If there's one thing that's different today than usual, it's this gaming handheld that suddenly appeared.

"Is it because of you?"

The girl looked at the black and white handheld in her hand, thought about it for a while, and decided to do an experiment.

The content of the experiment was simple, she would not ingest any food or medicine tonight.

This is a very dangerous thing in normal times, after all, her body is really bad to the extent that she can't support it if she stops taking medicine and doesn't take nutrients.

However, at this point, if the stability at the moment is just an illusion, and the game console does not bring life to her, it is just a few more days of survival.

Thinking like this, Xu Zhi no longer took medicine at a fixed point as in the past, but took out the textbook left by his younger brother and read it.

It's not that she's thirsty for knowledge, it's just that she doesn't know what to do without reading.

Two hours passed quickly, and the scheduled alarm clock rang, and Xu Zhi looked up from the book a little suddenly.

“... So, is it time? ”

Her expression was still a little incredulous, she had never been so focused, even if she used to read a book, she would always be interrupted by the discomfort in her body one after another, and she couldn't concentrate for a long time.

And, until now, she still didn't feel hungry.

"It's really changed..."

Xu Zhi muttered to himself, and his eyes, which were already a little deadly, slowly regained their brilliance.

In any case, since there is suddenly an extra life, she naturally wants to seize it, she doesn't want to care what this game console is, whether it will cause any danger to her future, she only knows that without this game console, she may not even have a future.

Xu Zhi is not afraid of death, but he does not want to die.

She suppressed her excitement and picked up the console again, and now that the two-hour cooldown was over, all she had to do was continue playing.

Entering the game, sure enough, the cooldown time has arrived, and the forward option appears on the screen again.

Xu Zhi controlled the little snake to wander around for a while, this time her luck was not bad, in less than half an hour, she had already made up ten evolution points.

[Current Evolution Points: 1/10]

[The upgrade conditions have been met, do you want to upgrade?] 】

[Note: It takes 10 seconds for Lv1 → Lv2 to upgrade, and within 10 seconds, the clan will lose consciousness.] 】

[Please choose: 1. Upgrade in place, 2. Upgrade after finding a hidden location]

"10 seconds..."

Xu Zhi hesitated for a moment, but still chose to find a hidden place first.

The game's brief coziness and the short number of 10 seconds did not paralyze her and make her take it lightly, and she did not forget the prompt when she entered the game.

The snake quickly finds a hole in a tree and burrows into it, and the evolution begins, with a ten-second progress bar floating in the center of the screen.

Ten seconds, fleeting.

【Evolution Completed】

[Snake: Lv2.]

Spirit: 3

Flesh: 10

Attributes: None

Trait: Toxin Lv1

In the screen, the evolved little snake slowly crawled out of the tree hole after shedding a layer of skin, Xu Zhi could see that its size had visibly become larger with the naked eye, the snake's body was much longer than before, and more importantly, in its open mouth, the two fangs flashed with green light, as if it was showing Xu Zhi its new weapon.

Moreover, I don't know if it's an illusion, Xu Zhi feels that even his body has subtly become a little lighter.

Because of heart disease, she often feels very tired, her body is very heavy, she has difficulty breathing, abnormal heartbeat and a feeling of dizziness that follows her, but now after the baby snake has completed its evolution, although the other illnesses have not lessened, she feels that her body does not seem to be so heavy.

Xu Zhi's eyes flickered slightly, with the previous experiment, she didn't think it was a coincidence.

Maybe... This game can really change her body.

As a result, Xu Zhi's desire to upgrade became urgent, but when her eyes moved to the lower left corner and saw the points needed for the next upgrade, she was slightly distressed.

[Current evolution points: 0/50]

Demand has increased fivefold.

It took her nearly three hours at ten evolution points, and how long would she have to play the game at fifty points to make up for it?

The game seems to know her distress as well, and a line of subtitles gradually emerges.

[As you rise in level, your clan becomes more powerful than before, but that is only compared to itself, in this world, it is still too small to be mentioned.] 】

[Nameless fear urges it, even if it has not yet given birth to a spiritual mind, but it vaguely perceives that it must accelerate the pace of evolution. 】

[Please choose: 1. Continue to hunt here, 2. Look for more powerful prey, but this also means that risks come with it.] 】

Xu Zhi hadn't played much of a game, so she didn't understand the concept of "Novice Village", but she also vaguely felt that the previous risk-free hunting was indeed a bit too comfortable, and it was not at all like the dangerous world in the text description.

If you stay here, you might be able to safely earn fifty evolution points, but... She looked at the words on the screen and felt an inexplicable sense of urgency, perhaps, she had to take a risk.

"Pick 2."

Pressing the select button, the little snake on the screen began to crawl as if it had received some kind of command, and Xu Zhi also found that not only its size, but also the range it could see became wider.

If there was only a range of about 7 meters before, now it is about 20 meters.

This time, the little snake swam for a long time before finding a target.

