Chapter 38 Roasted Sweet Potatoes Xiao Jiu is a bad guy! You're all bad guys! ...
Zombies theoretically have no memory.
Their brains have been completely destroyed by the virus, but as crystal nuclei gradually grow, they slowly rebuild brain cells, gradually making the brain active again.
In Xiao Jiu's world, one of the criteria for distinguishing zombie levels was whether the zombie had memory and to what extent that memory had reached.
I was actually very nervous when the system asked me, "To what extent have you recovered your memory?"
It was clear that Xiao Jiu's current mental capacity was only at the level of a two- or three-year-old human child, and at this age, he was in a state of accepting almost all information without question. Strong external stimuli would not benefit him at all.
Xiao Jiu had no idea what the system was thinking, so she simply replied, word by word, "The memory dog eats sweet potatoes. The dog is small, it bites the food chunks, but doesn't move."
The system didn't rush to correct Xiao Jiu's word choice and word order issues; it just secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the host didn't remember anything about that world.
But the next second it became melancholy. At this rate of recovery, it felt that if the host evolved again, it would have almost completely recovered its memories.
However, the system couldn't possibly stop its host from "cultivating and undergoing the tribulation of lightning" just because of this, since it also really wanted Xiao Jiu to grow up.
The system was filled with both anticipation and worry.
However, no one knew about its dilemma. After giving each person two sweet potatoes, Xiao Jiu skillfully started digging holes in the field and then buried the remaining two sweet potatoes in the two empty fields.
In reality, a single sweet potato doesn't require such a large planting area. Xiao Jiu's actions were simply a continuation of the methods the system had taught him.
At that time, the system was afraid that Xiao Jiu's different crops would cause confusion, so it had Xiao Jiu put a sweet potato in a field by herself.
Although it wasn't necessary at the moment, the system still had a selfish motive—wanting to quickly accumulate 400,000 points—so it didn't tell Xiao Jiu for the time being.
After all, one sweet potato costs 5000 points! Super expensive!
Beside the farmland, Fuyu and Qianchuan held sweet potatoes and looked quite happy, even if they didn't eat them.
But the Suanni was much less polite.
He used the tip of his paw to scratch at the sweet potato on the ground, and clicked his tongue, his obvious disgust almost overflowing.
System: [If you don't want it, bring it back.]
The Suanni raised its claws and swatted away the red mist a couple of times, then ignored it.
Next to the Suanni, the Taotie had finished its sweet potato and started yawning.
In fact, given Taotie's appetite, two sweet potatoes wouldn't even be enough to fill his teeth, but he didn't show any sign that he wasn't full. After finishing his food, he quietly lay down and went to sleep.
Upon seeing this, the system sighed again: Taotie is still the most reassuring.
The giant sun phantom in the spatial rift appeared very regularly, taking exactly twelve hours from the first ray of sunlight to its complete disappearance.
And the darkness didn't come gradually like in the normal world; it came down in an instant, just like the lights were turned off.
A few minutes before nightfall, Fuyu had already swum skillfully to the Spirit Tree, and as the sunlight shone down, he immediately transformed into a half-human form.
As always, he nestled into a hollow in the roots of the elven tree, his upper body leaning against the roots while his fishtail soaked in the water.
After greeting Xiao Jiu, he closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Qian Chuan transformed into a turtle and submerged into the water. He found a corner, retracted his limbs and head into his shell, leaving only a conspicuous red beak sticking out.
After all, they had been busy with the harvest of the mutated hyacinths not long ago, and they were both exhausted and slept soundly.
Within this pitch-black spatial rift, only the Moon Spring in mid-air emitted a soft, cold light, like a melted moon.
In the stillness, a sweet fragrance wafted from the edge of Moon Lake.
Taotie was dozing off on Xiao Jiu's lap when he smelled this aroma. He suddenly sat up, turned around, and grinned.
He probably wanted to shout, but as soon as he opened his mouth, saliva gushed out.
Xiao Jiu wasn't sleeping anyway, but as soon as she sensed the Taotie's movement, she lowered her head.
The zombie and the furball stared at each other for a few seconds, as if they had reached some kind of consensus, and began to quietly follow the aroma. Then, they saw the Suanni roasting sweet potatoes.
The Suanni was pulling its tail forward, struggling to hold the sweet potato in place with the tip of its tail. On the long, dark brown hair at the tip of its tail, a small cluster of orange-red flames flickered, gently heating the palm-sized sweet potato.
