Chapter 4
"Hurry up and pay for my dinner, or else... I'll beat you up."
"!!!"
...
at the same time.
Gafan, who had arrived at the underground gathering place for humans, was looking at the ore tied to the top of the stick in his hand with surprise.
This thing is glowing, it's so magical.
"Gafan? Hurry up and follow."
Croni, who was walking in front, turned back and complained, but her tone was not harsh at all: "And pay attention to the top of your head. This passage seems to be a little short for you, so be careful not to hit it."
"I know, eldest sister!"
Gafan replied quickly and followed closely. The light from the ore in his hand moved with his footsteps, illuminating the surrounding rock walls and the rugged road under his feet.
"Huh? You called me eldest sister again. It's a strange title, but it sounds pretty good, hehe." Cloni looked a little happy and smiled, "Rick is obviously my brother, but he never You just called me by my name... Actually, Gafan, you can just call me Croni."
"No, I want to call you eldest sister. You saved me. It's no exaggeration to say that I will remember this kindness forever." Gafan shook his head a little stubbornly to express his refusal.
"That's a bit exaggerated. I just happened to meet you and bring you back. This is what every human being would do." Croni smiled softly.
Those clear blue eyes were like the sky when this world was not polluted.
You must know that in this apocalyptic world, human beings are the weakest, but they are surprisingly very united. If they encounter fellow humans who are in distress and are alone in the wild, they will definitely provide help to the best of their ability.
Because they all know that as human beings, they encounter difficulties and hardships in survival.
"..."
No, this is not an exaggeration at all, I will really remember it forever.
Gafan thought silently in his heart.
The other party didn't know how desperate he felt at that time, when there seemed to be no way out, standing alone in the wilderness with no edge or any chance of life, and where he could be slapped to death by a passing higher race at any time. .
And when I met the other person, the excitement in my heart was even more indescribable.
Although he doesn't know how he can repay the other party now, Gafan thought silently.
However, I didn't expect that the place I traveled to was unexpectedly close to this human gathering place, and I happened to bump into Croni who had returned from visiting Rick. It was a blessing in misfortune.
And now, the next thing to do is...
"Gululu——"
The sound of her stomach echoed in the narrow passage. Croni, who was walking in front, turned around and saw Gafan looking away with an embarrassed look, holding his stomach and regretting not eating breakfast, and smiled lively.
"I happen to be hungry too. Let's walk faster. It's almost time for everyone in the gathering place to start eating at this time."
"Yes, eldest sister."
Gafan nodded slightly.
The way he looks at Croni now is as if he is seeing his own mother alive.
Ahem, that seems a bit exaggerated, let’s just treat her like a real sister.
The pace under his feet quickened, Gafan thought, and then...
"Bang!"
"hiss--"
"Eh? Gafan, I told you to be careful. Come on, show me if you're hurt."
Chapter 5: Creatures like scumbags do not distinguish between races
"Ah, I'm hungry, I'm hungry."
Underground, in a separate cave room dug by manpower, Gafan was cooking rice with a happy face, pounding the wooden bowl with a wooden spoon, and he seemed to be eating quite vigorously...
"its not right!!!"
A frantic voice sounded. Gafan, who no longer wanted to be a rice cook, put down his wooden bowl and scratched his thick hair in distress again.
"This meal is too unpalatable, uh, no, now is not the time to eat, system, system!"
"What are you doing?" A feeble and childish voice emerged from Gafan's mind. It was completely different from the cold mechanical and electronic sound before. The entire system exuded the aura of NetEase Cloud.
"What are you doing? Tell me how to get back quickly." Gafan muttered to himself in the empty air. If others saw this scene, they would definitely label him as a weirdo.
"You ask me, who am I asking?"
The system said that it didn't want to pay attention to him. As a scumbag in the clan, he had nothing in the database except for copying novels from other worlds and some miscellaneous things that he accidentally copied and pasted. Now besides wanting to be in a daze and escape from reality, he has There's nothing else I want to do.
"As I said, I haven't installed a plug-in with that function at all, so it's useless to call me."
"No, I already know this." Gafan looked like you are really a waste. In the empty room, as if he was talking to himself, he pointed at himself, "I want you to If we study it carefully, there should be a way to go back to my inexplicably passive traveling physique."
"You also forgot to add MAX."
"It does not matter!"
"Okay...Hey, what you said seems to make sense." After the system was stunned for a moment, it made an embarrassing sound as if it was an afterthought, "It's really possible, I'm just pretending The ability introductions on this second-hand virtual panel are generally automatic and concise overviews, and there is a certain chance that some important information will be ignored. "
"......second hand?"
Gafan had an expression on his face like "Are you fucking kidding me?" No wonder he thought this thing looked a bit crude before, and his feelings were second-hand.
When can Yishou stand up?
"Ahem, that's not important. Just wait a moment and I'll check it carefully with my own hands."
Gafan, who no longer felt any respect or power for the system, leaned tiredly on the rough rock wall and sat on the ground. He didn't mind being dirty, so he decided to wait patiently for a while.
Then he just looked up at the ceiling, which was probably less than two meters above the ground, and paused.
He is currently in Cloni, the human gathering place once led by the protagonist Rick in the original work. He officially arrived here about ten minutes ago.
