Chapter 259: Chapter 259

This snow mountain is particularly steep, even magic beasts might not be able to climb it. By the time Qian Qi reached the horizontal ice cone mountain body, she was already sweating from head to toe.

This section of the ice cone mountain body wasn’t like others that were full of mountain spikes. It seemed to have been smoothed by someone, appearing very flat. She stepped lightly onto this platform, clutching an A-level dagger in her hand, and cautiously approached the thatched cottage.

As she got closer, Qian Qi realized it wasn’t a thatched cottage, but a house made of various dark stones, covered on the outside with a layer of light wheat-colored turf. She reached out and pinched it, finding that the turf was incredibly hard, almost comparable to A-level Defense Armor.

"This..." Qian Qi’s eyes gradually widened, "is a good thing!"

She immediately began tapping the stones of the piled-up house, discovering that the stones and adhesive were also extraordinary. Even if she punched with all her might, she couldn’t make the slightest crack!

Ah~ I want to take it all~~~

[Qiqi...] The system panel faced her, warning: [If you leave now, it’s not too late.]

"Why?" Qian Qi asked suspiciously.

This stone house was built halfway up the mountain, with half of it at the tip of the ice cone mountain body. Because it was by the cliff edge, she couldn’t see with her eyes. She circled the house halfway but found no windows, only a pitch-black stone door in the center.

[Have you heard of Pandora’s Box?] Though the system panel can’t speak, the white font on the panel somehow carried an eerie tone, [Opening this door is like opening Pandora’s Box...]

You’re making me really scared.

[We don’t need it.] The system, like a good brother, patted Qian Qi’s shoulder, [Now that you’ve seen it, let’s go.]

Qian Qi suspiciously stared at it. Unfortunately, the system panel wasn’t human; as long as it didn’t show an emoji, no one could tell if it was speaking the truth or lying.

Should she trust the system and refuse to open this door?

Pandora’s Box, she knew about it. In Ancient Greek mythology, Zeus gave Prometheus’s brother Epimetheus a magic box, which contained all the evils of the world, and Epimetheus’s woman Pandora couldn’t resist opening it, thereby unleashing all the evils and bringing greed, hypocrisy, slander, jealousy, pain... to the human world.

Qian Qi really didn’t want to open something so evil.

Glancing at the black door, she sighed lightly. In the end, Qian Qi chose to set aside her curiosity, "Let’s forget it."

The system immediately exclaimed with joy: [Then let’s go!]

"Wait a minute, these grass mats are quite nice, let’s take them!" Qian Qi’s eyes sparkled. This stuff is good, perfect for covering the little house in her Vegetable Garden Dungeon~

The system was immediately shocked, [No]...

Before the words on the panel were fully displayed, Qian Qi had already jumped up and pulled down the grass mat from the eaves. Immediately, something fell with a crisp sound onto the icy ground, catching Qian Qi’s attention.

She turned back to look and found it was a golden key.

Why is there a key here?

She picked up the golden key, glanced beside her, and found a tiny keyhole indeed at the upper right corner of the black door.

"..." She turned to look at the system, "May I ask, can magic beasts make keys?"

"Isn’t this a key made by humans?"

"Isn’t this a house for humans?"

Qian Qi smiled slightly: "Congratulations, system, you’ve lost my last bit of trust."

[Please don’t, Qiqi!] The system clung tightly to her leg, wailing, [It was just a moment of insanity! I will change! Please continue to believe in me in the future, sob sob sob——]

"Heh, I’m afraid I already know what’s inside." Qian Qi kicked the system away with an expressionless face, sneering, "Only knowledge that’s valuable enough for me to exploit for free can make you so shocked ＾＿＾!"

Qian Qi inserted the golden key into the keyhole, and with a "click," the black door opened. Discover more novels at novel_fіre.net

As she looked inside, Qian Qi’s eyes trembled slightly and constricted. Although the room was spotless, it was a mess, as if it had been robbed, with many pieces of furniture and personal items scattered on the floor.

The interior was simple, with a yellow wooden desk, a dining table, several chairs, a single bed, a bookshelf mounted on the wall, and a wall-mounted fireplace.

Near the edge of the cliff, a glass window allowed light to filter through, illuminating the room. From the window, one could even see the magnificent snow-capped mountains outside, breathtakingly stunning.

"It really... is a place where humans lived."

Qian Qi felt a chill spread throughout her body. There were no clothes here, no photo albums, so she had no way of knowing who lived here. She lifted her foot and walked towards the bookshelf, picking up the scattered books on the floor.

