Xie Sen couldn't help but feel anxious when he thought of Maine's reaction when he saw him being taken away. He asked the flying rhinoceros to stop and directed the watermelon vine to pick him up and send him back.
As a result, he was hung up, and the flying rhinoceros flew upwards again, and his feet were forced to step on the back of the flying rhinoceros.
The gentle voice of the flying rhinoceros sounded in his mind, with a hint of doubt: "Can you fly?"
"I won't," Xie Sen said, "Stop, I want to go back."
"Didn't you say you could recycle energy? There are too many beasts there. I'll take you to a safe place."
"No," Xie Sen said hurriedly, worried that it would fly away with a flap of its wings, "My friends are still waiting for me there, they will be worried if I leave like this."
The flying rhino readily agreed: "Then I will take your friend with me."
When Maine saw Xie Sen being taken away by the flying rhinoceros, his expression instantly became extremely ugly. He held the watermelon vine with one hand, touched the cliff with his feet, and quickly slid from the top of the cliff to the bottom.
Long Teng waited for him to land, then immediately grabbed the watermelon vine and was about to jump down, but when he thought of Bai Jiao, he squatted down and said, "I'll take you down with me."
Bai Jiao didn't hesitate and jumped onto his back. Long Teng carried him quickly down to the bottom.
Maine was running in the direction where Xie Sen left, when he saw the flying rhinoceros that had taken Xie Sen away fly back and land in front of him.
Xie Sen stood on the back of the flying rhinoceros and waved at him: "Maine!"
Maine glanced coldly at the flying rhinoceros, then trotted onto its back.
The voice of the flying rhinoceros appeared in Xie Sen's mind: "Your friend is very unfriendly. I want to throw him down."
Xie Sen quickly said, "No, he's just worried about me."
After Long Teng and Bai Jiao reached the canyon, they ran directly towards Maine. However, after only two steps, they heard loud footsteps behind them, and the ground began to shake slightly.
Long Teng glanced back and saw that the contracted beasts and wild beasts that were originally fighting were all following behind them, running in the same direction as him.
“Ahhh…” Even if he was a tough guy, he couldn’t help but scream at this moment. He pulled Bai Jiao and said, “Run.”
Maine jumped onto the back of the flying rhinoceros, held Xie Sen's hand and looked at him. His expression improved a little after he was sure that Xie Sen was okay, but he held Xie Sen's hand with a little force.
Just as Xie Sen was about to say something, he heard Long Teng's cry. He looked forward and felt his scalp tingling when he saw the herd of beasts. He recalled the ten-meter-long watermelon vine tied to the tree on the edge of the cliff, let it tie up the two of them at the same time, and then lifted them onto the back of the flying rhinoceros.
He urged the flying rhino: "Go!"
The flying rhinoceros flapped its wings and flew up, calling out to the herd of beasts not far away. The sound was not loud but very penetrating. The flying eagle beast responded with a high-pitched voice and flew side by side with it.
The giant tiger beast, giant elephant beast and other high-level contracted beasts that could not fly were running in an orderly manner below, followed by a group of various wild beasts.
Maine sat on the back of the flying rhinoceros, holding its neck with one hand and holding Xie Sen firmly with the other.
Xie Sen called back the watermelon vine. Long Teng grabbed Bai Jiao's arm with his left hand, turned his head and looked back, shouting excitedly: "How cool!"
After Bai Jiao sat firmly, he gently stroked the back of the flying rhinoceros beast and looked at it for a moment: "This seems to be the flying rhinoceros beast, an S-level contracted beast that disappeared during the heyday."
The flying rhinoceros said in Xie Sen's mind: "It just went into seclusion, it didn't disappear."
Bai Jiao said with an uncertain look: "But the horns of the flying rhinoceros should be silver-gray, not red."
Xie Sen understood that it must be related to red energy.
Sure enough, the flying rhino said in his mind: "From the day I gained energy, the color of my horn changed."
