Ye Xu: "..."
Mo Bei: "Hehehe."
Ye Xu: "..."
Mo Bei: "Goose, goose, goose."
Ye Xu chose to punch him, giving him artificially styled panda eyes.
A major battle was about to break out, and it looked like another brawl was about to erupt between the Dragon and Phoenix Kindergarten, when Sister Xuan appeared just in time and grabbed both of them.
She arrived at just the right time; she had originally planned to discuss with Ye Xu whether they should open a few more shops. The virtual world was convenient for traveling; getting from one shop to another only required a small fee via a teleportation array, and they could definitely arrive within five minutes. Whether or not there was a shop manager didn't matter.
Unexpectedly, they stumbled upon a fight and intervened. They couldn't let the two of them start fighting like that; they tend to transform into their original forms when they fight. Although they were backstage, who knew if they might forget about it while fighting and accidentally roll outside and be seen by others?
Even though there are all sorts of bizarre race appearances for sale online, and you can see people with monster-like appearances walking on the streets, there are no phoenixes or dragons. The scholars researching archaeology haven't even found any content related to Chinese mythology yet, so they'd better not create dragons and phoenixes prematurely.
"Alright, stop fooling around." Jiang Yuexuan held Mo Bei down, released Ye Xu, and started to talk about serious matters.
Ye Xu calmed down and nodded after listening: "I'm fine with anything. How about we open a few in each major city? With signature dishes, we won't have to worry about not having customers."
With only a few branches, it's quite difficult for customers wanting to try their signature dishes. They've already started a reservation system; starting tomorrow, seats will need to be booked in advance, and customers will have to arrive at the designated time to dine. This way, there's no need to queue at the door, which will be much more convenient.
However, there were too many customers, and there weren't enough seats. Having more shops would make things much better. Otherwise, Ye Xu would feel guilty after a while and might end up adding his signature dishes to the takeout menu.
Mo Bei remained true to his original aspiration. After they finished talking, he bravely poked his head out from under Sister Xuan's hand: "Draw a card—"
"I know." Ye Xu rolled her eyes at him. "Whether I draw the butler or not, I won't give it to you. Give up."
Mo Bei snorted: "Fine, I won't give it to you. I don't need it anymore."
He just wanted to see what other UR cards were available besides the butler. Sweetie, being incredibly lucky, can't just keep pulling for the butler, right? Let's see some other interesting cards!
However, which card to draw is largely influenced by Ye Xu's expectations. If Ye Xu really wants a butler, Sweetie will grant his wish accordingly, which is why Mo Bei wants to come and persuade him.
“Two butlers are enough. How about we draw something else this time?” Mo Bei said.
Chapter 49 Fur Ball
Ye Xu himself was also curious to see what card he would draw this time. He didn't have a specific preference this time; he was fine with whatever he drew, and Tian Tian would probably just draw whatever she wanted.
Hearing that Ye Xu was going to draw cards, everyone rushed back from the branch stores. They couldn't miss out on something exciting to join in.
"Aren't we going to draw the butler this time?" Han Yingchen asked first. "It's fine if we don't draw him. I can handle things on my own now. Let's leave the butler to Yi Ge and the others."
Xiao Yige looked over, confused: "Huh?"
Seeing his appearance, everyone became even more determined to leave him a robot butler.
This child is only sixteen years old. Although he is of marriageable age in ancient times, he is still a little brother in front of these older brothers and sisters in their twenties. He is a little brother who is obsessed with painting and is not good at social skills. Opening a shop is really difficult for him.
"It's alright, the robot butler will take care of everything." Ye Xu looked away. "Yi Ge just needs to focus on drawing."
This is a future great painter; we can't let business distract us from our important work. His sister has already planned that after they open their respective shops, she will remotely coordinate, oversee the overall situation, and direct the robot butler to do the work, so her brother won't have to worry about anything.
Mo Bei said sourly, "Why can't my sister join the contract system?"
"Maybe it's because you don't have a sister," Jiang Yuexuan replied coldly.
Mo Bei: "I do have older cousins."
“Yes, their management skills are not as good as yours,” Ye Xu added.
Mo Bei stopped talking. He was angry and walked away to eat snacks, not wanting to talk to the group.
Jiang Yuexuan ignored him and turned to the others, saying, "I also have a steward, so we have three here. I think Daoist Ji Ling probably needs one too. We'll leave one for the three new friends to see if they need it. If they don't need it, any of you who want one can just tell me."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Ye Xu summoned Tian Tian: "Baby, it's up to you now."
Sweetie was already used to being the center of attention. She was happily munching on a metal bar in Ye Xu's palm. After Ye Xu poked her belly, she lazily rolled over and sat up, reaching out her paw to press the card-drawing button.
