Chapter 44 Little Nine, let's go home! Hug!
Xiao Jiu had no idea what Qinian had encountered after leaving that trial realm, just as he had no idea what Qinian had gone through in the past hundred years.
Although his little brain is working better than before, it is still far from being able to generate divergent thinking and in-depth thought.
All he knew was that Nian Nian said goodbye to him.
He goes home every year, so he should go home too.
Xiao Jiu followed Taotie in the direction they came from, looking left and right along the way, his curiosity completely bursting forth.
Taotie had been walking and playing with him for a while, but suddenly, he sensed something, bit Xiao Jiu's leg, and threw Xiao Jiu onto his back.
Xiao Jiu's entire zombie body is larger than Taotie's, so it would be impossible for it to be carried under normal circumstances.
However, neither of them is normal.
So in this trial realm where no one could be seen, a gray ball of fur was running wildly, while the child on his back was curled up with his legs tucked in, his hands raised, and shouting loudly.
"Awooooo—"
The small beasts living in this secret realm heard the commotion and were about to curiously crawl out to see what was happening when they were pressed back down by the older beasts.
Some of the spirit beasts that guard the companion spirit plants have even changed their usual cultivation schedules, trying their best to minimize their presence.
It wasn't until another gust of wind carrying a strange aura swept through the entire secret realm that these demonic beasts and spirit creatures gradually became active again.
The strange wind was blowing very fast.
As it passed through the rift connecting the two dimensional spaces, it was squeezed back and forth by the constantly shrinking rift, and the sound of the wind it emitted was like a wail.
Meanwhile, at the other end, in that spatial rift that had undergone a cataclysmic upheaval, cracks tens of meters wide appeared on the ground, as if they were about to cleave the entire space apart, a truly terrifying sight.
Through a crack, Heng Gongyu Fuyu, who was falling, accidentally let go of Xiao Jiu's hand, causing Xiao Jiu to fly out of his arms.
"Xiao Jiu!!!"
The scream was almost heartbreaking.
Such demonic beasts are extremely sensitive to auras.
The moment Fu Yu realized he couldn't sense Xiao Jiu's presence, he felt a chill run through his body.
Time seemed to stretch on endlessly in that instant. Fu Yu could even recall the scene when Xiao Jiu, accompanied by candlelight, leaped into his view in that underground prison.
The next moment, he suddenly looked up.
In the darkness, his deep blue eyes were fixed intently on what lay ahead.
The aura of Xiao Jiu!
It's Xiao Jiu's scent!!
Without thinking, Fuyu reached out and grabbed in that direction.
The sharp wind blew against his hand, instantly turning the skin red, but Fu Yu didn't react at all, stubbornly continuing to stretch out his hand.
He only snapped back to reality when he felt a cold touch on his fingertips.
Because the Henggong Fish doesn't have hands half the time, when it transforms into human form, its sensory abilities in its hands are much more acute than those of humans and demon beasts.
Fuyu recognized the slightly rough, even stone-like texture almost instantly.
Realizing this, he used all his strength to pull Xiao Jiu over and hug her tightly.
"What's wrong, Ayu?"
Fuyu couldn't answer, so she could only tighten her arms further.
He was breathing rapidly, like a drowning person finally raising their head above the water.
It turned out that ever since he called out "Xiao Jiu," he had even forgotten how to breathe.
The crack can't be a bottomless pit, and they've been falling long enough.
Soon, Fuyu felt the ground touch his back and legs.
At that height, an ordinary monster would definitely be smashed into a pulp.
But Fuyu wasn't worried.
The Henggong fish was originally invulnerable to weapons. The reason he was tortured so badly by humans was only because he himself revealed the method to break his weakness. He knew very well that he would not die from the fall.
However... it will definitely still hurt.
Fu Yu gritted his teeth, prepared to suppress his scream of pain, but the next second, his body sank down another notch.
The sensation was so strange that Fuyu didn't even realize it at first.
What had caused his body to sink in seemed quite resilient, managing to lift him back up after a fraction of a second.
At the same time, a pale blue fluorescent light appeared in the darkness.
With two soft popping sounds, two more glowing orbs appeared, clearly the Qianchuan and Taotie that had fallen together.
Before Fu Yu could regain his balance, he discovered that the thing that had bounced him up was incredibly elastic, sending him flying back into the air. Judging from the time he was suspended in the air, they had been bounced at least to the middle of the crack.
It crashes down, bounces up, falls again, bounces up again...
After repeating this several times, the bouncing around they were doing finally stopped.
The crack should have been pitch black, but now it looked like a bucket of fluorescent paint had been splashed on it, with patches of light shining here and there.
Fu Yu didn't care about anything else, he just hurriedly used his fish-like eyesight to look at Xiao Jiu in his arms.
Are you alright?
"Xiao Jiu, is A Yu alright?"
Fu Yu's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, settled down: "Yes, I'm fine too."
Because it was so dark around us, our eyes were involuntarily drawn to the fluorescent patches.
The two little ones, whose eyesight wasn't very good, had just bent down to get a closer look when the fluorescent object bounced back and hit them in the face with a "plop."
