Beast taming, starting from zero point-Chapter 158 - 153: Don’t...
Chapter 158: Chapter 153: Don’t…
Having experienced so many scenes, Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost knew none of this was real.
It lay on the hospital bed, listening to a human who looked just like its own Beast Tamer talk a lot, most of which it couldn’t understand.
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost listened for a while and, feeling peckish, instinctively reached up with its paw to pluck off the ring.
But when it touched, the ring was gone.
“Ghost-absorbing…”
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost curled its lips.
“Hungry, huh.” The person who looked like Qiao Sang took a black fruit from the basket beside him and handed it over, “Here, your favorite shadow candle fruit.”
“Ghost-absorbing.”
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost uncontrollably started to eat.
It sighed inwardly; it wanted to drink milk, not this dark and slippery thing.
“You’re so big already, how can you still be so messy?” The person resembling Qiao Sang chuckled, pulled out a tissue from beside him, and wiped the corner of Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost’s mouth.
For the first time, Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost noticed a shadow of its own Beast Tamer in this human.
Time in the dream passed quickly; it seemed like the person aged without doing anything.
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost looked at the human in front of it, now with a head full of white hair and wrinkled skin, and couldn’t believe this was the same person who used to look just like its Beast Tamer.
She lay quietly on the bed with her eyes slightly closed, her face pale, devoid of any blood color, with various tubes inserted into her body.
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost felt an inexplicable panic in its heart, a panic that was no longer controlled by the dream, but its own.
After an unknown amount of time, the person on the bed opened her eyes. She moved her mouth; her voice was very soft, “Genie Lamp, you and Nannan go out for a stroll. She doesn’t come here often; keep her company for me.”
“Ghost-absorbing…”
“I’m fine, aren’t there a lot of people here with me?” The person on the bed laughed, seemingly energized all of a sudden.
“Grandma, I won’t go; I’ll stay here with you,” a crisp voice came from behind.
“This place doesn’t smell good. I’ll be up and going home in a bit. You go out for a walk, and when you come back, we’ll leave,” said the person on the bed.
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost uncontrollably turned its head and only then noticed there were several people standing behind, one of whom looked about the same age as its Beast Tamer.
Just as Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost was about to walk out, the person on the bed stopped it, “Wait.”
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost turned its head back.
“Have fun out there.” The person on the bed had a tender expression in her eyes.
But Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost felt uncomfortable.
It once again saw the shadow of its own Beast Tamer on her, but its Beast Tamer wouldn’t look like this, so devoid of energy all the time.
…
The scene changed once again.
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost’s eyes lit up at the sight of the bustling night market; it wanted to properly explore, but regretfully, its body wasn’t under its control.
“Genie Lamp, grandma will be fine, right?” the girl beside murmured.
“Ghost-absorbing.”
The girl didn’t understand what it meant, and began to answer herself, “She won’t be unwell, grandma is a Beast Tamer. Everyone says Beast Tamers are amazing, can live very long. My classmate’s grandpa is 133 years old and still in great health, he even came for a parent-teacher conference recently.”
“Dad said grandma used to compete and went to secret realms; if it wasn’t for meeting grandpa, she would definitely have gone to regional competitions to become a renowned Professional Beast Tamer.”
“Ghost-absorbing.”
Suddenly, Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost found itself unable to move on the spot.
The girl didn’t notice and continued walking with her head down.
“Grandma doesn’t seem like the romantic type, eh. Was grandpa really handsome when he was young? Can’t be. Dad is so ugly and says he inherited that from grandpa. At least I picked the good traits to inherit.”
“This time, it’s also dad’s fault. He came here and started crying; it made me think grandma was about to pass away.”
Her voice got increasingly distant, “But grandma lying in the hospital bed does look quite scary, with so many tubes inserted. But she said we are about to go home, so that should be fine.”
“If something was wrong, you as grandma’s Pet Beast would definitely sense it…”
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost stayed where it was.
People were coming and going all around, but they all consciously left space around it.
