Chapter 73 Special Flowers Overall, this is a good thing…
Darkness usually evokes fear.
When you can't see anything, this fear stemming from the unknown can gradually and completely engulf you.
However, in that world of eternal night, a small figure was striding forward in the darkness.
His ears picked up a slight noise, so he immediately turned around and ran to the right front.
The ground here was uneven, so he tripped after only two steps.
Xiao Jiu immediately swung her arm to regain her balance.
However, this steady posture involves bending over and sticking the head forward.
This movement involves shifting all the weight to the front.
To avoid falling, you have to keep moving forward.
So Xiao Jiu, like a little quail with wings on its back, ran faster and faster in this bent-over, head-out posture, until it was just charging forward.
finally--
"Thump!"
Xiao Jiu touched her nose, which was sore from the impact, and then slapped her hands on the furry thing in front of her.
He shouted, "Little Nine won! It's Meow Meow's turn to grab!"
After shouting, he ignored his nose, clenched his fist, assumed a standard running posture, and turned to run.
The Suanni that he caught grunted twice.
The Suanni, now in its true form, lay down, covered its eyes with its two large paws, and began counting in a drawn-out tone: "One, two, three..."
At the highest mountaintop in the world, the system asked Qianchuan beside it, "Aren't you going to come and play together?"
Qianchuan: "No, I don't really like running around. Staying here is just fine."
Two months ago, the lotus seed they planted as an experiment successfully sprouted leaves, so they immediately synthesized dozens more and continued to soak the seeds and bury them at the bottom of the lake.
And coincidentally, the system did indeed accurately describe the state of the water lilies.
Although the water lily leaves have grown out, there is still no sign of flower buds.
The system scanned the plant's condition and gave a diagnosis: the flower has grown roots and it is estimated that it will take another two or three months before it blooms.
Flowers need to be planted, points need to be accumulated, but rest is also something to be done properly.
Taking advantage of this moment, the system suggested taking a break and waiting for the water lilies to bloom before continuing.
Everyone readily agreed.
Although Suanni looks lazy every day, he can't stay idle if you really let him.
After changing color, Taotie seemed to have turned on a switch, completely different from its previous quiet and unassuming self.
And coincidentally, Xiao Jiu, being a zombie, doesn't need to rest.
So the three little ones decided to play a modified version of hide-and-seek.
And the whole world is their hiding place; they can play for a long time in one round.
As for Qianchuan, he was originally a tortoise and didn't like to move.
In addition, it was almost time for the flowers to bloom, as the system had mentioned, so he declined Xiao Jiu's invitation and settled down to tend to the flowers by Moon Lake.
Previously, Suanni said that from a high vantage point, Moon Lake now looks like a gourd.
The larger half of the gourd has a fairy tree growing in the center, while the other half is covered with round leaves of varying sizes, like patches of green in different shades spread on the surface of a lake.
Among these thriving lotus leaves, a light blue flower bud stands on the lake's surface.
The system looked at the single flower bud and suddenly had an idea.
It asked, "Qianchuan, do you think that if this flower were a mutated one, it would just start swimming in the lake?"
Qianchuan thought about how those mutated flowers had been running around everywhere before, and said seriously, "It is indeed possible."
So the two of them started discussing how to catch the "swimming flower".
As they continued their discussion, no one kept looking at the lake.
Therefore, when they turned their heads and suddenly saw a blue-purple flower blooming on the water, both the system and Qianchuan were a little confused.
That flower actually looks quite different from ordinary lotus flowers.
Its central petals stand tall, displaying a gradient from light blue to bluish-purple from top to bottom.
The surrounding deep purple petals press downwards, making the whole flower look like a petite ballerina dancing on the lake.
The system immediately shouted excitedly, "Flowers bloom—wait!"
Its tone shifted abruptly, and it asked in confusion, "Wait a minute, is it really on? Why isn't there a notification announcement?"
At this moment, Suanni returned carrying Xiao Jiu and Taotie.
Seeing the system and Qianchuan's expressions, Suanni immediately asked, "What's wrong?"
Qianchuan: "The flowers have bloomed, but the voice that reminds us to harvest them hasn't appeared yet."
Suanni found it even stranger: "It appeared, we all heard it, but the broadcast content has changed again."
The system was shocked: "What!?"
Xiao Jiu slid off the Suanni's back and said to the system, "Xiao Jiu and the dog Miao Miao heard the flowers bloom, but they didn't get anything."
Suanni added, "Yes, I remember the announcement said, 'Special flowers are about to ripen.'"
Special flowers?
In previous broadcasts, the things grown in the fields were always referred to as "crops," and the word "flowers" was never used.
That's strange.
Just as they were looking at each other in bewilderment, the system suddenly remembered something else.
That was more than a decade ago.
