Chapter 30 Mutant Three-Headed Turtle Item [Six-Star Holy Grail] Collection Progress...
The golden light that had been gradually gathering in the shadows paused, and the invisible aura that had been building up instantly dissipated. Xiao Yi was stunned for a moment, then looked up at Du Yu helplessly.
A rational animal that has fallen into depravity? That's quite rare.
Du Yu was also taken aback by the giant tortoise's plea for mercy. He ordered 166 to keep an eye on the spatial ripples, then darted to the other side, examining the huge, hard tortoise shell. "Give me a reason not to kill you."
The giant tortoise seemed surprised to find another person. A long, narrow head emerged from the left side of its shell. The moment its lantern-sized eyes met Du Yu's gaze, it snapped shut as if burned, its head retracting with a "whoosh." It looked even more panicked than before, its shell trembling.
"Waaaaah, great new god, please don't kill me! My old turtle meat is tough and doesn't taste good..."
Du Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at the giant tortoise in front of him who was so timid he wished he could disappear into a crack in the ground. His wariness increased to the maximum: "You can recognize my identity?"
The altar's transformation of him is currently still in the spiritual stage. Apart from being excessively healthy, this body is no different from an ordinary person's. Why can this mutated turtle recognize his identity with just one glance?
"Wow! The old turtle absolutely had no intention of spying on the gods. I am willing to offer this treasure to you!"
The three-headed giant tortoise seemed to have misunderstood something, and its shell trembled even more violently, so much so that Xiao Yi, who was standing on it, jumped down in disgust, and a dark golden, scale-like object was shaken off.
"Huh?"
Du Yu looked at the metal fragment, which was about one square meter in size, and did not make any rash moves, but a hint of surprise appeared in his eyes.
The fragment exuded a familiar aura, and Du Yu immediately thought of the two special materials in the Bloodthirsty Holy Blade. This was the first time he had ever seen such a large piece.
Unlike the two pieces of metal that were broken into small pieces before, this piece of metal was large and curved like a tile, like the outer wall of something, with some patterns that had not been worn away on the outside.
"Where did you get this?"
The middle head of the three-headed giant tortoise slowly emerged, glancing with pity at the dark golden metal on the ground. It cautiously observed the two terrifyingly powerful humans for any sign of attack, its voice deep and resonant:
"It's me, the old turtle. I found it..."
The three-headed giant tortoise silently took a few steps back, its eyes darting around:
“Last time in Fangyue, a group of strangely colored humans came here. They wandered around in the mist and started arguing for some reason. They started fighting, and then the humans exploded. When I went to check, all that was left was this lump of iron.”
A human explosion? It must have been that group of people who used a bomb. This giant tortoise had never seen one before and mistook it for a human self-destruction. It seems that this piece of metal was brought into the fog by that group.
Du Yu looked down at the metal fragments for a while, then suddenly felt something was wrong. He looked up and saw that the giant tortoise was moving like the wind, its four pillar-like legs running very fast and silently. In just a few seconds, it had already covered more than a hundred meters.
Du Yu's eyelids twitched. Without her command, Xiao Yi, who had just discovered her prey's escape, had a blazing golden light in her eyes. Her voice remained unchanged, yet it was as if she were a completely different person, cold and murderous, tightly enveloping those two words:
"Imbalance!"
Although the three-headed turtle was enormous, its limbs moved very nimbly. Upon hearing those two words, its six eyes flashed with ferocity as it turned its head to glare angrily at the two people. They were just two humans; what was there to be afraid of?
The three-headed turtle abruptly stopped its escape, dark black vertical spikes sprouting from its skin, its lower jaw opening, pink oozing from the tips of its sharp teeth, and it charged fiercely towards the two.
A gust of wind blew by, and the three-headed turtle sneezed for no reason. The thoughts that were not its own dissipated from its mind, and its body trembled violently. When it came to its senses, it tried to turn around and run away, but its limbs were as if it had eaten something wrong and would not obey its commands, swinging wildly from side to side. Its huge body crashed heavily to the ground.
"Awooo! Don't kill me! Don't kill me! Old turtle meat doesn't taste good!"
Having failed to escape, the three-headed turtle retreated into its shell and began to whine and beg for mercy again. Du Yu touched his earlobe, coldly watching the three-headed turtle's tantrum. Only when it stopped pretending did he smile and speak:
"I'll pretend I didn't hear your lie—tell me, why do you want this?"
Regardless of whether the story told by the three-headed turtle is true or false, its covetousness for the metal piece is real, as is its reluctance to part with it. Just now, under Xiao Yi's control, the first thing it saw when it rushed over was the fragment under Yu's feet.
Could it be that this three-headed turtle knows how to use this mysterious metal piece?
Du Yu's eyes were full of threat. When she read the recipe for the seventh turtle dish to Xiao Yi, the three-headed turtle finally stopped playing dead and shouted from inside its shell:
"Stop reading, stop reading! I'll tell you, I'll tell you! Even the old turtle doesn't know what this thing is, but I know it's a good thing. Carrying it will make my shell thicker, my claws sharper, and I'll be able to run faster when I escape..."
As the three-headed turtle spoke, its voice tinged with resentment. Du Yu didn't argue with it, recalling the scene of wielding the Bloodthirsty Holy Blade. Had he become stronger? It seemed not; rather, the blade itself had become stronger…
"Hungry."
Xiao Yi wasn't interested in the fragment. He stared blankly at the patterns on the tortoise shell for a while, and a familiar feeling of weakness crept over him. He endured it for a moment before remembering that someone had promised him that as long as he worked, he would be fed.
Du Yu snapped out of his daze, casually glancing at Xiao Yi as he opened his backpack, only to be startled by his now-transparent skin: "What happened to you?"
"Um?"
