Chapter 51 A Rare Pet! Grandma!
Xiao Jiu stood in front of a mountain.
If the system were here, it would definitely tell him that this place is just a large plain and there are no mountains at all!
However, Xiao Jiu only remembered what everyone had taught him about mountains and rivers, and he remembered that the mountain that Suanni had mentioned looked very similar to the object in front of him.
Xiao Jiu stood in front of this "mountain" and looked at it for a while.
On the enormous object standing before him, thousands upon thousands of mutated sunflowers were in full bloom.
These flowers are deeply rooted in the sky, their blood-red petals gathered into bowl shapes, facing the heavens, while their finger-like stamens rustle towards the fiery red sky.
Little Jiu stammered, "One, one, one..."
As he read, he looked up, and when he saw the red sunflowers, his eyes seemed to shine.
Xiao Jiu took a step forward and grabbed the mutated sunflower closest to him without hesitation.
The next moment, he exerted force with his arm and pulled the entire flower out like pulling out a parasite.
Strangely, although this flower is a mutated flower, its root system is very thick and strong, and even with Xiao Jiu's great effort, it was not damaged at all.
The flower seemed unusually angry about being pulled out. Unlike the orange flowers that had chased after the system before, this red flower was full of aggression.
It immediately began to twirl its pink roots and frantically coil around Xiao Jiu.
Those thick, powerful roots wrapped tightly around Xiao Jiu's neck and arm joints, blocking his mouth and nose, with such force that his skin made a scraping sound like a stone scraping sandpaper.
This force was enough to break or crush a human's bones, but Xiao Jiu was completely unaware as it constricted her.
Seeing that Xiao Jiu hadn't collapsed after all this time, the flower swung another root over and strangled Xiao Jiu's forehead.
Meanwhile, the root and the one wrapped around his neck exerted force in opposite directions, tightening their grip.
finally--
"Crack."
Xiao Jiu's neck is broken.
Seeing the "human's" head in front of them turned 180 degrees, the flower made a rustling sound that sent chills down one's spine, like a celestial being being proclaimed.
It loosened a root and twisted it sharply, and the end of the pink root immediately became extremely sharp.
It raised its root high and stabbed it fiercely into Xiao Jiu's chest!
Suddenly, a small, bluish-gray hand grabbed it.
Although the hand was small, it was incredibly strong. The flower tried its best to push its roots forward, but it could only be pushed backward inch by inch.
At this moment, Xiao Jiu's other hand also broke free, and he immediately tore off the cord that was strangling its neck and mouth.
"sell."
[Ding—Sale successful, 50 points added, 45950 points remaining]
The flower, unwilling to accept its fate, flicked its sharp, weapon-like roots and disappeared into the air.
Xiao Jiu simply puffed out her chest and muttered to herself, "Xiao Jiu, awesome!"
He turned his head back and started picking and pruning the flowers again before selling them.
This process is becoming more and more familiar to me.
After an unknown amount of time, after he tore another flower off his head and sold it, he realized that he had pulled up all the flowers on this "mountain".
Because of the "battle" just now, his head was wobbling and resting on his neck.
So when Xiao Jiu took another step out, his head fell off.
His head rolled down the "mountain" and then fell into a dark hole at a certain point.
Xiao Jiu's body spontaneously began to move towards the head. Her movements were swift, and when she reached the cave entrance, she bent her knees and jumped down.
Xiao Jiu's head wasn't far from where it landed after jumping, and it didn't take long for him to find it.
He first tried to lift his head and press it against his neck a couple of times, but after finding that he couldn't keep his head steady no matter what he did, he gave up.
A normal person would definitely turn back and see if they could return the way they came from, but Xiao Jiu didn't think that way.
He simply held his head, spun around in place once, then chose a direction and started walking forward.
The further you walk, the darker it gets.
Soon, Xiao Jiu could see nothing at all, but thankfully, a ray of light shone through the wall in the distance.
So Xiao Jiu immediately followed the only red ray of light and continued walking step by step.
It wasn't until she suddenly bumped into something that Xiao Jiu realized there was no road ahead.
He held his head in one hand and tried to touch the red light with the other.
The light came through a crack, and on either side of the crack were two incredibly hard walls. Xiao Jiu tried to pry open the crack and then tried to attack the wall, but this time no matter how much force he used, it was no use.
