Chapter 139

When they walked outside the house again in the snow, Yu Tu and the others looked at each other in confusion.

How to say it?

There is always a feeling of eating a little melon.

Whether this mysterious melon exists or not, we can only say...if it exists.

Xie Jianwei led them out of Olivia's house and stopped. Silvery-white lines spread out in the ice and snow, and the lines shuttled back and forth in the ice and snow. The formation took shape and the transmission began. In almost the blink of an eye, they were back to the outside of the medicinal plant garden of Millerkel University.

If it weren't for the unmelted snow on their shoulders, they would almost think that the previous experience was just a collective illusion.

"Let's go back to the dormitory." Xie Jianwei was ready to leave after bringing them back. She had cleaned up the east and west parts of Miller Kerr University. It was safe for now. "Have a good rest and try to attend classes tomorrow."

Although we had a weird half-day tour, fortunately the "extra class" at the medicinal plant garden was cancelled due to this unexpected situation.

Yu Tu returned to the dormitory, washed up and fell into a deep dream—he had a very strange dream.

He dreamed that the fish on the puff-eye pizza pulled itself out of the bowl, then grew a pair of arms and legs, and chased after Yu Tu, shouting, "Bite me! Bite me! I'm delicious!"

Seeing that it could not catch up with Yu Tu, the puff-eye fish grabbed the pizza on the plate and threw it into the air, which turned into a floating "pizza cloud". The pizza cloud began to rain down orange pieces, strawberry jam, salad dressing, and hard peas and potato chunks.

Yu Tu was fumbling around under the pizza cloud, but still got bruised all over. Finally, he saw an endless wall of pizza blocking his view. Hanging upside down from the wall was a pufferfish covered in salad dressing. Its mouth opened and closed, and it said in a low voice, "Why don't you eat me? Tell me why?"

Every time it asked, a fish of the same type appeared next to it. Finally, the endless wall was filled with endless fish hanging, and all the fish were asking sad questions, as if Yu Tu had done something unforgivable.

Finally, Yu Tu woke up with his own screams.

He sat on the bed with disheveled hair for ten full minutes before he temporarily suppressed the fish mouth that was more devilish than emoticons and the resentful "why?" that kept repeating in his mind.

This is no longer called a mental attack, it is simply mental pollution!

Yu Tu got out of bed slowly to wash up, and saw his clumsy hair, heavy eye bags and dark circles in the bathroom mirror.

Yu Tu: “…”

No wonder the principal asked them to have a good rest and try to attend classes normally tomorrow.

Dream attack, what a vicious method!

When he arrived at the classroom, he saw three haggard losers who looked just like him.

It was a rare occasion for the four of us to sit in the same row, and we looked at each other.

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Fortunately, apart from accidentally touching Robert's formation and being teleported, they were safe and sound until the end of the semester.

Yu Tu finally welcomed his first winter vacation after entering college. After quickly climbing up the Feiye of the Plant Clan to pick him up, Yu Tu almost burst into tears - his life after awakening his spiritual power became more and more ups and downs day by day, and he really couldn't stand it anymore!

He just wants to live a peaceful life for a few days!

After the Grass and Tree Clan and Elder Di Xiu happily raised the younger brothers and sisters for a few days, the clan leader who had been missing for the past few days showed up.

"Tuzi..." Yu Tu was sitting cross-legged among a pile of small flower pots, eating watermelon with a spoon, when suddenly a person hung upside down above his head. He was so scared that he coughed several times because of the choking watermelon juice.

The clan leader Diwu, whose beauty could not be damaged even when hanging upside down, swung herself back and forth, then poked a finger between Yu Tu's eyebrows: "Hmm... How festive!"

Then he flipped his palm and a mirror appeared out of thin air in his hand. Diwu pushed the mirror in front of Yu Tu and said, "Look!"

In the mirror, there was a small red dot between Yu Tu’s eyebrows, like the silhouette of a chubby red little lion shaking its head and tail.

Yu Tu reached out and touched it. The skin under his fingertips was smooth, but the temperature between his eyebrows was slightly higher. "What is this?"

Diwu smiled until all his white teeth were exposed: "Mark of the Nian Beast."

Yu Tu: “…What?!”

"The mark of the Nian beast!" Diwu landed in front of Yu Tu again in an unscientific manner, flicked the bud of the gardenia closest to him, and said with a smile, "We haven't had a transformed cub in the Grass Tribe for a long time, and we haven't participated in this activity for many years. This year, Tu, you can join in the fun!"

Yu Tu: “…”

He really wanted to roll his eyes at their clan leader.

But after six months of getting along, Yu Tu had already figured out their leader's character of looking for trouble when things get busy. He sighed and asked, "Chief, what is the Nian Beast Mark for?"

"Alas, you used to get angry when I teased you, but now it's not fun anymore." Di Wu leaned over and pinched Yu Tu's face, saying with regret, "Don't learn from Di Xiu. Flowers and plants don't have tempers, so life would be so boring."

Yu Tu: “…”

He grabbed the hand of the one who was causing trouble in the Emperor's House and said expressionlessly, "Chief, I will file a complaint."

The gardenia, which was flicked by a finger, laughed so hard that its buds opened up.

Emperor House: "..."

"It's wrong to tell tales." He taught Yu Tu righteously, "A real man should solve problems on his own and not always think about complaining."

Then he tilted his head and looked at the gardenias with their buds bursting beside him: "Girls are the same."

