Magic... Pet?

"Senior A-Kun, I never expected you to have such a resolute, unyielding side."

Xu Nan sighed as he closed the portal. Once Caesar's Gate closed, it automatically shrank into a spherical object that Xu Nan could easily stuff into his backpack.

He would have to wait another month before opening it again.

Xu Nan noticed that Magician Zhao had chosen the activation site with good reason. The magical aura in this canyon was especially dense, proving that this area overlapped heavily with Pro World and made a successful transmission more likely.

The next time he wanted to open the gate, he would have to look for a suitable location according to similar principles.

"It was my oversight. I failed to hold him back."

Zhang Yingluo also shook her head and sighed. "A-Kun usually keeps quiet. I never thought he had such lofty ambitions hidden in his heart."

"He isn't even a professional yet, but he ran off to another world for adventure. That's seriously hardcore."

Xu Nan nodded. "Maybe every ordinary person has a side no one knows about."

Zhang Yingluo's expression turned somewhat strange. "Junior Xu Nan, do you perhaps have some misunderstanding about the words 'ordinary person'?"

Xu Nan was stunned. "Senior A-Kun isn't ordinary?"

"Of course A-Kun isn't ordinary." Zhang Yingluo answered as if it were obvious. "Otherwise, how do you think someone who looks as shabby as him got into the Foreign Language Club?"

Xu Nan thought for a moment. "He's strong?"

Zhang Yingluo rolled her eyes. "There are tons of strong people, okay? A-Kun got into the Foreign Language Club because he really does have exceptional abilities."

"Though A-Kun may not look like much, back when he first entered the university, he was already the top big shot in the entire computer science department. While everyone else was still gnawing through introductory C language textbooks, he was already chatting and laughing with famous hackers from China and abroad on the darknet."

"Do you remember the large-scale worm virus outbreak last year? Many universities in China got caught in it, but Shang University's network was perfectly fine. Not a single paper or page of data was lost. Do you think that was really just luck?"

Xu Nan listened with his mouth agape.

He was a complete computer idiot himself, so he had always held an inexplicable admiration for computer experts.

According to his senior, Senior A-Kun had protected their precious campus?

That was insanely awesome.

"Senior A-Kun is clearly so capable, yet he's still so humble. Though he's only an ordinary person, he has the courage to venture alone into another world."

"I need to learn from him too and become a reliable man like him!"

For a moment, Xu Nan was overwhelmed with emotion.

"You two seem pretty close. You didn't know any of this?" Zhang Yingluo was also rather puzzled.

Xu Nan shook his head.

Qin Lele looked down on him. "And you lectured me about not properly reading my language textbooks. Can someone who casually uses the darknet be ordinary?"

Xu Nan thought about it. "Darknet... isn't that the name of a website?"

The two girls: "..."

Xu Nan sensed that something was wrong and hurriedly turned around to search for darknet on Baidu with his phone. He discovered that there was no such thing. It apparently was not the name of a website.

When he turned back again, the way the two girls looked at him clearly suggested that his intelligence was worrying.

Xu Nan felt a little ashamed. He simply wasn't interested in internet-related knowledge.

He coughed and changed the subject. "So, Senior A-Kun's departure really is a huge loss for our university. Senior, were you shaking your head and sighing just now because of this too?"

Zhang Yingluo looked troubled.

"More or less... I've got such a headache now. I was really too slow to stop him just now."

"From now on, when the girls in our Foreign Language Club have broken computers, who are they supposed to find to fix them?"

"When A-Kun was around, I never had to worry about that problem."

"Junior Xu Nan, can you fix computers?"

Xu Nan answered weakly, "Does restarting count?"

Zhang Yingluo coughed. "Then I'd better do it myself. At least I know how to reinstall the system."

No matter what, A-Kun's departure was now a done deal. As one of the people in charge of the Foreign Language Club, Zhang Yingluo still had to worry about how to explain the matter.

Xu Nan and Qin Lele were much more relaxed. The two of them ran over to Magician Zhao's corpse and began discussing it.

"This corpse needs to be dealt with properly. Otherwise, the residual magic in his body might trigger abnormal incidents."

Xu Nan spoke seriously.

Qin Lele nodded. "It does need to be dealt with properly. That bald guy before was a wanted criminal, so it wasn't convenient for us to make a move. But this guy isn't, and we didn't even kill him. He died from anger himself."

"His belongings need to be properly dealt with too."

Xu Nan: "..." Your thief instincts are acting up again. Did you have to make it sound so righteous?

He really was worried that if Zhao's corpse was not handled appropriately, it might lead to a series of future problems. There had been precedents for this in Pro World's history.

The abuse of magic could bring about disasters. Many magicians died alone in their Magician Towers, and both their corpses and the magical items they created could turn into terrifying monsters.

Zhao's body might rot, or it might become infected by magic and turn into a magical creature, a zombie, or something similar. Of course, there was also a chance none of that would happen, but they could not simply ignore it.

Seeing Qin Lele practically itching to get started, Xu Nan stepped aside. "Go ahead."

"I checked just now. He only has a small backpack on him. This backpack should be a reinforced magical item, and it contains all his belongings."

"But there's a rune lock at the opening. It's up to you!"

Qin Lele pounced on it excitedly. "Leave it to me!"

