Chapter 354 Little Nian Beast, Haifan Mountain, Lingxin Lake (asking for monthly tickets)
[Hint: The perspective of Unit 4, "Little Nian Beast," has been successfully loaded.]
[Since you have activated "Complete Split Mode", the body will be fully controlled by you, and the simulated personality is being generated. Every action you take will affect the perfection of your personality.]
[Please wait a moment. In one minute, Unit 4 will officially debut in the real world.]
[Note: This generated mecha is different from previous ones. It is a "perfect-grade mecha". Perfect-grade mechas are in a "carved-complete" state, and the initial settings are different from ordinary mechas.]
[Tip 1: The skill tree system of the "Perfect-Class Unit" is fully unlocked. In other words, all skill branches have been developed to the "end of the branch" in the initial state.]
[Tip 2: The attribute values of a "Perfect-Class Unit" can still be increased through attribute points before reaching the attribute cap (SS).]
[Tip 3: "Perfect-grade units" still have "main quests" and "character-specific development systems."]
In the darkness, the cold and icy system prompt sounds came one after another. The sixty-second "body generation time" was fleeting. The sunlight pierced into the eye membrane as forcefully as a steel needle, burning away the weed-like darkness.
In a trance, Ji Minghuan heard the sound of flowing water.
It was clearly midsummer, the hottest time of the year, but the air was cool and refreshing. He could vaguely feel a salty and humid sea breeze blowing on his face, gently touching his hair and pores.
At this moment, Ji Minghuan finally had the strength to lift his eyelids.
His eyelids trembled slightly, and then Ji Minghuan slowly opened his eyes. At this time, he raised his head. The sky was slightly bright, and the first ray of sunlight in the morning shone down on his head and shone into his pupils.
"What the hell is this place?"
Ji Minghuan narrowed his eyes slightly and looked around slowly. Then he soon found that the No. 4 machine he had just created was sitting cross-legged in the middle of a green lake, and under his butt was a huge lotus leaf.
This lotus leaf looked unusual, like a demon, with a pair of round eyes and a thick mouth. It was in great pain, unable to bear the weight of Unit 4, but due to its identity, it dared not resist.
Ji Minghuan raised his eyes from the lotus leaf demon and continued to observe his surroundings.
The wind is blowing gently, the lake is rippling, and fish are swimming around at the bottom of the lake. The lake is like a fairyland isolated from the rest of the world.
"So, where is this?" he thought. "Is this the gathering place of Chinese demons?"
Ji Minghuan lowered his eyes and glanced at the reflection of Unit 4 in the lake. What he saw was the appearance of a human teenager.
He has thick eyebrows and big eyes, but his facial features are indifferent. He has a pair of broken eyebrows, black pupils, and black hair, but there is a small wisp of purple-red bangs on his forehead.
Ji Minghuan looked at the face reflected in the lake and raised his eyebrows.
"Can the Nian Beast transform into a human?" he murmured. "That's perfectly normal, though. Uncle Tanlang also mentioned that higher-level demons not only possess intelligence, but can also transform into humans, just like him... So, the question is, how do I transform back into Nian Beast form? The system's memory loading speed is still as slow as ever."
Ji Minghuan raised his eyes from the clear blue water and looked towards the other side of the lonely lake.
It was a dense forest, with weeds and thorns growing together with various flowers, forming a bizarre tunnel. The tunnel was pitch black, giving people the feeling that if they walked through it, they would reach the other side of the world.
"What is that? The demon world has so many strange things."
Ji Minghuan muttered to himself, raised his hand, and gently patted the lotus leaf under his butt. The lotus leaf trembled and shook violently, causing ripples on the tranquil lake surface, and even the fish swimming at the bottom of the lake became restless.
The lotus leaf demon said tremblingly, "Master Nian Beast, please don't kill me, please don't kill me! I didn't know you would come back, so I didn't prepare you in advance."
"Uh... do we know each other?" Ji Minghuan asked.
"Yes, Nian Beast ran away from home... No, before he was eight years old, he often came to Lingxin Lake to play. I was the one who picked you up back then. He would float on my head, muttering, 'Lingxin Lake is so beautiful! Is there such a beautiful place in the world?'" The Lotus Leaf Demon whispered, "Do you still remember, Nian Beast?"
"I don't remember." Ji Minghuan shook his head. "But it turns out this place is called Lingxin Lake. The scenery is beautiful, and your role here is to act as a small boat, right?"
