Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 283 Traveler and Sheep
Option 33.3 55.6%, Option 11.1 [-]%, Option [-] [-]%.

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【Option [-]】

【Go to the Northwest to the Dragon Slaying Spear】

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Zheng Zhuo looked to the northwest.

The dark sky covered the earth.In the northwest, vaguely, it seems that something can be seen across the sky and the earth.

It was like a shadow in the sky, and it seemed that with a little force, it could be wiped away from sight.

And among those rickety travelers before, one group went there.

"Dragon Slaying Spear..."

Zheng Zhuo decided to go there to have a look.

He is looking for something that can cause a fatal attack on the computer.He thought, the Dragon Slaying Spear would definitely work.

It is a weapon.Shooting straight out of the hole will be able to penetrate the computer and shatter it.

A weapon that can reliably destroy a target with a single blow.This is exactly what Zheng Zhuo needs now.

Moreover, the advantage of weapons is that everyone can use them.

Even if Zheng Zhuo failed to destroy the computer with one blow, other participants could use it to continue attacking.

Very reliable.

……

Fierce battles appear and disappear.The wind blows across the ground, obliterating all traces.

Whether it's a big bird, or a hollow, or a huge fireball.

It seems that this place has been a plain from the beginning, and nothing has ever existed.The traces left by Zheng Zhuo and Da Niao's fierce battle to survive like animals have gradually disappeared.

The world doesn't like fighting like that.Zheng Zhuo thought.

The battle for survival has happened here too many times, the wind and the soil have become numb to it.

In fact, Zheng Zhuo didn't feel much anymore.

He carried the burden, took the girl with him, and changed the direction of his progress.

A silent journey.

Only the lost spell book, and Zheng Zhuo's deformed, twisted, pitch-black right arm with bright red lines reminded him that everything just now was not just a dream.

"(...)"

Zheng Zhuo walked on the black sand.The fly ash fell from his feet, and some were lifted up and fell on his hands.

It is still felt in the left hand of the doll.And the right hand, which was burnt black, did not feel any sensation.

Generally, this means that the arm has completely died.However, Zheng Zhuo was still able to use it.

He tried to use his black right hand to pick up the fly ash on the skirt of his clothes.

touched.But it didn't twist up well.His fingers crushed them.

"(Can not be done.)"

It feels sluggish.The hand is no longer good at making small movements.

But in contrast, it can spew flames from it.

"(...It's amazing.)"

Zheng Zhuo spread out his palm and stared at the red lines in the middle for a while.

His spellbook was consumed by the flames.But he did not lose the ability to use spells.

The flames tempered his arms.Now, he can use this hand to release [Fireball]... the spell recorded on the page of the spell cipher text he once had.

Besides, while attacking Big Bird, he noticed that he clenched his fist and let out a continuous arc of flame.

He remembered those arcs of flame bouncing, extraordinarily bright.It's like the corona rings on the sun.

"...At least I have the ability to protect myself now."

Zheng Zhuo said to himself.

In this [Dark World] where life could be lost at any time, the fact that an arm was used in exchange for the ability to protect himself did not make him find it difficult to accept.

……

three days later.

Sometimes Zheng Zhuo felt that they were not moving forward at all.

The same desert, the same land, the same gray-black soil, the same flying ash, the same dead tree, the same sky, and the same solar eclipse.

The passage of time seems to have lost its meaning in this world.Zheng Zhuo and the girl kept walking, but the plain was still the same plain, and the shadow in the distant sky was still the same shadow.

It doesn't even look much bigger.

"(How far is it?)"

The cores picked are almost gone.An emotion called despair slowly climbed up Zheng Zhuo's ankles, making every step he took heavier and heavier.

He once walked for three days before reaching the place where the girl lived.But at that time, he had seen abandoned villages on the road, dying old people with strange limbs, and hunched travelers.

But this time, it's different.

On the way to the Dragon Slayer, there were no people, no houses, nothing.

This direction is downright desert.

"(It doesn't matter whether we can get there, if we can't confirm the water source and food situation next, it will become very bad.)"

Zheng Zhuo thought as he walked.

Now changing direction, it is impossible to enter the area with food in time.In other words, there is no place on this land that must "have food and water".

All the people he saw could only wait to die in place, or kept migrating and dying somewhere else.

what can we do about it.

Zheng Zhuo could only walk slowly.

Here, even his thinking speed slowed down.

I don't know if it's the same for young women.

He looked back.

The girl followed behind him with one foot deep and the other shallow.

"Tired?"

Zheng Zhuo asked.

The girl shook her head.

She always speaks very little.Zheng Zhuo wasn't sure if it was because she was obedient and sensible, or for some other reason.

The young women in his impression didn't talk much, but they weren't so reticent either.

Can only move forward.

In this way, the two walked for about a day.

The worst didn't happen and the ground started to go soft.Small clumps of moss appeared on the ground.

They had moss to eat.More importantly, it means there is water nearby.

After spending a while searching, Zheng Zhuo dug up a wet ground and found an underground river.

To say that this is an underground river is an exaggeration.In fact, it is even thinner than the thinnest stream that Zheng Zhuo has ever seen, and he can't hold the water even with his hands.

But still drinkable.

That's fine.Not in vain Zheng Zhuo spent almost a day from searching to digging.

The two eat and drink here, and recuperate a bit.At this time, Zheng Zhuo realized that they had hardly rested, and they walked for three days.

It's not because they're full of energy.

On the contrary, in [Dark World], just being alive, making the heart beat, and letting the lungs breathe is exhausting enough.

Tired to even more exhausted action, has made people feel nothing.

Zheng Zhuo looked at the girl.

He thought that when she was at home, she might seldom sleep...

At this moment, suddenly, the girl holding the water raised her head.

"!"

She looks into the distance.

what happened?
Zheng Zhuo also looked there.

In the wilderness...

He saw some sheep.

Gray, shaggy fur.Can't tell if it's a goat or a sheep.

They watch here warily.Seeing Zheng Zhuo looking up, they quickly fled outside.

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【problem】

[Meet the sheep!How to act? 】

【Option [-]】

[Use fireball to kill as many as possible]

【Option [-]】

【Rush forward and grab them physically】

【Option [-]】

【Low head, continue to pretend not to see, trying to get them back】

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