Chapter 3: The Earth is Very Dangerous

  Guo Yixiang introduced herself like this.

  She said she was Guo Xiang, and a year ago, her soul accidentally crossed over here and possessed Guo Yixiang's body. After crossing over, Guo Xiang's memories and Guo Yixiang's memories intertwined, thinking became confused, and consciousness unclear.

  As a result, she was sent by her father Guo Yang to a mental hospital for treatment.

  After staying in the mental hospital for more than half a year, her consciousness finally gradually became clear, and she recovered some of Guo Xiang's memories, as well as some of Guo Yixiang's memories. However, these memories were all a bit fragmented and incomplete. Guo Xiang had tried to recall the martial arts she used to learn, and if she could master them, she would be able to leave the mental hospital.

  Unfortunately, no matter how hard she tried, the memories of her martial arts skills just wouldn't come back, so she could only be locked up here. Although she kept explaining to the doctor that she was Guo Xiang, everyone just treated her as a mentally ill patient.

  Kuo Yi-hsiang spoke very seriously when stating the above facts, however, Tang Hsiao-sheng basically didn't take it to heart and just thought of him as a mentally ill person speaking nonsense.

  He had to go along with her thinking, so he pretended to be suddenly enlightened and exclaimed: "I didn't expect that there would be such a strange thing as crossing over in the world! So, you and I are both soul-crossing?"

  "Hmm." Guo Yixiang nodded and asked, "Big brother, how long have you been here after crossing over?"

  Tang Xiaosheng thought for a moment and replied: "Two days."

  "It's only been two days, I've been transported for almost a year." Guo Yixiang pouted and asked in a low voice, "Big brother, can you still remember your previous martial arts?"

  Tang Xiaosheng couldn't possibly have martial arts skills. He shook his head and lied, saying: "After crossing over to this place, I realized that all my memories related to martial arts had been forgotten."

  He was worried that Guo Yixiang would be suspicious of what he said, but instead she replied: "I'm the same as Big Brother, after crossing over here, I couldn't remember many things either, and all my martial arts incantations were forgotten. I think this is because after crossing over, our memories and the original owner's memories are intertwined, causing temporary amnesia."

  Tang Xiaosheng hastily nodded in agreement.

  With this amnesia story, it would be much easier for him to impersonate Yang Guo.

  "Big brother, how did you end up being locked in here too?" Guo Yixiang asked curiously.

  Tang Xiaosheng naturally couldn't say that your father, Guo Yang, paid me to coax you, so he made something up: "After crossing over, I wandered around the streets and encountered two people who claimed to be city administrators. They were the ones who escorted me here."

  Guo Yixiang seemed to believe his words, her nose twitching as she spoke in a slightly childish tone: "Big brother, you've only been here for two days and don't understand many things. This is the 21st century, completely different from our original world, and all sorts of dangers can happen at any time. For example, the city management people you just mentioned are very formidable and shouldn't be offended lightly!"

  Tang Xiaosheng nodded slightly and pretended to be suddenly enlightened: "I see. Besides the city management, what else should I pay attention to?"

  "There are many things to pay attention to, and we must be especially careful with food, clothing, housing, and transportation." Guo Yixiang continued to explain, "For example, when it comes to food, you can't eat just anything. Because some duck eggs contain Sudan Red, milk contains melamine, steamed buns contain coloring agents, fried dough sticks contain gutter oil, pork contains lean meat powder, ham contains dichlorvos, hot pot contains chemical substances, rice contains paraffin wax, and even fruit jelly may contain gelatin made from waste leather!"

  "Isn't that nothing can be eaten?"

  "It's not that serious, just need to be more careful in daily life." Guo Yixiang seemed to remember something and reminded him again, "Big brother, there is one thing you need to pay special attention to. If you see an old man falling down on the road, don't rush to help him immediately, because it might be a trap. There are many scammers here, big brother likes to be chivalrous, it's easy to suffer losses."

  Tang Xiaosheng: "......"

  Then, Guo Yixiang went on to introduce him to some common knowledge about this world. For example, what is a car, what is a train, what is a ship, and what is an airplane.

  After introducing the means of transportation, he began to introduce traffic rules. What red light stops, green light goes, yellow light is on and waits a bit, cross the road to walk zebra crossing and so on, in short, it's all common sense that people on earth know.

  For a moment, Tang Xiaosheng felt as if time had gone back to over a decade ago, when he was still in kindergarten and his teacher would often say the same thing.

  He is now pretending to be Yang Guo, not only can't interrupt her, but also must pretend to be listening with relish. When it comes to the exciting part, he still has to match various surprised expressions.

  However, overall, Guo Yixiang is still quite easy to get along with. Tang Xiaosheng was worried that communicating with a mentally ill person would be difficult, but it seems he overthought it. He chatted with Guo Yixiang very harmoniously, without any sense of estrangement at all.

  In fact, he is a bit strange. Apart from claiming to be Guo Xiang, Guo Yixiang's performance in other aspects seems to be fine, whether it's logical thinking or mental state, there's no difference with normal people.

  He couldn't help but wonder how today's mentally ill patients could look so normal?

  Of course, these are not very important, what is truly important is that Guo Yixiang has already taken him as Yang Guo, which means he has successfully obtained this job and can earn 300 yuan a day.

  It's not easy to do this job either, it requires a lot of patience. For the whole day, Tang Xiaosheng almost didn't do anything else, basically just listening to Guo Yixiang talking.

  Guo Yixiang seemed to have a belly full of grievances, telling him about her miserable experiences in the psychiatric hospital over the past year. She said she was not ill, but was forced by nurses to receive injections and take medicine, undergoing various forms of psychotherapy. There were several times when she tried to secretly escape from the hospital, but unfortunately, the hospital's defenses were too strong, and she failed every time.

  "Big brother, let's leave this mental hospital! We're transmigrators, not mentally ill people, why do we have to stay here?" Guo Yixiang said with a pout.

  As for her request, Tang Xiaosheng would certainly not agree. If she really escaped, his job would also be ruined.

  Slowly, Tang Xiao Sheng said: "Xiang Er, as you said, the Earth is very dangerous. Now my martial arts memory has not been restored yet, I can't protect you. It's safer for us to stay here temporarily and leave after Big Brother recovers his martial arts memory."

  "Okay!" said Guo Yixiang, biting her lip slightly.

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