Chapter 175: Initialize Body?

Sunlight poured down, the clear water sparkling like shattered gold.

Aside from the strips of dead fish on the lake surface, everything was as calm as if nothing had happened.

"I'm telling you," Liu Mu lay stiffly on a haphazardly woven raft, unable to move a single finger for half an hour, "do me a favor, give me a shot, let me go quickly."

At this moment, she could not feel pain; to be precise, the massive Energy Shock from following the giant eel through several Space Jumps had caused irreversible damage to her body, and she could no longer feel the existence of anything below her neck.

Therefore, even if she was some New Human Complete Form, she was a wreck.

Miao Hentian used a branch she had barely woven to paddle the raft toward the shore, but because the previous giant cliffs made it difficult to bring someone up, she wanted to paddle to a flatter spot a bit further away.

"Stop talking nonsense!" Miao Hentian glared fiercely at the woman with the purple-blue face, "It took me a lot of effort to stabilize your injuries, I'm taking you back for treatment now, don't worry, Xing Tianyang will have a way."

Worry my ass; Liu Mu could not tell others that she had the ability to be reborn, but if she appeared in this state, she would likely be killed by her enemies immediately.

Unless she abandoned everything and started over, the secret of her rebirth would still not be kept.

"Forget it, I don't want it; if you don't dare to kill me, just throw me into the lake."

If she had known, she wouldn't have fought to swim out just now; it would have been better to just die and start a new life, even though the energy required would make her heart ache.

"Are you annoying or what? I said I'd take you back, so I will. Stop repeating the same thing, it's not like your brain is broken."

Miao Hentian still disagreed, and it was unclear if she had some kind of illness.

"Oh, I get it," Liu Mu decided to change her approach, "you have Stockholm syndrome, don't you? No, wait, I've killed you so many times, and now you're dependent on me instead? Damn it, I only like handsome guys, get lost."

"You..." Miao Hentian wanted to slap her to death, the crude oar in her hand raised and then lowered, "If my sister didn't have something to ask of you, I wouldn't care at all, who cares if you die!"

Liu Mu absolutely could not let a third person see her in this state, but... even if Miao Hentian helped her end it now, unless she was killed, the secret would still be exposed. The trouble was that this woman and her sister were still useful.

Closing her eyes, Liu Mu had an idea; although it was absurd, the woman before her didn't have high intelligence after all.

"Since you're so enthusiastic, take me to the shore, find a clean spot, dig a hole, and bury me."

"Don't ask so much, I'm not looking to die. My Mutation ability is plant-based; I can self-recover in the soil. Somewhere a bit damp would be better; too dry is not conducive to growth."

"What...?" Miao Hentian had mutated in a muddled way herself, so how could she doubt that others might have some ability? "Bury you in the dirt, won't you suffocate? No, wait, plants shouldn't. How long will it take? Do you need me to help dig you out?"

"It'll take a few days; this injury is quite severe. Before, when the injuries were light, it only took a few hours. If I've recovered, I'll come out on my own."

To die, Liu Mu had to explain patiently, "Do you know about bamboo shoots? When I've recovered, I'll sprout out of the soil just like a bamboo shoot. You can leave first."

"Really?" Miao Hentian thought for a moment, "Three days then. I'll dig you out in three days. If you're lying to me, I'll take the corpse back to the Barrier and hand it over to Xing Tianyang; he should need it."

Seeing Liu Mu roll her eyes, Miao Hentian smiled, "What's with that look? Aren't you the one who's always finding Experimental Subjects for him everywhere? If you're really dead, shouldn't you contribute to the cause of human Mutation?"

This rhetoric was so familiar; that's right, it was exactly what Liu Mu had once said to the two sisters.

She only regretted being so boastful back then; retribution had indeed arrived.

On the shore, this snake Miao Hentian... her usefulness was truly limited.

After digging for a long time, she had only managed a shallow pit just big enough to put a person in and cover with a thin layer of soil. Afterward, no matter what Liu Mu said, she refused to dig even half an inch deeper.

"Not enough nutrients!" Liu Mu gritted her teeth, "I couldn't recover even if I were buried for half a year. You have no planting experience, haven't you ever seen people grow vegetables? Even such small Seeds need to be buried ten centimeters deep. I'm a person, big sister, can you try a little harder?"

Miao Hentian shook her head, lying limply herself, "I can't dig anymore, I'm too hungry. I've barely eaten for the past two days, and I was injured just now, so I've consumed too much."

There was no one in the world more speechless than Liu Mu, "Do you feel guilty about eating fish? Go eat!"

Facing a mountain-like pile of eels, she actually told her she was hungry; this Black Mamba must be a fool!

"Forget it, just bury me first, filling it with more mud is fine too!"

