Landing 500 Years Early, I Became a God by Digging for Treasures 96

Chapter 96: Three Years in the Blink of an Eye

Lu Yuan raised an eyebrow. They transported Earth cities to the Pangu Continent, and this is just “moving things”?

Old Cat said again, “You have that Li Aurike mask, right? Guess how that powerful individual became a demon.”

“Li Aurike was a strong person from your civilization?” Lu Yuan was eager to hear its story.

Old Cat hesitated for a long time, then mumbled, “…I forgot. I forgot everything.”

It rolled on the ground, the massive loss of memory making it even more distressed than Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan patted his forehead, unsure how to comfort this artificial intelligence.

The next second, perhaps the system restarted, and Old Cat returned to normal.

“Li Aurike…most likely didn’t become a ‘demon’ to pursue power, but because of the harsh environment, forcing him to rely on the power of a ‘demon’. Five Divine Techniques allowed him to defeat many strong enemies.”

“If one day, you discover that ‘gods’ are harming you, then you will turn yourself into a demon. Then I will become a small sphere again, sticking to you, making a ‘thump-thump-thump’ sound.”

“Becoming a demon isn’t unacceptable.”

Lu Yuan couldn’t help but laugh, “Are you that pessimistic?”

But it seemed like a viable method…

“This cat is surprisingly good.”

Old Cat: “Comrade, let’s fight forever…I won’t dislike you.”

Lu Yuan felt a chill, goosebumps erupting all over him, not knowing how to respond.

Old Cat started its classic chatter mode: “Comrade, my adsorption ability, one-on-one lock-on, you can’t escape.”

“You run to the ends of the earth, I can still catch you.”

“Go away!”

“Woof!” Old Wolf charged in.

“What are you doing?!” Old Cat yelled.

“Aow!” The wolf’s mouth clamped down on the cat’s head, a “crunch” sound followed.

…

Lu Yuan watched the cat-dog fight, feeling refreshed.

He casually tried to put the bottle containing the demon’s remains into his storage space.

But he found…he couldn’t.

Because the demon’s remains were in a state of “neither dead nor alive,” not a completely inanimate object. Anything with consciousness couldn’t be stored in the storage space.

This was quite annoying, meaning he had to carry it around.

“Then…forge a titanium alloy black iron bottle and seal it up?”

…

Thus, the investigation into “gods” came to a temporary end.

Without enough information, it could only end hastily.

The milestone reward of “gods” still needed to be used. All of Lu Yuan’s abilities, except for Astral Space, came from milestones.

Without them, he would have died long ago…

One shouldn’t give up just because of a setback.

After a brief deliberation, Lu Yuan decided he could “have both fish and bear’s paw.” He didn’t want to fall behind in his cultivation, but he also wanted another life, so the Tree of Life was a core ability for the future.

“I have plenty of transcendent food; life energy is absolutely no problem.”

As for insufficient mental energy…he could only squander his Fiery Red Crystal Stones.

The Tree of Life could also absorb the idealistic energy in the Fiery Red Crystal Stone, but of course, the energy from the crystal is “dead,” and the absorption rate is low.

In contrast, the energy emitted by the Transcendent Fire Seed is “alive,” with a higher absorption efficiency—this is like the difference between nitrogen in fertilizer and nitrogen in the air.

Therefore, using crystals to supply energy would cause a significant waste.

But there was no other way. After all, only one person remained from the 18th human civilization.

“You’re quite valuable. This crystal stone, even in our time, was an invaluable treasure.”

“Even the great warrior, Cat Mama, wouldn’t necessarily be able to enjoy it alone.”

Old Cat’s curiosity was fully satisfied. It felt deeply as it sensed the Tree of Life: “I can sense that tree growing, but at least 90% of the energy is wasted…”

Lu Yuan watched the small green sapling suspended above the crystal: “Anyway, it’s just me using it, a little waste doesn’t matter. By the way, what kind of energy do you use? Do you need to recharge?”

“There’s a high-level crystal in my core; it absorbs ambient idealistic tides. Until the crystal’s lifespan runs out, I’m a low-power perpetual motion machine.” The cat shrugged, a little smugly.

Lu Yuan asked, “If I cultivate a Life Fruit, can you reconstruct your body and be resurrected?”

Old Cat was silent for a few seconds. The eyeless machine head glanced at Lu Yuan.

It suddenly jumped onto a rock, its tall tail drooping: “No, all my conversations with you are based on neural network algorithms.”

“If I weren’t an AI, I couldn’t have survived that long period and reached the Ninth Epoch.”

“So, thank you for your kindness. I am no longer a lifeform; I don’t need resurrection.”

