Chapter 212 Chapter 212 Buddhist Dad 5
“Ahhhhhhhhh—”
Zhuozhuo yelled as she rushed to the door. She thought the high threshold would stop her, but she couldn't stop. The moment she touched the threshold, she took off as if she had wings, soaring into the blue sky.
Zhuozhuo flew higher and higher. Looking down, she saw the Gu family chasing after her turn into little ants. Her initial excitement turned into terror. She raised her head and cried loudly, "Everyone, help! Zhuozhuo is going to fall to death, wuwuwuwu..."
The sun was blinding, and Zhuozhuo was filled with anger and resentment. Just as he was about to let out a thunderous roar, a sudden, urgent call rang out from beside him, "Zhuozhuo! Zhuozhuo! Stop crying, I beg you! Look down at me!"
Zhuozhuo looked down, stunned, and saw the jade ball in her arms flashing wildly. Startled, she instinctively threw it with all her might, sending it plummeting downward at a rapid speed, emitting a series of screams. Zhuozhuo reached out to grab the ball, but her body leaned forward, causing her to lose balance and plummet headfirst to the ground. "Ahhhhhhhh!"
The trees, people, buildings, etc. on the ground were magnified at a hundred times the speed before, as if they were rushing into the brain from behind the burning and terrified eyes.
The little girl, sprawled on the edge of the bed with her upper body hanging out, suddenly woke up and nearly slipped off. She frantically grabbed the sheets, tumbling and struggling, and finally fell off, hitting the floor with a dull thud, becoming tangled in the sheets.
Zhuozhuo lay dazed on the floor, her heart pounding with the palpitations and panic of weightlessness, threatening to burst from her throat. She covered her mouth, still dazed and haunted by the dream, believing she had lost contact with 9972. She stopped trying to summon the system and instead looked for Gu Yan. It was then that Zhuozhuo realized the room was bright as day. Gu Yan, who had been sleeping on the floor at the foot of the bed, had woken up at some point and was looking at her thoughtfully.
"Uncle Guyan..." Zhuozhuo came back to his senses a little, opened his eyes wide and gestured, "Zhuozhuo was dreaming. I dreamed of holding a big ball and flying in the sky!"
"This big round ball?" Gu Yan held up a milky white jade ball with one hand. The jade ball became excited when it saw Zhuozhuo. Smoke was swirling and boiling inside the ball, as if a high-power blender was installed.
"Zhuozhuo! Save me! I'm the Spirit-Jian Stone!" Yuqiu wailed. "Bring me out! You can't just watch me get crushed!"
Zhuozhuo said seriously, "It wasn't Zhuozhuo who brought you out. You ran out on your own and even ran onto Zhuozhuo."
[Baby is right! It was the Jianling Stone that shamelessly pestered you. It wanted to escape the Gu family on its own. You are the unlucky person it chose, the scapegoat, and you are now implicated by it!]
Zhuozhuo was surprised: "Tongtong, you are back!"
[I'm back, baby. Just now, you were pulled into the dreamland by the Spirit-Judgement Stone, and I was blocked out.]
Before 9972 could break free, Zhuozhuo had already escaped from the dream. Thinking of this, 9972 was furious. Zhuozhuo was alone in the dream, facing those crazy scenes, unable to contact it. He didn't know how terrified he was. It was all because of this broken stone! Not to mention that Gu Yan wanted to crush the spirit stone, he wanted to pulverize it into powder and let it fly in the wind!
Seeing that Zhuozhuo had distanced himself from the matter and ignored it, Jianling Stone immediately started howling like a ghost, "Zhuozhuo, I like you, how can you ignore me!"
A chill flashed in Gu Yan's eyes, and he tightened his grip, squeezing the spirit stone until it flickered, as if it had a bad connection. Zhuo Zhuo's eyes were pierced by the flickering light, and he raised his hand to rub his eyes. Then he saw Gu Yan flick the air towards the switch, and with a click, the light turned on.
