Chapter 966: Magical Bread, Changing People into Living Beings

Boundless Wilderness, eerie farmland.

Xia Duo looked at the farmland before him, which felt like a scene from a movie, and his mood was quite complex; from sowing to growth, from harvesting to threshing and milling, time here was like child's play, passing in a flash.

During this period, in order to test for more reactions from the current scene, Xia Duo also attempted to collect the wheat and flour harvested by those four eerie farmers into his Personal Space.

But nothing changed; those few farmers did not stop him, the scene did not collapse, and even the wheat and flour he had collected into his Personal Space remained perfectly intact.

It was as if everything he saw was completely Reality.

This left Xia Duo feeling somewhat disappointed; if everything here was real, it meant he might find it very difficult to find the way back.

He suppressed the discomfort in his heart, did not explode on the spot, and continued to wait quietly for the next change in the scene.

And the next moment, just as Xia Duo had expected, the scene changed without warning, and a simple bakery appeared on the edge of the field.

Adding it to the previous mill, it was only short one residential house from being a micro-village.

……

Crackle, pop—this was the sound of firewood burning in the bakery, but Xia Duo was not moved in the slightest; nothing happening in the scene now was enough to move him.

If he had been extremely shocked at the very beginning, now that he had been shocked so many times, he had become numb, until the burnt aroma of bread drifted into his nostrils, and his expression suddenly changed.

This smell was unpleasant, especially for Xia Duo, who had already replicated his hometown's steamed buns in his Territory, but what he truly cared about was not the surface-level scent, but—

Merely smelling the scent of this bread made his spirit perk up; one must know that he had been Spellcasting to probe the surrounding environment and measuring the current state of the Magic Net, and while he had not completely exhausted his energy, he had at least felt fatigued.

Mental fatigue!

But just now, he had smelled that burnt aroma of baking bread, and his spirit felt as if it had been through a Baptism by invisible water of purification, suddenly becoming much clearer.

This was a bit like the Bonu Tea he often drank, or perhaps the spices specialty of the Beilaila Family Territory, but the effect was even more obvious.

He had only smelled the scent now and already felt refreshed, so what if he took a bite?

Although Xia Duo knew that rashly eating things here might lead to unforeseen events, once this thought arose, he could not suppress it no matter what.

In any case, he had already reached this point; if there really was some mastermind behind the scenes, then it made no difference whether he ate or not, as an arm could not twist a thigh.

And if there was no mastermind, then he could not find a way back now, and in the foreseeable future, it was highly likely he would not find one either.

There was indeed stored food in his Personal Space, but it would eventually run out, and at that time, he would still have to obtain food from this eerie place.

Having bread to eat now was already a good thing; if he were to explore in the direction of the sun and move away from this farmland, he would not be able to eat bread even if he wanted to.

Regardless, Xia Duo just wanted to see something different now, which might be helpful for him to understand the environment he was currently in.

……

Thinking it meant doing it, while the bread had not yet come out of the oven, Xia Duo took the Blade of Veto he had retrieved from his Personal Space and went to the side of the bakery.

It was called a bakery, but it was actually very crude; there was no need to enter the door, as the door was the oven door. Xia Duo arrived here, poked it directly with his sword, and poked out a loaf of bread that was scorched yellow and black on the surface and full of cracks.

And those four eerie existences that looked like Netheril farmers seemed to have completely failed to see Xia Duo's actions, showing no reaction to it at all, and still, just like before, chanted slogans while adding firewood to the oven.

Xia Duo also acted as if they did not exist; after the bread cooled down slightly, he took a bite. The taste was, as expected, very poor, and the surface was covered in sand, mud, and ash from the oven—one bite down, and the feeling was truly something else.

But beyond the texture, the mental sensation was completely different; after barely swallowing a mouthful of bread, it was as if a spring had appeared in his spirit, continuously gushing out clear water, baptizing and restoring his fatigued spirit.

Xia Duo tasted two bites and stopped, turning instead to scrape half of the wheat harvested by the four eerie farmers into his Personal Space.

He might have to explore in the direction of the sun next, so storing food was a must; he only took half because he had not yet reached the point where he needed to completely abandon his morals.

After doing this, Xia Duo continued to wait for the changes in the current scene; from sowing to making bread, what would come next?

There would be a residential house!

He had just been thinking that it was only one residential house short of being a micro-village, but when the house truly appeared before him, Xia Duo was still somewhat speechless.

It seemed that with a house, life should be stable; after the four eerie farmers took the freshly baked bread and returned to the room, the scene did not change for a long time.

"Huh—"

Ripples finally appeared in Xia Duo's calm eyes; shouldn't it continue to evolve, or loop from the beginning?

How could everything be over?

Xia Duo walked toward the residential house, unwilling to give up, wanting to see what was happening inside, but he had just moved his feet when an emotional shout came from inside the house:

"Who? Who is outside?"

From this voice, Xia Duo could clearly detect the speaker's nervous emotions, so he immediately stopped his steps, his expression changing constantly.

When he first entered, they were four "robots" without emotions who only knew how to chant slogans; how did they become emotional after just being inside for a while?

However, what Xia Duo was facing now was not four "robots" without initiative; it seemed that seeing he did not answer, the door of the residential house soon opened, and four expressive young people walked out.

The appearance had changed too?

Xia Duo was confused, but at least the other party could speak on their own now, so he stepped forward and asked: "Everyone, I am a traveler from afar, I got lost here, and I would like to ask for directions!"

Upon hearing this, the most robust of the four young people frowned, kept sizing Xia Duo up, and muttered: "Asking for directions? Why do you look like a thief to me?"

Xia Duo heard this and immediately broke into a cold sweat; he had indeed just acted like a thief! But now that the other party seemed to have gained self-awareness, he certainly could not admit it, so he said:

"I am a Spellcaster, how could I be a thief! You must have remembered wrong!"

For this, he even demonstrated a small Spell, summoning a ball of light to hover above his head.

But unexpectedly, this performance of Xia Duo's failed to gain approval; the one among the four who had first asked the question in the room immediately summoned a ball of light to hover above their own head as well.