CH 16

Chapter 16: Planning house design

When Mu Liang and Mino found the rock armor tortoise, there was an additional rock spur around the nearby hill.

“Ow ~~” The rock armor tortoise let out a cry when it saw its owner.

“Are you hungry?”

Mu Liang froze, and he couldn’t help but feel a headache from the meaning conveyed by the rock armor tortoise’s mind.

“Little Black Tortoise is hungry?” Mino opened her little mouth.

She blankly stared at the huge figure of the rock tortoise and wondered about how much food would be needed to fill its stomach?

“Ding! 1 evolution point per day can be consumed to solve the hunger problem of the tamed beast.”

Mu Liang grumbled in his heart, “System, you should have told me earlier.”

He might even face a hunger crisis if he tried to feed the rock armor tortoise of such a size.

System: “……”

“Stretch your head. I’ll give you some energy to eat.” Mu Liang waved at the rock armor tortoise.

“Energy?” Mino’s blue eyes curiously stared at him.

“Ow~~” The rock armor tortoise let out a hiss and stretched its huge head.

“System, evolve the rock armor tortoise and fill its stomach as well.”

Mu Liang placed his palm on the head of the rock armor tortoise and gave an order to the system with his mind.

“Ding! Level 2 Rock Armor Tortoise evolved to level 3, deduct 100 evolution points.”

“Ding! Rock Armor Tortoise has successfully evolved to Level 3.”

“Ding! Level 3 rock armor tortoise’s talent evolution: Earth Rock Burst.”

“Ding! Improving the tamer’s ‘Earth Rock Burst’ ability to level 3 ‘Earth Rock Burst’.”

Mu Liang’s body was strengthened once again, and the Rock Armor Tortoise’s talent also advanced.

“System, open the character panel.”

He wanted to see how much his life span had increased.

[Tamer: Mu Liang]

Stamina: 22. Speed: 21

Strength: 21. Spirit: 32

Life span: 24 years / 420 years

Taming points: 10 (Refresh daily, can be accumulated)

Evolutionary points: 219

Ability: Earth Rock Burst (Level 3)

Mimetic Stealth (Level 3)

(The attributes of a normal human body are 1)

…………

Tamed beasts:

Rock Armor tortoise (Level 3)

Talent: Earth Rock Burst (Level 3)

Tricolored Lizard (Level 3)

Talent: Mimetic Stealth (Level 3)”

…………

“I wonder what the basic attributes of an enhanced person are and how they compare to me.”

Mu Liang’s lips curled into a smile as he closed his character panel. A life span of more than 400 years was something he had never thought of before.

“Mu Liang, Mu Liang…… Look at the Little Black Tortoise.” Mino stuttered as she tugged at his clothes.

Mu Liang returned to his senses and looked up.

The rock armor tortoise had once again become larger. If its previous size had been ten square meters, now its size was one hundred square meters.

“Ow~~”

The rock-armor tortoise let out a powerful, excited hiss and lifted its foot to stomp the ground.

“Bang!”

A one-meter-long rock spike appeared on the ground. Then it shot out with an explosive speed and crashed into a rock wall a hundred meters away.

“BANG!!!”

The rock wall shattered as if it had been blasted by a cannonball.

Mino’s ears stood straight and her blue eyes became dull as she watched the rock armor tortoise’s masterpiece.

Mu Liang smiled, raised his eyebrows, and said with satisfaction, “Finally, there is a long-range attack capability.”

“Little Black Tortoise…… is so powerful, and so cool.” After Mino came back to her senses, she became so excited that she didn’t know how to express it.

She did not know many adjectives.

Mu Liang conveyed his intention to the rock armor tortoise and shouted, “Little Black Tortoise, send us up!”

The current rock armor tortoise was more than six meters tall. It was very difficult to climb on its back, not to mention the fact that its limbs were covered with rock spikes.

“Oww~~” The rock armor tortoise sat down and a ladder formed by the rock rose to the back of the tortoise from the ground.

Mu Liang led the girl up the stairs and came to the tortoise’s back once again.

“It’s so spacious.” Mino spun around in delight and looked at the back of the tortoise, which had expanded about ten times.

Mu Liang looked at the young girl, who was as light as a butterfly, running on the tortoise’s back.

He curiously asked her, “Mino, what kind of house do you plan to build?”

“Huh? Are you asking me?” Mino stopped running around in bewilderment.

“Well, what kind of house do you like?” Mu Liang asked differently.

“What kind of house do I like? I’ll have to think about that one.”

Mino squatted down in distress, and the rabbit ears on her head were also tangled together.

“Are the rabbit’s ears expressing her emotions?” Mu Liang looked at Mino’s rabbit ears with interest.

He was even a little tempted to grab them.

Mino thought for a while, looked up, and weakly said, “Mu Liang, how about we build it like a wooden shed?”

“Think about it again. The wooden shed is too simple.” Mu Liang said with a smile.

Mino said with a bitter little face, “I can’t think of anything else.”

“Then come over and see this house.”

Mu Liang pulled out a piece of cloth from his pants pocket and spread it out on the back of the tortoise.

Mino came closer and looked at the cloth on the ground.

She looked at the black pattern on the cloth piece, and the more she looked at it, the more she liked it.

Suddenly, she turned her head and stared at Mu Liang with her blue eyes. Then she excitedly asked, “Can we really build this house in the future?”

“Of course.” Mu Liang responded with a smile.

He had drawn the design of this house on the cloth last night.

It was a very simple house with two rooms, one hall, one bath, and a small yard.

“This house is very good, but how are we going to build it? It will need a lot of stones, right?”

Suddenly, Mino’s rabbit ears, that had just been erected with excitement, went soft.

“Did you forget whose back are we staying on now?”

Mu Liang smiled and stomped on the tortoise’s back. Then he sent it a message: I need some rectangular stones on your back.

“Ow ow ow ow~~” the rock-armor tortoise hissed ‘received’.

The rock armor tortoise manipulated the rocks of the surrounding hills and carried them on its back.

Soon, many rectangular blocks of various sizes were piled up on the back of the tortoise.

“Little Black Tortoise is too powerful, right?” Mino’s blue eyes glowed.

“Next, we have to place these stones according to the drawing.”

Mu Liang rolled up his sleeves and pulled out a charcoal to draw lines on the back of the tortoise.

The rock armor tortoise did not know how to read maps. Building a house was a little difficult for the current Little Black Tortoise.

Unless its wisdom became higher in the future.

“Leave it to me,” Mino shouted energetically.

“It’s very fortunate that the Little Black Tortoise can manipulate rocks. Otherwise, it would be a bit difficult to bring those rocks here.”

Mu Liang sent a compliment to the rock armor tortoise through his thoughts.

In fact, the rock spikes on the shell and limbs of the rock tortoise could also be used to build houses.

However, the number and thickness of these rock spikes was limited, and they defended the rock armor tortoise.

It would be a little over the top if he used them to build a house.

He might as well get some rocks and integrate them with his ability. This way he would not need to use cement and the house would also be more stable on the back of the tortoise.

The weight of these stones was also negligible for the rock-armor tortoise.