The Sweetness of the Seventies
Chapter 229: The Master’s Pet?_1

Chapter 229: Chapter 229: The Master’s Pet?_1

Approaching the River Guardian Beast Statue, the children saw He Tiantian, an adult, coming over but, after giving her a few glances and deciding she was no threat, they resumed their play.

They lined up to play a game of leapfrog, one after another.

The game was quite simple, using the stone statue in front, they would run up to it, place their hands on the statue’s back, and leap over it with their legs apart.

The game was quite simple, the object to be leaped over could also be a person bending over or those professional vaulting horses found in gymnasiums.

He Tiantian sat on a stone bench nearby, watching the children play their game.

"Alas, how pitiful!" the Snake King sighed, "The more pitiful and aggrieved they are now, the harder it will be to subdue them later."

He Tiantian said nothing for a while, then finally shook off the sentimental mood and asked, "Snake King, stop talking about that, can you check if the seal has loosened?"

The River Guardian Beast Statue, now polished smooth and shiny, clearly looked like it had been "ridden" many times.

Such an indignity, not anyone could swallow!

"My mana is not strong, I can only see if you press your left hand on its head," the Snake King said helplessly, his lack of mana making him subjected to restrictions.

He Tiantian had no choice but to wait until the children went home, so she could place her hand on the statue alone.

With nothing to do, He Tiantian wandered around and, when she returned after six o’clock, saw that there were fewer children in the plaza, just two or three and at some distance from the statue.

He Tiantian walked up to the statue, placed her left hand on the Snake King’s head, and said, "Snake King, it’s your turn."

The Snake King extended his Divine Sense to probe, but as soon as it touched the stone statue, it was repelled.

He Tiantian’s hand also let go, and she stepped back twice.

The eyes of the River Guardian Beast Statue blinked, its expression one of baffled simplicity as it looked at He Tiantian like a naive calf.

He Tiantian, the Snake King realized the seal had loosened!

By this time, it had gotten completely dark, and the two children not far away had also been taken away by adults returning from work.

He Tiantian was dumbfounded, pointing at the naive stone statue, she stuttered, "Snake King, did that little turtle come to life?"

The Snake King, peeking out from within the barrier, curiously looked at the statue He Tiantian called a little turtle.

Before the Snake King could reply, the little stone statue asked in a bewildered manner, "Are... are you my master?"

He Tiantian was taken aback, about to shake her head.

But the Snake King had already answered for He Tiantian, saying, "Yes, yes, we are your masters!"

The dark turtle blinked and looked at the Snake King, making a very humanized expression, curling its lip, "You’re just like me, a pet of the master..."

A pet?

The master’s pet?

A pet, my ass!

I am the mighty Snake King!

He Tiantian is merely my little underling!

The Snake King leapt out from the barrier, neck bristling as he cursed, "Shut up, she’s my little underling, and you’ll be my little underling too!"

He Tiantian definitely didn’t dare to provoke the Snake King and nodded repeatedly, saying, "Yes, I am the little follower of the Snake King!"

The little black turtle looked bewildered again and asked, "Why would that be?"

It tried to remember the past with the little memory it had left!

As if thinking of something terrifying, its silly expression suddenly turned ferocious as it hissed exhaustingly, "Humans, I must take revenge on humans... hahaha..."

As a human herself, He Tiantian quickly stepped back, asking cautiously, "Snake King, what... what should we do?"

It was so silly just now, and now crazy, how could it change so suddenly?

The Snake King also looked curiously at the turtle not far away, and after a while, said softly, "Don’t worry, let me look a little longer."

"Has it gone mad?" He Tiantian said with apprehension, "Seeking revenge on humans, it’s premature, isn’t it?"

"Shut up!" the Snake King scolded the crazed stone statue, "You can’t move now, how do you plan to take revenge on humans?"

The craziness in the little black turtle’s voice stopped, and it blinked its eyes again, making a pitiable expression, saying, "Right, I can’t move, how can I take revenge on humans?"

Upon hearing this, He Tiantian felt slightly relieved.

Before He Tiantian could speak, the black turtle became crazed again, "Ahahaha, the spell on me had already activated automatically when they dug me up, I don’t need to lift a finger, the humans in this place won’t have peace... lalala..."

He Tiantian was speechless, one moment silly, the next mad, a classic case of split personality!

"But if you take revenge on humans, will you yourself be happy?" He Tiantian mustered her courage to say, "Your master created you to bless the people here, but you defy your master’s original intention, isn’t that a betrayal?"

"Bless the people?" The black turtle blinked its big eyes again, tears welling up, looking pitiable.

Yes, that’s what the master had said!

Its mind conjured the figure of its master!

"Indeed, your master had a good intention in creating you..." He Tiantian hadn’t finished speaking when the black turtle went berserk again.

"I’ve always done as such, but humans are heartless. I didn’t mind not being given food or drink, but why did they dig me up? I was fine at the bottom of the river." The Turtle Stone Statue became enraged once more, seemingly fierce yet fearful inside.

He Tiantian’s face showed embarrassment—indeed, what humans did was dishonest!

The beast worked without reward at the bottom of the river, and yet they forcibly relocated it, "trampled by thousands"—indeed a lack of dignity!

"So what do you want to do?" Snake King demanded coldly, "Let me tell you straight, you have only two choices. First, I grind you to dust and mix you with the soil, making you vanish from this world forever."

Pressured by the Snake King’s authority, the Turtle Stone Statue turned subservient, shaking its head repeatedly, "I don’t want to disappear... what’s the second option?"

The creature wasn’t foolish!

"Hehe, a wise man submits to circumstances. Listen carefully to me," the Snake King said proudly, "You can follow us. Having been alone for so many years, with us two as friends, you won’t be lonely in the future. However, before that, you must retract your previous curse!"

The Turtle Stone Statue, had been at the bottom of the river for tens of thousands of years, surrounded only by spiritless fish and shrimp, always lonely.

But it couldn’t move; it was merely a wisp of divine sense, and after millions of years of cultivation, it was able to speak.

"You... you’re not deceiving me?" the turtle asked hesitantly, but with a flicker of excitement in its eyes—it longed to leave this place.

It was the incarnation of the Rotating Turtle, and still preferred to be in the water.

The Snake King exuded an innate authority, looking up as he declared, "I am the Snake King of the Demon Realm, you should feel extremely honored to receive my help!"

But the Divine Beast Statue wasn’t easily fooled and asked with an innocent look, "Then... then why did you come to the Human Realm with no spiritual energy? My master is gone too... wuwuwu... without taking me along!"