Fate Reignites: My Rampage in a World Where Time Stops-Chapter 148: The Hollow Beast in the Shadow! (April 2400 Monthly Ticket bonus - )

Sensing the presence of a third party under the shade, Xiao Qing silently moved closer to Yue Li's direction.

It didn't pay much attention to this unknown individual, as its perception told it that the other party was very weak.

However, it still promptly and quietly informed Yue Li of the situation.

Yue Li's eyes flickered slightly, she didn't turn around to look at the location, pretending to know nothing and continued to watch the one person and one beast practicing with the sword by the creek, arms around her knees and a smile on her face.

Soon, Water Flower and Xiao Hong returned with various fruits and two weak Spiritual Beasts they had hunted; Xiao Hong breathed out flames and skillfully started cooking.

Ever since Qin Chuan discovered this guy's talent for cooking, he had handed over the arduous task of cooking to Xiao Hong, who had not let everyone down, and now had even more experience, his culinary skills no longer inferior to Qin Chuan's.

Before long, two people and four beasts sat around in the shade, with a clean dining cloth in the middle, piled up like a small hill with freshly picked fruits still wet with dew and roasted beast meat golden-brown, sizzling with oil and emitting a mouth-watering rich fragrance.

There was also a pot of soup, made from a few fish Water Flower had casually caught and stewed, the soup was milky white, fresh but not fishy, and didn't need too much seasoning, surprising Yue Li with its taste.

"Let's eat!"

Qin Chuan swallowed his saliva, tore off a beast leg with his bare hands, the golden skin concealing large chunks of tender meat with visible juices under the sunlight, making one eager to take a bite and savor its delicious flavor.

He handed the beast leg to Yue Li, then blew on his hands and tore off another leg, taking a bite.

The crispy skin gave way to the soft texture of the meat, the subcutaneous fat having melted into the fibers of the meat during thorough roasting, several spices from this world eliminating the last bit of greasiness, making the meat's flavor doubly profound.

The rich fragrance that quickly filled his mouth and nose made Qin Chuan's eyes light up, and he couldn't help but give Xiao Hong a thumbs-up.

Indeed, such tasks should be left to a Fire Attribute Spiritual Beast.

"Squeak~"

Xiao Hong proudly shook its tail, holding the nuts specially picked for itself, its sharp teeth skillfully cracking open the surface to reveal the layered nuts inside.

Water Flower and Xiao Qing were equally unreserved.

Whenever Water Flower opened its big mouth, part of the food on the dining cloth would disappear, chewed away quickly, both fruits and meat unable to escape.

Xiao Qing's claws, sharp as knives, deftly tore the meat into large chunks, half given to Water Flower, the other half slowly shredded into strips and swallowed.

Usually, Water Flower ate faster than Xiao Qing, and later, it would look at Xiao Qing's remaining meat with a covetous gaze.

At that moment, Xiao Qing would glare fiercely at Water Flower, with an expression that said, "If you dare touch it, I'll kill you."

Among the four spiritual beasts, the one who ate the most elegantly and peculiarly was probably Xue Gao.

It only needed to lightly hover over the food, cover the food with the hem of its body, and in the next instant, the food would disappear without a trace.

As the two people and four beasts wolfed down the meal, the food on the dining cloth visibly diminished.

Just then, a faint sound of swallowing salvia arose nearby.

The four Elite Rank Lv30 Spiritual Beasts instantly captured the sound, and except for Xiao Qing, who was already prepared, the other three glanced toward a certain spot under the shade, looking puzzled.

"What's up?"

Qin Chuan poked his head out of a beast steak the size of half his face, his expression blank, cheeks smeared with a bit of grease.

"You better wipe it off."

Seeing Qin Chuan's somewhat comical eating style, Yue Li couldn't help but smile, putting down her food, she took out a handkerchief and passed it over.

