Don't give up so soon—-3" We are going to attack it from behind," said Mo Qiang while dodging the rubble falling from the sky. The front of the turtle tuber was equipped with a long neck with the head of a diamond snake—— its tongue was viciously long and with those slit-like eyes it was rather easy for it to keep an eye on its surrounding.



If Mo Qiang was to approach it head-on, it was going to defend itself—— and there was a chance that it will attack her. Though the turtle in her world could only eat small beings but compared to those, this giant turtle could easily gobble her in one quick bite. Mo Qiang had no desire to become a turtle feed which was why she choose to attack the back of the turtle tuber.

Because it was so big ...as long as she was to snatch a tuber from its back shell, Mo Qiang was sure that it was not going to catch her. She will get her tuber that she needed to modify and this turtle can go around destroying things as he wanted ——

"It's a female," Xiao Jiao corrected her causing Mo Qiang to look at her with an annoyed look as she snapped, "That's right, I am on the verge of dying here but instead of helping me, you correct me on whether this thing is a male or a female. How do you even know that, its a female?"

" You should care as the female turtle tubers are more vicious than male ones...and if you are not careful enough, they might kill you as they are faster than the males," Xiao Jiao summed up everything causing Mo Qiang to curse inside her head. Just her luck, among all the angry males she could have gotten, she ended up facing an angry female and from the experience that she received in the orphanage, there was no making sense with an angry female unless she got either chocolates or chicken nuggets.

Something she was sure this female did not want!

" If she attacks me, just so you know I am using you as an emergency food stock," Mo Qiang told Xiao Jiao causing the latter to look at her in surprise, then confusion and then she let go of the strands which she was holding on to as Xiao Jiao had full confidence in Mo Qiang.

If this woman was attacked, she will surely hurl her inside the mouth of this thing.

How could Mo Qiang allow Xiao Jiao to escape? She clutched the squirrel tightly in her fist and then sneered coldly, " We are going down together baby."

" Let me go! I can't do this anymore," Xiao Jiao struggled, she was the employer here damn it and Mo Qiang was the employee! What kind of employee fed their boss to a giant turtle?

[ A common employee: We wish...we could.]

Not only did Mo Qiang not let go of Xiao Jiao, she even held her tighter in her grip as she slid under the large slimy belly of the turtle tuber.

" Urgh, she could really use some wash," Mo Qiang muttered as she slipped on the slimy liquid that was dripping down from the green belly of the turtle tuber. The ground under her feet shook even worse than before as she rushed to the hind legs of the female turtle tuber.

" This is its defence mechanism," nettled Xiao Jiao. "It cannot wash it! How unkind of you."

" Yeah and sending a human the size of a dwarf in front of this giant to steal a tuber deserves a noble award for kindness and peace right?" Mo Qiang snapped back sarcastically, she jumped over the large metal piece lying in front of her and then skipped past the large craters in the ground made by the feet of the turtle tuber if she slid inside even an inch then there was no coming out of those craters for at least a day.

They were that deep.

The two of them soon arrived at the back side of the turtle tuber and Mo Qiang raised her head to look at the thick tail of the turtle tuber which moved left and right every three seconds.

" Now how should I climb up on this thing?" She questioned to herself, her eyes fell on the turtle's slimy legs and then at the wreckage of the houses which were destroyed by the turtle tuber in seconds. Mo Qiang quickly used some calculations in her head, fortunately, she was an architect who knew how to use mathematics at the time of need.

Once she was done mentally calculating, she summoned the Seism core technique and then took a few steps back. Slowly instilling the mana in her feet to make sure that they did not explode because of a large amount of mana, Mo Qiang charged at the turtle tuber.

Her agile feet knocked against the ground and then as she jumped and twisted in the air, she kicked the half-broken wall of the cream-coloured house before using it as a springboard and jumping on the back of the turtle tuber.

Good news she reached the top of the turtle tuber shell—— bad news that thing was looking right at us with those ugly yellow eyes of its.

" I thought you said that these things were too large to feel anything," remarked Mo Qiang as her body stiffened in fright after locking her gaze with the turtle tuber who looked very angry with her audacity of jumping on its back.

Xiao Jiao too stiffened up as she gazed at the growling turtle tuber and then replied, " They can't but ...I heard that they could develop new defence mechanisms. Maybe now they are extremely sensitive ... I will go and update it in the database."

" You still think we have a chance of going back?" Mo Qiang questioned.

Xiao Jiao : (˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ ) I don't.

The two of them looked at each other and then turned to look at the height from which they have to jump from if they wanted to save themselves.

' Yup, if we jump now... we will definitely become crushed patties.'

She then turned to look at the diamond-shaped head which resembled an enlarged snake before her eyes fell on those large fangs, she pursed her lips and asked, " How does it feel to get digested by this thing?"

Xiao Jiao : (ὀ⌓ὀ⑅) Don't give up so soon!

Writing her will" What are you doing? Move!" Xiao Jiao shouted right inside Mo Qiang's ear, she thought that the latter was too scared to move which was why she tried to shake Mo Qiang out of her daze but who would have thought that Mo Qiang was not standing still because she was scared.



Mo Qiang was standing still because she was writing her will.

Xiao Jiao: (　'∀｀)

" Be serious, will you! What do you even have to write down in a will anyway?!" Xiao Jiao slapped Mo Qiang when she saw that the woman was writing down her will and sending it to Mo Xifeng via star drop. She had to be kidding her! How can anyone lay down their life without fighting for it?

" What are you talking about, I do have two fields to hand over right? Anyway, it was your blue screen that told me that as long as I get caught by a turtle tuber, I should just give up on my life, right?" Mo Qiang sent the will to Mo Xifeng and then faced the turtle's head which was glaring right at her. " Come on, if you are going to kill me do it right away!"

" You idiot!" Xiao Jiao shrieked as she turned to look at the turtle tuber, though it was true that once a human was caught by a turtle tuber they should lay down their life but that doesn't mean that they should give up so easily!

