Chapter 43 Explanations and Reasons
The content of the letter was very brief, asking everyone present to keep the fact that Jin Cancan was a winged tiger a secret. Then a private seal was stamped in the place of signature, with a lifelike pattern of an adult winged tiger with its wings spread out and roaring to the sky.
Needless to say, this private seal was the symbol of the Winged Tiger Tribe, and no one in the world dared to use it forged. Furthermore, it couldn't be faked. The powerful aura emanating from the pattern surged towards them like a tidal wave, threatening to drown them in the next second.
Fortunately, Xu Dongdong and the others are not orcs, so they are not deeply sensitive to this aura, otherwise they would have been crawling on the ground by now.
This is the powerful oppressive force that emanates from the bones of the strong.
Even so, Xu Dongdong and the others were very scared. From then on, they kept silent about the matter and did not tell anyone except themselves.
This is a matter of life and death, and they know in their hearts that no matter how bad the situation is, they cannot let their family and friends get involved.
Xu Dongdong threw the letter onto the sofa like a landmine, and said with a sad face: "I think I have used up all my greatest courage in my life today." She was so scared that she had no mood to enjoy the good vacation.
Li Zhenzhen and Lili nodded in agreement. The legend was true. A truly powerful person could scare a crowd to tears with their aura alone, let alone unleash their spiritual power. They had to thank the letter writer for infusing his spiritual power into the letter without ill intention, or else all four of them would have met their end today.
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Jin Cancan's transformation had reached its most critical moment. The system said this was the most dangerous time, and Wen Le had to watch over it constantly. If he found any signs of his mental power being depleted, he had to quickly replenish it. He could drink a mental power-replenishing potion, the kind Wen Le had brought back from the association.
Wen Le laughed in anger upon hearing this. It seemed the system had already planned this. He wouldn't argue with the system for now. After all, Jin Cancan was innocent and knew nothing. He would wait until the little creature successfully transformed before settling accounts with the system.
At this moment, he was glad that he had put the bottle of medicine into the system space, otherwise he would be very anxious if he couldn't take it out when he really needed it.
Jin Cancan's transformation took a whole day and night. At first, Xu Dongdong and the others watched for a long time out of curiosity, but then they just wandered around the house out of boredom, afraid of being exposed if they went out. The three of them would sometimes lie down and sometimes quarrel, and sometimes even fight. It was mainly Xu Dongdong who got beaten up unilaterally, and after a while, he would start to tease the other two out of boredom.
Later, the boy couldn't stand it anymore, so he ordered a lot of food from the customer service, had it delivered to the door, and brought it in himself. Then the three of them sat in a row and ate, and by the time Jin Cancan finished his transformation, the room could already be described as a garbage dump.
The trash can was already overflowing with snack bags, and the floor and tables were littered with food packaging and fruit peels. Xu Dongdong complained, "What a lousy place! They don't even have an environmentally friendly recycling disposal, and yet they still have the nerve to call themselves a five-star hotel. How shameless!"
As for Lily and Li Zhenzhen, the two girls were lying on the sofa, concentrating on rubbing their stomachs and had no mood to pay attention to him.
As for Wen Le, he was completely focused on Jin Cancan and ignored him.
Xu Dongdong sighed: "Life is like mustard snow~"
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When Jin Cancan transformed, he began shedding his fur. As his body twitched, the fur quickly spread across his body like a blanket, and as Wen Le moved, the fur would fly away on the air currents. Then, the bulge on his back began to swell, starting at the size of a baby's fist and eventually growing to the size of a soup bowl. Wen Le guessed it was probably growing wings, but the process was painful. Jin Cancan kept twitching and humming unconsciously.
During this period, it would feel better if Wen Le used healing magic on it. Once it stopped, it would hum and rub its head against Wen Le's hand subconsciously. Although Wen Le was angry, he softened his heart seeing it like this. He would continue to use healing magic on it as long as it allowed. He did not dare to meditate even when his mental power was exhausted, for fear that something would happen to it. He could only drink the low-level mental power-replenishing potion he made himself.
Then the process of growing wings got stuck for a few hours. Following the system's prompt, Wen Le promptly fed it the bottle of potion to enhance its mental strength, and finally helped the little thing overcome this difficulty.
