Beast taming, starting from zero point-Chapter 254 - 242 Who is the extra person
Chapter 254: Chapter 242: Who is the extra person?
Chapter 254: Chapter 242: Who is the extra person?
A task could be taken up by multiple individuals or by a team, but this had to be specified in the agreement beforehand.
Qiao Sang hadn’t expected that she would take on a task that involved competition simply because she wasn’t paying enough attention.
Team tasks were straightforward—the people taking the task were in a cooperative relationship, but for tasks taken by multiple people it was competitive. If someone else completed it first, not to mention receiving a bad review, there wouldn’t even be a task to hand over; the Beast Taming Center’s task platform would simply cancel it.
No wonder there were no specific requirements for the Beast Tamer and Pet Beast in the task details.
What a hassle… Qiao Sang sighed inwardly.
The knocking continued, and the man got up and turned the doorknob.
Qiao Sang turned her head to look, only to see a man standing outside with an ordinary appearance, wearing black-framed glasses, dressed in a plaid shirt—a typical IT man attire.
“Come in,” the man said after appraising Plaid Shirt Man, stepping aside to make way.
Plaid Shirt Man took off his shoes and came in. When he saw Qiao Sang on the sofa, he paused for a moment.
“She’s here for the same task as you,” the man introduced.
“Hello,” said Plaid Shirt Man, nodding in greeting.
“Hello,” replied Qiao Sang.
Plaid Shirt Man sat down on the sofa and asked, “Mr. Gu, you said you were being followed. Have you offended someone recently?”
“No,” the man responded, crossing his legs.
Hearing the conversation, Qiao Sang looked at Plaid Shirt Man and asked, “You know him?”
“How do you know my last name is Gu?” the man narrowed his eyes, scrutinizing him.
Plaid Shirt Man didn’t dodge the question and answered, “I go online often, have come across you. I’m sort of a fan.”
A fan?! The man was taken aback and silently uncrossed his legs.
Well, some people have fans coming to their doorstep while just sitting at home, unlike her, who could walk on the streets every day and not run into a single one… For a moment, Qiao Sang felt that her 3 million followers were very likely just zombie fans.
“Don’t you want to think it over more carefully?” Plaid Shirt Man continued questioning.
Seeing that he was dealing with a fan, the man softened his attitude somewhat. He pondered for a while and said, “I get along with people all right, and there aren’t any messed-up individuals in my social circle. If we’re talking about offending someone, I’ve offended plenty of people online.”
“But since you’re a fan, you should also be aware that the videos I post are controversial by nature. Moreover, which internet celebrity doesn’t get praised as well as criticized? It’s not likely that those who insult me would go to the trouble of finding where I live and start following me.”
“If that were the case, they would have to be incredibly idle and bothered to do something like that.”
Plaid Shirt Man was silent for two seconds, then smiled: “True.”
“Could it be a stalker fan?” Qiao Sang asked.
The man stroked his chin and said seriously, “I think that’s a real possibility.”
At those words, Plaid Shirt Man couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth and said slowly, “In that case, I think Mr. Gu should stay at home and not go out for now. I will check around for any suspicious individuals.”
Before the man could speak, Qiao Sang interjected, “I disagree.”
Plaid Shirt Man looked her way.
Qiao Sang returned the gaze seriously, “We can’t be by his side to protect him 24 hours a day. If his address is already known, I think it’s better to draw the snake out of the hole and resolve this quickly.”
Plaid Shirt Man’s lips curled into an arc as he asked, “How do you intend to draw the snake out of the hole?”
“Naturally by having him go out and about more,” Qiao Sang answered.
“We still don’t know if the person tracking us is a Beast Tamer or an ordinary person. If it’s a Beast Tamer, I think it would be very dangerous to go out just like that,” Plaid Shirt Man adjusted his posture as he spoke.
“Aren’t we Beast Tamers too?” Qiao Sang looked at him.
Plaid Shirt Man squinted his eyes.
Suddenly, the room fell silent, the air in the living room turning as still as calm water.
“Knock, knock, knock.”
At that moment, there was a knock on the door:
“Hello, is anyone there?”
Instead of getting up to open the door, the man frowned and raised his voice to ask, “Who is it?”
“My surname is Pang, and I’m here on a task,” replied the person outside the door.
Qiao Sang: “???”
Another one?!
The man, upon hearing the response, showed a look of astonishment and stood up abruptly, glancing at Qiao Sang and the checkered-shirt guy before taking a deep breath, and said, “I was only notified that two people had taken the task.”
Hey, hey, what do you mean by that?!
Two people? Isn’t it three now? If it’s two people, then who is the extra one?!
Qiao Sang’s heartbeat accelerated, and she felt the atmosphere around her suddenly becoming very frightening.
The checkered-shirt guy, however, was very calm and reminded,
“If you don’t trust us, you can check the details of the people who took the task on the platform. If our information matches, then the person standing outside is most likely the target of this task.”
“Let me check.” The man picked up his phone in a fluster and started to look through it.
Something felt off; this person was too calm… Qiao Sang glanced at the checkered-shirt guy, who was intently watching the man.
Noticing Qiao Sang’s gaze, the checkered-shirt guy turned his head and whispered with a low laugh, “What are you doing mixing in this, instead of focusing on school?”
Qiao Sang: “???”
Before Qiao Sang could grasp the meaning of his words, the man beside her changed his expression after looking at the information on his phone and ran towards the main door.
“Kid, run! This guy is a fake!”
Qiao Sang’s heart skipped a beat, and she immediately got up, distancing herself from the checkered-shirt guy, and was just about to make a hand seal.
However, at that moment, a pet beast with a large, long head with indentations on either side and a body that seemed to be wearing a robe made its sudden appearance before her eyes.
Before Qiao Sang could react, her head spun dizzily, and she uncontrollably felt the urge to close her eyes.
So sleepy…
Although Qiao Sang was losing consciousness, a deep part of her subconscious knew she had to wake up.
In her daze, she thought, what bad luck, last night she adjusted the online time on her Virtual Helmet to get some sleep, and now, Xiao Xunbao, the Treasure-seeking Ghost, wasn’t going to chuckle at her phone and wake her up in the middle of the night, but it probably studied skills for too long in the Virtual Helmet and was still asleep in the morning, causing her to store Xiao Xunbao inside the Beast Taming Codex before she left home.
If Xiao Xunbao had been there, she definitely wouldn’t have fallen for it.
Qiao Sang felt her consciousness growing more and more blurred.
Then a voice seemed to come from a faraway place:
“Hahaha, look at whom you found, a kid still carrying a backpack! This is killing me… Wait, why is the backpack moving?”
Backpack…
Shuilu Yana…
Right, Shuilu Yana was in the backpack!
I have to wake up!!
The voice in her subconscious grew louder, and Qiao Sang struggled intensely in her mind.
In her struggle, the Beast Taming Codex in her mind suddenly shone brightly and began to flip through its pages rapidly.
Qiao Sang’s eyes flew open.
Her face was pale, and sweat dripped from her forehead.
“How did you wake up so quickly?!” exclaimed the checkered-shirt guy with eyes wide in disbelief.
Qiao Sang looked toward the voice.
She saw the task publisher lying on the ground, seemingly unable to move, with an expression of surprise and joy looking at her.
And next to him stood the checkered-shirt guy of unknown origin.
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Qiao Sang took a deep breath, didn’t speak, and made a hand seal directly.
The next second, a green Star Array suddenly lit up on the ground.
