been upgraded to catch Highland monsters, had to clean up rubbish before they could work. And their nemesis was rubbish.

Before You Read:

1. This story is entirely fictional. Any similarities are coincidental. All settings serve the plot, so please don't apply them to real life. Hope you enjoy reading, and thank you!

2. This novel is exclusively published on Jinjiang Literature City. It's not very long; the richer story and links are all in the main text. The plot is fast-paced, full of twists and turns. Thank you for supporting the official release.

3. Blurb revised and saved on October 5, 2026.

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