Zhuozhuo clapped his hands and said softly, "Uncle Gu Yan, you are so awesome!"
"I'll teach you... When you grow up, you'll be able to do it too." Gu Yan felt a little melancholy, as if he and Zhuo Zhuo had developed some feelings for each other after just a few hours of spending time together.
Zhuozhuo nodded, not trying to understand what Gu Yan was about to say. She wondered in her mind, "Tongtong, is Zhuozhuo going to control Qiuqiu? Zhuozhuo doesn't like Qiuqiu talking."
"Leave it alone!!!" 9972 was holding his breath, hesitating whether to intervene, when Zhuozhuo took the initiative to ask. It immediately started to yell, "Baby, don't believe it! It's morally blackmailing you! It's taking advantage of your kindness and making you feel guilty! How despicable, treacherous and insidious, broken stone!"
Zhuozhuo looked at the Spirit-Jian Stone with sudden realization and was not very happy. It was just that the stone cried so pitifully that she couldn't think of how to vent her displeasure and dissatisfaction.
Gu Yan thought the little girl had been bewitched by the Spirit-Jian Stone and flicked her forehead with his finger. "Did you believe what it said? It just wants to use words to force you to work for it. I didn't expect that the Gu family's purely sacred Spirit-Jian Stone would turn out to be such a thing after it gave birth to intelligence. It only dared to bully a three-year-old child. It really is a nest of snakes and rats. Zhuozhuo, you are no match for it now. Do you think..."
The voice paused, and said weakly: "Why are you crying?"
Zhuozhuo covered her forehead with her hands and burst into tears. She glared at Gu Yan angrily and cried in a heavy voice, "You beat me and made me cry!" After she recovered from the severe pain that seemed to resonate in her skull, she pounced on Gu Yan with her teeth and claws bared.
"..." Gu Yan saw the purple mark on Zhuozhuo's forehead and caught her with one hand. He dodged her punches and kicks with a guilty conscience and comforted her in a panic, "Zhuozhuo, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. I asked you to hit me back, you can hit me as many times as you want!"
"Then don't hide!"
"I'm not hiding, I'm just trying to calm you down. It's hard to use your strength like this. Later, stand on the bed and hit me. I won't move and let you hit me, okay?"
Noticing that Zhuozhuo's attacks had weakened somewhat, Gu Yan quickly put her on the bed. He squatted beside the bed, leaning forward, and said impatiently, "Go ahead, Zhuozhuo, hit her quickly."
Zhuozhuo raised his hand, hesitating for a moment before slapping it against Gu Yan's forehead. After venting a little of his anger, he tried to flick him with his fingers. After a couple of flicks, he realized it wasn't as effective, not as powerful as a slap, which at least made a clapping sound. So, Zhuozhuo slapped Gu Yan's forehead several more times.
The crisp sound of slaps continued. Gu Yan half-closed his eyes and hissed softly, "Ouch, it really hurts, Zhuozhuo, you used all your strength in those slaps, didn't you?"
Zhuozhuo observed Gu Yan's expression, giggled, and said like a little devil: "Are you angry?"
Gu Yan sighed and said helplessly, "I'm not angry." How could he dare to be angry? He just wanted to take good care of Zhuo Zhuo and wait for her until dawn to send her away. However, a glance at the spirit-judging stone in his hand made Gu Yan realize that he wouldn't be able to send Zhuo Zhuo away anytime soon.
Frightened by Zhuozhuo's violence, Jianling Stone fell silent. It had never imagined that the child it had carefully selected, "highly gifted, unprotected, shy, timid, and innocent," was actually a brilliant, sharp-witted, and ill-tempered little devil. It was terrified that Zhuozhuo would give it a beating. Sensing Gu Yan's gaze, Jianling Stone became even more frightened, and an uncontrollable whimper escaped its lips.
Zhuozhuo really wanted to slap Jianling Stone a few times, but it was just a piece of stone. Her palms were red and burning with pain, so she didn't want to hit the stone. She simply asked Guyan to throw the stone away.
