Chapter 2 2: Evolution
If there is anything different between today and usual, it is the sudden appearance of this game console.
"Is it because of you?"
The girl looked at the black and white handheld device in her hand, thought for a moment and decided to do an experiment.
The content of the experiment is very simple. She will not take any food or medicine tonight.
Normally, this would be a very dangerous thing. After all, her body was really in such bad condition that she would not be able to support it even if she stopped taking medication and not taking in nutrients.
However, the matter has come to this, if the stability at this moment is just an illusion and the game console cannot bring her life, then it will just be a few more days of lingering.
Thinking of this, Xu Zhi no longer took medicine at the same time as before, but took out the textbook left by his brother and started reading.
It's not that she's very thirsty for knowledge, it's just that she doesn't know what to do without reading.
Two hours passed quickly, and the scheduled alarm clock rang, and Xu Zhi suddenly looked up from his book.
".Is it time?"
Her expression was still a little unbelievable. She had never been so focused before. In the past, even when she was reading, she would always be interrupted by the discomfort coming from her body. She didn't even think about it at all. Way to focus for a long time.
And, until now, she still had not felt hungry.
"It's really changed,"
Xu Zhi muttered to himself, and his eyes that were already somewhat lifeless slowly regained their luster.
In any case, since she suddenly had an extra chance of life, she naturally wanted to seize it. She didn't want to worry about what the game console was and whether it would cause any danger to her future. She only knew that without this game console, she might not be able to survive. Not even a future.
Xu Zhi is not afraid of death, but he doesn't want to die.
She suppressed her excitement and picked up the game console again. The two-hour cooldown was over, and what she had to do now was to continue playing.
Entering the game, sure enough, the cooldown time has expired, and the forward option appears on the screen again.
Xu Zhi controlled the little snake to wander around for a while. She was lucky this time. In less than half an hour, she had already passed ten evolution points.
[Current evolution points: 10/10]
[The upgrade conditions have been met. Do you want to upgrade? ]
[Note: It takes 10 seconds to upgrade from Lv1 to Lv2, and the family member will lose consciousness within 10 seconds. ]
[Please choose: 1. Upgrade in place, 2. Find a hiding place and upgrade]
"10 seconds."
Xu Zhi hesitated for a moment, but chose to find a hiding place first.
The short-term comfort of the game and the short number of 10 seconds did not paralyze her and made her take it lightly. She did not forget the prompts when entering the game.
The little snake quickly found a tree hole and got in. Then the evolution began, and a ten-second progress bar appeared in the center of the screen.
Ten seconds, fleeting.
[Evolution completed]
[Snake: Lv2
Spirit: 3
Physical: 10
Attribute: None
Trait: Toxin Lv1]
On the screen, the evolved little snake shed a layer of skin and slowly crawled out of the tree hole. Xu Zhi could see it. The size of the snake has become larger visibly to the naked eye, and the snake's body is much longer than before. More importantly, in its open mouth, the two fangs are slightly shining with green light, seeming to show Xu Zhi its strength. New weapons.
Moreover, whether it was an illusion or not, Xu Zhi felt that even his body had become subtly lighter.
Because of her heart disease, she often felt very tired, heavy, difficulty breathing, abnormal heartbeat, and constant dizziness. Now that the little snake has completed its evolution, although her other illnesses have not been alleviated, she feels that her body seems to be... Not so heavy anymore.
Xu Zhi's eyes flickered slightly. With her previous experiments, she didn't think this was a coincidence.
Maybe this game can really change her body.
As a result, Xu Zhi's desire to upgrade became more urgent. However, when her eyes moved to the lower left corner and saw the points required for the next upgrade, she was slightly distressed.
[Current evolution points: 0/50]
The demand has increased five times.
It took her nearly three hours to get ten evolution points. How long did she have to play the game to get fifty?
The game seemed to know her troubles, and a line of subtitles gradually appeared.
[As the level increases, your family becomes more powerful than before, but that is only compared to itself. In this world, it is still a creature too small to be worth mentioning. ]
[Nameless fear urges it. Even if it has not yet developed spiritual intelligence, it still vaguely senses that it must speed up its evolution. ]
[Please choose: 1. Continue to hunt here, 2. Look for more powerful prey, but this also means that risks come with it. 】
Xu Zhi has never played games, so she doesn't understand the concept of "Novice Village", but she also vaguely felt that the risk-free hunting before was indeed a bit too comfortable, and it was not at all like the dangerous world described in the text.
If she continued to stay here, she might be able to safely collect fifty evolution points, but she felt an inexplicable sense of urgency when looking at the words on the screen. Perhaps, she had to take some risks.
"Choose 2."
Pressing the selection button, the little snake on the screen began to crawl as if it had received some kind of instruction, and Xu Zhi also discovered that not only the size, but also the range it could see had become wider.
If the range was only about 7 meters before, it is now about 20 meters.
