Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 108 Fighting the Austrians
Option 66.7 11.1%, Option 22.2 [-]%, Option [-] [-]%.

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【Option [-]】

【dexterity】

Specific instructions: The movement speed remains unchanged.But the response is faster and more flexible when taking off, landing and turning.

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"【dexterity】!"

The points quickly disappeared, and text appeared on the interface.

Amidst the berserk fist wind of the mountain giant, Zheng Zhuo tried to take off again.

But this time, it was obviously different from before.

"...!"

My body became lighter—even though it was just a shadow.

Zheng Zhuo bounced off the ground.Stuck in the gap between punches, he leaped to a low height.

"it works!"

The second punch came.

"Uh--!"

Zheng Zhuo twisted his body.This reaction was also much quicker than before—he tried his best to withstand the strong wind and threw himself on the mountain giant's arm.

Roar……

The mountain giant let out a deep roar, and dropped the deer in his other hand.He stretched out his palm covered with blood and fur, to twist Zheng Zhuo.

Zheng Zhuo immediately slid into the gap between the mountain giant's clay-made arms.

Ouch!
The palm of the right hand hit the wrist of the left hand, and the mud clods collided with each other, making a loud noise.The mountain giant's wrist was dented a lot by itself, but Zheng Zhuo didn't get hurt at all.

He slithered up the gap in the giant's arm.

Ouch!
The mountain giant twirled Zheng Zhuo several times with his fingers, but they only left deep fingerprints on his own arm.

Zheng Zhuo ran up all the way.

Forearm, elbow, upper arm, shoulder, chin...

The mountain giant stuck his finger in the corner of his mouth.It tugged at its own face, tearing off a chunk of dirt from its cheek.

And Zheng Zhuo flowed from that piece of soil to the mountain giant's finger, and jumped into its mouth from the finger.

oh oh oh oh oh oh...

The mountain giant let out a roar that shook the sky and the earth.

Zheng Zhuo entered the body of the mountain giant.This was the first time that Zheng Zhuo, who was unable to harm the mountain giant, made the mountain giant feel a real threat.

At the same time, it was the first time that the mountain giant, who was unable to harm Zheng Zhuo, actually caused real harm to Zheng Zhuo.

"... Goo...!"

Total darkness.Clay, fur, bone, blood, and a slime of unknown composition were all everywhere.Zheng Zhuo was squeezed by the stench of burnt animal corpses.

What's more terrible is the roar of the mountain giant.

The sound echoed inside its body.Zheng Zhuo was dizzy from the shock.

"Come in... come in... and then... and—"

The mountain giant went mad.Is it because there is a foreign body in the body?It feels threatened...

...which means I'm in a position to threaten it.

"[Ignition]... [Ignition]!"

Zheng Zhuo lit the fire.The flame exploded brightly with a "bang".

The extremely large amount of methane in the mountain giant's body made the flames burn blazingly.

Wet clay constantly crumbles from the inner walls.

In the firelight, Zheng Zhuo saw a special rock shining.

The rock was covered in layers of clay.After the clay peeled off, it revealed its surface with gold streaks running down it.

The rock seemed to be alive, agitating in the firelight.

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【Identification:】

[Core of Mountain Giant]

……

that's it!
Zheng Zhuo took off in this narrow space and landed on the core of the mountain giant.

Zheng Zhuo's toss made the mountain giant even more manic.It spit sparks and black smoke out of its mouth, stumbled and beat its own body, ran up to the top of the mountain, and rolled down from the other side.

During this period, the endless loud noises and huge impacts put Zheng Zhuo's perception to a great test.He couldn't tell the difference, he only knew that he was being hit and shaken constantly.

But he firmly grasped the [Mountain Giant's Core] and did not let go.

"I don't believe that you can digest a fire...!"

The rest of the clay on the core was also starting to flake off.The mountain giant fell off the side of the mountain.It hit the ground, shattering a hand and a foot in the impact.Its body was no longer as hard as before, and its shoulders, chest, and abdomen were sliced ​​off piece by piece by the boulders protruding from the ground.

