The Abyss Fruit

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Jiang Fu approached step by step.

At last, when he reached a spot roughly three meters from the girl, he stopped.

He looked at Shi Jiu's exceptionally beautiful eyes, which were nevertheless filled with utter despair.

After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Could there be a chance that this is a Mutated Beast, not an ordinary python?"

An ordinary giant python naturally couldn't be poisonous.

But a mutated python was another matter.

Besides, this thing might not even be a python.

Perhaps it was some kind of venomous snake that had grown abnormally large.

Shi Jiu raised her eyes and stared blankly at the handsome, refined-looking boy before her through the brim of her Duckbill Cap.

Only after a while did she mutter, "That makes sense."

She saw Jiang Fu watching her warily.

He had refused to come any closer.

So she added, "I have an Abyss Fruit here."

"I originally wanted to trade it for some money... but now I'll just use it to buy my life."

Jiang Fu's eyes widened. "An Abyss Fruit?!"

"Wait, you're not going to eat it yourself?"

Shi Jiu glanced at Jiang Fu as though she were looking at an idiot.

Jiang Fu immediately understood.

The girl in front of him had probably already eaten one.

What incredible luck!

One person had actually managed to find two Abyss Fruits!

After a pause, Jiang Fu said, "But I don't know how to cure poison either."

Shi Jiu said, "This little bit of poison is nothing. I can recover on my own."

"I just can't move for the time being. You only need to get me out of here."

"The smell of blood here will attract other large Mutated Beasts very soon."

Jiang Fu looked at Shi Jiu's delicate, beautiful face.

"You can recover from poison on your own? Doesn't that make you the same as a Honey Badger?"

Shi Jiu: "..."

I want to become a Honey Badger too!

Looking at the girl's utterly despairing face,

Jiang Fu suddenly remembered something.

Before leaving,

Good luck multiplied by ten.

The probability of finding an Abyss Fruit multiplied by ten.

The probability of an Abyss Fruit being found by him multiplied by ten.

And then,

he encountered Shi Jiu, who possessed an Abyss Fruit.

"So this intangible probability can really be multiplied by ten?"

One Abyss Fruit was equivalent to ten Abyss Fruits in Jiang Fu's eyes!

Moreover,

since this probability could be multiplied by ten,

didn't that mean the probability and number of times he could activate a Sequence could also be multiplied by ten?

Jiang Fu forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart.

He deliberately nodded calmly.

"Fine. You give me the Abyss Fruit, and I'll get you out of here."

As he spoke, he carefully observed Shi Jiu in front of him once again.

The girl had her left leg bent and was lazily leaning against the base of the tree.

Aside from her hands, there were no bloodstains on any other part of her body.

Jiang Fu walked up to her.

He didn't immediately take the Abyss Fruit.

Instead, he took a bottle of water from his backpack.

He unscrewed the cap.

Controlling the water with his Spirit Power, he washed the blood from Shi Jiu's hands.

Then he picked up those two fair, delicate hands.

He held them beneath his nose and sniffed.

Shi Jiu: "..."

Jiang Fu ignored her reaction.

He took out an Energy Pill and carefully crushed it.

Then he smeared it over Shi Jiu's hands.

Afterward, he sniffed them again.

That tiny trace of blood had finally been masked by the smell of the Energy Pill.

After finishing all this,

Jiang Fu was still somewhat uneasy.

He leaned over and sniffed Shi Jiu's body again.

...There was no supposedly faint, delicate fragrance.

There was only a slight smell of blood.

Shi Jiu: "..."

Jiang Fu took out another Energy Pill.

He crushed it again and sprinkled it over Shi Jiu's body.

Finally, the smell of blood on Shi Jiu was completely concealed by the scent of the Energy Pill.

Shi Jiu: "..."

"Jiang Fu, did it never occur to you that the smell of the Energy Pill is also a foreign odor, just like the smell of blood?"

Jiang Fu shrugged. "I think Mutated Beasts prefer the smell of blood."

Shi Jiu: "...That makes sense."

Suddenly, Jiang Fu seemed to realize something.

He looked at Shi Jiu warily. "How do you know my name?"

Shi Jiu looked somewhat helpless. "Your name and photo are posted on the class honor roll."

"I'm not blind. Of course I can see them."

Jiang Fu touched his nose.

Only then did he remember that the girl before him was a transfer student in his class.

He coughed. "Uh... about that Abyss Fruit..."

Shi Jiu glanced at the left side of her pants. "It's in my left pocket. Take it yourself."

Jiang Fu had intended to use his Spirit Power to take it.

But the moment his Spirit Power touched Shi Jiu's pants, it vanished automatically.

"Sure enough, Psychic Masters are worthless!"

Jiang Fu grumbled inwardly.

He could only reach tremblingly into Shi Jiu's left pocket.

The next moment,

Shi Jiu's face flushed. "Y-You only need to take the Abyss Fruit. Don't touch anything else."

Jiang Fu froze and stammered, "S-Sorry, I didn't mean to..."

At that moment,

Shi Jiu had her left leg bent as she leaned against the tree.

