Chapter 156: I Am His Person
Only after they had flown high into the sky did Li Mu slowly let go of Wang Yinhuan’s waist.
Unexpectedly, Wang Yinhuan instead clung tightly to Li Mu’s arm, her eyes squeezed shut.
At this moment, she only wanted to sing one line: “I do not dare open my eyes. I hope this is just my imagination.”
It was too high!
Looking down from the window of an airship was completely different from stepping on a soft, fluffy cloud beneath her feet!
The feeling was entirely different. She felt as though she might fall at any moment and be smashed to pieces.
Li Mu felt the soft sensation coming from his arm and had not expected there to be an additional benefit.
No wonder all men wanted to take girls flying.
So this was what it meant...
“Hey, wake up. Sleeping is not allowed here.”
Li Mu hooked his hand back and gently patted Wang Yinhuan’s cheek, signaling for her to open her eyes.
Wang Yinhuan barely opened her eyes a crack.
At this moment, shyness, restraint, and everything of that sort had all been thrown to the back of her mind.
She only wanted to cling tightly to Li Mu, afraid that she would fall.
However, with Li Mu’s encouragement, she slowly opened her eyes. Everything before her eyes struck her heart with a fierce shock.
Li Mu was not flying particularly high.
He was a few hundred meters up, just barely higher than all the giant trees.
Looking into the distance, an endless primordial jungle stretched out, rising and falling as it extended without limit.
Above the primordial jungle lay a thin layer of pale mist.
Although there was no sun, these things, faint as water vapor, still formed a dazzling rainbow above the primordial jungle.
They slowly writhed above the tree crowns.
Like multicolored silk stirred by the wind...Beautiful and magnificent!
Seeing Wang Yinhuan’s astonished expression, Li Mu teased her.
“It seems that your year in Linyuan City was wasted. You cannot have never seen this scenery before, right?”
Wang Yinhuan lightly pinched Li Mu in annoyance.
Where was she supposed to see it?
It was not as though she could climb trees.
Even if she climbed up a tree, could she personally see such a beautiful sight?
Li Mu identified the direction. Right now, they needed to expand southward.
East, west, south, and north were all endless primordial jungle, as though the entire world had been covered by it.
If one did not have a Return Stone and got lost inside, it would be miserable.
Li Mu drove the Somersault Cloud and slowly flew due south.
Wang Yinhuan was so frightened that she hid behind Li Mu and hugged him, but her hair was still whipped by the wind as though it was about to be uprooted.
Li Mu’s so-called slow flight was still twenty to thirty meters per second...
They flew straight to the edge of the fogged area on the current map before he lowered the cloud and sank back into the primordial jungle.
As soon as they entered the jungle, they startled a flock of birds.
There were all kinds of species Li Mu had never seen before. Among them was even a strange bird like a giant bat, flapping fleshy wings as it flew away with the flock.
In the trees and on the ground, all kinds of enormous insects and small animals scattered in every direction.
Many of them contained energy within their bodies.
According to the Abyss style of Ironhand City, they would have long since slaughtered one another until blood splattered the ground.
Yet here, they maintained a strange balance.
Although they also killed one another, it was more like a normal food chain. They did not seem that violent.
This should be because resources were abundant, so these monsters had no need to slaughter on a large scale.
After landing, Wang Yinhuan finally let out a long breath and patted her fairly substantial chest.
Li Mu observed their surroundings. These giant trees were very large, and the gaps around them were fairly spacious.
But among the tangled roots and vines, as well as behind the trees, danger could still be hidden.
Fortunately, Li Mu’s Fiery Eyes and Golden Gaze had the [Clear Insight] effect.
Seeing through his surroundings meant he could see through obstacles, which was equivalent to X-ray vision.
Of course, the denser the obstacle he saw through, the more the clarity would be affected.
“How many pets do you have now?” Li Mu asked.
Wang Yinhuan raised her hand.
It was still those two dogs.
One was pure white, and the other was a black-and-white Border Collie.
As soon as the two dogs came out and saw Li Mu, they felt that he looked familiar. They came over and sniffed him. He was indeed familiar.
Then they went to the side of a tree to pee.
“Still these two fools?” Li Mu asked.
Unexpectedly, the two dogs instantly stopped peeing and stared straight at Li Mu.
“Woof! Grrr~~”
The white dog barked in dissatisfaction, narrowed its eyes, and growled at Li Mu.
Wang Yinhuan kicked the white dog and scolded it in a small voice, “No cursing!”
Li Mu laughed. This stupid dog actually dared scold him?
Wang Yinhuan explained, “Actually, there are also six kittens and three puppies. I have kept all of them in my Pet Space.”
“However, my energy and strength are only enough to cultivate these two for now.”
“The others basically have no combat ability.”
Li Mu pointed at the two dogs with his chin. “What combat ability do they have?”
Just as he asked this, a series of cracking branches suddenly rang out not far away.
A gray-black giant python, more than ten meters long, rapidly slithered over.
Its bright black scales looked like sharp daggers that had not fully folded back.
It was like a moving soft chainsaw. Everywhere it passed, branches were crushed to pieces.
The two dogs, Xiaobai and Xiaohua, seemed to want to answer Li Mu’s question with action.
They each barked.
No, they each let out an angry bark and charged forward.
As they leaped among the enormous tree roots, the two dogs’ bodies rapidly expanded from around one and a half meters in length to nearly four meters!