Xie Sen pointed at the rhino horn and said to Bai Jiao: "It is a flying rhino. The changes in the forest are all due to its horn."
As he spoke, he began to wonder, red energy could bring strength to the flying rhinoceros and even improve its IQ, so why would it let him take back the energy so easily?
Thinking of this, he quickly called out to Adam in his mind: "Adan, how do we take back the energy?"
A Dan said, "Cut off its horn, and then you hold it in your hand so that I can absorb it."
What? Xie Sen was stunned: "You are not kidding, are you?"
For animals with horns, horns are their important weapons of defense and attack. In the forest, not having horns is tantamount to seeking death!
"Of course not." Adam denied it seriously.
Xie Sen said: "Is there no other way? Can I hold its horn and absorb it directly?"
"No, it is safest to recover energy from dead things. If we recover it directly, the red energy will be subconsciously absorbed from its body during the recovery process, and it will die."
Xie Sen couldn't help but worry. How could he make such a request?
After hearing Xie Sen's explanation, Long Teng stretched his neck to look at the flying rhino's horn: "Is its horn super powerful?"
Bai Jiao continued, "Yes, this is an important weapon of the Flying Rhino. It is an omnivorous contracted beast, but it is not at all inferior to carnivorous contracted beasts like the Flying Tiger because of its rhino horn."
He paused as he spoke: "However, its horn is different from usual. If these animals are for the horn, then its horn must be more powerful than usual."
Xie Sen looked at him in admiration: "That's true."
Long Teng became even more curious: "I really want to touch it!"
As they were talking, Maine suddenly reminded them, "There's someone here."
Xie Sen followed his line of sight and looked towards the river to the right in front of him. He saw a huge animal swimming downstream from upstream. There were four people standing on its back, but the distance was too far to make out its features clearly.
When the flying rhinoceros was about to fly over them, Xie Sen heard the flying rhinoceros let out a puzzled "eh", then descended and finally hovered not far from the few people.
“It’s you!”
"Oh my god, flying rhinoceros!"
The four people in the water looked at the flying rhinoceros and Xie Sen and the other three on its back in surprise.
Xie Sen was also a little surprised, as he had seen two of these four people before.
One is Aqi, the S-level contracted beast master who followed Rui Luo during the league, and the other is the young master of the Qiao family who he met at the birthday party.
The four of them looked very bad, almost in the same condition, with red bloodshot and dark circles in their eyes, and their clothes were mostly torn, revealing white bloody bandages inside the holes. It was obvious that they were all injured.
After being shocked, Aqi and the others looked at the huge herd of beasts behind them in horror. The young master of the Qi family couldn't help but ask, "Who are you?"
Long Teng asked curiously, "Why do you ask that? Haven't we met before?"
Bai Jiao chuckled and glanced at him: "What they asked is not what you think. It's probably to express surprise."
"Oh." Long Teng touched the back of his head and laughed, not knowing whether he understood or not.
"Master Qi, look, that's a giant tiger beast!" One of the chestnut-haired boys nudged Master Qi lightly with his arm and pointed at the giant tiger beast running behind him.
Qi Shao's eyes lit up instantly, as if he had seen some priceless treasure.
Xie Sen looked back and if he stayed any longer, the beast that he had thrown away before would catch up with him.
He asked the flying rhino: "Why did you stop?"
"There is a Flying Rhino's contracted beast master," Flying Rhino replied, "I have to take him with me, maybe he will be useful."
Xie Sen looked at the four people, and his gaze finally fell on Aqi: "Are you the master of the flying rhinoceros?"
Aqi nodded, his eyes fixed on the flying rhino, and said in a deep voice: "Yes."
"Can you come with us?" Xie Sen asked.
Aqi's eyes lit up, but he didn't agree immediately. He clenched his fist and looked at Qi Shao. Qi Shao said, "We came here together, why don't we go with you?"
Maine said coldly: "They can, but you can't."