An hour later, the Black Mamba placed a few fish in front of the newly buried mound, "If you're really dead, eat some fish before you go. I heard from my grandmother when I was very young that ghosts who starve to death cannot rest in peace."

Beneath the mud, Liu Mu tilted her head; how should she put it, it was really hard to evaluate Miao Hentian as a person.

If you say she's smart, she can even believe the nonsense that burying someone in the dirt will make them recover.

If you say she's not smart, she even knew to use a few branches to prop up a small space, fearing Liu Mu would suffocate...

Damn it! She was trying to suffocate herself to death; how could this woman always be so unhelpful!

Thinking and thinking, Liu Mu tilted her head helplessly, and amidst the falling debris of mud, she used her consciousness to take out a mineral water bottle.

The viscous ink-black liquid in the bottle was precisely the Black Mamba's venom.

When uninjured, she didn't fear this venom, but now that her body was extremely weak, it could actually poison her to death.

Of course, she could also just blow herself up with a bomb, but...

Miao Hentian seemed to have some serious illness; she was keeping a vigil for her.

Fortunately, the Black Mamba's venom took effect quite quickly, and even better, her body at this moment had no sensation, so she died quickly and peacefully.

She had originally thought she would have to watch herself 'from nothing to something' from a god's-eye view again, but this time things were simple.

How simple was it?

Heitao A: 【Does the host wish to initialize the body? Yes/No】

"Hey, hey, hey, what do you mean by initialize? Wasn't it supposed to be a rebirth?"

Liu Mu instinctively felt something was wrong, and sure enough, Heitao A replied, 【The New Human Complete Form possesses a fully digitized structure. When the Complete Form suffers irreversible severe damage, one can choose to initialize and return to the initial state after the upgrade. (Please expand for details)】

This time Liu Mu didn't slack off; she opened the details and read them carefully from beginning to end.

To summarize it in one sentence: the current version of the flesh doesn't need to be rebuilt bit by bit; you just need to restore it to factory settings with one click.

However, that's right, everything has a "however"!

However, to restore the body to the various data points at the time of death, you need to pay money—no, pay energy!

"You skin-flaying Black!"

If Liu Mu had a body at this moment, she would definitely have shattered her teeth, "I have to remind you again, I am your Master, one day I will delete you!"

Even so, she still had to choose 'Yes'.

In an instant, Liu Mu's consciousness returned to her body. It felt as if she had only been distracted for a brief moment, and the sensation below her neck had returned; of course, there was no discomfort at all.

Heitao A also successfully took the electrical energy she had stored previously, using it to restore that mark on her arm whose purpose she didn't know.

"Don't show me the data, I've already been turned into a string of data by you, I want to sleep for a while, get lost!"

Liu Mu, who had turned against the system, closed her eyes; the fatigue in her body was swept away, but she still felt tired mentally.

She truly needed to sleep for a while, regardless of whether it was to comfort her own damaged soul.

This sleep lasted for a full twenty hours.

She did not wake up naturally either, but was instead woken up by the fighting on the ground.

After listening for a while, she gradually understood that three Black Sequence bigwigs were clashing with someone, and it was earth-shattering, even submerging her grave.

Liu Mu put on an orange-red jumpsuit; she didn't want to drown, so she still had to get up.

The two people and one lizard, who were in the middle of an intense fight, saw the small grave mound they had been protecting for so long heave and break open, and a figure stood up.

"You really lived?"

Black Mamba dropped the black lizard and slithered over; she had quite a few wounds on her, but the smile on her face was very relaxed, "So you really can grow back after being planted, how magical."

Liu Mu wiped the mud off her long hair and tied it up, "What are you all doing?"

The lake water had risen by at least two meters, submerging the nearby shallows, and giant waves were rolling.

Seeing that she was in one piece, Miao Hentian said, "There are Mutation beasts in the lake, it looks like a giant octopus, but not quite."

"Then what about them?" Liu Mu pointed at Miao Cuihua, who was standing in a safe place.

"They came to look for you, saying there was an emergency at the Mine, and just happened to run into the giant octopus trying to attack me."

"Don't octopuses live in the sea?"

It was simply chaotic; how did a Mutation beast from the sea get into a freshwater area?

Miao Hentian seemed to have only just thought of this question, and also looked blank, "Yeah, how did it appear here?"

Forget it, asking was a waste of breath.

Liu Mu didn't see the giant octopus, but the black lizard was baring its teeth toward the lake.

"The giant octopus..." Liu Mu's gaze flickered, "Let's go first, we'll come back to see it another day."

The Corpse Shatterer's cooldown had only just begun, and energy attacks couldn't be used constantly either; she couldn't afford it.

Of the thirty-six stratagems, preserving oneself is best; after saying this, Liu Mu turned and left.

