Beast Taming Begins with the Inner Circle of Pets

Chapter 118 The Treasure-Hunting Mouse's Hint

Despite the very tempting offer from Lin Minsheng, she not only accepted the apprenticeship gift but also tried to bribe all three of her senior brothers.

Now that the spirit beast has been contracted and a piece of protective gear has been destroyed, how can she just back out like that? Helpless, she could only refuse with tears in her eyes.

Seeing that she still refused to become his disciple, Lin Minsheng didn't even mention whether she would be going to her senior year of high school or not, and simply told her to get lost. He probably didn't want to see her for a while.

When Lin Manman got home, she found Xia Ming and asked him how much he knew about the matter between Lin Minsheng and Meng Wenbin.

"Elder Lin and Elder Meng were both top-tier experts in their early days, but unlike Elder Meng, he didn't like to get involved in things and didn't have much ambition."

"When he was young, Elder Lin refused the alliance and did not join any faction. He simply led a team to explore the secret realm with his wife."

"Although Elder Lin did not join the Alliance, he made significant contributions to it. Therefore, when he announced that he would no longer be exploring, the Alliance was going to grant him the position of Honorary Elder."

"However, he refused. Later I heard that he took his wife on a trip. As for when he came to Nanjing and became the principal of Nanjing Affiliated High School, I am not very clear."

"When Elder Meng came to Jinling, I didn't go with him at first. It was only later, when he needed my help, that he called me to Jinling."

"After that, I stayed by Miss's side, so I don't know much about the things between Elder Meng and Elder Lin."

Lin Manman looked at Xia Ming suspiciously, but he still looked at her with a faint smile.

Based on her experience with Xia Ming over this period of time, Xia Ming is a person who rarely talks nonsense. Today, she simply asked him if he knew about the relationship between Lin Minsheng and Meng Wenbin.

He said so much, and while it can't be called nonsense, it also felt like he didn't say anything at all.

And wasn't he secretly belittling Old Lin?

It was telling her that compared to Lin Minsheng, who had no ambition, Meng Wenbin not only had a powerful background, but was also a more goal-oriented and ambitious person, and was more suitable to be her teacher.

Lin Manman nodded hesitantly. Anyway, she couldn't possibly become Lin Minsheng's apprentice, so it didn't matter how much she knew about him.

"Miss...the spirit beast shop has been doing better and better lately. If school lets out, please try to come back and visit as early as possible."

As Lin Manman turned to leave, Xia Ming suddenly spoke to her.

She noticed that there had indeed been an increase in the number of casual customers coming to the spirit beast shop recently. In addition to Xia Ming and his two companions, Qiu Xiangjing's wife had also been frequently coming to help out.

So she nodded, indicating that she understood.

She turned and went to the underground training room because the honey badger and the others were too big to follow her when she went to school during the day.

Later, seeing that she rarely had the opportunity to practice in the actual combat classes, she simply kept them at home for training, taking turns with two of them in the spirit pet space each day.

Today she brought Rainbow Jade and Amber. After she released Rainbow Jade and Amber and fed them, the Treasure-Seeking Mouse Ruyi came up to her and squeaked.

Because the treasure-hunting rat itself wasn't very strong and was unregistered, Lin Manman never brought it to school. She only told it not to expose itself to people and left it at home.

Keeping it at home is also to give it more space to move around. We can't keep it confined in the pet space all the time and let it cultivate in silence. That would be much better than keeping it in a cage before.

"What? You mean, you sensed the treasure that the person had the treasure hunters retrieve on the customer who came to buy the spirit beast?"

The information Ruyi told Lin Manman made her frown.

The treasure-hunting rat and the treasure hunter must have tracked down to the Huai River area based on the information given by that person, which is the area where Lin Manman and the others used to live.

However, the Lingshui District where they are now is quite a distance from the area where they used to live. How could this person appear here again?

"At what time did you sense it?" Lin Manman asked the treasure-hunting rat, frowning. She planned to check the surveillance footage to see what kind of person it was.

"Squeak, squeak..."

"You said you've come more than once?" Lin Manman was shocked.

Why have you come to buy spirit beasts more than once? What's going on?

Ruyi nodded. Actually, it didn't want to have anything to do with the treasure hunter from the past anymore. However, this person had come to buy spirit beasts more than once, and it was worried that it might cause trouble for Lin Manman.

Lin Manman couldn't figure it out, so she simply picked up Ruyi and stuffed it into her pocket. Fortunately, Ruyi, like Xiaoqi, only leveled up but didn't grow taller, so she could easily hide it on her person without anyone noticing.

Carrying the treasure-hunting rat Ruyi, she returned to the main hall of the spirit beast shop. Instead of disturbing Xia Ming, she chose to ask Qiu Xiangjing for information.

"Uncle Qiu, have any customers come back to buy spirit beasts repeatedly lately?"

Qiu Xiangjing was taken aback by her question, frowned and thought carefully for a moment, then shook her head. "No, occasionally there are one or two repeat customers, but they always bring others to buy."

As he spoke, he opened the purchase record to show Lin Manman. It contained information on people who had made individual purchases from the spirit beast shop during this period.

Lin Manman carefully examined the area and found nothing suspicious.

She subtly told Qiu Xiangjing that she just wanted to know about the recent operations of the spirit beast shop and that there was nothing else going on.

She then took Ruyi back to her room on the third floor.

He turned on the main computer in the room and started reviewing the surveillance footage from the past few days.

Ruyi perched on her shoulder, pointing out the suspects. Soon, the two of them, one human and one pet, had identified the suspicious person.

Lin Manman discovered that this person had appeared in the past week, and he would always pretend to be someone else when he came. Sometimes he would come alone, and sometimes he would come with other people.

This person has bought a total of eight spirit beasts this week.

This is very suspicious. Normally, a beast tamer would not buy so many spirit beasts in a short period of time, because even if there are new spirit pet slots to contract after breaking through the level, it is impossible to exceed three.

If you buy so many in a short period of time, are you going to keep them as pets if you can't get them into contracts?

So this person bought so many spirit beasts not for contracting spirit pets at all.

Recalling the foreign organization that Wu Anbang had previously eradicated, which used spirit beasts for experiments, could this person have some connection to that organization? Were those people who were arrested before not the entirety of this organization?

Lin Manman shook her head. Even if this person bought so many spirit beasts, it didn't necessarily mean they were for experimental research. Why did she subconsciously connect them together?

Moreover, didn't Wu Anbang clearly state that this organization has been eradicated and that everyone on the organization's list has been arrested?

But if it's not for experimental research, then why would it be necessary to purchase so many spirit beasts in such a short period of time?

Lin Manman couldn't figure out the reason, and after thinking it over, she could only ask Xia Ming for help to investigate this person's movements.

(End of this chapter)