I Am the Winner! (Seeking follows, seeking collection)

"Sister Mu, tell me, where on earth is that Shadow Beast? We haven't found a single trace of it yet, it's so annoying."

Lan Yu walked to the apartment entrance and immediately heard Ai Tutu's complaining voice.

"Let's just keep looking slowly; we'll find it eventually."

Entering the passcode to unlock the door, Lan Yu walked into the foyer and began changing his shoes.

The two women stopped talking and turned their heads to look at Lan Yu as he changed his footwear.

"Why are you both staring at me? Is the clue written on my face?" Lan Yu asked.

"Speaking of which, Lan Yu, did you find any clues about the Shadow Beast?" Ai Tutu asked.

Lan Yu shook his head. "The city is so huge, it's not that easy to find."

"Alright, enough talk. I'm going to take a shower."

Out of habit, he inadvertently swept a glance at Mu Nujiao's charming long legs before heading off to grab a change of clothes.

It wasn't until he had entered his room that Ai Tutu muttered in a low voice, "This guy, are my long legs really not as good as Sister Mu's?"

"You dead girl!" Mu Nujiao felt a bit awkward. How could this girl always be so tactless?

It was the same in front of Ding Yumian, and the same in front of Lan Yu himself.

"Sister Mu, have you noticed? This guy Lan Yu seems a bit off," Ai Tutu whispered again.

Mu Nujiao composed herself and said, "He is a bit. He must have just come from a fight."

"It couldn't be that Jia Wenqing and Han Luo took people to ambush him, could it?" Ai Tutu speculated.

"..." Mu Nujiao didn't answer, instead falling into deep thought.

After a good night's sleep, Lan Yu climbed out of bed and walked downstairs from the second floor while yawning.

"Lan Yu, Lan Yu, come eat breakfast. It was bought by our senior," Ai Tutu shouted.

Sister Yumian?

Lan Yu immediately perked up. He covered the distance to the coffee table in a few strides and began devouring the breakfast as if he were a starving ghost reincarnated.

"You guy, you're getting more and more brazen," Ai Tutu said with a look of disdain.

"This is my house. Shouldn't I be a bit more relaxed at home?" Lan Yu didn't think it mattered.

"By the way, how is your search for the Shadow Beast going?" he asked casually.

Ai Tutu sighed helplessly. "Didn't you hear all about it last night? Why are you asking again now?"

"Actually, I don't think this assessment is just about finding the Shadow Beast," Mu Nujiao, who was sitting next to Ai Tutu, suddenly spoke up.

"Sister Mu, what do you mean?"

Mu Nujiao recalled the details and said, "Dean Xiao originally said that the mission is only complete once the Shadow Beast is brought to the Beast Taming Cage at the school. That means even if you catch the Shadow Beast, the mission isn't finished yet."

"That makes it simple then—just camp the bridge," Lan Yu said.

Camp the bridge?

The two women looked at Lan Yu, feeling confused.

"Ahem," Lan Yu coughed. "I mean, camp the only path leading to the Beast Taming Cage."

"Oh!" Ai Tutu suddenly realized, letting out a strange cry. "I get it! We just need to guard near the cage and wait for someone to deliver the Shadow Beast right to our doorstep!"

"So in the end, it's still a struggle between the students themselves!"

"..."

After finishing breakfast, Lan Yu rested in the apartment, waiting for the cover of darkness to get to work.

When night fell, Lan Yu asked Lingling about clues regarding the Shadow Beast.

"Lingling, did you find the Shadow Beast?"

"You sure know how to order people around..." Lingling sneered, then continued, "Finding the Shadow Beast is hard, but finding out who caught it isn't. Right now, the Shadow Beast has been captured by someone named Shen Mingxiao."

"Help me find them."

"No problem."

Lingling's slender fingers tapped a few keys on her pink laptop, and she quickly tracked down the whereabouts of Shen Mingxiao and his group.

"According to their phone location data, they are currently in an old courier warehouse south of Pearl Academy," Lingling said.

When it came to digging up information, Lingling considered herself second to none.

"Thanks. I'll buy you a strawberry milkshake later," Lan Yu laughed.

"I told you, I'm not a kid!" Lingling said. "Remember, I want the extra-large size."

"No problem."

This was a warehouse clearly slated for renovation, roughly the size of a classroom, filled with piles of construction materials.

At this moment, the entire warehouse was radiating a bone-chilling cold, and in its center sat a creature with the build of a leopard.

Its body was bound by thick ice chains, rendering it unable to move.

The creature possessed thick fur, and its long tail shimmered with a fluorescent glow under the lights.

"Keep a close watch. Once it gets late, we'll take it to the Beast Taming Cage, and the grand prize will be ours," Shen Mingxiao instructed.

"I'm exhausted; this beast could really run," Luo Song said, rubbing his bloated, fleshy frame. "Forget it, all I want to do right now is sleep."

"Same here," Shen Mingxiao replied. "Leaving those three here to watch it will be enough."

He and Luo Song had put in the most effort to capture the Shadow Beast, while the other three were merely there to make up the numbers, so this menial task of guarding naturally fell to them.

The other three didn't object, preparing themselves to pull an all-nighter.

Afterward, Luo Song and Shen Mingxiao walked off to the dining hall with their arms around each other's shoulders, completely unaware that after they left, something that would make them fly into a rage was about to happen in the warehouse.

Inside the warehouse, Lan Yu used rope to bind the three unconscious men.

The Shadow Beast, now freed from its restraints, was crouching before the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, looking utterly submissive.

"Let's go. It's time to end this assessment," Lan Yu said.

With that, the man and the two beasts left the warehouse and headed toward the Beast Taming Cage.

Meanwhile, a city-wide operation was underway to purge the remnants of the Black Court.

The Blue Deacon was the first to be caught, apprehended personally by Night Hawk.

Leng Qing led her team of adjudicators to capture those Black Court members hiding in various sectors of society.

As for Pearl Academy, Tang Yue personally led a team to arrest those Black Court members who were posing as students.

On the other side, Lan Yu brought the Shadow Beast stealthily to a spot not far from the Beast Taming Cage.

He dispatched the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to knock out some of the students who were lying in wait nearby.

Fortunately, he was not Mo Fan and had no habit of showing off.

Sneaking the Shadow Beast into the Beast Taming Cage like this was the best approach.

Luckily, not many students had thought to camp out at the Beast Taming Cage, otherwise, it would have been a massive effort for Lan Yu to get the Shadow Beast inside.

Having successfully delivered the Shadow Beast into the Beast Taming Cage, Lan Yu finally smiled with a sense of relief.

"I am the final winner!"

"Hehehe..."