Chapter 40 Arm, Stop Laughing, You Mischievous Cat
Inside the spatial rift, Fu Yu anxiously looked around. If he could move freely, he would have been pacing back and forth anxiously by now.
Half an hour passed, and Fu Yu couldn't help but ask, "System, will Xiao Jiu be alright?"
【I have no idea. 】
The condensed characters were crooked and messy, clearly showing that the system was also extremely anxious.
Xiao Jiu's trip back this time took too long.
Although Xiao Jiu had exchanged items in the mall before, the transaction usually only took four or five minutes; she had never spent this long before.
Another hour passed, and there was still no news from Xiao Jiu.
The system tried all available methods, but still could not locate the specific coordinates of its host.
One meter away from where Xiao Jiu had been, Qian Chuan, who had been silent until now, exhaled and came out of his meditation state.
He looked towards the center of the lake: "System, can you open a passage to the mall?"
Yes, I'm currently working on coordinate calibration and deduction. If all goes well, I should be able to calculate it within thirty minutes.
"good."
Wait, what are you going to do?
Scales gradually appeared on Qianchuan's arms hanging by his sides, the black, hard scales reflecting a cold light under the illumination of Moon Spring.
He looked at the red characters in front of him, his vertical golden pupils shining brightly: "I'll go rescue Xiao Jiu."
【Can......】
The system had just typed the word "okay" when Taotie suddenly shuddered.
Taotie is now tied to the warehouse, and seeing his reaction, everyone immediately surrounded him.
Taotie looked somewhat uncomfortable. After drooping its head and howling a few times, it sat back and opened its mouth wide.
His mouth was very large, almost half the width of his head, and when fully opened, some dents and scars could even be seen inside his mouth.
But even after his mouth remained open for a long time, nothing happened.
Fu Yu was so anxious that he wished he could turn into a fish and jump into the Taotie's mouth.
Qian Chuan's brows furrowed tightly. He was talking to the system about the passage when suddenly, with a snap, an arm emerged from the Taotie's mouth.
Its arm was bluish-gray in color, clearly not from an ordinary living creature.
"Xiao Jiu!"
Fuyu shouted excitedly and reached out to grab the little hand without thinking.
Fu Yu thought Xiao Jiu was stuck, so he immediately used all his strength to pull her backward.
Unexpectedly, the touch he received was very light.
So, due to excessive force, Fuyu pulled the little hand straight back and fell down, even making a thud when she hit the ground.
From the system's and Qian Chuan's perspectives, they saw that, as if by magic, an arm, then a head, a shoulder, and a waist appeared from the Taotie's mouth.
A person was pulled out of his mouth intact.
However, since the Taotie wasn't very big, with its mouth only about 20 centimeters wide at its widest point, it was clearly impossible for a person to squeeze through.
The strange thing is that they could clearly see something that looked like a black vortex inside the Taotie's mouth.
Between the vortex and the Taotie's mouth were some tiny, glittering objects, and as Xiao Jiu was slowly pulled out of the vortex, these red specks kept flying out.
It looked as if Xiao Jiu and Taotie were constantly spurting blood.
Nearby, Suanni, who had finally decided to climb down from the tree, glanced at the ground instinctively and happened to witness this bizarre scene.
Suanni: ? ? ?
The gluttonous beast ate Xiao Jiu!?
He leaped down from the tree trunk in a flash, nimbly jumping across several tree roots that were floating on the water, and soon arrived next to Xiao Jiu.
The Suanni looked at Xiao Jiu in horror, then jumped next to the Taotie: "Wow, have you finally gone crazy from hunger?"
Taotie smacked its lips, then kicked out with its hind legs, delivering a powerful, spinning rear-end collision to Suanni.
Suanni got up, about to ask the system what had just happened, but after seeing Xiao Jiu's appearance, he couldn't help but...
"Pfft, hahahaha—"
Xiao Jiu's right hand is back.
But when he lost his right hand, his body was about five or six years old. Later, he grew up.
So now, Xiao Jiu's right hand is much shorter, like a fiddler crab with one pincer bigger than the other.
The system smeared a cloud of mist onto the Suanni's face: [Stop laughing, you wicked cat!]
The Suanni ignored being called a cat and continued to laugh and roll around on the ground.
The system really makes me want to spank the cat every day.
Just as it was about to control the branch to come over, Xiao Jiu had already adapted very well and started to use its right hand to rummage through the remaining spirit hyacinths on the ground.
The system could only sigh silently, feeling both relieved and heartbroken. It immediately put the Suanni out of its mind and focused on talking to Xiao Jiu.
[Host, how does your hand feel?]
Xiao Jiu made a handshake gesture: "Xiao Jiu, nice hands."
The system looked at its host's scan data and found that apart from Xiao Jiu's right hand being smaller in appearance, all other functions were normal.
It then pressed for details about what had happened in the mall.
Xiao Jiu's vocabulary is not yet extensive. He thought for a moment, then tried his best to describe it while gesturing with his hands.
