Chapter 442: What Are You Doing Here?

Authority—is this something she can come into contact with now? Before she could think it over, the girl beside her suddenly leaned against her body.

"Mm... suddenly feeling so sleepy, I'm going to sleep first..." The girl didn't finish her sentence before she lay on Yun Mu's shoulder and fell asleep.

This surprised Yun Mu slightly, and she felt a bit worried about whether she had triggered some chain reaction after deciphering the virus.

And after her careful inspection, she discovered that something had indeed gone wrong.

The virus, which had originally been in its incubation period, suddenly entered its outbreak phase and began to gradually merge with the cells in the girl's body. This process required a lot of energy, which was the reason the young girl suddenly felt so drowsy.

And the problem at hand was that the Divinity originally intended for the virus had been drained away by Yun Mu; now, the virus was consuming the energy within the young girl's body!

But the crux of the problem was, how much energy could a commoner, or even a malnourished stray child, possibly have in her body?

The answer was obvious.

In less than half a minute, the girl's already thin and weak body became even more withered.

In her urgency, Yun Mu had no time to worry about the specific effects of the virus.

She could only summon Lucy to her side and have her use 【Blood Magic: Life Conversion】 to transfer her own life force into the young girl's body.

"Eh? Miss Yun, where is this..." Lucy, having just been summoned, appeared somewhat confused.

"No time to explain, hurry up and use Life Conversion to transfer my HP to this girl!" Yun Mu said with rapid speech.

"I understand." Upon hearing this, Lucy immediately noticed the girl whose life force was rapidly dissipating.

She gave a light flick of her hand, and the blood within her body formed a bright red magic circle beneath Yun Mu and the girl.

After the light of the magic circle ignited, Yun Mu immediately felt the life force within her own body being drained by the array; in its place, the life force within the young girl's body was recovering rapidly.

"Phew, that's a huge help." Seeing the young girl's condition gradually stabilize, Yun Mu finally let out a sigh of relief.

Her HP was high, far exceeding that of a normal Master-tier Transcendental, and even if her HP wasn't enough, she could rely on the Qi Strength attribute of the 【Scarlet】 Path to convert between HP and Qi Strength.

Holding on through the current situation should be no problem.

Thinking this, Yun Mu observed the situation inside the girl's body again while explaining what had just happened to Lucy.

"Virus, Divinity?" After listening to Yun Mu's explanation, Lucy's face showed a slightly strange expression: "How can Miss Yun encounter such things just by going out?"

"I, I don't know either... Haha." Yun Mu also smiled helplessly; she clearly didn't want this either! But since she had encountered it, and it was highly likely related to the God of Fear and Plague, Luoye'er, how could she sit idly by?

She was just too happy to trip Luoye'er up!

After all, the grudge between the two had been settled long ago; anything Luoye'er wanted to do was something Yun Mu could not allow! Although she didn't know what this guy was trying to pull, in any case, stopping it was the right thing to do!

However, Yun Mu felt that Luoye'er probably wasn't very serious about this matter.

It wasn't that there were only seven points of Divinity inside the virus after deciphering it, but rather that if Luoye'er were truly very concerned about this matter, the other party wouldn't have failed to notice when she came into contact with this young girl.

Of course, it was also possible that it had been obscured by the God of History and Civilization, Heral.

After all, Yun Mu remembered that last time, before Heral left, he told her he would help cover it up and guaranteed that Luoye'er's true form would not take action against her.

Wait, perhaps this whole thing was caused by that guy.

Otherwise, how could there be such a coincidence? Just as she felt a stirring in her heart and returned to her predecessor's residence, she encountered the girl living here? Such a simple encounter shouldn't be difficult for Heral. If it really was that guy's doing, what was he trying to do?

"Heral, Heral?" Yun Mu called out tentatively twice.

Just as she thought she was overthinking it, a familiar sense of spatial distortion appeared behind her.

"Do not call the names of gods casually; even if it is not the person themselves, other gods have a probability of discovering it."

Holding a long staff, draped in robes like golden sand, the bird-headed Heral appeared behind Yun Mu.

This was the first time the two had met in the real world, and just like when they were in the game Dungeon, the time around them seemed to be frozen.

"This is not time stopping; it is just that our thoughts have accelerated countless times in an instant," Heral said slowly, seemingly guessing Yun Mu's thoughts.

"Is that so?" Yun Mu looked left and right, and seeing Lucy, who had no reaction, she couldn't help but step forward and pinch her cheeks.

The texture was very real, not like a fake.

If only her thoughts were accelerated, why could her body still move, and why could she feel the texture of Lucy's cheeks? "Hehehe," Heral chuckled twice at this, seemingly having no intention of explaining.

"So, does this matter have anything to do with you?" Not dwelling on this topic for long, Yun Mu remembered the real reason she called the other party and pointed at the girl to ask.

"My appearance here, hasn't that already proven your thoughts?" Heral chuckled lightly.

He paused, then continued: "However, I only let her discover this room by chance; it was only because of many factors that she chose to live here."

