Chapter 59
It's really a miracle.
The rose transformed into a beautiful woman who walked towards her. She was wearing a bright red slim-fitting dress with several layers of hem that reached her knees. When she walked, the hem of the skirt swirled around her feet, like a blooming flower.
The closer she got, the more she could smell her rich fragrance. Her fair skin, red dress, and black hair would be considered a "goddess" if she were in the entertainment industry.
The only thing that didn't match her elegance was her eyes—they were so full of kindness that it was about to overflow.
"Tu Tu." The beauty touched Yu Tu's head, tapped the small bud on his head, and said with a smile, "I am Gui Yu, one of the elders of the Grass and Tree Clan."
"You haven't been to the canteen of the Plant Tribe yet?" She naturally took Yu Tu's hand, just like a kindergarten teacher holding a child, "Shall I take you around first?"
None of the eight cubs born in the past hundred years of the Grass Tribe has transformed. Yu Tu, who is stranded in the surface world, is currently the youngest cub of the Grass Tribe. Guiyu missed the dinner party yesterday, but unexpectedly met him in the cafeteria today.
"Tu Tu." Guiyu led him to a small grid. The soil in this grid was darker than many other grids, and it emitted a faint fragrance. "Will you turn into your original form?"
The small bud on Yu Tu's head drooped in sync with his words: "...No."
Guiyu was stunned for a moment.
She knew that this lost cub was very special. After growing up in human form, it turned into a juvenile again. But she didn't expect that the cub couldn't even transform into its original form.
After the Grass Tribe transforms, it is as natural for them to return to their original form as breathing. It is an instinct engraved in their bones. Moreover, the original form rooted in the special soil can help them consolidate their spiritual power and improve their cultivation. Although they often eat and taste delicious food like humans, for the Grass Tribe, they still have to eat a meal in the soil every day.
"If it won't turn into its original form, then don't change. What's the big deal?" Guiyu stretched out two fingers and straightened the drooping bud on Yu Tu's head. She also pinched its itchy head, making it sway back and forth to avoid it. "Those eight cubs haven't turned into human form for nearly a hundred years, but they're still tormented every day, aren't they?"
"It's okay if you don't eat the spiritual soil. It's quite troublesome to get up and pat the mud off after planting yourself." The spiritual soil is a special kind of soil. Once it adheres to the body, it cannot be removed by spiritual power or talismans. It can only be cleaned physically. Either pat it off or throw yourself into the water to wash. "Let's go! I'll take you to taste the human delicacies of the Plant Tribe!"
Guiyu Lei brought Yu Tu to a small private room in a very fast manner. The small private room and the spiritual soil field and the small table outside... were completely different in style.
After the door closed, Guiyu pulled him to sit on the chair. The chair opened automatically and wrapped him comfortably according to the curves of the human body. She tapped the table with her fingers, and projections of cuisines automatically appeared on the wall - Sichuan cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Cantonese cuisine... Click on any one of them and you can see the detailed classification, such as local and overseas, various gangs, cooking, frying, roasting and deep-frying... Under each category, there is a long list of dazzling dish names.
Yu Tu even saw foreign varieties. In addition to the common pizza, burgers, fried chicken, cola and French fries, there were also horrible foods such as star-gazing pie and canned herring.
A menu that almost lists everything that can be eaten and what cannot be eaten—is this really what a normal canteen should have?!
Yu Tu, who had been poor for eighteen years, was deeply shocked.
"Fish-flavored pork shreds, boiled pork slices, beef in lantern shadow, chestnut roasted chicken..." Guiyu randomly poked at two dishes, as if she was reading out the names of the dishes, "Sweet and sour carp, stir-fried squid rolls with coriander, crab meat—these are the more popular ones in these two series. Which one do you want to eat, Tutu?"
The Herb Clan does not advocate extravagance and waste, so Guiyu did not order all the dishes in one go. She recommended them according to her own preferences: "How about you try deep-fried whole scorpions? The black scorpions are fried in sesame oil until crispy and delicious!"
