Chapter 5 5. The Second Family
As the game interface jumped, new clan options appeared in front of Xu Zhi.
The number of options has been reduced to four, and the initial level has also been improved.
【1.Cat(Lv3)】
2. Monkey (Lv3)
3. Dog (Lv3)
4. Spider (Lv3)
"All are level 3."
Xu Zhi's gaze rested on the cat and the dog, and she rejected the spider and the unfamiliar monkey first.
After thinking for a while, Xu Zhi decided to choose a dog.
After pressing the OK button, a line of text appears on the game screen again.
[You already know how to simply cultivate your clan in the early stages, so please get started.]
[Family: Dog Lv3
Spirit: 5
Flesh: 40
Attributes: None
Traits: Strength Lv2, Smell Lv3
[Currently required evolution points: 0/200]
"It's fair, both are 200 points, but a dog's body is much stronger than a snake's."
And, she saw the most important reason for choosing a dog: strength.
The reason why she hesitated between the cat and the dog was because she knew she had the opportunity to extract the characteristics of her clan. The possible characteristics of the cat and the dog went through her mind briefly. She wanted the agility of the cat and the strength of the dog, but what she lacked most at this stage was strength.
Xu Zhi was not sure that choosing the dog would definitely help. She was just guessing based on the characteristics of the little snake, which was somewhat of a gamble.
And even if the dog's size and aggressiveness didn't show its strength, she thought it was a good choice.
Now that he had obtained the qualities he wanted, Xu Zhi's mood had improved.
She skillfully followed the process to upgrade the second family member. While upgrading, she watched the dog eat those living things and wondered if dogs hunt and eat like this in real life?
This time the screen was no longer a snake's perspective, but the dog's eyesight was obviously not much better, and the colors were only black, white, yellow, blue and gray. But even so, Xu Zhi could see something was wrong.
Her clan seemed to be in a city filled with black fog.
Xu Zhi's eyes slowly widened, and she felt her scalp tingling slightly, because an absurd idea emerged in her mind.
Could this city in the game be Cloud City?
As soon as this thought came to her mind, Xu Zhi found herself unable to calm down. She began to recall the city she saw on the screen when she was controlling the little snake, but that perspective was too abstract and she couldn't see anything.
It's just the same black fog as in Cloud City, not some ironclad proof. But if this is really just a game, could that black fruit be data transformed into something real?
Xu Zhi would rather believe that the black fruit already existed and the game just "teleported" it over.
In addition, more importantly, this is the reason why Xu Zhi really wants her guess to be true: if her family is really in this city, then she will no longer be alone.
Whether it is companionship or protection, it is what she needs now.
She doesn't trust anyone in this city and doesn't need anyone's company. It would be best if she could have a clan that is absolutely loyal to her.
So she hoped from the bottom of her heart that this guess was not an unrealistic dream.
To do this, she had to verify it.
For example, look carefully for familiar landmarks while the puppy is searching for prey.
But this is actually a bit difficult. Xu Zhi seldom goes out, and his memory of Yuncheng is still stuck before he was 11 years old, and the scenes he occasionally saw on local TV stations.
"It doesn't matter, we'll find it eventually."
The girl's voice was a little hoarse because she seldom spoke, and her heart and lung problems caused her tone of voice to be much weaker than that of an ordinary person. At this moment, this weak voice was mixed with a bit of subtle paranoia, as if even if what she was pursuing was just an illusion, she had to find its shadow in reality.
She devoted all her time to the game, controlling the gray stray dog to run around in search of prey. She encountered dangers during the process and wasted two hours of rest to pay for her recklessness. At noon, Xu Zhi did not feel hungry, so she did not cook. Instead, she just took medicine and continued to play the game.
Fortunately, the initial level 3 dog's physical strength is much stronger than that of a snake, and it will not fall into fatigue quickly. Moreover, Xu Zhi was lucky today, and hunting with a dog was easier than hunting with a snake. It didn't take her long to reach level 4. After the upgrade, her physical strength seemed to have recovered, and she did not become exhausted like a snake after hunting for a long time.
She played for six hours and upgraded the dog to level 5. Then she felt a little tired and put down the handheld and rubbed her forehead. At this time, the dog's data had become: [Family: Dog Lv5
Spirit: 14
Flesh: 160
Attributes: None
Traits: Strength Lv3, Smell Lv3, Vigilance Lv1]
Although his body was a little tired, Xu Zhi was extremely excited.
Simply because, she did not get nothing in return for what she wanted!
Just now, when she was controlling the puppy to search for new prey after it reached level 5, she unknowingly chased the prey along the empty stairs of the old community to the roof. When she saw a building not far away, the prey jumped to the other side along the gap between the buildings. At that time, the game interface gave the option of whether to chase or not, because the building opposite was quite a distance and height difference from the roof where the puppy was, and chasing might face the risk of not being able to jump over. However, the physical strength of a level 5 dog would only be slightly injured even if it fell, and at most it would lose the prey. Logically, she should choose to chase anyway, but Xu Zhi chose not to.
