Chapter 5: Chapter 5: Can She Be Put Back into the Egg?
The announcement of the first zombie kill had undeniably motivated many people.
Regardless of who had managed to kill the zombie, the fact that it was possible proved that humans could fight back against this world's threats.
"But I'm still curious—how did he manage to kill the zombie?"
"Yeah, when I tried punching it with my bare hands, it didn't take any damage at all."
Many people expressed confusion over this issue, but Lin Fan had no time to answer their questions.
He didn't even glance at the world chat. Instead, he noticed something new on his status panel after killing that zombie—a line indicating "gold coins."
After killing the zombie, his coin total increased to 5 gold.
Although he didn't yet know what these coins were for, he at least realized one thing: killing monsters could earn him gold.
If there was a currency system like gold coins, it suggested the existence of a platform or marketplace for transactions in this world.
This was a significant difference from Minecraft.
With this in mind, Lin Fan decided to investigate the use of gold coins the next day.
He opened his inventory and took out the reward for the first zombie kill.
The item looked like an egg, something Lin Fan had never seen before in Minecraft.
Naturally, he was curious about this unknown item. The reward for the world's first zombie kill shouldn't be something trivial, right?
At least, that's what Lin Fan thought.
After studying the egg for a while, he discovered a manual nearby.
The manual had only two large characters printed on it: Maid Egg.
Other than those two words, there was no additional information.
Lin Fan was speechless. A manual with just two words? That was a bit ridiculous.
He held the egg up and examined it.
In Minecraft, there were indeed various kinds of eggs—creeper eggs, zombie eggs, skeleton eggs, and so on.
However, these were only available in Creative Mode, not in Survival Mode.
Lin Fan rarely played Creative Mode, so he wasn't too familiar with these items.
Still, he knew how to use them.
Lin Fan gripped the Maid-chan egg and threw it. Instantly, an adorable maid appeared before him.
He checked her details and noticed that this maid was different from the maid mods he had used in Minecraft before.
In the maid's information panel, her owner was listed as Lin Fan, meaning he didn't need to tame her with cake or feed her sugar.
Unlike the maids from mods, who could only do things like fight mobs or hold torches, this maid could do everything.
She could even marry Lin Fan and have children with him.
This Maid-chan's functionality was so comprehensive that she was indistinguishable from a real person, complete with her own independent consciousness.
For example, Lin Fan had been staring at her for a little too long, and she had already noticed something was off.
The maid tilted her head and looked at Lin Fan.
"Master, why are you staring at me?"
Her voice was incredibly sweet, and the way she called him "Master" melted Lin Fan's heart.
Although he had used maid mods in the past, they couldn't compare to the ultra-realistic maid standing before him.
The maids in the mods couldn't call him "Master," weren't as obedient, and couldn't even speak.
The difference between the two was massive. Thinking about this, Lin Fan began to look forward to testing her functions.
"Do you have a name?" Lin Fan asked.
"No, Master. Would you like to give me one?" Maid-chan replied obediently.
Seeing how well-behaved she was, Lin Fan felt a wave of comfort wash over him.
Surviving alone was bound to be lonely. Lin Fan had previously worried about being in a world where he knew no one and might struggle to adapt.
But now, with a maid by his side, he didn't have to worry about loneliness anymore.
"From now on, your name will be Lilian," Lin Fan said casually, giving her a name.
Of course, the name didn't have any special meaning; it was just the first thing Lin Fan thought of.
Lilian, however, was very pleased with her new name. She nodded obediently, her big, round eyes fixed on Lin Fan.
"What would you like me to do, Master?"
"Help me kill zombies." Lin Fan walked to the crafting table and used sticks and cobblestone to make Lilian a stone sword.
He handed the stone sword to her and demonstrated how to kill zombies. Lilian mimicked him perfectly and began working on "leg farming."
Lin Fan noticed that every zombie Lilian killed added coins directly to his account.
This discovery made Lin Fan quite happy. Killing mobs had always been a boring and repetitive task for him.
Now that Lilian could handle it, he could save time for other things.
However, after only a short while of farming, Lilian stopped.
She looked up at Lin Fan with her sparkling eyes, her expression pitiful.
"Master, I'm hungry~" she said sweetly, her voice so sugary that Lin Fan's heart skipped a beat.
But while he was momentarily charmed, her words caused his heart to crack a little.
"You… need to eat?"
"Of course! Even maids have hunger and thirst bars!"
What the—
Lin Fan immediately regretted everything. Could he put this maid back into the egg?
At this point, he was already struggling with a food shortage. Adding another mouth to feed was practically a death sentence.
Feeling helpless, Lin Fan pulled two pieces of rotten flesh from his inventory and handed them to Lilian.
"This is all we've got at the moment. Eat some rotten flesh for now."
As soon as he handed her the rotten flesh, Lilian's face twisted in disgust.
"I'm not eating that. If I eat it, I'll get poisoned and die." She pouted, looking like she was about to cry.
"Does Master not want me anymore? Do you want me to die?"
Yes, and I'd very much like to stuff you back into the egg.
That's what Lin Fan thought, but he didn't say it out loud.
"Of course not! I didn't know maids couldn't eat rotten flesh." He put the rotten flesh back into his inventory and handed her his last two apples.
Lilian's eyes lit up as soon as she saw the apples. She snatched them and devoured them in no time.
Lin Fan sighed helplessly as he watched.
'What a little money sink…'
He had been planning to survive the night on those apples himself, but now this money sink had come along and eaten them all!
Looking at his hunger bar, which was now down to 4 points, Lin Fan pulled out a piece of rotten flesh and reluctantly ate it.
The texture was awful, like chewing on leather, and the taste was even worse, with a strong, rotten stench that made him want to gag.
Lin Fan forced it down, then glanced at Lilian, who looked completely satisfied with her apples, and almost cried.
Is it too late to stuff this maid back into the egg?