Chapter 57
Chapter 57
After finishing their trip to Snow City, Xiao Liunian took his two furry friends straight to the second stop of their journey: Chunjin City.
Chunjin City, a city surrounded by flowers, is world-renowned for its year-round spring-like climate and abundant blooms.
Especially considering that Xiao Liunian had just brought his furry friend from Snow City, the temperature in Chunjin City felt even more comfortable and warm.
"Mumu, let's go try some local specialties!" Daju was determined to uphold the principle that food is paramount.
"It's a specialty dish, you can give it a try." Xiao Liunian thought of Chun Jincheng's specialty dish - houttuynia cordata, a dish that you either love or hate.
After selecting a restaurant and entering a private room, Xiao Liunian continued to order a great many dishes, still under the surprised and suspicious gaze of the waiter.
After the dishes were laid out on the table, Daju, with its small body and big stomach, devoured 70% of the food.
"What a wonderful baby!" Xiao Liunian exclaimed. Daju was the best dining companion she had met here, without a doubt.
Although he had witnessed the amazing appetite of the furry children many times, Xiao Liunian was still curious about their bellies.
So Xiao Liunian carefully checked the furry belly again to make sure the furry baby wasn't overeating.
"Mumu, I know you're envious, but this is one of the unique benefits of being a leader, something humans don't have," Daju explained again, her voice almost unfairly cute.
After calling the waiter to settle the bill, Xiao Liunian left the restaurant under the waiter's surprised and shocked gaze.
"Hey, where do you want to go?" Xiao Liunian asked, while the big orange cat perched on his left shoulder stretched its neck to look at the white striped cat perched on his right shoulder.
"Uh." The waiter looked like he was still thinking.
“We have plenty of time, take your time thinking. Let’s stroll around the streets here and see what we can buy,” Xiao Liunian said.
"Let's go!" The orange cat from the best atmosphere group stretched out its paw to indicate its agreement.
That afternoon, everyone on the street knew that a generous customer had arrived. From the big eater at the restaurant to the shopkeeper who bought everything at various stalls on the street, Xiao Liunian, with his two cats, became a celebrity on Chunjin City Street.
That evening, Xiao Liunian rented a courtyard. The courtyard's landscape design was quite unique, and what pleased Xiao Liunian most was the beautiful spot in the courtyard for moon-viewing.
In short, this little courtyard perfectly suits Xiao Liunian's artistic tastes today.
However, there were always some ill-intentioned people who coveted Xiao Liunian's wealth and visited the courtyard without permission late at night.
"When you're out and about, you shouldn't flaunt your wealth; you should always stick to that principle." Da Ju looked at the several thieves lying in the yard.
"What should we do?" Daju asked.
"Send it to the authorities," Xiao Liunian said.
Early the next morning, several people were tied to pillars on Chunjin City Street. Each person had a detailed confession hanging around their neck, detailing the crimes they had committed. The government indicated that the day's performance target had been met.
While Xiao Liunian and Daju were busy with the thief's business, Xiao Er finally decided on a place to go for fun.
Five hundred miles outside Chunjin City, there is a mountain. Due to its terrain, the mountain is covered with snow all year round. This is the snow mountain that Xiao Er wants to go to.
Daju thought to himself, "Chunjin City is really big; it covers an area of 500 li!" But he only talked to himself and didn't say it out loud.
Daju believes that System 02 rarely makes requests, and since it does, it's best not to complain. For now, Daju will play the understanding role of the system.
"Can we teleport up there?" Da Ju asked from the side. The question of whether to climb up or teleport up was very important to Tong.
"Xiao Er, please decide," Xiao Liunian said, "whoever decides the itinerary is in charge."
"Sure, there's a strange place up there that we need to check out," the waiter said.
Xiao Liunian noticed the waiter's choice of words and thought to himself: It seems that the waiter is going to more than just a simple place for sightseeing.
The next morning, while everyone in Chunjin City was enthusiastically discussing the thieves, Xiao Liunian brought his two children to the top of the snow mountain.
For safety reasons, all three pairs of eyes have been protected by glasses.
