Chapter 401: Chapter 400: Qiuqiu’s Birthday (Vote Request) Chapter 401: Chapter 400: Qiuqiu’s Birthday (Vote Request) In the lee of a snow peak, over ten all-terrain vehicles were parked, and the people in protective gear frequently looked toward the direction Shao Zifeng had left.
“Location.”
Yang Qi quickly opened a tablet computer and pulled up a nearby map, “Professor, junior Zifeng has been stationary near the Great Rift Valley for over ten minutes now. Should we try to contact him?”
“I’ll do it myself.” Chen Yixin opened the public channel sowhat anxiously, took a deep breath filled with concern, and asked, “Zifeng, how’s the situation?”
In the anxious wait, the earpiece chid with the tone indicating a connection had been established, which gave Chen Yixin a sigh of relief.
“I—zzzt—compl… boom!”
The transmission was garbled, only two unclear words ca through, followed by a grating sound of electrical interference in the earpiece.
A jolt went through Chen Yixin’s heart, and her face, which had just relaxed, imdiately turned pale again.
“Zifeng, Zifeng, what’s happened to you?”
“Zifeng, if you can hear , please co back to…”
“…”
Call after call went out, and after a long wait, still no other sound ca through.
Chen Yixin’s face grew increasingly pale, as she bit her trembling lower lip.
Seeing this, Zhao Li spoke in a somber tone, “Professor, don’t panic just yet…”
“I’m going to find him.”
“No, Professor, your safety…”
“Shut up!” Chen Yixin snapped irritably, and gave Zhao Li a cold stare, “Safety, safety, always talking about safety. But tell , when have you ever protected ?”
“Did they send you to play a ga called ‘safety’ around ?”
Chen Yixin’s sudden outburst silenced everyone in the research team, and the young soldiers from the fire phoenix army hung their heads in sha.
Yang Qi opened his mouth but eventually said nothing.
Cang Haiyuan took a deep drag of his cigarette, flicked away the half-smoked cigarette butt, and pulling down his face-shield, he positioned himself next to Chen Yixin.
With a chilling look, Chen Yixin surveyed the group, then swung herself onto her own all-terrain snow vehicle.
“If you’re afraid, then just wait here.”
After saying that, Chen Yixin pulled down her face shield and started the snow vehicle.
Zhao Li took a deep breath, “Everyone, follow. Our mission is to find brother Zifeng.”
“Yes!”
…
Beep-beep—
Beep-beep—
The profound Great Rift Valley was still silent. From behind a pile of rocks on a raised platform, a barely perceptible electronic reminder sounded.
Rustle rustle.
The scattering stones made a crisp echo as a hand pushed them aside, slowly sitting up.
“Cough cough…”
Shao Zifeng coughed loudly a few tis, opened his eyes, and appeared sowhat stunned by the darkness around him.
Taking out a specially made cell phone from his pocket, he checked the ti.
“Reminder: Today is Qiuqiu’s birthday.”
Looking at the ssage, Shao Zifeng’s vacant eyes slowly focused,
then seed to rember sothing urgent and started hurriedly scrambling through the stones beneath him.
“Qiuqiu, where are you!”
Stones continued to tumble down as the sounds of impacts echoed throughout the pitch-black space.
“Qiuqiu.”
He scooped out the small figure from the pile of rocks, and the dim blue light spots in his peripheral vision slowly started to rotate.
[Na]: Armadillo Dragon Lizard
[Growth]: Growth stage
[Status]: Lightly wounded, Bloodline Ancestor
[Strength]: Tier 6
[Phylum]: Chordata
[Class]: Reptilia
[Order]: Squamata
[Family]: Sub-Dragon Family
[Attributes]: Fire, Dragon
[Potential]: ★★★☆☆
[Talent]: Molten Lava Field: Darling of the fire elent, it attracts surrounding fire elentals to rge with its own molten flas to create a battlefield advantageous to itself. The range is influenced by its strength and allows it to continuously recover its own energy expenditure and slowly heal its own injuries within the field. When there is an enemy target in the field, it adds a ‘Molten Rock Burn’ status to them. (Molten Rock Burn: A type of fire poison negative status that causes the target’s skin to fester and continually suffer from the assault of fire elents.)
