Look, There's a Wild...

Elsewhere.

Lyney had been waiting at home for his sister to return. Accounting for the occasional time Lynette spent feeding stray cats, she should normally have been home by now.

But Lynette's seat was empty. Lyney anxiously rose from his chair and paced back and forth.

Freminet, meanwhile, leisurely sipped his tea.

"Freminet, stay home. I'm going out to look for Lynette." With that, Lyney hurried out the door.

"Okay." This was not the first time Freminet had seen Lyney like this. Whenever Lynette disappeared for a while, Lyney would worry and go looking for her.

The northeastern mountains of Lumidouce Harbor.

Wu Wanghai stood atop a mountain, gazing into the distance. At a glance, he spotted the entrance to a domain at the foot of another mountain.

Sure enough, there were very few monsters around Lumidouce Harbor. If he wanted to farm monsters, he needed to go somewhere sparsely populated.

Still, these monsters had barely managed to get Wu Wanghai to level ten.

Once he reached level ten, his phone suddenly popped up again. After checking it, Wu Wanghai discovered that he had gained an additional skill that let others tell his XP at a glance.

Alien Affinity: Compared to humans, you seem to prefer nonhuman creatures.

When encountering nonhuman creatures: Against creatures with low intelligence, you may directly use Capture on them. Upon successful capture, they will automatically become your summons. You may issue low-level commands to control their actions. Current maximum simultaneous captures: 3. May be released.

Against intelligent creatures, you may form a contract with them. Once contracted, you may gain some of the other party's skills and attribute bonuses. Current available contracts: 1.

"Not bad. I've gotten stronger again. So this is telling me to stick with the summoner class all the way." Wu Wanghai sighed after reading it. Still, he did not have to rely solely on summons to fight. He could stack health and defense to serve as a tank, or take the sacrifice route for absurdly high damage.

"Let's go there!" Wu Wanghai said, pointing at the distant domain entrance as he spoke to Lynette ahead of him.

Teyvat was truly huge. They had just spent nearly half an hour on a boat, and that was only to reach a domain near Lumidouce Harbor. They still had to walk for ages.

There were also more mountain ranges than in the game. Otherwise, Wu Wanghai would have found this domain long ago.

"Okay, boss!" Lynette replied with a nod.

Earlier, Wu Wanghai had noticed that Lynette, his monster-farming helper, had been slacking off.

Wu Wanghai thought about it. That would not do. Fortunately, he was a nouveau riche with assets over a hundred million.

He immediately conjured a mountain of Mora in front of Lynette—exactly one Sayu monthly salary's worth, two hundred thousand Mora.

Both Lynette and Furina were stunned. It was their first time seeing someone just lay Mora out like that. Normally, it was kept in special Mora pouches.

Wu Wanghai directly explained what he wanted. To his surprise, Lynette merely pondered for a moment. A dark green cloak emerged from her hand, circled the pile of Mora, and vanished with the money.

Wasn't it just accompanying him to fight monsters? It paid better than performing magic, did it not? This was practically free money.

Lynette immediately started calling Wu Wanghai boss. Having taken so much money for fighting so few monsters, she even felt a little embarrassed. She said she would work for Wu Wanghai for several more days free of charge, and that he could ask her to help fight monsters anytime in the future.

"Sure. If I ever have to fight the Abyss later, I'll call you over." Wu Wanghai had initially wondered whether he had given her too much Mora, but after hearing that, he instantly felt he had made a killing.

"Shh!" Wu Wanghai suddenly grabbed Furina and Lynette, who were walking ahead down the mountain.

Wu Wanghai pointed at the nearby bushes.

The two looked over and saw a brightly blooming Flaming Flower.

"Not the flower." Wu Wanghai denied it, then pointed more clearly.

Looking again, they saw a tiny Pyro Slime lying beside it, seemingly asleep.

Do we have to fight something this small too? Lynette understood, then raised her sword and prepared to swiftly deal with it using Enigmatic Feint.

Unexpectedly, Wu Wanghai directly grabbed Lynette, who had just entered her shadowy state.

Under Lynette's puzzled gaze, Wu Wanghai carefully tiptoed toward the Pyro Slime.

Wu Wanghai slowly crouched beside the Pyro Slime, then turned to the other two. "Look, there's a wild Pyro Slime here."

