After the scheduled time to go to sea, Gu Ling finished inventorying his equipment, then put on his backpack and took Xianjiu downstairs to meet Gu Mingsheng.
In the living room on the first floor, Xiang Jinli and three others were also there.
After seeing Gu Ling come down, Xiang Jinli stuffed the plastic bag containing several small cakes into Gu Ling's hand: "Xiao Ling, take these small cakes with you. If you feel hungry, take one out to eat. "
Gu Ling was a little confused: "Second Aunt, Second Uncle and I are only going to the island for a few hours. Maybe we can come back at midnight."
Xiang Jinli waved her hand: "It's okay to take it with you. What if the physical exertion is too great and you get hungry?"
All right.
There is a kind of hunger called: Your parents think you are hungry.
Gu Ling had no choice but to stuff the small cake into his backpack.
After bidding farewell to Xiang Jinli and the others, they set off for the port with Gu Mingsheng.
When they arrived at the port, there was already a small boat waiting to pick them up. There was an acquaintance on the boat, and it turned out to be the man in a suit who was recruiting beast masters at the Cultural Building during the day.
After the two got on the boat, the man in the suit immediately asked the crew to sail the boat towards the island.
on board.
The man in the suit looked at the island in the distance with his vision gradually becoming clearer. He turned to Gu Ling and Gu Mingsheng and said, "That ghost beast usually appears at night and is elusive, so the time to land on the island is set at 19 o'clock in the evening. .”
"Among the beast masters who originally accompanied the fleet, there were also contracted beasts that had learned to see through the skills. However, they failed to win the first battle. The ghost beast had a very high IQ. It seemed to have mastered the skills of those beast masters. I have memorized the appearance of the beast master. As long as those few people appear, the ghost beast will not choose to show up, but will directly disturb the others."
"So, you only have one chance. If you fail once, it will make it wary and it will be more difficult to deal with later."
Gu Mingsheng asked: "What race is that ghost beast? Have you found out?"
The man in the suit replied: "The ghost beast always appears and disappears. It uses smoke as a cover when it appears, so no one can see it clearly. Only a pair of big blood-red eyes can be seen, but the body of the pet beast seems to be able to Glowing green..."
Gu Mingsheng pondered for a moment and then said: "Among the many ghost beasts in the Asia-Pacific region, there are many races with blood-red eyes, such as the Blood Soul Eye Clan, the Nightmare Demon Clan, the Greedy Ghost Clan..."
"But it doesn't match up with the fact that the body can emit green light... Could it be a nocturnal spirit moth? A firefly in the underworld? Or a jack-o'-lantern monster?"
This is a bit contrary to Gu Mingsheng's common sense.
Listening to the conversation between the two, Gu Ling couldn't help but become curious.
What is the origin of the ghost beast on the island?
Seeing the island getting closer, Gu Mingsheng turned to Gu Ling and warned: "After you get to the island, you must always stay with me and don't get separated."
"Let Xianjiu be ready to use the discernment skill at any time. Once you successfully hit the ghost beast, you will run far away. Just leave the rest to me."
"Yeah, I know." Gu Ling nodded.
After a while, the boat docked at the shore and the group of people landed on the island.
Gu Mingsheng opened two yellow summoning circles. The light dissipated, and a majestic white feathered eagle and a domineering fiery rat appeared in front of everyone.
Feeling that the two pet beasts exuded an aura that was stronger than the extraordinary level, Gu Ling instantly understood: "They are both warrior level..."
"Second uncle, has your pet beast's space level broken through?"
In his memory, Gu Mingsheng was only a three-star beast master, but now the color of the summoning circle has changed to yellow, which means that he is already a four-star beast master.
"Yes, we just broke through." Gu Mingsheng nodded.
Gu Ling couldn't help but wonder, was the task that Gu Mingsheng spent so long doing before very special and important? So that the reward for the task afterwards is very generous?
After returning, Gu Mingsheng not only gave away three glazed miraculous trees worth 600,000 yuan, but also became a four-star beast master. I wonder if Gu Mingsheng has contracted a fourth pet beast now.
But even if the contract is made, it is probably still a pet beast cub, which has not yet formed a fighting force.
As for whether he would directly contract a wild adult pet beast, Gu Ling felt it was unlikely.
Most of the beast masters' contracted beasts are cultivated from pet eggs or pet beast cubs. This not only helps to cultivate feelings, but also the pet beast cubs have not been trained and their potential is still in the untapped stage.
In contrast, it is not easy for wild adult pet beasts to establish relationships, and wild pet beasts have some kind of hidden wounds that are difficult to heal due to their survival in the wild wanderings again and again, and they may also be overdrawn prematurely. Lose your own potential and force evolution.
