33.3 per cent for option I, 55.6 per cent for option two and 11.1 per cent for option III.

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[Option 2]

【Dragon Slayer Spear to the Northwest】

……

Zheng Zhuo looked to the northwest.

The dark sky covered the earth. In the northwest, faintly, it seems that something can be seen between heaven and earth.

It was like a shadow in the sky, as if with a little force, it could be wiped out of sight.

And one of the previous rickety travelers went there.

"Dragonslayer Spear ......"

Zheng Zhuo decided to go there and have a look.

He's looking for something that can cause a lethal attack on the computer. The dragon slayer spear, he thought, must be fine.

It is a weapon. Shoot straight out of the hole to penetrate the computer and smash it.

A weapon that can reliably destroy the target with a single hit. This is exactly what Zheng Zhuo needs now.

Moreover, the benefit of weapons is that they can be used by all.

Even if Zheng Zhuo is not able to destroy the computer with a single blow, the other participants can use it to continue their attacks.

Very reliable.

……

Fierce battles appear and disappear again. The wind blew across the ground and wiped out all traces.

Whether it's a big bird, or a hollow, or a huge ball of fire.

It was as if it had been a plain from the beginning, and nothing had ever existed. The traces left by the fierce battle between Zheng Zhuo and Big Bird like animals fighting to survive have gradually disappeared.

The world doesn't look up to that kind of battle. Zheng Zhuo thought.

The battles that took place for survival had happened here too many, too many times, so that both the wind and the soil had become numb to it.

In fact, Zheng Zhuo didn't feel much anymore.

He carried his baggage, took the girl with him, and changed the direction of his progress.

Silent journey.

Only the lost spell book, and Zheng Zhuo's deformed, twisted, pitch-black, bright red arm reminded him that everything about Fang Cai was not just a dream.

“（…… ）”

Zheng Zhuo walked on the black sand. The ash slipped from the surface of his feet, and some were lifted up and landed on his hands.

The left hand of the humanoid form has a feeling. And the right hand, which was burned black, had no sensation.

In general, this means that the arm has been completely necrotic. However, Zheng Zhuo was still able to use it.

He tried to use his black right hand to pick up the fly ash from the placket.

Touched. But it didn't roll up well. His fingers smashed them.

(No.) ）”

Feeling sluggish. This hand is no longer good at making subtle movements.

But on the other hand, it can spew flames from it.

“（…… It's amazing. ）”

Zheng Zhuo spread out his palm and stared at the red lines in the middle of it for a while.

His spell book was burned by the flames. But he didn't lose the ability to use spells.

The flames tempered his arm. Now, he can use this hand to unleash the [Fireball Technique]...... The spells recorded on the spell cipher page he once had.

In addition to this, while attacking the big bird, he noticed that he clenched his fists and released a continuous arc of flames.

He remembered the arcs of flames bouncing and bounced, and they were so bright. It's like a coronal ring on the sun.

“…… At least I'm able to protect myself now. ”

Zheng Zhuo muttered to himself.

In this [dark world], which will lose his life at any time, the fact of exchanging an arm for the ability to protect himself did not make him feel that it was very difficult for him to accept.

……

Three days later.

Sometimes, Zheng Zhuo would feel that they were not moving forward at all.

The same desert, the same earth, the same gray-black soil, the same flying ash, the same dead trees, the same sky, the same solar eclipses.

The passage of time seems to have lost its meaning in this world. Zheng Zhuo and the girl kept walking, kept walking, but the plain was still the same plain, and the shadow in the sky in the distance was still the same shadow.

It doesn't even look much bigger.

(How far exactly?) ）”

The harvested cores have almost been eaten. A mood called despair slowly crept up Zheng Zhuo's ankles, making each step he took heavier.

He had walked for three days before he reached the girl's place. But on the way, however, he had seen abandoned villages, old men dying with strange limbs, and travelers hunched along.

But this time, it's different.

On the way to the Dragonslayer's Spear, there were no people, no houses, nothing.

This direction is completely deserted.

(Regardless of whether we can get there, if we don't know the water and food situation in the future, it will be very bad.) ）”

Zheng Zhuo thought as he walked.

Now that you change direction, it is impossible to enter the area with food in time. In other words, there is no place on this land where there is necessarily "food and water".

All the people he had seen could only wait to die in the same place, or keep moving and dying somewhere else.

What to do.

Zheng Zhuo could only walk slowly.

Here, even his speed of thinking slowed down.

I wonder if that's the case with young women.

He looked back.

The girl followed him with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

"Tired?"

Zheng Zhuo asked.

The girl shook her head.

She always spoke very little. Zheng Zhuo wasn't sure if it was because she was obedient and sensible, or if it was something else.

He didn't have the impression that young women talked much, but not to such a low level.

It can only move forward.

In this way, the two walked out for about a day.

The worst didn't happen, and the ground began to soften. Small clumps of moss appeared on the ground.

They have moss to eat. What's more, it means that there is a water source nearby.

After spending some time searching, Zheng Zhuo dug through a damp land and found an underground river.

To say that this is an underground river is to lift it. In fact, it was even thinner than the thinnest stream Zheng Zhuo had ever seen, and he couldn't even reach out for water.

But still drinkable.

That's good. It took almost a day for Zheng Zhuo to dig from searching to digging.

The two of them ate and drank here, and reorganized a little. At this time, Zheng Zhuo realized that they had barely rested, so they walked out of the three-day journey.

It's not because they're energetic.

On the contrary, in the [Dark World], just being alive, making the heart beat, and making the lungs breathe is enough to make people tired.

Tired to even more exhausting actions, there is no longer any feeling at all.

Zheng Zhuo looked at the girl.

When she was at home, he thought, she probably didn't sleep much......

At this moment, suddenly, the girl holding the water raised her head.

“！”

She looked into the distance.

What's wrong?

Zheng Zhuo also looked there.

On the moor......

He saw several sheep.

Gray, messy hair. I can't tell if it's a goat or a sheep.

They watched warily. Seeing Zheng Zhuo raise his head, they fled quickly.

……

【Question】

[I met the sheep!] How do I act? 】

[Option 1]

【Use the Fireball Technique to kill as many as you can】

[Option 2]

[Rush up and grab them physically]

[Option 3]

[Bow your head and continue to pretend not to see them, trying to get them back]

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