Chapter 84: Three Kingdoms Mixed Blood? Three Worlds Mixed Blood! …

A little green mushroom happily swayed back and forth in the flower pot. Su Xuanxiao and Su Jianglou, who were at home, naturally noticed the movement on the balcony.

Su Jianglou, staying in his bedroom, raised an eyebrow. Xibao had really managed to keep this little green mushroom alive?

Su Jianglou hadn’t known about the weirdness of Xibao’s two flower pots at first simply because he hadn’t looked closely. Later, when he glanced at them, the mushrooms and statues in the pots naturally couldn’t escape his eyes.

Compared to the other mushrooms that looked freshly painted, this one was at least the little green mushroom that Xiao Xi had raised himself, so Su Jianglou found it more pleasing to the eye.

This little mushroom was pathetically weak. Su Jianglou merely paid a bit of attention to the movement on the balcony before ignoring it.

He was somewhat busy right now.

He hadn’t expected that in the small Wealth Avenue, there would actually be a few tough weirds.

Those weirds had been blind first, not sending an invitation to his family. Now, he was merely restoring order and trying to claim the competition slot that should have belonged to them in the first place, yet those weirds dared to argue with him, talking about competition rules.

Rules? What rules?

Were the rules meant to keep a family with champion potential barred outside the competition zone?

So that day, in a fit of anger, he threw all those weirds into the Gray Mist.

With those weirds as examples, the remaining weirds responsible for operating the Community Website became much more obedient.

Su Jianglou was now busy selecting the most perfectly composed family profile picture for their entry.

Su Jianglou had no time to bother with the swaying little mushroom on the balcony, and Su Xuanxiao in the study downstairs on the first floor didn’t move much either.

That was Xiao Xi’s thing, after all. He wasn’t some feudal patriarch who would throw away a child’s toys without their permission.

On the balcony.

The little weird that had just barely sprouted a bit of awareness was far too weak and couldn’t even sense the threat from the two gazes that had swept over it.

Its mind was still very simple and could only think the simplest thoughts.

After calling out to its master twice on its own, the little green mushroom was no longer satisfied with simple swaying. It began trying to bounce up and down.

It wanted to jump out of the flower pot, onto the balcony, and then find its master.

But for a plant with its roots buried in the soil, bouncing was clearly much harder than swaying. The little mushroom tried its best until its cap trembled up and down, but it still failed to jump.

The failed jump exhausted too much of the little mushroom’s energy, and the color of the circular pattern that had just grown on its cap faded a little.

This was when Su Ximu returned home.

When he came back, he brought Little Ah Huang and the little hamsters back from Ox Grandpa’s house. The moment he entered, Little Ah Huang, which had been placed on the ground, wagged its little tail and darted into its kennel, biting out a little doll before pouncing on it and playing with happy growls.

Unlike its laziness earlier, almost the second he heard the door open, Su Jianglou appeared in the living room on the first floor.

He glanced at his eldest brother, who had also come out of the study, and spoke first. “Xiao Xi, are you going to water those mushrooms of yours tonight?”

Su Ximu hadn’t known at first what exactly the mushrooms he was raising were. But yesterday after dinner, while everyone was chatting idly in the living room, his second brother had told him.

He then learned that his second brother hadn’t been Blue 242 Leader from the start. After recognizing him, his second brother had temporarily disguised himself as Blue 242 Leader. The real Blue 242 Leader was actually the big blue mushroom from that night.

The true specialty of the Tourist Garden wasn’t colorful mushrooms, but colorful employees.

The employees were transformed from mushrooms.

They counted as a type of plant weird.

As a human who was gradually adapting to life in the Weird World, Su Ximu’s capacity to accept things was impressively strong.

He had spent a day digesting this information and had even looked up the major forms of parent-child relationships in the Weird World online.

Now, hearing Third Brother ask if he was going to water the mushrooms today, he peeled an orange from the fruit plate and thought carefully.

The most pressing issue now wasn’t whether to water them or not, but whether it was really okay to keep a bunch of weirds in pots like this.

Su Ximu thought this and voiced it.

Su Jianglou waved it off nonchalantly. “What could go wrong? Letting them out would just mean they’d eat their colleagues anyway.”

“Tch, that habit—I’d say it’s all because of that red mushroom before. After the new garden chief that Big Brother sent took office, to curb the crooked trend in the Tourist Garden, he even designated a remote spot there as a prison.”

So, it was all the same wherever they served their sentence.

Ah…

Hearing Third Brother’s explanation, Su Ximu paused for a moment. After a short while, he divided the peeled orange into four segments and popped his share into his mouth.

