Chapter 1017: Boss

Half an hour later.

Beast Taming Center, accommodation area.

Room 708.

"Who is this Bao Wuwu?" Teacher Mi Jiala stared at Bao Wuwu, looking puzzled.

"Wuwu..."

Bao Wuwu inexplicably felt pressure and silently moved behind the human entrusted by the doctor.

"It's like this, after I entered the research institute..." Qiao Sang rambled on, briefly recounting the conversation with Dr. Zhang Zhao and the matter of Bao Wuwu.

Teacher Mi Jiala pondered for a moment and asked:

"Are you planning to go to Xihancheng next?"

Qiao Sang nodded and said:

"There are still nine days until the Mingzhuhua is sent. I was thinking that since there's nothing else important to do during this time, I might as well go to Xihancheng and take the opportunity to train."

The Ten Great Ghost Cities are famous, and going there can indeed be considered training for an ordinary Beast Tamer.

Teacher Mi Jiala asked:

"When?"

Qiao Sang thought for a while and said:

"Tomorrow."

After a pause, she added: "Dr. Zhang Zhao also found someone to specifically take us, saying that person clearly knows the location of the secret realm rift where Bao Wuwu originally came out."

For this reason, she even added that person's contact information.

"Fine." Teacher Mi Jiala said:

"Then tomorrow morning, I'll go with you. You don't need to worry about the tickets."

This initiative... Qiao Sang gave a heavy "Mm."

Immediately, she thought of something, scanned the surroundings, and asked:

"Where is Master Fulaoda?"

"He has already left." Teacher Mi Jiala answered, then returned to the main topic: "So, the other possibility for Ghost-type pet beast evolution discovered by Dr. Zhang Zhao is to let Ghost-type pet beasts absorb positive emotional energy from the things they care about most?"

He left too quickly... After Qiao Sang sighed in her heart, she heard the second half of Master Teacher Mi Jiala's sentence and nodded:

"That's right."

After a pause, she added:

"However, only a small portion of Ghost-type pet beasts can absorb this energy, and I don't know if Little Xunbao can."

Teacher Mi Jiala's gaze fell on Little Xunbao: "If you want to know if it can, just try it and you'll know."

Qiao Sang turned her head and looked at Little Xunbao as well.

Little Xunbao blinked its eyes.

"Is there anything you've been suppressing in your heart that you really want to do but can't?" Qiao Sang asked.

"Xunxun..."

While at the research institute, Little Xunbao had listened to the conversation the whole time, so it naturally knew what its Beast Tamer wanted to do by asking this. It thought seriously, then its eyes lit up, it took off its ring, took out the phone it had bought itself, and let out a cry:

"Xunxun!"

It wanted to get a card!

Little Xunbao had long wanted to get a card. With a card, it could play any game and wouldn't have to sneak its Beast Tamer's phone anymore. Unfortunately, its Beast Tamer hadn't agreed before.

Qiao Sang: "..."

"What is the Guihuanwang saying?" Teacher Mi Jiala inquired.

Qiao Sang was silent for a moment: "It said it wants to get a phone card."

Teacher Mi Jiala was stunned, then laughed and said: "Then let's get it a card."

Little Xunbao immediately looked at its Beast Tamer with sparkling eyes.

Qiao Sang was silent for two seconds and said to Little Xunbao:

"Let's go to a nearby service hall."

"Xunxun!"

Little Xunbao's eyes suddenly brightened another degree, then it glowed with blue light and took its Beast Tamer away with a teleport.

About five minutes later, Qiao Sang and Little Xunbao returned to the room.

Little Xunbao excitedly turned on the phone that already had the SIM card inserted.

At this time, Qiao Sang said: "Try absorbing it."

"Xunxun..."

Little Xunbao was stunned for a moment. After realizing what its Beast Tamer was talking about, it put down the phone and began to try hard to sense and absorb.

"Xunxun..."

Half a minute later, it honestly shook its head.

Gangbao suddenly looked at Little Xunbao with a sympathetic gaze.

Qiao Sang spread her hands.

Gangbao showed an expression of "I knew it."

"Xunxun?"

Little Xunbao blinked its eyes, confused.

"Give the phone card back to me." Qiao Sang said slowly.

A bolt from the blue!

Little Xunbao stepped back in disbelief.

It hadn't even started playing, and it had to return it already?

"Hurry up." Qiao Sang urged.

"Xunxun..." Little Xunbao took out the phone card with a face full of reluctance and handed it over.

Qiao Sang took it, put it in her pocket, turned to Master Teacher Mi Jiala and said:

"I don't think there's any need for Little Xunbao to be in such a hurry to try and absorb this energy. Its species limit is Emperor-tier, and the evolutionary materials for the next stage will soon be gathered. If it really succeeds in absorbing this energy at this stage, and then completes an evolution because of this energy, becoming a completely different form, then it will lose the path to evolve to Emperor-tier."

