The broken walls and ruins look like a tundra forest ravaged by a storm.
Tall, upright shrubs were trampled and broken, ancient trees were knocked to the ground, and debris and grass were scattered everywhere. The silence in this mountain forest was eerie. The tundra forest, usually filled with the chirping of birds, was now as quiet as a doomsday graveyard.
Qiuqiu shrank its body to about the size of an adult cheetah. It vigilantly raised its nine beautiful tails, and its pair of light golden cat eyes carefully observed the situation around it. Quanquan lay on Song Yu's shoulder, grabbed Song Yu's hair, and looked around vigilantly.
The other little ones also followed beside him with vigilance on their faces.
"Looking at the situation... it seems that many high-level exotic beasts passed by here before." Song Yu frowned and muttered softly. His eyes, which usually smiled, were now very serious and alert.
"Hoo-hoo meow!" Come this way!
Qiuqiu walked in front to lead Song Yu while sniffing the smell of blood in the air.
As time slowly passes, our steps slowly move forward.
Without Qiuqiu's guidance, Song Yu also smelled a strong smell of blood. This pungent smell of blood drifted away with the mountain breeze in the forest, and also enveloped Song Yu and Qiuqiu and a few other little ones, and tried hard to get into her nose.
This pungent smell is completely different from the blood plasma mixed with pigmented honey by the crew.
This made Song Yu nervous, and his pair of black and white eyes became more profound and alert.
Rustle, rustle——!
Turning around the tall bushes in front, Song Yu heard the rustling sound of grass and leaves rubbing against each other behind the bushes.
The noise was not loud, but in this extremely quiet jungle, it still made people's hair stand on end and felt extremely nervous.
Song Yu held his breath and subconsciously looked at each other with Qiuqiu and the other little ones.
Each of them saw the vigilance in the other's eyes. Through the mental power contract, Song Yu and Qiuqiu and other little guys could easily understand each other's intentions -
Open your mouth!
A strong energy fluctuation appeared in the mouth of the Nine-tailed Snow Cat.
A dazzling golden light condensed in an instant!
Just as the ball was about to spit out a skill forward...
A chubby little kitten with pink ears suddenly emerged from the dense bushes in front of them and tilted its head to look at them and the six animals.
Song Yu: “……?”
Other strange beasts: “???”
"Meow meow~" The kitten is furry and soft, and its cry is even more babyish.
It was shaking the tip of its little tail, looking very cute, and its furry little cat face was full of innocent cuteness and meowing.
"Snow, Snow Cat?" Song Yu was puzzled and stuttered a little.
The girl blinked, and her fair and delicate face was filled with various little question marks.
If she remembered correctly, the highest level of exotic beasts like the Snow Spirit Cat was usually only level three, and most Snow Spirit Cats could only reach level 1 or level 0.
Therefore, even though the little guy looks very cute and can make a good companion animal, many people are unwilling to make a contract with the Snow Cat.
But precisely because the other party's bloodline level is particularly low, staying in the five-star secret realm is like delivering takeout to other exotic beasts. Therefore... exotic beasts like the Snow Spirit Cat usually do not appear in this kind of five-star secret realm at all.
"I remember the Snow Spirit Cat...seems to only appear in one-star secret realms, or the most common low-level wilderness areas?" Song Yu frowned and murmured in a low voice.
She recalled what she had read and learned during these days, turned her head to look at the ball and asked, "Can you understand what it is saying?"
"This little fellow doesn't look like he's even grown up yet..." Song Yu squatted down and looked at the snow cat cub that looked very similar to Qiuqiu when he was little. He couldn't help but feel a little worried. Especially since this snow cat cub seemed to have experienced a battle before.
There were spots of red blood on the white cat's paws, and even the hair on its chest seemed to be stained with blood. Some of the blood seemed to have formed dark red scabs due to the passage of time, but the red and white were particularly eye-catching because of the color of the snow cat's fur.
"Meow~" It seems... too young, and doesn't quite know how to communicate~
Qiuqiu narrowed his eyes, slowly approached the little snow civet cat cub, and called out to the little guy twice.
Nine beautiful, furry cat tails swayed gracefully behind him.
"Meow meow meow?" Where is your family?
"Meow meow meow?" Are you a wild snow cat living in this forest?
"Meow, meow? Meow." Why aren't you talking? Are you afraid of us? Are you hungry? I have some food here.
Qiuqiu's cry was warm and soft. It tried to treat the little guy in front of it the same way big cats treat little cats.
However.
The little guy tilted his head, blinked, raised the tip of his tail, turned around and ran towards the place behind the bushes where the smell of blood was the strongest.
He didn't pay any attention to Song Yu, Qiuqiu and the other people and animals.