After several attempts, Xiao Jiu stopped moving.
He stared blankly at the ray of light, then sat down, holding his head in his hands.
He rested his head on his lap and hugged his knees with both hands.
Just like he did during those countless days and nights in the post-apocalyptic world.
He used to be able to sit quietly like this without thinking about anything, but at this moment, Xiao Jiu suddenly thought of the system.
He missed the system, the dogs and cats that would jump into his arms, and Fuyu and Qianchuan who would hold his hand and walk with him.
Xiao Jiu tightened her arms, letting out a hoarse, low growl characteristic of zombies.
At that moment, for the first time, he had such a strong thought.
He doesn't want to stay here; he wants to go out.
Almost at the same moment this thought arose, a wisp of red mist appeared out of thin air and entered Xiao Jiu's body.
The red mist grew thicker and thicker, eventually almost turning into tiny streams of water flowing into his body.
In the past, every time this happened, Xiao Jiu had no reaction to the outside world.
But this time, he straightened up little by little.
Because a ray of light shone through the crack, Xiao Jiu was able to see some things.
So his head, which was resting on his lap, turned around in confusion, curiously watching the red water that kept flowing towards him.
He watched as a stream of water, no thicker than his little finger, rushed onto his hand, and then it slid down his skin and into his skin.
Because the drill was moving so fast, it squeezed out a few small water droplets that splashed onto the ground.
Under the glow of the red light, the water droplets initially remained in a semi-circle on the ground, but in a moment, they vanished.
A faint current of air swept through this space.
But Xiao Jiu didn't notice.
As the water spheres surged forward faster and faster, Xiao Jiu suddenly heard a strange sound.
"boom--"
The sound was like thunder, but it also sounded like he was inside a dome and someone was banging on the dome from the outside. In short, the ending note was particularly strange.
Xiao Jiu listened attentively.
The echo of that roar lingered.
A few seconds later, something even stranger happened.
The roar suddenly grew louder, then it maintained that volume for a while, and after a short time, the sound grew louder again, and then remained that volume once more.
Xiao Jiu had never heard such a noise before.
He held his head in his hands.
He wants to go out!
He wanted to know what was making the sound!
Just as Xiao Jiu stood up and walked towards the crack through which light was filtering in, he clearly heard a sound—
"Host!"
"Little Jiu!"
Xiao Jiu's eyes widened instantly.
Regardless of whether he could see or not, he foolishly ran towards the direction of the sound.
He reached out his hand towards that ray of light.
Just as his hand was about to be blocked by the wall, suddenly, the wall slowly opened in front of him.
The wall looked as if it had been severed at a high point. Xiao Jiu raised his head high and saw a small section of red sky above the broken wall.
The next second, the wall collapsed.
No, it's not that the wall collapsed.
This dark place tilted completely!
Xiao Jiu didn't have time to react before he fell forward with a thud. Then, like a bean in a frying pan, he rolled towards the edge of the pan as it tilted.
Just as he was about to roll off the broken wall, he heard the terrified voices of everyone around him.
"Little Jiu!"
The next second, Xiao Jiu only saw a bright red light appear in the sky.
The light, carrying an aura of world destruction, crashed down upon him.
In just a moment, Xiao Jiu could no longer see anything.
The system felt like it was going crazy.
One second ago, it discovered that its host had disappeared.
The next second, it saw an extremely large corpse.
And all the signs indicate that its host is inside this corpse!
The corpse was enormous. When they stood in front of it, they looked as tiny as specks of dust. Even a tiny bit of flesh on the corpse was bigger than them.
What's even more bizarre is that although the corpse had no skin and exposed bones in many places, its mutilated flesh did not rot. Instead, it retained a strange pinkish-white color, as if it had been drained of blood.
The system can't handle that much.
Just as it was about to rush in to find its host, Fu Yu and the others all felt a tremendous repulsive force.
The force was like a magnet attached to them, and the corpse was a magnetic pole of the same polarity, directly pushing them hundreds of meters away.
The system, held in Fu Yu's hand, was also pulled back a considerable distance.
When they regained their balance, they saw the familiar lightning flashing in the sky.
