My Romance Game Updated – Chapter 99
by Little PandaDifferences
Before leaving S University, Ren Muhui still needed to make ample preparations. Having read his fair share of apocalyptic novels, he knew that to survive the apocalypse, one first needed sufficient supplies, as well as adequate strength.
Full of anticipation, he summoned his inventory panel. Then, Ren Muhui watched helplessly as the inventory he had so painstakingly expanded to 100 pages of 100 slots each reverted to its very initial state, leaving him with only 50 slots! With his inventory reset, naturally, all the money he had labored to accumulate was also wiped to zero. He had no way to continue unlocking slots for his current 50-slot inventory.
Helpless, Ren Muhui could only endure the heartache and locate the game update big gift pack in his very first slot to open it. Following a system prompt tone, his inventory gained a permanent zombie virus immunity antibody, as well as a skill book. After using the syringe containing the permanent zombie virus immunity antibody, Ren Muhui felt a lot more at ease. He then opened the novice big gift pack, acquiring a Novice Sword, a Novice Dagger, and 100,000 crystal cores. Through the game instructions, Ren Muhui learned that crystal cores could be used in the Apocalypse Mall. He excitedly opened the Apocalypse Mall, only to be scared off by the astronomical prices of the goods.
Forget it, he would just hold on to the 100,000 crystal cores for now! He could see what there was to buy later. At present, gathering supplies was what mattered most.
Disregarding how disgusting the zombies wandering around and ignoring him were, the current Ren Muhui only wanted to take advantage of his novice protection period to quickly search for enough supplies on the S University campus. Figuring he might as well try, Ren Muhui first found a bicycle in the school, and then rode it all the way to the small supermarket beneath the Boys’ Dormitory Building. There were also quite a few zombies wandering back and forth inside the small supermarket. Perhaps because the small supermarket was full of zombies, no student had dared risk patronizing it, so surprisingly, a large amount of various goods remained on the shelves.
Ren Muhui hadn’t played this game for a while, so he had no idea how much time had passed in this game world since the pre-apocalypse era following the game update. He also didn’t know if the instant noodles, sausages, and biscuits on the shelves had expired. But so what if they had expired? Expired food could still fill a stomach!
To save inventory slots, Ren Muhui dug out a few large snakeskin bags from the store, placing the food from the shelves into the bags one by one. After that, Ren Muhui used the same method to scour all the convenience stores, supermarkets, and even the cafeteria across the entire university. Only when there was truly nothing left to scavenge did he ride his bicycle away from the zombie-infested S University campus.
After leaving the campus, the situation outside wasn’t much better. Wandering zombies were everywhere, as were fragmented corpses. Fighting down his nausea, Ren Muhui rode his bicycle, rolling over various unrecognizable objects on the ground. The food in his inventory was enough to sustain him for half a year without issue, but he still needed to continue searching for clean sources of drinking water. Just as Ren Chenxi had done in the beginning, Ren Muhui opened the mini-map and immediately set his sights on Nanhai Base in H City.
Back then, many people from S City had fled for their lives; those with cars drove away, scavenging for gasoline by every means possible. By the time Ren Muhui returned to the game, even if he could find an abandoned vehicle, he couldn’t find any gasoline. Left with no choice, Ren Muhui could only find many bicycles to store in his inventory, embarking on a long trek. Disregarding the darkening sky, he still desperately rushed toward H City. Regardless, no matter how dangerous the apocalypse became after dark, as long as he was still in his novice protection period, he would not be in danger. Regarding this point, Ren Muhui suddenly felt somewhat fortunate that he had been classified as a novice by the system.
Ren Muhui hurried along just like this. Seeing that he was almost at H City, the tire of his last bicycle ran over some unknown sharp object and blew out. Left with no choice, Ren Muhui could only rely on his own two legs to walk while looking all around to see if there were any other bicycles available.
Ultimately, however, Ren Muhui failed to reach Nanhai Base in H City within his novice protection period. What followed was Ren Muhui being chased by all sorts of zombies and running for his life. And then, Ren Muhui was captured by Fan Juntian, who had just rushed back to H City.
After listening to Ren Muhui’s miserable recounting, Ren Chenxi remained silent for a long time before asking, “So, during this period, you didn’t even try fighting the zombies?”
