The mist-shrouded ruins suddenly began to fade after Su Mo stepped out, as if they had truly turned into mist.
At that moment, the Black Dog corpse Su Mo had carried out impaled on the Beech Spear also grew illusory along with the mist.
A breeze swept past, turning it into powder.
"What a shame. I thought this thing was so powerful that I could drag it out and identify what the hell it was."
Summoning the Game Panel and opening the Monster Compendium, Su Mo scanned the area and lamented.
No Mutated Beasts detected within one thousand meters of the player Today's uses: 1/3
The area around the shelter was all wasteland. Any large animals could basically be spotted with the naked eye.
To be safe, Su Mo still used it once.
Dragging his exhausted body back to the shelter, Su Mo only felt that long-lost sense of security return after he shut the shelter's wooden door.
Wave after wave of pain surged forth along with that sense of security.
After removing the Pottery Armor from his body, the slightest stabbing pain made his scalp prickle.
Force acted in both directions. Although the Pottery Armor had blocked the Black Dog's impact, the recoil had still left Su Mo's chest covered in bruises.
The skin on his palms had also been rubbed raw from gripping the Beech Spear. Now, under the sunlight, they looked bloody.
The other painful areas were merely soft-tissue contusions caused by his sudden burst of strength. They were no big deal.
"Woof~ Awooo."
Oreo lowered his head and kept circling around Su Mo. Although dogs could not speak, the worry he showed was utterly sincere.
Bearing the pain, Su Mo forced out a faint smile. "Good boy, I'm fine. We just took a fall this time. Every dog has its day. Next time, I'll let them taste what a Modernized Weapon is!"
"Awo awo."
Oreo raised his head, clearly having no idea what Su Mo meant by Modernized Weapon.
"What an adorable furball."
Oreo was clearly no ordinary pet. As a Mutated Creature born in the apocalypse, the fact that he could understand human speech gave him an additional air of mystery.
While soothing Oreo, Su Mo moved toward the bucket containing Psionic Water.
He picked up a cup and drank it full. The burning sensation in his chest immediately faded considerably, and even his wounds began to itch and tingle.
When he raised his hand, he saw that the wounds where the skin had peeled slightly were already beginning to heal under the effects of the Psionic Water. The larger wounds had also stopped bleeding.
A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
After exploring the ruins, Su Mo finally faced the necessity of fighting in the apocalypse.
Hiding all the time and avoiding battle at every turn would only push him into an irredeemable situation.
In peaceful times, one had to fight for what one wanted. In the chaotic wasteland of the apocalypse, one had to fight even harder!
The Psionic Water was not omnipotent. Even with unlimited access to it, after drinking 300 milliliters, it lost its ability to heal minor wounds.
Su Mo picked up the mirror left over from cutting the ventilation duct and looked at himself closely.
Having inherited his parents' good looks, the young man in the mirror had sharp brows and bright eyes, along with a handsome, youthful beauty. The flecks of blood on his face and his tousled hair did not make him look sloppy; instead, they brought out a masculine vigor. His exceptionally perfect jawline had a graceful curve that made his profile even more pleasing to the eye.
Looking lower, Su Mo saw his chest in the mirror.
When he had looked down earlier, it had been a horrifying purplish-red, with blood pooled beneath the skin.
After drinking the Psionic Water and activating its hidden healing effect, the bruised blood had begun to circulate slowly. The purplish-red had also faded into a purple with only a faint tinge of red.
Su Mo nodded and set down the cup of Psionic Water.
He had entered the ruins at around nine in the morning, but by the time he left, it was already at least four in the afternoon.
That was completely different from the information he had previously gathered, which said one could only remain in the ruins for two hours.
Opening the private-message panel, Su Mo found Feng Mengyue's previous message and took the initiative to send her one.
Su Mo: Hello. I'd like to ask you for more information about the ruins. I can use Psionic Water as payment.
After the message was sent, Feng Mengyue's reply arrived two or three minutes later.
Feng Mengyue: Hello, Su God. What would you like to know? If you're asking about the source of the Bulletproof Glass, I'm sorry, but the ruins from this morning haven't reappeared, and even I can't enter them again.