The tribulation of heavenly punishment lightning is coming.
This wasn't the first time something like this had happened; when they saw the shape of the blood mist, they knew that Xiao Jiu was about to undergo another tribulation.
And they all knew very well that Xiao Jiu was not afraid of the lightning tribulation.
But to their surprise, the corpse suddenly moved.
The enormous corpse suddenly opened its mouth.
When the system saw its host inside the corpse's mouth, it felt as if its energy supply had been cut off.
When the blood-red heavenly punishment lightning struck, the system's actions were faster than its precise calculations; it actually rushed straight forward.
Cultivators often use magical artifacts to resist the damage from lightning tribulations when undergoing tribulations.
Therefore, the system will be directly shattered and destroyed by lightning.
Fu Yu, who had failed to stop the system in time, immediately had his pupils shrink!
Just then, a figure flashed past from the side.
He blocked the system's actions.
"Boom, boom, boom—"
Three bolts of lightning struck, each more powerful than the last.
The oppressive force of the three consecutive bolts of heavenly lightning made it difficult for the demonic beasts present to breathe, and the Suanni, which had sealed itself, was in even worse condition, unable to even stand up.
Amidst the aftershocks of the thunder, a tall figure walked over.
He picked up the Suanni from the ground and then pulled Fuyu, who was kneeling on the ground, along with him.
He asked, "Is it Xiao Jiu who is undergoing tribulation?"
Fu Yu suddenly grabbed the other person's wrist: "Yes, it's Xiao Jiu!"
Qian Chuan stuffed the system and the Suanni into Fu Yu's arms: "I'll go take a look."
He was just about to rush towards the spot where the lightning would strike when he suddenly heard someone say, "I advise you not to go."
Qianchuan paused in his steps.
He looked to his side and saw a Taotie.
Taotie didn't look at Qianchuan. He looked up at the sky and then continued to stare at the huge skeleton.
Qianchuan remembered that he had experienced a similar embarrassing situation before, so he didn't do anything for a moment.
He carefully recalled the situation during the last Lesser Nine Thunder Tribulation and asked in surprise, "Could it be that there is another Heavenly Punishment Thunder?"
Taotie grunted, "If you don't want to be blasted back to your pet space, you'd better wait here."
Upon hearing this, Fu Yu's expression immediately turned rather unpleasant.
He couldn't help but say, "Does being afraid mean we shouldn't help Xiao Jiu?"
Upon hearing this, Taotie slowly turned its head.
Taotie always keeps his eyes closed. Even when he needs to, he will only open his eyelids a tiny crack, and then immediately close them again after he has finished looking.
But at this moment, his eyes were wide open, and his two diamond-shaped eyes almost took up half of his face.
The instant those scarlet eyes fixed on him, Fu Yu felt an invisible pressure suddenly bearing down on his entire body.
Taotie simply said, "Little Jiu doesn't need any help right now."
It wasn't until Qianchuan patted Fuyu's back and loosened his arms that he realized Taotie had moved his gaze away at some point, and he was immediately overwhelmed by a feeling of suffocation.
Fu Yu gasped for breath, seeing stars before his eyes.
He then realized that he had been so nervous that he had even forgotten to breathe.
After Qianchuan pulled Fuyu's hand away, Suanni also stood up from Fuyu's grasp.
Just now, Fu Yu subconsciously tensed his body, which must have been because he squeezed the Suanni he was holding.
But this cat, which usually never misses an opportunity to attack people, didn't say anything this time. It even gently patted Fuyu's shoulder with its tail when it jumped down from his arms.
Just then, as Taotie had said before, lightning flashed across the sky again.
This time, the crimson lightning struck without any warning, swiftly and decisively heading straight for the head of the enormous corpse on the ground.
As soon as the lightning disappeared, Taotie immediately took off, carrying Suanni and running forward at top speed.
Qianchuan, clutching the spherical system, followed along with Fuyu.
We got closer and closer to the corpse.
But when they stood in front of it, they realized how small they were.
Without pausing, the Taotie leaped up the protruding structure of the corpse in a few quick leaps. With its powerful limbs and incredible speed, it quickly disappeared into a tiny gray dot.
Fu Yu gestured for Qian Chuan to look up: "That's where Xiao Jiu was before."