Yu Tu Zhi Zhi: “…”

"Okay, I'll make it short." Di Xiu picked up the half watermelon that Yu Tu was holding beside him and held it in his arms, and conjured up a spoon out of thin air. "No matter which tribe the cubs are from, they will be marked as Nian beasts by their elders on the first New Year after they become adults. On the night of New Year's Eve, they will go to catch Nian beasts from dusk to dawn. The cubs who catch the most Nian beasts can get a big prize. The prizes are different every year, but they are all very practical."

At this moment, Yu Tu felt that Di Wu's expression looked like he was hiding something bad.

Yu Tu: "Do we have to catch him?"

"Every child has to go. Even if we can't catch the Nian monster, it's not dangerous." Diwu scooped a spoonful of watermelon into his mouth and said vaguely, "As long as you are shameless enough, no, as long as you don't care too much about face."

That sounds even more disturbing.

"Tu Tu doesn't understand in the first place, and you're just trying to scare him." Clivia was sitting on Diwu's shoulder. He had just taken Clivia to repair the piano. "The cub also needs to save face."

Yu Tu tilted his head, and Di Xiu saw that the Nian beast mark on his forehead also tilted his head, making him look very honest and adorable: "Chief, you are really quick to act."

Di Xiu originally planned to be the one to mark the Nian Beast. Whoever marks the Nian Beast will be protected by the marked cub during the process of catching the Nian Beast. The marked cub can set the degree of danger that the cub will be protected by.

"I've already marked it!" Diwu yelled while holding the watermelon, "I refuse to cover it a second time!"

Di Xiu: "...I am not very reassured."

"I guess you won't get any exercise if I let you mark them." Diwu muttered, "Everyone knows that you treat them like treasures."

As the head of the family, Diwu sometimes likes to be naughty, and Dixiu can't do anything about him. He replanted the Clivia that was tuning the new zither into a small flowerpot. Dixiu habitually began to clean up the mess. He touched Yu Tu's head and said with a smile: "Tu Tu, let me tell you about the Nian Beast first."

In the surface world, the Nian Beast is just a legend during the New Year, but in the inner world, the Nian Beast really exists. When the world changes from the old to the new, when the fortunes of the two years change, the Nian Beast will be born. From the dark of New Year's Eve to the dawn of the first day of the New Year, it is the active period.

The Nian beast has snow-white fur and comes in different sizes, some as big as a lion and some as small as a puppy, but wherever it walks, it leaves pink and white paw prints.

Nian beasts mainly appear in the surface world. Each one has a different personality, and they are also divided into good beasts and evil beasts.

Shannian Beast has a relatively mild temper and will only make some trouble at most, such as sneaking onto the family reunion dinner table to steal a bite of food, scattering melon seed shells from the trash can onto the ground, or sharpening its claws on the sofa... During this period of time, even ordinary people who have not awakened their spiritual powers may be able to sense its presence as long as they have a keen sense of perception.

If the Good Year Beast particularly likes someone, it will spread out around that person and become a blessing. Then that person will be able to turn misfortune into good fortune and live a smooth life throughout the year.

The temper of the evil monster is more violent, and it is easy to hurt people. Even if the temper of the evil monster is slightly better, people will be infected with "evil spirit" as long as they get close to them, and they may catch a cold at the mildest, or be hospitalized for treatment at the worst. As for the particularly vicious evil monster, not only can it possess people, but it can also bite and eat people. The true and false legends in the surface world are all created by the evil monster.

The color red, loud noises, and fire, the three elements that could restrain the Nian monster, were passed down from then on.

People who have just awakened their spiritual powers are like the change of fortune from the old to the new. They are most sensitive to them and don't even need the help of magic weapons. In addition, the Nian beast's lethality is not great and it can be dispersed by spiritual power. The elders of each tribe will even use their own power to protect it, so the task of catching the Nian beast every year falls on the children who have just awakened.

Fighting against the Nian Beast is also a good training opportunity.

After Elder Di Xiu's detailed explanation, Yu Tu finally understood the origin of the Nian Beast. While Elder Di Xiu was explaining, the other young plant tribe cubs in the house came over with their own flower pots to listen.

"I have another question———" Yu Tu was surrounded by the cubs and almost subconsciously raised his hand to speak, "If we go to catch the Nian Beast, we should also catch the evil Nian Beast, right? What if we fail..."

The curiosity of the group of cubs is about to overflow.

"Under normal circumstances, the Nian beast marks given by the elders will protect your lives when you encounter danger, but some evil Nian beasts are quite special." Di Xiu put his fist to his lips to block it, with a smile in his voice, "These special Nian beasts are quite naughty and may play tricks on you."

"No need to hide it, just tell them directly." Diwu was holding a half-eaten watermelon not far away, with a smile on his face. "Last year, a wolf cub was bitten on the butt, and half of his butt was swollen like a honeycomb; a lion cub was bitten on the ear, and the mane turned into fluorescent pink; the year before last, a fox cub's nose swelled up like a ping-pong ball..."

He enthusiastically recounted the embarrassing stories of the cubs of various tribes, and when he was excited, he would take out the photo stone to share on the screen. Yu Tu saw, including but not limited to, a Samoyed with all its hair gone, an 18-year-old college student with baldness like a Mediterranean, and a lion with its body turned into a zebra...

Diwu shared his regrets: "Every year when we catch the Nian beast, there are always cubs that get killed. Unfortunately, some of them run away too fast, so we can only hear vaguely, but there is no substantial evidence."

He lamented, "And these effects can only last for seven days."

Yu Tu: “…”

If he encounters this situation——

Yu Tu felt that he didn't even need to ask.

"Elder Di Xiu." Yu Tu grabbed Di Xiu's clothes and said sincerely and cautiously, "Why don't you cover the tribe leader's mark?"

Diwu: “……?”

He protested strongly: "No!"