When the wings were about to come out, Jin Cancan struggled the most, making "hmmmm" sounds all the time, looking very weak. Wen Le was powerless to do anything about it.
Then Wen Le heard a popping sound, and a pair of fleshy wings finally struggled out from the bulge, and the expression on the little thing's face also relaxed.
But now it is too ugly to be seen in public. The hair on its body has almost fallen out, and it has become alopecia areata. Wen Le is not afraid of death and took a photo to commemorate it.
Xu Dongdong happened to see this scene and couldn't help but say: "Oh, how ugly!"
No wonder those adult winged tigers never dare to show their true forms in front of people. It’s because they are too ugly and afraid of being laughed at.
Xu Dongdong thought he knew the truth.
After the wings grew out, Jin Cancan's transformation was basically nearing completion. A layer of harder hair began to grow on the places where the hair had fallen off, and feathers also began to slowly grow on his wings. The system told him that because Jin Cancan was not yet an adult, he now had ordinary feathers, and when he reached adulthood, these feathers would be replaced by hard, metal-like feathers.
Wen Le was afraid that it might not have enough strength to transform perfectly, so he fed it nutrient solution several times to replenish its strength.
Jin Cancan had stopped twitching, and her breathing had evened out. It looked like she'd fallen into a deep sleep from sheer exhaustion. Wen Le's heart finally settled. Only then did he feel his eyes dry out, and his eyes were black from exhaustion. He left to say hello to Xu Dongdong and the others, then returned to collapse on the sofa, passing out.
It was not easy for him to transform into Jin Cancan, and he felt tired.
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In a daze, Wen Le felt something licking him. It was so wet and quick that he was so scared that he sat up straight. Jin Cancan, who was lying beside him and licking him, was frightened and fell backward with a thud to the ground, landing on her head.
Wen Le: “…”
Jin Cancan got up in anger and jumped up again, howling at Wen Le, but Wen Le slapped her aside and said, "Shut up!"
Now that this guy has successfully transformed, he has nothing to worry about. It's time to have a good talk with the system.
Ignoring Jin Cancan's aggrieved look, Wen Le poked the system: "Come out quickly!"
This time the attitude was not so polite.
He had tolerated the system before because it had indeed helped him a lot. He was not sure whether it had ever betrayed him, but it was true that it had helped him to survive quickly in this strange place. It was also because of the system that he was able to leave the safe zone so quickly and had a "golden finger" that ordinary people could hardly imagine. All of this was thanks to the system.
But that doesn't mean he won't fight back even though he knows he's been tricked. If pushed to the limit, everyone will just fight to the death. The worst-case scenario is that he loses everything and returns to the safe zone. Even if he doesn't live to see tomorrow, he must fight for his rights.
The system knew it couldn't escape this time, and after a long silence, it finally told Wen Le what had happened. It turned out the system was invented by the first generation of the Winged Tiger Clan's ancestors. Originally, it was only used to educate the young cubs, but as generations of improvements progressed, it became the system we know today.
These systems have different functions depending on their classification. The system Wen Le received was a therapeutic one. The system was originally bound to Jin Cancan, but for some reason it became separated from him. Fearing it would run out of energy and become idle, the system selected Wen Le, who had some potential, and bound him to him.
This is also the reason why the system has been encouraging Wen Le to adopt Jin Cancan and favoring it. After all, the system originally belonged to it and is a product of its family.
As for the reason that led Jin Cancan to the Abandoned Planet, the system didn't explain it, and Wen Le didn't ask. He only asked the system if this matter would harm him and whether he would be implicated. The system said no, Jin Cancan's being on the Abandoned Planet was just an accident, and it had already notified her parents, but it didn't say when they would come to pick her up.
Even if the system didn't tell him, Wen Le had to ask for clarification: "Why did the little thing's parents come to pick it up? They can't let me take care of it forever, right?"
"It will happen very quickly. We will take it back before the little master reaches adulthood at the latest." The system replied, "The little master has already successfully transformed, so the time it takes to reach adulthood will be shortened accordingly. He will reach adulthood in half a year at the latest. Then the master will take him back."
Afraid that Wen Le would disagree, the system quickly said, "Because of family rules, every cub must be enlightened by the system. Now that I am bound to the host, the little master must stay with the host until he reaches adulthood, otherwise he will not be able to obtain his inheritance after returning. If he does not obtain the inheritance, the little master cannot evolve into an orc and can only be a pet in this life. That would be very pitiful for him."
