Chapter 96

Chapter 97: She Is Not a Good Person!!!

System watched her with caution and asked: [What are you trying to do?]

“I remember you saying you’re so invincible that there’s nothing you can’t do, right?” Qian Qi said, rubbing her hands and looking at the System with worship. “So tell me this: can you give me a storage space for free?”

System: ???

System whacked the back of her head and snapped: [Are you dreaming?! Don’t ask for impossible things!]

“Tch.” Holding the back of her head, Qian Qi pouted and asked: “Is it the free part that’s impossible, or the space part?”

System gritted its teeth: [Both are impossible! Stop dreaming. Except for… no, never mind. There’s no space artifact here, so forget it!]

“Don’t you have siblings? You Systems can travel across worlds to trade, right? Can’t you buy each other’s cheat skills?” Qian Qi fired off questions like a machine gun.

System shouted: [No!!!]

The big bold white text on the panel showed how furious it was.

“How lame,” Qian Qi said, hugging a heavy box that weighed about 110 pounds with an ugly look of dislike. “So when I hunt magibeasts later, I’ll have to carry them out myself? That’s so hard on the delicate little me!”

System: […]

Unable to stand it, the System kicked Qian Qi into the Dungeon.

“Ouch,” Qian Qi yelped as she tumbled in with the big box. “Why are you so touchy? Relax. Even if you’re this weak, I’ll still love you.”

System warned: [Keep talking and I’ll mute you for a month!]

Qian Qi finally behaved. She found a nice spot on the plain, lifted her hoe, and started working her vegetable garden.

As the hoe hit the ground, she heard the soil turn and felt like she had returned to her previous life. Love and satisfaction for growing vegetables flooded her heart. Humming a tune, she loosened all the rich earth around her.

This truly natural fertile soil felt completely different from the poor dirt on the school’s back mountain. She could already picture it: a bed of bright red, juicy tomatoes and bunches of shiny green scallions.

Add in two scrambled eggs, and it would smell amazing.

Qian Qi wiped away drool and worked even harder.

After a whole night of labor, she left the Dungeon at dawn and took a nap.

Once she was rested, a new Dungeon boss respawned.

With a set of fresh clothes on her back and a kids’ scooter from the storage room in hand, Qian Qi stepped into the Dungeon.

“This time I’m going straight to the lair to finish the Three-headed Thunder Lion fast, then I’ll plan a trip to clear Dungeons,” Qian Qi said, pushing off with her little foot as the scooter carried her toward the Thunder Lion’s nest.

Her style was all about saving time.

When she arrived, the new Thunder Lion boss had just come out of the nest. It locked eyes with Qian Qi.

The three lion heads stared at her. At first it didn’t react, but once it did, all four legs fumbled like it forgot how to run. The three heads tried to go in three directions. After a messy scramble, it turned and bolted deeper into the back.

“This is wrong. Very wrong,” Qian Qi said as she scooted after it. “It definitely knows me. Why else would it run on instinct?”

System began: [Oh, my dear mon-]

Qian Qi pinched the panel between two fingers and flicked it aside, saying: “Don’t you dare narrate. I refuse to pay 300 for this.”

Determined to save money, she grabbed a rock while rolling on the kids’ scooter. Her slim arm swung in a wide circle and hurled it at the fleeing Thunder Lion.

The stone sliced through the air and smashed against the back of the middle head’s skull with a bang, shattering to bits. The middle head yowled and ran even faster.

In the next second, seven or eight more stones slammed into the back of its head in a row.

“Don’t be a coward! Aren’t you the king of this Dungeon? If you’ve got guts, fight me head on!” she shouted.

At last the Thunder Lion couldn’t take it. It hit the brakes, swung around, and raised the Lightning Horn on its brow at Qian Qi.

Qian Qi knew that skill by heart. The wind-up gave her time to swallow a Defense Fruit. She tossed the scooter aside, rushed in with bare hands, and got ready to pop its skull like usual.

The Thunder Lion saw her charge, backpedaled at once, and kept all six eyes locked on her. When she was about to reach it, it suddenly lowered the horn, turned tail, and sprinted away even faster.

Qian Qi: ???

She stared at the vanishing lion, then at the kids’ scooter now far behind her: …

System laughed: [Hahahahahahaha!]

Qian Qi never thought she would get outsmarted by a low-level magibeast.

System asked: [Wanna buy the answer?]

“Fifty. That’s all I’m paying,” Qian Qi said, still sulking. At most she’d use the little consultation fee she’d squeezed from Si Kong Wang to buy this answer.

System said: [Deal!]

After taking her 50, the System posted the hint: [The answer is inside the Thunder Lion’s nest. Go take a look.]

The Thunder Lion’s nest?

Qian Qi frowned. This wasn’t simple.

She had always lured the lion out to kill it, worried that a corpse in the nest would scare the next one away. She never thought there was a secret inside the lair.

“Let’s see.”

She gave up on chasing the lion, picked up the scooter, and pushed toward the nest.

Inside, a wave of chill air hit her. It was damp here. She wondered if the Thunder Lion would get joint pain from living in this place too long.

The wheels of the scooter echoed in the tunnel. Soon, Qian Qi reached the end. There was nothing special inside, just a plain cave. She frowned and asked: “Looks normal to me. System, are you tricking me again?”

System flew to a side wall and pointed: [Over here]

Qian Qi glanced over lazily, then froze: “What is that?”

She ran to the spot, eyes wide: “No way. So that’s why every single one of them ran when they saw me. Turns out-”

Scratched into the stone by sharp claws was a large, abstract portrait of Qian Qi: messy chicken-nest hair, huge shorts, and that trademark fierce grin. It was rough, but anyone could tell it was her.

Not only that, a big circle and an X were drawn over her portrait. Next to it were ragged claw marks. The System explained: [This is the Thunder Lion’s danger sign: See this thing, run at once. Do not try to fight. You can’t win.]

Qian Qi: ???

What do you mean, this thing?

She is not a thing!!!