99: Chapter 99 Earth Spirit: Thank you for nature's bounty!

Jiang You stood up, feeling satisfied. Although he didn't know the way at all, he still pretended to identify the direction and walked toward the place with light based on his gut feeling.

"It's almost dawn. I have to hurry back; maybe I can get some more sleep!"

...

Not long after Jiang You left while humming a little tune.

Beneath that pit that had just been filled in.

The soil suddenly began to squirm eerily.

The Earth Spirit, which had originally intended to give up and was preparing to burrow home, suddenly bumped its head against something hard while traveling underground.

"Thump!"

"Ouch!"

The Earth Spirit rubbed its head, and puzzled, it stretched out a mud tentacle to touch it.

Cold, hard, square...

And that familiar silver metallic texture.

The Earth Spirit froze.

Immediately afterward, a surge of immense ecstasy welled up in its heart!

It fiercely wrapped around the object and dragged it to the surface, letting that silver metal case return to the sunlight once again!

"Big Brother! Big Brother!"

The Earth Spirit's voice was trembling with excitement:

"Stop running! Come back quickly!"

"We're rich! We're rich!"

In the distance, the Mist Ghost transformed into smoke and drifted down: "What's up? Did you find money?"

The Earth Spirit pointed at the silver briefcase it was holding in its arms, with the pride of a "Chosen One":

"Look at what this is!"

"That terrifying human... he actually buried this treasure!"

"What does this mean?"

"It means this treasure is too precious, and he couldn't take it with him! Or maybe he was afraid of it being stolen by others, so he hid it here!"

"But this underground... is our brothers' territory!"

"Hehehe!"

The Mist Ghost circled the case twice, also trembling with excitement as its smoke wavered:

"This is fate!"

"We spent half the day thinking about how to rob him, and in the end, he delivered it right to our door?"

"This is what you call—a gift from nature!"

The two demon beasts, like misers, clutched the case filled with underwear tightly, letting out boisterous laughter.

"Let's go! Move it home!"

"From now on, this will be our family heirloom!"

"No one can take it away!"

Just like that.

Jiang You thought he had buried his social death.

While the two demon beasts thought they had obtained a treasure.

Both sides felt they had made a huge profit.

Only the underwear inside the case lay quietly in the darkness, waiting for the moment to see the light of day again and give this world a small shock.

...

Meanwhile, the sky was getting brighter.

Deep in the Mist Swamp, there was an extremely hidden valley that wasn't even marked on the map.

It was completely different from the harsh environment outside, filled with miasma and mud; this place was simply a paradise.

The valley was sunny, with babbling streams and fresh air.

The most absurd thing was that several acres of neat vegetable patches had been cultivated here, growing succulent Chinese cabbage and radishes, with a grape trellis set up nearby.

At the end of the valley stood a cozy little wooden house that looked like it had been there for some years.

The wooden house was surrounded by a white-painted wooden fence, and on the door hung a large, everyday iron padlock that looked like it would stop a gentleman but not a villain.

At this moment, Plum Blossom Three and Diamond Five were sticking their butts in the air, digging frantically in the grass outside the fence, tearing up the perfectly good lawn until it looked like it had been chewed on by a dog.

"Huff... huff..."

Plum Blossom Three wiped the mud off his face, holding the compass that kept spinning wildly, with a look of collapse:

"This isn't right! Old Five!"

"The intelligence given by the organization clearly shows that the sealing ground of that terrifying Tier 5 Great Demon is right at this coordinate!"

"How come we've circled here eight hundred times, and besides this crappy house and the Chinese cabbage, we haven't seen anything?"

Diamond Five lay on a rock, his tongue hanging out, also looking doubtful about life:

"Third Brother, have we been scammed?"

"Look at this place; does it look anything like a place where a Great Demon would be sealed?"

Diamond Five pointed at the cozy wooden house full of signs of life, looking disdainful:

"A dignified Tier 5 Great Demon is a master-level existence! That is a ferocious, heaven-swallowing, earth-devouring monster!"

"The place where it's sealed should at least be shrouded in black mist, have chains across the sky, and be covered in skulls, right?"

"What is this place? A farmhouse resort?"

"I think this is just an illegal structure secretly built by a former school ranger or some retired employee!"

Plum Blossom Three nodded in deep agreement and stuck his shovel into the ground:

"That makes sense!"

"This place looks too comfortable; there's not a shred of killing intent."

"There must be some misunderstanding! That Great Demon must be hiding in a deeper, more dangerous place!"

"Let's not waste time here; if we keep digging, we'll only dig up earthworms!"

The two were grumbling as they prepared to pack up and leave.

Just at this moment.

"Creak—"

A soft sound.

That wooden fence gate with the broken lock was suddenly pushed open from the inside.

Immediately after.

A girl who looked seventeen or eighteen years old, stunningly beautiful, with Skin as fair as a porcelain doll, walked out slowly.

She was wearing loose, comfortable pink pure cotton pajamas, stepping into a pair of fluffy rabbit slippers, and holding a bag of freshly opened potato chips.

On top of her head, two snow-white fox ears twitched slightly, and her eyes revealed a sense of sleepy confusion and clear... stupidity.

Tier 5 Great Demon, Phantom Demon Fox, Bai Lan!

The air suddenly went quiet.

The compass in Plum Blossom Three's hand dropped.

Diamond Five opened his toad mouth wide.

Bai Lan stood at the doorway, stuffed a potato chip into her mouth, chewed it with a "crunch," and then tilted her head, looking at these two "weirdos" who had covered themselves in mud.

She blinked her big, watery eyes, and her voice was soft and sweet, carrying a hint of innocent confusion:

"Um... uncles."

"Are you two... looking for something?"

"This is my front door, you know; you've stepped on the radishes I planted."

Plum Blossom Three and Diamond Five looked at each other, both seeing shock and vigilance in the other's eyes.

"What the hell? Where did this living person come from?"

"How can there be a little girl in this S-Rank Forbidden Zone in the middle of nowhere?"

"And she has fox ears? Is this... a demon beast transformation?"

"No! Look at her silly appearance; there's not a trace of demonic aura on her, and her eyes are as clear as a college student who hasn't graduated yet."

"Could it be... is she also a student here for special training? Or some kind of low-level rabbit-ear demon beast?"

"Or maybe... is she the illegitimate daughter that Old Man Pang secretly raised outside?"

Diamond Five coughed to cover his embarrassment, and at the same time to test her, he deliberately deepened his voice and said fiercely:

"Ahem!"

"Little girl! Mind your own business!"

"We are... we were sent by the school to repair the sewer!"

"Right! To repair the water pipes!"

"We are looking for a very terrifying, scary, green-faced, fanged big fox! Have you seen it?"

Bai Lan was stunned for a moment.

She looked down at the rabbit slippers on her feet, then at the potato chips in her hand.

Fox?

Terrifying?

Scary?

Green-faced and fanged?

Bai Lan couldn't help but mutter in her heart: "Hmm... I don't think I look like that."