5. The second family
As the game interface jumped, a new family choice appeared in front of Xu Zhi's eyes.
The number of options has been reduced to four, and the initial level has been increased a bit.
[1.Cat (Lv3)]
[2.Monkey (Lv3)]
[3.Dog (Lv3)]
[4.Spider (Lv3)]
"It's all level 3..."
Xu Zhi's gaze stayed on the cat and the dog, and the spider and the unfamiliar monkey were vetoed by her first.
After thinking about it for a while, Xu Zhi decided to choose a dog.
After pressing the OK button, a line of words appears again on the game screen.
[You already know how to easily train your family in the early stage, please start.] 】
[Dependent: Dog Lv3.]
Spirit: 5
Flesh: 40
Attributes: None
Traits: Strength Lv2, Smell Lv3
[Current Evolution Point Required: 0/200]
"It's fair, it's 200 points, but the flesh of a dog is much stronger than that of a snake."
And, she saw the most important reason for choosing a dog: strength.
The reason why she hesitated between cats and dogs was because she knew that she had the opportunity to extract the traits of the family, and the traits that cats and dogs might appear were a little over in her mind, and she wanted the agility of cats and the strength of dogs, but what she lacked most at this stage was really strength.
Xu Zhi was not sure that the choice of the dog would definitely make a difference, she just guessed based on the characteristics of the little snake, and there was a bit of a gambling component.
And the dog's size and aggression are a good choice in her opinion, even if they don't have strength.
Now that Bo has reached the desired traits, Xu Zhi's mood has also become better.
She skillfully followed the process and began to upgrade the second family, while upgrading and watching the dog eat those living creatures, she wondered if the dog would hunt and eat like this in reality?
This time, the screen is no longer similar to a snake's perspective, but the dog's eyesight is obviously not much better, and the colors are only black, white, yellow, blue, and gray, but even so, Xu Zhi can see that something is wrong.
Her family seems to be in a... In a city filled with black mist.
Xu Zhi's eyes widened slowly, and she felt that her scalp was slightly numb, because a ridiculous idea appeared in her mind.
The city in this game is... Cloud City?
As soon as this idea appeared, Xu Zhi felt that she couldn't calm down, and she began to recall the city she saw from the screen when she manipulated the little snake, but that perspective was really a bit abstract, and she couldn't see anything.
It's just the same black fog as Cloud City, and it's not ironclad evidence, but... If it's really just a game, can that black fruit still be a real thing?
Xu Zhi prefers to believe that there is that kind of black fruit, and the game just "teleports" it.
In addition, more importantly, it is also the reason why Xu Zhi's heart is so eager that her guess is true: if her family is really in this city, then she is no longer alone.
Whether it's companionship or protection, it's what she needs now.
She doesn't trust anyone in the city, and she doesn't need the company of people, and it would be better if she was absolutely loyal to her family.
So she hopes from the bottom of her heart that this guess is not her unrealistic dream.
To do this, she had to verify it.
For example, take a closer look at any familiar landmarks as your puppy searches for prey.
But this is actually a little difficult, Xu Zhi doesn't go out often, and his memory of Cloud City is still stuck before he was 11 years old, as well as the scenes he occasionally saw on local TV stations.
"It's okay, I'll find it."
The girl doesn't speak often, her voice is slightly hoarse, and her heart and lung problems cause her tone to speak much weaker than ordinary people, and at this moment this weak voice is mixed with a little imperceptible paranoia, as if even if what is pursued is just a dream, you must find its shadow in reality.
She devoted all her time to the game, controlling the gray stray dog to run around looking for prey, during which she did not encounter danger, and wasted two hours of her recuperation to pay for her ventures, Xu Zhi did not feel hungry at noon, so he did not cook, but only took medicine and continued to play.
Fortunately, the initial level 3 dog physical strength is much stronger than the snake, and it will not fall into exhaustion soon, and Xu Zhi's luck today is good, the dog hunting is also easier than the snake, she didn't take long to upgrade to level 4, and after the upgrade, the physical strength seems to have recovered, and the physical strength is not exhausted like a snake after a long time of hunting.
She played for six hours, and directly upgraded the puppy to level 5, only then did she feel a little tired and put down her phone and rubbed her forehead. At this time, the dog's data has become: [Dependent: Dog Lv5
Spirit: 14
Flesh: 160
Attributes: None
Traits: Strength Lv3, Smell Lv3, Vigilance Lv1]
Although his body was a little tired, Xu Zhi's spirit was extremely excited.
Just because, she didn't get nothing in what she wanted!
Just now, when she controlled the puppy to find the new prey after being promoted to level 5, she unconsciously chased the prey down the empty old residential stairs to the top of the building, and when she saw a building not far away, the prey jumped to the other side along the gap between the buildings, and the game interface gave the choice of whether to pursue, because the opposite building has a considerable distance and height difference between the building and the roof where the puppy is, and the pursuit may face the risk of not being able to jump, but the strength of the dog at level 5 will only be injured even if it falls, At most, she lost her prey, it stands to reason that she should choose to pursue no matter what, but Xu Zhi chose not to pursue.
