Is it difficult to evolve your beast?

Chapter 97 Heading to

"Who are you, and what do you want with her?" After hearing Jiang Feng's words, the person on the other end was even more wary than Jiang Feng and his group.

"We are her classmates and want to... ask her some questions." Jiang Feng sensed something was off, so he didn't directly say that he wanted to invite her out for dinner.

"Oh, she stole something from my mom, and now my mom is beating her up. Leave her a message if you need anything."

The call was disconnected immediately after I finished speaking.

On Jiang Feng's side, the four of them looked at each other in bewilderment.

Stealing?

These three words were still somewhat unfamiliar to them, and Han Yunyun didn't seem like that kind of person.

"Is her refusal to let us go to her house because she has a bad relationship with her family?"

"East District... what kind of place is the East District...?"

Having all spent time with Han Yunyun, they naturally wouldn't believe someone else's one-sided story. Jiang Feng and the other two were even more worried, wondering what kind of accident might have happened to Han Yunyun.

Because of what happened last time, Han Yunyun has not fully recovered. She went to the hospital for a checkup and was found to have minor damage to her mental sea. She needs to take good care of her body and cannot use her mental power like before, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Could it be to make cookies for us?" When they left yesterday, they told Han Yunyun to make a lot of cookies so they could enjoy them after her cultivation session tonight.

But Han Yunyun shouldn't be short of money...

That card is perfectly sufficient for all expenses at school.

As a Beast Tamer, you also receive a monthly subsidy from the Beast Tamer Association, which provides you with a sum of money that you can freely spend. Although it's not much, it's enough for students who are very poor to buy all sorts of things.

It's only been about two weeks since they registered as beast tamers, so they couldn't have spent all that money, right?

"What should we do? Should we wait for her, or go find her?" Yao Yue looked at Jiang Feng, unable to make up her mind at this moment.

Jiang Feng frowned: "Let me ask the teacher what her address is?"

Students were asked to fill in their home address when registering for the training camp, so the teachers should know that.

"Okay." Uncle Zhao, Yao Yue's butler, was still standing beside her. Yao Yue looked at him and said, "Uncle Zhao, go get the car. We'll go to the East District first."

Han Yunyun had previously mentioned that her home was in the East District, but she didn't specify which part of the East District it was.

The situation in the East District is rather chaotic; the East District is considered the poorest area in the entire Jinyang City.

This division is not based on administrative units, but rather on an artificial method of division.

Using the large circular area formed by the Beastmaster Association, the military hospital, and the municipal government in the center of Jinyang City as the boundary, people divide the entire Jinyang City into four regions: east, west, south, and north, which also correspond to the four city gates of Jinyang City.

"East District" is a term used by people to determine location; its exact location depends on the address provided by the teacher.

Jiang Feng quickly contacted the homeroom teacher, who was naturally very concerned about Han Yunyun's situation.

Jiang Feng only said that they had arranged to have lunch together with Han Yunyun today, but when the time came, no one showed up, and no one answered when they called.

The teacher also made a call, but the call was not answered. Then the teacher gave Jiang Feng the address and asked about the situation on Jiang Feng's side.

Upon hearing that the four of them were going together, including another skilled beast tamer, the teacher, who had just stood up, sat back down.

"After finding Han Yunyun, Jiang Feng, please send me a message first."

"If you need me to come over, I'll be there right away."

This is also a rare half-day off for the teachers. Although they all come from the military, they also have rest time in the military!

Han Yunyun might not be able to be contacted because she didn't have her phone with her. Jiang Feng and the others can go check on her. If anything unexpected happens, she can still set off in time.

After Jiang Feng saw where Han Yunyun was, he spoke to Ren Wu, who was sitting in front of him.

"Hmm... No. 421, Northwest Block, Wujie Street, Tongxiang District, Jinyang City."

After Jiang Feng finished reading, Ren Wu also finished searching, the navigation was generated, and the car drove in that direction.