After Qin Chuan cleaned his face, she slowly spoke, "While you were teaching Xue Gao sword skills, an uninvited guest arrived."

"An uninvited guest?"

Qin Chuan followed the gaze of the four beasts, but only saw tender green grass leaves.

Invisible? Or underground?

Or was it something else?

As many guesses sprang up in his mind, Qin Chuan spoke loudly, "No use hiding, we've already spotted you."

After one second, two seconds, three seconds.

In the gaze of the two people and four beasts, a pitch-black firelight suddenly emerged on the grass leaves shaded by the canopy.

The firelight was not blazing hot; although it had the form of fire, it was not of the Fire Attribute.

Drawing power from the surrounding canopy, the scale of the black fire grew bigger, from the size of a fist to that of a basketball, then with a muffled "bang," the firelight exploded and transformed into a Spiritual Beast with a somewhat strange appearance.

It looked like a black cat without a single speck of another color on its body, but its head was covered by a pale bone helmet, only exposing one fluffy ear.

In place of the other ear was a pale white horn, with a pitch-black flame burning at the tip of the horn, identical to the flame from when it first appeared.

There were clear cracks at the mouth and nose areas of the bone helmet, yet it was impossible to see the interior.

What caught the most attention were the black, hollow eye sockets on the bone helmet.

At the moment of its appearance, this Spiritual Beast subconsciously trembled in front of the four Elite Rank Spiritual Beasts, and despite its vacant eyes, its instinctual leaning back motion and its tucked tail clearly expressed the fear in its heart.

It did not choose to flee, but instead looked towards the food on the tablecloth, its twisting body revealing its inner indecisiveness.

Both Qin Chuan and Yue Li saw the scanning results of the Spiritual Beast in front of them.

[Spiritual Beast Species: Shadow Flame Cat]

[Spiritual Beast Attribute: Dark Attribute]

[Spiritual Beast Level: Juvenile Stage Lv10]

[Spiritual Beast State: Uncontracted]

[Spiritual Beast Introduction: The Dark Attribute Spiritual Beast Shadow Flame Cat, friendly yet timid in nature, likes to silently observe its surroundings from the shadows.]

Observing from the shadows?

That did indeed match the behavior of the Shadow Flame Cat just now.

But as to its timid nature, that might be questionable.

For a Juvenile Stage Spiritual Beast to face four Elite Rank Spiritual Beasts without running away, its courage was almost as good as ice cream.

Or perhaps... it was truly desperate with hunger?

"Come here, have something to eat."

Qin Chuan casually picked up a piece of fruit, gesturing for the Shadow Flame Cat to come over.

The four beasts looked at each other and subdued their auras.

Sensing the goodwill from Qin Chuan and his group, the Shadow Flame Cat gradually calmed its trembles and cautiously took a few steps forward. Seeing that the four formidable Spiritual Beasts in its eyes did not stop it, it gathered more courage and quickly approached Qin Chuan.

But it did not take the fruit from Qin Chuan's hand. Instead, its vacant eyes silently turned towards the roasted meat in front of Qin Chuan.

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"So you wanted to eat meat," Qin Chuan realized.

That made sense.

The Shadow Flame Cat, after all, was a Juvenile Stage Lv10 Spiritual Beast and finding food to stave off hunger was not an issue for it. Only the roasted meat, which it had never eaten before, would pique its interest like this.

It seemed it wasn't desperate from hunger, but truly a food lover.

Tearing off a piece of meat and handing it to the Shadow Flame Cat, Qin Chuan watched as it instantly enveloped the meat in pitch-black flames. Moments later, the flames dissipated, the meat disappeared, and Qin Chuan's eyes twinkled with amusement.

Come to think of it, he seemed to have a special connection with black cats.

The Shadow Leopard he first encountered in the Dream World, a leopard which also counts as a cat, made perfect sense.

The mutated black cat he met in reality, which later became his opponent at the final moment of his assessment.

And now, another black cat.