"Are you dead or not?"
[Not dead.]
Yun Xiaoxiao: "If you're not dead, why didn't you make a sound?"
[Didn't you ask me to look away?]
Yun Xiaoxiao: ......
"So can you actually see or not?"
[Host, you really don't need to worry about me. I'm just a system without emotions. You can treat me as a woman, or as a genderless being. Besides, you're only five years old, there's not much to see anyway.]
Yun Xiaoxiao: ......
She felt insulted.
She decided to ignore it and just lay down in the large basin.
The basin was still a bit too small; she could dig a swimming pool here in the future.
The water was a little cool, but not icy. It was acceptable.
Yun Xiaoxiao soaked quietly.
After five minutes, she felt something strange happening to her body.
Her skin had a burning sensation, and her insides felt warm.
Ten minutes later, a layer of fine, sticky black substance began to seep out of her pores, accompanied by an unpleasant odor.
Yun Xiaoxiao held her breath as long as she could, until she almost threw up, before standing up abruptly.
It stank!
She quickly left the space and went to the bathroom to rinse her body.
"System, come out."
[You can call me Little Di.]
"Little Di, will it always smell this bad when bathing in spirit spring water?"
[No, it's only because you have a lot of impurities in your body right now. Once your body is cleansed of impurities, it won't smell anymore.]
"Can you drink the spirit spring water?"
[Of course you can. I suggest you drink plenty of it. It can make you as light as a feather and give you an extraordinary feeling.]
Yun Xiaoxiao: ......
She felt this system wasn't very serious.
"By the way, what was that next task you mentioned earlier?"
The situation had been too urgent then, and she hadn't had time to ask for details.
[Build the strongest doomsday fortress! As long as you complete the tasks set by the system, you'll become the master of a fortress. Once built, this fortress will have the strongest defense capabilities. Even if a hundred thousand high-level zombies attack simultaneously, the fortress won't be affected at all.]
Yun Xiaoxiao's eyes immediately lit up.
Self-contained strongest defense function, unaffected even by a hundred thousand high-level zombies attacking at once!
This was exactly what she wanted!
In the later stages of the apocalypse, zombies would evolve, and some would even develop intelligence. They would lead zombie armies to besiege human bases.
Many large bases fell because of zombie sieges.
If there really was such an impregnable fortress, what would she have to fear from zombies? She could just lie inside, eating and drinking leisurely until the end of her days. After all, she had plenty of supplies, enough to last for several lifetimes.
[Moreover, this fortress also has offensive capabilities. It can automatically attack outside invaders, and anyone disloyal to you will be immediately removed.]
[After you complete each task, the system will also reward you based on the difficulty of the task.]
The more Yun Xiaoxiao heard, the more excited she became.
She'd be letting herself down if she didn't accept this task!
"Tell me, what's the first task?"
[Host, are you accepting the task?]
"Yes!"
[The first task is to increase your combat power to Level 1, with a time limit of fifteen days. Friendly reminder, your current combat power is Level Negative One.]
Yun Xiaoxiao: !!
Isn't this a bit insulting?!
Level Negative One, really?!
[Host, don't get excited. We need to accept our true selves.]
The system calmly consoled her.
Hah!
Yun Xiaoxiao laughed coldly. You're quite the comforter!
Actually, she knew her current combat power was indeed poor.
Without a gun, she wouldn't stand a chance against anyone with even a little martial arts skill.
It was because this body had been malnourished for a long time, and she was thin and small, with barely any muscle. Where would the strength come from?
Plus, she hadn't exercised much before. Even though she had been training extra hard for the past few days, she was still very weak.
Without strength, even if she knew techniques, they would be useless.
Feeling provoked, Yun Xiaoxiao immediately entered the space.
After warming up, she started running laps around the large open area.
The entire space was equivalent to 140 football fields, so half of it was about 70 football fields.
By the time she ran two thousand meters, she was exhausted, her hands and feet felt like they weren't her own, and she was gasping for breath.
She didn't rush, walking slowly in place to catch her breath. When her breathing stabilized a bit, she drank a mouthful of spirit spring water and began practicing her punches.
Every move was what her big brother had taught her before. She didn't know what kind of martial art it was, but each move was fierce and lethal, especially effective against zombies. It was guaranteed to kill with each strike.
After going through the entire set of moves, she was drenched as if she had been pulled out of water.
However, she persevered with the spirit of "practice until you die or die practicing."
She did another twenty squats, twenty frog jumps, twenty push-ups, and twenty sit-ups.
After finishing, she was barely human, hanging on by a thread.
She conjured a large basin out of thin air, set it down, drew spring water into it, and then slid in like a boneless snake, completely exhausted.
This time, she soaked for twenty minutes.
In the end, she was forced to get out because she couldn't stand the intoxicating smell any longer.
But she had to admit, soaking like this after exercising had an surprisingly good effect.
How to put it... before soaking, she felt like she was about to die, but after soaking, miraculously, she felt more than half alive again.
Moreover, she discovered that when extremely tired, drinking some spirit spring water could replenish energy, like a power bank. When the power was completely drained, just drinking some spirit spring water could increase the charge by at least 30%.
This could be life-saving in critical moments.
Ten hours in the space equaled one hour in the outside world.
Just now, she had spent about 4.5 hours in total inside, which was only about twenty-some minutes in the outside world.
She could still stay in the space for about five and a half more hours today.
It would be great if she could stay in the space for all twenty-four hours a day.
That way, she would have over two hundred more hours than others each day.
Wouldn't that completely outdo everyone else?
Just thinking about it was exciting!
"Little Di, how can I increase the time I can spend in the space?"
[Just by killing zombies. Ten zombies increase the time by one minute.]
"Only one minute for ten zombies?! Aren't you being too stingy?!"
Yun Xiaoxiao almost rolled her eyes.
She waited for a long time, but no sound came.
Yun Xiaoxiao: ......
It sure disappeared quickly!
Yun Xiaoxiao pouted, took out a box of pure milk, and gulped it down.
After drinking, she still felt a bit hungry. No wonder, after exercising for so long, what she had eaten earlier had been completely consumed.
But it didn't matter. She had plenty of food. She could eat whatever she wanted, eating non-stop for twenty-four hours a day without running out.
She took out three bowls of white rice, a plate of shrimp with scrambled eggs, a plate of pearl meatballs, a plate of sweet and sour pork ribs, a plate of stir-fried seasonal vegetables, and a bowl of white radish soup.
She found a zombie movie to watch while eating, living a leisurely and carefree life.