After eating the orange, he fetched his little spray pot from the tool cabinet on the first floor. Before heading upstairs, he waved it at Big Brother, Second Brother, and Third Brother.

He was going upstairs to give the “prisoners” a bit of water.

And his little green mushroom too.

This little mushroom was one he had raised from a mushroom egg. It had a completely clean record.

On the balcony.

The little mushroom with its clean record and its own little single room seemed to sense something. Its previously wilted cap immediately perked up.

Two thin filaments like little antennae grew on its cap. Because it was happy about its master’s arrival, the little antennae-like filaments swayed left and right.

When Su Ximu walked onto the balcony with the little spray pot, he saw the little mushroom in such an animated state.

At first, he thought he had seen wrong.

The weather that day was somewhat stuffy, and there was no wind at all on the nighttime balcony. Yet the little mushroom in the flower pot swayed happily.

Before he could set down the spray pot and rub his eyes, Su Ximu heard it next.

“Master.”

“Master back, home!”

The usually calm and steady youth finally couldn’t hold back. He reached up and patted his ears.

Was he hallucinating?

But he hadn’t eaten any mushrooms today.

Had the mushrooms in the Weird World evolved to the point where just looking at them caused hallucinations?

Wait, Weird World…

The youth squeezed his eyes shut for several seconds before opening them again.

What he saw was still the little mushroom swaying there on its own.

It was clearly a tiny mushroom without any facial features, but Su Ximu somehow sensed its extremely happy mood from the way it swayed.

“Master, water.”

“Water, water.”

As Su Ximu watched the little mushroom, he noticed out of the corner of his eye that his brothers had all gathered behind him.

Without thinking, he said to Second Brother, who always answered his questions, “Second Brother, Little Green just spoke and moved.”

“Because it has grown to a certain stage.”

Hearing Second Brother say this, Su Ximu suddenly remembered what Second Brother had told him yesterday about Little Green’s background.

Little Green wasn’t just a little mushroom; it was actually Mr. Green 132’s… um… child? Subordinate? Possession?

The reproductive method of mushroom weirds, where they could reproduce asexually indefinitely as long as they had power, made their relationships with each other extremely hard to define.

After Su Wuzi finished speaking, he smiled. “If Xiao Xi likes it, keep raising it. If not, have Green 132 take it back.”

And leave a new little green mushroom in its place.

Su Ximu looked at the two little “antennae” on the little mushroom’s cap and listened to its voice. In his mind, whether by mushroom years or weird years, this counted as a very, very young little weird.

He stepped forward with the little spray pot and sprayed several mists of water on the little mushroom, which had become a bit dry from its excessive liveliness.

The little green mushroom, which had just gained awareness, didn’t know that its master’s brothers were discussing such a scary topic with its master. Feeling the fine mist sprinkle down, its filaments stretched out even more.

When its master’s finger came close, it couldn’t resist rubbing against it with its thin filaments before shyly pulling back with a whoosh.

Su Ximu, squatting in front of the little flower pot, felt the faint itch lingering on his fingertip. He turned to Second Brother and shook his head, answering his question. “No, Second Brother, I’m not unaccustomed to it.”

“But since Little Mushroom has changed like this, I still need to call Mr. Green 132 tomorrow and tell him.”

He had originally thought Mr. Green 132 had just given him a little mushroom to plant, not knowing it was actually sending him a child to raise.

“Green 132 joined the company’s Pioneering Team, so Xiao Xi probably won’t be able to reach him for now. He’s a pretty ambitious company employee,” Su Xuanxiao said at this point.

Compared to other company bosses, Su Xuanxiao still had some humanistic care for employees willing to contribute to the company.

The most typical example was the Pioneering Team.

Every year, the company sent a certain number of employees to pioneer in the Gray Mist Zone.

The situation in the Gray Mist Zone was very complex, like the universe in Blue Star World’s concepts—anything could happen.

It might be vast resources or dangerous black holes. At worst, they could dispel the Gray Mist and claim a new piece of land.

For every ambitious powerful weird, pioneering was very important.

With Su Xuanxiao’s work ethic, he could remember the name of every Pioneering Team employee. He had also set a rule: employees below manager level with significant achievements in pioneering could be promoted one level on the spot upon return.

Before joining the Pioneering Team, Green 132 had been a true shut-in weirdo, becoming the manager of an old house while clearing the Folk Custom Area dungeon.

Perhaps having tasted real power, he had recently applied to join the Pioneering Team of his own accord.

If he could successfully return to the Tourist Garden, the vacant Tourist Garden section chief position would be his.

