Click
The little skeleton didn't leave for too long. Soon it returned to the room and placed the thing in its arms in front of Mu Liuyue.
There were some wrinkled and completely dehydrated small fruits that looked like apples, and some black mud-colored dried meat of unknown creatures.
"Are these... for me?" Mu Huoyue asked tentatively. The appearance of these "foods" was quite unpleasant, but they were barely edible for humans.
The little skeleton nodded and pushed the "food" towards the human girl, looking at her expectantly with his big empty eyes.
Mu Huiyue swallowed, she was indeed very hungry. She had not eaten anything since she fell into this secret realm. When she just woke up, she had not yet fully adapted to her body and the environment. Only now did she clearly feel the dull pain in her wounds. The blood loss and hypothermia were rapidly draining her physical strength. She needed replenishment, even if it was only a little bit.
Mu Chuyue picked up a shriveled little fruit, took a bite with great effort, chewed it, and swallowed it.
It didn't taste good at all, but fortunately there was no strange smell. She quickly finished the one in her hand, then picked up the jerky and ate it.
The little skeleton seemed very happy to see the human girl eating the food he brought. The black mist swirling under his feet rose up with a sense of excitement.
At this moment, a loud "bang" was suddenly heard outside, and the entire castle seemed to shake, and the black fog that had just risen around the little skeleton was shaken off a little.
Mu Huoyue also froze in place. The air around her became even colder and stickier, almost turning into tangible chill. Some powerful threat was slowly approaching here.
Boom——!
Boom——!
After hearing loud noises one after another, Mu Chuyue suddenly realized that they were footsteps, the sounds of huge high-level extraordinary creatures wandering in the secret realm of this ancient castle.
"Click, click..." The little skeleton's teeth chattered, as if it was saying something, but the human girl couldn't understand.
Boom——!
The footsteps were getting closer and closer. It was obvious that the other party was getting closer and closer. The little skeleton was visibly anxious and panicked. It turned around several times in a panic and finally pounced directly on Mu Chuyue. It split into hundreds of small bones in front of her and fell all over her body. It used its tiny body to cover the body of the human girl.
The swirling black mist surged up and covered Mu Chuyue tightly together with the tiny white bones.
Almost at the same time, Mu Huoyue felt herself being tightly grasped by a strong gaze.
Her body was completely stiff under the influence of the black mist. She moved her eyes with difficulty and saw the source of the gaze - a huge rotten eye had appeared outside the crack in the wall. The scarlet pupil was filled with deep black mist, and it was staring at everything in the room without blinking.
Mu Chuyue immediately closed her eyes and held her breath with all her might. The skull of the little skeleton fell on the position of her heart. The thick black fog suppressed her nervous heartbeat. The black fog containing deathly aura wrapped around her injured, weak, and silent body. To anyone who saw her now, she would just be a freshly baked rotten corpse.
After an unknown amount of time, the terrifying feeling of oppression finally withdrew, and the sound of heavy footsteps gradually faded away. Mu Chuyue opened his eyes and found nothing outside the crack in the wall.
The scattered bones were pieced together again, and the little skeleton was reassembled in front of her. He patted his empty chest with lingering fear.
"Thank you, you saved me, little skeleton." Mu Liuyue reached out and gently touched the top of its head.
The little skeleton lowered his head and scratched his cheekbone shyly, then pushed the remaining food in her direction.
Mu Huoyue tried hard to swallow all of this. However, this "food" was just a drop in the bucket. Even after eating all the food brought back by the little skeleton, the human girl still inevitably became weaker.
The little skeleton even found an old woolen blanket when she was shivering with cold, and Mu Huoyue herself also tried some measures to stop the bleeding and perform first aid, but these could not change her increasingly weak condition.
"Broken bones plus blood loss, and perhaps infection... Generally speaking, humans without modern medical care are doomed to die, right?" Mu Yuyue's face was pale, and she smiled weakly as she looked at the little guy in front of her. "I wish I could [reconstruct] like you."
Even the weakest supernatural creature possesses magical powers that are beyond the reach of ordinary humans.
The little skeleton, who was at his wit's end, stood there in a daze, watching the human girl's voice getting smaller and smaller, and felt so sad that he was about to cry.
This was the first creature it met that was willing to talk to it and accept its kindness.
Regardless of whether she is a member of the same species or a human being, the little skeleton hopes that she can always be the same as she is now, and not turn into one of those ugly corpses dominated by instinct.
"Click, click, click..." The little skeleton raised his head, his thin shoulder blades trembled, and big tears rolled down.
Skeletons have no tears. What falls from their eye sockets is thick black mist that condenses into teardrops, which then vaporize and disappear before hitting the ground.
It really wants to save itself.
Mu Chuyue was weakly wrapped in a blanket and wanted to reach out and touch the little skeleton's head, but she found it difficult to complete even such a simple action.
The broken bones had turned purple, but what was more serious now was the blood loss. Her first aid measures seemed to have no effect, and she couldn't find anything that could heal her in this castle filled with the undead.
The most promising way to be saved right now is to wait for rescue from the Affairs Bureau, but according to past news, this type of secret realm that suddenly descends will block the entrance to the outside world during the descending period until it reaches the fusion period. The duration of the descending period varies, ranging from a few days to decades. Some ancient secret realms from hundreds of years ago have not yet fully entered the fusion period.
Even if the Affairs Bureau has the means to find an entrance from the outside world, it will take several days. Given Mu Huoyue's current condition, if everything goes well, he can be buried before dawn and become the same kind as the little skeleton.
...I wonder if the time traveler who died on the spot at the beginning can be awarded the worst award in history?
Mu Chuyue laughed at herself in her heart, looking at the crying little skeleton in front of her. She wanted to smile, but the corners of her mouth felt as if they weighed a thousand pounds.
