Beast Taming Era: I Became Groudon

Chapter 161 The Shocking School

"Boom boom boom"

"Boom boom boom"

After Zhong Cong stepped on the magma in the volcanic training ground, it was like water flowing again in a dried-up waterway. However, before the magma came up, it washed out all the lava accumulated in the channel. As a result, the noise of the washing caused the entire Lava City Key University to tremble.

As dusk approached, the campus was ablaze with orange lights and the aroma of food wafted in the air.

The students who were eating and walking around in the cafeteria felt the ground shaking, which made their hands holding the chopsticks tremble.

"What's going on? Is there renovation near the cafeteria?" the student, whose hands were shaking, muttered. He just wanted to pick up a dish and put it in his mouth, but why was it so difficult?
"I'm not sure, could it be an earthquake?" a classmate next to him guessed, but that didn't make sense. Doesn't Lava City have an earthquake monitoring center? The last time an earthquake occurred, they received a notification and waited in the open space in advance.

"Whatever happened, what are you talking about? Why don't you run quickly? You might get buried in there."

Seeing that everyone was running outside, only these two idiots were still discussing here.

The teacher, who was eating at the time, scolded the two men angrily and then ran out quickly.

Except for the students in the cafeteria and various buildings, everyone looked around with vigilance, fearing that a brick would fall from the wall and cause something to fall on their heads, such as a big bag.

"Everyone go to an open area first. The school will notify you again after the matter has been investigated thoroughly." After feeling the shaking of the ground stop, the teachers responded quickly and came to the students to tell them not to be nervous.

"Teacher, is there going to be an earthquake?" The students asked after hearing this. There are many volcanoes in Lava City so earthquakes often occur.

They were not very nervous, but just wondered why the school did not sound the alarm before the earthquake?
"It shouldn't be an earthquake. If it was, we would have been notified." Upon hearing this, the teacher said, "Everyone wait here for a while. The results will be out soon. Don't worry."

After saying that, he called to inquire about the situation.

The principal was also confused after receiving the call. He held the phone and said to the teacher who called: "Calm the students down first and take them to a safe place. I will investigate this matter immediately."

"Okay, Mr. Principal."

After hearing this, the teacher replied and waited for the principal's investigation.

"Hello! Is this the Lava City Earthquake Monitoring Center? We are the president of a key university in Lava City. I would like to ask why you didn't notify us in advance when an earthquake occurred?" After hanging up the teacher's phone, the principal immediately dialed the Lava City Earthquake Center.

"Earthquake?" The staff of the Lava City Earthquake Monitoring Center was confused when they heard this, but after thinking that the other party was the president of a key university in Lava City, they politely replied, "Mr. President, our earthquake monitoring center has not detected any signs of an earthquake. Are you mistaken?"

"This is impossible. The earthquake just now shook our entire university. I may be wrong, but it is impossible for my students to be wrong as well," the principal said.

"Could it be that a volcano near the key university in Lava City has erupted? Because if a volcano erupts, it can also cause earthquakes." A staff member of the Lava City Earthquake Monitoring Center said after hearing this.

There are many reasons for ground shaking, and if they didn't detect it, it might not be due to the plates, it could also be due to a volcanic eruption.

"There is a volcano in our school, but it died out last year..."

The principal started to speak upon hearing this, but his voice suddenly stopped because he noticed that black smoke was coming out of the volcanic training ground in the distance.

"It went out last year? That's unlikely to be caused by a volcano." Upon hearing this, the staff member said, "Then we'll send someone over to check the situation nearby. What do you think, Principal?"

"I don't think it's necessary, but have you ever heard of an extinct volcano coming back to life?" The principal asked weakly, looking at the magma gushing up into the sky from the volcanic training ground.

"This is very rare, but it's not impossible. Maybe the crustal activity has pushed the magma up again." The staff member said, "If you find anything wrong, please contact us as soon as possible."

"Okay, thank you very much." The principal nodded and replied, then hung up the phone. It seems that the ground tremor this time was really caused by the resurrection of the volcano.

But why did this happen? They had clearly surveyed the lava channel of the volcanic training ground and found that there was no lava at all in the channel. It had all turned into lava.

"Principal, something strange happened at the Volcano Training Ground."

"The extinguished volcano has started to erupt molten lava again."

