Chapter 14. Unexplained Dreams

     Ye Mo seems to understand the world in the eyes of the Maasai people, even better. She can now clearly see the small movements of the staff in the office of the administrative building within her sight through the window.

     This alone cannot be explained by “dreaming”.

     Looking at the blue and white porcelain cup on the desk, the coffee inside is still emitting circles of white hot steam.

     “…”

     The face in the phone camera is indeed her own, but with some more details, and they are good details.

     The fine lines at the corners of the eyes disappeared, the acne marks on the forehead disappeared, the blackheads on the nose disappeared, and the most changed is of course a pair of eyes that have become clear again.

     She looked many years younger in an instant, from about 30 to more than 20. This youthfulness was earned by her desperate efforts.

 

   【Congratulations to Ye Mo for obtaining the survivor qualification. The system mall has been opened. Warm reminder that only props produced by the system can be traded or enter and exit the dungeon. Please explore the detailed strategy yourself. There are still 30 days before the next time to participate in the dungeon. Survivors please pay attention to the time. 】

   【The reward settlement is successful and temporarily stored in the survivor APP. Please claim the reward as soon as possible. 】

 

     30 days?

     There’s another dungeon?

     Ye Mo felt an inexplicable emotion stuck in her throat. She drank all the coffee in one gulp, stood up, locked the door of the office, and pulled the light-colored curtains. She looked around.

     Sit back and open the Survivor APP.

     The countdown to the next dungeon is right above the homepage of the App. The blood-red words look very dazzling: ’29th: 23: 58: 24′.

     There is a task bar below the countdown. If you slide your finger to the task bar, it will prompt ‘You have a settlement that has not been reviewed’.

     Click to review, and a new window pops up.

 

   【The overall score in the zombie dungeon is A, and you will get the following rewards:

     Points × 100 (not enough to buy a skirt in the mall)

     An ordinary backpack (ordinary, no special features)

     A little yellow duck (useless except cute)

     A fire axe (brand new, strength +2)

     A pair of spike shoes (brand new, agility +1)

   《Mind Control (Elementary)》 (Skill book, you are lucky!)】

 

     Ye Mo silently said: “Backpack.”

     A black durable sports backpack appeared in front of her.

     It was exactly the same as the one she took in the zombie dungeon supermarket. It was really ordinary. The only advantage might be that it was produced by the system and could be brought into the dungeon.

     Ye Mo took out the little yellow duck, the fire axe, and the palm spike shoes one by one. The little yellow duck was an ordinary toy little yellow duck that could be brought into the dungeon, while the fire axe and spike shoes with attributes were obviously different.

     She looked over the fire axe and the spike shoes over and over again, collecting a series of precise data on the material, cross section, thickness, axe body geometry, axe blade geometry, sole pattern, forging process, etc.

     The conclusion is that the fire axe looks similar to an ordinary fire axe, but it can’t fool the professional Ye Mo.

     The hardness of this fire axe from the axe to the axe body has increased, and the production method has changed from hot forging technology to cold forging technology. Simply put, it is a primary metal material at room temperature.

     The advantages of cold forging technology are first, to enhance a certain hardness, and second, to enhance the processing precision. Cold forging can hammer out a sharper angular axe blade, thereby enhancing the attack power.

      The steel nail on the sole of the spike shoe are similar.

     As for the reason for the increase in attributes, Ye Mo guessed that it was related to some unknown fine lines on the fire axe and the palm nail shoe. These fine lines are very easy to ignore if her eyesight is not so strong.

     The fine lines make the weight of the fire axe and the palm nail shoe lighter.

     They didn’t look like they were carved, and they fit the material perfectly. Ye Mo used her mental power to sense them, and seemed to be able to find a little bit of pattern, but she didn’t understand what this pattern was used for.

     Ye Mo wondered if she could imitate it.

     Well, to put it simply

   – She just had an occupational disease.

     Ye Mo put the spiked shoes and the little yellow duck into an ordinary backpack. The fire axe couldn’t fit in the backpack, and a small part of it would be exposed. She once again silently said in her heart: “Learn mental control skills?”

     It seemed like a black leather book flashed in the phone.

     Then, an illusory book appeared in my mind.

     The pages turned automatically, very quickly. While turning the pages, the content in the book turned into jumping characters, and the knowledge was engraved in the brain bit by bit.

     After the book was turned over and disappeared, Ye Mo clearly remembered all the knowledge in a magical book, as if the method and steps of a “matlab modeling” were suddenly stuffed into the brain of a high school student.

     “The first stage of mental power detection is to attach mental power to some small inanimate objects…”

     The book describes the practical steps in great detail. Modeling can be done on the computer step by step according to the instructions in the book, but it is very confusing when it comes to the principle theory.

     Ye Mo had to temporarily suppress her old problem and not get herself tangled up in a mess.

     The rewards are only the above.

     The rewards obtained in the dungeon, excluding points, are closely related to the experience of participating in the dungeon. 

     The biggest gain of the entire dungeon is “Mind Control (Elementary)”.

     Ye Mo thinks that next time in the dungeon, on the premise of surviving, she can try more “mysticism”.

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     The lower half of the APP consists of three parts, including the personal center, the survivor forum, and the system mall. The survivor forum and the system mall can only be used before and after the dungeon ends.

     The personal center can view personal information, which is omitted.

     The survivor forum is an anonymous forum. The top is a free trading section, which is the market mentioned in the system notification just now that “only props produced by the system can be traded”.

