Chapter 165 Life Points
Dear Xingquan:
[In your previous letter, you mentioned a crustacean monster. I have never seen this creature in person, but I have read about it in books.]
【This creature is called Wanderer. Based on the size you described, dear Xingquan, I'm afraid you will see them bloom soon. The book says that it will be a very beautiful and charming spectacle. Please don't miss this rare opportunity. At this point, you may ask me what blooming means. Blooming literally means blooming like a flower. Yes, this crustacean monster is not an animal or an insect, it is a plant.】
[This plant is common in the Thorn Star System. After the Wanderer's seeds germinate, they will grow into a juvenile that looks like a beetle crawling around. The fully mature body is as big as a giant cow. They will migrate according to the change of seasons. By the way, the Wanderer can be eaten after blooming. The flesh of the Wanderer fruit that has spread its seeds has always been a delicacy highly praised by the locals. Lianna said that although its taste is not as good as Tash Ball, it is delicious enough. I decided to list it as the second food I want to eat after Tash Ball. ]
【Xingquan, some changes have taken place in my life. 】
【The long-term failure to meet the work standards has made me fall into a state of self-pity. The company took me in when I was in the quagmire, but I could not meet the company's expectations of me. Whenever I think of this, I always feel pain and shame. The shame of being demoted to the 14th level employee stimulates us all the time, and so does Tita and everyone else. But fatigue always holds us back. We begin to become numb. The days of struggling at the bottom are so long that I thought it might be like this for the rest of my life.】
[In my culture, there is a saying about the wheel of fortune. We believe that when the wheel of fortune turns to a certain point, a person's fate will change greatly. I have always believed that entering the company was my fate. Then on that day, my fate took another turn.]
[Due to the strong storm that day, we had to stop working for half a day. Titta and his friends took advantage of this precious rest time and went back to the dormitory to fall asleep. I tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, so I walked out of the dormitory area. At this time, I saw the stars flowing in the sky. ]
【This is the most amazing view on the planet Asa. Huge nebulae are flowing in the sky, and the stars are like flowing springs. When we first arrived, we were shocked by this magnificent sight. Tita didn't even want to look at the sky for too long. He said that if he kept looking at it, he would feel like he was being sucked in. He was telling the truth. Whenever I stared at the flowing and rotating stars for too long, I would feel dizzy and my eyes would swell. But that day, the fountain of stars in the sky was particularly beautiful. I stared at the phosphorescent light and walked forward in a trance.】
【Before I knew it, my eyes were sore and tears were rolling down my cheeks. I realized that I had walked to the deepest part of the wall that I had never visited before. Inside the wall should be a quiet garden. Green branches and leaves peeked out from the wall, emitting a clear cold light under the starry sky. As I walked deeper, I smelled a quiet fragrance. The deeper I walked, the stronger the fragrance became. Just as I was wandering outside the wall, I saw a gray-clawed raccoon. It was clamped by a metal clamp and lying on the ground with blood stains.】
[This creature looks very similar to the Altes. I have no intention of offending the Altes, because they all look equally small and fragile. I curiously asked it if it was okay. It responded with a slight meow. It seemed to say that it had been waiting for me for a long time and asked me to come and save its life immediately.]
[To be honest, I had no idea how to save this little thing. I picked it up with the metal clip and thought about what to do. It was badly injured and blood was dripping along the way. When I carried this little thing back to the dormitory, everyone ignored me with a very indifferent attitude. ]
[Because this little thing can neither help us improve our work efficiency nor our work ability, it is just a little thing that wastes time and energy. ]
【After removing the metal clip, I took out the coin and soaked it in cakes for it to eat. It sniffed it and looked down on the coin cakes. It was so weak, but it was very picky about food. I later went to find Xiong Shi and begged him to go to the restaurant to get me some cooked food scraps. Level 14 employees do not have the right to go to the restaurant. We haven't spoken to each other for a long time since Xiong Shi became a formal employee. He never expected that I would take the initiative to find him. Xiong Shi looked at me in surprise, but finally nodded and agreed. I took the bacon scraps that Xiong Shi gave me, and the gray-clawed raccoon immediately raised his little head when he smelled the smell. 】
【It ate very quickly, and after it finished, it looked at me with its round eyes. I treated its wounds a little. Its injuries were not light. In addition to the fracture of its right leg caused by the clamp, there were several round , which should be burns caused by some sharp instruments. Half of its tail hair was cut off manually, and there were marks of whipping on its back. I don't understand why someone would be so malicious to this little guy. It was very well behaved, and it quietly let me do whatever I wanted while I fixed its leg bones. After I finished bandaging it, it rubbed me gently, and its little nose was wet. 】
[At first it stayed quietly in my dormitory, and I thought it would not survive the night. But on the second day, it seemed to be in good spirits. On the third day, it began to jump around excitedly in the dormitory. Its movements were funny and clumsy.]
[My roommates used to fall asleep right after returning to the dormitory. That day, Titta went back and lifted the quilt and called out. The gray-clawed raccoon came out from under the quilt and squatted there, looking at him curiously. Titta wanted to drive it away, but it jumped over and licked Titta's feet carefully.]
[“It’s licking me.” Titta said in confusion. He turned and looked at me.]
[This is the first time that Tita, who always lacks energy, has shown such an emotional expression in all the days we have been working. He gently stroked the little thing's back. The little thing made a comfortable meow. Tita smiled.]