Just when the principal was puzzled, the door was pushed open. Director Chen wiped the sweat from his forehead and said.

"I already know about this. I saw the black smoke coming out over there." The principal looked at Director Chen who came in and said, "The tremor that just occurred in the entire school is probably related to the revival of the volcano."

"I think so too, Principal." Upon hearing this, Director Chen nodded and said, "This is a good thing. If the volcano is revived, it means that the volcano training ground can continue to allow the beast masters to train."

"Don't be in a hurry about training. First, we need to make sure that the Volcano Training Farm is recovering and not experiencing any new incidents. Before we confirm that there is nothing serious happening at the Volcano Training Farm, it is best not to act rashly."

"What I'm worried about is what's going on underground?"

The sudden revival of the volcano should be related to the underground crust or something.

If the earth's crust underneath is moving, then their entire school is in danger. The most urgent task should be to find out what is going on underground?
"Do we need to ask someone from the Earthquake Monitoring Bureau to take a look?" Director Chen asked.

"No need." Hearing this, the principal shook his head and said:

"If we let them come, they probably won't be able to find out anything. At most, they can only monitor earthquakes, but they can't go into the magma to investigate."

"Then what's the point of having them come over to investigate?"

"But if they don't come over, how will we know what happened under the magma, Principal?" Director Chen asked.

"If they don't come over, of course we can find out what happened under the magma. Have you forgotten that there is a beast in our school that can live in the magma?" The principal said with a smile when he heard this.

Even if the people from the Earthquake Detection Bureau came here, let alone whether they could find out what happened down there, their mere presence around the school could cause rumors in the school.

He didn't want to hear the weird news that their key university in Lava City was going to be silenced by lava in the headlines and media in a few days. If that happened, he would be completely devastated.

"Yes, if you hadn't mentioned this matter, I would have almost forgotten about Groudon. With Groudon here, I believe this matter can be resolved quickly." Director Chen said with sudden enlightenment after listening to it.

"So, this matter doesn't need to be handled by outsiders." The principal looked at Director Chen and said, "Go talk to Tingting about this matter, and ask Groudon to go to the volcanic training ground and follow the magma channel underground to check and confirm that there is no problem with the underground crust."

"Okay, Principal."

Director Chen nodded when he heard this, then he left the office, summoned his own beast and flew towards the teacher's dormitory area. In just a moment, it landed in front of the single-family villa.

"It looks like the dean's golden griffin is outside." Jiang Xiaoyun, who was chatting in the villa, saw it and said to Xu Tingting, "If I'm not mistaken, the teacher must be here to see you."

"That's impossible. I just came back. Why would the teacher look for me?" Xu Tingting asked in confusion. Could it be that the teacher came to see her because of the vibration just now to see if she was injured? She felt that there should be no need for this. It was just a small-scale vibration and nothing would happen.

"Student Tingting, are you in the dormitory?" Director Chen jumped off the golden griffin, came to the door of the villa, knocked on the door and said.

He didn't go in immediately. As the dean of studies, he couldn't just barge into the girls' dormitory.

If this gets out, it will not be a good thing for him.

"Teacher, I'm in the dormitory." Hearing this, Xu Tingting quickly jumped down from the second floor and landed in front of Director Chen: "Teacher, what do you want to talk to me about?"

"It's like this. The volcano in the Volcano Training Factory suddenly revived. The principal is worried that something might happen underground in the school. So he wants your Groudon to go take a look underground." Director Chen said, looking around the empty space, wondering: "Why is Groudon not outside today? Doesn't he like staying in the Beast Taming Space?"

He remembered that during the college league, Xu Tingting specially let Groudon out for some fresh air. Why is there no sign of Groudon now?

Could it be that his personality has changed recently and he suddenly likes staying in the Beast Taming Space?
"Grawdo is not in the Beast Taming Space, Teacher." Hearing this, Xu Tingting said, "Grawdo just went out with the Flame Dog and the others. If nothing unexpected happens, he should have gone to the Volcano Training Ground for a meeting."

"Meeting?" Director Chen couldn't help but mutter suspiciously when he heard these two familiar yet unfamiliar words.

He had seen this person hold meetings many times, but this was the first time he heard of a meeting of beast tamers.