Xiao Yi looked at her now-transparent hand, thought for a moment, and slowly replied, "Hit the turtle, you'll be hungry. If you don't get enough to eat, you'll disappear."
Seeing that Xiao Yi was about to turn into a little devil, Du Yu disregarded everything else, grabbed Xiao Yi's hand, and used his spiritual power to probe around his body. Combining this with his incoherent explanation, he finally understood his situation.
Long before he finished reciting the prayer and became a follower of Du Yu, Du Yu knew that the little Yi spirit before him was incomplete; in his words, there was another part of him starving elsewhere. Therefore, if his spiritual energy was not replenished after using his abilities, and the mental energy was consumed too much, this body would not be able to hold on.
He urgently needs to eat to replenish his energy.
Once he figured it out, Du Yu quickly took out the prepared food from the package, even putting his own portion in it, but Xiao Yi still complained of being hungry.
Du Yu had no choice but to confirm that he could eat raw meat as long as it was non-toxic. He then took out the mutated beast meat that the three of them hadn't had time to process while collecting supplies, and stuffed the beast meat that was being synthesized into edible parts into Xiao Yi. This time, he didn't complain of being hungry.
Du Yu took his hand and confirmed that it had returned to normal. Although it was not warm, at least it was no longer the transparent skin that looked like it could be punctured with a single poke.
The pain of constantly draining her spiritual energy finally lessened, and her body was no longer heavy and cold. Xiao Yi slowly lowered her head, her fingers slightly curled, her thin fingers with protruding knuckles unconsciously curling inward, as if trying to grasp the slowly disappearing warmth.
"Can you...no...you! Can you turn three pieces of meat into one?"
Before Du Yu could even feel sorry for the vanished beast meat, all of the three turtle's heads popped out, and its six eyes stared intently at Du Yu, as if they were looking at a hundred beast cores, not a human.
Anyway, this turtle was going to be silenced, so Du Yu glanced at it suspiciously, picked up three pieces of beast meat that the system marked as "highly poisonous and inedible", and combined them into a bottle of E-grade "highly poisonous beast meat balls".
I actually created an item using a normal crafting method?
Du Yu accepted it with surprise. The three-headed turtle seemed to have verified something, its three heads shaking up and down incessantly, and its voice even sounded like it was about to cry:
"It's evolution, it's the aura of evolution...! My Lord, please allow me to follow you!"
The main quest was in dire need of followers, so Du Yu gave a prayer with some doubt. The three-headed turtle was overjoyed. Two of its heads retracted, leaving only the middle one. Its eyes were closed, the raised spikes disappeared, and the whole turtle lay peacefully on the ground.
Du Yu actually saw piety on the face of a mutated turtle!
"The time traveler who erodes the rifts, the six-winged white dove that devours the riddles of time, the listener who hears from both ends! Praise be to you! Praise be to your power, your might, your might, uh, your long hair, your two-legged walk..."
The three-headed turtle suddenly stopped chanting and secretly opened its eyes to look at Du Yu.
Du Yu was so exasperated by its prayer that she almost laughed. Afraid that it would force out even more nonsensical words, she interrupted its prayer with a mix of amusement and exasperation: "Alright, alright, stop reciting. I heard all your praise. Tell me, why didn't you run away?"
The three-headed turtle stretched its head and thought for a long time, but couldn't explain it. It pointed its head at the metal fragment and said, "Hehe, the aura of a god is just like this lump of iron. It can make an old turtle's shell thicker and make it run faster! In human terms, it's evolution!"
Evolution... combining three materials to create a higher-level material—in the eyes of living beings, is that really no different from evolution? She hadn't tried it yet; could a synthesizer synthesize living things?
[This content is currently locked. Players are encouraged to level up and explore.]
The system's words suddenly rang in his ears, sending a chill down Du Yu's spine. The art style of this merging game seemed to be moving more and more in a bizarre direction...
Du Yu's mind raced with speculations about the game, while he continued to question the strange, mutated turtle.
"You seem to know quite a bit about humans?"
Du Yu had long suspected this mutated three-headed turtle. Although its vocal organs might have mutated to the point of being able to speak human language, how could a mutated turtle learn human language without being taught?
The mutated turtle rolled its eyes, instinctively wanting to lie, but remembering what kind of being was in front of it, it honestly lowered its head and said, "This old turtle doesn't know what happened. Many, many days ago, a piece of pink meat fell from the sky. It smelled really good, and I couldn't resist eating it."
"After I finished eating, I took a nap, and when I woke up, I was this big. After that, I occasionally met a few humans. I could not only understand their conversations, but also tell what they were thinking—hehe, don't worry, I didn't hear a single word of what you and that man were thinking!"
The three-headed turtle glanced at Du Yu's expression and continued, "After that, whenever I encountered humans, I liked to go over and listen to what they were saying and thinking, and whether what they said and what they thought matched. That day, another group of humans appeared outside, and I curiously crawled over."
"When I arrived, they had already finished arguing. I only heard one human shout something like 'The Holy Grail is destroyed,' and then they started fighting. During the fight, this lump of iron fell out. It smelled a lot like that piece of meat. After one human killed the other humans, I brought this lump of iron out."
"The Holy Grail is broken?"
Clearly, what the three-headed turtle was saying was the truth. Du Yu pondered the meaning of those words. The three-headed turtle diligently picked up the fragment for Du Yu, and the moment Du Yu touched it, a system notification sounded.
[Ding dong, it has been detected that the current player's [Six-Star Holy Grail] collection progress is greater than 10%. The [Six-Star Holy Grail] collection progress bar has been unlocked.]
The main quest special item [Six-Star Holy Grail] collection progress is: 12/99
[Tip: When the collection progress is greater than or equal to 50%, players can use the altar to synthesize a complete Holy Grail~]
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