She chose to let the dog stay where she was, so that she could see whether the building not far away, which looked like a huge clock, was one of the landmarks of Cloud City: the Bell and Drum Tower.
The gray bell and drum tower, the huge dial is inlaid on the four sides of the square floor, because of the earthquake five years ago, the clock was broken, and the time stopped at the moment of the earthquake.
As a native of Yuncheng, no one doesn't know the Bell and Drum Tower, even if Xu Zhi doesn't go out, he has seen it countless times in the news.
“... It's true..."
"Haha, it's true!"
Xu Zhi muttered to herself over and over again, and couldn't even hold back her laughter, if it weren't for the game console in her hand, she would even want to applaud.
At this moment, the excitement that she had never felt before reached her mind, even her heartbeat began to accelerate, her adrenaline soared, and her pupils dilated slightly, until Xu Zhi felt that she was a little difficult to breathe, and she realized that she was too excited.
Although the puppy upgrade will also bring a small improvement in physical fitness, but only those are not enough, she still has to restrain her mood swings not too intense.
Xu Zhi put down the game console, closed her eyes and took a deep breath, temporarily not thinking about the many thoughts that came to her mind, trying to regulate her emotions, and when the excitement gradually faded and the exhaustion came up like a tide, she couldn't help but reach out and rub her forehead.
It happened that there was still half an hour left before it was time to settle the harvest of Xiaoyi, so she would rest for half an hour first.
Xu Zhi is still a little dissatisfied with her greatly increased energy bar now, why can't she not eat, drink or sleep for 24 hours?
Xu Zhi leaned on the wheelchair and closed her eyes, she just wanted to close her eyes for a while, but she accidentally fell asleep without paying attention, obviously feeling that she had only been asleep for less than a minute, but when she woke up, she found that half an hour had passed.
“... It seems that high-intensity and continuous gaming is still a bit too draining. ”
She exhaled and picked up the handheld, and a seven-hour progress bar in the bottom right corner of the screen was complete.
Xu Zhi selected the little one through the button, and then the settlement interface popped up.
[Your clan has completed a long hunt on its own, and here is a list of its hunting catches.] 】
[Evolution Point: 1700/1000]
[Trait Boost: Bloodlust +1, Cunning +1]
[Special Item: None]
[Evolve or rest for 3 hours before starting again]
[Due to the increase in the bloodthirsty level of the family, your bloodthirsty level has also been increased, and now, when you are in the bloodthirsty state, your strength will be increased to a certain extent, but after getting out of the bloodthirsty state, you will fall into weakness. 】
After reading the settlement, Xu Zhi's eyes flashed with joy.
She didn't know what special items the clan could find through hunting, and naturally she didn't have any expectations for this, but what made her happy was that she got a power boost after [Bloodthirsty +1]!
While it can only be used after entering Bloodlust, and there is also a debuff, this is really one of the things she needs the most at the moment.
She was desperate to improve herself.
As for letting Xiaoyi evolve or rest, it must have evolved.
After Xu Zhi made his choice, a twenty-minute progress bar appeared in the center of the screen.
On the right side of the screen, there is an extra golden sun icon, Xu Zhi clicks on the icon, and two avatars appear on the screen, which are snakes and dogs.
"Oh~" Xu Zhi understood, this is something similar to a catalog.
She clicked on the dog's avatar, and the game interface jumped to the puppy's side, and the snake's evolution progress bar shrank to the bottom right corner.
"It's pretty convenient."
Xu Zhi praised this.
Just as she was about to continue to control the dog to continue to level up, a familiar voice that she had heard yesterday suddenly sounded.
- Bang bang bang!
It's someone knocking on the door.
Xu Zhi's hand holding the game tightened, and his face became gloomy.
Sure enough, someone else came.
She had long thought that the other party would be entangled, which is why she was so desperate to gain power.
At the same time, she was surprised to find that the knock on the door became clear to her ears.
It was probably the improvement that Xiaoyi brought to her after evolving to level 10, and repaired some of her hearing impairments.
Only five seconds after the knock on the door, a female voice rang out from outside the door.
"Hello, my classmate came to see you yesterday, do you remember?"
The voice was very crisp, it sounded polite, and the image of a quiet and polite female high school student had already appeared in Xu Zhi's mind, but her complexion did not change at all, but she calmly drove the wheelchair to the kitchen in the female voice, and then carefully selected the sharpest boning knife and held it in her hand.
Thanks to her brother, who likes meat very much, otherwise it would not be easy to do it with only kitchen knives at home.
In the other party's chatter and persuasion, Xu Zhi tried to stand up and jumped slightly, and waved the knife a few more times, after making sure that her current body was enough for her to make a surprise attack, she sat back in the wheelchair again, hid the knife behind her, and controlled the wheelchair towards the door with an expressionless face.
She needs to make sure that there are a few people who have come, and if there are not a few people, and the other party shows ill will towards her and intends to break in...
A fierce look flashed in the girl's eyes, and she felt that maybe she should take the initiative to do something.