Chapter 2: Digging Up a Berserker
She was surrounded by moonstones.
This is a dark cave hidden deep underground. The walls are covered with moonstones weighing more than 100 grams. There is even a huge moonstone lying in the center of the cave. The purity is at least 90%, which is above D grade.
If you are lucky, you can reach the C-level threshold and fifty credit points will become five hundred credit points in seconds.
Su You swallowed her saliva in a hopeless manner, thinking that a spaceship ticket worth 100,000 credit points to leave Sand Star was not very expensive.
"I've gotten rich... I've gotten rich..." 0977 stuttered three times, the last line of his voice trembling slightly. "Yuzu, I can finally recharge. This moonstone, the big one in the middle, is enough to keep me going for ten years."
Su You gripped the laser cutting knife tightly and headed straight for the largest moonstone.
Bend down and look around for a good cutting point. The price of the ore with a nice shape will be higher.
A thick, strong smell of the summer sun burning the forest penetrated my nostrils.
Su You gripped the laser knife tightly and saw the face under the moonstone.
“77…”
"It's a crazy vine warrior!" 0977 let out a sharp explosion, "Yuzu, run!"
Berserker Warrior!
Su You ran away without even looking back.
The second benefit for new players is that 0977 describes the world background in detail.
Warriors are the advanced humans of this world. According to 0977, over five thousand years ago, the ancient humans of this world were forced to relocate due to depleted resources on their planet. They encountered various exotic beasts in the interstellar sky. During this perilous migration, a scientist, Li Tong, combined the genes of the exotic beasts with selected ancient humans, thus advancing genetic evolution.
The result was considered a success. After awakening as a warrior, he was able to transform into his second form and fight without fear of a vacuum.
However, warriors who fought for a long time would lose their minds due to restlessness. After the first warrior completely transformed into a beast and killed tens of thousands of his teammates with his own hands.
After decades of research, the truth was finally revealed. The skin, flesh, bones, blood and even the surrounding air of the alien beasts in the starry sky contained dark energy that could invade the warriors' mental power.
After a long battle, the warrior's mental power will be contaminated by dark energy and become frenzied mental power.
If they don't awaken, they will be devoured by strange beasts. If they awaken, they must fight to protect their tribe.
This seemed unsolvable. But genes always work to save themselves. A hundred years later, a new breed of awakened beings emerged. They possessed animalistic forms, but were mostly small and adorable. Without the abnormal growth of physical strength and endurance, they could use their mental energy to absorb and purify the berserk mental energy within the warriors. This class of individuals was known as Purifiers.
Purifiers were extremely rare, but if one appeared, it could purify all warriors below its level. In the first few hundred years after the appearance of Purifiers, humans occupied the battlefield high ground and occupied many habitable planets, expanding their territory and establishing a nation.
But during a period of history sealed by the Empire, almost all Purifiers disappeared.
Since then, even to this day, Purifiers remain rare and precious.
When a Purifier is not performing spiritual purification, no instrument can identify their identity. Furthermore, their awakening process is not as painful as awakening to a warrior.
The higher the level of the purifier, the better at hiding.
However, purifiers use frenzied mental power as the source of their own mental power growth. If they do not absorb frenzied mental power for a long time, their bodies will become weaker and weaker.
After Su You finished recalling everything about the Vine Clan warriors, she just happened to run to the cave entrance and was only one step away from stepping out.
But behind her, a huge vine suddenly emerged, split into three parts in the air, and coiled around and piled up like a snake. In just a second, the cave entrance became impassable.
One of the vines that branched out was more than twice as thick as her waist. It had no leaves and was covered with black thorns, the tips of which flashed with a cold light.
That thorn might be faster than the laser cutting knife in her hand.
"Click" there was a noise behind me.
Su You turned around and saw a crack in the middle of the moonstone. Inside was a thicker black vine that was slowly entwining, gradually revealing the human skin inside.
A thick vine suddenly attacked her, and Su You quickly fired two shots at it.
The vine only had its outer skin slightly scratched, but Su You's arm was numb from the shock.
I can't fire the third shot...
She was tied up tightly and dragged from the ground into the Moonstone coffin.
The searchlight above was knocked to the ground, and the only light in the cave was the faint white light emitted by the moonstone.
She couldn't see the face in front of her.
Black vines danced before my eyes.
The strong smell is close at hand.
"Who are you?" The man's voice was cold as if he was interrogating a prisoner, and the black vines around him began to tighten in circles.
"miner."
Su You looked around, looking for an opportunity to escape.
"Yuzu, the energy contained in the violent mental force he released is so strong!" 0977 suddenly came online.
"You relax and I'll absorb the energy."
After Su You agreed, 0977 began to use her as a medium to slowly absorb power.
As 0977 cheered in her mind, a thin branch of the black vine wrapped around her fingertips.
In just a moment, Su You's hair stood on end, and she couldn't suppress a soft groan in her throat. Her upper body trembled slightly, and she almost couldn't sit still.
Su You felt awkward for a moment, and even though she hid it well, it couldn't escape the eyes of the man in front of her.
The vines wrapped around her tightened a little in an instant, and Su You frowned.
Her clothes were torn, and this was the only set of clothes she had to go out and work.
The fabric is old and has been patched up for three years, so it is no longer as strong as it used to be.
The vines rubbed back and forth, creating several cracks. When they were tightened, the cracks continued to widen.
As the skin on my arm touched the vines, the electric-like stimulation became more intense.
"Yuzu, hold him off for a moment. I'm still ten percent short of storing enough energy for a year."
Su You gritted her teeth, and the vines scratched her skin, causing a painful and itchy feeling.
"Name."
"Su You."
"age."
"Ten...eighteen."
"Why enter this cave?"
"On Freedom Day on Sand Planet, I'm here to mine."
"Yuzu, that's enough. Let's find a way to get out of this." 0977 replenished his energy and quickly activated the host's protection mechanism.
"You hold your breath, and I release the sleeping smoke."
Su You did as he was told, and three seconds later, the closed cave was filled with white pungent smoke.
She held her breath for a full thirty seconds, feeling the vines loosen up around her. Her limbs, which had been bound tightly, were able to move, and she finally crawled out of the coffin-like structure made from a single piece of moonstone.
The vines blocking the entrance of the cave also scattered on the ground, and Su You picked up the laser knife.
He didn't cut the vines, nor did he cut at the man with his eyes closed. Instead, he pierced the center of the man's moonstone coffin and fiercely removed a large piece of the best quality.
Consider it compensation for nearly being strangled to death.
Su You put away the stone, tied up the searchlight, and touched the clothes that were torn into pieces with heartache.
How long does it take to sew clothes?
Reaching the cave entrance, she lifted her foot and stepped over the vines.
But she stepped one foot through the hole and was about to leave at that moment.
A familiar "cha...cha" sound was heard behind him. Before he could call out 0977, a thick vine was crossed across Su You's waist, and he was pulled into the hole and thrown hard against the wall.
(End of this chapter)
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