Wen Le felt quite sad when he thought about that scene. After all, he had raised the little creature for such a long time, and he really couldn't bear to see it become like that. Before, he didn't know it could become a human, but now that he knew, he couldn't really ignore it.
But some things still need to be made clear: "Then you could have told me clearly from the beginning. There's no need to be so secretive. You have to know that cooperation is based on mutual trust and respect, but now I don't get any trust or respect from you. I don't see any need for cooperation anymore."
The system quickly apologized to Wen Le and explained why it had concealed the truth from him. "This kind of thing has happened once before in history. That person exploited the system and that young master to achieve world domination. It nearly caused an interstellar war, bringing great disaster to the Winged Tiger Tribe. An elder of the tribe even died because of this incident, and the young master who caused the trouble was sentenced to life imprisonment and is still imprisoned in the highest-level interstellar prison."
"I'm also afraid that this kind of thing will happen again. Although I'm just an intelligent system, I also want to live well and enlighten more cubs..." The system's voice fell as it spoke. It was really afraid that Wen Le would refuse to cooperate with it and force it to be untied. In that case, it would have no choice but to be destroyed.
Wen Le expressed sympathy for this, but he still didn't want to forgive the system just like that: "Then you shouldn't withhold my things, and it's unfair to me to blindly favor your young master without my knowledge."
"I really didn't deduct anything from you. I swear!" the system said hurriedly. "My initial rewards are pet food and various things the cubs like to eat. As for the items in the system mall, they are all pre-set. Because the Winged Tiger Tribe is not short of money, the prices are very low for the owners. This is equivalent to a reward."
But no one would have thought that one day the system would be bound to Wen Le, and Wen Le... who knew that he would be so poor that his pockets were cleaner than his face.
Wen Le obviously thought of this as well, and was immediately at a loss for words. What could he say, "Oh, I'm so sorry for being so poor"?
Or is it my fault that you are so poor?
It seems that none of them are suitable...
and……
Wen Le reached out and silently covered his chest, feeling as if his heart was stabbed with a knife, the pain was so severe that he couldn't breathe.
And he had actually been the one taking advantage from the beginning. He suddenly felt like he had no right to blame the system. He couldn't say it was wrong for favoring its own little master, could he? But the system was originally created for Jin Cancan, and he had simply taken advantage of it. If he continued, it would seem like he was taking advantage of it.
Thinking of this, Wen Le felt that his knee was also hit by an arrow.
After a long pause, Wen Le finally digested what the system had told him and asked with difficulty, "So how do you want me to raise your little master, or how does your master want me to raise their child? Should I continue to spoil him or give him a beating and take care of him when he gets into trouble?"
This point must be made clear.
Since he still had to rely on the system, he could only laugh it off and forget his grudges. After all, he didn't really have much standing to criticize it; after all, he was the one taking advantage. Although the system's actions were infuriating, the system had also promised to change in the future. What else could he say?
But then I felt a little unwilling to just let it go, so I just brought up the past with the system: "You weren't friendly to me before." Shouldn't I have a begging attitude when asking for help?
"This is because a senior system told me not to be too nice to the host, otherwise the host will easily develop a lot of bad habits and get into trouble. I must control the host well." Speaking of this system, it feels wronged. Obviously, it is still a soft and cute new system, but because it listened to the words of a senior system with "working" experience, it is now blamed by the host.
Wen Le: “…”
I have so much to complain about that I don't even know where to begin.
After the explanation, the system also told Wen Le the master's attitude, meaning that Wen Le should take care of the little master as needed and resolutely not spoil him. Otherwise, when the little master returned as an adult, he would probably become a naughty child who only knew how to cause trouble.
Wen Le understood what was going on after receiving this reply.
Seeing that Wen Le's attitude had softened, the system quickly and cautiously asked, "Then do you still want to unbind me?" Oh, please don't unbind me...
Wen Le snorted: "It depends on your performance. If you treat me badly in the future, I will still unbind you."
"I promise to be nice in the future~" The system quickly expressed its stance, and even changed its usual aloofness to please Wen Le and posted cute expressions on the system page.
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