To quickly obtain some good items to improve her cultivation progress in the Taotie Art, Ding Yun, having figured out the specific mechanisms of the Myriad Worlds Gourmet Sign-in System, immediately began to consistently not finish the daily meals she received from signing in.
This was so the sign-in system would deduct merit and luck.
Then, on the second day, she would continue to receive excellent food.
In less than half a month, Ding Yun successfully underwent her second transformation, and after the second transformation was completed.
She became an obligate anaerobe in the truest sense.
Completely shedding the need for oxygen.
Her body's cells could no longer be classified as cancerous cells; more accurately, they were a more advanced, more magical, and more all-around healthy type of cell than cancer cells.
Each cell possessed an extremely long lifespan and the characteristic of infinite proliferation. Simultaneously, they could perfectly absorb what was consumed and convert it into energy.
To maintain the body's operation.
How to describe it? It meant her internal organs had completely lost their original characteristics. The stomach no longer dominated its functions, nor did the lungs dominate theirs. Everything from her blood to her organs had transformed into very similar types of cells.
No matter which part of her body was injured.
The cells from other parts could synergistically repair it.
Even if she lost limbs, as long as she ate enough and had some time, Ding Yun could self-recover.
While not as effortless as immortals dining on dew and mist, she had already achieved the ability to live normally without relying on breathing, as long as she ate. And her lifespan was extremely long.
Theoretically, as long as there were no accidents.
Her lifespan could reach over a thousand years.
Even if her future living environment, dietary conditions, and so on were perfect, it was conceivable that she could live for ten thousand years; it was not an impossible feat.
However, this did not mean Ding Yun's current body was perfect. As a newly born anaerobic life form, surviving on this life planet with a high oxygen concentration would inevitably lead to oxygen erosion.
Even though she sealed all her pores, her skin would inevitably suffer some damage, requiring her to replace her surface skin cells periodically to ensure her skin remained young and healthy.
Another factor was that breathing is a habit, a habit that had persisted for thousands of years. Ding Yun often forgot that she had become an anaerobic life form.
She didn't need oxygen but would unconsciously breathe.
Then she would bring oxygen into her body.
Causing herself harm.
Therefore, even after completing her second transformation, Ding Yun ultimately could not completely dispense with using her spiritual energy barrier. She had merely changed her low-oxygen barrier into an oxygen-free, vacuum barrier and began to strive to stop breathing voluntarily. Only by ceasing to breathe.
Could the vacuum barrier be completely removed.
Otherwise, she would easily be poisoned by oxygen.
Because the more anaerobic a life form is, the more toxic oxygen becomes to it. The current oxygen was nothing short of a potent poison to Ding Yun. The reason she speculated her theoretical lifespan was only a thousand years, not ten thousand, was because she lived in an oxygen-rich environment, akin to being immersed in a highly toxic oxygen bath. Even if her cells were already very powerful.
They would undoubtedly be harmed.
If her living environment were changed to a vacuum and her food consisted of oxygen-free substances, living for ten thousand years would be a possibility.
However, Ding Yun could not directly enter outer space for the time being, so she could only continue like this. She no longer fixated on cultivating the Taotie Art to break through. Instead, she began to look for a house. Staying in a hotel was ultimately inconvenient; it was better to have her own place where she could do as she pleased.
She couldn't afford the extremely expensive houses with the money she had, but buying a house of about a hundred square meters locally was still very easy, as the local housing prices were only five to six thousand per square meter.
She could buy a house with full payment for less than a million.
Finally, Ding Yun specifically chose a location quite far from her ex-husband and her children's homes. She spent nine hundred thousand and successfully purchased a house that had only undergone basic renovation.
The entire complex could perhaps be considered a villa district; they were all detached houses. The style was not great, though it was better than the two-story houses built by rural collectives, but it was nowhere comparable to actual villas. If not for the good geographical location, selling it in a rural area wouldn't fetch even fifty thousand.
But Ding Yun didn't mind. As long as she could live in it, that was fine. Moreover, this house was not only detached and spacious.
The transportation was also quite convenient.
Deliveries, takeout, and the like could reach her.
Just this alone made Ding Yun willing to spend tens of thousands more on buying a house here rather than going to the countryside and buying a detached courtyard house that might have a larger total area.
After buying the house, naturally, it was time to move.
For Ding Yun, basic renovation was sufficient; she wasn't particular. As long as it was livable, why waste time and effort on redecorating? So, as soon as all the title transfer procedures were completed, Ding Yun hired people to start moving, and it only took one day to successfully complete the moving matters.
As for a housewarming banquet, of course, she didn't hold one, nor did she notify anyone. She quietly moved into her new home by herself.
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Meanwhile, on the Gu family's side, half a month was enough for them to smoothly complete the pursuit of the culprit and compensation matters.
The telecommunications company was wealthy, and after the investigation, they also found that they were not extorting them. The deceased had indeed fallen into the pit dug by their company, so they voluntarily compensated twenty thousand yuan.
Additionally, the person who took the warning sign was also found.
It was someone from a nearby engineering project who had taken it.
Although it was dark at the time, and even with the warning sign there, Gu Jianguo and the others might not have seen it, it was a fact that the warning sign had been taken. It was also a fact that a death occurred afterward, so the person who took the warning sign was quickly apprehended and prosecuted.
The current outcome was that the other party would pay ten thousand yuan.
The Gu family issued a letter of understanding and consent.
After all the trouble, their family received thirty thousand yuan in compensation. It was very difficult to ask for more, so after discussion, they decided to let it be. The compensation money would be kept for the mother as her retirement fund. Those who would help care for her in the future could share some, but Gu Jianguo would definitely not be among them.
After all, not only was he the main culprit, but he was also divorced now. He was the only man in the family, and he couldn't even take care of himself, let alone his mother.
Therefore, he was directly excluded.
He would only receive some living expenses in the future.
After the compensation claim ended, naturally, it was time for the funeral. As it was not a joyous occasion but a death due to an accident, they did not plan to make a big fuss. They only sent out condolence cards to relatives and acquaintances. The only problem encountered during the process was buying a burial plot.
Everyone else in the family felt that Gu Jianguo, as the eldest son and the main culprit responsible for his father's death, should naturally bear the cost of buying a burial plot.
Gu Jianguo had no objections, but he had no money.
Before his children's weddings, he was already reluctant to go out and work. Later, the two weddings used up almost all the savings he and his wife had.
In addition, he hadn't worked much this year, only earning ten thousand yuan, so he had only a little over ten thousand yuan in savings. This amount was clearly not enough to buy a burial plot.
Nowadays, even for an ordinary burial plot, it would cost sixty to seventy thousand yuan. Over ten thousand yuan could at most buy a good urn, but not a burial plot.
This matter had caused a stir for several days. Finally, Gu Jianguo even suggested temporarily keeping the ashes at his home and burying them after he saved enough money to buy a burial plot.
But his younger siblings naturally disagreed. So, in the end, his siblings contributed some money, and Gu Jianguo signed an IOU, stating that the money was borrowed from them. Combined with his ten thousand yuan, they finally managed to buy an ordinary burial plot.
This allowed the funeral to proceed normally.
And Ding Yun, of course, received an invitation.