12 Chapter Eleven: This Is Not Scientific
Translator: 549690339
After more than an hour, the group finally reached their destination.
The staff waiting there showed great enthusiasm upon their arrival.
The workers seemed overly loud, as if they were afraid the group might not hear them. Bai Qi even wondered if they were under the influence of the Screaming Mushroom.
For this reason, the group didn’t linger with the workers, under their guidance, they headed straight for the mission area.
However, when they saw the vast mushroom farm before them, all were silent for a long moment.
Searching for a Screaming Mushroom in this mushroom farm, this task could take forever.
The Screaming Mushroom naturally hid itself in the soil, and now it has the cover of so many mushrooms, this was beyond a question of difficulty.
No wonder this kind of task was given to novice Beast Masters, he doubted if any professional Beast Masters would want to do it.
“Let’s summon our beasts first.”
Gao Cheng, clearly more experienced, was the first to suggest. Bai Qi and others agreed and began to summon their animal companions.
A snake, a scorpion, a toad, and a millipede appeared in front of Gao Cheng’s group, which made Bai Qi’s Little Skeleton seem out of place.
Disorderly formation~
Just as Alpha appeared, the only girl in the team, Wu Lan, immediately took notice of the metallic luster on the skeleton of the Little Skeleton. She asked, “Senior, where did you get this Shadow Bone Spike? It’s so beautiful!”
“Uh… I bought it from Elf House in Gusu City.”
Bai Qi was dumbfounded, suddenly feeling like he had a tough time understanding the aesthetics of modern youth.
Although Alpha now had a high tech style, it was still a skeleton. There was no way to link it with the word “beautiful”.
Tsk~ No wonder the Beast Master Association had to issue a special notice reminding people not to blindly chase stars, Bai Qi had underestimated the psychological endurance of the star-chasing group.
“Elf House? I see.”
Wu Lan’s eyes sparkled, the other two boys also showed a hint of intent, it seems that they had some plans.
This was a free advertisement for Zhuge Chen’s business, it seems like Bai Qi had to ask him for advertising fees later.
“Alright, let’s start looking for Screaming Mushrooms. Everybody, put on your protection gear.”
Gao Cheng interrupted their conversation, distributed the specially made earmuffs to everyone, and said, “Screaming Mushrooms prefer cold environments. My Fire Armor Scorpion will draw them out, and you guys can catch them while the iron is hot.”
Bai Qi and the others nodded in agreement with Gao Cheng’s strategy, all controlling their animal companions to follow the Fire Armor Scorpion.
As expected, just as the Fire Armor Scorpion took a few steps, a Screaming Mushroom, all grey, shot out of the ground and emitted a sharp screech.
Hiss~
At the same time, Bai Qi and the others quickly covered their ears, but they still felt a buzzing in their ears and involuntarily took a few steps back.
It was this noisy even with earmuffs on, no wonder those workers spoke so loudly. It must have been the Screaming Mushrooms that caused it.
Fortunately, the Screaming Mushroom’s ability didn’t last long, after finishing its scream, it fell back to the ground and tried to burrow away.
“Fire Armor Scorpion, use your tail spike!”
Gao Cheng, clearly more experienced in battle, saw the Screaming Mushroom trying to flee and immediately commanded the Fire Armor Scorpion to attack. A slender tail spike instantly skewered the Screaming Mushroom.
“As long as the Screaming Mushroom doesn’t return to the ground, it can’t use its screeching ability for a short while, so everyone has to act quickly.”
Gao Cheng took the Screaming Mushroom off the tail spike of the Fire Armor Scorpion and tossed it into the container provided by the workers. Bai Qi and the others got the idea, and started doing it themselves.
Apart from Gao Cheng, the rest had controlling abilities, so they were able to catch the Screaming Mushrooms before they hit the ground. Bai Qi observed for awhile before he started taking action.
“Alpha, can you pierce them the moment the Screaming Mushrooms jump out?”
Bai Qi passed his intentions to Alpha through telepathy. Alpha somewhat understood and looked at the five venomous pets who were experimenting with catching the Screaming Mushrooms on their own. Two bone daggers appeared in its hands in an instant, it then started to run quickly across the mushroom ground.
“Hey, don’t do that!”
Seeing Alpha running like that, Gao Cheng instantly became worried.
There were obviously quite a lot of Screaming Mushrooms here. Based on Alpha’s mode of running, it would definitely attract a large number of Screaming Mushrooms at once.
If it allowed a large number of Screaming Mushrooms to screech at the same time, the earmuffs they were wearing now would definitely not be able to block the noise, and it might even cause substantial injuries.
Non-combat majors were so unreliable!
Just as Gao Cheng was about to send the Fire Armor Scorpion to remedy the situation, the ground where Alpha ran past shot up three or four Screaming Mushrooms. Their gradually opening mouths were preparing a powerful sound wave.
Pchit! Pchit! Pchit!
Just as everyone instinctively covered their ears, Alpha swung its daggers swiftly, piercing the Screaming Mushrooms before they could release their ability.
Even if the timing of a Screaming Mushroom emerging was off, Alpha could quickly turn its body to land a strike.
As Alpha ran, not a single Screaming Mushroom was able to release its ability.
“Is that possible?”
Alpha’s surprising performance stunned Wu Lan and the others. Gao Cheng then explained, “Theoretically, the ability of a pet beast can indeed be interrupted before it’s released, but…”
“This is a Skeleton Beastmaster!”
“If it were the Ghost Department, that would be understandable, but which Skeleton Beastmaster can run so fast?!”
“This is not scientific!”
Gao Cheng found it increasingly difficult to maintain his cool as a senior. He looked at Bai Qi and Alpha with a more peculiar gaze.
Shadow Bone Spike, a branch of the Undead Department – Skeleton Type, Gao Cheng had heard of it, but to his knowledge, this creature’s speed, while not slow, was never this exaggerated.
Furthermore, this skinny little skeleton was not only superhumanly fast, but its movements were also weirdly elusive, completely defying the motion limits of normal creatures.
Instead of Alpha being an undead creature, he was more willing to believe it was a mechanical beast that happened to look like a skeleton.
This guy was fundamentally a student of the Mechanical Engineering Department, maybe it was intentionally shaped into a skeleton.
Yes, it must be the case!
The four didn’t communicate at all, yet they all bizarrely came to the same idea, their gazes at Bai Qi were now mixed with different emotions.
As rumored, Mechanical Beastmasters are way more complicated than traditional Beastmasters.
Just like Bai Qi right now, clearly playing dumb to catch a big fish.
Tsk… They would have to be more careful around Mechanical Beastmasters in the future, otherwise they might be sold without realizing.