"And that palpitation from your soul was purely accidental. As for Luoye'er's gaze... this is the territory of the Lady of the Dark Night, and Luoye'er only let the rats in the sewer spread the virus. As for which lucky person would become his pawn, that is entirely up to Fate."

"And you, my friend, you dismantled Luoye'er's scheme before the event truly fermented; you are the well-deserved hero of Frostfall City..." "Stop, stop, stop." Yun Mu interrupted his words.

"I already roughly know the situation, so how should I handle it next?" She asked the other party directly.

After speaking, Yun Mu looked at the girl: "The virus in her body has already started to operate. I haven't had time to look at the information encrypted by Divinity, and I have no idea what the effects of the encrypted part are."

"Now the virus is fused with the cells of her body, and even I have no way to excise that part."

"If you can't excise it, then control it." Heral waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "Don't you have the Legendary-tier Plague domain? Just let the virus evolve in another direction."

"Remove the transmission and infection capabilities, and enhance the host's physical resilience... By the way, take this."

As Heral spoke, he took a stone tablet from nowhere, on which four lines of text were written in a script Yun Mu had never seen before.

【Infection Source】

【Survivor】

【Survival Expert】

【Plague Apostle】

Although she didn't know what this script was, she could understand it. If she wasn't mistaken, this should be some kind of Supernatural profession? Yun Mu cast her gaze toward Heral.

"This is a Supernatural profession developed by the infected during the outbreak of the Heling Plague. The Apprentice tier can significantly reduce pain and the damage the virus does to the body, and once reaching Second-tier Elite, one is basically out of life-threatening danger."

"I have organized the information here; if you practice well, it is not difficult to qualify. Besides, being chosen by Luoye'er, her talent is not bad to begin with; you just need to teach her carefully."

"Wait." Yun Mu was suddenly stunned: "Does that mean you want me to take care of her?"

"Otherwise, could it be me?" Heral looked at Yun Mu with a hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth: "Anyway, didn't you just expand many positions on your ship?"

"That is true, but..." Yun Mu stroked her chin and pondered for a moment; she stretched out her left hand and made a gesture of negotiation: "Can you give me some benefits?"

"This is for you." Before she could finish speaking, Heral handed over another stone slab.

【Regarding training techniques for the Painter profession and advanced paths for after becoming a Master (contains the manuscript of Tangjiked)】

"Did you write this too?" Yun Mu looked at the content on the stone slab with eyes shining.

Although what Heral gave her was only a thin, single-sided stone slab, through those unknown characters, Yun Mu could sense the extraordinarily rich content within the slab.

Heral was, after all, the God of History and Civilization; his very existence was almost equivalent to the collective of all civilizations and history in the entire world!

This guy's knowledge base was absolutely explosive; books written by him would definitely bring Yun Mu tremendous help.

She suddenly felt there was no need to go find Sixin anymore.

How could the president of the Painter Association be as impressive as the deity in front of her?

"Of course I wrote it." Hearing Yun Mu's question, Heral nodded gently: "Consider it a gift; I look forward to the day I can work with Miss Yun."

"Goodbye."

Heral gently raised his cane and then struck it firmly against the ground.

Without waiting for Yun Mu to reply, he vanished from before her.

And the scene around Yun Mu shattered at this moment like a reflection in a mirror or the moon in the water.

When she came to her senses, she discovered that she had actually been maintaining the same posture the entire time.

Everything she had just experienced was, in fact, nothing more than a mental Hallucination.

And beside her lay two seemingly Pingpingwuji stone slabs.

"That guy sure runs fast." Yun Mu picked up the stone slabs from the ground and put them away.

She had no time to look at these things for now; she needed to use the effect of the trait Directed Plague to make the virus inside the orphan girl mutate in a favorable direction.

First, naturally, was to eliminate the virus's ability to spread, then reduce its lethality, and try to minimize the virus's changes to the body's appearance.

Of course, the latter two were just doing her best.

After all, although Yun Mu could make the virus mutate in a specified direction, the virus mutating in the direction she specified ≠ directly becoming the appearance she wanted.

The relationship here was very complex; unless she truly grew into an existence like the God of Fear and Plague, Luoye'er, she simply could not do whatever she wanted as she pleased.

And aside from the problem of the virus in the girl's body... Yun Mu looked at the information that had popped up on the Game Panel earlier.

【You have absorbed 7 points of Divinity. Current Divinity value: 30】 【Yes/No: Consume 30 points of Divinity to acquire an Authority (Weak Divine Power)?】 She had been wondering what the Divinity attribute was actually for; now it seemed, could it be that her Divinity was too low before, so it had no effect? But she had gathered enough 30 points to exchange for an Authority, so that shouldn't be considered a small amount, right? How many mortals in the world could achieve this? And behind the option buttons, there was a question mark; Yun Mu clicked it to take a look.

【Divinity is not equivalent to disappearing after consumption, but is bound to the newly acquired Authority and cannot be used to exchange for other Authorities. However, players can pay a certain amount of experience points as a cost to unbind the acquired Authority (Divinity will not be consumed). Within half a year after acquiring an Authority and after unbinding an Authority, the involved Divinity cannot be unbound or used to exchange for new Authorities. (Weak Divine Power)】

(End of this chapter)