She gazed deeply at the trembling magical beasts on the ground, scanning their skulls with her spiritual power, but she was quite dissatisfied.
"The level is too weak."
Qian Qi frowned, resting her arm on her upright right leg, like an Emperor on the dragon throne not receiving a satisfactory answer, she said impatiently, "Where’s the instance boss?"
In this instance, only the demon beast boss would qualify to be her first Contracted Beast, right?
But no magical beast could answer this question,
"Useless things, just go die then."
As she spoke these cold words, the next moment, the magical beast crawling before her suddenly had its head explode, not even having time to let out a screech before losing its life.
Qian Qi looked coldly at the corpses all over the ground, her heart unmoved, she simply picked a blade of grass from the boulder, biting it between her teeth, gently swaying it, her gaze falling on the distant orange-red sunset.
Very beautiful scenery.
If only Little Jia were here, too.
He loved magical beasts the most, if he were here, she would surely take him to ride on a Demon Leopard, freely shuttling through the mountains and forests, joyfully running on the vast grasslands.
She would teach him how to contract magical beasts hand-in-hand, make him an incredibly strong Beast Master, he would have a bright future, achieve all his dreams, instead of...
Unable to run into her arms, abruptly ending in that cold, ignorant moment.
She hadn’t even seen the smile on his face clearly.
"System, you are right."
She mumbled to the air in front of her, "I shouldn’t live in the comfort zone."
The system behind her found Qian Qi and relaxed slightly upon discovering she was safe and sound.
Although it initially left a sliver of "Qian Qi" consciousness to stabilize the rampant spiritual power, it hadn’t expected that the sliver of "Qian Qi" with only killing intent could exploit the moment Qian Qi’s emotions collapsed and exert such strong spiritually offensive power.
Fortunately, the purpose of "Qian Qi" was the same as its own, "she" would not harm Qian Qi.
However, "she" was too reckless!
What if it ends up teaching little Qian Qi to become a little fool who only knows how to kill!
The Qian Qi it knew, would never slaughter so many magical beasts!
Secretly glaring at "her", the system angrily waved away the invisible consciousness soul state over Qian Qi’s head and said to Qian Qi: [Qian Qi, just seize this power to contract a D-level magical beast!]
We must make the best use of this!
Seducing a D-level magical beast for a contract is much more challenging than an E-level. Since "Qian Qi’s" spiritual power was still present, might as well force a contract through power!
"I have the same thoughts..." Qian Qi sighed lightly, "But, I can’t find the instance boss."
After her spiritual power calmed down, it instead limited her play, making her unable to find the instance boss.
System: [The demon boss in this instance is a tortoise, are you sure you want it?]
Qian Qi: "Tortoise? No, too slow."
She wanted something fast, able to make her run quicker, save the people she wanted to save even faster.
As she thought this, a clear screech suddenly echoed from the sky swept in twilight, Qian Qi looked up and saw a slender black bird-like beast flying across the sky, its meteor-like speed caught her eye.
Qian Qi raised her hand, lightly clenched towards the black bird beast, and then that D-level black bird beast was controlled to fly towards Qian Qi.
"Little guy, contract with me."
Qian Qi withdrew her spiritual power, her small hand pinched the black bird beast’s neck, stroking the faint pulse on it, she sounded like a tyrant who decided arbitrarily, lightly said, "Don’t struggle, you lack the power to choose death, you must contract with me."
The black bird beast struggled a few times, letting out two "caws", causing Qian Qi to frown.
Qian Qi didn’t dislike crows, but having just lost Little Jia, looking at this crow-like black bird beast inevitably filled her with resentment, only feeling it exceptionally inauspicious.
Sensing Qian Qi’s murderous intent, the Mo Ya Beast sounded a warning in its heart, immediately releasing the contract pattern without any sense of integrity.
A good guy doesn’t suffer immediate losses, a wise man knows when to submit, it definitely didn’t want to die ahhhhhh!
Yet as the Mo Ya Beast was bent on contracting, Qian Qi hesitated again.
Just when she was about to strangle the Mo Ya Beast, the system prompted: [Upon detection, contracting this Mo Ya Beast gives you an 87% probability of gaining a Speed Type skill!]
87% is quite a lot of probability, Qian Qi pondered for a while, eventually reaching out to touch the contract pattern.
An unusual spiritual power directly linked with Qian Qi’s spiritual power, under the system’s guidance, she fused her spiritual power with the Mo Ya Beast’s, then the contract pattern drilled into Qian Qi’s forehead, disappearing without a trace.
And Qian Qi and the Mo Ya Beast gained a connection.
At the same time, Qian Qi felt much lighter in body, she jumped off the boulder, discovering her speed indeed increased significantly.
[Congratulations to Qian Qi for contracting a D-level Mo Ya Beast, obtaining the E-level speed skill——Speed Charm, activating the skill will grant a 3-minute speed boost!]
"E-level?" Seeing the words on the system panel, Qian Qi smiled slightly bitterly, "Alright, the speed foundation is good enough."
This way, when taking on speed-type instances in the future, maybe there’s a chance to upgrade speed attributes.
"Let’s go, find the instance boss." She jumped off the boulder, over the field of corpses, gradually disappearing beneath the sunset.
After killing the Yanjiao Dungeon’s boss, Qian Qi left the instance, and at the moment she returned to the surface, her spiritual power swiftly retracted, the sudden disparity made her head muddy, and she fainted directly.
It was already three days later by the time she woke up again.
She seemed to be lying in a hospital, outside it was somehow very noisy, beside the bed were Xiang Wen Yun and Xiao Min, Xiao An, their eye sockets red as if they had just had a big cry.
Why was she in a hospital?
Wasn’t she taking the kids to handle school admission procedures, then...
Qian Qi suddenly felt pain squeezing her chest.
Then, she saw Little Jia dead.
Was it real, or a dream?
Qian Qi instinctively summoned the system.
The system panel appeared before her, looking at Qian Qi’s bewildered eyes, it too was at a loss as to what was wrong with Qian Qi.
Could it be some aftereffect?
"System, Little Jia..." Qian Qi tentatively asked.
The system nodded silently at the panel.
Qian Qi’s face turned pale, lying on the hospital bed, she felt all the strength drain from her body.
"I’m fine." She replied, curling herself into the quilt, "Just, a bit unaccustomed."
The system said nothing more, understanding Qian Qi’s nature, it merely quietly accompanied her.
Qian Qi nested in the quilt, couldn’t help but keep recalling the moments then, striving to divert her attention, wanting to remember what happened afterward, why she ended up in the hospital.
But for some reason, her memory seemed to stay at the moment of Little Jia’s death, no matter how hard she wracked her brains, she couldn’t recall what happened next.
"System..." Qian Qi poked her head out from the quilt again, "Did I forget something?"
The system didn’t know how to answer for a moment.
To say that she was controlled by some only-kill-demons mindful soul state?
Or that she had tackled a D-level instance gaining "D-level Defense"?
Or maybe, say how she’s been chaotic with her first Contracted Beast, mooching its speed skill and leaving it fussily looking for her in the instance?
Regardless, to her currently mentally fragile state, any would be explosive information.
After a silence, the system said: [Qian Qi... you haven’t pooped in three days.]