Song Yu: “…”
Qiuqiu: “…”
"Let's go, let's go to the front and take a look..." Song Yu took a deep breath and stopped thinking about the little snow cat cub. Instead, he turned his head to look at Qiuqiu and the other little ones, and suggested that everyone first look at the source of the bloody smell.
She had been worried all along the way, wondering if the smell of blood was left behind after Song Yu's failed escape.
Song Yu moved his dry throat. Qiuqiu and the other little ones also knew the worry in Song Yu's heart at the moment and did not say anything.
The little ones looked at each other, and then followed Song Yu silently, heading behind the bushes.
Passing through a layer of tall bushes that blocked his view, Song Yu looked up and saw... a chaotic scene resembling the ruins of a meteorite impact. Dozens of men and women in civilian clothes lay on the ground. They were covered in blood, and many of them had no complete bodies left! Meanwhile, the snow cat cub was running around beside the bodies of these men and women, its tail twitching.
"!!" Song Yu.
Song Yu's eyes widened, and a sudden thought occurred to him, and his face turned pale in an instant.
She hurried forward, checking the figures lying on the ground one by one, fearing that one of them was Song Yu's body...
She held her breath, her heart seemed to be tightly grasped by an invisible hand, pulling so hard that it hurt.
Song Yu was both nervous and anxious. She staggered forward and almost bumped into a headless corpse next to her.
This corpse's hair is the wrong length...
The corpse's clothes are wrong...
This is a woman...
Song Yu clutched the front of her shirt, as if only in this way could she barely keep breathing smoothly.
She walked back and forth step by step to identify these corpses. Judging from the appearance, age and arms without armbands, these corpses were obviously not candidates for the Six Nations Secret Realm Assessment Competition, and there were no bodies of candidates in the pile of corpses.
After Song Yu identified it, he breathed a sigh of relief, but his heart was subconsciously intensified.
Her face was full of tension as she squatted down to examine the body of a woman. The body was obviously killed by a strange beast using its skills. The beast had its eyes wide open and died with its eyes open, as if there was something that she had not discovered.
"There are so many bodies about a kilometer away from the cave house where I used to live... Judging from the condition of the bodies, they are neither candidates nor examiners from the host country... This means that these people must have sneaked into the secret realm of the red earth tundra later."
Song Yu licked the roof of his mouth, frowned, and thought seriously: "From the looks of it... these people are most likely brought by Old Master Jin and Old Master Yan, the descendants of the two families..."
Thinking of this, Song Yu carefully looked at several relatively intact corpses, and then looked at their appearance.
Indeed, among these corpses, some look very similar to the corpses.
Song Yu came to this conclusion and fixed his eyes on the surrounding bushes and mossy lawns that had been destroyed by the strange beasts, as well as the piles of brown gravel that had obviously been crushed by the strange beasts.
“…”
Song Yu paused for a moment and analyzed calmly: "These destroyed bushes and corpses show traces of wood-type skills, as well as charred marks left by flames. This means... Bai Yuhan wasn't the one who killed these people."
It would be fine for others, but she knew that Bai Yuhan only had three dragon beasts.
A black dragon evolved from a small gold lizard, a void dragon that can only use space skills, and a colorful gem dragon that has no wood or fire attributes.
As for the traces left by the use of other skills, some were not obvious and difficult to distinguish, but the pieces of charcoal left after the flames burned, as well as the bare mossy ground and corpses burned by the flames, all indicated that the previous battle here was not caused by Bai Yuhan.
"But... why are there so many human corpses here, but not a single contracted beast corpse?"
Song Yu frowned and looked at the corpse on the ground carefully for a moment. Suddenly, her eyes widened and she suddenly realized. No wonder she always felt something was wrong after looking at it for a while.
Normally, most people who can step into wilderness areas and secret realms are beastmasters, or they are people working in industries related to beastmasters.
In this situation, many people contracted several or even dozens of contracted beasts.
Among the examiners and students who were able to participate in the Six Kingdoms Secret Realm Assessment Competition this time, only a few could contract seven or eight exotic beasts, while many could contract at least a dozen or dozens.
In this situation, anyone who would sneak into the secret realm of the tundra must be a beastmaster who is more or less confident in himself.
As long as they are beastmasters, they will have a large number of contracted beasts. With such a large number of contracted beasts, when facing the enemy's sneak attack, even if some beastmasters fail to react in the first time, they will be hit.
But among these people... only a few can quickly release their contracted beasts.
Then no matter which side wins or loses, the corpse of the strange beast will be left behind!
"What on earth is the reason that so many people died here... and there are no corpses of any strange beasts on the ground?" Song Yu frowned. Even if these people encountered a tide of beasts, this situation would not be the case.
But the traces on the ground must have been made by strange beasts...
