Chapter 9: Is it a bit hasty?

Wu Yue took a deep breath: "What do you have?"

System aloofly: "Nothing at all."

Wu Yue gave a side-eye: "Then what use are you?"

System exploded: "I said I'm a life system, life system, you damn don't move at all, sitting here wanting food, dreaming of eating shit!!!"

System erupted, Wu Yue wilted...

Seems like, in novels, systems usually need to trade energy or complete tasks to get what you want...

"Ding~ Host, straighten your attitude, issuing long-term task: find food."

Wu Yue's eyes lit up instantly, after a while...

"Then what?" System, are you being too rash? Just finding food and that's it?

System: "Then? There's no then."

"What about the reward?" Wu Yue tugged at her dirty hair, a little irritable.

"You haven't done the task, where would the reward come from?" System said righteously.

Wu Yue doubtful: "... Impossible, as a newcomer, don't I deserve a newbie big gift pack?"

Some Tongzi deadpan: "At the critical moment when the host almost kicked the bucket last night, this system expended lots of energy to repair your body; due to insufficient energy, the system's current function is limited to communicating with the host."

Wu Yue moved her sore body, indeed better than yesterday by more than a bit, now somewhat moved: "Tongzi, you're really a good system."

System: "Host knowing is fine; please host quickly do tasks to gather energy."

Wuyue: "After gathering energy, will my newbie big gift pack still be there?"

System: "..."

Didn't expect you to be a scumbag girl only caring about the newbie big gift pack!

"None." Owing so much energy, better think about how to repay the debt.

"Can't you reveal the reward content early to give me some motivation?" Wu Yue said with a salivating face.

System aloofly hummed: "Your biggest motivation right now is just to stay alive."

Wuyue: "..."

Why such a kind, cute, and wonderful girl like me would be bound to such a cold-blooded, nitpicky system.

System: "..."

You probably have some misunderstanding about yourself...

"Due to insufficient energy, this system will fall into sleep, only running basic functions; please host, do more tasks to accumulate energy."

The clear mechanical sound vanished after a 'drip'.

Upon hearing, Wu Yue hastily swallowed the words she was about to say to retort Tongzi.

Outside the cave came a sound of footsteps, then followed by two women's conversation.

"Don't even know if this woman is still alive."

"She was almost out of breath yesterday; she's probably dead."

"Anyway, let's go in and see; if she's dead, we'll call the men to handle her."

"This food... uh!"

The two women walked to the cave entrance; what met their eyes was not a corpse lying silently on dry grass, but a thin female leaning against the wall, her face indistinct.

The woman holding a lump of black food gave an embarrassed smile: "You're okay now?"

The woman behind her also felt a bit embarrassed; they had just been discussing how to dispose of that person's corpse, but the person actually woke up.

Wu Yue pushed aside the messy hair on her face, revealing a thin, dirty little face: "Thank you for bringing me food; after resting a night I have some strength."

After saying that, she weakly panted, looking as if bearing an unbearable weight of life.

The woman in front, seeing this, stepped forward and placed the black steamed bun she held on the dry grass beside Wu Yue: "This is today's breakfast; if you're unwell, just lie down; we have things to do, so we'll leave first."