Lantern Sister is still very capable.

Chapter 130 Starting the Stove

While chewing on the very tender stewed fish, Jin Xiaoyue was overwhelmed by the broken texture after only two bites. She swallowed the fish with difficulty before chatting with Chu Deng about the training program. "I'm currently learning about exotic plants. My mentor said he'll give me a seed of a mutated sea buckthorn after the training ends."

"Hmm." Chu Deng consciously scooped the fish from Jin Xiaoyue's plate. Although it was very ordinary, she couldn't waste food.

"My mentor also told me that since we were the first two to awaken, we'll get 100 points when the information is updated, and then we can exchange them for things," Jin Xiaoyue chuckled.

"What can I exchange it for?" Chu Deng glanced at Meng Qiuhe, who was getting his food, and noticed that he didn't dare to come over, so he just found a seat and sat down.

"100 points can be exchanged for a level 1 crystal core, I think..." Jin Xiaoyue recalled, "Oh right, it can also be exchanged for 100,000 yuan."

"Not bad." Chu Deng thought about how she was burdened with three million in debt, and accumulating points was necessary. Even though she had fallen out with Old Man's Teahouse, it wasn't impossible for her not to pay back the money, but since Qing Tian had offered her a helping hand even though they had just met, Chu Deng couldn't bear to take advantage of him.

"By the way, Dengdeng..." Jin Xiaoyue paused, looking at her absent-minded friend, and asked when Chu Deng looked at her, "Can I teach the gymnastics you taught me to someone else?"

Jin Xiaoyue knew that she was able to awaken so quickly because of her friend's set of gymnastics, or more accurately, awakening physical techniques.

"Teach whom?" Chu Deng calmly took a bite of rice, chewing the half-cooked, hard-core rice with an unchanging expression. It was a pity that such good mutated rice was ruined by its poor taste, despite its rich aroma.

"Xiaoxue and Meng Qiuhe," Jin Xiaoyue said somewhat shyly.

The two of them happened to be in the cafeteria. Chu Deng glanced at the two people Jin Xiaoyue mentioned and said, "There's no need to interfere with Bai Hongxue. Meng Qiuhe is a bit lacking. Call him out tonight and meet him under the big banyan tree outside the dormitory."

"Okay." Jin Xiaoyue nodded and diligently placed shrimp from her bowl into Chu Deng's bowl.

The deep-sea training base is located by the sea, and the meat and vegetables are usually fish and shrimp. The fish is often made into small, crumbly pieces that are both fishy and crumbly, and the texture is like paper. Only stir-fried shrimp is palatable.

Chu Deng gladly accepted her friend's offering, and the two spent some more time finishing lunch. Jin Xiaoyue ate with difficulty, and Chu Deng helped Jin Xiaoyue finish some of the food, which made the time run longer.

That evening, Chu Deng carried Huo Shu out to meet up with Jin Xiaoyue and Meng Qiuhe.

Seeing the two standing far apart, Chu Deng knew they had probably just had a fight, but she didn't ask and handed the Fire Tree to Jin Xiaoyue.

Jin Xiaoyue held the fire tree flowerpot with both hands, and her body suddenly lurched down. Just as she was about to fall to the ground, Chu Deng lifted his foot and caught the fire tree, which was about to make intimate contact with the ground.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't hold it properly." Jin Xiaoyue was startled. The last time she held it was in the second stage. She didn't expect that in less than a month, the Fire Tree would become so heavy. She was caught off guard and her wrist was now a little sore.

"Hurry up and go to the infirmary!" Meng Qiuhe, who had witnessed the whole thing, became anxious and rushed over to grab Jin Xiaoyue's arm.

"It's nothing!" Jin Xiaoyue said with a frown, gently shaking off Meng Qiuhe's hand.

Chu Deng placed his palm on Jin Xiaoyue's reddened wrist, pinching his friend's fingers and wrist with both hands, and gently twisted them. With a crisp "crack" sound, the joints snapped, and before Jin Xiaoyue could even react, the pain in her wrist was gone.