"Tongxiang District...it's very chaotic." Jiang Feng frowned when he saw the address. "That's probably the poorest place in our Jinyang City."

The situation in the North District is completely different from that in the East District.

Because the North District is close to the territory of the ferocious beasts, there are frequent battles. The city walls have been breached many times, and the North District has been rebuilt many times. The compensation provided by the state is not small, so the people in the North District are not relatively poor.

At least of those who survived, not many were extremely poor.

But the situation is different in the eastern district, where the area near the city gate is not very developed.

Without the government's resource support, and with nothing allowed to be grown outside the gate in the East District, there's not much population movement, and few beast tamers go there, which makes the East District's economy underdeveloped.

Of course, there are other historical reasons as well. The East District was originally quite barren, with few resources and no way to build factories or anything like that. Only some laboratories were built here, but these were laboratories and had nothing to do with ordinary people.

The best schools are mostly located in the South and West campuses, while the East campus is relatively ordinary.

"There are a lot of thugs around here. I've never been here before. I heard it from Aunt Zhang's husband. They used to be from the East District, and then they went to the North District to try and do business properly."

Jinyang City is too big; it's impossible to travel across many districts when you're just having fun.

Yao Yue's car is currently the best performing car on the market. It was designed for beast tamers and, once on the exclusive fast lane for beast tamers, it travels at an extremely high speed, completely different from ordinary cars.

This was the first time they had used this feature. They were in a hurry to get from the North District to the East District. If they were driving normally, it would take at least two hours to get there.

Below the fast lane is an acceleration strip. The Beastmaster needs to input magical energy into the vehicle to activate the acceleration strip and increase the vehicle's speed.

Before the spiritual energy was restored, humanity had already entered the era of maglev cars, with maglev-enabled highways winding through cities.

However, all those buildings have now disappeared. Although they are being rebuilt, these frontline cities will be the last to be rebuilt.

However, the Beast Tamer's exclusive road, and everything on it, is no slower than a maglev car; in fact, thanks to the enhancement of illusionary power, it is even faster.

It was Jiang Feng's first time riding in such a fast car, but she didn't have much time to marvel at the speed of the vehicle or the scenery rushing past outside. She held her phone, her face full of worry.

After thinking about it for a long time, he left a message on Han Yunyun's phone.

Meanwhile, in Han Yunyun's room—

Perhaps this place cannot be called a room.

Their whole family lives in public rental housing, which is a type of housing provided by Jinyang City to people who cannot afford to buy a house. Anyone without property can apply for it.

The environment in such places is naturally not better. Some people live in these public rental housing units their whole lives. Although they are called public rental housing, no rent is actually charged, and there are various subsidies every year.

The country desperately needs people. The birth of each child will provide the family with a certain subsidy from the state until the child turns eighteen.

Many people living in public rental housing make a living by having children.

One child is enough to support two parents who don't have to do anything. When the child turns eighteen, they can have another one, or have another one when the child is a few years old, so they can get more money.

Of course, Han Yunyun wasn't born that way. Her parents were quite hardworking in their early years, aiming to buy their own house or move out of public housing.

However, according to her mother, her birth caused her to lose her job and severely damaged her health, making it impossible for her to work again.

As a result, my father also developed a gambling and drinking addiction, and he would stay away from home all day. When he did come home, all he would do was ask for money.

However, her younger brother was born a year after her, and she never had her own room from the time she could remember, living... on a separate balcony.

Han Yunyun sat on her "bed," her hair a mess, her hands bearing numerous new scratches, and her body covered in bruises.

She is a beast tamer, and she can attack her roommate who hurt her, but she has no way to deal with her mother, even though... she has never experienced the warmth of a mother.

She was beaten because she heard somewhere that there was a reward of 30,000 yuan for going to school, and that other people's children had it.

Make her hand it over.

