The female lead thought she had a "proud and arrogant" character script.

Luo Qingcheng stared at it for a while, [This speed...]

That's too fast, it's not normal.

Of course, there's still something abnormal now.

Luo Qingcheng lowered her head, and vines wrapped around her waist in circles.

She hadn't stopped walking at all while communicating with the system, and in just a short while, she had already walked at least ten meters away.

[System...Isn't the vine supposed to be no more than two meters long?] Just the few times it's wrapped around her waist, it's already over two meters long.

system:……

Of course, it wouldn't admit that it actually knew nothing about spirit plants, so it forced a smile and said, "Perhaps this one has mutated."

To change the subject and prevent Luo Qingcheng from criticizing it, it continued, "[You'd better take it with you. A master-servant contract means the servant dies with the master. Besides, spirit plants that have awakened intelligence are very popular. If you're lucky, someone else will contract it with you, and you'll become their servant. If you're unlucky, it will die, and you'll die with it.]"

"Grass!" (a type of plant)

Luo Qingcheng couldn't help but curse.

The vine, thinking she was calling it, bent its top into a heart shape and offered it to her.

Miss Luo neither wanted to die nor to be someone else's slave, so she reluctantly said to the Jumping Vine, "Shrink."

Just as the system was about to tell the clueless Luo Qingcheng that fourth-tier spiritual plants could not change size, the Jumping Vine seemed to understand, spiraling down from her waist and then began to shrink.

Having shrunk to half its original size, and seeing itself getting further and further away from Luo Qingcheng because its roots were more than ten meters away, it simply braced itself against the ground and pulled itself out of the soil with all its might.

Luo Qingcheng, who was pondering what to use to plant it, was dumbfounded. He saw it wriggle up to him, shrink even shorter, and after being rejected when it tried to wrap itself around his neck and waist, it reluctantly wrapped itself around Luo Qingcheng's wrist.

system:……

This thing might not actually be a jumping vine.

It had never heard of the Jumping Vine having this ability.

However, to prevent Luo Qingcheng from mocking it, the system ultimately said nothing.

Seeing that the system remained silent, Luo Qingcheng dropped his country bumpkin attitude, assuming that it was a common practice in the cultivation world for plants to pull him out of the soil.

I pretended to calmly accept it.

[System, please replan the route.]

[receive. ]

Without any obstacles, Luo Qingcheng made it out of the jungle relatively smoothly, carrying several fruits that the system had prompted her to pick in her skirt, and munching on them as she walked.

She scratched the rash on her arm, which she didn't know was caused by an insect bite, and was about to emerge from the bushes when she heard a male voice coming from not far away.

"Grey Seal, how dare you show your face before me again! Looks like you're tired of living!"

My natural inclination to watch the excitement was immediately aroused.

She poked her head out, and the person speaking had an ordinary face, but now, in a fit of rage, looked like a jumping toad.

In contrast, the person opposite him remained silent, only drawing a sword in quiet contemplation.

Upon closer inspection, oh, it was someone I knew.

The one known as the Gray Imprint is none other than that long-haired person who does performance art, wears a red veil, and tucks the back of his skirt into his underwear.

Upon seeing it was her, Luo Qingcheng subconsciously looked behind her, only to find that the hem of her skirt had already returned to its proper place.

Why isn't this person doing performance art anymore?

Gray Mark tilted his head slightly.

Three words are enough to make a man go crazy for her.

He asked, "Who are you?"

The magnetic voice made Luo Qingcheng realize that the long-haired man was actually a man.

The passerby's face flushed red, looking as if he had suffered a great humiliation, and he shouted, "You stole my beloved and then treated me so cruelly! I can't quell my hatred without killing you! Prepare to die!"

He pulled a large sword from his waist, activated his spiritual power, and red and black flames raged around the sword as he charged towards the gray seal.

Huiyin looked confused.

"If you know who I am, why would you take such a foolish action?"

He raised his sword and pointed it, and a yellow talisman flew up from the tip of the sword. It paused in mid-air for a second before rushing towards the face of the oncoming passerby!

The two objects collided, the talisman exploded, and the passerby, still holding the knife with both hands, stood frozen in place, then fell heavily to the ground with a "bang".

Huiyin twirled his sword and deftly sheathed it.

"idiot."

His movements were fluid and graceful.

The hem of her wide robe was billowing in the wind from the blast wave, making her appear ethereal and otherworldly.

Then suddenly, the dog furtively looked around, not noticing Luo Qingcheng peeping in the dark. It took out a small bronze mirror from its pocket, straightened its clothes in front of the mirror, and strode away.

Luo Qingcheng, who watched it from beginning to end: ...