Wu Wanghai lowered his voice. "Let's... not... disturb it."

The Pyro Slime suddenly turned around, and two white circles lit up. It had opened its eyes.

"Oh no!" Wu Wanghai shouted urgently.

The suddenly louder voice startled the Pyro Slime, and it immediately sprang up.

Wu Wanghai decisively stretched out both hands and caught the Pyro Slime in midair.

Capture skill, activate!

The Pyro Slime, which had been struggling from side to side, suddenly stopped moving.

"Yay! I successfully tamed a Pyro Slime!" Wu Wanghai raised the Pyro Slime above his head with both hands. The Pyro Slime obediently blinked its two eyes in his grasp.

"???" Furina and Lynette looked at each other, neither understanding. How did catching a Pyro Slime in his hands count as taming it?

Facing the two women's confused gazes, Wu Wanghai directly tossed the Pyro Slime forward, ready to demonstrate and prove himself.

"Little Flame, use Tackle." Wu Wanghai pointed forward from behind the Pyro Slime.

The Pyro Slime obediently bounced forward.

"Use Big Jump, Big Jump!"

The Pyro Slime bounced high into the air.

"Little Flame, breathe fire!"

"???" The Pyro Slime remained motionless, unable to understand the command.

"What a useless Slime." Wu Wanghai shook his head in disappointment. He could only use this Pyro Slime as a helper. At most, it could add a stack of the Fortitude buff and apply Pyro when it rammed into enemies.

"Anyway, I used my skill and tamed the Pyro Slime!" Wu Wanghai picked up the little Pyro Slime from the ground and placed it on top of his head.

The brightly colored Pyro Slime, covered in Pyro energy, sat on Wu Wanghai's head without even burning his hair. Naturally, his summons would be immune to friendly fire from him. How could they harm their master?

"Wow, that's so nice. Let me touch it—ow, it's so hot." Furina looked envious. She reached out to touch it, but as expected, she could not.

"Little Flame, bad!" Seeing Furina get burned by the Pyro Slime, Wu Wanghai patted the top of his head. "Later, I'll get a Slime of another element for you to touch."

"No need! It's not like I like it!" Furina immediately crossed her arms, turned her head away, and sulked quietly.

"There's a Hilichurl here... Forget it, Lynette, deal with it!" Wu Wanghai ultimately did not want Hilichurls around him.

After coming down the mountain, Wu Wanghai kept searching the area for new companions. He suddenly noticed Sweet Flowers in a nearby corner. "Three Sweet Flowers, arranged in a triangle."

Alert! The instinct of a Genshin Impact player.

Wu Wanghai waved Lynette over. "Lynette, those three Sweet Flowers might be Whopperflowers. Carefully touch them. Don't kill them yet—I want to see if I can tame three Whopperflowers. Wouldn't that make me invincible?"

"Okay!" Hearing Wu Wanghai's words, Lynette immediately used Enigmatic Feint to circle around and pull up the Sweet Flowers.

Just as Wu Wanghai had said, they really were fake Sweet Flowers.

The ground beneath the three Sweet Flowers shook, and then one Pyro Whopperflower and two Cryo Whopperflowers appeared before the three of them.

Wu Wanghai immediately activated his skill. In an instant, he felt himself gain control of one Pyro Whopperflower and one Cryo Whopperflower.

As for the second Cryo Whopperflower, Wu Wanghai directly tossed the Pyro Slime far away and released it, then tried to capture it, but still failed.

Wu Wanghai briefly released the Pyro Whopperflower, then tried capturing it again, but that also failed.

After recapturing the Pyro Whopperflower, Wu Wanghai found the reason. Was it because he could not capture duplicates? Perhaps. Maybe his level was not high enough yet. He would probably be able to capture identical ones later. For now, he could only have one of each.

But two were enough. As for the third slot, Wu Wanghai did not want a useless Pyro Slime. He suddenly wanted to capture a Rifthound.

They were truly powerful. Even with Zhongli's shield, they could kill you. If one scratched an enemy, then as long as the other side had no healer, he would not even need to do anything himself.

Unfortunately, Fontaine did not seem to have any right now.

As for the Pyro Slime he threw away? Why capture a Slime? They were so weak!