Looking at the little black bird of unknown species in the palm of her hand, Yuan Hanshuang was well aware that something unknown had happened to her.

With so many staff members speaking, it was enough to raise an alarm.

As a fully grown adult, Yuan Hanshuang had no intention of exposing this matter to anyone until she understood why her manifestation had a dual nature. Just like her possession of memories from a previous life, it would forever remain buried deep in her heart.

After dissipating her manifestation into threads, Yuan Hanshuang pushed open the door of the washroom.

As the guard at the door had said, awakening her psychic abilities came with risks. If the awakening process was not done correctly, it could potentially damage her brain. Therefore, according to the usual practice, after awakening her psychic abilities, she needed to stay in the base for ten minutes of observation. Only if no other adverse reactions occurred could she leave on her own.

The observation area was not too big, with a few people sitting sparsely on the sofas. Next to the walls were large barrels of liquid nutrients, and several children with patched clothes were queuing up to receive their share of the nutrients.

Yuan Hanshuang also took a cup and joined the queue.

After awakening her manifestation, she felt unusually hungry. She couldn’t help but salivate at the smell of the liquid nutrients, feeling dizzy and almost unable to walk.

When it was her turn, Yuan Hanshuang received a full cup.

In theory, one cup of liquid nutrients should have been enough. However, after finishing it, her stomach remained empty, and the dizziness did not improve at all. She was still starving.

What could be the reason?

Yuan Hanshuang didn’t understand, so she decided to take her cup and join the back of the line again.

According to the empire’s welfare policy, all the expenses incurred during the psychic awakening process were covered by the government, which meant that everything provided in the observation area was free. The children who had queued up multiple times had taken advantage of this, trying to fill their stomachs as much as possible and save money for their meals.

Given Yuan Hanshuang’s current family situation after crossing over, saving money was only natural.

It was perfectly reasonable to take advantage of the empire’s benefits!

So Yuan Hanshuang queued up more than ten times.

Immersed in hunger, she didn’t notice that as she increased her number of times in the queue, other children gradually showed signs of bewilderment. They didn’t dare to approach her and instead watched from a distance, their eyes filled with awe.

One child secretly whispered, “Forty-one, forty-two… Is she a bottomless pit?”

Standing in front of the barrel of liquid nutrients, Yuan Hanshuang drank down dozens of cups. Finally, she felt the familiar sensation of being full. She glanced at the empty cup and frowned at her abnormal appetite.

Fortunately, the observation area was equipped with medical AI, which could conduct a physical examination at any time.

After a quick scan, the AI provided an answer, “Based on the test results, your body is in excellent health.”

“According to research conducted by the Imperial Academy of Sciences, after awakening psychic abilities, human physical fitness also undergoes a temporary enhancement. If you experience some discomfort in the short term, such as sleepiness, headaches, or fatigue, it is considered a normal reaction.”

Since sleepiness was considered a normal reaction, then overeating and drinking in a short period should be too.

With the assurance from the medical AI, Yuan Hanshuang felt relieved. She happily patted her stomach, threw away the paper cup, and left contentedly.

After she left, the screen on the liquid nutrient barrel flickered a few times and displayed a red warning.

【Insufficient nutrients in the barrel. Please wait for the staff to refill it.】

“What’s going on?”

A few minutes later, the staff on duty hurriedly arrived, their expressions filled with confusion.

They had just filled ten gallons of liquid nutrients yesterday.

In theory, this amount should have been enough for the awakened children to drink for half a month. How could it be finished in just one day?

What Yuan Hanshuang didn’t know was that after she left, the staff at the psychic awakening base were completely perplexed.

In the empire, Star 1999 was a small planet that didn’t even rank among the well-known ones. However, its level of prosperity was even greater than the most developed international metropolis that Yuan Hanshuang had seen in her previous life. Interstellar buildings were everywhere, and when she looked around, she saw magnificent skyscrapers made of unknown materials, shining with colorful lights. People seemed smaller than ants in comparison.

A few hundred meters outside the base, Yuan Hanshuang couldn’t help but savor the taste she had just experienced.

“No wonder it’s the officially distributed liquid nutrients. It tastes great.”

There were different qualities of liquid nutrients, and the one provided by the empire was considered high-grade. It was relatively expensive, and many people couldn’t afford it. For example, Yuan Hanshuang often consumed cheap liquid nutrients sold on the black market, which were mixed with a lot of carbohydrates and tasted sickeningly sweet. It couldn’t compare to the free nutrients she had enjoyed today.

“It’s 18 kilometers from home… I won’t take the star rail this time, I’ll save some money and run back.”

After drinking a full barrel of high-grade liquid nutrients, she felt refreshed, energized, and full of vitality.

It’s hard to describe this feeling. It’s like having a portion of french fries at the pier. Since being reborn as a child, Yuan Hanshuang hadn’t experienced this light and joyful feeling of being able to bounce three feet high in one place for a long time.

After squatting down to tie her shoelaces, she started jogging along the sidewalk at a steady pace.

Yuan Hanshuang intentionally controlled her speed to be slightly faster.