Back when the spirit Xiaoxue appeared, the two worlds had just begun to merge. In order to confirm the status of the merging point, the system, Xiao Jiu, Suanni, and Qianchuan went to the bottom of that rift valley again.
When they returned, Suanni had signed a contract with Xiao Jiu at the bottom of that rift valley.
Just like when you harvest flowers, the moment you get a pet will definitely be announced.
But at that time, Fuyu, who stayed near the Elf Tree to manage the farmland, also said that he did not hear any announcements at all.
Recalling this incident, the features on the system's sculpted face seemed to shrug together.
What exactly happened?
Unable to figure it out, it could only say, "Let me scan it first."
After all, the broadcast didn't mention the harvest, and the system was worried that if people rashly went to dig up flowers, something bad might happen.
The scan results came back quickly.
【Name: Nightingale Water Lily, Level: None, Special Attribute: Harmony】
[Note: Do not harvest, do not change the planting environment, do not sell, do not decompose...]
The system looked at the long string of "impossible" and felt utterly speechless.
System: "Isn't this the only option left to plant?"
Suanni was curious about another thing, and he pressed the system for details: "What does that special attribute, and what does 'harmony' mean?"
The system succinctly stated, "This flower, like the laurel grass before, comes from another world."
The so-called special attributes are somewhat similar to the pet talent skills of the Suanni.
However, because it is a plant, this skill cannot be actively cast; instead, it exists as a buff.
This means that this special attribute affects the surrounding area indiscriminately, even Xiao Jiu, who was previously immune to crop buffs and debuffs.
"As for reconciliation... let me see."
The system explained: "'Harmony' is somewhat similar to the process you cultivators go through when you break through blocked meridians, except that this flower's 'harmony' can be applied to anything."
Overall, this is a good thing.
If a cultivator whose cultivation has stagnated were to spend enough time around these flowers, they might suddenly be able to break through.
The only pity is that field.
After all, this flower does not support harvesting in the system's planting process. Simply put, it is just like ordinary flowers and plants. As long as the roots are alive and the growing environment is suitable, it will grow back.
The farmland produced by the system has absolutely perfect growing conditions.
Therefore, the only way to get it out of the field is to destroy it completely, roots and all.
According to the instructions, once this is done, the data will be refreshed immediately.
The system wailed, "This means we can no longer synthesize this flower. Even if we still have lotus seeds in stock, we can't plant them all."
The Suanni swished its tail: "Then let's plant it. It looks pretty anyway."
Xiao Jiu also said, "It looks good."
He squatted down and patted the system's big head like he would pet a Taotie or a Suanni: "Little Jiu likes it."
system:!
The system immediately stopped agonizing over it.
Under the soft white light of the fairy tree, the petals of the nightingale water lily floated up and down at a gentle frequency, but because the flowers were small and far from the shore, none of them noticed.
Two months later, all the planted water lilies had grown.
Although the Nightingale Water Lily has a similar plant shape to ordinary lotus, it has a special feature: once a lotus seed matures, it will only produce one flower.
So, although the Moon Lake was almost completely covered with lotus leaves, there were fewer than fifty lotus flowers in total.
The Nightingale Lotus is only seventeen or eighteen centimeters in diameter, and its leaves are at least half a meter long, so these flowers look particularly tiny when placed on the entire lake surface.
but......
The Suanni sat by the lake and exclaimed, "It's so beautiful!"
Xiao Jiu, holding the Taotie, nodded emphatically: "Mmm!"
The light from the Fairy Tree is a soft white. When it shines on the gradient-colored petals around the flower's center, the veins on the petals seem to reflect and glow softly.
The deep purple petals pressed down don't appear as translucent due to their color.
But precisely because of this, the occasional bright spots of light appearing on the petals are like the fluorescence emitted by deep-sea fish, possessing a special attraction.
A few meters away from them, the system and Qian Chuan were still discussing the broadcast.
System: "No relevant data was found in any of the scan results..."
It looked at Qianchuan in terror: "Am I broken?"
Qianchuan quickly reassured it: "System, you're great, there won't be any problems."
However, the abnormal broadcast and the fact that the system had been unable to find a solution for so long weighed heavily on Qianchuan's mind like a lead stone.
Qianchuan has already lost a family.
He cannot afford to lose the second one.
He said to the system in a relaxed tone, "How about this, we still have a lot of points. System, why don't you do that random scan again and see if there are any changes?
The system, like a wilted little cabbage, replied: "Okay..."
Non-directional scanning is the most time-consuming and also the most comprehensive scanning mode for data extraction.
Such scans have actually been done five or six times in the past two months, and each time, no conclusion has been reached.
This is probably meaningless for the system.
But if it doesn't even do a scan, it will have no idea what it can do.
Just as the system was about to start scanning mode, a panicked sound came from the lakeside.
"Xiao Jiu!?"
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