Beast Taming: I Can Evolve Indefinitely

Chapter 663: Chapter 658: Legendary Sea Beast Attacks!

Even though he wasn’t interested, Bai Qi didn’t rush to leave.

Having come all this way, they might as well do some searching. If they ignored the wrecked ships, the scenery was beautiful, kind of like taking a vacation to the sea.

Bai Qi clapped and drew all his pets’ attention, saying, “This is a rare chance to relax. Everyone should spread out and search freely. Whoever finds the most and most valuable items wins! The loser forfeits dinner tonight!”

Woo woo!

(When it comes to treasure hunting, I’m the best!)

Beta quickly became interested and without waiting for Bai Qi to announce the start of the competition, he darted away.

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Kaboom kaboom!

(For Gamma’s dinner, Gamma will fight you all!)

The next one to leave was Gamma, and he flew faster than the Husky.

Whenever it was about food, Gamma was always serious.

“Well, I shall be off to find a treasure that will satisfy the boss.”

The Insect Guards showed off a slight grin and started their search over the sea surface.

“Such a harmonious scene.”

Bai Qi, watching them, nodded with satisfaction. He was about to ask the other pets to move when the atmosphere suddenly changed.

Pur pur pur?

(You want things from the bottom of the sea? Let me help you!)

Seeing this, Jie Ta put down the potion in his hand, and with one flash of a runic symbol, the serene sea suddenly churned tumultuously, rolling up a dilapidated big ship and throwing it onto the beach.

The huge impact shattered the decaying ship, and heaps of random items fell out from inside.

There were old cabinets, worn decorations, and an array of metal items.

Pur pur pur.

(Jie Ta, that’s too dangerous. Be careful not to hurt the boss.)

Seeing this, Delta severely warned Jie Ta. Delta smoothed the turbulent sea surface and then drew in the air with a dragon claw, causing all sorts of old objects to fall from the folds in space, accumulating into mountains of loot.

“Can you use skills? Then I won’t be polite.”

Watching the scene, the Insect Guards also summoned their followers and hypnotized some fish in the sea to join the search team.

Kaboom kaboom.

(In that case, Gamma joins as well.)

Gamma also joined the skill users, and Water Moon Clones spread in the sky, rushing to the sea simultaneously.

Woo woo!

(Damn, you guys are cheating! You’ve got more numbers, but you’re digging your own graves!)

Seeing this, Beta became a little agitated and summoned all the mecha Guardian Beasts to join the treasure hunt.

In an instant, the once-empty Bay of Discouragement was filled with Bai Qi’s five pets and their accompanying retinue.

“This gang, they are not here to find powers, but to loot.”

Bai Qi couldn’t help but laugh. Seeing that Alpha was still standing still, he couldn’t help but ask.

“Alpha, aren’t you going?”

Creak creak.

(No, I won’t go. This place feels strange. I think it’s better to stay here and protect the boss.)

“Alright then.”

Bai Qi shrugged nonchalantly at Alpha’s words, not objecting.

Although by Ming Dian’s reckoning, there wouldn’t be any danger here, considering their past experiences in Death Ice Forest, Bai Qi was grateful for the caution.

“Well then, boss, we’ll help with the search too, to speed things up.”

Watching the bustling activity of the five pets, Ming Dian and the rest of the sea beasts couldn’t resist joining in, entering the search team themselves.

The Bay of Discouragement was wide-reaching, and it wasn’t until nightfall that all the pets returned to the beach.

By this time, Schuck had already set up a simple base. Various types of large lights illuminated the area like daylight, allowing Bai Qi to examine the treasures the pets had found more clearly.

But just seeing five small hills’ worth of items in front of him, Bai Qi was ready to throw in the towel.

“Schuck, you can sort it out.”

Bai Qi decisively passed the task to Schuck. Schuck was straightforward and direct— releasing work robots that sifted through and examined everything, they had managed to sort five hills’ worth of items in just ten or so minutes.

Furthermore, Schuck even created a statistical table of the findings and presented it to Bai Qi.

“Jie Ta, you’ve found 735 items, with a total score of 9634.”

“Epsilon, you’ve found 598 items, with a total score of 10023.”

“Gamma, you’ve found 497 items, with a total score of 10436.”

“Beta, you’ve found 566 items, with a total score of 12634.”

“Delta, you’ve found 545 items, with a total score of 16678.”

Bai Qi pushed the projector away, laughing as he looked at the few pets, saying, “So, the winner of this treasure hunt is Delta, and the last place goes to Jie Ta.”

“Jie Ta, you don’t get dinner tonight.”

Pur pur pur…

(My drinks… my ice cream…)

Jie Ta’s face looked sad, as if he would cry if he didn’t get his dinner. The colored symbols on his forehead were flashing continuously, as if he might explode at any moment.

“Cough, Jie Ta, please hold on, we’re only refusing you dinner, emmm… drinks and ice cream are desserts, not meals!”