Sizzle, sizzle!

White electrical currents surged through Qin Lele's entire body, and her hair immediately curled upward like a hedgehog's spines!

"Don't tell me you can't crack magical locks?" Xu Nan was horrified. He kicked Qin Lele away from Zhao's corpse and rescued her from her mild electrocution.

Qin Lele was dizzy and disoriented. "Huh? Magical lock? What's that?"

Xu Nan was dumbfounded. "You can't pick locks, you can't steal, and you can't fight. Where did you put all your thief skill points?"

Qin Lele came back to her senses and covered her reddened cheeks dazedly. "Aren't thief skill points supposed to go into charm? I want to be prettier too!"

"What about your skills? Your specialties?"

Xu Nan felt his head grow enormous.

"Lele is following the Ace Spy route. In the early stages, you can basically treat her like a disabled person."

Zhang Yingluo grabbed Qin Lele by the back of her neck and gave her several hard squeezes before Qin Lele finally woke up.

"Zhang Yingluo! Who are you calling disabled?" Qin Lele was furious.

"People from the Thousand Rays Society will come deal with Zhao's corpse, but this rune lock looks like it's about to collapse on its own."

"I have a simple and brutal method to break it open, but then everyone will only get one chance to grab something. What you pull from the backpack will depend on fate."

"With Zhao's death, the things inside this backpack will also flow into an unknown dimensional space."

Zhang Yingluo completely ignored Qin Lele's resistance. With a sideways flick of her folding knife, she directly pierced the rune backpack!

The magical aura became even more chaotic.

"I'll go first!" Qin Lele reached in again. As she did, perhaps to increase her chances of success, she actually used Pickpocketing Technique!

Swish!

A spellbook appeared in her hand. It was Zhao's spellbook, containing the spells he knew as well as some unknown spells. To a spellcaster, it was worth a fortune.

"My luck has always been terrible. I've never gotten another bottle when buying drinks, so I'll just grab something at random."

Zhang Yingluo followed right after and reached in for a grab. She actually only caught a box of Qingfeng Brand Napkins.

Zhang Yingluo shrugged, as though she was used to it.

Qin Lele hugged the spellbook and giggled.

Xu Nan hurriedly reached in as well. What he grabbed was not heavy at all, light and nimble, yet it carried a pleasantly cool feeling.

"A dagger! It's a thief's weapon. Mine, mine!"

Qin Lele pounced over at once. She looked at Xu Nan eagerly. "Will you trade it for my spellbook?"

Xu Nan looked at the dagger in his hand and revealed an awkward expression. "This isn't a dagger for thieves."

"It's a magician's dagger."

Ansu Li's Breakfast Dagger

Quality: Magic

Effect: Extra smooth when slicing bread

Enchantment: Cannot harm people (This is a kind dagger that never sees blood)

Qin Lele's eyes widened. "Why would a magician need a dagger?"

"I don't know. This thing was probably used by some Lawful Master who was rich beyond belief to slice bread at breakfast."

Xu Nan weighed the dagger, which was almost entirely made from pure mithril, in his hand and could not help complaining, "Seriously, if you don't believe me, take it and try it. This thing can't hurt anyone at all."

"But after being reforged, it can be used to make a lot of magical equipment."

Qin Lele did not believe him. She snatched the mithril dagger and tried to cut her palm, only to find that it could not even leave the faintest mark!

Dejected, she returned it to Xu Nan.

Xu Nan was also amazed by his own luck. Who knew where Zhao had gotten a mithril dagger? But he was certain that this big shot Ansu Li had to be one of the richest magicians in the other world.

Using mithril to make a weapon was one thing, but enchanting it specifically so it could not harm anyone was another. A sorcerer like Xu Nan, who had only just awakened his bloodline, could only smile in poverty and admit that his imagination had been limited.

"Hmph, can a useless dagger possibly be worth more than my spellbook?"

Qin Lele hugged her spellbook and sneered.

After carefully calculating, Xu Nan gave a precise answer.

"If this mithril dagger can be reforged, it's probably worth at least +∞ first-tier magician spellbooks!"

Qin Lele fainted on the spot.

Xu Nan felt somewhat relieved. This proved that although the girl had not paid attention in language class, she had at least managed to get through math class.

After dealing with Zhao's backpack, the group of three did not linger and returned to the campsite.

It was just seven in the morning, and everyone had begun preparing to head back.

Because A-Kun had such a low presence, no one ever noticed anything unusual. The Foreign Language Club group happily went their separate ways.

Xu Nan and Zhang Yingluo agreed to go find Lü Junyi that evening to study the matter and confirm whether the pattern they had discovered was merely coincidental.

Then he went home first.

The Magic Alarm had not been triggered. That was good.

Xu Nan routinely checked the second floor. Xin'er showed no unusual reactions. She had probably gone to bed late last night and was still catching up on sleep.

At that moment, a strange sound suddenly came from the garage.

Xu Nan slapped his forehead. "I almost forgot about the magical pet!"

He excitedly opened the garage door, and a large black-and-white carnivorous animal suddenly pounced at him, leaving Xu Nan dumbstruck.

"This... this... is my magical pet?"

At a Wolong Base thousands of miles away.

A caretaker screamed loudly, "Xiao Xiao is gone!"

"Someone stole the national treasure!"

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