The whole nation is trying to survive on the cable car; I'm choosing one of three options at ea

There was confusion... Were those images real? There was also a subtle, almost relieved feeling that she herself was unwilling to admit.

She sat there for a long time. So long that the light from the window changed from soft to dim, and from dim to dark. Finally, she got out of bed, put on her spare clothes... she took them out of her backpack, folded them neatly, and placed them on the chair by the bed.

She didn't know whether Su Mu had put it there or she had put it there herself, and she didn't want to know.

She tidied up the things scattered on the ground, piled the torn pieces of clothing in the corner, sorted out her backpack, and checked the gun to make sure it was full of bullets.

Then, facing the closed door, she whispered something that even she found unbelievable.

"Thank goodness this person is Su Mu..."

She was stunned after she finished speaking.

She didn't know why she said those words, nor what they meant. She just felt that if it were someone else... those people surrounding her, their eyes filled with nothing but greed, like hyenas... she would probably rather die.

Lin Yuwei took a deep breath and shook those messy thoughts out of her mind.

She opened the system panel to check her status. Her injuries had healed, her strength had returned, her energy was stable, and she even felt lighter than before... not psychologically, but truly, physically, light.

Then she saw a new status on the panel.

[Golden Bloodline - Juvenile Form]

[Effect: All attributes +20%.]

Lin Yuwei was stunned. She stared at that state for several seconds, making sure she wasn't seeing things.

Golden Bloodline...

She remembered the feeling of being unable to digest the egg liquid, the burning sensation all over her body, the chaotic energy that made her lose her mind and do those things—that feeling was completely gone now.

Instead, there is a gentle, full feeling, as if the body is filled with something.

so......

Was the egg liquid digested after you had sex with Su Mu?

It wasn't digested by her body, but rather by Su Mu's body.

That golden halo, that merging energy, that cycle... she vaguely sensed those things while she was unconscious. It wasn't a dream; it was real.

Her face flushed again. Does this count as dual cultivation?

Lin Yuwei folded the quilt and straightened the sheet... even though that sheet probably wouldn't be used by anyone in the future.

She stood up, walked to the window, and pulled the curtains open a crack.

It was getting dark outside, and the gunfire continued from the direction of the defensive line in the distance, but it was less frequent than before.

The monster tide seems to have receded, and the soldiers are taking turns resting.

Her gaze swept over the people walking in the open space, but she couldn't find Su Mu. She didn't know where he was.

But she knew that from this day forward, her relationship with him would never be the same again. It wouldn't be just a transaction, just cooperation, just mutual exploitation. As for what that might be, she didn't want to think about it.

Lin Yuwei lowered the curtains, slung her backpack over her shoulder, and took a deep breath.

New state, new abilities, new...

She looked down at her hands and clenched her fist. Her strength had increased considerably, as had her agility and physique.

A 20% bonus to all attributes may not seem like much on the stat sheet, but in actual combat, this 20% is enough to give her an absolute advantage against opponents of equal skill.

She remembered what Su Mu said when he left... "The small recovery potion I gave you, forget about it, don't take it." Her lips twitched slightly, she didn't know whether she wanted to laugh or curse.

asshole.

When Su Mu came out of that dormitory building, it was already close to dusk.

The western horizon was tinged with dark red by the setting sun, like an unhealed wound stretching across the sky.

In the direction of the distant defense line, the gunfire was much sparser than before, and the continuous "thump-thump" of the machine guns became intermittent, occasionally interspersed with a few grenade explosions, echoing dully over the empty factory area.

The monster tide has temporarily receded... not because it was wiped out, but because it retreated on its own, like the rising tide stopping at some unseen boundary, leaving behind corpses and dark green blood everywhere.

Su Mu leaned against a cement pillar and opened the system panel.

Level 8, with a little over 6,000 experience points, almost halfway to level 9.

The progress was much slower than he had expected, but too many things had happened today, from the zoo to the power plant in the northern suburbs, from the brown bear to the egg liquid to Lin Yuwei. He had hardly stopped to properly grind monsters.

The status bar for the Golden Bloodline lay quietly on the panel: Mature Form, 50% increase in all attributes, with a new line of small text added to the evolution branch below: "Inner Vision".

He closed his eyes, his consciousness sinking into his body, where he could clearly see his blood vessels, bones, and muscles. The blood flowing in his blood vessels was no longer bright red, but a pale golden yellow, each drop like compressed energy.

Footsteps approached from afar; they weren't from a monster, but from a human. Su Mu opened his eyes. A soldier in training uniform jogged over, holding a palm-sized metal plaque. The soldier stopped in front of him, stood at attention, and handed him the plaque with a swift and efficient motion.

"Mr. Su Mu, the commander requests that you attend."

Su Mu took the metal plate, turned it over, and glanced at it.

The front is engraved with a series of numbers, and the back is a simple map marking the location of the meeting... The first floor of the main building of the power plant. From his current location, it's just two intersections away.

The soldier's tone was respectful, not in a formulaic way, but genuinely conveying a sense of "this person cannot be offended." Su Mu nodded, and the soldier turned and ran away.

After thinking it over, Su Mu decided to participate. After all, the military was making such a big show of it, so the road ahead would obviously be difficult. He wanted to obtain more intelligence.

He put the metal plaque into his pocket and walked toward the meeting place.

On his way through the camp, Su Mu witnessed the various aspects of the survivors.

Some people were organizing their equipment, sorting and stacking ammunition and medicine; some were trading supplies, exchanging food for bullets and bullets for intelligence; some were simply lying on the ground to rest, without even a mat, just using their backpacks as pillows and closing their eyes.

Several guild members huddled together, whispering. The news that the military had summoned evolved individuals for a meeting had spread, but no one knew the specifics of what they would discuss. Su Mu heard his name mentioned twice... "That Su Mu was invited too." "I heard the military specifically requested him."... He ignored them, continuing on his way.