Beast Taming Begins with Inheriting a Legacy.

Upon hearing that they were going to find someone tomorrow, the glutton immediately "betrayed" them, quickly floating to the ceiling, placing his two chubby little hands obediently in front of him, closing his eyes, and falling asleep in a second.

Seeing this, Xian Jiu, now outnumbered and outmatched, could only reluctantly turn off the lights and go to sleep.

"..."

The next morning, before the alarm clock even went off, Gu Ling was woken up by the gluttonous ghost licking her with his tongue.

When Gu Ling woke up, she was completely dazed and felt a little numb on her face.

Although the gluttonous ghost did not actively initiate the licking skill, there was still a tiny bit of residual skill effect.

Gu Ling quickly got up and went to the bathroom to wash up. After washing her face with a towel, the numbness on her face gradually subsided.

"Hehehe~"

The gluttonous ghost floated onto Gu Ling's head, saw its reflection in the mirror of the sink, and began to excitedly pull at the sides of its mouth with its chubby little hands, then pulled it to the left and right!

Suddenly, the gluttonous ghost in the mirror opened a gaping maw, which would be quite terrifying if seen by chance at night.

"Splash..."

Gu Ling was brushing her teeth, and could only helplessly watch the gluttonous ghost's various funny actions in the mirror.

One second the glutton was clenching his teeth, the next he was pulling down his eyelids. When he let go, they bounced back as if they had a spring, and he was having a great time.

After brushing her teeth, Gu Ling wiped her face with a towel, then turned to the glutton and beckoned with her finger: "Glutton, come here for a second."

"Heh?" The gluttonous ghost tilted its head and floated down.

The next second, Gu Ling pressed his thumb against the running faucet, and the water shot out instantly, hitting the gluttonous ghost's entire face.

"Hehehe!!"

The glutton got his face splattered with water, and his chubby little hands frantically waved in the air.

Gu Ling chuckled: "That's what you call scary."

"...Jie."

The glutton's face fell, and he covered his eyes with his chubby hands, letting his light body spin 360 degrees in the air several times, looking quite devastated.

Gu Ling brought a clean new towel and helped the glutton wipe the water off his face.

"Alright, stop fooling around." Gu Ling patted the glutton's head, then gestured towards the door with her eyes: "Go wake up Xian Jiu, we should head out."

"Hehehe~"

The gluttonous ghost's eyes darted around, as if it had thought of something, and it began to grin mischievously again. It nodded at Gu Ling and then floated away.

Ten seconds later—

"...Meow!!"

Xian Jiu's scream echoed from Gu Ling's room.

When Gu Ling returned to the room with a puzzled look, she saw Xian Jiu angrily chasing after the gluttonous ghost, punching and kicking him, while the gluttonous ghost laughed heartily and ran around the room.

"Hehehe~"

The fiery rat, also awakened by the noise, was lazily yawning and lying on the ground watching Xianjiu and the gluttonous ghost chase and play.

The gluttonous ghost can float, while Xian Jiu can use his telekinesis to briefly hover in the air. The two pets chased each other from the floor to the ceiling, never stopping.

Upon seeing this, Gu Ling immediately guessed what had just happened.

Gu Ling sat on the edge of the bed, first putting on her coat and sneakers, then tidying up the items in her backpack, before turning to Xian Jiu and the gluttonous ghost who were still playfully fighting and saying, "Stop fooling around, we should go out."

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the gluttonous ghost floated behind Gu Ling, then poked its head out and grinned wickedly at Xian Jiu: "Hehehe~"

Xian Jiu stood on the bed with her hands on her hips, her face puffed out in anger: "Meow!" You bad boy, I'm not playing games with you tonight!

"...Heh!"

Upon hearing this, the glutton's smile vanished.

Realizing the seriousness of the situation, the gluttonous ghost, without any backbone, immediately admitted defeat and began to wave his chubby little hand at Xian Jiu with a fawning expression.

"Don't be angry, I'll let you have an extra cat treat today." Gu Ling coughed lightly, feeling guilty.

She sent the glutton to wake up Xian Jiu.

Even without seeing it with her own eyes, Gu Ling could guess that the gluttonous ghost, that dishonest fellow, would definitely not wake Xian Jiu up in a proper way.

"Meow~" Xian Jiu was still a little angry and stretched out her little paw towards Gu Ling, making a "2" gesture.

"Okay, okay, two cat treats."

Gu Ling picked up Xian Jiu and casually stroked Xian Jiu's fluffy little head.

Xian Jiu nestled in Gu Ling's arms, glaring fiercely at the gluttonous ghost hiding behind Gu Ling, who had become incredibly docile. Only then did she barely calm down.

