Stealing Pens: Travelers from the End of the World

Tan Yuchen woke up in a stone cave.

There was no other sound around except his breathing, and the quiet environment did not make him relax his vigilance. The wound on his left arm was still bleeding, dripping down his arm and onto the ground. But the fatal wound on the chest was gone. Tan Yuchen stretched out his hand and touched it, only to find wet blood.

He tore off a piece of cloth from his clothes and bandaged his left arm casually. When he saw that there was no more bleeding, he stood up and began to look around.

The cave is not big, and you can get out in more than ten steps. There are polished marks all around the stone wall, and there is a large flat stone slab next to it. It looks like it was cut by hand.

Qin Yuchen walked around inside and found no danger, so he sat back to his original position. He didn't know where he was, and everything around him told him that this was not the original world. Now except that this cave can ensure safety, nothing else is known outside.

Tan Yuchen was a little confused now. He leaned his head against the stone wall and closed his eyes to relieve his weakness after losing too much blood. Logically speaking, he should be dead. How could he still be alive after being stabbed through the heart and pushed into a group of zombies?

[Ding, hello host, I am System 007. I am happy to serve you. 】

Pulled back from his thoughts by the voice, Qin Yuchen did not move. He just opened his eyes slightly and looked around, but saw no one.

[Host, I am in your mind. 】

"..."

[I happened to meet you in the space-time tunnel back to the headquarters, fished you out from the zombie group, and then bound you smoothly. 】

"Where is this?" Tan Yuchen's voice was hoarse, and his throat, which had not been wet for a long time, hurt when he opened his mouth.

[This is an unknown mountain in Gansu. We are now in a parallel world called "The Stealing Pen". This is not the end of the world and there are no zombies, so the host can rest assured and have a good rest. 】

"..." His dry throat made him not want to speak, so he just moved his numb legs.

007 was holding a pine cone and said in a somewhat aggrieved tone: [I used energy to repair your injury on the way here, but it was too serious and I didn’t have much energy, so I only repaired the knife wound on your arm. half. 】

I see. Tan Yuchen thought that the most serious injury on his body was on his chest, which penetrated his heart. If he was thrown into a group of zombies, he would be instantly submerged. It would be impossible without bites. The knife wound on the arm was also deep enough to show the bone, and now nothing could be seen except for a long gash that was somewhat deep.

007 was still chattering, but Qin Yuchen didn't listen carefully. He just wanted to have a good rest now, and after rest, he had to make dinner. Let's count dinner for now. The sky outside can't be seen clearly through the hole. It just feels dark and heavy, as if it's going to rain.

[Host, I have food and drink here, you can ask me to get it. ] 007 spoke for a long time before remembering that Qin Yuchen hadn't eaten anything after sleeping for so long. He took out bread and water from the mall and put them in people's hands, [Don't worry, I will always be with you, you can trust me. 】

The thing in his hand made him slightly stunned, but he didn't say anything, he just opened the package and started his first meal in a long time.

[I still have medicines, bandages, and clothes here. Host, after you finish eating, clean the wound first, then change into clean clothes, and then...]

Qin Yuchen took a sip of water, interrupted and said: "Conditions."

【what? 】

"Help me on condition."

Tan Yuchen didn't believe in free help. At least in his previous world, no one would be kind enough to help others. The human heart is the least able to withstand scrutiny. Even family members who are close to each other will fall out with each other as soon as possible.

007 understood it for a long time before reacting, and felt helpless: [No conditions are required, it just requires the host to complete the task. Just like playing a game, NPC releases tasks, players receive the tasks, and then complete them to receive rewards. It’s just that I also benefit from the host completing its tasks. The more tasks the host completes, the more energy I can obtain. The greater the system energy, the more benefits the host will gain, so it is a win-win situation for both of us. 】

[The host is very weak now, so the task is not urgent. You need to recover first before I start issuing tasks. As for the host's ID card, the system will help arrange it. I have everything under my control, so the host can rest assured! 】

007 raised his chin proudly. If it weren't for the pine cones in his hands, he would probably have patted his chest.

Tan Yuchen smiled and said nothing. After eating the bread, I regained some strength and started to treat the wound. Unwrapping the cloth just wrapped around it, revealing the opening where the tender flesh could be seen turning outwards. Qin Yuchen just looked at it for a moment and then opened a bottle of water and rinsed it. The blood mixed with water ran across his fingertips and sank into the soil. A touch of coolness. 007 looked at the host whose expression remained unchanged and felt his teeth hurt.

After taking care of it, Qin Yuchen opened another bottle of water, washed the blood on the ground, and covered it with a layer of mud. He picked up the changed clothes and used gauze and walked out.

[Host, where are we going? 】

"Bury clothes and gauze."

[Oh, it looks like it’s going to rain today, so we have to hurry up. 】

"Ah."

Qin Yuchen walked a few hundred meters, dug a hole with branches under a big tree, threw the things in, then covered it with soil, and stepped on it a few times: "Do you have a fire?"

