Facing two zombie dogs simultaneously, Song Yu didn’t act rashly; she carefully observed her surrounding environment.
She needed to execute a kill in one single strike to have any possibility of survival.
Just as Song Yu was thinking, the two zombie dogs suddenly let out low, strange growls, and simultaneously lunged at Song Yu!
Their speed was extremely fast, but Song Yu’s movements weren’t slow either.
A crossbow instantly materialized in Song Yu’s hands, and she pulled it to full draw, firing directly at the zombie dog right in front of her!
The arrow pierced straight through its waist, and Song Yu bolted forward at top speed with the two zombie dogs in hot pursuit right behind her.
Their sharp teeth, contaminated with an unknown virus, seemed as though they would bite into Song Yu in the very next second.
She quickly scrambled up the iron sheet perimeter fence of the construction site. The edges of the iron sheet were somewhat sharp, sending a sharp pain through the palms of Song Yu’s hands.
Unable to catch up to Song Yu, the two zombie dogs began slamming violently against the iron fence, causing it to wobble precariously.
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Steadying herself against the fence, Song Yu leaped forward in a single bound, jumping onto a crooked-necked tree near the edge that hadn’t been cut down yet.
However, what Song Yu hadn’t expected was that someone—or something—had already occupied this tree!
Song Yu raised her small knife, intending to stab toward that creature, while that creature likewise opened its bloody maw wide to bite toward Song Yu.
However…
“Huh?”
“Woof?”
Human and dog simultaneously stopped their movements, staring blankly at each other.
Song Yu looked at the big yellow dog before her, finding it more and more familiar as she tentatively called out a name.
“Xiao Hei?”
“Woof woof woof!!!”
“!!!”
Song Yu was greatly shocked, and the big yellow dog instantly lunged into Song Yu’s arms, wriggling and thrashing about frantically.
“Wait, wait, wait a minute!”
Song Yu hurriedly pushed the big yellow dog away, aiming her crossbow squarely at the zombie dog that was just about to climb up the tree!
Two arrows later, both zombie dogs instantly checked out and kicked the bucket, leaving behind a single vial of Tier 2 blood.
Having dealt with the zombie dogs, Song Yu finally had the leisure to look at Xiao Hei, the big yellow dog that had inexplicably appeared inside the game.
Xiao Hei was the dog she and her grandmother kept, and it had been smart since it was a puppy.
Yet no matter what, Song Yu never imagined that Xiao Hei could be smart enough to become a player and enter the game!
“Xiao Hei, you…”
Song Yu was just about to ask something when she suddenly noticed that the silly dog in front of her was panting frantically.
It was panting quite abnormally.
Pulling back to check Xiao Hei’s belly, she found a horrifyingly massive laceration right across it, exposing its internal organs slightly.
Needless to say, it must have been injured by the two zombie dogs from earlier, which was why Xiao Hei had hidden itself up this crooked-necked tree.
Song Yu didn’t rush to ask questions; instead, she pulled disinfectant bandages out of her backpack and wrapped them around Xiao Hei layer after layer.
Once its wounds had recovered, Song Yu finally began questioning Xiao Hei.
“Xiao Hei, are you a player too?”
“Woof-woo?”
Xiao Hei didn’t understand what a player was; it tilted its head, its gaze fixed tightly on Song Yu.
Song Yu thought for a moment and changed the phrasing of her question.
“Xiao Hei, is it about the money?”
She recalled the situation before entering the game. At that time, she was at home, getting things ready to pack up and sell whatever she could to scrape together medical fees.
And then this game had appeared. At that time, Xiao Hei was indeed right there on the scene, and her conversation with the system hadn’t avoided Xiao Hei either.
That accursed game system!
“Woof!”
Hearing the crucial keyword “money,” Xiao Hei’s tail began wagging frantically.
A puppy didn’t understand anything else; a puppy only knew that its master needed money.
The game gave money, so it agreed.
It would earn lots and lots of money for its master.
“Silly dog!”
Song Yu pursed her lips, and what else was left to misunderstand?
