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Chapter 438 - 107: Being on the Defensive and Being Born (Vote for Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 438: Chapter 107: Being on the Defensive and Being Born (Vote for Monthly Ticket)

The following morning, at dawn.

As the sky began to brighten, the tent located in the open area on the first floor of the lighthouse rustled.

Inside, an alluring figure stretched contentedly and then began to dress in an orderly fashion.

It’s worth mentioning that, since the bizarre Great Catastrophe, although the seasons remained unchanged, the daily sunrise was fixed at six o’clock in the morning.

Similarly, the sunset was consistently at six o’clock in the evening.

This time was extremely precise, neither a minute more nor less.

At this moment, it was not yet seven, and since Area D8B3 was not a land of bitter cold, even in the depth of winter, it was not too cold.

Before long, a fair hand lifted the tent flap.

Amidst the lazy morning dew and chirping of birds, a young woman in a long white dress stepped out slowly.

During the Wasteland hunting operation, Gu Yue Ming, a player tasked with slacking off, had also gotten herself neatly dressed and beautifully made up early on.

Bathed in the first light of the rising sun, she saw the cracked walls of the grand hall, the discarded cans littering the floor, and the remnants of a campfire that had gone out not long before.

"Hey? Where did they go? They were here last night."

Gu Yue Ming was slightly surprised and vigilantly pulled out her weapon, a two-foot long broken blade, holding it in hand.

She swung a glow stick around, applying a buff called "Physical Enhancement" to herself, and began patrolling the eerily quiet lighthouse without much threat.

As a "Witch," although she possessed the power to enhance herself, this ability was presented in the form of percentages, meaning the stronger one’s original physical qualities, the greater the enhancement effect received.

For someone as physically frail as Gu Yue Ming, even with the buff, she was only slightly better than the average Wasteland patrolling soldier—of course, a Doctor isn’t much of a threat, but that was in contrast to other Transcendents.

They had, after all, been selected from among those deemed "suitable," so just because someone chose a career akin to a healer didn’t mean they were worse than average people.

At that moment, the only thing Gu Yue Ming regretted was not carrying firearms at all times; for her, firearms were far more reassuring than the small knife in her hand.

Fortunately, after making a brief round, she finally found her dear niece Gu Pan in a toilet at the corner, who she had raised single-handedly and shared a bond akin to that of mother and child.

Upon finding her teammate, Gu Yue Ming slightly relaxed her guard, yet she felt puzzled.

Are there flowers here? Why do I smell a faint scent of flowers coming from inside?

She didn’t have time to ponder too much, for, as she neared a distance of 2 meters from the corner wall next to her, she suddenly felt today’s weather become scorchingly hot.

This blistering heat, swift as a bolt of lightning, spread instantly from her body’s surface to the inside, then rapidly centered itself in her lower abdomen. It was warm and soothing but made Gu Yue Ming feel an uncomfortable heaviness in her stomach, as if she urgently needed to use the restroom.

"...Panpan, are you done? Your auntie also needs to use the toilet." Gu Yue Ming said without much embarrassment.

Sharing a mother-child-like closeness, it was slightly awkward for her, but not something she couldn’t speak of.

The conditions here were very rudimentary, with only one communal squat toilet and no separation of genders, meaning that Gu Yue Ming had to wait while Gu Pan was inside.

Before long, the sound of flushing water came from the restroom, and the door opened to reveal Gu Pan stepping out with an indifferent expression.

"Your auntie will make you breakfast later, I need to go first." Gu Yue Ming crossed over Gu Pan with some urgency, hastily going about her morning business.

Watching the toilet door close, and hearing the trickling sound within, Gu Pan took two steps back with a strange expression.

She tilted her head, covering her flat, lean belly, pondered Gu Yue Ming’s slightly abnormal behavior, and glanced again at the corner two meters away.

After a moment, she muttered to herself in thought: "It seems that auntie has been affected too, only it seems much milder than when it happened to me. Could it be that this energy varies from person to person... Huh, it’s still that familiar feeling..."

"Damn it, why do I get this weird feeling like I’m back in my hometown..."

"But, to say or not to say, it’s actually... quite comfortable..."

"I never realized before, but after becoming a Transcendent, I can feel that the unique warmth he generates when he’s training... it seems to have certain benefits for my body..."

"Only, its side effects are embarrassingly overwhelming, damn it..."

Gu Pan shook her head in dismay and gave a sharp glance at the corner.

She believed that at this moment, an invisible Xu Shu should be sitting there, but based on past experiences, she deduced that he would be in a meditative state during training, oblivious to the outside world.

No, perhaps not entirely oblivious...

Gu Pan suddenly thought that Xu Shu had deliberately chosen to start his "training" next to the toilet rather than initiating it spontaneously anywhere like he used to.

He, could he be doing this on purpose?

No, not maybe, he was definitely doing it on purpose!

Actually, compared to before, she found that she could now leave more freely without being tormented by that intense, uncontrollable feeling of needing to urinate without being able to.

But correspondingly, having tasted the sweetness here and found her body seemingly benefitted from it, Gu Pan found herself struggling to resist the urge to approach and urinate right there.