Instantly, Lin Jiusan felt that the young man Li Cunxu was unreliable.
"The Dragon Curse, you can look it up yourselves. Oh, and don't let anyone else know that she has the Dragon Curse, otherwise, she will be locked up by the Human Crisis Response Bureau, the kind of place where she'll never see the light of day."
After speaking, Li Cunxu left.
On the way home, Li Cunxu kept recalling the girl's appearance; he felt like he had seen her somewhere before.
"They call their daughter Qingwei, and the Ranch Owner is Lin Xiaoxuan's Third Uncle, so they should be surnamed Lin. That girl should be named 'Lin Qingwei'."
Lin Qingwei? Lin Qingwei!
Huh?
Suddenly, Li Cunxu's mind exploded.
He remembered.
Lin Qingwei was a classmate of his Original Body.
A classmate from Kindergarten, Elementary School, and Junior High School.
No wonder Li Cunxu was so familiar with that black sedan; he glimpsed it every time he passed the School Gate after school. How could he not be familiar with it?
The Original Body and Lin Qingwei were not childhood sweethearts who grew up together; they were enemies.
The Original Body hated Lin Qingwei to the bone because Lin Qingwei had bullied the Original Body from Kindergarten through Junior High, and chased away all of the Original Body's friends, resulting in the Original Body never having a close friend growing up.
"She got thin because she contracted the Dragon Curse, no wonder I didn't recognize her."
Lin Qingwei was very chubby as a child, a little fatty with great strength, whom the Original Body couldn't defeat.
"No wonder her eyes were evasive and she didn't dare look at me."
Li Cunxu snorted coldly.
His desire to help her lift the Dragon Curse faded considerably.
Even if the other party offered generous compensation.
Li Cunxu pedaled his bicycle vigorously when a youth riding a Ghost Fire Skull Horse engulfed in pale blue flames sped past him, the gust of wind nearly knocking Li Cunxu over.
Li Cunxu looked at the Ghost Fire youth's mount, a trace of envy in his eyes.
He also wanted a mount; mounts were too convenient, much faster than a broken bicycle.
"Maybe I should choose a mount as my next Pet Beast."
Li Cunxu pondered for a moment, then dismissed the idea.
The Contract Slots were too few; he couldn't waste one on a mount.
Besides, a mount didn't necessarily have to be a Contracted Pet Beast; ordinary Pet Beasts could also serve as mounts.
"Buy a Ghost Fire Skull Horse just like that one? Although riding a Ghost Fire Skull Horse is uncomfortable on the Buttocks and its speed isn't fast, the way it glows blue fire is really cool!"
"It seems using Ghost Fire Skull Horses as mounts is quite popular recently."
Li Cunxu recalled the trouble of riding a non-contracted Pet Beast and dismissed the idea again.
Non-contracted Pet Beasts cannot be stored in the Beast Tamer Space; they must be kept in a Pet Beast Bag, and Pet Beast Bags are very expensive, especially those specialized for mounts, which are astronomically priced.
Also, riding a non-contracted Pet Beast requires obtaining a driver's license, and this license is exceptionally hard to pass.
Riding a Contracted Pet Beast also requires a driver's license, but this license is much easier to obtain than the one for non-contracted Pet Beasts.
Contracted Pet Beasts and Beastmasters share a telepathic connection, so riding them generally causes no issues. Non-contracted Pet Beasts and Beastmasters have no contract, so they cannot be telepathically linked; unless one is an expert driver, riding a non-contracted Pet Beast easily leads to problems.
Therefore, the Alliance strictly regulates riding non-contracted Pet Beasts on the road.
Li Cunxu often saw videos of people breaking down in tears, clutching their heads after failing the non-contracted Pet Beast driver's license test ten times, or people losing their minds and cursing at the examiners.
Stopping at the fork in the road leading back to the Ranch or back to Pupil Capital, Li Cunxu remembered something important.
He turned around and headed back to Pupil Capital.
He went to a store and bought a five-cubic-meter Pet Beast Bag.
It cost eighteen hundred. It was so cheap because the Pet Beast Bag only had a one-year validity period. After expiration, the space inside would Collapse, and if a Pet Beast was inside, it would automatically be ejected.
He also bought an Eight-Petal Colored Garlic.
It cost two hundred thousand. Eight-Petal Colored Garlic can temporarily destabilize a Pet Beast's genes and is a common auxiliary ingredient for Pet Beast Evolution potions.
