Demon... pet?

"Senior A-Kun, I didn't expect you to have such a resolute and determined side."

Xu Nan remarked as he closed the portal. After closing, Caesar's Gate automatically shrunk into a spherical object that Xu Nan could easily stuff into his backpack.

The next time he wanted to open it would be a month later.

Xu Nan noticed that Magician Zhao's chosen opening location was strategic. The magic aura in this canyon was particularly strong, indicating a significant overlap between this area and the Pro World, making successful teleportation easier.

Next time he wanted to open the gate, he would have to follow a similar pattern to find a suitable location.

"It was my oversight, I couldn't stop him."

Zhang Yingluo also shook her head and sighed, "A-Kun, this person, usually doesn't say a word, I didn't expect him to have such ambition in his heart."

"He's not even a Professional yet, going to another world to adventure like this is really pushing it."

Xu Nan nodded, "Perhaps behind every ordinary person, there's an unknown side."

Zhang Yingluo's expression was a little strange, "Junior Xu Nan, do you have some misunderstanding about the words 'ordinary person'?"

Xu Nan was stunned, "Could it be that Senior A-Kun isn't ordinary?"

"Of course A-Kun isn't ordinary," Zhang Yingluo said as if it were a matter of course, "Otherwise, how do you think he got into the Foreign Language Society with that shabby appearance?"

Xu Nan thought for a moment, "Strong?"

Zhang Yingluo rolled her eyes, "There are plenty of strong people, okay? A-Kun could get into the Foreign Language Society because he truly had outstanding qualities."

"Although A-Kun isn't much to look at, as early as when he first entered school, he was the top expert in the entire Computer Science department. While others were still struggling with introductory C language textbooks, he was already chatting and laughing with famous hackers at home and abroad in the dark."

"Do you remember the large-scale worm virus outbreak last year? A large number of universities in China were also affected, but only our Business University's campus was fine, not a single paper or piece of data was lost. Do you really think that was just good luck?"

Xu Nan listened with wide eyes.

He himself was a computer illiterate, so he had a strange sense of admiration for computer experts.

According to the senior sister, Senior A-Kun was the one who protected our precious campus?

That's incredibly awesome.

"Senior A-Kun is clearly so amazing, yet he's still so humble. Although he's just an ordinary person, he has the courage to go to another world by himself."

"I also need to learn from him and become a reliable man like the senior!"

For a moment, Xu Nan was filled with emotion.

"I thought you two had a good relationship, didn't you know this?" Zhang Yingluo was also a little puzzled.

Xu Nan shook his head.

Qin Lele scoffed, "You still lectured me about not studying the language textbook properly. Someone who can casually go into the dark, how can they be an ordinary person?"

Xu Nan thought for a moment, "Dark... isn't that the name of a website?"

The two girls: "..."

Xu Nan felt something was wrong and quickly turned back to search for "dark" on his phone, finding that it didn't seem to be the name of a website.

When he turned back again, the two girls looked at him with an expression that clearly suggested his intelligence was questionable.

Xu Nan felt a little ashamed; he just wasn't interested in internet knowledge.

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

Zhang Yingluo looked worried:

"Sort of... I have a headache now. I was really too slow just now and didn't stop him."

"In the future, when the computers of the girls in our Foreign Language Society break down, who should we find to fix them?"

"When A-Kun was here, I never had to worry about this problem."

"Junior Xu Nan, can you fix computers?"

Xu Nan weakly said, "Does restarting count?"

Zhang Yingluo coughed, "Then I'll do it myself. At least I can reinstall."

Regardless, A-Kun's departure was a done deal. As one of the people in charge of the Foreign Language Society, Zhang Yingluo still had a headache about how to explain this matter.

Xu Nan and Qin Lele were much more relaxed. The two of them went to Magician Zhao's corpse and started discussing.

"This corpse needs to be properly dealt with, otherwise the residual magic on him might cause abnormal events."

Xu Nan said seriously.

Qin Lele nodded, "It does need to be properly dealt with. The bald guy before was a wanted criminal, so it wasn't convenient for us to act, but this guy isn't, and we didn't kill him, he died of anger himself."

"His relics/belongings need to be properly handled."

Xu Nan: "..." Your thief nature is acting up, do you need to be so serious!

He was actually genuinely worried that if Zhao's corpse wasn't properly handled, it would cause a series of future troubles. This was not without precedent in the history of the Pro World.

The misuse of magic could lead to disasters. Many Magicians died alone in their Magician towers, and their own corpses and the magic items they created could turn into terrifying monsters.

Zhao's body might rot, or it might be infected by magic and turn into a magic creature, a zombie, or something similar; of course, there was also a certain chance that these things wouldn't happen, but they couldn't just stand by and do nothing.

Seeing Qin Lele's eager look, Xu Nan stepped aside: "You go."

"I just checked, he only has one type of backpack on him. This backpack should be a reinforced magic item, containing all his belongings."

"But there's a rune lock on the backpack opening, it's up to you!"

