noveltune Chapter 5: Wen Tao: This is a sure thing
Chapter 5: Wen Tao: This is a sure thing
Atop the verdant peaks, a giant, snow-white eagle carried two figures, soaring across the continuous mountain range. The wind howled in their ears, the majestic mountains rushed past, and the eagle's cry tore through the universe.
The handsome young man with sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes looked at the beautiful and aloof girl beside him. The wind blew her black hair by her ears, making her even more captivating.
"Senior, who is it?"
Hearing the deep, masculine voice on the phone just now, Wen Tao asked a question almost without thinking, a strange sense of crisis rising in his heart.
"Lin Yi".
"Lin Yi? Is he a senior student?"
"No, it's a younger brother from my hometown. He's arranged to come to my shop today to buy a pet."
younger brother?
Wen Tao realized something.
Chen Shiqi addressed the caller as "younger brother" rather than "junior."
Adding the phrase "from my hometown" intensified the already palpable sense of crisis.
This guy named Lin Yi actually had a date with the senior, and judging from the senior's increasingly quick movements, he seemed to hold a significant place in her heart.
A sense of disappointment welled up in Wen Tao's heart.
He was able to go out and gain experience with his senior this time thanks to the connection of his teacher's wife, Chen Shiqi, who is also Wen Tao's biological mother.
Mr. Wen and his mother had always liked this disciple very much and dreamed that she could become their daughter-in-law.
Wen Tao understood the elders' intentions perfectly well; they were deliberately trying to bring the two of them together.
In fact, Wen Tao thought so too. Chen Shiqi's excellence and beauty were unmatched even by many at Tiannan University.
"It turns out he's from the same hometown as my senior. If you have the chance, please introduce us. He's her younger brother, and he's also Wentao's friend."
Wen Tao smiled politely, thinking about his talent for beast taming, and the fact that his father was the other party's mentor, so he wasn't lacking in confidence.
What I fear most is that the other woman's younger brother might be even more outstanding than me...
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In the woods in front of the pet store.
After hanging up the phone, Lin Yi had nothing to do, so he stood in front of the notice board in front of the pet store and looked at the types of pets sold in Chen Shiqi's shop.
There are many types, including fire-attribute beasts, lightning-attribute beasts, wind-attribute beasts, water-attribute beasts, ice-attribute beasts... and at the very end are wood-attribute beasts, which are suitable for spirit plant-type beast tamers like Lin Yi.
Each type of pet is further categorized into three main types: combat, healing, and non-combat life.
Lin Yi bent down and found the spirit plant-type pet at the end of the notice board... the Ground Mushroom!
Nowadays, the status of free-range mushrooms in the world of Beast Tamers has declined sharply. They rarely appear in pet specialty stores and are mostly found in vegetable markets.
The fact that Chen Shiqi put this mushroom-shaped pet on the bulletin board shows her attitude towards weak pets.
Lin Yi was engrossed in watching when a sudden gust of wind arose behind him, and a commotion broke out all around. He turned around and saw Chen Shiqi putting the giant snow-white eagle beast into her beast-taming space.
The Beast Taming Space is a mysterious feature that can only be unlocked after a Beast Tamer reaches a certain level. It allows them to freely store their pets inside for further training, with a training speed more than twice that of the outside world.
Chen Shiqi's appearance immediately attracted everyone's attention.
With a stunningly beautiful face and a refined, aloof demeanor, she seems to brighten up wherever she goes.
She is not only an unattainable goddess in the hearts of many beast tamers, but also one of the beautiful vice presidents of the Beast Tamer Association of Tiannan University, an embodiment of both talent and beauty.
The boy accompanying Chen Shiqi was also eye-catching, handsome and dashing, a true campus heartthrob.
"Senior, weren't you supposed to arrive in ten minutes?" Lin Yi grinned and greeted the two. They were supposed to arrive in ten minutes, but it had only been less than six minutes.
"Isn't it because you want to buy a pet? How about it? Have you decided what kind of pet you want to contract?" Chen Shiqi smiled broadly, making Wen Tao, who was standing to the side, stare blankly. It was the first time he had ever seen his senior smile at someone like that.
