Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 104 Shadow Fire
Option 8 is 32%, option 48 is 12%, option [-] is [-]%, and option [-] is [-]%.

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【Option [-]】

【steam】

Specific instructions: Ingestion of large amounts of steam.Into a large and thin shadow-like will-o'-the-wisp.Can fly freely in the air.Wherever it falls, it will be ignited.

……

Zheng Zhuo chose [Steam].This element is now flooding around him.

[Skeleton], [Ore] and [Earth Fire] disappeared. The [Steam] option entered his panel.

Suddenly, Zheng Zhuo felt very hungry.He began to swallow unconsciously—inhaling a great deal of steam from the boiling spring.

If it is placed before [Evolution] occurs, the steam cannot be swallowed like this.They will penetrate Zheng Zhuo's flames and fly into the air.However, now after [Evolution] happened, they were gradually filled into the flames as Zheng Zhuo swallowed.

Zheng Zhuo's swaying wisp of will-o'-the-wisp quickly expanded.The steam raises the temperature of the flame, and the flame is diluted by the steam.He was getting lighter and hotter.His body is getting thinner and spreading to the surroundings.

Zheng Zhuo can no longer maintain his original appearance.He felt like he had turned into a piece of paper—perhaps thinner than paper—and at the same time, the malleability of his body became amazing.

Ten times the original?twenty times?Countless steam crashed into his body, mixed evenly with the original flame, and then a mysterious external force crushed everything flat.

Gradually, Zheng Zhuo began to feel the lift.

The hot air flow brought by the boiling spring has more and more influence on Zheng Zhuo.

"……what."

In the next moment, Zheng Zhuo felt that his body had left the ground.

The boiling spring spouted high again.Zheng Zhuo was lifted up by the updraft.

He was caught in water, heat and steam, blown high.The dark rift was left behind by him little by little, and he flew all the way out of the rift by riding the updraft brought by the boiling spring, and then flew high into the dark sky.

……

A cold wind blows.Zheng Zhuo stretched out his partially shrunken body in the cold air.

He can now see clearly what he looks like when his body is spread out.The brightness is very dim, like a shadow made of flames.

"The size of the body is bigger than I imagined."

Zheng Zhuo flew in the air.Now, he thought, he should be about the size of an adult.

Of course, the thickness cannot be compared with normal humans at all.

"And the color...has it changed?"

He opened the panel.

……

【Zheng Zhuo】

[Race: Shadow Fire (Orange Red)]

[Ability: identification, evolution]

[Evolved: Ignite]

【Points: 0】

[Optional evolution: none]

……

"what."

The color did change.From deep red to orange.Probably due to inhaling a large amount of ultra-high temperature water vapor, its own temperature has also increased.It's just that after turning into a shadow shape, the overall color of oneself becomes much darker, so it is not obvious.

and……

"The race has changed, too."

From [wild fire] to [shadow fire].

The temperature has risen a bit, the body size has become larger, and the speed...

Anyway, the speed is faster than before.

Zheng Zhuo slid across the cracked ground like a real shadow.

It feels good to ride the wind.

However, Zheng Zhuo soon discovered a problem.

"...How can I control my rise and fall?"

He can almost only fly with the wind!
If that's all, Zheng Zhuo isn't too worried.After all, Chu Huairen said before that the end of the wind is his target tower, where [Joker] and [Joker Card] are located.

However, if he can't go up and down, he won't be able to continue hunting.

"According to past experience, there will definitely be a particularly complicated situation in the end..."

If possible, I still want to accumulate as many points as possible first.

Zheng Zhuo began to try to fall from the sky.He tried his best to fold himself into a ball, and tried his best to spread himself out.

Shadowy flames tossed and rolled in the air.Zheng Zhuo repeatedly fell and flew up several times, and after tossing for a long time, he finally grasped the trick.

As he focuses on his belly (if the downward facing side is called that), he descends slowly.And when he focuses on his back, he rises slowly.

On top of that, he gets a bonus: He can steer with a little more control by focusing on his front, back, left, and right.

"I get it. Just treat yourself like a drone that isn't very bright."

He didn't actually fly a drone.But that might be what it's like to fly a drone, he thought.

……

rustle.

A groundhog stuck its head out from the ground, looking around vigilantly.After a while, it left the cave and approached a plant that hadn't completely dried up.

next second.

"Squeak!"

With a bang, the groundhog's head suddenly ignited an orange-red flame!The flames sealed the groundhog's snout, nose and ear holes, and the convulsion lasted only a moment.

The groundhog fell.A light shadow slowly covered its remains, and then, landed on it.

A thin flame covered the groundhog.

Gollum, gollum.

With a slight, blister-like sound, the groundhog's body was burned at a rapid speed.

This ghastly scene lasted only a short while.

When the shadowy flame took off again, only a small skeleton remained.

……

"Huh. Good predation efficiency."

Zheng Zhuo, who took off again, looked with satisfaction at the 45 [points] he got again.

"After becoming [Shadow Fire], the body is extended, and the range of [Ignition] has also become much larger."

Now, Zheng Zhuo has a new way of predation: he flies in the air to patrol, and when he sees a small animal he likes, he slowly descends and circles around the opponent. nose.Wait for the other party to die before digesting them.

"Now if I can appear in the real world, I will definitely become a supernatural legend... Ah, rabbit."

Zheng Zhuo ascended slowly, and descended to the next lucky person he locked.

……

Take off, ignite, hunt.Take off, ignite, hunt.

Zheng Zhuo quickly got used to this way of obtaining points.His [points] also rose all the way to 210 points.

"Very good. According to the previous 50-level gradient, as long as you prey on two or three small animals, you can evolve again."

Zheng Zhuo was floating in the air, thinking while continuing to search for prey.

at this time.

"...?"

He saw a slightly complicated terrain not far away.

It turned out that without knowing it, Zheng Zhuo had already approached the mountains.The terrain is rising and more weeds are growing on the ground.

Among the weeds in the distance, there are groups of large living creatures.

Zheng Zhuo opened the 【Check】.

……

[Antelope] [Antelope] [Antelope]...

【snake】

……

Those big animals are antelope.In addition, there are snakes hiding in the grass.

"...Why don't you try hunting them?"

If a large creature is eaten, there is a high probability that it will evolve immediately.

Successive hunting successes gave Zheng Zhuo confidence.Considering that the direction of evolution is related to the creatures swallowed, Zheng Zhuo wants to try different species before evolution.

On the other hand, the pasture resources here are also very rich.Just devouring the grass is enough for an evolution.

……

【problem】

[Select the next hunting target.What is the choice? 】

【Option [-]】

【Swallow the pasture】

【Option [-]】

【predatory antelope】

【Option [-]】

【Predator snake】

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