Song Xiaodie woke up the morning of the second day they arrived at Vault 188, but when Qi Lin asked about the bloodsucking, the girl just had a blank expression on her face, completely unaware of what she had done on the railcar.

It seems to be an unconscious act driven by bodily instincts...... Qi Lin secretly thought to himself, although Song Xiaodie herself could not control this state, but based on the state at that time, it was speculated that this ability should only be activated when he was stimulated by blood when he lost a lot of blood or was on the verge of death.

Although I don't know if there are any other side effects of this ability, at least this time, it pulls Song Xiaodie back from the brink of death.

After waking up, Song Xiaodie was also quite surprised by how quickly she recovered, but when Qi Lin told her everything that happened on the rail car, the girl's eyes were full of horror.

"I ...... Will I become ...... A monster? ”

Song Xiaodie subconsciously touched her teeth, but like Qi Lin before, she didn't find her "blood-sucking fangs".

"Probably not ......," Qi Lin thought for a moment, "Isaac gave you the 'first hug', it happened in the virtual game world, in reality, you didn't come into contact with any real vampires, and these changes all came from the game pod - or rather, from yourself. ”

"The game pod stimulates the human brain through special wavelengths, causing the brain to secrete hormones that cause the human body to evolve on its own...... Whether it's my resilience, or your kind of ...... Vampire-like abilities should have evolved on their own. ”

"Recover from injuries by sucking blood...... In fact, it is not such a strange thing, after all, it takes enough nutrients and energy to recover from injuries, and the blood just contains these substances, you must know that in primitive societies, the ancestors of human beings drank blood to survive. ”

"Thank you......" Song Xiaodie lowered her head, although Qi Lin couldn't see the expression on her face, but he could hear it from the girl's tone - she was sobbing.

"I know you're comforting me...... But what if I do turn into that kind of monster and want to bite you to death? ”

"I'm scared...... Afraid...... That kind of thing happens...... If that happens......"

“…… That...... Then you're going to kill me......"

As she spoke, the girl couldn't stop crying.

"Kill you?" Qi Lin suddenly smiled and said in a somewhat funny tone, "No, no, no, when the time comes, I'll let you bite me to death, maybe I can become a vampire, don't the stories say that vampires can live for hundreds or thousands of years?" I'm making a lot of money—"

"Yes...... But if I'm not...... Not that kind of vampire...... It's just that...... Just a blood-sucking monster...... This? ”

"Then I'll do it quickly, and you won't feel pain." Qi Lin put away his smile and said solemnly.

“…… Well. Song Xiaodie nodded, slowly stopping her sobbing.

Some people, in order to survive, would rather become inhuman monsters, while some people would rather give up their lives and hope to end their lives as "humans".

Song Xiaodie is the latter.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with either, the former's desire to survive is understandable, and the spirit of the latter is even more admirable.

Qi Lin suddenly thought that in fact, the definition between "human" and "monster" has always been very vague, whether it is him or Song Xiaodie, in fact, it is the result of the human body's own evolution, in terms of scientific definition, they should be regarded as more advanced "evolutionaries", or "new humans", so these evolved human beings, are they considered "monsters"?

If a modern person appeared in front of those ancient apes thousands of years ago, he would probably be considered a "monster", right? Of course, the premise is that in the minds of those ancient apes, there is a definition of the word "monster......

"Anyway, as long as you can survive, you'll become a monster...... It is also not spared. ”

Qi Lin secretly said in his heart that he was different from Song Xiaodie, he belonged to the former.

For Qi Lin, being alive is the most important thing, and this has been deeply engraved in his heart when he was still a child.

There is a saying among mercenaries, "On the battlefield, the more people who are not afraid of death, the less likely they are to die, on the contrary, those who are afraid of death are the first to die." ”

But from Qi Lin's personal experience, only those who have a strong desire to survive can finally walk off the battlefield alive, and those who even poured several spirits before the battle and didn't even wear a helmet often ended up being taken off the battlefield in a body bag.

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Qi Lin finally ended the unpleasant topic on the grounds of eating—their dinner was simple, a compressed biscuit from Guanshengyuan for each person, plus a canned soy protein meat and a few vitamin tablets.

Due to what happened in Vault 188 before, the original inventory of materials was either depleted or destroyed during the battle, and most of the materials circulating in the Vault are now mobilized from several other Vaults in the recent past.

After dinner, Qi Lin and Song Xiaodie lay down in the newly moved game pod - a new week is about to begin, if they fail to maintain seventy hours of online time per week, they will be directly canceled by the mastermind, and at that time, not only will all the large amount of resources in Qi Lin's account be wiped out, but even the place where they live now will be taken back by the Vault official.

Lying down in the game cabin, Qi Lin slowly closed his eyes, and the familiar synthetic female voice was in his ears again.

"Welcome back to the Wasteland Survival Code."

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As soon as he entered the game world, the darkness in front of him had not completely dissipated, and Qi Lin's ears sounded with deafening cannons, explosions, and the sound of various firearms firing.

"Huh? I haven't been online for so many days, I thought you were dead? Qi Lin opened his eyes and found that the heavily armed raven was standing in front of him, holding his Remington M870 shotgun in his hand, and at his feet, there was an M249 light machine gun, and on the side were a dozen boxes of bullet chains and two spare barrels.

In addition to machine guns, there are many grenades, explosives, and bazookas.

"What happened? Has the Kuroshio arrived at base camp? Qi Lin looked out the window and saw that vehicles and players were constantly passing by outside, and farther away, dozens of thick clouds of smoke were billowing and coming to life.

"I arrived last night, at four o'clock in the morning, the black tide broke through the outer wall of the base camp, and now a third of the base camp has fallen, the young master of the Cheng Consortium has been here, but he only left me these things, and asked me to wait until you are online again before retreating." Raven said, pointing to the various weapons that took up nearly half of the room with his toes.

"Alright, now that you're online, I guess we should find a way to get out of this damn place."