Chapter 306

A whistle? I didn't buy a whistle...

Qiao Sang stared blankly, shifting her gaze to Little Xunbao's claws.

It seemed, perhaps, indeed quite similar to the whistle on that mechanical-type pet beast from today...

It shouldn't be... A bad premonition rose in Qiao Sang's heart. She steadied herself and asked, "Little Xunbao, where did this whistle come from?"

Little Xunbao, who had been urging Like Ya Bao and the Great Flame Sparrow to hurry up and compete, heard her beast master's voice, looked down at the whistle on its claw, then shook it forward.

"Xun xun?"

Is it this one?

"Yes, this one." Qiao Sang nodded.

"Xun xun~"

"Xun xun~"

Little Xunbao's eyes curved into crescents as it happily began to explain.

It traded Like Ya Bao big brother's sunglasses for it.

"Ya?!"

Like Ya Bao immediately forgot about continuing its staring contest with the Great Flame Sparrow. It looked at Little Xunbao with an expression of disbelief.

Sunglasses?!

It traded its sunglasses for this piece of junk?!

"Xun xun~"

Little Xunbao shook its short toe, gesturing for Like Ya Bao not to panic.

It took off its ring and pulled out a large pile of sunglasses in different colors one after another, lining them up in a row.

"Xun~"

Little Xunbao called out ingratiatingly.

Look, all the nice colors are still here. It specifically picked a pair of sunglasses it never used to trade.

"Ya..."

Seeing that all the sunglasses styles it liked were still there, Like Ya Bao breathed a sigh of relief, then half-sat on the ground and extended the outermost short toe of one front paw toward Little Xunbao.

"Ya ya!"

Good trade!

"Xun~"

Little Xunbao bashfully scratched its head. Not at all~

Just then, the whistle on Little Xunbao's claw suddenly floated up and slowly drifted in front of Like Ya Bao.

"Ya!"

Like Ya Bao caught it with its paw in one swipe and called out happily.

Since it was traded with its sunglasses, this whistle belongs to it now!

Little Xunbao: "!

!"

"Your two pet beasts have such a good relationship." Wang Yao watched the interaction between Like Ya Bao and Little Xunbao enviously.

Their pet beasts are basically trained separately.

One stays by your side while the other has to be left at a pet beast training institution for boarding. Pet beasts just don't have this much interaction with each other.

Knowing the whistle had been obtained through proper channels, Qiao Sang laughed heartily: "Haha, of course. Little Xunbao grew up under Like Ya Bao's watch."

That night, Little Xunbao, envied for having such a good relationship with Like Ya Bao, thought more and more about the whistle it had finally traded for, growing angrier the more it thought.

It looked at Like Ya Bao, who was sound asleep, its eyes darting. Suddenly thinking of something, it floated to its beast master and nudged her with its paw.

It was already 3:22 AM. Qiao Sang was sleeping soundly, completely unaffected.

Seeing this, Little Xunbao very skillfully pinched its beast master's nose with its paw.

Unable to breathe, Qiao Sang opened her eyes extremely unwillingly.

"What's wrong..." The moment Qiao Sang opened her eyes, she saw Little Xunbao's big face right in front of her. She didn't startle, but asked in a resentful and helpless tone.

It wasn't that she had a strong heart, just that this wasn't the first time Little Xunbao had done something like this. Sometimes it even licked her with its tongue, leaving her face covered in saliva. Qiao Sang had built up some resistance after all.

"Xun xun!" Little Xunbao clenched one paw into a fist, wearing a serious expression.

It wants to participate in tomorrow's competition!

Like Ya Bao big brother's interest is battling. If it goes to battle, Like Ya Bao big brother will definitely get angry.

This—this is its revenge!

"Fine." Qiao Sang agreed readily: "Anything else?"

"Xun xun." Little Xunbao shook its head.

"Then stop disturbing my sleep." Qiao Sang yawned, closed her heavy eyelids, and said sleepily.

"Xun~"

Little Xunbao nodded.

The room fell silent once again.

All was still.

Little Xunbao floated to the windowsill and looked up at the moon.

"Xun..."

For tomorrow's battle, it should still train a bit...

Thinking this, Little Xunbao began searching the ground, wondering whether there were any ants around here…

……

The preliminary round of the trials was underway in full swing.

Based on the first day's matchups, quite a few people had compiled some statistics.

Across all the high schools in Zhejiang-Hai Province, a total of 67 people had taken full points on the first day.

A post appeared on the universities' general forum, and these 67 people were classified in the post as first-tier competitors, with each person's photo and the pet beast they had fielded in their first match also exposed.

Qiao Sang's name was赫然 in the list.

"That's Qiao Sang, right?"

"Looks like it, should be."

"I didn't expect the beast master of a Yanling Hound to be someone about our age — I thought it was some veteran beast master."

"Don't you ever go online? The Yanling Hound endorsed a pair of sunglasses, and its beast master's info was dug up ages ago. Right after finishing the middle school exams she entered a competition and even took first place."

"Just finished the middle school exams? That means she hasn't been a beast master for long, and she already won a championship? How weak must that competition have been."

"Weak? It was the Hundred Stars Tournament — every F-rank beast master can enter, and plenty of them had mid-level pet beasts."

"Hiss… badass…"

Regardless of whether the people present had watched yesterday's matches live in Area C, almost everyone in Area B, where Qiao Sang would be competing today, was looking at her.

All of Holy Water High School's Gao San team members were among those 67 first-tier competitors.

However, everyone else had already competed in two editions and were old acquaintances, so they drew nowhere near the attention and curiosity that Qiao Sang — who had suddenly joined the Gao San team — attracted.

Holy Water High School's competitor seating area.

"The school we're up against this time is Pinghai High School. Their strength isn't anything special — they just happen to counter fire-type pet beasts." As Sun Boyi said this, his eyes kept drifting toward He Datao.

He Datao pursed his lips and muttered under his breath, "Qiao Sang has a fire-type pet beast too, why do you keep staring at me."

"What'd you say? Louder!" Sun Boyi pretended he hadn't heard and said loudly.

He Datao raised his voice: "I said I'll be careful!"

Time ticked by, and the matches proceeded in an orderly fashion.

Before long, it was Holy Water High School's turn against Pinghai High School.

He Datao was the first to take the field.

Qiao Sang had some understanding of Pinghai High School.

Pinghai High School, a high school within Hanggang City — besides meeting the minimum score line for general high school admission, its enrollment standard also required that one's first contracted pet beast be a water type.

This had also caused the school to become, for a time, the bane of fire-type pet beasts on the competition field.

Qiao Sang couldn't help but quietly mull it over — Tooth Treasure hadn't faced a decent opponent in a long time; yesterday's matches didn't even count as a warm-up.

If she ran into a school that specialized in training water-type pet beasts, maybe she could let Tooth Treasure have a proper fight.

After all, only real combat like that could bring improvement.

Just then, Qiao Sang thought again of the promise she'd made to Little Xunbao in the dead of night.

After a brief moment of hesitation, Qiao Sang's brow smoothed out as she figured it out.

Little Xunbao had woken her in the small hours of the morning, when it was already October 28th.

It said it wanted to battle tomorrow, and what she'd agreed to was also tomorrow — that would be October 29th.

Today is October 28th, so letting Tooth Treasure battle wouldn't count as breaking her word.