Wan Jie Hospice Care Company

Main Quest 1: Find the Child of the World. Completed.

Points earned: 5

[Unlock Main Quest Two: Assist the Child of the World and help her survive the first day.]

[Reward: Unlocks Main Quest 3 and grants 5 points.]

Xiang Yu looked at the panel in front of him and nodded slightly.

Is the first task after finding the Child of the World really to help her survive the first day?

However, if she doesn't survive the first day, it basically means she won't survive either, since the two of them are now in different bodies but with the same mind.

"Anling, wait for me a moment."

After saying that, Xiang Yu sat down on the spot and began his breakthrough in the face of battle!

In the current situation, increasing strength and agility is not very useful, and spirit cannot be increased either. The only possible way to break the deadlock lies in "skills".

We can only hope to win this skill through a lottery.

Xiangyu focused his gaze on the "Skills" icon on the panel, and soon the panel unfolded in front of him.

Your character is at level E. You can spend 5 points to draw an E-level skill and choose one of three options to learn.

The probability of winning the lottery is as follows: E-level skill 75%, D-level skill 20%, C-level skill 5%, B-level skill 0%, A-level skill 0%, S-level skill 0%.

"lottery."

[Skill 1: Mighty Strength (E-rank Skill): Increases your Strength by 20%, and is considered as gaining 1 Strength attribute point (if your Strength attribute is E, then it is considered E+ after Mighty Strength).]

[Skill Note: Drink Dali (a powerful drink), and miracles will happen!]

[Skill 2: Raising an Army for a Thousand Days (Rank C Skill): Increases your food intake fivefold, and all food consumed is proportionally converted into stored energy. During combat, you can release these stored calories through your body (energy/food conversion rate is 50%).]

[Skill Note: This punch has the power to smash ten steamed buns. Can you withstand it?]

[Skill 3: Agile Dog (D-rank Skill): Your size shrinks to 60% of its original size. If you successfully dodge a fatal attack in battle, you can stop time for 1 second.]

[Skill Notes: It's actually quite similar to bullet time, but reacting to bullets is a bit difficult.]

"Wow, this is a huge success?"

Xiang Yu glanced at the three skills and had to admit that their effects were all quite simple and straightforward.

If I had to choose, the third one looks the coolest and has a very high potential. If I become stronger in the future, I can do a lot of things with a one-second time stop.

How about we fight for the future?

"I choose skill two."

Forget about fighting the future; if we don't improve our real-time combat power, the future will soon be gone.

As for food...

This was lunchtime, and in those days, some people still had the habit of bringing steamed buns from home to school to save money.

These people probably skip the cafeteria and have dinner in the classroom.

Besides, some unruly students will definitely have snacks, so there's no shortage of food in the teaching building.

Theoretically speaking, this skill can indeed solve an immediate problem.

Furthermore, his level is high, which means he's strong, and he's always been a player who prioritizes strength in games.

[Congratulations! You have acquired the skill "Raising an Army for a Thousand Days," which has been automatically equipped in your skill bar.]

The remaining skills have been added to the skill shop; please purchase them at their original price.

In other words, can these skills be purchased with points again in the future?

Xiang Yu glanced at the shop's prices: E-grade 5 points, D-grade 10 points, C-grade 30 points, B-grade 90 points, A-grade 270 points, and S-grade 720 points.

That's really expensive...

Having obtained the "Raising an Army for a Thousand Days" skill, Xiang Yu suddenly felt an unbearable hunger.

There are side effects too?!

He quickly stood up, glanced at the motionless An Ling, and asked with some confusion, "What's wrong with you? Why does your expression look so stiff?"

"Brother Xiang, what were you looking at just now?"

An Ling's voice made Xiang Yu realize that the panel seemed to be floating behind An Ling, and he stared at the panel without moving.

It made me feel like I was looking at something that didn't exist.

Anling felt uneasy under their gaze, but dared not turn around. She could only stand there stiffly, trembling like a quail.

