Chapter 222: Chapter 222: Emotions Running Both Ways with the Instance Boss
Although she was seen through by Qian Qi, the system still retorted, "Absolutely not, I just think whether you raise one or two, it’s all the same, why not raise them together~"
Qian Qi refused to babysit.
"This kid is valuable."
Qian Qi immediately stuffed the kid into her backpack.
"..."
Behind them, the Bone Worm Beast spewed out a Cannibal Fish, roared, and charged straight at Qian Qi and Su Ang, intending to swallow them whole. However, Su Ang glanced at the Bone Worm Beast, which was instantly sliced into countless pieces and fell like rain.
"Let’s go." Su Ang pulled Qian Qi and rushed towards Lanxi River.
Dragged into the river, the blood and flesh of the Bone Worm Beast on Qian Qi’s body quickly attracted the Cannibal Fish in the river, who swarmed around but were focused on sucking off the white flesh on her body. Fortunately, the teeth didn’t harm Qian Qi; instead, they cleaned off the white flesh thoroughly.
Seeing this, Qian Qi couldn’t help but immerse her head into the Lanxi River, and soon, the white flesh on her hair was all cleaned off.
Qian Qi was clean.
Qian Qi shook off the Cannibal Fish from her body, eager to leave, "Let’s go, there’s nothing worth staying here for."
These Little Bone Worms have astonishing biting power, and there’s currently nothing to contain them. She’ll find a suitable container and then come back for them.
The leader of the advance team nodded, "Then we’ll continue west along the river."
The nine people walked toward the Golden Grassland, the enormous black eyes of the Bone Worm Beast silently watching them leave. No one noticed that in the pile of Bone Worm Beast meat sliced by the Spiritual Net, a fat little white larva, about the size of a fingernail, quietly raised its little head, and after bouncing around a dozen times with a "biu~", it slipped into Qian Qi’s backpack.
As everyone left the black beast skeleton, the spiritual power remaining in the air seemed to be sucked in by a storm as it flowed into Qian Qi’s backpack.
Su Ang, who was sensitive to spiritual power, slowly lowered his eyes, looking at Qian Qi’s backpack in deep thought.
...
Once they left the black beast skeleton, the protective area formed by the remaining spiritual power also lost effect, and Qian Qi and her group faced several waves of Magic Beast attacks.
After the sixth wave of Magic Beast attack, Qian Qi started suspecting the system’s sinister intentions, "Is this what you call a safe instance?"
What was supposed to be a safe instance for making money ended up being plagued by these incessant C-level Magic Beasts. What’s going on?
"Don’t whine, if you hadn’t brought Su Ang in, I wouldn’t have let you pick up the egg right now."
Since Su Ang was brought in, of course his capabilities must be fully utilized!
"...So it’s about the egg." Qian Qi rubbed her chin, "It seems the Bone Worm Beast’s larval egg has high nutritional value, it can attract so many Magic Beasts."
These Magic Beast Eggs are quite interesting; to prevent digestion by the mother, they have such hard shells. I wonder how strong the shell is against attacks, if sold, it should be worth quite a lot...
"But why wasn’t I digested just now?" Qian Qi asked curiously, considering her Defense is only D-level, she should be easily digestible, right?
"Of course, because you are not only hard to eat but also not nutritious ＾＿＾"
Qian Qi: ?
Damn Bone Worm Beast, why didn’t it digest you too?
"There are too many Magic Beasts." Shao Xian complained beside her, "And why do I feel like they are charging straight at us?"
"Maybe this instance has rather aggressive Magic Beasts, showing significant hostility towards humans." The advance team leader speculated, then turned to Qian Qi, "Qian, it seems this instance is several times larger than other C-level instances. It might take several days for us to find the instance BOSS."
Moreover, the instance BOSS might move by itself, so the chances of encountering the BOSS are very small.
"No worries, if you’re tired, we can set up camp and wait at the Golden Grassland."
Qian Qi contemplated for two seconds before confidently stating, "We and the instance BOSS are bound to be in a two-way passionate pursuit."
