Beast taming, starting from zero point

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Everything happening before her eyes was too magical.

Xiao Xunbao, the Treasure-seeking Ghost, had been put under the Ghost-absorbing Lantern’s hypnotism, and after waking up, it burst into tears. Then it reconciled with the lantern, offering it some milk. And just after a string of words she couldn’t comprehend, the Ghost-absorbing Lantern compromised?

Let alone the earlier events, the mere fact that the Ghost-absorbing Lantern agreed to go back with her to see the old lady was utterly preposterous.

Would a Pet Beast that was willing to give up its evolution or even risk its life to save its own Beast Tamer compromise so easily?

Qiao Sang’s expression shifted slightly.

Could it be that she’d inadvertently fallen for the Ghost-absorbing Lantern’s trick just now?

Was everything happening now just a dream or illusion?

“Xun~”

Xiao Xunbao, the Treasure-seeking Ghost, floated to the front of its Beast Tamer when it saw no response.

Looking at the familiar face, it pouted, and its eyes began to redden again.

However, before its tears could fall, Qiao Sang reached out and tapped it on the head.

“Does it hurt?”

Treasure-seeking Ghost: “???”

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After a long night, Qiao Sang finally confirmed that this was not an illusion.

In the second half of the night, the Ghost-absorbing Lantern came to and did not leave; instead, it began to communicate with Xiao Xunbao again.

Even though she didn’t know what they were communicating about, Qiao Sang sensed it was something profound.

She knew Xiao Xunbao was socially adept, but she didn’t know it could be to this extent.

Qiao Sang turned to look at Yaobao, still sound asleep, her feelings a mix of emotions.

Comparison is truly the thief of joy…

As dawn began to break,

Qiao Sang, with dark circles under her eyes, put Yaobao, still fast asleep, back into the Beast Taming Codex and knocked on door 702.

The same lady opened the door.

She was taken aback: “Why have you come back?”

Qiao Sang, struggling to suppress her drowsiness, said, “I’m here to complete the mission.”

Complete the mission? The lady had an epiphany: “You’re here to resign from the task, right? Actually, you didn’t have to come over in person; you could have just operated on your phone.”

Qiao Sang, with half-closed eyes, said, “No, I found the Ghost-absorbing Lantern.”

After saying this, she finally couldn’t resist yawning. Staying up all night was indeed too taxing, especially after her phone battery died…

The lady stood there, dumbfounded. The Ghost-absorbing Lantern? Found?

Seeing that the lady hadn’t reacted, Qiao Sang reached up and poked her head, and the next second, Xiao Xunbao appeared and called out to the side.

Then, a familiar figure appeared in front of the lady.

The lady’s face instantly went blank.

The Ghost-absorbing Lantern, which the inspectorate couldn’t find after searching for so long, was found by an underage kid in less than a day?!

“The Ghost-absorbing Lantern?” The lady couldn’t believe it and asked the lantern for confirmation.

What if this wasn’t the one the old lady lost, but another that just looked similar?

The Ghost-absorbing Lantern gave her a faint glance and walked straight in.

Lady: “…!”

It was indeed it!

Qiao Sang followed the Ghost-absorbing Lantern inside.

The Ghost-absorbing Lantern stopped outside the room and seemed to hesitate.

“Xun.” Xiao Xunbao floated next to it and nodded at it.

After exchanging a glance with Xiao Xunbao, the Ghost-absorbing Lantern drifted through the door, and Xiao Xunbao closely followed behind.

When Qiao Sang saw this, she knocked twice on the door—no response, knocked again—still no response.

This time she learned her lesson and didn’t knock a third time; instead, she pushed the door open and went in.

The old lady lay on the bed, not yet awakened, with both Pet Beasts staring at her, lost in thought.

Qiao Sang could understand why the Ghost-absorbing Lantern was lost in thought, but she was somewhat puzzled to see Xiao Xunbao in the same state.

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Shouldn’t it be drooling?

Could this be a side effect of hypnotism?

Xiao Xunbao, the Treasure-seeking Ghost, slowly overlaid the wrinkled face before its eyes with that of the one in its dream, and panic started to set in again.

It turned its head toward Qiao Sang and vanished, reappearing above her head where it grabbed two handfuls of her hair, which finally calmed its heart.

