Chapter 25 25. [The game is being upgraded]

There was not much time left after talking with Yan Songlin. Xu Zhi was actually not sure whether her spiritual body would dissipate or turn into a corpse after her consciousness was extracted from it, but she was unwilling to "go offline" in front of these two people.

So she said goodbye to Yan Songlin, and took advantage of the last few minutes to find an empty house to hide and wait for the spirit body time to end.

The last experience of the spiritual body came to an abrupt end. Xu Zhi didn’t know what it felt like when normal time ended, but now she finally knew what it felt like to separate from the spiritual body normally.

It was as if her soul was pulled out, and her consciousness was in a trance for a moment. Before returning to her body, she saw her spiritual body turned into fragments of ashes burned by the fire and dissipated in the air.

".So that's how it is."

The next second, consciousness returned to the body.

Xu Zhi opened her eyes and felt the "heavy" body again, but her consciousness was extremely clear. Without the restlessness that disturbed her all the time, it seemed that even her thinking speed had become much faster.

Comparing the two, Xu Zhi still prefers the current state.

She looked at the time and it was not yet six o'clock, so she picked up the game console with anticipation to see if her two followers had any gains.

But after a while, she saw the dog on the screen suddenly stop in place, as if it smelled something in the air, and then ran towards the southeast like crazy. In a narrow corner, surrounded by a pile of discarded garbage, the dog threw away the waste in front of it and found the "treasure" hidden in it.

A black plant about one meter tall that looks like a shrub. It is obviously not quite right to call it a plant, as it does not look lifeless. Its branches are pure black, like some kind of rock, without leaves. There are a few black fruits scattered on the densely forked branches.

Xu Zhi roughly counted them and found there were four.

【incredible.】

[Your luck is really not like that of an ordinary person. It's really surprising. ]

【Maybe luck is also part of your talent. 】

The narrator lamented Xu Zhi's luck three times in a row, which is enough to show how rare the things that Gouzi discovered are.

Xu Zhi asked Gou Zi to pick the four fruits, and the moment after picking the last fruit, the "shrub" broke into pieces like gravel and disappeared into the soil.

Xu Zhi suddenly had an idea.

Since the weakest branch can only produce one fruit, and the shrub will produce four, are there any black trees?

How many fruits should be produced on it?

But she still didn't know what this fruit was, but Xu Zhi had some guesses in his mind.

She had never seen this kind of fruit during the day. The only times she had seen it were in the early morning, just after midnight, when the power that the narrator described as scattered in the world returned to nothingness, and only then could she discover the black fruit.

Moreover, this fruit contains a large amount of energy, so Xu Zhi guessed that this thing is related to those things that cannot be looked at directly at midnight, and perhaps it is their remains. Once time passes, the fruit will disappear, so it can only be picked up in the early morning.

However, these were all Xu Zhi's guesses. Although she felt that the probability of her guess being correct was as high as 80%, the times were different now. It was normal for something beyond her cognition to appear, and she did not dare to guarantee that things were exactly as she thought.

In the next hour, the two clansmen did not make any other discoveries, and Xu Zhi was already very satisfied with these four fruits.

After recalling Xiaoyi and Gouzi, Xu Zhi did not send them out hunting immediately. She planned to do something bold.

Seeing that all the followers had returned to her side, Xu Zhi felt much safer. She instructed the two followers, "Don't run around. Stay by my side."

Then he took out a black fruit from the warehouse and ate it without hesitation.

The taste is not very flavorful.

It's like eating a blueberry with no flavor.

But the moment she ate it, a burning sensation like fire burst out from her body. Double images appeared in front of her eyes, and there were some intermittent noises in her ears, like the flapping of wings.

A candle flame seemed to appear in the distance, and the moth in the illusion came to the real world. At this moment, Xu Zhi could not distinguish the intersection between illusion and reality. She seemed to have turned into a moth, wanting to fly into the scorching fire again.

It was not an illusion, she could indeed feel her body as if it was being burned by flames.

But she clearly had not yet touched that distant candlelight.

In a trance, Xu Zhi suddenly thought, will the moth that has been burned in the fire be reborn?

She shook her head again, muttering to herself as if she were mentally ill: "No."

Only the phoenix will be reborn from the ashes, while the moth will only be burned to death. But she is not a phoenix, but a moth.

With this thought, Xu Zhi seemed to be more and more convinced that she was a moth, and her mission was to reach the candlelight and sacrifice herself to death.

Something is not right

"Woof! Woof!"

Two dog barks rang in Xu Zhi's ears like bells, and the sound made the surrounding moths become blurred. Xu Zhi's sanity also returned a little at this moment, and she began to have some doubts about her identity as a moth.

"I haven't even reached the fire yet, why is it so hot?"

It's like it's being burned.

"Am I really a moth? Why can't I fly? Where are my wings?"

At this moment, Xu Zhi seemed to have lost his mind as if he had been possessed by a spell, and even his brain circuits became abnormal.

When her short-circuited brain connected the two questions and she felt the pain of her body being burned, Xu Zhi suddenly felt that she understood everything and found the answer, so she spoke with certainty.

"Sure enough, I'm not a moth."

"I am a burning candle!"

No matter what her train of thought was when she said this, the moment she said it, the surroundings seemed to freeze for a moment. Xu Zhi's self-awareness quickly returned, and she completely woke up.

The burning sensation in her body faded away, and Xu Zhi realized that her memory was a little fuzzy. She could not quite remember what had happened between the time she ate the fruit and the time she suddenly woke up.

She only vaguely remembered that she seemed to almost lose her mind, and it was the barking of the dog that woke her up.

Is that so?

Anyway, the Paw Patrol has done a great job today, so the dogs should be given something good to eat no matter what.

Xu Zhi picked up the game console and prepared to take out the other black fruits from the warehouse to share with Xiaoyi and Gouzi, but was surprised to find that the game screen had never appeared before:

【The game is being upgraded】

【Estimated time: 2 hours】

"The game can be upgraded?" Xu Zhi looked at the words in great surprise. This game can be upgraded???

“But why the sudden escalation?”

(End of this chapter)