Chapter 2 Hatching Rate 1% (Revised) Why has it regressed? ...
I feel so bad.
[...Host...Host!]
[Host, can you hear me?]
The little zombie only realized that it had been walking when it regained consciousness.
He habitually looked up to see the sun, only to find that everything in sight was shrouded in a thick blood mist, turning the entire space a scarlet color.
"Huh?"
[Phew... It's good that you're awake.]
The system breathed a sigh of relief: [You were struck by lightning, and I went into standby mode. When I woke up, I saw that your body had healed, but I don't know why you kept walking forward.]
The system was already incomplete, and the previous thunderstorm caused a short circuit. Now, with missing data, it has no way of figuring out what happened to the little zombie.
The system felt incredibly useless when it thought that all of this was caused by that decomposition product.
It asked in a muffled voice, "How are you feeling now?"
Upon hearing this, the little zombie felt the discomfort in its abdomen become even more pronounced.
He shouldn't have felt anything, but at this moment, he felt as if a hole had been dug in his stomach, leaving it empty and making him want to fill it with something as soon as possible.
The instant the thought crossed his mind, his eyes, which were clearly marked as zombies, changed. The cloudy corneas became clear and transparent, almost indistinguishable from those of a living person.
This change lasted only for a moment.
The little zombie suddenly remembered the scene he had seen before losing consciousness. He could only think about one thing at a time, so he forgot that he was still hungry: "Aww, aww!"
[So that's how it is.]
The system was silent for a moment before speaking: [Those lightning bolts were probably brought in by it. Although it was the culprit that caused you such suffering, without those lightning bolts, the spatial walls of this space wouldn't have held for long...]
It used a lot of words that the little zombie couldn't understand in one sentence, but the system often mumbled like this, and the little zombie never asked any questions.
The little zombie listened and walked for quite a while before the system belatedly asked: [Host, where are you going?]
Little zombie: "Awooo!"
After a three-second silence, the system exploded: [What!? You're hungry! How could you be hungry!]
The system was screaming and groaning in his mind, while the little zombie looked completely bewildered.
He had no idea what "hunger" meant, and had never felt it before.
During the time the system went crazy, the little zombie's steps did not stop. Although it was not obvious, his movements were indeed more agile than before.
Although the spatial rift was desolate, it was not small in size. Because of those strange pebbles, the system had instructed the little zombie not to run around and to stay obediently in the circle.
And that circle represents the only piece of farmland.
But now, that field is gone.
Fortunately, all the pebbles had disappeared, and the ground was covered with a thick layer of white sand, which posed no danger.
After walking for a long time in the vast red fog, the little zombie finally arrived at his destination.
It was daytime now, and the sunlight was blocked by the fog, so it wasn't as sunny or hot as before. The only downside was that visibility was much lower. It wasn't until they were four or five meters away that the little zombie saw the place that was different from the surroundings.
In the little zombie's vision, the red mist there was noticeably thicker, making it appear as a dark reddish-black color.
The little zombie stopped in its tracks.
Even though he couldn't see anything, he just felt like there was something there.
Just then, the system, which had just completed a full scan of the little zombie, suddenly started yelling: [Host! We have points! A huge amount of points! The shop is open too!]
It was so excited that it didn't have time to explain, and just happily said, "[I'll go get you some food right away, please wait a moment!]"
The system went silent as soon as it finished speaking. In the past, the system often went into standby mode to save power. The little zombie didn't understand the string of words the system had just said and only thought that it was saving power again.
For a moment, only silence remained in the space.
The little zombie was already quite used to this silent environment, but this time, suddenly, he had a strange feeling.
This feeling was different from the emptiness in his abdomen; he couldn't describe it, and he just followed his instincts and walked forward step by step.
Suddenly his foot slipped and he tumbled down.
The little zombie didn't struggle; it just stood there, its body stiff, letting the zombie roll until it stopped rolling, at which point it got up.
This is a semi-circular pit. Perhaps the red mist sinks to lower ground, causing the mist at the bottom of the pit to be so thick that you can't even see your fingertips when you stretch your arm out.
The little zombie took two slow steps and then suddenly stopped moving.
His cloudy eyes grew darker and darker, and the black irises began to spread outwards, gradually turning his entire eyes pitch black.
In this space where there was absolutely no air movement, a wisp of wind suddenly appeared.
The wind, carrying a crimson mist, surged toward the little zombie.
