Chapter 1
Brain Storage Facility
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A pale, slender girl lay on the bed.
Her eyes were closed, her expression twisted in pain, sweat soaking through her hair.
She seemed to be trapped in a nightmare.
Suddenly, she jolted awake and sat bolt upright.
Her dark, damp eyes were wide open as tears streamed down her face. She gasped for air, breathing hard.
Suzy Kale scanned her surroundings and realized she was in her familiar bedroom.
The tension in her body eased at once, and she collapsed back onto the bed.
She had just had a nightmare.
In the dream, she was nothing more than cannon fodder in a post-apocalyptic, reverse harem novel.
Her half-sister, Wendy Kale, was a transmigrator—and the female lead of that world.
Suzy’s role in the story was to deliver resources to the heroine, to hand over a spatial artifact.
The female lead lived comfortably and thrived in the apocalypse, rising smoothly to the top—and Suzy had made all of that possible.
Worse still, in the dream, she had been foolish enough to set her sights on the male leads of the heroine’s harem.
She tried to seduce them deliberately, only to fail again and again.
No matter what she did, the male leads loved only the heroine.
In the end, driven by jealousy, Suzy Kale attempted to frame Wendy. Once exposed, she was abandoned by the protagonist group in the wilderness.
She wandered aimlessly through the night and eventually slipped into a deep pit.
She died on the spot.
The sensation of that sudden free fall still seemed to cling to her body, leaving her chilled to the bone.
Suzy felt that the version of herself in the dream had been a complete idiot.
Not only had she handed over the family heirloom spatial gold pendant left behind by her mother—she had even voluntarily signed a property transfer agreement, allowing her sister Wendy to take possession of a vast sum of money.
A living, breathing tool.
Suzy wiped hard at her tear-soaked cheeks.
Luckily, it had all just been a dream...
Wait—no!!
She suddenly grabbed the phone beside her pillow.
The time displayed on the screen read: November 25, 2040.
There was also a notification in the alert bar—
Abnormal weather conditions. Persistent high temperatures across multiple regions.
By all logic, this time of year should already have marked the start of winter, yet the air remained oppressively hot.
It was the middle of the night, and the temperature was still as high as 30°C.
The air conditioner in Suzy’s room hummed loudly.
She remembered this news.
She remembered this date.
It was clearly three months before the apocalypse––just like in her dream!
She also remembered that the transmigrator had taken over Wendy’s body three months before the apocalypse began.
After obtaining the gold pendant space, she had siphoned off a massive amount of Suzy’s assets and begun stockpiling supplies.
Unease crept into her heart.
She threw back the covers and got out of bed.
She needed to confirm something.
Not even bothering to put on shoes, she stumbled into her walk-in closet. She pulled open the jewelry cabinet.
On the top shelf lay an old, shiny, gold pendant.
In the dream, this pendant had been the spatial artifact. It required a blood sacrifice to activate, though.
Suzy bit down hard on her finger. Blood welled up, and she smeared it across the metal.
The pendant showed no reaction.
Her heart sank.
Had she gotten it wrong after all?
But she clearly remembered that this was the exact gold pendant Wendy had taken from her.
A drop of blood had activated it, revealing a paradise-like space capable of storing supplies.
Was the dream just a dream?
Or... could this space only be activated by Wendy Kale?
The thought left an extremely bitter taste in her mouth.
Possessing such a treasure, yet unable to claim it for herself.
Tsk.
...She would rather smash it to pieces than hand it over to Wendy either way!
The instant that thought formed, a streak of white light shot into Suzy’s forehead.
Her vision flickered.
When she came back to her senses, her surroundings had completely changed.
She was standing inside a small wooden cabin.
The room contained only simple wooden furniture and looked exceedingly plain.
Suzy took a slow look around.
Small as a sparrow, yet fully equipped.
There was a kitchen, a bathroom, and a bedroom.
Beyond that, there was also a storage room.
This place... seemed different from Wendy’s space..?