"A super Exotic Beast? Doesn't seem like much, though." After watching the Shadow Wolf for a while, Long Xiao Qi shook her head in disappointment. "I wondered what it was, but it's pitch-black and ugly as sin."
"Well, an Exotic Beast is just an Exotic Beast. It's not some demon." Jiu Ming shook his head, seeming to recall something. "Um, do you guys need this thing?"
"...What would we need it for?"
Wang Hai gave Jiu Ming a strange look.
"Uh... generally speaking, aren't high-end Exotic Beast corpses pretty valuable?" Wang Hai's words left Jiu Ming choking. This was not how he had expected things to go.
"You're overthinking it." Wang Hai shook his head. "Look at the miserable way it died. It's already twelve-tenths cooked, isn't it? What use does it have left besides those claws?"
Twelve-tenths cooked... To put it bluntly, it had been charred!
A charred Exotic Beast corpse had no research value left, even if it was a super Exotic Beast—especially something as physically fragile as a Shadow Wolf. In this state, it was impossible to get even a useful sample from it.
"Tch, forget it." Jiu Ming shook his head, removed the Shadow Wolf's claws as materials, and put them away. As for the wolf's corpse... he could find a place to bury it later. After all, he had taken its claws; simply tossing away the body felt a little heartless...
"If you've got something to say, say it already!" After seeing Jiu Ming wander past her for the third time, C.C. narrowed her eyes and set the pizza in her hand aside. "You're making my eyes spin."
"Uh... I found myself something else to do."
"As expected." C.C. nodded lightly, speaking with complete calm. "But even so, it shouldn't make you hesitate this much,