Chapter 8: Dahui's Past

Dahui's full name is Gray Night Chinchilla, and it is a strength-type Pet Beast.

It has great strength and can lift items weighing over a ton, but its temperament is very docile, so it is generally used as a porter.

Apart from having greater strength, the Gray Night Chinchilla species has no other outstanding features, and it is also recognized on Blue Star as a Pet Beast with no evolutionary path, so very few people generally contract a Gray Night Chinchilla as their own Pet Beast.

Ye Bai discovered Dahui on a night of torrential rain, when he saw Dahui covered in cuts and bruises in a pile of trash.

At that time, its fur was not gray, but snow-white; it belonged to a variant Pet Beast, and such Pet Beasts could be sold for a high price on the black market.

Ye Bai secretly glanced at Dahui; there were countless wounds on its body that were bleeding, the most serious of which was the wound on its abdomen, where even half of its intestines were exposed.

There were chafing marks from shackles on its wrists and ankles.

There was also a collar similar to a dog tag around its neck.

It lay on the trash pile, dying; Ye Bai thought Dahui had just died, and just as he was about to bypass this trouble, Dahui's hand grabbed Ye Bai's ankle.

Ye Bai looked down and met those large, deep blue eyes.

A glimmer of a desire to live flashed in its eyes, and Ye Bai understood what Dahui meant: it was asking Ye Bai to save it.

The desire to survive in Dahui's eyes moved Ye Bai, so he wasted the only Beast Card he had on hand and took Dahui inside.

He also erased the path he had taken and deleted all the surveillance footage along the way.

From the dog tag hanging on Dahui's neck and the chafing marks on its hands, it could be seen that this guy was likely a Pet Beast that had escaped from some private Research Institute.

The rain was pouring down, and many traces would be erased by the roaring rain.

By the time Ye Bai released Dahui from the Beast Card, Dahui was like a corpse, stiff all over; if not for the slight breathing on its belly, Ye Bai would have already disposed of it as a corpse.

Because the treatment equipment in the Breeding House was rudimentary, Ye Bai could only simply treat Dahui, stitch up its wounds, and inject it with the few antibiotics in the shop; for the rest, he could only leave it to fate.

The positioning system inside the dog tag had already been destroyed by Dahui, and the only remaining Self-Destruct function was also dismantled by Ye Bai.

Originally, Ye Bai thought Dahui would have a high fever at night, so he even prepared some fever-reducing medicine and ice packs.

Unexpectedly, after only one night, granulation tissue had already grown on Dahui's wounds, and it was already able to open its eyes and climb off the bed to move around.

After three days passed, Dahui's fur changed from snow-white to its current gray, and the wounds all over its body had scabbed over and fallen off.

Its originally deep blue, large eyes also turned cyan-green, only occasionally showing the deep blue under reflection.

It also lost most of its memories because of this, only remembering that it had been abandoned; as for the memories of escaping from the Research Institute, including why it had suffered such heavy injuries, it had forgotten all of them.

This immediately made Ye Bai alert, so he tried his best to hide Dahui's tracks; sure enough, a few days later, some strangers appeared on the street.

For this reason, Ye Bai even went on a long trip specifically to forge a purchase receipt for the Gray Night Chinchilla, just to prevent someone from coming to his door one day.

Because Dahui's fur and pupil colors had both changed, coupled with the receipt Ye Bai forged by hacking into the system, those strangers came to check several times but never discovered Dahui's true identity.

Gradually, those people gave up the search, thinking that Dahui must have fled to another place.

Thus, three years passed in peace; because Dahui remembered that it had been abandoned, it was full of sympathy for those poor, abandoned Pet Beasts.

These Pet Beasts generally had their own defects.

Like the Thunder Pig, which was originally a Pet Beast capable of erupting with terrifying electric currents, it ended up being abandoned because something went wrong with its own power-generating organs.

Like the Chameleon, its scales could change with the surrounding colors, always maintaining a state of invisibility, which was very favored by some Pet Beast Masters; unfortunately, it also had problems of its own, unable to turn invisible, and was abandoned.

For a Pet Beast Master to dissolve a contract, they need to use an item called Styx Water.

This item is expensive to produce, with an initial price of 50,000 Alliance Coins.

A Pet Beast that has been abandoned by a Pet Beast Master and has had its contract actively severed cannot be contracted by a Pet Beast Master again for two years.

Ye Bai's Breeding House was almost turning into a Pet Beast shelter.

Because of this, Ye Bai went from being a student with a little extra money to someone who worried about his livelihood all day long.

The monthly food expenses for the Breeding House were an astronomical figure.

He had also thought about helping the Pet Beasts in the shop find a kind person to adopt them.

But because of the Pet Beasts' defects, no one was willing to be the one to take them in; instead, it made more people aware that the Pet Beasts in Ye Bai's Breeding House were defective.

If it weren't for the fact that Ye Bai's shop sold a very special Berserk Potion, his Breeding House would likely have gone completely bankrupt.

Ye Bai looked at Dahui, who had a guilty look on its face and didn't dare to meet his gaze at all, and was suddenly speechless.

Dahui lowered its head; its field of vision was blocked by its own large belly, and it tried its best to suck in its stomach, but it was to no avail.

"Dahui, how many times have I told you?"

"Our Breeding House is already failing to make ends meet; why did you pick up another Pet Beast?"

The big and tall Dahui was lectured by Ye Bai like a grandson.

"Hurry up and take it out so I can check it and see if there are any parasites or infectious diseases."

Ye Bai said crossly; a glimmer of joy flashed in Dahui's eyes, as it knew that Ye Bai was a person with a sharp tongue but a soft heart, which was why it would bring Pet Beasts back to the Breeding House time and time again.

Although it would be lectured by Ye Bai every time, the harmless scolding would never make Dahui realize the seriousness of the problem.

At this moment, Dahui took a cardboard box out from behind its back, and inside was actually a newborn Lightning Cat.

The Lightning Cat is a thunder-type Pet Beast and is relatively rare; it is usually golden-yellow, though a small number are black.

The Lightning Cat in front of him was golden-yellow.

Pet Beasts on Blue Star are mainly divided into attributes: gold, wood, water, fire, earth, thunder, ice, wind, light, dark, poison, combat, dragon, and ghost.

However, when Ye Bai looked at the Lightning Cat, he was suddenly stunned.

A cool stream of air flowed through Ye Bai's eyes, and a projection screen appeared before him, which actually contained the relevant data for the Lightning Cat.

【Pet Beast Name: Lightning Cat】

【Gender: Male】

【Attribute: Thunder】

【Temperament: Lively】

【Level: lv2 (First Order, Level 2)】

【Mastered Skills: Impact, High-speed Movement, Zhua, Current Radiation.】

【Evolution Route 1: Lightning Leopard, 1 Electric-type Soul Core, 3 Electric Soul Grasses, struck by lightning during a thunderstorm, strength reaches Second Order Peak.】

【Evolution Route 2: Lightning Spirit Cat, 3 Electric-type Soul Cores, 2 Ghost Grasses, strength reaches Second Order Peak.】

This guy actually possesses two evolution routes; wait, that's not the point. Why can he see the evolution routes of Pet Beasts? Has his own eyes undergone some kind of mutation?

At this moment, Ye Bai's gaze turned toward the mirror, and he discovered that his eyes had turned blood-red, just like a fine red gemstone.

And when Li Weiyang uses the Insight Eye, her pupils are also red; is there some connection between the two?

(End of this chapter)