Uncontrollably, it raised its head, and on the screen of a tall building nearby, a Beast Taming contest was being broadcasted.
Why is it not okay now? Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost thought.
It felt like only a short while before the person aged.
Even if it wasn’t truly bonded to that person as a Pet Beast, it could still sense it, being an Extraordinary Creature of the Spectral Series, it could almost smell the scent of death on her.
So intense that she might disappear from this world the next second.
Xiao Xunbao the Treasure-seeking Ghost’s body uncontrollably trembled, its heart rate accelerated, and its limbs turned icy cold.
This wasn’t its feeling.
The next second, it lost control and turned around, heading back. The lights beside it went out as it passed, only to return to normal afterward.
Xiao Xunbao saw that person again.
She lay on the bed with her eyes closed, while the man next to her had red-rimmed eyes, “Mom, let Nannan and the Ghost-absorbing Lantern see you for the last time.”
The person in bed twitched her eyelids and, after a moment, forced her eyes open to glare white-eyed at the man.
Her mouth moved but no sound came out.
Xiao Xunbao floated in front of her, the few people standing beside her showed no reaction, as if they couldn’t see it.
Yet the person in the bed seemed stunned as if sensing something.
At that moment, Xiao Xunbao uncontrollably reached a hand into its own body…
“Don’t…”
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In a daze, Xiao Xunbao seemed to hear someone talking.
…
Xiying Residential Area.
“Ghost-absorbing Lantern, stop struggling. With me here, you won’t be able to escape. Wait until dawn and you’ll meet your Beast Tamer,” Qiao Sang said as she easily pulled the Ghost-absorbing Lantern back from where it had managed to crawl a little distance away.
Yaobao was unreliable, she had to rely on herself.
Qiao Sang hugged the Ghost-absorbing Lantern close to Yaobao and went behind the lantern to avoid looking into its eyes, lest she be hypnotized.
“Ghost-absorbing…”
The Ghost-absorbing Lantern struggled with its arms reaching forward.
It had never seen such an annoying human! Non-stop talking from the beginning until now; the mouth just wouldn’t stop!
Not at all like those people who walked around it.
Thinking this, the Ghost-absorbing Lantern paused and then made another great effort to crawl forward.
Qiao Sang mercilessly pulled it back.
“It’s only 2 A.M. now. If you don’t stay put and keep trying to pull stunts, be careful that I won’t wait for dawn and will send you upstairs now. The old lady is already aged; you wouldn’t want to disturb her in the late night, would you?”
The Ghost-absorbing Lantern stiffened.
Just then, Xiao Xunbao slowly opened its eyes, and when it saw the familiar figure in front of it, its eyes reddened and it flung itself forward.
“Xun!”
“Xun Xun!”
Qiao Sang got startled, “What’s wrong, did you have a nightmare?”
“Xun Xun…”
Xiao Xunbao’s tears fell in big drops.
Qiao Sang was shocked. She hadn’t expected hypnotism to be this powerful. It seemed that she’d have to get Xiao Xunbao to practice this skill more…
Seeing the opportunity, the Ghost-absorbing Lantern crawled forward.
“I told you to stop struggling,” Qiao Sang said quickly, pulling it back again.
Ghost-absorbing Lantern: “…”
“Xun Xun…”
Xiao Xunbao sobbed a couple of times and then stopped crying.
It turned its head, floated in front of the Ghost-absorbing Lantern, and just stared at it, then took out its Friendship Milk.
The Ghost-absorbing Lantern stared blankly at the milk in front of it.
Qiao Sang gasped from the side, completely unprepared for the formidable power of hypnotism!
“Xun Xun.”
“Xun~”
“Ghost-absorbing!”
“Xun Xun…”
“Ghost-absorbing…”
Xiao Xunbao and the Ghost-absorbing Lantern communicated vigorously.
After more than half an hour of this exchange, the Ghost-absorbing Lantern lay down on the ground with lifeless eyes, utterly listless.
Xiao Xunbao floated back to Qiao Sang and nodded.
Qiao Sang was dumbfounded.