Xie Sen coughed awkwardly. Qi Shao was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "I don't have to sit on the back of the flying rhinoceros."
The chestnut-haired boy summoned a giant goose beast. Qi Shao pointed at Aqi and the gray-haired man and said, "We will ride the giant goose beast. Please take Aqi and Ali with you."
Xie Sen looked back and said to the flying rhinoceros, "They are catching up soon."
The flying rhino descended again and flew in front of Aqi. Xie Sen said, "Hurry up and jump up."
Aqi and Ali jumped onto the back of the flying rhinoceros with nimble movements. The flying rhinoceros flapped its wings and flew forward quickly.
Aqi's palms trembled slightly as he touched the skin of the flying rhinoceros. His eyes turned red. Ali patted his shoulder and said, "Don't be sad. You are very lucky."
Xie Sen looked at the two of them strangely, not quite understanding their reactions.
Long Teng laughed as usual and patted Aqi's other shoulder in a heroic manner: "Isn't it cool? Are you super excited? Hahaha..."
Bai Jiao rubbed his brows helplessly, and Xie Sen also shook his head and sighed.
No matter how you look at it, Archie's eyes aren't red because he's excited, right?
But his interruption had a good effect. Archie's expression relaxed, and a faint smile appeared on his serious face: "Very cool."
The flying rhinoceros carried them forward and turned occasionally. Twenty minutes later, he flew over a mountain path of about two kilometers. The path was sandwiched between two mountains and was less than two meters wide, which could block most animals.
Except for the Flying Eagle Beast who flew along, the Giant Tiger Beast and the Giant Elephant Beast were unable to continue following and ran along the side of the mountain.
After flying forward for about five minutes across the path, the flying rhinoceros finally stopped in a canyon surrounded by mountains.
The canyon has dense vegetation and no tall trees, so visibility is excellent and the location is very secluded.
Maine and Long Teng jumped directly from the back of the flying rhinoceros. Xie Sen walked to the edge and felt uneasy as he looked at the height of more than three meters from the ground. This was almost like jumping from the second floor.
Maine held out his hand: "I'll catch you."
Xie Sen's face turned slightly red. He looked back and felt embarrassed. Even Bai Jiao, the only female, had jumped down directly, but he was still hesitating.
He looked at Maine and shook his head: "No, step back a little, or I'll hit you."
Maine raised his eyebrows, but instead of retreating, he took a step forward.
At this time, the flying rhinoceros was very considerate and lay down to allow Xie Sen to jump down, but it overestimated Xie Sen.
The moment it lay down, its body tilted. Xie Sen, who was originally standing on the edge, tilted his body as well, and he fell directly down without even making any preparations.
The moment the feeling of weightlessness came, Xie Sen had no time to think about summoning vines for help except to scream.
However, the expected pain did not come, and Maine caught him steadily and held him horizontally in his arms.
Xie Sen grabbed Maine's shoulder and asked worriedly, "Is your arm okay?" He was worried that the impact would hurt Maine's arm.
“It’s okay,” Maine’s eyes softened because of his concern, “You’re very light.”
Xie Sen jumped off him: "I weigh at least a hundred pounds, not light at all."
"I'm sorry, I didn't know you were going to fall. Luckily your friend caught you." said the flying rhino.
Xie Sen coughed dryly and replied in his mind: "It's okay." This was really embarrassing, but fortunately no one else laughed at him.
He walked right in front of the flying rhinoceros. The flying rhinoceros' eyes were big, black, round, bright and clear. Its expression when looking at people was also very gentle, which easily made people feel good about it.
He raised his hand and gently touched its horn. He instantly felt a strong energy. At the same time, the temperature of the peony on his shoulder rose rapidly, as if it were a substance that passed through his arm and reached the horn.
The moment the heat reached the rhino horn, he felt the surging energy rushing towards its arm. The flying rhino in his eyes changed. Its body was no longer made up of flesh and skin, but of countless red dots. Now those red dots were uncontrollably rushing towards the top - the rhino horn.
