Chapter 910: Chapter 871: Fleeing While Handling Affairs (Part 2)
But now he was already very sleepy, earlier he hadn’t even fallen asleep before Fatty called him up.
Now that everything is done, Gu Mian can finally have a good rest.
He lay on the bed, in a half-asleep state, he heard Fatty say he found Lu Yi outside a ticket office, but Lu Yi said he had some matters and would come to the apartment to find him later.
Amidst Fatty’s rambling, Gu Mian drifted into sleep.
When he woke up again, it was already noon the next day, and Gu Mian opened his eyes to see 007 sitting in the living room; she had returned.
Chu Changge had also returned at some point and was sitting on the sofa in the living room with 007, both of them silent and absorbed in their thoughts.
When Gu Mian woke up, Fatty was moving two flower pots into the room: "The doctor hasn’t planted the two seeds he got from the instance yet, the seeds the doctor plants must be extraordinary, who knows, it might grow some prehistoric beast, so we need two bigger flower pots... Doctor, you’re awake?"
Talking to himself, Fatty noticed Gu Mian who had already gotten up.
Gu Mian silently stared at the two flower pots in Fatty’s arms, each of them the size of a washbasin, and it was impressive that Fatty could bring them both up together.
"These are for planting the Mysterious Seeds," Fatty explained, "Doctor, we’ve planted our seeds, I specially picked the two biggest flower pots for you, hurry, plant your two seeds."
Gu Mian pulled out the two Mysterious Seeds from his pocket and casually pressed them into the flower pots.
Fatty quickly placed the flower pot on the ground and began to carefully nurture the soil, and after nurturing it, looked around for a watering can to water the seeds.
While looking for the watering can, Fatty remembered the people in the living room, "Oh right, Miss 007 heard you were looking for her, she came over early in the morning."
Gu Mian went to the living room, and 007 stood up, "I heard from the fortune-teller you had something to discuss with me."
"Have you been going into the instances these past few days?" Gu Mian directly asked.
was stunned for a moment, not expecting Gu Mian to ask so directly, and after a while, she nodded, "Yes."
Fatty on the side opened his mouth wide upon hearing this, he approached Gu Mian with the watering can, "These past few days, I’ve only seen Miss 007 two or three times in the apartment, has she been in the instances for the entire time she wasn’t in the apartment?"
gave a bitter smile, "Yeah, I’ve been through three instances these past few days."
"How many?" Fatty wondered if he had misheard.
"It seems now we’ve found the location of Renle Mountain, so I want to find it, but it might be far, so a lot of Game Coins are needed," 007 seemed a bit dazed, it was clear she hadn’t rested well these days, "Before this, when you weren’t back, Gu Mian, I planned to say goodbye once you returned, now that you’re back, I think it’s time for me to go."
She paused for a moment before continuing, "I’ll probably set out tonight."
As 007 was speaking, there was a knock on the door.
It was Lu Yi.
"Your chubby brother told me you were looking for me yesterday, I came back last night but you were already resting, so I didn’t disturb you. What did you need me for?" Lu Yi leaned on the door frame, looking at the people inside the room.
His ghostly white skin was particularly glaring under the sunlight, Gu Mian squinted his eyes, "Did you feel it, your world has disappeared."
Lu Yi shrugged his shoulders, "I know about that, but I didn’t sense it myself, I heard it from the instance ticket seller. I was outside the ticket booth, saw the ticket seller inside suddenly start to freak out, saying something like..."
Lu Yi recalled at this point, mimicking the sharp tone of the ticket seller he saw back then, "Oh my god, how can there suddenly be so many instances losing contact! Oh my god, how does it seem like a whole world’s instances are gone! Oh my god, how does it seem like that world is gone too!"
Lu Yi said the phrase "oh my god" three times.
Fatty could feel the ticket seller’s panic in his tone back then.
"When I heard the ticket seller say that, I found out a world had disappeared. When I came back, I asked the others in the apartment and found out it was actually my own world that disappeared," Lu Yi let out a self-mocking laugh, "My ’kind’ must have disappeared with it, never thought those Upper Class People you brought out would end up being the survivors."
"What were you doing at the ticket booth?" Gu Mian asked an unexpected question.
Fatty was entirely focused on Lu Yi’s three "oh my gods," thinking Gu Mian would continue discussing matters of the Paradise World, but didn’t expect Gu Mian to shift the topic with such a question.
Fatty looked at Gu Mian with some puzzlement, not understanding why Gu Mian would ask this question.
Unlike Fatty’s confusion, Lu Yi’s expression froze for a moment and then showed an understanding look, "Truly sharp."
on the side also sighed, a bit helplessly.
Watching the changing expressions on everyone’s faces, Fatty was increasingly puzzled, feeling as if he was on a different wavelength than the others.
"A Beast Tamer cannot place hope on others, cannot rely on others, she must have enough power herself to intimidate the ’beast.’ If she always depends on others, a Beast Tamer will never be independent, in the eyes of other ’beasts,’ she will only be the ’beast’ kept by a more powerful existence," Lu Yi slowly spoke.
"It was my suggestion for 007 to go into the instances alone, her profession always destined her to be alone." Lu Yi glanced at 007, "You still haven’t completed the precursor task to unlock your profession, have you?"
lightly nodded, "Yes, I’m not yet a Beast Tamer in the true sense."
Almost forgot that the task for the Beast Tamer profession instance is "to gain Lu Yi’s approval."
Theoretically, Lu Yi is the first generation Beast Tamer. Now that he’s been brought into the real world by Gu Mian, he can conduct "master classes" face-to-face for 007.
Gu Mian knew the Beast Tamer profession for 007 had a precursor task, she must tame a ’beast’ to officially unlock the Beast Tamer profession.
Fatty also knew about this task, he thought about the big goose Gu Mian bought for 007 at the supermarket: "Right, Miss 007 needs to complete a precursor task to unlock her profession, she needs to tame an animal. The doctor even specially went to the supermarket to buy a big goose for Miss 007, and also brought out a mechanical dog and a fluffy toy dog from the Paradise World, but Miss 007’s precursor task has still not been completed."
"That’s where the problem lies," Lu Yi looked at Gu Mian, "Those things are what you gave her, in their eyes, you are their master, they follow 007 just to do your bidding."
Fatty showed a suddenly enlightened expression, "You mean Miss 007 needs to personally go to the supermarket to buy a big goose?"
Lu Yi’s face showed a rare expression of helplessness, he continued, "There needs to be a sense of pressure, an intimidating presence, buying it only means obtaining ownership, if it can’t be intimidated, it can’t be considered ’tamed.’
"Do you know what intimidation is, it’s like the Upper Class People compared to the lower-class ones, like... like Gu Mian compared to ghosts."
He couldn’t think of a suitable example, so he just used Gu Mian who was nearby as an example.
Fatty finally truly understood: "So this profession of Beast Tamer should be more suitable for the doctor."
If that’s the case, then the ’beasts’ are everywhere, Fatty thought to himself.
"That’s why I told her to act alone, if she’s with Gu Mian, she can never become a real Beast Tamer, because there’s someone with an even stronger oppressive presence beside her."
"But this oppressive presence has nothing to do with Miss 007," Fatty defended 007, "Miss 007 is obviously kind and approachable, not scary at all."
"It’s not about being scary," Lu Yi thought Fatty was hopeless, "If the ’beast’ isn’t subdued, you have to ruthlessly crush its hope, throw it into endless darkness, give it false hope and then break it, repeating until its faith is completely shattered, and then you appear to be the only light in its heart, at this moment it can be considered truly tamed."
