Eighty or ninety percent? ! ╮(╯▽╰)╭
"I have no spiritual power, I can't help you." Huoqian refused Stone's unreasonable request again. In addition, he reminded him, "Stone, this ring has already signed a blood pact with you, and no one else can use it."
"I..." Stone was so angry that he couldn't speak, and paced back and forth in frustration.
Huo Tongs once again spoiled the mood by reminding him, "You'd better hurry up. If you really don't want it, you don't have to."
Stone glared at Fire Pliers with a look that seemed to say he wanted to die with them, then yelled, "I'm not leaving! I'm not leaving! I can't take this anymore! I'm going to die!"
Huoqian stared dumbfounded at the stones rolling and scattering all over the ground, and thought that it would be even more hilarious if Baozi joined in at this moment.
"Gaga, Master, let's do it together~~~" To everyone's surprise, this time Baozi cooperated quite well and turned into a plump white bun. The two of them rolled around and acted like a spoiled child next to the stone, which made Huotong so angry that he wanted to smash them into meat patties with a hammer.
"Baozi! You can do magic?!" Stone suddenly grabbed Baozi and asked in a low growl.
"Huh? Magic? Baozi can do it!" Baozi bounced up and down without hesitation.
Stone suddenly saw hope again: "Baozi, help me open the ring, use your mental power! You know, magicians should have mental power, right?"
The last sentence was spoken to the fire tongs.
The fire tongs, already demoralized by the blows from the stone, nodded dejectedly: "Your pet should have some kind of spiritual power, but the ring has already signed a blood pact with you!"
“It’s okay, Baozi, you signed a blood pact with me too, right?” Shi Tou looked at Baozi expectantly: “We both signed blood pacts, Baozi, I believe in you!”
Being trusted by its master for the first time, Baozi felt a sense of unreality: "Huh? Baozi can use Kagaral's Pursuit? Um, um... okay, then Baozi will give it a try!"
Baozi hopped onto Shitou's hand, staring at the ring with deep distress. How was he supposed to use it? After thinking for a moment, Baozi suddenly had an idea.
"Awoo!" Baozi swallowed the ring whole, then quickly hopped to the side of the gold mountain. With a big fold of its belly, countless gold nuggets rushed towards Baozi.
Just as the steamed bun was about to be buried alive by the gold, at the crucial moment, the gold nuggets vanished instantly when they were still an inch away from the bun.
"Huh? It disappeared?" Stone stared in astonishment at Baozi's performance of conjuring up gold nuggets—no, it should be called swallowing gold nuggets—and was stunned for a long time.
Huoqian, however, was getting anxious: "Take only a little! Um, there's some silver over there. You can take a little of everything, don't just take the gold!"
Stone glanced at the fire tongs with disdain. "Take silver? Why don't you say take scrap metal? What a joke, Baozi has a good eye!" Thinking this, Stone looked at Baozi, only to find that Baozi had already abandoned the gold and gone to devour another small hill.
"Steamed buns! I want gold! Gold is valuable! You idiot!" Stone panicked. Who knew what metal that was? In Stone's mind, gold was the most valuable thing, followed by silver. As for those other random metals, he didn't recognize a single one!
"Gah gah! Master is an idiot himself, and you still call Baozi an idiot! Baozi remembers, one purple gold coin can be exchanged for a hundred gold coins! It's clearly purple gold mine that's valuable! Master, you big idiot!" Baozi felt that his great intelligence had been looked down upon, and it was actually by that idiot master who always loved to think he was smart. He was immediately unhappy.
"Huh? Purple gold ore is valuable?" Stone was a little confused. Could someone tell her what purple gold ore was?
Huoqian felt he couldn't stay here any longer! If he stayed any longer, he'd either be driven mad by the stone, or he'd go insane along with it. Either way, it wouldn't end well!
“I’ll count to ten, and if you don’t come out, I’m leaving! 1, 2…”
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It's time for the second watch!
Chapter 90: The Pink Little Sunflower
"You slow-moving brat!" Huoqian cursed as he walked forward. Although his tone had been extremely firm in the ore warehouse, would Stone listen to him? Would he?!
"Seventh Brother, please stop scolding me~~~" Stone followed behind Huoqian, tugging at Huoqian's arm and pleading, "By the way, Seventh Brother, how do we get to the human countries?"
Huoqian stopped abruptly, looking at Shitou with a serious expression, and asked incredulously, "You don't know?!"
"Mm." Stone nodded innocently.
Huo Qian's expression changed instantly, and his voice trembled slightly: "But I don't know either! How are you going to get there?" Good heavens, how could I have forgotten such an important question?
