Chapter 311: This Is Ours

As you delve deeper into the city's center, you are surprised to discover traces of human life nearby. Inside a medical station, you meet the doctor in charge, who tells you the station is operating beyond capacity, though there is no shortage of medicine here. If you ask why, you witness the doctor's treatment process for a patient with your own eyes.

It is a truly impressive scene. A patient's arm was bitten by a rat, and to prevent the patient from falling ill, the doctor chooses an on-the-spot amputation, using a very filthy saw to saw the patient's arm off while they are still alive.

You intended to stop this behavior, yet the doctor tells you that they are a Transcendental. After sawing off the arm, the patient actually does not contract the Plague, and even the severed wound shows no infection. You cannot understand it, but you are deeply shocked.

Perhaps in these times where all resources are scarce, this "cost-saving" treatment plan is the most "correct" one.

You shake your head and intend to leave, but the doctor stops you.

They tell you the medical station is running low on blood plasma, and since it is rare to see a healthy human, they hope you can donate some fresh blood before you leave.

Although you really want to complain about where blood plasma would come from in this era, you feel relieved after thinking of the scenes you encountered earlier. Facing the doctor's request, you decide— 【1. Make a token gesture. {Consume 5% HP}】 【2. Be a bit generous. {Consume 15% HP}】 【3. Draw! Draw it hard! {Consume 80% HP}】 【4. Refuse. {No consumption}】 What the hell is option three?

It was fifteen percent just before, how did it jump straight to eighty percent here?

I think you are being a bit extreme.

So... of course, I choose option three!

Anyway, HP is the kind of thing that is easy to recover; she wants to see what happens if she chooses option three.

【Your astonishing blood-pumping ability stuns the doctor at the medical station. Before you even feel like there is a problem, every container in the medical station capable of storing blood plasma is filled to the brim.

To thank you, after asking about your needs, the doctor takes out all the Gold Coins in the medical station and finally hands them all to you.】 {Your HP -117! 【45%】} {You obtained item 【Gold Coin】 * 850} Ah, this reward is a bit small.

Yun Mu had thought that the more HP she paid, the higher the reward value would be; now it seems she simply overthought it.

But well... eight hundred and fifty Gold Coins is not bad. It is better than nothing.

Just consider it an act of kindness; anyway, to her, HP is just an attribute that can be recovered at any time.

Whether it is the vitality stored in the Blood Core or recovering HP by consuming Qi Strength, there will always be a way.

Even relying on the 【High-Speed Regeneration】 trait, when she heads to the next area, her HP will immediately recover by thirty percent.

And even without any recovery, her remaining HP is now 143 points, which is more than double the HP of Lucy's base panel.

There is nothing to worry about at all.

"Hoo."

There are two designated Dice left; let's make it quick! Yun Mu thinks this, sets the Dice value to six, and then tosses them into the air.

【While walking slowly through the city, you suddenly smell a pungent, bloody odor. Following the direction the scent is coming from, you see a young reindeer with its hind leg caught in a bear trap. After noticing your presence, it does not feel Fear, but instead keeps calling out to you with "moo-moo" sounds; it seems to be begging you to save it.

This reindeer might be the trophy of some hunter in the city, and letting it go like this seems somewhat unethical; however, ignoring its call and leaving would also make you feel uneasy in your conscience. You decide—】 【1. Save this reindeer, then Wait for the owner of the bear trap. {Consume 20 Action Points}】 【2. Save this reindeer, leave compensation, and leave. {Consume 5 Action Points}】 【3. Ignore this reindeer. {No consumption}】 Hmm... emotionally, Yun Mu wants to choose option one, to save the reindeer and wait for the owner of the bear trap to return.

But rationally considering, she happens to have exactly five Action Points left.

If she chooses option two, she won't need to convert the last remaining ordinary Dice into Action Points.

She has carefully counted the squares ahead; after completing the 【Six Six Great Success】 task, she only needs three more squares to leave this area.

By then, as long as the last remaining die rolls a 1 or 2, she won't need to spend 500 Gold Coins to convert a new die.

