I hope he can grow up and stay alive.
Next,
Suture Saint stitched up 32 corpses and brought them back to life.
The entire village was thoroughly searched, leaving no one behind.
Shen Chi brought out the roller coaster track and loaded up all 32 rescued orphans.
Next stop, Lotus Village.
That was the starter village for Server 0278888.
The destruction of Lotus Village happened 24 hours before Blackstone Village, technically occurring just yesterday.
After Chu Fu and the others arrived, they cleared out the monsters and rescued the children.
Not only that, but because the damage wasn’t as severe, they also found some adult remains.
They saved 56 people.
Eighty-eight people in total.
Shen Chi brought out the roller coaster, loaded all 88, and returned to Fengdu Town.
Inside Fengdu Town’s quest completion hall,
Chu Fu and her team submitted the mission.
The NPC receptionist looked at the automatically generated quest scroll.
"Great awakened ones, you saved two villages and killed 10 million monsters in just two hours? My god, you are truly a magnificent team."
The NPC’s expression was incredibly lifelike; such achievements were unprecedented.
Although village rescue was a team mission, the more you killed, the higher the reward.
But no one had ever killed this many.
And on top of that, they rescued 88 NPCs.
A protection mission like that would normally take half a day to get back to Fengdu Town.
Yet they completed the return trip in two hours, plus visited two villages.
The NPC receptionist exclaimed dramatically,
"Although the contribution points for a rescue mission are lower than for a village defense mission, based on your completion rate, you’re still awarded 9.82 million contribution points.
Also, because you used your awakened abilities to save all the villagers,
those contribution points are not discounted—totaling 8.8 million contribution points.
You can use these points at Fengdu Town’s private treasury to exchange for rewards.
Your achievements in rescuing survivors will be recorded on the Savior’s Badge.
For such an immense contribution, the Thorns Guild you belong to will become well-known to the townsfolk from now on."
[System Notification: Savior’s Badge (Bronze Level) – Next Level Upgrade Conditions: 88/100.]
[System Notification: Your guild, Thorns, has gained 186 reputation points in Fengdu Town.]
The rewards were massive.
Most missions in Fengdu Town didn’t offer reputation.
Only difficult missions rewarded reputation.
With 500 reputation points, they could buy another guild base near Fengdu Town.
The Thorns Guild could then upgrade to Level 2, accommodating up to 5,000 people.
Five people had completed one-third of the reputation in a single run—an incredibly fast pace.
Afterward, they headed to Fengdu Town’s private treasury to exchange items.
In the end, they got three talent enhancement stones and three skill enhancement stones.
Now came the question: how to split them?
This was a team mission.
Before everyone could overthink it, Chu Fu spoke up:
"There will be many team missions in the future. We can’t always be 100% fair. Sometimes being too fair damages relationships.
For this mission’s rewards, I’ll take one skill enhancement stone. Wheelchair Brother and Sword Saint Brother, plus Sister Jiaojiao, will each take one skill enhancement stone. Sister Suture will take two talent stones."
Suture Saint only had an A-rank talent now, and even a healer with revival ability felt the pressure.
Because she realized that the probability of her teammates dying was almost zero!
That was quite awkward.
What was the point of her running around saving others all the time for the team?
So she really wanted to improve her talent, at least in terms of talent level, so she wouldn't fall behind.
Taking her anxious mindset into account, Chu Fu made the allocation this way.
The cold eyes of Suture Saint immediately welled up with tears as she looked pitifully at Chu Fu.
"Boo-hoo, Plant Girl, thank you!"
This allocation by Chu Fu clearly gave up a huge share of the benefits—at least 1.2 million contribution points—that she shouldn't have taken.
Moreover, Shen Chi's contribution from traveling also had to be considered.
On top of that, Xie Lin had also taken action, and it wasn't that he couldn't have gotten that share, but Chu Fu's single move was enough for the team.
Jiaojiao Bu Jiao was practically the one carrying everyone.
But what Chu Fu said was right.
Sometimes, being too fair can also hurt feelings.
This time, Suture Saint got something, and next time she would take less.
As long as everyone worked together, they would all improve.
"You're so polite, making me feel a bit embarrassed for taking without effort! Haha, then I won't stand on ceremony!"
Jiaojiao Bu Jiao took a strengthening stone.
After everything was distributed, Chu Fu used the talent strengthening stone.
Hmm, no advancement.
Meanwhile, over at Suture Saint's side, a scream erupted.
"Ahhh! Look at what talent I got!"
[S-level talent: Thousand Hands Save the World:
Feature 1: Skillful Hands: Your hands are extremely dexterous; the speed of any ability performed with your hands is increased by 100%.
Feature 2: Thousand Hands: When casting a skill, generate hand illusions to perform multi-casting.
Feature 3: Healing ability increased by 100%.]
Only one additional feature, but it instantly took off.
Originally, casting a single skill could trigger Thousand Hands, and if it really could produce a thousand hand illusions, that would be incredibly overpowered.
It was a qualitative leap.
Suture Saint couldn't wait to try out this ability.
Just then,
a message came through Chu Fu's gaming pod.
It was a call from Chu Feng.
Chu Fu checked the time—24 hours had passed since she logged in yesterday at noon.
"Time's up. I need to log off for rehabilitation. I'll be back in a bit."
"Alright, Plant Girl, eat more meat and get fatter!" Jiaojiao Bu Jiao said.
Xie Lin said, "Want me to help? I'm really good at rehabilitation!"
Shen Chi glanced at Xie Lin and said nothing in the end. In the past, he would have felt useless, but since learning that the game would merge with reality, he wasn't so pessimistic anymore.
He felt that the emotions of hopelessness and lack of motivation to live were gradually fading away.
His condition seemed to have improved a lot. Perhaps what those netizens ganging up on St. Hall Group said was right.
[Primordial Gate] could indeed cure mental illnesses. He felt much lighter now.
So, he decided to stay and think up more machinery and create items that could help everyone!
"No need, no need. I have a rehabilitation therapist at home. You guys focus on doing more reputation quests. Once the servers merge, we can buy a guild territory. We need to snag the best one!"
"Alright!" Xie Lin didn't insist.
"Logging off now. See you later!"
Chu Fu chose to disconnect.
As she left the game, Chu Fu's abundant energy began to fade, and the weakness of her body gradually set in.
So fragile.
She felt the nutrient solution repairing her body, but it could never match the speed of eating real food, taking medicine, and exercising to recover.
She needed to feast heartily in order to regain her flesh and blood.
After the nutrient solution in the game pod drained, the pod opened, and Chu Feng was already waiting beside it.
