Chapter 90: Picking up the leaks by force - Thunderbird

The two set off immediately, taking the fastest starship to the capital star of the Ares galaxy.

Su Wudeng did not expect that she would be back so soon after leaving the Ares galaxy.

The capital star is the core first-class planet in the Ares galaxy. Her first impression was prosperity and severity.

The airport building complex is extremely huge, and the dense aircraft shuttle back and forth like countless worker bees.

In addition, countless giant ion cannons slowly rotate around this dazzling planet, which is both shocking and protective.

Su Wudeng pursed her lips. Those who can settle in the capital star are all the top families in the Ares galaxy.

The opponent's strength and background are probably not simple.

But the question now is, who is it?

Su Wudeng and Chu Tianhe looked at each other, and both saw solemnity in each other's eyes.

After getting off the starship, the two split up, Chu Tianhe went to contact his teacher, and Su Wudeng went to look for Yu Lan.

In the Beast Academy, students walked in groups of three or four.

The person pretending to be Yu Lan had not replied to the message just now, and Su Wudeng's uneasiness became stronger and stronger.

She quickened her pace and walked towards Yu Lan's dormitory building.

Just when she arrived downstairs of the dormitory building, a girl with a ponytail was about to come out. She was familiar with this person. It was Pei Xueqing, the roommate who appeared in the video chat with Yu Lan before.

It was also the girl who joined other classmates to besiege Yu Lan during the final exam.

Pei Xueqing originally just glanced subconsciously, but soon, she seemed to recognize Su Wudeng and a look of surprise appeared on her face.

"Su Yulan's sister?"

She paused, then suddenly realized: "Are you here to look for Yulan?"

"But, don't you know? She went out on an emergency mission yesterday."

Su Wudeng's pupils shrank slightly, but her face remained expressionless: "Really? She never told me about the mission before."

"I don't know the details," the girl tilted her head, "You know, our relationship hasn't been very good after the last exam."

"But she often takes on various emergency tasks and should be back soon."

Su Wudeng looked at her: "Then can I wait for her in her dormitory?"

Pei Xueqing hesitated: "This..."

"Okay, I'll take you upstairs."

But she regretted it a little after agreeing. She and Su Yulan had parted ways a long time ago, why did she have to care about her trivial matters?

However, thinking of Su Yulan's recent abnormality, she always felt something was wrong.

So when she saw Su Wudeng, for some reason, she called her.

Pei Xueqing brought Su Wudeng to the dormitory and pointed to one of the rooms.

"This is it, she's in that room."

"Then I'll leave first, I have something else to do."

Pei Xueqing said and left in a hurry.

Su Wudeng pushed open the door, and the room was empty, leaving only the things she had seen in the video.

To the naked eye, everything in the room was in order, and there was nothing unusual.

She touched Amber who followed her obediently, "Amber, help your sister check."

"See if there is anything wrong."

Amber has a keen sense of smell and a far better perception of breath than ordinary people, especially when multiple breaths are mixed together, she can easily distinguish the difference between different breaths. Amber

responded immediately, her nose twitched slightly, and she began to search the room.

After searching for a while, she suddenly stopped in the corner of the training room and made a low groaning sound.

"Sister, look here!"

Su Wudeng walked over quickly, squatted down and checked carefully.

There were slight dents on the corner decorative panels of the training room, and there were still a few clear scratches on the floor, as if something sharp had scratched it.

Normally, one would think it was just a trace left by training, but Amber said -

"Not only is there Yu Lan's breath, but there are others as well."

"And, there's more than one person."

"Of all the places, the breath is the most chaotic."

Su Wudeng's heart sank, which meant that a fierce confrontation had taken place here.

Someone had fought with Yu Lan here.

Her fingers gently stroked the scratches on the floor, not continuous, but intermittent.

"This is Qingqing's claw mark. It suddenly becomes lighter here and then disappears completely."

"If it was subdued, it would definitely struggle madly, and the marks would be more chaotic or abrupt. But this gradual mark... shows that it took the initiative to retract its claws."

Obsidian looked at Su Wudeng: "It means it escaped."

This is normal for pets. They should run when they need to. There is no need to fight to the death.