Simply perfect.

Better to choose option two; after all, it's not like she didn't leave compensation, and besides, this is just a game Dungeon, no need to be so serious about everything.

Having made up her mind, Yun Mu chooses option two.

【In the end, you still could not endure the condemnation of your conscience. You come behind the young reindeer and use force to pry the bear trap open to both sides, allowing the young reindeer's hind leg to be freed.

Afterward, you take a Bandage from your backpack and gently bandage its wound.

After doing all this, you finally heave a sigh of relief.

However, when you want to let this reindeer leave, it cannot understand your meaning no matter what, and just affectionately rubs its nose against your pant leg.

It looks like it wants to travel with you.

Although it is a bit of a headache, there are more important things to do now. Before leaving here, you need to leave something for the owner of the bear trap. You decide—】 【1. Leave food.】 【2. Leave medicine.】 【3. Children make choices; I leave both food and medicine.】 "Do you want to be with me?" Without rushing to make a choice, Yun Mu squats down and touches the young reindeer's head with her hand.

Could this little guy be the reward given for this event? Something like a Mount?

Yun Mu permeates her spiritual power into the space of the Divine Blood Pendant and discovers that the Bandage she previously bought from the mysterious merchant is indeed one roll short.

Damn it, don't you ask for my opinion before using it?

Although a roll of Bandage is nothing, and she doesn't mind using a Bandage to dress the young reindeer's wound, how should she put it?

She feels that dressing wounds is something she should do herself, rather than watching the text on the Game Panel and having her own Bandage used up.

Angrily rubbing the young reindeer's head to vent, Yun Mu chooses option three.

【You wander around the vicinity and successfully find a bucket in fairly good condition. You put the Bandage, Holy Water, and Antidote into the bucket together. Besides that, you also stuff some bottled water and various canned foods with long shelf lives into the bucket, hoping that the owner of the bear trap will forgive you after seeing these things.

Hmm... they will definitely forgive, right? After all, these things are much more valuable than a young reindeer.

Harboring such thoughts, you turn and leave this neighborhood.】 Bandage, Holy Water, and Antidote... these are all items she previously bought from the mysterious merchant.

As for the bottled water and canned food... let alone the bottled water, those canned foods seem to be from the batch she scavenged in the underground shelter of Folaka Town last time.

It shouldn't kill anyone, right?

Yun Mu feels a bit guilty.

Returning to the Adventure Challenge square, the young reindeer does not appear by her side.

However, Yun Mu can roughly guess where it is, so she clicks on the Game Panel and successfully finds the pixel icon of the young reindeer in the Partner summoning column.

【Name: None Level: lv1 (Apprentice) Race: Horned Deer Age: 1 year

Max HP: 8 Attack: 1, Spell Strength: 0, Defense: 2, Resilience: 2, Dodge: 5, Speed: 3, Precision Correction: 10, Critical Hit: 0% Traits: Mount (can be considered a Mount for battle, will not occupy an extra slot), Savage Bone (physical damage taken reduced by 10%, melee attack damage increased by 10%)

Skills: Fawn Charge, Cute Acting】 Unsurprisingly, the level and attributes look quite weak.

But the traits are very promising for the future.

The effect of Mount goes without saying; Yun Mu still remembers the coordinated attacks of the Goblin Brave and the cat Amber, allowing two units to act together in one turn, which is quite a broken effect.

By comparison, the effect of the Savage Bone trait is simpler and more brutal.

10% physical damage reduction and 10% melee damage increase—this is not a 10% damage correction, but a direct 10% damage increase; the effect is quite powerful.

It is a pity that this young reindeer is only lv1 and cannot exert much effect for the time being.

As for the way to level up... damn it, it actually uses Gold Coins to level up directly, just like Lucy! No money, goodbye.

Yun Mu closed the Game Panel without hesitation; don't let the twenty thousand Gold Coin in her inventory fool you into thinking it's a lot.

In reality, it is completely insufficient.

It would be fine to level up Lucy three times, but to want to cultivate another reindeer Partner? She should just wash up and go to sleep; dreams have everything.

