Chapter 665 - 106. The Mystery of Derivative Species (Two in One)_2
"Fisher! If you joke around again, I’m going to get really angry!"
"Sorry, sorry, just a little puzzled, are you afraid of Heidlin? Because she acts like a parent disciplining you?"
Valentina’s annoyed expression paused slightly after hearing Fisher’s words. Then she shook her head and pouted in response,
"...It’s not that I’m afraid of Heidlin. After all, she is my servant, how could I possibly be afraid of her? In fact, her words don’t really bind me, and if I really wanted to do something, she couldn’t stop me. But, I can feel that she truly has my best interests at heart, she wants me to live longer, and I don’t want to let her down, to disappoint her."
"The point is, no matter how hard I try, I can’t live for long. Heidlin and I have both tried our best to extend my life. Once the Snow Fox people come over, I guess we’ll get busy, and probably won’t have the time to sneak out and buy these things, so I just wanted to try them and asked for your help."
"Hey, considering the awful thing you just did to me, getting off cheap with doing this simple task for me... will you do it or not?"
In reality, Valentina asking Fisher for a little favor was merely giving Fisher an excuse to make a concession. Although he offered to let Valentina make a request, she wasn’t truly asking him to do anything special. Valentina might indeed want to try cold water sugar or wine, but for someone who’d never had it before, trying was really neither here nor there.
Fisher understood Valentina’s half-hearted interest, and even though she still wore an adorable face that said, "If you don’t agree, I’ll get angry right here," he nodded and agreed,
"Of course, no problem, it’s just a small favor... But don’t be so pessimistic, I have a feeling that your life won’t end so easily, and you have a long way to go."
Valentina was slightly taken aback, but she didn’t feel inspired. Her gaze fell slightly, but only for a second as she quickly discarded the dejected look and her expression lively turned to disgust, looking at Fisher and speaking,
"You, you aren’t about to say something disgusting like ’beautiful women have long lives,’ are you?"
"...How did you know?"
"Disgusting! Pervert!"
Despite the playful banter, Fisher hadn’t lied. According to the scene Fisher saw in his dream, the strange curse of the Frost Snow Wutong Tree was apparently searching for the last Phoenix, and the origin of the curse must be related to a disaster within the Wutong Tree that caused the extinction of all Phoenixes.
What was critical was that before the Phoenix Species vanished completely, the Moon Princess, who was one of the Phoenix’s children, issued two commands from outside the Wutong Tree.
First, she ordered a loyal Human to take the scroll marking the location of the Frost Snow Wutong Tree overseas, far away from the Northern Realm, which was also the first place Fisher met Valentina. Second, she ordered the Trolls, one of the Six Clans, to strictly guard the Wutong Tree. Although the Slime King said they forbid any creature from entering, Fisher spotted a hint of something.
The Slime King likely found evidence related to the Phoenix on himself; otherwise, the calculating Slime Species wouldn’t rashly pass the Seal of loyalty to him, nor express such extraordinary trust in the Turand Family behind him.
Therefore, Fisher was convinced that the Trolls guarding the Wutong Tree weren’t there to prevent everyone from entering but were supposed to allow only a Phoenix to enter. The Moon Princess’s actions seemed to be to allow someone to enter the Frost Snow Wutong Tree after a thousand years, which is crucial to solving the curse within the tree.
If it were any other race, Fisher might not dare to speculate, but the Phoenix Species was different; they could see the future and make corresponding preparations based on that future. This was their secret to defeating the Chaos Species. The Moon Princess must have seen the future inside the Wutong Tree, which prompted her to issue those two enigmatic commands a thousand years ago...
And after a thousand years, Valentina, who possessed similar abilities, already followed the path set by the Moon Princess to the foot of Sema Snow Mountain. Doesn’t this indicate in some way that she is the person the Moon Princess had been waiting for a thousand years?
The Turand Family’s hereditary disease and the curse within the Wutong Tree should be related. It would be absurd for a Mixed-Blood to carry such an outrageous hereditary disease. If Valentina could successfully resolve the curse, then the thousand-year shadow looming over the Turand Family would dissipate, and of course, she wouldn’t die.
Fisher’s thoughts paused for a moment. He didn’t know if his guesses were correct, but after carefully piecing together the clues left by the Moon Princess, he felt this was the only possibility.
But it also meant tremendous risk, and he clearly remembered from the dreams provided by the Demi-human Girls Completion Manual, the low murmur of the unseen presence on the throne...
It too was searching for "the last Phoenix."
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After agreeing to Valentina’s little request, he didn’t rush out to make the purchase since the Snow Fox people were still several days away from arriving.
Leaving the room downstairs, Fisher hastened to the upstairs room without a pause. The research on the Slime and Ice Owl Species was almost ready to conclude, with the biological progress of the Ice Owls promising and the Slime Species not far behind; he needed to start preparing for what was to come.