"Yes, that's right. Our Lotus Leaf Demon clan can only survive on Lingxin Lake, and there is only one heir every hundred years." said the Lotus Leaf Demon.
"That's easy, just take me there." Ji Minghuan said immediately, "I'm still figuring out how to cross the lake."
"Okay, I will take you back to see the king right away." The lotus leaf demon said hurriedly.
Then, it began to move across the lake. This giant lotus leaf, like a green boat, floated on the surface of the lake, advancing towards the west side of Lingxin Lake.
Ji Minghuan was slightly stunned.
The lotus leaf demon took him to the west side of Lingxin Lake, where he saw a bottomless forest.
The forest is dark and gloomy, and in the distance are giant mountains standing tall. Clouds and mists that are as agile as dragons and snakes are shrouded in the mountains. The towering outlines of the mountains appear and disappear from time to time, which is magnificent and majestic.
"Not this way, I'm going that way. You're going the wrong way." Ji Minghuan said, raising his finger and pointing to the east side of the lake.
"Aren't you going back?" The Lotus Leaf Demon was stunned. "Not back to the mountain? You haven't been back for ten years. The Nian Beast Lord and the zodiac animals are waiting for you. They've been looking for you for a long time... Recently, the demon leaders from other places, the 'Seven Deadly Sins', have also come to Haifan Mountain. They are discussing with the Nian Beast Lord how to get rid of the 'Lake Hunter' together."
He paused, "A great war is imminent. The Maharaja would be pleased if you were willing to return and help."
"I don't understand what you're saying," Ji Minghuan said. "Anyway, let's not go back yet. I don't want to see any zodiac signs or the Great Lord. I want to go outside and take a look first."
"Well... okay then."
"What's on the other side of that tunnel?"
"Didn't you just come out of that tunnel?"
"Why are you talking so much nonsense? Do you want me to pack you up and send you to the exorcist to be his contracted demon?"
"No! No exorcist would be interested in a low-level demon like me. They would just kill me!" The lotus leaf demon cried.
"Then stop complaining so much, okay?" Ji Minghuan asked helplessly.
The Lotus Leaf Demon immediately shut up and drove in the opposite direction. After a while, it brought Ji Minghuan to the west side of Lingxin Lake and stopped at the end of the lake.
"Thank you."
As Ji Minghuan spoke, he stood up from the huge lotus leaf and slowly walked into the tunnel.
There was a faint light at the end of the tunnel. He looked up in the dim light and saw purple, red, and green. The inner wall of the tunnel was covered with circles of intricately intertwined flowers and thorns.
Colorful flowers grow quietly and tenaciously in the cracks of this world, and their fragrance fills the air.
Ji Minghuan strolled while admiring the flowers, completely forgetting the passage of time and estimating how long the tunnel was, but he dared to bet that it would definitely not be less than one kilometer.
After a while, he reached the end of the tunnel and walked out surrounded by flowers and grass.
He squinted his eyes in the sunlight. In the brief darkness, the sound of the tide came, and the white waves hit the shore and broke into white foam.
When he opened his eyes, he found that he was on a cliff by the sea. Looking down, he saw a maple forest growing on the mountainside. Several hectares of fiery red leaves swayed gently in the morning breeze. From a distance, it looked like a red wave rising and falling.
"Is this near Haifan City..."
Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows and suddenly felt that this mountain range looked familiar, so he suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction of his memory. Sure enough, he saw a huge bay city in the coastal area.
The chimneys spread out gray mist towards the sky. Just as the sky was getting light, fishermen were already busy at work in the harbor. One or two hazy silhouettes of boats were swaying on the distant horizon.
Yesterday, Gu Qiye and others held Gu Wenyu's funeral at a cemetery on a small hill near Haifan City.
The tombstones of Lin Zhengquan and Gu Wenyu are both placed on the hill within sight.
The hill is close to the city and is obviously not the territory of demons. Most demons live in the mountains and keep a clear line with humans. They will not let humans find their hiding places easily.
"It really is Haifan City," Ji Minghuan said. "So the territories of demons and humans are so close. It's just that the exorcists probably haven't discovered this place yet."
"So, the Lake Hunters have been guarding Haifan City all these days to prevent the Nian Beast Lord from invading the city?" he thought. "Oh no... If the Lake Hunters lose this war, won't my coffin be dug up by the demons?"
Ji Minghuan shook his head, collected his messy thoughts, then sat down cross-legged on the cliff, looking at the sea sparkling in the morning sun.
"Where are Unit 4's memories?" He suddenly thought, "Isn't it a little too late this time?"
