I Built a Home on the Back of the Black Tortoise

Chapter 19: The third tamed animal

Both of them rested for a while and went back to the camp after dinner.

Mino held her torch and looked at the silent camp in the darkness with some fear.

“You go that way, I’ll go this way, and we’ll meet up in the middle.”

Mu Liang also held a torch and said to the girl: “Don’t worry, Xiao Cai will follow you.”

“Okay.” After Mino heard that the big lizard was going to follow her, she relaxed.

“We don’t need to gather any more wood for the time being.” Mu Liang reminded her.

“Good.” Mino nodded, held her torch, and entered the camp.

“I thought she would be more courageous.”

Mu Liang looked at the timid girl’s back. She was no different from the ordinary girls.

Then, he entered some houses while holding his torch and placed some firewood in the fire pit.

Both of them were going to prepare the wood in advance so that they could light the fire after they got up tomorrow morning.

Then they would wait for the Bloodbeard’s scouts to investigate. However, it was not known whether they could successfully lure Bloodbeard to chase after the escaped people of the camp or not.

Time passed as they piled up the firewood.

“This house hasn’t been occupied for a long time.”

Mu Liang held the torch and entered a room full of cobwebs.

Just as he was about to go back, he stopped because he saw a spider.

“It seems that today’s 10 taming points are useless, so let’s tame a spider.”

Mu Liang reached out to the spider, and the familiar sound of the system sounded.

“Ding! A tamable animal has been detected. Do you want to tame it?”

Mu Liang calmly ordered: “Tame.”

“Ding! Level 0 life – Redback Spider detected, taming……”

“Ding! Consumed 10 taming points, taming successful.”

Mu Liang loosened his grip and saw that the spider, which was the size of a finger, had become the size of a palm.

The appearance of the whole spider was black, with red claws at the end.

The most eye-catching thing was that the spider had a red face on its back.

“Ding! Do you want to inherit the Red Ghost Spider’s talent: Spider silk perception?”

“Inherit.” This was the third time Mu Liang received a new ability.

“Ding! The talent, Spider Silk Perception, is being improved…… Adaptation in progress…… inheritance completed.”

Compared to before, Mu Liang only felt a slight warmth in his palms and fingers.

“Is it because my body is already very strong? Is that why the enhancement brought by obtaining the abilities of low-level tamed animals is not obvious?”

This was the only guess that came to Mu Liang’s mind.

When he glanced at his character panel, he found that his attributes had only increased by a few tenths.

“System, evolve the Red Ghost Spider to level 3.”

In order to verify his guess, Mu Liang decided to evolve this spider to level 3.

“Ding! Level 1 Red Ghost Spider evolved to level 3, deducting 110 evolution points.”

“Ding! Red Ghost Spider has evolved to Level 3 successfully.”

“Ding! Level 3 Red Ghost Spider’s talent evolution: Spider silk manipulation.”

“Ding! Improving the tamer’s ‘Spider Silk Perception’ ability to level 3 ‘Spider silk manipulation’.”

Mu Liang felt a familiar warmth in his body. This strengthening effect was not very strong.

Then he opened his character panel to look at his attributes.

[Tamer: Mu Liang]

Stamina: 24. Speed: 23.5

Strength: 24.2. Spirit: 35

Life span: 24 years/450 years

Taming Points: 0 (Refresh daily, can be accumulated)

Evolutionary points: 109

Ability: Earth Rock Burst (Level 3)

Mimetic Stealth (Level 3)

Spider Silk Manipulation (Level 3)

(The attributes of a normal human body are 1)

…………

Tamed beasts:

Rock Armor Tortoise (Level 3)

Talent: Earth Rock Burst (Level 3)

Tricolored Lizard (Level 3)

Talent: Mimetic Stealth (Level 3)

Red Ghost Spider (Level 3)

Talent: Spider Silk Manipulation (Level 3)

…………

“Sure enough, the effect of strengthening is much worse.”

After Mu Liang looked at his attributes, he became sure that low-level tamed beasts and the tamed beasts of the same level would provide limited enhancement.

For each level of the tamed beast, the first enhancement effect was the best and the most obvious.

“Maybe I am a little too greedy.”

Mu Liang shook his head with a bitter smile. He should have known that every enhancement couldn’t be so big.

He came back to his senses and turned his head to look at the Red Ghost Spider that was hanging on his arm.

“So, can you go down?” The corner of Mu Liang’s mouth twitched.

This one-meter big Red Ghost Spider looked a little scary.

“Phew~~”

The Red Ghost Spider spewed spider silk that stuck to the top of the house and easily climbed up to the ceiling.

“Phew~~”

Mu Liang followed suit and pointed his index finger at the firewood in the corner of the house to spray spider silk.

Transparent spider silk spurted out and instantly stuck to the firewood.

“So that’s how it is. I can sense the weight of the object and even its shape.”

The feedback from Mu Liang’s spider silk allowed him to understand his new ability.

“Its toughness is very strong. It’s even better than ordinary ropes.”

“It turns out that the stickiness of spider silk is due to the absorption of tiny silk threads.”

“Since the spider silk is transparent, it’s a great material for making traps and assassinating people.”

After a little test, Mu Liang thought of many other uses of spider silk.

He raised his head to look at the Red Ghost Spider on the ceiling, and conveyed his thoughts with his mind: “Red, I need you to go a little further away from the outskirts of the camp and set up some spider silk. Afterward, you have to let me know if someone triggers it.”

“Squeak squeak~~” The red spider let out a leather grinding sound, indicating that it understood.

Then he continued speaking, “Don’t capture anyone. Just come and notify me when you find someone.”

Mu Liang specifically ordered the Red Ghost Spider to not take any actions at all lest it considered the thief scouts as prey. That would be very awkward.

“Phew~” The Red Ghost Spider spat silk and left the roof by swinging.

“Spider-Man?” Mu Liang’s eyes lit up, and he wanted to give it a try.

However, he glanced at the torch in his hand and dismissed the thought of doing something from the movie.

Mu Liang left the house and started placing the firewood once again.

“Mu Liang, is that you?”

Mino’s nervous voice came from a nearby house.

“Yes, it’s me.” Mu Liang came out of the house.

“I’m only a few houses away from you.” Mino came forward, and her nervous heart was relieved.

“Let’s finish it and then we’ll go back.”

Mu Liang glanced at the curved rabbit ears on the young lady’s head. This meant that she was nervous, right?

“Okay,” Mino replied obediently.

In ten minutes or so, The two of them finished arranging the firewood in all the houses.

The two of them walked side by side in the dark. Neither of them spoke, but they could hear each other’s breathing.

Apart from the light of the torch, the surroundings were pitch-black. Not even a star could be seen in the sky.

“Let’s go back quickly. It’s getting cold.” Mu Liang heard the sound of her breathing in cold air.

He reached out to grab the young girl’s hand and ran toward the rock armor tortoise.

“Okay.” Although Mino was being dragged forward, the corners of her mouth rose unconsciously, and her small hands were clenched tightly.