Chapter 19: Young Girl Xinran (1/2)

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Alongside soft thuds, the Spiky Skeletons around me slowly collapsed, leaving their incredibly odorous fingers that I needed to complete my quest.

I picked up the bones, tossing them into my bag. I counted them and just happened to have exactly 40!

I took a glance at my level, I noticed that I was already Level 20 with 45% experience. This grinding efficiency was pretty nice since I’d been online for 12 hours straight.

“Phew! Just the boss left...”

I looked at the Undead Lord Cyan Rain who was in the distance. It’s about time to go back to bring in reinforcements to kill this boss!

But before I moved out, I suddenly felt faint all of a sudden and nearly tumbled. At the same time, the sound of a bell rang past my ears—

Ding~!

System Notice: Your Satiety has fallen to 20. Please eat or there will be unbearable consequences!

Red light appeared on my interface, like when Ultraman’s power was low. I realized that I had forgotten one crucial thing—food!

Floating Ice City’s small merchants all sold food like bread, meat, and so on to replenish vigor, but Frost Mound Camp didn’t. The way Night Creatures ate was very simple, they consumed corpses!

Right, the undead race possesses an innate skill—Corpse Devouring! Corpse Devouring would not only replenish vigor by raising Satiety, it could also quickly recover HP. This was the Night Creatures’ natural advantage.

My stats were reduced by 50%. My attack, defense, and HP had all already fallen. Rotting human corpses that looked like big steamed buns floated inside a blood pool not too far from me.

“Bleh…”

I almost threw up and frowned. Fuck! I’ll never use Corpse Devouring even if you beat me to death!

Dragging my weak body with me, I walked out of the necropolis. There was a little human village not too far away. A few low-level NPCs were outside the village planting crops. As long as I killed and consumed any one of these NPCs, I wouldn’t go hungry for twenty-four hours.

“No!”

I gritted my teeth and continued onward. Chomping sounds echoed nearby. I saw a single black-armored Night Creature player chewing on a human corpse. It was none other than that damned Gui Guzi!

“How does it taste?” I asked as I moved closer.

Gui Guzi smiled sinisterly, his mouth dripping with blood. “Not bad, hasn’t been dead for more than twenty-four hours. Still pretty fresh and tender. Wanna eat together?”

“Scram, I’m not eating!”

I left with knitted brows. Gui Guzi laughed with relish. “Hmph, you won’t ever become a top expert. You’re too merciful, hahaha!”

I turned around in anger and glared at Gui Guzi. I infused each of my words with killing intent. “I don’t have some kind of bullshit mercy in my heart but a bottomline. My bottomline!”

Gui Guzi snickered and then lowered his head to continue “feasting”.

Wobbling as I walked, I used all my strength to move toward Frost Mound. The deadly Satiety meter suddenly declined even faster. In less than ten minutes, I only had 5 points of Satiety and didn’t even have the energy to walk!

Plop!

I tumbled onto the grass. It was pouring, and angry streaks of lightning illumed the roiling black clouds in the sky, like a divine oracle rendering judgement on the sinful Night Creatures.

I panted heavily, and looked at the grass beneath me in humiliation. I braced myself and took a fierce bite out of the tender grass on the floor!

It was intolerable. The bitter and astringent taste began to spread in my mouth—

Ding~!

System Notice: You have consumed Grass (Quality 1), recovered 0.1 points of Satiety!

Fuck! Only 0.1, you’ve gotta be kidding me!

My inner cow was about to come out.

My mind was suddenly a sheet of white as I hovered between the brink of consciousness.

Right at this moment, I heard a voice. It was like a moonbeam shining through the endless darkness—

“Big brother, what’s wrong?”

I slowly raised my head. I saw a round-faced little girl with big sapphire eyes clad in a long purple skirt staring at me from under a tree. She had a basket of mushrooms in her hands. Oh, it’s a loli-gathering mushroom. Shit, no, it’s a mushroom-gathering loli.

“Uh…”

I tried to answer, but couldn’t voice any words. My Satiety was too low, but whatever. Starving to death and dropping a level was no big deal. I’d just use a few hours to grind it back.