Monkeys

The system bringing this up now is clearly because these people are starting to suspect something is wrong with the system! It has absolutely nothing to do with Cheng Shuili!

I actually had a thought like that just now...

Cheng Shuili immediately opened her panel to check her health value. 90. No problem, she is very healthy!

Her health value increased to this level after she finished the preventive medicine sent by the beastman chief. The portion of her health value below 80 is locked, but the portion between 80 and 90 is not.

Therefore, Cheng Shuili has recently experienced what it feels like to be a normal person, but this feeling is not good at all!

If she doesn't go to sleep before ten o'clock, her health value gets deducted by one point. If she wakes up in the morning and realizes she had dreams and didn't sleep well, it gets deducted by another point! Even getting on the vehicle and moving suddenly from an air-conditioned room to the extreme heat outside causes a deduction in health value!

Based on this deduction method, Cheng Shuili's health value should have returned to 80 very quickly, but...

Cheng Shuili's meals are good.

No matter how fast the deductions are, they can't keep up with the restorative meals Qi Wanyi makes!

After one night, her health value had dropped to 80, but as soon as she ate breakfast, it went right back up again.

The system probably didn't expect that someone could eat so well less than a month after the game started!

As for why it won't go up to 100, Cheng Shuili guesses it might be due to the state of her body.

After all, she has experienced sudden death, and her foundation is lacking more than just a little bit. Without special items, 90 is the upper limit for her body, no matter how much she eats.

After being delayed for a while, the system finally started to announce the rewards for this dungeon.

Cheng Shuili instantly perked up and pricked up her ears to listen carefully, but soon, she lowered her head again.

This crappy system started the announcement from the Normal-level, and it will probably take a long time to reach the Hell-level.

She got up and walked around. Su Rui was still driving conscientiously in the driver's cab. Cheng Shuili even admired her; not feeling fatigue is one thing, but not feeling bored is another.

Driving for nearly twelve hours every day is something that truly requires perseverance to maintain.

Cheng Shuili sighed. Just as she was bored and planning to pester Su Rui, she suddenly heard a strange noise coming from the back of the vehicle.

It was that teeth-grinding sound of fingernails scratching across the hard shell of the car's surface.

It was as if something was clawing at their car from the outside!

But the vehicle was still in motion. At this speed, whatever could touch their car was definitely not a human!

Cheng Shuili's nerves tightened instantly. She immediately furrowed her brows, and in the blink of an eye, a long blade was already in her hand.

She tiptoed toward the back of the vehicle and looked out through the window.

A hand covered in hair was clawing at the metal shell of the vehicle's rear, its sharp fingernails embedded deep into the steel plate, producing a hair-raising scratching sound.

Cheng Shuili held her breath, tightened her grip on the blade handle, and slowly leaned closer to the window.

That furry hand suddenly retracted violently, and then a hideous face stretched over from the back of the vehicle, right in her line of sight—

It was an ape-like creature, its scarlet eyeballs protruding from their sockets, with murky mucus dripping from its fangs. One look was enough to tell it was deathly ill!

It bared its mouth and let out a "cackling" weird laugh. Its other claw reached out, trying to attack Cheng Shuili, but it was as if it were being restrained; no matter how much force it used, it couldn't reach her.

Cheng Shuili let out a sigh of relief and didn't attack it rashly.

The car was still moving, and the speed was high. Opening the door would be dangerous, not to mention fighting this sick monkey at this speed!

She stood there for a moment and, after confirming that this irritable monkey couldn't move, she felt reassured enough to knock on the door of the driver's cab.

Cheng Shuili said concisely: "Something happened. Stop the car first."

Su Rui slowed down immediately. Only after the car came to a steady stop did she get up and come out of the driver's cab.

When it comes to safety awareness, Su Rui is someone Cheng Shuili can absolutely rely on.

As soon as the car stopped, Cheng Shuili pulled the door open and jumped down, her long blade glinting coldly in the sunlight. She circled to the back of the car, where the ape had already let go with its claws, staring at her while baring its teeth.

"What the hell is this thing?" Su Rui got out from the other side, holding the dagger Cheng Shuili had given her.

Cheng Shuili answered with a frown: "A monkey, but it's clearly sick. I don't know if it's contagious... be careful, don't let it touch you."

The two of them didn't dare to get close for a moment, standing there observing for a while.

The monkey's limbs were all stretched out toward them. Clearly, it wasn't touching the vehicle, so why was it still stuck to the back?

After the monkey struggled for a while, Cheng Shuili finally saw the answer: this thing had actually been caught by her Refined Automatic Hunting Device!

The spider legs of the hunting device were still firmly latched onto the monkey's body, only hidden by its fur, which made them less noticeable.

These spider legs were clamped on extremely tightly. Forget about getting off the car; the monkey could only rotate its limbs and head slightly.

Cheng Shuili had previously held a positive bias toward this hunting device, after all, it was the first blueprint she had successfully improved.

Before, she felt that upgrading from a simple snare trap to this level was simply too strong! But now, Cheng Shuili only felt a sense of disappointment!

Can't you open your eyes when you hunt? Can you not have eyes just because you're a machine? Why?

Refined Automatic Hunting Device: "..."

Don't have such high expectations.

Cheng Shuili became more irritated the more she thought about it. Catching a monkey was one thing, but catching a sick one!

She suddenly felt a bit of regret. How did she manage to create it after just one improvement to the Simple Hunting Trap blueprint?

She should have improved it a few more times.

If she kept nesting improvements like that, she definitely could have improved it into an intelligent machine that could distinguish prey, judge for itself whether to kill the prey, and give voice alerts when it caught something!

But that was an ideal state. Improving blueprints wouldn't succeed every time. Just thinking about the demand for energy stones made Cheng Shuili realize how much she would need!

Although she couldn't see the exact success rate, she had her own guesses.

The simpler the prefix, the greater the chance of successful improvement. Correspondingly, the better the prefix, like the "Refined" on this blueprint, the smaller the probability of a successful improvement.

Even if she had the heart for infinite improvement, she had to see if she had that many energy stones in her pocket!

Thinking about this now was clearly inappropriate. The most urgent task was how to deal with this sick monkey.

Cheng Shuili gripped her long blade, staring at the struggling sick ape, her brain working at high speed.

"Don't get close yet," she said to Su Rui in a low voice. "This thing looks pretty sick. If it's contagious, it'll be a problem."

Su Rui nodded, but her dagger remained firmly in her hand: "Can the hunting device handle it directly?"

Of course not.

It wasn't intelligent to that extent yet.

Cheng Shuili took a deep breath, her hand gripping the long blade adjusting its angle slightly: "Su Rui, you circle around to its side to attract its attention, and I'll deal with it from the front."