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Chapter 1: The Living Skeleton

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When she woke up and found herself turned into a skeleton, An Yi didn't know how to react.

She controlled her body with difficulty, stood up tremblingly, and looked around, she was in a strange forest, with strange plants. Is this whole world different?

An Yi lowered her head and looked at her articulated hand. She couldn't figure out why she turned into a skeleton, and why did she appear here?

She then remembered... an explosion. During her trip, the bus she was on suddenly exploded. After a loud noise, she didn't know what happened next. When she woke up again, she appeared in this strange place and turned into a skeleton. An Yi was still wearing her original clothes, a T-shirt, jacket, and jeans. This body was indeed her own.

Did she cross over? But why did she turn into a skeleton? It's too weird to be conscious after being turned into a skeleton! An Yi didn't know if she was more frightened or shocked right now. All in all, it's messy.

An Yi tried to move, but with a click, her jeans and her belt slipped to the ground, leaving only her panty hanging on her pelvis.

She looked at her "waist" silently. She thought that there was no one thinner than her in this world. Her waist was so thin that it was only the width of vertebrae, and it could definitely be called "a small grip".

An Yi let herself calm down for three seconds and then took off all her clothes, including her underwear. Anyway, even people with distorted aesthetics wouldn't be interested in this body.

An Yi felt quite optimistic, at least she's still alive, and as long as she's alive, there's still a chance to find a way out.

An Yi gathered her clothes together, dug a hole and buried it, made a mark, and will come back to get it later when she needed it. Then, with trembling steps, she began to carefully explore this new world.

First of all, this is definitely not Earth.

Although she didn't study botany, she can recognize common plants. However, everything here is very unfamiliar, the towering trees, the clumps of vines crisscrossing, the strangely shaped grass... none of them can be named by An Yi. More importantly, on the stems and leaves of these plants, there's a faint glimmer of light, which isn't part of the characteristic of earth's vegetation.

Looking up at the sky, she can see the light yellow sunlight, scattered sporadically through the dense leaves.

Let's think of those rays of light as sunlight as An Yi has no sense of touch, smell, or taste. She has only hearing and sight, so she can't make more accurate judgments. Moreover, her current hearing and vision may not be normal. She only has a skeletal body, lacking organs, muscle tissue, and various nervous systems, and she doesn't know what she relies on to maintain her vitality.

An Yi took a look by the water pool. In the dark eyeholes of her skeleton's face, two clusters of faint blue flames were burning, and all her energy seemed to come from this. Is this the legendary fire of the soul? Has she turned into a monster? Are there any creatures like her here?

While meditating, An Yi suddenly felt something approaching not far away. An Yi followed the sound and saw an animal that looked like a wild boar slowly walking out of the bushes, crossing An Yi, and drinking water by the pool with its head down.

It was obviously not interested in An Yi, and just glanced at her casually and ignored her. Although An Yi has never seen such an animal, one thing is certain. It has flesh and blood and is a normal living creature, completely different from herself.

Of course, just seeing a single living creature doesn't mean much, she still needs to collect more information.

The wild boar—let’s call it “wild boar” for the time being—went towards the depths of the forest after drinking water, and An Yi hurriedly followed. The wild boar didn't care about her following, and stopped and went, as if walking and looking for food. 

Under its leadership, An Yi discovered several more animals, all of which she had never seen before. However, it can also be distinguished according to the classification of the earth, aquatic and terrestrial, birds, beasts, insects and fish, and this forest have built a complete biological chain.

However, so far, she hasn't found any signs of human activity, nor has she found any skeleton creatures like her, but only saw a lot of scattered animal bones along the way.

After an unknown amount of time, An Yi felt that the sky was getting darker, so she decided to find a place to stay first. Although she didn't feel tired now, the forest at night must be very dangerous, and she didn't want to take risks with her bones.

The beasts here don't seem to have any appetite for her, because she is a skeleton rack that is clean enough to be a specimen. So she didn't bother to find any hidden foothold, but just found a shallow hole and nested herself in it.

As soon as An Yi sat down, something horrible happenedーshe fell apart, she actually fell apart! She turned into a pile of bones, scattered in the shallow hole.

What's happening here? Could it be that she can't even maintain her skeleton form?

An Yi became a little flustered, the flames in her eyes kept shaking, a strange energy spread all over her body, and then the bones scattered on the ground seemed to be pulled by some force, slowly connecting and combining, and finally forming a complete skeleton.