Eight-Petal Colored Garlic cannot be used carelessly; misuse might cause the Pet Beast to undergo mutation.
Li Cunxu bought the Eight-Petal Colored Garlic because he intended to create the Slime Mutation Needle.
The Slime Mutation Needle has a chance to cause the used Slime to mutate.
This was invented by a player in the Past Life game, and Li Cunxu bought the formula from him.
Li Cunxu bought it because he wanted to use the Slime Mutation Needle to mutate a Curse Slime.
The Curse System is a niche within a niche in Divine Taming, even fewer people play the Curse System than the niche Poison System—a thousand times fewer. The Curse System has power, but its cost is too high.
The Curse System has a flaw: releasing a curse incurs a cost, and the stronger the curse, the greater the cost. Furthermore, this cost accumulates within the body until one day it erupts violently.
This is why Curse System Pet Beasts and Curse Masters are often sickly.
In the game, the cost manifested as permanent negative buffs.
In the game, Li Cunxu had a Pet Beast with a God-tier Curse System talent called 'Cost Sharing'. This talent could share the cost of curses.
However, this talent had a restriction: the entity sharing the cost must be a Curse System Pet Beast.
The reason the Curse System is a niche within a niche is also because there are too few Curse System Pet Beasts, fewer even than the Pure-blooded Dragon Clan.
To perfectly utilize the 'Cost Sharing' talent, Li Cunxu conceived the idea of mutating a Curse Slime.
Facts proved Li Cunxu's idea was correct; he successfully mutated a Curse Slime and popularized the Curse System, utilizing it to heights beyond its expected potential.
Returning to the Ranch Hut, Li Cunxu took one petal from the Eight-Petal Colored Garlic, squeezed out the juice, mixed the juice with gray stone powder, old tree roots... stirred, let it sit for half an hour, extracted the clear transparent liquid from the top layer, and divided it into ten needles.
The Slime Mutation Needles were ready. They had to be used immediately, otherwise, the medicinal effect would completely dissipate in just half a day.
He injected the Slime Mutation Needles into ten Slimes; six of them were Slimes with the Digestion Talent.
Li Cunxu did not inject Little Soft; injecting that thing was useless for it. No matter how it mutated, it wouldn't be as useful as its 'Slime Soul Kingdom' talent.
After putting the six Digestion Talent Slimes into the Pet Beast Bag, Li Cunxu rode his bike again to the Environmental Protection Organization next to the Environmental Protection Bureau and joined it.
After completing the joining procedures, Li Cunxu applied for an environmental protection mission from the Receptionist Miss.
"Sister, show me the simple environmental protection missions."
The Receptionist Miss filtered out the simple environmental protection missions. Li Cunxu glanced at them and felt they were all quite easy.
Select all?
Forget it. I still don't know the digestion capability of the Digestion Talent Slimes. Better play it safe and complete one first.
He selected the simplest mission: 'Cleaning the garbage-clogged River Channel'.
"Are you doing the mission now?"
"Yes."
The Receptionist Miss turned around and spoke to the row of Recording Parrots reading books next to the bookshelf:
"Bring one parrot to accompany him."
Among the reading Recording Parrots, one flew to Li Cunxu's shoulder, but Li Cunxu didn't feel any weight at all.
Li Cunxu guessed internally: "This Recording Parrot's talent must be 'Light as a Feather'."
Li Cunxu followed the guidance on his phone to the mission location.
This River Channel wasn't long; there were bridges on both sides, and it was about fifteen meters long.
The River Channel was piled high with all sorts of garbage: Pop-top Cans, plastic bottles, white plastic takeout boxes, shopping bags, milk cartons...
"Time to eat, Slimes."
Li Cunxu released the six Digestion Talent Slimes. Under Little Soft's command, the Slimes jumped into the River Channel and began cleaning the garbage.
One piece of garbage after another was swallowed into the Slimes' stomachs, and soon the garbage was decomposed and digested.
"A bit slow."
The Slimes' digestion speed was indeed not great. Li Cunxu didn't mind; the Digestion Talent needed practice. The more they digested, the more stomach acid they produced, and the faster their digestion speed became.
Sure enough, an hour later, the Slimes' digestion speed increased, and the garbage in the River Channel disappeared at a rate visible to the naked eye.
After cleaning the garbage, it was already dark.
"Finished! Recording Parrot, please inspect!"
The Recording Parrot stopped reading and tucked the book into the Feathers on its belly.