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Chapter 354 Little Nian Beast, Haifan Mountain, Lingxin Lake (Seeking monthly votes)

[Hint: The perspective of Unit 4 – “Little Nian Beast” has been successfully loaded.]

[Since you have activated "Complete Split Mode," you will have full control over the body. A simulated personality is being generated, and every action you take will affect the development of that personality.]

[Please wait a moment, in one minute, Unit 4 will officially make its debut in the real world.]

[Note: This generated mecha is different from previous ones; it is a "perfect-grade mecha." Perfect-grade mechas are in a "completely sculpted" state, and their initial settings differ from ordinary mechas.]

[Tip 1: The skill tree system of the "Perfect-level Mech" is fully unlocked, meaning that all skill branches have already been developed to their "branch endpoints" from the initial state.]

[Tip 2: The attribute values ​​of a "Perfect-grade mech" can still be improved using attribute points before reaching the attribute cap (SS).]

[Tip 3: "Perfect-grade mechs" still have "main quests" and "character-specific development systems."]

In the darkness, the cold, icy system notifications rang out one after another. The sixty-second "machine generation time" passed in the blink of an eye. The sunlight pierced the eye like a steel needle, burning away the darkness that resembled wild grass.

In a daze, Ji Minghuan heard the gentle sound of flowing water.

It was clearly the height of summer, the hottest time of the year, yet the air was cool and refreshing, and one could vaguely feel a salty, damp sea breeze gently brushing against his hair and pores.

At this moment, Ji Minghuan finally had the strength to lift her eyelids.

His eyelids trembled slightly, and then Ji Minghuan slowly opened his eyes. At this moment, he raised his head, and the sky was just beginning to brighten. The first rays of morning sunlight shone down on him and into his pupils.

"What the hell is this place?"

Ji Minghuan narrowed his eyes slightly and slowly looked around. Soon he noticed that the fourth mech he had just created was sitting cross-legged in the middle of a clear lake, with a huge lotus leaf under his buttocks.

This lotus leaf looked extraordinary, almost like a demon, with a pair of round eyes and a thick mouth. It was in agony, seemingly unable to bear the weight of Unit 4, yet too afraid to resist due to its status as Unit 4.

Ji Minghuan lifted his eyes from the lotus leaf demon and continued to observe his surroundings.

The wind rustles gently, the lake ripples, and fish dart about on its surface; this lake is like a secluded fairyland.

"So, where is this?" he thought. "A haven for Chinese demons?"

Ji Minghuan lowered his gaze and glanced at the reflection of Unit 4 in the lake. What came into view was clearly the appearance of a human teenager.

He had thick eyebrows and big eyes, but his features were indifferent. He had a pair of broken eyebrows, black eyes, and black hair, but there was a small wisp of purplish-red bangs on his forehead.

Ji Minghuan looked at her reflection in the lake and raised an eyebrow.

"Can the Nian beast transform into a human?" he murmured. "But that's normal. Uncle Tanlang also mentioned that high-level demons not only possess intelligence but can also transform into humans, just like him... So the question is, how do I transform back into the Nian beast form? The system's memory loading speed is still as slow as ever."

Ji Minghuan looked up from the clear blue lake and gazed at the opposite side of this solitary lake.

It was a dense forest, overgrown with weeds and thorns, interspersed with clusters of colorful flowers, forming a bizarre tunnel. The tunnel was pitch black inside, giving one the feeling that passing through it would lead to another corner of the world.

"What is that? The world of demons is full of strange and wonderful things."

Ji Minghuan muttered to himself, raised his hand, and gently patted the lotus leaf under his bottom. The lotus leaf trembled violently, creating ripples on the calm lake surface, and even the fish swimming at the bottom of the lake became restless.

The lotus leaf demon trembled as it said, "Lord Nian Beast, please don't kill me, please don't kill me—! I didn't know you would be coming back, so I didn't prepare a chariot in advance."

"Uh...do we know each other?" Ji Minghuan asked.

"Yes, Lord Nian ran away from home... No, before Lord Nian was eight years old, he often came to 'Spirit Heart Lake' to play. I was the one who picked you up back then. At that time, Lord Nian would float around on my head, murmuring, 'Spirit Heart Lake is so beautiful, is there any other place in the world as beautiful as this?'" The Lotus Leaf Demon asked in a low voice, "Do you still remember, Lord Nian?"

"I don't remember." Ji Minghuan shook her head. "But so this place is called Spirit Heart Lake. The scenery is quite nice. And your role here is to act as a small boat, right?"

