Chapter 55: Black Column

The cigarette butt thrown by that person "awakened" her newly born body; thanks to this small burn, she realized clearly that her body had returned.

She sprang up to kill, her speed and strength even better than her body half an hour ago.

【Host: Liu Mu, female, 25.5 years old,

Species: New Human (evolved human);

Height: 176.6cm; Weight: 70.35kg, Body fat percentage: 12%;

Strength: 75 (+15);

Speed: 80 (+20);

Combat ability: Low-level, (please actively learn combat techniques);

IQ: 33 (estimated normal value for New Humans is 50~75, it is recommended to read more books on business)

Stamina: 28 (estimated normal value for New Humans is 22~50, the higher the value, the higher the physical strength, it is recommended to pay attention)

Reaction ability: 0.5 (Too poor! To think you can't even dodge a shell, fragile and slow!)

For details on other items, please expand the page…

Awakened ability: Merchant Path;

Ability level: Peddler Grade B (+1, improving);

Mutation level: 1 (+1, improving);

Mutation type: Benign mutation without mental or physical contamination;

Mutation ability: Unknown (mutation process not finished, no accurate result);

Mutation ability 1: Immortal when split into Fragments, cooldown 360 hours (cooling down);

System monitoring permission has been enabled, will continue to monitor.】

After reading the attributes of her new body, Liu Mu was even angrier and immediately cursed Heitao A up and down in her mind.

Damn it, you say you're useless every day, yet you don't provide methods, don't provide resources, and don't even have standards for combat power upgrades.

"Dodge a bomb? Is that human language?

"The bomb was already flying at my face and you didn't even sound an alarm, what kind of shitty system are you?! If a couple more came, I wouldn't even need to queue at the crematorium, how can I be reborn if not even a piece of slag is left? Huh? You fucking speak up, if I'm reborn and turn into slag again, if you want me dead, just fucking uninstall!..."

Heitao A was scolded for a long time and didn't dare to reply a single word; this host had the temper of a wild dog, biting whoever she saw when she was angry, not to be provoked, absolutely not to be provoked.

After a full half hour, Heitao A reminded her faintly, 【There is a lot of lava ahead, please stop moving forward. There is a huge energy source near the Huoshan, please stay away as soon as possible.】

"Energy source? What energy source?" Liu Mu stopped greeting the system developer in her mind, retracted the foot that had been crushing the rock shell, and stared at the distance in the thick fog with bright eyes, "What do you think it is?"

Heitao A was silent for two seconds, then decisively lit up a red warning, 【Warning, please stay away, the area ahead is in a small energy vortex, once drawn in, it will be impossible to recover.】

"Just tell me if you can store it," Liu Mu was so angry, besides the system not knowing how to warn her in a crisis, it was mainly because of the nearly ten thousand tons of steel swallowed by the system; when had her life ever been this valuable? It wasn't worth it at all!

The system refused to store it and kept issuing warnings, 【Cherish life, stay away from danger, if you die, you are really dead.】

What Liu Mu was truly heartbroken over was the large amount of steel she had obtained day and night, though she cursed and swore, she didn't dare to risk her life again. Her idea of lying low wasn't wrong; the Sky Viper indeed didn't just deploy those few people for Jiang Xue, it was only because she had been arrogant and looked down on Liu Mu before that she suffered a big loss.

This time, not only did people die, but she also lost a hand; after she left, she had those waiting nearby come to search, determined to tear Liu Mu into pieces.

As for the result, no matter how good their equipment was, they didn't dare to approach the unstable Huoshan, so naturally, they didn't even find Liu Mu's shadow, only saying she had escaped.

That is a story for later; at this moment, Liu Mu put on the protective suit used for Burning days and approached the Huoshan step by step amidst the system's repetitive alarms. Compared to the militants who might return to kill, she felt the danger of the energy body was smaller.

"You don't know shit, wealth is sought in danger; if my supplies keep getting deducted by you, I'll be a pauper sooner or later."

Relying on her strong willpower and physical fitness, Liu Mu soon reached the vicinity of the Huoshan, and the so-called energy source was exposed to her field of vision.

The main reason was that the thing wasn't hard to find, and could even be said to be very conspicuous.

A black, column-shaped metal was stuck in the cooled rock, the exposed part over two meters, the surface so smooth there wasn't a single gap, nor could any trace of wear be seen.

But what first caught Liu Mu's attention was that there were still many areas on the mountain where magma flowed slowly; when she came up, she needed to jump two or three meters from time to time to find a place to land, yet there was hard rock with a radius of tens of meters around that rectangular column-like thing.

When Liu Mu stepped onto the rock, it was as if she had entered a freezer from under the scorching summer sun; the temperature of the protective suit dropped rapidly, and by the time she walked more than ten meters, the surrounding environment was actually only 41℃.

Isn't this just a big popsicle?

The system alarm also stopped at this time, and her mind suddenly became quiet; Liu Mu was still a bit unaccustomed to it and called out several times in a cheeky manner without getting a response.

Gradually, she discovered something was wrong; although Heitao A could imitate some emotions in conversation, it was a system after all and wouldn't react by getting angry and ignoring people, but now, it seemed to have disconnected, forcing Liu Mu to stop temporarily.

She circled the column twice, but the system still didn't respond, yet she herself didn't feel any discomfort. Thus, she tried to walk another ten meters forward, and when the temperature dropped to 30℃, she tried to take off one glove.

Her hand slowly stretched and clenched in the air; besides feeling cool, she still had no other sensations, "Could it really be a big popsicle?"

She had already walked half the distance, and her evolved vision could see that there was no frost or anything on the column; of course, it might also be because the air within the Huoshan range was too dry.

However, she also saw that the black column looked as if it had been inserted into the rock by human hands; there were radial cracks of varying lengths on the rock dense with pores, looking instead as if it had pierced into the lava, and only then did the surroundings begin to cool.

Liu Mu had previously guessed that the volcanic eruption was caused by the fall of a Giant Sun Fragment, but now it seemed that was not the case at all.

Now was not the time to think about these things; holding the mentality of giving it a try, she strode forward, one hand still exposed to the air, and there was still no anomaly even when she stood in front of the black column.

Getting closer, she realized this column must be a meter wide, its surface presenting a deep matte black, and to the naked eye, there really were no flaws, as if it were one piece when manufactured.

As for the material, it was cold and hard to the touch, as if it were some unknown metal.

"Heitao A," Liu Mu pressed her palm against the black column, trying to awaken the system.

Before the system could answer, the column under her hand emitted a slight vibration, just like the tremor emitted when a computer is turned on. She hurriedly pulled her hand away and waited for a few minutes, but there was no change, and even the tremor disappeared after she withdrew her hand.

This time, without touching the column, she called out to Heitao A again; the air was quiet, as if only she and this inexplicable column were left in the world.

This feeling was familiar; Liu Mu felt something was wrong and immediately looked around. This look was not trivial, as she suddenly discovered that she was no longer in the Huoshan; let alone rocks, even the light seemed to be disappearing...

She... had been here before!