Beast Taming Begins with the Inner Circle of Pets

Chapter 124 contains too much information.

"No, if you take me away, aren't you afraid my teacher will cause trouble for you when they come back?"

When the basement door reopened and someone appeared with handcuffs that could suppress the abilities of professionals, Lin Manman realized she had overlooked something...

Logically speaking, if the other party was initially wary of Meng Wenbin's strength and influence, then why would they dare to make a move against her now?

Mentioning Meng Wenbin, Fan Chengye revealed a wide smile. "Why do you think I dared to lay a hand on you?"

Lin Manman considered a possibility, but she refused to believe it. "Impossible. If you have the ability to attack my teacher, why would you need to use such methods to infiltrate Jinling City?"

China classifies its forces into several levels: E, D, C, B, A, and S. The most important criterion for determining whether a force reaches the S level is whether it has more than five level nine powerhouses.

Only those with S-level faction certification are qualified to explore S-level secret realms.

This shows how powerful and rare level nine experts are, but Meng Wenbin, like Lin Minsheng, is very likely a super expert who has broken through level nine and reached a completely new realm.

If they had such a powerful figure in charge, they could easily establish a force anywhere in the Eastern Continent, so why bother to fight against China?

"You seem to have misunderstood something. We don't need to confront him directly. There are many ways to keep him from coming back in the short term."

"Alright, Dr. Chen has been waiting for us for a long time. If you want to know more, come with us."

Fan Chengye seemed unwilling to talk more about Meng Wenbin's matter, and he raised his hand.

One of the men who had just gotten off behind him immediately took out handcuffs and was about to put them on Lin Manman.

Lin Manman took a step back, and Hong Yu immediately stepped in front of her, watching the person warily.

"Mr. Fan, since I am of great use to you and my strength is so weak, you don't need to use this kind of thing, do you? I really don't like being treated like this."

Lin Manman looked at Fan Chengye seriously. She was testing him, and also taking a gamble. She was gambling that her abilities were important enough, while also testing how he planned to treat her.

The life-saving method Meng Wenbin left her before leaving could only be used once. Not knowing what it was or how it worked, she dared not use it on Fan Chengye.

If it's a weapon that only causes massive damage in a single instance, this method would be impossible for a level nine spatial mage to successfully unleash.

Once she loses her only trump card, she will truly be at the mercy of others.

So, without certainty, she didn't want to use this last trump card. But if the other party wanted to control her as a mindless tool, then she had no choice but to fight to the death.

Fan Chengye and Lin Manman looked at each other for two seconds. As if sensing her determination, he raised his hand again to stop the man.

"Since Miss Lin doesn't like it, then it's fine. But I hope you can be smart and sensible. My other partners may not have my good temper, and it wouldn't be good if they hurt you."

After saying that, he raised his hand and gestured for Lin Manman to enter.

"These things still need to be tidied up. Miss Lin, please come upstairs with me and wait."

Seeing that he had given in, Lin Manman decided to stop while she was ahead.

She put Hongyu, Xiaoqi, and Ruyi back into her spirit pet space before heading towards the basement exit.

When Lin Manman arrived on the first floor, the lights were already on, and a man was curled up on the sofa in the living room.

There were two other people standing opposite him. After they saw Fan Chengye follow her up, they moved further away from the man on the sofa.

"What's going on?" Fan Chengye asked, glancing at Chen Xuewei on the sofa.

"When Dr. Chen saw Lao Qian go down to the basement, he became very agitated and told us not to touch his things. We couldn't control him, so..."

The speaker was a burly, bald man who kept glancing at Fan Chengye's face as he spoke, seemingly extremely afraid of him.

"Don't worry, Dr. Chen, everything in your basement is very important. We will keep it safe. Take a few people down to help, and make sure everything is taken away intact. If I find any damage when we get back, you know what will happen."

The bald man nodded repeatedly, saying he understood, and then turned around and called a few more people in from outside to go to the basement.

Chen Xuewei then got up from the sofa, clutching his stomach and looking somewhat exhausted, indicating that he had been badly beaten.

Lin Manman carefully looked Chen Xuewei up and down. He had disguised himself when he went to buy spirit beasts before. Although she could tell from the system panel, this was the first time she had seen his true face.

Chen Xuewei doesn't look very old, but his life on the run has made him extremely weak and haggard. His thin and somewhat sunken face makes him look like he's over fifty.

However, his tired eyes were exceptionally clear, showing few signs of age.

"If you want to kill me, kill me now. I won't go back with you." Chen Xuewei clutched his abdomen with one hand, his forehead covered in sweat from the pain, but even so, he tried to look up and stare directly at Fan Chengye.

"Dr. Chen, why make things difficult for me? I know your talent, how could I bear to kill you?" Fan Chengye sighed slightly and sat down next to Chen Xuewei, seemingly wanting to have a good talk with him.

Lin Manman didn't want to watch the two snakes and rats fight amongst themselves, but she couldn't leave anyway, so she simply sat down opposite them.

"All my hard work so far has ended up in your hands. You can still continue your research even without me." Chen Xuewei chuckled, a look of regret mixed with relief on his face.

"You've put so much hard work into this research, are you just going to let someone else benefit from it?"

Chen Xuewei sneered upon hearing his words. "Haven't I been working for others all along? You never agreed with my research goals from the beginning, but you deceived me, trying to distract me by making me research methods to enhance spirit beasts."

Fan Chengye frowned, his gaze sweeping over Lin Manman.

"Your research goal is too... Putting aside the feasibility of the technology itself, even if you could actually develop this technology, we still have to see if those people would give you the opportunity."

Upon hearing this, Chen Xuewei suddenly became excited, "So what? I'm not the first to research this. Meng Wenbin proposed this idea twenty years ago..."

"Then don't you know why he withdrew from the twelve seats in the Alliance?" Fan Chengye suddenly interrupted Chen Xuewei loudly, and then glanced at Lin Manman with a strange expression.

Lin Manman was also surprised to find that Meng Wenbin was involved here.

She pretended not to care while listening intently.

"In short, your idea is difficult to achieve, but right now there is an easier goal to achieve. I don't know if you are interested." Fan Chengye raised his chin and gestured for Chen Xuewei to look at Lin Manman.

Chen Xuewei and Lin Manman exchanged a glance, both seeing the other's confusion.

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(End of this chapter)