Chapter 17 – Are Fire Crystals Tasty?

“It’s hard to level up the favored beasts this wave and replace them with a drawing for a bonfire furnace, and the accumulated inventory is running out again.”

Wait for the little pangolin to go into the hole and dig.

Xu Jingnian sat on the bed, looking at the empty silver treasure chest, shaking his head and sighing.

“It wasn’t wasted though, it’s all bound to be consumed, we’ll see how much ore the little guy can bring me back later ……”

Think of it this way.

Xu Jingnian’s sleepiness came back.

Over time, the cold festered and got a little worse, escalating from an initial slight sore throat to a foggy brain.

Before bed.

Xu Jingnian went and ate some pork jerky, as well as two meat floss buns, and filled himself with lots of water.

He lay back down on the bed, hoping that when he woke up from a nap, it wouldn’t become too serious.

……

Slept for about four hours or so.

Xu Jingnian then woke up in a daze, not daring to sleep for too long, not even a quilt, he might not wake up at all.

Good thing the cold didn’t get much worse.

It’s just a blocked nose.

Not fatal, but very unpleasant.

Forcefully sucking in air twice, Xu Jingnian felt that instead of relief, he was even more blocked.

“It’s so uncomfortable, I really must come back with a different quilt, or the cold to won’t kill me, but the cold may stay away!”

Gobble, gobble.

He poured himself another large gulp of mineral water, an act that, in the current Misty World, would be very extravagant.

But he didn’t care.

Drink lots of water when you have a cold to get better faster ……

“Hey, after sleeping for so many hours, let’s see, how many fire crystals did the little one dig up for me and return?”

Xu Jingnian shot up.

Opening the silver treasure chest placed beside the bed, however, revealed that there was not a single fire crystal inside.

What’s going on?

He turned on Perception Synchronization.

In his mind, the vision synchronized to what the wearer saw, the dimly lit grotto in front of him.

Not being lazy, still digging.

It was seen plunging its claws into the rock, digging out a piece of gravel, then grabbing and handing it to its mouth.

Click, click–

With a crisp chewing sound, it took a fist-sized stone into its stomach in three tries.

“Little guy.”

Xu Jingnian conveyed his instructions to it through a mental link, “Where’s the ore you dug up in so many hours?”

The master’s voice came in his head.

The little pangolin blinked as it stopped digging, then turned its head to look back.

Only a small pile of fire crystals lay on the rocky floor, emitting a warm orange light that illuminated the pitch-black grotto by a fraction of a millimeter, so it was no wonder it was just a little dim.

Xu Jingnian roughly counted, such a small pile of fire crystals, at least all of them had more than double digits, at least twenty fire crystals!

“Little guy, you’re going against the odds!”

Xu Jingnian exclaimed in surprise, a joyful expression on his face that he couldn’t help.

Hey ……

It shows up on the outside world and he looks like a demented child giggling in the face of the air.

No wonder there were no fire crystals in the silver treasure chest.

It turned out that the little pangolin had stayed underground since he’d gone down the hole before he’d gone to bed, and hadn’t had to throw gravel, digging and eating all of its own.

“Stop for a moment and bring up these dug ores, and I’ll see what’s the matter!”

He arranged it.

The pangolin nodded.

After a while, Xu Jingnian watched as it drilled out of the hole in the ground with a warm, jade-like fire crystal.

Relying on the fact that he couldn’t get it all at once, the little guy went down for another trip before bringing up all the fire crystals.

[Fire Crystal*23]

Looking at the fire crystals that had filled the silver chest halfway, Xu Jingnian laughed up at the sky.

He’s never had so many fire crystals in stock before, so please cheer for the little guy and drink…cheer for the little guy!

It wasn’t long ago that I ran out of stock, only to wake up and directly double the maximum again.

That’s why it’s so nice to have a favored animal that doesn’t need to rest!

“Little one, digging for so long, how many stones must you eat, let me see if the stones are nutritious or not?”