In his previous life, he had never been to the Crimson Forest, so he naturally didn't know how to get there from the human kingdom. In this life, he was effectively imprisoned in this small underground kingdom, and going out for a walk had become a luxury.
Stone didn't care. Although she was a spinster in her past life, she wasn't a homebody. Her biggest hobby was traveling, and not the kind of travel that involved going anywhere she wanted, but rather independent travel.
"It's alright, I'll ask for directions myself! But you must know how to get to the Crimson Forest, right?" Asking for directions is no problem for a seasoned hiker. The issue is, she needs someone to ask for directions, right? She has no confidence in finding anyone alive in the Crimson Forest. After all, the Crimson Forest is far more sparsely populated than any of the primeval forests in her previous life!
"Phew!" Huoqian breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness! He had forgotten that Stone was known as "Little Pink Sunflower" in her past life, a nickname that Stone found incredibly embarrassing. But on the other hand, this girl was really popular!
Stone breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Fire Tongs. He knew that the Crimson Forest was no secret, but the dwarves were bound by their ancestral vows and could not go out.
"Oh, right. Seventh Brother, there's one more question." Stone looked at Huoqian with a serious expression, making Huoqian break out in a cold sweat.
There was no way around it. It really wasn't his fault; this girl was just too much of a troublemaker. Looking at the stone with trembling eyes, Huoqian mustered his courage and asked, "What else is there? Let's just say it all at once!"
"It's nothing much. Just dry food, water, and clothes. You should prepare a lot for me, right? Anyway, I have a spatial ring now, so I can take as much as I can!" Stone answered very boldly, while Huoqian was extremely conflicted.
How many more do you want?! Do you think this is the commercial street of the capital? Are you kidding me? The Dwarf Kingdom may have commercial streets, but they mostly sell ironware and daily necessities. Large quantities of food are manageable, and water is no problem either. But what about clothing? The Dwarf Kingdom doesn't have any ready-made clothing stores!
"Seventh Brother, is there a problem?" Stone blinked his big, watery eyes and looked at the fire tongs expectantly.
Huo Tongs felt a chill run down his spine from the stone's gaze. He had no choice but to grit his teeth and agree: "Alright, give me three days. Come back to the entrance of the dwarf kingdom's elevator in three days, and I'll give you the item then!"
Shi Tou nodded in agreement at first, but then asked, "Why isn't it you who delivers it to me? It used to be Daddy, my older brothers, and my third older brothers who delivered things to me!"
Huoqian was immediately speechless: "I don't have a spatial ring, how am I supposed to deliver it to you! Besides, you yourself said that your father and brothers used to deliver things to you. I'm only 10 years old this year, how can I carry it?"
"Oh, I see, you're still too... young, got it." Stone feigned sudden realization. Just then, they reached the elevator, and without waiting for Huo Qian to react, Stone jumped up: "I'm leaving, goodbye Seventh Brother!"
Watching helplessly as the stone gradually disappeared in front of him on the elevator, Huoqian vaguely felt that something was wrong.
The statement "You're still too young" seems perfectly normal on the surface, but why does it sound so off to him? Huoqian was deeply depressed, but no matter how conflicted he was, he still had to painstakingly prepare a huge amount of things for Shitou.
Waaah, and I can't tell Mom and Dad about this, otherwise, if they find out that I've been scheming to drive the stone to the human kingdom, then I really...
My days are numbered! ╮(╯_╰)╭
"Rice noodles? Cute little rice noodles? The prettiest and most charming little rice noodles?" As soon as the stone hit the ground, it widened its eyes and began to look around for rice noodles. Of course, it did not forget to call the bun to turn into flames to illuminate the earth.
"Gaga, the rice noodles are gone! The owner threw them away!" Baozi, acting as its emergency light, gloated at Shitou: "Wahahaha, the owner can't sell the rice noodles! The owner will be heartbroken!"
Stone suddenly stopped in his tracks, looking at Baozi with a sinister gaze: "If you've got the guts, say it again!"
Baozi promptly shrank back, and the little flame dimmed considerably: "Hehe, Baozi won't say it again! Baozi has no guts, no guts, no guts!"
Hmph! Stone couldn't be bothered to pay any attention to this spineless coward!
But Stone, haven't you noticed that Baozi is starting to look more and more like you?
o(╯□╰)o
"Right, I'm not short of money now, and rice noodles aren't worth that much, so why would I still want to see her?" Stone muttered to himself, head down.
Upon hearing this, Baozi was stunned: "Gah?! Master is really going to throw away the rice noodles? No! Baozi begs Master not to!"
