Chapter 36: Should we take a gamble on the new warehouse?

Putting aside how bizarre it is that a living creature like the Taotie was identified as a warehouse, the fact that the Taotie could be buried and fast asleep is enough to make Qianchuan find it unbelievable.

After Qianchuan returned to the team, the efficiency of finding people to work increased significantly.

The system can only indicate a general direction; it cannot pinpoint the exact coordinates of the Taotie's location.

Previously, Xiao Jiu was the main digger, using only one hand. Although Suanni also helped dig, he was only so big and had limited strength, so he definitely couldn't keep up with Xiao Jiu.

Fuyu also volunteered to help, but since he couldn't be without water for half the time, after transforming into half a human form, he spent most of his time digging along the cracks in the ground so that the spring water could flow forward.

As soon as Qianchuan entered the arena, he grabbed a stream of water and sprayed it onto the ground like a showerhead.

His "water management skills" involved combining water with other substances and then transforming it into soil, but he didn't say that these "other substances" couldn't be soil.

The current method is like turning the soil over again, which is very convenient.

So not long after, they dug the Taotie out.

Taotie showed no reaction to the outside world. Because he was in the state of an "unhatched fetus," he usually didn't even breathe, and at this moment he looked as if he had died.

Xiao Jiu quickly grabbed Taotie and ran back to find the system, so anxious that she let out several zombie howls as soon as she opened her mouth.

[He's alright, host, don't worry, he's really fine.]

After the system spent a long time calming her down, Xiao Jiu finally calmed down.

Suanni interjected, "Didn't you say we had to unlock and then reset the warehouse? How do we do that?"

The system typed "wait" and then went about its own business, leaving several non-human beings staring at the corpse-like Taotie.

A few minutes later, the system replied: [Damn, we need to make him voluntarily release the permissions.]

Suanni: "Speak human language."

System: [We just have to wait for the Taotie to wake up and say it wants the warehouse unlocked and the warehouse unbound.]

This wouldn't normally be a big deal, but the problem is that Taotie can only howl.

Qianchuan asked worriedly, "If the warehouse continues to be on him, will it cause him any harm?"

The system stated with absolute certainty: 【No.】

Then the next sentence reads: "[However, from now on, exchanging items and crafting items will all require going through him.]"

Everyone imagined the Taotie spitting out seeds, water, and flowers, and felt a little tired.

The Suanni flicked its tail a few times: "But the things you and Xiao Jiu exchanged before all appeared out of thin air."

That's different.

System Explanation: [When I first bound myself to the host, the host's state was abnormal, which is why I had such extensive permissions. But now the host has evolved and grown, so I am updating the data synchronously during the tribulation.]

It also wrote: "Under normal circumstances, a physical warehouse will definitely be bound to the things that the host is closest to, touches most frequently, and likes most, uh, wait..."

The system stopped writing.

At this moment, both the Suanni and the system itself realized that, according to the rules recognized by this warehouse, Taotie couldn't be more suitable.

After a long silence, Qian Chuan finally spoke: "So now, the way to resolve this is to wait for Taotie to be able to speak?"

System: [No, there's a second way.]

Suanni: "What method? Can you finish your sentence at once?"

The system lifted a small twig, making a gesture as if to splash spring water onto the Suanni (a mythical beast), while quickly typing: "[The second method is to wait for my host to obtain full permissions.]"

That means waiting for Xiao Jiu to grow up and develop complete thinking, perception, and emotional responses.

Suanni: "Huh—? Doesn't that mean Xiao Jiu will grow into a zombie king?"

System: [Yes.]

We might as well wait for Taotie to speak!

Suanni raised its paw and made a face-wiping motion, but as soon as it put its paw down, it saw Xiao Jiu looking at it with bright eyes.

Suanni: "What?"

Xiao Jiu: "Xiao Jiu, Zombie King! Awooo!"

Suanni sighed and hastily slapped Xiao Jiu on the head with his big hand: "Alright, alright, keep it up."

Unlike the previous Suanni, which fell into a deep sleep due to exhaustion and woke up shortly after replenishing its spiritual energy, Taotie ate until it was completely stuffed. It remains to be seen when it will finish digesting all that energy.

If you can't withdraw the items you've redeemed, or plant flowers, life becomes incredibly boring.

The system was focused on messing with the surrounding soil, trying to divert the spring water further away, while Xiao Jiu took turns learning to speak from Suanni, Qianchuan, and Fuyu.

Suanni has little patience and often runs away after teaching for a while, while Qianchuan and Fuyu will cooperate and teach him to write together.

However, it's unclear whether it's due to the world they live in, but Qian Chuan Fuyu is terrible at math, and since the points for the system shop, planting and selling flowers are all numbers, Xiao Jiu definitely needs to learn about them too.

After being pulled back by the system's tree roots once again, the Suanni rolled on its back.

"If I don't want it, I don't want it. Why should I help you take care of your child?"

Xiao Jiu blinked repeatedly as she watched his undisguised resistance.

Just as Fu Yu and Qian Chuan were worried that Xiao Jiu might be sad, Xiao Jiu walked to the Suanni and lay down with a thud.

Fu Yu, Qian Chuan: ?

They were still stunned when they saw Xiao Jiu start rolling around, howling as she rolled.

