Chapter 33
Pei Jing: [Sister, wow, you're on the front page again! I think I saw your name in the district-wide announcement before! I'm so curious, how did you catch your pet? Can I trade you some mutated beast meat for information? Attachment: 1000 jin of level 1 mutated beef]
The game's pet system has been launched, and related information will sooner or later be no secret; the only question is whether one can seize the initiative.
Therefore, Qiao Ning replied to Pei Jing, "Of course. Mine is a plant pet. I obtained evolution seeds by defeating monsters in the Radiant Plant Wilderness, and after growing the seed's ultimate form using a planting pot and plant fertilizer, I will get a plant pet."
Pei Jing replied instantly: [OK, I understand. Thanks for the message, sister. After this natural disaster is over, I'll treat you to a big meal at the service area! And I'll cover all our shopping expenses!]
She's clearly a generous and outgoing girl, very confident and positive. Interacting with her is quite comfortable for Qiao Ning; it gives her the illusion of being back in the real world, interacting with friends.
After finishing his conversation with Pei Jinggang, Li Yangxing and Yuan Heng also sent messages to congratulate him and inquire about the pet.
Qiao Ning was too lazy to repeat herself, so she simply copied and pasted what she had told Pei Jing and sent it over.
Ignoring their reactions, Qiao Ning yawned, washed up, and went to bed.
The smart home system detected that the owner had fallen asleep, replaced the moisture-absorbing bulb, and turned off the interior roof night light.
I slept soundly until dawn.
The fifth day of the natural disaster, at 7:00 AM.
Qiao Ning was woken up on time by the smart home assistant. She immediately checked the amount of moisture-absorbing water balls she had used up the previous night. To her surprise, after a day and a night of use, there were only sixty or seventy water balls left.
At this rate, these moisture-absorbing balls will definitely not be enough for her to last for the next two days.
There are hardly any vendors selling water balloons in the trading area anymore; almost all the listings are for buying them.
[Oh my god, what's it like to wake up to a house full of green mold and poisonous mushrooms? Luckily, I got some mold-killing powder and fungicide while farming monsters in the Radiation Wilderness yesterday, otherwise I wouldn't be able to stay in this car! Now I just need some effective medicine. Does anyone have any effective medicine for mold and fungal infections? I'm willing to trade the mold-killing powder and fungicide for it!]
If you can't stay in the car, why can't you get out?
[Where did this idiot come from upstairs? Why don't you get out of the car? Are you blind? It's swarming with bugs! System notification: Due to severe humidity, a woodlice infestation has occurred. If you dare open the door, they'll make their home inside your body!]
[Don't get excited, don't get excited. I absorbed a lot of moisture from the car, and it was so comfortable that I slept until now and just woke up. I don't know what's going on. Since there are bugs, let's just get rid of them.]
[…emm, are you genuinely stupid, or are you just being sarcastic?]
[What kind of time is this to be spouting nonsense? I don't even want to curse you. I need to hurry up and get rid of those bugs. I don't know how they got into the car from outside, damn it!]
Miao Qinghe: [Everyone should light insect repellent incense or sprinkle insect repellent powder to prevent woodlice from entering the car. They eat anything, soft or hard, alive or dead. My steering wheel was almost chewed up!]
It's easy to say, but where can I get insect repellent incense or powder? I've never even opened any of those things.
Miao Qinghe: [On the seventh day of the last natural disaster settlement, I opened a chest and got the blueprints for these two insect repellent items. I didn't think they'd be very useful, so I only made a few just in case. Now I'm working overtime to make them. You can trade with me if you need them.]
[After all that talk, it turns out you're just advertising your own stuff again, Miao Qinghe, right? I remember seeing you advertise in the chat channel all the time, selling homemade meals and insect repellent products. Are you obsessed with making money? Everyone's struggling already, and you're still trying to squeeze every last penny out of them?]
Miao Qinghe, being good-natured, only retorted with one question: "What else? Am I supposed to give you the supplies I painstakingly made with all the materials for free?"
What I mean is, don't sell it at such a high price. Consider everyone's situation. Women are often short-sighted and only care about their own interests. You should know that the collective interest is the most important thing.
[Upstairs, I could hear the sound of your abacus even through the virtual screen. Aren't you just trying to make others lose money so you can gain some? Stop with the moral blackmail and bringing up collective interests. Put aside your own selfish motives before you speak.]