"White Feathered Eagle, be careful around you." Gu Mingsheng asked the White Feathered Eagle to fly into the air to be on guard, and then asked the Fiery Rat to follow Gu Ling for protection.
"Fire Rat, wait a moment. Your main task is to protect Little Zero."
The fiery rat nodded, and then walked to Gu Ling's side.
Gu Ling took the opportunity to brush the dark blue hair on the back of the hot rat, but the hot rat only glanced at Gu Ling, turned away, and acted as a bodyguard dutifully.
The fiery rat recognized Gu Ling and knew that he was a relative of the beast master. In addition to his gentle personality, he did not resist Gu Ling's touch.
[Name]: Hot Rat
[Attribute]: Fire system
[Characteristics]: Fierce fire
[Qualification]: 425 (Advanced)
[Level]: Warrior level
【Skill】:
[Normal skills]: impact, roar, head hammer, smoke, lightning flash
[Fire Skills]: Sparks, Flame Wheel, Jet Flame
[Ground skills]: Digging holes
[Introduction]: Generally gentle in temperament, but once angered, the flames behind it will become fierce.
Gu Ling was secretly shocked when he saw that Fiery Rat's qualifications were 425 points.
In his memory, when Gu Mingsheng first obtained the unevolved form of Explosive Rat, Explosive Rat, he only had a medium qualification of 390 points.
The racial qualifications of pet beasts are innate and almost impossible to change. The only common way to increase qualifications is evolution.
After the pet beast evolves, there will be a qualitative change, and the racial qualifications will also be improved.
"When Xianjiu evolves, the intermediate qualification of 398 points should be able to break through to the high qualification..." Gu Ling turned to look at Xianjiu, who was sitting on her shoulder and looking around, thinking to himself.
Evolution is different from pure strength level improvement.
The factors that lead to the evolution of pet beasts are very complex. No pet beast researcher can fully understand the evolution theory of pet beasts. Some pet beasts simply want to become stronger, so they induce evolution; some pet beasts just take a nap and evolve directly. At the moment of life and death, some pet animals evolve because of their strong desire to survive...
The advantages of evolution generally outweigh the disadvantages. For pet beasts of the same level, the evolved pet beasts are usually stronger than the unevolved ones.
However, evolution also has some shortcomings. For example, the pet beasts that originally looked very cute have become fierce and ugly after evolution. The immutable stone that can prevent the pet beasts from evolving has always been selling well on the market. .
Another example is the Greedy Ghost clan of ghost-type beasts. After evolving from the Greedy Ghost into the final evolved form, the Greedy Ghost, the floating feature that was originally immune to all ground-based skills turned into a cursed body. Although the cursed body was subjected to After attacking, there is a 30% chance that the opponent will be immobilized, but it is not as useful as the floating feature.
On the way, the man in a suit led the way and explained his follow-up plan:
"We have already investigated in advance. The hiding place of the ghost beast is probably in the abandoned house to the east. Later we will arrange for workers to deliberately start work there, making noise and attracting the ghost beast here. .”
Gu Ling asked: "After the ghost beast appears, will it attack those workers?"
Man in suit: "Yes."
"Then I can hide my Xianjiu, and when the workers pretend to run away, they can lure the ghost beasts there, so that the discernment skill can hit more easily." Gu Ling suggested.
"This method is quite good, and we will fully cooperate with it." The man in the suit nodded.
Before he went to the abandoned house area, Gu Mingsheng said to Gu Ling: "When a beast master walks in the wild, he usually puts one or two pet beasts outside, and also leaves one in his own pet space. There are only two pet beasts.”
Hearing this, Gu Ling subconsciously glanced at the white-feathered eagle flying in the sky and the fiery rat walking beside her.
If you look carefully at the flight path of the white-feathered eagle, you can see that it has been spinning in circles in the air in the direction of the group of people.
Every time I fly there in advance to explore the route I will take, and I am also alert to the surrounding movements.
The hot rat was very close to Gu Ling, only two or three steps apart, and he would look back at the two of them from time to time.
"The pet beast that is placed outside has the primary responsibility of protecting the animal master, and is always vigilant of various dangers that may arise around it. Whether it is exploring the path or breaking off the retreat, these tasks need to be done by the pet beast."
"With the beast master as the center, the two pet beasts are positioned one behind the other. In this way, whether there is danger coming from the front or behind, the pet beasts can resist it immediately, and the beast master only needs to move As long as the pet beast has checked the safe route without danger."
Gu Ling felt a little itchy.
If the situation didn't allow it, she would have wanted to take out her notebook and take notes.
"Meow~" Xianjiu nuzzled Gu Ling gently with his head, his eyes full of seriousness.
Don't worry, beastmaster!
I will protect you~
Gu Ling smiled and touched Xianjiu's head: "Okay."