"Take your hands away!"
"Moo!!!"
A Dan's shout and the flying rhinoceros' howl came almost at the same time. Xie Sen subconsciously withdrew his hand, and at the same time, someone grabbed his waist and took him several steps back.
The flying rhino jumped up from the ground, jumping and howling in place, and the ground began to shake.
Maine's face turned pale. If he had been a step slower, Xie Sen would have been knocked down and trampled by the flying rhinoceros.
Xie Sen noticed that Maine's hand was trembling slightly. He was startled for a moment, and his heart moved slightly. He turned his head to look at Maine and smiled at him: "I'm fine."
Maine stared at him, his voice tense: "Do you know how dangerous you were just now?" He held his waist and gradually tightened his grip, lowered his head, and said in a low voice, "You said you would stay with me forever!"
"It was my mistake just now." He said softly, "I'm sorry."
"Asen, are you okay?" Long Teng ran to Xie Sen and asked nervously. Bai Jiao also looked at him with concern.
Xie Sen smiled at them: "It's okay."
A Dan said in his mind: "You can't touch its horns. The system will sense the energy and will absorb the energy autonomously and uncontrollably. At the same time, the red energy will absorb its energy."
Xie Sen looked at the mad flying rhinoceros and felt guilty: "What should we do now? It looks very uncomfortable."
"You can soothe it," said Adan. "Have you forgotten? You carry the breath of nature with you."
Xie Sen patted Maine's hand: "Let go."
Maine stared at him: "What are you going to do?"
Xie Sen did not hide it: "I want to appease it."
"Can you comfort him?" Aqi was looking at the flying rhinoceros anxiously. When he heard his words, he immediately looked over. "What's wrong with it? It looks so uncomfortable."
"No," Maine said, "You can't get close to it now. It's too dangerous."
The flying rhinoceros was huge, and it was jumping around like crazy. Fortunately, it only jumped near where it was originally lying and did not rush around, otherwise all of them would be in danger.
There is no difference between actively approaching and committing suicide.
Xie Sen patted the back of Maine's hand soothingly, and contacted the flying rhino in his mind: "I am so sorry. I apologize to you for my recklessness. Can you hear me? Flying rhino?"
He thought for a moment and said, "Moo~Moo~Flying Rhino, can you hear me? If you can, lie down and I can help you."
The flying rhinoceros did not respond, but it slowly stopped jumping and lay down. Its body did not move, but it banged its head against the ground. It was obvious that it was in great pain.
Xie Sen pulled Maine's hand down and held it: "If you are worried, go with me."
Maine didn't stop him this time and followed him closer to the flying rhino, with Archie following closely behind them.
Xie Sen raised his hand and touched the flying rhino's slightly bulging belly, exuding kindness while communicating with it: "I'm sorry, do you feel better now?"
The frequency of the flying rhinoceros banging its head against the ground gradually decreased, and its voice was much weaker than before: "You are not human. Humans do not have this kind of natural breath. I felt it when you were on my back just now."
Xie Sen said: "You can think of me as a plant beast master. I'm really sorry for what happened just now."
"This isn't the first time," said the flying rhino. "When I felt the energy just now, it was much more uncomfortable than before. My head felt like it was going to explode, and my whole body was burning. I only felt comfortable when I was constantly washed by water."
Xie Sen suddenly realized: "So you stopped at the waterfall?"
"Yes," the flying rhinoceros' voice lowered, "I hurt a lot of beasts along the way, and many contracted beasts sensed the energy and found me."
"At first, we discovered that being close to energy can make us more intelligent and warlike, but we can control the urge to fight, but the beasts can't."
"They wanted to snatch energy, and in the process of snatching, they even killed each other. In the first two days, the forest was like hell."
"Later, the contracted beasts reached a consensus to protect the energy. However, we found that after being close to the energy for a long time, our IQ would still increase, but we gradually couldn't control our warlike impulses, which had an impact on our spirit."