“Zombies are so disgustingโฆ I didn’t want to fight them! I didn’t have to fight zombies during the novice protection period, and once it ended, IโI couldn’t beat them anyway!” Ren Muhui felt quite aggrieved. Those zombies were too brutal and too realisticโmore terrifying than the zombies in the movies he used to watch. He didn’t dare! Besides, it hurt so much when those pitch-black zombie claws scratched a person. He had been fucking1 scratched by zombies several times! Fortunately, he had the antibody; otherwise, he would have turned into a zombie!
“Don’t you have a Novice Sword?!” Ren Chenxi fumed! Looking back at the beginning, she had been dragged into the game inexplicably. Not only did she lack a novice protection period, but she didn’t even get a novice big gift pack or a novice weapon!
“If I use a sword to hack at zombies, their brains will squirt out! It’s so disgusting!”
“Then don’t you still have a skill book?! What skill did you get?! Couldn’t you use a skill to attack the zombies?!” Ren Chenxi was even angrier. Back then, she had only received a skill advancement book!
“Then do you know what skill I unlocked?! How was I supposed to know I’d have such a black hand2, unlocking such a trash, no egg use3 skill!”
“What skill? What skill are you talking about? Even the most useless skill can always be put to some use!”
“The ‘Whoever I Glare At Gets Unlucky’ skill! Tell me, what use is that?! What use is it?! The enemies are all zombies and mutated beasts. Glaring at them only makes them trip, slip, or crash into a wall, buying me a little time to run away. Aside from that, what other use does this garbage esper ability have?!”
“โฆ” Ah, thisโฆ it really did sound like a rather useless esper ability! Ren Chenxi once again began to feel fortunate that what she had initially been given was a skill advancement book. Howeverโฆ “But weren’t you captured by Fan Juntian later on?! You could have taken the opportunity to constantly use your skill on him along the way! Don’t you know that skills can be leveled up? Maybe once your skill level gets higher, its power will become stronger~”
Hearing Ren Chenxi say this, Ren Muhui’s expression grew even uglier. “I did use my skill on him! The moment I use my skill, I enter a glaring state, and the cast time takes 3 seconds! When that bastard Fan Juntian saw me glaring at him, the fucker would beat me up! Moreover, once Fan Juntian gets unlucky, the entire vehicle gets unlucky along with him! It would either blow a tire or crash. The most exaggerated incident was when we were driving along perfectly fine, only to have a mutated wild boar pop out of nowhere and ram the rear of the car! With so many dangerous situations, I simply didn’t dare to use it anymore!”
“โฆ” This unlucky esper ability of his really was unlucky. Ren Chenxi fell silent for a moment before carefully admonishing Ren Muhui, “You are not allowed to use this skill on me, or else I’ll headshot you!”
“Your esper ability is headshot?” Ren Muhui didn’t take Ren Chenxi’s threat seriously at all. He knew his own sister was definitely just all talk. In the real world, the siblings had fought their fair share, but it was always just verbal bickering and empty threats. Compared to Ren Chenxi’s threat, Ren Muhui was much more interested in her ‘headshot’ skill. “Did you unlock the headshot skill from a skill book? How powerful is it? Can it headshot all zombies and mutated beasts?! Damn it! Why don’t I have such good luck!”
Listening to Ren Muhui’s incessant muttering, Ren Chenxi was somewhat puzzled. “You only unlocked a skill book? You even have the Apocalypse Mall, so do you not have a card-drawing panel?”
“A card-drawing panel? What card-drawing panel? Wait a minute, let me look for it!” As he spoke, Ren Muhui hastily summoned his game menu. However, after searching through all the pages, he failed to find the so-called card-drawing panel. “Ahhh! Damn it, what kind of cards do you draw?! Do you draw 2D beautiful girls to fight for you?! Damn it, I’m so jealous! I want to be surrounded by a whole bunch of pretty beautiful girls to fight zombies too! Why don’t I have a card-drawing panel?! This is novice discrimination!”
“โฆBullshit 2D beautiful girls fighting for me!” Although Ren Chenxi didn’t understand why, despite both of them being players, she had a card-drawing panel while Ren Muhui did not, she still patiently explained it to him. “The cards I draw are a mixed bag. There are Explosion Cards, which is the card I mentioned for headshotting you. There are Recovery Cardsโyou could see the drug addiction debuff on your body from your personal information, right? The drug addiction is gone now because it was removed by the Recovery Card, which also restores 70% of your HP. So, if someone comes looking for you to undergo detoxification later, you absolutely must not let it slip. You still remember what I taught you to say, right?”