Su Mo: I'd like to know everything you saw and heard after entering the ruins. I entered ruins once as well, so I'll use my own experience to judge whether the information is genuine. I hope we can make a pleasant deal.
Rather than hiding things, Su Mo chose to tell her the truth.
In fact, the moment he entered the ruins, he had keenly noticed that his ruins were different from everyone else's.
They were too large! Even if the ruins other people encountered were big, they could still barely see what lay deeper inside from where they stood.
But with his ruins, he had spent more than twenty minutes walking around the outskirts without even reaching the end, let alone seeing what was inside.
Feng Mengyue: All right, but I'll need some time. I'm in the wilderness right now, so it's inconvenient. How about this, Su God? Once I return to the shelter, I'll describe everything to you in writing. You can give me water according to its value. It's not some great secret anyway.
After replying that it was fine, Su Mo closed the private-message channel.
He was now one hundred percent certain that something was wrong with his ruins! Opening his inventory, Su Mo began taking the items out one by one.
First, he took out the television, which had the highest "market value" among the items.
32-inch Color Television (Excellent) Description: A technological product manufactured in an unknown era. It mainly consists of five parts: a power supply circuit, a public channel, an audio channel, a color decoding circuit, and a color image display system. It displays 25 frames per second, with 625 lines per frame. Special Ability: Once placed and powered in the shelter, it can monitor the area within one thousand meters of the shelter and switch between zoomed-in and zoomed-out views. Evaluation: In front of this television, you, me, and her! Have no privacy whatsoever! (Righteous indignation!)
"Holy crap, there are things with bug-level abilities like this?"
The television's attributes left Su Mo dumbfounded.
The television that had looked so ordinary inside the ruins actually possessed such a bug-level function once brought outside.
If he could power the television, it meant Su Mo would have absolute initiative within a thousand meters.
He did not understand how the television worked, but that did not matter. Just this powerful, scientifically inexplicable function alone was enough to drive anyone mad.
Sure enough, risk and reward went hand in hand.
At that moment, Su Mo's desire for electricity reached its peak.
Speaking of which, it had already been three days since he transmigrated here, and he had not used his phone once. Now that he had a moment to relax, he suddenly felt just how important electricity was.
After taking out the power strip and putting it away properly, a bold idea suddenly appeared in Su Mo's mind.
"If this town has even a television, it might well have a generator!"
There was no reason for such a huge town not to have stocked a strategic resource like a generator.
At that thought, Su Mo's mind immediately began working.
"As long as I have Thermal Weapons, those monsters from before won't be worth mentioning. Perhaps I can use the ruins to develop the shelter rapidly!"
Suppressing all his anticipation, Su Mo continued looking at the moldy bedding he had stolen.
Kang Three-Piece Set (Common) Description: Consists of a quilt, bedsheet, and pillow. Special Ability: Its unique fabric slightly increases comfort and also provides a certain degree of moisture resistance. Evaluation: The love missing from a white bedsheet is made up for by this red mandarin-duck three-piece set!
Although he had obtained an ordinary-grade item, Su Mo was not discouraged.
He had not held out much hope for this item when he took it. The fact that the already moldy bedding still possessed a special ability that slightly increased comfort was already quite rare.
While there was still sunlight outside, Su Mo walked out of the shelter and spread the three-piece set flat on the ground where it could receive sunlight, allowing the bedding to dry thoroughly and shed its mold.
If conditions had permitted, Su Mo would have liked to wash everything with water before taking it out to dry.
Unfortunately, given his current living conditions, he could only keep things as simple as possible.
After returning to the shelter, Su Mo took out the table, tea set, and seasonings he had previously removed.
Unfortunately, the Game Panel could not identify any of the three items this time. He could only use them as ordinary furniture, cups, and seasonings.
The half-bag of flour he had taken from the kitchen, however, made Su Mo happy.
Exquisite Flour (Excellent) Description: Milky white in color, halfway between high-gluten and low-gluten flour. Semi-loose in texture, suitable for making steamed buns, mantou, noodles, and so on. Special Ability: The flour automatically removes dust, resists spoilage and mold, and can be stored for long periods. Evaluation: What? Looking at it doesn't make you want to whip up a bowl of Oil Splash Noodles and dig in?
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