"The last designated Dice."

After rolling this Dice, the task for 【Six Six Great Success】 will be completed.

Super Golden Spatula. What kind of item would that be?

Yun Mu tossed the Dice high into the air, filled with anticipation.

【You are walking through a city ravaged by the Plague. Suddenly, you feel a palpitation, as if a musket barrel is pressed against your heart. An aura that makes your whole body tremble, with every cell seemingly screaming "Run!", has locked onto you.】

What a terrifying existence that was. Formless gray fog composed its body, and restless disease spread wantonly in the air. You accidentally inhaled a mouthful of the gray fog and immediately felt dizzy.

With your body as the battlefield, manic Qi Strength surged, determined at all costs to drive out the gray fog that had invaded your body! However, perhaps it was an illusion, but you saw a look of suspicion and uncertainty on the 'face' of that mass of gray fog. Before you could confirm it, the gray fog dissipated as if it had never existed.】【Plague points +2, Path 【Plague】 unlocked.】【Plague lv1: All damage-over-time hit effects +10%; recover 3 HP when dealing damage-over-time to enemies.

Damage to enemies with damage-over-time effects +10%; damage taken -5%.】 What is going on? Yun Mu looked at the newly added 【Plague】 Path on the Game Panel with a blank expression.

When that mass of Black Fog appeared just now, she thought she was a goner. She didn't expect the other party to just take one look at her and then run off on its own.

The feeling of being unwell all over from being infected by the Black Fog earlier also dissipated after the other party left, as if it had never appeared at all.

Could it be that the divine aura left behind by the title 【Favorite of the Gods】 scared the other party away?

Yun Mu guessed in her heart.

That mass of Black Fog was likely the God of Fear and Plague, Luoye'er, and on the timeline where the Dungeon is located, Luoye'er is either in the stage of being born or has just been born.

Just imagine, if she were the newly born Luoye'er, what would happen after sensing so many divine auras on her?

Of course, run away immediately!

In other words, the look of suspicion and uncertainty she saw on the other party's 'face' earlier was real? "Phew, that was close."

She almost thought she was going to die.

Come to think of it, isn't this an Expert-level Dungeon? How could a god-level guy pop up! If the God of Fear and Plague, Luoye'er, hadn't been scared off by the divine aura on her, wouldn't she have been dead for sure!?

Hmm... not necessarily.

The Game Panel might not just stand by, or perhaps, the God of Civilization and History, Heral?

She was able to meet the Mother of All Cats, Eve, in the Cat Path Dungeon, so there's no reason she couldn't meet Heral in the Civilization Path Dungeon! Perhaps the other party is hiding in some corner right now, secretly watching her.

Yun Mu thought secretly in her heart.

【You have completed the special task 【Six Six Great Success】】【You have obtained the item 【Super Golden Spatula (Black)】】【Super Golden Spatula (Black)】

【After being used on a Partner, their level is immediately raised to the same level as the player, and every time the player levels up, the level of the Partner using the Super Golden Spatula will synchronize and increase!】

【After the Super Golden Spatula is used, it will transform into 【Super Building Random Generation Blueprint (Red)】】

【A spatula shining with brilliant golden light. Holding it, you are the most stylish person in the world. Dishes stir-fried with the Golden Spatula should also taste even more delicious.】

【"What are you still waiting for? I can't wait to show off to my little partners!"】

【Super Building Random Generation Blueprint (Red)】

【Randomly produces a blueprint that can immediately generate a building. Do not underestimate these buildings. Are you ready to welcome the real challenge?】

【After use, it will transform into the item 【Partner Invitation Voucher (Orange)】】

【"A building gift package, a blueprint that doesn't require workers to build!"】

【Partner Invitation Voucher (Orange)】

【Can invite any target to become your Partner. Can only be used once; it will become invalid if rejected.】

【Only targets who truly trust each other can become Partners. Please be very careful when using it.】

【If the use fails, please do not be discouraged. At the very least, this invitation voucher can help you discern true feelings.】

【"Become my Partner!"】

(End of chapter)