Main Quest: Survive for three days (Complete)

Reward Points: 200

Side Quest 1: Pick the Corpse Bloom (Complete)

Reward Points: 500

Side Quest 2: Kill a Special-Type Evolved Zombie (Complete)

Reward Points: 2,000

Side Quest 3: Help kill the Zombie Mother Nest (Complete)

Reward Points: 3,000

World Item Drops: One-Day World Sweep Ticket, Pulse Laser Gun (with ten attached Highly Compressed Energy Blocks), Golden Worm Gun.

(Rewards have been sent to your mailbox. Please claim them yourself.)

Fang Chang excitedly opened her mailbox and claimed all the generous rewards. Then she brought up her character panel again. The stats and everything had changed.

Name: Fang Chang (Mother of Veris)

Level: LV1

ID: 0972

Body Strength: 4031 (2000)

Neural Response: 4100 (2054)

Mental Strength: 4567 (3108)

Reward Points: 5,700

Inventory: Corpse Bloom, Zombie Mother Nest Corpse (48%)

Storage: Pulse Laser Gun, Highly Compressed Energy Blocks ×10, Golden Worm Gun

Abilities: Zombie Mother Nest Mutant, Beast Chimera

For her body stats, the first number was her peak, while the number in parentheses showed her current strength. She really had weakened a lot. Still, given enough time, she could recover.

A new feature called Storage had also appeared in The Game. Fang Chang focused on it, and its information came to her at once.

It was a massive storage space, 100 meters long, wide, and tall. It could only be opened in the Present World, and its sole purpose was to let players stash things that were too useful to throw away, but not useful enough to keep on hand.

They had some value, but not much use—and they were too good to discard.

“Reward Points… There should be a shop or something, right?”

Sure enough, after she closed the character panel, the game’s home page appeared. The shop took up the largest section.

Curious, she tapped it.

The shop had four categories: Enhancements, Weapons, Materials, and Specials.

Fang Chang was most curious about the Enhancements section. Besides calculating how strong players would become after getting enhanced in The Game, it could also give her a rough idea of the prices there.

For example, what could one Reward Point buy?

Werewolf Bloodline (Low): Requires 400 Reward Points. Grants a werewolf bloodline and a talent for shadow magic, greatly increases body strength and neural response, and slightly increases mental strength. Allows Werewolf Transformation, which doubles physical attributes (cap: 500).

Fang Chang glanced at her Reward Points and sighed softly. “Things here are actually pretty cheap! But the higher you go, the more ridiculous the prices seem to get.”

For example, a Low-Rank Werewolf Bloodline cost 400 Reward Points, but the Mid-Rank one cost a whopping 2,000. The High-Rank one was even more outrageous at 10,000! Fang Chang didn’t have anywhere near that many!

And there seemed to be something above the High-Rank Werewolf Bloodline.

But it was obscured by a shadow. When Fang Chang checked, she learned she’d need more than 10,000 total Reward Points before she could browse those items.

“I don’t need a bloodline or anything. With my body as it is, I’ll get stronger just by learning to handle my own power. What I’m missing is technique.”

Fang Chang rubbed her head against the chest of the disheveled Chen Xiaotan and began to ponder. What enhancement should she buy to effectively improve her strength?

“Right! My main body just needs time to recover. I need to find a way to strengthen my avatar. Compared to my main body, it’s way too weak. Chen Xiaotan took me down in an instant without even using her full strength. I can channel some of my main body’s abilities into the avatar, but not too much, or it’ll mutate. The Beast Chimera’s innate ability is especially dangerous—it could turn the avatar into something like the one in the lab. I need a gentler kind of power… internal energy!”

Learning martial arts would teach her techniques that could help her main body, too. And the internal energy that wasn’t very strong in her main body would finally have an outlet.

Fang Chang had plenty of energy in her body, but little of it was usable. The only kind she was familiar with was Demonic Power, which she used to unleash the devastating Demonflame. As for internal energy, she’d never used it at all.

“But I should think carefully before choosing a martial art. I don’t know much about them. I can ask Chen Xiaotan when she wakes up. After taking such a huge advantage of me, she thinks she can just leave?”

Fang Chang didn’t dare tease her back. If she got carried away and accidentally activated Charm again, she wouldn’t get anything done today. They’d just end up making lilies bloom all day!

Before long, Chen Xiaotan opened her bleary eyes.

A flood of memories flashed through her mind: herself under the influence of Charm, attacking the little Fang Chang with all sorts of tricks, while Fang Chang looked so pitiful it made her heart ache.

She quickly realized she was still holding a soft, fragrant body in her arms. It was rubbing against her sensitive chest, as if deep in thought.

And her own hands were both on the other girl’s most sensitive spots—one above, one below.

She immediately pulled her hands away, shoved Fang Chang back, and huddled in the corner with the blanket pulled around her.

Fang Chang was instantly annoyed. You’d taken such a huge advantage of me, and now you’re acting like I defiled you?

She pouted and gently straightened her clothes, looking aggrieved. “You shameless thing!”

Chen Xiaotan thought Fang Chang looked ridiculously cute just then, but the earlier fight was still fresh in her mind. She tensed as if facing a great enemy. “What exactly do you want?”

“Shouldn’t I be asking you that?” Fang Chang said, looking all wounded. “You watched porn and then came after me, and you were so damn thirsty. I only kissed you, and you… ngh…”

She absolutely wasn’t going to tell Chen Xiaotan about her Charm talent. Chen Xiaotan had no idea, so she might as well keep misleading her.

Fang Chang looked on the verge of tears.

Chen Xiaotan remembered how wild she’d been. She didn’t want to admit that had really been her, but she couldn’t undo what she’d done. Her hostility softened a little. “Are you… a man or a woman?”

Fang Chang stuck out her little chest as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. “I’m obviously a guy!”

Chen Xiaotan shook her head. “I want to know everything about you. You’re like this, and then… like that. What’s going on?”

Fang Chang raised her small, soft fist. “That was a walking avatar I made for myself, so I could remember what it felt like to be a man. And you destroyed it right after I finished making it. You’re awful!”

Chen Xiaotan understood. “So… this is your real body now?”

Fang Chang shook her head. “Nope. I used to be much taller than I am now, and my chest was huge. But giving birth drained all my strength, and I ended up like this…”

Chen Xiaotan was stunned. “You gave birth?!”

“Yep!” Fang Chang gave her a sidelong look. “I have a child and a wife.”

Something inside Chen Xiaotan stirred. Hearing those two words made her hostility plummet, and she asked curiously, “Where are they?”

“They’re in the previous world. The Game has a rule against bringing people from other worlds back with you. I was worried my wife would be lonely, so I gave birth to a child for her.”

Fang Chang sat there with an air far beyond her years, one hand resting on her knee, like Adam at the moment God created man. Her beautiful eyes held endless sorrow.

Chen Xiaotan felt like her whole worldview was falling apart. She understood each sentence Fang Chang said on its own, but put them together and she was completely lost. What did she mean, she gave birth to a child for her wife? Normally, wouldn’t the wife give birth to your child?

Still, considering how androgynous Fang Chang was, she could just about accept it.

What if Fang Chang called someone “wife” the same way Chen Xiaoqian called her? Titles didn’t determine gender.