After two rounds, the clever Sweetie had already learned how to draw cards and no longer needed Ye Xu to help her by holding her little paws to touch them. She slammed the button with a flourish, then slammed a card, which immediately flipped over, revealing a giant fluffy creature.
The image on the card was completely obscured by a mountain of dense white fur, making it impossible to discern the creature within. Ye Xu paused for a moment, realizing it might be a UR pet, but wasn't disappointed.
They already have enough UR employee cards in their shop, so releasing some pets would be nice. If it weren't for wanting to collect his own group of friends from a parallel universe, he wouldn't be so keen on using encounter tickets right now.
—Although he doesn’t know all his companions yet, Ye Xu always felt that it would be a pity to miss even one of them.
There are only so many people in this life who can become true friends, so you can't let any of them slip by. He gets to make ten or so friends without even having to personally connect with them; he's actually the one who benefits.
"What kind of card is this? Take a look!" Mo Bei squeezed back in and urged.
After Ye Xu clicked "Hire," he opened the basic information page.
"UR Furry Beast"
Dimension: The Realm of Gods;
Salary: Please build an entire amusement park for the furry creature to play in;
Category: Guardian Deity;
Skills: [Space-Time Inheritance], [Space-Time Barrier], [Time Control], [Space Control]
Wait! This is a guardian spirit, not a pet!
Ye Xu suddenly realized something was wrong. Upon closer inspection, wow, four skills! And the salary was also quite unique, showing that this furry beast really loved to play.
Jiang Yuexuan's eyes narrowed: "Xiao Xu, you really are a time-space inheritor."
Ye Xu: "Huh?"
“I’ve also drawn a similar UR Guardian, but I drew a Bone Dragon.” Jiang Yuexuan said, pulling up a file.
"UR Bone Dragon"
Dimension: The Realm of Gods;
Salary: Please build an entire Dragon Valley for the bone dragons to inhabit;
Category: Guardian Deity;
Skills: [Infernal Legacy], [Infernal Army], [Darkness Control], [Death Control]
Ye Xu compared the information and felt that it was copied verbatim. The fluffy beast was a time-space type divine beast, while the bone dragon was a purgatory type divine beast.
"What do these skills mean?" Han Yingchen sensed an increase in strength and couldn't help but ask.
Jiang Yuexuan then showed them to everyone one by one.
Purgatory Inheritance means that it will fully activate the contractor's affinity for the Purgatory Elements and obtain the inheritance of the corresponding temple. The last three skills are details of the inheritance.
The Purgatory Army can summon a large number of Purgatory creatures. The number that the Guardian can summon is terrifying. Jiang Yuexuan can also use this skill, but she is not strong enough at the moment to summon many henchmen.
While Darkness Control and Death Control are described as skills, they are more like a broad category distinction, indicating to the contractor which two directions of ability they will acquire.
"The inheritors of Purgatory can control darkness and death, and all their abilities belong to these two lineages respectively. Once you have mastered the control of darkness, you can use all dark abilities. However, there are too many and too varied abilities, and I can only use one or two of the lowest-level ones so far."
After Jiang Yuexuan finished explaining, she condensed a black ball in her palm, saying it was "death energy." She said that if she threw it out, it could pollute an area of 100 square meters, causing all life within it to instantly lose a year's worth of vitality.
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone took a step back, keeping their distance from such a terrifying weapon. Everyone valued their lives highly, and no one wanted to lose several years of their lifespan for no reason.
Jiang Yuexuan didn't mind and casually put the black ball back: "Don't be nervous, I won't just throw this kind of thing out. Where's Xiaoxu? Quickly check what your skills are."
Ye Xu had already finished reading it, taking advantage of the time while everyone was chatting. Now that Sister Xuan asked, he answered immediately.
“Inheritance and control are the same. I can obtain the inheritance of time and space, which is divided into two factions: time and space. The only real skill is [Time and Space Barrier], which is a domain skill. After casting it, a barrier can be formed in a defined space to block external enemies.”
The spacetime barrier and the protective shield of the dimensional shop are similar in principle. As mentioned before, the dimensional shop appears to be located in the current dimension, but it is not actually there. It is only temporarily overlapping with the building that was originally located in this location. In fact, there are two spaces in the current location: one is the dimensional shop, and the other is the original building that is being concealed.
The spacetime barrier is also a superposition skill. After it is cast, everything within its range is separated into a new space. Outsiders can see it but cannot touch it through the barrier; they must enter the space. Because they are not in the same space, it is impossible to attack or damage things within that space from a distance. This is a very strong protective skill.
"And once they enter my territory, they can't do much damage to me, at most they'll just scratch their skin a little."