Fu Yu immediately understood: "It's a stitch! The mall has stitched Xiao Jiu's hand back up."
This stitching is not just a simple suture; it reconnects the blood vessels, meridians, and other structures in the arm, allowing Xiao Jiu to use it freely.
The system only blames itself for wasting too much time; otherwise, the host's right hand wouldn't be like this right now.
However, thinking about how Xiao Jiu grew up, the system asked: "If the host were to undergo another tribulation, would his body still grow? If it did, would his hands recover?"
The two most authoritative figures in cultivation are Taotie and Suanni, but the system cannot communicate with Taotie and does not want to go to Suanni, so it can only ask Qianchuan, the older of the two.
Qianchuan told the truth: "Not necessarily."
There is no fixed rule for the cultivation of demonic beasts. Qian Chuan told the system: "For example, our Xuan Turtle clan can transform into human form. It is an innate ability. We do not need to undergo tribulations to cultivate. We can do it when we reach a certain age."
But Fuyu is different.
His ability to transform into human form is a natural instinct of his species, the Henggong Fish. No matter how powerful his cultivation, he will still automatically transform into a fish or a human at the moment of sunrise and sunset.
Xiao Jiu's case is the first of its kind in history.
Whether the zombie is cultivating or using the blood of the Gluttonous Beast, no one can say for sure what will happen next.
The system is very distressed.
Xiao Jiu, the person involved, didn't care at all.
He hugged the Taotie, patted its big head, and tossed it up in the air to play with it. The zombie and the monster were so excited that they roared and howled, not caring at all about the right arm.
Seeing this, the system and Qian Chuanfuyu didn't know what to say. After all, Xiao Jiu's mind had only just recovered a little, and if they said too much, they were afraid that her little head would get confused.
The system sighed for what felt like the umpteenth time: Let's just take it one step at a time.
Now that they've finally secured the 400,000 points that the system has been keeping track of, they can now make some changes to their previous approach of focusing solely on quickly accumulating points by planting flowers in the farmland.
It's not that the system doesn't want points anymore, but rather that it wants to do something big.
To achieve its goal, we need to first look at the situation of previous transplanted mint plants.
The air in the cracks of this space was originally of poor quality, so much so that not only plants and animals, but even fungal spores could not survive.
But now, with the combination of Moon Spring and the Elf Mother Tree, the environment around the Elf Tree is as if it has been purified.
Although the area is small, limited to a space extending four or five meters outward from Moon Lake, this amount of soil and air is enough for the vigorous mint.
All the transplanted mint plants survived, although they didn't grow as fast as they did in the system farmland, but at least they didn't get sick or wither.
Now we'll see how they grow.
Meanwhile, in the farmland, a new batch of hyacinths has bloomed.
As the system previously deduced, there is absolutely no pattern to whether the flowers will ultimately become spirited or alienated.
The only certainty is that the same batch of the same type of flowers must only have one state. In other words, among the six fields, it is impossible for some to be spiritualized and others to be alienated.
This time, the hyacinth was still a spirit flower, which disappointed the system a little, because if it had been a mutated flower, they could have earned hundreds of thousands of points this time.
In contrast to the system, Taotie was overjoyed upon seeing the spiritized hyacinth.
The gluttonous beast loved these magical hyacinths just as much as it loved roasted sweet potatoes, and ate them without even looking up.
Qianchuan, Fuyu, and Suanni are all demon beasts, so the Spirit Flower is essentially a spiritual plant to them.
Although it was completely useless for Qianchuan and Fuyu to eat, and the taste of this flower was not as good as the grain blocks produced by the system, it was still okay to eat as a light snack.
The Suanni was able to absorb the spiritual energy from the flower, but after eating half of it, it didn't want to eat anymore.
He bit into the dew-like heart of the spirit hyacinth and burst it open, his expression pained: "It's too bland, like drinking vegetable soup boiled in plain water."
The system was originally planning to take advantage of the free time to talk to its host about the spirit flowers in the warehouse.
There was also a spiritualized pansy in the space. The system both disliked and regretted this kind of spiritualized flower that could twine itself.
Because of its unique structure and shape, no matter how many seeds were planted or how large the farmland was, once it matures, all the flowers in that field are considered as one unit, and the price is heartbreakingly low.
Therefore, the system wanted to suggest that its host try the flower synthesis function.
The system has spirit-transformed morning glories and spirit-transformed pansies in the warehouse, and now it has also grown spirit-transformed hyacinths. The system wants to see if these three spirit-transformed flowers can be combined to create a new variety.
However, before it could even begin to speak, it heard the Suanni complaining that the spirit-transformed hyacinth tasted bad.
The system immediately became indignant.
It was about to bring up the embarrassing history of the Suanni frantically devouring the mutated flower, but just as it pulled the red mist down from above the elf tree, it saw the Taotie engrossed in eating the flower.
Suddenly, the system had a flash of inspiration.
[Host, this is the dog's special food! This spirit-transformed hyacinth must be the recipe for his special food!]
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