Chapter 234: Chapter 234: I can’t take it anymore! I’m under so much pressure!
After taking two days off, now that Qian Ba is safe, Qian Qi also hurried back to school.
The Magic Plant Department is now on track, with a large amount of new magic plant materials being transported to the Magic Plant Research Institute. Meanwhile, the students in their senior year are also entering the institute for internships, starting to delve into the magic formula.
Since Qian Qi became a lecturer, she no longer continued teaching the magic plant course, instead often running over to the neighboring Magic Beast Department, becoming enamored with magical beast anatomy lessons.
Just like the Skill Department, the Magic Beast Department has many specialized areas: there is a general magical beast theory major, a magical beast organ research major, and a magical beast medicine major, among others.
The theory major studies the types of magical beasts, their attack methods and weaknesses, while the organ research major examines what beneficial items can be made for humans from their body parts, such as defense armor and C-class long blades.
The medical major is involved in dissecting magic beasts, researching how to treat injured and sick contracted beasts.
Although Qian Qi chose the theory major, it didn’t stop her from attending dissection classes in other majors.
As to why she wants to learn dissection...
No reason, just sheer passion.
"Contracted beasts will definitely get injured in battle. Healers are scarce, and magical beast skills are diverse. Many times, if contracted beasts don’t receive effective treatment, it would also mean a major loss for the Beast Master."
The dissection teacher stood in front of the operating table, facing a corpse of a magic dog with a hole stabbed in its abdomen and jumbled organs. He extended his gloved hands, methodically putting the disordered organs back in place in front of the students, then picking up a specially designed needle and thread to carefully sew the hole shut.
"Of course, this method is only suitable for contracted beasts that can be brought to medical bases. If they’re severely injured for too long, even we can’t do anything."
The dissection teacher said to the students as usual, "I hope one day, you can research a way for magic beasts to heal quickly."
After the class ended, Qian Qi walked out of the classroom and overheard a student nearby complaining, "Thinking about it, Beast Masters have it pretty tough. If the contracted beast gets injured and dies, wouldn’t all those years of training be wasted?"
"Exactly, but it’s still better than dying yourself, right?" Another student shrugged, "Not to mention, they can inherit the skills of the contracted beast. Even if the beast dies, the skills remain. Overall, Beast Master is still the most popular profession."
"True~ Who doesn’t wish to have a powerful contracted beast?!"
The two students walked farther away, leaving Qian Qi standing there, rubbing her chin thoughtfully.
"Healing... I remember the Beast Taming Space can alleviate contracted beasts’ injuries." Although not sure of the principle, she recalled reading a reference in the "Spiritual Power Training Method" mentioning that the Beast Taming Space can provide a place for contracted beasts to rest, train, and relieve injuries.
If the injuries can be alleviated, wouldn’t contracted beasts placed in the Beast Taming Space receive timely and effective healing after a battle?
However...
"Why do I feel like the direction of Beast Taming is becoming more and more clear?"
Qian Qi suspiciously eyed the system beside her, "Dog Petting Guide," the evolution and cultivation panel, the Beast Taming Space, the "Spiritual Power Training Method," and the virtual secret realm...
Other than initially needing connections for a contracted magical beast, the rest seemed like a complete beast taming system, even one that the people of this world have not discovered throughout history...
How does it know?
What’s its purpose in binding me, really? Is it simply for money? How will it use the money?
As someone like "Qian Qi," a B-level and above Spiritual Awakened, would really die at the hands of a mere E-level Fire Qilin Lotus due to poverty? If she needed money, she could just enter a low-level instance to hunt magical beasts for money!
"Tongzi, why exactly did you bind me?"
System: [＾＿＾ This answer costs 200 million~]
Qian Qi: ...
System: [This time, I’m really not trying to drain you.]
Qian Qi: I don’t believe you.
Determined to understand the system’s purpose, Qian Qi decided once she plans how to make big money afterwards, that she’ll pay the 200 million, feeling a little heartache for a while but eventually paid it.
