Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 106 Partition Self-Help
Option 48 8%, Option 44 [-]%, Option [-] [-]%.

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【Option [-]】

【Temperature rise】

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Option 28.6 is 4.8%, option 52.4 is 14.3%, option [-] is [-]%, and option [-] is [-]%.

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【Option [-]】

【toxin】

Specific explanation: The vapors that make up the body are loaded with toxins.Enemies wrapped by themselves will receive both ignited damage and poison damage. [Ignition] The ignited fire will not be poisonous.

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"Speed... It's time to think about it."

Looking at the voting distribution ratio, Zheng Zhuo began to think.

"However, let's continue to increase the power here."

[Temperature] and [Toxin].

Zheng Zhuo chose these two options.

With Zheng Zhuo finalizing, the points disappeared.His body began to change.

The originally orange-red body began to glow.The temperature continued to rise.The red faded and he became lighter and hotter.

At the same time, the sound of bubbles bursting from the continuous boiling of the liquid came from inside his body.

Gollum.

Very slight sound.This sound replaces the occasional crackle that used to occur.

Zheng Zhuo opened the panel.

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【Zheng Zhuo】

[Race: Shadow Fire (Pure Orange)]

[Ability: identification, evolution]

[Evolved: Ignition, Venom]

【Points: 0】

[Optional evolution: none]

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He got stronger again.The temperature of the flame rises, and it becomes poisonous.

Zheng Zhuo saw the last small herd of antelopes still running away on the ground.

He had given up eating and moving creatures, but now...

"You can try it."

He descends slowly.

The shadow slowly approached the galloping antelope.

With Zheng Zhuo's speed, it is difficult to keep up with them.So, he has to attack first.

"[ignite]."

bass!
Orange flames ignited on the antelope's head and neck.The hotter flame burned through the fur in an instant.In the blink of an eye, a white skeleton appeared on the antelope's cheek.

"Bee!"

The antelope fell to the ground in excruciating pain.However, it still has strong vitality, and it will not completely fall because of this.It quickly climbed up again.

However, a shadow-like flame had already taken advantage of this gap and fell from the air onto its face.

"Bee!"

The antelope was terrified and shook its head repeatedly.More of its head and face were ignited, but managed to throw the flowing flames on its face to the ground.

It runs wildly.

However, I couldn't run a few more steps.

At the moment of contact, the toxin carried in the flames had penetrated deep into the bone marrow along the wound caused by [Ignition].

Nervous paralysis runs through the antelope's body.It fell, and this time, it failed to get up again.

The flames slowly flowed from the ground to the antelope, and then covered it again.

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"After the temperature rises, the digestion rate also increases a lot."

After eating the antelope much faster than before, Zheng Zhuo took off from the skeleton and looked at the ground below.

"Maybe we can catch another one..."

"..."

"...There is no such thing as a good thing."

The last herd of antelopes was also frightened by Zheng Zhuo's predation just now.They fled even more desperately, and now, they have already left Zheng Zhuo's sight range.

"Well."

Zheng Zhuo didn't feel too sorry.He is in a good mood now.

Because, [heating] and [venom] solved his biggest problem before: unable to keep prey.

Originally, he could only hunt small creatures, because only small creatures would die immediately when their mouths and noses were [ignited].As long as it is a slightly larger creature, it can extinguish the flames through struggle.

Even if severe burns on the mouth and nose would cause these large creatures to die within hours to days, that would not be something that Zheng Zhuo could afford—they would run a long, long distance due to fright, and it would be impossible for Zheng Zhuo to catch up.

But this tragic situation is a thing of the past.

Now, Zheng Zhuo still needs to use [Ignition] to create a large area of ​​burns on the prey's nose and mouth.But then, he can safely land on the face of his fallen prey.

Prey will throw him off.It doesn't matter.Even a split second of contact allowed his poison to seep into the scalded wound.

The toxin can quickly paralyze the prey, and it falls within Zheng Zhuo's field of vision.

The antelopes ran away.But with this skill, he can hunt more other prey in the future.

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The dead grass does not last long to support the fire.The pastures were almost burnt clean.Looking down from a high altitude, the flames all over the mountains are gradually extinguished.It was hard to see the flames anymore, and there was black smoke everywhere.

The strength of the updraft brought by the heat is not as strong as before.

"It's time to leave."

Zheng Zhuo took the wind and flew towards the mountains.

The terrain is gradually increasing.The hot air carried him all the way up, and soon he reached a considerable height.

Here, the cold air at the top of the mountain begins to clash with the warm air.For the first time, he experienced turbulence—he was dizzy from being blown, and he couldn't tell north, south, east, and west.

He could only land at the end of the fire.It landed a quarter of the way from the top of the mountain.

Zheng Zhuo is on fire now.But he could feel that it was much colder here than at the foot of the mountain.

There is almost no vegetation cover, and there are bare rocks everywhere.The temperature...hasn't reached the point where it's snowing.However, some rocks were covered with a thin layer of frost in the backlight.

"Can frost be eaten?"

try it.

"Pooh."

No.

no food.There is turbulence in the air.There is still a long way to go.

"……Oops."

Can I just climb the mountain honestly?
When he was still a human, Zheng Zhuo still liked mountain climbing.

But he doesn't like it very much now.

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organic matter.Organics are urgently needed.

Zheng Zhuo continued the action of "half flying-being blown down-half flying-being blown down" and slowly climbed to the top of the mountain.

In the eyes of outsiders, his whereabouts look like "a ghostly record of ghosts".But in Zheng Zhuo's own view, this is the process of fighting against his unskilled limbs—even though he doesn't have those.

points.

If only I could count...

On the way, Zheng Zhuo didn't see food at all.He could often see birds sitting on rocks in the distance, looking at him.Sometimes, some blue sheep and wild dogs can be seen sticking their heads out of the cracks in the rocks.Occasionally he saw snakes and centipedes huddled together, hiding under distant rocks.

But he couldn't fly, couldn't catch them.By the time he got close, they would have already run away.

Just like now.

A group of vultures gathered on a rock, staring at Zheng Zhuo.

"What are you looking at...if I could fly...and eat you all..."

Zheng Zhuo danced vigorously while thinking.

"It's all piled up together, it's convenient to catch them all in one go... piled up together..."

pile up?
In this way, all the animals he had seen were piled together.

why?
Realizing this, Zheng Zhuo stopped.

He no longer marched towards the top of the hill, but half-flyed and half-hopped to where the vultures were staying.

Of course, he scared the vultures away before he arrived.Once there, though, he had a big payoff.

"...it's warmer here than other places..."

This rock is in great shape.Big, flat, and dry.So, a little warmer than other gravel locations.

"correct."

Almost all the animals on the mountain kept climbing up to avoid the fire just now.They get cold...and gather in warmer places.

then.

Speaking of what is the warmest thing here...

"...There is no doubt that it must be me."

Zheng Zhuo noticed this.He set off immediately.

He has to choose a suitable heating place as his hunting ground.

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【problem】

[Which hunting location should I choose? 】

【Option [-]】

[Large rocks on high places, where birds often gather]

【Option [-]】

[Large rocks located in the gravel, often with large organisms gathered]

【Option [-]】

[The rock beach under the big rock often has small creatures gathering]

　After [Option 1], [Option 1] and [Option [-]], you can leave a message in the form of [this chapter says]. A message under [-] id counts as [-] vote.

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