The homestead has been upgraded again.
【Base Level: Bronze (↑), Next upgrade requires 20,000 points.】
【Main Building Strength: Level 2 Bronze Wall Iron Wall (↑), Next upgrade requires 5 tons of steel, 10 tons of cement】
【Storage Space: Capacity 20,000m³ (↑), Water Reservoir Capacity: 15 tons (↑), Unlocked High-Efficiency Black Soil 5㎡ (↑)】
【Flood Control: 3 (↑) Earthquake Resistance: 7 (↑), Next upgrade requires 500 new material categories.】
【Monitoring system unlocked, covering streets within fifty meters.】
【Remote control system unlocked, remote range: unlimited.】
【Power supply system added, unlocking requires Generator * 10, Solar Panel * 100, Diesel 10 tons】
【Remote Teleportation unlocked, covering a range of 500KM, cooldown 48 hours.】
【Homestead system unlocked, current homestead population 1/3】
This wave of upgrades left Shi Man both happy and worried; happy that the homestead's functions had increased, but worried that future upgrades would become increasingly difficult, requiring more and more materials.
Shi Man understood the meaning of the remote teleportation function from its literal words. She wanted to try it, but seeing the 48-hour cooldown, she held back.
This remote function should be of great use at the last moment of the natural disaster!
What she was most curious about now was the existence of the Homestead System.
A house icon appeared in the upper right corner of the light screen in front of her, showing Homestead Population: 1, corresponding to her own name.
She tried clicking on her name, and what appeared was actually a character attribute panel.
【Name: Shi Man
Race: Human
Strength: 3 (A delicate flower who can't carry two floors' worth of rice)
Stamina: 4 (You're worse than a dog after running a thousand meters)
Agility: 2 (When it comes to standing still, you're definitely a king)
Speed: 3 (It only takes a tiger two steps to eat you. Are your legs prosthetics?)
Intelligence: 9 (OMG, you have a big brain!)
Luck: 0 (You don't even deserve a dime dropped on the roadside)
Rating: R (↑)】
Shi Man looked at the panel, furious!
Who are they insulting?!
The upper limit of these values must be 10, right? It can't be a hundred!
Shi Man refused to admit that she was a useless person with only a brain! Although, her physical education... she often failed.
However, the 'R (↑)' rating made her a little concerned. Did this mean that her attribute panel could also be upgraded?
“Meow meow meow~”
The clingy meows and purrs of the kitten interrupted Shi Man's thoughts. She looked at the little adorable at her feet, and with a thought, added Milk's name to the homestead list.
At the same time, Milk, who was rolling on her back, flipped over as if sensing something, looking around warily, her heterochromatic eyes wide as she gazed at Shi Man: “Meow?”
Shi Man looked at Milk's panel, her silence deafening:
【Name: Milk
Species: Feline
Strength: 0 (An egg for Mommy)
Stamina: 0 (Two eggs for praise)
Agility: 7 (Stupid humans can't catch the cat master)
Speed: 7 (Bipeds can absolutely not catch a sprinting kitten unless they become quadrupeds)
Intelligence: 1 (I'm smarter than a three-year-old bipedal cub)
Luck: 10 (Holy fire shines, holy fire glows, all my hosts, meow meow meow meow, lucky wave biubiu~)
Special Ability: House Guardian (Daily increase of food and water * 1)
Rating: A (↑)】
Shi Man: “!!!” She's not even as good as a cat!!
【Ding dong! Homestead new population +1, Host gains member: Milk. The world is so big, humans can have many kittens, but in the world of cute kittens, there is only you~
Ding dong~ Congratulations, Host, you have received a gift from the House Guardian Beast: Agility +4, Speed +4, Luck +2】
Shi Man's panel data updated, and at that moment, she felt her body lighten.
Shi Man immediately ran out onto the street and did a 100-meter sprint. Ah! This soaring feeling, is this the speed of a normal person running on two legs?! She probably ran 100 meters in less than 12 seconds, which is definitely not slow among ordinary people!
Compared to this, her legs before were truly like prosthetics.
Shi Man's heart pounded. Fortunately, there weren't many people wandering around in the urban village at night, otherwise, her crazy street running would surely scare people into calling a mental hospital.
Looking at the outer courtyard wall, Shi Man had a thought and jumped on the spot.