Fifteen minutes later.
The group arrived at the designated abandoned housing area.
Here, there were already seven or eight workers staying behind.
After seeing the man in the suit coming, he immediately started to turn on the machine.
Gu Ling looked around and hid Xianjiu in an empty paper box. The top of the box was only vaguely covered. Xianjiu only needed to jump lightly to get out.
Afterwards, Gu Ling placed Xianjiu and the paper box next to an aisle, then turned to several workers and ordered: "You guys run this way later."
"Okay." the workers replied.
After everything was ready, the extra people found a place to hide nearby, quietly waiting for the arrival of the ghost beast.
"rumble--"
The sound of the machine running spread all around, making it seem unusually noisy and harsh in the otherwise silent night.
Gu Ling, who was hiding in the dark, held his breath and stared at the working machine, scanning everything around him with his peripheral vision.
swish swish——
The shadows of the surrounding trees are scattered, forming mottled shadows on the ground.
Time passed bit by bit, and in the darkness, something seemed to be speeding towards this side.
The fiery rat next to Gu Ling seemed to be aware of it, and he arched his body slightly, with a hint of murderous intent on his face.
At this time, a cloud of black mist spewed out from the nearby abandoned house, spreading at a speed visible to the naked eye, and surged in the direction of the machine.
In the black mist, a pair of big blood-red eyes suddenly appeared!
"Ahhh! The monster is coming!"
"Run!"
"..."
Several workers were so frightened that they began to run away, but they did not forget Gu Ling's words and ran towards the cardboard box intentionally or unintentionally.
Monsters in the black mist followed closely behind, chasing the workers.
Inside the cardboard box, Xianjiu looked through a crack and stared at the blood-stained eyes of the black mist that was getting closer and closer. When the black mist was about to cover a worker, Xianjiu immediately jumped out of the cardboard box and used his discernment skills.
A faint blue light flashed through the cat's pupils, like an invisible ray that penetrated the heavy black fog and locked onto the "monster" inside.
"...Jie?"
In the black mist, the monster made a strange sound that sounded suspicious.
The next second, in the eyes of everyone, the invisible black fog monster gradually revealed its figure.
Gu Ling looked at it from a distance, and for a moment he felt like he was blinded.
Because this monster is like a big balloon emitting green light. The surface of the 'balloon' has a pair of blood-red eyes and a bloody mouth.
Red and green...it looks weird and funny.
"White Feathered Eagle! Use wings to attack!"
The white-feathered eagle in the sky heard the command and quickly flew downwards. Its powerful wings lit up with white light and struck at the 'monster' in the black mist!
Bang!
The 'monster' was unable to dodge and was knocked out of the black mist by a blow.
"Xiao Ling, you take Xianjiu and retreat first!" Gu Mingsheng only had time to say this before he immediately rushed out and continued to direct the white feathered eagle to attack:
"White Feather Eagle, use air slash!"
The 'monster' regained consciousness and rolled several times on the ground, crawling and crawling, before barely escaping the air slash.
At the same time, Gu Mingsheng raised his hand to create a summoning circle, summoning his third pet beast, blocking the rear of the 'monster'.
Gu Ling picked up Xian Jiu who had slipped over and glanced over there.
Gu Mingsheng's third pet beast is the fighting type Valilang. No wonder he didn't release it in advance.
Normally, fighting-type skills are ineffective against ghost-type beasts, but the mysterious pet beast is now hit by Xianjiu's discernment skill and is in a short-lived physical state. At this time, fighting-type Walilang can attack Mysterious pet beast.
"Walilang! Get closer! Use Split Tiles!"
"..."
Gu Ling did not continue to watch how the subsequent battle was going to be.
Instead, he listened to Gu Mingsheng's words, let the fiery rat lead the way, and quickly fled the scene with Xianjiu in his arms.
"Huh...huh..."
After passing through a dense forest, Gu Ling emerged from the other end.
At this time, the sound of fighting in my ears was already very small.
Only then did Gu Ling have time to observe the situation around him.
It was too dark nearby, and even if there was flame illumination on the back of the fiery rat, the visibility was not high, so Gu Ling took out the flashlight from his backpack.
After turning on the flashlight, Gu Ling looked around.
Not far away, there was a blurry black shadow on the mountainside. When the light of the flashlight shone through, Gu Ling could vaguely see a small single-family house.
However, the house looks very old and dusty. The white paint around the walls is almost peeling off, and there are all kinds of moss and green plants all over it.
Gu Ling tightened his arms slightly and hugged Xianjiu in his arms a little tighter: "This house looks to be quite old. The shape and structure are different from those in abandoned housing areas, and it looks like it will collapse at any time..."
Moreover, it felt more like a haunted house this night.
(End of chapter)