Once a pet beast evolves into a new form, every subsequent form is unknown.

The evolutionary path is unknown, and whether it can evolve is also unknown. Qiao Sang has Like Ya Bao and Gangbao, and she has a deep understanding of the difficulty of subsequent evolution for new forms.

Teacher Mi Jiala pondered for a moment and said:

"You can try to let the Guihuanwang absorb this energy to find out where its direction of absorbing this energy lies. After knowing it, don't let it absorb this energy again until it reaches Emperor-tier."

Although Qiao Sang felt that the possibility of Little Xunbao absorbing this energy was not high, she still nodded:

"I know."

Teacher Mi Jiala had nothing else to do, so she stood up and prepared to leave.

She hadn't walked two steps when she thought of something, turned her head to look at Bao Wuwu, and asked:

"Do you need me to go buy some energy pills suitable for it to eat?"

When her gaze fell on it, Bao Wuwu's body instantly tensed up.

"No need." Qiao Sang shook her head: "Dr. Zhang Zhao gave some energy pills and tree fruits that it usually eats."

"Good." Teacher Mi Jiala urged:

"Then go to sleep early tonight and get up early tomorrow morning."

"Understood." Qiao Sang nodded.

Teacher Mi Jiala turned around.

"Wuwu..."

Bao Wuwu let out a sigh of relief.

Yet the next second, Teacher Mi Jiala suddenly turned her head back again.

Bao Wuwu's body tensed up again.

This time, Teacher Mi Jiala didn't look at it, but looked at Gangbao and said: "You should also prepare to let the Steel Sword Falcon practice biting-type skills. Don't forget you haven't fed it the Qiaoshi yet."

After saying this, she walked out of the room.

I really did forget... Qiao Sang said to herself.

"Steel Sword..."

Immediately after, Gangbao's voice entered her mind.

It had forgotten too...

Qiao Sang and Gangbao looked at each other and said:

"Then let's practice after we come out of Xihancheng?"

"Steel Sword." Gangbao nodded, indicating agreement.

"Xunxun~"

At this time, Little Xunbao leaned in front of its Beast Tamer, carefully glanced at Big Brother Like Ya Bao and Lubao, came to her ear, and let out a cry in a low voice.

Actually, there was one more thing it really wanted to accomplish, but felt it couldn't.

"What is it?" Qiao Sang asked.

Little Xunbao used its eyes to signal its Beast Tamer in the direction of Big Brother Like Ya Bao, Lubao, and Qingbao.

Qiao Sang's mouth twitched:

"You don't want Like Ya Bao, Lubao, and Qingbao to all call you Bo..."

"Xunxun!"

Before she could finish, her mouth was covered by Little Xunbao's claws.

Qiao Sang: "..."

Like Ya Bao, Lubao, Gangbao, and Qingbao all looked over.

Little Xunbao's body stiffened, it silently released its claws, and looked at its Beast Tamer, its face full of "Don't say it, don't say it."

Qiao Sang coughed and said:

"I know you still want to grow bigger and have Like Ya Bao and the others call you Big Guy, but this isn't something that can happen overnight."

"Xunxun..." Little Xunbao let out a heavy sigh of relief while having an arrow pierced through its heart.

"Yaya." Like Ya Bao let out a comforting cry, indicating that being small has its benefits; like it, with such a large body, it still has to wear a micro-shrinking bracelet to move around easily.

If it were large, it could also wear a micro-shrinking bracelet... Little Xunbao felt it wasn't comforted at all. It showed a disappointed expression and let out a cry:

"Xunxun..."

It knew, it just wanted to grow bigger, and even if it couldn't, it wanted to work hard toward developing a larger body.

"Wuwu."

After hearing this, Bao Wuwu drifted to Little Xunbao's side, patted its shoulder, and let out a kind cry, indicating that it wasn't small at all, and was clearly a bit bigger than it.

As it spoke, it gestured the size difference between the two.

Little Xunbao: "..."

I am Jiang-tier, are you?

"Wuwu."

After gesturing, Bao Wuwu let out another cry.

Although it wasn't much bigger, it was at least bigger than it.

Little Xunbao: "..."

It didn't want to talk anymore.

Indeed, for now, the thing Little Xunbao cared about most seemed to be becoming the boss, but this was only for now. Who knew if Little Xunbao's desire to be the boss was just a three-minute fad? What if it could really absorb it, but it was just a three-minute fad? What if it only had the best effect the first time, and after hearing "Boss" too many times, it wouldn't have that heart-pounding feeling, and thus wouldn't be able to absorb it... Qiao Sang thought seriously.

Actually, it could be tried, but this "Boss" seemed to have to be genuine, otherwise it would be sensed and couldn't be absorbed, just like the Ugly Night Flower earlier...

Qingbao could still be tried, but having Like Ya Bao and Lubao call Little Xunbao "Boss" from the bottom of their hearts seemed like an impossible thing...

