Chapter 5 5. The Second Familia
As the game interface jumps, a new family choice appears in front of Xu Zhi.
The number of choices has been increased to four, and the initial level has also been increased.
[1. Cat (Lv3)]
[2. Monkey (Lv3)]
[3. Dog (Lv3)]
[4. Spider (Lv3)]
"All are level 3."
Xu Zhi's eyes stayed on the cats and dogs. Spiders and unfamiliar monkeys were the first to be rejected by her.
After thinking for a while, Xu Zhi decided to choose a dog.
After pressing the OK key, a line of words appears again on the game screen.
[You already know how to simply cultivate your dependents in the early stage, please start. ]
[Familia: Dog Lv3
Spirit: 5
Physical: 40
Attributes: None
Traits: Strength Lv2, Smell Lv3
[Currently required evolution points: 0/200]
"It's fair, both are 200 points, but the dog's body is stronger than the snake's More."
And she saw the most important reason for choosing a dog: strength.
The reason why she hesitated between cats and dogs was because she knew that she had the opportunity to extract the characteristics of the Familia. She went through the possible characteristics of cats and dogs in her mind. She wanted the agility of cats and the strength of dogs. Yes, but what she lacks most at this stage is indeed strength.
Xu Zhi was not sure that choosing a dog would definitely provide strength. She just made a guess based on the characteristics of the little snake, which was somewhat of a gamble.
And the dog's size and aggressiveness, even without its strength, seemed to her to be a good choice.
Now that he has acquired the traits he wanted, Xu Zhi's mood has improved.
She skillfully followed the process and started upgrading the second family member. While upgrading, she watched the dogs eat the living creatures, and wondered if dogs would hunt and eat like this in reality?
This time the screen no longer looked like a snake's perspective, but the dog's eyesight was obviously not much better, and the colors were only black, white, yellow, blue and gray, but even so, Xu Zhi could see something was wrong.
Her family seemed to be in a city filled with black mist.
Xu Zhi's eyes slowly widened, and she felt that her scalp was numb because a ridiculous idea appeared in her mind.
Could this city in the game be Cloud City?
As soon as this idea appeared, Xu Zhi felt that she couldn't calm down. She began to recall the city she saw on the screen when she was controlling the snake, but the perspective was a bit abstract and she couldn't see anything.
It's just the same black fog as Cloud City. It's not a solid piece of evidence, but if it's really just a game, can the black fruit still be data turned into a physical object?
Xu Zhi was more willing to believe that there was already that kind of black fruit, and the game just "teleported" it over.
In addition to this, and more importantly, it was the reason why Xu Zhi longed for her guess to be true: if her family members were really in this city, then she would no longer be alone.
Whether it's companionship or protection, it's what she needs now.
She doesn't trust anyone in this city, and she doesn't need anyone's company. It would be great if it was a family member who was absolutely loyal to her.
So she hoped from the bottom of her heart that this guess was not her unrealistic dream.
To do this, she had to verify it.
For example, look carefully for familiar landmarks as your puppy searches for prey.
But this is actually a bit difficult. Xu Zhi doesn't go out often, and his memory of Yuncheng still only exists before he was 11 years old, and the scenes he occasionally saw on local TV stations.
"It doesn't matter, you will always find it."
Because the girl doesn't speak often, her voice is slightly hoarse, and her heart and lung problems cause her tone to be much weaker than ordinary people when she speaks. At this moment, this weak voice is also mixed with a bit of imperceptible paranoia, as if even if she is pursuing It is just a dream, but its shadow must be found in reality.
She devoted all her time to the game, controlling the gray stray dog to run around in search of prey. She encountered dangers during the process, and wasted two hours of recuperation to pay for her adventure. At noon, Xu Zhi and He didn't feel hungry, so he didn't cook. Instead, he just took medicine and continued playing.
Fortunately, the physical strength of the initial level 3 dog is much stronger than that of the snake, and it will not fall into fatigue quickly. Xu Zhi was lucky today, and the dog hunted easier than the snake. It did not take her long to reach level 4. , after the upgrade, the physical strength seems to have recovered, and the long-term hunting is not exhausted like the snake.
She played for a full six hours and directly upgraded the puppy to level 5. Then she felt a little tired and put down the handheld device and rubbed her forehead. At this time, the dog's data has become: [Family: Dog Level 5
Spirit: 14
Physical: 160
Attributes: None
Traits: Strength Lv3, Smell Lv3, Vigilance Lv1]
Although the body is a little tired, Xu Zhi's spirit is extremely excited.
Just because she didn't get nothing in what she wanted!
Just now, when she was controlling the puppy to find new prey that had been upgraded to level 5, she unknowingly chased the prey down the stairs of the empty old community to the roof. When she saw a building not far away, the prey I followed the gap between the buildings and jumped to the other side. At that time, the game interface gave a choice of whether to pursue or not. Because there was a wide distance and height difference between the building on the opposite side and the roof of the building where the puppy was, the pursuit may have to face the difficulty of jumping. It was a risk in the past, but with a level 5 dog's physical strength, even if it fell, it would only suffer some injuries. At most, it would lose the prey. Logically speaking, she should choose to pursue it anyway, but Xu Zhi chose not to pursue it.
