“Impossible, it’s probably just that their builds are too similar.”
“Although the pronunciation is very similar, this is Chi Hong, the Chi Hong who hasn’t even unlocked a pet beast space.”
Chao Wu retracted her gaze.
She knew Chi Hong; back before the Chi family’s downfall, Chi Hong was still a little kid.
Perhaps she was just too exhausted lately, and had been made a bit hypersensitive by that mysterious assassin, Red.
“Get in, Chi Hong!
We’ll take you to register.
I haven’t registered yet either!”
Chao Xia reached her hand out the car window, waving and shouting at Chi Hong.
Chi Hong responded, opened the back door, and got into the car.
“This is my older sister, Chao Wu.
You saw her when we were kids, remember?”
Chao Xia stretched her hands out, shaking them non-stop at Chao Wu, attempting to create a ‘bling-bling’ manual special effect.
Seeing Chi Hong’s expression as if he were trying to recall, Chao Wu spoke in a light tone, “I even carried you when you were a baby.”
“Don’t remember?”
As she spoke, she reached out her hand, mimed pinching something, and slowly pulled backward…
Chi Hong’s face instantly darkened.
He remembered; he remembered it all!
Chao Wu was even more mischievous when she was young.
Back then, the two families were on good terms and frequently visited each other.
As long as Chao Wu hugged little Chi Hong, she would pull on little Chi Hong’s little brother to play, stretching it until little Chi Hong cried.
“Sister Chao Wu…”
Chi Hong forced an awkward smile onto his face and called out.
“Good boy.” Chao Wu nodded and calmly uttered two words, as if praising a child.
Chi Hong’s face darkened even further…
“Wait, did you guys just exchange some sort of secret code?” Chao Xia was completely baffled; she hadn’t caught onto anything!
“N…
nothing.”
“Just suddenly remembered.”
Chi Hong leaned back in his seat and turned his face to look out the car window.
He would definitely avenge the pulling of his little brother one day!
“Their styles are completely different.
Their builds are very similar, and their eyes…
I didn’t see his eyes clearly.”
“It shouldn’t be Chi Hong.”
“The next time Red appears, I have to…
get a bit closer…”
“If I can’t see his eyes, there’s no way to tell.
There are simply too many people with similar builds.” You are reading on g.com, the official source.
As a law enforcer, maintaining a skeptical attitude towards things was standard operation.
And Chao Wu was the most suspicious among the suspicious law enforcers!
As the car sped along the elevated highway, Chi Hong asked, “We can’t be…
driving there, can we?”
It was over a thousand kilometers from Jinling to Yanjing.
Driving there would be very slow and very tiring.
“Yanjing?
The registration location is in Jinling.
We’ll be there in about twenty minutes.
You’re going to register, did you think you were going to attend classes?” Chao Xia asked with a face full of suspicion, “What have you been doing lately?
Don’t tell me you haven’t even paid attention to the school start dates and procedures?”
“I’ve been training my big doggie recently.
I want us to get a bit stronger.
Besides, didn’t I say I was going to give you a pet beast before?”
As Chi Hong spoke, he pulled out a red and white Poké Ball, shook it twice, and said, “I’ve already obtained it.”
“Wow!”
“Really?
Sis, pull over quickly!!”
Chao Xia immediately spoke with a face full of excitement.
Obtaining a pet beast was actually very difficult.
Humans and pet beasts were inherently different species, and establishing mutual trust was extremely hard.
Therefore, most people with the means would prepare an infant-stage pet beast for the younger generation in their family to grow up alongside them.
This way, the chances of betrayal were virtually non-existent.
Chao Wu glanced at Chi Hong through the rearview mirror.
Her expression showed no unnaturalness as she subsequently pulled the car over to the side of the road.
“Chi Hong, that’s a pet beast storage device, right?”
“Where did you get the pet beast?”
Chao Wu asked.
This matter actually couldn’t withstand scrutiny.
After all, Chi Hong’s current circumstances were clear for all to see.
It would be fine if he had tamed it himself, but this obviously wasn’t the case, given that a pet beast storage device was used.
Furthermore, pet beast storage devices were very expensive; the market price had already been driven up to over a million per unit.
“My grandfather left them for me, there are still a lot.” Chi Hong said calmly.
“But you just said you ‘obtained’ it.”
“Yes, it was a secret realm my grandfather left for me.”
“….” Chao Wu fell silent.
A secret realm was the exact opposite of a forbidden zone.
Forbidden zones were filled with danger and ‘berserk’ pet beasts; one misstep could result in death.
A secret realm, on the other hand, was when Beast Tamers whose levels exceeded A-Rank—suspected to have reached S-Rank—could artificially carve out a portion of their pet beast space to place pet beasts inside, or use it for trials, or for passing down inheritances.
What Chi Hong said was entirely possible.
It wasn’t that pet beasts placed in storage devices couldn’t be absorbed into a pet beast space, it was just that the difficulty might be higher.
After all, being in a storage device meant the pet beast wasn’t tamed through one’s own strength.
“Don’t go spouting this nonsense outside, otherwise it’ll bring you trouble, or even invite disaster.”
Chao Wu didn’t press further.
Instead, she leaned against the car, pulled a pack of women’s cigarettes from her pocket, propped one foot back onto the tire, stepped forward with her other leg, and then proceeded to puff clouds of smoke all on her own, seemingly possessing absolutely no interest in Chi Hong’s pet beast.
“Thank you, Sister Chao Wu, I understand.”
“Then Chao Xia, let me make this clear beforehand!”
Chi Hong’s expression instantly turned serious, causing Chao Xia, who was initially beaming with joy, to subconsciously pull a long face as well.
“Pet beasts are also life forms on this planet.
Forcing a pet beast to serve for my own use is something I despise.”
“Respect pet beasts, build bonds, mutually provide courage and willpower, and only then can both parties grow increasingly stronger!”
“Before this foundation, an infant-stage pet beast will choose its own partner.
Note that this is not a master.
If this relationship isn’t clearly distinguished, a master-servant relationship will never be a match for partners who have built a strong bond!”
“It just so happens that I am very sensitive to this.
If this little one hasn’t chosen you, even if it’s you, Chao Xia, I absolutely will not entrust this child to you!”
Chi Hong spoke righteously, his tone gentle yet earnest.
The theories he stated caused Chao Xia to freeze in place, and Chao Wu also looked at him with a face full of surprise.
Did these sound like words Chi Hong could say?
“Could it be…
is this kid Chi Hong actually a genius?”
This thought sprang up in Chao Wu’s mind.
In her vision, the figure of the currently serious-looking Chi Hong once again overlapped with the figure of the masked assassin.
She subconsciously looked at Chi Hong’s standing posture, and her pupils instantly shrank.
It was exactly the same as the posture of the assassin Red from back then!
“Although it’s not strange for two people’s standing postures to be very similar, maintaining a skeptical attitude is absolutely never wrong.
Even if they appear completely unrelated on the surface, until the truth surfaces, no one can say for sure.
Deduction inherently exists within a chain of suspicion.”
Chao Wu tossed away her cigarette butt, feeling a sense of anticipation regarding what kind of pet beast Chi Hong could hand over to her younger sister.
“This child is named Popplio.
She’s a girl.”
Chi Hong raised his hand and tossed the red and white Poké Ball.
Following a flash of blue light, a cute, blue little sea lion appeared in the line of sight of the three people.
“Iyaa?”
Popplio turned back and glanced at Chi Hong.
Her nature was docile, and her large eyes were filled with confusion.
At this moment, stars had already begun to appear in Chao Xia’s eyes.