Chapter 68: Meeting Lucy Again

【-16！】

【Corrosion！】

【Mental Shock！】

【-37！】

【You have achieved victory in battle!

Your maximum HP +3

You have obtained the item【Gold Coin】*530】

【Mental Shock lv2——lv3】

【Base Accuracy 115——130/Damage Modifier +20%——+35%/Stun 70%——75%】

【Pickpocketing lv4——Pickpocketing lv5】

【In the Dungeon, your loot yield +5%】

【You have reached the current tier limit; you must complete a breakthrough mission to continue leveling up!】

【Experience points have been stored.】

"Huh, strange, did Mental Shock always have a Stun effect?"

Yun Mu said while receiving the memories in her mind and looking at the skill upgrade notification.

Damn it, she had used Mental Shock so many times; had this Stun effect never triggered even once?

The trigger probability didn't look low either; was she really that unlucky?

If the effect were triggered, could the trait of the Ghoul Guard still allow it to act immediately?

Probably not; based on her understanding of the game she had made, it would likely be that the Ghoul Guard acts immediately, and then skips that immediate action turn due to the Stun effect.

Correspondingly, the Stun effect should also disappear.

【-5！】

A Scarlet damage number suddenly jumped out from above her head, instantly pulling her thoughts back.

Yun Mu hurriedly checked her HP.

HP: 10/43

"Why does the Corrosion effect still exist even though the battle is over?"

Looking at her HP bar, which would be cleared if the damage ticked two more times, Yun Mu hurriedly took the Blood Brewing Bottle from her bosom and drank a mouthful.

【+10】

Hmm. The Scarlet Blood Brew was slightly cool upon entering her mouth, with an indescribable silkiness; beyond that, there was a mellow fragrance she had never experienced before, and even after swallowing it into her belly, the fragrance lingered on her lips and teeth.

"Gulp."

Recalling the taste of the Blood Brew, she couldn't help but swallow her saliva twice.

Resisting the urge to take another drink, she looked at the Blood Brewing Bottle in her hand, feeling somewhat incredulous.

"Is this the same thing I drank before?"

So this is what it feels like to drink blood after becoming a Bloodline; no wonder...

"What kind of crazy things am I thinking!?"

She was startled by her own thoughts and hurriedly stopped her mind from wandering.

After putting the Blood Brewing Bottle back into the lining of her coat, she continued walking toward the front of the road.

And while walking, two more HP deduction notifications jumped out above her head in succession.

【-5】

【-5】

Her HP returned to 10 points; fortunately, the Corrosion effect had also disappeared.

Yun Mu ignored the system notifications and continued forward, soon arriving before the familiar fork in the road.

【Suiji Shijian】

【Anquan Quyu】

There was an extra fork option she had never seen before; judging by the name, should it be a place similar to a lounge or a safe house?

Both sides were blurry architectural ruins, and nothing else could be seen.

Glancing at her remaining 10 HP, she chose the【Anquan Quyu】without hesitation.

Like ripples passing through the surface of a lake, her vision blurred, and a familiar black building appeared before her.

【You have entered a new area; according to the effect of the trait【High-Speed Regeneration】, your HP recovers by 13 points!】

"This is... Lucy's cottage?"

Ignoring the notifications in her mind, Yun Mu looked at the building in front of her with some surprise.

"I always feel like the last time I came here was a long, long time ago..."

She walked on the path leading to the cottage, looking at the surrounding environment with a dazed expression.

It didn't take two minutes before she arrived at the wooden door of the cottage.

This time, she didn't push the door open directly, but instead knocked on the door with her hand first.

"Knock, knock, knock."

The wooden door collided with her knuckles, emitting a slightly dull sound.

Not waiting long, about five or six seconds later, Lucy's crisp voice came from inside the room.

"Please come in."

Creak.

Pushing open the door, Yun Mu and the blonde Young Girl standing inside the room stared at each other with those ruby-like pupils.

Seeming to be stunned for a moment, Lucy looked at her with some surprise and said, "It's you, long time no see."

"Mm, long time no see." Yun Mu nodded, walked into the house, and closed the wooden Gate behind her.

After becoming a Bloodline, she could perceive the different scents in everyone's blood; upon walking into the wooden house, she sensed Lucy's scent.

It was like a member of her own kind, seemingly a Bloodline, yet seemingly not; there were some similarities, but also differences, and beyond that, there was a sense of nobility, as if a superior existence within the bloodline.

"What brings you to find me this time?" Lucy asked, looking at her with what seemed to be some anticipation.

【You have encountered the 【Mysterious Girl Lucy lv???】 again, you decide.】

【1: Ask to stay with her, inquiring if you can rest for a period of time. (Restore HP)】

【2: Take out the Blood Brewing Bottle. (Restore the usage count of the Blood Brewing Bottle, limited to once)】

【3: Invite her to become your Partner again. 【Charm Option】】

【4: Reveal your Bloodline identity. 【Bloodline Option】】

【5: Take out your item 【Alchemy Recipe · Chestnut Bomb (White)】. 【Item Option】】

"Five options again?" Yun Mu raised an eyebrow, the expression on her face looking somewhat pained.

It was too agonizing; couldn't she just choose all of these options?

Or perhaps she shouldn't choose at all; were game options really such inconvenient things?

But if she didn't choose, what was she supposed to say?

"Mm, can't I come to see you if there's nothing wrong?" The straight-laced Yun Mu held it in for quite a while before managing to squeeze out such a sentence.

"Of course you can." For some reason, after hearing her words, Lucy lowered her head, making it impossible to see her expression.

After a long while, she asked with some bashfulness: "May I drink a little of your blood?"

【1: Agree to her! (HP -10%, 【Mysterious Girl Lucy】's favorability increases).】

【2: Refuse. (Nothing will happen.)】

Ignoring the prompts in her mind, Yun Mu thought for a moment and replied: "I want to agree, but I have already become a Bloodline."

Before she could finish her sentence, Lucy interrupted her in advance: "I know!"

"The moment you walked in, I smelled the scent of a Bloodline in your blood."

"Not a deformity that failed to fuse with the Scarlet, but a true Bloodline, that sweetness flowing within the blood..."

As Lucy said this, her breathing gradually became rapid; her petite chest rose and fell continuously, and a flush of red color appeared at the roots of her ears.

At this moment, Yun Mu did not realize that the newly acquired trait she had ignored, 【Charming Temptation】, was exerting a very strong effect.

"I can't hold back anymore!"

The red light in Lucy's eyes intensified; she lunged up, pinning Yun Mu beneath her, her arms wrapped around Yun Mu's shoulders, her Soft chest pressed tightly against her.

Her knees applied slight pressure, gently wedging between Yun Mu's thighs, slightly smoothing out the pleats of her skirt.

Two sharp fangs pierced the outer layer of the carotid artery, frantically sucking the fresh blood within.

【Your HP has decreased by 4 points!】

【【Mysterious Girl Lucy】 favorability +10】

PS: If someone comes to see you for no reason, what does it mean?

Of course it means they came to see you, dummy~

(End of this chapter)