This game was truly utterly devoid of morality. What did a little puppy understand about any of this?!
Song Yu had no idea what she was going to do about the subsequent instances once this dungeon ended.
For now, she could only take things one step at a time.
Sighing, she patted the dog’s head, applied another roll of disinfectant bandages to Xiao Hei, and then brought Xiao Hei down from the tree.
Having been apart for just a single day, Xiao Hei had lost quite a bit of weight; it felt like it only weighed a little over eighty catties now.
Song Yu picked up the mutated blood from the ground. Xiao Hei, now out of the danger zone, walked at the very front, signaling for Song Yu to follow behind it.
Human and dog quickly arrived in front of a pile of sand. Xiao Hei scratched up a pile of items from within it, then looked expectantly at Song Yu.
A beginner’s gift box, 8 vials of Tier 2 blood, along with a bunch of bread, mineral water, and other supplies.
It had hidden all the supplies it found right here.
“Our Xiao Hei is truly amazing.”
Song Yu squatted down, gently hugging Xiao Hei, when her gaze suddenly caught a glimpse of a completely distinct vial of blood sitting beside the mineral water.
[Tier 5 Activated Mutated Blood]
“!!!”
Tier 5 blood!
Wait, where on earth did Xiao Hei get this thing?!
Song Yu looked at Xiao Hei in shock, while Xiao Hei wagged its tongue and smiled brilliantly.
Vividly and lively, it acted out a demonstration for Song Yu of how it had managed to get its paws on this item.
From the central district, right beside two high-tier zombies engaged in fierce combat, it had snatched it and sprinted away.
It ran all the way to this vicinity, and then it caught the scent of Song Yu nearby.
Just as it prepared to find Song Yu, it got ambushed and surrounded by zombie dogs.
It fought back with all its might and killed many of those zombie dogs.
Looking at Xiao Hei, who was realistically mimicking a zombie dog kicking the bucket, Song Yu suddenly felt like the game system might not be quite so accursed after all.
She sorted through the supplies Xiao Hei had hidden. The beginner’s gift box yielded a special backpack slot.
[The Doggy’s Magical Treasure Cave: 1 cubic meter.]
A dog’s treatment really was different from a human’s.
Song Yu didn’t hesitate and handed this spatial storage over to Xiao Hei.
Mostly because she couldn’t use it anyway.
Aside from that, there were 7 bottles of mineral water, 3 loaves of cream bread (+21 fullness), and 2 cans of luncheon meat (+32 fullness).
The luncheon meat cans bore very obvious tooth marks on them.
After packing up these supplies, Song Yu brought Xiao Hei to conduct a search around the construction site.
Ultimately, she found a nail gun (+10 attack damage), which even came equipped with ten nails.
Although the nail gun’s attack power was slightly inferior to the crossbow, it suited Song Yu very well.
It could deal damage to zombies at close range—ranged combat, yet not too distant.
Having acquired the nail gun, Song Yu immediately brought Xiao Hei back to Chen Su’s camp.
She needed to exchange that vial of Level 5 blood for money and supplies as soon as possible.
She wondered if Xiao Hei had a blood collection side quest of its own.
Since they were both players, Xiao Hei naturally had one.
Returning to the camp, several more players had appeared within it; it seemed everyone had tracked their way here.
The arrival of the two of them immediately drew the attention of the players in the camp, primarily due to Xiao Hei.
Song Yu stepped forward quickly, handing that vial of Tier 5 blood over to Chen Su.
“A quest for both of us.”
Song Yu’s voice was very low, and the surrounding players didn’t hear a thing.
Chen Su glanced at Song Yu and the dog, said nothing, accepted the mutated blood, and promptly issued new quests to them.
The human-dog duo’s side quests rapidly progressed straight to Tier 5 completion, and Chen Su’s favorability spiked directly to 21 points!
Song Yu’s current clear reward cash had accumulated to a staggering 960,000!
Adding Xiao Hei’s share—wait, how was Xiao Hei’s cash reward going to be… distributed?!
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