Especially for flying pets such as the Saker Falcon, its battlefield should be in the sky. This narrow space will only limit its performance.

Su Wudeng immediately called up the three-dimensional map of the capital planet: "The key now is to find the direction they are escaping. Qingqing's perception and wisdom are far beyond ordinary pets. It is not easy to track its breath."

But, she still has Guiyun.

She turned her head and said to the Snow Owl that landed on her shoulder: "Guiyun, see if you can track Qingqing's breath."

Guiyun nodded gently, and then felt the remaining breath of the Saker Falcon in the room. As a raptor pet, it could easily distinguish the difference, and Qingqing's breath carried a very weak thunder attribute.

Then, it suddenly opened its eyes: "Over there!"

Su Wudeng quickly jumped onto Guiyun's back: "Let's go!"

Guiyun flapped his wings and flew high, quickly chasing in the direction of the breath.

Su Wudeng compared the map of the capital star, and the route gradually became clear, extending from the core area to the periphery. Qingqing had a clear direction to escape.

Until, Guiyun stopped in front of a silver-gray high-rise building.

"It's here." Gui Yun wondered, "Strangely, the aura disappears here."

Su Wudeng looked at the tall building in front of her and read out the name: "Beihai District Security Bureau?"

Is this a law enforcement agency?

Qingqing ended up here?

She looked around and saw the surrounding surveillance equipment and the law enforcement team on patrol.

"Qingqing did it on purpose," Su Wudeng breathed a sigh of relief, "It deliberately revealed its tracks to attract pursuers here, making those people think they can catch up with it immediately."

"But in fact, it has already escaped, and even taunted you in the face."

Pursuing, right? I'll send you directly to the police station.

"They are safe now," Su Wudeng said firmly, "Qingqing has more experience in wild survival and anti-tracking than all of us. Since even we can't find their exact location, it is even more impossible for those people."

But Qingqing was the one who was able to escape from the monarch-level pets with her cubs even when she was seriously injured, the most powerful Saker Falcon, the King of All Eagles!

Amber came up: "Sister, what should we do next?"

Su Wudeng pondered for a moment: "The most urgent task is to find out who is behind all this and what the purpose is."

"As long as this problem is solved, Yu Lan and the others will be safe and will contact us on their own initiative."

"Let's go back and meet up with Brother Chu first to see what's going on over there."

...

The dormitory area for teachers and staff of the Beast Academy.

Chu Tianhe stood in front of the teacher's house, looking at the familiar building in front of him. It has been several years since he last visited the teacher.

He took a deep breath and raised his hand to knock on the door.

"You're here!" The voice of the teacher's wife Lin Yazhi came from behind the door, and then the door was opened, revealing her amiable face.

"Tianhe?" Lin Yazhi was a little surprised. "Why did you come here suddenly?"

"I came by and saw my teacher," Chu Tianhe said in a calm and natural tone. "Is he at home?"

"Oh," Lin Yazhi smiled. "Your teacher received an invitation from the Beidi family yesterday to attend their "Frost Festival". They said they wanted to discuss some new discoveries about polar beasts."

Chu Tianhe thought so, but his face remained calm. "Beidi family?"

"Yes," Lin Yazhi invited him into the house. "The head of the Beidi family personally sent an invitation. The specifications are very high. And you know that your teacher has always been interested in real beasts." "

This time it's an invitation from one of the five major beast families. He was very happy and agreed directly."

Chu Tianhe's heart sank. It was the Beidi family?

Could they be behind it?

He looked at the master's wife: "Master's wife, can you contact the teacher?"

"Me? Don't you want to contact him directly?" Lin Yazhi was a little surprised, but still cooperated and opened the communication. "The Beidi family treats your teacher very well and specially sent a flying vehicle to pick him up."

The screen was quickly connected successfully, but the person on the other end was not just the teacher, but also the head of the Beidi family.

The Beidi family head was obviously surprised that the person in front of him was Chu Tianhe, but soon, he showed a gentle smile: "It turned out to be General Chu, my apologies."

"Tianhe?" The teacher seemed a little surprised by his sudden call, "What's the matter?"

Chu Tianhe carefully observed every detail in the screen: "Teacher, how long will you stay this time?"

