Chapter 218 Chapter 218 Buddhist Dad 11
Zhuozhuo's answer was firm and resounding, but Gu Yan, who had learned his lesson, did not quite believe it.
It’s not that he doesn’t believe in Zhuozhuo’s credibility, but that she will really forget. However, he is really just going to take a look this time and has no plans to do anything, so there shouldn’t be any danger.
9972 watched the two, one large and one small, quickly finish their breakfast and prepare to leave. It knew that Gu Yan was about to begin his quest against the Beast God's Heart. Success or failure would significantly advance the mission. However, compared to previous small worlds, wasn't the progress here a bit too fast? It was like it was being sped up.
9972 also had a foreboding feeling. This small world was plagued by countless incidents. First, the Gu family's Spirit-Appraising Stone's intelligence was so strong it could escape. Then, the Beast God's Heart became extremely active, vying for Gu Yan's body. Finally, Zhuo Zhuo's arrival led directly to Gu Yan's departure from the courtyard and into the Monster Forest. All these incidents combined were enough to make a butterfly's wings flutter countless times.
Fortunately, these are small-scale changes and have not yet affected the main storyline.
9972 wanted to tell Zhuozhuo, let's try to keep Gu Yan alive until the plot point. But Zhuozhuo was just a three-year-old. How could she be expected to protect an adult? Forget it. Life or death, mission success or failure, it didn't matter. Just leave it to fate.
"There are many legends about the Monster Forest. One of them is that the body of the Beast God is buried deep in the forest. Because of its immense power, it has remained uncorrupted for thousands of years. For a time, many people went searching for it, but all returned empty-handed. Over time, no one believed it anymore. After all, let alone the body of the Beast God, it's not even certain that the Beast God ever existed."
After entering the forest, Gu Yan held Zhuozhuo, avoided the crowd, and started telling stories casually.
Zhuozhuo patted Gu Yan's chest and chuckled, "There really is a Beast God. Dad is the proof."
Gu Yan curled his lips and said, "Yes, I am both a witness and a physical witness."
"Dad, are you going to look for the Beast God's corpse too?"
"Well, try your luck."
Gu Yan adjusted his direction according to the traction in his body. The closer he got, the more restless the Beast God's Heart became, as if it was about to fly out of his chest in the next second.
Zhuozhuo hugged Gu Yan's neck, her attention drawn elsewhere. She stared at a colorful snake coiled in a tree to her right, itching to reach out and touch it. The next second, Gu Yan grabbed a blade of grass and tossed it away. The blade, shrouded in a powerful energy, sliced through the snake with incredible sharpness. The snake's head, still spitting, fell into the grass, blood spurting out, and a sudden scream echoed.
Gu Yan used a branch to push aside the grass, and the two of them saw the snake's head biting a rabbit fiercely, its fur soaked with black blood. The rabbit kicked its legs, and after two or three kicks, it stopped moving.
When I looked up again, I saw the snake on the tree wrapped around a passing lizard, and it was wrapping itself tighter and tighter around the branch. After a teeth-wrenching squeak, blood flowed down the snake's body.
The little guy shrank his neck and remembered Gu Yan's warning. The forest was really dangerous.
The educational purpose was achieved. Gu Yan didn't want Zhuo Zhuo to see this brutal scene anymore, so he held her and continued walking.
Zhuozhuo twisted her body and lay on Guyan's shoulder, looking at the two crime scenes through the shadows and branches of the trees. Once she was far enough away, she didn't feel a bit scared, but asked out of pure curiosity, "Why can a dead snake bite a rabbit and strangle a creeping thing?"
"Papapa" refers to a lizard. Although the little guy doesn't know its species, he refers to it based on its movement characteristics.
Gu Yan smiled and said, "Because living things don't die completely instantly, different organs and cells die at different rates. Snakes have independent ganglia in their spines that can function briefly even when separated from the brain. When touched, they will attack and wrap around them reflexively. Snake heads bite rabbits because these snakes use infrared sensors on their heads to detect heat and prey. Before their organs die and decay, the presence of living creatures near them can trigger a reflex attack."
