Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 61 The First Pet in the Entire Server

"Give me a baby? A baby?"

Seeing that Chai Gou Cai Cai was still a little confused, the old lady next to her said, "If you like it, then take it! Country dogs are tough! They'll live as long as you give them food!"

Upon hearing this, Shiba Inu Cai Cai was both surprised and delighted: "Huh? Is this really okay!?"

"Why not! Keep it! If you get impatient, just send it back! It's just that this white one is the weakest in the litter. It usually can't even get milk, and I have to feed it rice porridge several times. If you think it's too thin, then forget it."

Shiba Inu Cai Cai felt heartbroken upon hearing this: "How could that be! I think it's the prettiest! It's so clean and cute!"

"If you like it, keep it as a pet. This little rascal is clever! Its offspring won't be stupid when they grow up! They're very loyal!"

Then, the old woman turned to him and said with a smile and a scolding tone, "That little beast is really cunning. I don't know if he's clever or stupid. He can be fooled by someone giving him some dried meat. Look at your worthless and cheap appearance! You're stupid, but you still gave him the skinniest one! You think he's not stupid just because you don't like him? You're so sly!"

Shiba Inu Cai Cai quickly spoke up for the big yellow dog, saying, "No, no! It's so cute to be so small!"

When the big yellow dog heard the old lady scolding it, it immediately let out a pitiful whimper and then nudged its remaining puppies towards the old lady's feet.

The old lady reached out and patted the big yellow dog's head, saying disdainfully, "I don't want your puppies. You raise your own puppies, what use are they to me!"

Although the old lady was scolding the big yellow dog, the bond between the two was clearly very strong, which made Shiba Inu Cai Cai quite envious.

She crouched down and carefully touched the little white puppy that was wriggling around at her toes like a caterpillar, finding it incredibly novel.

The puppy sniffed between Shiba Inu Nana's hands, then stuck out its little tongue and licked her fingertips. The wet touch melted Shiba Inu Nana's heart.

She didn't even care whether the puppy could understand human speech, and said to herself, "My surname is Bai. If you come with me from now on, how about I name you Baicai? Baicai? Little Baicai?"

The puppy sneezed from being teased and rolled over because it couldn't keep its balance. After rolling over, it was stunned for a moment, and then continued to lick Shiba Inu Cai Cai's fingers, shaking its head and looking both silly and cute.

Shiba Inu Cai Cai was amused by the puppy's series of actions and chuckled: "Since you don't object, I'll take that as your agreement, okay, Cabbage?"

As soon as the words were spoken, the puppy cabbage's eyelids twitched, as if it had opened a crack.

Upon seeing this, Shiba Inu Cai Cai excitedly exclaimed, "Hey! Grandma! It looks like it's opened its eyes!"

The old lady lowered her head, squinted, and looked closely. She was also pleasantly surprised and said, "It really is! It's about time it opened its eyes! It's been more than ten days! The others opened their eyes a long time ago, but this one, so silly, only opened its eyes now! But of all times, it opened its eyes only after it came into your hands. It's fate! It's only right that you raise it!"

Chai Gou Cai Cai immediately picked up the puppy with affection and hugged it to her arms, asking, "Grandma, how should we raise this puppy, which is only ten days old? Does it still need to be fed milk?" The old lady waved her hand and said, "Oh! There's no need for so many rules! It can be weaned when it grows teeth. If you're really worried, you can feed it some goat milk, deer milk, or even rice water, it's all the same! Look how thin and weak this puppy is, it's because it can't compete with its brothers under its mother's belly, and it often goes hungry. I've fed it rice water a few times, but that's just keeping it alive. If you take it, it might actually get a fuller belly!"

Shiba Inu Cai Cai knew that compared to ancient times with low productivity, the sophisticated scientific methods of modern dog feeding were vastly different from the way this old lady raised her dog. Moreover, this was, after all, a game, and there were bound to be differences from reality. It couldn't possibly be exactly the same as modern pet ownership—for example, things like spaying/neutering and vaccinations were impossible to do. So, Shiba Inu Cai Cai humbly asked the old lady, whom she believed to be an NPC in the game who provided pets, "Grandma, where can I get goat milk and deer milk?"

The old lady was somewhat surprised by the other party's concern. After thinking carefully for a moment, she replied, "Deer milk is really hard to find. As for goat milk... there are quite a few families in the east of town that raise goats. You can go and ask them. If a ewe has given birth, you can buy goat milk."

"Okay! Thank you, Grandma! I'll go ask now!"

Shiba Inu Cai Cai thought the old lady's words were a pet raising tip from an NPC, so she immediately picked up the puppy, said goodbye to the old lady, and happily skipped and hopped towards the east side of town.

Although holding a puppy, the game system of "Ten Continents Chronicles" did not have a pet or partner interface like other games. However, Shiba Inu Cai Cai subconsciously thought that the pet raising system of this game was more free and rich, so there was no interface or numerical value.

After all, even if players want to bid for equipment dropped by a BOSS, they have to actually discuss it, pay for it, distribute it, and even need to create a third-party chat group to do so. So it seems reasonable that the pet raising system in the game is not displayed in the system interface.
As a newbie playing "Ten Continents Chronicles" for the first time, Chai Gou Cai Cai naturally attributed everything she encountered that she hadn't seen on the forum to the fact that "this game is said to simulate a second life in another world," and that it is completely "AI-driven and fully interactive," with such rich and free gameplay that it's impossible for all the guides on the forum to be available.

She petted the puppy for a while before excitedly chatting with Jia Xiaoren privately.

"Master! Master! I have a pet! It's a puppy!"

Jia Xiaoren, who was helping build the city with his relatives and friends, typed a question mark in confusion: "?"

Chai Gou Cai Cai thought Jia Xiao Ren was just jealous of her luck—after all, she hadn't seen any players showing off their pets on the game forums, so pets must be quite rare in this game. She smugly typed, "It's a pet! Really? Master, you don't have a pet yet?"

"My disciple,"

Jia Xiaoren threw the tree he was carrying on his shoulder to the ground, took a deep breath, and replied, "Is the game you're playing the same game I'm playing?"

Shiba Inu Cai Cai still didn't feel anything was wrong. She remembered that Jia Xiaoren had been very responsible to her and had even given her a skill book, so she confidently typed, "Master, don't worry! Next time I encounter a pet, I'll catch one for you too!"

"Next time? Encounter a pet? Catch one? Such niche writing..."

This time, Chai Gou Cai Cai finally realized something was wrong, but she only had time to reply with a question mark before Jia Xiao Ren's next private message popped up: "Disciple, is it possible, I mean possible, that in this game, besides you, none of us have pets..."

"what???"

It's now available!!! Please, dear readers, give this newbie a first-day subscription!!! I'll definitely write 10,000 words today!!! Pfft!!!

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