As for the little mushroom given away as a gift, Green 132 couldn’t care less about it anymore and had probably forgotten it almost entirely.

Hearing Big Brother say this, Su Ximu nodded. “I see. Then we’ll talk about it when Mr. Green 132 comes back.”

With that, he reached out and picked up the little flower pot in front of him, planning to move it into the bedroom first.

The previous little mushroom had no awareness and couldn’t feel anything.

But now, the little mushroom’s voice sounded like that of a very young child. He was a bit worried about leaving it on the balcony at night—it might get scared.

In the bedroom.

Moved to the table, the patterns on the little mushroom’s cap, which had been somewhat dim, became clear and bright again. It was clearly very happy.

At night.

After washing up and preparing to sleep, Su Ximu walked to the table and finally reached out to gently tap the little mushroom with his finger. “Good night.”

The little mushroom babbled, “G-Good night.”

As he spoke, Su Ximu’s finger unintentionally touched the two little “antennae” on the little mushroom.

Instantly, an extremely gentle white light appeared at the tip of the youth’s slender white finger.

The small light green mushroom was completely enveloped by the white light.

Su Ximu was stunned, completely unsure how the white light had appeared. Seeing the little mushroom fully shrouded in the white light, he feared it might be bad for it and quickly reached out to move the little mushroom out of the light orb.

But the light orb disappeared very quickly, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

Perhaps it was an illusion, but Su Ximu felt like the little mushroom seemed a bit taller than before, and the whole mushroom looked more spirited.

Still, he wasn’t entirely reassured, especially with that white light that had suddenly appeared from his fingertip. After thinking it over, Su Ximu picked up the flower pot, intending to disturb Second Brother, who might have already gone to sleep.

No sooner had the thought occurred than there came a knock-knock-knock at the door.

“Xiao Xi? Xiao Xi?”

It was Third Brother’s voice.

Su Ximu went forward and opened the door to find not only Third Brother, but also Big Brother and Second Brother standing outside.

Second Brother was still wearing pajamas.

Seeing the door opened, Su Jianglou immediately stepped forward to carefully check his little brother’s condition, still saying, “I was just about to sleep when I felt like something was off with you, Xiao Xi. If I hadn’t sensed you still in the room, Xiao Xi, I would’ve smashed the door down right away.”

Su Ximu spread his arms and obediently turned around front and back for his brothers to see, indicating that he was fine for now.

However, after finishing the turn, he stretched out his index finger, wanting to recreate the previous scene for his brothers, only to find that the white light from before refused to appear no matter what.

With no other choice, he could only verbally describe the earlier scene to his big brother, second brother, and third brother.

The four brothers relocated to the bedroom sofa and sat down to hold a meeting.

As the person involved, Su Ximu hugged the little flower pot and was the first to raise his hand to speak. “Could it be that I’ve stayed here too long and turned into something weird?”

If that was really the case, maybe he could even create his own dungeon in the future!

He wouldn’t necessarily need to drag a bunch of players into it. Like second brother’s dungeons where he could play against himself, or ones that allowed bringing family along—those sounded pretty good too.

A glint flashed in Su Jianglou’s golden eyes. Two seconds later, he shook his head. “Doesn’t seem like it.”

Doesn’t seem like it?

Did Third Brother mean that he hadn’t turned weird?

But could an ordinary human produce white light?

At that moment, Su Jianglou, who had been pretending to ponder, spoke again. “It’s definitely not like an ordinary human anymore either. It feels a bit like a dungeon player, but not quite.”

Third Brother’s analysis gradually silenced the very subject of the analysis.

Not weird, not an ordinary human, and not quite like a player.

Was he some kind of neither-fish-nor-fowl-nor-good-red-herring?

“What about humans from the Wasteland World?”

“Hiss.”

“Hiss.”

Third Brother hissed, and Su Ximu hissed right along with him.

After a moment, Su Jianglou slapped the sofa armrest. “I got it!”

Insight gleamed repeatedly in his golden eyes as he delivered what was currently the most reliable answer. “Xiao Xi, you’re a mixed blood from the Blue Star World, the Wasteland World, and the Weird World now—these three worlds!”

Wh-what the heck?

Without realizing it, he’d become a three-worlds mixed blood youth, even more niche than Three Kingdoms mixed blood. He blinked his eyes in confusion.

He couldn’t help but glance at his big brother and second brother.

Yet he found that neither big brother nor second brother refuted Third Brother’s words.

In an instant, Su Ximu began to doubt himself.

Was he… really that complicated?

Little Green Mushroom didn’t understand much, but it began cheering for its master. “Awesome!”