The Protagonist's Privileges-Lick Bai Fu's Boots and Get Everything You Could Ever Want [53k]

In an empty room in the Blue-Tailed Scorpion camp, Bai Fu quietly listened to Old Nissen's story.

Old Nissen was telling her how the Geli Desert came to be.

When she first entered the Geli Desert, Bai Fu had bought a brief report from the Dark Web. It mentioned that before the great war broke out a hundred years ago, the Geli Desert had not been a desert at all, but a stretch of green land.

The war had destroyed the ecosystem there, turning it into a desert swept by sandstorms.

Even so, since everywhere beyond the desert was full of pollutants that could mutate ordinary people at a touch, many people had still chosen to settle near the few remaining oases in the desert.

Life in the desert was harsh, but it was still far better than turning into a monster by accident.

"Most people know no more than that about the Geli Desert. I grew up hearing the same story, but..." Old Nissen paused, then abruptly changed tack. "The truth is far more complicated. This happened not long before I founded Watchers Camp."

"To find a suitable place to establish a camp, I set off alone. After about ten days on the road, I was suddenly attacked by a Giant Sandworm. It was incredibly powerful, and I was no match for it, so I could only run."

"As I ran, I lost track of where I was. Just when I thought I was going to die of thirst in the desert, I found a research facility buried beneath the sand."

A research facility?

Bai Fu furrowed her brow slightly, signaling for Old Nissen to continue.

Old Nissen said, "The facility had an extremely high level of security. There were three doors at the entrance, and the corridors leading