Cheng Shuili turned her head inch by inch, her pupils suddenly constricting.
A ghastly pale human face was pressed almost against the tip of her nose. Its pupils were absent, replaced by two turbid, bloodshot glass orbs.
The face was covered in ice crystals, the skin a sickly blue-gray, with the corners of its mouth torn all the way to its ears, revealing jagged, black fangs.
"Gurgle..."
This ugly thing...
Cheng Shuili had just begun to think of a retort, but before she could even formulate a nastier insult, the monster raised its hand, a hideous, savage grin spreading across its face!
Adrenaline surged. In the nick of time, Cheng Shuili tilted her head. The monster's sharp claws grazed her cheek, drawing a trail of blood droplets.
Cheng Shuili rolled to capitalize on the momentum, swinging her baseball bat with all her might toward the monster's knee.
39 points of strength were nothing to sneeze at!
With a crisp "crack," the monster staggered. The leg bone that had taken the full brunt of the bat seemed to snap. Its posture twisted slightly, but it quickly righted itself, held together by the ice crystals.
The silky smooth combo was a bit off, but there was no time to lose; it was time for the most important step!
Cheng Shuili stared at the monster and silently chanted in her heart: "Insight!"
The Abyss Ring on her finger turned scorching hot. Almost simultaneously, a monster panel appeared in her mind.
【Insight activated】
【Name: Snow-Buried Ghoul】
【Origin: Born from the same frozen earth as you, these are the losers who fell in the extreme cold. When the blizzard swallowed their final heartbeat, the eternal night froze their resentment into unmelting ice. Until one moonless night, the ice cracked, and they stretched out their frost-bitten, blue-purple fingers to become the blizzard itself.】
【Weakness: Fears comfortable temperatures; things they never obtained in life become fatal after death. The heart is the weakness of all humans; even after becoming a monster, nothing has changed here.】
Cheng Shuili analyzed it quickly.
The origin story was basically a zombie.
"Fears comfortable temperatures... the heart..." She chewed on the information provided by Insight.
The area within three meters of her vehicle was a comfortable temperature. As for the heart, Cheng Shuili quietly tightened her grip on the dagger at her waist.
The ghoul tilted its head, its pupil-less eyes staring fixedly at her, its mouth twisted into an eerie arc. It emitted a "gurgle" from its throat, as if mocking the futility of its prey.
Cheng Shuili ignored its mockery and struck its newly repaired leg bone with her baseball bat again.
The ghoul let out a sudden hiss. Apparently completely annoyed by Cheng Shuili, it stopped caring about its broken leg, lunged forward, and opened its maw wide, intending to bite a chunk of flesh off her!
Cheng Shuili had anticipated this; she had attacked its leg again precisely to provoke it.
Cheng Shuili stepped back leisurely. The ghoul didn't expect it and lunged into thin air. Its broken leg couldn't support its body, and the entire monster instantly face-planted into the melted snow.
Great chance!
Cheng Shuili stepped on its back, pulled out her dagger with a backhand grip, and plunged it into its heart.
The Snow-Buried Ghoul struggled twice, then quickly lost all signs of life.
Immediately after, the ghoul's body melted rapidly. Cheng Shuili watched helplessly as the body of a mutated human turned into a puddle of dirty, slushy water.
Two drops were mixed into the center of the slush.
Cheng Shuili repeated her previous trick, using the baseball bat to fish the items out before picking them up.
【Snow-Buried Ghoul's Silver Bone】
【Description: This long bone is forged entirely like mithril, its surface flowing with moonlight-like cold light, with frost flowers that never melt embedded in its joints. My God, this is simply a magnificent piece of art.】
Cheng Shuili frowned and pulled out a tissue to wipe the bone clean. To be honest, she felt this action was a bit perverted.
But she definitely wasn't the real pervert here, right?
Why does this broken system always act like a riddle-maker?
The Grease Monster Core from last time was the same; it didn't explain the specific function at all, but talked a bunch about useless things instead.
Cheng Shuili sighed and stuffed the items into the Abyss Ring. The Grease Monster Core was in there too.
At the end of the day, these were things from monsters; it felt weird keeping them in the vehicle.
Cheng Shuili drove forward for another two hours. Before she knew it, it was noon, and Wan Yi's message arrived right on schedule.
【Wan Yi】: Eating hot dry noodles for lunch today. The seasoning packet you gave me has sesame paste—who understands this? That's sesame paste!
【Wan Yi】: I just happened to find thick noodles, so I'm having hot dry noodles for lunch. Wait for me to get the food ready.
【Angry Crow Takes Flight】: Good.
She had honestly grown tired of eating rice during this time.
Since she would be eating soon, Cheng Shuili lost interest in driving further.
She hadn't looked at the rewards from this morning yet!
Cheng Shuili grew excited again and climbed into the cabin to check them one by one.
If there was one thing she was looking forward to most.
It was definitely that full bathroom set!
It was fine during the novice protection period, but on the road, one only had to worry about Highway Merges. Now, squatting to go to the bathroom outside in the cold really freezes your butt.
Although there was a three-meter heating radius outside the vehicle, you couldn't really do it near the car...
Cheng Shuili gave a light click of her tongue. No matter how she thought about it, the whole thing felt wrong, so she simply touched the full bathroom set.
【Full Bathroom Set (Uninstalled)】
【Description: The essential core of modern home living! Combining practicality with high-end design, it satisfies all your fantasies of a comfortable life! Features a modular custom design, allowing you to freely choose dimensions to perfectly fit any space requirement. Essential dry and wet separation! Smart bathroom suite! Giving you the most comfortable living experience!】
Too commercial.
Cheng Shuili smiled. This description was truly too commercial.
However, she liked it!
Cheng Shuili scanned the cabin and frowned slightly. Her cabin hadn't been crowded before, but after receiving the 270 bottles of mineral water donated by those 54 people on the blacklist, it was starting to feel a bit cramped.
Cheng Shuili moved the sofa to the side of the car bed. The bedding set was laid out on the sofa, the quilt spread, and the pillow placed; it actually looked quite decent.
She looked at the items in the car and reorganized her supplies. She stuffed things into every storage space available, sorted and categorized everything, and the interior of the cabin looked brand new!
Cheng Shuili wiped the thin sweat from her forehead, feeling happy as she looked at the results of her tidying.
It was just that those 270 bottles of mineral water were truly getting in the way.
Cheng Shuili opened the Trading Channel.
【Angry Crow Takes Flight】: Trading mineral water for basic materials.
【Yewang】: Trading basic materials for mineral water! Anyone who wants to trade, just click my avatar and private message me!
【Yewang】: Ah? Big Sister, you're trading too? Don't move, I'll come find you to trade!
【Bump-Car】: Today's joke: Big Sister Crow trading mineral water for stuff.
【Raising a Glass to the East Wind】: If those people like Gentleman's Sword saw this, wouldn't they be furious? Hahaha, who didn't blacklist her? Quick, show them!
【Han Shuang】: What a regret. If I had known, I wouldn't have blacklisted her.
...
They were discussing it lively, and Cheng Shuili's private messages were buzzing as well.
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