Seeing Jie Ta in such a state, Bai Qi promptly changed his wording, and as for this face-saving maneuver, the other pets raised no objection.

As the team’s favorite, none of the pets dared to provoke Jie Ta’s temper, and moreover, the sight of a tantrum from Jie Ta was quite an exaggeration. Not to mention that they were in the sea area, an area most susceptible to extreme weather.

Snore snore~

(So beverages and desserts aren’t counted as meals? That’s perfect~)

Upon hearing Bai Qi’s words, Jie Ta transformed from gloom to glee on his face, and cheerfully started to drink a potion.

“But really, I did not expect that Delta, you could actually overtake Beta and the others, after all, upon ascension to the Emperor’s Order, Beta and the others’ perceptive abilities are supposedly the strongest.”

Bai Qi glanced at Delta, somewhat surprised.

Woof woof!

(That’s right, I object, we need a rematch!)

Beta nodded continuously upon hearing this, he had already searched very diligently, in addition to Shuck’s appraisal ability, almost everything he found was quite valuable.

Blub blub.

(Delta just transferred things back here that had strong temporal energy, his perceptual abilities are still not as good as Beta’s.)

Delta modestly shook his head and revealed his key to victory.

“Temporal energy? True, the older things are, the stronger their temporal energy, Delta, it’s quite a pity that you’re not using this ability for archaeology.”

Clickety-clack.

(Delta is amazing, Gamma just brought back things with substantial residual energy, but still lost.)

Gamma felt a little regretful, the things he found were the most in number, but many were broken. Although they still had residual energy, they definitely did not meet Bai Qi’s requirements.

“I did well enough! I found the next largest haul after Jie Ta, but my scores are still the next to the last.”

Insect Grass lowered his head in some shame, he’d missed such a good opportunity to impress in front of the boss, it was quite a pity.

“It’s okay, everyone did well, keep it up!”

Bai Qi smiled, looking at Ming Dian and the rest of the Thirteen Protectors, he said, “Right, you guys also participated, why did you come back empty-handed?”

Ming Dian and the others looked somewhat surprised and said, “Those brothers were simply too quick, we couldn’t keep up.”

This was not just politeness, the Huskies were simply too fast and their hands too ruthless, they didn’t even leave half a good thing for them.

“Alright then.”

Bai Qi shrugged upon hearing this, looking at the pile of treasures in front of him, he asked, “Delta, can you search out the oldest and most intact items here for me?”

Blub blub.

(Certainly, Master, please wait a moment.)

Delta’s eyes shone like candlelight, and the treasures in front of them all floated into the air.

Soon after, under Delta’s control, three of the most antique items slowly flew in front of Bai Qi.

They were a golden bowl carved with peculiar patterns, a dagger inlaid with gems, and a piece of blue leather.

“Delta, are you sure these are the oldest items?”

Blub blub.

(Yes, some are even older, but they are badly damaged.)

“Alright.”

Bai Qi nodded slightly, walking over to these three items, he began to carefully observe them.

True to his request, these three items looked very retro at first glance, being able to preserve up to now also indicated the special material used.

“Which one should I choose?”

Bai Qi rubbed his chin, pacing back and forth among the three items, he quickly ruled out one of them.

The golden bowl.

Bai Qi found it hard to imagine the scene of him summoning a golden bowl during a brawl, he surely can’t just hold out his hand, shake the bowl and ask for alms while yelling like a beggar, right?

Just visualizing that scene was horrifying.

In terms of remaining dagger and leather armor, they did meet Bai Qi’s requirements, one being weapon and the other being an armor.

But for that very reason, Bai Qi was in a dilemma.

The main reason he chose the equipment system was to protect himself, and in the process, transform himself into a fighting force.

From this perspective, the blue leather armor was the most suitable.

But then again, Lao Qi’s abilities would most likely be purely defensive, which felt somewhat wasteful.

However, if he chose the dagger, perhaps it would, like the Broken Thunder Spear of Zhanlei Dojo’s Sun Hui, strengthen defense while also enhancing attack. However, taking into consideration the dagger’s attack method, Bai Qi had his doubts about that as well.

In simple words, Bai Qi was not particularly satisfied with either of these two items.

“Why couldn’t we have found some cool weapons or armor or something? Then maybe I would have been able to make a decision quicker.”

Bai Qi felt a bit of a headache, after weighing his options, he decided to collect the dagger and the leather armor first, and then compare them with the treasures of the Crystal Palace.

He wasn’t in a hurry anyway, there was no need to settle right away.

Plus, they hadn’t completely explored the suffering bay yet.

“It’s getting late; let’s rest here tonight and continue our search tomorrow.”

Bai Qi stretched languidly, he was just about to ask Shuck to build a house when suddenly, Alpha raised his head to look into the distance, and Shuck also bent down to growl towards the far-off area.

Crackle crackle!

(Boss, a legendary sea beast is approaching us!)