Chapter 194 The Nagging (1/2)

Stripey couldn't believe what he had just heard. I've always thought of you as a brother... How could you...

Da Zi lifted one of its maxillipeds to Stripey's mouth.

”Here! You can have it.” Da Zi gave its limb one final look before stuffing it inside of Stripey's mouth.

All of Stripey's eyes gleamed in bewilderment. Da Zi's character was beginning to confound it. Just which one was Da Zi's real side?

Stripey's little brain struggled to figure out this centipede.

In the end, Stripey decided not to eat any of Da Zi's limbs. From his experience, Da Zi was a centipede that tended to hold grudges.

If one of its limbs was actually torn off, Da Zi might have held it against Stripey for a long time.

After giving it much thought, Gao Peng realized that this mountain was luring other monsters into it.

He was now even more wary of it. He had no interest in solving its mystery. Such a suspicious-looking thing needed to be left to others to figure out.

Gao Peng began leading the other familiars away from the mountain. Just then, he was seized by the sudden impulse to continue walking towards the mountain. He suddenly felt as if all of his wants and needs would be met if he went inside.

The mountain's trying to tempt me, thought Gao Peng. Climbing up Dumby's ribs, he said to the others, ”Let's go!”

Something was definitely trying to influence his thoughts from deep inside the mountain. Gao Peng decided that he needed to put some distance between himself and the mountain.

When he had left the mountain far behind him, Gao Peng finally let out a sigh of relief and looked back at it. Suddenly, a curious thought occurred to him. This mountain really looked as if...

Gao Peng had marked out three regions on the map where he thought he would be able to find plenty of Earth Spirit Cores. The first region had seemed way too shady. There hadn't seemed to be any Earth Spirit Cores to be found. However, this wasn't a huge problem. Gao Peng was still patient enough to search the other two regions.

After three days, they finally reached the second region.

It was a mountainous region, which was conducive to the formation of Earth Spirit Cores. However, the soil there didn't seem fertile enough. The entire region was just an empty shell.

”Am I really that unlucky?” said Gao Peng with a heavy sigh.

The last region was only a day's trip away from the second region.

After climbing past a small hill, Gao Peng found himself standing in front of a stone forest. Gray-white stone jutted out from the ground in disorder. Hardy fern-like plants grew in the cracks between the stones.

If there was one thing Gao Peng had learned in the past few days, it was that monsters usually lurked in peculiar terrains like the stone forest in front of him.

The stranger the terrain, the more monsters one could find.

Gao Peng's main priority now was to find the necessary ingredients for Stripey's evolution. Everything else was secondary. The core crystals that could be obtained from killing other monsters didn't mean much to Gao Peng at that moment.

He was now able to earn an astronomical sum from selling the drugs that he had developed through the Southern Sky Group. Anything that could be bought with money held the same value to him at this point.

Suddenly, Gao Peng heard the sound of pincers clacking somewhere. The sound resounded clearly and rhythmically from the stone forest.

A gray scorpion crawled out from the stone forest. Its color was almost the same as the surrounding gray stone. It let out a threatening hiss as it waved its thick tail incessantly.

The Adamantine Duck fearlessly quacked back at it.

The scorpion furiously lunged at the duck. Da Zi cried out, its eyes flashing dangerously. It had accepted the Adamantine Duck as its new brother. Anyone who tried to bully any of its brothers would have to answer to it.

Gao Peng waved a hand at Da Zi before it could do anything. The striped rock scorpion was only Level 13. Even though it was three levels higher than the Adamantine Duck, it was only a Normal-tiered monster. Gao Peng also wanted to see just how strong the duck really was.

Ten minutes passed.