My beast can't be a demon.

Chapter 140: Lonely Spirit Pet

Zhou Lu sat on the sofa in the living room, sitting upright.

Not far away, a beauty rose was preparing tea for them.

"Don't be so formal."

Seeing this restrained look, the beautiful girl Yueji pressed a button on the recorder.

"Um... We are here to visit the senior from the nursing team..." Zhou Lu looked at Hua Huo who was happily picking at the fruit plate and asked, "Excuse me, is the senior not at home today?"

When the beautiful Yueji heard Zhou Lu's words, she showed a puzzled expression.

"If you're talking about my beastmaster," the beautiful Yueji answered Zhou Lu's question, "she's dead. She passed away from illness forty years ago."

"Ah! Sorry!" Zhou Lu then realized that the senior that Ye Qingyu asked him to visit was the plant spirit pet in front of him.

Sister Qingyu was so mean that she didn't even explain it in advance.

When the beautiful Yueji saw Zhou Lu's expression, she knew the reason: "It seems that Qingyu is playing a trick on me again. It's like this every time."

As it spoke, it noticed Zhou Lu's gaze towards the recorder in its hand, then it skillfully clicked on the recorder and explained:

"Some of the little tricks I learned were to have someone help me record all the words I could think of, and then I could use my ability to trigger them and say the corresponding words."

Plant spirit animals, because they have no objective vocal organs, always need some special methods to make sounds.

However, Zhou Lu estimated that with Hua Huo's current learning speed, since it has already understood the principles of sound and developed its own leaf phonograph, it will not be far from making sounds or speaking.

Just like AI piecing together body parts, it only needs to record the pronunciation vibrations of countless words, and then it can speak by combining these vibrations to make sounds.

As for fireworks, they are still in the accumulation stage.

Zhou Lu asked it to record various sounds using a leaf phonograph every day.

It seems that Beauty Rose hasn't spoken to anyone for a long time.

Or maybe it was because Zhou Lu was also a beastmaster who raised plant spirit pets, and he recalled its former owner and actually talked to Zhou Lu about its past.

"That guy took it upon himself to raise me to such a high level, but he died in the end."

Although it has no eyes, Zhou Lu can still feel the sadness in it.

The higher the level of the spirit beast, the longer their lifespan tends to be.

After the transformation, they have freed themselves from the limitations of ordinary lifespans.

Just like the mythical beasts in the Invalides, there is no problem in living for a thousand years.

But it is different for Beastmasters. Although they will upgrade synchronously with the initial spirit pet, the increase in lifespan is not very obvious.

Often, the lifespans of beastmasters and spirit pets of the same level will differ by several times.

Therefore, in the modern world of beast taming, the theory of longevity objectively exists.

The spirit pet still has a very long lifespan, but the beastmaster has already reached the end of his life.

Some of these spiritual pets that grew up with the help of human beastmasters have returned to nature, while others have stayed here because they have adapted to the human world.

The former has become an important helper for humans to manage the spiritual beast clusters in secret realms.

The latter are willing to continue to sign contracts with humans and will continue to serve humans.

But many others will fall into long-term depression due to the death of their beastmaster masters.

Among the many functions of the nursing team, one of the most important is the protection and psychological counseling of these spiritual pets.

This is also one of the reasons why the nursing team has such a high status in the current system.

Although these lonely pets no longer have contracts with new masters, they are very close to humans, so they will spontaneously maintain peace in the human world.

After thousands of years of accumulation in the Beast Taming Era, this kind of spiritual pet has formed a huge number.

As the institution that directly manages them, the nursing team is equivalent to possessing a huge and extraordinary force.

Moreover, with such a long lifespan, their strength is generally not weak.

Just like the beautiful rose in front of you, it is a third-level plant pet.

While Zhou Lu was thinking about these things, the beautiful Rose had already called Hua Huo to its side.

Beauty Rose seemed to be teaching Hua Huo how to use the vines better. Zhou Lu was also happy to let Hua Huo learn from these older sister spirit pets.

"So, you're still not going to the nursing team?"

Zhou Lu looked at the time and asked.

This is also one of the tasks assigned to him by Ye Qingyu.

Beauty Rose shook her head: "I want to watch this house."

Zhou Lu was slightly stunned.

The owner of the beauty rose has been dead for more than forty years.

The decoration style of the room is a bit old-fashioned.

But it can be seen that the house has been cleaned and tidied very carefully.

It's as if there is always an owner here.

Zhou Lu's heart moved.

Subconsciously, he looked towards Hanabi.

Hanabi noticed that her master was looking at her and smiled at him happily.

It obviously had no idea what Zhou Lu was thinking.

who cares.

Zhou Lu quickly calmed his mind.

Maybe in the future I will have the skill to share my lifespan with my spirit pet.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Zhou Lu stood up and prepared to say goodbye.

The beautiful girl Rose sent them to the door of the apartment building.

Just as Zhou Lu was about to leave, Hua Huo gently tugged at the corner of Zhou Lu's clothes with her vines.

This is a warning from Fireworks.

Indicates that there is danger nearby or someone is spying.

Zhou Lu acted as if nothing had happened and said goodbye to the beautiful Yue Ji in a friendly manner.

He brought fireworks and walked towards the bus stop outside the community with a normal expression.

Ever since Zhou Lu learned that Hua Huo was the target of Yan Gui and other fanatical followers of the immortals, he became very cautious.

Whenever they arrive at a place and stay for a while, they will let Huahuo plant branches of [Plant Mimicry] nearby for reconnaissance.

Unexpectedly, he really encountered something unusual this time.

According to Hanabi's feedback, the other party did not take any action due to their departure.

Isn't it directed at me?
Zhou Lu thought in his heart.

That would be strange.

According to the pattern that Hanabi drew on Benben's body, the opponents were all beastmasters.

And anyone who can be noticed by Hanabi is definitely not a normal person.

When Zhou Lu was about to reach the bus stop, he suddenly stopped.

Zhou Lu recalled several major public opinion events regarding the nursing team that Wu Xiaoqing had once told him about.

The cause of these incidents was that the beastmasters, in order to make their own pets evolve, extended their claws to these lonely pets.

These beast masters do not have the courage to go into the wild to confront the target spirit beasts head-on to obtain materials, but they are very brave to take advantage of the lonely spirit pets' trust in humans and launch sneak attacks.

"Hua Huo." Zhou Lu immediately said to Hua Huo, "Have you collected your branches?"

Hanabi said no.

"Go back." Zhou Lu hugged Hua Huo and turned to rush towards the residential building.

These guys’ target is the beautiful rose!
(End of this chapter)