Guarding the River of Time-Chapter 279 - 270: She’s Already Gone, There’s No Need to Wait Anymore, Understand?

Chapter 279: Chapter 270: She’s Already Gone, There’s No Need to Wait Anymore, Understand?

He discovered that the snow-white Little Fox was walking at the front, followed closely by the other little creatures.

Seeing Su Mu turn around, Little Fox also stopped, looking at Su Mu with a wistful gaze.

"Go on, don’t follow me anymore."

"I’ve helped with all I can, and the rest, I really can’t do much about."

Waving his hand, Su Mu turned and continued on, and after a while, realized there were no footsteps following him.

Finally, when Su Mu passed through the last stretch of forest and returned to the riverbank, he turned around and saw... at some point, Little Fox had followed him up.

Looking into Little Fox’s eyes, Su Mu roughly understood. Did it want to follow him?

However, Su Mu already had enough Spirit Pets to care for, and no more energy to raise them.

He wasn’t running an animal shelter; if he took in every pitiful animal he saw, his home would have long become a zoo.

"I’ll be straightforward; you all want to follow me, but I’m too busy now, always busy, with no time or energy to take care of you."

"So, please go and find a new owner. But then again... you’re strong and don’t really need a new owner to protect you; you can live freely."

Su Mu said this to Little Fox, who was leading the small animals.

After he finished speaking, Little Fox glanced back at the few small animals behind it.

The next second, several little creatures like the Little Groundhog, Little Brown Bear, lifted a large, black iron box and placed it in front of Su Mu.

Seeing this, Su Mu opened the iron box, and all sorts of colorful Immortal Light burst out, casting a multicolored glow onto Su Mu’s face, making it flush with color.

Inside the iron box, it was densely packed with various Storage Treasures, such as Space Rings, Storage Bags, Space Jade Pendants, etc., numbering in the thousands.

He casually took a Space Ring, checked the contents inside, and was stunned.

Inside, Spirit Ores were piled up into small mountains. These were not ordinary Spirit Stones; each piece was a top-grade stone, a legendary Immortal Spirit Stone, and each one was of perfect quality, without any impurity.

Then Su Mu randomly grabbed a Storage Bag, opened it, and oh my!

Inside, it was filled with various Spirit Plants, the abundant Spirit Charm overflowing even from the mouth of the Storage Bag, directly surging to Su Mu’s head!

Picking up any Space Ring would bring a big surprise to Su Mu.

Unexpectedly, this little iron box held such a vast universe. How many worlds did these little creatures have to raid to accumulate such a massive and top-grade treasure?

Su Mu slowly closed the iron box, coughed lightly, and said in a low voice, "With these things, I can at most keep you for ten years."

According to Su Mu’s estimate, after ten years, he could almost completely refine this river and leave this damned place to travel the world.

Setting aside other treasures, just the living supplies, Elixir Pills, Spirit Plants, Great Medicine, and so on, extracting just one percent, even in extravagance, would be enough for these little creatures to eat for hundreds of years.

So, this deal, Su Mu accepted.

Ahem, don’t get me wrong, I, Su Mu, didn’t choose to adopt them because of these things; it’s entirely from the heart.

Those who understand, understand.

.....

After getting Su Mu’s answer, dotted light also flickered in the deep pupils of Little Fox.

Su Mu walked up to them and carefully counted.

Little Groundhog, Little Brown Bear, Little Squirrel, Little Monkey, Little Owl, plus Little Fox, a total of six.

Moreover, after shrinking Little Fox’s tail, its size wasn’t large either, and the backyard at home could perfectly have six little rooms for them, designed like caves for them to live in.

For living supplies and such, they provided for themselves, sparing Su Mu from having to think about it, making the house lively, and Nannan should also be happy to accept these cute little creatures.

"Let’s go."

Just like that, Su Mu led the six little creatures towards his stone house.

A day’s time was wasted, not really wasted; although no Favor Points were earned, a vast trove of precious resources was acquired.

After all, Su Mu currently could only live by this river, and supplies, and cultivation resources were very important.

Returning home, it was about to get dark, and Nannan had prepared a meal.

When she saw Daddy leading a group of little animals home, Nannan was dumbfounded.

"Daddy, who are these?" Nannan looked at these adorable little animals, her eyes filled with light, and for someone Nannan’s age, the appeal of these fluffy little creatures was tremendous!

"These are... the ones Daddy rescued; they’ll stay with us for now."

Su Mu said with a smile.

"Come on, let’s eat together!"

Nannan said to the little animals.

At these words, all the little creatures stood in place, glancing at Little Fox, then at Su Mu.

Because, according to Su Mu’s living habits before, pets at home weren’t allowed to sit at the table and eat with their owner.

But... these little creatures, so very understanding and intelligent, surely couldn’t be fed just grass, right?

At this moment, Su Mu thought of something: "Come with me."

Thus, Su Mu led the few little creatures into the backyard’s vegetable garden, pointing to the Great Medicine Spirit Plants inside, said, "You need to watch closely, the Great Medicine with red wooden plaques and purple wooden plaques, you can’t eat them yet."

"But the ones with white wooden plaques, you can eat. If you’re hungry, you can help yourselves, feel free to eat."

"Also, I’ll assign you a task; you will help me guard this medicine garden. Usually, some little mice and such will sneak into the garden to steal medicine, and you’re responsible for catching them."

"In short, the security work for this garden is entrusted to you."

Upon hearing this, Little Groundhog, Little Brown Bear, and others’ eyes lit up; isn’t this perfectly suited to their specialty?

They were fully capable!

After all this was arranged, Su Mu returned to the dining table and started to eat his dinner.

However, that beautiful snow-white Little Fox quietly lay behind Su Mu.

After dinner, Little Nannan saw this pretty Little Fox lying quietly under the tree behind Daddy.

"Can I hug you?"

For some reason, Nannan felt this Little Fox was inexplicably a bit pitiful and sad, so she reached out her hand.

Who knew, just as Nannan approached, Little Fox sensed something, immediately stood up, dodged Nannan, and hid behind Su Mu.

Seeing this, even Su Mu was surprised.