After Amiya returned to her seat to continue working, Kal'tsit again pulled up Kanna's itinerary. She even reviewed the medical report of the child named Dahlia, who Silence had left behind.
According to the itinerary, everything was normal, with no points of interest except for Dahlia's severe condition.
After leaving the Control Room, Kanna opened the system shop.
It was divided into two categories: Fresh Produce and Snacks... Just the names of these two categories made Kanna's forehead twitch.
However, just as the Main God wouldn't issue a mission of certain death, the system wouldn't issue a useless mission. So, it was very likely that the method to save that child was in either Fresh Produce or Snacks.
First, she opened the Fresh Produce page, and immediately saw a large yellow-skinned rodent, Pichu, one of the protagonists of Pokémon, the unevolved form of Pikachu. Then, scrolling down, Magnemite, then Thunder Slime, then... nothing.
After looking, Kanna couldn't help but feel a headache. Those three things above, for Kanna, there was nothing wrong with calling them fresh produce, but she always felt it was too strange. Two Pokémon and one Genshin Impact character made no sense.
No matter how she thought about it, these three things had nothing to do with healing. Of course, if one considered electrotherapy as therapy, then she might as well just discharge electricity herself... After not finding anything useful in Fresh Produce, she turned to the Snacks section. Since Fresh Produce was so unreliable, she felt Snacks would definitely have something 'lively' as well.
Sure enough, the first snack was a Kirin Azure Horn. As a former veteran Azure Star, Kanna recognized it at a glance as a material dropped by Kirin in Monster Hunter.
Isn't this a weapon material? How did it become a snack here?
Is it for a teething stick???
Flipping to the next page with a puzzled expression, the second item was much more normal: a fruit covered in lightning. This was quite ordinary. Kanna nodded and looked at its description.
Rumble-Rumble Fruit: From the world of One Piece. Consumption can increase one's control over lightning and its intensity (can be consumed repeatedly). Price: one pure originium. (Note: The system has removed the side effect of weakness to seawater after consumption, but the quality of the fruit has also significantly decreased.)
Seeing this, Kanna's face wrinkled. Not to mention how expensive pure originium is, it's well-known that the fruits in One Piece taste pretty much like poop. Even if she were brain-dead, she wouldn't spend a fortune to eat a pile of poop.
Seeing this, she curiously flipped back to the previous page.
Kirin Azure Horn: From the world of Monster Hunter. Consumption can increase lightning intensity. Repeated chewing can effectively strengthen teeth and jaw muscles (can be consumed repeatedly). Price: one pure originium. (Note: Please treat every teething stick with care. Of course, this high-quality item can also be used for equipment crafting.)
F*ck, it really was a teething stick, and an incredibly expensive one at that.
Considering there were three fresh items, Kanna guessed there would also be three snacks. The first two seemed to have nothing to do with treating the little girl, so it was highly likely her target was the last one.
Flipping to the third page, sure enough, the item didn't seem directly related to lightning. It was a light blue sphere, and Kanna was familiar with this item too.
Heart of Pure Water: From the world of Genshin Impact. Consumption can enhance Pray for Rain effects. Price: one pure originium. (Note: The Heart of Pure Water possesses a certain divinity. Non-system users who consume this item may have their bodies forcibly altered by the divinity, becoming new Purewater Spirits.)
Kanna showed a look of understanding. She remembered Ifrit saying that Dahlia's Originium Arts controlled water, and her strength was not bad, only slightly inferior to Ifrit's.
Although she didn't know if Ifrit was exaggerating, at least one thing was certain: Dahlia's Originium Arts effects were related to water.
However, after seeing the explanation behind this item, Kanna hesitated. After all, no matter how strong Purewater Spirits were, they ultimately departed from the realm of humans. She wasn't sure if Dahlia would accept such a change if it truly came to that.
But now, what she had to consider was where to get a pure originium... Even within Rhodes Island, this item was considered war-reserve material. As an Elite Operator, Kanna was qualified to request one, but she would have to report its purpose to Kal'tsit and get approval before she could take it.
At this moment, she began to miss the pure originium she had found in that noble's house in Glamorgan territory. Back then, she had crushed it and used the active Originium dust generated from the entire Originium to turn the mother and son into Infected. It was too extravagant; thinking about it now made her heart ache.
However, as things stood, her goal was to obtain a pure originium before Dahlia's condition worsened. If Doctor Silence could save her, that would be best. If not, she could use the Heart of Pure Water as a last resort.
She first found Amiya, wanting to ask if she, as the "leader" of Rhodes Island, had any spare pure originium. Of course, the answer was no. Amiya also reminded Kanna that pure originium was an extremely important and precious resource and hoped Kanna would treat it cautiously.
Since Amiya didn't have any, Kanna thought for a moment and went to find Scout. Logically speaking, although pure originium was precious, a veteran like Scout should have some in stock.
But the news she received disappointed Kanna again. Scout told Kanna that he had a batch before, but to complete the current mission, he had spent all of it on repairing and modifying his equipment.
After leaving Scout, Kanna was a little sad. When she walked by the kitchen, she met Cerberus, who was peeking inside, ready to forage for food at any moment.
Seeing Kanna's troubled expression, Cerberus looked puzzled. Although Kanna didn't expect the dog to offer any good suggestions, she still voiced her worries. After listening to Kanna, Cerberus understood even less.
"That Scout you mentioned, he spent that Originium, right? Where did he use it? Why don't you just go find it?"
Hearing Cerberus's words, Kanna suddenly realized. Right, Rhodes Island hadn't had any large-scale goods coming in or out recently, so these pure originium should still be in the hands of the other party in the transaction, which was Rhodes Island's Engineering Department.
Although she wasn't very familiar with Rhodes Island's Engineering Department, she was familiar with its head, Kroos! After all, every time she entered and exited the Engineering Department, Kroos would accompany her throughout, a treatment that even Kal'tsit didn't enjoy.
Moreover, as the head of Rhodes Island's Engineering Department and Procurement Department, Kroos was also Rhodes Island's number one profiteer, surely full of illicit gains. No one would believe her if she said she didn't have ten or eight pure originium in her bag. How could she have forgotten her?
Of course, Kanna also remembered that there were a few rich cat ladies on Rhodes Island who surely had this item in stock, but she and they were only casual friends, and borrowing such a valuable item wouldn't be appropriate.
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