Millennium Witch.

Chapter 6-6- Waiting to Die
Despite saying she was waiting to die, after lying on the ground for a while, Yvette, having nothing else to do, obediently got up and began exploring the other floors, hoping to find some canned food with a long enough shelf life to prolong her life.

During this process, she also figured out the characteristics of each floor by using the various textual information left on each floor and combining it with her exploration in the dream.

First are the negative tenth floor and the negative nineth floor.

In the dream, the project responsible for treating the genetic diseases of the orphanage children like Yvette is called "Project Metamorphosis," and the drug they take is tentatively named "Metamorphosis Potion Type II."

The tenth and ninth underground floors are the experimental floors for the Metamorphosis Project and the living quarters for the relevant personnel, respectively.

Next are the eighth and seventh negative layers, called the "Active Rune Lab".

Yvette's understanding of the so-called "active rune sets" was limited to the AI's descriptions.

According to the information it provides, Active Rune Sets is not only Black Tower Pharma's core business, but also the fundamental reason why it is one of the eight super companies.

Once the user injects the rune potion into their body, they can become a powerful spellcaster in just a few minutes. Not only will their magic power increase significantly, but they can also instantly unleash the magic pre-set in the rune potion, making them a superhuman in no time.

Even when introducing meditation to Yvette, the AI ​​used the Active Rune Set as a reference – the level that meditation takes more than seven years to reach, while the lowest level of Active Rune Set only takes 4.6 minutes – showing how exaggerated the difference is.

but……

So many years have passed, and even if there are still some residual active rune group medicines in the two laboratories on the seventh and eighth basement levels, they must have expired.

Therefore, although it sounded tempting, it did not actually provide Yvette with any substantial gains, except for a small amount of readable paper materials.

Then there are the sixth, fifth, and fourth basement levels.

The sixth basement level was the same living area as the ninth basement level, nothing special. The warehouse for storing supplies was also empty, which disappointed Yvette.

Negative five and negative four are the rune and elixir laboratories.

This drug, similar to a gene-optimizing solution from science fiction, has effects including, but not limited to, maintaining youthfulness, increasing strength, optimizing metabolism, and regrowth of hair loss... It is Black Tower Pharmaceuticals' second most important business.

As for the drugs launched by the Metamorphosis Project, they are neither active rune sets nor rune elixirs, but rather classified as "magic potions," and it is precisely this classification that belongs to drugs in the traditional sense.

Keep going up.

The third negative layer is the experimental animal breeding layer;
The second basement level is the living area for regular staff;

The basement level is the inspection level, where the qualifications of people entering and leaving are verified.

So, after spending nearly 10 hours painstakingly checking all the floors, Yvette had to face the fact that she had gained nothing but scrap metal that had once been high-end magical equipment.

Of course, she also tried to pry open the metal bars of the ventilation duct to see if she could climb out. But the bars were welded too tightly, and a five or six-year-old girl like her simply couldn't budge them, so she had to give up.

Finally, exhausted, Yvette lay on the ground covered with magical vines, feeling the hunger in her stomach, and couldn't help but let out a long, desperate sigh.

In the dream, she had already made a great deal of effort. In addition to actively learning about the language and information of the other world, she also provided her situation to the AI ​​so that it could give her advice.

But insufficient conditions are insufficient conditions. Within this enormous metal cage, apart from the magical vines that feed on magical elements, no other creature can survive. The only way to survive is to fish from the water platform, but the lake is infested with fish monsters…

No matter which way you go, you're headed for death.

Thinking of this, Yvette closed her eyes dejectedly and decided to take a nap first.

This time, she was truly prepared to die.

……

I don't know how long I slept.

Upon waking, Yvette looked at the shimmering ceiling made of magic vines and silently calculated the time since she had traveled through time.

The fact that she didn't starve to death or grow her hair during the six months of real dreams means that only a very short time had passed in reality.

But excluding that period, she has definitely been in the present for more than 24 hours.

For such a long time, I didn't feel weak or tired at all; I was still full of energy and vitality, at most a little hungry...

Is this the resilience of young bodies? With such strong recovery ability, wouldn't they be invincible for crowdsourcing?
She muttered to herself, then stood up and, driven by her survival instinct, began a second investigation of the ruined base.

The result was unchanged; it remained a dead end.

But there was something different about Yvette; she sensed something unusual about herself.

At this point, at least 36 hours had passed since she crossed over.

Under normal circumstances, a child who is still developing would experience dizziness and tremors due to hypoglycemia after 36 hours without food. She might also experience dry mouth and thirst due to dehydration, drowsiness, lethargy, or lack of energy. At the very least, she should be starving and hungry.

But the current situation is that she is still in good spirits, has recovered her strength, and only feels a normal "mild hunger".

What is the reason for this?
What kind of ultimate hunger-resistant king was the original owner?
Upon noticing this anomaly, a spark suddenly ignited deep within Yvette's numb heart. But instead of immediately popping champagne to celebrate, she waited anxiously, constantly sensing the changes in her body.

During this agonizing ordeal, an unknown amount of time passed—perhaps twenty or thirty hours, or perhaps several days.

Incredibly, Yvette discovered that her bodily functions were still perfectly normal!
She had normal energy, no dizziness, no dehydration, and apart from a slight feeling of hunger, she was otherwise in perfect condition—

Lively and energetic!

Therefore, she could finally be 99% certain that the original owner was indeed not an ordinary person. Her ability to wake up in bed as a child 300 years later, when everyone else had turned into skeletons, was not due to time travel, but because she was inherently different!
"This is even more outrageous than I expected..." Yvette muttered to herself. In her estimation, the original owner's most likely identity was a hibernator who survived the apocalypse using some of the equipment here, and then, not long after waking up, was possessed by her soul.

But now it seems the original owner may have gone into hibernation, but didn't need any external equipment at all; his body alone could have survived for 300 years until after the apocalypse...

What is her identity?
(End of this chapter)