Beast Taming Begins with Evolution

Chapter 116: Questioning the Heart
Mu Kaikang woke up slowly. Baiyin, who was guarding beside him, was the first to discover it.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Baiyin's little head leaning towards him with worried eyes. He subconsciously twitched the corners of his mouth and tried to use both hands to support his body to sit up, but he lost his balance because he lost his left hand. If Baiyin had not been quick, Mu Kaikang would have almost fallen down again.

The delayed pain invaded Mu Kaikang's nerves, his face turned pale and he frowned subconsciously.

Baiyin looked at Mu Kaikang helplessly, and helped him sit up slowly.

"Where are we now?" asked Mu Kaikang.

"In the military vehicle, we are on our way back to the pass." Baiyin said.

"What happened during the time I fainted? Tell me about it."

Baiyin told the story slowly and leisurely.

After the soldier rescued Baiyin and Mu Kaikang, he took the unconscious Mu Kaikang back to the shelter. He disappeared in front of Baiyin in a blink of an eye, along with a group of soldiers. They were probably going to investigate the movements of the beasts.

Baiyin withdrew his gaze, and together with the soldiers at the door, carried Mu Kaikang into the house and found a medical soldier for rescue.

Mu Kaikang was brought into the room, and Baiyin could only sit outside quietly and wait.

An hour later, Bai Yin saw the soldier. He was a little dirty and messy, but he had no wounds. He looked serious and walked hurriedly. She watched from a distance as the soldier was talking to a soldier.

Half an hour after the man came back, Mu Kaikang was pushed out. At this time, the entire shelter was mobilized. The highest-level officer in the shelter issued an order for everyone to retreat from here and return to the pass in military vehicles.

Baiyin realized that her and Mu Kaikang's seemingly fantastic guess had come true, and the beast tide seemed to be really coming.

The shelter is a militarized camp, filled with soldiers and high-ranking beastmasters with strong mobility.

Before Mu Kaikang woke up, Baiyin and he were assigned to go back to the car.

Because they were companions with the injured, Baiyin and Mu Kaikang were assigned to the same car.

There are obstacles on the road, and conflicts between restless beasts and groups of humans are inevitable, but it is still relatively safe at the moment. The soldiers in the shelter can solve it, and there is no need for scattered beastmasters to take action.

Bai Yin should be happy that Mu Kaikang woke up, but looking at the blood faintly seeping from Mu Kaikang's wound and his empty left arm, Bai Yin couldn't put on a smile on her face no matter what.

Mu Kaikang noticed Baiyin's silence at a glance, and saw through her guilt and self-blame, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Why, you didn't cut off my left arm, why are you blaming yourself?"

Baiyin looked up and met Mu Kaikang's gaze, but then looked away in an instant, as if avoiding something.

She tilted her head slightly, looking at the trees passing by outside the window. Her hands clenched into fists without her knowing when, as if she was telling Mu Kaikang, or as if she was talking to herself.

"If it weren't for my invitation, you wouldn't have come with me deep here. If we couldn't go deep here, we wouldn't be in danger."

"If you hadn't been covering my back, you wouldn't have lost your left arm." Mu Kaikang was a beastmaster who fought ferocious beasts head-on. His talent allowed him to have the capital for close combat, but now he had lost an arm. Baiyin hardly dared to think about it anymore.

"It's all my fault." He muttered.

Mu Kaikang did not refute directly, but looked at Bai Yin and asked: "What did you do wrong?"

Seeing that Baiyin didn't look at him, Mu Kaikang followed her line of sight and looked out the window, and happened to see two beasts fighting each other. One was a fierce beast, and the other was a pet of the human camp.

"Humanity has been able to survive under the watchful eyes of ferocious beasts until now, not by being humble, not by hiding, not by being cowardly, not by compromising, but by facing challenges head-on, relying on being brave and fearless of death and sacrifice." "Will the loss of my left hand affect my future life? Maybe, maybe not. But I don't regret it. If I am given another chance, I will still agree to team up with you, agree to go here, agree to face the fifth-level ferocious beast together, and agree that I will cover you while you retreat and look for help. None of this will change."