This time, the little snake swam for a long time before finding a target. [Your Familia made a discovery]
[It was an injured eagle, one of its wings was broken, and its eyes seemed to be injured]
[But even so, it is still the natural enemy of snakes]
[Injured eagles are rare. This seems to be an opportunity, but this opportunity comes with huge risks. If successful, you will also gain a lot of evolution points] [Please select
: 1. Hunting, 2. Leaving]
This was the first time that there was a risky hunt, which made Xu Zhi feel entangled for a while, not knowing how to make a decision, until a line of words appeared on the screen again.
[Maybe you should make a decision as soon as possible. The injured eagle will attract more than one hunter, and its wounds are slowly healing.]
"Healing?"
Xu Zhi was a little surprised. Was it because she had never studied biology so she didn't understand?
Can such a serious injury be healed?
However, seeing the urging of the game subtitles, Xu Zhi gritted her teeth and no longer hesitated. She chose hunting instead of leaving.
This seems to be inconsistent with her previous caution, but it is not. Most of the time, her external performance is silent, small and cautious, but with this frail body, she has lived under oppression all year round but has not turned into a lamb. He still has a strong sense of self and even has more paranoid thoughts than ordinary people, which is enough to show that Xu Zhi is not a timid person.
She would pick up a suspicious game console on the ground and naturally make risky choices. The hesitation was just because she had only fantasized about it before and had never really had the opportunity to make such a choice herself.
It took her half a minute to adjust.
The girl stared closely at the little snake on the screen. After she gave the order, the little snake began to execute it without hesitation. It slowly and quietly set the hunter's gaze on the eagle that was once its natural enemy, and then found a The right opportunity struck from the grass toward the eagle like lightning.
With toxins, the snake does not need to fight with the eagle. It only needs to find an opportunity to release its toxin and protect itself from the eagle's sharp claws and beak before it is paralyzed or killed by the toxin.
But this task is still a bit too difficult for a little snake.
Xu Zhi watched the small black snake on the screen being torn apart by the eagle's claws, and having several penetrating holes pecked out on its body by its sharp beak. It no longer even moved quickly, and was injured several times by this snake. The eagle chased and tore at it, but until the eagle's movements gradually became stiff and even completely fell to the ground, the little snake did not die under the fierce attack.
Seeing that the eagle was completely dead, the seriously injured little snake greedily slid towards the eagle's body. Its open mouth actually swallowed the eagle's body, which was much larger than itself, into its belly. So, visible to the naked eye, Its body bulged.
Seeing this scene, Xu Zhi finally breathed a sigh of relief, only to realize that he was so nervous that he held his breath at the end.
Before she had time to be surprised by this little snake's even more bizarre "devouring" ability than what she had seen in the biology book, subtitles appeared on the game screen again.
[Thanks to the enhanced physique after upgrading, your family barely won the victory, but it was also seriously injured. Before it heals, it may not be able to hunt anymore] [But the good news is that evolution can heal wounds
. Rapid healing]
[Current evolution points: 100/50]
[Upgrade conditions have been met, do you want to upgrade? ]
[Note: It takes 30 seconds to upgrade from Lv2 to Lv3, and the family member will lose consciousness within 30 seconds. ]
[Please choose: 1. Upgrade in place, 2. Find a hidden location and upgrade]
Xu Zhi chose 2 without hesitation.
The little snake is already seriously injured. If it encounters a creature attracted by the eagle or the movement produced when the two are fighting during evolution, it will be easily killed.
This time it took a little time to find a hiding place, but fortunately the evolution required less time. Soon, Xu Zhi achieved the results of his bold choice.
[Evolution completed]
[Snake: Lv3
Spirit: 5
Physical: 20
Attributes: None
Traits: Poison Lv2, Sharpness Lv1]
In the picture, the black snake has grown larger again, its teeth seem sharper, and its sight distance has increased to about 50 meters, but Xu Zhi is more concerned about the changes in his body.
This time, she felt more clearly that her body was really getting better as the little snake upgraded.
Her breathing became smoother, and the "hands" that used to pinch her lungs slightly and make it difficult for her to breathe disappeared.
She had never felt breathing be so easy.
The girl's face showed an uncontrollable look of joy. If she continued, she would definitely become a healthy person.
No.
Xu Zhi's face changed slightly, and his eyes became sharp. More than that, she wanted more than a healthy body.
Perhaps it was the game that fed her ambition, or perhaps it was the sense of crisis that this dead city brought to her. What she wanted was not an ordinary body, but a powerful body that surpassed human limits and could Her powerful body that lives here freely.
Xu Zhi breathed out lightly. In order to achieve her goal, she had to be more clear-headed when making choices.
Just when Xu Zhi was about to continue the game, a loud knock on the door suddenly aroused goosebumps all over her body.
——Knock, knock, knock.
This is just an ordinary knock on the door, but this is a sound that shouldn't happen!
The girl's hand holding the game console froze, and then she slowly turned her head to look at the door, her brain running rapidly, thinking about who would knock on her door at this time?
The answer is: no.
No one would do this, because all the neighbors were gone, and she didn’t know any friends who would come back to look for her.
So, who's knocking?
(End of chapter)