Cao Feiwen: [Yeah, this is such a good product, and I saw that the young lady wasn't charging much. One moisture-absorbing ball can be exchanged for two insect repellent sticks. If you don't buy it, I will!]
Li Heng: [Bro, you're being petty. This is a rare, life-saving supply, and in limited quantities. You might not even be able to buy it later. I don't understand why you're still arguing with the seller. Are you really that stubborn? Aren't you afraid the seller will block you? Or are you sure you don't need it yourself?]
Chen Xiuxiu: [Sister, I've already mailed you 100 sticks of insect repellent incense, 10 packets of insect repellent powder, and desiccant balls!]
Miao Qinghe: [Received it, sister. I'll ship it to you right away.]
Zhang Peng: [A bunch of gossipy women, they'll all be dead sooner or later. I have woodlice spray, what's there to be afraid of! But you lot, don't be crying and begging for help later. What's the use of just repelling the insects if you can't kill them? Only killing them is the real solution. Don't you understand this basic principle? You women probably survived your first natural disaster cycle by relying on men, right?]
Miao Qinghe: [@Zhang Peng, I've blocked this person. If he cries for help later, sisters, remember to screenshot it for me so I can have a laugh.]
Qiao Ning was now fully awake. After seeing Miao Qinghe's last sentence, she couldn't resist joining in the fun, replying: 【OK, sister is awesome!】
She found Miao Qinghe to be quite interesting. Although she was a bit younger than her, she was clever, adaptable, and good at spotting and seizing opportunities.
Qiao Ning casually sent a friend request, but the other party was probably busy at the moment and did not accept it in time.
For breakfast, she had spicy soup again, accompanied by fried dough sticks, two tea eggs she had cooked herself, and a basket of steamed buns.
The damp and chilly weather brought relief from the heat. A bowl of hot and spicy soup seemed to dispel all the dampness and chill from the body, leaving one feeling refreshed and comfortable.
After finishing her meal and cleaning up the dishes, she had the smart assistant start the car, and shortly after, she received a message from Pei Jing—
[Qiaoqiao, look what this is? Attachment: Picture]
When Qiao Ning opened the picture, she discovered that it was actually a small, gray-black wolf covered in fur!
Qiao Ning: "!!!!"
"Where did you get this? Are there stray dogs in this world, oh wait, I mean stray wolves? And a cub at that!"
Pei Jing: [This is my pet, Little Grey! Didn't you tell me how I got a plant-type pet yesterday? I figured that since you can get plant-type pet seeds in the variegated plant field, you should also be able to get beast-type pets in the variegated beast field.]
Then I tried it first thing this morning, and surprisingly, I got lucky. After killing only a few mutated wolves, I encountered a wolf cub. However, to make the wolf cub my pet, I need to feed it meat-based pet food and tame it. The taming failure rate is very high, about 70%.
After being tamed, the radiation energy within its body will be cleared, transforming it into an evolved silver wolf pup (I don't quite understand why the silver wolf pup has this fur color).
The recipe for meat-based pet food is dropped by the Treasure Guardian monster and needs to be crafted. The main ingredient is fertilizer obtained from the decomposition of mutated beast meat.
With such perfect timing, location, and support, I'd feel bad not trying to subdue them, hehe!
Thanks to you, Qiaoqiao, I haven't encountered a single cub while grinding monsters in the Radiation Wilderness for so long. I guess it's because you unlocked the entire region's pet system.
Otherwise, if the pet system weren't available, I would never have encountered Little Grey so quickly, nor would I have even considered taming it as a pet. This is the most frustrating part of this dog game; it doesn't give you any crucial information, leaving you to figure everything out on your own.
After reading the message, Qiao Ning couldn't help but sigh, "This girl is truly insightful and intelligent."
Yesterday she simply mentioned that she obtained seeds from killing radiation-induced plants and grew plant-type pets, and today she's already managed to get herself a beast pet.
This decisive action...
Qiao Ning also learned about pet food from Pei Jing. Although plant-type pets don't need food, she thought to herself, "The game didn't say that each person can only have one pet."
What if she gets another pet later?
It's still advisable to keep some pet food on hand.
Qiao Ning checked her friend list and saw that Miao Qinghe, whom she had added earlier, had accepted her request and sent a greeting.
Compared to Pei Jing's cheerful and generous nature, Miao Qinghe is more gentle and polite. Although she is shrewd and good at business, she is still polite and well-mannered.
