Chapter 34: Little Golden Crow’s Purification of Mutant Beasts Skill

Chapter 34 Little Golden Crow's Purification Skill for Mutated Beasts

After conducting quality tests on all the purified Chinese cabbage seeds, Wu Yue discovered that even the seeds enhanced by double Angel's Blessing *2 maintained the same quality as the original ones.

This meant that the 10 seeds in Wu Yue's hands could produce 4,000 Chinese cabbage plants.

Currently, the entire Blaze team had around 200 members. Subtracting those on missions, the daily headcount in the base was approximately 120 people. The 4,000 Chinese cabbages could fully meet the purification needs of these 120 individuals for 24 hours.

However, after solving the seed issue, another critical problem remained—the black soil!

Wu Yue currently had only one plot of black soil for planting. Each planting cycle took five hours, and even if the plot was used nonstop for an entire day, it could produce at most five harvests. To fully utilize the seeds, she needed to purify another square meter of black soil.

But,

Wu Yue recalled how, after purifying the black soil yesterday, she bled from all seven orifices—a traditional Chinese medical concept referring to bleeding from every opening—and her soul nearly left her body. She was this close to biting the dust.

Staring at the black soil before her, she hesitated, unable to bring herself to start.

Exhausting her psychic energy felt like countless needles piercing her brain. Even now, she could still feel the throbbing pain in her temples. If she overexerted herself again, she might really kick the bucket.

Just as Wu Yue hesitated, the Little Golden Crow slowly approached her, its beady little eyes meeting hers.

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Wu Yue scooped it into her arms and gave it a good scritch.

Right now, the Little Golden Crow was about the size of a pigeon, but its overall appearance was still that of a fluffy baby bird—like a jumbo plushie, just the right size for a hug.

The Golden Crow still had the soft down of a hatchling. Burying her face in its feathers, Wu Yue found it soft, with a sweet, milky scent—nothing like the usual stench of chickens.

After holding the Golden Crow for a while, Wu Yue suddenly heard a "gurgle" from its stomach.

The two locked eyes, blinking at each other.

Wu Yue, "Are you... hungry again?"

The Little Golden Crow kept pecking at Wu Yue's hair, as if saying that if there weren't any greens, this would do as a substitute.

Clutching her head to smooth down the tufts of hair the pecking had ruffled—what some in anime culture call "ahoge"—

Wu Yue realized with a start that while she had considered the base's purification needs, she had completely overlooked the Little Golden Crow's feeding schedule!

Opening the Little Golden Crow's panel:

"Pet Name: Ancient Celestial Beast—Three-legged Golden Crow Fledgling

Growth Progress: 1%

Hunger Level: 30% (If hunger exceeds 50%, the Golden Crow will fly into a rage and attack anyone except its owner.)

Pet Rating: S+

Pet Skills:

Active Skills:

1. Emit blazing solar flares akin to the sun, banishing all darkness. Skill intensity increases with the fledgling's growth.

2. Purify contaminated animals and restore their fertility. Passive Skill: Assist other tools by providing solar empowerment."

Wu Yue hadn't expected that the Little Golden Crow, despite eating so much earlier, was still 30% hungry.

Moreover, she was completely shocked upon checking its status.

Purifying contaminated animals and granting them reproductive abilities?!

This was basically reverting mutated animals to normal farm animals!

Ever since the apocalypse hit, poultry had been completely wiped out, and now all the meat people ate came from mutated animals.

These mutated creatures were enormous—even a chicken was the size of what a cow used to be. The meat from these mutated chickens was exceptionally tender and soft.

However, no one knew which parts of these mutated animals were contaminated by radiation, which could seriously harm humans. Thus, processing them required careful inspection by specialized combat personnel.

Even then, there was always a risk of consuming highly contaminated portions.

Back when Wu Yue was in Shadow, a single chicken would last their ordinary members an entire week, scrimped and saved.

Wu Yue had an innate wariness toward these freaky-looking meats and had never eaten them in her past life. She had witnessed a Shadow member who accidentally consumed a highly contaminated portion mutate horrifically right then and there and was immediately executed.

Right before they put them down, the member's facial features had twisted grotesquely, with wormy things squirming in their skull—absolutely revolting and horrifying.

Even among the main crew, Wu Yue rarely saw them eat mutated animals.

Su Mo, in particular, wouldn’t go near the stuff, only eating vegetables she had purified and grown herself.

Wu Yue suddenly realized—did that mean Su Mo in her past life never possessed the ability to purify mutated animals?

Then why did the Little Golden Crow in her hands now have such an unbelievable power?

Wu Yue couldn’t figure it out, but that didn’t stop the Little Golden Crow’s hunger from climbing fast. Calculating the rate of hunger increase,

Wu Yue immediately planted another batch of bok choy, just enough for the Little Golden Crow alone, with nothing left to share with other Blaze members.

She suddenly felt the pressure of being a caretaker—another mouth to feed was truly forcing her to improve.

Facing the polluted land before her, Wu Yue gritted her teeth and concentrated, activating her purification ability.

Within minutes, another patch of land was purified. Wu Yue braced herself for the usual bleeding from every orifice and agony, but to her surprise, she felt… okay?

Wait, could she do it again??

Baffled but undaunted, she swiftly planted all the available seeds into the newly purified fertile black earth.

With two patches now cultivated, Wu Yue turned her gaze to a third.

She thought to herself, *Sink or swim, here goes nothing!*

Without hesitation, she activated the purification ability once more.

Once it was done, Wu Yue peeked with one eye.

And when she realized she was still alive, she was floored!!

No way… this couldn’t be right!!

Last night, purifying just one bok choy seed and a single patch of fertile black earth had almost killed her.

Today, I purified five small cabbage seeds and two plots of black soil, so why am I still completely fine?!

Originally afraid of dying, now I'm afraid of doing just fine.

She admits, she was taking a gamble!

Wu Yue went straight for purifying the third plot of black soil. After all, compared to seeds, black soil lasts forever. With enough black soil for cyclic planting, more seeds can be utilized!!

Unbelievably!!

The third plot of black soil was successfully purified too!

Wu Yue happily planted all four plots, grinning from ear to ear, rubbing her hands together and gearing up for today's fourth plot of black soil.

But then, a sudden sharp pain shot through her head, accompanied by the familiar warmth of blood seeping from her nose and ears.

Everything spun around her. Before blacking out, she collapsed with her eyes rolling back, her last thought:

As expected,

what was coming,

was here at last!!