Chapter 10

"Squeak?"

The mutant groundhog stood on the top of the mountain with a confused look on his face, scratching his head and looking around.

It just took a nap, why did the surroundings change when it woke up?

If the familiar bad guy wasn't there, and the futon that smelled so good but he didn't know how it tasted was still there, and the scenery in the distance was no different, the mutant groundhog would have thought he had sleepwalked to somewhere else.

Could it be that it slept longer this time?

The mutant groundhog couldn't help scratching its head and cheeks with its two paws, wondering if this was what humans called secluded cultivation?

"squeak……"

I think that's what it says, right?

That’s not right. The mutant groundhog looked at its claws and didn’t feel how much its strength had increased.

The confused mutant groundhog stretched out its claws and patted the mutant raspberry. Seeing that it didn't wake it up, it grabbed a few branches and shook them.

“Squeak, squeak, squeak!”

Wake up! Your newly opened flowers have fallen! Your leaves have all turned yellow! Your roots have been dug up!

The mutant raspberry suddenly woke up from its slumber, [Who! Who did this! Do you want to die?!]

The next second it realized, "That's not right. I don't have any newly opened flowers. Aren't they already bearing fruit?"

However, it still checked carefully to confirm that there was no problem with its flowers, pah, and fruits. The leaves were also growing well without any yellowing, and the roots rooted in the soil were also growing well and had not been dug up.

After checking, it raised the branch and whipped the mutant groundhog on the back of its head with a "snap".

[You're itching to get spanked if you don't get spanked for a day, why are you waking me up?!]

The mutant raspberry, who was very grumpy when waking up, even wanted to crawl out of the soil and fight with the mutant groundhog, and it would be best if it could beat the mutant groundhog so that it would never dare to disturb its sleep again.

Forget it, the idiot doesn't deserve to leave the best soil in the world. The mutant raspberry silently put the roots that had just been pulled out back.

“Squeak, squeak, squeak!”

Just look around and you'll know why I woke you up!

After being reminded by it, the mutant raspberry shifted its attention away from it and looked around.

When it saw this, it was so surprised that its branches stood up.

[What the hell! What’s going on?]

Jade-green grass grew from the previously bare soil around them, and not far to the right, a nine-story wooden building appeared. Many books could be vaguely seen stored inside.

On the left was a stone several meters high, with a few words on it that it didn't recognize and many scratches that made it ache. Behind the stone was a wide platform paved with stone slabs, and on one side of the platform were many wooden stakes of varying heights.

Below were fields, planted with many unfamiliar plants, all with a stronger scent than its own. Strangely, some fields were snowing, while others occasionally erupted in flames, yet the plants within were not frozen or burned at all.

At the foot of the mountain were vast forests. The aura of any tree was so intense that it could not match hundreds of others. There were also fruit trees, and the fruits were so abundant that even a mutant like it would want to eat them...

These are only a part of what it can see, and more is hidden in the clouds. If it were not for the familiar green mountains, roads and plains it could see outside, the mutant raspberry would have thought that the mountains were flying into the sky.

The mutant raspberry stretched out its branches to touch the grass, but the next second it found that its surroundings suddenly returned to their original state.

That's not right either.

It is not exactly the same as before, at least the hill is higher and bigger than before, and there are some green sprouts emerging from the soil. There are two more cushions next to it, and there is a small wooden house two meters away.

There is a well next to the cabin, and there is a wooden bucket and a wooden ladle beside the well.

What is going on here?

The mutant groundhog and the mutant raspberry were both a little confused and didn't understand why their surroundings kept changing.

Just when they were puzzled, Gu Qi suddenly appeared in front of them, carrying a large rice dumpling, and threw out two hoes and several packets of seeds.

There were packets of seeds, some in plastic wrap and some in cloth bags.

The mutant groundhog stretched out its nose and sniffed, its eyes fixed on the two cloth bags. It felt that the scent of the seeds in the bags was a bit similar to the scent of the trees and things planted in the fields it had seen before.

