Ashen God
Chapter 65: Humanized Handling

Chapter 65: Chapter 65: Humanized Handling

The other effect of the fruit was that it allowed those who practiced Yin attribute cultivation techniques to rapidly increase their cultivation level, and even Yin Qi beings like female ghosts could consume it, greatly benefiting from it after eating.

Zhang Yanhang was playing a horror game in the dark at home in the middle of the night. He had hoped to exploit a bug to catch a glimpse under the heroine Jiahui’s skirt, but suddenly a multiple-choice popped up, scaring him more than the game itself. Honestly, the game wasn’t all that terrifying; it was the mysterious choice that gave him a real fright.

One of the options presented to him was to go to a small path near the funeral home in Qin Island City to look for the Xuanyin Fruit. At the time, the fruit was inexplicably wrapped in a few tattered pieces of paper money, and he didn’t find any plant that looked like it could bear the Xuanyin Fruit, which made the whole situation incredibly eerie and truly more horrifying than the game.

Zhang Yanhang surmised that the Xuanyin Fruit was most likely a tribute brought by some family, and that it had mutated into a Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure after absorbing Yin Qi. This guess was mainly based on the fruit’s appearance, which resembled a blackened apple—likely a Red Delicious apple before its dark transformation.

After obtaining the Xuanyin Fruit, Zhang Yanhang lost interest in playing horror games. After all, the female ghosts in games were fake. If he was going to interact with ghosts, it may as well be with real ones. Real female ghosts could be interacted with, and if annoyed, could even be dealt with directly, unlike the game’s protagonist, who was as helpless as a trussed-up chicken, tormented to death by female ghosts without even knowing how to run. His immersion in the game was incredibly low.

After reviewing the second option, Zhang Yanhang moved on to the third, "There’s a new multiplayer DLC, looks pretty tempting... Now comes the question, should I choose multiplayer interaction or the female ghost?"

"You must be joking! How could someone as upright as myself succumb to such a peculiar choice? Of course, I’m going to choose to immediately enter the Ashen World!" Zhang Yanhang prepared himself to think of a way to see if it was possible to trigger multiplayer interaction or encounter a female ghost during a normal bout of insomnia.

You might wonder why Zhang Yanhang, now possessing a Waist Bag, still kept the Smelly Blood-Sucking Scab and Xuanyin Fruit in the safety of a Treasure Box—this was because the options hinted that it would increase the chances of encountering a female ghost. To be honest, he hadn’t seen one yet, and he felt that not having even one encounter would be a tremendous regret in his life.

"I choose Option One, to immediately enter the Ashen World and hunt monsters," Zhang Yanhang made his choice, and in an instant, everything went dark, and the soft double bed beneath him transformed into a rickety old wooden bed from Raccoon City.

"A strange ceiling... no, a familiar ceiling," Zhang Yanhang calmly observed the gray-white ceiling of the Dulda Apartment unit 301, feeling he had every right to call it familiar after his last visit.

After sitting up on the rickety wooden bed, Zhang Yanhang checked his belongings, starting with the Equipment he wore, which was a complete set of standard police uniform. They remained perfectly worn without any change.

Having checked his Equipment, Zhang Yanhang proceeded to inspect the various items in his Waist Bag. He discovered that some of the things from the Main World had not been brought along, but items that had disappeared upon leaving the Ashen World had now reappeared in the Waist Bag.

For instance, items that couldn’t be taken out of the Ashen World, such as bottled water, canned food, Alchemy materials, the M4A1 assault rifle, the M57 fragmentation grenades, the AT-4 anti-tank rocket launcher, had all returned.

It was a mystery how the Ashen World determined these things. The Waist Bag, having been improved and fused to increase its Quality, was essentially a brand new bag, yet the previous items were all back inside. It was quite bizarre.

But about this matter, Zhang Yanhang thought it should be considered good fortune. If items that couldn’t be taken out simply disappeared, that would be a huge waste. So, like in the current situation, even though they couldn’t be taken away, they would be readily usable within the Ashen World.

Another issue was that he had worn an ordinary shirt that wasn’t supposed to be taken out of the Ashen World, but because he came prepared in proper clothes this time, the old shirt ended up occupying an extra slot in the Waist Bag.

"The Ashen World handles things too humanely, huh? I thought the clothes would either disappear or be stretched out by the Equipment. But instead, they ended up in the Waist Bag," Zhang Yanhang found the Ashen World’s level of consideration a bit inconceivable.

After completing his inspection, Zhang Yanhang went over to the slot machine placed next to the wardrobe, curious to see if it had refreshed after four days.

The result left Zhang Yanhang somewhat disappointed. Although the slot machine had indeed refreshed, it was only the third prize that had done so, meaning the hundred Zombies had been replenished, but the second prize, "T-Virus Enhancing Potion," and the corresponding first prize "T-Virus Original Liquid (Essence Extraction)" had not refreshed.

Zhang Yanhang figured there were two possibilities: The first was that the slot machine’s first and second prizes could only be won once, so only the low-level third prize would refresh. The second possibility was that the refresh rates for the slot machine’s first, second, and third prizes differed, with the lowest level, the third prize, refreshing immediately while the higher level second and first prizes might require a week or even longer to refresh.

"But I have no way to verify this right now..." Zhang Yanhang felt it was better to collect the available Zombies from the slot machine rather than verifying his theory. A hundred Zombies, along with a Treasure Box, would at least provide him with four to five hundred Soul Points.

While four to five hundred Soul Points weren’t enough for Zhang Yanhang to level up his Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil LV.6 even once, every little bit adds up over time. Besides, those hundred Zombies were truly quick to dispatch. Last time, it took him about ten minutes, including the time spent digging a hole with Alchemy, and this time he could reuse the previously dug hole, which meant he could improve his speed even further.

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