“Yes, yes, our Lotus Leaf Demon clan can only live on Spirit Heart Lake, and there is only one heir every hundred years,” said the Lotus Leaf Demon.

“That makes things easier. Just take me there,” Ji Minghuan said immediately. “I was still figuring out how to cross the lake.”

“Yes, I will take you back to see the Great Lord right away,” the Lotus Leaf Demon said hastily.

Then, it began to move across the lake. This enormous lotus leaf, like a green boat, drifted across the lake, moving westward towards the Lingxin Lake.

Ji Minghuan was slightly taken aback.

The Lotus Leaf Demon led him to the west side of Spirit Heart Lake, where a bottomless mountain forest stretched out before him.

The forest was dark and gloomy, and further away, towering mountains rose like giants, shrouded in clouds that swirled like dragons and snakes. The majestic outline of the mountains appeared and disappeared intermittently, creating a magnificent and awe-inspiring sight.

"Not this way, I'm going that way, you're going the wrong way." Ji Minghuan said, raising her finger and pointing to the east side of the lake.

"Aren't you going back?" The Lotus Leaf Demon was taken aback. "Not going back to the mountains? You haven't been back for ten years. The Nian Beast Lord and the Zodiacs are waiting for you. They've been looking for you for a long time... Recently, the Seven Deadly Sins, demon leaders from other places, have also come to Mount Sea Sail. They are discussing with the Nian Beast Lord how to get rid of the 'Lake Hunter' together."

He paused for a moment, then said, "With a great battle imminent, the Great Khan will be pleased if you are willing to return and help."

"What are you babbling about? I don't understand," Ji Minghuan said. "Anyway, let's not go back yet. I don't want to see any zodiac animals or the Great Lord. I want to go outside and take a look first."

"Then... that's fine."

What's on the other side of that tunnel?

"Didn't you just come in from that tunnel?"

"Why are you talking so much nonsense? Do you want me to pack you up and send you to an exorcist to be a contracted demon?"

"No! No exorcist would want a lowly demon like me; they'd only kill me!" the Lotus Leaf Demon cried out.

"Then stop babbling on and on, okay?" Ji Minghuan asked helplessly.

The lotus leaf demon immediately stopped talking and drove its body in the opposite direction. After a while, it brought Ji Minghuan to the west side of Spirit Heart Lake and stopped at the edge of the lake.

"Thanks."

As Ji Minghuan spoke, he stood up from the huge lotus leaf and slowly walked into the tunnel. A faint light came from the end of the tunnel, and he looked up in that dim light. Purple, red, and green flowers and thorns were intertwined on the inner walls of the tunnel.

Colorful flowers grow quietly and tenaciously in the cracks of this world, their fragrance wafting into the air.

Ji Minghuan strolled along, admiring the flowers, completely forgetting the passage of time and how long the tunnel was. He was just betting it would be at least a kilometer long.

Soon he arrived at the end of the tunnel and stepped out, surrounded by flowers and grass.

He squinted in the sunlight streaming in. In the brief darkness, the sound of the rushing tide could be heard, white waves crashing against the shore and breaking into white spray.

When he opened his eyes, he found himself on a cliff overlooking the sea. Looking down, he saw a maple forest growing on the mountainside. Several hectares of fiery red leaves swayed gently in the morning breeze, looking from afar like a red tide rising and falling.

"Is this near Haifan City...?"

Ji Minghuan raised an eyebrow and suddenly felt that the mountain range looked familiar. So he turned his head and looked in the direction he remembered. Sure enough, he saw a huge bay city in the coastal area.

The chimneys billowed gray smoke into the sky. It was barely dawn when fishermen were already busy at work in the harbor, and one or two hazy boat shadows swayed on the distant horizon.

Yesterday, Gu Qiye and others held Gu Wenyu's funeral at a cemetery on a small hill near Haifan City.

The tombstones of Lin Zhengquan and Gu Wenyu were placed on the small hill in sight.

That small hill was near the city and was clearly not demon territory. Most demons would operate deep in the mountains, keeping a distance from humans, and they wouldn't let humans easily find their hiding places.

“It really is Haifan City,” Ji Minghuan said. “So the territories of demons and humans are so close. It’s just that the exorcists probably haven’t discovered this place yet.”

"So, the people of Lake Hunter have been guarding Sea Sail City these past few days to prevent the Great Lord of the Year Beast from launching an invasion of the city?" he thought. "Oh no... if Lake Hunter loses in this war, won't my coffin be dug up by demons?"

Ji Minghuan shook his head, pulling himself out of his jumbled thoughts, then sat cross-legged on the cliff, looking at the sea shimmering in the morning sun.