She heard that students at the prestigious military academy had to run ten kilometers as part of their warm-up routine every day. With her unfinished martial arts dream from her previous life, Yuan Hanshuang naturally wouldn’t give in. She set her daily training volume several times higher than her peers, striving to keep up with those students who were ten years older than her.

“Hoo…”

After eight kilometers, Yuan Hanshuang exclaimed.

Her running speed wasn’t slow. Normally, at this point, she would gradually start to feel tired. However, today she didn’t feel exhausted at all. It felt as normal as drinking water, and she even had energy to spare.

So Yuan Hanshuang decided to try increasing her speed.

Once she increased her speed, she couldn’t control it, and she sprinted like a flying object.

“This girl runs really fast.”

An old man walking on the side of the road exclaimed, “She vanished in an instant.”

Maintaining her high-speed state, it didn’t take long for Yuan Hanshuang to see her own home.

Tall buildings were constructed here.

For her, these were high-rise buildings that she had been accustomed to living in her previous life. But in the eyes of interstellar people, who had vast land resources and could even buy and sell planets, these high-rise buildings were synonymous with slums. They were provided for the poorest residents by the empire, and only those who were struggling to even have enough to eat would choose to live here.

No matter what others thought, Yuan Hanshuang was satisfied with her current living conditions.

The space was large, she didn’t have to pay for it herself, and there was even an elevator. Who needs a bicycle?!

“It took less than half an hour for ten kilometers, and I don’t feel tired at all. Awakening psychic abilities really enhances a person’s physical fitness. The effect is even better than I imagined. This trip was worth it.”

Yuan Hanshuang was elated by the significant improvement in her strength.

She ran back home in three quick steps, opened the door cheerfully, and said, “Dad, I’m back!”

Hearing the sound of the door opening, the man who was squatting in front of a table stood up, picked up the practice book in his hand, and waved it enthusiastically toward Yuan Hanshuang. He made some incoherent sounds, looking very happy.

“Did you complete the handwriting task I assigned this morning?”

The man nodded and showed the characters in his practice book. The scars on his face twitched.

The notebook was filled with densely written characters, stroke by stroke. Although they were crooked, it was apparent that the writer had taken it seriously.

Yuan Hanshuang gave a thumbs-up and earnestly placed a one-yuan star coin in her father’s hand, “Dad, you’re amazing! This is a reward!”

She had been an orphan without parents in her previous life, so having a real blood relative in this life was a stroke of luck.

When Yuan Hanshuang first crossed over, she was just a baby and had congenital weakness. Her memories before the age of two were hazy to the point of being completely forgettable. It wasn’t until she could walk and talk on her own that she discovered her only blood relative had not only lost his memory but also became silly and intellectually disabled. He couldn’t even speak a complete sentence or engage in complex communication.

Sometimes, Yuan Hanshuang couldn’t help but look back and feel emotional.

In those fragmentary and vague memories before the age of two, her father had always been with her, gesturing and clumsily selecting formula and changing diapers with anxious people. He would get up early and work late, doing cheap physical labor at nearby factories. He would endure hardships just to rely on that meager salary to raise her little by little.

Her simple-minded father had unexpectedly astonishing strength. Although he was an ordinary person who couldn’t even summon psychic abilities, he could throw a punch with a staggering weight of nearly ten thousand kilograms. So when she was two years old, her father caught the attention of a manager from an underground fighting arena and was recruited to become a professional fighter there.

After her father started working in the underground fighting arena, their living standards improved significantly, and they moved from a dilapidated shack to a resettlement area. However, the good times didn’t last long because ordinary people couldn’t defeat those with natural abilities and often suffered severe injuries. Reluctant to fight against him, the unscrupulous manager of the arena threw him into matches against talented individuals.

How could an ordinary person compete with those with natural abilities?

During that time, the most vivid memory for Yuan Hanshuang was the increasing scars on her father’s body.

So when Yuan Hanshuang grew a little older, she went to negotiate with the manager of the underground fighting arena.

“Compared to my father, I’m younger and know some ancient martial arts moves. It should be more interesting, right?”

She had seen her father throw punches, which were purely brute force and lacked any technique. After watching a few matches, she had figured it out. It would be better to let her take his place. A violent loli with rare ancient martial arts would surely attract some attention.

Sure enough, after weighing the pros and cons, the unscrupulous manager of the fighting arena readily agreed to her request.

That’s how Yuan Hanshuang successfully took her father’s place and became the breadwinner of the family.

Last year, she used the money she had saved to take her father to see a doctor.

The doctor said her father had suffered a severe head injury, and it was a miracle that he had survived. Being silly and losing his memory were just accompanying symptoms. Compared to that, the almost disfiguring scar on his face was nothing.

Although it was the interstellar era now, the level of technology on this planet was not as exaggerated as the sci-fi dramas in her previous life.

Physical injuries could be treated by healing talents in the auxiliary system, but permanent brain damage was mostly incurable.

The only possible solution was the legendary Black Gold Medical Capsule, but such medical capsules were only available in the capital of the empire in the main star of the federation. Moreover, the cost of activating and using it was exorbitant.