WMSR – QT Chapter 1: Kidnapped
WMSR – QT Chapter 1: Kidnapped
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Inside the dim truck compartment, nearly ten young children were tied up haphazardly. Occasional low sobs could be heard, and the atmosphere was oppressive and heavy. Even though most of these children were still too young to fully understand their situation, they were nonetheless shrouded in a cloud of gloom called despair.
With a loud clang, the compartment door was opened. A man with a face full of ferocious flesh climbed up, grabbing the children—who varied in age and clothing—one in each hand, and hauled them into a cellar. In just a few trips back and forth, he had completely cleared out the truck bed.
The cellar was pitch-black. Even though the burly man had opened the top hatch while moving them, the light still failed to fully illuminate the interior. One could only faintly see quite a few children with bound hands and feet crammed together in a chaotic mess—this quantity was definitely far more than just the few the man had thrown in moments ago.
Accompanied by the heavy thud of the hatch cover being closed once more and the rattling clatter of iron chains, the light that had so painfully managed to flood into this iron-sheet space was shut out yet again.
Seeing that the bad guys had finally left, the toddlers inside the cellar broke into quiet sobs one after another, intermingled every now and then with heart-wrenching cries of “I want Mommy.”
Bai Yichen woke up in this very environment. He was one of the nearly ten children who had just been thrown in by that burly man, and his body still bore the lingering, stinging pain of being roughly tossed down and crashing against the ground.
However, this wasn’t what concerned him the most right now. He could feel that his condition was extremely bad—his limbs were limp and devoid of any strength, his head felt heavy and dizzy, and his throat burned with sharp pain and seemed somewhat swollen. Right now, he couldn’t even manage to cry out for “Mommy” like the other children beside him.
He composed himself, forcing himself to rally his spirits to inspect the background details of this world. After calling out to the “White Moonlight Survival System” in his mind, a flood of information appeared in his head.
This was a world with a technological and cultural background very similar to his original world. The White Moonlight he was currently possessing was also named Bai Yichen. His age of death was eight years old, and the cause of death was falling sick with a high fever and dying while being transported by human traffickers.
Bai Yichen’s heart couldn’t help but sink, gaining a clear realization once more of how grim and dire his current environment was. But no matter what, he had to survive. Having finally obtained such a miraculous opportunity, regardless of whether what that system named “Jinjiang 01” said was true or false, he had to try. He wanted to live.
What Bai Yichen cared about most right now was the information regarding the body he possessed. Therefore, although the background information provided by the system also included details about the world’s male lead, Song Junchi—who was a family friend and had grown up with him since childhood—as well as the protagonist shou (bottom/receiver) of this world, Su Yuanhang, he only skimmed over them briefly.
He only gathered that the original Bai Yichen was the White Moonlight in the heart of the male lead, Song Junchi. However, when Bai Yichen was eight years old, he was accidentally kidnapped by human traffickers. Although the Bai family immediately mobilized the police force to search for him, Bai Yichen had a weak natural constitution coupled with being pampered from childhood. During the rough transportation and relocation by the traffickers, he developed a high fever and breathed his last on the spot, forever becoming the indelible cinnabar mole in Song Junchi’s heart.
When Song Junchi grew up, he took over the Song family business and became the domineering CEO of the Song Corporation. One day, while riding an elevator, he ran into Su Yuanhang, a new employee and the story’s protagonist shou. Mid-ride, the elevator malfunctioned, and Song Junchi discovered that Su Yuanhang suffered from severe claustrophobia. Later, he learned that Su Yuanhang had contracted this condition because he had been kidnapped by human traffickers as a child.
Faced with the abominable human traffickers, Song Junchi immediately thought of the White Moonlight in his heart—his childhood friend Bai Yichen, who had died at the hands of traffickers. He couldn’t help but feel a sense of shared misfortune toward Su Yuanhang, showing him much care from then on, until the two eventually fell in love and ended up together.
All in all, aside from having a cannon-fodder White Moonlight who died early, it was generally quite a heartwarming story.
However, with Bai Yichen himself becoming that early-dying cannon fodder, he didn’t feel it was heartwarming in the slightest. No matter what, he wanted to survive.
Bai Yichen lowered his head to look at his hands and feet. He found that although his hands and feet were bound with rope, perhaps because they were tying up a group of young children, the traffickers didn’t think they could escape. Thus, to save trouble, all the children’s hands were tied in front rather than using the safer method of tying them behind their backs. However, this way of binding was precisely his chance.
Just as Bai Yichen was struggling with the rope binding him, up above the cellar, a tall, skinny man who had been keeping watch not far away casually ambled over. He asked the flesh-faced man who was tinkering with the truck, “Old Second, how was it? Was the trip smooth?”
“It was alright. Didn’t run into any traffic checkpoints on the road. What about you here?”
“Haha, my spot here is hidden. How could anything happen? It’s just that those brats were crying earlier, giving me a headache. See? Locking them up makes it much quieter.” The tall, skinny man spoke sluggishly as he picked up nearby straw and evenly spread it over the iron-chained hatch cover until it was nearly impossible to spot a single trace.
T/N: Hi! I’m Siofra, your translator for White Moonlight Survival Record (Quick Transmigration)!
Welcome to my site! This is officially my first translated novel project in 10 years, so I’m really excited to dive back into translating. Since my personal Chinese literature knowledge is quite limited, I’m working alongside Gemini to help bring this story to life with smooth, readable English while keeping the original flavor and web novel tropes intact.
I hope you all enjoy reading!
PS: some deadass unprofessional shorts video. ✌🏻😅
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