She chose to let the puppy stay where it was so that she could see clearly whether the building not far away that looked like a huge clock was one of the landmarks of Yuncheng: the Bell and Drum Tower.
The gray bell and drum tower has huge dials embedded on the four sides of the square floor. Due to the earthquake five years ago, the clock broke and time stopped at the moment of the earthquake. At that time, the Yuncheng government thought it was of commemorative significance, so they chose not to repair it, letting time stop at this moment forever.
As a Yuncheng native, everyone knows the Bell and Drum Tower. Even Xu Zhi, who never goes out, has seen it countless times in the news.
“.It’s actually true.”
"Haha, it's actually true!"
Xu Zhi muttered to herself over and over again, and couldn't help laughing out loud. If she wasn't holding the game console in her hand, she would even want to applaud.
At this moment, an unprecedented excitement reached her mind, and her heartbeat began to accelerate, her adrenaline surged, and her pupils dilated slightly. It was not until Xu Zhi felt a little difficulty breathing that she realized that she was too excited.
Although upgrading the puppy will bring a slight improvement in physical fitness, that alone is not enough. She still has to control her emotional fluctuations and not be too intense.
Xu Zhi put down the game console, closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and temporarily stopped thinking about the many thoughts that emerged in her mind. She tried hard to regulate her emotions. When the excitement gradually faded and fatigue surged like a tide, she couldn't help but reach out and rub her forehead.
It was exactly half an hour before the time to calculate Xiaoyi's harvest, so she decided to take a half-hour break.
Xu Zhi was still somewhat dissatisfied with her greatly increased energy bar. Why couldn't she go without food, water or sleep for 24 hours?
Xu Zhi leaned in the wheelchair with her eyes closed. She originally just wanted to rest for a while, but she accidentally fell asleep. It felt like she had only slept for less than a minute, but when she woke up, she found that half an hour had passed.
".It seems that high-intensity continuous gaming is a bit too energy-consuming."
She exhaled, picked up the handheld game console, and saw that a seven-hour progress bar in the lower right corner of the screen had already finished.
Xu Zhi pressed the button to select Xiaoyi, and then the settlement interface popped up.
[Your clan has completed a long, solo hunt. The following is a list of its gains.]
[Evolution Points: 1700/1000]
[Trait Improvement: Bloodthirst +1, Cunning +1]
[Special Items: None]
[You can start again after evolving or resting for three hours]
[As your family's bloodthirst level increases, your bloodthirst level also increases. Now, when you are in a bloodthirsty state, your strength will be enhanced to a certain extent, but after leaving the bloodthirsty state, you will fall into weakness.]
After seeing the settlement, Xu Zhi's eyes flashed with joy.
She had no idea what special items her clan could find through hunting, and naturally had no expectations for it. What made her happy was that her strength increased after [Bloodlust +1]!
Although it can only be used after entering the bloodthirsty state and there is a debuff, it is indeed one of the things she needs most at the moment.
She desperately wants to improve her strength.
As for whether Xiaoyi should evolve or rest, he will definitely evolve.
After Xu Zhi made his choice, a progress bar lasting twenty minutes appeared in the center of the screen.
A golden sun icon appeared on the right side of the screen. Xu Zhi clicked on the icon, and two avatars appeared on the screen, a snake and a dog.
"Oh~" Xu Zhi understood. This was something similar to a directory.
She clicked on the dog's avatar, and the game interface jumped to the puppy's side. The snake's evolution progress bar shrank in the lower right corner.
“It’s quite convenient.”
Xu Zhi praised this.
Just as she was about to continue controlling the dog to upgrade, a familiar voice that she had heard yesterday suddenly rang out.
——Bang bang bang!
Someone is knocking on the door.
Xu Zhi tightened his grip on Youxi's hand, and his expression turned gloomy.
Sure enough, someone else came.
She had already expected that the other party would continue to pester her, so she was so eager to gain power.
At the same time, she was surprised to find that the knocking sound became clearer in her ears.
It was probably the improvement that Xiaoyi gained after evolving to level ten that repaired some of her hearing impairments.
Just five seconds after the knock on the door, a female voice sounded outside.
"Hello, my classmate came to see you yesterday, do you remember?"
The voice was very clear and sounded polite. The image of a quiet and polite high school girl had already appeared in Xu Zhi's mind, but her expression did not change at all. She just calmly drove the wheelchair to the kitchen in the voice of the girl, and then carefully selected the sharpest boning knife and held it in her hand.
She had to thank her brother for loving meat very much, otherwise it would be difficult to have only a kitchen knife at home.
Amid the other party's endless persuasion, Xu Zhi tried to stand up and jumped slightly, then waved the knife a few times. After making sure that her current physical condition was strong enough for her to make a surprise attack, she sat back in the wheelchair, hid the knife behind her, and controlled the wheelchair towards the door with an expressionless face.
She needs to confirm how many people are coming. If there are not many people and the other party shows hostility towards her and intends to break in,
A fierce look flashed in the girl's eyes, and she felt that perhaps she should take the initiative to do something.
(End of this chapter)
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