177: fellow villagers

After an unknown amount of time, once the sky had completely darkened, Holy Sun finally walked out of the tree hollow.

His expression had returned to its previous coldness as he said to Su Ze, who was waiting outside, "Yi Yi wants to have a few words with you."

Su Ze nodded and then walked inside.

Standing outside, Holy Sun said to the others, "No one is allowed to speak of what just happened!"

Everyone nodded repeatedly.

Seeing that he had no intention of entering the tree hollow, Xiao Sheng asked tentatively, "Don't you need to go in?"

"Yi Yi only said she wanted to see Su Ze; she didn't say she needed me there."

Xiao Sheng nodded and said no more, but in his heart, he was already calculating how to curry favor with Jiang Yiyi to make Holy Sun follow orders... Inside the tree hollow, Su Ze quickly returned to his original position and saw Jiang Yiyi, her eyes slightly red, sitting on the crystal coffin swinging her legs.

Clearly, her conversation with Holy Sun had caused her to have a good cry, and she had only recently calmed down.

Jiang Yiyi looked at the approaching Su Ze and said with a smile, "Odd changes, even stays the same?"

Su Ze was stunned for a moment, then replied with a smile, "Signs depend on the quadrant. Honestly, using such a cliché code—you didn't transmigrate more than ten years before me, did you?"

Jiang Yiyi immediately said excitedly, "It seems Holy Sun didn't lie to me; he really did find me a Fellow Countryman. When did you transmigrate here?"

The two compared their respective times and locations of transmigration; their original addresses weren't far apart, both being in the South.

The difference in their transmigration times was less than a year, but in this world, there was a gap of over a hundred years between them!

Jiang Yiyi had even transmigrated later than him; it was an accident on her way to the College Entrance Examination.

If Su Ze hadn't transmigrated early, he would have just been taking the College Entrance Examination as well.

"It seems the time flow of the two worlds is different..."

Besides that, they also compared their experiences during transmigration to see if there were any noteworthy similarities.

The results, however, left them puzzled.

Su Ze had fallen asleep in class and woke up to find himself in this world, completely unaware of what had happened.

Jiang Yiyi, on the other hand, was very clear about it; she had transmigrated here in soul form after dying in a car accident.

According to her, rather than transmigration, it was more like being reincarnated but forgetting to drink Meng Po's Soup.

Jiang Yiyi had grown up from a newborn to what she was today; one could say she was a local native, but with memories of Earth.

Su Ze was different; he had transmigrated into the body of someone with the same name, possessing the memories of two people at once.

"It seems our experiences are completely different. I wonder what caused this discrepancy."

Su Ze shook his head; he couldn't figure it out either.

Instead, he asked another question: "What is your transmigration golden finger?"

Su Ze had always wanted to understand what exactly the gacha machine, his golden finger, was.

So far, he had only discovered that the demon beast eggs in the gacha machine didn't appear out of thin air but were drawn from all over the world.

This "all over the world" didn't just include the Human World, but also the Monster Beast World.

However, he didn't expect Jiang Yiyi's eyes to light up upon hearing his words. She leaned in and said, "golden finger? So you're the one with the protagonist treatment!"

Su Ze was stunned for a moment, then reacted: "You mean you don't have a golden finger? You're just an ordinary person?"

Only then did Su Ze realize he had been hasty; due to the influence of various works on Earth, he had thought all transmigrators would have their own golden finger, but he hadn't expected that only he had one.

Jiang Yiyi nodded and said, "That's right. Not only do I not have a golden finger, but because of my otherworldly soul, my affinity with the monster beasts here is zero. I'm not even a Beast Tamer; I can only be an ordinary person."

Su Ze was stunned; his original self was the same way before, with zero intimacy with any monster beast, making it impossible to form a contract.

This problem was only resolved after Su Ze transmigrated and gained the system.

The issue was that Jiang Yiyi said the culprit behind this problem was the otherworldly soul.

But the original owner of Su Ze's body already had this problem before he transmigrated.

"What's going on?" Su Ze felt like he was overlooking something, but he couldn't think of what it was.

"What are you thinking about? By the way, what is your golden finger? Can you let me see it?"

Su Ze was awakened from his contemplation by Jiang Yiyi. He looked at her expectant gaze and thought for a moment.

Perhaps because she was a Fellow Countryman, or perhaps because Su Ze now had the strength to protect himself and no longer needed to hide everything from acquaintances, he revealed part of his ability.

"I can obtain a demon beast egg of random rank every day. These eggs have special hatching conditions; once met, they will hatch and complete the contract."

"I was originally just like you. It was precisely because of this golden finger that I could become a Beast Tamer."

Hearing this, Jiang Yiyi said, "Wow, that's a really good golden finger. I wonder if I can contract those eggs? Holy Sun said the whole world is in danger now, and I want to help too."

But Su Ze shook his head: "Sorry, I'm afraid that's not possible. Because now... you are actually considered a monster beast, and a Divine Beast among them, so you can't contract other monster beasts..."

Jiang Yiyi was stunned; clearly, Holy Sun hadn't had the chance to tell her everything yet.

"I see, so this is the price of my resurrection..."

Then, she jumped down from the coffin that had carried her for over a hundred years and said, "Let's go out first. Holy Sun said I haven't basked in the sun for over a hundred years."

Su Ze hesitated and said, "But it's night outside."

Jiang Yiyi shrugged: "Basking in the moonlight is fine too."

Outside the tree hollow, everyone was waiting quietly.

The moment Su Ze and Jiang Yiyi appeared, Holy Sun stepped forward and picked Jiang Yiyi up.

"Yi Yi, why did you come out? You just woke up, your body hasn't recovered yet."

Jiang Yiyi touched his face and said, "Don't worry too much, I'm fine now. By the way, do you still have a contract slot?"

Holy Sun was stunned and nodded: "As you know, the Ape King is very overbearing; it doesn't allow me to contract other monster beasts with bloodlines lower than its own."

Jiang Yiyi nodded and said, "Call it out, I'll talk to it!"

Soon, Holy Sun summoned that monkey with overwhelming battle intent.

The moment she saw it, Azure Cloud hid behind Xiao Sheng.

He finally understood why, even though his strength was now similar to Holy Sun's, he could never win; it turned out Azure Cloud had been beaten into submission and cowered as soon as they met.

But now, this Monkey King, who fought against heaven and earth, was being handled by a weak woman.

"Little monkey, I heard you've become quite overbearing lately? Now that I want to contract with the Great Sage, do I still need your permission?"

The Monkey King immediately said flatteringly, "If it's the Mistress, then of course there's no problem."

"That's more like it."

Holy Sun was stunned: "Yi Yi, what did you just say?"

"I said I want to contract with you. Do you disagree?"

"Of course not, it's just... I don't want to treat you as a tamed beast..."

Jiang Yiyi frowned and said, "Why have you become so indecisive? You are my great sage equal to heaven!"

"Do you want me to become someone else's tamed beast?"

Holy Sun suddenly perked up and shouted sternly, "That's definitely not allowed!"

"Since you know that, why do you still disagree? I'm a Divine Beast that everyone wants now. What if someone contracts me while you're away one day?"

"I will never let that happen!"

"Then contract with me." Jiang Yiyi flashed a successful smile.

Holy Sun hesitated for a moment and finally stepped forward; the light of the contract array suddenly flared up.