Traveling through an ancient military camp: Bao'er's survival song

The illusion vanished.

Li Bao'er felt the wind again, heard the crackling sound of early winter leaves falling, and smelled the pine resin emanating from the still dark green pine trees beside her.

“Sister Bao’er, look how beautiful all of this is! This land beneath our feet, the warmth of human life, the satiated wildcat after its meal, the gentle breeze stirred by the fluttering wings of a butterfly. But I have deduced the countless possibilities after your death, and every future will lead to destruction. Only if you are not killed by Peng Zizheng is the initial point of all hope.”

Li Bao'er remained silent.

"Sister Bao'er, you are like the sun shower."

Li Bao'er recalled the first time she met this strange child. He showed her a scene of a raccoon hunting, in which the raccoon's prey, a little rabbit, was given a chance to survive during a sudden sun shower.

Li Bao'er was heartbroken: "I understand. You don't want this world to be destroyed, so you need me to live in this world. But have you ever thought about how what you're doing to me is any different from forcing a woman who has received a modern education in independent women to be confined to a house, to be forced into an arranged marriage, to have her husband take multiple wives and concubines? I don't know if you're a god or some kind of creator or some legendary Heavenly Way. You love this world, but what about me? I believe in equality for all, yet I have to carefully survive in this feudal society, to endure the pain of death time and time again, to kneel on the ground and fawn over someone who wants to kill me at any moment. What about me? What about me? What about me?"

Li Bao'er cried.

She could choose to live a life of ignominy, she could lick Peng Zizheng's dirty feet, she could even kneel down and kowtow to the powerful figures here after she had stood up again, but all of this was on the premise that she could find a way back to the modern world through her humiliating survival! If it was all just about surviving, surviving for the rest of her life, then she wouldn't want to!! She would rather the world just be destroyed! She didn't have that much love!

"Sister Bao'er, you, you can try to change this era with your modern ideas!" The little girl didn't know how to comfort someone whose hopes had been dashed, so she could only offer a suggestion that time travelers often made.

"You're talking nonsense!" Li Bao'er cried, sobbing uncontrollably. "You can see the future, can't you? Don't you know that history is a long process? Even though I'm a science student, I still take Marxist philosophy courses! One person can't change history! Besides, why should I go through all this trouble to do something like this? This is kidnapping! Kidnapping! Waaaaaah..."

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Li Bao'er walked back in despair and helplessness. The little child said there was only one world, and her origin was a dream created for her by that child; therefore, she had nowhere to go...

While waiting for Li Bao'er at the steamed bun shop, Liu Shu ate slowly and gracefully. Li Bao'er didn't know how long she had been gone, but Liu Shu still hadn't finished his steamer of buns.

Li Bao'er sat down, picked up a steamed bun, and put it to her mouth.

"Where are the oranges you bought?"

"Do not ask."

Li Bao'er finally got to eat the meat buns from this shop, eating them listlessly and without any appetite. Little did she know, the moment she took that bite, the apprentice behind the counter was overjoyed, rushing to grab the busy waiter: "I ate it! Brother Wang! Two coins, two coins!"

The waiter, who was clearing the table after the customers left, turned around and exclaimed, "Hey! This kid has a physical body now?" (In ancient times, it was said that wandering ghosts and immortals would only absorb the aroma of food, while mortal beings would actually chew and swallow it.)