Chapter 129: Chapter 129: They Are All Responsible for the World’s Collapse
By the time she finally broke free from the nightmare, sunlight was already streaming through the window. As she looked up, her gaze met a pair of moist, black eyes.
’How cute!’
That thought was immediately followed by another.
’How dangerous!’
Faye Yardley knew that a single pane of glass wouldn’t be enough to stop the cute-looking little black dog outside.
Before Bowen Lynch left, he had reminded her that it wasn’t just factory workers here.
’So there are also guard dogs for the factory?!’
’Factory dogs?’
Faye Yardley realized she was hungry. She truly hadn’t eaten for a full day and night.
With her eyes fixed on the dog outside, which stood about half a meter tall, she took a rice ball and some juice from her storage and stuffed them into her mouth.
Then Faye Yardley saw that the dog had actually started to drool.
’You look adorable with your mouth shut, but when you open it, that mouth full of densely packed, sharp teeth is enough to make a person’s skin crawl.’
Faye Yardley couldn’t help but eat her rice ball faster. The little dog was now pressing its whole body against the glass, and its drool was apparently corrosive—the glass was actually sizzling and smoking.
’Oh my god.’ She was suddenly hit with the urge to turn tail and run.
’If that thing bites me, I’m probably done for.’
The sizzling grew louder and the smoke thicker, until the dog fell right inside with a THUD.
After landing on the floor, the puppy scrambled to its feet and looked up at Faye Yardley with pleading eyes.
"You want some?"
The puppy panted, nodding its head.
She tossed two rice balls toward it. With a light leap, it caught both in its mouth. ’With all those teeth, I have no idea how it manages to eat,’ she wondered. In any case, its mouth opened and closed, and the rice balls vanished.
Then it went back to staring pleadingly at Faye Yardley.
Faye Yardley mentally calculated her chances in a fight against the dog. ’Other things might be manageable, but what if it spits at me?’
’That stuff is practically a highly corrosive biochemical weapon.’
She tentatively tossed it another rice ball, and it gulped that one down as well.
It also ate the strawberries and watermelon she threw. The watermelon was gone in just two bites, CRUNCH CRUNCH.
Faye Yardley mentally searched for any herbs in her backpack with an anesthetic effect, but unfortunately, she came up with nothing.
’Next time, I have to be more prepared.’
’But that’s for next time. What do I do now?’
’Can I make peace with this greedy dog?’
’Should I throw Light Wound at it when it’s not looking? Try to shatter that whole mouthful of teeth?’
All sorts of ideas raced through her mind, but Faye Yardley just kept staring at the puppy, making no move other than to feed it.
"Woof!"
The puppy suddenly stood up, gave her a soft bark, then turned and leaped lightly onto the breached windowsill.
"You want me to follow you?"
’It might be good to leave this office,’ Faye Yardley thought. ’If we fight, the cramped space here will only put me at a greater disadvantage.’
’Outside, at least it’ll be more open. I’ll have more room to maneuver in a fight.’
But she had only opened the door and taken two steps when she saw them—down below were bizarre, yak-sized "dogs." A jolt of shock went through her, but by now, Faye Yardley had trained herself to keep her expression from changing.
Maybe it was because she had left the office, but the large dogs all stopped eating in unison and looked up toward her.
They looked as if they would pounce and tear her to shreds at any moment.
Seeing that she wasn’t following, the puppy immediately turned back and let out a bark.
It was that single, soft bark that made the other large dogs suppress their instinctive urges and go back to their meal.
’Well, well. This little guy is a leader.’
Faye Yardley followed the puppy down the stairs to the first floor. Then, the little dog pressed something—she couldn’t see what—and with a KAKA-KA~, the ground split open to reveal a staircase. They continued down to the first basement level, then the second... all the way to the fifth before stopping.
She had no idea how it worked, but the place still had power. It wasn’t dark at all.
’But if there’s power, why isn’t there an elevator?’
But the farther down they went, the more nervous Faye Yardley grew. Each level housed many large, mutated animals. It wasn’t just dogs anymore; she even saw a Hydra and a Three-Headed Hound.
In any case, the lower the floor, the more severe the mutations became.
But the little puppy truly had an intimidating presence; not a single creature dared to rush over and bite Faye Yardley.
At that moment, Faye Yardley didn’t even know how to describe what she was feeling.
’Is this supposed to be a legitimate factory?’
’How could things get this ridiculous?’
Faye Yardley thought she finally understood why the world had collapsed—it was because of all the different kinds of people who had been here. Just look at the experiments they were conducting.
’It would have been a miracle if they hadn’t created all sorts of messed-up viruses.’
They destroyed the world, and then they just dusted off their hands and walked away without a care.
Or perhaps they believed they had evolved—become a new type of human—and begun their own wonderful new lives.
And what about those who were left behind?
For a brief moment, Faye Yardley felt a surge of anger.
But it was only a flash of anger; reason quickly pulled her back to reality.
The puppy stopped in front of a small room. It looked back at her, then gestured toward the room before opening the door with a CLICK.
After a moment’s thought, Faye Yardley went inside.
The room was surprisingly comfortable. There was a loveseat, a beanbag chair, an irregularly shaped coffee table, and even two potted plants.
The puppy gave a little woof, then turned and left, not forgetting to close the door behind it.
In truth, all the doors and walls here were made of reinforced glass, completely transparent and offering no privacy.
But breaking it wouldn’t be easy.
’Don’t tell me I’m being kept in a pen to act as a personal food dispenser?’
Taking advantage of the quiet moment, Faye Yardley summoned the system and opened the Point Shop.
’I’ll trade for what I need and get out of here.’
Unfortunately, after looking through all the items containing energy, she found there was nothing good enough to save her life.
This time she had only earned 9,488 points, not quite ten thousand.
She exchanged points for a batch of Energy Potions and Physical Potions, then searched again for things like the Substitute Doll, but found nothing.
It couldn’t be helped. She had to give up on the idea.
Then she tried to remember... what was that thing she was supposed to get before entering a Dungeon?
’Damn it, I forgot!’
Flipping to the seeds section, she finally remembered. She needed to exchange her points for some herb seeds.
She bought every kind she could see.
After all, vegetable and rice seeds were only 10 points a pack, while the more expensive herb seeds were just 20 points per pack.
She spent 1,200 points on seeds alone.
After that, she exchanged for 6,000 points’ worth of wood and 1,008 points’ worth of other basic materials.
After considering that her raft didn’t have any other pressing needs, she spent fifty thousand points on an Intermediate Planting Room Upgrade Coupon. Using it would not only expand the room’s area but also increase plant growth speed by 25%.
Just as Faye Yardley finished her exchanges, she looked up to see the puppy returning, a two-headed snake in tow.
