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Zhou Wu lay on the bed, the hard mattress making his back ache. He opened his eyes with difficulty. The black tiles on the roof looked quite old, and he couldn't help but wonder what era it was that people still lived in tiled houses.

I tried to move my body, and a sharp pain instantly shot through my limbs.

"Brother Wu, you're awake?"

A muffled voice came from beside him. Turning his head, he saw a kind-looking young man guarding the bedside.

A sharp pain shot through Zhou Wu's mind, and a flood of unfamiliar memories rushed in.

Zhou Wu was originally a typical country boy. Because he refused to accept his fate, he studied hard and wanted to go to the big city he longed for. Fortunately, hard work pays off. In his early thirties, Zhou Wu finally stood on the skyscraper of the United States through his own efforts.

As the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Zhou Wu enjoyed immense success. However, he never expected that all of this would shatter on his 35th birthday. His American wife and her lover conspired to ruin his reputation, ultimately leading to his violent death on the streets of America.

Now Zhou Wu has traveled through time to a parallel universe, where the timeline is roughly the same as the Han and Tang dynasties of his original world.

In an instant, a large number of unfamiliar memories began to merge. Zhou Wu felt a sharp pain in his head, but fortunately, the feeling came and went quickly.

From the unfamiliar memories that had just flooded his mind, Zhou Wu understood that he had been reborn, just like in the plot of an online novel, and he had even returned to ancient times. Although this dynasty did not exist in Zhou Wu's original world, at least he had come back to life.

"Brother Wu, Brother Wu, what's wrong?"

The honest-looking young man kept calling out anxiously from the side.

"Niu Er, I'm fine. I was just thinking about something and got a little lost in thought."

From his original memories, Zhou Wu learned some basic information. He had been reborn in a country called the Great Dragon Empire. The original owner of this body was also named Zhou Wu. The man next to him was named Niu Er, a neighbor from the same village. Because he was about the same age as Zhou Wu, the two had grown up together and had a very good relationship.

"Is everything really okay?"

Niu Er was somewhat skeptical, after all, Zhou Wu had fallen from such a tall tree.

"Don't worry, I wouldn't lie to you. You have a lot going on at home, so go ahead and do your thing. Thank you."

To reassure Niu Er, Zhou Wu deliberately moved his limbs.

"Hey, Brother Wu, you're too kind. I'm going to help out in the fields now. Let me know if you need anything."

"Ah."

Seeing that Zhou Wu seemed to be alright, Niu Er prepared to leave, since the family's land depended on his elder brother Niu Da alone, and they were simply too busy to manage it all.

After Niu Er left, Zhou Wu stretched his body and then got up to walk around the strange yet familiar room.

Looking at the three-section brick and tile house, if this were in modern times, wouldn't it be much more impressive than any house in Lujiazui, Shanghai?

According to the original owner's memories, his family had been officials since his great-grandfather's generation. However, like most people, each generation was worse than the last. By the time of Zhou Wu's father, he was just an ordinary civil servant, and the family had squandered all their wealth. Now, apart from this three-courtyard house, they were practically penniless.

Two years ago, his father kicked the bucket and left so carefree, leaving Zhou Wu all alone in this empty house, which doesn't even have a decent piece of furniture except for the bed.

The reason Zhou Wu was lying in bed today was because, after being hungry for several days, he saw a bird's nest in a big locust tree while wandering around the village. He instinctively climbed up to see if there were any bird eggs. Although it wouldn't fill him up, it would at least give him something to eat.

However, instead of bird eggs, a triangular-headed spotted venomous snake, seemingly aware that someone was about to come knocking, was coiled up in the nest, flicking its tongue. Zhou Wu was so frightened that he slipped and fell from a tree seven or eight meters high, immediately losing consciousness. When he woke up, he was already in bed, presumably rescued by Niu Er who happened to be passing by.

"Hey, this is a really tough start."

Sitting at my doorstep, looking around the whole village, one word comes to mind: poverty, extreme poverty. It's already noon, and there are only a handful of houses with smoke rising from their chimneys.

The houses were all made of mud walls and thatched roofs. Although each household had built a simple fence around its front yard, there were no chickens or ducks in any of them.

Despite his sighs, the hunger pangs in his stomach made Zhou Wu realize that the most important thing now was to fill his stomach.

"There's not a single grain of food left in the house. It seems we can only rely on nature's bounty."

After saying that, Zhou Wu searched the empty house for something usable.

After turning the house upside down, Zhou Wu found a few thin ropes of some unknown material, which looked quite similar to the fishing line from his previous life. He tugged at them and found they were quite sturdy, so he figured they could be used. He then took them and headed towards the back mountain.

The mountain behind the village is an unnamed mountain. Because it was still an agricultural era, there were many wild animals in this world. However, due to the lack of effective hunting skills and methods, there were not many hunters, and most of them were still struggling to make ends meet. But if they were lucky enough to catch extra prey, they could definitely sell it for a good price in the city. After all, there were rich people in that era who had the capital and strength to crave meat.

Zhou Wu quickly arrived at the back mountain. In his previous life, because his family was poor, he often went into the mountains to hunt wild game. As a country boy, he was very skilled at catching wild game and could easily catch all kinds of small traps and mechanisms.

Because of limited materials, Zhou Wu used a lasso trap this time. This type of lasso trap is mainly used to catch small animals, such as rabbits and pheasants.

First of all, these traps cannot be placed randomly in the forest. We must carefully observe which routes these small animals must take.

Animals do possess a certain level of intelligence, especially when they are in unfamiliar environments. They are very wary of such environments, so these small animals generally travel along fixed routes.

This might be a bit difficult for city dwellers, but for Zhou Wu, who grew up in the countryside, it was all too familiar.

If you observe carefully, you'll find that these small animals always leave some traces along their paths, such as animal fur and footprints.

So Zhou Wu quickly found several paths that small animals frequently walked on, and judging from the footprints and fur left behind, they should be wild rabbits and pheasants.

Because of limited materials, I set up five lasso traps. Now, I'll leave the rest to time.

"Since I'm just idling around anyway, I might as well make some other gains."

Zhou Wu figured he couldn't just wait there, so he started wandering around the mountains.