Chapter 1: The Realm of Animals

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[Brain Storage]
[Kidney Enhancement]

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“I never expected this.”

“I’ve spent my whole life doing good and accumulating virtue.”

“And in the end…”

“I was betrayed by my girlfriend!”

“If I could start over from the beginning…”

“I would never be so soft-hearted again.”

“To hell with virtue!”

“To hell with kindness!”

“No, not just that.”

“The most important thing is…”

“I’ll never be a chicken again!”

With a tragic crow, Chen Xiao self-destructed.

Only a scattering of feathers remained.

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“Chen Xiao, stop pretending to sleep. I know you’re awake. Let’s break up.”

A tall girl with a ponytail, arms crossed, stood coldly watching Chen Xiao.

Her voice was calm and familiar as it reached his ears.

Chen Xiao slowly woke, the white light above stabbing his eyes, a drip bag hanging at the edge of his vision.

He caught the faint scent of antiseptic.

Even the Animal World has hospitals?

Then, Chen Xiao’s pupils contracted sharply as a massive realization struck him:

Hadn’t he died filled with hatred?

Didn’t he blow himself up in humiliation?

The pain of his body shattering still felt vivid and real.

Remembering this, Chen Xiao shivered involuntarily.

Could it be… rebirth?

Before he could think further, that familiar voice sounded in his ear again:

“Chen Xiao, are you deaf? Are you even listening to me?”

He turned his head and saw a delicate, beautiful face.

Only then did he notice the youthful girl at his bedside, dressed in a gray school uniform.

At this moment, she was glaring at him with wide, watery eyes.

Cheng Youyou?

A younger Cheng Youyou!

Only now did Chen Xiao finally confirm his situation.

He really had been reborn!

Looking at the face before him, untouched by the passage of time, he couldn’t help but feel a pang of emotion:

How wonderful it is to be young.

Of course, it would be better if she hadn’t led a gang of more than a dozen people to hunt him down in the past.

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Thinking back to his previous life, Chen Xiao’s eyelids trembled, and he sighed, asking:

“How long was I asleep?”

“Are you even listening? I want to break up with you! Don’t you understand?”

Cheng Youyou ground her teeth, slapping the bed hard.

In the past, Chen Xiao knew that with his obsequious nature, he would have begged her to stay.

If she said east, he would never dare go west.

Thinking about it now, he wished he could unscrew his own head and flush it down the toilet.

Ignoring Cheng Youyou’s murderous glare, Chen Xiao picked up his phone and glanced at the time:

—June 21, 2025—

—2:00 PM—

These numbers were deeply etched in his memory.

That year, Chen Xiao was a sophomore at Jiangbei University.

He remembered clearly:

On this day in his previous life, he was in a car accident.

The situation was largely the same as now.

But that evening, when he was discharged, the blood moon appeared!

The Animal World descended!

Every human on earth would gain the talents and abilities of animals!

The animal one awakened depended on the last thing they ate before the event.

Someone who had ribs awakened the hide of a pig—tough and resilient;

Someone who ate donkey meat awakened the endurance of a donkey—limitless stamina;

There were even those who, after hotpot, gained the demonic strength of a mountain goat!

As for Chen Xiao, his last meal before the blood moon was chicken stew, so he awakened the abilities of a rooster.

At first, everyone thought this was a blessing—the dawn of a new era!

Until…

The world’s order collapsed, and the true doomsday game began!

Darkness, ruin, terror, slaughter, madness, distortion—

These were the words Chen Xiao would use to describe the Animal World.

This terrifying game swept across the globe, haunting everyone’s dreams.

But not his.

In his previous life, the car accident had made him miss the golden window of the game.

This time, he could draw on his past experiences—he could even predict the future!

There were only four hours left before the Animal World descended.

He was determined to change everything that had happened before!

“Break up? Impossible! We were never really a couple anyway. Breaking up now would be my loss!”

A sly smile appeared on Chen Xiao’s lips as he pulled the needle from the back of his hand.

“You—”

Cheng Youyou was momentarily speechless, not expecting Chen Xiao to say such a thing so brazenly.

Since when did he become so shameless?

Before, whenever she suggested breaking up, he would act as if it were the end of the world.

Why was he suddenly acting so crazy today?

Chen Xiao did want to kill this wretched woman, but a better idea suddenly came to him.

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Wouldn’t it be even better to let her live a fate worse than death?

Chen Xiao jumped out of bed, pulled on his hospital clothes, and strode toward the door. He turned back with a gentle, friendly smile:

“Youyou, thank you for visiting me. I’ve ordered a giant KFC family bucket for your family! Make sure to check for delivery~”

With that, leaving a thoroughly bewildered Cheng Youyou behind, he walked out of the hospital room without looking back.

As soon as he stepped out the door, the brightness in his eyes darkened in an instant.

A wild plan was already forming in his mind:

Before the game began,

He would rush to the Prehistoric Fossil Museum!

He was going to gnaw on fossils!

He was going to become a dinosaur!

Chen Xiao hurried through the hospital corridors, picking up speed as he went.

He didn’t realize how insane he looked, sprinting in hospital pajamas.

Several security guards were already chasing after him, shouting for him to stop.

But Chen Xiao paid them no mind—he had less than four hours left.

The city’s dinosaur fossil museum was on the outskirts, a three-hour drive away!

He had no other choice!

Just as he left the hospital, he randomly kicked a young man off his motorcycle.

“What the hell, you play too much GTA!”

“Sorry, bro, I’m in a rush!”

Shamelessly, Chen Xiao hopped on the bike and sped away in a flash.

He twisted the throttle to the max, the whipping wind stinging his face and keeping his mind razor sharp.

From what he knew of the Animal World, even the fragmentary DNA preserved in fossils could reconstruct a full dinosaur form!

If he succeeded, he’d be the only one among the pigs, dogs, cows, and sheep to defy all odds!

Minutes ticked by. With only twenty minutes left until 6:00 PM,

Chen Xiao skidded the motorcycle to a stop outside the museum, squinting up at the sky, sensing an unnatural dimness.

He saw the daylight receding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Just like his past life—the blood moon was about to appear!

Racing against time, Chen Xiao pulled out a heavy iron spike he’d bought on the way and charged into the fossil museum.

The guards barely had time to react before seeing a lunatic wielding a spike, smashing his way toward the fossil exhibit.

“What the hell is going on?!”

“Damn, what’s with this kid?!”

“Son, did you go to the wrong building? The bank’s next door.”

There were only three old men on security at the museum, and none had ever seen someone rob fossils before. They looked at each other, swallowing nervously.

They were security guards, not idiots!

Silently, they called the police and then just sat in a row,

Watching as Chen Xiao gradually broke through the tempered glass and slipped inside.