Miao Hentian thought it was because her body had just recovered and she couldn't fight yet, so he turned back to call the black lizard to leave together.

Their purpose in fighting the giant octopus was to protect the recuperating Liu Mu, so there was naturally no need to risk their lives now; besides, that octopus was truly too big, and the three of them couldn't beat it.

Liu Mu discovered that the eels she had caught earlier were all gone; she turned back to ask Miao Hentian and only then learned they had been stolen and eaten by the octopus in the lake.

Her footsteps paused, "You go first, I forgot something."

"Boss, that octopus is really big, you can't beat it!"

Miao Hentian wanted to stop Liu Mu, but was pulled back by Miao Cuihua, "Boss has her own plans, let's go first; the people from the Mine will be looking for us soon."

"You're talking nonsense, didn't Li Fei send you two?"

Liu Mu ignored the noise behind her and walked straight toward the lake, a big item already on her shoulder.

Seeing clearly what she was carrying, the Miao sisters stopped arguing and retreated one after another from the impending battle.

Aiming the rocket launcher at a certain spot, Liu Mu stared quietly at the creature under the water, "Bring the two Eel Kings up, or I'm opening fire!"

After she ran out of the grave, Heitao A had discovered the creature in the lake. Just as Miao Hentian said, it was indeed very large, several times bigger than both Eel Kings combined.

The opponent could clearly deal with the few of them with just one leg, yet it hadn't taken any action even until they turned their backs to the lake and left.

But now, when Liu Mu took out the rocket launcher, the giant octopus retreated rapidly into the lake for dozens of meters, only stopping when she called out.

What did all this mean? It meant the opponent could understand human speech and had a brain.

"I don't want to shout a second time; you ate my fish, shouldn't you give something in return? Don't force me to use force!"

Just as Liu Mu finished speaking, the lake water parted, and a leg so large it seemed like a behemoth extended out.

The upper part of the giant leg was covered in translucent brown skin, with dark blue circular patterns of varying sizes on the skin, along with sliding mucus.

The lower part was like a real octopus leg, distributed with rows of suckers. The smallest of the round, white suckers had a diameter of over one meter.

Even until it delivered the corpses of the Eel Kings that Liu Mu wanted to her, this leg still hadn't revealed its full appearance.

This segment alone exceeded a hundred meters; even Heitao A could not capture its true form.

Liu Mu pointed at the shore, and the leg actually placed the two Eel Kings to the side; before retracting, the forked tip of the leg swayed left and right in the air a few times, making a (＾－＾)V (peace) sign, which was expressing that it didn't want to fight, the meaning of 'peace'.

Stowing the corpses of the large and small Eel Kings back into her space, Liu Mu carried the rocket launcher and watched the lake surface for a while, still unable to determine if this giant octopus was naturally introverted or had other concerns.

But one thing was certain: its intelligence was very high.

"Then I'll come back to play with you another day!"

The octopus leg, which hadn't fully returned under the water, whooshed and retracted, then swam at high speed into the depths of the lake, hiding away.

"Looks like an 'i-fish'," Liu Mu couldn't help but reach this conclusion.

Otherwise, there was no way to explain why the opponent was so easy to talk to when it had an overwhelming advantage; it couldn't just be a peace-loving octopus.

The three of them, including the Black Taotie, still found a nearby forest to hide in; it was two hours later by the time Liu Mu returned to the Mine alone.

After the blasting work ended, the work for the next few days was to transport the ore to the yard for sorting.

Liu Mu found a nearby truck and climbed up; the driver happened to be a member of Sea Soul.

The person told her that in the day or so she was gone, Haide Kamp had already come three times, and the last time he even told her to go to the Xiaojiaotang immediately upon her return.

"Did he say what it was about?"

"He didn't say, but our people saw two jeeps enter the courtyard of the church the day before. Three nuns came. We asked around, and no one here has ever seen those three."

Nuns. Liu Mu thought for a moment and told this team member to communicate with the others, "Everyone be cautious, wait for my signal, and be ready to act at any time."

Even though Haide Kamp was urging her urgently, Liu Mu still returned to the dormitory, washed up, and changed into a clean set of Mine work clothes before going to find Xiaoliuzi for a ride.

Xiaoliuzi drove, not bringing anyone else.

Upon seeing Liu Mu, Xiaoliuzi was like a robot that had lost its autonomy, quietly gripping the steering wheel without any extra movements.

Liu Mu sat in the passenger seat, supporting her forehead, appearing to be resting with her eyes closed, but was actually using the system to check all of Xiaoliuzi's activities during this past period.

Besides his daily security work, Liu Mu also unexpectedly discovered that he had been to the Xiaojiaotang and met the three newly arrived nuns.