Fuyu immediately covered his eyes and fell to the side, the whole fish curling up into a ball.
Xiao Jiu didn't feel anything; even with the fluorescent object pressed against her eyeballs, she only blinked blankly.
His nimble eyelids even managed to trap a corner of the fluorescent object, making the fluorescent blue even brighter.
So when Qianchuan came over, he saw Fuyu struggling on the ground, while Xiao Jiu was lying on the ground frantically playing with fluorescent objects using his eyelids.
Qianchuan: ......
Qianchuan walked over and pulled Fuyu up, using his shrunken chubby hands to quickly remove the fluorescent substance from Fuyu's face. He then walked up to Xiaojiu and said, "Xiaojiu, humans don't play with eyeballs like this."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Jiu immediately stopped trying to put the fluorescent object into her eyes.
Fu Yu finally understood what Xiao Jiu had been doing, and he was at a loss for words.
However, due to the direction of his gaze at that moment, he quickly saw the true form of those fluorescent objects.
"flower?"
At this moment, what was under them and around their feet were all small white flowers.
These flowers are five-pointed stars with white petals and green stamens. They intertwine and connect with each other, like a giant net, densely woven on the ground.
Xiao Jiu saw it too.
He reached out and gently touched it, and the flower he touched immediately glowed with a fluorescent blue light, like a luminous gem in the darkness, which was very beautiful.
But these flowers are not just pretty.
It is extremely resilient. No matter how much it is squeezed or how strong the force is, it will return to its original shape in a short time as soon as the external force is removed.
Of course, when it recovers, it will spur outwards a bit, which is why Fuyu and Xiaojiu were slapped in the face before.
When Fuyu saw Qianchuan clapping his hands, he asked, "What are those things stuck to your hands?"
"Could it be pollen?" Qianchuan wasn't sure either.
The fluorescent things floated in the air with Qianchuan's movements, but they only floated for a short while before sinking down and blending into the flowers on the ground.
After patting his hands clean, Qianchuan continued, "This stuff just sticks to the skin and can't be wiped off, so you have to pat it on like this."
Fuyu understood.
He had just gotten pollen all over his face, and instinctively started rubbing it on haphazardly. But the more he rubbed, the worse it got, making him think the pollen on his face would multiply and increase, which terrified him.
Because they had fallen repeatedly before, many places on the ground were now glowing with fluorescent light, much like the moonlight of a different color scattering patches of light on the ground through the thin mist.
So although the visibility wasn't very high, you could still make out some things nearby.
Upon closer inspection, they discovered that these white flowers were also blooming on the crack walls on both sides.
However, due to their limited field of vision, they could only guess that the flowers probably covered a large area, possibly even filling the entire crack.
Fu Yu glanced at it briefly, then grabbed Xiao Jiu and asked what exactly happened when they fell.
He was still concerned about the fact that Xiao Jiu's aura had disappeared for a moment.
Xiao Jiu: "Xiao Jiu sees Niannian! Niannian grows up and comes home. Xiao Jiu and the dog, come home."
Fu Yu was silent for two seconds, then tentatively asked, "What is Niannian...?"
Xiao Jiu: "Xiao Jiu, my friend."
Fu Yu tried again to understand, but after trying for a long time, he still found that he really couldn't understand it.
He instinctively wanted to use the system as a translator, and the word "system" was on the tip of his tongue when he immediately realized what he was doing and swallowed the words back.
The system is now in a precarious situation.
Fu Yu didn't quite understand what the system was; he could only roughly understand it as something like a spirit.
The so-called spirit of a weapon can also dissipate and die.
Fu Yu knew all too well how much the system cared for Xiao Jiu; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it would give everything for Xiao Jiu.
Yet this system allowed such a large change to occur in this spatial rift, without even Xiao Jiu encountering any danger. The reason for this is obvious without much thought.
There must be something wrong with the system.
Fu Yu didn't know what would happen to the spatial rift if the system disappeared. The only thing he was thinking about right now was to keep Xiao Jiu from knowing this terrible news for the time being.
Fuyu quickly communicated the matter with Qianchuan using gestures and a few scattered words, their expressions growing increasingly somber.
As they were talking, Fuyu glanced to the side and froze instantly.
Two red dots lit up in the darkness in the distance.
It was like a pair of scarlet eyes staring at them.
However, before Fu Yu could recover, the ground nearby lit up.
A patch of flowers glowed with a fluorescent blue light, illuminating a large, fluffy ball of fur with long, bushy hair covering its eyes and only a small black nose embedded in its face.
Fu Yu immediately breathed a sigh of relief; it turned out to be a Taotie.
Just as Fu Yu breathed a sigh of relief, Taotie pounced towards them with a kick of its hind legs.
His goal was very clear: Xiao Jiu.
Taotie leaped over Fuyu's large tail, braced itself on its hind legs, and landed directly on Xiao Jiu's legs.
He tilted his head back and said in a clear, crisp voice, "Little Jiu, hug me!"
Xiao Jiu, Fu Yu, Qian Chuan: !
Taotie has spoken!
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