"Why not?" The more Shi Tou thought about it, the more he felt that his idea was correct: "Besides eating, drinking, pooping and sleeping, Mi Fen'er can't do anything else, right? Why should I be so bored as to raise her?"
"Gah woo la ka aowa wah wah~~~" The flames were extinguished completely in an instant, and the plump white buns appeared in front of Shi Tou. As soon as the pleats were opened, the soup and filling inside all poured out.
Seeing this horrific scene, Shi Tou was at a loss for words. Come to think of it, how come she hadn't noticed before that Baozi and Mi Fen'er were actually good friends? In her memory, Baozi seemed to only like bullying Mi Fen'er, and Mi Fen'er only liked eating Baozi's "poop."
Damn, when exactly did these two develop a bromance?
This kind of homoeroticism that transcends race, age, and gender is truly unsettling!
Baozi cried for a while longer, but when it realized its owner was completely unmoved, it immediately wilted. Sigh, whatever, its owner's heart is getting harder and harder these days; acting cute and charming doesn't seem to work anymore.
"Huh? Why aren't you crying anymore?" Stone was imagining the earth-shattering love story between an elf and a pet bun, accompanied by the background music of the bun wailing. The atmosphere was just so wonderful!
But then the background music abruptly disappeared. Stone looked at Baozi with a puzzled expression: "Are you tired of crying? Or are you up to something again?"
Bad idea...
Baozi felt that her fragile little heart had been deeply hurt!
This is outrageous! Absolutely outrageous! To be suspected of having malicious intentions? If someone else had said this, Baozi might not have been so angry, but the person who said it was her own shameless and wicked master!
This is absolutely a serious act of slander!
"Sigh, alright, alright. Since you've been pretty good today, I'll go look for rice noodles again! But, make it clear! If we still can't find them after another hour, then we'll go back!" Just as Shi Tou was about to reach out and pat the bun, he suddenly saw the soup and filling flowing all over the bun and immediately withdrew his hand.
"Hey, hurry up and turn into a flame! We're going to find rice noodles!" Retracting his hand, Stone turned his gaze back to Baozi. Perhaps his movement of withdrawing his hand was a bit too abrupt, for Baozi was now lying blankly on the ground, lost in thought.
"Quickly turn into flames, ahhh!" Stone bent down and shouted at the top of his lungs above Baozi's head.
In an instant, the bun retracted its soupy filling and then swiftly transformed into flames. The speed was simply astonishing.
However, Stone wasn't surprised. She looked at Baozi with disdain, silently thinking: Some things are just born to be tormented~~~
Carrying her son, who seemed destined for misery, Stone circled the area around the large tree at the entrance to the Dwarf Kingdom, but still couldn't find Rice Noodles. Plus, it was already quite late when she came out, and now the east was beginning to lighten.
"Baozi, come to think of it, I haven't really explored this Crimson Forest properly yet! Why don't we take this opportunity to go and have a look around?" Stone offered what she thought was a great suggestion. After all, Huoqian would get her enough supplies in three days, and then she would probably be heading to the human kingdom.
Baozi was stunned again, and after a long while, she said in a trembling voice, "Hehe... Master, please don't do anything rash! It's okay if we can't find Mifen'er! We can just buy another one when we go to the human kingdom. Elves aren't that expensive anyway!"
Stone looked at Baozi with a helpless expression: "Why do you say that? Does that mean there's still danger in the Crimson Forest?" Logically, there shouldn't be, right? She's been here for more than ten days!
"Huh? Is it dangerous? Of course it's dangerous! The Crimson Forest is one of the three forbidden areas!" Baozi exclaimed in fear, his body trembling involuntarily.
Stone was still confused: "The three forbidden areas? Then what exactly are the three forbidden areas?"
Baozi was utterly defeated by the stone. What kind of time was this? Why was his master still concerned about this? "Hehe, Master, you'd better hurry up and leave! During the day, wild beasts and magical beasts will come out to hunt for food, and then it will really be dangerous!"
Stone stared straight ahead, gasping for breath as he asked, "What if we're really unlucky enough to encounter that?"
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Finally finished typing!
I was busy today, so the update is late. Here's a picture of some delicious pan-fried buns for you all! (╯3╰)
P.S.: Double update tomorrow~~~
☆, Chapter 91: The Difference Between Spatial Items
"Gah~~~" Baozi was stunned for a moment after hearing Shi Tou's words, but immediately began to scream like a pig being slaughtered.
Stone instinctively covered her ears, wailing, "Oh no!" She had never heard any creature utter the word "ga" so high-pitched and agonizing. Stone had a deep feeling that she might really die on the spot this time, not because of the unknown monster whose appearance she hadn't fully seen, but because of Baozi's ear-piercing demonic sound!