Distorting space is a specialty of spacetime magic; all attacks that come at you will be cleverly deflected. So whether it's ranged or melee attacks, those within the area will not be injured. It's similar to encountering a highly agile player in an online game, who is always missing or veering off course, making it impossible to hit them.
Even Jiang Yuexuan was envious: "This is too awesome, isn't it? Why are all the things in the Purgatory system considered shameful and constantly treated like rats in the street? Especially summoning the dead, no matter which plane, touching the bones of the dead is considered a great disrespect, which means I can only summon minions remotely from the Purgatory plane every time."
The Purgatory system is too much of a rip-off; summoning abilities are no different from digging up someone's ancestral graves. What can Jiang Yuexuan do? She can only summon the ancestral graves of those annoying idiots she encounters, then disperse them on the spot, leaving the ancestral remains lying beside the broken grave mound to scare those guys.
At such times, the other family would be terrified, thinking that their misconduct had disturbed their ancestors' peace in the afterlife, and that the ancestors were coming out to warn them, their unfilial descendants. So they would quickly invite a master to rebury them, then pray to the gods and Buddhas, do good deeds and accumulate merit, vowing never to bully men or women or do bad things again, hoping that their ancestors could forgive them and give them another chance.
That's really mean.
"You can use necromancy like that?" Miss Luna from the Western fantasy world was dumbfounded, and Han Yingchen was also speechless.
Most of the others didn't know what the undead were and were completely confused. Jiang Yuexuan then enthusiastically began to explain to them, recounting her "great achievements" back then.
Ye Xu seized the opportunity to slip away. Once they finished being curious about Sister Xuan, they would definitely come to bother him. If he didn't run away now, when would he? He needed to log off first and find an open space to summon the furry beast to take a look.
Because everyone was online and the fluffy beast was too large, the contracted partner didn't appear nearby as usual. The fluffy beast was currently greeting other pets in the pet park. Despite the huge size difference, they quickly formed a friendship and were already making plans to play together.
That won't do. The rides in the amusement park are all too small. The furry beast is bigger than an elephant, so it's impossible for it to ride them. Ye Xu plans to hurry up and build a giant amusement park for it, right in the furry beast's private space.
Ye Xu had never been to the Pet Paradise before, and he couldn't get in. Since there was nowhere to summon the furry beast offline, Ye Xu asked the system for leniency. The system replied that this wasn't its responsibility, and that Ye Xu's inability to enter was his problem; he should ask Xiao Yu for help.
Xiaoyu can open a passage for other pets to come out, so she can naturally open a passage for Ye Xu to come in. Once Ye Xu has absorbed the spacetime inheritance, he shouldn't need anyone else's help anymore.
A moment later, Ye Xu appeared in the public area of the pet park.
Because of its unusual appearance, Tangtang hadn't been allowed to go out for a long time. Having not seen Ye Xu for so long, it was overjoyed to see someone come in and excitedly jumped over, pinning the unsuspecting Ye Xu to the ground.
Ye Xu struggled to climb out, but was immediately clung to by the big jelly, who wouldn't let go—it was so clingy! There was no other way but to stay in that position and try to communicate with the furry beast, asking it what kind of paradise it wanted.
"Aww?" The fluffy beast tilted its head, but since it was a whole fluffy ball, it was impossible to tell whether its head had moved or not. The only way to tell was by the movement of its two eyes.
When the big furball isn't talking, it does indeed only have a pair of eyes, with its mouth covered by fur. However, when it opens its mouth, the long fur moves aside, and its mouth becomes visible. It's quite cute, but it's a bit too big and might cause discomfort for those with megalophobia.
Fortunately, Ye Xu didn't have this problem. Looking at the fluffy ball, he had only one thought: to pounce on it and bury himself in its fur. But Tangtang wouldn't let go, so he could only watch enviously.
Ye Xu felt that this big, fluffy creature looked familiar. After thinking about it carefully, he suddenly remembered—wasn't this what Xiao Yu looked like at the beginning?! Later, he felt that a whole ball of fur was a bit unusual, so he had Xiao Yu transform into two balls of fur, at least the head and body were separated.
If I remember correctly, Xiaoyu's appearance was modeled after the shape of the fluffy beast, so she was a complete ball. Back then, they even remarked that the fluffy beast was a UR-level guardian deity, wondering if they would be lucky enough to pull it.
So that's what it was!
Ye Xu felt a sense of familiarity; the voice was also very familiar, just like Xiao Yu used to call him that. She really does learn the whole thing! He wondered why Xiao Yu, a simple tree, loved imitating others so much; did she harbor a hidden drama queen soul?
"Awooo." Seeing Ye Xu in a daze, the furry beast simply took the initiative to approach.
Its gait was thunderous, the ground trembling with every step; its weight was clearly more exaggerated than it appeared. A single elephant doesn't make such a commotion when it walks.