Half an hour later, in the living room.
My mother was sitting on the sofa, her face full of fear and solemnity.
"According to what you said, there are really monsters in this world? And they are in your company?"
Zhang Xiaoman had also recovered at this time. During this period of time, he told his mother everything that had happened before.
And my mother is also aware of the fact that she has a system.
There was no way, Zhang Xiaoman didn't take the initiative to say this, but my mother saw it herself.
Because the fish he ate was cooked by his mother, and when the system was bound, the special effects were fully activated around him. His mother directly witnessed the whole process from the side, so he couldn't hide it even if he wanted to.
"That's right, I'm sure it's definitely not a human being!" Zhang Xiaoman assured, "Mom, I now suspect that the incident that has been going viral in our community these past two days is also related to these monsters!"
The incident he was talking about was the haunting incident on the island in the lake in the community.
I heard that there are always dead bodies of cats and dogs appearing near the island in the lake these days. An old man saw a strange black shadow with his own eyes when passing by at night. He was even so frightened that he became unconscious and was sent to the hospital. Even now they are still shouting about monsters in a daze.
And that small island has become a restricted area that no one wants to approach.
"This...isn't it..." My mother was stunned.
"It's very possible. After all, it's groundless... Anyway, if you believe it exists, you can't believe it doesn't exist. Mom, don't leave that area in the future."
My mother heard what he said was reasonable and nodded in agreement.
Zhang Xiaoman did not dwell too much on this issue and continued the previous topic:
"Mom, I just thought about it, why did these weird things appear just after I obtained the system? It can't really be a setting like the protagonist's halo, right?"
"Uh, what do you mean?" Mom asked confused.
Zhang Xiaoman sighed: "Tell me, when have we seen these monsters before? Even if we have heard of them, they are just ghost stories full of loopholes. Even people like Grandpa Six who have calculated lives for half their lives, I’ve never really seen ghosts. I can’t think they all jumped out one by one as soon as I got the system, right?”
"So, I have an idea... This shouldn't be a problem with the protagonist's halo..."
"But... this world's problem!"
"If I'm not wrong, these monsters probably just appeared!"
Mom then reacted: "You mean, the spiritual energy is revived!?"
Zhang Xiaoman was a little surprised that she actually knew this, but then he thought about it. She was usually the same as him, reading novels with the starting point in mind when she had nothing to do all day long, and her reading level had even reached the top level of "Yue Sheng". Being one level higher than him, it's not surprising that he knows this kind of routine.
"This is just my guess. If news about monsters appears frequently in the future, then we really have to consider that this is indeed the case..." Zhang Xiaoman expressed his analysis.
Mom also pondered for a moment, and then said: "I think it's better not to go to your company tomorrow. It's too dangerous."
Zhang Xiaoman nodded, that's what he planned. At worst, he wouldn't get this month's salary.
Compared to a small life, these are nothing but a drop in the bucket.
And now that I have obtained the system, it is of course impossible for me to go to work again.
"Okay, it's getting late now. You're quite tired from your shift today. You should go to bed early later." After that, my mother yawned and went back to the room.
…
midnight.
In the bedroom.
Zhang Xiaoman was lying on the bed at this time, holding his watch and counting the time second by second.
"11:55:36, 11:55:37, 11:55:38..."
He is now waiting for a new day to come and then take the draw.
"11:58:48... It's coming, it's coming!"
Zhang Xiaoman felt that time passed so slowly, and he wished he could reach out and grab it.
"It's almost 12 o'clock. If the number of draws is really refreshed according to time, then many of my guesses will come true!"
Zhang Xiaoman watched the pointer getting closer and closer to 12 o'clock on the hour, feeling like a fire was burning in his heart, and he was very anxious.
Regarding the lottery, he has already done it twice. The first time was the white prop he got yesterday - the hearthstone; the second time was the gray prop today - the bone that has been gnawed by the dog.
According to his guess, the number of draws in the system should increase once every day.
And after the lottery, Zhang Xiaoman will gain 1 more point.
Points can be used to purchase props in the system mall, but what makes him more depressed is that there is only one prop for sale in the system mall——
【Extractor】
——Can extract essence.
Yes, this prop is so confusing. Zhang Xiaoman was also very helpless about this. Who said his system didn't have a system wizard? He could only explore everything by himself.
He opened his right hand and looked at it. There was a complicated pattern in the palm of his hand.
The overall pattern is a seven-pointed star, with a shield in the background and an open eye in the middle.
This was obtained after he purchased and used the extractor in the mall.
Although it looked mysterious, he never figured out how to use it.
I looked at the time and it was already 12 o'clock! Zhang Xiaoman's eyes lit up, he quickly raised his head and turned his attention to the system interface that had been opened in advance.
The interface of the system is very simple, with only three functions: shopping mall, lottery, and upgrade.
At this moment, the originally gray lottery button lit up again, which meant that he could conduct a new day's lottery.
Zhang Xiaoman breathed a long sigh of relief, closed his eyes, and muttered a lot of prayers that no one could understand. Then he stretched out his finger and pointed at the lottery button.
"Congratulations, you have obtained the white item - holy water."
As the prompt window of the system interface popped up, a burst of space distortion appeared, and a transparent vial appeared from it and fell on the bed.
"What's this?"
Zhang Xiaoman picked up the bottle and looked at it, a little curious about what the reward given by the system this time was used for.
The bottle in my hand is about the size of an egg, and the workmanship looks very rough. The top of the bottle is covered with an oak stopper, and a white silk thread is wrapped around it.
Zhang Xiaoman pinched it and shook it. The bottle contained a transparent liquid, about an ounce in size. There was nothing strange about it.
"Is this holy water?" Zhang Xiaoman murmured to himself, "But what's the use of it?"
He stared, and the attribute panel about this item appeared in his eyes.
【Holy water】
——Liquid gold.
"this……"
Zhang Xiaoman rubbed his eyebrows with a headache. The system's annotations were so concise and confusing.
"But this time it's not gray garbage anyway. It should still be of some use."
Zhang Xiaoman thought of his own white-level item, Hearthstone, and couldn't help but feel a little comforted, but he still decided to search online to see if he could find any useful clues.
