Social Sister Qing

Having identified the source of the sound—the underground passage before him, sealed shut with a stone slab—Lu Xingyuan hesitated for a moment before ultimately deciding to investigate.

He had finally reached a solo Green Platform, yet all there was outside was a pile of scrap metal. Who could stand that?

If there really was danger below, the gun in his hand should be enough to kill it.

Even if the worst happened—if he got hurt—he still had zombie serum as his last means of survival.

If it wasn't a zombie-type monster, then forget he said anything.

His body had been enhanced by a Gene Potion, granting him immense strength. He easily shifted the stone slab aside, and a foul, bloody stench immediately surged up from the underground passage.

Once the smell had mostly dispersed, Lu Xingyuan slowly descended the stairs.

There was only one underground level. It was dim, unlit, and not very large, perhaps around twenty square meters. It was covered in dust and piled with all sorts of professional dog-rearing equipment.

Lu Xingyuan's gaze soon landed on the locked dog cage. Inside was a dog—not a Zombie Dog, but the most common kind of yellow dog.

The yellow dog had been locked in the cage for who knew how long. It was extremely old and skin and bones, its eyes murky and clouded.

When it saw Lu Xingyuan, it struggled to get up, wanting to stand but unable to do so. It could only wag its tail laboriously, expressing the joy in its heart.

"So it was you."

Lu Xingyuan walked up to the cage and reached out to stroke the yellow dog's head.

The yellow dog did not snap at him, and only then did Lu Xingyuan lower his gun.

He knew it. Yellow dogs were the most understanding.

The yellow dog looked utterly content. It kept making soft whimpering sounds, then even turned around and exposed its belly.

Yet Lu Xingyuan could clearly sense that its life was steadily fading away. It had clearly reached the end of its days.

"What a pity... If I'd come a few years earlier, maybe I could've let you out."

Lu Xingyuan sighed. The yellow dog had been imprisoned here for who knew how many years, forever facing nothing but this lightless darkness. Its best years had all been wasted in this cage.

With that thought, he opened the cage.

The yellow dog shakily walked out and followed Lu Xingyuan to the train door, but it kept its distance and did not follow him inside.

Lu Xingyuan took out his last two sausages and a bottle of mineral water.

"Want some?"

The yellow dog wagged its tail.

Lu Xingyuan tore open the packaging, broke the sausage into small pieces, and fed them to it.

Perhaps because it had not eaten for too long, the yellow dog ate with great delight.

But after finishing one sausage, it did not eat the second. Instead, it looked at the water in Lu Xingyuan's hand.

Lu Xingyuan unscrewed the cap and poured water into his palm for it to lick.

After drinking a little over two hundred milliliters, it stopped.

Lu Xingyuan finished the remaining water, then hurled the empty bottle in his hand far into the distance. "Go! Big Yellow, fetch it!"

Old Big Yellow finally had a chance to run. It spread its legs and used every ounce of strength in its body to do it.

"Good boy, Big Yellow."

Lu Xingyuan stroked its head.

But the very next second, he suddenly sensed something.

Big Yellow sensed it too.

Man and dog stared into each other's eyes.

The next second, Big Yellow vanished. In its place was a patch of foxtail grass, gently swaying despite the lack of wind.

Lu Xingyuan stared blankly for a long while before picking up a pendant from the foxtail grass.

It was a red string with a canine tooth hanging from it.

[Keen Fangs]

[Category: Extraordinary Creation]

[Level: 1]

[Description: You found it in a cage at the underground kennel. It was skin and bones, already in its twilight years. You opened the cage door, and it experienced freedom for the first time. At parting, it chose to give you this shed baby tooth as a gift. Movement speed slightly increased when worn—"It barely ran in its life. Now, run with it."]

Lu Xingyuan hung it around his neck. He could clearly feel his body becoming much lighter, as though some invisible force were quietly supporting him.

"Sigh... I knew it."

Lu Xingyuan still let out a sigh.

The moment he first saw Big Yellow locked in that cage, he knew this hidden mission was bound to end in tragedy.

Still, he had done everything he could to see it off one last time. At least he had no regrets left behind.

Eleven o'clock.

Lu Xingyuan chose to depart.

The train traveled along its designated tracks, cold wind constantly pouring in through the shattered window.

The train's durability had already dropped by ten points, leaving only two hundred.

"This haul was pretty lucky. I got quite a lot of supplies."

Gu Wanqing sent him a message.

"Share some with me."

Lu Xingyuan held out his hand.

A pack of Seventh Space landed in his hand.

He slowly typed out a question mark.

"Didn't you say you wanted it?"

"Do you think I can use this?"

"But I don't have anything else."

As it turned out, Gu Wanqing had arrived at a platform with a shop specializing in women's hygiene products.

The supplies in the shop were naturally invaluable treasures for a girl like her!

"After all, no one can guarantee that zombies won't be attracted by the smell of menstrual blood."

Lu Xingyuan wanted to stop his mind from imagining it, but it was already too late.

Are you sure you're not going to pay me for making me read that?

"If you can't use it, give it back. This stuff is precious."

After thinking it over, Lu Xingyuan ultimately felt too embarrassed to keep it.

It wasn't like he got periods. It would be better to let it serve its proper purpose.

"I'm so miserable."

"How so?"

Using the chat system's built-in camera function, Lu Xingyuan took a photo of the shattered train window and sent it to her.

"666."

"? How can you be so cold?"

"With all that blood on the glass, looks like there was a fierce battle today."

"More than fierce—it was a bloody battle! I almost lost my life!"

"Since you've made yourself sound so pitiful, I'll be kind and give you the tiniest bit of comfort."

"Oh?"

"Call me Sister Qing."

"Sister Qing!"

Two Train Coins landed in Lu Xingyuan's hand.

Wasn't this a little too extravagant?

Those people in the comments saying, "Call me Bro X and I'll send you fifty," might be scammers, but calling her Sister Qing actually got him paid!

"Sister Qing, Sister Qing, Sister Qing, Sister Qing, Sister Qing."

"Stop, stop, enough."

Lu Xingyuan cleared his throat and used the voice function for the first time. In a deliberately cutesy voice, he produced the legendary bubbly tone.

"Sister Qing!"

Lu Xingyuan soon received a voice message.

"Get the hell out of here, you damn fake-voice freak!"

Holy shit! Why did she sound like Lazy Goat?