Chapter 64 "Darkening" Xiao Jiu doesn't hate dogs...
Even after the merger, the world remains in perpetual night.
Without lighting, you can't see anything around you, let alone any part of your own body.
In this boundless darkness, a series of heavy footsteps sounded very regularly.
Although the terrain here is flat, it's not as smooth as a tiled road.
Suddenly, the small figure that made the footsteps kicked a protruding clod of earth on the ground.
He clearly had poor balance; after being tripped, his entire body fell to the side like a stiff piece of wood.
Just as he was about to hit the ground, a cold gust of wind suddenly blew from a distance.
The wind seemed to have a physical form, and it lifted Xiao Jiu up directly.
Ten years is enough time for Xiao Jiu to adapt to his five senses, so he immediately realized that what was under him was something completely different from the feel of the soil.
Xiao Jiu immediately shouted, "Doggy!"
There was no response.
But... that thing didn't run away either.
Xiao Jiu couldn't see, so he could only make a reaching motion, and unsurprisingly, he grabbed nothing.
All he could feel was the cold air passing through his fingers.
Xiao Jiu withdrew her hand and blinked blankly.
Just then, the thing supporting Xiao Jiu was slowly pulled out and then disappeared in a flash.
Xiao Jiu immediately got up from the ground and chased after it straight ahead.
Zombies already have poor eyesight, and in this completely dark environment, it's practically the same as being blind, which is why he tripped and fell after only a few steps forward.
As soon as Xiao Jiu fell, that cold thing appeared, and it disappeared as soon as he regained his balance.
Zombies don't get tired.
Xiao Jiu kept running forward in the darkness, falling and falling...
Some time later, after Xiao Jiu fell down again, he immediately noticed something was wrong.
Xiao Jiu suddenly clenched her fingers: "Doggy!"
At that moment, he grabbed something soft and furry in his hand.
Xiao Jiu immediately bent down and pressed her face against it, saying in a happy tone, "Doggy, doggy, Xiao Jiu hugs me."
After a long while, a muffled voice finally rang out in the darkness: "Xiao Jiu doesn't want to be hugged."
Xiao Jiu tilted her head in confusion.
Even though Xiao Jiu's little brain is working better than before, this sentence is still a bit difficult for him to understand.
Xiao Jiu couldn't understand, so he continued to ask, "Doggy, want to play?"
Taotie replied, "Xiao Jiu doesn't want to play."
Xiao Jiu: "Hug me like a puppy?"
Taotie: "Little Jiu doesn't want to be hugged."
This conversation continued more than a dozen times.
If it were a human, they would probably have lost their temper long ago, but both Xiao Jiu and Taotie stubbornly continued to communicate in this way, without finding it annoying or tiring.
Xiao Jiu was already completely sprawled on top of Taotie, completely unaware that Taotie's body shape was completely off.
Taotie's body length should have been slightly shorter than his arm, so that when Xiao Jiu bent his arm, he could just hug him.
But right now, even the small patch of fur that Xiao Jiu was lying on was already like a big blanket, and Xiao Jiu's two little arms couldn't reach the edge at all.
"Gurgle..."
The sudden sound broke the repetitive conversation between the two.
Xiao Jiu quickly asked, "Is the dog hungry?"
Taotie was silent for a few seconds, then whispered, "...Hungry."
Xiao Jiu immediately climbed up from the "big blanket": "Xiao Jiu, find the system and make dog food blocks."
But after Xiao Jiu slid down from Taotie's body like a slide and took a few steps forward, he realized that Taotie had not followed.
Xiao Jiu ran back again, shouting, "Doggy?"
The Taotie remained silent.
Xiao Jiu touched the big ball of fur in front of her, blinked her eyes several times, looking completely bewildered.
Suddenly, something came to his mind.
That was when the system had just been refined into Taotie No. 2. At that time, the system had no idea how much power its new form consumed. After going down into the rift valley with Xiao Jiu, it had just come up from the bottom of the rift valley when it put itself into "low power forced disconnection" mode.
This mode was set up by the system based on the suggestion of Suanni, in order to put a security lock on the system and prevent it from being wiped out by anything that might happen suddenly.
Once the system enters disconnection mode, it becomes completely unresponsive and therefore cannot speak.
When the system went offline that day, only Xiao Jiu was present.
The system was extremely heavy, and Xiao Jiu didn't know what to do. He couldn't lift the system, so he could only push the lump of metal all the way to the edge of the farmland.
At this moment, Taotie stopped talking, which immediately gave Xiao Jiu a strong sense of déjà vu.
He ran half a lap around the Taotie, then raised his hands, placed them directly on the Taotie's body, and pushed it forward with all his might—
However, it didn't make any progress.
Xiao Jiu looked down at his hands in confusion, but it was so dark that he couldn't see them at all.
Xiao Jiu muttered to herself softly, "Xiao Jiu's hand is gone."
After saying that, he froze on the spot, motionless.
Suddenly, he grabbed his arm and pulled it outward with force!
Taotie finally couldn't hold back any longer: "Little Nine!"
The shout was quite loud, even carrying a hint of anger. Xiao Jiu just looked up blankly and said, "Xiao Jiu is here."
This time, Taotie didn't remain silent and immediately said, "I don't want to go back."
Xiao Jiu: "Why?"
Taotie's voice was muffled: "There are Fuyu, Qianchuan, Grandma, Xiaoxue, and Miaomiao there. I don't want to fight with them for Xiao Jiu."
Xiao Jiu didn't understand: "Rob?"
Taotie could only continue, "There's only one Xiao Jiu. If Xiao Jiu plays with them, she won't play with me."
These words were like opening a floodgate.
