Beast Taming Begins with the Inner Circle of Pets

Chapter 121 is fake!

What came into Lin Manman's view were rows of spirit beast cages. Some of the spirit beasts in the cages had lost all their fur, some had their skin torn and their flesh torn and bloody, and some were tightly bound and seemed to have been given some kind of drug to put them into a deep sleep.

A pile of spirit beast corpses casually stacked in a corner—such a scene is utterly shocking.

On several custom-made, oversized metal counters, various materials, test tubes, and syringes were scattered.

On the other side of the wall, there were five tall petri dishes filled with fluorescent green liquid, containing spirit beasts whose general shapes could only be seen, their original appearances no longer discernible.

Lin Manman was shocked for a moment, then quickly used the system to check on these spirit beasts.

Without exception, all of these spirit beasts were showing signs of mutation. Those spirit beasts still alive and confined in the cages were either showing signs of evolution or mutation.

She never expected that her earlier flash of inspiration, which linked the man's purpose in buying the spirit beast to that foreign organization, would be confirmed at this moment.

"Hongyu, go outside and keep watch. If anyone gets close, immediately teleport me outside."

Lin Manman let out a soft breath. The situation was becoming increasingly unpredictable, and she shouldn't get too involved. She had to leave immediately if anything seemed amiss.

After entering the basement, Hongyu saw piles of spirit beast corpses on the ground, and these spirit beasts that had obviously been used as experimental subjects. The killing intent in its eyes turned its pink snake eyes red.

These spirit beasts are not wild spirit beasts that intend to attack humans; they are spirit beasts that have been carefully bred by human beast tamers to be their spirit pets.

At this moment, they are not only being used by this person for experiments, but also treated as consumables, to be thrown away when they die.

This aroused a sense of sympathy and anger in Hongyu, who was also a spirit beast, but it would not act on its own without Lin Manman's command.

Lin Manman was only warning it, so it could only suppress its murderous intent and pass through the wall to the outside of the villa.

Lin Manman was also furious. Among these dead and still suffering spirit beasts were spirit beasts that she had painstakingly awakened. These spirit beasts had not played their due role in the hands of the beast tamers of China.

But in this dark and sunless basement, she was used as a test subject, tortured and wasted!

However, when she realized that this person was likely connected to a foreign organization, she could no longer simply kill him and leave it at that.

Compared to Hongyu's anger, Xiaoqi and Ruyi, apart from remaining somewhat silent, did not react too violently.

Xiao Qi comes from a secret realm where fighting and death among spirit beasts is commonplace. Ru Yi's past was even more cruel. If it were the previous Ru Yi, it might not even have felt any extra sympathy.

However, given the current complicated situation, Lin Manman didn't have much energy to pay attention to her spirit pet's psychological changes. While taking pictures of the scene and sending them to Gao Zhixian, she carefully examined the reagents and documents on the counter.

Lin Manman quickly found an experiment log, which started eight days ago.

On October 11, test subjects number three and five awoke once, and their mental control remained stable. Test subject number four began to show signs of weakening.

On October 12, the first experimental subject successfully achieved a quality breakthrough, but did not wake up; his mental state remained stable.

Subject Two had excessive mental resistance, so they were given additional spiritual suggestions.

Six new experimental subjects were added, and Type 15 evolution agent was tested.

On October 13, three new experimental subjects survived and successfully entered the mutation state, increasing the survival rate of the Type 15 evolution potion by 10%.

【Slowly Slowly Spirit Beast Shop】High-quality spirit beasts with high survival rates and strong adaptability to evolution potions.

Lin Manman became increasingly alarmed as she looked at the name of the spirit beast shop, which was heavily circled by Chen Xuewei, demonstrating the importance he placed on it.

It seems that he comes to her shop every day to buy spirit beasts not only because he needs a large number of spirit beasts as test subjects for his experiments, but also because he has discovered that the spirit beasts in her shop are unusual.

It started when he discovered that some of the spirit beasts he bought from the spirit beast shop had a higher survival rate and stronger adaptability to medicine.

He also specifically targeted her awakened spirit beast and other ordinary spirit beasts from other spirit beast shops to conduct experiments and then compare them.

The conclusion was that the spirit beasts that Lin Manman's bloodline awakened had a stronger ability to accept the so-called evolution potion in his hands.

Often, the body can survive the first round of incomplete absorption of the drug's power, resulting in more drug power remaining in the body and causing damage.

However, absorbing the potion's energy is only the first hurdle. The second hurdle is when the absorption of the potion's energy triggers evolution or mutation. Evolved spirit beasts are relatively more likely to survive the second hurdle.

The dangers faced by mutated spirit beasts are even more difficult to predict.

Most spirit beasts die in a mutated state. Some mutate and although their rank increases, their internal energy becomes unbalanced, causing them to either decay and die or go mad and attack others indiscriminately.

Currently, the most successful mutations Chen Xuewei has are the five experimental subjects in the petri dish and the dozen or so spirit beasts he bought from Lin Manman's shop.

Of these fifteen spirit beasts, eight successfully entered the evolutionary state, four entered the mutation state, two died during the mutation, and only one died in the first round of drug absorption.

Lin Manman then looked at the spirit beasts that were in the process of evolving or mutating but were still alive.

There are a total of eighteen living spirit beasts, twelve of which were bought from Lin Manman's shop.

Lin Manman frowned slightly. It seemed that the spirit beast she had given after its bloodline awakening had some special ability to adapt to this evolution potion.

This was not a good thing, and a sense of annoyance flashed through her mind.

Without time to think it over, she hurriedly went to check the spirit beast corpses piled up in the corner. The weather wasn't too hot, but it wasn't exactly cool either.

These corpses didn't smell bad, so they must have been from the last two days. The previous corpses had probably already been cleared away several times.

She examined it carefully and indeed found several corpses inside that looked very similar to the strange beast that had attacked her before.

The black surface looked as if it had been stretched and cracked by an unknown force, with energy faintly flowing within the cracks.

With this discovery, the warning mechanism in Lin Manman's brain seemed to have been detonated and was roaring incessantly.

These corpses are enough to prove that Chen Xuewei was a member of the overseas organization that Wu Anbang previously eliminated!

He was likely targeted by the treasure hunters because he stole an important potion used by the organization to research the evolution of spirit beasts.

This explains why the treasure hunters weren't killed on the spot outside the wall, but were instead moved into the main city area.

The treasure hunter and the treasure-hunting rat were specifically transferred to the main urban area for the handover in order to track Chen Xuewei!

Based on the timeline from the treasure hunters' capture to their transfer into the city, the garrison had already been cooperating with this foreign organization long before Lin Manman discovered it!

Thinking of this, Lin Manman's heartbeat and breathing became rapid. Moreover, it wasn't just the garrison troops; even the police system in the main city was involved with this organization!

Could such a widely infiltrated and deeply hidden organization really have been eliminated by Wu Anbang?

Obviously... impossible!

Lin Manman's mind gradually cleared, and she realized that Wu Anbang was not trustworthy!

He is very likely the organization's protector.

In order to further conceal the organization, some unimportant members were arrested to close the matter.

My mind is a mess. I've revised it for a long time, but I still feel like it's not quite right.

(End of this chapter)