"fate coin!"
Li Cang was 100% certain that this was the fate coin.
To say he wasn't excited would be a lie; who would want to live in that cramped little box when they could live well?
Hmm, it must be cramped.
Given the speed of Li Cang's bone spur growth, even a small box wouldn't be able to hold him after cremation.
He found a rope to tie up the monster's corpse, dragged it all the way to his Floating Island, and summoned the praying coin.
Suppressing his excitement, he tremblingly typed a line of text:
"Treat abnormal spinal hyperplasia"
As expected, having the physical fate coin made a difference.
Instead of being cryptic, two lines of mysterious text popped up directly:
"Heal: 6396 fate coin"
"Suppress: 788.4 fate coin"
The process was slightly different, but the outcome was exactly the same.
Li Cang's heart sank directly to his nether regions.
Damn it!
Doesn't that mean it would take over 6000 monsters to save my life?
That's practically a hundred million! This is the first time in my life I've realized I'm so valuable.
Am I the protagonist??
Is this reasonable? Reasonable died.
His gaze fell on the monster's corpse. Since this thing could grow coins, would it itself have some value?
As Li Cang wished.
The praying coin's scattered green light enveloped the monster's corpse, seemingly making it less disgusting. This meant it had been selected.
Two options appeared on the interface:
"Sacrifice"
"Wish"
Li Cang frowned.
That's it?
Not even a hint?
It feels like this interface is a half-finished product.
Sacrificing should most likely yield fate coin rewards, right?
As for Wishing...
Anything is possible!
Wait, since both are possible...
He didn't make a choice, but instead typed another attribute command:
"Detailed Wish hints and explanations, additional content guidance; optimized filtering of practical forum content"
"Cost: 17.9 fate coin"
Black merchant!
"Detailed Wish hints and explanations, additional content guidance"
"Cost: 9.3 fate coin"
Reduce it again!
"Add Wish related explanations and hints"
"Cost: 2.4 fate coin"
"Add Wish explanation"
"Cost: 0.3 fate coin"
Pay!
The fate coin in his hand floated towards the praying coin. About a third of it automatically disintegrated into powder and was absorbed by the vortex at the bottom of the interface.
Turning back and re-selecting the monster's corpse, the interface indeed showed much additional information:
"Branch One: Sacrifice, obtain 8.5 fate coin and other random intention materials"
"Branch Two: Wish, pay fate coin to transform it into a controllable Fate Servant"
"Fate Servant type to be named, daily activity cost 0.1 coin, daily consumption replenishment limited to Floating Island and surrounding one-kilometer radius Floating Islands;
Fate Servant physical quality inherits controller: 0.1 coin
Retain its original quality: 1.9 coin
Whether inherited or not, Fate Servant has growth potential"
As expected, the 0.3 coin wasn't wasted!
Thinking about the monster's suffocating strength, the different amounts of fate coin consumed were easy to understand; you get what you pay for.
Li Cang had reason to suspect that if the monster hadn't been starving since the disaster, he might have been splattered into a mosaic on the ground and then eagerly licked clean by the monster when it first pounced on him.
"Choose Branch Two, inherit controller's physical quality."
The remaining two-thirds of the fate coin once again partially disintegrated, transforming into scattered green light spots that slowly permeated the monster's corpse.
The next second, the monster's headless corpse stood upright. The wound on its chest healed, the trumpet-like mouth retracted, and it quickly reformed into the shape of a head.
Its muscles slightly contracted all over its body, and its size became a bit smaller. The junction between the keratinized layer and the relatively normal flesh automatically healed, no longer seeping disgusting bodily fluids.
Its wide-open eyes were no longer the original crimson color, but visibly glowed with the same green light as the fate coin.
Very strong, very robust, very magical.
The next second, the monster's back suddenly emitted a crackling sound of bones. Its spine twisted and bulged under its skin like a giant centipede, and the monster's upright posture instantly hunched by half.
"..."
My n*%$#@XX.
Damn your lungs!
Heartless maggots!
I'm truly an elegant C language expert, spouting encrypted conversations at will.
Fortunately, with a thought, the monster moved freely, perfectly controlled without a hitch.
Walk, run, jump, move bricks...
But its intelligence didn't seem very high; it performed some complex verbal commands and delicate operations quite confusingly.
Summary: This was a brainless brute only capable of rough labor.
The good news was that the refreshing stench on it had completely disappeared. It even smelled like fresh soil just dug out of the ground.
"Name: Corpse Brother"
"New Fate Servant category confirmed, belongs to Level 3 classification detailed branch. When any survivor accesses this Level 3 classification directory, this naming will be enforced; would you like to publicize the transformation formula for this type of Fate Servant to all, to obtain a profit of 0.1 fate coin for every 1 such Fate Servant transformed?"
Oh, really?
There's this kind of operation too?
If he hadn't spent that 0.3 coin earlier, he probably wouldn't even have gotten this hint, and it would have been secretly taken, right?
"Publicize!"
"Intention confirmed, publicized. The transformation formula will be visible when survivors access this Level 3 classification directory."
Li Cang waved his hand, telling the freshly created Big Corpse Bro to tidy up the yard of the new territory. He calculated that the new territory would need three more days to be completely annexed.
The stone walls of the courtyard above were already more than half collapsed, and after Big Corpse Bro's vigorous work, there was basically nothing left, so it was just as well to demolish it all.
Only the wing room used as a kitchen was relatively intact, just needing a new ceiling.
Half of the main house remained, and the roof beams, tiles, and collapsed wall materials were still there. After organizing them and adding the courtyard wall materials, rebuilding on the original foundation would not be a big problem.
"Finally, I'll have a place to shelter from the wind and rain..."
Even though it had been artificially cut corners, Big Corpse Bro was still the type that was strong, sturdy, and incredibly powerful. It could carry broken rafters, five or six meters long and as thick as an adult's waist, and walk away.
This doesn't look like he's terminally ill at all! Why am I just one kick away from high paraplegia?
Indeed, it's still species isolation.
Watching Big Corpse Bro walk back and forth in the dilapidated house, enveloped in a mushroom cloud of dust, moving various materials out, Li Cang was very relieved and leisurely took a big gulp of sweet water from the jar.
Life is good!
After resting for a while, Li Cang went into the wing room.
Although Big Corpse Bro's predecessor had arranged the courtyard landscaping in a well-organized manner with a very high aesthetic sense, in daily life, he was actually a slob. Li Cang even found several wads of tangled old rags in a cabinet in the kitchen, all dirty and already rotten together.
The clothes in the main house's cabinet, however, were not torn. After shaking off the dust, they could be worn directly.
Washing clothes was out of the question; he didn't have that luxurious amount of water storage.
"The stove and some mud plaster can be used perfectly, it's just that the chimney outside needs to be cleared and made taller..."
By the time he finished, the bright moon hung high.
Li Cang didn't have the conditions to burn oil for light, so he had to stop working.
After a thorough search, besides tidying up the kitchen, he had an unexpected harvest.
He found two intertwined corn cobs on the roof beam, and a bag of soybeans that had already gotten worms. After picking through them, they were perfectly usable.
He carefully rubbed the corn kernels off the cobs one by one, picked out the soybeans that hadn't been hollowed out by worms, and then found two plastic bottles, soaking them separately in clear water to increase their germination rate.
Tomorrow, he'll have Big Corpse Bro re-till the land on the Island!
I, Zhonghua Family, will arrange it!
Early the next morning, as the sun just cast a few rays of light through the hazy, smoggy clouds, Li Cang crawled up from the corner of the wall.