Qian Chuan didn't ask any further questions. He looked at the system in his hand and asked, "Have you calmed down yet?"
System: "Hmm..."
Qianchuan: "Okay."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qian Chuan made a standard throwing gesture and threw the ball in his hand forward!
Qian Chuan's muscles were very strong. With this throw, the sphere containing the system flew past the Taotie at an extremely fast speed and rushed towards the head of the corpse.
Just as the system was about to fall into the large hole in the skull, a hand reached out.
With her pale gray skin, she steadily caught the golden sphere in her hand.
"Little Jiu!"
"Host!"
Xiao Jiu responded loudly, "Xiao Jiu is here!"
He quickly crawled out of the hole, then jumped down and slid down the skull.
Along the way, he used his other hand to scoop up the Taotie and Suanni, who were halfway up the "mountain," and together they held them in his arms, who were both silent for some reason, and slid down together.
After landing on the ground, Xiao Jiu happily ran towards Fu Yu and Qian Chuan: "Look! Xiao Jiu's hands are the same!"
Qianchuan stared at him blankly, while Fuyu cried out in terror, "Ahhhhhh—"
It's all because Xiao Jiu's head is on backwards right now.
His face was on the back, and the back of his head was in front.
So the way he runs... is terrifying.
Although Qianchuan was still a little stunned, after seeing Xiao Jiu trip on the cracked ground, he took a few steps forward and caught all the little guys.
Qianchuan helped Xiao Jiu up and then took the Taotie, Suanni, and the system out of his arms one by one.
He carefully observed Xiao Jiu's condition and said happily, "Xiao Jiu's hands are the same length now."
Previously, because Xiao Jiu underwent tribulation and grew a full body before buying back the arm he had previously exchanged, one arm was longer than the other.
At this moment, not only were Xiao Jiu's arms the normal length, but he had also grown a little taller.
The only thing that's hard to put into words is...
His head.
Fu Yu and the system couldn't bear to dampen Xiao Jiu's spirits when they saw how happy she was. Taotie remained silent, begging for a pat, while Qian Chuan had already sat down on the ground and started altering Xiao Jiu's clothes.
Fuyu tried to start a conversation: "Well, that corpse, the corpse, I just saw it open its mouth, was I seeing things?"
The system immediately replied, "It shouldn't be, I saw it too."
Fu Yu: "Was it a coincidence?"
System: "It's possible that the position and angle of its skull weren't absolutely stable; it might have slipped a little."
Fuyu: "Oh, I see..."
System: "Yes, that's it..."
Suanni suddenly spoke up: "Little Jiu, you've put your head on backwards."
All the non-humans turned their heads in unison: !
Xiao Jiu asked in confusion, "Reversed?"
Under the shocked gazes of Fu Yu and the system, the Suanni jumped directly next to Qian Chuan, raised a paw and patted Qian Chuan's full thigh muscles: "Look, Qian Chuan can sit like this, but you can't."
Xiao Jiu glanced at Qian Chuan, then looked down at herself.
He was silent for a moment... then bent down, exerted force with his hands, and tried to break his kneecap.
"Stop!"
"Xiao Jiu, calm down!"
"Host, please don't—"
Amidst the flustered voices, a sigh suddenly broke the silence.
"call--"
Everyone immediately tensed up.
No one spoke again, and they even breathed very softly.
However, several minutes passed, and nothing happened.
Just as they were beginning to doubt whether they had misheard, Xiao Jiu suddenly made a "Huh?" sound.
The system quickly asked, "[Host, did you hear something?]"
Xiao Jiu: "Hmm! It's panting."
Those few words sent chills down my spine.
Fu Yu asked in a trembling voice, "Little...Little Jiu, who...who are you talking about?"
Xiao Jiu faced them and raised her hand, pointing directly at the huge corpse.
"It."
The moment Xiao Jiu uttered those words, the enormous corpse suddenly moved in the sight of the other non-humans.
Its body began to move on the ground, its exposed bones scraping against the ground with a screeching sound.
As it gradually stretched out its body, they discovered that its shape was strange, resembling an extremely long tail.
Suddenly, Fu Yu realized something and immediately exclaimed, "It's a snake!"
Without asking him how he recognized it, everyone simply continued to stare intently at the slowly moving corpse.