He opened the Pangolin’s Favored Beast panel:

[Favored Animal: Chinese Pangolin]

[Real name: unnamed]

[Status: energy stimulation in progress, full of vigor! (Twenty hours remaining ……)]

[Attribute: Gold]

[Rank: Cub Second Order (37%↑)]

[Skill: Bronze Teeth and Iron Stomach]

[Specialty: Digging]

It’s only grown to thirty-seven percent?

Xu Jingnian had some regrets, it seems that just letting the favored beasts eat “dirt” is really not going to grow too much ah.

He’d fantasized before that if the little guy could grow fast just by eating rocks, it would save him a ton of food.

Unfortunately it doesn’t work.

Of course, Xu Jingnian was only thinking about it and wouldn’t do that, or else it would be a bit too inappropriate!

If someone asks: are you a good Sentinel?

Xu Jingnian thought: I am!

Without complaint, he helped his favorite beasts to transfer the most boring, tedious, and second-long rest to himself!

It’s a form of leadership ……

“Right, since the little guy can eat anything and everything can be digested, fire crystals should be able to do the same, right?”

Xu Jingnian suddenly thought.

If there was one thing that was the most nutritious of all the resources he had now, it was inevitably the fire crystals.

Previously, due to the fact that fire crystals could only be given to fire-type pet beasts to absorb, Xu Jingnian had used them as a trading currency to exchange for resources with other people.

But now, it seems that one’s favored beasts can be used as well.

Although the attribute of the little pangolin armor was gold, it had copper teeth and an iron stomach, biting the sky and the earth, and all things could be digested!

“Fire crystals should work too.”

Xu Jingnian didn’t hesitate, decisively picking up a fire crystal and bending down to put it into the stone basin that had been bitten with two gaping holes.

“Little guy, give you a bandwagon ……” Xu Jingnian pointed at the fire crystal and issued a command, “Eat!”

Pangolin:?

Today, it single walk question mark is too much, after all, Xu Jingnian a moment called it to eat stone, this will call it to eat this warm crystal ……

Although the baby pangolin is still a pup.

But the memories it engraved in its bloodline clearly tell it that the race of Chinese pangolin should not be stone eaters ……

Is this stuff edible?

The little pangolin wanted to cry.

It was so hard to accept gnawing on rocks, and now we’re telling it to gnaw on crystals, well, it’s not like it’s inedible.

“Hurry up and eat, I think ah, this fire crystal, should be more delicious than a stone.”

“A!”

The little pangolin talked back, meaning, why doesn’t the owner eat it himself then ……

“I’d love to eat it, but unfortunately I’m not super human.”

Xu Jingnian really wanted to eat it, but unfortunately, he was just an ordinary person, so if he ate a stone into his stomach, he would really have to jam himself.

“A!”

The little pangolin picked up the fire crystal with its claws, hesitated for a moment, and then gently bit on it.

Click!

The little pangolin lit up before his eyes.

Those who have eaten fire crystals know that they are, indeed, better to eat than rocks.

A mouthful of it filled with fire aroma, and the blazing fire attribute energy slid right down his throat like a burst of syrup.

“A!”

The pangolin exclaimed, meaning it was delicious, that is, it was so spicy that his mouth, throat, and stomach immediately became hot.

“Ha, randomly scaring the shit out of a GD ……”

Xu Jingnian looked at the Favored Beast Panel and noticed that the growth progress bar began to surge after the little pangolin ate the Fire Crystal:

[Rank: Cub Second Order (42…55…67%↑)]

Eventually, after reaching a progress of eighty-two, it slowed down and began to grow slowly, and by the looks of it, it could go up to ninety or more.

“My god, is this the Fire Crystal, just eating one of them nearly boosted your progress by two-thirds!”

Xu Jingnian was dumbfounded by the effect.

He asked, “Little one, I was right, this Fire Crystal is delicious, isn’t it?”

“A!”

The pangolin nodded.

Xu Jingnian nodded his head as well.

He was very generous with his favored beasts.

“Then let’s get another one while it’s hot!”

Xu Jingnian brought another fire crystal and put it into the stone basin, “Eat it quickly, it won’t taste good if it gets cold ……”