Beast Taming Patrol

The killing intent in her eyes grew sharper. The purple Crystal Stone at Qin Nan's forehead flickered, partially hidden and partially visible, emitting a glow. The next moment, both she and the Gray Feathered Lion Hawk beneath her burst out with dazzling light, the vast energy steadily climbing, triggering one Energy Storm after another.

Guardian Beast Co-operation!

A pair of strong, vigorous wings unfurled from behind Qin Nan, who was in Guardian Beast Co-operation mode. With a forceful strike, the raging winds that howled around them seemed to gain substance at that moment, shattering like glass. Dust turned into numerous storms that devoured and entwined with each other, sucking away all the surrounding air and turning the area into a vacuum in an extremely short period of time.

By the time the storm shattered, Qin Nan's figure had already appeared tens of thousands of meters away, dragging a green rainbow across the sky, heading toward District 32 at a speed faster than that of a strategic transport airliner.

Teaching skill, Windbreak, Tier IV!

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"Qiuqiu, what do you think of this? I feel like this skill might also be suitable for Gui Gui," Lin Su said as he tapped the light screen in front of him and saved a post on skill education before sending it to Qiuqiu.

Qiuqiu's large eyes scanned over the communication device that belonged to it, and quickly its expression became excited as it nodded vigorously.

"Mew! (｡✪ω✪｡)" (I think little brother will like it!)

"Then that's good," Lin Su smiled and looked at the dozen or so new posts he had added to his favorites, "After the contract with Gui Gui, let it choose for itself."

All these posts were messages that he and his pet had gradually come across while browsing the forum earlier, which could be useful for Gui Gui once it arrived on Blue Star, allowing it to learn on its own.

Oh right, it was about time to start teaching Gui Gui how to read.

Once Gui Gui could read, he would buy it a communication device and register a visitor account for it.

He had just seen a post in a forum mentioning that Beast Tamers should treat their pets fairly to promote the co-operation index between them and their Guardian Beasts.

Lin Su deeply agreed with this point.

"Mew!" (Someone's coming!)

Qiuqiu's warning brought Lin Su back from his reverie. He instinctively looked toward the direction of the welfare home's entrance and spotted a hover car rapidly approaching.

A hover car?

Lin Su's eyebrows slightly rose.

Before the disaster, hover cars had already been around for over a hundred years, but with the advent of the disaster, many of humanity's technological products were destroyed, factories and other production facilities were ruined leading to a severe shortage of production capacity, making hover cars less common than they had been centuries before.

The isolated zones between safe areas are filled with all sorts of mystical creatures that love to swarm and attack human teams, making large-scale inter-district transport challenging. The different safe areas can only rely on their own production to maintain stability, and only in times of crisis would they come to each other's aid across districts.

In the most prosperous safe area of the Yan Huang Alliance in District 1, hover cars are commonplace with one per person. However, in a less developed safe area like District 32, hover cars are very rare. Their owners are either rich or powerful, while others tend to use electricity-driven vehicles that do not demand high manufacturing technology and production capacity.

Those who could ride in hover cars had no simple status or identity.

The first thought that came to Lin Su's mind was whether this could be a kind-hearted wealthy individual coming to donate to the welfare home.

Although he had left the welfare home, Lin Su still considered himself a part of it. Thinking of this, he stood up and walked toward the hover car that was slowly descending outside.

"Mew!" (Wait for me!)

Qiuqiu blinked, put down the communication device in its paws, and in two or three steps, it jumped onto Lin Su's shoulder, curiously looking at the distant hover car.

Before the hover car had completely landed, one of its doors opened directly. A robust figure with a stern expression leaped down from the hover car, blue light patterns blossoming instantly under his feet.

Lin Su's footsteps halted abruptly.

What does this mean?

Summoning a Guardian Beast right off the bat?

His expression slightly hardened, sensing that things were not as he had imagined.

Soon, he made out the Guardian Beast that had been summoned by the other party, and his pupils contracted sharply.

It was a bizarre, indescribable statue, a mangle of grotesque tentacles intertwined together, with countless eyes and mouths sprouting in the gaps between them, viscous liquid dripping from the tips of the tentacles, the chaotic and asymmetrical form was eerily unsettling.

A lower Sovereign species, the Fear Demon Statue!