This mountain lives up to its name as a snow mountain, with very deep snow accumulation, especially at the summit.
Big Orange took the lead and jumped off Xiao Liunian's shoulder, crashing into the snow and instantly creating a small cat-shaped crater in the snow.
Although the trip to Snow City has ended, Da Ju's enthusiasm for snow remains undiminished, so he started doing crazy parkour in the snow.
Seeing this, Xiao Er also jumped down and began to move forward, trudging through the deep snow.
Xiao Liunian followed the paw prints of the cat and tiger slowly forward. Fortunately, her cultivation was deep enough that she was not afraid of the cold. Otherwise, she would have just wanted to go down the mountain to find a house to warm herself by the fire.
After walking for a long time, Xiao Liunian and Daju arrived at the edge of a cliff, led by Xiao Er—Xiao Er's final destination.
"Should we jump?" Xiao Liunian asked, having never been here before.
"Can I obtain a peerless secret manual by jumping off a cliff?" A thought suddenly popped into Daju's head. A new opportunity for the host was about to arrive.
"Yes." The waiter had done a thorough analysis of Tianji Star and initially decided on three locations, but after arriving in Chunjin City, he finally settled on this location.
"Try using the system's teleportation function once," the waiter said to Xiao Liunian.
Xiao Liunian activated the teleportation function of System Thirteen. The system displayed: "Function is temporarily unavailable. Please check system energy."
"Thirteen, Little Two, you two go back to the space first," Xiao Liunian said. With the new map unlocked and system functions disabled, it was best for the two kids to hide.
"We don't need to go down yet. Let's get out of this area first, make the necessary preparations, and then go down," Xiao Er suggested. All their supplies were in the system space, and they had nothing at the moment.
If an emergency occurs, Xiao Liunian, who is unarmed, could be in a dangerous situation.
Xiao Liunian retreated off the cliff with the two systems until they reached a place where the systems could be used.
Xiao Liunian took out enough dry food, necessary tools, portable weapons, emergency change clothes, and other essential items for wilderness survival from his spatial storage.
"The storage function of the space is really useful!" Xiao Liunian exclaimed as he tidied up.
Over the years, no matter where he went, either someone would pack his luggage or he would just throw it into the system space. Xiao Liunian hadn't carried his luggage himself for a long time.
Just in case, before setting off again towards the cliff edge, Xiao Er and Thirteen temporarily returned to their spatial dimension.
Xiao Liunian used a long stick to carry his luggage and slowly approached the cliff. The atmosphere in the space was a bit tense. Just then, a song called "Frozen" came from inside.
"You didn't ride a horse, so I'll carry a load on my shoulders and jump off a cliff in the wind and snow."
Although Xiao Er and Shisan returned to the space, they could still perceive everything in the outside world, and Xiao Liunian and the system could still communicate with each other through consciousness.
After the 'freezing' song was sung, Xiao Liunian's mind began to fill with 'praise' for his singing from a certain talkative system.
Upon reaching the cliff, just to be safe, Xiao Liunian didn't use his lightness skill to rush down directly. Instead, he threw down a rope and slid down it.
Even after reaching the bottom of the first rope, the exact situation below the cliff remained uncertain.
"Mumu, luckily you had the foresight to tie multiple ropes together," Daju praised Xiao Liunian's ingenuity in the space.
Xiao Liunian continued to slide down the second and third ropes until all the ropes were used up, but he still failed to reach the bottom of the cliff.
Looking around, all that could be seen was a thick white fog, with very little visibility, making it impossible to see what the environment was like at the bottom of the cliff.
"Mumu?" Thirteen called softly from within the space.
After thinking for a moment, Xiao Liunian suddenly released the rope in his hand, closed his eyes, and let his body fall naturally.
After a long time, Xiao Liunian's body was still falling rapidly. The bottom of the cliff seemed infinitely far away, and the fall seemed to have no end.
"Mumu, the speed is increasing. If this continues, we'll die when we hit the bottom." Big Orange was pacing anxiously inside.
"It's nothing, just an illusion." Xiao Liunian threw out his long staff, then drew his soft sword from his waist. He gathered his power in the sword, and the blade began to tremble, as if a dragon's roar came from it.
