NOVEL NEXT Chapter 28 - Plants Can Be Tamed
Chapter 028: Plants Can Be Tamed
“System, can taming points be used to tame plants?”
Mu Liang pondered this possibility and asked the system in his mind.
“Ding! Plants can be tamed.”
“In that case, I’ll dig them all up.”
Mu Liang looked at several withering, unidentified plants, estimating they could survive a bit longer.
He hesitated over the dozen or so plants in the soil.
“Better search for other things first. I’ve got all night to haul stuff.”
Mu Liang decided to find the beast crystals.
If the Three-colored Lizard and Red Ghost Spider evolved once more, transporting things would be faster.
He searched around and discovered a closed room.
Click~~
The door creaked open with a gentle push.
“Jackpot,” Mu Liang whispered as he cautiously entered.
Inside was a large bed. He immediately realized this was Blood Beard’s bedroom.
Opening the bedside drawer, Mu Liang found a bulging cloth bag. Opening it revealed a pile of beast crystals.
He couldn’t help but chuckle, “Blood Beard sure is confident, leaving valuables lying around.”
No wonder Blood Beard was so confident. Who would expect someone to climb in from the outside?
Reaching into the bag, Mu Liang declared, “System, absorb them all.”
“Ding! Energy conversion successful. Acquired evolution points: 3,866.”
“What a windfall,” Mu Liang grinned as he saw the 3,866 evolution points.
His plan was already a success.
After a moment of joy, he calmed down and resumed searching.
In the bedside cabinet, he found a box of plant seeds and some gemstones.
“Another pleasant surprise,” Mu Liang muttered.
Opening the box, he saw the seeds neatly categorized in small cloth bags—seven or eight types in total.
He packed the seeds into his backpack. Important items had to be carried personally.
“These gems can be a gift for Mino.”
Mu Liang pocketed the gems and checked the wardrobe.
Inside were clothes and rolls of fabric.
“Why do people here keep fabric in wardrobes?” he muttered.
Despite his complaint, Mu Liang swiftly piled all the fabric onto a table: 15 rolls in total, in eight colors.
“They hoard fabric but don’t wear it.”
Shaking his head, he said, “Let me help them put it to good use.”
Aside from fabric, he found various swords, knives, spears, and lances.
“Bring the weapons back. Melt the inferior ones into an iron pot.”
Mu Liang tied up the weapons with the fabric and placed them together.
Habitually tapping the walls, he searched further.
Thud…
A hollow sound revealed a hidden door.
“Looks like the real treasure is inside,” Mu Liang smirked.
Finding the mechanism, he easily opened the hidden door.
Inside was a simple study—just a shelf, a table, and a chair.
Approaching the table, Mu Liang saw beast hides scattered across it.
He flipped through them, discovering plant diagrams and descriptions.
“Oracle bone script?”
Mu Liang exclaimed, “Hieroglyphs?”
He hurriedly examined more hides, noting plant and animal diagrams and special formula steps.
“This world is ancient… and why are there cabbage and tomato seeds?”
“Is this a parallel world?”
His mind was chaotic, lacking enough information for theories.
“Never mind. I’ll take these back for study.”
Mu Liang shook his head, packing the hides into his backpack.
At least he learned the written system.
After a thorough search, finding nothing else valuable, he left the secret room and returned to the main room.
He exited the bedroom and entered the adjacent room—the second of three rooms in this space.
Creak~~
This door, also unlocked, reflected Blood Beard’s overconfidence.
“A storeroom?”
The room was filled with barrels—over a hundred.
Slosh, slosh~~
He shook a barrel, finding it filled with water.
In the center stood a large barrel, 1.5 meters tall, unlike the half-meter ones.
“Is this one also water-filled?”
Mu Liang approached to remove the stones weighing down its lid.
Instead of opening it fully, he cautiously lifted a crack.
Slosh, slosh~~
Water gushed from the gap, and something crystalline slipped out.
“What is that?”
Reacting quickly, Mu Liang shot spider silk from his fingers, binding the object.
Splash, splash~~
The bound entity struggled, splattering water.
“This… could it be the crystal fish that woman mentioned?”
Mu Liang examined the captive—a crystal-clear arowana-like fish.
Indeed, it resembled a terrestrial arowana.
A crystal fish, true to its name, was as transparent as crystal, with even its bones like dark, translucent crystals.
“A beautiful fish. I wonder how it tastes,” Mu Liang mused, licking his lips.
Splash, splash~~
Sensing danger, the fish struggled, gathering water on its body until a football-sized water sphere enveloped it.
“…”
Mu Liang’s black eyes widened in disbelief as the water sphere hovered without falling.
“So, the crystal fish generates water for Blood Beard’s thieves?”
Mu Liang shook the fish, deforming the water sphere but scattering only a few droplets.
He stuffed the crystal fish into a smaller barrel, tucking it under his arm.
No wonder the Moon Lake Tribe, with thousands of people, offered a bounty for this fish.
In a world facing a water shortage, the crystal fish was a treasure.
A life-saving fish.