Xiao Yunjie returned rather slowly. Actually, she could have returned much faster, since the hearts had already been removed, sorted, and put away. All she had to do was count them and put them in bags.
Xiao Yunjie deliberately slowed down.
After all, in Leina's imagination, they should find the Polluted Beast, cut Polluted Beast open, dig out their bloody, mangled hearts, and then put them into bags one by one... This process can't be rushed.
When Xiao Yunjie and Xiao Tong returned, Leina's icy expression softened slightly.
She glanced at Song Xiaozhu out of the corner of her eye.
Song Xiaozhu noticed and looked at her cautiously. "Miss Leina?"
To everyone's surprise, the usually aloof Leina suddenly broke into a gentle smile, "Hmm... you look a lot like someone I knew."
Song Xiaozhu tensed up, and her palms immediately became sweaty.
Of course, she didn't show it on her face, still feigning a puzzled expression.
Leina had no intention of saying more. She suppressed her smile and returned to her indifferent demeanor. With a slight tap on her wrist, a small green pendant appeared out of thin air.
"This is for you." Leina handed the pendant to Song Xiaozhu.
Song Xiaozhu looked surprised. "This..."
Leina placed the Xiaoxiao pendant in her palm and said, "It's a worthless little trinket, just play with it."
This little pendant is only the size of a fingertip, and the workmanship is very rough. The material looks like it was made from broken glass. However, its shape is unique; it's a Xiaoxiao four-leaf clover—a lucky four-leaf clover.
Xiao Yunjie saw this and felt slightly uneasy. She couldn't help but feel nervous whenever it involved Song Xiaozhu.
Xiao Yunjie only breathed a sigh of relief after Song Xiaozhu whispered "thank you".
Leina nodded, snapped her fingers, and one of the giant "chimpanzees" quickly appeared in front of her.
The chimpanzee easily lifted the large bag full of hearts.
As for the personal terminal, Leina also handed it over to Xiao Yunjie.
She taught Xiao Yunjie how to use her personal terminal, adding, "It's very simple, just follow the prompts. I've saved my contact information for you, so you can contact me anytime if you encounter any problems."
Xiao Yunjie nodded and grasped her personal terminal.
Leina leaped up and landed on the "chimpanzee's" back, announcing, "Deal made! Until we meet again!"
Xiao Yunjie raised
He turned to her and said, "Until we meet again."
Only after Leina disappeared at the edge of the village did Xiao Yunjie turn to Song Xiaozhu: "Miss, this person's terminal..."
Song Xiaozhu: "Yes, it's bad."
When she spoke, Qiu Shuyu and Xiao Tong were both completely bewildered. Xiao Tong gasped, "Broken? It was working just now, how can it be broken!"
Xiao Yunjie opened her hand, revealing her personal terminal, which was no longer the same as it had been in Leina's hand.
Its disguise was torn off, revealing its true nature.
Song Xiaozhu picked it up and examined it carefully. "This kind of device is linked to an individual, hence the name 'personal terminal.' As for this piece... it must have been salvaged from a dead person."
Leina's only goal from beginning to end was to get something for nothing.
Taking advantage of her lack of information, she planned to make a quick buck and run.
Even the name is fake.
Xiao Tong's entire worldview was shattered. After a long while, he slowly said, "Then... then why should we make a deal with her?"
More than three hundred hearts, even without the Awakening Stone Fragment, are still edible meat!
That female swindler got off easy!
Xiao Yunjie calmly replied, "Miss must intend to take it for research."
Song Xiaozhu nodded. "Let me look into it. Maybe we can have our own personal terminals too."
She kept this thing because she had thought of a new function for the Synthesizer—
Formula Research and Development.
This terminal is unusable for them.
But what Xiao He can figure out the logic behind it and come up with a synthesis formula?!
Chapter 78
Xiao Tong still couldn't swallow his anger. He said angrily, "She definitely didn't go far, I..."
Xiao Yunjie glanced at him. "What, trying to snatch the heart back?"
Xiao Tong retorted, "She's lying, she's wrong. If we let her go, more people will fall for her tricks!"
Xiao Yunjie sneered, "What did she lie to you about? This terminal was working when it was handed to me, and she even demonstrated it to me. If you go to her now, she'll just say that we broke it ourselves."
"Besides, do you think she's an ordinary person? Those three Polluted Beast aren't the Black Ox Beast and Black Pig Beast we've killed before. They have a strong sense of obedience, and their combat power is only stronger."
Even if we could barely win, what's the point of doing something that results in mutual destruction?
She's alone, and you are?
"You have an entire village behind you!"
Xiao Tong was stunned by his mother's words. He opened his mouth but didn't know how to refute her. His young face turned red, and after a long while, he lowered his voice and mumbled, "... If it weren't for Miss Song, wouldn't we have just suffered a loss for nothing!"
Xiao Yunjie said in a deep voice, "If it weren't for Miss Song, we wouldn't even have had the chance to meet 'Beast Tamer' Leina."
The buffer zone has been breached, freeing the Ink City area from a century of constraints, but it is also about to face the challenges of a new world.
Living in harsh and difficult conditions, they inevitably lacked experience and life experience.
In the past, Xiao Tong, with his maximum fighting skills, was more than capable of serving as the village chief of Liu Family Village. Now...
Xiao Yunjie looked at her son and said seriously, "From now on, you need to listen more and think more, and control your temper."
Before leaving, Song Xiaozhu instructed Xiao Yunjie to increase the intensity of patrols.
Leina will eventually discover that there is no Awakening Stone in her heart.
Although she didn't give them a proper personal terminal, there was no guarantee that they wouldn't get angry and harbor malicious intentions.
In short, better safe than sorry.
Xiao Yunjie was also thinking about this matter. After nodding in agreement, she went to arrange the patrol team.
Song Xiaozhu took her personal terminal back to the shop. After going upstairs, she summoned the Workbench and asked Xiao He, "Can we proceed with ' Formula Research and Development '?"