"Yes, because Groudon has been away from school for half a month, we need to hold a meeting with the beast masters below to understand their current situation." Xu Tingting explained with a smile.

"Is that so?" Director Chen nodded when he heard this. He had heard a long time ago that Groudon seemed to have formed some kind of gang in the school, with two or three hundred younger brothers under him. Now it seems that this is true.

Now they are going to the Volcano Training Ground for a meeting, maybe they are holding a gang meeting.

"Teacher, since you are looking for Groudon, let's go directly to the Volcano Training Field. He hasn't come back yet, so he should still be there." Looking at Director Chen's thoughtful look, Xu Tingting said.

After all, forming cliques in school is not a good thing, and she doesn't want the dean to have any bad thoughts about Groudon.

"Is that so? Then let's go over there." Director Chen nodded and jumped onto the back of the golden griffin. Seeing this, Xu Tingting also jumped on.

The golden griffin flew towards the volcano training ground.

Not long after, the volcanic training ground appeared in their eyes, but the current appearance of the volcanic training ground made both of them a little surprised.

I saw that the ordinary volcanic training ground was surrounded by magma, and there were more and more platforms on the ground, like mushrooms growing on the ground full of magma.

On these platforms, the beasts were lying in front of them practicing, looking very comfortable.

"Why has this place become like this?" Xu Tingting asked weakly. She remembered that the volcano training ground was not like this before.

"This should be related to the revival of the volcano."

Director Chen said while looking at the ground. He scanned the beasts below and soon found a brightly lit beast. After wiping his eyes, he asked Xu Tingting, "Xu Tingting, is that beast over 30 meters tall Groudon? Why has its appearance changed so much?"

"That's Groudon, teacher." Xu Tingting replied, "He upgraded during the competition, and after upgrading, he became what he is now."

"So that's how it is. I thought I saw it wrong just now." Director Chen nodded and let the golden griffin fly towards the ground.

"Boss, since you added a lot of pillars on the ground, it will be more convenient for everyone to absorb fire energy."

"Yeah, Boss. This way everyone won't have to fight for position anymore."

The beastman walking on the ground created by Groudon said happily, "After the boss has raised all the stone pillars in the volcano, where will everyone walk? The energy that can be absorbed is the same."

No more fighting for position and dying.

"I'm glad you like it. My efforts were not in vain." Hearing this, Zhong Cong smiled and waved his paw.

He led all the magma to the ground, and then built many rock platforms on the ground. The energy of the magma was more easily absorbed by everyone, and after circling the ground, the magma on the ground would flow back into the hole where the magma was ejected, and be pushed back by the gushing magma, completely dissipating the energy.

"Boss, your beastmaster and the school's dean are here."

At this moment, the Fire Dog looked at the golden griffin rushing in the sky and spoke.

"Really? Then everyone should spread out and practice. Xu Tingting may have something to talk to me about." Zhong Cong spoke up after hearing this, and the beastmasters dispersed to allow the Golden Griffin to land.

"Whizzing"

As the golden griffin landed on the erected platform, the huge gale almost blew the practicing beasts into rolling gourds. Fortunately, the gap between the platforms built by Zhong Cong was no more than 50 centimeters, otherwise some unlucky guy might have fallen down.

"Grawdo, have you finished your meeting? The teacher wants to ask you something."

After Xu Tingting jumped down from the golden griffin, she looked at the numerous beasts and asked with a smile, "After not seeing them for a while, the size of these beasts has grown a lot, as if the wind had blown them."

"The meeting has just ended. What do you want to talk to me about?" Zhong Cong asked after hearing this. He was the one who resurrected the volcano. It was impossible for the other party to look for him because of this matter. Besides, it was impossible for the other party to know that this matter was related to him.

"It's like this. The volcano just revived. You should have seen it at the scene." Xu Tingting looked at Zhong Cong and said, "The school is worried that the volcano has revived because something happened underground. So we hope you can go down there and take a look. If there is anything, let the school know immediately."

"You want me to go down there and help you guys check it out, right? No big deal, I thought it was a big deal." Hearing this, Zhong Cong waved his paw and said nonchalantly, "Wait for me here for a while, I'll be back soon after I go down, it won't take more than a few minutes."

"Okay, then I'll trouble you. Groudon." Seeing Zhong Cong agreed so readily, Xu Tingting said with a smile.