An Yi looked at herself in amazement, her thoughts turned sharply, and her bones were scattered again, piled up into a pile, and then once rejoined again. Dismantling or partial dismantling is no problem for her. She can even take off her arms to use it as a weapon, and she can take off her head to kick it around like a ball...

She turned into such an unscientific existence!

When she first discovered that she had turned into a skeleton, An Yi wasn't as frightened as she thought. Because she was originally a bone carver, specializing in carving creations using various animal bones as carriers. Bones are to her, just like food and clothing, are indispensable things in life.

But no matter what, she couldn't believe that one day she would turn into a skeleton, and it was a skeleton that could run, jump, and disassemble itself. Is it possible that the pinnacle of bone carving skills is to carve yourself into a work of art with your own bones?

An Yi lay down beside the cave in despair, looking at the already dim sky, and letting go of her thoughts. She doesn't know what happened to her parents and sisters. She disappeared so suddenly. 

They must be very worried... After thinking about it for a long time, An Yi still has no sleepiness. Only then did she realize that a skeleton doesn't need to sleep at all. Apart from physical movement, she has basically no other physiological needs now.

An Yi thought that even if she had the opportunity to go back in the future, she might not be able to go back looking like this. In this way, she should be afraid, in pain, and at a loss, but the strange thing is that she feels alright, she just felt that her body is empty and was a little unaccustomed.

While thinking about it, out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of green light, which flashed through the trees on the left.

An Yi stood up, hesitated for a while, but decided to go over to take a look.

Pushing aside the leaves, the green light appeared in front of her, it was as if countless fireflies gathered together, little by little, twinkling, it's very beautiful.

But the next moment, she didn't think it was beautiful anymore.

She saw that green light like a gust of wind, quickly flew towards a small beast that was climbing a tree trunk, and then swallowed it whole. After three or four seconds, the green light disappeared, and the small beast became a small skeleton. With only bones left, it fell to the ground with a clatter and disintegrated into pieces.

An Yi couldn't believe her eyes. What is that green light?! It turned a living animal into a bare skeleton in just a few seconds. She looked around to make sure that the green light had disappeared, and then carefully checked the bones of the little beast.

It was clean, without a trace of flesh and blood, just like her... An Yi suddenly realized that the culprit who turned herself into a skeleton might be that green light.

From this point of view, when she first arrived in this world, she should still be a complete person, only that she was in a coma, and her flesh and blood were swallowed up by that green light, and she became what she is now.

Just, why didn't she die? Would the creatures that were turned into skeletons by that green light not die?

An Yi's eyes fell on the corpse of the little beast again, and found that its corpse was faintly flickering with white light, full of the breath of life, which made people feel very comfortable.

An Yi couldn't help but reached out and touched it, and at the moment of contact, a wonderful feeling formed between the two. She suddenly retracted her hand, and the feeling disappeared immediately.

What happened? There seems to be an urge for her to... do something.

An Yi stretched out her hand to the bones of the little beast again. This time, she was mentally prepared. In addition to the wonderful feeling, there were also circling and dancing streams of light between the phalanx. At the same time, An Yi's eyes seemed to be able to see the structure of every bone. Not only that, but she even thinks she can change the quality of its bones.

This... this is simply the ability that a bone carver dreams of!

However, An Yi suppressed her desire to sculpt immediately, and chose to stay aside, waiting to verify her guess and see if this pile of bones could be "resurrected".

The waiting time was always slow, and An Yi began to count the bones of this little beast silently, 1, 2, 5...7...112 in total. Visually, the only parts suitable for engraving are its leg bones and skull. It's not large in size, and the pre-processing is more troublesome, and the difficulty in the engraving isn't small...

After An Yi sifted through all the various carving steps and creative ideas, it was dawn, and the pile of bones still showed no sign of "resurrection". And she doesn't know if it's her illusion, but An Yi always feels that the light on the bones seems to be much dimmed.

She felt it with her hand - it wasn't an illusion, not only did the light had faded, but even the breath of life had become weaker.

Could it be that she guessed wrong that creatures turned into skeletons by that green light would be "resurrected"?

An Yi waited until the sky was bright, and the light on the bones disappeared completely, and the change she expected didn't happen. At this time, if she touches the pile of bones again, the wonderful feeling before no longer exists.

T/N: A living corpse fl, and now, a living skeleton fl. The author of these books is really...creative~

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