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Chapter 283 - 279 Little Stone Who Stuck Around

Chapter 283: Chapter 279 Little Stone Who Stuck Around

Gungun: (O_o)??

Did Master lose his mind? Why is he laughing so loud?

When Mu Ying saw Gungun had returned, she introduced him, "Look, this is our new little friend, Little Red!"

Little Red poked its head out from her arm, tilting its head while looking at this hairy creature: ヾ(｡ꏿ﹏ꏿ)ﾉﾞ

So many spines, so formidable!

When Mu Ying, who could feel Little Red’s emotions, couldn’t help but laugh. Gungun is a panda, not a hedgehog!

She moved her arm closer to Gungun, and Gungun carefully extended its paw to poke the little red creature.

Blushing, Little Red curled up into a ball: Giggle! So soft!

Gungun: ...

Is this a touch-me-not? It’s not supposed to be so prickly.

How boring, but important matters first, it couldn’t stand a second longer in these pitch-black depths. It missed its bamboo grove, yearned for the scenery in its territory!

It poked its master and pointed outside.

"What? Something happened?"

Mu Ying asked in surprise.

These days, she had exhausted her mana and was either doing other things inside the Space Travel Box or going out to trial. When Gungun was bored, it would occasionally carry the Wall Peeping Mirror to look for clues outside.

Gungun nodded and patted its chest.

Although there had been several false alarms from Gungun, Mu Ying dared not overlook even the slightest inconsistency.

This time was no different, she followed Gungun crawling out of the Space Travel Box and into the deep tunnel she had dug.

Gungun got the Wall Peeping Mirror to the lower left corner of the wall, adjusted the angle several times, and then signaled for her to come take a look.

In the corner of the mirror, there was a quail egg-sized gap that looked sharp and angular.

This couldn’t be a corner of a house, could it?

Mu Ying felt there was a good chance this time. Her mana had just recovered a bit, and she immediately began to dig.

When she reached that spot, sure enough, a hole appeared!

Looking inside, it was an empty stone chamber, and on the central high platform, there was a thoroughly shattered stone carving, unmistakably the shape of a city. Upon closer inspection, she could make out some edges that resembled the miniature model she had stored in her ring.

"Found it!"

Mu Ying even began to breathe faster!

It really wasn’t easy!

Mu Ying jumped down into the hole. Where is the core of the Newborn Underground City?

"Ow!"

Mu Ying cried out in pain. What was that?

She looked down and saw a fist-sized Little Stone hugging her foot, biting her toes. It had even broken through her Tree Skin Skill, piercing the shoes she made with her Thousand Faces Clothes and licking the beads of blood that oozed out.

When Mu Ying looked back, Little Stone retracted its sharp little teeth and looked up at her with its beady eyes, pitifully extending its tiny hands toward her.

Mommy, hug!

~(´•‸•`)~

[You have received the Newborn Underground City’s active recognition, "Underground City" page is now open]

Mu Ying: "..."

Help! Aren’t newborn Underground Cities supposed to be super cautious, camouflaging themselves as stones and hiding away?

This kind of eager attachment always gave her a very bad premonition!

It was one thing to be liked by plants, after all, she was a Druid + High-level Wood Elf + Green Witch weird combo, so it was normal for plants to be irresistibly attracted to her, but a dungeon? Why on earth would a dungeon do the same?

Mama, hungry!

~(´•‸•`)~

Gungun complained tearfully, collapsing into a stone cake to show just how famished it was.

With no other choice, Mu Ying picked it up. Although it had latched onto her on its own, she was here to find it, after all. Even if it was a trap, she had to endure it!

Her hands trembling, she summoned the Player Manual and flipped to a newly appeared interface: Underground City.

[Underground City]

[Age: None]

[Size: None]

(Your Underground City is yellow and gaunt with severe nutritional deficiency. Please feed it as soon as possible, or it might starve to death, yo!)

Mu Ying: "..."

She thought so; it was practically on its deathbed and desperate for a food bowl!

How do you feed it?

Little Stone blinked and pulled out a Stone Tablet Book from its belly.

She had no idea how such a tiny thing managed to pull out such a big book.

"Underground City Baby Feeding Guide?"

The words on the book were considerately written in Universal Language, but what’s this about a little baby?

Little Stone pointed at itself: a baby that has been hungry since birth, the baby itself!

Mu Ying smirked and turned the first page, starting to read, "Underground City babies shouldn’t go hungry, yo. If it turns into a thin stone cake, death is knocking at the door."

Little Stone nodded, collapsed into a stone cake: That’s right, just like this, if I don’t get my milk soon, death is really not far away!

Mu Ying was not buying this act—the stone cake was still pretty thick. Although it might actually be a bit malnourished, it was nowhere near death.

"Before an Underground City baby turns one year old, it can’t chew because it doesn’t have teeth yet. It can only eat finely ground stone powder, roughly needing a ton of stone powder to grow to 1 year old, yo. But an Underground City baby that has turned into a stone cake needs to first drink stone milk for a while to recover back to 0 years old before it can start eating stone powder. Otherwise, it will get diarrhea. Stone milk is a mush made of stone powder and water, lovingly ground by the mama..."

No wonder there were so many pebbles in this stone chamber, yet not a speck of dust—probably all eaten by Little Stone. Now, it had to eat stone milk, which wasn’t exactly a precious substance, but it was rather taxing as it had to be ground by hand. This really was a guide to baby-rearing!

She continued to read.

"Starting at 1 year old, when the Underground City baby has its first little house, it can start chewing on little stones... At 2 years old, it can gnaw on stone slabs, keep eating, eating, eating... At 3 years old, the Underground City baby’s menu becomes more complicated. Different stones make it grow different parts of its body, but only emotional strength can make it grow something special, yo."

...

"The Underground City baby has an inheritance from its predecessors, especially the Ghost Spring. Remember to go and eat it to inherit, yo!"

She quickly looked through the growth stages and feeding methods of an Underground City. In fact, it was just a bit harder to raise before it turned one year old. A starved Underground City baby was even more troublesome as it needed the owner’s handmade stone milk to condition its body. But afterwards, it became much easier—little stones, stone slabs, these were all easy to find.

And seeing the inheritance from the predecessors and the Ghost Spring mentioned at the end, Mu Ying felt it was worth it.

While it had to grow a bit before it could inherit, that was the Ghost Spring! With that, Little Stone was essentially coming with its own food supply for after it turned three years old.

It was just too young to eat it now. Mu Ying would feed it until it turned three, and then it could go and gnaw on Guland Underground City. The scale of Guland Underground City was not small; she had only explored the few levels below, and the top three levels were the main event. With such a size, even if it could only absorb half, it was still a huge profit.

So even though she was about to get into a tussle with a stone, Mu Ying was willing to do it!

Now that she was looking at Little Stone, who had latched onto her, with much more fondness, and she touched the stone cake body, "Don’t worry, I’ll get you some stone milk once we’re out!"