[Your family has made a discovery]

[It was a wounded eagle that had broken one of its wings and seemed to have an injured eye]

[But even so, it is still the natural enemy of snakes]

[Injured eagles are rare, this seems to be an opportunity, but this opportunity comes with huge risks, and if successful, you will also gain a lot of evolution points]

[Please select: 1. Hunting, 2. Leaving]

This was the first time that a risky hunt had appeared, which made Xu Zhi entangled for a while, not knowing how to make a decision, until a line of words appeared on the screen again.

[You should probably make a decision as soon as possible, the injured eagle will attract more than one hunter, and its wounds are slowly healing]

"Healing?"

Xu Zhi was a little surprised, because she didn't learn biology, so she didn't understand?

Can such a serious injury be healed?

However, seeing the urging of the game's subtitles, Xu Zhi gritted her teeth and no longer hesitated, she chose to hunt instead of leaving.

This doesn't seem to be in line with her previous caution, but in fact it's not, most of the time, her external performance is silent and cautious, but with this weak body living under oppression all year round has not become a lamb, but still has a strong sense of self, and even has more paranoid thoughts than ordinary people, it is enough to see that Xu Zhi is not a timid person.

She would pick up the suspicious game console on the ground, and naturally she could make a risky choice, hesitating only because she had only fantasized about it before, and had never really had the opportunity to make such a choice herself.

She got used to it for half a minute.

The girl stared at the little snake on the screen, and after she gave the order, the little snake began to execute without hesitation, it slowly and quietly fell the hunter's gaze on the eagle, which had been its natural enemy, and then found a suitable opportunity to attack the eagle like lightning from the grass.

With the toxin, the baby snake does not need to fight the eagle, it just needs to find an opportunity to release its toxin and protect itself from the eagle's sharp claws and beak before the eagle is paralyzed or killed by the toxin.

But this task is still a little too difficult for a small snake.

Xu Zhi watched the little black snake on the screen being constantly torn by the eagle's claws, pecking out a few penetrating holes in his body by his sharp beak, and even his actions were no longer agile, and he was chased and torn by the injured eagle several times, but until the eagle's actions gradually stiffened, and even fell to the ground completely, the little snake did not die under the fierce attack.

Seeing that the eagle was completely dead, the seriously injured little snake greedily slid towards the eagle's corpse, and its open mouth actually swallowed the eagle's corpse, which was much larger than it, into its belly, so that its body bulged with the naked eye.

Seeing this scene, Xu Zhi finally breathed a sigh of relief, only to find that he was so nervous that he held his breath at the end.

Before she had time to surprise the little snake's bizarre "devouring" abilities than what she had seen in the biology books, the subtitles resurfaced on the game screen.

[Thanks to the strengthened physique after the upgrade, your clan barely won the victory, but it also suffered a lot of injuries, and before it heals, I am afraid that there will be no way to hunt anymore]

[But the good news is that evolution allows wounds to heal quickly]

[Current Evolution Points: 100/50]

[The upgrade conditions have been met, do you want to upgrade?] 】

[Note: It takes 30 seconds for Lv2 → Lv3 to upgrade, and the clan will lose consciousness within 30 seconds.] 】

[Please choose: 1. Upgrade in place, 2. Upgrade after finding a hidden location]

Xu Zhi chose 2 without hesitation.

The baby snake is already badly injured, and if it encounters a creature that is attracted by an eagle or a movement generated by the two while it is entangled, it will be easily killed.

This time, it took a little time to find a hidden location, but fortunately, it took less time to evolve, and soon, Xu Zhi made a bold choice.

【Evolution Completed】

[Snake: Lv3.]

Spirit: 5

Flesh: 20

Attributes: None

Traits: Toxin Lv 2, Sharp Lv 1

In the picture, the black snake's size has become larger again, its teeth seem to be sharper, and the sight distance has increased to about 50 meters, but Xu Zhi is more concerned about the changes in his body.

This time, she felt more clearly that her body was really getting better with the little snake's upgrade.

Her breathing was smoother, and the "hand" that had been pinching her lungs and making her breathless all the time seemed to be gone.

She had never felt so easy to breathe.

An uncontrollable look of joy appeared on the girl's face, and if she continued, she would surely become a healthy person.

No.

Xu Zhi's face changed slightly, and her eyes became sharper, not only that, she didn't just want a healthy body.

Maybe it's the game that feeds her ambition, or maybe it's the sense of crisis that this dead city brings her, what she wants is not an ordinary body, but a powerful body that surpasses the limits of humanity and allows her to live here freely.

Xu Zhi exhaled softly, in order to achieve her goal, she had to be more mentally clearer when making a choice.

Just as Xu Zhi was about to continue the game, an empty knock on the door suddenly aroused goosebumps all over her body.

- Knock knock

It was just a normal knock on the door, but it wasn't supposed to be!

The girl's hand holding the game console froze, and then she slowly turned her head to look at the door, her brain racing, thinking about who would knock on her door at this time?

The answer is: no.

No one would do that, because all the neighbors were gone, and she didn't know any friends who came back to her.

So, who's knocking on the door?