Speak of the devil, and at that moment, memories flooded into his mind like a tide.
The little Nian beast only lived for twenty years, so its memory only covered twenty years.
Unlike Yagubaru, who had hundreds of years of experience eating, drinking, defecating and urinating on the seabed, when Ji Minghuan was flipping through the memories of Unit 3, he felt like he was watching a super-large extended version of "Ocean World".
Fortunately, he can store some of his memories in the mental library, so he doesn't need to digest and absorb them all at once. This gives his brain ample buffer time. If it were someone else, he would probably have been tortured to insanity long ago.
Ji Minghuan hung his head and raised his hand to grab the strand of purple-red hair on his forehead. He raised his eyebrows, and at this moment countless fragments of memories seemed to flash before his eyes.
The Little Nian Beast was born in 2000. At that time, it looked like a cub between a lion and a dog. Its skin was purple and red, and on its head was a cluster of purple-red flames that floated upwards. It looked quite enchanting overall.
The so-called "most powerful demon in China" - "Nian Beast Lord" looks like a scaled-down version of the small Nian Beast.
The Nian Beast King is over fifty meters tall, with a majestic and steady appearance, like an oversized lion, with a cloud-like beard growing around his mouth.
A purple flame shot up into the sky from the top of its head, tightly clasped on its head like a crown, burning endlessly, as if it were the symbol of the king of the demon world.
Not long after the little Nian Beast was born, the Nian Beast King would often carry it in his mouth, crawl down the cliff in front of him, and then release its furry body and put it on the ground.
At this time, the father and son would always stare silently at the sea below the cliff, listening to the ebb and flow of the waves.
Every time it was time to leave, the little Nian Beast would point to the distant city and ask the Great Lord, "Dad, why can't we live in those tall buildings like humans?"
The Nian Beast Lord remained silent every time, saying only, "You are still young, there is no need for you to know these things."
Later, under the guidance of the Nian Beast Lord, the little Nian Beast grew up healthily, but at the same time, his curiosity about the human world could not be shaken off. The Nian Beast Lord was very afraid to let it get close to the human world, so the little Nian Beast had to store this curiosity in the dark corner of his heart.
But the more this happened, the more the curiosity deep in its heart deepened day by day, until one day this curiosity and adolescent rebellion broke out together.
The little Nian beast ran away from home.
It left Haifan Mountain and disguised itself as a human. It traveled around the world, including China, Japan, and the United Kingdom. It felt both curious and happy.
But after a few years, the little Nian beast became tired of the human world and ran to the North Pole and the South Pole to have a look. He even caught a few penguins on the way and roasted them for food.
Finally, at the age of twenty, the little Nian beast, which had been wandering for many years, suddenly returned to Haifan Mountain.
The reason is simple. It met many Nordic demons during its travels. Those demons claimed that the Lord of the Nian Beast was about to lead the "Zodiac Team" to go to war with the "Lake Hunter".
The strongest demons in Northern Europe, the "Seven Deadly Sins", also went to China to help. They claimed that they would become the Lord's assistants to wipe out the most powerful exorcist organization in the world.
After hearing the news, the little Nian Beast hesitated for a long time, but finally decided to return to China to take a look.
On the one hand, it was worried that the prince was no match for Lake Hunter, and on the other hand, it was worried that the "Seven Deadly Sins" would secretly do something bad to the prince.
So, the little Nian Beast rushed back to China overnight, and climbed up Haifan Mountain along the path he remembered from his childhood, wanting to go back and meet the Nian Beast King. And then the scene just now happened.
While flipping through the memories of the little Nian beast, Ji Minghuan was suddenly stunned.
"Wait a minute... the little Nian beast actually knows the captain of the Lake Hunting team?" he thought.
That’s right, in the little Nian Beast’s memory of wandering for more than ten years, the name “Lin Xingshi” actually appeared. This was something Ji Minghuan could never have expected.
Lin Xingshi is the captain of the world's number one exorcist team "Lake Hunter", a famous "lion dancer" in the exorcist world, and is recognized as the strongest exorcist in the world.
"Things are getting interesting... The son of the Nian Beast actually knows this kind of person."
When Ji Minghuan's thoughts reached this point, a purple and red task panel suddenly popped up in his pupils.
[The first main mission of the fourth unit "Little Nian Beast" has appeared.]
Mission: Gain the approval of the Nian Beast Lord and the Zodiac Team, thereby taking over the Nian Beast Lord's position and gaining command of all the demons on Haifan Mountain.
(End of this chapter)
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