Wasteland Queen: My Harvest Power novel Chapter 9

Chapter 9 Rat Tide

Chapter 9 Rat Tide

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Reina, Chloe, and the others trekked across ground covered in charred bug corpses. Every time they found a burnt mutant beast, they checked it out.

No luck. Everything was heavily contaminated. The meat and bones were worthless-there was nothing left to scavenge.

‘Let’s split up and search,” Reina suggested.

She couldn’t test her ability in front of Chloe and the others, so she had to send them away for now.

Chloe nodded. “Okay.”

They spread out, keeping about a hundred feet between each other as they searched.

Soon, Reina found a mutant rabbit with scorched fur. There were chop marks on its head. It was huge-at least five feet long.

Checking to make sure no one was looking, Reina touched it, activating her Harvesting Ability.

A white light flashed from her palm.

>ing! “Energy -1. Harvest successful. EXP +10. Gained a fresh Level 1 mutant rabbit meat. Contamination Value: 32. First-time consumption permanently increases Physique by 1. Effect doesn’t stack.”

Suddenly, a slab of bright red rabbit meat-about five pounds-appeared next to her.

Reina was thrilled.

Her hunch was right. She could harvest mutant beasts!

Not only that, the first mutant beast meat she harvested even had a special effect.

she quickly stuffed the meat into her backpack.

Her heart pounded.

she was definitely keeping this for herself.

Anything that permanently boosted Physique was way too valuable to share.

Reina stood up and looked back at the rabbit. It had turned into a pile of black charcoal.

Real charcoal.

The wind blew, and the pile of charcoal scattered into the air, leaving nothing behind..

Reina wasn’t surprised. When she harvested mutant plants, the same thing happened.

Basically, she took the essence and left the trash behind. A little creepy if you thought about it.

But Reina didn’t care.

She kept searching and picked up her pace.

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Seeing any black lump ahead, she rushed over to check.

Soon, she found another one-a mutant hedgehog about the size of a bathtub.

This one wasn’t dead yet. It was barely hanging on, twisting on the ground.

The thing twisting wasn’t the hedgehog’s body, though. It was the dozens of twisted tentacles growing out of its back.

Those black tentacles were over three feet long, snapping and reaching toward Reina. It was terrifying.

Reina almost backed off, but she changed her mind. She raised her flamethrower, blasting the tentacles.

The tentacles instantly pulled back. Reina lunged forward and used Harvest Ability.

Ding! “Energy-1. Harvest successful. EXP -20. Gained level-2 energy crystal. -1 Physique when absorbed.”

Reina looked down at the crystal in her hand, shocked.

A level-2 mutant beast could have this?

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Even official textbooks published by the federal government only said that energy crystal cores might form inside mutant creature: above level-4.

But the mutant hedgehog in front of her, judging by its size and ability, wasn’t level-4. If it were, she’d be dead.

But she didn’t have time to overthink it. She needed to absorb it before anyone saw.

Reina gripped the crystal and silently said, Absorb. A warm current flowed from her hand through her whole bany. The crystal turned

to dust

She checked her panel again. Her Physique attribute had increased by one point.

Reina stood up.

She glanced at the mutant hedgehog. It was completely still. The twisted tentacles on its back hung limp, like rotten black worms

Wisps of black gas leaked out and slowly faded into the air.

Reina frowned. She was about to look for Chloe and the others when she suddenly saw the mercenaries and ability users in the distance running back at full speed.

“Run! Mutant rats!”

“What the hell! Where did so many mutant rats come from?!”

People were screaming and sprinting so fast they left afterimages.

Chloe and the others sprinted over and grabbed Reina, pulling her along.

“This is bad! A huge swarm of mutant rats! There are tons of them! Hurry back to the camp!” Chloe yelled while running

She kept looking back, her face full of fear.

Reina saw it too. In the distance, black clouds rolled across the ground. Huge black mutant beasts were rushing in from every

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heart sighted. She didn’t dare besitate and ran with Chice and the others

Lovly, Dey weret Soon they rushed into the yard with the rest of the crowd.

go tester someone spected loud, trying to shut the camp gate.

286 Portes & Aguard with a fire at scoring the crowd back

there were all mon means and lysis esses. The come guards couldn’t let people close the gate like that

The paced code and key. Some people ever into the buildings to hide.

Rene Cee’s group set up once they were see

Chice Duon, and Sevard went back to their to pack their things while Reine headed to the trading ball

She widest af to over since, took out 12 energy blocks and said calmly. “Charge them. The energy values are too low. They

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