She chose to let the puppy stay where it was so that she could see clearly whether the building not far away that looked like a huge clock was one of the landmarks of Yuncheng: the Bell and Drum Tower.
The gray bell and drum tower has huge dials inlaid on all sides of the square floor. Due to the earthquake five years ago, the clock was broken and time stopped at the moment of the earthquake. The Yuncheng government felt that this was of commemorative significance, so it chose not to repair it. Let time stop at this moment forever.
As a Yuncheng native, everyone knows the Bell and Drum Tower. Even Xu Zhi, who doesn’t go out, has seen it countless times in the news. ".It's actually true."
"Haha, it's actually true!"
Xu Zhi muttered to herself over and over again, and couldn't even hold back her laughter. If she hadn't been holding the game console in her hand, she would have even wanted to applaud.
At this moment, unprecedented excitement reached her mind, her heartbeat began to accelerate, adrenaline surged, and her pupils dilated slightly. It wasn't until Xu Zhi felt it was difficult to breathe that she realized that she was overly excited.
Although the puppy's upgrade will also bring about a slight improvement in physical fitness, that alone is not enough. She still has to restrain her emotional fluctuations from being too intense.
Xu Zhi put down the game console, closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She ignored the many thoughts that came to her mind for the time being and tried to regulate her emotions. When the excitement gradually faded and exhaustion came up like a tide, she couldn't help but reach out and rub her forehead.
It happened that there was still half an hour before it was time to settle Xiao Yi's harvest, so she should rest for half an hour first.
Xu Zhi is still a little dissatisfied with her greatly increased energy bar. Why can't she go 24 hours without eating, drinking, or sleeping?
Xu Zhi leaned on the wheelchair with her eyes closed. She originally just wanted to close her eyes for a while, but accidentally fell asleep. She obviously felt that she had only fallen asleep for less than a minute, but when she woke up, she found that Half an hour has passed.
". It seems that high-intensity continuous gaming is still a bit too energy-consuming."
She exhaled and picked up the handheld device. A seven-hour progress bar in the lower right corner of the screen had finished.
Xu Zhi selected Xiaoyi by pressing the button, and then the settlement interface popped up.
[Your family has completed a long hunting alone. The following is a list of its hunting harvest. ]
[Evolution points: 1700/1000]
[Trait improvement: Bloodthirsty +1, Cunning +1]
[Special items: None]
[You can start again after evolving or resting for three hours]
[Due to the increased bloodthirst level of the Familia, your The bloodlust level has also been increased, so that while you are in the bloodlust state, your strength will be increased to a certain extent, but when you are out of the bloodlust state, you will be weakened. 】
After reading the settlement, Xu Zhi's eyes flashed with joy.
She didn't know what special items the Familia could find through hunting, so she naturally didn't have any expectations for it. What made her happy was that her strength increased after [Bloodlust +1]!
Although it can only be used after entering the bloodthirsty state, and it also has a debuff, it is indeed one of the things she needs most at the moment.
She desperately wants to improve her strength.
As for whether to let Xiao Yi evolve or rest, he must have evolved.
After Xu Zhi made his choice, a twenty-minute progress bar appeared in the center of the screen.
A golden sun icon appeared on the right side of the screen. Xu Zhi clicked on the icon, and two avatars appeared on the screen, a snake and a dog.
"Oh~" Xu Zhi understood, this was something like a directory.
She clicked on the dog's avatar, the game interface jumped to the puppy side, and the snake's evolution progress bar shrank in the lower right corner.
"It's quite convenient."
Xu Zhi commented favorably.
Just when she was about to continue controlling the dog and continue to upgrade, a familiar voice that she heard yesterday suddenly rang.
——Bang bang bang!
There's someone knocking on the door.
Xu Zhi held Yu Yu's hand tightly and his face became gloomy.
Sure enough, someone else came.
She had already thought that the other party would be entangled, so she was so eager to gain power.
At the same time, she was also surprised to find that the knocking on the door became clearer in her ears.
It was probably the improvement brought to Xiao Yi after she evolved to level ten, which repaired some of her hearing impairment.
Only five seconds after the knock on the door, a female voice rang outside the door.
"Hello, my classmate came to see you yesterday, do you remember?"
The voice was very clear and polite. The image of a quiet and polite female high school student had already appeared in Xu Zhi's mind, but her face was different. Nothing changed, she just calmly drove the wheelchair to the kitchen in the female voice, and then carefully selected the sharpest boning knife and held it in her hand.
Fortunately, her brother likes to eat meat very much, otherwise it would be difficult to have only kitchen knives at home.
Amidst the other party's constant persuasion, Xu Zhi tried to stand up, jumped slightly, and waved the knife a few times. After making sure that her current body was strong enough for her to make a surprise attack, she sat back in the wheelchair again. He hid the knife behind his back and controlled the wheelchair towards the door with an expressionless expression.
She needed to confirm how many people came to the other party. If not many people came, and the other party showed malice towards her and planned to break in, a
fierce look flashed in the girl's eyes. She felt that maybe she should take the initiative to do something.
(End of chapter)