It Must Be the Wrong Way to Open a Pet Egg

At the same time, the entire Pet Egg emitted a dazzling golden light, making it look incredibly high-end.

Then Lin Xuan heard a series of cracking sounds. The shell of the glowing Pet Egg slowly began to split open.

A small, furry paw emerged from the crack in the eggshell. It looked somewhat like the paw of a mammal.

This made Lin Xuan curious. He stared intently at the crack in the Pet Egg, eager to see what exactly had hatched from it.

Lin Xuan was very curious what kind of mammal could possibly hatch from a system Pet Egg.

As time passed, the Pet Egg's shell had completely cracked apart. Then, a creature Lin Xuan had never expected appeared before him.

At the same time, the strange creature let out a scream that sounded strangely human when it looked at Lin Xuan.

"Ahhh!"

Lin Xuan stared at the pet before him, his eyes full of disbelief. He had never imagined that this kind of animal would hatch from the Pet Egg.

"Holy shit... A Pet Egg that incubated for more than two years... hatched... a marmot for me... What the hell is this???"

Lin Xuan looked at the marmot standing atop the broken Pet Egg shell, and his whole world fell apart. He had never expected that the Pet Egg he had incubated for two years would hatch nothing more than a marmot.

That was right—a marmot about half a meter long. The moment it saw Lin Xuan, it let out that incredibly bizarre, mind-numbing scream.

A few minutes later, Lin Xuan tied the marmot to a chair with rope and stuffed a pillow into its mouth to stop it from making that bizarre scream.

Then Lin Xuan checked the marmot's description. It would have been better if he had not looked, because the moment he did, he was left speechless.

Marmot: Completely useless. Other than eating, drinking, defecating, urinating, and sleeping, it cannot do anything. When it encounters unfamiliar things, it lets out an extremely bizarre scream capable of affecting the mind.

"Holy shit... The Pet Egg I incubated for over two years... only hatched something like this?"

"No, I must have opened the Pet Egg wrong. If I stuff it back into the shell and let it hatch again, it probably won't be a marmot anymore, right?"

After reading the marmot's description, Lin Xuan was completely speechless. He looked the marmot over, then could not help muttering under his breath.

Still, Lin Xuan did not actually do that. After all, it was a marmot produced by the system. It should not be that terrible, right?

As Lin Xuan examined the marmot, the marmot curiously examined Lin Xuan as well.

After observing the marmot for a while, Lin Xuan let out a helpless sigh and comforted himself.

"Maybe... this marmot has some hidden ability. That's the only way I can console myself for now."

Still, Lin Xuan was not sure whether the marmot truly had any special hidden abilities. After all, the system had only given this little bit of information and nothing more.

"Keep your mouth shut, and I'll take the pillow out of your mouth. Otherwise, I'll keep you tied up here."

Lin Xuan looked at the strange marmot, thought for a moment, then spoke to it. He wanted to know whether the marmot could understand what he was saying.

But to Lin Xuan's surprise, after he finished speaking, the marmot hurriedly nodded at him.

"Not bad. At least you can understand human speech. Otherwise, I really would've collapsed. I just hope you have some kind of special hidden ability..."

Seeing this, Lin Xuan felt slightly relieved. At the very least, this marmot could understand him for now.

At least that meant this marmot might have a chance to evolve in the future. Of course, Lin Xuan was only thinking wishfully.

After all, Lin Xuan was not sure whether this marmot could evolve at all, though he certainly hoped it possessed the ability to evolve.

Then Lin Xuan removed the pillow from the marmot's mouth. The marmot did not let out that bizarre scream. It only curiously inspected Lin Xuan and everything in the room.

Seeing that, Lin Xuan slowly untied the rope around the marmot.

Once the rope was removed, the strange marmot began wandering around the room. After roaming around for a while, it walked over to the bed.

Then it used its short, chubby little legs to slowly climb onto the bed and made its way toward the broken pieces of the Pet Egg shell.

The marmot picked up the Pet Egg shell from the bed and slowly began gnawing on it.

Lin Xuan merely stood to the side and watched as the marmot slowly chewed through the Pet Egg shell.

After all, in Lin Xuan's opinion, perhaps the marmot would evolve only after eating all the Pet Egg shell fragments.

Half an hour later, under Lin Xuan's watchful gaze, the marmot finally finished gnawing through every fragment of the Pet Egg shell.

Then the marmot actually let out a very human-like burp and patted its belly with its tiny little paws.

Then, right in front of Lin Xuan, the marmot lay down on his bed, shut its eyes, and began snoring.

Lin Xuan: "???"

"What the hell? Where's the evolution? After eating all the Pet Egg shell fragments, you should at least give me some other reaction! Why did you just lie down on the bed and go to sleep?"

Lin Xuan waited for several minutes. Looking at the marmot lying on the bed, he could not help calling out to it in confusion.

But the marmot ignored Lin Xuan and simply rolled its chubby body over to face the other way.

Looking at the marmot, Lin Xuan felt utterly at a loss. He even began to wonder whether everything produced by the system was just trash.

But when he thought of the Myriad Pill Codex and those divine flames, he abandoned that thought. After all, those were Divine Artifacts.

Maybe this marmot simply had not reached adulthood yet. At least, that was how Lin Xuan comforted himself.

Perhaps once the marmot reached adulthood, it would evolve and become a Heaven-Devouring Marmot.