"Do you know what career options our combat department students will have after graduation?" Mu Kaikang asked again.

Baiyin turned his head, looked at Mu Kaikang, and shook his head slowly.

"When you join the army, you can either guard a place or become an explorer." Mu Kaikang said with a smile.

"Except for you control classes, all the other classes, whether they are assault classes or support classes, are required to form a team. Why do you think that is? It is to lay the foundation for joining the army. Only beastmasters who know how to cooperate can go further and bring hope to mankind."

"Sister Baiyin, I'm relying on my age to call you sister, hahahaha, you have to know that no matter whether it's you, me or anyone else, we humans are all trying to survive under the covetousness of ferocious beasts. This is not playing house, this is not a child's trick, this is suffering and hardship, blood and tears, war and hatred, responsibility and honor."

“It’s survival.”

"I made all the choices myself. I walked this path by myself. You didn't force me, nor did you threaten me. So what does this have to do with you?"

Baiyin understood what Mu Kaikang said, but she still felt pain. Poetry and distant places were great, but the sorrow was right in front of her and there was no way to avoid it, so how could she feel relieved?

Mu Kaikang did not try to persuade him any further, but instead asked, "We are retreating." It was a question, but it was actually a statement.

Bai Yin perked up, "Yes."

"Did the shelter decide to evacuate only after we notified them?" Baiyin nodded.

Mu Kaikang stretched out his right hand and rubbed Baiyin's head vigorously. No matter how talented she was, she was just a little girl who was not yet 17 years old. If she had no talent, she should be acting like a spoiled child in her parents' arms at this moment.

"Good job! My broken arm is worth it!"

"Baiyin, I should thank you. We discovered the beast tide first, which is a military achievement. I have already achieved military merit before I even join the army, which will make my future easier."

"I became a hero. We saved at least the entire shelter."

Bai Yin was almost forced to bow his head by the hand on his head. He listened to Mu Kaikang's words. He didn't know why he was stubborn. He said with his neck stiff, "That officer is very strong. Even without our tip-off, he could still live with the people in the shelter."

Mu Kaikang shook his head. "Impossible. Even if he was a level 70 beastmaster, if he hadn't discovered the abnormality of the beast in advance, he would definitely not be able to lead the entire shelter to escape unscathed. The beast tide, for humans, is a natural disaster. It is too difficult for an individual to defeat a natural disaster. It is a threat of death that makes people tremble just by watching from the sidelines. It is the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of humans. You will see it soon."

"Girl, you really don't have to feel sorry for me. Your sadness makes me feel like I've become a useless person, but it's actually not as serious as I thought. Medical technology is advanced, and with this military achievement, I should be able to get an extremely advanced robotic arm in the future. Once I'm familiar with the new limb, believe me, maybe in the near future, we can become teammates on the same battlefield."

Mu Kaikang's pale face and his piercing eyes that seemed to be burning with flames helped Bai Yin gradually break free from her self-doubt and infinite guilt.

In the battle for survival that concerns the survival of the race, the most inevitable and unavoidable thing is sacrifice.

The easiest thing to overlook is sacrifice.

She thought she was a genius, but even she could not avoid sacrifice, could not avoid the sacrifice of those around her. After all, she was not just a girl under 17 years old. She once again understood that to become a useful person and a strong person, she had to learn, must learn to face sacrifice.

She would always remember her insignificance at this moment, her parents, her friend. One fell in her memory, and the other fell in front of her eyes.

To become stronger, I will seize every opportunity to become stronger.

You won't believe me if I tell you this, but after my hands and eyes were broken, my cell phone also broke. I haven't made any money yet, but I've already lost nearly a thousand. What makes me still smile in the face of life? It's the old saying that after bad times come good times (forcing a smile)
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(End of this chapter)