“I remember, I remember. My esper ability is special; it can immunize me against Fan Juntian’s poison smoke!” As Ren Muhui spoke, he hurriedly checked his status. Sure enough, that glaring drug addiction debuff was truly gone~
“Sis~ You truly are my real sister~ Do you know how much this damn drug addiction tortured me?! Several times, I was in so much agony that I wanted to make Fan Juntian keep getting unlucky so the whole car would just perish together. But that bastard would release poison smoke to ease my addiction right when I was about to break! That damn Fan Juntian. Sis, since you have such powerful cards, hurry up and help your bro take revenge and butcher that bastard Fan Juntian!”
“Relax! There’s no need for me to slaughter Fan Juntian. Now that Fan Juntian has fallen into Qi Sheng’s hands, he has plenty of suffering ahead of him~” Ren Chenxi cast a sidelong glance at Ren Muhui and impatiently swatted away his outstretched arm.
Hearing that Fan Juntian had plenty of suffering ahead of him, Ren Muhui immediately felt a surge of satisfaction. While gloating over Fan Juntian’s misfortune, he brought up old grievances, talking about how arrogant Fan Juntian used to be at S University, and how he had constantly obstructed his pursuit of Goddess Muโฆ
When Ren Muhui mentioned pursuing Goddess Mu, Ren Chenxi’s chest inexplicably tightened. She asked Ren Muhui in a cold voice, “Is your main quest still to pursue that Wooden-head?!”
“What are you talking about?! The game has updated. How could my main quest still be trivial matters like romance and love?!” Ren Muhui shot Ren Chenxi a somewhat dissatisfied glare. “My most important quest now is to survive in this terrifying apocalypse for ten years! Sis! You can draw all kinds of magical cards, so you have to take good care of your bro!”
“You already know this is the apocalypse, yet you still won’t work hard to improve your own strength, bro!” Ren Chenxi glared at Ren Muhui with a bit of disdain. “Back when I first arrived in this apocalypse, I puked several times before I got used to hacking zombies with a baseball bat and a machete!”
Being despised by his own sister still made Ren Muhui feel ashamed. Embarrassed, he scratched the back of his head and said with a guilty conscience, “It’s not like Iโฆ It’s not likeโฆ This bullshit game discriminates against novices! I don’t have any Explosion Cards to drawโฆ”
“But it costs me crystal cores to draw cards!” Since Ren Muhui didn’t have a card-drawing panel anyway, Ren Chenxi simply decided to conceal the fact that she had five free card draws every day, lest this guy start whining again about novice discrimination. “It costs me 1,000 crystal stones to draw a card just once! In the beginning, I didn’t even have a decent weapon! Let alone your so-called novice protection period! All my crystal stones were exchanged from crystal cores I got by risking my life to fight zombies! Bro, do you really have the nerve to compare yourself to me?!”
“Huh? Werent you following Goddess Mu from the very beginning, with Goddess Mu protecting you?” Ren Muhui found this somewhat unbelievable. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t imagine the image of his frail and delicate sister swinging a baseball bat to hit zombies.
“Protect my foot!” Ren Chenxi retorted in deep displeasure. “When this mother4 was inexplicably dragged into this broken game, I was physically at a scenic area in Y City, Y Province, okay?! I then drove all the way to H City by myself!”
It was just that she had encountered Jian Dan, Tang Ying, and the rest of their group along the way, and was then saved by Mu Ning. Of course, she had no intention of clarifying all this to Ren Muhui.
Footnotes
- An abbreviation for 'tฤmฤde' (ไปๅฆ็), a common Chinese profanity meaning 'damn it' or 'fucking'.
- Gaming slang (shวu hฤi) referring to someone who has terrible luck when opening loot or drawing items.
- A vulgar Chinese internet slang phrase (mรฉi shรฉnme luวn yรฒng), literally 'no egg use,' meaning completely or fucking useless.
- An arrogant and assertive female self-referential (lวoniรกng), literally 'this mother.'
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