Chapter 184: Ming Keta Rō
“Isn’t it a bit inappropriate to dwell on such a small thing?”
Huai Yu looked at him, obedient but disapproving.
Zhou Qian just felt confused. “Your beetle walks on two legs, and I’m not allowed to think about it?”
He looked at Huai Yu, and a terrifying thought surfaced in his mind. After all, from the beginning until now, nothing around Huai Yu had been normal. He said, “Could this also have a special ability—”
“It’s a dung beetle, not a beetle. It has a trendy foreign name, called Keta Rōu,” Huai Yu interjected.
Zhou Qian: “…”
At that moment, he was completely numb.
“A dung beetle?”
“Yeah,” Huai Yu nodded. “Its original owner was also a gamer, so it was named after a character, Keta Rō. Originally, it was supposed to be called ‘MingKeta Rō.’”
Just like Boss Tang.
Later, Gao Ming thought that sounded too much like “Ming Taiyu,” so he changed the name to his favorite game character—
“It’s called Keta Rōu. The male protagonist’s name in ‘Master Sword.’”
“How cool is that?” Huai Yu proudly presented it. “Let me tell you, Keta Rōu is really, really smart, and super diligent! It works almost twelve hours a day!”
In just a few days, the new big box was already half filled with Keta Rōu’s balls.
Zhou Qian opened his mouth and then closed it.
What was there to say?
From the name to the dung beetle, he had a thousand things to say. But in this moment, all his thoughts returned to the original question:
“So, that red ball is a dung ball? It evolved to walk on two legs, so it no longer needs to push the ball with its back legs?”
Huai Yu started to feel guilty.
She looked around, nervously replying, “It’s not a dung ball! Keta Rōu doesn’t play with those. Maybe it’s some kind of fruit or flower, I guess.”
Zhou Qian had a hard time not doubting. “If it’s not a dung ball, then why won’t you look at me?”
His expression suddenly went blank. “You… I… I remember seeing those colorful balls… you wouldn’t…”
“No, no, no!” Huai Yu shook her head frantically. “You didn’t eat it! You were unconscious at the time, you couldn’t eat it, it was all soaked into the water.”
But what difference did it make? Zhou Qian lowered his head, staring at his legs, then thought about the foot-washing water from that plump ginseng just now. He thought to himself, there’s nothing I can’t accept.
After all, he was from the tough and disciplined defense army, and what hadn’t he eaten during the toughest times? A mere dung beetle—
“If it was soaked into water, I was soaking in that bucket, and my face…”
He instinctively reached up and touched the two deep scars on his face.
Huai Yu glanced at them briefly, then gave up trying to hide anything, saying, “See? I didn’t say anything, but you insisted on digging deeper… Our Keta Rōu doesn’t play with poop, and you survived thanks to it!”
“Besides, its Keta Rōu balls sell really well. Even if others have money, they might not be able to buy them.”
“Don’t waste such a good thing, Zhou Qian.”
…
This conversation ended in complete silence from Zhou Qian.
Keta Rōu, unaware, continued to work diligently and conscientiously. It had no idea that someone had silently followed it all the way to the hillside.
There, it found a bunch of mutated berries, which it eagerly devoured, chewing and spitting out red, dry, fluffy remnants.
Although Zhou Qian didn’t understand the process, he soon saw Keta Rōu using its hands and feet to shape them into a bright red ball—
Zhou Qian’s mind had been shattered by now.
He said his goodbyes to Huai Yu:
“I’ll go back and sort my thoughts before coming back.”
After soaking in the bath for three days, those colorful balls turned into murky water, from his head to his face, from his mouth to his stomach…
Even the iron-willed defense soldier needed some psychological preparation.
…
So strange.
Originally, Uncle Jiao wanted to drink Keta Rōu’s balls, and Huai Yu tried everything to refuse. Now, she still felt psychological pressure even though she had sold them.
But when it came to Zhou Qian, she didn’t understand why she thought Keta Rōu was so obedient and clean, and thought eating the pill was no big deal. After all, Chinese medicine has bat feces and child urine.
But she was alone at home, and the stammering fat ginseng couldn’t even talk properly. Huai Yu thought about this and turned to find Kuang Biao in the back of the house.
Kuang Biao was waiting, shaking his head in the meantime!
“This guy’s good!” Kuang Biao made a decisive judgment when he saw Huai Yu.
“Is this your choice of partner? Nice taste. He looks stable, seems pretty strong.”
“Though you might be a bit love-struck. You haven’t even rooted down yet and already brought him over—Little Yu!” Kuang Biao, despite his young age, spoke like someone experienced:
“But don’t worry, even though he’s strong, he still can’t beat me.”
“If he doesn’t behave, bring him over, and I’ll deal with him. I’ll dig up his roots! Don’t worry, our bamboo is really good at stealing territory from other tree roots.”
Huai Yu: …Thanks!
She rolled her eyes. “What partner? You see how young I am, I haven’t even grown yet. What partner could I have?”
Though she was approachable and naturally beautiful, her skinny frame was a reality. She hadn’t even grown properly yet, so how could she be thinking about relationships?
“Who said that!” Kuang Biao was not pleased. “You’ve eaten so many of my bamboo shoots, shouldn’t you give me some credit? You clearly look taller and fatter than when we first met.”
Is that from eating bamboo shoots?
Huai Yu was almost speechless by Kuang Biao’s words, but she quickly caught on to another key point:
“You just said Zhou Qian is strong?”
That shouldn’t be the case!
Zhou Qian had no abilities. His combat abilities weren’t bad, but compared to a mutated plant like Kuang Biao, he would be no match. How could Kuang Biao have come to the conclusion that Zhou Qian was “strong”?
“Yep,” Kuang Biao said with a slightly sour tone, “You humans are clever, not only can you graft trees, you also graft yourselves.”
“Look at the climbing ivy on his body, it’s growing so well!”
“If I could graft climbing ivy onto my body, if Rose Corridor hit me again, I could split the pain.”
Huai Yu paused, remembering Zhou Qian’s new biological material on his leg.
She still remembered how he had been sweating profusely, trembling in pain.
But—
“Would this ivy on him cause harm?”
“Harm?” Kuang Biao thought for a moment. “What harm could it cause? At worst, it’ll just make him hungrier and eat more.”
“After all, to make the climbing ivy grow better, he’ll need to provide more nutrients.”
“But you humans are good at digesting food and extracting energy. Just eat two more bowls.”
Huai Yu relaxed.
Then, she suddenly realized something: “Kuang Biao, you’ve been here in the bamboo forest every day. How come your head is full of love and relationships?”
The entire bamboo forest went silent.
After sleeping six hours in one go last night, she felt full of energy today! Time to type rapidly!