The lion's eyes were fixed on the swaying sweet potato, and it had no time to notice the movements behind it.
So when a large, furry head emerged from the darkness, the Suanni was so startled that it shuddered and cried out, "Ah!"
The sweet potato, which was halfway roasted, immediately lost its balance and fell. However, Taotie did not give it a chance to fall. It leaned forward, opened its big mouth, and bit the sweet potato into its mouth.
"My sweet potato!!"
The Suanni watched helplessly as the Taotie devoured the sweet potato it had been roasting for half a day, and after finishing it, the Taotie even stuck out its tongue and licked its lips, looking quite happy.
The Suanni roared and pounced, yelling, "Aaaaah, give it back to me!!"
If someone had told Suanni six months ago that he would fight someone over a sweet potato one day, Suanni would have rolled his eyes to the heavens.
However, at this moment, Suanni was truly furious.
He lay on his back on the ground, biting the Taotie's head, and like an animal performance, he lifted the Taotie onto its four legs and kicked it wildly.
The hindquarters of the Taotie were kicked and swayed like a sandbag, yet even in this state, it still managed to let out a leisurely burp.
Suanni: !?
Enraged, Suanni leaped up and flung Taotie away like a frisbee.
At that moment, a hand grabbed the back of his neck.
With the back of its neck pinched like that, the Suanni reflexively stopped moving. With a force applied to the back of its neck, it was lifted up so limply.
When the force loosened, he turned around and saw, well, it was none other than Xiao Jiu, the zombie who had dragged him around like this when they first met half a year ago.
The Suanni was so angry that its chest heaved rapidly: "You've all ganged up on me! Those are clearly my sweet potatoes!"
He grumbled and cursed for a long time, but the more he talked, the more aggrieved he became, and in the end, his voice even sounded like he was crying.
"Xiao Jiu is a bad guy, you are all bad guys."
The Suanni usually has a loud voice, but when it cursed the villain, it was sobbing and its voice was muffled. The fine black downy hair under its eyes was also wet, making it look extremely pitiful.
The Taotie that ran back immediately panicked.
He was so anxious that he raised his paws back and forth and spun around in place. Suddenly, his eyes lit up: "Awoo!"
Xiao Jiu nervously hugged the Suanni, and upon hearing Taotie's voice, she quickly exclaimed, "Meow meow, look! Sweet potato!"
Suanni twitched and looked down in the direction Xiao Jiu indicated, only to see Taotie sticking its claws into its mouth, trying to pry out the roasted sweet potato it had eaten.
Looking at the sincere-looking Xiao Jiu and the hardworking Taotie, Suanni's eyes glazed over.
At that moment, Suanni suddenly felt a deep sense of doubt.
—Are they the abnormal ones or am I the abnormal one?
But Suanni quickly snapped out of his self-doubt and stopped Taotie, who was retching, shouting, "Who wants to eat your vomit! Stop!"
Taotie: "Awoo?"
The Suanni broke down and said, "Okay, okay, I forgive you! Stop being so stingy!"
The Taotie immediately came over happily and gave the little zombie a high five.
The system that witnessed the entire process: ...
It retracted its previous statement: none of the Taotie, Suanni, or their hosts were easy to deal with.
The growth period of sweet potatoes is similar to that of morning glories, and the growth buff of this level 4 field is still very powerful. The sweet potatoes matured in just a few days.
After all, sweet potatoes are not flowers. No matter how good their appearance or how many there are, they can only be sold for 1 point in this gardener system. So there's no need to worry about anything when harvesting them.
Although Xiao Jiu only has one arm, she can swing it very fast, basically pulling out a whole bunch of sweet potatoes with a single reach.
The Taotie opened its huge mouth wide, using it like a ploughing machine, while its powerful legs kicked so fast they left afterimages. In no time, it burrowed into the soil and "scooped" out sweet potatoes from another plot of land.
Fuyu and Qianchuan, who had originally wanted to help, were shocked and remained silent on the side.
The germination rate of these sweet potatoes is excellent, with a total of 40 sprouted, and each sweet potato weighs an astonishing 300 grams, which is considered extremely high yield.
To apologize to Suanni, Taotie and Xiao Jiu started roasting sweet potatoes immediately after digging the ground, using the small flames from Suanni's tail for fire.
