Beast taming, starting from zero point-Chapter 105 - 101 Red Lightning
Chapter 105: Chapter 101 Red Lightning
Ye Ranran’s Desert Tail Fox was so powerful that Qiao Sang had never imagined; her emotions immediately relaxed.
With over two hundred Pet Beasts, the Fire-Toothed Dog being the second to run, there’s no way it would end up last.
No sooner had the Fire-Toothed Dog put on the yellow relay strap than it whooshed out.
“Xun!”
“Xun!”
The little Treasure-seeking Ghost shouted desperately, cheering on.
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While shouting, it also floated along.
Qiao Sang was quick to pull it back.
“Xun?”
The little Treasure-seeking Ghost looked innocently puzzled.
“Don’t waste your energy, we’re relying on you for the sixth leg, let’s go directly to Liuyang River to wait for Yaobao,” Qiao Sang said.
Her words were half true, half false; the first part was false and the latter true, she hadn’t really counted on the little Treasure-seeking Ghost for the sixth leg.
Running along was out of the question; the third leg was at the Liuyang River over 10 kilometers away, and with her tiny arms and legs, she’d probably be done for before even reaching halfway.
Moreover, marathons didn’t allow pacing, and during the race, there would be professional medical teams and technical services, ensuring safety with backend support.
Pacing could cause unnecessary trouble and chaos during the race, making it hard to control the order.
Qiao Sang gazed in the direction where the Fire-Toothed Dog had disappeared.
Yaobao, we can only support you in spirit!
Come on!
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The Fire-Toothed Dog ran desperately forward.
It remembered its Beast Tamer saying to follow the main group, but now there wasn’t even a single opponent in sight, let alone a main group.
Then, it thought of the Six-Tentacled Snail that had started running before it.
“Ya!”
The Fire-Toothed Dog sped up.
It could only try to catch up to that Six-Tentacled Snail for now!
After running for who knows how long.
The Fire-Toothed Dog, exhausted, dragged its limbs, struggling to move forward.
Now, it was not just hard to run, but even walking was tough.
Although the Pet Beast marathon was different from the traditional human marathon, both essentially were high-load, strenuous, and long-distance athletic events.
Even though Pet Beasts could use their attributes and Skills to speed up and make the race more interesting, it was impractical to continuously use attributes and release Skills.
Excessive energy consumption could cause the Pet Beasts to run out of stamina during the race.
So experienced marathon-running Pet Beasts would run on their own for a while and then sporadically use Skills to increase their speed.
They would use their attributes or Skills for a sprint when they were close to the destination, just like Ye Ranran’s Desert Tail Fox did.
But the Fire-Toothed Dog didn’t know this; from the start, it had been running with all its might.
Initially, it was fine, but when it slowed down, dozens of other competing beasts gradually overtook it.
The Fire-Toothed Dog wasn’t stupid.
When it noticed that some of the other competing beasts used Skills, it too released Skills to accelerate.
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Blazing Charge, Bash, it used them all.
But soon it was drained of energy.
The Fire-Toothed Dog hadn’t undergone professional training, and had mainly been practicing Skills recently.
The few laps it ran around Liugan Creek did nothing to prepare it for the marathon.
Its physical fitness might be decent among its peers, but it was far from enough for a marathon.
The scorching sun baked the earth.
Even the usually heat-resistant Fire-Toothed Dog felt the torture.
Panting with its tongue out and struggling to breathe, it felt increasingly unable to catch its breath, its limbs needing great effort to lift, even more difficult than when it first wore the Weighted Ring.
“Ya.”
The Fire-Toothed Dog let out an unconscious cry, its throat as dry as if it was about to catch fire.
At that moment, it suddenly remembered the water its Beast Tamer had mentioned.
Looking around, it found neither table nor water.
Have we not arrived yet?
Stars twinkling in its eyes, the Fire-Toothed Dog gazed hazily ahead, considering the word “give up” for the first time.
So tired…
Really so tired…
“Bump.”
A Bounce Piglet happened to pass by.
Its tail, spring-like, ended in a grey ball, and it had the contestant number cloth A099 tied to its body.
Standing its tail straight, the grey ball touching the ground, it used its spring-like property to hop and instantly overtook the Fire-Toothed Dog.
“Bump.”
The Bounce Piglet didn’t leave right away; it turned its head to give the Fire-Toothed Dog a smug smile, provocatively lifting its smallest short toe.
“Tooth.”
The Fire-Toothed Dog flared up in an instant.
It wanted to roar at the Bounce Piglet, but the anger it mustered was so weak that only it could hear it.
As it watched the Bounce Piglet bounce away, the Fire-Toothed Dog felt a fire ignite inside, wanting to chase after it.
But the spirit was willing, and the flesh was weak.
The overzealous charge was too much for its already exhausted limbs to support; after a few steps, the Fire-Toothed Dog’s legs gave way, and it collapsed.
In a daze, it thought it heard its Beast Tamer calling its name.
Yaobao.
Truth be told, it didn’t like that name much—it lacked presence—but its Beast Tamer liked it, so there was no helping it.
If it fell here, would its Beast Tamer be disappointed?
And the younger one, it too was waiting for its relay baton.
Suddenly, the Fire-Toothed Dog felt a tinge of defeat.
Its Beast Tamer trusted it so much, telling it to wait at Liuyang River—what if it didn’t make it…
It wanted to get up and continue…
A tiny spark inside the Fire-Toothed Dog slowly grew into a flame; the next moment, the flame fluttered, and a surge of red fire enveloped it entirely, inside and out.
“There’s a Fire-Toothed Dog here, seems to be out of energy, quickly send—holy shit!” a logistic staff member exclaimed in surprise.
“What happened? What’s going on?” the person on the phone asked worriedly.
“It’s nothing, just a Fire-Toothed Dog that was down on the ground suddenly burst into flames… must’ve triggered its Blazing trait, and then whoosh, it just ran out of sight. This is my first time seeing a Fire Attribute Beast running a marathon and bursting into flames,” the logistic staff member explained, still shaken.
It was like seeing a patient who had fallen down suddenly get up lively and perform a backflip for you; truly a frightening sight…
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Liuyang River.
Qiao Sang looked at the Bounce Piglet, which was rapidly making its way to the third relay point using its tail to bounce off the ground, and remarked, “That tail is really perfect for this race, isn’t it?”
“I still think the skill of that Ice Snow Ferret is more suitable, actually making its paw pads stick to ice balls to slide here. I don’t know how they came up with it,” Ye Ranran said.
“In the heat of summer, the ground is scorching hot; those ice balls won’t last long before melting. It’s just for a little mid-race relief, but it’s clear they’ve put in the effort; their balance is unparalleled,” Qiao Sang analyzed.
“To come up with a more effortless solution for the Pet Beast marathon to rest a bit when tired is enough. The main thing is still the pet beast’s physical strength and stamina,” Ye Ranran said with a smile.
Qiao Sang fell silent for a moment before asking, “What if there’s no effortless solution?”
After pondering for a moment, Ye Ranran replied, “Rely purely on physical strength and stamina? That shouldn’t be the case, how exhausting. Everyone prepares a plan for the Pet Beast marathon. I’ve never seen anyone so foolish as to come to the race without a plan.”
Qiao Sang: “…”
Heh, the fool is right here.
“Seek!”
“Seek!”
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost suddenly cried out excitedly.
Qiao Sang looked toward the racetrack.
In the distance, a figure wrapped in blazing flames sped forward, like a red lightning bolt that whooshed past her in a flash, overtaking the Bounce Piglet that was about to reach the relay point before it stopped.
