Chapter 151
Chapter 151
“Why did you all come rushing over just now? I thought enemies were invading, so I caught the three of you.”
At the mention of that, Shamate’s face filled with indignation.
“It was all because of that thing over there that looks like a Pitcher Plant. It tried to swallow us in one bite. Good thing Sister Yun has such a big head, or she would’ve been eaten.”
Big Tree flew into a rage. “What?! Someone dared to bully my goddaughter? It must have a death wish!”
He immediately hoisted Yun Youyou onto one of his branches.
“Come on! I’m taking you to get revenge right now!”
Big Tree pulled his roots out of the ground and strode forward.
Every step he took brought a thunderous boom from beneath the earth, making the whole ground tremble. Where Big Tree had once stood, a massive crater remained.
Having a powerful backer really was wonderful.
Shamate and Red-haired Trendy Guy hurried after him.
“Exactly! How dare it bully Sister Yun? That Pitcher Plant has absolutely no morals. It wouldn’t even spare someone intellectually challenged.”
“Doesn’t it know who Sister Yun’s godfather is? It’s as good as dead!”
As Yun Youyou listened to them call her intellectually challenged over and over, her feelings could not have been more complicated.
After running rampant through haunted grounds for so many years, this was the first time she had ever found herself in a situation like this.
Big Tree, walking at the front, suddenly stopped.
Shamate and Red-haired Trendy Guy quickly halted as well and asked in confusion, “What’s wrong?”
Big Tree fixed them with a scrutinizing stare, as if he were interrogating two criminals.
The two ghosts felt chills race down their backs. Trembling, they asked, “What… what’s the matter?”
Big Tree’s imposing voice rang out.
“You’ve been hanging around my goddaughter all this time. Don’t tell me you’re harboring improper thoughts about her.”
He looked at them the way a father might look at two delinquent punks downstairs, riding souped-up scooters with their hair dyed yellow, waiting to steal away his precious daughter.
Shamate immediately declared his innocence.
“How could that be possible? Sister Yun is like my own sister! How could I possibly have those kinds of thoughts about my sister?”
Red-haired Trendy Guy hurried to follow suit.
“Exactly! They say an eldest sister is like a mother. Sister Yun is just like my dear old mom. How could I possibly have those kinds of thoughts about my mother?”
Yun Youyou: …Great. First a sister, then a mother. Keep going and I’ll be your grandmother next.
Big Tree was quite satisfied with their answers.
“At least you know your place.”
He gave the two ghosts a disdainful glance. One was a Cactus covered in spikes, and the other a scrawny Pea Sprout. Neither one looked remotely good enough for his adorable goddaughter.
As Big Tree continued forward, he began planning to introduce his goddaughter to the handsomest bachelor around.
Meanwhile, the Pitcher Plant had no idea that disaster was headed its way.
It was still mourning its earlier defeat.
It had come so close to eating that chubby Sunflower.
That Sunflower really was fat, and its head really was hard. It had been completely impossible to bite through.
If it had known, it would have eaten the two brats standing beside the Sunflower first.
Boom!
Boom! Boom, boom!
Thunderous impacts rolled across the ground, making the entire earth quake. The Pitcher Plant was almost shaken right out of the soil.
What was going on?
It seemed some terrifyingly important figure had arrived.
“Heh-heh, bet you didn’t expect this! We’re back!”
Shamate and Red-haired Trendy Guy bounced cheerfully in front of the Pitcher Plant.
The moment the Pitcher Plant saw the two plants, it was overjoyed.
They actually dared to come back! It would not have to go hungry today after all!
With a whoosh, the Pitcher Plant shot out its vines, intending to catch both of them in one sweep.
A gigantic shadow suddenly fell over it.
The overwhelming darkness seemed ready to swallow the tiny Pitcher Plant whole.
Alarm bells blared in its mind.
It raised its head and saw a majestic ancient tree towering above it. Dense branches and a massive trunk displayed the tree’s immense strength.
Big Tree lifted Yun Youyou down from his branches and carefully set her on the ground.
“See this? This is my precious daughter!”
“Were you the one who bullied her just now?”
The Pitcher Plant nearly flattened itself in terror.
Who could tell it how a tree had managed to give birth to a Sunflower?
Faced with Big Tree’s interrogation, it frantically shook its head. It shook so hard that the trapping pitchers at the ends of its vines nearly flew off.
Now that she had borrowed a tiger’s might, Yun Youyou saw the Pitcher Plant denying everything and immediately pointed at it. “Sun-sun, sun-sun-sun!”
Big Tree patted her head. “I understand, daughter!”
Under the Pitcher Plant’s horrified gaze, countless long, sharp branches pierced straight through its body.
Big Tree picked up its corpse between two branches and stuffed it toward Yun Youyou’s mouth.
“Hurry and eat, daughter. You need the nourishment.”
Every part of Yun Youyou resisted.
It was not as though she ate absolutely everything.
But Big Tree was simply too enthusiastic. He kept pushing the Pitcher Plant’s corpse against the face of her flower.
Yun Youyou: Is he trying to make me pull a Shennong and sample every plant in existence?
Shamate sidled up to Yun Youyou and whispered, “Sister Yun, why don’t you just eat it? It’s a gift from an elder, after all.”
Red-haired Trendy Guy joined in.
“Sister Yun, that thing has to be packed with nutrients. Once you eat it, you’ll definitely have even more strength to beat up ghosts.”
Under Big Tree’s loving encouragement, Yun Youyou had no choice but to open her gaping maw and eat the Pitcher Plant.
A round lump bulged from the face of the plump Sunflower.
Big Tree almost melted from the cuteness.
His newly adopted goddaughter was simply too adorable.
Along the way, whenever Big Tree saw a quality ingredient, he stuffed it into Yun Youyou’s mouth.
A foxtail-grass spirit by the roadside? Pick it for my goddaughter!
A peach spirit in the tree? Pluck it for my goddaughter!
Nettles by the road…? Forget it. That stuff was prickly. His precious goddaughter could not eat that.
As Yun Youyou was fed nonstop, she grew larger and larger.
This was probably what people called the burden of happiness.
Behind them, Shamate and Red-haired Trendy Guy whispered to each other.
Red-haired Trendy Guy stared at Yun Youyou’s body, now twice its original size. “It’s over. Sister Yun is showing side effects after eating that Pitcher Plant.”
Shamate immediately leaned closer. “What? What side effects?”
Red-haired Trendy Guy said, “She’s gradually turning into a pig.”
Shamate: “…You’ve really got guts, kid. If Sister Yun hears you, you’re dead.”
Meanwhile, back in the wilderness, Su Gou had also discovered that the Sunflower he had so carefully tended was gone.
Strange. Where had the Sunflower gone?
Su Gou searched the entire field and even combed through the nearby grassland, but he still could not find his Sunflower.
With a cold expression, he stormed up to his roommate.
“Have you seen my Sunflower?”
His roommate said, “No.”
Su Gou’s brow furrowed even deeper. He ran off to ask Lu Shenlin.