"You don't want it? Besides measuring aptitude, the Spirit Stone can also be used to identify and find treasures after being refined." Gu Yan chuckled and said with a hint of temptation, "I know how to refine weapons. I can make one specifically for you. If you want to retain the Spirit Stone's intelligence and use it as a weapon spirit, that's fine. If you want to erase the intelligence and just keep it dead, that's fine too."
If Zhuozhuo needs his help, he can still control her.
Jian Lingshi was so frightened by Gu Yan's words that he almost fainted. He cried out again, "Zhuo Zhuo, good Zhuo Zhuo, please, save me! I'm not trying to coax or force you this time, I'm begging you sincerely! I was wrong, I shouldn't have had such evil thoughts, I shouldn't have thought that I could control you and force you to do that—wooooooooooooooooooooo—"
Zhuozhuo was so annoyed by the noise that he covered his ears and thought for a moment before saying childishly, "If you want to do something bad, you can't choose Zhuozhuo, and you can't choose anyone else. Uncle Guyan, can you stop it from doing bad things?"
These words were a bit difficult to understand, and Zhuozhuo tried to speak clearly, stumbling over them.
Unexpectedly, Zhuozhuo had considered all this. Gu Yan raised an eyebrow and said with a smile, "Yes. I can destroy its intelligence and turn it back into an ordinary spirit-appraising stone. I can also beat it up so it doesn't dare to do anything bad. But this method is not safe. It might do something bad in secret. We can't always be on guard against thieves."
Jianling Stone said loudly: "I don't..."
After being tapped by Gu Yan with his finger, the sound stopped.
Zhuozhuo, who had personally experienced the Finger-Snapping Divine Art, believed that Jianling Stone had been knocked unconscious. She was struggling with the idea that neither of these two solutions was a good idea, when she heard Gu Yan continue, "There's a third way. I can refine a magical instrument to restrain it, preventing it from harming anyone. However, refining a magical instrument requires a lot of expensive materials, and I'm a little reluctant to give them away. Zhuozhuo, which one do you want to choose?"
The Spiritual Detection Stone trembled violently, rolling directly from Guyan's hand to the floor. With a deafening roar, it crashed into the wall, then rolled back again. This cycle repeated several times before finally coming to rest in a corner, flashing wildly towards Zhuozhuo, unable to express its thoughts with words. But anyone could imagine it was shouting, "Three! Pick three! Pick three quickly!!!"
Zhuozhuo took a look at it, shook the hand that was holding Gu Yan, looked up at him, and said softly: "Uncle Gu Yan, can you take it out of the ball?"
"Um?"
"It doesn't like the aptitude test and wants to go outside. We take it out and put it in a magic tool, and everything will be solved."
The light of the Spirit-Jian Stone paused for a moment, and then became blindingly bright.
Gu Yan casually threw a pillow over to cover the spirit-judgement stone, then raised his hand to press down on Zhuozhuo's head, saying with an ambiguous tone, "How naive, Zhuozhuo! According to you, these are two completely different things. Why should I help... it so much? Do you think that just because I took you in for one night, I'm a good person? Should good people do good things?"
Gu Yan scoffed, his expression scornful and mocking, making Zhuo Yan's hand itch, wanting to slap him. But now that he needed help, he had to make his thoughts clear. "No, the ball is precious, but isn't the spiritual wisdom even more precious? Uncle Gu Yan, you use the magic tool to equip the spiritual wisdom, and it's yours. You're not helping the ball, you're looking for the treasure for yourself!"
The Spiritual Stone floated up from under the pillow, rising and falling as if nodding in agreement. Yes, yes, Gu Yan wasn't helping it, he was doing this for himself!
“…very sharp-tongued.”
Gu Yan pinched his brows, his eyes gleaming. "Unfortunately, I'm not someone who actively strives to improve myself. I just go with the flow, have no desires or demands, and don't fight or compete. I just want to drink tea and bask in the sun in the yard, whileing away the days."
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