Beast Taming Begins with Inheriting a Legacy.

At this moment, the shapeshifter in Li Rui's hand wriggled its body, its eyes, which were the size of mung beans, flashed red light and stared straight at Li Rui.

Li Rui subconsciously turned his head and closed his eyes. The Soul Reaper hidden in his shadow suddenly pounced and opened its blood-red maw to swallow the shapeshifting monster whole.

"It's hypnosis!" Li Rui released his grip, his eyes coldly fixed on the shapeshifter bound by the Soul Reaper.

All the anomalies were explained.

Two shapeshifters, one of which actually learned hypnosis and hypnotized the real Lin Zhixuan, altering his memories and making him believe that he was the fake Lin Zhixuan.

The reason the shapeshifter abandoned its beastmaster and ran away is because the beastmaster wasn't actually its beastmaster!

Thinking of Gu Ling, who had left with that swindler "Lin Zhixuan," Li Rui's expression changed: "...Oh no!" Gu Ling is in danger!

……

at the same time.

Walking along the deserted path, Gu Ling looked ahead and saw that she was only a few dozen meters away from the brightly lit main road. She turned her head and glanced at Lin Zhixuan beside her, who was covering his right hand with his left:

"Brother Lin, shouldn't you take your hand to the hospital to get it checked out?"

Lin Zhixuan smiled weakly, "No need, it's just a minor injury. I can apply some medicine myself when I get back."

Gu Ling sighed, "You really can't walk alone at night anymore, you might get ambushed and killed."

Xian Jiu, perched on Gu Ling's shoulder, nodded involuntarily upon hearing this: "Meow~" That's right~

"Xiao Ling, aren't you going to take your pet back?" Lin Zhixuan asked casually.

Gu Ling made up a story without even blinking: "They're used to being outside, and I'm a scaredy-cat, so having them with me when I walk at night makes me less afraid."

"Is that so..."

Lin Zhixuan glanced at Xian Jiu, then at the mischievous ghost floating in mid-air, his eyes flickering slightly.

"Brother Lin, are you hungry? Do you want to go have dinner together?" Gu Ling suggested.

"Okay." Lin Zhixuan pointed to another fork in the road: "I know a restaurant there that serves really good duck soup and braised pork trotters rice. Xiao Ling, do you want to try it?"

The other fork in the road is lined with buildings and trees on both sides. It was already dark, and there were no streetlights on that section of the road, making it appear even darker and quieter.

"Sure." Gu Ling was playing with her phone, her fingertips casually swiping across the screen, when a WeChat message suddenly popped up above her.

"Xian Jiu, which movie did you say you wanted to watch?"

Upon hearing this, Xian Jiu sighed: "Meow~" Why has the Beast Tamer's memory gotten worse?

Xian Jiu moved onto Gu Ling's right arm, which was typing, and her cat tail swished behind her, her entire body almost blocking the light emitted from the phone screen.

Lin Zhixuan couldn't see the content on Gu Ling's phone screen clearly, but guessed that she was probably replying to messages.

"Xiao Ling, did a friend invite you? Is it your classmate? Did you come to Liuyun City alone, or with classmates or friends?" Lin Zhixuan's voice carried a hint of doubt, seemingly just a casual chat.

"I came alone."

Upon hearing this, a hint of coldness flashed across Lin Zhixuan's previously pale and weak face.

Suddenly, Gu Ling changed the subject, turned to Lin Zhixuan and smiled, "However, my brother said he's here on business tonight, and he'll come see me later."

As she spoke, Gu Ling casually turned off her phone screen and put it in her pocket.

"Your brother? Xiao Ling, you and your brother are so close? Sigh... I only have one sister, I don't have any brothers." Lin Zhixuan's voice carried a hint of regret.

"Oh," Gu Ling responded indifferently, without saying anything more, and did not begin to talk about her family situation as Lin Zhixuan had expected.

Lin Zhixuan: "..."

"Brother Lin, hurry up, I'm starving." Gu Ling quickened her pace and soon walked in front of Lin Zhixuan, about two or three body lengths away.

"My ankle seems to be a bit sprained too, I can't walk very fast..."

As Lin Zhixuan responded, he glanced around out of the corner of his eye. When he didn't see the mischievous ghost, a strange smile appeared on his lips.

He had been observing it all along. The ghost-type pet was not a well-behaved creature. It would drift away from time to time, and sometimes it would disappear from sight.

Lin Zhixuan looked at Gu Ling in front of him again, his eyes filled with malice.

...This is a good opportunity.

Lin Zhixuan slightly raised his uninjured left hand, which was hanging by his side, and aimed it at the back of Gu Ling, where a summoning circle appeared faintly.

"Hehehe~"

Suddenly, a huge, fat, green-bodied creature emerged from the shadows of the trees next to Lin Zhixuan. It opened its blood-red maw as if it would swallow him whole at any moment, and its large, blood-red eyes stared intently at Lin Zhixuan.

[Black Eyes]

Lin Zhixuan froze, unable to move.

The summoning circle, which had not yet fully formed, also dissipated.

At the same time, a clear female voice rang out: "Xian Jiu, paralyze him with electricity."

"Meow~"

A bolt of lightning struck, and Lin Zhixuan convulsed and fell to the ground, trembling like a fish struggling to survive after being pulled ashore.

The mischievous boy pulled a bundle of rope from his belly and quickly tied Lin Zhixuan's hands behind his back.

"Hehe~" After doing all that, the mischievous ghost floated in front of Lin Zhixuan again, grinning triumphantly.

"Xiao Ling, what are you doing?" Lin Zhixuan asked, feigning ignorance, unable to contain his shock.

Gu Ling, holding Xian Jiu in her arms, only relaxed slightly after they had moved five or six meters away from Lin Zhixuan: "In just this short distance, you've already peeked at the mischievous ghost 27 times. You must have figured out the pattern of how the mischievous ghost leaves and comes back each time, right?"

"You..." Lin Zhixuan was very unwilling.

"Just because of that? Isn't it because I've never seen a mutated pet before, so I took a second look?"

Lin Zhixuan found it absurd and laughable, and couldn't accept that his disguise had been seen through by a minor high school student.

And...didn't Gu Ling just say that she was a coward?

So, because of this suspicion, they directly launched a sneak attack on him?

Lin Zhixuan didn't understand at all!

Suddenly, Lin Zhixuan realized something, and his expression changed again: "Did someone tip you off?"

Yes and no.

Gu Ling glanced at the new message on her phone out of the corner of her eye, feeling a slight sense of relief, and said softly:

"Before I received the message, I was just a little suspicious of you. You've been pulling a lot of tricks. Do you think I'm easy to fool, a high school student?"

Gu Ling's gaze shifted downwards, landing on Lin Zhixuan's right hand, and she continued, "There's one more thing, because your right hand is injured."

"Not only were the fingers on my right hand fractured, but several of the fingers and palms were also scraped, which happened to be the thumb and index finger that I usually use to scan my fingerprints to clock in at work... It's such a coincidence."