"..."

Gu Ling led her three pets downstairs. In the kitchen on the first floor, Gu Mingsheng and Xiang Jinli were busy at work. One was cutting meat and making buns, while the other was washing rice and cooking porridge.

"Second Uncle and Second Aunt, I'm going out."

The gluttonous child, drawn by the aroma, drifted into the kitchen. Upon seeing a basket of freshly steamed cakes, his eyes lit up, and he quickly stuffed the cakes into his stomach.

Gu Ling, standing to the side, looked on with a bit of curiosity.

The fully evolved gluttonous ghost has a secondary dimension inside its stomach, which can store things.

Gu Ling originally thought that the gluttonous ghost had not fully evolved and that a secondary space had not yet been created in its stomach, but she did not expect that the gluttonous ghost could use this ability now.

"Greedy, can this go in?" Gu Ling handed her backpack to Greedy.

The glutton patted his stomach to indicate that he was fine, then took the backpack and stuffed it into his stomach.

Xian Jiu, who was sitting on Gu Ling's shoulder eating cat treats, couldn't help but be drawn to this scene.

"Meow~"

Could this hold a lot of bubble tea cans and cat treats?

Does that mean we can take it out and eat it anytime, anywhere?

"Hehe~" The glutton patted his belly and nodded with a grin.

Xian Jiu's eyes lit up immediately.

"Meow~"

If you pack cat treats for me next time, I'll forgive your behavior today.

"Hehehe~"

Seeing that the two foodies were about to start arguing again, Gu Ling quickly walked towards the door.

Seeing this, the gluttonous ghost and the fiery rat behind them followed.

Taking advantage of the early morning when many people were still at home, Gu Ling led her three pets down the street, past rows of houses.

At the entrance of each house, the gluttonous ghost was made to circle around a few times to sense the spiritual aura emanating from within.

When he didn't sense the soul's presence from his memories, the gluttonous ghost seemed a little disappointed. But then he perked up and continued to float to the next house with a grin.

And so, the one person and three pets wandered around other people's houses.

"Xiao Ling, what are you doing?"

"I'm doing my morning exercise."

This strange behavior, resembling a thief staking out the area in advance, quickly attracted the attention of the nearby neighbors. If most of them hadn't known Gu Ling, they would have thought it was some kind of thief.

Time passed little by little, and the number of people on the streets gradually increased.

"Wow, green balloons."

"No, no, that's a big onion."

"But aren't onions white?"

"That's a giant watermelon! A watermelon that can fly!"

"..."

Because of the glutton's unique appearance, from a distance it looked like a huge green light bulb floating in the air, which immediately attracted many children to follow behind. While following from a distance, they dared not go forward, and at the same time they couldn't help but chatter with their friends about it.

Seeing that she was attracting more and more attention, Gu Ling waved to the glutton: "Glutton, bring out my backpack."

The gluttonous little chubby hand rummaged inside his stomach for two seconds before taking out Gu Ling's backpack.

Gu Ling opened her backpack and gestured to the glutton, "It's not convenient to be followed by a group of kids like this. You should hide inside first."

"Hehehe~"

Upon hearing this, the glutton obediently crawled into the backpack.

The Glutton is a Ghost-type pet that can possess an object, so it's not a problem to let the chubby Glutton hide in a small backpack.

After Gu Ling put the glutton into her backpack, the children, seeing that the "green light bulb" was gone, gradually stopped following her.

Seeing this, Gu Ling breathed a slight sigh of relief.

At least it's not attracting so much attention anymore.

Gu Ling realized that searching house by house would be too inefficient, so she decided to look for people in places like small parks and squares where elderly people often exercise in the morning.

After walking around for an hour, they still hadn't found any clues.

"Gurgle..."

Gu Ling's stomach growled, so she had no choice but to go home for breakfast.

On the way back, Gu Ling was deep in thought.

These past few days have been a National Day holiday, and people who went to work or study in other places will be coming back. Even if there are elderly people in the family who have moved out, they will come back with them. Now is a good time to take advantage of the large number of people in town and see if you can find them.

If we wait until after the National Day holiday, many people will leave Ping'an Town, and it will be troublesome to find them then.

Actually, Gu Ling wanted to ask the gluttonous ghost if he wanted to take a stroll over to the cemetery.

But Gu Ling couldn't bring herself to say such a thing.

Are we supposed to tell the glutton that the person it's waiting for might no longer be in this world?

When Gu Ling returned home, her family was already up and preparing to have breakfast.

