Chapter 243: Searching for the Fire Extinguisher

Somewhere in the Magic Miasma Jungle, Gomolaiyin Haken and his brother Xintamu Haken were resting together in a carriage. The surroundings were littered with the corpses of Magic Wolves; it was clear they had just experienced a fierce battle.

Their Tricycle was covered in marks left by the claws and fangs of Magic Wolves, and the carriage was filled with overturned dye and white paper.

Beep, beep, beep~

A sudden system notification sound rang out, causing Xintamu Haken to impatiently open his private messages; upon seeing the sender, he immediately sat upright.

Gomolaiyin Haken asked curiously, "Xintamu, what happened?"

"The Deputy Regiment Leader sent me a friend request." Xintamu Haken immediately accepted the friend request and asked the other party, "May I ask what the honorable Deputy Regiment Leader needs from me?"

On the other side, seeing that Xintamu Haken had accepted his friend request, Zhu Zhiquan sent: "You are very good at drawing, right?"

After Xintamu Haken gave an affirmative reply, Zhu Zhiquan turned his head and asked Zhao Yuxin: "Does he know about drawing the currency patterns?"

Zhao Yuxin answered with a smile: "He knows. Sun already told them about this, and I even had this person prepare a first draft for me."

Zhu Zhiquan nodded gently, then proceeded to ask how the first draft was coming along.

Xintamu Haken turned to look at the mess in the carriage and replied: "It's still early. I just started when I was attacked by magic creatures, so I have to redesign it."

"Alright, just remember to send it to me once you've finished the design." After sending this message, Zhu Zhiquan closed the panel and prepared to begin a new round of training.

Click~

Zhao Yuxin suddenly blocked Zhu Zhiquan's path, pinched her voice, and said: "Ajiu~ Look at how you're both a Regiment Leader and doing research now, it's super hard work~ Don't you think there should be some kind of gesture?"

Zhu Zhiquan smiled and stroked her head; he wanted to say something but didn't know what to say, so he could only relieve the awkwardness by patting her head.

"Mm~ Don't mess up my hair!" Zhao Yuxin pouted and pushed his hand away, tidying up the hairstyle that had been ruffled.

After combing her hair again, Zhao Yuxin changed to a normal tone: "Currently, many of my research projects are either hitting bottlenecks or have already been completed. I feel a bit bored and want to find something fun."

Something fun? Where would one find something fun in this Magic Miasma Jungle that had been scorched by a great fire?

Zhao Yuxin glanced outside the carriage inadvertently and discovered that the dead trees outside, which had originally been scorched by the fire, had been replaced by lush, vibrant trees. Out of curiosity, she had Xuebao stop the vehicle, and she got out to investigate.

Zhao Yuxin looked along the path they had come from and vaguely saw that there were still scorched, dead trees in the distance.

She didn't rush over, but instead called out toward the front, using the echo of the sound waves to realize that there seemed to be a pool of some kind of liquid acting as a boundary line; she had been too focused on her research before to notice it.

Out of curiosity, Zhao Yuxin quickly arrived beside the liquid and clearly saw that it was green. When she touched it with her hand, it felt sticky; she guessed it was some kind of magic creature spraying liquid to prevent the fire from spreading.

"Interesting." Zhao Yuxin's eyes immediately sparkled with stars. "Such a large area must mean they are gregarious, and they must possess a certain social structure; otherwise, it would be impossible for there to be no signs of fire within a three-kilometer radius."

"Ajiu~" Zhao Yuxin trotted back to the carriage. "Shall we go find these magic creatures together?"

Zhu Zhiquan immediately gave her a hand-chop, then told Xuebao to continue driving.

"You're not allowed to leave!"

Zhao Yuxin's words made Xuebao stop stepping on the brake, and he turned to look at the two of them.

"Ajiu~ Please~ I want to know what the fire-extinguishing magic creature actually is; it will be beneficial for my research. Please~"

"Pfft~"

Gelina, who was rooted in the Flowerpot, watched Zhao Yuxin acting spoiled toward Zhu Zhiquan and almost laughed out loud.

Zhao Yuxin ignored Gelina's mockery and looked at Zhu Zhiquan with a pitiful gaze.

After a stalemate of half a minute, Zhu Zhiquan finally gave in and chose to agree.

"Yay! I knew Ajiu was the best!" After getting his consent, Zhao Yuxin excitedly threw herself into Zhu Zhiquan's arms, her feet kicking around non-stop.

Zhu Zhiquan asked with an expressionless face: "How do you plan to find them?"

"That's simple. To extinguish a forest fire of this scale, they must be quite large, which means they will definitely leave tracks. We just need to follow the tracks when the time comes."

After hearing this, Zhu Zhiquan let her go find these so-called magic creatures and turned to walk toward Gelina, while Xuebao obediently drove the Tricycle to follow Zhao Yuxin.

At this moment, Gelina's palm-sized body was surrounded by white light spots; these light spots seemed to be forming some kind of pattern, gradually wrapping around her body.

Gelina felt Zhu Zhiquan's gaze and subconsciously turned her head to look at him. At the same time, the light spots around Gelina showed signs of drifting away as her attention shifted.

"It's nothing, um... you... continue." Feeling that he had disturbed Gelina, Zhu Zhiquan's tone couldn't help but tremble, and he slowly turned around to stop paying attention.

Seeing that Zhu Zhiquan was no longer paying attention to her, Gelina immediately entered a state of focus.

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After ten-plus minutes of bumping along in the Tricycle, Zhao Yuxin immediately had Xuebao stop, and she called for Zhu Zhiquan to control the Five-Star Sword for flight.

"Ajiu, my Bat Wing Ear caught that there are many magic creatures gathered ahead; the magic creature I'm looking for might be among them. After you drop me off nearby, just stay in the vicinity and keep watch."

"Alright."

Once they arrived near the large group of magic creatures, Zhao Yuxin had Zhu Zhiquan control the Five-Star Sword to fly into a bush, and then the two of them poked their heads out together to observe.

Directly in front of them was a group of deer that looked like jelly; their antlers were a pair of candy-like material, and their jelly-like bodies allowed the two of them to clearly see the organs inside.

"What a magical creature. I wonder if it's the type I'm looking for." After Zhao Yuxin finished whispering, she made a shushing gesture to Zhu Zhiquan, then carefully walked out of the bush.

The deer-like magic creatures sensed an outsider approaching and immediately assumed a fighting stance.

Seeing this, Zhao Yuxin immediately stopped approaching and kept waving her hands to signal that she had no malicious intent.

But the magic creatures still didn't feel at ease and kept their fighting stance. Zhao Yuxin had no choice but to lower her posture and keep backing away, attempting to make them lower their guard.

Seeing that Zhao Yuxin indeed posed no threat, the magic creatures went back to doing their own things—some grazing, some sleeping—appearing very harmonious. However, there were still some magic creatures that were uneasy and kept staring at Zhao Yuxin.

Zhao Yuxin didn't make any moves, keeping a certain distance from them, until a deer half her height approached without being harmed, and the other magic creatures also tried to make contact with Zhao Yuxin one by one.

After getting a little closer, Zhao Yuxin saw that the noses of these deer were a bit like white chocolate, and they smelled of a faint, fragrant grass.

Feeling that these deer had no aggression, Zhao Yuxin immediately called for Zhu Zhiquan.

The sudden shout made all the deer alert, and they all looked toward the position where Zhao Yuxin had called out.

When Zhu Zhiquan walked out of the bush, these deer immediately saw that he was of the same kind as Zhao Yuxin, so some of the bolder deer tried to make contact.