Seeing this, the receptionist was somewhat nonplussed since she had assumed that Virus was a poor abnormal belonging to the lower middle class of society at most.
“Oh, would you look at me mistaking our young master for a poor man!” Grinning from ear to ear, she exclaimed jokingly. Still, slightly dubious, she picked up the card and swiped it once.
“What’s the password?”
“6969.”
“…”
“…”
“What?”
“…Nothing.”
A few seconds later, finally receiving the confirmation of successful $100,000 withdrawal, agape, she returned the card and the receipt to him.
“Alright then, thank you, I’ll be back in fifteen days.”
“OK. Goodbye, Victor. Hope you’ll be the victor and have a good win fifteen days from now on, hehe…” Teasing the disappearing back of Virus, the receptionist wondered, ‘So weird, why is he so familiar… it’s as if I’ve seen him somewhere.’
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After successfully running away and vanishing from anywhere near Virus, Hu Yuexin, finally heaving a sigh of relief, exclaimed, “Phew, thank the Nine Realms of Hell for getting away from that unfathomable beast.”
‘Hmm, so, I’m raising my dead sister’s son who’s now my son, huh? Well, since I took over your body, I’ll at least take care of your son. That’s my compensation for you.’
‘But damn… what a trashy constitution and physique you have, woman! Furthermore, this kind of body isn’t even compatible with me. This is going to be a bit hard to handle.’ Finally relaxing her furrowing brows, she added, “First, let’s go and take a look at her son’s condition and see how much time he has left.”
…
Sometime later, finally arriving at the hospital which was extremely crowded due to the previous appearance of the Plant Kraken, Hu Yuexin admitted helplessly, “Phew, it was so hard finding this hospital.”
Next, after a period of asking around, she finally found her way to the room where her son was at.
“Xiao Wei, mom’s here!” Beaming a happy smile at the little bony kid, Hu Yuexin greeted.
She was not going to let him notice any difference. So she decided to act as motherly as she could. “Did you miss mommy?”
“Mommy? Is that you?” At first, the child looked at her in a strange way, making Hu Yuexin somewhat startled as she wondered, ‘Did he perhaps… notice that I’m not her?’
Still, continuing her act, she voiced, “You dummy! Of course, it’s mommy, child! Who else could it be? Urgh, mommy’s so hurt. Xiao Wei can’t even recognize me anymore.”
Nevertheless, the child continued studying all over Hu Yuexin’s body suspiciously. Fortunately, in the end, after she was done examining every inch of her body, nose, dress, moles, lips, etc. finally, a silly grin took shape on his pale face. “It’s weally mommy! But mommy’s different! Mommy must’ve grown up!”
The tension, at last, faded from Hu Yuexin’s expression. “Hehe… that must be it.”
‘Phew, that was close. What a sharp-minded kid.’
“Um, my sweet Xiao Wei, can mommy take a look at your body?”
Seeing him nod once, Hu Yuexin didn’t hesitate to grab his hand as she placed her two fingers on his pulse.
Thirty seconds later, withdrawing her hands, various notions shaped up within her mind. ‘Hmm, the problem lies with the internal organ that’s in charge of producing and replenishing his blood which is resulting in an abnormal type of blood to be produced inside his body… and that’s affecting the way his internal organs work.’
‘If it was the past me, curing him would’ve been a simple thing… but now… hmm, I need to get stronger first.’
‘He should still have around a month or so. I wonder if I’ll be able to find the stuff I require in order to cure him by then.’ Deliberating up to this point, snapping out of her contemplative state, she displayed another cheerful smile at the child prior to declaring, “Mommy needs to go and work now. I’ll visit you later on, okay?”
Although there were some traces of unwillingness and hesitation written on his face, in the end, he still nodded his head, “En… Xiao Wei will be a good son and wait for mommy!”
“Hehehe! Good! That’s my son!” While patting his head repeatedly, a strange thought flashed past Hu Yuexin’s mind, ‘What a cute son. I’m starting to like him already.’
Still, no matter how much she smiled and laughed, there was some type of icy coldness within her eyes that never vanished. Apparently, that was her true temper and nature hiding behind her façade.
Afterward, the first thing Hu Yuexin did was to buy a phone since her previous one had been already ruined. She had learned about cellphones and the internet after studying the people around her for some time.
Next, she returned to the ruin which the previous Hu Yuexin called house. Weirdly, Virus even possessed the information regarding her home address as he passed it on to her.
Subsequently, sitting in a random corner of the empty house, she started surfing the internet as she absorbed as much information as she could regarding Humanity, Earth, Rifts, etc.
She was like a sponge, having come into contact with water for the first time.
‘Hmm, interesting, interesting… so the human beings on this planet can awaken strange powers and abilities called ‘Traits’ after consuming some of those Red-Crystals, huh?’ Not stopping there, she added, ‘That’s rather new. There must be either something very unique and special about the human race on this planet or it’s that those Red-Crystals are the special items in this case.’
‘Anyway, considering that I’m also a human being of this planet now, there shouldn’t be an issue with me awakening a ‘Trait’ too since I can fulfill both of the requirements in either case, right? I just need to hunt some of those monsters with red flame-like eyes in order to get my hands on a few of them.’
“Ah, I’m really curious about what my Trait’s going to be!” Full of excitement, she phrased out loud. But it didn’t take long before she forcefully calmed herself down as a resolved glint flashed through her pupils as she decided, ‘But before that… first things first.’
