The Girl Who Transformed and Proliferated Infinitely, My Numbers Have Become a Disaster Chapter 2

"It came again."

She secretly glanced back at the two people still chopping trees. The Woman among them had also gotten a copper coin.

"So I'm not the only one getting drops."

Without thinking too much about it, she slipped the coin into her pocket and continued working.

Soon, the weeds on the ground had been hoed away. The number of copper coins that dropped along the way was at least twice that of the other two.

Just as she finished hoeing one square meter of land, an item glowing with purple light dropped out.

"This..."

"Whoa, something dropped?" The Woman chopping trees had actually noticed the scene. She ran over in surprise, looking highly interested.

Ye Qian crouched down and picked it up.

Obtained: Mini Map

Seeing the map display appear in the upper-left corner of her vision, Ye Qian raised an eyebrow.

Everything around the map was black, with only the area where they were standing illuminated.

Everyone was represented by green dots. The two men who had gone out to fight had already moved 300 meters away from the starting area. Every few steps they took into the darkness caused the corresponding area to light up on the map.

It really was a map.

She took a deep breath and answered, "A map dropped. It appeared directly in front of my eyes, but it only shows a few hundred meters around us."

"Like one in a game?" the Woman asked.

"More or less." Ye Qian nodded.

"Great. Looks like I need to work harder at chopping trees too and try to get something good."

Watching the Woman run back excitedly and start swinging her axe, Ye Qian let out a breath.

"This game really isn't as simple as I thought. I should keep hoeing for a while and see if more useful things drop."

After saying that, Ye Qian returned to work.

By her rough estimate, a copper coin dropped about once every ten swings. But she had to put in a certain amount of force, or no items would appear.

As a result, she grew more exhausted with every swing. By the end, she was panting heavily and wanted nothing more than to collapse on the ground.

After working on and off for twenty minutes.

Ding

Copper Coin +1

The total number of copper coins she had accumulated reached ten.

But at that moment, a high-risk alert suddenly appeared on the mini map.

She hurriedly glanced at it and discovered two small red dots in her field of vision. They were rapidly approaching, seemingly fighting with the green dots representing the two men.

A few seconds later... the blue dots retreated.

Ye Qian hurriedly looked in that direction and saw the bespectacled man clutching his injured left arm as he ran frantically toward them. He shouted anxiously, "Run! There are wolves!"

"Wolves?"

Boom—

A violent explosion rang out, sending dust flying everywhere. The man was instantly blasted into the air by the shockwave and crashed to the ground in a miserable heap.

"Cough, cough." He coughed sharply twice. Before he could get up, a ferocious giant wolf charged over from the distance and pounced directly onto him.

The bespectacled man endured his injuries and swung his sword, slashing straight into the wolf's abdomen. But almost at the same time, its vicious fangs clamped down on his neck and shook him violently.

The other Tall Man behind him also came rushing over. He thrust his sword from the side, striking the wolf in the neck.

The wolf's jaws loosened.

But blood gushed from the bespectacled man's wound like a fountain.

Clearly, although the wolf had died, its earlier attack had severed the bespectacled man's carotid artery. There was no way he could survive.

Whoosh—

A fireball flew over from the distance.

"Fuck." The middle school boy who had been chopping trees finally snapped out of it and hurriedly backed away in fright.

However, the fireball was aimed directly at him and landed by his feet in an instant.

With a deafening boom, like a grenade exploding, the unlucky boy was blasted backward and slammed hard into a tree behind him, falling unconscious.

Looking toward where the fireball had come from, they discovered another wolf rapidly approaching in the distance.

The Tall Man holding a short sword was already badly injured. With a savage expression, he faced off against Gray Wolf while cautiously backing away.

Ye Qian, who was farther behind, could no longer worry about anything else. She turned and ran.

She did not dare look back at all, relying only on the green dots on the mini map to judge what was happening.

Unexpectedly, the red dot suddenly went around the green dots and charged straight toward her position.

"Damn, no way?"

Ye Qian halted and quickly turned around, only to see the wolf already charging right at her.

She was screwed.

"Watch out!" the woman shouted from over ten meters away.

But it was too late.

Left with no choice, Ye Qian abruptly raised her hoe.

Bang!

