Chapter 241: Who Is the Extra Person?

A single task can be taken by multiple people, and you can also form a team to take it, but you have to write it into the agreement beforehand.

Qiao Sang hadn't expected that just a moment of carelessness would land her a task with a competitive element.

Team tasks are still manageable—the people who take them are in a cooperative relationship, but multi-person tasks are competitive. If someone completes it first, forget leaving a bad review, you don't even need to hand it over—the Beastmaster Center task platform will just cancel it for you directly.

No wonder the task didn't have specific requirements for the beastmaster or pet beast.

What a hassle... Qiao Sang sighed inwardly.

The knocking continued, and the man got up and went over to turn the door handle.

Qiao Sang turned to look and saw that the man standing outside the door was plain-looking, wearing black-framed glasses and a checkered shirt—a standard IT guy outfit.

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"Come in." The man sized up the checkered-shirt guy, then stepped aside to let him through.

The checkered-shirt guy took off his shoes and walked in. When he saw Qiao Sang on the sofa, he froze for a moment.

"She's also here for the same task as you." The man introduced.

"Hello." The checkered-shirt guy nodded in greeting.

"Hello." Qiao Sang responded.

The checkered-shirt guy sat down on the sofa and asked, "Mr. Gu, you said you've been followed. I'd like to know if you've offended anyone recently?"

"No." The man crossed his legs and said.

Hearing the conversation, Qiao Sang looked at the checkered-shirt guy and asked, "You know him?"

"How do you know my surname is Gu?" The man narrowed his eyes and looked him over.

The checkered-shirt guy didn't dodge the gaze and answered, "I'm often online, I've seen your stuff before, consider me a fan of yours."

A fan?! The man froze for a moment, then quietly uncrossed his legs.

Good grief, sitting at home and still getting fans showing up at the door. Unlike her, walking down the street every day without bumping into a single one... For a moment, Qiao Sang felt that her 3 million followers were very likely all zombie fans.

"Can you think more carefully?" The checkered-shirt guy pressed on.

Seeing that it was a fan, the man's attitude improved slightly. He pondered for a moment and said, "I'm pretty well-liked, and there aren't any shady people in my social circle. As for people I've offended, there are quite a lot of them online."

"But since you're my fan, you should also know that the videos I post are inherently controversial. Besides, what internet celebrity only gets praised? It can't possibly be that the people who curse at me specifically found out where I live and then followed me."

"If it really were that, it would take someone with way too much free time and nothing better to do to pull something like that."

The checkered-shirt guy was silent for two seconds, then smiled: "Fair point."

"Could it be a sasaeng fan?" Qiao Sang asked.

The man stroked his chin and said seriously, "I think that's very possible."

Hearing this, the checkered-shirt guy's mouth twitched involuntarily. He said slowly, "In that case, I think Mr. Gu should probably just stay home and not go out for now. I'll check around to see if there are any suspicious people nearby."

Before the man could respond, Qiao Sang cut in: "I disagree."

The checkered-shirt guy looked over.

Qiao Sang stared back and said seriously, "We can't be by his side protecting him 24 hours a day. If his address has already been found out, I think we should lure the snake out of its hole and resolve this as soon as possible."

The checkered-shirt guy's mouth curved into an arc and he asked, "How do you want to lure the snake out?"

"Naturally, by letting him go out more often." Qiao Sang answered.

"We still don't know if the person following him is a beastmaster or an ordinary person. If it's a beastmaster, I think just going out casually would be very dangerous." The checkered-shirt guy adjusted his posture and said.

"Aren't we beastmasters too?" Qiao Sang looked at him and said.

The checkered-shirt guy narrowed his eyes.

The room suddenly fell silent, the air in the living room seeming to turn into still water.

"Knock knock knock."

At that moment, a knock came at the door:

"Hello, is anyone there?"

The man didn't get up to open the door. Instead, he frowned and raised his voice to ask, "Who is it?"

"My surname is Pang, I'm here for the task." The person outside responded.

Qiao Sang: "???"

Another one?!

Hearing the answer, the man's face showed a look of shock. He sprang to his feet, glanced at Qiao Sang and the checkered-shirt guy, took a deep breath, and said, "I've only received notifications that two people took the task so far."

Hey, hey, what do you mean by that?!

Two people? Isn't there three right now? If it's two people, then who is the extra person?!

Qiao Sang's heart raced, and she felt the atmosphere around her suddenly become very frightening.

The checkered-shirt guy, however, remained very calm. He opened his mouth to remind them:

"If you don't trust us, you can go check the platform for the specific information of the people who took the task. If our information matches up, then the person standing outside right now is most likely the target we're supposed to deal with in this task."

"Let me check." The man nervously picked up his phone from the coffee table and looked down at it.

Something just feels off, this person is way too calm... Qiao Sang looked at the checkered-shirt guy beside her, who was staring at the man.

The checkered-shirt guy noticed Qiao Sang's gaze, turned his head, and laughed softly: "You, you should be in school, what are you doing getting involved in this."

Qiao Sang: "???"

Before Qiao Sang could even begin to process the specific meaning of his words, the man beside her looked at the information on his phone, his face changed, and he turned and ran toward the front door.

"Little brat! Run! That person is fake!"

Qiao Sang's heart skipped a beat. She immediately stood up and put distance between herself and the checkered-shirt guy, just about to form a hand seal.

But just at that moment, a pet beast suddenly appeared before her eyes—entirely purple, with a head that was both big and long, indentations on both sides, and a lower half that looked like it was wearing a robe.

Before Qiao Sang could react, her head spun and she uncontrollably wanted to close her eyes.

So sleepy...

Though Qiao Sang's consciousness was sinking, deep in her mind her subconscious knew clearly that she had to wake up.

In her daze she thought, what rotten luck. Last night, to get a good sleep, she had adjusted the online time limit on her virtual helmet, so the little Treasure-Seeking Ghost wouldn't be watching its phone and laughing out loud in the middle of the night and wake her up. But it must have spent too long learning skills inside the virtual helmet and was still fast asleep early this morning, so she had put the little Treasure-Seeking Ghost into the Beast Codex before heading out.

If the little Treasure-Seeking Ghost were here, she definitely wouldn't have fallen for it.

Qiao Sang felt her consciousness growing increasingly blurred.

At that moment, a voice seemed to come from very far away:

"Hahaha, look at the kind of person you've found — a kid still carrying a backpack! I'm dying of laughter... that backpack, why is it moving?"

Backpack...

Shui Lu Ya Na...

Right, Shui Lu Ya Na is in the backpack!

No! She had to wake up!

The voice in her subconscious grew louder and louder, and Qiao Sang's mind struggled desperately.

In the midst of her struggle, the Beast Codex in her mental domain suddenly glowed and began flipping rapidly.

Qiao Sang's eyes snapped open.

Her face was pale, sweat streaming down her forehead.

"How could you wake up so fast?!" The plaid-shirt man stared wide-eyed and said in disbelief.

Qiao Sang followed the voice with her gaze.

She saw the quest issuer lying on the ground as if unable to move, looking at her with delighted eyes.

And beside him stood that plaid-shirt man of unknown origin.

Qiao Sang took a deep breath, said nothing, and directly formed hand seals with both hands.

The next second, a green star array blazed to life on the ground.