007 rummaged through the box and took out a fire certificate, and nodded: [There are some. Why doesn't the host burn his clothes? 】

"..." Tan Yuchen was silent for a long time before uttering two words, "Forgot."

On the way back, he picked up some dry firewood to use at night, "By the way, my knife?"

[I kept it for the host, do you want to use it now? 】

"No, let's leave it to you first."

【good. ] 007 thought about it again and again, and decided to ask again, [Does the host need to awaken his bloodline? 】

"?" Qin Yuchen picked up Zhiya's hand and paused, "What bloodline?"

[Uh...how to put it, it's a gift package for newbies. There is a god-level bloodline, which improves physical fitness, as well as Feng Shui, mechanisms, and so on. 】007 looked at Qin Yuchen's attribute panel and felt that his host did not need these things. However, your own host should also have what other hosts have!

Tan Yuchen thought for a while, then shook his head: "No need."

【why? 】

Tan Yuchen smiled and said, "Is the bloodline given by your parents bad? Why should you change it?"

【……All right. But let’s take a look at these hosts, right? 】

"Why?"

[Because I’m going to rob a tomb. 】007 said.

"..."

★★★

After a few days of good rest, Qin Yuchen was finally not tired anymore. He has been reading the "Encyclopedia of Mechanisms" given by 007 with his consciousness these days. A lot of machine calculations come to mind, which makes people dizzy. Tan Yuchen was lucky, otherwise he would have thrown this thing aside long ago.

After reading for almost an hour, Qin Yuchen rubbed his eyebrows, thinking that he was already in his late twenties and still had to hold the book and chew on it every day.

It rained all night last night, and it gradually stopped early in the morning. Qin Yuchen walked out of the cave. The rainwater was still on the grass and trees. Every piece of vegetation fell off as he passed by. The air was also mixed with the smell of mud. He wrinkled his nose. Step forward and follow 007's navigation down the mountain.

007 told him that it is now 1969, an era when the country is still exploring and consolidating its political power. But this has little to do with them. After all, the development trend of national history cannot be changed.

Tan Yuchen kept walking along the path, carrying two knives and a travel backpack on his back. On the way out, Tan Yuchen asked 007 to prepare food and medicine, and he took out the two knives together. After all, you are going to a crowded place. If you conjure something out of thin air, you will inevitably get into a lot of trouble if you are discovered.

The two knives were made by collecting crystal nuclei and meteorite iron from zombies in the end of the world. Their shapes were modeled after the Tang Dynasty's Hengdao. One was completely black, with four prismatic white crystal nuclei inlaid in the handle. The scabbard hung It has black tassels with complex runes engraved on them. The other one is grayer, the handle has no crystal core, but is wrapped with black cloth, and the scabbard has no tassels. Other than these, there is not much difference.

007 asked if he had a name. Qin Yuchen shook his head and said no. He felt that the matter of naming was very complicated, and he had thought about it at first, but after thinking a lot about it, he was not satisfied, so he simply gave up on it.

[Ding, please host go to Golmud Sanatorium to rescue Zhang Qiling]

[Ding, please host go to Golmud Sanatorium to rescue Zhang Qiling]

【Ding……】

The three mission prompts came unexpectedly, and Tan Yuchen frowned and said nothing.

[Host, the first mission is out. Zhang Qiling is currently being detained and monitored. He will be used for human experiments in the near future. We need to rescue him as soon as possible. 】

"how many people?"

[It is a military...]

"..."

[But don’t worry, as long as you successfully enter the Golmud Sanatorium and find Zhang Qiling, I can use energy to open a portal, and then just take Zhang Qiling away directly. 】

"Aren't you out of energy?" Qin Yuchen asked.

[I have also saved a little during the past few days, so I can only activate it for fifteen seconds, and the distance is relatively close, so I still need to work hard by myself. ] 007 hugged the pine cone tightly, feeling a little embarrassed. It had already spent most of its energy trying to save Qin Yuchen. If he opened the portal again this time, it would probably take several years to recover.

‘Woooooo, it’s all for the mission. ’007 thought, ‘As long as this task is completed, he will gain the energy to open another portal! ’

Tan Yuchen didn't know Zhang Qiling, he only knew about it from the stories told by 007. Zhang Qiling is one of the protagonists of "The Stealing Pen". He was held in a sanatorium for twenty years because of the failure of a large-scale tomb robbery a few years ago. He also suffered from amnesia.

When he heard this paragraph, Qin Yuchen laughed. It reminded him of the teammate he had been with for five or six years. He did not hesitate to kill himself in order to join Base C because he, as the controller of Base A, did not agree to join Base C.

Power and money can blind people's eyes. Base c is a gathering place for rich people before the end of the world. It is divided into a large area. Poor people live on the periphery and rich people live in the center. The controllers of Base C were very ambitious and wanted to take advantage of the end of the world to dream of becoming an emperor, so they bribed people from other bases to expand their territory. And his teammates are one of them.