"It was dislocated, but it's fine now." After explaining, Chu Deng looked thoughtfully at the quiet Huo Shu.

"What can dislocate so easily?" Meng Qiuhe looked at the unremarkable sapling in the flowerpot with surprise.

The bonfire stood in the basin, its branches and leaves not daring to tremble, for fear that Chu Deng would notice something amiss.

Chu Deng gently moved on from the topic and turned her gaze to Meng Qiuhe.

Meng Qiuhe subconsciously stood at attention, his serious demeanor no different from Huoshu's behavior in the flowerpot.

"W-What's wrong?" Meng Qiuhe was startled by Chu Deng's gaze and stammered, "Did I...do something wrong?"

Chu Deng's expression suddenly changed, and he shouted, "Watch out!"

Startled, Meng Qiuhe leaped three meters into the air. In his panic, he felt something emerging from the ground beneath his feet. Fearing that something was waiting for him, Meng Qiuhe adjusted his center of gravity in mid-air, landed sideways, and after a short while, unconsciously ran towards Jin Xiaoyue.

"Boom——"

The floor tiles cracked into pieces, and the bulges that appeared on the ground followed Meng Qiuhe like a shadow.

"What the hell?!" Meng Qiuhe was so scared that his soul almost flew out of his body. The main reason was that this thing underground never came to the surface. It was lurking underground and its true appearance could not be seen. The unknown is the most terrifying.

He gritted his teeth, turned around, and ran towards Chu Deng.

The main problem was that the open space they were in had a lake on one side and a dormitory on the other. Jin Xiaoyue and Chu Deng were at opposite ends of the corridor, while Meng Qiuhe was between them. Not wanting to cause trouble for Jin Xiaoyue, he could only carry the things on the ground towards Chu Deng's direction.

Jin Xiaoyue was still squatting on the ground touching the fire tree, staring dumbfounded at Meng Qiuhe, whose legs were almost blurry as he ran. The fire tree, on the other hand, was quite excited, its branches and leaves almost reaching out of the flowerpot and drooping to the ground.

Chu Deng narrowed his eyes, lightly tapping the ground with his toes. As Meng Qiuhe rushed over, he turned around and made way for him. Meng Qiuhe was panting and rolling his eyes, but he couldn't speak for a moment. He could only watch helplessly as Chu Deng walked to the side with ease. The thing under his feet seemed to recognize him and only stared at him as it chased after him.

Before Meng Qiuhe could finish muttering, three more bulges appeared and swiftly attacked the two girls. Two went straight for Chu Deng, and the other went for Jin Xiaoyue.

"Ah!" Chu Deng cried out softly, retreating several steps, and reminding her friend, "Xiaoyue, be careful!"

Jin Xiaoyue could barely suppress her smirk. She hurriedly stood up, but because she had been squatting on the ground for so long, her vision went black, and she tripped over the raised ground, falling backward without warning.

The fiery tree waved its leaves, rustling softly, and its roots greedily emerged from the hole at the bottom of the flowerpot, plunging deep into the ground.

"Xiaoyue!" Meng Qiuhe's eyes widened in horror as he saw the bulge in front of Jin Xiaoyue being blocked by the sapling in the flowerpot. But at some point, something lurking behind her sped out the moment Jin Xiaoyue fell, about to burst through the soil. Jin Xiaoyue was in danger!

"Ahhhhh!" An unknown power surged through his blood, his heart pounded, and Meng Qiuhe had only one thought in his mind—stop it!

"Boom - boom -"

The ground, arched up by underground creatures, was riddled with cracks and rocks. Under Meng Qiuhe's influence, the rocks trembled and came together to form a stone... cake? Let's call it a stone cake for now, because it's really small. Chu Deng estimated it to be only the size of two palms put together.

The stone disc spun forward through the air, reaching Jin Xiaoyue's back the instant something emerged from the ground, blocking a fatal wound in her back.