Chapter 171: She’s so ugly, yet she’s the most dangerous
“What is this thing, what is this thing?”
The moment she saw her hand being pricked, Song Jiulai instinctively flicked her hand to throw the scorpion off.
This scorpion was about the size of a palm and looked very ordinary. Despite Song Jiulai’s flick, it didn’t fall off.
Its tail was firmly embedded in Song Jiulai’s palm, causing a slight stinging sensation.
It was clearly bleeding.
System: “It was decomposed from that piece of ore, don’t you remember?”
At the same time, Song Jiulai suddenly felt her soul tremble.
Some faint, fragmented sounds echoed in her mind.
“Hungry… hungry…”
“So hungry…”
It was like the System, except the System was in her mind and she couldn’t feel it, only hear it speak.
This voice, however, seemed to communicate directly with Song Jiulai’s mind.
Until the System said: “It says it’s hungry.”
Song Jiulai was stunned. She looked at the scorpion in her hand: “It’s talking?”
System: “Yes, how strange, how can animals talk!”
Song Jiulai: “…”
Did your data crash and you forgot this is the Cultivation World?
It wasn’t strange for a scorpion to talk; what was strange was what kind of thing this was.
Was this something decomposed from that piece of ore?
Song Jiulai remembered that when she bought that disposable magic treasure, the seller, a cultivator, had gifted her a piece of ore.
The System had used a lot of energy to decompose it.
Now it had been decomposed.
And it turned out to be a scorpion?
Seeing is believing?
The scorpion’s tail stinger was embedded in Song Jiulai’s palm, sucking her blood.
Fearing she would be drained, Song Jiulai grabbed the scorpion and forcefully pulled out the stinger.
Moreover, she remembered scorpion tails were poisonous. Was it sucking blood through the venomous needle on its stinger?
As a result, the scorpion writhed and struggled.
That inner voice continued to sound.
“Hungry, hungry! Hungry!”
Song Jiulai: “Then starve, starve to death!”
What normal thing starts sucking human blood as soon as it appears?
She looked at her palm. Besides the wound and bleeding, there were no signs of poisoning.
Scorpion: “…”
It seemed to understand and stopped moving.
“So fierce, so fierce…”
Song Jiulai: “…”
She was shocked and said to the System: “It can understand human language?”
The System was also a bit puzzled: “It was decomposed, but its energy scan shows no spiritual energy. I’m not sure what it is yet, but it consumed so much energy, it’s likely not ordinary. It can talk after sucking your blood, and even I can hear it, so it’s definitely not simple. Keep it, you’re bored anyway.”
Song Jiulai held it, still feeling a bit strange: “But it sucks human blood, this thing doesn’t seem like a good person.”
Her mustard seed bag couldn’t be opened now, and it couldn’t hold living things. Song Jiulai had originally wanted to put it in the System Warehouse.
However, the System said: “No, it can’t be put in, it’s a bit strange.”
“Can’t be put in?”
Song Jiulai looked around: “I can’t just hold it forever. This thing is a bit evil. What if I let it go and it sucks someone else’s blood?”
Even if this was a secret realm in a small world, she couldn’t let something out to harm people.
Song Jiulai had no intention of walking the path of an evil cultivator.
Its inner voice sounded again.
“Suck more, suck more, I’ll be full…”
Song Jiulai: “…”
System’s thoughtful translation: “It means it will be full if it sucks a bit more blood.”
Song Jiulai said expressionlessly: “I understand its gibberish, you don’t need to translate.”
System: “I’m afraid your intelligence isn’t enough to understand.”
Song Jiulai: ?
Song Jiulai still felt uneasy.
She didn’t know what this scorpion could safely suck blood from.
However, since she couldn’t put it in the System Warehouse now, just as she was thinking of a method, a girl’s voice suddenly came from behind her: “Young lady?”
Song Jiulai immediately turned her head, having casually hidden the scorpion in her sleeve.
The person who arrived was Xiao Cui, the maidservant of Qin Yongkang.
The scorpion’s tail stinger immediately followed suit, like a snake slithering up a pole, and began to prick her wrist again.
“…”
Damn it.
Losing a bit of blood and taking a pill would solve it. Although she couldn’t open her mustard seed bag now, she still had spiritual energy, and her healing speed was fast. It wasn’t a big problem.
The reason she hadn’t dealt with it immediately was because this scorpion was something she had decomposed with a huge amount of energy.
She had to observe what kind of thing it was to find out!
“Oh, it’s Miss Xiao Cui. Do you need something from me?”
Song Jiulai smiled at Xiao Cui, but in her heart, she was thinking that earlier today, she had wanted to approach Xiao Cui, but another cultivator had gotten there first.
Now, she was gathering information all over town, and Xiao Cui had run into her.
Could there be some hidden identity arranged for them in this small world?
Looking at the performance of the disciples from other sects, it didn’t seem like it.
“Miss, calling me Miss is too much. Just call me Xiao Cui. I saw you at the banquet today.” Xiao Cui was an ordinary-looking girl, and her smile seemed friendly. “You’re a guest from out of town, aren’t you?”
“Yes, yes, yes!” Song Jiulai had told the old women at the banquet the same thing today. She nodded vigorously. “Xiao Cui, is there something you need?”
“No, I just thought you seemed unfamiliar with our town. If you need any help, please don’t hesitate to ask.”
Song Jiulai didn’t expect such a good thing. Her eyes lit up, and then she shamelessly said: “I am indeed from out of town. I passed by and saw Young Master Qin getting married, so I came in for the wedding banquet. However, I don’t have enough travel money and no place to stay. Can I rest at the Qin Manor for a few days? I can stay in the servants’ quarters and I’ll help with some chores.”
System’s complaint: “You’re being too obvious…”
Unexpectedly, Xiao Cui nodded directly: “Why not? All visitors are guests. Since you came to congratulate our Young Master on his wedding, you’re bringing more good fortune. Our Qin Manor has plenty of guest rooms. Just follow me.”
Song Jiulai didn’t expect to enter the Qin Manor so easily. On the surface, she was overjoyed: “Great, great…”
But she didn’t let her guard down.
She now knew that either the bride or the groom in this instance had a problem, but wandering around town like a headless fly was useless.
It was better to stay at the Qin Manor.
As Xiao Cui led Song Jiulai into the Qin Manor, Xiao Yushu, a disciple of the Star Brilliance Sect, saw her and was surprised: “Isn’t she also a sect disciple? Why is she entering the Qin Manor?”
“She can’t be thinking of staying at the Qin Manor, can she?” Tao Yetian of the Azure Shadow Sect said incredulously: “Staying at the Qin Manor means she’ll definitely be chosen as the bride. Is she crazy?”
Xiao Yushu pondered: “Not necessarily. Didn’t another disciple move in this morning?”
“That’s true.” Tao Yetian thought about Song Jiulai’s face from earlier: “She’s so ugly, Qin Yongkang might not fancy her. Others are more dangerous.”
Xiao Yushu: “…”
Brother Tao is too harsh. In fact, he also thought so, but he didn’t say it out loud.
