Chapter 48

Chapter 48: To know what happens next, Qian Qi, pay up!

Qian Qi’s small face turned uncharacteristically serious as she said: “Tong Tong, did you realize something very serious?”

System listened patiently: [What do you want to say?]

Qian Qi huffed with a hint of righteous anger as she said: “The senior who helped Chen Tong kill me actually has a Contract Beast!”

System slowly typed a single symbol: [?] then added: [So what?]

Qian Qi tightened her grip on the sack in her hand, stepped forward with her right leg, dropped into a bent stance, pointed at the fainted Beast Taming senior on the ground, and cried out: “Open your eyes and look! Even scum like him has a Contract Beast, but I, a chosen transmigrator, beautiful and generous without equal, and the one who owns the universe’s strongest golden cheat, the System, do not have a Contract Beast!”

Her voice rose and fell with dramatic expression as she demanded: “Does this make sense?”

[This makes no sense!]

Qian Qi pressed a hand to her chest and declared in a ringing tone: “My noble and learned Lord System, I understand. This is your test for me.”

She slid forward and dropped to one knee, raised the System Panel high, and said with a devoted, trembling voice: “You are waiting for the right time. Once you confirm I can earn money for you, you will grant me the great Beast Taming Talent!”

She lifted the panel higher and called out in her heart: “Come now, let me receive your wise blessing. I will be your most loyal follower and offer you the shiniest money in this world.”

[Come, my Beast Taming Talent!]

[Come, my Contract Beast!]

System showed only silence: [……]

System had no words and wondered what exactly it had bonded with.

Qian Qi’s raised hands tightened ever so slightly around the sack. [If it refuses or has nothing to give after all that praise, I’ll bag it, stomp it hard a few times, then toss it into the stinky ditch.]

The night fell quiet. The two of them wrestled in their hearts, as if fighting a long mental battle.

At last, the silent System slowly typed a line: [Actually, everyone can do Beast Taming.]

If the great experts saw this sentence, it would cause a tidal wave, because ever since Beast Tamers appeared, people accepted as fact that only those with Beast Taming Talent could make a Beast Contract. But newbie Qian Qi did not know any of that. She only knew her System was amazing. Other than being a bit pricey, it seemed to know everything.

“So what do I do to make a Beast Contract?” Qian Qi blinked her big eyes with simple hope as she asked, just wanting a Magibeast to protect her money.

Without external weapons, one’s own Strength is king. Under absolute defense and heavy punches, all fancy tricks are nothing but smoke. When you do not have absolute defense and heavy punches, a Contract Beast is the eternal champion.

System answered: [Make the Magibeast take the initiative and send you a Beast Contract request.]

Under the night, faint white words glowed on the System Panel. No one would have guessed that on such a calm, ordinary night, a method that could change the fate of the world and of Humans would be born so quietly.

System continued: [The lower the level of a Magibeast, the fiercer and more bloodthirsty it is. It sees a person and wants to kill. The higher the level, the smarter it is and the less it wants to submit to Humans.]

This is why no Magibeast is willing to start a Beast Contract with a Human. After all, who would ask its food to become its master?

It would be like making you accept a slab of pork on a cutting board as your master, fight for it every day, and risk your life with one mistake. Would you agree?

[Not even a fool would agree.]

System paused and wrote: [So, if an ordinary person wants a Magibeast to bow its head, there are only two methods.]

System hesitated, then flashed a line: [If you want to know what happens next, Qian Qi, pay up ~ ^v^]

Staring hard at the panel, Qian Qi showed pure confusion: [???]

She pulled a long face that screamed you cannot be serious and said: “System, with the history between us, you still want money for such a small question?”

System flickered: [Sleepy now, going to bed ^_^]

“Wait, no!” Qian Qi chickened out, or rather, chose to be smart. She hugged the System and said with tragic dignity: “Fine, how much?”

System went quiet again.

Alarms blared in Qian Qi’s head as she rushed to say: “System, do not do the math! I just earned that money. You are not planning to take it all, right? I have to eat too!”

The System, which was busy calculating how much she made today and how much it could skim, paused: […]

[Do not be so stingy,] it explained while still calculating: [This is a method that lets ordinary people do Beast Taming. A higher fee is normal.]

It had not introduced the D grade Defense Fruit for only 100 bucks back then to be a fool. That was just a long line to catch a big fish.

After setting aside money for her to switch majors and to cover moving the orphanage, the System said considerately: [I will round it down for you. For 1,000,000, you can unlock a secret that only you in the whole world will know ~ ^v^]

Qian Qi gritted her teeth and bargained: “Drop another zero. 100,000.”

[Deal ~] the System replied with a big smiley. [Pay up!]

Qian Qi’s heart jumped. Deal? Just like that? It did not haggle?

[If something is off, there must be a trap.] She eyed the System with suspicion and asked carefully: “Are you trying to scam me? You will not take the money and run, right?”

[How could I? With what we have, giving you a discount is normal,] the System said in an old and wise tone, copying her own style. [We will see each other often in the future. Give me a little trust, hmm?]

Qian Qi stared in silence, then sent 100,000.

Once the money arrived, the System spoke briskly: [The first method is to play the feelings card. Stay with a Magibeast for a long time. If it truly recognizes and depends on you, it might start a Beast Contract request on its own.]

But that sounded hard at first listen. Ordinary people cannot even manage the part about long term living with a Magibeast.

After all, Magibeasts eat people.

Qian Qi went straight to the point: “What is the second method?”

[The second one can wait,] the System replied with a squinting smile. [To save your money, I suggest you go to the Magibeast storage room and shovel poop first ~ ^v^]

Qian Qi fell silent: […]

Then she exploded: [???] “What? Shovel poop?”

Early the next morning, Qian Qi shot up in bed like a dying person revived. She had just had a nightmare. In it, she shoveled three tons of Magibeast poop, while Senior Chen Tong jumped into a cesspit to avoid paying their wager and drowned.

Her young heart was scarred. She opened the campus forum and clacked out a trending post: “#Blinded by shock! A certain well known senior from the Beast Taming Department owed big boss Qian Qi five million, and to pay it back he actually went to do this?#”

[Whew. My hurt heart is healed.]

She did not even check if anyone saw the post. She closed her Light-Brain, washed up, put on her old grandpa outfit, and got ready to go. From today on, she would infiltrate the Beast Taming Department.

As for how to get in, she would of course start with the gate guard, Old Master Sun.