Chapter 441: Girl Isn't Home Today

Is this even possible?

Yun Mu was slightly stunned as she saw the information pop up on the Game Panel.

Rather than saying she had completely digested the soul of her predecessor, she felt more like she had found something she had lost a long time ago.

The predecessor's soul should have merged with her a long time ago, but did this statement from the Game Panel mean that her previous fusion was not complete enough? Thinking about it carefully, it made sense; after all, they were two different souls from different worlds, and it would be strange if they could merge so easily.

And now, this probably meant a perfect fusion? Without pondering this matter for long, Yun Mu jumped out through the hole above her head, intending to leave this place.

However, just at this moment, within the detection range of her Blood Perception, a relatively weak fluctuation was captured by Yun Mu just as she was about to leave.

"Hm?"

The blood she perceived was extremely weak, and judging from the life energy emanating from it, it was no different from a stray dog on the side of the road.

This was clearly abnormal.

Even a malnourished street urchin shouldn't be this weak, and judging from the direction the other party was moving, it seemed they were heading toward her?

Yun Mu immediately dismissed the thought of leaving and took the item 【Occupational Certificate】 from the space of the Divine Blood Pendant, wearing it at her waist.

【This is a certificate that does not record any occupation.】

【When you carry this certificate, people around you will subconsciously treat you as a colleague they are familiar with, and afterward, the affected people will gradually forget this matter.】

【And when you take out the certificate and show it to others.】

【The certificate will automatically fill in the corresponding occupational information and make those who see it believe that everything recorded on the certificate is true.】

This was the upgraded version of the Unemployed Certificate from the Blacksmith Shop; both its effects and everything else had been enhanced!

Yun Mu jumped back into the pit, found a relatively clean corner, took a stool out from the space of the Divine Blood Pendant, and waited leisurely.

She might as well take this opportunity to test the effect of the Occupational Certificate. If the other party was truly a street urchin without any job, how would the Occupational Certificate arrange an identity for her? She didn't look like a beggar right now, so it was a perfect chance to test the influence of her attire on the certificate's effect. Just as she was thinking this, faint footsteps came from outside; as a Fourth Order Master Transcendent, she captured them from far away.

Listening to the sound, the other party was running toward here, and just as Yun Mu had expected, it was a child, weighing no more than 22 kilograms. As the distance gradually closed, Yun Mu felt a familiar aura from the other party again.

It was the Plague! So that was it; was this the reason why the other party's vitality was so weak? As half a God of Fear and Plague, Yun Mu's Plague Path level was as high as lv7, and relying on the trait of 【Plague Control】, she could clearly perceive the virus within the other party's body.

Consider it a good deed; Yun Mu planned to leave after curing the other party's illness. The owner of the footsteps gradually approached her location, and when the other party noticed that the Stone at the entrance had been moved aside, their breathing suddenly paused.

"Who, who is inside!?" A slightly hoarse girl's voice came from above.

Yun Mu thought for a moment and replied, "It's me."

The Occupational Certificate hanging at her waist suddenly trembled, and the girl standing outside the hole let out a sigh of relief upon hearing Yun Mu's voice.

"Phew, so it's you. I thought someone had discovered this place."

The girl carefully climbed down from the hole and then used stones to block the gap above.

Then, as if remembering something, she turned back and glared at her with some dissatisfaction: "Hey, didn't we agree to remember to close the Gate after coming back? What if someone else finds it?"

"Well, wasn't I waiting for you?"

Yun Mu looked at the girl who seemed very familiar with her, responding casually while observing the other party.

Appearing before her was a girl who had just barely broken one meter in height, with a head of short, azure-blue hair.

She was wearing a slightly oversized worker's uniform; if nothing went wrong, it was likely a child laborer's uniform found in a trash can near some factory. In her memories, Yun Mu's predecessor had worn this kind of clothing.

The quality was terrible, and it didn't fit; it was stifling to wear, and if you felt itchy somewhere, it was uncomfortable to scratch for a long time from the outside, and if you wanted to reach your hand inside the clothes, there was no opening to get in.

The warmth-retaining effect was barely in the category of being usable; placed in the current month of February in the Frost Kingdom, it was at least enough to keep one from freezing to death.

But don't even think about it being comfortable.

Besides that, the young girl was wearing a safety helmet on her head, and on her feet were a pair of dirty leather boots, which were also likely picked up from somewhere.

By the way, this kind of low-quality leather boot wasn't worth much in the Frost Kingdom; because of the special geographical location, no one would sell cloth shoes at all.

Like the kind the girl was wearing, you could buy a pair for just twenty or thirty Frosts.

"Have you used the gas stove?" After the girl sealed the hole above with stones, she took out a lighter from her bosom and came to the gas valve. Finding that the Gas Lamp above had been replaced with a gas stove, she looked at Yun Mu with some surprise and asked.

