240: Egg Luck Talent, Love Brain
Lu Yitang took a few deep breaths, trying to steady her voice:
"It's Wang Qian... You know her talent, [Egg Luck]. There's a forty percent chance of finding beast eggs in the wild.
Everyone was resting just now, but she snuck out alone, saying she wanted to try her luck. As a result..."
Lu Yitang bit her lip. "As it turns out, she really did find an egg.
But she didn't know what kind of egg it was and just brought it back.
Who would have known it was a Cave Ghost Python egg.
Because she took those Cave Ghost Python eggs..."
"Wang Qian provoked the entire pack of Cave Ghost Pythons!"
Xu Jingyu was stunned after hearing this.
Su Ningyu walked over.
He happened to hear the words "Egg Luck," and his footsteps paused slightly.
He had seen many strange talents.
But a talent like picking up eggs was a first for him.
The world is vast; there's nothing too strange to exist.
However, now was not the time for wonder.
Su Ningyu glanced at the opposite side of the lake.
That campsite had turned into a complete mess.
Several large Cave Ghost Pythons emerged from the ground, chasing the students who were fleeing in all directions.
Some were screaming, some were crying, and others were using their familiars to fight back, but those attacks had very little effect on the Cave Ghost Pythons, which were of the Ground and Ghost attributes.
"We should leave here quickly."
Su Ningyu withdrew his gaze, his tone calm.
"Cave Ghost Pythons have a talent called [Binding Method]. Once you're bound, you can't leave.
I don't want to get tangled up with these things."
Xu Jingyu didn't speak.
Instead, he looked at the chaos on the other side of the lake.
He looked at Lu Yitang's pale face again, wanting to show off in front of the person he liked.
Thinking that Su Ningyu was very strong...
He hesitated before speaking, "Su Ningyu, my classmates are still over there... Can you help me?"
Su Ningyu turned his head and looked at him with an "are you okay in the head?" expression.
"Big brother?"
His voice was filled with clear disbelief.
"You two look several years older than me, and you're asking a high schooler to save people? Doesn't your conscience hurt?"
It wasn't that he lacked the ability to save them.
He did, and more than enough.
But he didn't want to save fools.
From the moment this group started a party in the Gloomy Forest, he had already made his judgment.
Stay away from these people, the further the better.
He had originally planned to part ways with Xu Jingyu tonight.
He just hadn't had the chance to say it before these people caused such a huge mess.
Xu Jingyu was choked up for a moment but soon spoke again, "Su Ningyu, your strength isn't weak, how about—"
"Do you hear yourself? Is that even logical?"
Su Ningyu interrupted him directly.
"Just because I'm strong doesn't mean I can save everyone."
Xu Jingyu's face turned beet red.
He also felt resentment toward Su Ningyu for making him lose face in front of the person he liked.
He opened his mouth to say something but swallowed it back.
After a few seconds of silence, he took a deep breath and looked at Lu Yitang, "Xiaotang, if he won't go, I will."
Su Ningyu looked at Xu Jingyu's "if I don't enter Hell, who will" expression and laughed out of anger.
"Then I wish you success."
After saying that, Su Ningyu didn't turn around. He took Lucky Frog and Coal Ball and left without looking back.
From behind, Xu Jingyu's voice drifted over faintly: "Dancing Peacock, follow me!"
Su Ningyu didn't look back.
He walked away quickly.
Moonlight filtered through the canopy, casting mottled shadows. Lucky Frog sat on his shoulder, and Coal Ball followed at his heels.
The shadows of the person and the two beasts stretched long in the night.
"When making friends outside, one really needs to observe more."
Su Ningyu muttered to himself, "The human heart is unpredictable; one must be cautious when making friends. Otherwise, who knows if they're human or a ghost."
Lucky Frog: "Quack." (That's right.)
Coal Ball: "Meow." (Humans are indeed complicated.)
He remembered the exhausted yet determined look in Xu Jingyu's eyes when he mentioned the Dancing Peacock's evolution, and the struggle beneath his calm when he said "family's hope."
He remembered the cautious and irrepressible care in his eyes when he looked at Lu Yitang.
He felt that Xu Jingyu wasn't a bad person at heart; he could even be considered loyal and righteous.
But there's sometimes only a fine line between being loyal and being muddled.
"If Xu Jingyu really found a fairy lingzhi flower and Lu Yitang said she wanted it..."
Su Ningyu paused. "No need to think about it; Xu Jingyu would probably hand it over eagerly."
Lucky Frog: "Quack." (Love brain, he's hopeless.)
Coal Ball: "Meow." (Hopeless.)
Su Ningyu sighed and quickened his pace.
Someone like that wants to evolve a Dancing Peacock into a Radiant Peacock?
Heh.
He shook his head and put the matter of Xu Jingyu behind him.
"What bad luck."
Afterward, Su Ningyu distanced himself from this place.
He found a relatively safe spot and sat down under a large tree.
Coal Ball lay nearby on alert, while Lucky Frog sat on his head, continuing to act as a radar.
After all that commotion, Su Ningyu didn't feel like sleeping anymore.
Su Ningyu closed his eyes, and with a thought...
A massive figure emerged from the Void Realm, clad in ink-black robes and sunglasses, with a faint dark aura swirling around him.
"Master." Ballot bowed slightly.
Ballot was summoned.
"Ballot, go find a place suitable for Coal Ball's evolution."
Su Ningyu opened his eyes.
"There can't be anyone around, the environment must be harsh enough, and ideally, it should allow Coal Ball to complete its Slaughter Evolution in an extreme state."
Ballot adjusted his sunglasses, a slight smile playing on his lips. "I understand your meaning, Master. A location where Coal Ball will feel pressure, forcing it to go on a killing spree and give its all?"
Su Ningyu nodded.
Ballot lowered his head and looked at Coal Ball, who was lying nearby.
The black cat-beast shrank its neck, its tail instinctively tucking in a bit tighter.
Its vertical pupils met the dark eyes behind Ballot's sunglasses.
Coal Ball shuddered all over, a chill rising from the depths of its bones.
"Meow~" it let out a weak, long meow, its voice filled with "I have a very bad feeling about this."
In the next second, Ballot's figure disappeared from the spot, leaving only a low voice drifting in the night wind: "There will be news soon."
Lucky Frog sat on Su Ningyu's head and looked down at Coal Ball.
A complex emotion flickered in its amber eyes.
Sympathy, encouragement, and a subtle hint of "Good luck, I'm out of here."
Coal Ball: "Meow." (What do you mean by that?)
Lucky Frog: "Quack." (Exactly what it looks like.)
Su Ningyu ignored the interaction between the two familiars, and with another thought...
A pale golden light shone in the darkness as Little Bell floated out from the beast space, its petals unfurling and a warm glow emanating from the center of its stamen.
"qiu-mi!" Little Bell let out a crisp cry as soon as it appeared, its flower head turning toward Su Ningyu as if asking: Master, do you need me to fight?
"Little Bell, start practicing your dancing."
Su Ningyu said, "This is the necessary path for your evolution."
Little Bell:???
It froze in place.
In the middle of the night, instead of sleeping, he wanted it to dance?
It instinctively looked at Coal Ball and Lucky Frog, asking with its eyes: Who made the master Life Qi?