The mist spontaneously seeped into his skin pores, and as the mist increased, the wind speed increased, making it look as if countless threads were passing through the little zombie's body, even forming whirlwinds around him.
Half a minute later, the little zombie's body suddenly twitched.
"belch."
His eyes returned to normal, and the whirlwind instantly dissipated, leaving the red mist that had been trapped inside to remain suspended quietly in the air, as if nothing had ever happened.
[I'm back! You're amazing! You even managed to bind a rare pet, so those 5000 points—wait, what?]
What is that?
The little zombie squatted down in the spot indicated by the system, rubbed his only left hand a few times, and then very carefully picked something up.
It is an egg.
The egg was almost the same size as the little zombie's head. The shell was mostly white with some small, irregular green patches on it, like chopped green onions sprinkled on a plate.
The system immediately understood and asked, "[How would you like to eat?]"
Little zombie: "Huh?"
eat?
He had never felt hunger before, so he had no need to eat and didn't even know what eating was.
The system patiently explained to the host, then said, "[Our resources are limited right now, so how about we just cook it?]"
It just so happens that when it went to change its food earlier, it got a sweet potato instead, so it can cook it together once the water boils.
Although the system's shop has limited functionality, basically only allowing you to exchange for water and flower seeds, this isn't the first time it's exploited a loophole. Items like containers and fire sources should be obtainable with a little time.
The system was explaining the concept of the mall to the little zombie when suddenly, the egg moved.
The egg was too big for the little zombie, who was only the size of a child. When the little zombie picked it up, it had to stick its hand into the white sand underneath, lifting it up along with a layer of sand.
The sand was slippery, and the egg slipped and fell directly from the little zombie's hand. Although it wasn't from a great height, eggs are not very durable.
[Ahhh, your food!]
"Thump!"
The sound was so loud that it shook the ground.
The little zombie went closer to take a look and found that the white sand had been smashed into a large dent, while the egg was completely intact.
The egg was clearly not normal after being smashed like that, and the system that witnessed this finally noticed the problem it had long overlooked.
Its host previously acquired a rare pet. So, where is the pet?
It quickly obtained the little zombie's consent to recharge itself with 500 points, and then performed a very power-consuming full environment scan.
The scan results show that the volume of the entire spatial rift is now twice that before the thunderstorm, the spatial walls have become more solid, and the energy in the space is extremely abundant.
Unfortunately, the properties of this energy are incorrect.
It is the complete opposite of beautiful concepts like "life and happiness," filled with the atmosphere of bloodshed and slaughter, where normal creatures can only survive for a few minutes at most.
However, the fog wasn't entirely without its advantages.
Previously, due to the phantom of the giant sun, the entire space was in a pattern of alternating between "extremely high temperature and extremely low temperature". The exaggerated temperature changes were constantly absorbing energy, which is why the pebbles kept cracking and disappearing.
Now, the pervasive red mist not only fills the entire space and blocks most of the sunlight, but also seems to be countless energy sources, filling this space with energy wherever possible.
With sufficient energy, spatial collapse is unlikely to occur in the short term, and this spatial rift is at least safe for the time being.
The system breathed a huge sigh of relief.
The space remains empty; apart from the white sand and red mist, the only two objects are the little zombie and the egg.
Name: Pet Egg, Quality: Rare, Hatching Rate: 1%
The system was somewhat surprised: [This really is that pet.]
But... how did such a rare pet degenerate into an egg?
After the little zombie was hit, the system disconnected, and all relevant data went blank. It didn't know why, and could only say, "[Host, this is your pet, your companion. You can't eat it. Shall we get another one?]"
Actually, the little zombie wasn't hungry before finding the egg, but now that the system mentioned it, he let out a "woof" and said he wasn't hungry.
After listening, the system replied: [...]
What should I do if I panic even more?
[Could you tell me everything you did while I was away?]
The little zombie howled for a while. The system and the host had synchronized, so zombie language was not difficult for it. The difficulty was piecing together the details of the events.
[You mean, you suddenly stopped feeling hungry after you got down?]
"Aww!"
[That's it?]
"Ouch."
How do you spell this?
Just as the system was scratching its head in frustration, even wildly imagining that the "egg" that caused everything would hatch in a second, it suddenly realized something.
[Host, you just said that you "saw" the fog here was different?]
The little zombie exclaimed, "Awooo!"
The system froze.
How is that possible?
Whether viewed from its own perspective or by the results of a scan, the fog in this pit is exactly the same as that in other parts of the space!
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