She is still unable to face life and death calmly.
What's more, she came to a world with magical supernatural creatures, an interesting world where she could make contracts with them and become a beastmaster. She wanted to survive and see more supernatural creatures like the little skeleton.
Beastmaster...
Mu Chuyue was slightly startled, and found the information that had once flashed by from the corner of his memory.
Thanks to the contract with extraordinary creatures and the feedback from the beast taming space, beast tamers possess physical fitness far superior to that of ordinary humans. Even a beast tamer who has just awakened will not fall into the desperate situation of waiting to die if he encounters Mu Chuyue's current injuries.
If he could awaken and become a beastmaster, Mu Chuyue might be able to walk out of the secret realm of the ancient castle on his own.
But the path to awakening is not that simple. Even with the help of modern science, the awakening rate of the new generation of humans has reached over 60%, but there are still many people who cannot awaken in their entire lives.
Humans with the talent for taming beasts usually awaken between the ages of fifteen and eighteen. There are also cases where they are younger than fifteen, but if they cannot awaken after the age of eighteen, there is almost no hope of awakening later.
Originally, Mu Huoyue was already seventeen years old, and her chances of awakening on her own were running out. She was extremely anxious about this, and therefore paid attention to many methods of awakening through external forces.
To improve the efficiency of meditation, let’s not talk about the folk remedies such as stimulating the brain with radio waves. One of them is to force awakening by contacting and absorbing the core resources of the secret realm.
The reason why humans can possess the beast-taming space is because of the influence of the power of the secret realm, and there have been successful precedents of this method, but the probability is very low. Most ordinary humans simply cannot withstand the core-level energy of the secret realm, and will explode and die before they awaken.
Therefore, the original owner had not considered such an extreme way of awakening, not to mention that the core of the secret realm was not a resource that ordinary people could access. But now Mu Chuyue was in the secret realm, dying. Even if she did nothing, death was waiting for her.
"In that case, then of course we should give it a try...right, little skeleton?" Mu Yuyue forced herself to look at the heartbroken little fellow, "Can you find...the core of the secret realm or something like that...?"
She tried hard to explain, and the little skeleton listened silently. The black fog swirling around it sank back to the bottom of its feet. It looked back at the human girl, nodded resolutely, and then took another step with its thin leg bones and ran away with a clacking sound.
I don't know how much the little skeleton understood...
Mu Huiyue wrapped herself in a blanket and huddled against the wall. Her abdomen was wet, painful and cold, and the symptoms of blood loss had begun to make her unconscious.
However, asking the little skeleton of a low-level elite race to find the core of the secret realm is too difficult for it... Even if it doesn't know the rating of the Undead Castle, the lord of the secret realm guarding the core will be at least a monarch race two major stages higher than it, which is obviously not something the little skeleton can handle alone.
Sorry, little skeleton...but she really couldn't think of any other way.
Mu Chuyue's thoughts were scattered, and all kinds of inexplicable fragments popped up in her mind, as if she was experiencing a kaleidoscope of events in advance.
I wonder if she will return to her original world after she dies? …
And Mu Huiyue, the former high school student, came here by herself. Did she also go to my place?
In that case, the original Mu Liuyue should be happier, right? After all, she didn't like, and even hated, this world where extraordinary creatures and beastmasters existed.
In this world, Mu Chuyue's parents are both powerful beastmasters with legendary titles. As their daughter, Mu Chuyue is naturally a second-generation beastmaster who attracts much attention. She has never slacked off and has been an excellent student since childhood. She has participated in various beast taming knowledge competitions and won numerous awards. She was admitted to one of the best beast taming high schools in the country with the first place. Everyone is waiting for her to awaken and become a beastmaster before graduating from high school and inherit her parents' mantle.
However, this gifted child of destiny did not awaken until he was about to turn eighteen years old.
A 60% probability is neither high nor low. No one doubts that Mu Huoyue, the descendant of two legendary beastmasters, would be an ordinary person who cannot awaken. But as she gets closer to eighteen years old, she has not shown any signs of awakening. There are more and more questioning whispers around her. Her father's disappointed eyes are like a sharp thorn, enough to pierce the heart of a girl of this age.
At this time, the "sister" in the family, who had always had a delicate relationship with her and was regarded by the outside world as far inferior to her, awakened first.
This became the last straw that broke the camel's back for Mu Huoyue. If this accident had not happened, she would probably have really tried to find the core of the secret realm and gamble her young life on the chance of awakening.
Her memory is filled with the determination to be the best. Such a strong-willed girl who never gives up is probably more suitable for that world than herself, right? There are no expectations or constraints from parents, only a workplace where you have to rely on yourself to move forward.
If that is really the case, if I die in this world... maybe there will be no place for me to return to...
Mu Liuyue's consciousness became increasingly blurred. She felt very cold and tried her best to shrink herself smaller.
The original owner's memory was full of disgust, but she liked it here and liked those magical creatures in the original owner's memory.
She wanted to talk to the little skeleton more. The little guy looked very lonely, but he was so dedicated in helping the human he met for the first time.
She wants to live.
If possible.
if……
"Click, click--" There was the low sound of teeth colliding, and a tiny force poked her lightly.
Mu Chuyue opened her eyes with all her might, and in her blurry vision appeared a little skeleton wrapped in black mist, holding in one hand two beautiful petals that emitted a faint blue glow like phosphorescence.
Although they were just two small petals, they exuded an aura that was even stronger than that of the previous rotten-eyed monster. The faint blue light even dispelled the sticky coldness lingering in the air, making Mu Chuyue feel a hint of warmth without temperature for no reason.
She closed her eyes again and swallowed the blue petals that the little skeleton fed into her mouth.
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