Before the teacher could answer, the Beidi family head smiled and took over the conversation: "General Chu, Professor Lin will stay for a few days this time, don't blame me for kidnapping him."

The teacher also smiled: "Yes, I will stay longer, don't worry."

Everything was normal, without any flaws.

Even if he suspected that the teacher was controlled by the Beidi family head, there was no evidence.

After the call ended, Lin Yazhi looked at Chu Tianhe's serious expression, somewhat puzzled: "Tianhe, what's wrong with you? Is there something wrong?"

"Is your teacher... in danger?"

"Teacher's wife," Chu Tianhe looked directly into Lin Yazhi's eyes, "You must be extra careful during this period. No matter what invitation you receive, don't leave the academy easily. If you find anything unusual, contact me immediately."

Looking at Chu Tianhe's rare serious expression, Lin Yazhi finally realized the seriousness of the matter and nodded solemnly.

She looked at Chu Tianhe with some worry: "Tianhe, will your teacher be okay?"

Chu Tianhe pursed his lips: "Teacher's wife, don't worry, he will definitely come back safely."

He will personally pick up the teacher.

...

As night fell, the skyline of the capital star was lit up by countless neon lights.

Su Wudeng reserved the top floor of a high-rise apartment. From the French windows, he could see the entire city.

It was prosperous and dazzling, but also cold and distant.

Chu Tianhe was still staring at the projection in the air in the living room. It was a projection of information related to the Beidi family. The family emblem on the upper right, which looked like frost and snowflakes, was still rotating slowly.

"So," Su Wudeng handed a cup of hot tea to Chu Tianhe, "what do you think the Beidi family is planning?"

Chu Tianhe took the teacup and tapped the wall of the cup unconsciously: "The timing of their invitation to the teacher was too coincidental. Just after the news of us bringing back the icefield pets spread, Yu Lan disappeared at the same time."

"Moreover," Su Wudeng took over the conversation, "they are also a family that has contracted real pets."

"Perhaps, it's not just the Beidi family," she paused, "who can act in the core area of ​​the Beast Academy on the Capital Star and take Yu Lan away, and can also perfectly control a professor of the Beast Academy without arousing any suspicion."

"We don't know who it is, but other forces will not fail to see it, but they didn't take action."

"There may be other families behind this."

She looked out the window, the lights of the city flickered in her eyes, like a huge net that enveloped them.

She turned and looked at Chu Tianhe: "Why is Yu Lan the target? Among all the students, she is the only one who has contracted a special Saker Falcon like Qingqing."

"So, I guess their real target is Qingqing."

Chu Tianhe stood up: "They are holding on to the teacher in order to bring back the icefield pet."

Therefore, the real goal of these people is already very obvious.

It is the pets in the secret realm.

But Su Wudeng didn't say one thing, why is it the Saker Falcon and the icefield pets?

There were many secret realm pets before them, why don't these five major beast-controlling families care?

She intuitively felt that it might be related to the Aurora Biotechnology Experimental Base in the icefield.

And it just so happens that the headquarters of the experimental base is in Switzerland. At the same time, the capital star where the five major families are located is the anchor point for entering Switzerland?

There must be some connection behind this.

Both of them fell into silence, thinking about something. The hustle and bustle of the city was isolated outside the glass, and only each other's breathing could be heard in the room.

"I'm going to the Beidi family," Chu Tianhe said after a long time, "there must be clues in it."

"I'm going back to the secret realm," Su Wudeng said.

"Okay." Chu Tianhe looked at her worriedly, "You must be careful

in everything." "Don't be impatient, safety is the most important thing."

"You too," Su Wudeng looked at him seriously, "Those families have been able to call the shots in the capital star for so many years, their methods must be very complicated."

"Even if you are a general, you must be careful, this is their territory."

Chu Tianhe looked at her, thousands of words turned into one sentence: "Okay."

After a moment, the two of them acted separately.

...

"New map Switzerland detected, do you want to enter?"

"Yes."

The scene in front of her eyes turned, and Su Wudeng found herself in a lush primeval forest.

She wondered: "Huh? Isn't it Switzerland?"

