CHAPTER 42: CHAPTER 18: LIFE IS FULL OF UPS AND DOWNS

Gu Mo was certainly happy to get loot for the first time, but he also knew better than to expect good equipment from garbage monsters. It might just be a consolation prize.

He gently reached out and plucked the item, and the moment the glowing dot touched his fingertip, it disappeared as if it had been absorbed by his skin... At the same time, Gu Mo sneaked a glance at Hidechika behind him and noticed that the black-haired girl didn’t seem to have any particular expression on her face.

It was more because of what had just happened, making her seem somewhat distracted.

As expected, apart from himself, others couldn’t see the phenomena presented by these gamified mechanisms, otherwise, that would be a bit too strange.

Wait, where’s my loot? Where did it go?

Retracting his palm, he examined his fingers, and Gu Mo’s eyebrows furrowed in confusion. Had it melted, or what? Even though he knew it couldn’t be some grand prize, it might at most be a symbolic consolation reward, perhaps materials or a Soul Core from the Hungry Ghost.

But it’s still his possession, how could it be swallowed without a trace?

Moreover, if this happened once, it could happen again and again. If it always happened like this, what would become of his loot?

Calming down, he thought that perhaps there was another explanation, maybe such items were automatically included in some kind of "backpack" or "inventory" special space? But how was he supposed to use such a function, he hadn’t seen any options for it.

Gu Mo pondered, instinctively reaching into his pocket, then his expression froze slightly.

Could it be that easy this time?

The moment his palm reached into the pocket, he "felt" the presence of a peculiar space, seeing an interface in a non-visual way, with neatly arranged rows and columns like a storage interface in a game, only it was empty, holding nothing inside.

Except for the first slot, which was occupied by an icon, with a quantity of 1 displayed at the bottom left corner.

Was it the item glow he had just picked up?

"Hmm?"

At this moment, Hidechika also trotted up beside him. She first looked down at the small Hungry Ghost corpse on the ground, then at him, letting out a sound expressing doubt, seemingly puzzled as to why he suddenly stopped and wore such a complex expression.

"Sorry, I just suddenly remembered something, when I left, I hadn’t turned off the gas at home, I need to go back quickly to check it..."

Gu Mo looked at her, blinking as he explained, providing a reasonable excuse for his upcoming attempt to run away with the bucket.

Of course, it was only reasonable in his eyes.

Ah Xiu couldn’t understand what he was rambling about, her rose-red eyes still filled with confusion... What is ’turning off the gas’?

This shows that even though both sides could communicate smoothly without language barriers thanks to some mysterious power providing real-time translation, with each clearly feeling the other spoke in the language they were most familiar with.

Still, there are some things that are impossible; due to differences in worldview, knowledge, etc., even if they understood the pronunciation, it was difficult to grasp a made-up word never heard before. The mysterious translation mechanism from the incomprehensible system wouldn’t ensure both sides could understand concepts they’d never encountered during translation.

That wouldn’t just be translation, perhaps this part is the most ridiculous and absurd...

"Yeah, maybe the water and electricity too, I should go back and check..." Gu Mo nodded repeatedly, continuing to walk towards the mountain road ahead.

Meanwhile, he also devoted a bit of attention to the suddenly appeared special space, or rather his inventory.

It didn’t seem to exist in his clothing pockets, but was linked to this function through the inherent concept of a pocket being a container... He tried removing his hand from one pocket and slipped the other hand into another pocket.

After a brief disconnection, he once again successfully "felt" the existence of that special space.

Moreover, from before ’til now, his phone and wallet were also inside, yet hadn’t entered the special space; they just stayed in his pockets, not entering that space... so now he could feel the presence of two distinctly different "pocket spaces".

One was normal, the other abnormal.

Regarding this occurrence, he tried to make a reasonable guess: this inventory had special restrictions, only items recognized by the system could be stored there, not everything could be put in... So only after defeating the monster and obtaining his first loot was it stored there, alerting him that he had an inventory?

Hmm, it’s hard to judge. He had contemplated before that if he had a game-like backpack function, it would make things easier, at least he could secure some weapons for defense quickly...

Now it seemed convenient indeed, but only just a little.