The turtle tuber hissed sharply as she glared at Mo Qiang with her mean yellow eyes. The reason she did not attack Mo Qiang till now was that she was stunned after seeing something jump on her back but now as the daze which washed over her head was slowly clearing up, the turtle tuber started to growl at Mo Qiang as foam dripped from its gigantic mouth.

It snarled and hissed before elongating its neck and aiming straight at Mo Qiang, as the mouth which was even bigger than a chasm got close to them, Xiao Jiao closed her eyes and buried herself into Mo Qiang's arms. She could have of course escaped but it felt too cowardly to do that, her host was facing a danger which was going to cost her—— her life, so how could she leave her alone?

As the hot breath of the turtle tuber approached them, Xiao Jiao shut her eyes even tighter when suddenly,

" Jump down, Qiang'er!" A voice screamed at Mo Qiang from the front followed by a loud bang.

The bang was so loud that Xiao Jiao opened her eyes on pure instincts and as soon as she opened her eyes, she then noticed the smoke which was covering the large snake head.

" What the...?" Her mouth went agape as she hadn't expected something like this to happen, it was only when she saw Yin Fu standing in front of the turtle tuber with a highly futuristic large canon in his hands did she realise what was going on. She turned to look at Mo Qiang and then snapped, " Did you just make a fool out of me?"

Xiao Jiao was very angry when she thought about how Mo Qiang lied to her and made her worry when she already knew that Yin Fu was coming to save them!

" You are wrong, I was just taking preventive measures," Mo Qiang took a few steps back as she took a leap and jumped down, her fingers hooked around the metal of the building which she used to slow down her pace and then let go of it once they were close to the ground. " In case that mer was delayed by something like stumbling on the rubble scattered over the ground, I did not wish for you to die with a broken hope."

" You ..." Xiao Jiao narrowed her eyes as she looked at Mo Qiang and then said with a suspicious look on her face, " You only did it because you wanted to see me getting scared right?"

Mo Qiang smirked and then said in a low voice, " Your scared face was amazing, Jiao Jiao. I did not know that your fur could bristle like that."

" You...."

Thwack!

" Qi Qi!" Yin Fu heaved a sigh of relief when he saw Mo Qiang rush towards him but paused when he saw a very angry squirrel nibbling on Mo Qiang's cheek. " This...what happened to her?"

" Nothing, she is just scared and trying to take some comfort," Of course, Mo Qiang was not going to tell him that she teased Xiao Jiao and this wasn't the correct time to do it anyway. With her cheek getting nibbled on she reached out her hand and caught Yin Fu's wrist before saying, " I owe you one."

If not for this mer running back and bringing such a wonderful weapon with him that it successfully dazed the turtle tuber, Mo Qiang was sure that she would have died today.

Yin Fu's face blushed as he heard Mo Qiang's praise. First, he was the first among the three who got praised by her! Amazing! He could boast for a week with this alone.

" There is no need for you to say such words, it was my responsibility —— ahhhhh!" Yin Fu was still speaking when he suddenly felt a tug in his wrist and then he was running in the opposite direction of where the turtle tuber was standing.

" Why are we running already?" He asked as he looked at the turtle tuber which was still whipping its head left and right and then turned to look at Mo Qiang. " We could still take a bit of rest, all right? The smoke is not going to vanish so soon."

"How do you know that?" Mo Qiang frowned as she heard his words and then turned to look at Yin Fu.

" I know that because I was the one who made that canon," replied Yin Fu with a calm face as if he said nothing of great importance but because of his words Mo Qiang's expression went from

(꒪ȏ꒪;)——> ∑(ΦдΦll

" EHHHHH?"

Writing her will———2---------------



"What do you mean you made it? Did you not find it somewhere lying here?" Mo Qiang asked when she saw Yin Fu running towards the turtle tuber, she thought that he picked it from somewhere but now he was telling her that he made it. With what?!

( ;ↀ⌓ↀ)

" Where will I get something this great? There is no canon made to take a turtle tuber that big down in the market yet," stated Yin Fu with a blank look on his face, a frown settling between his eyebrows as she parted his lips and explained, " I had to pick up starters, smoke bomb and a lot of things on my way. You are lucky that I was carrying my gun-making kit for monkeys, though it took a lot of time I was able to make it just in time or else I would have to make a chainsaw as well to cut its belly open and take you out."

Mo Qiang: （;^ω^）

"Are you saying that you picked up the rubble on the ground and then made that thing?" She pointed to the long white gun which had a really stylish blue strip which glowed from the tip to the edge of its holder. Of course, it turned red when Yin Fu fired it at the turtle tuber.

" Of course, " Yin Fu nodded but then his expression stiffened as if just realising what he said and his face turned red as he stuttered, " Though I do have some skills when it comes to gun making, its only because my mother runs an illegal arms business and teaches all her kids to make something new every month ...no what I meant to say that though I have these skills I am still a very pitiful and helpless mer, all right?"

" Your mother....?" Mo Qiang's expression continued to distort as she looked at Yin Fu whose expression became more and more shy as he replied, " She is the leader of the underground gang called Fiery Tails."

Immediately, Mo Qiang turned around and asked her monitor to do a small search on the group called fiery tails, she thought that it was a small group of local thugs but what popped out was——

[ Mafia gang, ranked number one in the underground world. Leader —— Yin Yu Cai. Wanted for three hundred murders, drug cases and kidnapping and disappearance, was last seen when she was almost caught by Mo Yan with her son. She is still on the loose with a wanted price of more than five hundred million imperial coins, if anyone knows about her hideout or sees her, please contact on——]

Mo Qiang: (ᇂ_ᇂ |||) Her mother-in-law is a drug and mafia lord.

