Xie Ziyuan stared at the growing sprouts of rice with an expressionless face, his heart becoming more wary.
He wasn't surprised such a ghostly thing would happen. After all, he had experienced first hand how the key he had accidentally dropped to the ground had triggered a castle to appear in front of him.
For the whole night, he toured the castle and concluded he was the only one there. Did the person entrusted the castle to him…?
Or did he make a mistake by triggering it? The key unexpectedly was such an incredible magic artifact.
This place had three layers: the fortress, the castle, and lastly, the secret underground.
During the apocalypse, such a place was practically a heaven. It could give protection from crazy beastmen with high mental pollution levels, the ones who had turned into zombies, mutant plants, and mutant animals.
Now, seeing things moving on their own, he was sure whoever behind it was the person who had saved him. What was this person's purpose?
"Do you want me to take care of the castle?" He asked.
He never received a response then. Vaguely, he couldn't sense the person's presence anymore until he went to check his inner space.
Although he wasn't surprised seeing things move on their own, his heart was in turmoil when he thought anyone could enter his inner space at will.
That place was nothing but a wasteland, but if someone could invade it at will, it would give him a lack of security. Who was this person?
He became more restless when he couldn't figure it out. Nothing is free in this world. Since the person had saved him, even entrusting him with a castle which was essentially a safe shelter. They might want something from him.
But since he had this opportunity, he would make the best use of it.
He clutched the key from last night and placed it inside a box in his inner space. The previously vast expanse of grey sky had turned sunny, just perfect for farming.
The person had changed his inner space just so that they could… farm. He had mixed feelings.
The key was also an important item to unlock the control room in the underground base. He hadn't dug deeper into that place yet.
Meanwhile, in another place, Su Yining felt disappointed and annoyed when she saw the six hour timer. Isn't this ridiculous?! Was the game developer experienced in the area of common sense?
If the cheapest crop needed such a long time to be ready for harvest, wouldn't the players grow bored easily?
[Help Xie Ziyuan kill the mutant wild goat? Yes/No]
Huh? Because she was too busy scolding the game developer in her mind, Su Yining almost didn't notice that the main character had left the area. She followed the arrow symbol, shifting the screen to his current position.
A quest? Her eyes lit up.
Hmph, at least the game developer was clever enough to include quests that didn't relate only to the planting and harvesting of crops. Otherwise, with such beautiful graphics, it would be a waste.
Xie Ziyuan had nothing to eat, so he went to find some game.
The area around the castle was filled with forest. There should be some critters he could find. However, he didn't expect he would run into a mutant wild goat. The mutant animal's rank was quite high–fourth order.
If he was at his peak, he could have easily solved the mutant wild goat, unfortunately, even his injuries weren't completely healed.
The goat let out a bleat, and made a threatening gesture. Its eyes stared fixedly at Xie Ziyuan, one front hoof stomping the ground in preparation to ram into him.
The wild goat launched itself. Xie Ziyuan slithered away, managed to evade just in time. His tail slammed into the unsuspecting goat, pushing it far away.
In his hand, he clutched his longsword tightly. It was something he had found inside the castle's weapon room.
"What should I do?" Su Yining already clicked yes. This time, she knew the game was unreliable again.
She couldn't bear it when she saw the cute amethyst snake beastman getting hurt. His pixel chibi art was smeared with dusty appearance as if he was battered. She immediately went to check the game's shop.
Xie Ziyuan almost couldn't hold back a hiss. The scales on his snake tail weren't strong enough yet. The collision had peeled open some of them.
He slithered again, swinging the longsword at the goat. His current form really hindered him greatly. He could neither retract his snake tail nor make use of it to fight–it was too vulnerable to injuries.
Unfortunately, his power was also too insufficient because of hunger. He hadn't eaten for two days.
Xie Ziyuan widened his eyes. A shocking change happened to him. His snake tail was suddenly gone… replaced by a silver fluffy tail?
On his head, he also could feel he had a pair of silver ears. He glanced down at his two feet. He had morphed into a silver wolf beastman.
His expression cracked. How?!
He hurriedly jumped away from the goat who was about to ram into him again. He could feel the goat's wariness now. His power had increased slightly.
"You still look cute in this outfit." Su Yining sighed and poked the chibi of the silver wolf beastman.
She just couldn't help it when she saw the 99% discount, okay? As expected, the silver wolf avatar also looked good on her Yuanyuan!
Xie Ziyuan, who didn't realize that he now had a nickname, was still fighting the goat nimbly. Now, his vulnerable snake tail part was no longer exposed.
He had managed to wound the goat with his longsword. Unfortunately, the goat was still too strong. After it smelled blood, the mutant goat acted like it had been stimulated, bleating non-stop and continued to chase after him aggressively.
Just as the goat was preparing another ramming stance, Xie Ziyuan found that its head suddenly exploded.
The person was here again!
Su Yining looked at the word astonished above Xie Ziyuan's head and was proud. Of course, she wouldn't get carried away and only buy the discounted 99% silver wolf avatar.
She had to save Yuanyuan!
The goat twitched a few times before it stopped completely, and died.
Xie Ziyuan now had the time to take a breath. Since the person was here, he had to ask them.
"Why did you turn me into a silver wolf? What have you done to me?!"