Chapter 10. The Second Attribute Core
After asking Xiaoyi to carry the wheelchair to the second floor, Xu Zhi carefully checked the room again. After confirming that there was no sign of anyone living here, he closed the door and took out the game console.
She hadn't intended to let Xiaoyi leave to hunt or look for the black fruit. Although she was indeed pressed for time, she still knew the priorities of things. Now that she was in an unfamiliar place, she naturally had to let Xiaoyi stay for a while longer.
Besides, she has an appointment later.
"Go and search this building to see if there's anyone else."
Xu Zhi didn't let Xiaoyi walk too far. They just stayed in one building so that with Xiaoyi's current speed, he could reach her quickly even if she encountered any danger.
While Xiaoyi went to clean the building and the puppy was still hunting, Xu Zhi didn't even start cleaning the room. He took out the game console and started controlling the puppy to hunt.
The hunting process went unexpectedly smoothly. The prey came one after another, and almost all of them were asleep, so they were easily captured. In less than half an hour, Xu Zhi had controlled the puppy to kill four prey.
Xiaoyi also returned to the room at this time.
Xu Zhi pressed the option to continue searching for prey, then looked up at Xiaoyi and asked, "Is anyone else here?"
The snake shook his head humanely.
"Okay, stay here."
After saying that, Xu Zhi continued to look down at the game console, where a new round of hunting had just ended.
What caught Xu Zhi's attention was that on the pixel screen, an object flashing with faint light appeared in the prey's corpse, and then a line of subtitles appeared in the center of the screen.
[Your clan surpassed their level to hunt a sleeping prey and got an unexpected reward.]
【It's amazing, your luck seems to be beyond ordinary people. 】
As this line of subtitles appeared, a line of words appeared in the lower left corner of the screen, similar to the ones that would appear when picking up items in other games.
Energy Core +1
After seeing the line of words clearly, Xu Zhi's face showed a look of surprise.
Got another one?
She quickly opened her backpack, and sure enough, in addition to the gray [Moth] attribute core, there was also a light yellow core.
She selected the core, and a word appeared next to it: [Blade].
"Ah, this isn't me attracting it, is it?"
Xu Zhi immediately thought of the fact that both of his family members had the [Blade] attribute.
[Attributes interact with each other, and most of the time, creatures can only awaken the attribute that best suits them.]
[However, this does not mean that every creature can only possess one attribute. Generally speaking, no more than three attributes exist within a living organism. However, the conditions for awakening a second attribute are very harsh.]
[This core is indeed not attracted to you, but that is not entirely true.]
[It is attracted by your family members, but, in a sense, your family members are one with you, so isn't it also attracted by you?]
[Now, do you want to learn about the properties of the blade? ]
"certainly."
Xu Zhi really wanted to suggest that the narrator skip the choice next time.
Blade: The Principles of War and Resistance
It involves brute force, betrayal, cunning, and pain. Its elements can be conquest and domination, struggle and resistance. Its characteristics are cunning and bloodthirstiness, and its violence contains a kind of ingenuity.
[You have already briefly understood the blade attributes. Other attributes will be unlocked after you have the corresponding attribute cores. As for the specific functions of the attribute cores, please explore them on your own.]
It's an attribute that matches her clan quite well.
But this conquest and domination made her a little confused.
However, this attribute came just in time, as she already had a rough idea about how to use the core.
This [Blade] attribute core was just meant to be used for an experiment, but it had to wait until she finished talking with that young lady.
Xu Zhi directly took the core out to the real world and put it in his pocket, then continued to control the puppy to hunt. After about an hour, thanks to the fact that most of the prey did not have time to resist, the puppy quickly reached level 8.
Looking at the refreshed evolution point progress bar, Xu Zhi sighed. He had to manually upgrade two levels before he could unlock the idle mode.
She looked at the large gray dog on the screen, which had upgraded to a size close to that of a Tibetan Mastiff, and thought for a moment, "I might as well give you a name in advance."
After thinking for half a minute, Xu Zhi figured out what to call the second clan member.
"You'll be called Gouzi from now on."
The big dog on the pixel screen couldn't hear her words. It just stood there and wagged its tail boredly, not realizing that it had been given a rather perfunctory name.
Xu Zhi looked at the time. Two hours had passed and it was the time she had agreed to meet with the young lady.
"Let's go, Xiaoyi, let's go see if that sister has come back."
She didn't use the wheelchair anymore because it was inconvenient without an elevator.
While climbing the stairs, she suddenly thought of the dog's size, which was similar to that of a Tibetan Mastiff. She thought that if the dog grew a little bigger, it would be no problem for it to be used as a mount. Then, when she needed to go out for something, she wouldn't have to use a wheelchair.
Xu Zhi's frail body made her breathless after climbing only one flight of stairs. She stood outside the door, calmed her breathing a little, and then raised her hand to knock on the door.
Soon, a reply came from inside the door: "Who?"
Xu Zhi found that there was indeed nothing wrong with her ears. She could tell through the door that the sound was indeed the same one she had heard two hours ago.
"Sister, I came to see you as agreed."
She answered in a sweet tone, as if she was a good and obedient child.
The other party was silent for a while. Xu Zhi heard footsteps coming towards the door. She took two steps back. Xiaoyi was beside her, spitting out a wick and staring at the door.
Soon, the door was opened and the young lady I saw in the morning was standing inside. She still looked the same, but there were many dirty blood stains on her sportswear. She probably just got home and had no time to change clothes when the door was knocked.
With this amount of bleeding, if it was all her own blood, she probably wouldn't be able to stand up.
"Sister, did you go hunting just now?"
Xu Zhi asked with a smile, and the other party nodded without hiding it. He glanced at Xiaoyi with a subtle look, his expression tense, probably because he couldn't let down his guard against this strange girl and the big snake.
But since she did not choose to escape, she opened the door as promised. Even though she was still on guard, she did not intend to do anything contradictory, so the woman slightly moved sideways to make way for the entrance.
"Come in, sit down for a moment, I'll go change my clothes."
She pointed at the bloodstains on her body, which were indeed quite thick. Moreover, Xu Zhi noticed that the woman's fingers were heavily calloused, unlike his own fingers which were too slender and tender. They looked quite powerful, and were suitable for holding a knife.
"Excuse me then."
Xu Zhi walked in politely and sat down on the sofa obediently. The woman hesitated for a moment, but before going into the house to change clothes, she took a paper cup and poured her a glass of mineral water.
"Thank you." The girl's tone was a little soft, but if you didn't look at the python crawling at her feet, she would sound very easy to bully.
However, although she behaved very well, she never reached out to touch the glass of water from beginning to end.
(End of this chapter)
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