724. Free-Range

Three months had passed since they were rescued.

Naturally, the rescued people could not stay piled up at the port forever. In the end, they were evenly distributed to various places by drawing lots.

Owen and his younger sister Alice were lucky enough to be assigned to Mycelium Puji Fortress, and a month had already passed since then.

After the initial shock and joy, the two of them took the low-interest relief-loan Contribution Points they had been issued and, in a way, began a new life.

But today was a special day for them.

"Alice, try picking this up!" Owen's voice was a little excited as he placed an ordinary stone in front of his sister. His sister, who had originally lost both hands, now stretched out one clean, pale hand and shakily, very clumsily, picked up the stone. "It really worked. That's great!" Owen threw his arms around his sister.

"Don't squeeze me. The hands are going to break!"

Only then did Owen hurriedly back away. Seeing that his sister's "hands" had not broken, he finally let out a sigh of relief.

It was not that Alice's hands had grown back. The initial Contribution Point loan issued from above was not enough to buy a restoration potion.

These two clean, pale hands were essentially two Puji kneaded into the shape of hands, a temporary substitute.

After connecting mentally, Alice controlled the two Puji through the Mycelium Network to function in place of her hands. She was clearly still not very skilled at it, but it was already enough to make Owen overjoyed.

Looking at her new hands, Alice was delighted at first, but then her brows furrowed again. "But if this is the case, we don't have many Contribution Points left..."

Owen comforted her. "It's fine, it's fine. Your