Accidental seed dispersal

She moved back in fright. However, not even the dust and pebbles rising from the beast tide entered her hut. It's like she's on a different space plane, and the window is but a holographic one. The best tide passed by as fast as it came..

Jiushu ran to the window, trying to look at the corners. The earth is all muddy, everything in wolfzard's path has been squashed into mincemeat. She did not notice she was able to traverse through this window till her eyes met with the Komodo dragon's. Jiushu squeaked and retreated.

How is she going to send the signal to MoQiu if she can't even go out? ..

But ..

Her power is space, not bite resistance..

The Komodo dragon looked here very attentively..

She remembered lizards mouths are the filthiest, and komodo dragons, despite having only a mildly poisonous venom, are deadly because of all the bacteria that lives in their mouth. Even with modern antibiotics, people will definitely miss countering some of the diseases that bite propagates..

Or did she remember wrong.. ?

Damn it… why didn't she watch discovery seriously when it's put on..

She wanted to watch the latest boy band singing.. But what can the boy band do here.. .

Other than scream shriller than girls and run faster than Usain bolt?

She laughed at her own witticisms..

Soon, she sobered..

It's not the time for that.. she needs to send a signal to MoQiu..

There is indeed one way to do that.. But .. it's going to attract everyone else in the vicinity too.

Pro - signals MoQiu..

Con- signals everyone searching for them, including assassins, guards so on so forth.

Con - might start another inferno like last time, burning down a whole forest..

Hmmm…

Hmm..

Mm…

..

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Let the world burn down. What does it matter to her if half the globe burns? This is not her earth. This is just a copy and paste planet where some random angel dropped her.

Let's burn..

Burn it all..

Once she decided, rest is easy to do. She retrieved a straw bale from the storage, threw it out. Then she set it on fire.

It burned down pretty fast.

Only, it lit up something in the forest.

Something exploded… little wood pellets rained down.

Soon, similar explosions occurred all over, Jiushu could hear them all very clearly.

What in the world is that?

All the animals got startled by the explosion, and they ran off.

Jiushu kept watch at the window, unable to make sense of it.

Answering explosions happened all over the forest.

Jiushu figured what happened.

She somehow exploded a pine cone type seed.

The kind of seed which needs it's outer layer to burn in an extremely hot fire to expose the seed inside. The embers in front of her died down, Jiushu snatched the seed into space before another being could. She examined it to see what it is.

Even though she's an engineering graduate, she still did have the basics in biology. There something she remembered from the days she's obsessed about dinosaurs. Once upon a time, almost all tree species in the world are male and female. Most of these species died along with dinosaurs. Afterwards, evolution of trees happened in the direction of a single seed bearing both flowers and fruits...

Usually these explosions and burnings are supposed to happen in a forest fire, but since this species began early.. She will conserve at least one seed so it won't be lost any time soon. Her civic duty fulfilled, she returned to the window to keep the lookout. MoQiu did not appear, but another shadowy figure appeared.

She only saw his medallion, it's on a pillow. He wore olive green. It's practically camouflage in this forest. Jiushu noticed him only because he came out into the clearing to put out the fire. He immediately hid after noticing the fire was from straw, for he seemed to have thought it was from MoQiu.

Only, he was not the only one to come here. There is another man who wore a jade token with a destroyer character written on it. The jade is lined with gold. And the tassel is the finest green silk. They both surveyed the clearing and left. Then another came, who was dressed in ragtag clothes. Whichever way you look at him, he is a bounty hunter.

This… Did all these people come here to kill uncle and aunty? How did they even know? Is the emperor's future seeing Taoist division this powerful? They could see what's happening even if they are a hundred miles away? Jiushu felt the urgency once more.. She needs to get word out to MoQiu..

But how…?

She wracked her brain… and still came up empty.

Once the explosions began, all the animals ran away. Jiushu tried putting the hand out. It passed through.

'What..?' she could get through the window of xiao xing?

She was unable to before.

Did she level up or something?

Only, she could not go out at the place she has chosen, for the multitude of fires started in the forest. It looked very much like it rained fire balls instead of hail. Every three feet, there is a little fire.

She watched the fire for a while, before giving up and going back to her log.

She will not risk her life just to get word to MoQiu. After all, he can run fast, and uncle fights well.

Jiushu returned to her hut, stroked her bangle.

It brought up the menu, like in a video game.

'Congratulations. You have completed a hidden legendary quest.'

Jiushu stared at the words.

She swiped them away.

'You have been rewarded with the ability to use all integrated space artifacts.'

'You are rewarded with the unique skill of spirit hands.'

'All building permit restrictions are unlocked in the space. You can build as much as you desire.'

'Auto-protect is unlocked and active'

Jiushu activated spirit hands. A set of spectral hands grew from her back, looking like extendable rubbery arms. They extend up to ten feet in any direction. They are going to be extremely useful.

Auto-protect is a passive which automatically takes her into space if she is about to get bodily harmed. It's good if she is in wilderness, but if she is in a city, she will be announcing her power to every Tom, dick and harry.

Building restrictions..?

She didn't know she could build and upgrade within the space..

Well, more like she never thought she could not build if she has set her mind to it. Now, the restrictions she didn't even know about are removed.

Xiao Xing kept the watch with her some times, just wandered off listlessly at other times.

Jiushu looked out the window.

The fires are still going on, the animals have indeed vacated the area. A forest fire seemed imminent.

It's a mighty stupid decision, but there is no way but to walk to where MoQiu was.

She could only hope he is at least watching from a high mountain, and will come to her when he sees her.

She put her little finger in Xiao Xing's thumb ring, walked out of the window.