Thirty minutes later.
The majestic source of life essence finally showed signs of depletion. Seeing the four cyan light pillars slowly disappearing, Zhang Heng also carefully controlled his left arm and turned off the absorption mode.
"The reserve of one unit of life essence is one grid, and it has absorbed a total of one hundred and ninety-five grids of life essence."
Looking at the mostly filled slots on the robotic arm, Zhang Heng breathed a sigh of relief. This crisis was finally resolved satisfactorily.
"But didn't the system say there are a total of two hundred units of life essence? Where did the other five units of essence go?"
I felt that the abnormality on my body completely disappeared. Wang Yu also put down the stone in her heart and looked at Zhang Heng's metal left arm curiously.
"It's been absorbed by your body, which means you have hidden injuries before. Five units of life essence are almost the same amount as the regeneration of a severed limb. It's quite serious..."
Zhang Heng touched his nose and explained patiently, his eyes scanning Wang Yu back and forth, as if he wanted to find out what had changed.
"If the road is long and full of obstacles, it will come soon; if you keep on walking, you will have a promising future."
Instead of answering Zhang Heng's question directly, Wang Yu said this somewhat inexplicable sentence.
"As far as your level is concerned, you are exactly the same as Fatty..."
With a low sneer, Zhang Heng took out the system in his pocket again.
It seems that he is unwilling to accept that the previous reward has just disappeared, and wants to take another look at the words "Reward has been issued" displayed on the panel.
No miracle happened. The panel still displayed the cold words "Reward has been distributed", as if a stingy landlord gave Zhang Heng, a long-term worker who came to ask for his salary, a ruthless mouth.
"You also completed an urgent mission?"
Wang Yu, who had just escaped from a life-and-death crisis, not only did not feel depressed at all, but was like a curious baby. After looking at Zhang Heng's robotic arm, his attention was drawn to the system in Zhang Heng's hands.
"Yes, but there is no mission reward. To be precise, the mission reward is missing..."
Zhang Heng, who had already calmed down, immediately made a long face when Wang Yu asked him this question.
You must know that it was an urgent task that he completed only after losing all his strength and breaking a foot, and was just ignored by the system...
"The mission reward is missing... Is your system so unreliable..."
Wang Yu obviously did not expect such an ending, so he subconsciously spoke.
But before the woman finished speaking, the system in Zhang Heng's palm emitted a mechanical electronic sound.
"It has been detected that the host has a tendency to slander this system. We hereby warn that if the previous operation is repeated, this system will withdraw the relevant rewards for the emergency mission."
"No, system, did you forget something? The reward was not sent to me at all!"
Faced with the sudden warning from the system, Zhang Heng was not expecting it. After being stunned for a second, he immediately held the system in front of him with both hands and protested loudly.
But there was no response from the mobile phone-sized instrument, as if it had run out of power, and even the display panel went dark.
No matter how many instructions Zhang Heng gave, the system in his hand did not respond at all.
Seeing Zhang Heng looking like he was scratching his head, Wang Yu unconsciously took out his system.
The panel also displayed the words "Reward has been distributed", but unlike Zhang Heng, Wang Yu's reward had indeed been distributed.
Although two hundred units of life essence almost killed her.
"After you completed the emergency mission, your system did not issue you a mission reward; but after I completed the emergency mission, the system issued me a reward that I could not receive..."
"If it weren't for you, I would probably be exhausted by those two hundred units of life essence..."
Wang Yu put her long index finger on her chin and said thoughtfully.
"That's right, thanks to me being by your side, otherwise two hundred units of life essence will be forcibly injected into you. Unless you are an Alpha-level life form, you will definitely die."
Reluctantly putting the system back into his trouser pocket, Zhang Heng said casually.
"But why does my system give me such a fatal reward..."
Raising his head, Wang Yu looked at Zhang Heng doubtfully, trying to find the answer to the question on his face.
"Is it possible that it has something to do with the strangeness of your system?"
As soon as these words came out, Zhang Heng's hand that was originally in his trouser pocket paused lightly.
"And I didn't come to this timeline of my own free will. Didn't I tell you before, I was caught in the vortex of time, and when I regained consciousness, I was already here."
"And you also received an emergency mission issued by the system?"
Zhang Heng wanted to take the lead, but unexpectedly, he and Wang Yu expressed their thoughts together.
"Well, that's right. Not long after we arrived here, the system issued a prompt for an urgent mission, and it also stated that it could not be refused."
The two were silent for a few more seconds, each thinking about the clues.
"Have you ever done any emergency tasks issued by the system before?"
After stroking his robotic arm, Zhang Heng asked.
"No, this is the first time I have received a mission. By the way, if I don't complete the emergency mission issued by the system, will there be any adverse consequences?"
