"Sister~"
The door was pushed open, and a little girl came running over with her short legs and pounced on the hospital bed.
"Sister is awake." Changning's eyes widened, and she held onto Shiyin's waist tightly. "Sister slept for a long time, and Changning was very worried."
"It's alright now." Shi Yin rubbed Chang Ning's head.
"Sister's left hand still hasn't recovered." Changning sniffed the air and looked at Shiyin's left arm, which was covered by black scales.
“Oh, I almost forgot about that.” Helmod glanced at the report: “Your ability activity level has been too high in a short period of time. The ability concentration in your left arm has not decreased and has remained at the same value for ten days.”
Bad news: The numbers won't go down.
Good news: There was no increase.
Shi Yin glanced at her left arm, where black scales covered most of her arm, extending to near her shoulder. There were bluish-black mottled patches nearby, but the scales were crystal clear and looked quite beautiful, like crystal.
"You didn't take it apart for me?" Shi Yin flicked her left arm, which was completely numb.
Unlike Blizzard's previous use of the left arm to trap the War Knight, this time the left arm is completely unusable.
Shi Yin didn't say much. She conjured a knife in her right hand and slashed it off at the root.
Changning covered her eyes in fright, but then pried her fingers open a crack to curiously check on Shiyin's condition.
Not much blood flowed out. One reason was that Shi Yin used her power to seal off the blood, but a large part of the reason was that there was no blood in Shi Yin's left arm.
Rather than a left arm, it was more like something made of a special crystal-like substance. The severed left arm lay quietly beside Shi Yin, while Helmod was startled by Shi Yin's silent cutting of the arm.
"Sister, can I eat this Changning?" Changning poked the arm that Shiyin had cut off: "It smells so good."
As he spoke, Changning slurped his saliva, looking quite hungry.
"what ever."
As soon as Shi Yin finished speaking, Chang Ning happily picked up the arm and started munching on it, like she was eating a giant hard candy, crunching away.
"So, what are your plans next?" Helmod asked. "I've spoken to the Flame Dragon Kingdom, but you haven't been back for over ten days."
"Ten days or so isn't a long time," Shi Yin said lazily. "It's just a break between the second natural disaster. The plants won't attack them, so they'll take care of their own rest and recuperation."
"Don't you think all your underlings want to come and tear me apart?" Seeing that Shi Yin was reluctant to leave, Helmod was furious: "Your secretary is really good at talking. If we wait any longer, he'll escalate this into an international conflict."
"Secretary?" Shi Yin's mind went blank for a day: "Oh, you mean Nan Zhu?"
Helmod: "...Your little secretary knows he's been doing everything he can to please you, and you don't even remember him?"
"What did he do to please me?" Shi Yin asked, puzzled. "Don't you all do that?"
Helmod: "..."
That's true.
Nanzhu did her best to serve Shiyin, but unfortunately the competition was too fierce, so Nanzhu did not stand out.
"Let's get down to business." Helmod cleared his throat. "First, Ji Chuan asked me to tell you that they have perfectly completed your task."
Ji Chuan never expected to complete the system's task in this way; in a sense, he achieved the ultimate task in the shortest possible way.
The system has many tasks, starting from the lowest level, which includes hoarding goods, seeking revenge, extracting supernatural abilities, and then building shelters, recruiting followers, and expanding spheres of influence and power.
Hoarding goods, seeking revenge, and extracting superpowers are basically just empty talk; joining a nation to hoard goods is impossible.
The revenge was over before it even began. Ji Chuan was too high up to care about such trivial matters, and he had no time to deal with them. That was one reason. Another reason was that the Ji family had either scattered or fallen into ruin.
There's no need to even think about drawing superpowers. The superpowers in the lucky draw are all based on the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Who would want a superpower with such a concept?
So, Ji Chuan and System No. 6 were actually just slacking off. The tasks they did were mostly helping others and perfectly completing the tasks assigned by their superiors, earning a few small points in the hopes of accumulating them over time.
Now that he's been following Agaray for so long, with Agaray's departure, the entire Milica has become Ji Chuan's underling, and the Milica sanctuary has become Ji Chuan's.
System No. 6 was completely dumbfounded. How could its host suddenly clear the level and get all the points?
However, the one-person-one-system approach couldn't bring him any joy.
“Ji Chuan said he has too many points now, and he might need to ask you for permission to allocate skill points. The system shop is now fully open,” Helmod said. “Speaking of which, I had him exchange for a so-called serum. Unsurprisingly, it’s not very useful.”
Helmod looked into Ji Chuan's shop and found that many of the weapons seemed quite useful, as well as the ability to reinforce shelters to protect Milica from destruction, and special food seeds. It was great and reassuring.
The final reward from the store was an extremely expensive serum that could cure the zombie virus, which Helmod had Ji Chuan exchange for.
It took a full 100 million points.
It can't be said that it was useless. After the injection, the zombies did become quiet, their energy activity decreased, and they could barely regain consciousness, but that was all. The potion invented by Helmod was about the same level.
“I already said, once you get infected and become a zombie, it’s a genetic issue, not a viral one.” Shi Yin said, feeling an itch on her arm. She turned her head and saw Chang Ning rubbing his head against her arm.
She stared with wide eyes, seemingly feeling very wronged by Shi Yin's cold treatment.
Helpless, Shi Yin could only pick Chang Ning up from the ground and hold her in her arms. Only then did Chang Ning happily snuggle onto Shi Yin's shoulder and bury her head in Shi Yin's neck.
Changning was very short from a young age due to abuse and malnutrition; she was tiny and frail when you picked her up.
"Also, I hope that as our closest allies, you can inform me of any decisions you make in the future." Helmod was speechless: "I suddenly realized that you probably wanted to stay in a coma for more than ten days to avoid the media storm."
Shi Yin shrugged, not denying it.
Helmod felt his reactions had slowed down; he had also been quite flustered during the days Shi Yin had been unconscious, and was actually quite anxious.
Thinking back now, the time when Shi Yin was first put into the petri dish by him was probably around these past few days. The difference is that she was truly injured and she was only pretending to be injured.
He was even in a hurry to play games with the diplomatic corps of Yanlong Kingdom.
However, since Tokine already included the time she was injured in the calculation, it means that the New World will not be able to attack again for a short period of time. Is it because she was weakened this time?
Helmod recalled that Asmodeus was considered one of the top Seven Deadly Sins fighters. Even among the seven top-tier zombies, there were differences in strength, based on the available information...
[Sloth] Belphegor's abilities are very strong, ranking fourth, but he is also very vulnerable when countered, and he is already dead.
[Lust] Asmodeus was ranked second among the top combatants in Helmod's assessment. He was killed by Agarai, who burned himself to take Asmodeus and two Seven Stars down with him.
[Jealousy] Leviathan was stopped by Tokine and imprisoned in the semi-liberated palace, but according to Tokine, Leviathan escaped and was not killed.
[Gluttony] is next to Shi Yin, and that is Chang Ning.
In other words, the things we should still be concerned about now are envy, greed, wrath, and pride.
According to these four rankings, [Pride] is the strongest and [Envy] is the weakest, but there is a very serious problem.
Helmod had never seen pride or greed.
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