She easily climbed over the nearly two-meter wall.
Shi Man rushed back home, picked up Milk, and did an impromptu waltz, showering her with kisses.
“My House Guardian Beast, ahhh! Must kiss you to death!” Shi Man let out Shi Ji Niangniang's laughter.
Milk meowed from being kissed, finally showing a resigned little expression, letting the crazy woman have her way with her.
Suddenly, Shi Man saw an extra pack of compressed biscuits and a 500ML bottle of mineral water next to Milk's cat bowl.
She thought of something and clicked on Milk's panel. The ‘Daily new food and water * 1’ next to ‘Special Ability: House Guardian’ now had a ‘Delivered’ mark.
A flash of lightning struck Shi Man's mind, “Could it be…”
She looked at Milk's beautiful heterochromatic eyes and thought of how, in her previous life, when she retreated to the old building with those three families, she found small amounts of food and water appearing in the old building every day.
Shi Man had seen the packaging of this compressed biscuit before. So, in her previous life, was Milk the owner of the homestead?
That's why in this life, Milk bit her upon meeting her, giving her the chance to become the host?
Shi Man thought of Milk's reaction to Shi Dahai and his daughter. In the past, Milk, though she disliked those families, always hid from them and never actively attacked.
And also Milk's ‘Intelligence: 1’ on her panel.
Shi Man's eyes gradually welled up. She had been reborn, so perhaps… Milk had also been reborn?
“Meow wu~”
The kitten's soft paw actively pressed against Shi Man's face, and a purring sound came from her nose.
Shi Man broke into a smile through her tears, hugging her and rubbing against her.
In this life, she would never repeat the same mistakes. She would live to the very end! And she would make those three families pay a bloody price!
After her abilities upgraded, Shi Man felt as if she had eaten a legendary tonic. She was full of energy and couldn't sleep.
Thinking of the materials needed for the homestead upgrade and the increasingly urgent time, Shi Man threw caution to the wind and called the solar panel and generator bosses she had contacted before.
She stated that she wanted to pick up the goods immediately. The boss, seeing her as a money tree, agreed to her unreasonable request to pick up goods in the middle of the night.
Before Shi Man set off, she looked at Milk, one person and one cat staring at each other. Shi Man thought of the House Guardian Beast's full ten points of luck.
“Let's go! Divine Beast!” Shi Man scooped up the kitten, put her into her travel carrier, and took her out.
An intelligent kitten has to earn her own cans!
An hour and a half later, Shi Man arrived at a small warehouse in the suburban county. It was pouring rain at the moment.
Only the small warehouse was lit up at night. The boss was very surprised to see her, a young girl, arriving in a van:
“Are you alone? You have so much stuff, your van probably can't fit it all.”
The boss heard a cat meow and was even more surprised: “Oh, you even brought a cat?”
Shi Man entered the warehouse, shook off the rain from her body, and said, “My friend lives nearby. I'll just make a few more trips and move the stuff to his house first.”
“Alright.” The boss nodded. His phone kept ringing. After answering the call, his expression became even more anxious: “What? My dad and who checked into a room? Aunt Zhang next door?!”
Shi Man: “…”
Boss: “Wife, stop my mom! Don't let her get a knife. I'll be right back!”
Shi Man: “Boss, if you have something to do, you go first.”
The boss was truly anxious. He directly shoved the warehouse key to Shi Man: “All the goods are in the warehouse! Little girl, you'll have to work hard and move them yourself. The extra generator and dozen or so panels are my gift to you! Remember to lock the door for me after you're done!!”
After saying that, the boss hastily drove home. If he was late, he would either be wearing mourning clothes tonight or delivering food to a prison cell.
Shi Man looked at the key, walked over and opened the passenger door, giving a thumbs up to Milk in the travel carrier: “It's really you, Divine Beast Meow!”
She activated her power so quickly!
Milk: “Meow?”
After confirming there were no cameras in the warehouse, Shi Man directly put the generator and solar panels into her backpack. She only needed ten tons of diesel to unlock the power supply system.
As she got into the car, ready to leave, Shi Man slapped her forehead, remembering what she had forgotten!
“This boss… he hasn't collected my money yet…”
Shi Man looked at the Divine Beast, “My Meow, is your ten points of luck that amazing?”
Milk: “Meow!”