Qin Lele excitedly pounced forward: "Watch me!"

Zzzzz!

White current ran through Qin Lele's entire body, and her hair immediately stood up like a hedgehog!

"You don't know how to break magic locks, do you?" Xu Nan was shocked, kicked Qin Lele away from Zhao's corpse, and saved her from the slight electric shock.

Qin Lele was dizzy: "Huh? Magic lock? What's that?"

Xu Nan was dumbfounded: "You can't pick locks, you can't steal, you can't fight, where did you put your skill points as a rogue?"

Qin Lele came back to her senses, covering her flushed face dizzily: "Aren't rogue skill points supposed to be added to charm? I want to look good too!"

"What about your skills, your specialties!"

Xu Nan felt his head swell immensely.

"Lele is following the [Ace Spy] route, basically treat her as disabled in the early stages."

Zhang Yingluo grabbed Qin Lele by the back of her neck and squeezed hard a few times before Qin Lele sobered up.

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

"People from the Thousand Radiance Society will come to deal with Zhao's corpse, but this rune lock seems to be about to collapse on its own."

"I have a simple and brutal way to break it, but in that case, everyone only gets one chance to grab something. What you can grab from the backpack depends on luck."

"As Zhao dies, the things inside this backpack will also flow into an unknown dimensional space."

Zhang Yingluo completely ignored Qin Lele's resistance, drew her folding knife across and poked, directly piercing the rune backpack!

The magic aura became even more chaotic.

"I'll go first!" Qin Lele reached out again. While reaching out, probably to increase her success rate, she even used [Theft]!

Swish!

A spellbook appeared in her hand. This was Zhao's spellbook, which recorded the spells he knew, as well as some unknown spells. For a spellcaster, it was priceless.

"My luck has always been bad, I've never gotten a 'try again' from a drink, I'll just grab randomly."

Zhang Yingluo followed closely, reached in and grabbed a handful, but only grabbed a box of Qingfeng Brand Napkins.

Zhang Yingluo shrugged, seemingly used to it.

Qin Lele hugged the spellbook and chuckled.

Xu Nan also quickly grabbed a handful. The item he grabbed wasn't heavy, it was very light, but it had a very comfortable, cool feeling.

"Dagger! It's a rogue's weapon, mine, mine!"

Qin Lele saw it and pounced over, looking at Xu Nan eagerly: "How about I trade you the spellbook for it!"

Xu Nan looked at the dagger in his hand and showed an awkward expression: "This isn't a rogue's dagger."

"This is a magician's dagger."

[Ansu Li's Breakfast Dagger]

[Quality: Magic]

[Effect: Extra smooth when cutting bread]

[Enchantment: Cannot harm people (This is a kind dagger, it has never seen blood)]

Qin Lele's eyes widened: "Why? What does a magician need a dagger for?"

"I don't know, this thing is probably used by some ridiculously rich magic lord to cut bread during breakfast."

Xu Nan weighed the dagger, which was almost entirely made of pure mithril, and couldn't help but complain: "Seriously, if you don't believe me, take it and try. This thing can't hurt anyone at all."

"But after remelting it, it can be used to forge many magic items."

Qin Lele didn't believe it, grabbed the mithril dagger, and tried to scratch her palm, but found that she couldn't even leave the most basic mark!

She dejectedly returned it to Xu Nan.

Xu Nan was also a little amazed by his good luck. God knows where this Zhao got a mithril dagger, but he was sure that this Ansu Li big shot must be one of the richest magicians in another world.

Using mithril as a weapon was one thing, but to even specifically enchant it so it couldn't harm people, even a warlock like Xu Nan, who had just awakened his bloodline, could only show a poor smile, indicating that his imagination was limited.

"Hmph, a useless dagger, can it be as valuable as my spellbook?"

Qin Lele hugged the spellbook and sneered.

After careful calculation, Xu Nan gave a precise answer:

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

Qin Lele fainted directly.

Xu Nan was somewhat relieved. This proved that although the child wasn't serious in language class, she was still chatting in math class.

After dealing with Zhao's backpack, the three of them didn't linger and returned to the camp.

It was already seven in the morning, and everyone was preparing to head back.

Because A-Kun's presence was too low, no one noticed anything unusual. The foreign language society group happily went their separate ways.

Xu Nan and Zhang Yingluo agreed to meet up in the evening to find Lü Junyi and study whether the pattern they discovered was a coincidence.

Then he went home first.

The Magic Alarm hadn't been triggered, which was good.

Xu Nan routinely checked the second floor. Xin'er didn't have any unusual reactions. She probably went to bed late last night and was still catching up on sleep.

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

Xu Nan slapped his forehead: "I almost forgot about the familiar!"

He excitedly opened the garage, and a large black and white carnivorous animal suddenly pounced out, leaving Xu Nan dumbfounded.

"This is... this is... my familiar?"

Somewhere in the Wolong Base, a thousand miles away.

A zookeeper screamed loudly: "Xiao Xiao is gone!"

"Someone stole a national treasure!"