Their teeth and claws became sharp and powerful.
Their momentum could also be considered rather astonishing.
The giant python opened its mouth and bit down. Xiaobai nimbly leaped away, while Xiaohua seized the opportunity to bite the python’s seven-inch weak point and tore at it madly.
One had to admit that Xiaohua and Xiaobai’s strength was directly influenced by Wang Yinhuan, their master.
With this bite, Xiaohua directly pierced the giant python’s defense.
But this was, after all, an Eighth Grade giant python. While its defense was extremely strong, its scales also had a counter-damage effect.
Xiaohua’s mouth was stabbed until it was full of blood, but it still refused to let go.
At this moment, the giant python’s tail had already come sweeping in as support.
There was no need to ask. If it was wrapped by this giant python, it would definitely be sliced to death on the spot.
At that moment, Xiaobai accurately bit the giant python’s tail and tore at it with all its might.
It seemed to have dragged the giant python off balance.
One dog bit the seven-inch weak point, and the other bit the tail. For a time, the giant python was actually unable to coil its body.
Li Mu was helpless. This was about as far as it went.
As a Seventh Grade Summoner, Wang Yinhuan being able to fight an Eighth Grade Abyss monster one-on-one was already considered very strong among those of the same grade.
But Li Mu felt that if these two dogs relied on their physical bodies to wear this python down, they would only have half their lives left afterward.
Li Mu raised a hand and pointed at the giant python.
“Heavenly Might!”
BOOM!
A monstrous crushing pressure instantly smashed out a huge pit!
It struck right in the middle of the giant python’s body.
Like a pile driver pressing down on a cable, it directly dragged both ends of the giant python into the pit.
The giant python actually let out a low hiss.
In angry, unwilling struggle, it lost all signs of life.
[Victory! Triumph Points +244]
Li Mu praised it inwardly. That really was not low.
He was now Eighth Grade, so killing monsters and people below Eighth Grade no longer gave him Triumph Points at all.
The two dogs hurriedly let go and went forward to sniff the giant python’s head, seemingly confirming its death before running toward Wang Yinhuan.
Wang Yinhuan took out a medicine bottle in distress and poured it into the mouths of the two bleeding dogs.
However, the way the two dogs looked at Li Mu also became much more obedient.
Fine, he was amazing. They would endure it if he scolded them a little.
After feeding the dogs medicine, Wang Yinhuan excitedly said to Li Mu, “It is a Chainsaw Python. This monster’s hide armor and gallbladder are extremely important materials. We currently have a research topic that requires a very large amount of this type of scale armor.”
“We can still obtain some of the scale armor the Research Institute buys back from the Military District, but our department only has two complete gallbladder specimens!”
As she spoke, Wang Yinhuan had already arrived near the giant python. Her eyes shone as she looked at the python corpse, as though she were looking at some treasure.
Li Mu smiled.
It seemed that whenever the blushing girl talked about research, she would instantly become extremely focused. She had been the same when searching for the Living Crystal.
“Quick! Xiaohua, Xiaobai, help me peel off the hide. Be careful.”
Wang Yinhuan began directing the two dogs to work.
Li Mu was also happy to watch from the side as Wang Yinhuan busied herself by commanding the two dogs.
After these two dogs grew larger, the strength of Seventh Grade Summoned Beasts was more than enough to tear apart a corpse.
It was not worth Li Mu opening External Incarnation to help.
However, after watching the two dogs for a while, Li Mu suddenly thought of something.
He rummaged through his storage space for a while and took out a Ghost-Axe Destiny Pill.
“Here, eat this.”
Li Mu came before Wang Yinhuan.
Wang Yinhuan asked in confusion, “What pill is it this time?”
“After eating this pill, you will gain another S-Grade talent.”
“It is called Savage Growth!”
“It should also enhance Summoned Beasts.”
“Actually, last time, I originally intended to give it to you together with the others, but I also thought there might be better talents in the future.”
“But thinking about it now, Double-S or Triple-S talents are truly too difficult to encounter.”
“It is better to let you use it earlier.”
As Li Mu spoke, he had already stuffed the pill into Wang Yinhuan’s small mouth.
Wang Yinhuan bit it between her pearly teeth, and her pretty face had already turned completely red.
There was a saying: when one ate another person’s food, one’s mouth became soft; when one took another person’s things, one’s hand became short.
The pills Li Mu had given her last time had been forcibly stuffed into her hands by him.
If Wang Yinhuan had known they were such precious pills, she absolutely would not have dared accept them so easily.
After all, they were too valuable.
But when she thought about it again, Li Mu had given her such important things. Did that mean he had already regarded her as his person...
Otherwise, how could he be so willing?
Now Li Mu had actually taken out another pill that could awaken an S-Grade talent in someone!
Although she was very confused by what Li Mu had said, such as Double-S and Triple-S talents being difficult to encounter, she did not understand what he meant.
But she also knew that this pill was far more valuable than the previous ones!
A talent was something that could decide a person’s destiny.
She felt an immense sense of happiness and security.
In her spiritual world, this pill was not merely a pill. It was whether she acknowledged that Li Mu regarded her as his person.
She stared dazedly into Li Mu’s eyes and finally swallowed the pill slowly.
Then, her face flushed so red it seemed about to drip blood, she quickly stepped forward and pecked Li Mu on the lips...