Recalling his arrival at that time, no one of these people who were struggling to survive in the apocalypse looked at him with unknown origins and his school uniforms that were completely different from here. Instead, they were all natural and kind. He accepted himself with a little enthusiasm and was assigned a spare room, and brought the scarce food by the way.
Gafan felt very complicated.
Because he didn't know whether humans in the so-called peaceful era could do this kind of thing.
But he didn't dwell too much on it. After all, there was no point in thinking about such a thing.
Therefore, after being in a daze for a while, Gafan picked up the wooden bowl again and ate the food that tasted like torn pieces of paper or sawdust. This texture was really delicious for him who had only had enough food and clothing since he was a child. Not very good.
"Ah, it tastes really bad. I want to drink water."
The boring complaints of ordinary people occasionally sounded in this narrow room.
In a small dish next to it, the water-soaked ore quietly emits soft light, reflecting shadows and swaying on the wall.
After a while.
The sound of the system that seemed to have graduated from NetEase Cloud and regained its vitality suddenly sounded.
"Great!"
"Keep your voice down!" Gafan, who was stunned again, was so frightened that he covered his ears and complained.
"Huh? Oh, I'm sorry...that's not right. Why should I listen to you?"
The system also complained. It felt that the host it randomly selected now seemed to have little respect for it.
"I'm not loud, you were in a daze and you were startled... Hey, didn't you say this tastes terrible? Why did you finish it?"
The system suddenly noticed the empty wooden bowl beside it and asked casually.
Gafan also scratched his head and replied nonchalantly.
"Whether it tastes bad or not is not the same as eating it, but they are two different things. You can't waste food, let alone the kindness of others in this doomsday situation where food is in short supply."
Ga Fan glanced at the wooden spoon with a grain of rice still stuck on it, so he stuck it with his fingers and brought it to his mouth to lick it casually.
"Instead of this, tell me quickly what you have researched."
"Oh, I don't understand the thinking of your carbon-based creatures. Forget it, it's also a good thing to supplement some nutrients needed to survive."
The virtual panel appears again.
And this time, there is an additional piece of manually added information below the column for passive travel.
Return conditions: The lost people hold each other's hands for one minute.
"Holding hands?"
Gafan was stunned for a moment and said he didn't quite understand why.
"To be precise, as long as there is physical contact, your bodies can automatically exchange information and correct errors, and then return to your respective worlds." The system said nonchalantly, "So now you just need to find other people who are connected with you. People who travel through time can go back and return to the safe daily world.”
After saying that, the system thought for a while and added another sentence.
"Oh, by the way, this effect of passive travel anytime and anywhere seems to be only effective in the original world. After coming to the different world, there seems to be some bug and it cannot be activated, so I think we only need to travel to an ordinary world in the future. , you can truly feel at ease.”
This sounds a little bit proud, as if he thinks he is pretty awesome at finding a solution.
But Gafan unexpectedly remained silent and said nothing.
It wasn't until a long time passed that he asked a little bitterly under the strange gaze of the system.
"Well, let me ask first, if the person I implicated in traveling together... dies, can I still go home?"
"Oh, this, it must be..."
Halfway through the words, the system froze, also realizing the seriousness of the problem, and murmured subconsciously.
"I, I don't know."
"I see... I'm sorry."
Sitting on the ground, Gafan covered his face with his hands, feeling a different despair than when he was alone in the wasteland.
But that's not because I can't go back, but...
I feel deeply guilty for the person who was brought to this extremely bad apocalyptic world because of him. He clearly has his own life, but is forced to be a stranger in a foreign land, a person he has never met.
He is just an ordinary person. Whether before or after the crossing, he has not done anything commendable or despicable. What he is proud of in this life is that he has always been a law-abiding citizen.
He really never thought of harming anyone.
Even if he was forced.
"System, do you think that person can survive in this terrible world?"
"I don't know, but with the current danger level recorded in the database, even if there is a certain degree of special ability, according to objective analysis, the probability of survival is very small."
"Is that so... Can you find him?"
"Don't force it, I'm just a plagiarist."
"But you are also a system, I think you should be able to do it, even if you look unreliable."
"... I'll just think you are praising me, a weak carbon-based creature."
The system naturally retorted, but really started searching its own database.
"When I was moving the books and data, I seemed to have downloaded some weird stuff along the way, but it should be charged."
"Charge?" Gafan showed a surprised look.
"Well, it's the source point on the panel, but to be precise, it's the special energy unit converted from the source power of our system. It doesn't matter what it's called."
"Oh, so that's it."
Gafan nodded, then looked at the dazzling zero on the virtual panel, thinking that this guy should have stock.
What Gafan didn't know was that part of the reason why he was chosen by the system was because of some special energy that was generated when he crossed over.
These special energies, generally speaking, will condense into something like special abilities or golden fingers after a part of them is released to the world, and return to the host, so that he can start his own cheating life.
And what about Gafan?
Of his traversal welfare energy, 10% was given to the world, 80% was automatically swallowed by the passive traversal physique MAX, and the remaining 10% was taken by the plagiarism system that happened to be bound, and a sincere return gift was made.
Japanese Level 6.
So Gafan himself is really an ordinary person through and through.
"Ah, I found it."