: Dragon’s Presence: A dragon clan’s exclusive talent, it causes certain suppression to lower-level life forms. When actively released, it can induce a state of panic in creatures whose bloodline and strength are not higher than its own.
[Skills]: Dragon’s Presence (Talent Skill), Dragon Fla teor (Inheritance Skill), Defense, Dragon Claw, Fiery Breath, Fla Control, Dragon Wings, Purgatory Explosion
[Special Ability]: Bone Shaping
[Unique Trick]: ??? (Unlocking)
[Evolution Path]: South African Armadillo Lizard→Armadillo Dragon Lizard→Molten Dragon Lizard→?→?
[Special Form]: Ashen Flying Dragon→?→?
[Description]: Blessed by the Star Origin Wood Spirit Deer that underwent ‘Pearl of Origin’ baptism together, the related unique trick is unlocking. At this mont, it is extrely exhausted but still has to endure harassnt from an unscrupulous master.
Unscrupulous master?
?
Shao Zifeng looked bewilderedly at the last line of the description.
Although he was baffled by the sudden personal attack, the ‘lightly wounded’ status in Qiuqiu’s stat sheet did put him at ease sowhat.
Moreover, after several battles, Qiuqiu’s strength had grown to the sixth rank.
“Ying?”
Qiuqiu opened its blurry eyes and rubbed its eye sockets with its tiny claws.
The mont it saw Shao Zifeng, Qiuqiu imdiately perked up and stretched out its tiny claws for a hug.
Suddenly, Qiuqiu’s face turned bitter, its mouth puckered as if it was about to cry.
“Ying ying.”
Qiuqiu pointed at its back with a claw, coquettishly showing its soft, cute expression to Shao Zifeng.
“Does it still hurt? Let blow on it for you.”
Shao Zifeng held Qiuqiu gently, softly blowing air onto its back.
At first, the little guy put on a pitiful little drama queen act, but it wasn’t long before it started to giggle and wiggle restlessly in Shao Zifeng’s hands like an unsteady grub.
He drew open a Space Rift with his finger and took out a bottle of dicine prepared by Chen Yixin. It was purified from its Scale Armor last ti, and there was still so left unused.
It had to be said, the dicine’s effect was indeed good; Shao Zifeng rembered when Qiuqiu fell from a height of several ters in Yundu City and several pieces of its Scale Armor shattered, but after applying this dicine, such a strong impact only left so abrasions this ti.
After applying the dicine on Qiuqiu’s back, Shao Zifeng gently massaged it.
“Qiuqiu, happy birthday.”
“Ying?”
Qiuqiu, which was enjoying the service with its eyes squinted, was perplexed and looked blankly at Shao Zifeng.
Clearly, it didn’t understand what a birthday ant.
“A birthday is the day you were born,” Shao Zifeng explained while massaging it: “But that’s not your birthday, Qiuqiu. Your birthday is the day we t.”
“We’ve known each other for a whole year now, and every year on this day, I’ll celebrate your birthday with you, give you presents, buy you lots of tasty things. How does that sound?”
Hearing Shao Zifeng’s words, Qiuqiu’s eyes sparkled as it rapidly nodded its little head, with tears glistening at the corner of its mouth.
After the massage was done, Shao Zifeng wiped the remaining dicine on his hands and looked earnestly at Qiuqiu: “Do you rember our promise?”
“Ying ying!”
Qiuqiu clenched its little claws.
It certainly hadn’t forgotten that hateful white cat.
“For many, many years to co, we will celebrate our birthdays together.”
“Ying!”
Qiuqiu leaped onto Shao Zifeng’s shoulder, constantly nuzzling against his cheek.
From the pile of rocks, a pair of amber eyes appeared, stealthily observing them with a look of longing.
A few years ago, it was like this too, nestled beside its mother in the dark underground cave, acting spoiled.
Back then, it was carefree, only waiting at ho every day for its mother to bring food.
But then one day, its mother went out and never returned.
Gradually, the young toothed dragon’s eyes misted with tears.
But looking at its tiny front limbs, it tried hard to lift its head, not allowing the tears to fall.
It couldn’t cry, its claws weren’t enough…
Plop!
A pebble was accidentally nudged by its small claw, tumbling down and making a crisp sound as it hit the ground.
The young toothed dragon’s body stiffened, and it turned its head with a cold face.
(PS: It’s Qiuqiu’s birthday, let’s have so tickets!)
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