From childhood to adulthood, she would snatch away all her scholarships, grants, and anything related to money, then use the money to pay off her gambling and drinking father, and to buy her younger brother new clothes and expensive shoes.

After entering junior high school, she learned to hide her situation. Her teachers also knew about her family's circumstances, so they would keep half of her scholarships and subsidies at school and deposit them into her meal card, which ensured that she didn't go hungry.

She makes delicious cookies. She's someone who's been cooking for the whole family since she could walk, and the only time she'd ever secretly make cookies was while cooking. She'd hide them and take them to school to eat, enjoying a sweetness she'd never tasted from her family before.

After she became a beast tamer, her mother treated her politely for a while.

But when it comes to money, they revert to their old ways.

The phone rang at that moment.

It was the sound of a QQ message she was paying special attention to. Han Yunyun quickly reached out to wipe away her tears, hugged her phone, and looked at the text on it with blurry vision.

[Yunyun, your brother answered the phone just now. Are you alright? We've arrived in the East District.]

These words struck Han Yunyun like a bolt from the blue, leaving her frozen in place.

younger brother?

What did he say?

I'm fine.

She immediately sent the message.

Jiang Feng finally felt relieved after seeing the message.

"Yunyun replied to my message. She said she's fine now," Jiang Feng said to Yin Jiao and Yao Yue.

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

Yao Yue: "That's great!"

"I told her we've arrived in the East District, but she hasn't replied to that message yet."

The car had exited the expressway connecting the North and East districts and was heading towards Han Yunyun's home.

Han Yunyun stood up, holding her phone, wanting to find her younger brother to ask about the situation.

But at this moment, no one was home.

In order to get rid of her mother as soon as possible, she handed over all the money that the Beast Tamer Association had previously distributed.

Her parents and younger brother knew nothing about the world of beast tamers, so they naturally couldn't know about the subsidies or what was happening at the school.

Who exactly told the family about the 30,000 yuan?

After receiving the money, the mother took her younger brother out to buy the fried chicken that he had been wanting to eat for a long time.

She was left all alone in the dilapidated house again.

I originally thought...

Han Yunyun was both scared and excited about going home this time.

She thought that everything would change after she became a beast tamer.

But to my surprise, everything was exactly the same.

【Yunyun, we were so worried about you, so we asked the teacher for your home address. Can we come over now?】

Are you really okay? Can we talk?

Jiang Feng had learned about the situation here from Aunt Zhang a long time ago, and she was very worried about Han Yunyun's current situation.

What Han Yunyun's brother said just now did make them worry about Han Yunyun's safety.

Han Yunyun stared at the message on her phone for a long time without replying.

Jiang Feng stared at his phone, knowing that at this point, perhaps only he could take the initiative...

But wouldn't that hurt the other person?

After all, Yunyun didn't want them to know about her family situation in the first place, and she refused when Yueyue offered to come and pick her up.

Now it's like this...

It's like tearing open the other person's wound.

【Feel sorry……】

[Because when we first called to ask what you wanted to eat for lunch today, your younger brother answered the phone. We were worried about your safety, so we didn't consider your feelings and asked the teacher for your home address.]

No, thank you, Fengfeng.

Han Yunyun's fingertips trembled slightly as she placed her finger on the plus sign, where video and voice calls were hidden. By pressing it, she could hear Jiang Feng's voice, and at the same time, Jiang Feng could see her current situation.

Jiang Feng wasn't in a hurry. His car had already stopped downstairs at Han Yunyun's house. Looking up, there was nothing unusual.

"This place is really terrible." Ren Wu looked around and frowned.

This place can be described as a combination of filth, disorder, and chaos.

"Let's wait and not go up." Jiang Feng looked at his phone, waiting for Han Yunyun to make a decision.

If Han Yunyun doesn't want to see anyone right now, they should respect her choice.

Ten minutes later, Jiang Feng's phone rang; it was a video call from Han Yunyun.

(End of this chapter)