Yu Tu: "...Thank you, Elder Guiyu. I'd like to have the roasted chicken with chestnuts and a serving of stir-fried vegetables."
Guiyu, who did not recommend the fried scorpion to others for the Nth time, sighed with regret and decided to enjoy this delicacy all to herself.
So when the dishes were served in the private room, this beautiful lady, who was charming in public, finished a plate of deep-fried whole scorpions, a plate of crispy chicken, a plate of sweet and sour pork tenderloin, a steamed cod, and three bowls of rice.
Yu Tu: “……?”
He looked at Guiyu's slender waist and felt a little confused.
Guiyu wiped her mouth gracefully: "You haven't officially started to cultivate your spiritual power yet, so naturally you don't understand the wonderful uses of spiritual power."
In the inner world, as long as you keep your spiritual power circulating, you can speed up the body's consumption and convert food into energy. You won't be overeating, and you won't gain weight. So there is no need to lose weight, let alone go on a diet. You can eat whatever you want.
She winked at Yu Tu and said, "When you go to school this year, your teacher will tell you."
The Plant Tribe advocates a happy childhood, but does not advocate putting pressure on the cubs in advance.
Seeing that Yu Tu clearly didn't understand but was nodding obediently and blankly, Guiyu couldn't help but rub his head again. She finally understood why the clan leader Diwu liked to rub her head when she was a child. It felt really good!
After rubbing the cub in front of her for several times, Guiyu suddenly remembered something. She raised her lips slightly and muttered something incomprehensible, then took out a thin invitation from the air with her hand.
"This was sent to Elder Di Xiu some time ago. The elder had to take care of the eight cubs and didn't have time, so he gave me the invitation." Guiyu asked, "It's an auction outside the barrier, not far from the Grass and Wood Clan. Tu Tu, do you want to go with me?"
There's still nearly a month before school starts. We can't keep the cubs in the tribe forever and not let them go out, right?
Yu Tu was indeed somewhat interested in this kind of auction that only existed in books, but when he thought about his own strange luck, he was a little hesitant to agree.
Guiyu saw his intention and thrust the light golden invitation into Yu Tu's hand: "If you want to go, just go. Why think so much?"
After the light golden invitation touched Yu Tu's fingertips, an invisible pen seemed to appear on the cover, writing a symbol "three" in cursive script, and then a line of small words appeared at the bottom of the cover -
[Activated, only available to card holders.]
"I'll help you activate it!" Guiyu smiled. "Don't worry about it. If you want to go, go. If you don't want to go, don't go. I still have several empty spots here!"
"If you want your friends to come with you, you can ask me for an invitation," she said. "The date is set for five days later."
…
Yu Tu was half-forced to receive an invitation and returned to his own cottage in a tangled mood.
In addition to the number, the invitation card only has two lines of text on the back:
【Hundreds of rare treasures, nothing is missing;
It encompasses everything. 】
【Waiting for all distinguished guests to come to the auction house. 】
Yu Tu stared at the invitation for a long time, and inexplicably, his eyes suddenly felt a familiar warmth.
When I opened my eyes again, I saw a very faint and familiar black light shrouding the light golden invitation card. It was the same black light that covered my hairy zombie body when I was frightened in the middle of the night last night.
Yu Tu: “…”
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He really wanted to send a message to Elder Guiyu right away, telling him that there might be problems with the auction, but he couldn't explain the source of the message.
Moreover, although the black light outside the invitation and the black light on the hairy zombie are the same, Yu Tu does not know what the black light specifically represents, and whether there is a definite connection between the two.
He sighed deeply, and the small bud on his head fell to the side, making a gesture of wanting to show off. There were still five days before the auction started. After a struggle, Yu Tu decided to go to the teahouse to check it out.
The "thread" that connected the teahouse in the consciousness was triggered, and the figure of Buyehou slowly emerged from nothing behind the counter of the teahouse.
After his five senses became several times more sensitive, Yu Tu heard a faint scratching sound near his ears, as if there was something outside the door.