"Bingdi."

Just as she was thinking, suddenly, Lubao let out a cry.

Boss.

All the pet beasts looked at Lubao in unison.

What? Boss? Qiao Sang's various thoughts stopped abruptly, she almost dug into her ears, suspecting that her hearing had gone wrong.

Was that "Boss" just now said by Lubao?

Lubao felt the surrounding gazes, its expression unchanged, just looking quietly at Little Xunbao.

"Xunxun?"

Little Xunbao was completely bewildered, then looked left, then right. After confirming that Lubao was indeed looking at it, it swallowed its saliva, pointed at itself uncertainly, and let out a cry.

Was that "Boss" just now calling me?

"Bingdi."

Lubao nodded and called out again.

Boss.

A hundred flowers blooming! The whole world celebrating!

"Xunxun!"

Little Xunbao was so happy it bounced directly, excitedly drifting around the room.

Lubao called it Boss! Lubao called it Boss!

Holy crap, Lubao really called Little Xunbao Boss... Qiao Sang's face was full of shock.

To be honest, when she found out the championship prize for the regional competition was a Little Tinglong egg, she hadn't been this shocked.

"Yaya..."

"Qingqing..."

Like Ya Bao and Qingbao showed blank expressions on their faces.

"Steel Sword..."

Gangbao's expression was complex, and it even looked at Lubao with a slightly admiring gaze.

"Wuwu?"

Bao Wuwu showed a puzzled expression, not knowing why everyone had become so strange.

"Bingdi?"

Just as Qiao Sang was preparing to organize her language to ask Lubao why it suddenly called Little Xunbao "Boss," Lubao looked at the drifting Little Xunbao and let out a cry, indicating, can it absorb that power now?

The room suddenly went quiet.

Little Xunbao stopped drifting and looked down at Lubao blankly.

So that's how it is... Qiao Sang was stunned first, then looked at Lubao with a face full of emotion.

She never expected that Lubao would take the initiative to call Little Xunbao "Boss" because Little Xunbao could absorb that energy, and even more unexpectedly, she hadn't even opened her mouth, and Lubao had guessed what Little Xunbao wanted to feel most at this moment.

She was wrong; she had always thought Lubao's intelligence was about the same as Like Ya Bao's...

Qiao Sang looked at Little Xunbao and said:

"Hurry up and feel it."

"Xunxun..."

Little Xunbao closed its eyes and began to try hard to feel it.

Time passed bit by bit.

Tens of seconds later, Qiao Sang finally couldn't help but ask: "Can you?"

"Xunxun..."

Little Xunbao opened its eyes and shook its head with a face full of disappointment.

Lubao closed its eyes and stopped looking at Little Xunbao.

This actually didn't work. Is it because Lubao's "Boss" wasn't genuine, or because Little Xunbao actually couldn't absorb this power at all... Qiao Sang muttered in her heart.

"Xunxun..."

Little Xunbao drifted to Lubao's side and let out a cry carefully, asking if it would call it "Boss" in the future?

Lubao opened its eyes, glanced faintly at Little Xunbao, and began to emit visible cold air.

"Xunxun!"

Little Xunbao was startled, hurriedly teleported more than ten meters away, and let out a cry, indicating it was just joking.

Lubao closed its eyes again, and the cold air on its body dissipated.

"Xunxun..." Little Xunbao let out a sigh of relief.

"Yaya..."

Like Ya Bao looked at Little Xunbao, then at Lubao, and only then realized why Lubao had suddenly opened its mouth to call "Boss."

"Qingqing..."

Qingbao looked at Little Xunbao and shook its head.

It's disappointing; such a good opportunity to be the boss was missed. If it had said it could absorb it, it probably would have been called "Boss" by Lubao for a long time.

Immediately, it thought of something and looked at Lubao.

Even though it usually keeps a cold face, its heart is so kind.

Lubao closed its eyes quietly, as if it had never opened its mouth just now.

No one noticed that the pet beast egg with purple patterns on the bedside table shook.

The next day, early morning.

Qiao Sang washed up simply and headed to the airport with Master Teacher Mi Jiala.

Along the way, the head-turning rate was almost over ninety percent.

Qiao Sang remembered something and sprinkled some "Senseless Powder" on herself and Like Ya Bao and the others.

The head-turning rate instantly plummeted to zero percent.

Bao Wuwu was very obedient the whole time, following quietly by her side.

Planes in the Zhitia region do not allow uncontracted pet beasts to board, but pet beast eggs and pet beasts carried by B-rank and above personnel are exceptions.

After checking the Beast Taming Badge to confirm her identity, the staff quickly let them through.

Three hours later, the plane landed steadily.

Qiao Sang and Master Teacher Mi Jiala got off the plane and headed straight for the location indicated by the phone's GPS, which was the second basement level, where they boarded the exclusive pet beast that had come specifically to pick them up.