Fuyu struggled to speak, "We're not...we're not going to run away?"
Suanni: "Why run? The system guarantees there's no danger here."
system:"......"
Qianchuan: "If it stays like this, we don't need to run. If it can return to its complete form... although we don't know what it is, judging from its size, running won't help."
Taotie sweetly replied, "I'll only run if Xiao Jiu runs away."
Xiao Jiu, on the other hand, just stared at the corpse with curiosity. If Qian Chuan hadn't been holding him back, he would have already run over there.
After waiting for nearly ten minutes, a head nearly 100 meters tall stood before them.
There's no flesh left on its head, so you can clearly see that its shape is basically no different from a human skull.
The reason it is said to be "basically no different" is because its eye area only has one large hole that extends to the forehead.
This appearance, whether it's because the eye was smashed along with the bone by external force, or because it only has one huge eye, is somewhat eerie.
Just as everyone was watching it with utmost vigilance, a voice rang in their minds.
The voice was deep and resonant, but it didn't feel oppressive or frightening; instead, it had a gentle quality.
that is......
The Suanni flicked its tail: "I don't understand."
Non-human beings: !!
The voice seemed to pause for a moment before speaking again.
"I've been asleep for a long time. Where did you children come from?"
Xiao Jiu exclaimed excitedly, "I am Xiao Jiu!"
The voice was also delighted: "Oh, so humans have grown into this shape now."
Non-human beings: ...
No, humans don't actually look like that.
The system immediately tried to explain for its host, but it had only rolled forward a short distance when Xiao Jiu volunteered, "Xiao Jiu is... a zombie!"
"Huh? Zombies?"
The sound stopped.
At the same time, Qianchuan, Fuyu, Taotie, and Suanni all felt a strange sense of oppression, which was fleeting and without any malice.
"So that's how it is..."
The voice disappeared.
The enormous skull standing before them seemed to be about to fall apart, emitting a slight cracking sound.
As everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, Xiao Jiu spoke up again.
He said, "System, Doggy, Meow Meow, Fuyu, Qianchuan, you're awesome!"
Everyone was wondering why Xiao Jiu suddenly started playing roll call, when they heard Xiao Jiu say, "Xiao Jiu, if you want help, go back and plant flowers, and sign a contract with Xiao Jiu!"
system:! ! !
The system didn't care about any danger anymore. It rolled over to Xiao Jiu and jumped right into her arms: "Host!"
The system was so excited that its voice was almost choked with tears.
However, it forgot that Xiao Jiu's head was upside down.
Xiao Jiu saw it jump, but couldn't bend it with its hand, so the little bluish-gray hand missed it perfectly.
"thump."
The system fell directly to the ground.
That's really awkward.
Suanni immediately started laughing, Qianchuan quickly tried to mediate, Fuyu looked worried and tried to join in, while Taotie watched from the side without saying a word.
Where is the serious atmosphere from just a few seconds ago?
The voice then added with a smile: "Alright, I've just woken up, so I'll grant your request."
[Ding—Congratulations on obtaining a new pet]
[Quality: Rare]
The system, which was fighting with the Suanni, was instantly stunned.
rare?
The next moment, a dreamlike halo appeared, and the huge corpse, which was originally just a mangled body, gradually shrank within this halo.
As the halo faded, a snake about two fingers thick appeared before everyone.
The snake's body was entirely crimson, its color vibrant, like blood and flame. Under this crimson sky, the entire snake looked as if it were carved from a gemstone.
The snake's head has no eyes, only a golden vertical line on its forehead.
The Suanni immediately recognized the unique appearance and exclaimed, "Ah! Grandma!"
Everyone looked at him in confusion: "Grandma?"
The snake laughed heartily: "Speaking of which, I've never met you before. How is your mother?"
The Suanni honestly replied, "Mother is fine."
Neither of them seemed to be good at small talk. After Suanni finished answering, it didn't say anything more, and the atmosphere became a little awkward.
Seeing that no one was speaking, Qian Chuan took the initiative to ask, "May I ask who you are...?"
The sound of snakes echoed throughout the space, causing chests and eardrums to vibrate.
She said gently, "I am the mountain goddess, Zhu Jiuyin."
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