【Race: Ragdoll Kitten [Weak Slayer]】
【Title: Slayer】
【Skills: Appraisal LV.1; Poison Resistance LV.1; Life Recovery LV.1; Cat Paw Strike LV.2; Stealth LV.2; Body Enhancement LV.2 (Passive)】
Jiang Zhiying looked up at her body's data, feeling the numbness slowly receding from her body as various wounds gradually healed.
"Life Recovery, huh." Jiang Zhiying murmured to herself. "If I'm understanding this correctly, this skill is going to be incredibly powerful once it levels up."
Her slender whiskers twitched a few times as she hummed a strange little tune, circling the mutant rat twice. She bit its tail and decided to drag the corpse to a distant spot. After finishing all of that, she shook her disheveled fur, leaped lightly over the wall, and began searching for the neighborhood pharmacy.
The area outside the villas was completely empty—the people who lived here had probably all fled. Walking cautiously for a while, Jiang Zhiying didn't encounter any more mutant beasts and made it to the neighborhood pharmacy without trouble. The pharmacy door was wide open, and the floor was a mess.
She went into the dispensary, and sure enough, most of the medicine had been taken, with only a small portion scattered on the ground. She rummaged through the medicine boxes one by one on the floor and was lucky enough to find a box of fever-reducing medicine. She stored all the medication into the vast spatial dimension—this space was the third golden finger the World Consciousness had given her.
Climbing in through the window, she placed the fever medicine beside the big villain. She stepped onto his chest with one foot and lay down on top of it to rest. After resting for a while, she bit open the packaging, her claws trembling slightly as she held a pill and pushed it into Xie Anze's mouth. She craned her head to look—the pill was stuck to his tongue. She directly reached her paw into his mouth, pushed the pill to the back of his throat, and then dripped water into his mouth.
Xie Anze, lying on the ground, unconsciously convulsed his throat and swallowed the pill.
Finally got him to take the medicine. Jiang Zhiying shook the water off her paws. Life really isn't easy, Maomao sighed.
Her stomach growled with hunger. Jiang Zhiying finished the last of her biscuits—they tasted pretty good, she crunched and munched on them, evaluating as she ate.
Full and satisfied, she instinctively extended her little pink tongue to lick her paws and wash her face. Realizing what she was doing, she froze with her paws in midair, then quickly put them down and walked out as if nothing had happened.
Ugh, Maomao's natural habits are way too strong.
She got some water for the big villain, then crouched beside him with worry. He was still running a fever—she had no idea how he was doing.
Letting out a worried sigh, she decided to go out again to take a look around and gather supplies while she was at it, preparing for their departure.
Jumping out the window, Jiang Zhiying made her way out of the villa. This was an upscale villa district. Standing on the grass, she looked at the surrounding villas and decided to check the main entrance of the neighborhood. Generally speaking, there was bound to be a large supermarket near this kind of villa district.
Her small body ran swiftly. Jiang Zhiying could feel she was a bit stronger than before. After running for a while, she successfully spotted a large supermarket and immediately dashed toward it.
The supermarket was in complete disarray—most of the supplies had been taken, leaving only scattered odds and ends. Carefully searching through everything, Jiang Zhiying found some canned meat and small snacks on the floor and immediately stored them all into the spatial dimension!
After finishing with the supermarket, she wasn't satisfied and went to search other villas, hoping to find more food. Food would definitely become scarcer and scarcer from now on—every bit she could stockpile now was one bit less to worry about later.
Like a little mouse, she rummaged through the villa complex, and sure enough, she managed to dig up quite a lot of things—all items the villa owners hadn't been able to take with them.
She was in the middle of enthusiastically searching a villa, having just stored a few cars into the spatial dimension, when the fur on her back bristled. She sensed a powerful presence approaching her.
Turning around, she saw a spider the size of a face plate, pure white all over, crawling into the garage. Its eight eyes stared at her without blinking.
Licking her lips, Jiang Zhiying slowly backed away, frantically calling out to the little spider in her mind while simultaneously using her Appraisal skill on the spider before her.
【Skill level too low to appraise.】
It couldn't even be appraised! Jiang Zhiying's mouth went bitter. She felt like she was going to die here today. It hadn't even been that long, and she'd already run into such a powerful mutant spider.
The post-apocalyptic world was truly too dangerous.
"M…master??" Just as Jiang Zhiying was preparing to fight to the death, she sensed brainwaves coming from the spider in front of her.