Everyone likes Xiao Jiu, but there's only one Xiao Jiu.
"Xiao Jiu and Fu Yu play in the water and talk to Qian Chuan. Xiao Xue and Miao Miao have white fur and are very pretty. Xiao Jiu likes them and hugs them every day..."
Taotie's voice trembled as he said, "But, but... I was the one who met Xiao Jiu first."
"I also want Xiao Jiu to play with me, but I... I already... Waaah—"
He suddenly burst into tears: "I don't want to become dirty, I don't want Xiao Jiu to hate me."
The Taotie's voice was completely different from before. It not only lacked the sweet and soft quality, but also carried a strange echo that sent chills down one's spine.
In the darkness, he had that strange, enormous mouth, as if he had finally broken free from some kind of restraint.
"I didn't mean to be mean to Xiao Jiu just now, but I couldn't control myself. Xiao Jiu, please don't hate me..."
He sobbed, tears squeezing out from between his tightly closed eyelids and streaming down his long hair like a rain shower.
Xiao Jiu was also stunned. After he came to his senses, he quickly went over and stroked Taotie's fur, saying hurriedly, "Doggy, doggy, Xiao Jiu touches, Xiao Jiu touches."
As a result, Taotie cried even more sadly.
Xiao Jiu didn't know what the correct way to do it was either. The system hadn't taught him at all. He could only repeat the petting motion over and over again and call out to the dog.
Finally, after an unknown amount of time, Taotie's cries gradually subsided, and Xiao Jiu's clothes were completely soaked with his tears.
Xiao Jiu didn't mind, and just leaned over and said, "Xiao Jiu will never hate dogs, not even for ten thousand, ten thousand, ten thousand years."
Xiao Jiu rattled off several tens of thousands of words in one breath.
Taotie sobbed, "...Really?"
Xiao Jiu nodded emphatically: "Yes!"
Taotie didn't speak, but stretched out its claws and tightly hugged Xiao Jiu.
It was too dark around.
Xiao Jiu felt as if he had fallen into a soft, fluffy thing, just like when he first regained consciousness more than ten years ago, when he was so frightened by the rich tactile sensations on his limbs that he could only shrink into the Taotie's fur.
Warm and soft.
After huddling there for a while, Xiao Jiu grabbed a tuft of fur and started braiding it in the dark.
Taotie neither spoke nor moved, simply letting Xiao Jiu play as she pleased.
suddenly.
"Gurgle..."
It was Taotie's stomach rumbling again.
Xiao Jiu thought for a moment and asked, "Should the dog go back with Xiao Jiu?"
The Taotie sniffed and didn't speak, but it tightened its grip on its claws even more.
However, after a while, Taotie released its claws and stuck out its tongue to lick Xiao Jiu's face.
The Taotie was huge at this moment, and its tongue was like a small mountain. It felt like it could crush the child-like Xiao Jiu if it wasn't careful.
But Xiao Jiu didn't struggle.
After Taotie finished licking, he simply opened his arms and said earnestly, "Little Jiu, hug me."
This time, Taotie did not refuse.
A cold wind blew up, and by the time he jumped into Xiao Jiu's arms, his body had shrunk back to its previous size.
The terrain around here is flat and there are no obstructions, so you can see the glowing fairy tree as soon as you look up.
Xiao Jiu lifted his foot and walked towards the Elf Tree. Sometimes he would accidentally trip over it, and a gust of wind would rise up in the darkness to lift him up. Once Xiao Jiu had stood up, the wind would turn into a fluffy ball and snuggle into his arms.
The two little ones kept fussing all the way.
So when Xiao Jiu stumbled back to the Elf Tree, he was covered in mud, and the Taotie in his arms was blackened like a lump of coal.
Upon seeing this, the Suanni burst into wild laughter at the Taotie: "Hahaha, those messy braids on your face are so ugly—"
Taotie leaped out of Xiao Jiu's arms with lightning speed.
The Suanni was startled and immediately rolled away from where it was.
The next instant, the spot where the Suanni had been standing had become a pit.
Taotie made a swallowing motion and slowly opened its eyes towards Suanni.
Normally, the long hair on his head would almost cover his entire face, but now, because of the braids on his head, his strangely shaped mouth and eyes were particularly noticeable.
Its scarlet, diamond-shaped eyes are so striking that even a single glance can send chills down your spine.
The Suanni, stared at by those eyes, instinctively shivered: "Wait, are you serious?"
Instead of answering, Taotie suddenly lunged forward again.
He chased after the Suanni and bit it relentlessly. Every time his mouth closed, it distorted the surrounding space. Just by looking at it, you could tell how dangerous the attack launched by that mouth was.
As the Suanni howled and fled, it instinctively flung fireballs at the Taotie, but before they could even reach the Taotie, the Taotie turned its head and swallowed them whole.
Suanni: !!
He looked at Xiao Jiu and the others: "Help me! Help me!"
Fu Yu gave a helpless smile, and just as Qian Chuan was about to help, a voice came from over: "Qian Chuan, can't you see this side?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a wave-like substance immediately enveloped Qianchuan.
The next second, Qianchuan looked around blankly: "What was I looking at just now?"
Fu Yu looked up at the sky: "I...I don't know..."
The system simply turned around, blocking Xiao Jiu's view: "Host, I have something strange here."
Xiao Jiu's attention was immediately diverted, and she asked curiously, "Strange thing! Look, Xiao Jiu!"
The Suanni cried out in disbelief, "System! You actually—!"
The Suanni didn't dare to look back, and started to run away frantically while howling.
Amidst the background noise of his wails, the system suddenly spat out a crystal coffin.
Inside the coffin was a blood-soaked person.
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