What's even more infuriating is that Lin Yi's relationship with Chen Shiqi seems to be better and more natural than he imagined.
"Let's take a look first," Lin Yi said with a smile. During their last phone call, he only mentioned that he wanted to buy a pet beast, without specifying that it was a ground mushroom.
Chen Shiqi nodded and immediately led the two of them toward the shop.
She had a different feeling for Lin Yi than for others, not only because the old dean asked her to take care of Lin Yi, but also because she had met an old friend from afar.
Although her biological father found her and took her away from the orphanage, she still clearly remembered the little boy who always followed her around calling her "sister."
In a foreign land, it's so hard to finally meet a "family member," how can outsiders compare?
"You can pick any pet you like in the shop. I'll give you any you want." After wasting half a year, this guy finally agreed to contract a pet. Chen Shiqi was genuinely happy for him.
"Senior, how can this be? I'm a man with a school allowance."
Lin Yi said somewhat embarrassedly, "Even if you don't charge for the pet, you absolutely cannot give me a discount on the evolution fluid."
If he weren't really short of money, Lin Yi wouldn't have come here to fleece Chen Shiqi. Although he was joking, he wouldn't actually let her lose all her money.
The minimum purchase price for a single free-range mushroom is at least 30,000 yuan. Adding in various cultivation costs, labor costs, and shop rent, it will take at least 50,000 yuan to sell it.
They are all businesses that require careful calculation.
Wen Tao followed behind the two, feeling somewhat awkward.
It seems that Senior Chen forgot to introduce herself.
Having no other choice, he could only step forward and say, "Lin Yi? Hello, my name is Wen Tao. I just returned from a training trip with my senior, and I haven't had a chance to introduce myself yet."
"Lin Yi." Lin Yi reached out and shook hands with the other person, appearing very casual.
This made Wen Tao somewhat disheartened. "Brother, you're acting so casually, making me look like a clown. Don't you think I'm a formidable opponent?"
Or are you really that confident that you can win the favor of your senior?
Wen Tao had to admit that the moment he saw Lin Yi, his sense of crisis intensified.
He originally thought he was already very handsome, but he never expected that there would be someone at Tiannan University who could rival him in terms of looks.
He felt particularly uncomfortable with the other person's composure.
Good grief, you're just pretending. I've already seen through you. You seem calm on the surface, but deep down you're just like me. The moment you saw me, you must have felt a huge sense of crisis, right?
Wen Tao has always been quite confident in his own excellence, especially in his talent for beast taming.
"Lin Yi, you haven't contracted a beast pet yet, you must be a freshman this year, right?" Wen Tao said with a friendly face, "I'm also in this year's class, we'll be classmates from now on, we should keep in touch more often."
Knowing yourself and the enemy is the only way to survive a hundred battles.
Only by getting to know you can I comfortably exclude you.
Inside the pet store, Chen Shiqi didn't lead Lin Yiman aimlessly around. Knowing he was a spirit plant-type beast tamer, she went straight to the spirit plant-type pet section.
As soon as Wen Tao stepped into this area, he instantly sensed something and couldn't help but look at his imagined enemy.
"Lin Yi, are you a plant-based beast tamer?"
Look what I found!
There's an even bigger surprise?
Is he a plant-based beast tamer?
He's actually a plant-based beast tamer!
"Hmm, a first-year student in the Department of Spirit Plant Cultivation and Research, I guess you could call him a half-beast tamer."
Lin Yi nodded, not thinking that the spirit plant system was anything shameful.
"So what's your major?"
"Research on cross-species breeding of spirit plant-type pets".
"Oh, I see." Wen Tao nodded and said, "Cultivation research is good. Interspecies research has always been a key project of our school."
Wen Tao appeared calm on the surface, but inwardly he was overjoyed.
What's the use of being as handsome as me? A plant-based expert, and someone who does cross-species research, he's practically no different from a useless person.
Wentao: This is a sure thing!!!