Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 9

Chapter 03: The Girl in distress

“Awawawawa he-hello, are you okay?”

I ran up to the person who was lying down and tried call out to him, but there was no reaction at all.

“It’s soaking wet… it’s not just that it’s fallen down, but maybe a ship was wrecked and washed ashore…?”

There was a fairly large piece of wood stuck under his body. I’m sure it’s thanks to this that he didn’t sink and luckily it drifted to this sandy beach.

“Aah… the wound medicine, where is the wound medicine …”

In the game you can create accessories (if your skill level goes up) that allow you to breathe underwater so you don’t drown, but there is no item that can heal a drowning person. In the game, If i couldn’t breathe, after a while, i will die and respawn.
The reason to try use a wound medicine is to check whether someone is dead or not. You can’t use it if the target is dead.
As the result, the wound medicine was consumed… In other words, this person is still alive!

“F-first of all, check the consciousness, then if have it, is fine, if not, check the breathing, right?”

I don’t have the experience of treating a drowning person in my original world. So desperately try to retrieve some vague knowledge from my memories.
I turn the body that was lying down to its back. That way I could see the face.
The person, who I thought was a lump of thick kelp was in really a beautiful girl with long black hair.

“Even if I flip her over, she doesn’t react, so she is not conscious… and not breathing… ah, I’ve never have done a cardiopulmonary resuscitation before!”

I tried to bring my ear closer to her mouth, but I couldn’t hear the sound of breathing, so I put my hand on her chest and pushed it in. I’m a complete amateur, but it’s much better than not doing it!

“Please recover with this…”

Even if it is an emergency, even if the other person is of the same sex, I feel very uncomfortable doing a artificial respiration. As if my wish for this being enough had reached her, the girl eventually spat out the water been in her lungs and began to breathe on her own.

“Ah… that’s good”

Perhaps out of relief, I wipe the sweat from my forehead even though I’m not sweating.
I’ve gotten used to taking the lives of monsters (reluctantly), but on the contrary, I’ve never saved anyone before… Because I’ve been all alone!

Once again, I carefully observed the girl.
At her age, she looks younger than me, in her early teens. ……Because my body has been remade i look a little younger than my original body, but I am (barely) an adult!
I don’t know the color of her eyes because her eyes are closed, but her skin is very white.
And then… From her body, scales the same color as her hair were growing. She has a pair of small red horns on her head and a tail growing out from near her buttocks.

“… A Lizard huh…”

Lizards, as the name suggests, are a race based on reptiles. Their forms vary from bipedal lizards to human with scales. The former is the more common type.
Maybe that’s why lizards are treated as monsters in some places.
In the story of the game, if you make a mistake in dealing with them, they will turn into enemies completely, but on the contrary, if you take care of them and raise your friendship level, they will become your allies. They are a race that you have to be careful in treatment.
In addition, their fangs and scales are good materials for weapons and armor, so many people deliberately turned them into enemies. If you become an ally, you will be able to receive things that have been peeled off naturally or broken due to injuries, but it’s hard to raise the friendship to that level.
Perhaps because they have been treated as monsters until then, they are hostile and wary in the beginning and there are a lot of quests to complete before they become allies. There were many people who found it troublesome because even if they turned into an enemy, the details of the story only changed in the end and the ending itself did not change.
Me? As expected, I didn’t feel comfortable being hostile to a race that I could talk to, so I worked hard to get them to become my allies.

Well, the girl lying here now is such a lizard.
It’s a early start at this point, and helping her might lower the friendship level with other races……When i was in the game it lowered down and it was a lot of trouble……
Nevertheless.

“… As expected, I’m not the owner of thick enough nerves to abandon a person that is about to die in front of my eyes”

It is even more so if it has a form close to humans.
But please forgive me for being a little depressed when I think about the fact that it’s a real world that can’t be redone even if difficulties will increase from now on.
Even if it’s just for self consolation, To at least lighten my heart a little, I let out a big sigh.

“I wonder if you’ll wake up soon… Ah, I’m sorry!”

Because i was distracted by the scales, i just now realized that the girl was trembling.
Prolonged immersion in sea water can lead to hypothermia. Perhaps her white skin is due hypothermia.

“…it can’t be helped, let’s take her to my home”

There was no item in the item box to warm the body and there was no fishing village in sight—even if there were, it was unknown if they would welcome her—and the only option was to go home to take care of the girl. I made a return stone just in time, so I can come here again soon.
I’m worried that she will rampage at the base because the initial favorability starts at a negative score, but at this point, whatever happens, happens.

I used the return stone to return to my base.

I felt vaguely sorry, but it was an emergency, so I took off the girl’s wet clothes, wiped her body with a dry towel, and put in her my change of clothes. By the way, they are all made of cotton and were made at the same time as the futon.
Hmm, I should have made a bath first. I don’t made it because it use a lot of materials and securing magic stones is troublesome…Let’s think about it later.
I shoved her into the bed and quickly made additional futons and piled them up so that she could get even a little warmer.
I haven’t built a fireplace yet to warm the room because not necessary in this season—it’s spring now—. Even if I try to make it, I don’t have any materials, like every other time.

“As expected, it’s not sane to have a bonfire indoors… Ah, that’s right.”

I made a clay container, filled it with sand, and burned charcoal in it to create something like a brazier. With this the the room will be a little bit more warmer.
The creator god said ‘Restrictions have disappeared’, so now i can make various things outside of recipes. By creating a item manually a new recipe for the something that was created is generated, and from that moment onwards it is possible to create the item with the creation skill.

“Hmm, maybe I should make some soup for when she wake up.……Aah, I want to drink consommé soup…”

In my original world, I could have made consommé soup with just the powder from market, but to make it from the ingredients by myself takes a lot of time and effort, in conclusion my skill level is insufficient.
Overwhelmed with sorrow, I made milk egg soup in an earthenware pot and grilled a fish for myself because I was so busy that I missed lunch. My SP was so low that was dangerous… Well, even if it runs out, i won’t die instantly, but my LP an MP(mental points) will decrease and all actions will be negatively corrected.

“Oops. While I’m waiting, let’s bake sand and make glass.”

I walked back and forth between the bedroom and the workroom, but there was no sign of the girl waking up.
When I used the wound medicine, it was consumed properly and the red returned to her cheeks, so I think she will be fine…
It become evening, then turned into night, Even so, she didn’t wake up, and when I was sitting wrapped in a blanket in the corner of the room, I fell asleep before I knew it.

The next morning, when I opened my eyes in a daze, I saw an unfamiliar face—the lizard girl’s in front of me.
I instantly remembered the situation and thinked “It’s dangerous!? I gonna be attacked!?” and stiffened myself.

— Gugyurururururu~

“…I’m hungry…”

“… Heh?”

And with a loud sound, the girl collapsed on my lap.

…Ahh, so you runned out of SP…