" All of the beings you found a mafia prince for my husband?" She whipped her head around and looked at the squirrel who was sitting on her shoulder with an accusatory gaze only for Xiao Jiao to turn her head away as she stated in a quiet voice, "But you should be glad with his talents, you were able to survive, right?"

Ah. Yes, she was grateful. So grateful!

All these days she only thought that this mer was a slightly black-bellied and nothing else. But now she was finding out that this mer was not only the son of a mafia lord but he was also skilled in making heaven-defying weapons just by using trash.

If she had made him upset when she was not aware of this information, Mo Qiang was sure that this man would have shot her dead when she was sleeping!

" I am going to skin you once we go back!" Mo Qiang sneered but then she did not have much time to pay attention to Xiao Jiao as the turtle tuber finally got rid of the smoke which was sticking close to its face by whipping her head left and right.

She caught Yin Fu by his waist and pulled him behind a trash can which was sitting against the wall of a building that was once tall before it was crashed by the neck of the turtle tuber.

She did not ask Yin Fu about how he came to become her husband because Mo Qiang more or less understood that Yin Yu Cai used her son whom she did not care about as a feint to make things muddled. She knew that she was going to be caught which was why she left behind Yin Fu and caused the entire search team to be lost.

If Mo Yan hadn't brought Yin Fu who was innocent and young back then to get married to her daughter —— he might have been executed because he shared the same name as Yin Yu Cai.

Damn now she felt a little bit guilty, no wonder Yin Fu was against divorce. He did not have anywhere to go and even if he did, he might end up dying if he was to step out in the world.

However, that guilt only stayed for a few minutes as the turtle tuber behind them roared angrily shattering the windows of the houses and causing the ground to shake.

Mo Qiang heard a loud bang and then she watched something big and oval—— twice the size of an ostrich egg fly towards the crowd that was running towards the bus stop and then ——

Bang!

With a loud explosion, greenish blue flames rose in the air as soon as the tuber which was sent flying hit the ground and Mo Qiang watched the people running fall to ground one by one. Her eyes widened when she realised that the efficiency of the turtle tuber poison had increased two times fold.

When Xiao Jiao showed the information about turtle tuber she told her that the efficiency of turtle tuber poison was ranked seven but as she stared at the falling humans, Mo Qiang was sure that this turtle tuber was a lot stronger than either she and Xiao Jiao expected it to be!

" We are dead...oh we are so dead," not only did they underestimate their opponent they even pissed it off.

Writing her will——3------------------------" This is bad jeez," Mo Qiang stared at the chaos, screams and cries filled the surrounding as the people in the crowd fell on the ground one by one. She did not think that the range of a turtle tuber attack can be this big—— the turtle tuber attacked the crowd which was at least five kilometres away from where it was standing and even the efficiency of its poison was now ranked seven as it only needed three seconds to affect the humans under the range of the poisonous gas.



" There is no need to worry," said Xiao Jiao, her paws flying on the blue screen as she relayed the damage to Mo Qiang, " The poison though potent will only make them paralyse for a week as long as they remain safe without getting squashed by that thing, they will survive. Since reinforcements will be arriving pretty soon."

Mo Qiang pursed her lips as she looked at the thing which was taking one grand step after another. From the looks of it, the turtle tuber was heading straight towards the crowd, forget about seven days they were going to be turned into meat patties if they were not saved right away.

Her eyes fell on the young children who were on the ground crying for their parents to stand up and run with them. And suddenly she was sent back to the day when her parents left her alone in the orphanage, though she was very young when she was sent away —— she still held a vague memory of stuttering unclear words and asking her parents to stay, more importantly, she was crying just like those kids in the crowd.

" Hey, Yin Fu," she suddenly spoke up because Mo Qiang was asking him to do something selfish, she did not have the courage to look him in the eyes as she watched the dust rise and settle on the ground. " If I ask you to do something foolish will you do it?"

Yin Fu turned his gaze to look at his wife whose back was facing him and he sighed before replying, " I already have a feeling about what you are going to ask me ... but just so you know you will owe me a favour again."

There was no reply for two seconds as Yin Fu's eyes stayed on the sturdy back which never bowed even more a second and then——

" I already owe you my life, so I guess a favour is not that bad," Mo Qiang turned around and looked at Yin Fu before flashing him a smile. " If we get out of here alive then we will settle our scores. What do you say?"

" Heh," Yin Fu adjusted the setting of his gun and then loaded it up before saying, " Talking about debt with the son of a mafia lord, you really have no fear do you ?"

With that, he stepped out from behind and then aimed at the head of the turtle tuber before screaming at the top of his lungs, "Get ready to run!"

His fingers pulled the trigger of the gun as the blue glow turned to red and with a bang something heavy and sharp like an enlarged metal bullet was sent flying towards the turtle tuber. It hit her right across her nose, attracting the attention of the large monster.

Just as Mo Qiang planned once the turtle tuber locked them as her target, she turned around and started to chase them.

" AHHHH! Why did you have to do that?!" Xiao Jiao screamed as she felt the thing chase after them. She did not expect Mo Qiang to try and save those people after all, since when did she become such a bodhisattva?

Mo Qiang did not reply instead she continued to run, she wished she had some sort of weapon on her but the only thing that she had in her space ring was a pair of slippers and hoe —— never before had she felt this useless.

Beside her, Yin Fu was fiddling with some chunks of metal which he picked up while running causing her to ask, "What are you doing?"

" I am making a miniature bomb," replied Yin Fu as he turned around and then whipped the mini bomb at the turtle tuber. " As long as it slows down we will have a chance to escape!"

Mo Qiang : ('∀｀)

She turned to look at Xiao Jiao and said, " If I get angry at this mer just remind me that he can blow me up in minutes."

" ....Got it."

As Yin Fu said, the turtle tuber did slow down but its defence mechanisms were too strong, the second they slowed it down, the thing hunted them with renewed energy. Though it couldn't chase them down, it also slowed them down as it released more and more tubers which exploded left and right making it nearly impossible for Mo Qiang and Yin Fu to escape.