Wang Yu, who was previously confident, was obviously not familiar with the system. He didn't care whether any important information would be exposed and started asking Zhang Heng directly.
"God's Coming"
"Well, I advise you to complete it as much as possible. Not to mention that there will be certain rewards after completing the tasks released by the system. If you do not complete the system tasks in time, it may have a relatively large impact on the timeline, and... "
Having said this, Zhang Heng swallowed, seeming to recall a very bad experience.
"And what?"
Wang Yu noticed the unnatural look on Zhang Heng's face and asked curiously.
It should be known that she had just obtained this system not long ago and knew very little about this mysterious object.
"And the system may abandon you and look for the next qualified host..."
"The system I obtained abandoned its previous host and chose me as its new host."
"The abandoned host..."
Wang Yu seemed to have thought of something bad, and her questioning voice gradually became quieter.
"Disappeared into thin air in front of me."
Zhang Heng shrugged, without any expression on his face.
After pausing for a moment, he seemed to feel that what he said was a bit ambiguous, and then continued to add explanations.
"Of course, in our timeline, death is not the only possibility that can cause people to disappear out of thin air."
"Yes, there is also the annihilation of that person's timeline, or the Minkowski unit exceeds the endurance range of that person's timeline..."
Wang Yu opened his mouth to add, listing the contents one by one like an endorsement.
But after hearing these contents, Zhang Heng's expression became strange again.
"How do you know these reasons? Through your own research? Or through obtaining information from ancient times?"
"You told me all this..."
"Did I tell you?"
Zhang Heng was completely confused by the long-legged girl in front of him. He had just met Wang Yu, how could he tell her these things.
Moreover, this was the first time he had heard of the reasons Wang Yu mentioned.
"Oh, I made a mistake. It was Zhang Heng in the timeline where I existed who told me. Well, Zhang Heng-659 told me."
The palm of his hand patted his forehead, as if he remembered something, Wang Yu immediately corrected him.
"Hey, please make it clear, otherwise I would have thought there would be some time to complete the closed loop..."
Zhang Heng licked his lips speechlessly and concluded.
"In short, now that you have obtained the system, you'd better act according to the instructions it issues. You can also get rewards for strengthening yourself."
"But you also completed the emergency mission, why didn't you get the corresponding reward?"
"Forehead……"
The topic returned to its original point again. Logically speaking, the system should not be able to complete a task but not issue a reward. This is a technological product that obviously comes from a higher dimension, so there is no reason to play with them.
"After I obtained the Japanese melon flower, there was a vague notification of a reward being issued in the system, but something seemed to have blocked its signal at that time. I did not hear the specific reward content..."
"Then you showed up and bumped into me..."
Recalling the details of that time, Zhang Heng stretched out a finger and pointed at Wang Yu's towering peaks.
"What the hell?!"
As if something suddenly occurred to him, Zhang Heng let out a strange cry, looking quite funny.
"What's wrong? My tail wasn't stepped on either..."
Wang Yu looked surprised, and unconsciously crossed his arms to surround the peaks on his chest. Under the squeeze, it became more and more imaginative.
"Is it possible that you are the reward for my urgent mission?!"
Zhang Heng looked at the woman in front of him with a dazed look on his face. Almost all the speculations had been gone through in his mind, so no matter how outrageous the rest were, they must be the truth.
"Fuck you, how could I become a reward for an emergency mission? If you really wanted to get me, you shouldn't have used such a clumsy way to flirt with me..."
Wang Yu obviously took Zhang Heng's speculation as a joke and didn't care at all. He answered with a smile.
"Where are you thinking, I am very clean and self-sufficient..."
Rolling his eyes angrily, Zhang Heng explained patiently.
"Look, you were sucked into the time vortex and ended up in this timeline inexplicably, right?"
"That's right."
With a gentle chin, Wang Yu agreed.
"After you came to this timeline, you immediately received the task of killing the giant Japanese melon, right?"
"If you are talking about the mutated creature with the biological serial number 1158, that is indeed the case."
Nodding again, Wang Yu's eyes began to show a thoughtful look.
"Then you completed the emergency mission, and the mission reward you received happened to require me to absorb it. If I wasn't with you at that time, would you have been able to deal with the consequences of forcibly infusing a large amount of life essence?"
"Hiss, with my ability level, it seems that the only result is that the whole body is filled with energy, and then the cells fail."
"So, how can there be such a coincidence? The reward for my disappearing mission is you, Wang Yu-659! The time vortex is generated by the system, and I believe that this kind of technological instrument from high latitudes is capable of doing it."
Putting away her playful smile, Wang Yu began to seriously think about Zhang Heng's speculation...
