Chapter 253: A Coin
"What’s this now?" Daniel looked at the item August had picked up.
It was a coin, sealed inside a glass case. It didn’t look like anything special, yet it radiated a strange, otherworldly aura.
It felt like the coin didn’t belong to this world — or any world, for that matter.
Daniel frowned. Strangely, he felt a sense of familiarity with it.
"This is the Dead Coin. It can protect you once when you’re in real danger..." August glanced at it and handed it to him.
Daniel took it and tried to inspect it, but even the Mother System didn’t give any notification about it.
Apparently, the system either didn’t know about this item or didn’t want to analyze it.
That only made things weirder — and it made Daniel more curious. He looked at the old man, about to ask something.
"Don’t ask... I can’t tell you anything either. Just be careful with that coin, and if it ends up being useless to you, return it." August said seriously.
In truth, this coin was the city’s last resort — a one-time survival guarantee in case of a catastrophic disaster or a sudden appearance of corruption beasts ranked S or higher.
Technically, he wasn’t allowed to give this coin to anyone. It belonged to the city, and just doing this could get him fired — or even imprisoned for years.