I don't know whether to say host, you're lucky or unlucky.

[This is the world of baby dragon turtles; you're incredibly lucky to have stumbled upon it.]

[But precisely because of this, once you're in, you might not be able to get out.]

Xin Sui: "Dragon Turtle? Companion World? What's that?"

[The dragon turtle is a dragon with a turtle shell, or a turtle that looks like a dragon; in short, it is a combination of the two.]

If mythical beasts were also ranked, then the Dragon Turtle would be a divine beast, an incredibly powerful being, and there is only one in the entire world.

This dragon turtle has lived for countless years, and it molts and is reborn every so often.

[Of course, this time interval is very long for you humans, at least several hundred years.]

"Wait, at least several hundred years? Does that mean the dragon turtle already existed before the apocalypse?"

"But isn't the novel's setting—the world before the apocalypse—just an ordinary modern world?"

[An ordinary, unremarkable modern world? What gives you this illusion?]

The novel contains some indirect descriptions of the golden age before the apocalypse, which Xin Sui felt was similar to the world she lived in in her previous life.

But now, after being asked this question by the system, she suddenly realized that it wasn't what she thought.

This world was already unusual even before the apocalypse occurred.

[Since you've already read the novel, you should know how the apocalypse came about, right?]

"I know, it was the Inner Earth Clan who launched it."

[Do you know how long the Inner Earth race has existed?]

"Well……"

I really don't know about this Xin Sui.

In the distant past, before the birth of humankind, the rulers of this world were gods.

Later, a division arose within the God organization, splitting into two factions that fought each other.

The losers were imprisoned in the Earth's core, guarded by jailers. Over time, these gods multiplied and grew in the Earth's core, thus giving rise to the subterranean race.

The victorious faction suffered various fates: some perished, some left the planet, some fell into slumber, and some created various living beings, including humans.

As time passed and the world changed, the gods disappeared from the earth, and humankind took over the surface.

The subterranean race was unwilling to remain trapped in the Earth's core and wanted to come to the surface to enjoy the light.

So they plotted to kill the prison guards and planned an operation on the surface. Subsequently, the apocalyptic current erupted, and humanity's end was nigh.

This is the truth behind the coming of the apocalypse.

After listening, Xin Sui remained silent for a long time.

Her soul was deeply shaken.

"So, gods exist in this world?"

[It did exist in the past, but I don't know if it exists now.]

"You just said that God created all kinds of creatures, is the dragon turtle one of them?"

[That's right.]

Xin Sui couldn't help but gasp.

So how long did that dragon turtle actually live?

Their age is probably in the hundreds of millions.

"Then what about the companion world?"

The dragon turtle possesses a turtle pearl, which is its origin and the source of its power.

As I mentioned earlier, the dragon turtle molts and regenerates every so often.

After molting, the dragon turtle will turn back into an egg, at which point it is extremely vulnerable.

To ensure its successful rebirth without external disturbance, a space was created inside its tortoise shell, which is the space you are seeing now—its symbiotic world.

[It has all the nutrients it needs during its gestation process, and there is no other living organism besides it... It can be said that all aspects of its conditions can meet its needs for rebirth.]

[But now, you've unexpectedly barged in as an outsider.]

Xin Sui: "...I didn't want to either, okay? According to you, this tortoise bead space should be absolutely sealed off, so how did I manage to break in?"

[The Turtle Bead Space is a small world independent of the main world outside. These two worlds are like two adjacent bubbles, one large and one small, with an overlapping spatial node between them.]

[You used a teleportation scroll earlier and accidentally ended up at this spatial node, and then you came in.]

"So if I want to get out, I need to find that overlapping spatial node?"

[Yes, but there is another method.]

"What method?"

[Make the dragon turtle acknowledge you as its master.]

[The dragon turtle has recognized you as its master, so the turtle pearl will naturally also recognize you as its master. Then you can come and go as you please, right?]

Xin Sui: "..."

"Do you think that's possible? The dragon turtle would only acknowledge me as its master if it were insane."

For a mythical beast that has lived for hundreds of millions of years to recognize a human as its master, what's the difference between that and offering your neck to be killed?

Unless it's tired of living.

Anything is possible. How will you know you can't do it if you don't try?

[You've managed to encounter such an extremely rare event as being teleported to a spatial node, a one in a billion chance. Perhaps the Dragon Turtle would actually be willing to acknowledge you as its master.]

Xin Sui stopped listening to the system's motivational speeches.

She flew back to her original position, hoping to see if she could return along the same route.

The result was not.

She couldn't sense the spatial nodes at all.

After all, she's not a space-age ability user.

It seems this method won't work.

At this moment, the leopard quickly spun around twice in place, its tail taut and straight.

A pair of big, watery eyes looked at her.

Xin Sui chuckled and scratched its chin, "Want to pee? Mommy will take you downstairs right away."

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