Chapter 056 Chapter 56 (Second update)
After reaching an agreement with Sister Wenxue, the number of people secretly protecting Xia Muqing decreased a lot.
They evacuated in batches, giving outsiders the illusion that "the plan was not going well and was gradually abandoned." Xia Muqing also reduced the number of times she went out alone, pretending to be more vigilant because of the evacuation of the security department.
But secretly, Sister Wenxue reinstalled her phone and added a positioning plug-in, and the two mysterious beasts, the little hurricane dog and the koi fish, also had locators on them.
The security department found another defensive treasure and asked Xia Muqing to carry it with her every day to prevent any accidents.
Xia Muqing acted according to the plan, and finally one day, on her way home from school, she noticed a suspicious person following her.
Xia Muqing quickly sent a message to Sister Wenxue: "She's taken the bait!"
A few minutes later, Sister Wenxue sent her a thumbs-up emoticon, indicating that everything went well.
The security department immediately took action. Once Xia Muqing had shaken off the man, they secretly followed him, hoping to find the poaching gang's base. However, they didn't expect that after the sneaky man stopped following Xia Muqing, he would circle around the outskirts of the city, circling again and again without entering any buildings.
Wenxue thought something was a little strange. After thinking for a moment, she was shocked: "That's not right!"
This person is not right. He is trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain!
"Where's Xia Muqing? How's classmate Xia?"
The others quickly turned on the equipment, searched around, and raised their voices in fear.
"The signal is gone!"
"Our locator is broken, and we can't find the whereabouts of Xia and her contracted profound beast!"
Wenxue Sister: “!!!”
…
“Tick, tick.”
In the dead silence, Xia Muqing's eyelashes trembled and she slowly opened her eyes.
"……hiss!"
She took a breath, frowned, and climbed up from the cold ground. She rubbed her painful temples and blinked hard.
Her blurry vision gradually cleared, and Xia Muqing finally took in the scene before her. She was in a room resembling a basement. The room was narrow and empty, filled with the unique dampness of underground water mist. The surrounding walls were stained with mold from years of moisture.
Her thoughts gradually returned to her mind. Xia Muqing recalled what happened before she fell into a coma, and her brows furrowed even more tightly.
The security department discovered the poaching gang's tracks and rushed to track and intercept them. She thought they had taken the bait and let her guard down for a moment. Unexpectedly, the poachers also calculated this and launched a surprise attack when she was not paying attention.
This time, the enemy's preparations for the attack were obviously more thorough than last time. Not only did they send out more than a dozen people, but one of them had a contracted mystical beast, a wild roaring tiger that excelled in spiritual skills, in order to restrain the 'wind roar' of the hurricane dog.
In this way, as long as they take the initiative and knock Xia Muqing out first, the Gale Dog and Koi Fish will not dare to act rashly.
The poachers had prepared special tranquilizer guns in advance, which were also cutting-edge products of the research institute. They took advantage of the two mysterious beasts' confusion and injected them with two shots. They could only collapse limply to the ground and were all taken away by the other side.
The majority of the security forces were transferred away, and the few people left to protect Xia Muqing were no match for the enemy. Worried that Xia Muqing was in the hands of the enemy, they were restrained in the fight and were eventually defeated after a fierce battle.
"I was careless..."
Xia Muqing rubbed the aching back of her head and gasped.
Fortunately, the other party didn't seem to intend to take her life, but just found an empty room and locked her up.
She tried to activate the Beast Taming Space—no response. She didn't know if it was because the mysterious beast was too far away to be retrieved, or if it had also thought of this and set up an isolation formation.
The room was dark and closed, with no windows. A thin stream of turbid air seeped in through the crack in the door, carrying with it a strange smell of disinfectant.
Xia Muqing knocked on the door. "Is anyone there? Someone, please come, I have a stomachache!"
No one answered, and there was dead silence outside.
I don’t know if the guard had left, or if he was so sure that she had left the mysterious beast that he had no way to open the heavy iron door and simply didn’t arrange any guards.
"That's an opportunity."
Xia Muqing muttered and touched her cuffs.
A nervous little caterpillar crawled out along her forearm, waving its short antennae, and carefully hugged her, with its head pressed tightly against Xia Muqing's wrist.
Xia Muqing touched it with surprise and heartache: "That's great, Xiao Zi, thank goodness you weren't captured."
Few people knew about Xia Muqing's contract with the caterpillar, and the poaching gang only came for the hurricane dogs and koi fish.
Or perhaps, even if they knew, they didn't take the little caterpillar seriously. It was just a broken ornament, no different from a hair flower.
Therefore, when they searched her, they only took away the self-defense items that Xia Muqing was carrying. The little caterpillar clung to her body and pretended to be dead, so it was not taken away either.
Xia Muqing searched the room carefully but found no cameras. She looked at the locked iron door, clenched her fists, and tried to guess, but it seemed a bit difficult.
The key question was what was happening outside. My phone had been taken away, but was the tracking device on the mysterious beast activated? Could Sister Wen find me quickly?
Looking at the claustrophobic iron door, Xia Muqing's heart was pounding and her breathing was disordered.
Perhaps staying put and waiting for support was the most sensible option. After all, she didn't know where she was, how many people were out there, and where they were distributed...
Suddenly, Xia Muqing felt a sharp pain in her heart.
It was as if something penetrated the distant space and, with the help of the faint bond of the spiritual contract, connected us briefly for a moment.
Several images flashed before her eyes: the Swift Dog and the Koi Fish were locked in a cage made of special alloys, and several men in black were holding syringes, sucking medicine from a bottle of dark green solution nearby.