The mutant raspberry also noticed this. It stretched out a branch and pointed at the bag, asking, "Were the trees and plants in the field that I just saw grown from the seeds in here?"

Gu Qi replied: "I guess so."

There were indeed these two types of spiritual plants and trees that were planted in the cave before.

The mutant raspberry asked again, "Are the wooden buildings and trees we saw before real?"

Gu Qi still replied: "I guess so."

The cave did have what they saw before, but that was only in the past.

Mutant Raspberry: [Then why did they suddenly disappear?]

It also wanted to ask how they became so powerful. If it could become that powerful, it would definitely not have to worry about being dug up.

Gu Qi: "When the time comes, it will disappear naturally."

Will I ever see them again?

Gu Qi shook his head slightly and said, "It seems that there is no possibility."

What appeared before was just an illusion of time.

Judging from the situation after the cave was upgraded, the spiritual plants and spiritual beasts she had painstakingly planted and raised, as well as the spiritual plants and spiritual beasts originally in the cave, were all annihilated in the turbulence of time and space.

It was a blessing in disguise that some seeds were preserved. Otherwise, she would have to find a way to search for suitable seeds in the apocalypse, and the speed of repairing the cave would be much slower.

Upon hearing this, the branches of the mutant raspberry drooped down dejectedly, and the color of the berries looked a little duller.

It could feel that those plants with strong auras were somewhat different from itself, but it was not sure exactly how they were different.

Its intuition tells it that the difference is important to it.

The mutant raspberry vaguely felt that its current growth direction was a little wrong and that if it continued, something might go wrong.

Seeing this, Gu Qi thought for a moment, then squatted down, raised his hand and tapped the mutant raspberry branches, and said, "Although you won't have the chance to see them, you can see their children and grandchildren, and you will also have the opportunity to see the process of their children and grandchildren growing into their appearance."

[Really? ]

The mutant raspberry suddenly stood up.

Gu Qi nodded: "Of course."

Then he asked, "Do you want to personally witness the process of their offspring growing into their appearance? Do you want to become as strong as them?"

[I do! Of course I do!]

The mutant raspberry excitedly tapped its branches, as if nodding its head repeatedly.

“Squeak, squeak, squeak!”

I want to, too! Take me with you, take me with you!

The mutant groundhog suddenly spoke and raised its paw.

The mutant groundhog thought to itself: Although it doesn't quite understand what the humans and the bad guy just said, but judging from the bad guy's expression, there must be something good going on, and it can't miss it.

Looking at their excited and positive expressions, Gu Qi smiled with satisfaction.

She pointed to the hoe and the packets of seeds she had just taken out and said, "Then go and cultivate the area I've marked, and then plant these seeds according to the instructions."

Thinking of what Gu Qi had said before, the mutant raspberry instantly understood.

Those plants with strong scents are grown from the seeds in the cloth bag. If it plants these seeds and observes their growth process, wouldn’t it be possible to figure out what the difference is?

So it quickly rolled up a hoe and two cloth bags with its branches and said, "Wherever you want to cultivate land and plant, I'll go now!"

Gu Qi raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and a thumb-sized misty figure with a pair of wings appeared out of thin air.

"Aqi!" As soon as the mist-like figure appeared, it happily pounced towards Gu Qi and kissed Gu Qi on the left cheek. The next second, the white mist-like figure instantly turned pink.

The pink mist figure flapped its wings and put its face close to Gu Qi, whispering, "I miss you so much!"

Gu Qi's lips curled slightly, and his brows softened instantly, "I miss you too."

"Hehe!" The color of the pink mist man gradually darkened, and it was estimated that it would turn into a red mist man in a while.

Just as it stretched out its two little hands to hold Gu Qi's face and was about to kiss him again, a dagger suddenly appeared, with the handle blocking Gu Qi's face and the pink mist figure.

"Baji!" The pink mist figure kissed the hilt of the dagger.

The pink mist figure flapped its wings and stepped back, raised its hand to wipe its mouth, and said in disgust: "Pah! Pah! Pah! Why did you suddenly show up, you annoying guy!"

