The Next Day.

Before dawn, Jian Xiu was already up.

She wasn’t interested in anyone. After grabbing the things she had prepared the night before, she headed out.

Thinking about the tens of thousands of points she still owed the supermarket gave her a headache.

“Keke, how many points do I need to repay this month?” On the way, Jian Xiu couldn’t help but ask.

She had actually wanted to ask this question for a long time, but she was afraid of hearing an answer she didn’t want.

She was afraid she wouldn’t be able to pay it back.

If that happened, forget about stocking up on supplies—she wouldn’t even have the chance to buy anything.

“You owe 390,000 points, to be repaid over 18 months. You do the math. There’s a 300-point interest charge each month.”

“Three hundred? That much? Why is the interest so high? So, does that mean I have to pay more than 20,000 this time?”

“What else? You borrowed it when the interest was at its highest. What could I do? If you hadn’t borrowed it, wouldn’t that Zhang Zixuan have been doomed?”

“But you got one thing wrong. Your repayment is like an equal principal and interest loan. In the early stages, most of what you pay is interest. So, if you don’t want to lose out, pay off the points today!”

“Today? That’s impossible!”

“With how slow you are, of course, it’s impossible.”

Hearing this, Jian Xiu felt a bit frustrated and didn’t dare to argue anymore.

“How far can you scan now?” Out of boredom, Jian Xiu asked again.

She remembered that last time, Keke had said that scanning a greater distance required more points.

She had just spent hundreds of thousands of points—surely that should be enough, right?

But then she remembered that she had to repay nearly 30,000 points today, and her head started hurting again.

Thinking about paying it all off in one go? That was just wishful thinking!

“Farther than you think!” Keke said proudly.

“Oh, right! We’re about to reach that wild boar trap from last time. Buy me some of that wild boar bait again—I want to catch two more.”

“Do you have any points left? Without points, how are you going to buy it?” Keke asked calmly.

Jian Xiu: “……” Right. How had she forgotten that she was flat broke?

“I can’t be completely out of points, right?” She held back but still couldn’t help asking.

It was rare for her to venture deep into the mountains. If she didn’t make use of the trap, it would be such a waste.

Besides, the wild boar bait wasn’t that expensive.

More importantly, her family was building a house, and they needed meat.

At this moment, wild boar meat would be incredibly useful.

With that thought, Jian Xiu started looking around, pausing now and then.

“If you’d had this level of awareness earlier, you wouldn’t be so poor now,” Keke’s voice chimed in again.

“It’s all for that wild boar bait,” Jian Xiu said helplessly.

“Alright, alright, stop looking around. There’s something good about eight meters ahead.”

“Really?”

“Of course. When have I ever lied to you?”

“Why didn’t you say so earlier?”

“I just scanned it.”

As if she suddenly remembered something, Jian Xiu excitedly asked, “Wait… How far can you scan now?”

If she had heard correctly, Keke had just said “eight meters ahead.”

Did that mean it could now scan as far as eight meters?

And not just in one direction—eight meters in every direction!

Maybe even more than eight meters.

“And you’re getting excited over such a short distance? Can you have a bit more ambition?” Keke said, exasperated.

“Hey, you know how much I sacrificed for this.”

“Sacrificed what? Come on, tell me. You’ve been here for so long, and you’ve only gone deep into the mountains once. Do you think that’s fair to me?”

Jian Xiu: “……” The more she talked, the more wrong she felt.

So, she simply ignored Keke, turned around, and sprinted toward the location it had mentioned.

At this point, she wasn’t worried about snakes or anything.

Even if she didn’t notice them, Keke would scan them for her.

That was how it had worked before, and now that it had upgraded so much, maybe it could even detect them from farther away.

Keke: “……” Was she treating it like a lifeless machine? Didn’t she know what she was thinking?

But Keke didn’t bother arguing anymore. After all, she wasn’t wrong, right?

“Huh? There doesn’t seem to be anything here.”

Jian Xiu pushed aside the grass but didn’t see anything.

“You only see the surface. You don’t see what’s underneath.”

“Underneath?”

“Of course, underground,” Keke said, as if speaking to an idiot.

“So, you expect me, an ordinary human, to see underground?” Jian Xiu widened her eyes.

“Oh, sorry, I forgot you’re just a mere human.”

Jian Xiu: “……” She was starting to suspect Keke was doing this on purpose.

But… she had noticed that Keke was getting more talkative.

When she had first arrived in this world, Keke’s tone wasn’t like this.

At least back then, it was still somewhat polite.

So now… was it completely disregarding her as its master?

“Are you going to dig or not? Instead of wasting time thinking, the thing is already half-excavated.”

Keke finally couldn’t help but remind her.

It really didn’t get it. Other people’s hosts seemed to have cheat-like abilities.

So why was its host like this?

Lazy, unmotivated… Even when she saw something valuable, she didn’t act quickly.

Others would scramble to get points, but its master? It was as if she was being forced.

How could that not make it angry?

“Keke, is this it?” Jian Xiu asked in surprise, pointing at a small white object poking out from the ground.

“Yes, that’s the one. Dig out a bit more so I can collect it.”

“Alright, alright…”

But as more of the white object emerged, Jian Xiu realized it looked very familiar.

“Isn’t this Smilax glabra from the apocalypse?” she muttered.

“I don’t know what it’s called. I just know it’s worth several thousand points in the space.”

Keke reminded her.

“That much?”

“Uh-huh.”

As soon as it said that, the Smilax glabra she had just dug up disappeared.

Clearly, Keke had already stored it.

But Jian Xiu didn’t leave immediately. Instead, she carefully examined the area, searching for more.