Larcen slowly opened his eyes and the first thing he saw was the moon. A car was stuck between two rocks a few meters above him and through the gap, the moon was visible.
His whole body hurt when he tried to move, so he stopped and checked his system. The System points had increased from 0 to 67 and the sudden hike in numbers surprised him but he understood that it was only expected.
'Once people know about the system, they will actively hunt for the monsters. Receiving 67 SP means that 670 of those goblins were killed... That's a pretty high number if I ignore the mutated monsters. Oh well, let's eat some regeneration pills and get out of here...'
He bought two and ate one of them before waiting for it to take effect. He could feel bones cutting through his flesh to fix themselves back up and while it was extremely painful, he clenched his teeth and forced himself to not scream.
Sweat trickled down his face and the regeneration effect expired after a minute. He ate the other one too as his body still hurt and this time he did not feel any pain. It was pure pleasure and a relaxing feeling.
He used 5 SP and bought a few things that he thought would sell in the near future and saw a list of notifications.
{You have successfully created Lighter (Small) x400}
{You have successfully created Box of Cigarettes x1000}
{You have successfully created Salted Jerky x 1000}
{You have successfully created Unisex clothes (set) x20}
{You have successfully created Beer (10 cans set) x200}
He ignored the notifications and took out one of the lighters and produced a flame to check his surroundings. He was in a cramped place and there was only one way out and that was to climb upwards.
He sighed and began listing the items in the system shop instead of the Trading Terminal as people would most likely check that more often.
{You have successfully listed Lighter (Small) x1 for 1 SP (399/1000)}
{You have successfully listed Box of Cigarettes x1 for 1 SP (1000/1000)}
{You have successfully listed Salted Jerky x50 for 1 SP (1000/1000)}
{You have successfully listed Unisex clothes (set) x20 for 1 SP (20/1000)}
{You have successfully listed Beer (10 cans set) x10 for 1 SP (200/1000)}
After that was done, he checked his stats and decided that it was finally time to dump his SP on them since he believed that he was abandoned by the four.
He bought 3 strength pills, 2 stamina pills, and 1 agility pill before tossing them all into his mouth. He wanted to buy the mana pill but as he was about to do so, he remembered Ethan cursing about not being given info about something. At the end, he picked an extra Strength pill and made it 3 instead of originally planned 2. They all tasted sweet but he directly swallowed them all with a gulp of water. A few seconds passed and the stats on the system interface changed.
Stats:
Strength: 0.6
Stamina: 0.7
Agility: 0.7
Mana: 0
He grinned when he saw the significant increase but suddenly felt dizzy. He tried to blink the dizziness away but instead, his eyelids refused to open after a few flutters.
{Over dosage of stat pills. Beginning forced body reconstruction.}
He read the message once and then lost consciousness as he cursed the system in his mind. He did not know how much time had passed but when he woke up, he heard voices above. While he wanted to call out for help, he also knew that it was a risky thing to do.
Instead, he simply decided to try climbing on his own. He tried a few times and gave up.
'Stat increase is not too useful right now, huh....', he thought and decided to take the risk.
He inhaled deeply and shouted, "ANYBODY THERE? HELP ME OUT OF HERE PLEASE!"
Footsteps and murmurs could be heard and then a very powerful beam of light hit his face, almost blinding him. He covered his eyes with his hand and simply prayed that they wouldn't attack him. He was at a complete disadvantage and was starting to regret his decision.
Those guys didn't say a thing and Larcen couldn't see what they were doing. He was about to ask them what they were doing when he felt something touch his head. He raised his hand to check what it was and after just he held it, he could easily say that it was a rope.
'God damn, I really was lucky this time, huh?', he mused as he held onto the rope.
"Oye, tie it around your waist so we can pull you up!", he heard one of them say but he ignored his words.
"Just hold on to the rope tightly for me, will ya? Thanks in advance!", he shouted back and waited for a few seconds before gripping the rope tightly and lifting himself up. He then placed his legs on the wall for better control before he climbed up quickly.
Everyone looked surprised as he got to the surface. Larcen then took a quick glance at everyone's information before speaking.
"Um, do you guys have a place to stay safe? like a shelter or something?"
A feminine voice behind him answered, "Yes. We locked ourselves in a mall that's a few hundred meters from here. There's also a guy with a bunker near us but that's not really important right now. What's important is that we are currently searching for survivors so we can all move to the military base in a few weeks when a few of them come to take us there."
Larcen turned around to look at the girl who spoke. She was very attractive and was more on the cute side. She was pretty short too, or in a non-offensive way, fun-sized.
"Ah, okay. That means I can come with you guys, right?"
"Yeah you can, but you have to help us find other survivors. In return, you will get a place to sleep in the day. Or you can join the hunting team and sleep in the night while fighting during the day.", One of the guys said as he gave him a pack of biscuits.