Seeing this, Qiao Sang was relieved. She hesitated on whether to wake up the elderly lady sleeping soundly on the bed.

Just then, the flame inside the Ghost-absorbing Lantern flickered, and the Nether Yang Crystal moved slowly from behind the lampshade to the spot right above the old lady.

Qiao Sang was stunned for a moment, and just as the Nether Yang Crystal was about to enter the old lady’s body, she reacted faster than her brain and snatched the crystal away with one swift movement.

“Have you lost your mind!” Qiao Sang turned and scolded the Ghost-absorbing Lantern sternly.

She knew that the Ghost-absorbing Lantern wouldn’t last long without the Nether Yang Crystal, and with a Lamp Wick still inside the elderly lady, she couldn’t fathom why it would move the crystal into her body.

Moreover, the old lady was human and simply couldn’t bear it… Wait…

The Lamp Wick, there was still a Lamp Wick inside the old lady!

Qiao Sang suddenly remembered the call with the vice-principal, the Lamp Wick could only stay inside a human body for three days at most, yet it had already been more than half a month…

If the Nether Yang Crystal was used to feed the Lamp Wick at regular intervals, it could probably marginally sustain the Lamp Wick’s operation.

But by doing so, the Ghost-absorbing Lantern itself…

“Ghost-absorbing!”

The Ghost-absorbing Lantern took back the Nether Yang Crystal from Qiao Sang’s hand with a fierce expression.

“Xun!”

Xiao Xunbao, the Treasure-seeking Ghost, unfolded its arms and stood in front of Qiao Sang.

The Ghost-absorbing Lantern hesitated, its fierce expression softened, and it turned to move the Nether Yang Crystal back to the elderly lady.

Qiao Sang suddenly realized a problem.

The Ghost-absorbing Lantern seemed off without the Nether Yang Crystal. Could it be that it wasn’t actually feeding on human life force?

Right at that moment, the old lady on the bed slowly opened her eyes.

The Ghost-absorbing Lantern was startled and instinctively concealed the Nether Yang Crystal before it turned invisible.

“You’ve arrived.” The old lady, upon seeing the sudden appearance of someone in her room, wasn’t surprised. She propped herself up to sit halfway on the bed and said gently.

Her demeanor was completely different from yesterday…

Qiao Sang paused, about to speak, when suddenly Xiao Xunbao floated in front of the old lady and started gesturing.

“Xun.”

“Xun Xun.”

The old lady watched quietly, a smile appearing on her face: “Right, it seems that child used hypnotism on you.”

“Dreams are the activity of the subconscious; during dreams, conscious activity stops and the subconscious comes alive autonomously. Normally it shouldn’t be able to control your dreams, but its mastery of hypnotism is quite high. It probably subconsciously wove its own subconscious into your dreams without realizing it.”

“So, what you saw was what it had experienced.” As the old lady said this, she turned her head toward the empty air to her front left, her cloudy eyes filling with tears.

“I did say those words at the end. Maybe the child was in too much pain to hear them at the time, so it didn’t stop.”

Qiao Sang finally understood why Xiao Xunbao had been acting so strangely after waking up.

She looked in the direction of the old lady’s gaze. The Ghost-absorbing Lantern, now invisible, was likely in that direction. The old lady must have noticed…

Indeed, the old lady turned to Qiao Sang and said, “Thank you for helping me find this child. I haven’t brought up the reward since you didn’t ask, so I didn’t mention it.”

She opened the bedside drawer, took out a Beast Taming Badge, and tossed it over: “Take this to the Beast Taming Center; they will give you something in return.”

Qiao Sang was taken aback: “Then I’ll return the badge to you afterward.”

The old lady kindly replied, “No need, I won’t need the badge after this.”

Qiao Sang fell silent; to a Beast Tamer, the Beast Taming Badge was a symbol of identity. How could one not need it unless there was no longer any possibility of needing it…

“Alright, off you go. I want to spend some time alone with the lantern.” The old lady looked into the empty air to her front left with a tender expression.

Qiao Sang stood still, not moving.

After about fifteen seconds, the old lady couldn’t help but turn her head impatiently: “Why haven’t you left yet?”

That’s more like it… Qiao Sang thought.

“Oh, please give a five-star review when you get the chance.”

The old lady: “…”