[Um... he used a sword, was it just to show off?]

Right? It's really just about showing off, isn't it?

Indeed, a mage who doesn't want to fight in melee is not a good warrior.

Luo Qingcheng understood his desire to show off.

Pretending is temporary, but being handsome lasts a lifetime.

Seeing that Huiyin had left, Luo Qingcheng reached out to the passerby lying on the ground and yanked off a small storage bag the size of a purse hanging from his waist.

[Is this the storage bag you were talking about?]

[yes.]

Luo Qingcheng was very excited and grateful that Gray Seal could kill monsters without touching the equipment, which benefited her instead.

She put all the fruit in her arms into the storage bag and found that it neither got bigger nor heavier, which pleased her greatly.

[He's waking up.]

Upon hearing the system notification, Luo Qingcheng, without even checking his spoils, hurriedly picked up a stone from the ground, wrote "Thank you" in large characters next to the passerby, admired it for a moment, felt deeply that he was a polite and good child, and quickly left the scene of the crime.

I originally intended to take the knife with me, but I found that I couldn't lift it at all, so I had to give up with regret.

Only the waking passerby, after discovering his storage bag had disappeared and seeing the words on the ground, roared "Gray! Seal! Follow!" and left with his knife.

Unexpectedly, his polite behavior would cause such a misunderstanding for Huiyin Sui, and Luo Qingcheng was in a great mood at the moment.

With the storage bag, she no longer had to agonize over which fruit to choose. Following the system's navigation, she picked all the fruits she saw along the way.

[The Flying Star Flower over there is one of the main ingredients for Foundation Building Pills.]

Luo Qingcheng completely ignored it.

The system was puzzled. All the fruits she picked were worth less than that one Flying Star Flower, so why didn't she pick them?

Luo Qingcheng rolled his eyes. [Did I have something to keep?]

Putting aside whether she knows how to pick spiritual plants, even if she does, if the picked spiritual plants don't have a special box for preservation, their spiritual energy will dissipate, and they won't have any value then.

Fruit is different; once picked and left aside, it won't cause any problems in the short term.

Most importantly, she can eat!

Currently, the probability of getting the secret manual, which might have grown legs and run away, is very low. She also can't find a master for Hongdou. Now that Hongdou has such a big appetite, if they don't find more fruits, the two of them will starve to death.

After careful consideration, his reasoning was sound and his arguments were convincing.

The system didn't think that much about it.

Seeing that she had no interest in the spiritual plants, he stopped telling her their locations and instead focused on finding the fruit.

[The scroll has stopped moving and is currently located in the far north ice field.]

[knew.]

If it's an ice field, fewer people will go there, and she'll have far fewer competitors, which is good news.

[Three hundred meters directly ahead and thirty meters to the left, there is a thousand-year-old bitter orange tree.]

"Bitter? Then I won't pick it." Luo Qingcheng lost interest as soon as he heard the tree's name.

[Worth tens of thousands of spirit stones.] The system's statement was concise and to the point.

[I'll pick it!]

Luo Qingcheng couldn't wait any longer, and even started jogging.

As they approached, they saw more than twenty people wearing black masks whom they had seen outside the secret realm, guarding under the bitter orange tree.

Their purpose was clear: they were after the bitter fruit of the trifoliate orange.

Taking advantage of her low profile, she swaggered past the crowd and circled around to the base of the tree.

[How much longer until it matures?]

[A stick of incense.]

So fast?

Since he had nothing better to do, Luo Qingcheng openly began to scrutinize the group of people in front of him.

Her eyes darted around, and she caught a glimpse of a short, small figure out of the corner of her eye.

Turning my head, I was met with a black mask outlined in gold, with dark holes around the eyes, which looked somewhat terrifying.

!!!

It wasn't an illusion; she made eye contact with the child!

She instinctively took a step back, thinking the buff had worn off. When she looked back, she realized that apart from the child, no one else could see her.

She quickly put her finger to her lips, making a "shh" gesture.

As I approached, I saw the small face wearing a mask turn toward her as she moved, and I realized I could no longer afford to take any chances.

She crouched down next to the child and asked softly, "Can you see me?"

The child nodded.

[He likely possesses a remarkably high talent in spiritual perception.]

It's also possible that there's a special connection between this child and Luo Qingcheng.

However, the system did not mention the second possibility, because Luo Qingcheng was not originally from this world, and it was impossible for her to have any contact with anyone in this world.

Luo Qingcheng had a bitter expression.

Since the child could see her, and she wasn't blind, she could naturally tell that the masked figures behind her were clearly led by the child.

She definitely can't steal the bitter fruit by relying on her cheat code.