Huh?
It was actually the little spider she had bound! Jiang Zhiying's eyes widened as she carefully examined the spider before her—pure white all over, eight eyes, the size of a face plate. It didn't match the pitch-black little spider she had bound at all, but the brainwaves told her there was no mistake. The spider in front of her was that little black spider.
After exchanging a few messages, Jiang Zhiying learned what had happened to the little spider. After she let it go off to find food on its own, it had run to the back mountain, instinctively drawn by something there. When it arrived, it saw two powerful mutated birds locked in combat. The overwhelming Pressure Aura had frozen it in place, forcing it to hide its presence as best it could.
Fortunately, neither of the two mutated birds noticed it. Even more fortunately, the two birds ended up gravely wounding each other, allowing the little spider to swoop in and claim the spoils. After devouring both birds, it evolved on the spot, shedding its shell to become a small white spider.
Not only that, but it had also vaguely developed intelligence.
After hearing the little spider's tale of adventure, Jiang Zhiying: "…"
This must be the work of that World Fortune—what incredible luck.
"I'll call you Xiaobai from now on." Jiang Zhiying lifted a paw to pat Xiaobai's leg, speaking cheerfully.
With a powerful new companion by her side, her safety was much more assured. She collected everything in the villa into her Spatial Dimension, then brought Xiaobai back inside. Glancing at the big villain lying on the floor, she saw that his condition seemed to have improved considerably.
By now, night had fallen. Jiang Zhiying, exhausted from a long day, yawned wearily and curled up beside Xie Anze, slowly closing her eyes, while Xiaobai lay not far away. Beside her, Xie Anze's eyelids twitched slightly.
In the middle of the night, a light drizzle began to fall, washing away the filth of the city while also bringing new dangers.
Near dawn, Jiang Zhiying, who hadn't been sleeping deeply, was roused by a rustling sound. She lifted her head warily and looked out the window.
Xiaobai, lying quietly beside her, shifted its legs, all eight eyes fixed on the window. It sent a message to Jiang Zhiying before slowly crawling outside.
"Sister, something's coming. I'll go check it out."
Worried, Jiang Zhiying immediately followed. Just as she leaped onto the windowsill, she saw Xiaobai facing off against a lizard as tall as a person. She quietly used her Appraisal skill:
[Skill level too low to Appraise.]
Her extended paw slowly retracted. Well, another creature stronger than her. She crouched obediently on the windowsill, deciding not to go down and get in Xiaobai's way.
She communicated with Xiaobai, telling it to be careful, then turned her gaze to the lizard, attempting to communicate with it. What she sensed instead was a violent, mindless consciousness.
This lizard had not developed intelligence.
The lizard hissed, flicking its tongue as it charged at the white spider. The area around the villa had long been webbed by Xiaobai, and it calmly shot a stream of Spider-silk at the lizard's eyes. The lizard's charging path led it straight into the carefully woven web.
"Hiss—" Half its body stuck to the web, the lizard shrieked in fury, thrashing wildly as its immense strength tore through many sturdy strands. While the lizard struggled, the white spider swung along its silk and landed beside it.
Dodging the whipping tail with agility, it shot several strands of Spider-silk, firmly pinning the lizard against the web. Landing on the lizard's back, the white spider raised its claws, its sharp forelegs easily piercing into the lizard's skull.
"Hiss-hiss—" The lizard let out a shrill cry, its writhing body gradually losing strength. Before long, its life force faded, and its massive body hung limply from the web.
Jiang Zhiying crouched on the windowsill, swallowing hard, her claws gripping the screen. She had thought Xiaobai would need to put up a fierce fight against such a behemoth, but it had killed the lizard so effortlessly?
It seemed she had picked up a formidable little underling, she couldn't help thinking.
Leaping down from the windowsill, Jiang Zhiying padded over to the lizard on cat's feet. The white spider was busy wrapping the lizard in webbing, and it tilted its head to look at Jiang Zhiying on the ground, somewhat puzzled.
Jiang Zhiying scratched at the lizard's tail with her claws. The lizard's hide was tough, and she couldn't even leave a mark.
Xiaobai, dangling from its silk, slid down from above. Its sharp forelegs easily sliced through the lizard's hide, revealing bright red flesh beneath. It pushed the tail toward Jiang Zhiying, signaling her to eat.
Jiang Zhiying: "…"
Thanks, but she'd rather not.