" What now?" Yin Fu looked at the billow of greenish blue smoke in front of them as he stayed in the safe area not daring to approach the tuber which was releasing the poisonous gases.

Mo Qiang pursed her lips as she glanced at the entire surrounding which was thickly covered with the greenish blue gas that could make them paralysed in just three seconds and with no chance of getting up on their feet for the next seven days and turned to look at the turtle tuber who was ready to pounce on them after licking its wound.

" What should we do? What should we do?" Xiao Jiao panicked when she saw that there was no way out for the three of them. She did not wish to fail in her task after getting so close. But then she clapped her hands as the light bulb in her head went off and she exclaimed, "You should turn on the King of Jungle aura!"

"It's already on," deadpanned Mo Qiang.

" ...Huh?" Xiao Jiao turned to look at Mo Qiang with a questioning look on her face as Mo Qiang snapped her fingers and summoned the stats screen which showed the King of the Jungle aura being used. " I turned it on before jumping on that thing."

Xiao Jiao : 〣 ( ºΔº ) 〣〣 ( ºΔº ) 〣〣 ( ºΔº ) 〣

Why must you hurt me like this?Xiao Jiao felt like she was going crazy, she looked at the turtle tuber which approached them like a grim reaper and then turned to look at Mo Qiang before crying, " Why did you not upgrade your king of the jungle aura? If you had done that then we would've escaped today!"



" Stop crying, if I had upgraded that stat then we wouldn't be even standing here as Madam Lian would have swept us clean!" Mo Qiang retorted causing Xiao Jiao to cry even harder. After today, she will have no face to show in the fairy world—— once she returns home, her colleagues will definitely ask her how did she die and she will have to tell them the truth! Because as a fairy, she could not lie!

Her friends: How did you die?

Xiao Jiao: I was eaten by a giant turtle.

Her friends: ꉂ ('∀｀)ʱªʱªʱª

" This is why I told you that humans should treat animals well! If they had treated them nicely then this wouldn't have happened—— animals too have a heart and they can also sense who is genuine towards them and who is not! Now it's all good, these mutated animals no longer trust your kind and only want to kill you because they suffered so much at the hands of those evil scientists!" Xiao Jiao lost control of herself as she started to yell complaints. First, she cursed the humans and then the heavens before returning to humans.

Mo Qiang rolled her eyes at Xiao Jiao's antics. She did not pay attention to Xiao Jiao who was losing her goddamn mind, instead, she looked around hoping to get a way out of this mess. It was then that her eyes fell on the long gash on the front foot of the turtle tuber, it was still bleeding and from the looks of it —— there was something very similar to the sharp, pointed edges of those bear traps that she saw in the forests, sticking out of the foot of the turtle tuber.

Her eyes narrowed and then she looked at Xiao Jiao before saying, " Are you saying that if I treat her well, she will not attack me anymore ?"

Xiao Jiao stopped her wailing and then turned to look at Mo Qiang before replying, " I have no idea but maybe...."

" And can that green fingers heal anything and anyone as long as they are connected to nature?" Mo Qiang ignored the maybe as she knew that this was her only chance, instead, she continued questioning Xiao Jiao whose eyebrows furrowed more and more before she nodded and answered, "That's right, though the power of green fingers is not that powerful yet. It can still heal outwardly injuries but it will depend on the extent to which an injury runs since the green vein is yet to recover. But why are you asking this?"

" Because I am an idiot," said Mo Qiang as she turned to look at Yin Fu and said, " Drop the gun away and hide behind me."

Yin Fu turned to look at Mo Qiang with a shocked expression, his eyes were filled with disbelief as he silently questioned his wife. What was she thinking? Does she think that she can take that thing barehanded? No matter how strong she was Mo Qiang was not she Hulk!

" Qiang'er——"

" Be good and listen to me," because Mo Qiang was in a hurry she did not even sense that she spoke to Yin Fu in the same manner as she spoke to the kids in the orphanage when she wanted them to listen to her.

Yin Fu's small face immediately flushed with embarrassment as he threw the gun back inside his space ring and then hid behind Mo Qiang. He wanted to see what she was going to do which was why he obediently took a few steps behind.

Once Yin Fu was out of attacking range, Mo Qiang took out a dagger from her space ring. Her actions caused the turtle tuber to hiss in anger as the sharp blade though small was very similar to the one which was sticking to her own foot.

The Turtle tuber was expecting Mo Qiang to attack her but instead, the woman in front of her used the dagger to slash her own leg!

Startled even the turtle tuber paused as she looked at Mo Qiang in surprise, even if she could not speak the turtle tuber was smarter than the rest of the monsters as she walked on this surface of the world for years.

She narrowed her eyes and looked at Mo Qiang whose right foot was bleeding and watched silently to see what the human was going to do—— if it dared to harm her then she will rip it apart. She will rip everything apart in this world and make it her own where no humans shall live anymore!

They first tormented her when she just got out of her egg and then when she escaped they chased after her for her shell and her poison as it cured many diseases after getting treated. In the eyes of humans, she was a thing to be exploited and not a being that felt any pain! This was something that the turtle tuber hated the most, if they were going to kill her it was fine.

It was a one-time pain but they would catch her tear her body and then leave her to suffer and heal before they continued to do the same thing all over again.

If this human did the same thing, then she will kill them all!

The turtle tuber growled while looking at Mo Qiang. Her eyes fixated on the woman as she waited for her next move and as her yellow eyes stayed on Mo Qiang, the turtle tuber saw something amazing happen as the woman crouched down and placed her hand on the wound which was bleeding.

A gentle scent, like the warm hand of her caretaker caressing her head, floated towards her causing her to calm down and the next second the wound of the woman disappeared as a green glow emanated from the tips of her fingers.

