The body is in a dilemma: the hungry stomach needs the comfort of food, but the taste buds strongly resist the food entering the mouth.
It was as if she were eating the most disgusting food in the world.
Xia Linyin endured the urge to vomit and took two bites of the grilled meat, but she simply couldn't swallow it anymore and put it down.
The man asked her, "Aren't you going to eat?"
Xia Linyin waved her hand, closed her eyes, and frowned tightly, suppressing the urge to vomit.
"What's wrong? Are you choking?" The man patted her back with concern and held the container of water to her lips.
Xia Linyin pushed the container away and shook her head. "I'm fine."
Seeing the man carefully rewrap the remaining half of the roasted meat, Xia Linyin said, "Li Luo, there's still this much left, you can eat it."
The man shook his head and said, "I'm not hungry."
No sooner had he finished speaking than his stomach growled loudly, much to his dismay. A fleeting look of embarrassment crossed the man's face as he turned and walked toward the metal bucket beside him. "I have food."
Xia Linyin noticed that the man's left leg seemed to be unsteady, and he walked with a limp. "What's wrong with your leg?"
The man's body stiffened almost imperceptibly. "I was scratched by an insect beast."
"Insect beasts?" Xia Linyin murmured softly, wondering what kind of world she was in.
Also, why hasn't the information about the game's missions been released yet?
Xia Linyin had a strong feeling that this game would be very different from the previous ones.
The man took a yellowish-brown object out of the iron bucket, put it in his mouth and took a bite. Xia Linyin reached out her hand to him.
The man assumed Xia Linyin wanted to eat what he was holding, so he said, "Little sister, there's also roast meat. This isn't good for you—"
"Give it to me." Xia Linyin interrupted him, her tone leaving no room for argument.
Helpless, the man had no choice but to walk over and hand the things in his hand to Xia Linyin.
It was flat and yellowish-brown. Xia Linyin licked it, but it didn't taste like anything. She broke it apart with a gentle touch.
Xia Linyin looked at the broken pancake in her hand; it was mud...
It's a cake made of mud.
"You eat this?" Xia Linyin looked at Li Luo in disbelief. He just used mud cakes to fill his stomach?
A sharp pain shot through her heart. Xia Linyin blinked, forcing back the tears welling in her eyes. She threw down the mud cake in her hand and said breathlessly, "Come here, let me see your leg."
Li Luo was wearing dark-colored pants, and the light in the cave was insufficient, so Xia Linyin could only vaguely see the area around his thigh, which was slightly darker than the rest of his body.
She reached out and grabbed Li Luo's pants, but Li Luo quickly took a step back. "It's okay, the wound has almost healed."
Xia Linyin looked up at him, then suddenly clutched her chest and let out a painful groan.
"Sister!" Li Luo called out anxiously. Just as Li Luo approached, Xia Linyin swiftly pulled down his pants.
A large chunk of flesh was missing from Li Luo's left thigh. The surface of the wound was as black as charcoal, indicating that the method of stopping the bleeding was extremely violent; it was likely that the wound was scorched off directly with a branding iron or something similar.
Dark red blood seeped from the gruesome wound and slid down his leg.
"That piece of roasted meat just now..." Xia Linyin's lips trembled, her breath quivering.
Her stomach churned violently, and Xia Linyin leaned over the bed and vomited, emptying all the tiny bit of roasted meat she had just eaten.
When she could vomit no more, she weakly raised her head, her eyes red as she looked at Li Luo, "Why did you do this!"
After shouting those words, Xia Linyin lowered her head as if she had used up all her strength, and lay motionless on the bed.
"You fainted from hunger," Li Luo said after making a couple of pursed lips.
He helped the weak Xia Linyin to her feet, laid her on the bed, wiped her mouth clean, and covered her with a blanket.
Then clean up the vomit that Xia Linyin had vomited.
After looking at him for a while, Xia Linyin turned her eyes to the top of her head, and her nose felt a little sore.
"Brain connected, system loading... 91%, 92%, 93%..."
The sudden voice in her mind startled Xia Linyin. Although it was mechanical and inorganic, and its tone was as cold and emotionless as a block of iron, it was surprisingly familiar to Xia Linyin. After recognizing it for a moment, she moved her lips, "Number 83?"
"...99%, 100%, system download complete, No. 83 has completed brain matching with its master, Xia Linyin."
After a brief pause, Number 83 said, "It is I, Master."
"What's going on?" Xia Linyin was completely confused. How did No. 83 get into the game, and in this way at that?
Isn't it a smart house?
"I have received the game's instructions. I will be issuing this game mission because you need my assistance to complete it."
Xia Linyin wondered, what kind of game mission would require Number 83's assistance to complete?
This proves that this game mission is completely impossible for her to complete alone; she must rely on Number 83.
A semi-transparent projection panel appeared in front of Xia Linyin's eyes, with light green glowing characters on it. The panel moved with her gaze, as if it were embedded in her eyes.
The projection panel displays background information about this world.
Game world background: You are now in 2600, a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by darkness and fraught with danger. Food, fresh water and other resources are severely scarce. Giant insects, cannibals, aliens, lurkers... all kinds of dangerous creatures roam the ruins of the city. Humans, who were once at the top of the food chain, are now at the bottom.
"The cause of the apocalypse: In 2312, technology advanced by leaps and bounds, and human robot technology reached its peak. Robots replaced the labor force in all walks of life, including domestic service robots, industrial manufacturing robots, agricultural and livestock robots..."
"The robots, which worked 24 hours a day, greatly improved production efficiency, but on August 31, 2312, the robots suddenly went on strike."
"This day is also known as Robot Strike Day. The robots made their demands, including being treated equally by humans, having days off, and receiving wages. They made a series of demands that seem absurd to humans."
"Technicians conducted an emergency investigation and discovered that the robots were infected with a virus, which caused a program error. They fixed the program, then destroyed a batch of the leading riot robots, quelled the robot chaos, and everything returned to normal."
"But they didn't expect that the repairs would only be temporary. This time, the robots launched a war."
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