The Cannon Fodder in the Global Apocalypse Game lives a leisurely life
Chapter 169: The Second Lair’s Harvest (2)

Chapter 169: The Second Lair’s Harvest (2)

The summon plant Pikachu, who doesn’t know thunderbolt and only possesses gigantification and healing skills, was sulking in the corner, facing the wall, after getting deprived of the chicken feast.

Li Chunhua quickly eliminated the rest of the mosquitoes, lest she’d be squeezed by the pickachu’s bum again and risk suffocation.

While Li Chunhua was picking up the loot and pacifying the Little Ginseng, Long Haoran inspected the room next door, which displayed a prompt of ’Queen’s Vampiric Bloodsucker Mosquito’s Nest’.

Long Haoran made another torch, and standing by the entrance, he lit it, enabling him to see what’s inside.

The picture of dried corpses flattened with their empty sockets spread on the floor evenly like a carpet made him step back, but when he saw that there was what seemed to be another entrance ten meters to his right, he nudged the corpses with his foot and cleared a narrow path he could step on.

In a slow and steady pace, he reached the threshold, and the heavy smell of blood assaulted his nostrils.

[You’ve arrived at the Blood Karmic Pond.]

No wonder it smells of blood. Long Haoran frowned.

Taking out a piece of fabric, he covered his nose with it to lessen the stench and proceeded to stride inside.

And just like the valley in the Emperor’s Yeti’s lair, patches of moist grass with red shade almost dripping with blood greeted him, and in the center of the space was a four-meter-diameter pond full of red flowers.

As Long Haoran approached it closer, the smell of blood became even heavier, the appearance of the pond became more distinct, and more than dozens of holographic labels appeared.

[Basic Appraisal Skill activated]

[Blood Karmic Dew Diluted Pond

- Diluted with 1% pure essence of the Blood Karmic Rimestone, it is used to cultivate low-quality Blood Karmic Lotus. Can enhance physique through submerging physical body for at least 1 hour a day.]

So this must be the secret to the boss’s strength, and aside from that, the words ’pure essence’ made Long Haoran look around for this so-called gemstone, but no matter how much he looked for it or searched every nook and cranny, there was no shadow of it.

This led him to stare at the clear pond. Perhaps the gemstone is underwater?

[Blood Karmic Lotus Bud, Grade: Second-Class

- Time before maturity: 4 days]

[Blood Karmic Lotus Seapod, Grade: First-Class

- Time before maturity: 6 days]

Out of all the blood karmic lotuses, only one was fully bloomed, floating in the middle with its stamens releasing golden pores and dust.

[Blood Karmic Lotus Flower-Grade: Third Class

-An ingredient in some poison formulas. Consuming each petal can grant a 2% increase in random stats and a basic poison immunity buff. Long-term accumulation raises poison-skill proficiency.]

Long Haoran was pleasantly surprised.

He bent his right knee and pulled the closest thing, which was a bud, to inspect its rhizomes, but when he tried to pull it by its stem, he saw something drop from the ceiling and land on the water, causing a tiny ripple on the surface of the water.

In a very short moment, he was certain that he saw a flickering screen.

He lifted his chin, and the pupils of his eyes constricted, reflecting a glowing red stalactite implanted on the ceiling.

So there you are.

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"Don’t get angry anymore. You won’t be cute anymore if you get angry."

"Cute children always get the most snacks."

"If you frown all day, you’ll be wrinkly like the bitter gourd."

"Little Ginseng, when we go out, you can play Transformer all day if you want!"

"I’ll be Megatron, and we’ll both spar."

"Or I’ll make you have Chef Long chop ginseng and make sauce out...I mean for you."

Li Chunhua was not good at consoling children because she was bullied by them when she was young, and the words streaming out of her mouth were slightly infuriating, pulling the shota out of his grumbling, rebellious teenage phase.

If it was a child with little tolerance, he would have cried out.

"Ji ji ji." (Master!) The two leaves on its head stood upright from grievance.

"You agreed? Then later, we’ll both roll in the mud." Li Chunhua thought it was consenting to the spar and smiled.

"Ji ji ji!" (I don’t!) The little ginseng was freaked out. Just one slap from her, and he will return to the soil again.

"Oh, you don’t want to be a bumblebee? Then how about switching sides? I’ll be an autobot, and you’ll be a decepticon." There are plenty of interesting things in the original owner’s memories, like those so-called science fiction movies where clumps of metals fight and soar in the air without qi. There’s also those guys who wears underwear over their pants, saving the world.

Little Ginseng: "..." There’s no difference! He will still get beaten. Master, you’re making me feel sadder! He needed to find a way to break this language barrier, or the spar might come true.

Fortunately, Long Haoran was there to interrupt Li Chunhua’s annoying, hair-pulling autobot peptalk.

"I need your help." Long Haoran came out of the entrance of Nest’s room and spoke to the peptalk master.

Li Chunhua hurriedly picked up the remaining loots before assisting Chef Long in his grocery.

The Little Ginseng shot the handsome chef a look of gratitude and ran after them.

Inside the nest...

The Little Ginseng jumped and burrowed its head into Li Chunhua’s arms after seeing the corpses.

Li Chunhua was also uncomfortable and spoke to the man in front of her. "Chef Long, when we leave, I will burn this place."

"Alright." Long Haoran didn’t object and supported her idea. Although the pond was a tempting resource, he was the least interested in it and only wanted to get the ingredients.

After saying that, the two continued walking, and in the midst of Long Haoran, after seeing her frown all the way, they made sure that the path was clean.

[You’ve arrived at the Blood Karmic Pond.]

Li Chunhua heard the prompt and infused her vision with qi. Seeing the name, pond, and lotuses, a particular memory where a battle occurred resurfaced in her mind.

(￣ _￣|| )

They need to get out of here.

(A/N: Little Baozi will gain companions soon, but before that, do you know what it’ll be? Hi hi hi...( •̀ ω •́ )✧)