"Because of the energy, many plants that have never been seen before have grown in the forest. Some of them are poisonous, and some wild animals have died after accidentally eating them."
"We realized that if we continued like this, the energy would bring disaster to the forest, so we finally decided to find a way to destroy the energy, but we didn't find a way."
Xie Sen thought to himself, no wonder the Flying Rhino reacted with relief instead of alertness when it heard him say that it could take back its energy.
"You should take back your energy now!" said the flying rhinoceros.
Xie Sen hesitated for a while: "The energy is in your rhino horn..." He paused, unable to speak.
The flying rhinoceros said: "Are you going to cut it off? I just felt it. If you absorb it directly, I will die."
Xie Sen looked at it in surprise: "You are so smart."
Flying Rhino said: "This is the wisdom that energy has given me. Besides, the IQ of S-level contracted beasts is very high. Humans nowadays often underestimate us."
Its voice was gentle and steady: "Cut it off. The forest should be peaceful again."
Xie Sen stroked his hide gently: "What are you going to do?"
"You don't have to worry about me. The horns of the flying rhinoceros are renewable and can be regenerated in two years at most." The flying rhinoceros seemed to chuckle, "I like you. You are a friendly friend of the contracted beast."
Xie Sen laughed. He felt the kindness and gentleness of the flying rhinoceros: "You will be in danger in the forest without the rhino horn."
"Who said I was going to stay in the forest?"
Xie Sen was stunned for a moment, and suddenly thought: "Yes, you can go out with me, I will take care of you."
"Perhaps I won't need to trouble you," said the flying rhinoceros, "if he has the ability to bind me."
Aqi was stunned when he saw the flying rhino suddenly turned its head and looked at him. He subconsciously looked at Xie Sen: "What does this mean?"
Xie Sen looked at Aqi and said, "Do you want to form a bond with it?"
Aqi's eyes were firm: "Of course, this is," he choked up a little, "This is the dream of our Yan family for generations."
Xie Sen was stunned. He had never expected that his answer would be so profound.
The flying rhino sighed softly: "You humans always regret."
Xie Sen was puzzled, and the flying rhinoceros beast said, "That's great. Let him do it. Cut off my rhinoceros horn first, and then let me see his skills."
Xie Sen touched its hide and looked at Yan Qi: "Cut off its horn, then show it your ability and see if you can get it to agree to form a bond with you."
"What?" Yan Qi's face suddenly changed, "No!"
"You're crazy!" The chestnut-haired boy who followed Yan Qi glared at Xie Sen. "Aqi's ancestor made this mistake, which caused all the flying rhinoceros beasts to disappear overnight. After so many generations, they finally encountered one. Do you want his family and the flying rhinoceros beasts to become enemies for life?"
The chestnut-haired boy's chest rose and fell violently, and he took a step forward: "Their family is full of flying rhinoceros beast owners! Don't you know how important contracted beasts are to beast owners? If you make the same mistake again this time, you don't know when you can meet a flying rhinoceros beast again!"
Maine stared at him coldly and warned, "Back off."
The young man was about to say something when he was stopped by Qi Shao and took a few steps back.
Xie Sen didn't expect there was something else going on, and couldn't help asking, "What's going on?"
Flying Rhino sighed, "After the orcs became humans, society developed rapidly, and technology became more and more advanced. Life was very peaceful for a while, and the existence of contracted beasts lost its most important meaning to some people - fighting."
"Especially high-level contracted beasts. Low-level contracted beasts can be used as pets, but high-level contracted beasts are not even suitable as pets. Later, the powerful families came up with the idea of letting high-level contracted beasts fight as a form of entertainment."
"My ancestor severely injured a contracted beast during a fight. The beast master of that contracted beast was very powerful and asked the beast master of my ancestor to cut off its rhino horn."
Xie Sen's heart tightened: "He did it?"
