184 Taking Out the Tai Sui (1/2)
That's right! Nothing!
The way Chen Fan figured it, there should be a Tai Sui fairy or a beautiful girl hiding in it! Yet, the truth was always so heartbreaking!
”Oh dang!” Chen Fan was struggling to pull himself out. He then picked up the hammer, starting to slam the wall like a mad person.
”Bang!” Two minutes later, Chen Fan kicked off the heavily damaged resin wall that was located beneath his belly, then immediately squeezed himself into the interior.
But, there wasn't anything suspicious in that fine polished, dim chamber. Next, he looked up at the dome, but also saw nothing! Then, looking around the corner, still nothing…
”Wait a second! What's that?”
Suddenly, Chen Fan saw a spherical object, about the size of a basketball, lying at the corner of the resin wall. However, he couldn't verify what exactly the object was, due to the poor lighting in the chamber.
Chen Fan walked towards it, then squatted down. He took out his phone to illuminate the object. He then realized that it was an unknown milky white object, which had a texture that was as soft as a baby's skin.
”Could this be the Tai Sui?” Chen Fan recalled all kinds of photos from the internet, yet none of them seemed to look as glossy and beautiful as this one.
”Sigh. I thought you were going to be the big boy, who weighed two tons or so and could instantly regenerate, even after losing 300 pounds per day.”
Chen Fan had no choice but to pick up this little one and walk toward the second floor. As he did so, he muttered to himself, ”This is rather unexpected. I never thought you would be this small. You have even ruined my dreams of discovering a hidden cutie in here…”
This Tai Sui may have looked tiny in terms of size, but the weight of it was not light at all. Instead, the white sphere actually had a whopping weight of 20 kilograms!
Chen Fan knew that most owners of a Tai Sui would usually raise them in water. Therefore, he took a plastic bucket and placed the Tai Sui in it. He then filled the bucket with freshwater.
At this very moment, a strange scene took place…
After being left in the water for about 10 minutes, countless tiny bubbles surfaced from the skin of the Tai Sui. Numerous bubbles even ruptured out of the water, emitting a burst of fragrance.
”So, it can breathe?” Chen Fan recalled hearing of this from an old professor once. ”It's a form of life. It can breathe, grow, and regenerate, just like animals. However, it does not have any organs. It is neither a plant nor a fourth trophic level organism. They usually live underwater or in the soil.”
Certainly, there was no air leakage inside the stone tower. As far as oxygen was concerned, the oxygen molecules in the liquids should have long depleted over the past thousands of years. Therefore, there was a possibility that it had fallen into an extended period of hibernation, then finally regained its vitality upon Chen Fan's putting it into the oxygen-packed freshwater!
Chen Fan pulled out the black Kun Wu dagger from his back, hesitating for a moment.
Should I slice a piece off, so that I can let the electric eel have a taste of it?
The Compendium of Materia Medica claimed as such, ”Consume for a long period of time to preserve youth. This may also aid you to extend your lifespan and become a celestial being!”
Judging from the attributes listed above, it was evident that the older it gets, the higher its nutritional value becomes. As for this Tai Sui, it was probably around ten thousand years old, per Chen Fan's calculations.
Hence, logically speaking, it should possess a monstrously high nutritional value. Thus, although one might not become a celestial being after eating it, it still might not be far-fetched to claim that the eater's attributes would certainly multiply!
”I'm sorry, my little Tai Sui. But, the description stated that you should recover in the next day, anyway!” said Chen Fan, after making up his mind. He took out the Tai Sui from the water, then slowly pierced it with the Kun Wu dagger.
”Eh?” As soon as the Kun Wu dagger made contact with the Tai Sui's surface, Chen Fan couldn't help but exclaim.
The sharpness of the Kun Wu dagger was undoubtedly top-notch for its class. It could effortlessly cut through an iron sheet, just like it was a flimsy piece of paper! However, the dagger could not advance any further than 2 cm into the Tai Sui's milky-white skin, even after Chen Fan had exerted a good amount of force and strength.
It felt as if he was trying to cut the meat with the dull backside of a knife! Not only had he failed to locate the pivot point, as the meat was everywhere when it was being cut by the back of a knife, but the knife also felt blunt at the same time. Chen Fan, who refused to accept the fact, simply sat down, pinning down the Tai Sui with his legs. He then pressed the dagger into the Tai Sui, now with all of his might.
”I'm definitely going to bring you under my control today!” Chen Fan glared at the Tai Sui. Blue veins stood out on his right arm, as he swung the Kun Wu dagger.