--------------

Why must you hurt me like this ——2Yin Fu's eyes were popping out of their sockets as he looked at his wife. Though he wanted to stop her when she used the dagger to cut her skin he stopped when he saw what she was doing —— his eyes which were almost dangling out of their sockets, widened even more when he saw Mo Qiang using a power he had never seen before. His eyes fell on the green tips of her fingers which healed the deep slash on Mo Qiang's right leg in seconds and immediately looked left and right to make sure that no one saw her.



As her husband, Yin Fu did not feel at ease when he saw that his wife had powers superior to others. Instead, he felt worried if his wife was caught using such incredible skills and powers then she will be dragged to the imperial family and asked to serve the nation even if she did not wish to do so!

He only heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that there was no one around them and then turned to look at Mo Qiang, wanting to tell her that she should not do something so reckless but then he saw her do something even more reckless.

" So you see, I want to help you...." She told the turtle tuber while pointing at her injury than her own. " I will help you treat that injury, it hurts right? So I will make the pain fly away and then you can go on your own path and I will go on my own, how does that sound?"

Yin Fu: (ʘᗩʘ')

Yin Fu: 〣 ( ºΔº ) 〣〣 ( ºΔº ) 〣

Alarm bells started to run in his head, Yin Fu was afraid that his wife might have gone crazy thinking that she could speak nonsense with an animal. But then before he could pull his wife away, the turtle tuber stretched out her injured feet which startled both him and Mo Qiang, as neither of them expected the turtle tuber to understand Mo Qiang's crude actions.

" Oh, you ... you understood me?" Mo Qiang questioned which caused the turtle tuber to snort causing several green boogers to land on the ground, she seemed to holding Mo Qiang in disdain for looking down on her but Mo Qiang was not angry with her actions. As long as the turtle tuber was smart enough maybe she will be able to negotiate with her for the tuber on her back without losing an arm and leg.

She took a brave step forward before raising her hands and then placing them on the metallic, large claw piece which was stuck in the foot of the turtle tuber.

" This is going to hurt," she flicked her gaze to the turtle tuber warning her but at the same time testing just how much the mutated animal could understand her.

If this turtle tuber could understand her then maybe in the future she will not have to place her neck on the line to finish her task.

" Don't be so hopeful, this turtle tuber has been alive for years which is why she is much more sentient than others but that does not mean that the others would be as smart as her," Xiao Jiao told Mo Qiang while looking at her in a new light, she did not expect that Mo Qiang would deal with the problem like this but at the same time it could be said that Mo Qiang was considerably lucky as this turtle tuber was smart enough to understand what she was trying to tell her.

Mo Qiang pretended not to hear the party pooper Xiao Jiao and continued to pull the shard out of the foot of the turtle tuber, once the sharp part of the shard was pulled out she then raised her hands and planted her fingers on the wound which was bleeding, ignoring the slight sting in her skin as he touched the blood of the turtle tuber which was considered to be toxic to the human skin, she instilled the energy of the green fingers.

Bit by bit the blood stopped oozing out of the wound of the turtle tuber, once the wound was almost closed Mo Qiang stopped instilling the energy of the green fingers as she was afraid that she would damage the recovery rate of the turtle tuber by messing around and left the rest of the wound to recover on its own.

'It is done,' she thought in her head before sighing in relief and then stepping away from the turtle tuber. Mo Qiang flashed a smile at the turtle tuber and then said, " See no pain right ? You must be feeling quite grateful to me, yeah I know? I am the kind of person who can't see anyone in pain, so why don't you help me out as well? Just a tuber will do——" she was still speaking when she was interrupted by a loud sound.

CLOMP!

"That's right clomp..." she continued on chattering but trailed off as Mo Qiang furrowed her brows and mused, " Clomp?"

She looked down at her feet and was stunned to find that she was dangling in the air, while Yin Fu and Xiao Jiao stared at her in horror.

Mo Qiang: (((φ(◎ロ◎;)φ)))

What was the meaning of this?

She wanted to struggle but then stopped suddenly, not because Mo Qiang wanted to stop but because she was almost thrown to the other side as the turtle tuber turned around. Though the creature looked like it moved rather slowly, the truth was that it was considerably fast for her size! Mo Qiang's skin almost got torn off her face when the turtle tuber turned on its feet and then started to walk back towards the crack between the two dimensions.

" You... is this a new way to say thank you ?" Mo Qiang questioned the turtle tuber while dangling in the air from the large mouth of the turtle tuber but for a sentient animal, she was now acting like a fool who couldn't understand anything.

———-

The turtle tuber: Please call me an award-winning actress.

Yin Fu: I will call you giant turtle soup, how about that?

Why must you hurt me like this——-30----------0



" Bring my wife back! You kidnapper!" Yin Fu chased after the turtle tuber, the only reason he did not take out his bazooka was because he was afraid that the thing would get angry and swallow his wife down in one gulp. If Mo Qiang was not in the mouth of that mother-ducking ugly creature, he would have barbecued it on the spot!

However, no matter how fast he ran after the turtle tuber, Yin Fu was no superhuman with no goddamn cape. After running for a while he stopped and then stared after the turtle tuber which kept on walking as if she was not carrying his wife and swinging her way away.

" Hehehe, hehehe," Yin Fu started laughing after pausing for two minutes causing Xiao Jiao to take a step away from him. For some reason she felt really scared seeing him giggle like that, it was half crazy and half maniacal with just the right amount of psychotic touch sprinkled on, and her seniors told her that she should never ever get close to a kind which had all the three of them.

' D...Did he break? I think I just did something that broke him,' Xiao Jiao thought in her head while looking at Yin Fu from afar.

But before she could fly away, Yin Fu caught hold of her with an agile flick of his wrist as he muttered, " I am skinning that alive, baby squirrel and you are gonna be stirring the pot once it's chopped up."

Xiao Jiao: "...." I ain't stirring a damn thing let go of me now.