However, as an ordinary person, Song Yu is not good at analyzing cases at all, especially in this world of beast taming that combines high technology and exotic beasts.
She thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure it out.
As the saying goes: No one could make her give up studying the corpse in front of her, but once she tried, she gave up on her own.
After all, finding answers is too tiring.
She is not a famous detective, so why should she cause trouble for herself?
But it's not a good idea to have so many corpses lying around...
Song Yu scratched his head, his little face wrinkled into a ball.
She had never come into contact with so many corpses before, and after she was nervous and scared...
For a moment, she didn't know whether she should help dig a pit to bury these people, or burn them into ashes to prevent them from being eaten by other strange beasts in this secret realm.
but.
Before Song Yu could continue thinking, she suddenly felt something grabbing her trouser leg, and the other party was pulling her trouser leg and trying to pull it down.
“???” Song Yu was confused and quickly grabbed the waistband of his pants.
Anyone who has worn sportswear knows that the pants are elastic and can be pulled down with just a tug.
While grabbing her pants, she squatted down, hooked her pink and tender nails on the paw of the little snow cat cub on her trouser leg, and pulled it down.
For some reason, the little guy stumbled back and forth and accidentally got hooked on her trouser leg.
"Little guy, you're not doing this right, do you know that?"
Song Yu freed the kitten's claws from his trouser legs, and while reaching out to tap the little fellow's furry head, he muttered earnestly, "I don't know what's wrong with you, little fellow. You're not afraid of so many bloody corpses here, and you keep coming up here?"
"Uh...?" Song Yu was talking when she was suddenly stunned. Her pupils dilated instantly and her face was full of horror!
Song Yu blurted out subconsciously: "You are not looking for food?! You came here specifically to eat corpses?!"
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case. Song Yu pinched the back of the little guy's neck with one hand and lifted the little thing up.
Wasn't this little creature just running back and forth next to these corpses? It was probably just looking for a piece of fresh meat...
But this is human flesh!
Song Yu quickly took out bags of dried fish and canned cat food that Qiuqiu often ate from the circle-dimensional space bag.
"Eat this... don't eat human flesh... human flesh is sour and smelly, it's really disgusting!" Not sure if the little snow spirit cat in front of him could understand, Song Yu kept muttering while opening the cat food can.
For more than an hour today, I have been in a state of tension and have not been able to relax until now.
Now that he has returned to the cave, he can neither find Bai Yuhan's body nor any trace of the other party... Song Yu breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, he couldn't help but become more talkative because of the anxiety suppressed in his heart.
She didn't want to make Qiuqiu and the others worry, so she could only try to focus her attention on the little snow cat in front of her.
The little fellow looked only about the size of two palms, with snow-white fur all over his body. Judging from the condition of his fur and his size, he was not yet an adult... However, I don't know if it was because the sun was too bright today...
Song Yu always felt that the white fur of this little snow cat seemed to have a little golden light on the tip of each hair under the sunlight.
"Meow~" The little guy raised his head and meowed softly at Song Yu.
A pair of light golden cat eyes, which look a little lighter than those of ordinary snow cats, and seem a little dull and unfocused.
Song Yu blinked, and the image of Bai Yue's usually lifeless eyes subconsciously flashed through his mind.
"Although I don't understand what you are saying, but judging from your appearance... you should like these dried fish and canned cat food very much. Eat them if you like. Human flesh is not tasty, so don't eat it in the future~" Song Yu placed the canned cat food and dried fish on a small piece of intact moss.
Looking at the little thing on all fours, eating cat food from a can without even looking up...
Song Yu touched the little guy's head, feeling the furry touch from his fingertips, and the warmth that was slightly higher than human body temperature. Song Yu looked at the little snow civet cat with a frown on his face.
Finally, a long sigh...
"Hey, I don't know how Bai Yuhan is doing now..."
Song Yu frowned and murmured, "Since those three guys didn't look for me again, they must be looking for him now..."
"Two ninth-level beastmasters, and the biggest villain in the entire novel... Bai Yuhan is just a high school student... Isn't something going to happen to him?"
Song Yu's face was full of confusion. Faced with the situation where there was no one in front of him, only six contracted beasts and a snow spirit cat cub, his old habits inevitably broke out and he muttered to himself for several sentences.
As an actor, Song Yu likes to act alone in his room whenever he has time.
Sometimes she would act out role A, sometimes role B... Sometimes she would even sit alone in a room in front of a mirror and a camera, acting like a psychopath with multiple personalities. This also led Song Yu to develop the habit of occasionally talking to herself.
There are so many things happening today.
As soon as Song Yu relaxed, his thoughts became scattered and out of control.