As he spoke, the color of the fog gradually faded, and soon returned to white fog.

[That was, of course, to help Qiqi block a certain spirit's saliva.]

The dagger drifted downwards, the handle rubbing against the corner of Gu Qi's clothes. [Tsk, how unrefined! How could there be a spirit so fond of spitting stinky saliva everywhere?]

"You're talking nonsense! I don't stink!"

The mist-like figure instantly turned red, and a small ball of flame-shaped mist emerged from its head.

Soon the mist-like figure noticed that the stinky sword had become much shorter, and he quickly mocked it, "Oh, how come the sword has shrunk after not seeing it for a while? No, it shouldn't be called a sword, it should be called a knife."

Upon hearing this, the dagger hanging in the air rushed straight towards the mist-like figure and directly knocked it apart.

But the dispersed mist soon condensed into a little man again, and continued to taunt: "Oh my, oh my, you can't win the argument and then resort to violence, how barbaric."

After saying that, it turned to Gu Qi and said, "Aqi, why don't you consider my suggestion and try using a different weapon? I have a large collection of weapons and swords stored in the core space, so they haven't been shattered by the power of time and space."

Before Gu Qi could speak, Dagger used the little spiritual power he had left to taunt him, "Can you take it out? And you're still blaming me? A certain spirit has shrunk even more severely than me. No, you're not shrinking, you're dehydrated. Your spirit body can't even solidify. How dare you criticize me?"

The flame above the mist-like figure's head suddenly rose higher.

Seeing that the sword spirit and the weapon spirit were arguing more and more fiercely, Gu Qi put away the nostalgic look in his eyes, stopped watching the show, and interrupted them with two light coughs.

Gu Qi: "Okay, stop talking, there's business to attend to."

Then he put his natal spirit sword, which had become much dimmer due to the consumption of spiritual power, back into his dantian, and said to the spirit of the weapon, which was the mist-like little man, "Please take these two little guys to the spiritual field area and teach them how to grow vegetables and spiritual plants."

"I'll listen to you, Aqi." The weapon spirit returned to its white mist state and turned to the dumbfounded mutant groundhog and mutant raspberry and said, "Follow me."

The mutant groundhog, whose mind was full of thoughts like "Is this the fog a spirit?" and "Can the dagger actually talk?", followed subconsciously. It could feel that the "fog spirit" in front of it was much stronger than itself, the kind of strong that it was powerless to resist.

The mutant raspberry, which was one step behind, drooped its branches slightly. It looked at itself rooted in the soil, wondering how it could catch up with them.

"Xiao Cang, wait..." Gu Qi was about to call the spirit of the weapon, but suddenly stopped the next second.

The mutant raspberry raised the small hoe.

The roots shrink, the hoe digs around, and the branches support it.

The mutant raspberry successfully pulled itself out of the soil, and its roots were still rooted in the soil that made it feel comfortable.

Then it used several branches to move forward in an interlaced manner. Its speed was not slow. After a while, it caught up with the mist-like man and the mutant groundhog, which looked a bit like a big spider with not very flexible legs.

Gu Qi looked at its series of actions in astonishment. It was obvious that the mutant raspberry could keep up with their pace without any help.

"What's wrong?" The spirit of the weapon stopped after hearing the sound and asked, "Aqi, is there anything else you want to ask me?"

Gu Qi waved his hand and said, "It's okay."

Seeing that the spirit of the weapon was still a little confused, she pointed at the mutant raspberry that had "run away from the earth".

"Uh..." The spirit of the weapon suddenly understood and sighed, "There are also very interesting plants in Aqi's world."

Gu Qi smiled and said, "I'll take you to see more interesting creatures when I have the chance."

"Okay!" The spirit nodded happily.

After the spirit took the mutant groundhog and mutant raspberry to the land for planting, Gu Qi carried the large rice dumplings and walked towards the cabin.

Just as she guessed, the purification function of the cave changed after the upgrade. Behind the newly added wooden house in the cave, there was a small piece of land that could purify other creatures.

As for whether this land can purify half of the zombies?

Try it and you will find out.