Chapter 261: Vanished

"Hello?" Qiao Sang answered the phone casually.

A mature man's deep voice sounded: "My surname is Yang. I just accepted the mission you posted. Is it convenient for me to come over now?"

Qiao Sang glanced at Ya Bao, who was standing stiff as a stone pillar next to Lu Lu Lu without saying a word, and said decisively: "It's convenient!"

After hanging up, she opened the mission platform on her phone and checked the personal information of the person who had accepted the mission.

【Name: Yang Du, Gender: Male, Age: 53】

【Beast Tamer Level: B】

【Mission Ability Rating: B】

【Mission Completion Rate: 98%】

【Mission Positive Review Rate: 86%】

【Mission Negative Review Count: 9 (viewable)】

A B-rank Beast Tamer... Qiao Sang stared at this piece of information and inwardly exclaimed, "Good lord."

Logically speaking, it was her first time posting a mission, and she hadn't set any specific requirements for the Beast Tamer. Under these circumstances, having a B-rank Beast Tamer accept it — with luck like this, it'd be a waste not to buy a lottery ticket.

The higher the Beast Tamer level, the greater the gap.

In a single city, there might still be a few hundred C-rank Beast Tamers excluding the elderly, but B-rank Beast Tamers across the entire province, counting those retired and living out their days, probably number fewer than a hundred.

Not to mention how difficult the B-rank Beast Tamer examination is — the 50% brain domain development requirement alone stumps nearly 90% of Beast Tamers.

Levels are like a pyramid — the higher you go, the fewer there are.

With 50% brain domain development and the title of B-rank Beast Tamer, he absolutely deserves to be called a "big shot."

Should she wash some fruit and brew a cup of tea while waiting for the big shot? Though it seemed there was no tea at home... Qiao Sang inexplicably thought of this.

"Ding-dong."

At that moment, the doorbell rang from the entryway.

That fast?!

Qiao Sang rushed over to open the door.

"Yang Du?"

"That's me."

The man speaking had a lean face with well-defined features. A bit of stubble paired with messy hair gave him a颓废 (decadent) vibe. He looked nothing like a 53-year-old middle-aged uncle — clearly an ambitious young man of about 27 who worked overtime every day with no time to groom himself.

If not for the previous example of the principal, Qiao Sang would probably have found it hard to associate the age of 53 with the person before her.

"Come in."

Qiao Sang led him to sit on the living room sofa.

Yang Du gazed at Qiao Sang and said, "I'd like to confirm first — is the reward you offered real?"

"It's real." Qiao Sang poured a glass of water and placed it before him.

Yang Du stared at Qiao Sang for a moment, then sighed and said, "Sorry, but this matter is very important to me. Is your guardian at home? I'd like to discuss the specific treatment plan with them."

"They're not here. I live alone." Qiao Sang replied: "I posted the mission. Whatever you want to ask, just ask me."

Yang Du's head instantly throbbed with a headache — he felt this mission was probably accepted for nothing.

"Forget it." Yang Du formed hand seals, and a red star array lit up on the ground.

A large pet beast appeared in the living room — it walked on four legs, its body basically blue, fins black, belly white, with thick arms and a sturdy build. The fin on its head extended backward, connecting with the tail fin that also swept toward the tail.

A General-rank pet beast — Deep Sea Marsh Monster.

Worthy of a B-rank Beast Tamer — one move and out comes a General-rank pet beast... Qiao Sang silently sighed in admiration.

"Da Dou, you stay here. I'll come pick you up in ten days." Yang Du said.

"Ze."

The Deep Sea Marsh Monster, also known as Da Dou, nodded.

"Then I'll be going now." After saying this to Qiao Sang, Yang Du prepared to stand up and leave.

"Wait!" Qiao Sang called out.

Yang Du turned his head to look.

Qiao Sang said helplessly: "You're just going to leave it here like that? What about food?"

A General-rank pet beast's appetite in a single meal could easily eat through a working-class person's entire monthly salary.