"What about the memories of Unit 4?" he suddenly wondered. "Was this a little too late this time?"

Speak of the devil, and he appears; at that very moment, a torrent of memories flooded into his mind.

The little beast only lived for twenty years, so its memories only spanned twenty years.

Unlike Agubaru, which had spent hundreds of years eating, drinking, and defecating at the bottom of the sea, when Ji Minghuan was going through the memories of the No. 3 unit, he felt like he was watching a super-extended episode of "Ocean World".

Fortunately, he can store some of his memories in his mental library, so he doesn't have to digest and absorb them all at once. This gives his brain ample buffer time. If it were someone else, they would probably have been driven insane by now.

Ji Minghuan hung his head, raised his hand and grabbed a strand of purplish-red hair on his forehead. He raised his eyebrows, and at this moment, countless fragments of memories seemed to flash before his eyes.

The Little Year Beast was born in 2000. At that time, it looked like a cub that was somewhere between a lion and a dog. Its skin was purple and red, and a cluster of purple-red flames was burning on its head, making it look quite bewitching.

The so-called "most powerful demon in China" - "Nian Beast Lord" - looks exactly like a scaled-up version of the small Nian Beast.

The Nian Beast King is over fifty meters tall, with a majestic and composed appearance, resembling a giant lion, with a tuft of whiskers that undulates like clouds around its mouth.

A purple flame shot up from its head, like a crown tightly fastened to its head, burning endlessly, as if it were a symbol of the king of the demon realm.

When the little Nian beast was born, the Nian beast king would often carry it to the cliff in front of him, crawl down, and then untie its furry body and put it on the ground.

At this time, the father and son would always stare silently at the sea below the cliff, listening to the rise and fall of the waves.

Every time it was time to leave, the little Nian beast would point to the distant city and ask the Great Lord, "Father, why can't we live in those tall buildings like humans?"

The Nian Beast King remained silent each time, only saying, "You're still young, there's no need for you to know these things."

Later, under the tutelage of the Nian Beast King, the young Nian Beast grew up healthily, but at the same time, his curiosity about the human world remained. The Nian Beast King was very wary of letting him get close to the human world, so the young Nian Beast had no choice but to keep this curiosity hidden in the dark corner of his heart.

But the more it did this, the deeper its curiosity grew day by day, until one day this curiosity and adolescent rebellion erupted together.

The little monster has run away from home.

It left Haifan Mountain, disguised itself as a human, and traveled to various human countries, including China, Japan, and England, feeling both curious and delighted.

But after a few years, the little monster got tired of the human world and went to the Arctic and Antarctic to take a look. On the way, it even caught a few penguins and roasted and ate them.

Finally, at the age of twenty, the little beast, who had been wandering for many years, suddenly returned to Mount Haifan.

The reason was simple: during its journey, it encountered many demons from Northern Europe, who claimed that the Great Lord of the Year Beast was about to lead the "Zodiac Team" into war against the "Lake Hunters."

Meanwhile, the Seven Deadly Sins, the most powerful demons in Norse mythology, also traveled to China to help, claiming that they would become the Great Lord's allies in eradicating humanity's strongest exorcist organization.

Upon hearing this news, the little monster hesitated for a long time, but finally decided to return to China to take a look.

On the one hand, it worried that the Great Khan was no match for the Lake Hunt, and on the other hand, it worried that the "Seven Deadly Sins" would secretly harm the Great Khan.

So, the little Nian beast rushed back to China overnight, climbing up Haifan Mountain along the path from his childhood memories, wanting to go back and see the Nian beast king one last time. And then the scene just now unfolded.

As Ji Minghuan perused the memories of the little Nian beast, he suddenly paused for a moment.

"Wait a minute... Little Nian Beast, he actually knows the captain of the Lake Hunter?" he thought to himself.

Indeed, the name "Lin Xing Shi" appeared in the memories of the little beast's more than ten years of wandering, something Ji Minghuan never expected.

Lin Xingshi is the captain of the world's number one exorcist team, "Lake Hunter," a famous "lion dancer" in the exorcist world, and the world's strongest exorcist.

"Things are getting interesting... The son of the Nian beast actually knows this kind of person."

As her thoughts drifted to this point, a purple-red task panel suddenly popped up in Ji Minghuan's pupils.

The first main quest for Unit 4, "Little Nian Beast," has appeared.

[Mission Objective: Gain the approval of the "Nian Beast King" and the "Zodiac Team" to succeed the Nian Beast King and gain control over all demons on Mount Haifan.]

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