She thought it would be a prosperous European town, or a snowy mountain lake. Of course, it would be best to be directly teleported to the headquarters of the Aurora Biotechnology Experimental Base.

But unfortunately, it was none of them.

She looked at the surrounding environment, feeling a little helpless.

But looking into the distance, she could indeed see the undulating outlines of the snow-capped mountains.

She sighed: "It seems that I can only find a laboratory by myself."

Su Wudeng looked back at Amber, Obsidian, Yingying and Guiyun: "Let's go, kids! It will be harder this time. Sister will make you something delicious after it's over!"

"Ouch!"

Just as she was about to let Guiyun investigate the surrounding environment, the sky suddenly darkened.

Dark clouds gathered at an alarming speed, and thunder and lightning surged in the clouds, as if the entire sky came alive.

Su Wudeng looked at the scene in shock: "Fuck, what's going on?"

Why did this astronomical phenomenon suddenly become so exaggerated?

"Boom!"

A blinding bolt of lightning struck down, hitting an ancient tree not far away.

But it wasn't over yet, immediately afterwards, another bolt of lightning struck down, with great force, and still heading towards the same target, still hitting the ancient tree.

Su Wudeng was stunned. No, it really struck? And it specifically struck a tree?

The cubs rushed to Su Wudeng's side, and the lightning was still crackling, one after another.

Su Wudeng swallowed his saliva: "This..."

At this moment, a huge figure fell from the tree canopy, emitting a mournful cry.

It was a giant bird of astonishing size, dark purple all over, with fine lightning entwined on its wings.

"Thunderwing bird?" Su Wudeng recognized the pet and quickly reacted, "Oh no, the lightning didn't strike the tree, it struck it!"

The lightning was still dancing fiercely in the clouds, brewing the next lightning.

She saw that the wings of the thunderwing bird were already charred and its feathers were scattered. It looked in very bad condition.

If it continued like this, it would probably be struck to death by lightning.

But the electric current wrapped around it was too violent, and it was very dangerous to approach it recklessly.

Su Wudeng's heart sank: "No, we have to find a way to save it!"

...

The thunderwing bird stretched its body, feeling the remaining electric current in its body. It was so cool!

It was indeed natural lightning, and it was really powerful when it struck!

Every time a lightning bolt hit its body, it filled up its energy. However, its feathers couldn't take it and fell off a lot. But that wasn't a problem!

Although its body was numbed by electricity and kept falling, it excitedly faced the densest cloud in the sky and shouted,

"Come on, some

more big ones!" Hit it as hard as you can! Make it stronger!

However...

the next lightning bolt that was expected didn't fall.

The Thunderbird looked up at the sky in confusion, only to see that the lightning that was about to hit it actually hit an ice wall.

???

Ice? Wall?

No, who disturbed its practice!

It looked down angrily, only to see a human being directing the Frost Blade Snow Leopard to try to form an ice wall.

"It's you! Damn it!"

The Thunderwing bird screamed angrily. Just as it was about to rush over to deal with this abominable human, it saw the figures behind her -

the Swordheart Husky standing in the front was carrying a sword on his back.

The black and gray Czech wolfhound exuded a frightening pressure. The

frost blade snow leopard that formed an ice wall was emitting cold air.

And the snowy owl was standing on her shoulder, and its golden eyes alone made it shudder.

The Thunderwing bird's arrogance suddenly shrank. No, why are there so many pets!

Are they going to have a group fight?

This lineup... I can't afford to offend them.

It lay on the ground resignedly, not daring to move, watching the lightning dissipate into the distance, tears welling up in its eyes. Damn it!

…

When the lightning dissipated, Su Wudeng breathed a sigh of relief and quickly ran over to check on the Thunderbird.

The pets following behind him did not move.

Obsidian keenly noticed something was wrong: "Why do I feel that the energy flow of that Thunderwing Bird is very regular? It doesn't look like it was struck by lightning?"

"Indeed," Snowy Owl agreed, "It seems to be actively absorbing lightning?"

"Thunderwing Bird... So this is where the thunder in its name comes from?"

"It's rare to be able to train with the help of lightning."