"Yes," the flying rhinoceros whispered, "Our ancestors ended the bond by ending their lives, and all the tribes returned to the forest and no longer formed bonds with humans. Humans became ordinary, and we enjoy solitude."
The flying rhinoceros beast said, "It is fate that I met him in this situation. My mental condition is not good, and it is good for me to form a pact. I will give him a chance. If he is strong enough, I will form a pact with him. How did they end their relationship with our race? Now we will start again in the same way."
Xie Sen was shocked. He looked at Yan Qi, who had an unpleasant expression on his face, and said, "This is what it means."
Yan Qi clenched his fist, veins bulging on the back of his hand: "How is that possible? What will it do when it loses its horn?"
Xie Sen said: "Its horn has changed and must be cut. If you can't form a bond with it, I will take care of it."
"No, I'll take care of it!" Yan Qi said firmly.
"That depends on your ability. First, you need to cut off its horn."
Xie Sen said, and asked A Dan in his mind, "How much should I cut? Although it can regenerate, it's better to cut less!"
A Dan said: "Just move the tip down a little bit, so that the energy will be concentrated at the sharpest point."
Xie Sen breathed a sigh of relief and waited for Yan Qi's answer.
Yan Qi walked up to the flying rhinoceros and said, "Do you really want me to do this?"
The flying rhino nodded. Yan Qi was silent for a moment, then took out a sharp knife from his backpack. The flying rhino put its head on the ground to lower the height of its horn.
Xie Sen hurried over and measured the length according to A Dan's instructions, which was about ten centimeters: "This much will be enough!"
Yan Qi's expression softened a little. He gripped the knife handle tightly and stood still for a while. His eyes became firm. He raised his hand and cut off the rhino horn with a neat movement. When he got it in his hand, his expression changed and he looked at it in surprise.
Xie Sen stretched out his hand: "Give it to me."
Yan Qi hesitated for a moment, and the flying rhino raised its head and knocked him towards Xie Sen. He staggered two steps, looked at Xie Sen in surprise, and handed him the rhino horn.
Adan was very excited: "That's great!"
Xie Sen felt the temperature of the peony on his right shoulder rising, and the heat from the rhino horn in his palm surged up to his shoulder, with surging energy emanating from the rhino horn.
Soon, Peony calmed down and the red rhino horn turned silver-gray.
He thought for a moment, then handed the rhino horn to Yan Qi: "Keep it as a souvenir!"
Yan Qi's expression changed slightly. He took it carefully and put it into his backpack cautiously.
The flying rhino stood up from the ground and shouted at Yan Qi. Its voice was deep and full of fighting intent.
Qi Shao and his companions' expressions suddenly changed, showing some joy and some worry.
Maine held Xie Sen and retreated, leaving only the Flying Rhino and Yan Qi fighting in the open space in the middle.
After a while, a layer of sweat appeared on Yan Qi's forehead, his cheeks were tense, and his face gradually turned red. After a while, his face turned pale, his legs went weak, and he half-knelt on the ground.
"Moo~" The flying rhinoceros called out to Xie Sen. Xie Sen didn't quite understand what it meant, so he walked closer and stroked its belly.
"He's pretty good." The voice of the flying rhinoceros came from his mind. Xie Sen was surprised. Hadn't the energy been absorbed?
Adan explained: "It is affected by the energy. The energy is now in you. You are next to him and you can communicate with him."
At this time, an eagle cry came from the sky. He looked up and saw an eagle beast circling in the air, looking to the right.
After a while, a giant tiger beast and two giant elephant beasts appeared from the right side and ran directly towards the flying rhino beast.
Xie Sen had an idea and blinked his eyes: "According to you, these few are also affected by the energy. If I get close to them, can I communicate with them?"
"Yes." Adam confirmed.
Xie Sen looked at the Flying Eagle Beast, then at the Giant Tiger Beast and the Giant Elephant Beast. Why did he feel that they were a little cool?
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