"......?" The Snow Cat cub, who had just been grunting while eating cat food from a can, shook the tips of its little ears.
It raised its head and tilted it to look at Song Yu, with confusion written all over its cat face.
Various small question marks floated back and forth above the kitten's head.
Baiyue shook his tail, and his mind flashed through this period of time...the various audio novels that Song Yu listened to every day in the dormitory.
Among them... the story of traveling through a book accounts for a large part of the content.
Transmigrating into a book...
The little snow cat licked a small piece of canned meat stuck to its whiskers and fell into deep thought.
…
The other side.
Xiaobai took Bai Yuhan to open the space door again and again and travel through space.
However……
No matter how fast the Void Dragon is, it will always be quickly caught up by the people behind it!
Bai Yuhan gritted his teeth, his face ashen.
It was clear that when he was traveling through the space gate previously, the location of the space gate was attacked by a large number of high-level alien beasts, causing the energy fluctuations that could have been sensed by other space-based alien beasts to be destroyed and dissipated by those large-scale high-level offensive skills.
Logically speaking, even if the other party possessed a ninth-order exotic beast, they shouldn't be able to find someone at this speed.
At least, it is not an easy task for the other party to find him.
But now...
It was as if these three people had installed some kind of positioning radar on him. No matter where he escaped using the space gate, they could find him quickly.
Xiaobai opened the door of space again while breathing heavily.
After more than an hour of continuous rapid spatial portal openings, even the Void Dragon, which had only just evolved to the sixth level, felt a bit overwhelmed...
After all, from the time it hatched from the eggshell until now, Xiaobai is just a baby dragon who is over three years old.
“Huff, huff, huff—”
Xiaobai gasped for breath, and the silver-white dragon scales on his chest and abdomen floated violently with every breath of the Void Dragon.
Bai Yuhan looked at Xiaobai standing on his shoulder with a face full of heartache.
An orphan whose parents died tragically and who bears a deep blood feud.
Bai Yuhan has never dared to reveal his own affairs to others, and has lived an extremely boring and depressing life in the past ten years.
But... ever since I heard Song Yu's words on the school playground half a year ago.
After hearing the other party talk about bonds and two-way choices, he has always regarded the three contracted beasts, Xiaohei, Xiaobai and Qicai, as his friends and family.
Especially when Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai first made a contract with him, they were just two underage cubs.
As an adult, even though he is currently only a senior in high school, Bai Yuhan still regards Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai as his responsibility.
now……
Seeing Xiaobai panting heavily, his brows full of fatigue, even the little wings that had been flapping happily earlier that morning seemed to be exhausted and about to collapse...
Bai Yuhan was heartbroken, and at the same time, he couldn't help but feel the grief and anger in his chest that he had nowhere to vent.
If only there were 7 days!
As long as there are 7 days!
He can then use the colorful power to change his appearance and get back on track.
Bai Yuhan gritted his teeth, leaving bloody marks on his thin lips.
Is he really going to die here today?
"Damn it!" The boy squeezed out two words from his throat, but these two words seemed to have consumed all of his strength.
Bai Yuhan closed his eyes and covered them with his hands.
He led Xiaobai through the tunnel of the spatial gate, each step extremely slowly. Every time his left foot moved forward, it felt as if a thousand-pound weight was pressing down on it...
But with every step Bai Yuhan took, his heart became more determined.
A slender figure suddenly flashed through his mind, and he suddenly felt fortunate that these three people had followed him instead of going back to find her.
He raised his hand and summoned Xiao Hei and Qicai who were currently staying in the Beast Taming Space. When the two giant dragons appeared and saw the pitch-black space gate passage around them, they were stunned for a moment before they immediately reacted and roared at Bai Yuhan.
The dragons' voices sounded like thunder exploding in the sky, but in fact, the words spoken by the two dragons were extremely gentle and anxious.
Their words are full of care.
One asked Bai Yuhan whether he had not yet escaped from those hateful pursuers.
One asked Bai Yuhan if he needed help, and if so, just ask and leave everything to it.
Bai Yuhan looked at the two giant dragons in front of him, raised his right hand and touched the panting Xiaobai.
at last……
The boy looked up and smiled brightly, a rare smile on his face.
He looked at the three contracted beasts and said slowly, word by word, "Shall we... terminate the contract?"
"You see, I'm an orphan...I'm poor, and I can't afford any training resources. I borrowed those training resources from my mentor at the National Talent Training Camp. Now it looks like I won't be able to pay them back."
"But you are different...you are dragons!"
"You possess the highest level of exotic beast blood in the world... Even without me, you will be able to live a good life in the future. You will be sought after and fawned over by countless beastmasters in the world."
"So, let's cancel the contract. Once you leave the space gate, you must flee immediately and don't look back."
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