Huahuo, What Do You Steal Everything For?

It's over...

Looking at the Academic Credits on his student card, Zhou Lu suddenly remembered something.

I originally planned to use some disposable skill cards for "Body Feed" during the exam.

I was too focused during the exam and forgot to slack off and complete missions.

Fortunately, I managed to use my tardiness to get a few "Body Feed" cards before the exam started, otherwise I wouldn't have known how to train in the secret realm.

Regardless, let's see if there are any other missions in the system.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Zhou Lu opened the system, a string of mission failures popped up.

[Ding! Mission failed.]

[You allowed your Spirit Beast to be lazy during the exam, but this did not change the exam results.]

[You have received 10% of the mission reward, please check.]

[The system has reset this mission, please keep trying.]

*****

[Ding! Mission failed.]

[You angered the examiner. You almost caused the exam to fail, but fortunately the principal appeared.]

[You have received 60% of the mission reward, please check.]

[The system has reset this mission, please keep trying.]

Zhou Lu was dumbfounded.

I angered Liang Quan? He was the one who suddenly got angry!

Also, when was Huohuo lazy? I didn't notice anything at all?

Zhou Lu scrolled down.

[Your Spirit Beast stole the Red Jade Orb. Unfortunately, the school doesn't seem to have noticed this.]

[Your plan to cancel the exam results of Xu Wuhu and others through this action has failed.]

???

Zhou Lu suddenly looked at Huohuo, who was beside him.

At this moment, Huohuo was holding the Low-level Growth Potion that Zhou Lu had rewarded it, strutting back and forth in front of a group of Spirit Beasts. From time to time, it would stop in front of a few Spirit Beasts and wave the potion in its hand.

Look! This is my reward! You don't have any!

"Huohuo, come here." Zhou Lu took a deep breath and called Huohuo from a distance.

As soon as Huohuo heard Zhou Lu's voice, it happily crawled over.

Zhou Lu picked up Huohuo and walked directly towards the dormitory, planning to ask Huohuo what was going on after they got back.

Before leaving, Huohuo didn't forget to extend its vines towards the Spirit Beasts in the distance, waving its potion.

Spirit Beasts have a natural, instinctual craving for this kind of growth potion. The eyes of the other Spirit Beasts showed envy.

It's a shame their owners couldn't exchange for this kind of potion.

Wealthy students would buy more expensive potions, and ordinary students wouldn't waste Academic Credits on such low-level potions.

Back in the dormitory, Xiao Xi was sitting cross-legged on the computer keyboard, clicking refresh from time to time, muttering, "Why am I helping you browse the forum? Damn it, it makes me feel like I have nothing to do all day."

Hearing the door open, Xiao Xi immediately turned her head and scrutinized Zhou Lu, saying, "It looks like you passed the exam?"

Zhou Lu briefly reported his score.

Xiao Xi seemed very happy: "Then congratulations, not many people got a perfect score."

"Especially since 100 Academic Credits is very useful." Zhou Lu felt like he was suddenly a millionaire.

As he spoke, Zhou Lu remembered why he had rushed back.

He held up Huohuo, staring at it, "Did you take something from the exam room?"

Huohuo initially tried to play dumb, its leaves swaying.

"Take it out," Zhou Lu said gently, "Stealing is not the behavior of a good child."

Sensing that it would be disliked by its owner if it continued to play dumb, Huohuo finally obediently took a red orb out of its flowerpot.

This was the target that candidates needed to seize during the first round of the exam. At that time, Zhou Lu and the others had directly tied up Liang Quan and passed the exam according to the rule of defeating the examiner.

At that time, everyone's attention was drawn to Liang Quan, and no one noticed Huohuo secretly taking the Red Jade Orb from the stage.

What was even more ridiculous was that even the school didn't notice.

This kind of Red Jade Orb wasn't a particularly rare item; it was even considered exam consumables.

Since Mud Monsters were used in this exam, even if the orb went missing, they would just assume it had gotten stuck inside the Mud Monster's body.

Although the item wasn't very important, Huohuo's behavior of randomly taking things still needed to be addressed.

But when Zhou Lu took the item from Huohuo, he could clearly sense Huohuo's reluctance.

"You should put this away," Xiao Xi suddenly said from the side. "When a Spirit Beast shows strong desire for something, it's usually because that item is beneficial for its growth and evolution."

It was precisely by utilizing this characteristic of Spirit Beasts that researchers had been able to gradually discover the evolutionary formulas for them.

Beneficial for Huohuo's evolution?

Zhou Lu looked at the red bead in his hand and suddenly began to ponder, "This thing gets lost often, doesn't it..."

"Hey, weren't you just lecturing your Spirit Beast about not stealing things?" Xiao Xi gave him a dead-eyed stare.

Zhou Lu shamelessly replied, "Does a Beast Tamer collecting evolution materials count as stealing? If you can tell me where this came from, I won't have any ill intentions either."

Xiao Xi immediately rolled her eyes. "My consultations here are all charged. Besides, do you really lack the ability to search for information yourself? The school's items are all procured through bidding!"

As a Knowledge Fairy, Xiao Xi was considered very easy to talk to within her species. Although she clearly stated she only shared information for money, her next sentence provided Zhou Lu with a clue.

"Thank you, Teacher Xiao Xi!" Zhou Lu happily ruffled Xiao Xi's head.

Just as Xiao Xi was about to express her anger at this behavior, she saw Huohuo, mimicking Zhou Lu, extend its vines to rub her head.

With a slight twitch of her lips, she ultimately said nothing.

Meanwhile, Zhou Lu had already found information about the red bead on the school's official website.

Considering it was an examination item for combat and competition, such a treasure needed to be sufficiently durable yet not overly expensive.

"A Jade Snail's pearl?" Zhou Lu couldn't help but exclaim when he saw this information.

He truly hadn't expected that the red bead would be a Jade Snail's pearl, with the product name Red Jade Orb.

This was simply too coincidental.

He was just about to go find a Jade Snail, and Huohuo was showing such strong desire for its pearl.

It seemed the plan to go to the Linxi Secret Realm needed to be put on the fast track.

During dinner, the academy credited the full marks reward to Zhou Lu's student card.

It had to be said, the academy was incredibly generous, giving Zhou Lu three opportunities to redeem materials from the academy's shop for free.

Furthermore, these redemption opportunities had no restrictions on rarity. This meant that as long as Zhou Lu could find it in the academy shop, he could redeem any material, no matter how rare, for free.

It was just a pity that because evolution materials for Spirit Beasts were always in short supply, many sought-after materials, no matter how rare, would be instantly snatched up the moment they appeared.

Thinking this, Zhou Lu opened the forum.

The influx of Academic Credits this time gave him enough confidence to post a bounty on the forum for the ancient texts he desired.

However, as soon as Zhou Lu opened the forum, he spotted a post in the black market shop from an anonymous student selling several volumes of ancient texts they possessed.

Here it comes!

Zhou Lu's eyes lit up instantly.

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