The pocket of her school uniform pants was rather deep. With something inside, it rested against the inner side of her left leg.

Jiang Fu's hand was trembling, and his movements were somewhat exaggerated.

He fumbled around inside for a long time but still couldn't grasp the Abyss Fruit.

Shi Jiu secretly glanced at Jiang Fu.

Seeing his face flush red,

his entire body trembled.

...That was only natural. In this world, no one could remain calm when facing an Abyss Fruit that was about to be theirs.

When she had obtained her first Abyss Fruit,

she had been even more excited than him.

"He didn't mean to. He didn't mean to. He didn't mean to... ngh..."

Shi Jiu kept repeating the words in her heart.

Suddenly, her originally flushed face turned scarlet.

Jiang Fu fumbled frantically.

After feeling around in the pocket for a long time,

he finally pulled out the round fruit.

The fruit was about the same size as an Energy Pill.

It was pitch-black all over, and a layer of hazy gray mist seemed to swirl across its surface.

It looked...

like a tiny abyss.

No wonder it was called an Abyss Fruit.

Jiang Fu let out a long breath of relief.

Then he looked at Shi Jiu, whose face was already completely red, and asked cautiously, "...You're really giving it to me?"

Shi Jiu's gaze was somewhat vacant. "I can't move right now anyway. Even if you took it and ran, there'd be nothing I could do."

Jiang Fu was just about to speak.

Suddenly, his expression changed violently.

He scooped Shi Jiu up in his arms.

His body abruptly shot to the side.

Boom!

Crack!

The spot where Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu had been a moment earlier now contained a pit roughly one meter deep.

The tree Shi Jiu had been leaning against had also snapped apart.

A wolf with silver-gray fur all over, larger than an adult yellow ox, bared its teeth at the two of them.

At the same time,

the Second System Light Screen appeared in front of Jiang Fu.

[Species: Silver Moon Wolf]

[Level: 2]

[Weaknesses: Waist, abdomen]

[Most valuable part: Fur]

A Level 2 Silver Moon Wolf?!

Run!

His body moved faster than his thoughts.

Before he had even finished seeing the Silver Moon Wolf clearly,

Jiang Fu was already carrying Shi Jiu and darting away once more.

The Silver Moon Wolf first glanced at the Giant Python, which stretched more than ten meters to one side.

A trace of disdain flashed through its green eyes.

Then its body transformed into a blur.

It chased after Jiang Fu in the direction he had disappeared.

Hearing the movement behind him, Jiang Fu couldn't help cursing.

"This wolf is sick! It's leaving that huge chunk of snake meat there and chasing me instead?!"

Shi Jiu, held in Jiang Fu's arms in a bridal carry, quietly added, "Could there be a chance that this is a Mutated Beast with intelligence?"

Jiang Fu frowned. "So it knows that snake is poisonous!"

Shi Jiu: "..."

I think he's implying something about me again.

Hearing the footsteps behind them drawing closer and closer,

Shi Jiu sighed. "You should put me down. That way, you..."

Before she could finish,

Shi Jiu dumbfoundedly realized that...

He had already flown into the air.

The Silver Moon Wolf below saw him.

Its body shot upward, lunging at the figure overhead.

In the Silver Moon Wolf's eyes,

that slender, frail-looking figure in the sky was even more enticing than the one fleeing!

But the instant the Silver Moon Wolf leaped,

a pitch-black Battle Knife came hurtling down.

Bolstered by Spirit Power, it was as fast as lightning.

It slashed toward the Silver Moon Wolf's waist.

The Silver Moon Wolf narrowed its bright green eyes.

It had spotted the Battle Knife.

Instinctively, it tried to dodge.

But in midair, it had nothing to push off from.

It could not evade the blow.

Then I'll eat this human!

A vicious glint flashed in the Silver Moon Wolf's eyes.

A Battle Knife of this caliber can't pierce my defenses!

At that very moment,

the Silver Moon Wolf was still rising, about to reach the girl in midair.

But in the next instant,

the Silver Moon Wolf realized in horror:

My body...

No. It's as if the world itself has changed!

Some unseen force seemed to press down on its rapidly rising body.

When it was still a meter from Shi Jiu,

it plunged downward.

At the same time,

the Battle Knife slammed into the Silver Moon Wolf's waist.

"Silver Moon Wolf subjected to Multiply by Ten gravity for three seconds!"

"Battle Knife's weight multiplied by ten for three seconds!"

"Battle Knife subjected to Multiply by Ten gravity for three seconds!"

Jiang Fu's murmurs scattered on the wind.

They left no trace.

Bang!

Boom—

The Silver Moon Wolf's massive body crashed to the ground.

Its waist snapped instantly.

The wolf folded in half like a folding screen.

Jiang Fu stopped.

Then he hurried a few steps to the side.

He caught Shi Jiu securely.

Looking at Shi Jiu in his arms, he let out a long breath of relief.

"Good thing you told me to throw you. Otherwise, I'd never have thought of such a perfect tactic."

Shi Jiu: "..."