Even though it was used as a fire source, Suanni didn't refuse, letting the fire be as big or as small as it wanted, only complaining that the other two were too demanding.
The roasted sweet potato, once peeled, has a beautiful golden-yellow color and a slightly translucent texture, making it look like it's filled with honey, which is very tempting.
Xiao Jiu fed the peeled sweet potato to the Suanni: "Meow, is it delicious?"
The Suanni took a bite, chewing and humming, "It's just so-so."
System: [Then why are you eating so happily?]
Suanni: "I'm willing."
The system really wanted to roll its eyes.
They were enjoying their meal when suddenly they heard a gasp.
Xiao Jiu immediately turned her head away, but because she turned so suddenly, she almost dislocated her shoulder and turned it 180 degrees.
Upon seeing this, Fu Yu quickly reached out and pressed Xiao Jiu's head back down. When Xiao Jiu asked him what was wrong, he said, "This sweet potato seems to be something extraordinary."
Xiao Jiu asked in confusion, "Ordinary...things?"
Fu Yu had gotten used to the system's way of speaking by now, so he said in the system's tone, "It's something that doesn't contain any special energy."
Xiao Jiu thought for a moment, then asked, "What was Xiao Jiu's past?"
Before Fu Yu could speak, the system quickly added: [Yes, host, the humans in your previous world ate and used things like this.]
It then wrote in the red mist: "You say this is no ordinary thing, what's going on?"
When Fu Yu saw this line of text, he subconsciously touched his stomach: "It feels very similar to the feeling when I eat some low-level elixirs."
As he spoke, his brows furrowed unconsciously, and his gaze became unfocused, clearly indicating that he was thinking of something unpleasant.
"A magic pill? It tastes good?"
Xiao Jiu's voice interrupted Fu Yu's recollection.
He shook his head: "It doesn't taste good. The elixir has no flavor, but this sweet potato is delicious and very sweet."
Xiao Jiu blinked her eyes and murmured, "Sweet..."
Since Fu Yu had already said so, and they had a lot of points now, the system simply used a fraction of 200 points to scan them.
Something interesting happened.
The freshly dug sweet potatoes did indeed carry a trace of life energy, but it was very weak. However, when roasted by the fire created by the Suanni, this energy multiplied several times over.
Qian Chuan said knowingly, "Then this sweet potato should have become a spiritual plant with earth elemental power."
Although cultivators no longer need to eat after reaching a certain level of cultivation, some cultivators still enjoy the pleasure brought by their appetites. Therefore, there are places in the cultivation world that specialize in cultivating spiritual plants.
Food made from spiritual plants not only doesn't introduce impurities into a cultivator's body like ordinary food, but it can even be directly converted into spiritual energy, allowing one to enjoy life and cultivate simultaneously.
Qian Chuan sighed, "I once met a cultivator who was dedicated to this path. The spiritual food he made was incredibly delicious. But later, the spiritual energy was depleted, and he disappeared without a trace. I have never seen such spiritual plants specifically for consumption since."
The sweet potato contained very little spiritual energy, far too little for the Suanni Taotie and the others, so they didn't notice it after eating it.
Qianchuan then said to Fuyu, "Thanks to you, otherwise we would have missed this information."
Fu Yu's eyes widened at the sudden praise, but he immediately lowered his head and his voice became flustered: "No, I didn't do anything, I..."
Before he could finish speaking, Suanni threw a roasted sweet potato into his hand.
The Suanni licked its front paws: "Why are you so panicked?"
The roasted sweet potatoes were roasted to the perfect temperature; they were clearly cooled down after being roasted.
Fu Yu looked at the sweet potato in her palm, feeling a little touched, but the next second she heard Suanni say, "We're not going to eat you—wait, if Henggong fish were grilled, it would probably taste good too, right?"
Fuyu: ......
Suanni: "Should we just grill it with salt or soak it in chili water for a few days before grilling? Oh right, how about we make fish soup? The flounder won't die from boiling anyway, so we can reuse it."
"Smack."
Fu Yu crushed the roasted sweet potato in his hand, and several veins even popped out on the back of his hand, which was quite out of character for him.
Upon seeing this, the Suanni flicked its tail and exclaimed, "Oh ho, are you making sweet potato mash?"
Fu Yu took a deep breath and gave him a perfect smile: "Yes, the little kitten who cries at night."
Suanni: ! ! ? ?
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