However, not only did Yin Fu not let go of her. He strapped her close in his pocket and chased after the turtle tuber causing Xiao Jiao to scream in panic, " I said let go of me! I am not coming anywhere with you! psychopath! If someone is hearing me, please tell Mother Nature that I loved her till the end! Gah!"

...

On the other side, Mo Yan was watching the television, it was only after a very long, tiresome and rather painful three weeks she was finally getting to watch the news without worrying about anything. Especially not about her eldest daughter.

There were no news channels which were scolding her daughter. There were no interviews which dragged her and her family down, her husband was cleaning the house, and her youngest daughter was sitting behind on the dining chair where she was flipping through the tab which had information on mecha core in great detail.

Her two sons-in-law were discussing their future plans, the world was at peace and the day was full of cheerful vibes with no trouble.

Sigh. Mo Yan was having a beautiful day and no one was going to change a damn thing about this beautiful day.

Just as she was going to change the news channel, a sudden banner of exclusive news got displayed on the screen and soon the news anchor who was a rather pretty mer with a substitute robot to help him during the news anchoring appeared on the screen together.

" Breaking news, from our sources we have found out that there is A dimension break between the two dimensions. Startite and the day dimension, with the sudden crack between the two dimensions, the situation inside the Startite dimension has become chaotic. Following the crack, the residents of the Startite dimension complained to the authorities that their dimension is under the attack of a mutated animal. Notoriously known as the turtle tuber."

" As everyone is aware, the turtle tuber is one of the most dangerous among the mutated animals with its lethal defences and well-equipped armour which makes it even harder to penetrate. The last time when a turtle tuber was seen even the mecha crafts of the imperial army could not put a dent on the armour of the turtle tuber."

The anchor paused when the robotic anchor next to him hummed to life and started speaking in a beautiful voice, " We have received live footage reports from the Startite dimension. All thanks to Wanyu's companies anchoring drones, they are quite durable and strong when reporting in such situations."

Mo Yan watched the screen with great attention as the reporting room got changed to live footage of the turtle tuber which was returning to its dimension and was almost on the verge of heaving a sigh of relief thinking everything was fine since the turtle tuber was returning but then her sigh of relief got hitched in her throat when she heard the robotic anchor continue speaking,

" From the live footage, we can see that the turtle tuber has caught a human and is now taking her back with it to the Day Dimension."

' Oh God, please no,' a bad premonition rose in Mo Yan's heart as she looked at the footage hoping desperately that it wasn't her daughter.

But as the drone zoomed in, a very familiar tuft of navy blue hair which matched her own popped up on the screen followed by those beautiful green which resembled her husband.

Clang.

Something fell on the floor and Mo Yan turned to look at Wen Gui, at some point he arrived in front of the television and was now looking at Mo Qiang who was dangling by the mouth of the turtle tuber. His mouth opened in shock as he looked at his daughter who was being held hostage by a giant turtle!

" Ah Gui, darling...don't worry...Qi Qi is smart, she will be fine," Mo Yan tried to cajole Wen Gui before turning to look at Mo Xifeng who was reading something on her monitor with great concentration instead of looking at the television screen. "What are you doing Xifeng ?"

Mo Xifeng pursed her lips before hesitating for a few minutes and then replying in a soft yet cold voice, " Sister just sent me her will."

Mo Yan: ('ﾟдﾟ') Even her daughter gave up?!

" How long will it take for the reinforcements to arrive?" She pressed Mo Xifeng hoping that the latter would give her a decent answer but then she heard Mo Xifeng say, " The reinforcements are under General Wei...now that sister is caught I think there will be a slight delay."

Crack.

Mo Yan heard something snap and knew that it was the thin strip of her husband's patience as she turned to look at Wen Gui who was smiling at her with a dark expression on her face and heard him say coldly, " Ah Yan, if I don't see my daughter in three hours... you will see this world end, sweetie."

Mo Yan: (╥╯⌒╰╥) Why must you hurt me like this?

Congratulations it's a boy" You not lying sweetie?" Mo Yan asked Wen Gui in an attempt of confirming his words. Even though she was questioning whether or not her husband was truly serious, Mo Yan was already halfway standing on her feet, all set to bolt out of the house at any moment.



Wen Gui smiled at Mo Yan with a sweet smile as he stated in a casual voice, " The world where my daughter is not present," his eyes slowly opened and a sharp glint aimed straight at Mo Yan's heart before he finished his words, " Does not need to exist."

Mo Yan: "....."

For two minutes silence fell upon the entire family before Mo Yan jumped on her feet and then screamed at Mo Xifeng at the top of her lungs, " Run Xifeng! If something happens to your sister, we are all dead!"

She knew that Wen Gui was not playing around, the only reason he hadn't made a move himself was because Fu Zhao had taken an oath from Wen Gui that after leaving the imperial family he will never use his skills unless he was given order by the imperial family. If Wen Gui was to break the oath then he will certainly be punished by Fu Zhao, though the Empress looked like a nice woman she was a lot more slyer than anyone else.

If not then she wouldn't be the Empress.

But if Wen Gui was to burn the world down, then he did not have to fear Fu Zhao's punishment because, without Mo Qiang, her husband wouldn't stay alive either.

Mo Xifeng looked at Wen Gui and then glanced at her mother who was running as if hell was going to break loose and rushed after Mo Yan as well, she did not know why their family dynamics were like this where a general was terrified of a mer but she did not wish to question it —— as Mo Xifeng had a feeling that the answer would be the last thing she would hear before laying down in eternal sleep.

Wen Gui watched the two women run out of the house before turning her attention to the television, his eyes flickering with annoyance as he kicked the mop aside which activated the self-cleaning mode.

" If something happens to her..." Wen Gui rubbed his fingers against his palm, itching to hold the blade that he once held when taking care of his enemies but he remembered Fu Zhao's words and stopped midway.

For the sake of his family, he will have to stay patient for the time being, he then turned to look at his two sons-in-law who stiffened like deers caught in headlights.

