“Mhm, you finally get it. Then hurry up and get up, let’s go earn money!”
Sang Chu didn’t answer.
Suddenly,
The hospital room door opened.
“You’re awake?”
A man wearing light gray casual clothes walked in from outside. He had chiseled features and deep-set eyes, a total handsome man with strong features.
The little rabbit immediately jumped onto Sang Chu’s shoulder: [Wow, I didn’t expect people in the monsterized world to be pretty handsome too!]
Sang Chu ignored it. This handsome man with strong features didn’t seem to be able to hear the little rabbit’s voice.
Seeing Sang Chu staring at him blankly, the man sat down on a nearby stool and said:
“My name is Zuo Xuefeng, I’m the captain of the A-City Ninth District Mercenary Squad. I saw you in the wilderness before. Seeing you covered in injuries, and since we were heading back to the city anyway, we brought you back. How are you feeling now?”
Sang Chu shook her head. From what the little rabbit said, this was a monsterized world. She didn’t understand the situation and didn’t dare to speak rashly.
Zuo Xuefeng frowned slightly: “You… can’t speak?”
He took out many iron fragments that had been removed from Sang Chu’s body: “These were all taken from your wounds. We’ve never seen this kind of material here. Do you know what it is?”
Sang Chu shook her head. The little rabbit crouched on her shoulder and explained: [The monsterized world is a world with only light source energy. Everything here is made using light energy, so they’ve never seen these iron fragments. By the way, these can be sold for money, do you want to sell them?]
Seeing her like this, Zuo Xuefeng couldn’t really press her for information. He just remembered the Doctor’s words and asked:
“This material is very special, but it was taken from your body, so we need your consent. Dr. Li from our A-City Research Institute wants to buy these things from you for research. I wonder if that’s possible?”
Little Rabbit: [Say yes! You are very, very poor right now and need to earn money quickly, otherwise, you’ll be dead after one month. Oh, wait, it doesn’t seem like one month anymore, you’ve already been unconscious for ten days!]
Ten days? Which means there are only about twenty days left?
Maybe even less than twenty days?
Sang Chu nodded at Zuo Xuefeng.
After this series of actions, Zuo Xuefeng was thoroughly convinced that Sang Chu couldn’t speak:
“Don’t worry, Dr. Li will definitely give you a reasonable price. When we found you, you had nothing on you. This is a temporary optical computer. I just helped you apply for it at the Mercenary Guild. You can use it for now.”
He helped Sang Chu put the optical computer on her wrist, then taught her how to operate it.
“This is the temporary residence I applied for you. If you can be discharged from the hospital, I can take you to see it? Or you can follow the address to find it yourself. The optical computer has already recorded your information. When you find the house, you can just give a command to the optical computer. Also, this is an entry and exit permit. You can only enter and leave A-City with this. This is your temporary account. After I deliver the items to Dr. Li, the Star Coins will be directly transferred into your account. Is there anything else you don’t understand?”
An optical computer could do everything. It was very convenient. Whatever you wanted to do, you just needed to give a command.
Sang Chu nodded, indicating she understood.
Seeing that she had no intention of getting up, Zuo Xuefeng smiled and said:
“I’ve also saved my contact information in here. If you need anything, you can contact me directly. There’s also this person named Hua Xi. She’s the receptionist at the Mercenary Guild and is always in A-City. When I’m not around, you can also find her. In that case, I’ll take the items to Dr. Li first?”
Sang Chu nodded again, and reflexively made a gesture of kneeling to express thanks, which made Zuo Xuefeng chuckle: “You’m welcome. Get some good rest.”
After watching him leave, Sang Chu slowly stood up from the hospital bed.
But she suddenly discovered that something was wrong with her.
She quickly pulled up the sleeve of her clothes. Red spots had actually appeared on her skin. She was no stranger to these red spots; this was the most obvious feature on a zombie!
She… was zombifying?
That’s right, when that group of people bombed her, there were many zombies on the ground around her. It must be that the rotting flesh of the zombies entered her body through her wounds and infected her!
The little rabbit didn’t know why Sang Chu was staring at her arm in a daze: [Hey, what are you doing?]
Sang Chu: “Do you have a way to stop me from turning into a zombie?”
The little rabbit looked at her, completely bewildered: “You’re not going to turn into a zombie! This is the precursor to your ability awakening. Why else would I have chosen you from a crowd of people? Of course, it’s because only you have the most potential to afford the train ticket. The ticket for our Interdimensional Train is very, very expensive.”
“By the way, my name is Tu You, you can call me You You.”
Sang Chu couldn’t register anything Tu You said after that. Her mind was filled with the fact that she was going to awaken an ability!
If it weren’t for not having an ability, she and Muxue wouldn’t have had to struggle so hard to survive in the apocalypse.
She knew Zhao Feng wouldn’t let her off. As long as she died, Muxue would be left without support. Fortunately, he didn’t know that Muxue had a Senior who liked her very much and had been secretly helping them.
His ability, besides the earth-element on the surface, also included invisibility. Besides himself, only Sang Chu and Muxue knew about this.
Therefore, when Muxue’s ability was overdrawn and Zhao Feng still gave them orders to go out, Sang Chu had thought to go out in her place, and then have Lu Minfeng hurry to save her.
If she could live well, she didn’t want to die either.
But she hadn’t expected that a situation of certain death would actually lead to such a huge turning point.
There were still about twenty days left. She had to prepare supplies to go back.
“How can I earn money?”
“Well… this is a monsterized world. Monsterized creatures are very valuable. You can first go to the Mercenary Guild to apply for a mercenary certificate, then go to the wilderness to hunt monsterized creatures. It’ll be a good chance to test your ability.”
“Okay.”
Finding the route to the Mercenary Guild on the optical computer, Sang Chu followed it.
Along the way, seeing the densely packed buildings soaring into the clouds, and the faintly visible blue sky and white clouds, Sang Chu finally felt like she had truly arrived in another world.
In the apocalypse, a blood moon always hung in the sky. The red crescent moon was like a knife, stabbed deep into people’s hearts.
Without sunlight, plants had long since gone extinct.
Animals had also been eaten.
All that was left were cruel people and a pile of mindless zombies.
Mercenary Guild
As soon as Sang Chu entered, a woman in professional attire noticed her. She had a neat and tidy short haircut and delicate, cute features.
She jogged over to Sang Chu: “Why did you come to the Mercenary Guild? Didn’t Zuo Xuefeng tell you to get some good rest?”
Her words were very kind, her voice very gentle, causing a surge of warmth in Sang Chu’s heart.
The people in this strange world seemed very friendly.
Her hospital treatment was free, the optical computer was free, and they even provided her with free accommodation.
This kind of one-sided giving, yet they didn’t ask for anything from her.
Even this woman, whom she was meeting for the first time, was showing kindness to her.
Sang Chu’s voice was slightly hoarse as she said: “I… I… I want to apply for a mercenary certificate.”
Hua Xi: “Oh my, there’s no hurry for that. When Zuo Xuefeng brought you back, everyone was afraid you wouldn’t be saved. Fortunately, the hospital had just acquired a high-efficiency treatment pod from City A. But even so, you lay in the treatment pod for five days. The food and necessities, I’ve already put them in your apartment for you. You should go back and rest well first.”
(End of this chapter)