Chapter 12 It's Scientific
Soon, Alpha returned to Bai Qi with a handful of screaming mushrooms. A pair of soul fires kept flickering. Bai Qi smiled and patted Alpha on the head.
“Well done.”
Crunch.
Alpha was very happy to get Bai Qi's recognition, and he jumped happily on the spot.
"Bai Qi, is your pet really the Nether Bone Thorn of the Undead type?"
Gao Cheng walked up to Bai Qi, glanced at the metallic luster on Alpha's body, and asked with some doubt: "This kind of action should not be done by a skeleton beastmaster, right?"
"And the color of this bone..."
Bai Qi nodded and said, "Alpha is indeed the Nether Bone Spike, but it mutated before evolving, so its speed is so fast."
"Before evolution? Mutation?"
Gao Cheng grasped the key point of Bai Qi's words and asked, "You mean when you made the contract it was just a skeleton soldier? And now it has evolved again?"
"Uh... good luck, good luck."
Bai Qi realized that he had said something wrong and quickly added: "As for this color, I just painted it on myself. After all, the original look was too scary."
It’s not that Bai Qi wanted to deceive people on purpose, it’s just that the ability of the Evolution Egg is somewhat special, so it saves trouble.
Bai Qi's explanation did not convince the few people, but they could not find a better explanation at once, so they could only give up for the time being.
"Forget it, let's finish the mission first. The reward for this mission is calculated on a per-unit basis, so we'd better not waste time."
Gao Cheng looked at the endless mushroom field in front of him and said, "Based on what happened just now, the density of screaming mushrooms here is not small."
Several people nodded, and unconsciously glanced at the screaming mushroom in front of Bai Qi, and a hint of envy flashed in their eyes.
In addition to the guaranteed reward for this mission, you can also sell Screaming Mushrooms to the staff here, each worth 50 federal coins.
In other words, based on Alpha's efficiency just now, he could earn back the money he spent on a trip to the training ground by just wandering around again.
However, Bai Qi was happy, but the others were not so happy.
"Well, let's go clean up on the other side. Senior Bai should be enough here."
Wu Lan, the only girl in the trio, was the first to express her opinion, and her two companions nodded in agreement.
If they followed Bai Qi, they had every reason to believe that they would return empty-handed on this mission.
"That's fine. We'll meet here in three hours."
Gao Cheng saw the situation and went with the flow. After all, for such a large breeding area, it would be more efficient to act separately.
After the five people confirmed the time, they went their separate ways.
"Alpha, let's set a small goal. Catch 50 of them before noon."
Bai Qi said to Alpha beside him.
"Whether you can evolve quickly depends on your own performance!"
Crunch.
(Evolution, evolution!)
Alpha nodded to show that he understood. Thinking of the pleasure of quickly improving his strength in the Black Iron Egg, he turned into a shadow and rushed out.
The difficulty of the Screaming Mushroom mission was simpler than he thought, but he didn't know how long this mission would take. Otherwise, Bai Qi was confident that he could achieve a small goal by doing so.
Time passed very quickly and three hours passed in a flash.
The density of screaming mushrooms far exceeded Bai Qi's expectations, Alpha's record was 68 trees.
If Alpha wasn't worried about destroying the original mushroom cultivation area, its efficiency might be even higher.
After all, the biggest advantage of the undead is that they don't need to rest.
Soon, the other four also returned one after another. Gao Cheng was still relatively well, but Wu Lan and the other two were obviously in poor condition.
Alpha's method of clearing the Screaming Mushrooms gave the others greater inspiration, and they also planned to interrupt the Screaming Mushrooms before they cast their skills.
However, reality is stronger than people. Although this idea is good, mistakes are inevitable when implementing it. After three hours, the three of them were confused .
"Senior Bai, are you still catching them?"
Seeing Alpha still galloping in the fields, Wu Lan and others were a little surprised.
"Well, Alpha is a member of the Undead race, so he doesn't need to rest."
Bai Qi nodded, looked at the exhausted people, and said, "Are you all done?"
Wu Lan and the others smiled awkwardly. Gao Cheng was also a little speechless and said, "It's been three hours. Even if taming beasts isn't tiring, you should be tired."
Bai Qi suddenly realized something when he heard this. He then remembered that he had just eaten a compressed food pill before going out in the morning and was not hungry for the time being.
Gao Cheng glanced at the box at Bai Qi's feet and asked curiously, "How much have you cleaned?"
“It’s just average, only 68 trees.”
Bai Qi smacked his lips and said, "The density of screaming mushrooms is lower than I thought. By the way, how was your harvest?"
"Well, I barely completed the mission."
Wu Lan and the other two looked at each other, with no intention of continuing to discuss this topic with Bai Qi.
"Forget it, let's eat first. I just saw the staff preparing lunch, it should be delivered soon."
It was Gao Cheng who showed up to smooth things over. Everyone's attention was immediately drawn to the food, and no one noticed that Gao Cheng secretly kicked the box behind him.
Gaocheng's Fire Scorpion's attack speed was not slow, and after borrowing Alpha's tactics, its efficiency was greatly improved. It cleared 22 Screaming Mushrooms in three hours.
But he didn't expect that Bai Qi and Alpha were even more abnormal, with as many as 68 trees. How could he, a senior who had participated in three professional beastmaster assessments, feel embarrassed?
Soon, the staff brought lunch boxes to them and started collecting the screaming mushrooms. Bai Qi and the other four each received a lunch box and started to devour it.
After working for a whole morning, they had consumed a lot of physical energy and naturally needed to replenish it, after all, they had to work even longer in the afternoon.
Taking advantage of the meal time, several people started chatting again.
"Senior Bai, since you are a student of the Mechanical Weaponry College, why didn't you choose a mechanical beast as your main pet?"
Wu Lan had been holding this question in her mind for a long time, and now that she had the chance, she asked it directly.
"My talent awakened late, and I happened to meet a mutant like Alpha, so I just made a contract with him."
Bai Qi finished a box lunch in no time, but still felt a little unsatisfied, so he asked the staff for another one.
Maybe it was because he had been eating compressed food pills for two days, but Bai Qi felt that his appetite had increased greatly, and he didn’t feel full even after eating two servings.
"So that's how it is."
Wu Lan nodded and looked carefully at Alpha who was standing obediently behind Bai Qi. She soon noticed the abnormality in Alpha's joints.
"Eh? Senior, why don't these look like normal joints?"
Wu Lan's words also attracted the attention of several other people, and they all came over, all of them were a little curious.
"You're talking about this. Yes, Alpha's speed is too fast and its joints are too fragile, so I replaced it with a mechanical one."
The four of them fell silent after hearing this.
No wonder Alpha can make such strange movements, it turns out that it has been modified.
Students from the Mechanical Weaponry College installed mechanical joints on their own beasts.
Well, that's pretty scientific.