" Did anyone of you do a voodoo job on my daughter last night?" Wen Gui asked while looking at Xie Jie and Shao Hui.

The two mers were so spooked after getting stared at by Wen Gui that they hurriedly shook their heads in denial. Doing voodoo magic on Mo Qiang under Wen Gui's nose? They still wanted to stay alive all right!

" Why will we do something like that to our wife, father?" Shao Hui wrung his head as he lowered his head after being glared at by Wen Gui. As he was already an offender who got caught while attacking Mo Qiang, it was no surprise that Wen Gui did not trust him. " We did not do anything like that to our wife, isn't that right, brother Jie?"

Xie Jie also nodded in a hurry, in the entire Mo family he was only scared of his father-in-law. Even though it was clearly Mo Yan who took charge at the battlefields, it was Wen Gui whose aura was beyond terrifying when he got angry the entire house can forget about even sleeping without an eye open.

The last time they made Wen Gui angry, he tied the three of them with fire-resistant ropes and then left them hanging on the edge of the chasm inside which magma flowed. Xie Jie still hadn't forgotten how even Mo Yan couldn't stop We Gui all because they dared to add laxatives to Mo Qiang's meal.

If Mo Qiang was to die then ... Xie Jie shuddered in fear.

He did not dare to even imagine the rage which might befall this world if that were to happen.

Wen Gui narrowed his eyes when he saw that even the ever-stoic and calm Xie Jie was chiming in together with Shao Hui. " That better be the case," he sneered coldly before turning to look at the television he added, " Because if by any either of you prayed to heavens to take my daughter away... I will kill you three and cremate you together with my daughter before stuffing you all in the same urn and making a foursome mix of your ashes."

His voice dipped lower as he turned to look at the two with blame as he continued, " Don't worry since you all couldn't become one on your wedding night, you will become one on the day of the funeral."

Xie Jie and Shao Hui sucked in a breath because they realised that Wen Gui had heard them praying when they cursed Mo Qiang hoping that she would die. Now that they had to face the consequences of their actions they were quite terrified.

" Should we go to the temple to pray?" Shao Hui asked even though many people no longer prayed to the heavens anymore, there was indeed a temple at each star. Though these temples were always abandoned with only a very few people visiting them.

Xie Jie stayed silent for a while before he sucked in a breath and then stated, " And take a pair of scissors as well." If something was to happen to Mo Qiang, they might as well shave their heads and stay at the temple because he did not wish to die in a manner where he will become one with Mo Qiang in an urn!

If that was the case then he might do it as well on a bed——wait, what did he think just now? Xie Jie's eyes popped out of his sockets as he covered his mouth in shock. Did he just think that it was better to sleep with Mo Qiang? Where did that thought come from?!

Congratulations its a boy —-2-----------------



" You know I have never received a love proposal in my entire life but ... I still don't think that kidnapping someone is the way to one's heart, I don't like playing with the domineering CEO kind, you see?" Mo Qiang told the turtle tuber while dangling in the air. But the turtle tuber did not seem to be listening to a thing that Mo Qiang was saying instead she continued to walk ahead without a single worry.

Seeing the turtle tuber ignoring her, Mo Qiang did not know what to say anymore. She was simply speechless thinking about how she went to do something good but ended up becoming a turtle's hostage. No wonder her senior said to her that there was no need to help anyone as the world was not a good place and it deserved no goodness from anyone, she was the foolish one who listened to a nagging squirrel lecture and acted stupidly.

While dangling from the mouth of the turtle tuber like a withered radish, Mo Qiang questioned the life she had been living till now. Ah, I always wanted to try that red ox meat, if she had known that she will never get to try that, she would have at least eaten it without any seasonings. Now her life was on the verge of ending and she was going to die with regrets—— No wait...

Suddenly Mo Qiang stiffened as she arrived at an epiphany, don't tell her that this turtle tuber was taking Mo Qiang along with her because she wanted to keep her stuffed inside a corner as a first aid box. The more Mo Qiang thought that there was a possibility to happen, the more convinced she became, surely this thing saw how useful she was and then picked her to become one of those healers those game fanatics used in their games.

Once she walked down the rabbit hole, Mo Qiang's thoughts only spiralled out of control. She had once watched a movie where reptiles changed their genders on the basis of situation what if this thing despite being a female became a male? Would she have to become a concubine of a turtle tuber?

If Xiao Jiao was here she would have smacked Mo Qiang for reading those stupid stories but as the little squirrel was not with Mo Qiang, the latter simply continued jumping further and further down the rabbit hole until her entire body was as excited as a yellowing cabbage in a field.

She was so listless that even the turtle tuber felt something was wrong with the human in her mouth but since there was something that she wanted from Mo Qiang very much she did not pay attention to her and continued walking.

Soon the two of them arrived at an opening covered by yellowish-red sand from top to bottom, if not for the fact that Mo Qiang saw the opening with her own eyes, she would have never seen this cave as it was covered by sand with several dunes in front of it.

Slowly and steadily, the turtle tuber walked inside the cave and the more they walked inside the more Mo Qiang realized that this cave was colder and much more comfortable than it was outside. She heaved a breath as her stinging skin calmed down a little because she had been running amok recklessly her clothes had been torn into bits, and those patches allowed the poisonous gases to infiltrate past her defences causing her skin to turn red with blisters popping on it.

Mo Qiang wanted to use her green fingers but after getting into a mess because of these magical fingers of her, Mo Qiang was much more careful and did not dare to act recklessly anymore.

As the turtle tuber continued to walk inside the cave it became steeper and the slopes inside it became dangerous. With startite orbs glittering on the roof, Mo Qiang could see that the cave in which the turtle tuber lived was not a place where humans could poke their nose willy nilly maybe this was why she lived in a cave like this.

Not only was the cave big enough to accommodate the turtle tuber but it was even cooler than the outside with enough startite orbs to stab humans to death. It was a wonderful house, the only downside was Mo Qiang could not find any single way out of this place except for the path from where she and the turtle tuber came down.

