Chapter 6-6- Waiting to Die
She said she was waiting to die, but after lying on the ground for a while, with nothing else to do, Yvette got up obediently and began to explore other floors, hoping to find some canned food with a long enough shelf life to keep her alive.
During this process, she also used the various textual information left on each floor, combined with her inquiries in her dreams, to figure out the characteristics of each floor here.
First are the negative tenth and negative nine floors.
In the dream, the project responsible for treating genetic diseases for children in the orphanage like Yvette is called the "Metamorphosis Project", and the name of the medicine they take is tentatively called the "Metamorphosis Potion Type 2".
The tenth and ninth underground floors are respectively the experimental floors of the Metamorphosis Project and the living quarters for related personnel.
Next are the negative eighth and negative seventh floors, called the "Active Rune Laboratory".
Yvette's understanding of the so-called "active rune group" was limited to the AI's description.
According to the information it provided, the Active Rune Group is not only the core business of Black Tower Pharmaceuticals, but also the fundamental reason why it has become one of the eight super companies.
As long as the user injects the rune secret medicine into the body, it will only take a few minutes to become a powerful spellcaster. Not only will the magic power be greatly increased, but the magic that is pre-made in the rune secret medicine can also be released instantly. It is a complete superhuman speed test.
Even when introducing the meditation method to Yvette, the AI used the active rune group as a control - the level that meditation method requires more than seven years to reach, while the lowest level active rune group only takes 4.6 minutes - the gap is exaggerated.
but……
After so many years, even if there are still some active rune group potions remaining in the two laboratories on the negative seventh and negative eighth floors, they must have exceeded their expiration date.
Therefore, although it sounds tempting, in fact, apart from a small amount of readable paper materials, it did not provide Yvette with any substantial gains.
Then there are the negative sixth floor, the negative fifth floor and the negative fourth floor.
The sixth floor below ground was the same living area as the ninth floor below ground. There was nothing special about it, and the warehouse for storing daily necessities was also empty, which made Yvette return home disappointed.
Negative five and negative four are the rune secret medicine laboratories.
This drug is similar to the gene optimization liquid in science fiction novels. Its effects include but are not limited to eternal youth, increased strength, metabolic optimization, hair regeneration... It is the second most important business of Heita Pharmaceuticals.
As for the drugs launched by the Metamorphosis Plan, they are neither active rune groups nor rune secret medicines, but are classified as "magic potions", and it is precisely this classification that belongs to the traditional sense of medicine.
Keep going up.
The third floor below ground is for breeding experimental animals;
The second floor below ground is the living area for regular staff;
The first floor below ground is the inspection floor, where the qualifications of people entering and leaving are reviewed.
So, after spending nearly 10 hours painstakingly checking all the floors, Yvette had to face the fact that she had gained nothing at all, and only picked up some scrap metal that used to be high-end magical equipment.
Of course, she also tried to pry the metal fence of the ventilation duct to see if she could climb out. But the fence was welded too tightly, and she, a five or six-year-old girl, was simply unable to move it, so she had to give up.
Finally, lying exhausted on the ground covered with magic vines, Yvette felt the hunger in her abdomen and couldn't help but let out a long and desperate sigh.
In her dream, she had made a lot of efforts. In addition to actively learning the language and intelligence of the other world, she also provided her own situation to the AI so that it could give her advice.
But insufficient conditions mean insufficient conditions.
In this giant metal cage, apart from the magic light vines that feed on magical elements, no other creature can survive. The only way to survive is to go to the water platform to catch fish, but there are fish monsters in the lake...
It's really a dead end no matter what I do.
Thinking of this, Yvette closed her eyes dejectedly and decided to take a nap first.
This time she was really prepared to die.
…
I don’t know how long I slept.
After waking up, looking at the flowing ceiling made of magic vines in front of her, Yvette silently calculated the time since she traveled through time.
The fact that six months of realistic dreams didn't starve her to death and her hair didn't grow longer meant that only a very short time had passed in reality.
But excluding this period of time, she must have been traveling through time for more than 24 hours.
After such a long time, I didn't feel weak or tired at all. I was still full of energy and vitality. At most, I was a little hungry...
Is this the resilience of young flesh? With such strong recovery ability, wouldn’t it be invincible when used for crowdsourcing?
She muttered to herself, then stood up and, driven by the desire to survive, began a second investigation of the ruined base.
The result has not changed, it is still a dead end.
But what was different was that Yvette felt something unusual about herself.
At this time, at least 36 hours had passed since she traveled through time.
Under normal circumstances, as a child who is still developing, if she does not eat for 36 hours, she may feel dizzy and trembling due to low blood sugar, she may become dehydrated and have a dry mouth, she may be sleepy, dull or lack energy. At the very least, she should be starving.
But the current situation is that she is still in good spirits, her physical strength has recovered sufficiently, and she only feels a little hungry.
What is the reason for this?
What kind of person was the original owner, the ultimate king of hunger resistance?
After noticing this anomaly, a spark of excitement suddenly ignited deep within Yvette's numb heart. But she didn't immediately open the champagne to celebrate. Instead, she waited anxiously, constantly sensing the changes in her body.
I don’t know how much time passed in this torment, maybe twenty or thirty hours, or maybe several days.
But what is incredible is that Yvette found that her body functions are still normal!
Her energy level was normal, she wasn't dizzy or dehydrated, and apart from a slight feeling of hunger, she was completely normal in every other respect.
Lively and energetic!
So, she was finally 99% certain that the original owner was indeed not an ordinary person. She was able to wake up from the bed as a child 300 years after everyone else turned into bones. It was not because of time travel, but because she was different from others!
"This is even more outrageous than I expected..." Yvette muttered to herself. She had assumed the original owner was most likely a hibernator, using some device here to survive the apocalypse, and then, not long after waking up, was possessed by her soul.
But now it seems that the original owner may still be in hibernation, but he doesn't need any external equipment at all, relying on his body to survive for 300 years and survive until the end of the world...
What is her identity?
(End of this chapter)
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