Xia Muqing: “……!”
Damn it, her mysterious beasts are in danger!
Xia Muqing suddenly stopped caring about anything else. The miserable photos on the "Missing Beasts" website surfaced in her mind, stirring up a huge wave of emotion. It was dangerous out there, but she was a beastmaster, and she wanted to be with her beasts!
Let's go out first and think of a solution later! It's better than sitting here and waiting!
"Xiao Zi, use 'Encourage' on me!"
"Aiya!"
The brilliant red energy flew out and landed on Xia Muqing's fist, turning into a layer of red film.
Not only was it the encouraging power that the little caterpillar had absorbed, but that power also contained the pain and anger that he had just felt from her - the boxing gloves were like a raging fire that quenched his blood, countless times hotter than before!
Xia Muqing only felt a sharp pain on the back of her hand, and the skin there seemed to be melted.
The human body was too fragile, ultimately unable to withstand the powerful abilities of a profound beast. Xia Muqing gritted her teeth, enduring the excruciating pain as she punched the door with all her might.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
One punch, another punch!
When the lock finally popped open and the door creaked open, Xia Muqing was gasping for breath, and the back of her right hand was covered in blood.
She ignored the injury on her hand, pushed open the heavy iron door, and picked up the tired little caterpillar with her backhand: "Let's go!"
…
S City, west of the city.
Walking through an alley in the old city, I found a gray building on the edge of the old town, a factory abandoned many years ago. The surrounding area was desolate, and few locals were willing to come here. Occasionally, taxis passing by at night would report hearing crying and screaming from inside, and thus the place has long been rumored to be haunted.
In fact, behind the abandoned factory building is an important stronghold of the poaching gang.
At this time in the factory, two men in black were holding syringes and looking at the special metal box in front of them, looking at each other in confusion.
In the box on the left, the Gale Hound bared its fangs viciously, and a deep blue current flowed around its body.
“Ouch!”
Although it looks weak, its eyes are very sharp, with a ruthless determination to face death. As long as someone dares to open the box, it will definitely bite a big piece of flesh off that person.
The man in black scratched his forehead and said, "Didn't we give it some medicine? How come it woke up so quickly?"
The other person nodded and stroked his chin. "It can actually use profound energy... Should we say it's worthy of being a quasi-divine beast? It's completely different from other profound beasts."
"But it should be very painful now. The doctor's medicine is different from the ordinary anesthetics on the market. If you force yourself to activate your profound energy while under the influence of the medicine, the meridians in your body will probably feel like they are being torn apart. The more you use it, the more painful it will be..."
He muttered, looking at the Wind Dog without any mercy, but with more excitement.
The more fiercely the Swift Dog resisted, the more it showed that it had extraordinary talent. If they brought such an excellent experimental subject back to the doctor, the reward they would get would be greater.
In the box on the right, the koi fish was swinging its tail, slapping the glass non-stop.
The fluctuations of mysterious energy on its body were weak, but its beautiful swallow-shaped tail seemed to carry a strange magic. With every heavy flap, the instrument lights on the glass box would flicker a few times, and the combination lock would also flash a string of strange garbled codes.
"That's strange."
The man in black patted the box, pressed a few buttons on the code device, and muttered, "This lock seems to be broken. What's going on?"
The other person pouted and said, "Why are you asking me? I don't know. This box was in good condition when I bought it. Who knows how you guys broke it by dropping it and bumping into it?"
"It's not necessarily the box's fault," the man in black said, peering through the glass box at the struggling koi fish inside. "I remember the intelligence saying this koi fish has a 'chaos'-like quality, causing everything around it to become disordered."
"Perhaps the lock's brokenness is also a result of its characteristics."
The two of them whispered to each other, and their eyes became more and more fiery as they looked at the two mysterious beasts, as if they had seen a mountain of gold.
They have been poaching and kidnapping for so many years, their methods are ruthless and their techniques are sophisticated. They have even caught many second-level mysterious beasts, but this is the first time they have seen such strange mysterious beasts as the gust dog and the koi fish.
"This deal is truly worth it! We've been planning for over a month!"
The man in black put the syringe aside and stretched his arms. "Come on, let's not take any risks. Let's just load these two boxes onto the truck and take them to the doctor. We'll see what he does..."
As they were talking, a muffled sound suddenly came from deep inside the factory behind them, like something heavy falling, or like a crow flying up in the dark night, screaming hoarsely.
The man in black suddenly turned around, his eyes instantly murderous.
"What's that sound?"
…
Ten minutes ago.
Xia Muqing pushed open the heavy iron door and saw a dark corridor in front of her.
The wallpaper was mottled, dust was everywhere, and a light bulb with unstable voltage was crackling in the distance. The dim light flickered unsteadily. In addition to the dampness, the entire space was filled with a strange fishy smell.
Xia Muqing's nose twitched and beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.
She smelled the fishy smell like blood.
The abandoned factory was deserted. Xia Muqing followed the scent of blood, tiptoeing for a dozen meters until she reached the end of the corridor. Before her stood a tall, rusty iron door, unlocked. A cool breeze blew through the hair-sized gap, bringing a bitter smell to her face.
"The fishy smell comes from inside," Xia Muqing looked at the door and hesitated for a moment, "It seems very dangerous in there."
But looking back at the corridor, there were no other doors or roads.
Xia Muqing became increasingly anxious, and she used her elbow to push the door open little by little.
“Squeak—”
The air was cold and a strong wind blew up.
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