[The next day, when they got off work, another roommate ran to pet it. It only took a few days for it to become the darling of the whole dormitory. This speed was beyond my expectation. In our boring world full of work, it suddenly appeared and broke in. It was like the only bright color in the gray world. Lianna said that the little thing was a very rare thing, and only those rich people would keep it as a pet. I think it might be because she liked it too much and deliberately raised its price. ]
[In those days, we always thought about it after work. Every day after get off work, as soon as we opened the dormitory door, it would jump over to greet us happily. The moment I saw it, I felt a healing feeling that my tiredness and body aches were gone. It was the comfort of our boring life. ]
[This is not just my opinion, my roommates all think so. ]
[But this didn't last long. The company discovered that we were secretly raising this fluffy little thing in the dormitory. The one who came to visit us was the slug man Nirou. Her attitude was very polite and gentle, but her words were very clear. The company does not allow low-level employees like us to keep pets in the dormitory, so we were asked to get rid of it as soon as possible. ]
[“Its wounds haven’t healed yet.” Lianna said.]
[“You still have a chance to deal with it yourself.” Nirou said, “If you let the security guards deal with it…”]
[She didn't finish the second half of her sentence. Nirou was always very gentle, but we immediately understood what she meant. But we all couldn't bear to part with this little thing. Its injuries had not fully healed, and it still walked clumsily and shakily. But if we didn't drive it away, it would only face death.]
[After get off work, I walked aimlessly along the fence holding this little thing. I didn’t know where to send it.]
【The stars flowing in the sky that night were exceptionally bright. 】
【Finally, I wandered to the depths of the wall again. At the end of the wall, there was a rusty copper door, and I pushed it open. In front of me was a quiet courtyard, with half-height green shrubs planted beside the neat stone path, and pale white flowers hidden among them exuding a quiet fragrance. Two rows of statues stood on the foundation stones beside the path, and these statues were all strange monsters.】
【Where is this place? 】
[I looked around blankly. This was a place in the company base that I had never set foot on. This place was completely different from our simple dormitory building. It was obviously carefully designed with geometric aesthetics, and had a special kind of refinement and elegance. I suddenly felt that this was not a place for me, a low-level employee of the company, to set foot on.]
[The little thing in my arms suddenly struggled violently. It jumped out of my arms and staggered towards the depths of the courtyard.]
[There stood a person. A Homo sapiens woman. The gray-clawed raccoon let out a cry of joy and rushed towards her.]
[The woman bent down and picked it up. The little creature happily rubbed its head against the woman's body. I knew it liked me very much. Among the several workers in the dormitory, it loved to hang around me the most. But I didn't expect it to be so enthusiastic in front of this strange woman. At that moment, I suddenly realized that this woman was the owner of this little creature. ]
[The woman spoke: "Were you the one who saved it?"]
I answered yes.
[The woman smiled and thanked me sincerely.]
【Then we started chatting. I told her that I was a level 14 employee at the bottom of the company, and that this little thing had brought us a lot of joy these days.】
[“It can be seen that Xixi likes you very much.”]
【It turns out it's called Xixi. 】
[This Homo sapiens woman looks very young, like a young girl. But I can't tell her exact age. She is dressed exquisitely and gorgeously from head to toe, which is completely different from the rough worker's attire of me. Homo sapiens of this class have the conditions to perform rejuvenation surgery on themselves. Even a 300-year-old man can use drugs and surgery to maintain a youthful appearance.]
[She spoke politely, and her eyes were bright. As we chatted, I somehow told her all about my situation, including how I and everyone else had been demoted to level 14, how we were doing the same boring work day and night, and how we were getting increasingly tired physically and mentally. She listened carefully and nodded.]
[Then she brought me a drink. The drink was a strange orange color. I took a sip out of curiosity, and suddenly I felt like I was bathed in the rich aroma. Seeing my intoxicated expression, she covered her mouth and smiled happily.]
[After the chat, she walked me out of the courtyard. Xixi was held in her arms. She stood at the gate of the courtyard and waved goodbye to me.]
[When I returned to the dormitory, I could still smell the faint and peaceful fragrance. ]
[On the second day, I was directly promoted to the 11th level security team member. When I received this news, my co-workers and I were stunned.]
[The Marriott supervisor announced the news personally, and his attitude towards me became mild and strange. I got a brand new guard uniform, and the old worn-out uniform was thrown into the trash. I moved out of the dirty and small ground-floor dormitory and got a beautiful and clean staff dormitory. The room had soft and fresh carpets and various personal living facilities. A cleaner would come to clean every day.]
[Xiong Shi asked me: "What on earth happened?"]
[I am also confused. ]
[I no longer have to work hard in the mines. My work intensity is much lighter now. I only need to follow the security guards to do routine patrols. Compared with the past, my current job can be said to be carefree.]
[After moving into the eleventh-grade dormitory, I haven't seen Tita and Lianna for dozens of days. I miss them very much, but I hardly run into them.]
【They worked in the mine until late at night.】
[One day later, I suddenly understood my bizarre promotion.]
[I went to the courtyard deep inside the wall again.]
[“Is my promotion due to you?”]
[The Homo sapiens girl answered readily: "Because you saved my only friend here, Xixi. I want to thank you."]
[I told her a little embarrassedly that I just did it casually and never thought that I could really save it. "Actually, I also want to thank it. After saving it, it brought happiness to me and my co-workers." Then I asked this girl why she had such great energy to help me get promoted. ]
[“I’ll go and ask my master for help.” The girl stroked Xixi and said.]
[“Your master?”]
[“Yes.” The girl told him that her master was called Diesel, a senior executive of the company.]
[I see. This answer did not surprise me. I thanked the girl again, and then I realized that I did not know her name.]
[“My name is Muli.” The girl said with a smile. ]
[Mulli, Mulli. I chanted this name on the way back. I turned my head and looked at the courtyard. The fountain of stars flowing in the sky was shining noisily, casting a beautiful and cool halo.]