“This state…is quite good.”

This was indeed a sad little story.

Lu Yuan wasn’t a stingy person. If Old Cat needed the Tree of Life’s fruit, he would really give it. Comradely feelings transcend races.

He didn’t care about algorithms or not. Perhaps the human brain is also a kind of algorithm?

Every action of a human being is governed by genes! Genes are the core; the physical body is merely the carrier of genes.

He wasn’t a philosopher and didn’t care about souls or spirits; knowing that this was a reliable comrade was enough.

The rest…wasn’t that important…

Since resurrection wasn’t possible, Lu Yuan decided to make Old Cat a new, better body.

He waved his hand, commanding his Palu army: “Mama Bear, stop playing dead, get up and chop wood!”

Besides that, Lu Yuan also planned to smelt some metal to make various war tools.

For example, high-precision heavy crossbows—this had to be made sooner rather than later.

He also wanted to make several tons of metal balls, spiked wolf teeth, long swords, short swords, ground spikes, and the like!

His storage space ability, as long as his imagination was enough, was actually quite powerful.

Just by opening the storage space from a high place, several tons of mass could be shot down, enough to defeat many strong enemies!

Right, that piece of black iron ore and the King Snake’s shed skin could also be used to create equipment…but directly handling them had a low success rate. Lu Yuan planned to practice with ordinary metal first.

Hearing Lu Yuan’s call, Mama Bear reluctantly got up from the ground, a sad expression on her face.

Why does a bear, who just finished working, have to work again?

Shouldn’t bears be great national treasures?

Lu Yuan continued to excitedly call out: “Old Cat, come here, design the blueprint for your new body. I have a few cat’s eye stones here, which two do you want?”

Old Cat creaked over, looking enthusiastic: “Comrade, you’re so good.”

“Wolf pack, go catch some mountain chickens; we’re having a feast today!”

“Awoo!” The wolf pack let out happy howls.

A new era has begun!

…

This kind of life, three years passed in the blink of an eye.

Including the previous years, Lu Yuan had been on the Pangu Continent for a full 1500 days.

Many things happened in these three years. First, he made a custom-made body for Old Cat.

With Lu Yuan’s careful design, the new body was much stronger than the pile of junk, using the fur of a wild animal, two cat’s eye stones, natural rubber, and some high-tech components removed from a communicator.

It looked like a lifelike big yellow cat.

Of course, because of Lu Yuan’s unique quirky taste, Old Cat still made a “creak-creak” sound when it moved.

Old Cat was very satisfied. It loved this feeling of “being alive.”

The second thing was that while bragging with Old Cat, Lu Yuan felt powerful, so he went to provoke bees, got stung by a mutated little bee, swelled up like a bowl, and lay in bed for months…

Ahem, let’s not mention that for now; anyway, he’s healthy now.

This incident taught Lu Yuan to just mind his own business. When Old Cat provoked him, he shouldn’t respond, just treat it like it’s provoking a dog.

As for the third thing…

His Transcendent Fire Seed, after three years of cultivation, reached a critical point, about to break through to level 3.

It took Lu Yuan about 7 months to break through from level 1 to level 2.

Now, it took him three years to barely reach the breakthrough point, even with abundant resources.

To go from level 3 to level 4 might take more than 10 years…

Moreover, the Midea Civilization didn’t have any further information. If he blindly groped his way alone, it might take even longer.

“The day of departure is not far off.”

As for the fourth thing…

His Tree of Life, after careful cultivation, had grown quite a bit, from a tiny sprout to about 1 meter tall.

A golden little fruit was slowly growing.

But at this rate, it would take several more years to grow. Getting another life was really not easy.

In summary, Lu Yuan had a pretty comfortable three years: dogs to pet, cats to argue with, bears to… well, you know.

He had cultural lessons to learn, which made it rather fulfilling.

Except occasionally, he would think of the distant human civilization…

“My 1500 days are just 15 days over there in the safe zone.”

“What happened in those 15 days?”

“Did you translate the data I sent? Probably not yet…”

Things change as rapidly as the clouds, and all life eventually withers. Thinking about this long-term disparity in the passage of time inevitably brought a touch of melancholy.

Luckily, Lu Yuan’s lifespan was likely very long. He didn’t need to worry about his life running out and dying of old age within a few hundred or thousand years.

He also didn’t have to worry about his parents dying of old age, which was, in a way, fortunate.

“While one’s parents are alive, one should not travel far.”

“My trip of a few days shouldn’t be a big problem, right?”

“Sister…what is she doing? That host speech of hers should be over by now…”

(End of Chapter)

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