Huohuo Rubs the Ball (Seeking Collection! Seeking Follow-up Reading!)

[Ding! Mission failed.]

[You attempted to kill Li Yi, and using his spirit beast to attack was indeed an innovative method, but unfortunately, Sticky Baby's damage wasn't high enough.]

[Although the mission failed, your intelligence is commendable.]

[You have received 15% of the mission reward. Please check your account.]

[The system has reset this mission. Please try again.]

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[Ding! Mission failed.]

[Killing Li Yi might have stopped their training, but your assassination attempt failed.]

[Your attempt is encouraging.]

[You have received 10% of the mission reward. Please check your account.]

[The system has reset this mission. Please try again.]

When Sticky Baby was flung onto Li Yi's head by Huohuo, everyone froze.

Transparent mucus seeped from Sticky Baby's body, flowing down from Li Yi's forehead.

Zhou Lu's mouth twitched. He glared fiercely at Huohuo, who was clinging to his leg, knowing it had made a mistake: "What are you doing?"

While receiving mission rewards was a happy occasion, Zhou Lu couldn't accept profiting by harming his own teammate.

Fortunately, judging by the emotions Huohuo was conveying, it hadn't done it intentionally, but rather tried to help and ended up causing trouble.

"Are you okay?" Zhou Lu quickly apologized. "It just completed its metamorphosis, so it might not fully understand things yet..."

As he said this, Zhou Lu felt a bit guilty.

He never expected the phrase "she's just a child" would ever come out of his own mouth.

Li Yi seemed to have understood similar information from Sticky Baby's emotions. He chuckled helplessly, "It's fine, Sticky Baby has already explained. But there's something I need your help with."

As he spoke, he pointed to Sticky Baby on his head: "Help me get my Sticky Baby off."

A first-tier Sticky Baby in its metamorphosis stage could already freely adjust the water content of its mucus. However, Huohuo's throw was so sudden that Sticky Baby reacted instinctively, and a large amount of highly adhesive mucus was secreted from its body.

With Sticky Baby's cooperation, Zhou Lu and the Class Monitor spent quite some time before they could finally pull Sticky Baby off Li Yi's head.

But the price...

It had to be said, after Sticky Baby's "modification," Li Yi's spiky hair now had the style of a top card player.

Li Yi was used to this. He skillfully took out a razor from his bag and shaved off the hair covered in mucus.

Sticky Baby's mucus was indeed non-toxic, but at this level of stickiness, it required a special organic solvent to clean—and that stuff was highly poisonous.

Wow~! Bald!

Huohuo, huddled in Zhou Lu's arms, exclaimed in amazement upon seeing Li Yi with his head shaved.

Sensing Huohuo's emotions, Zhou Lu poked its tender shoot exasperatedly. "Isn't this all your fault?"

"It's okay," Li Yi said with a smile upon hearing Zhou Lu. "Anyone who raises a Sticky Baby is pretty much used to this kind of thing. We're always prepared to shave off any hair from ourselves."

Judging by the razor Li Yi carried with him, it seemed to be a common occurrence.

"Besides," Li Yi said, lifting his Sticky Baby and placing it on his now bare head, "this look can attract a lot of girls. My dad used this trick to win over my mom."

After retracting its mucus, Sticky Baby's surface was soft and cool to the touch. Placing it on one's head would definitely make them stand out in a crowd.

Looking at the cute Sticky Baby lazily perched on Li Yi's head, Zhou Lu felt an urge to poke it.

Poke~ Poke~

As Zhou Lu was thinking this, Huohuo had already acted. It extended its vines and curiously poked the Sticky Baby on Li Yi's head.

Seeing that Sticky Baby had no intention of resisting, Huohuo became bolder, rubbing the Sticky Baby back and forth with its two vines.

Rubbing the ball! Rubbing the ball!

Huohuo grew more excited as it rubbed, even swaying rhythmically.

"Huohuo!" Zhou Lu sighed and firmly tapped Huohuo's tender shoot, finally stopping Huohuo's impolite behavior.

Seeing its master was unhappy, Huohuo quickly retracted its vines. However, possibly due to the rubbing, the vines it retracted were still covered in some of Sticky Baby's mucus.

Huohuo rubbed its two vines together like a fly rubbing its hands.

Wow! It can even create strings!

Huohuo looked at the transparent strings forming between its two vines, as if it had discovered a new world.

"Alright, stop playing now," Zhou Lu said helplessly as he saw Huohuo getting carried away. "We need to train."

He then looked at the Class Monitor, who was observing their surroundings with binoculars, "Class Monitor, have you found a suitable place for training?"

"Over there." Xu Wuhu raised his hand and pointed to a spot not far away, where the river turned. There was a forest in the few forested areas of the grassland Secret Realm.

And in the distance, on the lush grass, many cattle and sheep were leisurely walking.

These cattle and sheep were ordinary beasts and had not yet transformed into extraordinary Spirit Beasts.

It was perfectly normal. Animals like cattle and sheep, their weight alone meant they weren't guaranteed to be safe, no matter how docile their temperament. Therefore, the academy regularly posted missions with Academic Credits as rewards, encouraging senior students to clear out cattle and sheep that had undergone Metamorphosis and become extraordinary within this safe zone. What remained were naturally just wild beasts.

The extraordinary Spirit Beasts that could be found in the safe zone of the grassland Secret Realm were mostly small, first-tier Spirit Beasts like chipmunks. Even a strong Beast Tamer could confront them bare-handed.

The training area Xu Wuhu had chosen for Zhou Lu was indeed excellent. From cattle and sheep to chipmunks, from wild beasts to Spirit Beasts, with sizes ranging from large to small, it basically covered the common enemies a normal person might encounter. It was indeed suitable for Huohuo to get a feel for restraining different Spirit Beasts with vines.

Since his exam teammates were all here, and to avoid wasting the Secret Realm time exchanged for Academic Credits, Zhou Lu needed Huohuo to practice the skill [Entangling Vines] to a usable level in the shortest amount of time.

After learning that Zhou Lu's Spirit Pet had learned this skill, Xu Wuhu felt even more confident about the exam yielding good results.

"Silver Armor! Deploy!"

Xu Wuhu said to the silver squirrel on his shoulder.

The Silver Armor Rat, a Steel-attribute Spirit Beast, could unfold itself to form metallic armor and attach to its partner, granting attribute bonuses. This attachment not only included the Spirit Pet of the same team but also the Beast Tamer themselves.

Following Xu Wuhu's command, the silver squirrel on his shoulder immediately transformed into silvery-white liquid metal, enveloping Xu Wuhu's entire body at extreme speed.

The first-tier Silver Armor Rat didn't have other abilities yet and couldn't transform into a more stylish battle armor, so it looked as if Xu Wuhu was wearing a silver, form-fitting suit.

However, it had to be said that Xu Wuhu's muscle definition was indeed beautiful, strong and powerful, full of the aesthetic of strength. It made the attachment of the Silver Armor Rat look less uncoordinated.

If it were me, I'd probably be mistaken for a perverted creep.

Zhou Lu silently grumbled in his mind.

"I'll help you draw aggro," Xu Wuhu said to Zhou Lu. "Li Yi, you have Sticky Baby set up traps so these wild beasts don't charge at you."

"Understood," Li Yi replied with a nod.

Zhou Lu also said, "Thank you."

Restraining enemies in motion was obviously more difficult than restraining stationary objects. But if the skill [Entangling Vines] was to have more combat value, this was an essential training item.

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