Walking to the gate, Yu Tu opened it a crack, and suddenly a black, furry paw stretched out from the crack.
Then, a dog's head appeared at the crack of the door, trying desperately to squeeze in. Its face was already deformed, much like the [Mom! My scalp is tight] emoticon that was popular on the Internet before.
Yu Tu: “???”
Why did this strange little black dog come to him again! Hadn't he already handed it over to the leader of Group Nine, Tu Jiaojiao?
The little black dog was really squeezed and looked pitiful. Yu Tu couldn't bear it, so he opened the door a little wider and let the dog in.
Maybe it was because he was familiar with it the first time, the little black dog ran to Yu Tu's feet with its tail wagging and lay down, revealing its bulging little belly - it was hungry.
Yu Tu: “…”
It's really hard not to suspect it's Taotie.
When a huge bowl of dog food was placed next to it, the little black dog quickly got up and rushed to the bowl like a starving ghost, eating the food along with the bowl. The sound of chewing the dog food was occasionally mixed with the teeth-grinding sound of gnawing on stainless steel.
After finishing two large bowls of dog food, the little black dog was finally full. It walked back to Yu Tu's feet and lay down, rolling around left and right, amusing itself.
The memory of it rummaging through the garbage last night suddenly popped up in Yu Tu’s mind—even though the little black dog doesn’t smell at all now, it’s still not clean!
The little black dog was rolling around happily when suddenly his limbs were locked by rattan sticks.
The little black dog widened his black eyes: "Woof?"
It recognized it as the green vine from last night, so it didn't launch any attack.
The green vines rolled it up, and a wooden basin and a wooden brush appeared out of thin air on the ground, with warm water in the basin steaming.
"Blah——"
The little black dog was pressed into the water by Green Ivy, who then angrily rolled up the big brush and started to wash the dog.
The little black dog's limbs trembled and it let out a frightened howl: "Woof woof woof woof woof!!!"
Even Yu Tu, who couldn't understand dog language, could feel its resistance.
So, the cold-blooded and heartless Buyehou said: "If you don't wash it clean, you won't have food to eat."
Little black dog: "Woof woof woof———"
It retracted its exposed claws and kept barking. It was obviously a puppy, but it barked like a husky.
After Lu Teng changed several basins of water and finally washed the little black dog clean to reveal its true appearance, Yu Tu discovered that the little black dog was not black, but bluish-gray.
It looks like a two-foot-long little tiger, with cat-like ears and blue-gray fur all over its body, especially fluffy around its neck. It has two symmetrical little bumps on its head, and its teeth are a bit like those of a wild boar, with a pair of mini fangs that you would miss if you didn't look closely.
Lu Teng held the little black dog in midair and blew its fur. Yu Tu went to the counter and took out an ancient book. A few pages after the record of Taotie, there was a beast with the same name as it - Taowu.
[In the western wilderness there is a beast that looks like a tiger but has dog hair, is two feet long, has a human face and tiger feet, a pig's mouth and teeth, and a tail that is eighteen feet long. It lives in the wilderness and is called Taowu. Another name is arrogant and fierce, and another is difficult to train.]
The little black dog, no, the little grey dog does fit most of the records about Taowu, but——
Yu Tu's eyes fell on the bulge on the little black dog's head and the mane on its neck... What is this?
The mythical beast mutates?
Yu Tu called out tentatively: "Yaowu?"
The little black dog was blowing its fur with its eyes closed, looking as if it was about to die, without any reaction.
When Lu Teng put it down and placed a mirror in front of it, the little gray dog curiously moved forward and looked at itself in circles.
As it turned around, it suddenly found that its face in the mirror was changing. Its ears were getting longer and longer, and its dog face was looking more and more like a human face, and an extremely vicious one.
“Woof——!!!”
“Boom!”
The little grey dog let out a howl that shook heaven and earth and made the gods and ghosts weep.
The self in the mirror is so ugly that it is dizzy because of its own ugliness.