Xiao Liunian swung his sword, and the thick fog slowly dissipated.
"They're still on the cliff!" Big Orange exclaimed from inside the space.
"Mumu, how did you find out?" Daju asked.
“At that speed, we could reach the center of the planet if we kept going,” Xiao Liunian explained. Is the center of a planet really that easy to reach?
Although the previous feeling was an illusion, Xiao Liunian's sword strike was real. With one strike, the roots of plants were turned up from the snow on the cliff.
Xiao Liunian held his breath, then leaned closer to examine the plant closely. The plant's leaves and branches were snow-white, blending seamlessly with the snow, making it virtually impossible to spot.
"Is this the kind of plant that can cause hallucinations? And it can even affect the system!" The giant orange in the space began searching for relevant information in the database based on the plant's characteristics, but found nothing.
Xiao Liunian came to the edge of the cliff again, and looking down, the cliff was still filled with white fog.
The sword in his hand once again emitted a dragon's roar. Adhering to the principle that brute force can overcome any technique, sword after sword was swung relentlessly from Xiao Liunian's hand.
Slowly, the white mist began to dissipate, and Xiao Liunian descended the rope to the bottom of the cliff. When he reached the very bottom of the rope, Xiao Liunian finally saw the environment at the bottom of the cliff—an endless expanse of water.
Xiao Liunian rarely gets to experience the protagonist's omnipotent law: if the protagonist jumps off a cliff, there will inevitably be water below.
He gripped the soft sword with his left hand, and the sensation of blood and pain indicated that what he was seeing this time was not an illusion.
"Mumu!" Daju called out from within the space.
"The trees are there to confirm the reality of what we see," the waiter explained.
Xiao Liunian took out a handful of leaves from his bundle, then used the rope to push off with both feet and swooped down toward the water, scattering the leaves one after another into the air at the right moment.
Then, using the leaves as a foothold, they moved forward.
Just as Xiao Liunian was running out of leaves, he finally arrived at land.
"Mumu's cultivation allows her to teleport, why doesn't she use it?" Big Orange in the space asked Xiao Er.
"It's uncharted territory, so be careful!" the waiter replied.
After getting ashore, Xiao Liunian did not rush to move, but first carefully looked around at the surrounding environment.
At first glance, everything seemed normal, and the environment even matched the description of a paradise on earth. However, the words carved on the large rock directly in front of him gave Xiao Liunian a bad feeling.
'Tian Yang was here!'
This is quite consistent with the personality of someone who might be a fellow villager who only met Xiao Liunian twice.
Xiao Liunian examined the words carefully and noticed something unusual about the exclamation mark.
Press the exclamation mark hard, and the big rock slowly rises up, revealing a large pit underneath, in which a wooden box is placed.
Xiao Liunian took out the box, opened it, and found that, as usual, the large box contained some letters.
The contents of the paper are less a letter left for someone else and more a record of a person's life here, and that person is Tian Yang. The record is written in the Tianji Star script.
Based on the dates recorded, Xiao Liunian judged that these records were written after the time when Tian Yang was rumored to have ascended to immortality.
"Mumu, didn't Tian Yang find his way home? How could he possibly be here?"
Xiao Liunian continued walking forward, and gradually, several different large stones appeared, each with different inscriptions on it.
Xiao Liunian tried to open these large stones one by one and take out the records preserved inside the stones. All the records were written in Tianji Star script.
These records were written before Tian Yang arrived, and perhaps Tian Yang faced the same scene when he came here.
Xiao Liunian felt a chill run down his spine and his hair stand on end.
Over the past few thousand years, many life forms from different universes have come to Tianji Star, and they have been trying to find a 'way' to leave this place.
They once thought they had found a way out, but little did they know that all the ways lead to this place.
According to these records, all living beings that come here spend their final days here.
"Mumu, we need to find a way out first," Daju reminded them in the space. If all living beings were to spend the rest of their lives here, it meant they were simply unable to leave!
"Waiter, what exactly is here?" Xiao Liunian asked.
Xiao Liunian did not believe that System 02 brought her here to trap her until she died.
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