' Damn will I be buried sixty feet deep underground ?' Mo Qiang questioned in her head but before she could even think of anything more, she suddenly felt the only thing holding her up in the air vanish and like a puppet whose string had been cut off by a very naughty child after being dragged to the second floor —— clearly a psychopath in making, she fell from the roof to the ground and almost broke her neck.

" Oh my god!" Mo Qiang gasped as she felt pain shoot throughout her back all the way to her neck but thankfully the turtle tuber dumped her on the nest which she had made from the green and purple vines which saved Mo Qiang from dying fatally.

Mo Qiang heaved a few breaths and then rolled her eyes before shouting at the turtle tuber, " Is this how you are supposed to treat your saviour? You act like this and you will be on the list of extinct mutant animals!"

Who knows whether or not the turtle tuber understood her words but she growled at her causing Mo Qiang to raise her hands and scramble behind in the nest," Fine you win but don't think that you won just because you are big and strong ...with tons of poisonous tubers sticking out of your shell. You won because I am being kind enough, you hear that? I am the one who is showing mercy on you because you are like old and wrinkly...somewhat like an elder to me... I am not scared of you——"

Her words got stuck in her throat when she saw the head of the turtle tuber getting close to her all of a sudden.

Congratulations its a boy ——3-------------



" All right, I am scared. I am scared!" A wise woman knew when to back down and even though Mo Qiang never became the class monitor of her class she was smart enough to shut up when a monster as big as this turtle tuber approached her.

However, even when she stopped scolding the turtle tuber, it did not stop getting close to her. Damn it, did the comment of the extinct list touch a nerve? Mo Qiang thought in her head as she tried to scramble as far as she could from the turtle tuber but soon her back touched a hard wall and she had nowhere to go, with fear clawing up her spine for the first time Mo Qiang closed her eyes.

But the pain of getting torn in half did not come as she expected instead she felt something heavy and slimy falling on her lap. Startled, Mo Qiang opened her eyes and then looked down at the baby turtle tuber in her lap, her eyes widened and then she looked up at the turtle tuber with a confused look on her face.

A sudden guess came to her head when she heard the laborious breathing of the baby turtle tuber, her eyes flickered and she asked the giant turtle tuber, " Did you bring me here to heal your child?" most probably this giant turtle tuber was the mother of this little turtle tuber.

The turtle tuber nodded her head with a warm pair of her eyes, she looked at the tiny turtle tuber and then lowered her neck before rubbing her head against her child gently. She had been looking for ways to treat the poor condition of her child, from one dimension to another she travelled all over the place. If not for her child, she would have never left this place and got attacked by the hunters who caught a glimpse of her.

The more the turtle tuber travelled the more she realized that her child was not going to survive and her temper worsened, and the actions of the pestering humans only caused her anger to flare up even more. They not only tried to attack her but they also snatched away the precious herbs that she brought for her child by risking her life.

Those herbs that the turtle tuber found for her child were exceptionally rare thus, the human hunters did not even think twice before stealing it from her. For those greedy humans, those herbs were not important but they were gravely important for her as her child was on his deathbed.

At first, she wasn't willing to attack humans back as the turtle tuber was in a hurry to save her child but then those human hunters thought that she was a weak target as she had gotten older. They continued to target her for those herbs as well as her blood and poison, it was then when the fury of the turtle tuber was ignited, if they have left her alone and allowed her to save her child without provoking her, the turtle tuber would have never attacked their town either!

Thus, when she saw that Mo Qiang could treat her wound, the turtle tuber thought that she could save her child as well and thus brought her here.

The turtle tuber hummed as she nudged Mo Qiang asking for her to treat her child, the turtle tuber did not wish to see her child die as he was born after much obstructions. He was precious to her, thus the turtle tuber wished to see her child getting better.

Only now did Mo Qiang understand why the turtle tuber was rampaging around when it was supposed to be one of those rare animals that were hardly seen in years. It was because she was looking for a way to deal with the disease of her child—— fortunately, she did not bring her to make Mo Qiang, her baby's mama.

Mo Qiang heaved a sigh of relief before summoning the blue screen, though Xiao Jiao was not with her, she could at least summon the blue screen without Xiao Jiao. Something she hardly did because the blue screen was quite disrespectful towards her in Xiao Jiao's absence, sure enough, the second she turned the screen on, it displayed the words —— Congratulations, it's a boy.

' I am going to fck it up once I find out who is behind this screen,' thought Mo Qiang in her head but she ignored the words of the screen and continued to do her job.

She first examined the baby turtle tuber and then looked at the amount of green finger energy that was needed to treat the child of the turtle tuber. Her lips set in firm lines before she replied, "It's not going to be easy for me to heal him," she truthfully told the turtle tuber lest she thought that Mo Qiang lied to her. " He will require at least three to four healing sessions before I can treat him completely."

Mo Qiang turned to look at the turtle tuber and stated firmly, " But I can't stay here for long, I have a father too." Though she was not sure whether or not Mo Yan will be worried about her, Mo Qiang knew that Wen Gui would set the world on fire if she did not go back to him soon.

The turtle tuber also knew that she couldn't keep Mo Qiang with her, a hesitation-filled expression etched on her face before she swallowed and nudged her son towards Mo Qiang, this time more firmly.

" You want me to take him with me?" Mo Qiang asked with surprise in her eyes.

The turtle tuber nodded in response, as long as her son was all right she did not care about anything. Even if he was far away, she could keep an eye on him with her sentient powers but if he died then she will never see him again thus the turtle tuber made a quick decision and pushed her son towards Mo Qiang.

Mo Qiang's eyes flickered before she nodded and then stated, " Fine I will treat your son but in exchange hand me, your poisonous tuber. I need it."

If she was going to do something good for the world, it's only right she got paid right?