Upon receiving the transfer, the system answered her question.
[My goal is to achieve national beast taming in this world.]
"Why aim for national beast taming?" Qian Qi asked, and suddenly a thought struck her, she squinted her eyes thoughtfully, judging the system.
[Haven’t you already seen, this "world" is about to be destroyed by magic beasts, and humans haven’t found a solution.]
"I didn’t expect you to be a world-saving system." Qian Qi laughed, teasingly.
[I’m not a world-saving system, I’m a paid knowledge system.] The system denied.
Even though it’s just a system, it doesn’t want to bear the frustration of failing to save. World-saving system... it didn’t want to admit that.
"What if I don’t want to achieve national beast taming?" Qian Qi curiously asked, would it blow her head off and bind someone else?
System smiling:[＾＿＾ What else can I do~ just admit my mistake and bind a useless piece like you!]
Qian Qi: ?
What the heck!
Why is this system so annoying!
Having learned the system’s goal, Qian Qi felt relieved, as for national beast taming...
Qian Qi didn’t believe she could accomplish it.
After all, it’s not an easy task, and while the beast taming system is very complete, most people in this world are ordinary. Achieving national beast taming? That would require solving the initial contract first!
To contract a magic beast, it requires the beast’s initiative. To make a magic beast initiate, one has to let the beast depend on them. To make it dependent, one has to purchase the "Dog Petting Guide" and evolution guides!
With so many magical beasts in the world, if she wants to buy all the "Dog Petting Guide" and every evolution guide, she’d need a lot, a lot, a lot of money!
Where would she get the money?
She couldn’t just go to the richest Seven Great Families and major associations claiming that if they gave her money, she could sell them countless knowledge, right?
She’s not foolish, and doesn’t want to be imprisoned, used as a human computer!
"Damn it... I shouldn’t think too much! Never mind national beast taming, even just for myself, I have to spend money everywhere!" Qian Qi scratched her messy hair, gradually getting agitated, "I still need to buy Ah Tu’s C-level evolutionary body cultivation method, C-level Concentration Fruit evolutionary method, and the Moon Silver Demon Wolf’s evolution materials... There’s also a bunch of Moyu behind me... and they haven’t found a mate yet..."
"I can’t take it anymore! I’m under so much pressure!" After scratching her hair, Qian Qi turned and strode towards the Beast Taming Department, deciding to relieve some stress, "Time to con some money out of someone!"
...
Beast Taming Department office.
Qian Qi sat with a small cup of tea, locking eyes with Xi Mingde.
"Dean Xi~" Qian Qi said with a charming smile, her small eyes curving into crescent shapes, "I heard last year, the Beast Taming Department had a graduation rate of only 15.8%?"
Xi Mingde: "..."
This child, why does she immediately hit an elderly man’s sore spot?
"And this year, the contract rate of freshmen successfully contracting magical beasts has hit a historic low?" Qian Qi clicked her tongue teasingly, her gaze on Xi Mingde full of blatant "What kind of dean are you?" questioning.
Xi Mingde: "..."
Didn’t you already know in your heart why the historical low happened?
If it weren’t for all those Flame Dogs having their "hearts" directed at you in the Magic Beast Warehouse, would it be so difficult for those students to contract them?
Seeing Xi Mingde’s look of "it’s all your fault", Qian Qi drank a sip of tea, lamenting resignedly, "It’s true, Flame Dogs once favored by lions, how could they fall for stray dogs?"
Xi Mingde: ?
"I also heard that the injury rate of students in your Beast Taming Department is quite high..." Qian Qi’s tone was like that of a principal assessing performance, "To contract a magic beast, students spend a third of each semester lying in the school hospital?"
Xi Mingde: "... Qian Qi, what exactly do you want to say?"
Surely she didn’t come here just to talk down about the Beast Taming Department, right?!