Beast Taming Begins with the Inner Circle of Pets

Chapter 92 So that's how it is

Although she didn't know the specifics of the operation in Jinling, she had some idea of ​​what was going on with Gao Zhixian's information.

They were well-prepared beforehand, so it should be quite safe.

When Xia Ming brought the two of them back to the base, there were many more wounded soldiers in the emergency room. Xia Shuo was no longer the only busy priest; there were also two female priests in their twenties and thirties.

When Xia Shuo saw Lin Manman arrive, he quickly called her over to help.

Lin Manman summoned Xiao Qi to work, and while Xia Shuo was drinking water, she asked why there were so many wounded soldiers today.

"They were all injured on missions," Xia Shuo replied before continuing his work.

Seeing that he was too busy to talk to her, Lin Manman could only wisely stop bothering him and took Wu Jingyu to rest on the side.

Since the base has a mission, I wonder if those people who went to the training ground yesterday will come back today.

After thinking it over, she handed Xiao Qi over to Wu Jingyu to look after again and went to the training ground herself.

However, she may have arrived early today. Although there were people on the training ground, they were all training seriously.

Considering when they arrived yesterday, I estimate they won't have time until the afternoon.

Just as Lin Manman was about to go back, she saw another group of wounded soldiers being sent back.

Seeing this, Lin Manman was a little puzzled. Logically speaking, they shouldn't go on a mission without a priest. And yet, with a priest, they still sent back so many wounded soldiers.

That means not only is the target group for this mission quite large, but the battle is also very intense.

But I heard Xia Shuo mention before that the base's usual missions don't have a high casualty rate...

Could it be... that Wu Anbang has already found some mysterious organization and started taking action?

Lin Manman was startled. She quickly sent a message to her senior brother to inquire about their recent progress.

As she expected, there was no reply from the other end.

That must be it! They are probably in direct conflict with that mysterious organization right now.

Lin Manman was both anxious and worried. She hurriedly returned to the emergency room, hoping to see when Xia Shuo would be free so she could try to get something out of him.

Most of the wounded soldiers brought back were seriously injured and required lengthy treatment. So the three priests and Xiao Qi were all extremely busy, without even a moment to drink water, let alone give her a chance to get information out of her.

Wu Jingyu noticed that something was wrong with her, hesitated for a moment, but still asked, "Sister Manman... what's wrong? You seem restless."

Lin Manman looked at her. "Did your father tell you why he came to Jinling?"

Mentioning Wu Jingfeng, Wu Jingyu's expression fell. "No, he rarely explains to me what he's doing."

Lin Manman sighed. From her perspective, her senior brother should care a lot about his daughter, but Wu Jingyu couldn't feel it. It was probably because her senior brother had communication problems.

"Why don't you send him a message and ask him what he's doing?"

Wu Jingyu glanced at her, then turned his back, clearly unwilling.

Upon seeing her attitude, Lin Manman feigned concern and sighed, "I'm worried that he might be in danger right now."

"His purpose in coming here is actually to help Nanjing track down a mysterious force that has infiltrated from abroad. Once the investigation yields results, a bloody battle is inevitable."

As expected, Wu Jingyu turned around nervously as soon as Lin Manman said that.

Seeing that she still didn't speak, Lin Manman continued, "You heard what Pastor Xia said just now. These wounded soldiers were all injured during a mission. With so many wounded soldiers, Jinling was completely safe and peaceful before; I hadn't heard of any illegal organizations..."

Wu Jingyu's expression grew increasingly serious as he thought about it, and he quickly took out his bracelet to send a message to Wu Jingfeng.

Lin Manman raised an eyebrow. Although she and Wu Jingfeng had a falling out, she was still very worried about her father.

So, there's no real grudge between the father and daughter. The most likely explanation is that her senior brother is a blabbermouth and never explains anything to his own daughter.

Wu Jingyu is no longer a child; the less he says, the more she will overthink things.

A short while later, Wu Jingyu's bracelet started to move.

Lin Manman glanced at her bracelet, which still hadn't responded. See? She knew it…

After reading Wu Jingfeng's reply, Wu Jingyu's expression visibly relaxed, and she belatedly realized that Lin Manman had deliberately scared her.

With her father's strength, there are probably no more than one person in the entire Jinling city who can match him.

She pursed her lips and looked at Lin Manman with a reproachful look in her eyes.

"Hehe, I'm really worried. Tell me quickly, what did your dad say to you?" Lin Manman chuckled, feigning ignorance.

"He said it's nothing, the leader of the organization has been captured, and they are cleaning up the battlefield now." Wu Jingyu showed Lin Manman the message in his bracelet.

The message reply was very concise, but Lin Manman stared at it for a long time. Was this matter really resolved just like that?

Although she had already suspected it, she still felt a sense of unreality when she actually learned that the matter had been resolved smoothly.

It feels like things have gone too smoothly...

"Ask him when they'll be back?" Lin Manman was a little worried. She wanted to see if the captured organization leader was the mysterious person who had come to see her before.