Qiao Ning didn't have many moisture-absorbing balls left, so she didn't change her insect repellent products. After chatting for a few minutes, she sent breakfast emails to Li Yangxing and Yuan Heng, which showed that they had been received and that she had successfully retrieved the supplies.
This time, the two of them coincidentally mailed back a batch of desiccant balls, as if they were afraid that Qiao Ning wouldn't have enough. Shan Yuanheng alone mailed her 300 desiccant balls.
Including Li Yangxing's share, there are a total of 400.
With so many moisture-absorbing balls, she could rest easy.
Qiao Ning asked them, "Did you two catch a pet?"
Li Yangxing: [Sister Qiao, you have no idea how low the probability of pet cubs appearing is, and how high the risk of failing to tame them is. I spent the whole morning searching for pet cubs in the wild, and not a single one survived to be successfully tamed.]
[I'm speechless. Even a mutated piglet is putting on that "die rather than submit" act with me! And that mutated rabbit cub actually ran into a wooden post and died right in front of me...]
[They've given me so much trauma, forget it, whatever. I'm not going to try and tame any more pets today.]
Li Yangxing's situation wasn't going well, and Yuan Heng's situation was even more unbelievably unlucky—
He hasn't encountered a cub yet.
To add to that, in just an hour or so, he had already killed seven different types of mutated beasts, totaling more than fifty.
Even if he encounters a young beast, there's still a 70% failure rate in taming it. Given his level of bad luck, it would be very difficult for him to raise a pet.
Qiao Ning thought for a moment and sent him a message: "Do you have any Dark Stone Fragments?"
"I can give you an evolved plant seed, and you give me two dark stone fragments."
Hara Yoko: [If I may ask, is there any special use for this fragment?]
Qiao Ning replied, "I don't know, but I think if the game is being so stingy with the items, they can't be common. It's good to stock up on more."
Yuan Heng: [Due to some special reasons, I might not be able to enter the Spectral Plant Wild Area during this Cataclysm cycle. If possible, I'd like to trade 4 Dark Stone Shards for a Beast Cub.]
I got a pet contract scroll and a beast-taming bag from the monster guarding the treasure.
Pet contract scrolls can increase the probability of taming a pet by 50%.
The Beast Taming Bag can hold uncontracted cubs.
If you're willing to help, you can have this beast-taming bag as a gift after it's done.
Qiao Ning was puzzled. Yuan Heng's luck was really strange. If you said he was unlucky, he would always manage to get something to make up for his bad luck. If you said he was lucky, he would definitely fail in anything related to probability.
Anyway, it's inevitable that Qiao Ning will encounter monster cubs while monster hunting, so bringing one back is no big deal.
The four Dark Stone Fragments and the Beast Taming Bag are the more valuable items.
“Okay.” Qiao Ning accepted the beast-taming bag he mailed and discovered that one bag could hold up to 10 cubs.
A thought struck her, and her professional habit as a game booster kicked in.
Since I can help the original Yokodai farm baby cubs, I can also help others farm them to earn some extra money.
It can also improve the strength of other players and increase the overall survival rate of the server.
Seeing that it was almost time, she parked her car and selected to enter the Radiant Beast Wild Area on the system map.
After the pet system is opened, the wilderness area will be divided into normal wilderness area, mutated wilderness area, and more detailed mutated beast wilderness area and mutated plant wilderness area.
Less than a minute after Qiao Ning went inside, a baby bird flew over, its beak hitting the tree trunk and getting stuck.
These mutated bird chicks are amazing; they're so small, yet their beaks are already quite hard.
After Qiao Ning rescued it, she opened the beast-taming bag and the little guy jumped in by himself.
Qiao Ning: ?
This little bird is quite outgoing.
Qiao Ning tightened the beast-taming bag and continued walking forward. When she had walked about a hundred meters, a fluffy, round black and white beast cub suddenly rushed out and collapsed to the ground.
Then it quietly moved one paw away, and the old man's naturally dark-circled eyes secretly glanced at Qiao Ning, one look after another.
...If she wasn't mistaken, this was a baby Iron Eater, right? There were some minor differences, but overall it wasn't too different from an Iron Eater.
Qiao Ning didn't understand what it was trying to do.
When I was feeling unusually kind and tried to walk around it, the baby iron-eating beast grabbed my leg, pointing at it with its paw and howling.
Qiao Ning looked down at it, and asked uncertainly, "You're not trying to scam me, are you?"
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