On the first floor of Chenyang Pet Shop, Luo Chen held the [Steel Butterfly] in both hands and bent down slightly so that the little girl could see its current condition.
"Wow, big brother is amazing. The wound on his body healed so quickly."
When the little girl saw the intact wings and steady breathing of the Steel Butterfly, she screamed in surprise.
Compared to the little girl's pure joy, Luoyang's expression was incredible. He opened his mouth wide, as if he didn't know what to say, "This... is not..."
As a beastmaster who had received school education, Luoyang understood better what it meant to rescue a dying beast in just a dozen minutes.
Even though the creature rescued was just a small ferocious beast, he knew his brother had a secret, but he didn't expect his brother's secret to be so scary.
Thinking that there were outsiders around, Luoyang calmed down a little, shut his mouth, and waited for a time when there was no one around to have a good talk with his brother.
Luo Chen didn't realize how shocking his actions were. He just smiled as he watched the little girl carefully caressing the [Steel Butterfly] in his palm. "Its surface injuries are much better now, but the internal ones still need to be healed. After three more days of treatment, I can take it home."
When the little girl heard about taking it home, her brows furrowed noticeably. "Big brother, I picked up this beast from outside. I don't even know where its home is."
Was it found? Was it abandoned by its own beastmaster? Or was it a wild beast that strayed into the city?
Luo Chen immediately ruled out the second option. The city was heavily guarded, and a small four-star ferocious beast, the [Steel Butterfly], would not be able to break in.
Regardless of the situation, Luo Chen could be sure that there was no mark of the contract on this [Steel Butterfly], and it was still a pure beast, which would not affect the subsequent contract with the beastmaster.
"This is not its original home. You saved it, so wherever you are is its home from now on." Luo Chen looked at the little girl in front of him with a loving face. After all, who doesn't like a well-behaved child?
The little girl's eyes suddenly lit up, and she looked at the [Steel Butterfly] in Luo Chen's hand, "My home is its home."
Her chubby little hands slowly slid across the wings that seemed to be made of fine steel. "Take good care of yourself, and I will take you home when you recover." The little girl's tone was full of responsibility.
Seeing that it was getting dark, Luo Chen hurriedly urged the little girl to go home. The little girl reluctantly said goodbye to the [Steel Butterfly].
After the little girl left, seeing that there was no one in the store, Luoyang hung up a sign saying it was temporarily closed and locked the door.
Luo Chen, who had just placed the [Steel Butterfly] in the cage, turned around and saw his brother's series of actions. He felt a little strange and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"
Luoyang held his forehead with his hand. His brother's safety awareness was really poor. "Brother, do you really not know how dangerous it is to treat the [Steel Butterfly]?"
Healing Beast Tamers were not uncommon, but the ability to bring a dying Beast Tamer back from the brink of death was indeed extremely rare. Rarity meant being coveted and dangerous.
Seeing Luo Chen still looking confused, Luo Yang continued with some dismay, "Qingyang City's No. 1 Beastmaster Hospital, whose signature Beastmaster medicine, Lingzhu, can't cure a dying Beastmaster in just over ten minutes, even if it reaches the Spirit Beast stage.
Even their dean's king of beast medicine, Lingzhu Wang, couldn't do it. That Jinggang Butterfly was cured in your shop. What do you think it means?"
This means that he has a beast tamer in his shop that has a more terrifying healing effect than the Medicine Spirit Bamboo King, but Luo Chen is just a small beast tamer.
After hearing Luoyang's words, Luo Chen obviously thought of something and his face turned pale.
The peaceful life in his previous life, coupled with the fact that he was so well protected in this life, made him often forget that this was a world of beast taming full of dangers and a world where personal military power was extremely exaggerated.
Now that their parents are missing, the two brothers have no one to rely on. If someone really has bad intentions, there are probably a thousand ways to make them disappear quietly in the city.
As he thought about it, Luo Chen couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
Luo Yang saw that his brother had realized the danger and was also afraid that Luo Chen's old illness would relapse, so he quickly tried to make amends and comforted him, "But luckily it's a little girl this time. She probably doesn't know what this means yet. There's no need to worry too much, brother. Just be more careful next time."
Luo Chen let out a long sigh, with a guilty look on his face, "Brother, this is just this once, it won't happen again."
With a stronger sense of security, they had no interest in opening the shop today. After a simple tidying up, Luo Chen and Luo Yang returned to their home in the community under the moonlight.
No words were spoken that night.
On the second day, Luo Chen rushed to the store early to start business as usual.
The current beast situation in the store: one electric rat, one frost wolf, and two fragrant rabbits.
Foster care situation: two fragrant rabbits and one steel butterfly.
Luo Chen remembered that he had just brought in six beasts yesterday, so why did it feel like there were still so few beasts in the store now?
Luo Chen looked at his task bar first. He was still short of two more beast samples. Then he could complete the system's task and would not have to go to the beast breeding center to buy beasts.
First, take the three foster beasts to the second floor and soak them in the breeding pool.
Among these three, one was prepared as a gift for Luoyang to be promoted to a spirit beast tamer, one had signed a contract with Wei Yansheng, and the other needed to be saved.
There were two remaining spots in the incubation pool. Luo Chen allocated one to his own furball and the other to the newly arrived Frost Wolf. Luo Chen couldn't help but sigh; while there weren't many beasts in the shop, there were even fewer spots in the incubation pool.
Perhaps the news of the existence of Xuanling Grass in the store spread, and there were a lot of customers in the store today, most of whom came for the reputation of Xuanling Grass.
Not many people buy beast tames, but because the concentration of spiritual energy in the store is high, more beast tamers choose to foster beasts.
In the whole morning alone, twelve customers chose to foster their beasts. Due to the high concentration of spiritual energy in the store, when their owners left, the beasts seemed very reluctant to leave.
After working all morning, at noon, there were fewer customers, so Luo Chen was able to rest and have time to check his task rewards.
[Task progress: Sold six beasts (completed), received 200 customers (completed), and the number of beasts fostered reached five (completed).
Mission Reward: Permanent exploration rights to the 1st level secret realm (available for collection).
Luo Chen closed the shop, hung up a sign saying "Temporary Rest", rubbed his hands, and chose to receive the reward.
【Task rewards have been issued】
Seeing the words on the panel, Luo Chen looked around the first floor and didn't find anything extra.
That means it is on the second floor. With this guess, Luo Chen actually felt relieved. He was really afraid that the system would directly place the entrance to the secret realm on the first floor, and then it would be difficult for him to open a store.
Coming to the second floor, Luo Chen finally saw the first-level secret realm rewarded by the system.
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