Beast Taming Begins with the Inner Circle of Pets

Chapter 137: It's just that I was born in a peaceful country.

"You're actually from the city, right?" Zhao Ziyan poured Lin Manman a glass of water and then started chatting with her.

Although Zhao Ziyan is a sorceress and very beautiful, her dress and manner of doing things are just like those of the other members of the Zhao family—bold and decisive.

"Is it obvious?" Lin Manman looked at herself. After a night of fleeing and encountering a beast tide, she was in a much worse state than the people of Zhao Family Village.

Zhao Ziyan smiled. "Your eyes are too clear, and you don't seem to have much experience dealing with beast tides."

Although she awakened the mage profession, she was born and raised here. Deep down, she is the same as other members of her race—skilled in battle and decisive.

"Beast tides...do you experience them often?" Thinking of the horrific scenes on the battlefield outside, Lin Manman's heart tightened slightly.

"Yes, it happens almost every year. However, because the garrison troops regularly clear out the area, in previous years even if a beast tide formed, not many high-level spirit beasts would appear. This year is an exception."

Humans hunt spirit beasts, and in the eyes of these spirit beasts, the flesh and blood of these professionals are the best tonic.

Therefore, every year when wild beasts stockpile food for the winter, villages like theirs would encounter beast tides of varying sizes.

This year, because the garrison troops have not left the city to clean up for almost two months, the beast tide not only formed earlier and on a larger scale, but even level eight spirit beasts appeared.

"Well, why haven't the garrison troops come out to clean up the city lately?" Lin Manman asked, seizing the opportunity. She needed more information about the garrison troops to return to Jinling City.

"I heard it's because there's some important event in the city, and they haven't been able to spare any manpower to clean up for the past two months. But we all know that's a lie."

"Our village often goes to the city to buy and sell goods, and occasionally we exchange some equipment that the garrison troops don't want with them, so we are quite familiar with those garrison troops."

"It's just that recently, all the garrison soldiers I used to know have been replaced by unfamiliar faces, and many of them don't even look like Chinese."

"The elders in the village feel that Nanjing is not safe now, so we haven't been doing business in the city recently."

Upon hearing this, Lin Manman frowned involuntarily. What Zhao Ziyan said was the last thing she wanted to hear.

It is clear that the garrison troops are now most likely under the control of Fan Chengye's forces, and the original garrison troops have been replaced by them.

Now it's not just a question of whether she can go back, but also whether everyone in Jinling City is safe, and whether her family is safe...

"Thank you," Lin Manman said to Zhao Ziyan, realizing that the other woman intended to tell her more information, and she sincerely thanked her.

Zhao Ziyan smiled slightly and shook her head.

"No need to thank me, it's just a little information. You've saved the lives of our entire Zhao Family Village. Is there anything else you want to ask? I'll tell you everything I know."

This year's beast tide was extraordinary. If it weren't for the help of a level nine griffin at the crucial moment, their village might not have existed after today.

Since Zhao Ziyan has said so, then she won't hold back!

Afterwards, Lin Manman and Zhao Ziyan talked for a long time and learned that the living environment outside the city walls was harsh, not only due to harassment from wild spirit beasts.

There are also humans; some people will want to occupy these villages to survive.

Most of these people were unable to make a living elsewhere and wanted to seek refuge in the vicinity of China.

Lin Manman also knew that the main urban area of ​​Huaxia almost never allowed outsiders to enter the city. Even if people from Zhao Family Village occasionally came into the city to do some small business, they would be given a certificate and had to leave the city before dark.

The trading venues for this type of people are also fixed in a certain area, so Lin Manman had lived in the city for fifteen years and had never seen a real outsider.

This meant that outsiders who wanted the protection of the Chinese forces could only seize the space outside the city walls.

However, over the years, established village forces have long since formed around the main urban area. To survive there, one can only seize the existing villages.

"Have you professionals never thought about bringing your families to live in the city?"

The alliance offers many benefits to professionals. For a high-level professional like Zhao Gui, settling down in Nanjing with his whole family shouldn't be a problem.

"Some people will move to the city, but not everyone is willing to leave behind their childhood friends and family."

Lin Manman nodded, understanding. She then asked why there were no beast tamers in their village; given their environment, it was understandable that a higher percentage of warriors would awaken their powers.

But the fact that there wasn't a single beast tamer seemed rather strange.

Upon hearing Lin Manman ask this question, Zhao Ziyan gave her a complicated look.

"It's not that Zhao Family Village has never had a Beast Tamer, but some didn't survive, and some were given to forces in the city that were willing to support Beast Tamers."

It turns out that because there are no suitable training methods for beast tamers here, many villagers who have awakened to become beast tamers find it difficult to improve themselves.

The wild spirit beasts outside the wall are too aggressive and difficult to tame and contract.

Unable to enhance their own soul power and bound to wild and untamed spirit beasts, the beast tamers who awakened in Zhao Family Village long ago almost all faced death.

As for why I don't spend money to buy spirit beasts from the spirit beast shop to form contracts with, it's obviously because I don't have the money.

Even if their entire clan tightened their belts, they might not be able to scrape together enough money to buy a silver-level spirit beast.

Add to that the money for subsequent cultivation and raising of spirit beasts, and it's a bottomless pit, requiring a constant influx of money.

In a situation like Zhao Family Village, even if everyone were willing to sacrifice themselves to support a Beast Tamer, it still wouldn't be enough.

So later, the village elders held a meeting and decided that once someone awakened the profession of Beast Tamer, they would be sent to the city to seek a way out.

However, given their backgrounds, even if those forces were willing to accept them, the conditions they would set would be very harsh.

They can train these beast tamers, but only on the condition that these beast tamers have no further connection or contact with their families or villages.

For the sake of these children's future and lives, the people of Zhao Village had no choice but to agree to these conditions.

After hearing Zhao Ziyan's words, Lin Manman couldn't help but let out a deep breath.

At this moment, she sincerely thanked the Chinese professionals and officials for all their efforts for the Chinese people. They were never born in a peaceful world; they were simply born in a country that strives to bring peace to its people.

Without the Alliance establishing a dedicated Spirit Beast Research Institute for Beast Tamers, the Beast Tamers in the city would not have been able to awaken and safely contract spirit beasts.

Without the Alliance's successive expeditions, the related industrial chain for exploring the city's secret realms would not be so developed, and various industries would not have had the opportunity to flourish, allowing the city's residents to have a safe, stable, and high-quality life.

When she thought of the alliance, she couldn't help but think of Meng Wenbin.

She still had too many details about Fan Chengye's affair that she didn't understand, but she thought that he might have done this for the sake of Nanjing and for the people of China.

Although she was resentful that she had been used as bait and had not learned the truth, she also respected his many contributions to China, not to mention that he had a grand goal of caring for all the people of China.

Perhaps this is the difference in thinking between a great person and an ordinary commoner like her. Just like the famous trolley problem in my previous life, there is no perfect answer. It's just a matter of perspective.

Speak of the devil, and he shall appear!

While Lin Manman was thinking about Meng Wenbin, Zhao Gui rushed over and told her that someone had come to pick her up.

This person was none other than Meng Wenbin, the teacher who was about to be laid off!

(End of this chapter)