"I wasn't looking at anything. I was communicating with other ancient giants." Xiang Yu began to talk nonsense in a serious tone.

"What should we do if they say there isn't anything?"

"The first step is simple: the Giant of Light needs energy now." Xiang Yu turned to An Ling, "Is there anything to eat?"

……

After eating a few large flatbreads, Xiang Yu felt that his stomach was only slightly full.

Anling bought these pancakes at the cafeteria at noon. She has a habit of bringing her dinner with her when she buys lunch, so that she can save time going to and from the cafeteria and use that time to study.

However, An Ling only weighs a little over 100 pounds and doesn't have a big appetite. Even a normal-weight boy would only eat half full, let alone Xiang Yu who has skills.

Stored energy: 1158 kJ

[Equivalent to approximately one-quarter kilogram of TNT]

"The Giant of Light...does it need to eat a lot?" Anling asked cautiously from the side.

"To be honest, that's true." After finishing his meal, Xiang Yu didn't rest. He started looking for food around the classroom. "Without enough energy, I can only stay on Earth for three minutes."

He started rummaging through drawers and cabinets, turning all the schoolbags in the classroom upside down, looking for any snacks he could eat.

Wow, it's Want Want Mini Crisps!

Looking at the old packaging, Xiangyu was deeply moved and quickly opened it to drink.

This thing is a calorie bomb, eat it quickly...

"Oh right, let's go to the homeroom teacher's office. There are some snacks she confiscated there..." Anling suggested.

"Damn, why didn't you say so earlier?" Xiang Yu found another can of Jianlibao, tore open the tab, and chugged it down in one gulp.

So Xiangyu, led by Anling, left the classroom and headed towards the teachers' office on the third floor.

But just as the two entered the corridor, Xiang Yu suddenly reached out and gestured for An Ling to stop.

There was no one in the corridor.

He still remembered how he kept elbowing people to squeeze onto the second floor, but now the corridor was completely silent, without a trace of human presence.

"...There's no one here anymore."

An Ling was taken aback, then quickly asked, "Have they already escaped?"

"The probability is not high." Xiang Yu looked out the window. The sirens were still blaring all around, but there wasn't a single student on the playground.

The students did not escape.

Xiang Yu held up two fingers: "There are two possibilities now. One is that we are being given special attention by that strange entity, and it has specially allocated a special space for the two of us, isolating us from those students."

"How terrifying..."

"No, that's actually the best possibility." Xiang Yu shook his head. "The second possibility is that all the students in this teaching building..."

An Ling's heart skipped a beat.

Xiang Yu continued, "If it's the second possibility, then it confirms a conjecture I had previously proposed: this deadly rule will strengthen over time."

"The very beginning, this morning, when you said you saw that couple kissing at the school gate, the rules had already been in place for this school."

"It's just that the power of the rules was relatively weak back then. Only serious violations of the rules would be fatal, such as kissing for several tens of minutes in a row."

"And at night, the power of this rule is clearly amplified; if one person expresses their love for another without reservation, the rule will also take notice."

"Time continued to move forward, and before I met you, the rules were even stricter. Just a slightly intimate physical touch—like holding hands—would kill you on the spot."

"So what's next? Will a man and a woman die from just touching each other? Will they die from talking to each other? Will they die from being in the same space? Or perhaps..."

"One look at the other person and you'll die."

Xiang Yu spoke faster and faster, eventually revealing all his conjectures.

"The rules will become increasingly strict, and we will become increasingly dangerous."

"Then...should we keep our distance?" Anling immediately realized the most crucial thing right now.

"Hmm... In necessary circumstances, we can't even speak or look at each other." Xiang Yu shrugged. "But it hasn't come to that yet, I guess we'll have to wait a while... At least for now, we can still say what we want to say."

An Ling took a deep breath; she dared not say another word.

"Let's go."

Xiang Yu led An Ling towards the third floor.

"Pat-pat, pat-pat, pat-pat."

Just then, the sound of a third person's footsteps echoed in the empty corridor.