Books can best reveal the character of the owner.

Qian Qi discovered that the covers of these books resembled parchment, without any text. However, upon opening the first page, an indescribable emotion quickly spread from her heart to her entire body, causing her to tremble all over.

How... why are there traditional Chinese characters here?

No, that’s not right...

Qian Qi quickly flipped through the pages. Although the characters looked like traditional Chinese characters, they weren’t the ones she had seen in her previous life. It’s more accurate to say that they merely resembled them. Many characters looked similar, but some strokes had clever curves, making them resemble both traditional Chinese and hieroglyphs.

However, reading them wasn’t very difficult. You could smoothly read them according to your first impression of the characters.

"The research on combined skills of Magic Beasts has reached a mature stage..." Qian Qi murmured aloud. The next second, her deep, dark gaze fiercely turned to the system, and a shrill voice echoed, sounding like a vengeful ghost, "Dog! System!"

Sorry! I was just being greedy, wanting you to buy this knowledge from me!

Qian Qi withdrew her gaze with a sinister vibe. She didn’t have time to settle accounts with the system now. She bent down to pick up other books and found quite a number of research and notes from the owner. She even saw familiar Magic Formula from the notes!

With these, the progress of human research on Magic Potions will greatly accelerate!

Who exactly is the owner of this house?

Qian Qi quickly flipped through the books and finally saw a name at the bottom right corner of the notes.

It doesn’t sound like someone from the Flower Planting Family or a foreign name, because foreigners don’t use traditional characters.

"System, are you sure there are no humans or the owner of this house in this instance?" Qian Qi asked for confirmation.

[No, absolutely no one, definitely not lying to you!]the system quickly replied.

"Alright, the information here is incredibly valuable to our world, we must take it with us." After thinking for a moment, Qian Qi resolutely stated.

[But... we still need to fight the boss, it’s a hassle to carry along.]the system reminded her, [Your backpack is way too small to fit everything.]

There are no Space Artifacts in this world; she can’t take them all.

"That’s because you’re too useless." Qian Qi sneered in disdain, "If you could transform into a huge bag, wouldn’t you be able to take everything away?"

The system shrank into a corner, afraid to speak.

"However, there is one way we can try..." Qian Qi rubbed her chin, as a thoughtful look flashed in her eyes.

The system immediately looked at her with curiosity.

Qian Qi turned and walked to the single bed in the room. After pulling out the cotton material from the sheets, she threw all the books and notes on the ground into it.

Then, she summoned Qian Ba.

Qian Ba emerged from the Beast Taming Space, almost died on the spot, and lay on the ground convulsing, "Ugh—Why does it smell so bad here—Are you trying to murder your wolf kin?"

Qian Qi divided the books in the sheets into two halves, then placed the central part onto Qian Ba’s body. Next, she tied the four corners of the sheets to Qian Ba’s four legs, making the sheets look like "armor saddle" draped over Qian Ba.

Immediately after, she initiated Contracted Beast Summoning, summoning Qian Ba into the Beast Taming Space. The next second, the "armor saddle" tied to Qian Ba disappeared from the spot along with him.

Although Contracted Beasts from next door do wear armor due to the contractor’s aesthetic sense, using armor as a space backpack, you’re the first!

You’ve figured out how to play the Beast Taming Space!

"Hah, what’s the point of having you."

Qian Qi cast a slightly disdainful glance at the system. While flipping through the books earlier, she discovered a drawing of a Magic Beast in Normans’s notes, and this Magic Beast had very noticeable saddle-like armor.

So she was very curious if a Contracted Beast equipped with a saddle would take the saddle along when recalled into the Beast Taming Space.

Practice makes perfect; didn’t this just make her uncover a bug in the Beast Taming Space!

"Let’s go!" After packing up all the books and notes, Qian Qi stepped out of the stone house, dragging the straw mat she had pulled down, and prepared to fight the boss with pride.

[Wait a moment~]The system turned around and suddenly swung up its panel, accompanied by a series of crackling sounds, it soared confidently in front of Qian Qi, [Qiqi~ Let’s go~]

Qian Qi looks at the stone house turned into a pile of dust: ...

That’s a threat, right...

That’s definitely a threat!

"System Lord~ Actually, I wasn’t too mad at you just now." Qian Qi revealed an opportunistic smile of a wise person who knows their place, "You’re still my favorite system~"

A system that merely wants to erase traces of human life: ?

What happened, why is she suddenly confessing? Making me feel even more guilty!