CHAPTER 138: CHAPTER 10: THE DRAMA QUEEN SISTER REFUSES TO BE CANNON FODDER (PART 10)

The milk and bread in the base taste pretty good.

Even though a year has passed since the apocalypse, there’s still such fresh milk and freshly baked bread here. Jiang Lai’s stomach was greatly satisfied. If all it took was a little blood donation to eat and drink like this, she wouldn’t mind staying longer.

But staying here won’t increase her Death Value, nor will she find a savior, so Jiang Lai still got up and tried to find a little space in this small but safe place where she could court death.

Soon, she found a camera in the upper left corner and a switch next to it. To Jiang Lai, that switch seemed like Pandora’s box, with an inexplicable allure making her want to press it.

"Don’t you think that button is strange? Don’t you want to press it?"

Jiang Lai initiated conversation with Yang Jun beside her. Yang Jun glanced at her, then looked up at the button, and shook his head.

"I don’t want to."

"Maybe that’s the button to open the exit?"

Yang Jun looked at Jiang Lai with eyes that seemed to see an idiot.

"You better not touch it, don’t blame me for not warning you..."

"Zzzt zzzt... POW—!"

A sharp electric sound exploded, followed by the spread of a burnt odor. Yang Jun looked up at the woman whose button-pressing hand was now black from electrocution, shock and disbelief written all over his face.

"Are you out of your mind?"

Looking at her hand, it looked as if it had been charred by electricity.

To his surprise, the woman just put her hand to her mouth, blew on it, and muttered.

"Indeed can’t touch it, there’s electricity."

"I already told you."

"How would I know if you were lying to me if I didn’t try?"

"Why would I lie to you?"

Yang Jun felt that Jiang Lai’s mind might be a bit off, turned around, and ignored her.

The next moment, another burst of crackling electric sound rang in his ears. He looked over blankly, seeing Jiang Lai standing by the door, pulling the handle. There was electricity in the handle; he’d been zapped once and his hand had been cramping and tingling ever since. That moment of intense pain made him unwilling to touch it again.

Sure enough, this woman suffered too.

But maybe that was good, let her suffer a bit and she might behave.

Yang Jun nonchalantly intended to turn around and go back to sleep. Just as his eyes closed, another chaotic electric explosion noise came from behind.

He got up and looked over; sure enough, Jiang Lai was touching the doorknob again and got another shock, now her entire hand was black like charcoal.

Yang Jun had always thought Jiang Lai was a troublemaker, useless and always creating trouble.

Now he realized he was wrong. She not only harmed others, but she also harmed herself. Just like now, knowing that thing couldn’t be touched, she touched it repeatedly. Courting death like this couldn’t be done without having half a brain.

"Do you have a death wish?"

Yang Jun asked seriously.

Jiang Lai shook her head, then touched the doorknob again in front of him. This time she nearly got knocked out, then she finally heard the notification chime she desired.

"Death Value: +70

Death Value: +70

Death Value: +80

Total Death Value: Three hundred and fifty-five."

With more than three hundred Death Value, over two hundred points, Jiang Lai didn’t hesitate to redeem herself a superpower.

This time trying for a big one, a hundred points per draw.

"Congratulations, you have acquired the skill: Undying Body.

Skill uses: Three times,

Cooldown time: Forty-eight hours."

"Isn’t that just like three Resurrection Scrolls? Nice, nice."

She could work harder at courting death now.

Yang Jun silently watched her hand and asked her.

"Your hand’s okay?"

Jiang Lai brought it closer for a careful look, aside from being a bit black, it was fine; could still be used after cleaning.

This was the advantage of the initial skill "thick blood bar," being able to withstand damage value tens of times more than ordinary people.

Yang Jun was incredulous, but then thought Jiang Lai being able to come here meant the skill she activated was probably similar to hers in damage resistance.

This sort of skill couldn’t attack, only defend, couldn’t protect others but it’s more than enough to protect oneself, similar to Jiang Lai’s character; selfish and self-serving, only caring to protect herself.

Jiang Lai was used to the "taunt" skill that automatically triggered in Yang Jun’s eyes when he saw her. She didn’t care; after all, there was a great opportunity to court death right now, so she ignored Yang Jun and continued touching the doorknob to gain skill points.

Jiang Lai soon discovered, this method of repeatedly gaining skills, although effective, had a threshold. Once reaching a certain peak value, further attempts would see the effect greatly reduced. For instance, now when she touched the doorknob again, although the pain was the same as before, the new Death Value increased less and less, bit by bit.

But Jiang Lai didn’t mind, even small mosquitoes are still meat, she wanted it all.

Watching her place her hand on the electrified doorknob again and again, Yang Jun’s feelings evolved from initial surprise, to confusion, to indifferent coldness.

In his eyes, Jiang Lai hardly ever did anything normal.

The crackling electric sound was particularly annoying, he couldn’t understand why Jiang Lai kept doing something so pointless, was it just to keep him from staying calm?

Yang Jun inexplicably became irritated, then it turned into anger.

"What on earth are you doing?!"

He was answered by a "bang" explosion, the doorknob exploded, and the next second the tightly closed door automatically opened. Jiang Lai walked out first, leaving a dazed Yang Jun sitting there, not coming to his senses for a long time.

"What are you daydreaming for? Not leaving, waiting to keep getting blood drawn?"

Yang Jun hesitated about leaving because he wasn’t sure how many more doors lay beyond this one, and the staff of this place promised them only blood draws and no harm, once the blood was drawn, they’d let them go. What if they got caught midway and refused to release them?

Yang Jun thought chaotically, but still involuntarily stood up and followed Jiang Lai out.

Outside the door were small identical rooms, many people were locked inside.

A staff member approached, just as he was about to sound the alarm, Jiang Lai knocked him out with a flick of a pebble, and finally used his key to release everyone.

The base was overrun, alarms blared, and that familiar electric sound blasted in her ears again. This time Jiang Lai saw it, everything was because of that man in the white coat’s device.

She had Little Buding shield her from the electric current, then dashed forward to take the remote-control device from the white coat man.

"Don’t press that button, it’ll explode."

The man in the white coat warned her, and then Jiang Lai pressed the button. With a loud explosion, the floor started to shake and the ceiling tiles began to fall, the base really exploded.