Chapter 104

Chapter 105: I Treated You Like a Brother

Before going to kill the dungeon boss, Qian Qi visited several places. With help from System Flight, she finished the hidden tasks she had set for herself at high speed.

She also paid a high price for it: 6000 yuan.

“I thought we already understood each other, partners through hardship,” Qian Qi said sadly as she transferred the money to the System.

The System chirped back with perfect cheer: “Close brothers settle accounts. Since our relationship is beyond brothers, we should settle even clearer.”

Qian Qi pouted and put away the Light-Brain.

Next up was the dungeon boss. Qian Qi crept toward the highest canyon in the First Cloud Mountain Dungeon.

She stopped on the opposite ridge from the peak.

Here, the dungeon boss wasn’t a Magibeast. It was a Magiplant. But being a plant didn’t mean it was harmless.

As the dungeon boss, it could crush any single Magibeast or Magiplant in this dungeon, even several at once. That alone meant she couldn’t be careless.

Qian Qi pulled a small telescope from her bag and peeked at the plant whipping in the wind on the cliff top across from her.

“It’s a Shijia Magi Vine,” she said, narrowing her eyes. This Magiplant had a huge tumor-like core that looked like a monk sitting in meditation. Around it waved a dozen Magi Vines like arms making magic gestures, which was how it got its name.

You could judge its level by the size of the tumor and the number of Magi Vines. The one in front of her had twelve vines, so it should be an E-plus boss.

“You wait here,” Qian Qi told the System, patting it as if it were a pet. She added with a grin, “I’ll go buy two oranges and be right back.”

[Don’t think that just because I’m the System of this world, I don’t get that meme.] The System grumbled inside.

Qian Qi tied the Defense Armor around her waist and marched off boldly to slay the boss. The System, curious why she didn’t bring it along, secretly followed.

It watched Qian Qi sneak up under the cliff top, then slam her fist into the rock at the base of the Shijia Magi Vine. The plant had worked hard to anchor its roots deep into stone, but the hit broke its balance. It tumbled off the cliff, rolling head over heels.

Qian Qi scrambled down after it. As the plant fell, it stabbed roots into the canyon wall to slow itself. Qian Qi’s smile slanted, and she leaped, landing right on the plant’s tumor core.

She flicked her tongue across a Defense Fruit and swallowed it. Then she spread her fingers like claws and grabbed the attacking Magi Vines, braiding them three at a time into thick twisted ropes.

[What in the world is she doing?] the System thought, stunned.

After she tied four twisted “braids,” she clenched them hard, then pulled off the Defense Armor from her waist and knotted it tight around the bundles.

The Shijia Magi Vine was still sliding down the rock face, roots gripping like a spider walking down a wall. Qian Qi locked her legs around the tumor core and didn’t sag even a bit. Hands free, she tested the braids. No matter how the vines whipped, they couldn’t slip out of the Defense Armor knot. She nodded, satisfied.

Facing the cliff, Qian Qi grabbed two of the “braids” like reins and yanked. The Shijia Magi Vine twisted and turned to face the canyon below.

Qian Qi swung with it, now facing downhill.

“Hyah!” she cried, flicking the “reins” again, and rode the Shijia Magi Vine straight down the mountain.

Countless long roots pounded down the slope in huge steps, like a many-legged octopus monster running. With Qian Qi’s wild, savage grin on top, the scene looked both creepy and strangely perfect.

The System didn’t understand, but it was deeply impressed.

[What exactly is inside her head? Who rides a Magiplant they just met like a horse?]

“System!” Qian Qi waved excitedly when she spotted it and shouted: “This thing can climb mountains for real! With it, there’s no place in this canyon I can’t reach!”

The System was not happy at all. It felt like this Shijia Magi Vine had stolen its business and cost it 6000 yuan.

“We should head back,” the System reminded her, hinting that she shouldn’t fall in love with her new plant ride. Going home with the System was the right path.

“Sigh, fine,” Qian Qi said, checking the time. The Defense Fruit’s effect was fading. She balled up her fist and smashed the tumor core. Then she reached in and dug out the seed.

“Take it back and plant it. Maybe one day I can run a Magiplant taxi service,” she said, tucking the seed carefully into her backpack.

The System’s panel flashed: “First Cloud Mountain Dungeon cleared. Toxicity attribute gained. Your current toxicity level is E-plus.”

“Eh?” Qian Qi blinked and asked: “Toxicity? What toxicity?”

The next second she felt dizzy. The world went black, and she toppled backward.

The System Panel flashed behind her and caught her before she hit the ground.

It carried her back to where Li Hai Sheng was. After laying Qian Qi gently down, its panel thickened. If before it had been 0.5 millimeters, now it swelled to 3 centimeters. You could call it System v60.0.

It whipped its body up and brought the edge down on the back of Li Hai Sheng’s head in one fast, ruthless strike.

He didn’t even have time to react. His head burst like a balloon. His body fell forward, twitched a few times, then went still.

The System wiped off the blood and brain matter on his clothes, smoothed itself back to normal thickness, and carried Qian Qi out of the dungeon.

When Qian Qi woke up, she found herself in a room. Judging by the decor, it was the property she had just bought.

“How did I leave the dungeon directly?” she asked, rubbing her head. She tried to recall what happened before she blacked out, then called out: “System?”

“What?” the System answered lazily as it appeared.

Qian Qi leaned in, sniffed, and frowned: “Why do I think I smell… shower gel?”

[Hurry up and ask what you came to ask.]

“Oh, right,” Qian Qi said, snapping back. “Why did I faint? And what does the toxicity attribute mean?”

“6000 yuan,” the System said as it popped up a QR code.

Qian Qi pouted, but since the System had safely brought her out, she transferred the money.

Only then did the System explain: “Shijia Magi Vines release a colorless, scentless Poison Miasma. You breathed it in, so you passed out.”

“What does my toxicity level mean?” Qian Qi asked, patting herself down. “Can I release Poison Miasma too?”

“Yes,” the System said with a meaningful smile. “Dear, from now on you can let out poisonous farts.”

“If you’re happy, clap your hands,” it added in a sing-song voice.

Qian Qi stared: […]

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