Advance team leader: Huh?
What’s a two-way passionate pursuit?
Qian Qi glanced at her backpack; since the Magic Beast Egg could attract Magic Beasts, it should also lure the BOSS, so she might as well stay and wait for it.
The advance team leader looked at Su Ang, and Su Ang casually said, "Listen to her."
Seeing Su Ang’s indifferent demeanor, the advance team leader reluctantly nodded, and the group continued towards the Golden Grassland.
After dealing with two more waves of Magic Beasts, the group finally arrived at the Golden Grassland. Qian Qi bent down to dig the soil, using the Decoding Technique to analyze the Golden Grass, confirming it to be the same type as in the Vegetable Garden Dungeon.
"This ground is very nice..." Qian Qi rubbed the Golden Grass in her hand, noting how the longer the Golden Grass leaves were, the more fertile and rich the soil underneath was, perfect for planting Advanced Magic Plants, and here the grass leaves were extremely long, probably suitable for planting B-level and even A-level Magic Plants.
Just as she was contemplating whether to acquire this piece of land, Qian Qi suddenly felt her backpack move dramatically, attracting the attention of the other members.
She turned her back, opened the backpack in confusion, and saw Moyu inside going mad pecking at a little white larva, which dexterously dodged all of Moyu’s pecks.
Qian Qi: ?
Upon discovering the backpack was opened, Moyu looked at Qian Qi with a sad face and complained softly, "Contractor! Why do you shove everything into the backpack!"
It’s one thing to fill it with broken teeth, but why toss in such a terrifying bug as well! This damn bug almost chewed off its wing feathers!
It didn’t want to turn bald!
Qian Qi looked at the little larva, finding it very familiar, she paused and wondered, "Did this hatch already?"
She thought the black egg had hatched a little bug, but the black egg hadn’t cracked, so she suspiciously looked at the larva, questioning how it got into the backpack.
Noticing Qian Qi’s gaze, the little white larva bared its small teeth aggressively, looking fierce.
Was it one of the divided fragments? But weren’t the fragments supposed to have only two teeth?
Qian Qi pinched the tip of the little white larva’s tail and found the Little Fat Worm indeed had a mouthful of small white teeth. Moreover, it looked different from those little fragments, with a layer of short, slippery hairs that were as crystal clear as colorless crystals. Two azure eyes, sized like rice grains, sat atop the head, similar to human eyes, and could even roll dramatically when looking at Qian Qi.
Clearly a rebellious kid.
Qian Qi observed for a while, then raised her hand and smashed it into bits with her fist.
Moyu: !!!
Onlooking Su Ang: !!!
The system silently roared, "What are you doing!"
"Checking if it’s sturdy enough, to avoid accidentally crushing it with an emotional attachment and resulting in heartbreak," Qian Qi muttered.
System: ...6.
In the backpack, the little white larva chopped into pieces squirmed a few times before slowly reassembling into the form of the little larva again. After its eyes shifted to the top of its head, it angrily opened its mouth full of small white teeth and "biu~" shot onto Qian Qi’s finger and bit her hard.
Blood instantly spurted out, splattering onto the Black Demon Egg. The Little Fat Worm was shocked and, realizing Qian Qi hadn’t released the Contract Pattern, exhaled in relief before angrily biting Qian Qi’s finger again.
Then "boom", the Little Fat Worm was smashed to pieces again.
Moyu: ...
Watching Su Ang: ...
Qian Qi looked up at Su Ang, whose eyes twitched slightly, and explained, "Misbehaving, needs a little training."
Su Ang: "...Alright."
The reassembled Little Fat Worm finally realized that Qian Qi wasn’t to be messed with. Considering it needed to protect the Magic Beast Egg, it silently burrowed deep into the backpack, refusing to come out.
Moyu flew out from the backpack, clearly unwilling to stay in the same space as the Little Fat Worm. Qian Qi didn’t stop it, only reminded, "Don’t wander off, there are many C-level Magic Beasts here."
Moyu cheerfully "cawed~" and began flying around the vicinity.