Qiuqiu's evolution used the eye core of a Sovereign-rank Fear Demon Statue, making Lin Su all too familiar with the Guardian Beast before him.

Recognizing the species of the Guardian Beast, the identity of the other party also became apparent.

Watching the four people who followed the man down from the hover car, Lin Su's expression grew even graver.

The Beast Sect!

These guys showing up here must have something to do with him.

"Cold Frost Dream Domain, target the Beast Tamer! Cover all with the Frost Silence Storm and prepare to flee!" In the blink of an eye, Lin Su used Telepathy to quickly transmit his instructions to Qiuqiu.

The Fear Demon Statue before them was clearly a Sovereign-rank existence. As a Sovereign-rank Guardian Beast, its normal energy level was at least one hundred thousand, at least ten times higher than Qiuqiu's, and as it was also of the spirit type, Qiuqiu's spirit-type damage would be utterly ineffective against it.

This was not an opponent Qiuqiu could handle at this stage.

The only option was to target the Beast Tamer himself.

The opponent likely didn't know about Frost Flower Dream Shadow, so they probably wouldn't be too guarded.

...

Leaping down from the hover car, Steward Tang quickly locked his gaze onto the target before him.

Then, he saw the pet beast on Lin Su's shoulder. Stay tuned for stories on m-vl-em,py-r

Previously, when he had received reports from those tailing Lin Su, since he hadn't actually seen Lin Su's pet beast, and the beast's energy levels weren't too high for him to handle, Steward Tang hadn't paid much attention. But now, upon seeing Qiuqiu's form, he was taken aback.

An evolved form of Xue Henqing?

From a high-ranking elite species to a monarch species?

How is that possible?!

However, his surprise was quickly replaced by an even stronger intent to kill.

The secret order from the Eastern Beast Tamer was indeed correct; even though this research genius with immense potential had just started to emerge, he must be eliminated.

No wonder Qin Nan took him away from Zone 32.

With this in mind, Steward Tang's eyes flashed slightly, ready to issue an attack command to his own pet beast.

But the next moment, his expression changed subtly.

The pet beast he had been staring at suddenly turned its head to look at him, and a burst of light erupted from the vertical pupil on its forehead.

In the blink of an eye, everything around Steward Tang vanished, and he found himself in a snowy plain.

An illusion?

A psychic skill?

Quickly realizing his situation, he let out a small sigh of relief.

As a Beast Tamer bonded with a spirit-type pet beast, although he couldn't ignore psychic attacks, it was very simple for him to have his pet beast help him quickly escape from skills like illusions.

Thinking this, Steward Tang hurriedly used telepathy to call for help from the Fear Demon Statue.

As the snowy plain descended, a snowball the size of a soccer ball quickly smashed toward him.

An attack within the illusion?

Is that all?

Disdain was evident on his face.

To attack the opponent with an illusion, it ought to be a natural disaster like an avalanche.

A small snowball?

Even in reality, it wouldn't pose a threat to him, right?

It seemed that his opponent's pet beast had a very low control over the illusion.

A futile struggle.

Sensing that the Fear Demon Statue was about to help him break free from the illusion, Steward Tang didn't even bother to dodge the snowball heading his way.

The next moment, Steward Tang's figure disappeared from the plain, and the snowball, at the very last moment before his disappearance, slammed heavily into Steward Tang's chest.

"Ah!!"

In reality.

A beast-like howl erupted from the mouth of Steward Tang, and his expression, solemn just seconds before, was now hideously twisted, veins bulging on his face, his eyes bloodshot and turning crimson, his body weakly dropping to one knee as he pressed both hands to his head, shaking violently.

Pain.

An extreme agony as if to shatter his soul, made him wish he could tear off his own head. Were it not for the Fear Demon Statue promptly using spiritual power to stabilize his consciousness, things could have been even worse.

How could this be?

It was just a small snowball in the illusion!

This wasn't an illusion, but a psychic attack disguised as one?!

Damn it!

He had been too careless!

"Kill... kill him!" Steward Tang forced the slurred words out between clenched teeth, his blood-red eyes filled with undisguised murderous intent.

As the shocked onlookers were about to react, the overwhelming Frost Silence Storm had already descended, sweeping over everyone.

Stuffing Qiuqiu into his arms, Lin Su didn't hesitate, spinning around to vault over the wall and out.

Run!