Chapter 18: Underground City
Tu You couldn’t help but shout loudly. Suddenly, echoes reverberated through the cave, startling him. He quickly jumped into Sang Chu’s arms.
Mu Xue was also terrified. She tightly hugged Lu Min Feng’s lean waist from behind, trembling all over.
“You damned rabbit spirit, why are you shouting so loud? You scared me to death!”
Tu You: “I, I didn’t mean to, I was scared too!”
Who knew the echoes underground would be so loud? It was really scary!
Lu Min Feng: “Don’t be afraid, it’s okay. Let’s go take a look first.”
The echoes gradually weakened.
Mu Xue’s spirits lifted. She excitedly ran to Sang Chu’s side, grabbed Sang Chu’s hand, and ran forward: “Sang Sang, I’ve never seen such large underground terraced fields before. They’re so beautiful with all the colors!”
The underground terraced fields were layered, each one like a meticulously carved jade pool, neatly arranged along the slope of the cave walls.
In the terraced fields, the clear water was like a mirror, reflecting the stalactites and stalagmites on the cave ceiling, shimmering and magnificent like glazed tile.
Tu You: “A Chu, try cutting the surface of the water in the terraced fields.”
Tu You’s words shocked Sang Chu and the other two. Sang Chu: “Cut the water surface?”
Tu You: “Mhm, I think there might be something good underwater!”
Sang Chu nodded. She glanced at Lu Min Feng, who tacitly turned his back to guard, while Mu Xue stood at the front, holding a gun.
Sang Chu conjured a handy blade and carefully cut. She had thought the surface of the terraced fields was water, but when she cut into it, she discovered it was a very viscous liquid.
It was a bit like jelly, soft and pleasant to the touch.
Tu You watched her movements, trembling: “Ew, your technique is so disgusting! Hurry up!”
Listening to Tu You’s complaints, Lu Min Feng and Mu Xue couldn’t help but chuckle. Only Sang Chu rolled her eyes at him and put the cut-off substance into a box.
These things were so strange, they might be useful!
Cutting through the terraced fields layer by layer, like mille-feuille, revealed a large jade mine underneath!
This jade was strange, its surface incredibly smooth, and within the jade, golden quicksand seemed to be flowing. Tu You let out a startled scream: “Is this Spirit Stone?”
“Spirit Stone?” Mu Xue heard this and quickly turned to look at the terraced fields Sang Chu had cut: “Is it the kind of Spirit Stone from novels?”
Tu You: “No, no, no, this should be uncarved Spirit Stone Jade. Spirit Stone Jade is much better than ordinary Spirit Stones. A Chu, quickly put it away, hurry, hurry! This is truly a good thing!”
Sang Chu quickly continued to cut the water surface bit by bit, but when the Golden Saber tried to cut the Spirit Stone Jade, it couldn’t penetrate.
“No, this Spirit Stone Jade is too hard, I can’t cut it at all!”
Lu Min Feng glanced at it and said: “Shall I try?”
Sang Chu nodded, stood up, and made way for him. But to her surprise, he also couldn’t cut it: “It’s really hard!”
Mu Xue: “What do we do now? We can see it but can’t take it. Big rabbit, do you have any ideas?”
Tu You: “I’m a little elf, not a big rabbit! If I can’t cut it, what can I do!”
“Hmph, you call yourself a little elf, and you can’t even do this!”
Tu You glared angrily at Lin Mu Xue, squatting on Sang Chu’s shoulder with his backside facing Lin Mu Xue. She happily poked Tu You: “Is the big rabbit angry? You’re a rabbit, so what if I call you a rabbit!”
Tu You: “Ugly monster, I’m not talking to you anymore, hmph!”
Mu Xue, furious, tugged at his big ears: “Who are you calling ugly! I’m naturally beautiful, loved by everyone, and stunningly gorgeous. How dare you call me ugly! Watch me strip off your rabbit fur and turn you into a bald rabbit!”
The two, one person and one rabbit, were locked in a standoff. Lu Min Feng and Sang Chu looked at each other helplessly and shook their heads.
At this moment, while Lu Min Feng was thinking, his hand unconsciously squeezed the cut water.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up.
“Sang Chu, I have an idea!”
Sang Chu smiled: “Me too. I wonder if we’re thinking of the same thing!”
They both said at the same time: “Water!”
Lu Min Feng: “Yes, that’s what I wanted to say, water. Everything is mutually generated and restrained. Where there are poisonous snakes, there must be an antidote within a hundred paces. Some poisonous plants’ roots and stems or flowers are antidotes. I think this Spirit Stone Jade is the same!”
Sang Chu: “Mhm, I was thinking the same thing. Since this Spirit Stone Jade is underwater, this water must be extraordinary. Shall we try?”
Lu Min Feng carefully cut a block of water the size of the Golden Saber and covered the blade with it. The previously very hard Spirit Stone Jade was thus cut open!
Lu Min Feng: “It works!”
Sang Chu quickly conjured another Golden Saber and, following Lu Min Feng’s method, cut the Spirit Stone Jade bit by bit.
Mu Xue and Tu You finally finished their argument. When they came to their senses, they realized Sang Chu and Lu Min Feng had successfully cut out the Spirit Stone Jade.
“Wow, how did you two do it!”
Lu Min Feng explained, drawing more exclamations from Mu Xue. Tu You looked at her disdainfully: “You look so stupid like this!”
“What if a beauty doesn’t have a brain! It’s not bothering you, so why are you babbling!” Mu Xue threw him away and ran to Sang Chu’s side: “Sang Sang, make me one, I’ll do it with you!”
There were quite a few large and small fields visible in this underground city. If only two people were working on it, who knows how long it would take.
Sang Chu handed her hers and then made another one for herself.
Tu You squatted on Sang Chu’s shoulder: “A Chu, how about you give me a piece first? I’ll go to the mall and see how much it can sell for.”
“Okay!”
Sang Chu cut off a palm-sized piece and handed it to him. The moment he took it, he vanished, causing Mu Xue to blink repeatedly.
“Holy crap, this really is a little elf!”
Lu Min Feng looked at her charmingly naive expression and couldn’t help but smile: “She came with A Chu, so she’s clearly real. You, next time, don’t provoke her like that.”
“Senior, who are you on the side of?”
Mu Xue gave him a glare. He affectionately reached out and gently stroked her long hair: “Of course, I’m on your side. But he’s A Chu’s elf, and A Chu will have to rely on him a lot in the future.”
Thinking about it, Mu Xue sighed softly: “Alright, as long as he doesn’t bother me, I’ll try to get along with him peacefully!”
Sang Chu smiled: “It’s okay, say whatever you want. Tu You has the temperament of a child. If you tease him, he’ll actually feel happy.”
Mu Xue: “Is that so?”
Sang Chu nodded: “Mhm, he, like us, comes from a not-so-good place. In the Apocalypse, at least there’s the Blood Moon for light, and there are lighting facilities at home. But where Tu You comes from, there’s no light. So, he’d probably be happy if someone teased him.”