Seeing Gu Ling return, Gu Mingsheng asked, "Did you find it?"

Gu Ling shook her head and sat down at the dining table: "No, it's impossible to find someone just by walking around. The town is too big; we can't find them in a short time."

While searching for the person, Gu Ling asked the gluttonous ghost again if he remembered the little boy's name.

But the glutton knew nothing when asked.

"I'll go ask around and see how many people over 80 years old there are in the town. I'll compile a list of their numbers and addresses so it'll be easier to find them."

After saying that, Gu Mingsheng took out his phone and made a call.

"Old Li, it's me. I have something I'd like to ask you..."

The "Old Li" that Gu Mingsheng mentioned is a staff member of the town's government unit. He happened to have conducted a population census two years ago and has the latest data.

Although these documents are not particularly confidential, and some of them can be found online, ordinary people would definitely not be able to obtain them by simply asking for them.

Gu Mingsheng had a position within the Pet Beast Guild, making him practically a government employee. Plus, he was acquainted with Lao Li, so obtaining this information wasn't difficult for him.

Soon, after exchanging pleasantries, Gu Mingsheng received a document from Lao Li.

Gu Mingsheng forwarded the document to the family WeChat group.

After receiving the document, Gu Ling opened it to check it while munching on a steamed bun.

"Lingling, are you looking for an 84-year-old?"

"right."

Gu Ya and Gu Zhou also opened the files in the group and helped filter for "84-year-old male elderly people".

The gluttonous ghost circled above the group's heads, but since it couldn't read, it could only watch their actions.

After breakfast, the information in the documents was also filtered out.

Gu Ya tallied the selected data: "There are currently 346 elderly people over 80 years old in the town, of whom 36 are male and aged 84."

The documents contain the home addresses of these elderly people, making it easier to find them.

After obtaining this information, Gu Ling continued to take her three pets out to search for people.

The task of finding the person can only be left to the gluttonous ghost to do himself; Gu Ya and the others cannot help.

Because so many years have passed, some elderly people are getting old and their memory may not be very good, so they may have forgotten things from the past.

Instead of going door-to-door asking them one by one, risking asking the wrong people, it's better to let the gluttons find it themselves.

……

This time, Gu Ling rode her bicycle out and went door-to-door following the addresses.

"A glutton, is this old man?"

"Hey glutton, does this place have any?"

"..."

Most of the day had passed, and apart from eight elderly people on the list who were neither at home nor in town, Gu Ling also searched for the elderly people who were staying at the nursing home in town.

But they still couldn't find the person.

The gluttonous ghost, who had been searching for most of the day without finding anyone, was now sitting in the basket on the front of the car, looking rather dejected.

Gu Ling looked at the list of the remaining eight elderly people, her gaze sweeping around before settling on a familiar name.

"Among these eight elderly people, there's also Grandpa Nian..."

Gu Ling couldn't help but think of Grandpa Nian's experiences over the years, and how she had frequently run into him at the beach a few days ago... At that time, Grandpa Nian was always looking in the direction of the island.

An idea gradually took shape—

Could it be... that the little boy the glutton is looking for is the old man?

Gu Ling reached out and patted the glutton: "Glutton, let's go home first, there might be a clue."

"Huh?" The gluttonous ghost blinked its blood-red eyes.

"..."

As soon as she got home, Gu Ling went to find Xiang Jinli: "Second Aunt, was Grandpa Nian taken to the hospital yesterday? How is he now?"

Xiang Jinli nodded: "Yes, I just talked to Aunt Li. Grandpa Nian was transferred to the county hospital in Qiuye County last night, and his condition is not very optimistic..."

"Second Aunt, I want to go to the county hospital. I feel that Grandpa Nian might be the person the glutton is looking for."

Upon hearing this, the gluttonous boy standing nearby became excited, waving his chubby little hands rapidly.

Xiang Jinli pondered for a moment: "Old Master Nian's age... seems to be 84 this year, that matches."

Just then, Gu Mingsheng, who had just returned from outside, overheard their conversation and walked over: "Since that person might be Old Master Nian, I'll drive you to Qiuye County."

The Gluttonous Ghost is not a contracted pet and has not obtained an adoption certificate. It is currently only a wild pet. According to the regulations set by the Pet Alliance, wild pets are not allowed to appear on public transportation.

Fortunately, Qiuye County is not far from Ping'an Town. If there is no traffic jam, it only takes a little over an hour to get to the county seat.

Gu Ling nodded: "Okay."

Without further ado, Gu Mingsheng went out to borrow a car from an acquaintance, and then the group set off for Qiuye County.