"Yeah." Zhong Cong nodded, then jumped into the volcano that was spewing hot magma.

"Grador is quite diligent in his work." Director Chen said with a smile upon seeing this.

Although Groudon often sleeps in, he still does things very quickly when asked to do so.

While Director Chen was thinking this, Zhong Cong was swimming in the molten lava with a very contented look on his face.

How could he have been kept in the dark about what was happening under the volcano training ground? Even if he couldn't come down, he knew exactly what was going on under there.
But the other party would definitely not believe him if he said that, so he had no choice but to come down and pretend.

Wait until he swims in there for a few more minutes, then go up and talk to them.

Anyway, they don't know what's going on under the magma. They have to believe what I say whether they want to or not.

Unless they can find a second beastmaster that can bring down the molten lava.

So Director Chen and Xu Tingting waited from dawn to dusk.

"Why hasn't the boss come out yet after being in there for such a long time? Could he have fallen asleep in there?" The Barking Fire Dog muttered as he looked at the glowing molten lava under the night sky.

"Of course this is impossible. Didn't you listen to what the teacher said? We asked the boss to go down and take a look. Do you know how far it is underground from the surface? It's not so easy to come back." The Mountain-Moving Crocodile said with a yawn.

"When will the boss be back?" The barking dog muttered, "I want to go home for dinner. Are you hungry?"

"A little bit." Dark Pegasus said after hearing this, "But we still have to wait for the boss to come out before we can go."

"Yeah, let's wait a little longer." said the Mountain-Moving Crocodile, and continued to narrow his eyes.

On the other side, the principal, who had not received Director Chen's call yet, also called.

"Principal, Groudon hasn't come out yet. It must be too far underground. Don't worry, nothing will happen. Groudon can live in the magma." Director Chen said, looking at the crater.

At this moment, the amount of flowing magma suddenly increased a lot, and then a figure crawled out from it.

"It's the boss who's coming out. It's the boss who's coming out."

The beast masters who saw this scene shouted happily.

Zhong Cong jumped out of the volcano and onto the platform.

"Graw-O, how's it going? Is there any problem underground?"

Xu Tingting came over and asked.

"It's okay, everything is fine, you don't have to worry." Zhong Cong said. He accidentally fell asleep while swimming in the lava, but fortunately it didn't waste much time.

"Nothing? That's good." Upon hearing that, Xu Tingting went to talk to Director Chen.

Director Chen, who was on the phone with the principal, heard this and said into the phone, "Principal, Gugurado has come out. He took a look underground and found that nothing happened. You don't have to worry."

"Is everything okay? That's good." Hearing this, the principal couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Then he gave some instructions and hung up the phone.

"Tingting, thank you for your help this time. Now that we have confirmed that there is no danger below, we can go back." After putting away his phone, Director Chen said to Xu Tingting with a smile.

"Okay, teacher. Then you go back first. I still need to stay here with Groudon for a while. I can only go back after he has dealt with these things." Xu Tingting replied with a smile.

"Then I'll go back first." Director Chen said, then jumped onto the golden griffin and left.

Seeing this, Xu Tingting came to Zhong Cong and said, "Grador, are you hungry? If everything is fine, how about we go back and eat?"

"Okay." Zhong Cong nodded and said to his younger brothers, "Today's meeting ends here. Let's all go back and have dinner."

"Yes, Boss." The Beastmasters said happily upon hearing this, and left the volcano training ground in an orderly manner.

"Great, we can finally go back. I was almost starving to death." Upon hearing this, Flame Dog took a step forward and surpassed the other brothers, running towards the teacher's dormitory area.

"Tingting, can you put me in the beast-taming space and let me out when we get home?" The Mountain-Mountain-Mountain Crocodile walked up to Xu Tingting and asked.

"Of course there is no problem, Mountain Moving Crocodile." Xu Tingting said with a smile, and put the Mountain Moving Crocodile into the Beast Taming Space. Then she looked at Zhong Cong and said, "Grawoman, do you want to enter the Beast Taming Space as well?"

"No need, I still prefer to walk by myself." Zhong Cong said and followed the younger brothers.

Seeing this, Xu Tingting showed an expression of "as expected".

Groudon still likes to stay outside as always.

(End of this chapter)