Since that was the case, she didn't necessarily need the fruit, so after thinking about it, she decided to retreat.

Just as she stood up to leave, a pair of small hands grabbed her skirt.

The child looked up, and under Luo Qingcheng's puzzled gaze, his childish voice rang out: "Luo Luo, where are you going?"

Lolo?

That sounds familiar.

Luo Qingcheng frowned and thought for a second.

Suddenly, she remembered that this was exactly what her good-for-nothing, dumped fiancé called her.

Under Luo Qingcheng's shocked gaze, the child raised his other hand and slowly removed the black mask from his face, revealing a soft and cute face.

"Lolo, can I come with you?" he said.

Luo Qingcheng: ? ? ?

Luo Qingcheng was very irritable at the moment.

She sat on the ground, holding a beautifully sculpted little boy in her arms.

The little boy's name is Sima Sui, and he is her annulled fiancé. Of course, he does not acknowledge that their engagement has been called off.

So at this moment, he sat comfortably in Luo Qingcheng's arms, resting his head on the crook of her neck.

"Lolo, it's been so long, I've missed you so much."

Well, that's what he said.

Because Sima Sui had his men form a tight circle, surrounding Luo Qingcheng, the bitter orange tree, and Sima Sui himself, Luo Qingcheng had no way to escape.

She can be invisible to others, but her existence is not eliminated; she cannot pass through walls like a ghost.

What's more, Sima Sui took advantage of her inattention to knock her to the ground and buried himself in her arms.

"Little friend, I'll say it again, we've already broken off the engagement." Luo Qingcheng took a deep breath.

Normally, shouldn't Feng Aotian's ex-fiancé have only come out to regret it after she has become successful?

How come her fiancé is so persistent in pursuing her, even though she looks like a down-on-his-luck poor guy?

Could it be that I'm not stuck with the script of breaking off an engagement, but rather the script of "the father-in-law forcibly separating the couple, the rich and beautiful woman heartbroken, the poor young man becoming rich and having a harem, and the rich and beautiful woman being unwilling to become the first wife"?

But the problem is, no matter what script it is, shouldn't children be the main characters?

Looking at the five-year-old child in his arms, Luo Qingcheng sighed.

"I have important things to do, please let me go."

Sima Sui shook his head, and upon hearing her words, he tightened his grip on her waist.

"Where is Luo Luo going? Just take me with you. I won't disturb Luo Luo while she's doing her business." He looked up, his soft, chubby cheeks puffing out.

Luo Qingcheng was helpless.

Just as I was about to say something, I suddenly smelled a very bitter fragrance.

She looked up and discovered that the bitter oranges had ripened.

A masked man who was standing guard leaped up and reappeared in the same spot the next second, holding a tray with a green and white fruit on it.

He stepped forward and knelt on one knee, saying, "Master."

Sima Sui didn't turn his head, his gaze fixed stubbornly on Luo Qingcheng, noticing that her attention, which had been on him, had now been replaced by a fruit.

A shadow of gloom crossed his eyes.

The moment Luo Qingcheng lowered his head, he transformed back into an innocent child, smiling softly, "Luo Luo, do you like this fruit? Here, it's for you."

Luo Qingcheng was stunned when he heard this.

"Master, your health..."

Before he could finish speaking, Sima Sui glanced at the man and he immediately knelt down, prostrating himself on the ground, no longer daring to utter a word.

Luo Qingcheng naturally heard it.

She's not some kind of devil, so why would she want children's things, especially things that seem to be for treating illnesses?

He immediately refused, saying, "No need. I only want this fruit to sell. Your health is more important."

She looked Sima Sui up and down, and apart from noticing that the child was unusually exquisite, she couldn't see what was wrong with him.

"If it's convenient, could you tell me what's wrong with your health?"

"Luo Luo, I'm so happy that you care about me." Sima Sui smiled sweetly.

He seemed to know which expression he looked most adorable, and he always had a smile on his face when facing Luo Qingcheng.

Don’t reach out to hit the smiling person.

This is why Luo Qingcheng mainly tried to persuade him; of course, she couldn't beat him anyway...

"I only have a minor health problem, nothing serious," Sima Sui said.

[He must have been poisoned by many different kinds of drugs.]

The system scanned the area and added: [It seems there are also many hidden injuries, as well as a curse I've never seen before.]

Luo Qingcheng was stunned when he heard the system say that.

[He seems quite healthy.]

[Yes, that curse is very special, which is why he's still alive.]

"If Luo Luo is short of spirit stones, I can give them to her." With a glance from Sima Sui, a masked man offered her a storage bag that looked quite exquisite.

Just by looking at its appearance, it's not even in the same league as the storage bag she got by taking advantage of the chaos.