The mountain giant is still falling down.As Zheng Zhuo pulled out the [core] from the clay bit by bit, its body began to break into more and more pieces.

In the end, only the chest remained of the mountain giant.It flew from the high rocks—

It fell to the ground and broke in two.

rustle.

The last part of the mountain giant trembled, and there was no further movement.

A moment later, flames ooze from the mountain giant's shattered chest.

Zheng Zhuo, who was wrapped in a huge [Mountain Giant's Core], slowly flowed out of its chest cavity.

……

Zheng Zhuo dragged a core that was several times his size, and hid behind a nearby stone pillar.

He was so dizzy from the fall that he felt like he had died so many times.

But he still hasn't forgotten the first priority: eating.

"This is a big guy. It's a shame that you didn't eat it after tossing like this..."

Therefore, even though the [Mountain Giant's Core] is extremely difficult to be burned by the flames, Zheng Zhuo still tries to digest it in line with the belief that no thief will leave...frugal and thrifty.

There is absolutely no way for the rocky part to ignite.But Zheng Zhuo found that his current temperature can burn cracks on the surface of the rock, and then evaporate the golden lines inside.

Those lines appear to be some kind of liquid, and can be turned into dots.

"great."

Zheng Zhuo burned the rock bit by bit, squeezed out every drop of golden lines, then gasified them and melted them into his body.

The process is long and boring.Zheng Zhuo began to observe his surroundings while eating.

"It fell to the other side of the mountain."

In conclusion, it saves a lot of distance.The mountain giant turned over the mountain while fleeing, and brought Zheng Zhuo to the north of the mountain.Right now, Zheng Zhuo is at the foot of the mountain on the north side of the mountain.

The north side of the mountain is different from the south side of the mountain where there are only barren grasslands, and there are many stone pillars and stone arches.And, take a closer look...

"... vertical gouges?"

Zheng Zhuo found many straight chisel marks on the stone pillar where he was hiding.

There is no doubt that these columns and arches were carved by hand.

"The rocks under my feet are also very flat. Although it is covered with a layer of gray-black sand, I can feel that the terrain has been transformed."

Zheng Zhuo looked around.The more he looked at it, the more he felt that this place looked like a square at the foot of a mountain.At the end of the square, there are even traces of a suspected stone road leading to the distance.

And far away...

Some shadows can be seen faintly on the ground.

"……city?"

Those shadows are gray and lifeless inorganic matter.It looks like an abandoned city.

"From the perspective of the terrain, it is likely to be seen in the golden space, the city where the locals lived before their transformation..."

Zheng Zhuo thought about it.He retracted his gaze, only to realize that the [Mountain Giant's Core] had been burned clean by him at some point.

"what?"

Faster than expected.Zheng Zhuo opened the panel.

……

【Zheng Zhuo】

[Race: Shadow Fire (Kumquat)]

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"what."

A lot of golden lines in the core were fused, and Zheng Zhuo's temperature increased accordingly.His orange color became more and more dazzling, turning faintly to gold.

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[Ability: identification, evolution]

[Evolved: Ignition, Venom, Dexterity]

【Points: 400】

[Optional evolution: power core/materialization/territorial awareness]

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Then, the points provided by the mountain giant gave him another chance to evolve.

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【problem】

[Choose the direction of evolution.Which one to choose? 】

【Option [-]】

【Power core】

Specific instructions: Condensate a core in your own body.Action speed and reaction speed will be greatly improved.The core can be sent to different parts for different deformations.Where the core is located, the temperature rises two gears.The core will become the weak point.A shattered core will result in temporary loss of consciousness.

【Option [-]】

【materialization】

Specific instructions: You can consciously control the area and thickness of your body, allowing yourself to condense into entities of different shapes.After condensing to a certain thickness, it has a certain degree of physical attack ability.

【Option [-]】

【Territorial Awareness】

Specific instructions: It can detect the approximate location of prey and powerful enemies within a radius of several kilometers.

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