The wolf's head slammed into the hoe. After pausing for a moment, it twisted its body and circled around from the side. Its sharp teeth clamped directly onto Ye Qian's right hand. Gritting her teeth, she shoved forward and fell to the ground together with the wolf.

"I'm done for."

Ye Qian felt like she was about to die.

But...

In that instant, the woman who had shouted earlier suddenly appeared behind them and swung her axe viciously at the wolf's waist.

Slash—

The pain made the gray wolf loosen its bite instinctively. The woman swung again, hacking hard into the wolf's head. Ye Qian hurriedly got back up as well, grabbed the hoe beside her, and smashed it down with all her strength.

Bang! Bang! After several consecutive blows, the wolf finally could no longer withstand the attacks and collapsed to the ground.

Killed LV2 Gray Wolf.

Obtained: Gray Wolf Pelt ×1, Wolf Meat ×1

Extracting energy...

Extraction complete. You have obtained 20% of the energy from this kill, for a total of 2 points.

A prompt appeared before her eyes, and a strand of mysterious light merged into Ye Qian's body.

The next second, she heard a beep.

Beep—

Life Energy injected. Proliferation activated.

A strange sensation surged through her.

With an odd expression, she raised her injured right hand.

How should she put it? It felt as though something inside her body was trying to crawl out.

"Proliferation?"

Clearly, this interface displaying the Proliferation Ability differed from the adventure interface in the Main World.

It was more like an ability of her own.

Closing her eyes to feel it out, she quickly understood what was going on.

It was a little like... having a child?

Ye Qian's expression grew even stranger.

Or rather... splitting apart.

However, after each split, her strength would weaken for a while. The individual that split off had a high chance of undergoing beneficial mutations, turning into a new body of various forms.

The new bodies probably had different quality grades too.

The better the quality, naturally, the lower the chance of it appearing.

Going by the classification used in these Otherspaces, it seemed fine to divide her bodies into five grades: white, green, blue, purple, and gold.

Most importantly, the clones split from the main body could continue splitting as well. In theory, the stronger she became, the more energy splitting would consume, and the higher the chance of ultimately producing high-grade individuals.

"Why does this feel like some pay-to-win gacha game?"

She quietly complained to herself, but at that moment, Ye Qian found herself overwhelmed by the urge to proliferate.

"This is too weird. It really does feel like splitting."

Watching her injured hand writhe strangely, Ye Qian took a deep breath.

The main body could split regardless of her current strength, but it required at least 10 points of Life Energy. And if she used so little, the new body she obtained would most likely be extremely weak.

"Looks like I can't split so soon. I need to get stronger first."

The Life Energy obtained from killing the gray wolf earlier could be used to strengthen her body and was also necessary for leveling up. Unfortunately, the two points she had just gained had been used to activate her Proliferation potential. Getting more now would probably be difficult.

This Water Can't Be Drunk

"Pant... pant..."

The woman who had killed the gray wolf tossed aside her axe in lingering shock, only now seeming to snap out of her fear.

But she quickly ran over to Ye Qian and helped her up.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, thanks."

She hadn't expected him to risk himself to save her at such a critical moment instead of turning and running away.

Ye Qian felt somewhat grateful.

"Your hand is injured. We need to find something to disinfect it, right?"

The woman began looking around, but unfortunately, there was nothing.

Just then, the Tall Man approached from the distance.

"Try this. Apply it to the wound."

He handed over a leaf.

Healing Leaf

Applied externally, it could rapidly heal injuries.

"Mm, I'll try it."

The moment she pressed the leaf against her arm, a sharp pain shot through it.

"Hiss~"

Fortunately, after a few seconds, the pain was replaced by a tingling, numbing sensation.

The bleeding actually stopped very quickly.

"I didn't expect the creatures nearby to be capable of magic. Two people died right at the start—this just got a lot harder."

The Tall Man went to check on the male student and found that he had stopped breathing as well. He immediately frowned.

"What should we do next?" the woman beside him asked softly.

"We can only continue with the previous routine: chop trees and till the land. But the most important thing is still killing monsters. You killed that wolf just now, so you should have felt your strength increase, right? You can think of that energy as something similar to experience points in a game. Absorbing it strengthens you. It takes 10 points of energy to go from Level 1 to Level 2. I killed one just now and have already gone up a level."