She had previously suspected that her brother's injury might not have been an accident, so after returning home, she specifically asked Xia Ming to help her check the live video of her brother's match at that time.

That Dream Eater was different from the strange spirit beast that attacked her. It seemed to be a wild spirit beast that had escaped from the secret realm by chance, but she always had a feeling that it was too coincidental.

Wu Jingyu nodded. He had already asked, so asking one more question wouldn't hurt.

He said around three or four in the afternoon.

She didn't reply to any of her messages for ages, but her daughter answered every single one. Honestly, who would believe she doesn't spoil her daughter?

With the definite news, Lin Manman lost interest in taking her spirit pets to find opponents for training and instead stayed with Xiao Qi in the emergency room.

Time quickly passed to afternoon, and the wounded soldiers in the emergency room had been mostly treated. Only a few who were missing limbs were slowly recovering under the care of the priest.

Lin Manman stood at the door, constantly looking out.

At this moment, Xia Ming came over. "Miss, here's news from Captain Wu. The person has been caught and is being held in the professional prison. They want you to come and see if he's the same person who saw you back then."

Lin Manman's eyes widened. Wasn't this exactly what she wanted?

"Okay, let's go then." She turned around, pulled Xiao Qi back, said goodbye to Xia Ming and the other two pastors, and then left with Wu Jingyu.

Xia Ming led them back onto the land vehicle and drove them to a very desolate and remote suburb. In the distance, a cylindrical building stood on this barren land.

This was the first time Lin Manman had ever seen a prison. The professional prison in front of her had no place where light could pass through, and from a distance it looked like a concrete pillar.

Upon closer inspection, the building was quite magnificent, just a bit ugly. But in a place where prisoners are held, no one cares about beauty or ugliness.

Xia Ming, holding the electronic pass given to him by Wu Anbang, smoothly led them inside.

Wu Anbang was already waiting in front of the prison building.

After Lin Manman and the other two greeted him briefly, she began to subtly inquire about the details.

"Based on the clues you provided, we started investigating from two angles simultaneously: the staff who arranged the spirit beasts in the points competition and that mysterious person. We haven't made any progress in identifying the mysterious person, but we found out that the staff who arranged the spirit beasts were all breeders at the spirit beast breeding base."

"After some investigation, we discovered that the breeders at this spirit beast breeding base colluded with the sales staff to sell some of the spirit beasts to a spirit beast meat production base at a higher price. These sold spirit beasts would then be reported as losses in various ways, or used to buy inferior meat at a low price and sell it to our partners as superior meat."

"We followed the trail of this clandestine spirit beast meat production base and discovered that, while it appeared to be in the spirit beast meat business, it had actually built an illegal laboratory underground."

"Our people infiltrated and found many experimental subjects inside that resembled the spirit beast corpses you provided. After figuring out the situation, we immediately conducted a stakeout and made arrests last night. We didn't expect them to have so many people hiding, so it took some time."

"When we captured the leader of this organization, he was still engrossed in experiments in the lab. You're the only one here who has seen his face clearly, so I called you over to identify him."

Lin Manman listened and nodded from time to time. She hadn't expected him to go into much detail, but he actually told her everything.

Was Wu Anbang really such an easy person to talk to?

"Go in, he's inside." Wu Anbang led her to the door of an interrogation room, opened the door, and gestured for her to enter.

As Xia Ming and Wu Jingyu tried to follow, he stopped them. "You are not directly involved in this incident, so you cannot go in."

Lin Manman was also stunned for a moment, then turned around and nodded to Xia Ming, indicating that she could manage on her own.

Upon entering the interrogation room, one finds a rather unusual chair with a man sitting on it, his head bowed and his hands handcuffed to the chair.

Hearing the noise, the man looked up at Lin Manman.

The face was none other than the mysterious man who had come to the hotel to find him back then, except that he was wearing a sharp suit and a top hat, a stark contrast to his current disheveled appearance.

"Is it him?" Wu Anbang asked her.

"Yes..." Lin Manman answered hesitantly. Although her face was still the same, her temperament... seemed slightly different...

"Hehe, hello Miss Lin. I originally planned to visit you after your competition, but I didn't expect to meet you again so soon." The man looked at her, even though he looked disheveled and was trapped in a predicament. He still gave Lin Manman a polite smile.

Only then did Lin Manman dispel her unnecessary doubts. "You said you'd invite me after my match, but wasn't it you who sent people to kill me?"

"This really wasn't my doing. It was my subordinates who wanted to gain merit and acted on their own initiative." The man sighed. "How could I be so stupid as to use such an easily exposed method to harm you? Inviting you to join my experiment was my real purpose."

"Don't listen to him. Some of the spirit beasts they research are obtained through private transactions with spirit beast breeding farms, and some are used to lure other people's spirit beasts under the guise of helping beast tamers improve their spirit beasts' strength, and then used for experiments." Wu Anbang's eyes were filled with a hidden murderous intent as he looked at the man.

Lin Manman suddenly remembered his wife; so that's how it is... then everything makes sense...

(End of this chapter)