Fuyu, Qianchuan, Suanni: ...

Suanni didn't want to keep rolling around, but as soon as he got up, he saw a fluffy little ball next to Xiao Jiu.

The fluffy ball rolled around with Xiao Jiu, rolling around extremely happily.

"Get up right now!!"

The Suanni roared and charged forward, knocking the gray furball flying.

The gray ball of fur crashed into the ground with a thud, sending the soil flying like waves.

He got up, covered in dirt, shook his fur, and pounced on Xiao Jiu in a flash.

"Awooo!"

The Taotie has awakened.

Before Fu Yuqianchuan and the others could even express their concern for the Taotie, the system displayed a large line of text: 【Great! Time to get to work!】

Fuyu: ......

How come I've gotten used to it?

The biggest change in Taotie after waking up this time was his size.

Previously, Taotie and Suanni were about the same size, but now he is obviously a size larger than Suanni, and even his limbs are much thicker, unlike before when he was just a few small branches.

After the system explained the warehouse matter to him, Taotie accepted it very quickly. He opened his big mouth and spat out a bunch of green stuff.

The Suanni immediately took off from the spot: "What did you vomit?! Bile?"

Taotie glanced at him, and Suanni immediately fell silent.

Then everyone gathered around to take a look and discovered that it wasn't vomit at all, but rather two exceptionally long vine-like flowers.

The tender green flowers are all about the size of a thumb, with six peach-shaped petals in two layers. The first and second layers of petals are offset, and when viewed from directly above, the flower looks like a plate.

What's even more amazing is that if you bundle a bunch of flowers together, it will wrap itself up like it's knitting a sweater, turning into a square shape.

The system was shocked: [Spiritualized pansies! When were they put into storage?]

The pansies hadn't matured before the lightning struck, and then everything became chaotic. The system always assumed the flowers disappeared during the subsequent series of changes.

But I never expected it to be in the warehouse!

Even Taotie couldn't answer the system's questions.

It howled for a while, and the Suanni translated from the side: "He said he didn't know, that this thing was already in his stomach, and there are still a bunch of spirit-transformed morning glories in the warehouse, asking if you want to take them out."

System: [No, not yet. The Spirit Flowers can last a long time. Let's save the Morning Glories for later, just in case we need them.]

After finishing writing, the system suddenly sensed something was wrong: "Are you sure there's only a bunch of flowers inside? No seeds?"

Taotie shook its head.

Although the system canceled the redemption process after discovering that the redeemed items could not be retrieved, there was still a packet of seeds in the warehouse.

When I first harvested the mutated sunflowers, I wasn't very skilled and was a bit slow, so I harvested a few that were of poor quality.

After all, regardless of the quantity, damaged items can only be packaged and sold as a single unit, with a price of only 1 point. Therefore, the system instructed Xiao Jiu to dismantle them on the spot.

The decomposition product was a bag of unidentified seeds.

What about the packet of seeds?

The system felt a real headache.

It discovered that it seemed to have mutated since arriving at this spatial rift, with many of its functions becoming inexplicable, and now even things were moving in and out of the warehouse on their own.

Sigh, never mind, let's accumulate points first.

Since it was the first time Xiao Jiu had successfully grown a spirit pansy, and the system aimed to collect data and increase her points, it told her to sell one plant to test the waters.

Like the sunflowers before them, the pansies that have been spiritualized are counted as a single unit when grown in a field.

Such a large field only yielded two units of flowers, which was already a huge loss. But when it was discovered that the price was only 3,000 points, the system was completely speechless.

This is a huge loss!

It said to Xiao Jiu, "[Let's keep it for now. Selling the Spirit Flower is too unprofitable. We'll come back to work on it after we've planted a new round of flowers.]"

Xiao Jiu agreed, and then Taotie took a deep breath and swallowed the flower back.

The Suanni, observing from the sidelines: ......

Although he knew that the so-called warehouse was a conceptual space, and that he would never actually touch the Taotie's mouth or get his saliva on the items, he still found the idea of ​​eating back what the Taotie had spat out disgusting.

Suanni: "Could you suggest a different way to retrieve the item?"

Taotie tilted its head and thought for a moment, then whimpered, "Awooo."

The Suanni's tail stood on end: "No! No! Let's continue like this! It's fine!"

Fu Yu asked curiously, "What did Taotie say?"

The Suanni looked at him with pity: "Don't ask."

Fuyu: ......

Fu Yu: "Okay!"

The system was in a hurry to accumulate points because it kept thinking about Xiao Jiu's arm.

That right arm costs 400,000 points in the store, but the system doesn't think that number is too difficult now; all you need to do is grow more mutated flowers.

Ideally, you should be able to grow high-level mutated flowers with debuffs.

The system began to ponder.

Now that the Elf Tree is here, although its "spiritual purification" ability is not as strong as that of the true mother tree, it still works for Qian Chuan and the others. Otherwise, Qian Chuan would not have failed to discover the existence of this tree before.

It is currently in a state of fusion with the Spirit Tree, and since buffs and debuffs are essentially effects on the mind...

The system drew out a wisp of red mist, which condensed into a line of text.

Should we take a gamble and plant level 4 flowers directly?