Zhuozhuo was confused by what he heard, but one thing was clear to him: "Sheshe is so powerful."
"Yes, although humans are the most intelligent creatures, every living thing has its own unique qualities and should not be underestimated. We must respect life and nature."
"Zhuozhuo knows."
The deeper they went, the fewer human footprints there were. The trees stood tall and straight, seemingly reaching the sky. The dense canopy blocked out the sun, dimming the forest light. Guyan turned on his flashlight. After the initial excitement wore off, Zhuozhuo's peak excitement faded. Fatigue set in, and with the dim light and the rhythmic throbbing of his heartbeat, he gradually began to feel sleepy, his head nodding slowly.
"Zhuozhuo, you can't sleep." Gu Yan shouted and shook his arm, waking up the little guy who was about to fall asleep.
Zhuozhuo stared at Gu Yan with resentment, and called out in a drawn-out tone, "Dad——"
"Don't be angry, I'm doing this for your own good." Gu Yan interrupted Zhuo Zhuo's spellcasting and explained, "There are many insects and spiders in the forest. They are small and sneaky, making them difficult to guard against. Your perception will be dulled when you fall asleep. If you get bitten by an insect and you don't know in time, wouldn't that be very dangerous?"
"yes."
Zhuozhuo puffed her cheeks, feeling a little frustrated. She hugged Guyan's neck tightly, leaning back to push, and suddenly saw the sky above her, a canopy of trees. Sunlight struggled to squeeze in through the leaves, bright and dazzling. Zhuozhuo rubbed her eyes and saw, hazily, spots of light flying around. She lowered her hand to take a closer look, and found that the light was indeed moving in a certain direction. She instinctively reached out to grab it, but her hand was wrapped and shaking.
"Zhuozhuo...Zhuozhuo! Zhuozhuo wake up!"
The anxious voice grew louder and louder, as if hammering into her head word by word. Zhuozhu shook her little head and felt that the world suddenly became much clearer and more real. She looked at the big face in front of her blankly, "Dad?"
"Zhuozhuo." Gu Yan breathed a sigh of relief. "Where do you feel uncomfortable?"
"I'm not feeling uncomfortable anywhere." Zhuozhuo wanted to share the flying sunlight with Gu Yan, but when she raised her hand, she found that it was held by Gu Yan. She just looked up, pointed her mouth to indicate the direction, and said with sparkling eyes: "Dad, Zhuozhuo wants to go there, to chase the light!"
A trace of solemnity flashed across Gu Yan's eyes. He walked in the opposite direction without hesitation, and continued to talk to Zhuo Zhuo as if he didn't understand, asking questions and getting random answers.
He had just woken Zhuo Zhuo and was walking back. He soon noticed she was too quiet. Just as he was about to ask her, he saw her, dazed, clinging to him, reaching upward and behind him, as if reaching for something. As far as Gu Yan could see, there was nothing in that direction that could attract Zhuo Zhuo. He held her down, her movements becoming increasingly agitated, and only then did his voice, shrouded in a powerful aura, wake her.
After listening to Zhuozhuo's description of the scene in the hallucination, Gu Yan knew that it was the Heart of the Beast God that was leading them over. He lowered his eyes, concentrated his internal energy in his chest, and attacked the active Heart of the Beast God fiercely, knocking the Heart of the Beast God unconscious by injuring the enemy by a thousand and injuring himself by a thousand and twelve.
With a muffled groan, he swallowed the blood in his mouth. Gu Yan held Zhuo Zhuo's little head to prevent her from looking at him, and said in a normal tone, "I stepped on a branch. It's okay."
Zhuozhuo shrunk her neck and escaped from Guyan's palm. She turned her head to look again but was stopped again. She simply stopped looking and said softly, "Dad, aren't you going to chase the light?"