"No." Looking at the girl who hadn't noticed the abnormality at all, Yun Mu shook her head and denied it: "I just installed it."

As she spoke, she took off the Occupational Certificate from her waist, flipped open the pages, and found that some information had appeared on the previously blank content.

【You are an unemployed drifter in the Frost Kingdom; due to some accidental coincidence, you and this blue-haired girl in front of you are dependent on each other for survival.】

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Yun Mu looked at her attire in the Darkness. Did she really look like an unemployed drifter? Although in a sense, she really didn't have any job.

Right, didn't the effect of the Occupational Certificate say it could be shown to others? Yun Mu suddenly thought of something, hurriedly called the young girl over, and showed her the content on the Occupational Certificate.

"Is this your old work permit?" Seeing the certificate in Yun Mu's hand, the girl leaned over with some curiosity.

But then she shook her head: "I can't read the words on this."

"." My mistake, I forgot that street urchins basically don't know how to read.

There was no point in showing this certificate to the other party.

Yun Mu put away the Occupational Certificate with black lines on her forehead, then watched as the young girl took out some messy items from the sack on her back and started tinkering with them.

She asked curiously: "What are you doing?"

"I'm trying to repair these things." The girl replied without looking up: "Most of these toys are just damaged in some places; they can be fixed as long as some parts are replaced."

"Then I can Sell them again."

"Repairing toys?" Yun Mu became a little interested. She leaned close to the young girl and, relying on her lv8 Mechanical Repair skill, saw the structure of the item at a glance.

"This toy isn't damaged; it's just that its gears haven't been maintained for a long time, so it feels sluggish when running and produces noise." Yun Mu looked at the side of the girl's face as she was still checking for problems and told her the answer directly.

"Eh, is that so?"

Hearing this, the girl looked at Yun Mu with some surprise.

She had tried running this toy earlier, but after tightening the spring, the toy's movement was very jerky, and it made an unpleasant noise.

She thought something was broken, but it was just that the gears hadn't been maintained?

"How did you determine that?" The girl asked Yun Mu.

"You'll know once you run it." Yun Mu said to her.

"Oh, okay."

The girl twisted the key on the toy's backside tightly, and as her fingers released it, the gears inside began to rotate.

Yun Mu found the problematic parts at a single glance.

"Look here, here, and here," she pointed them out with her hand and explained the abnormalities to the other party, as well as how she had identified the issues there. "Ah, so that's it!" The girl was much smarter than Yun Mu had expected; she had originally thought she would need to explain many times, but she hadn't expected the other party to understand it all at once, even without a very detailed explanation.

And while the Young Girl was happily replacing the parts, Yun Mu took the opportunity to examine the Disease inside the other party's body.

Come to think of it, if Yun Mu hadn't used Perception to sense that the other party's life force was extremely weak, judging solely by her appearance, the girl didn't look like a sick person at all.

This indicated that the virus was hidden very deeply and was most likely still in a latent state.

But, saying that is one thing, yet trying to hide from Yun Mu was still a bit too naive! In the span of a breath, she locked onto the virus's location and successfully probed the virus's effects.

This was a virus that would gradually erode body cells and cause them to necrose, and it could completely bypass the human immune system, which was also the reason why the girl's illness could not be detected at all from her appearance.

The virus was currently still in the latent period; an infected person would likely only feel their body was somewhat weak and would find it very difficult to notice any abnormalities.

But once the virus truly erupted, its influence would have already spread to the cells of the entire body, and it would be too late to save her.

And just as Yun Mu wanted to extract the virus from the girl's body, she unexpectedly discovered that inside the virus, there was actually another virus encrypted? Hmm? Something is wrong.

Yun Mu tried hard to crack the encrypted content, only to find that the degree of encryption was extremely exaggerated; even for her, it was very difficult to crack it.

Furthermore, when Yun Mu's decryption progress reached about thirty percent, it actually triggered a Counterattack from the hidden virus! As the dignified God of Fear and Plague, I can't even crack a virus like you?

Yun Mu frowned and immediately increased her efforts.

She admitted that this virus was indeed quite tough, but wanting to contend with her was complete wishful thinking.

After Yun Mu exerted her full standard, it didn't take long for that hidden virus to be completely deciphered by her.

And after the virus was deciphered, Yun Mu unexpectedly discovered a familiar power inside the Young Girl's body.

"This is Divinity!?" Her pupils shrank sharply.

At the same time, in a distant place.

Luoye'er, the God of Fear and Plague, whose body was composed of Darkness that seemed impossible to look directly at, suddenly radiated his thoughts to his surroundings.

Damn it, who is it?

Who snatched away the candidate for godhood He had just screened! (End of chapter)