     In the middle of the forum post, there is an anonymous account with the name ‘I’ll just test it’, which is posting all kinds of garbled text.

     The system mall is mainly divided into three parts: medicine, props, and skill books. The goods in it can only be exchanged with points.

     Among the medicines, the cheapest is ordinary gold wound powder, which costs 30 points per pack and has the function of quick-acting hemostasis.

     The next ones are all above 50 points, and ordinary zombie antidote costs 80 points per dose… There are potions, herbs, pills, and even magic potions. Some of them don’t know their functions without looking at the notes.

     Among the props, shoes or insoles with agility attribute +1 require 30 points, a Tang sword or flower sword with strength attribute +2 requires 80 points, and gem earrings with mental power +2 require 120 points.

     There are also many skill books, and the list alone is endless, but the cheapest one requires 100,000 points, and the string of zeros at the end makes people dizzy.

     There are also Qiankun Rings, plantable space bracelets, teammate contract scrolls, and even copy exemption cards in the system store, all of which are unaffordable. There are so many products that there is an ellipsis below, and you need to search by yourself.

     略略略。

     There is no need to consider whether to contact Wang Xue.

     Ye Mo, a poor person with only 100 points, can only afford very limited products. She really wants to save points to buy skill books, but she must survive to use the remaining points.

     The fewer choices, the faster.

     The weapon has temporarily got a fire axe, and Ye Mo lacks medicine. In the end, she bought a pack of Jinchuang powder for treating external injuries and hemostasis for 30 points and a low-grade snow ginseng pill for treating ordinary internal injuries for 50 points, a total of 80 points.

     The middle-grade snow ginseng pill can treat some special internal injuries, 150 points/pill, which is unaffordable.

     The amount of Jinchuang powder is not too much, not too little, wrapped in palm-sized kraft paper. When it is opened, the powder is yellow, and the smell of Chinese medicine is not strong.

     The inferior snow ginseng pills have no packaging. They look like the ginseng pill snacks that I used to buy when I was a kid. They smell like a faint grass fragrance.

 

…

 

     Ye Mo searched through boxes and cabinets and finally found a small wedding candy box.

     As a single dog^[1]Single people = Single dog destined to be alone, even if she doesn’t socialize much, she can’t avoid attending a large number of weddings. The money she paid can buy three high-configuration computers. It’s a big loss.

     The snow ginseng pills are temporarily placed in a corn candy bag, wrapped in a bag, and placed in the wedding candy box together with the gold wound powder, and then the wedding candy box is placed in the small bag in the backpack. 

     The dog food box^[2]In Chinese internet slang, “撒狗粮” (sā gǒu liáng) means “sprinkle dog food” or “public display of affection”. It’s used to describe when a couple … Continue reading purchased online is temporarily cleaned up in the cabinet, the backpack and fire axe are placed in the box, the box is closed, and the half-black frame glasses are placed in the center of the dog food box so that they can be worn at any time.

     Perfect!

     Have a simple phone call with grandma and print a leave note.

     Ye Mo picked up the pen and quickly wrote in the middle that she was asking for leave due to fever and dizziness. She put on a white 3M work mask to cover her younger face and left the office with the dog food box.

     “Here comes the supervisor!”

     “Xiao Qin, how is the follow-up of the mold review?”

     “Engineering drawing, engineering drawing.”

     In the electronic experimental test room, the lazy science and engineering men were a little fake even when they pretended.

     Perhaps it was because Ye Mo’s hearing was so strong that she could hear their conversation clearly and the noise of the production workshop next door could be easily heard.

     The world is still the same world, seemingly calm, but some people are struggling to survive. They may have superpowers, at least they can roll steel bars into steel balls with their bare hands.

      This is crazy.

     “Ahem, ahem.” 

     Ye Mo knocked on the door twice, walked to the only office desk in the front, and asked for leave, “Xiao Wen, please send my leave to the administration department before leaving get off work, thank you.”

     Surprised Xiao Wen: “Manager Ye, are you okay?”

     “Nothing, I have a fever and feel dizzy. I’m leaving today. Call me if you have anything.” 

     Ye Mo thought for a while and added, “Ask Aqing to accept the life test results of the inspection department today. Call me directly if there are any problems or not. If there are no problems with the test, I may not come tomorrow Friday. Aqing and Xiao Wang will take over my work temporarily. They are familiar with the specific process.”

     Due to the copy problem, Ye Mo also thought about running away this afternoon and using all her energy to strengthen her body.

     But her job determines that resigning is not that simple and it takes more than a little time.

     Just a resignation report needs to be reviewed and approved by the direct superior, the head of the inspection department, the head of the administration department, the head of the finance department, etc., not to mention that there are also projects, confidentiality principles, labor contracts and other issues. There are many problems. It doesn’t mean that you can leave without a salary. You may be reported missing.

     The most important thing is that even if the dungeon is full of dangers, Ye Mo still holds the greatest belief that she can survive. Living in this real world, it is necessary to abide by some social rules.

     “Okay, supervisor.”

     Seeing Ye Mo leave, many people breathed a sigh of relief, and they always felt that their team leader’s aura was getting more and more terrifying.

     Someone sighed: “There are only three genders in the world, male, female, and Supervisor Ye.”

     “Damn, you dare to say that about the flower of our department!”

     “Our Supervisor Ye’s aura is really getting stronger and stronger. I almost couldn’t speak in front of her just now.”

     “…”