"No, you were too sleepy and your eyes were blurry. There was no light flying." Gu Yan said calmly, "We're having sweet and sour pork with pineapple for lunch today. If you go back too late, it will be too late to make it."
Zhuozhuo immediately put the light spot behind his mind and raised his arms and shouted, "Go home, go home and eat meat! Dad, don't rush, walk slowly, don't fall."
Gu Yan's tense expression relaxed, a smile spread across his face, "Okay."
On the way back, seeing that Gu Yan didn't want to say anything more, 9972 said with lingering fear: "Baby, you were just affected by the illusion created by the Beast God Heart. How do you feel?"
"Huh? What kind of hallucination?" Zhuozhuo asked curiously in her mind, but before 9972 could answer, she realized, "Is it a light spot?"
[Yes, the Beast God Heart wants you to go deep into the forest.]
"ah……"
[Don’t be afraid, baby…]
"So there really is no light that can fly." Zhuozhuo said regretfully, looking up at the sky again. After a moment, she giggled, raised her hand and pointed upwards. Under the careful gaze of Guyan and 9972, she said childishly, "Zhuozhuo walks forward, and the light spot walks backward. The light is flying."
She looked at Gu Yan and smiled, "Dad, you make the light fly."
Gu Yan's Adam's apple rolled, "Hmm."
The childish words brightened Gu Yan's gloomy mood. He quickened his pace and asked Zhuo Zhuo, "Is the light flying faster?"
"Faster, faster, it's flying so fast."
The light flew for a long time, and the surroundings gradually became brighter. From time to time, one could see the fleeting figures of people among the grass leaves and tree trunks and vines, and hear faint voices. Zhuozhuo's little head rested on Gu Yan's shoulder, looking at the brightest place, "Dad, go there, keep going, and you'll be home."
After returning home, Gu Yan washed and disinfected both of them, then made sweet and sour pork with pineapple as he had instructed. Zhuo Zhuo, who had a high tolerance for sweet and sour flavors, ate with such abandon that he ate with constant compliments and thumbs-up, making Gu Yan feel like he had become a culinary god.
Zhuozhuo finished a whole bowl of rice and dozed off in the chair before he even put down his chopsticks. Half asleep and half awake, he was carried to the bed by Gu Yan and fell into a deep sleep.
Gu Yan left the bedroom and did not clean the table or wash the dishes. Instead, he quickly went to an empty room on the third floor, took out a tripod-shaped furnace, added various materials, used the罡气 as fire, and began to calcine.
9972, who was secretly monitoring Gu Yan, saw this scene and remembered that he had told Zhuo Zhuo before that he could refine weapons. He secretly exclaimed in amazement that he actually could refine weapons. This was a new knowledge point that he had never encountered before.
Taking careful note, 9972 searched through the materials and discovered that Gu Yan was refining a magical instrument capable of seeing through illusions and calming the mind. The instrument gradually took shape, a butterfly hairpin, clearly intended for Zhuo Zhuo.
It turned out that Gu Yan was silent because he was planning to refine this to arm Zhuo Zhuo. 9972 thought that Gu Yan didn't take Zhuo Zhuo's attack seriously.
9972 was about to withdraw its surveillance when it saw Gu Yan's face gradually turn pale, then quickly red, then a terrifying purple, and he spat out a mouthful of dark, foul blood. Startled, it carefully scanned Gu Yan's body and discovered that it had sustained a hidden injury from the battle between him and the Beast God Heart in the forest. Spitting out the foul blood had actually cleared his meridians.
Without waiting for 9972 to breathe a sigh of relief, Gu Yan calmly slapped his palm against his chest, knocking the Beast God Heart, which was about to wake up, unconscious again. He himself spat out another mouthful of blood.
[……]
Stop taking pictures, stop taking pictures. If you continue taking pictures, can this butterfly hairpin be refined?
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