"What?" Amber was dumbfounded, "You mean, the Thunderwing Bird was not struck by lightning at all? It's using its talent to train?!"

Yingying shook his tail, looked at his sister who was bandaging the Thunderwing Bird carefully, and asked a key question: "What about sister... does she know?"

The four cubs looked at each other, probably... they don't know, right?

...

Su Wudeng rushed to the side of the Thunderwing Bird and saw that the injury was quite serious.

"Be good, baby, don't move, let me see the injury." She said as she took out various medicines and bandages.

Then she chose an ointment specially designed for the treatment of Thunderwing Birds and carefully applied it on its charred feathers.

"It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt, it will be fine in a while~"

The Thunderwing Bird froze in place, with a look of despair on its face.

Oh my God! Why did this human treat it like this!

It didn't care about this little injury before, but this human insisted on bandaging it!

Woohoo, it's a rare thunderbolt, where can it find such a strong thunderbolt!

The more the Thunderbird thought about it, the angrier it got. No, it couldn't just stand it like this!

As a result, it looked up and found that the four pets had surrounded it.

Amber and Obsidian were guarding on the left and right, whimpering and wagging their tails beside the humans, while Guiyun was perched on a branch and

looking down. They were all staring at it.

Thunderbird: ...

Sorry to bother you.

"It will be fine soon, the cub is so strong!" Su Wudeng praised the Thunderbird generously, feeling distressed. Look at how much pain it has caused the cub, and her eyes are full of tears.

She gently wiped away her tears: "Don't cry, don't cry~ It's okay~"

The Thunderbird was crying in its heart. No, it had to find a chance to escape.

These pets were so scary, it had to run away quickly!

After bandaging everything, Su Wudeng gave Thunderwing a full body check, but found something wrong.

"Huh? Weird..." She looked at Thunderwing in confusion. She found that most of Thunderwing's injuries were superficial. In fact, it was healthy inside, and it didn't look like a symptom of being struck by lightning.

What's going on?

Suddenly, Su Wudeng had an idea: "So that's why you're called Thunderwing,"

"It turns out that you have a strong ability to withstand lightning and recover quickly!"

"So that's how the thunder in your name came from"

Thunderwing: ???

Is that the case?

Raise your claws to ask, can it refute?

At this time, Su Wudeng had already started to pack up medical supplies: "Baby, since you are not seriously injured, I will bandage you and you can go."

The Thunderbird's eyes lit up.

It stood up tentatively, then took a few steps back and found that the four pets did not move or attack it.

Although it didn't know what this human was doing, it was okay to run!

It glared at Su Wudeng fiercely: "You bastard, I will remember you, don't let me see you in the future!"

Su Wudeng: "???"

Is this your attitude towards your savior?

Seeing Su Wudeng's eyes becoming dangerous, Gui Yun quickly landed on her shoulder and explained: "Sister, you misunderstood."

"That... the Thunderbird is actually using lightning to exercise. This species can use lightning to strengthen itself, so it was not injured just now, but was..."

Su Wudeng was stunned, and then her eyes went dark: "So I interrupted its exercise?"

It turned out to be like this! No wonder the Thunderbird said that!

She felt a little guilty and quickly turned to apologize to the Thunderbird: "Sorry, sorry, I didn't know about this."

Su Wudeng took out a large bag of dried meat and pushed it to the Thunderbird.

"Well, I'll give you these dried meats as a compensation."

"Okay?"

The Thunderbird was stunned. It turned out that this human didn't know, and he gave it dried meat to apologize?

It was really hungry, and the smell of the dried meat made it drool.

Forget it, for the sake of the dried meat, forgive her.

It snorted proudly and felt a cool and comfortable feeling coming from the wound.

If it were in the past, it would have been in pain for at least a few days, but this time... It moved its wings and felt great.

The Thunderbird, who was about to leave with the dried meat, blinked and his mind suddenly became active.

This human... has good medical skills, and is so generous...

"Well," it cleared its throat and pretended to be reluctant, "since you apologized sincerely, I will let it go."

"Ah? Thank you..." Su Wudeng breathed a sigh of relief. "

But!" Thunderbird suddenly changed the subject, "So I'm going to follow you!"

Su Wudeng: "???"