Yang Du said calmly: "Every day I'll have a pet beast come by to deliver food. Just open the door when it arrives."

Qiao Sang glanced at the Deep Sea Marsh Monster and sighed: "There's one more thing. I wanted to find a pet beast that can stay by my side 24 hours and summon rain on demand. The Deep Sea Marsh Monster is very powerful, but I still have to go to school. With its size, there's no way it can follow me there."

Sometimes a mission isn't better just because the accepting Beast Tamer is stronger — suitability is what matters most.

Yang Du said indifferently: "I understand. I'll cancel the mission."

Saying so, he waved his hand and recalled the Deep Sea Marsh Monster.

"Ya."

"Lu Lu Lu."

At that moment, Ya Bao and Lu Lu Lu walked over from the courtyard.

Yang Du's eyes suddenly widened, his breathing instantly quickened, his face filled with shock and wild joy, and his gaze could no longer tear itself away from that light-blue pet beast.

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Lu Lu Lu?!

Is that Lu Lu Lu?!

To cure the illness, he had researched every possible treatment method, so of course he knew that Lu Lu Lu's Healing Light was a healing skill on par with a divine technique.

However, although he was a B-rank Beast Tamer, in the entire Alliance he was nothing special. Let alone applying for Lu Lu Lu's treatment, he couldn't even manage to see one in person.

And such a rare and precious Lu Lu Lu had actually appeared right before his eyes!

The impact of that single instant could not be put into words.

"What's wrong?" In a daze, he heard the voice of the girl beside him.

"Lu Lu Lu." Shui Lu Yana called out, her expression awkward.

"Ya..."

Ya Bao's body went rigid.

Qiao Sang wore a face full of confusion.

Shui Lu Yana didn't say it outright, only took two steps to the left.

Ya Bao shuffled two steps to the left as well.

Shui Lu Yana took two steps forward, and Ya Bao followed along.

"Lu Lu Lu..."

Shui Lu Yana stopped and looked at Qiao Sang.

Now you get it, right...

Qiao Sang: "!

!"

Qiao Sang looked at Ya Bao with the frustration of one whose iron refuses to become steel. I sent you to work your charm! Not to play bodyguard!

"Ya..."

Ya Bao looked at her own beast master with an innocent expression.

Just as Qiao Sang was about to open her mouth to straighten out Ya Bao's image in Shui Lu Yana's mind, Yang Du asked in a hoarse voice: "These two, are they both your pets?"

"Mm." Qiao Sang turned her head and said: "Sorry to have made you come all this way for nothing."

Come to think of it, it was still her fault for not stating the requirements clearly when she posted the mission.

"For nothing? No way!" Yang Du's dejected look vanished. His eyes gleamed as he said: "I'll take this mission!"

Qiao Sang was stunned for a moment: "But the Deep Sea Marsh Monster..."

Yang Du cut in: "You don't need to worry. Although I don't know why you want a rain-summoning pet to stay with you 24 hours a day, I'm guessing you just want it to be able to rain whenever you want."

"The Deep Sea Marsh Monster can't go to school with you, but I can!"

Qiao Sang listened in a daze and asked: "You want to stay with me 24 hours a day, AND come to school with me?"

"That's right!" Yang Du nodded.

"I don't mind you living here, but how are you going to come to school with me? Our school doesn't allow outsiders in." Qiao Sang said.

Yang Du immediately smiled, formed a hand seal with both hands, and summoned a pet roughly two meters tall, entirely white, with a zipper running down its front belly.

"Mao Dou, let me in."

"Zip..."

The pet, named Mao Dou, pulled the zipper on its front all the way down from top to bottom.

Once the zipper was opened, its belly was hollow inside.

Yang Du climbed in.

"Zip..."

The pet named Mao Dou zipped itself back up.

Then, it vanished.

PS: Sorry about that. Everyone at home except me has come down with Covid, so I had to deal with some things in the evening and I'm late...