Chapter 17: Abnormality, Another Attack

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Half an hour later, in the suburb.

Chen Nan stood at the entrance of a small shop. He looked up and saw the words on the board: Yiqing Snacks.

This restaurant was located in an alley in the suburb.

Although few people stayed on the streets, many would still come to this restaurant to eat.

Zhen Xuelan didn’t stop at the entrance and walked straight into the restaurant.

Seeing this, Chen Nan followed closely behind her.

As soon as he entered, he saw a middle-aged man who was sitting at the counter.

The man was wearing glasses and holding a calculator. With his head lowered, he stared at the account book without blinking.

He was calculating the revenue and expenses, and he didn’t notice the arrival of the two at all.

“Boss Zhao, are you still calculating your accounts? You don’t even know how to greet your guests when they arrive,” Zhen Xuelan walked straight to the counter and said to the boss who simply couldn’t reconcile his accounts.

Hearing this, Chen Nan’s eyes swept over the two of them.

From Zhen Xuelan’s familiar tone, it seemed that she often came to this restaurant to eat.

“Second room on the second floor,” Hearing this, the boss didn’t even raise his head.

The moment he heard the voice, he knew who it was.

When he finally balanced the accounts and raised his head again, Zhen Xuelan and Chen Nan weren’t before him anymore.

The boss raised his head and looked at the direction of the stairs, his face showing an expression that said: “as I expected”.

At this moment, Chen Nan and Zhen Xuelan were walking to the second floor.

“I’ll treat you this time. In the days to come, you’ll need money for many things,” Zhen Xuelan glanced at Chen Nan who was behind her, and said.

Including yesterday’s money, Chen Nan had a total of 60,000 Alliance Dollars on him.

60,000 Alliance Dollars was far from enough for Beastmasters.

That was because the evolution of contracted beasts simply relied on spending money.

As soon as she finished saying this, Zhen Xue Lan chuckled.

With Chen Nan’s current strength and potential, he probably didn’t lack such things.

Hearing this, Chen Nan’s expression didn’t change at all. He didn’t take her words to heart.

Soon, the two of them arrived at the door to the private room.

They pushed the door open and walked in. Sitting on the sofa, they looked at the menu handed over by the waiter and began to order.

Ten minutes later, their dishes were served one after another and placed on the table.

Then, the two of them started to move their chopsticks.

During the meal, after some indirect questioning, Chen Nan learned some things about this world.

“Are there an abundance of attack incidents like yesterday?” Chen Nan glanced at Zhen Xue Lan and asked casually.

If there were a lot of attack incidents, he could complete such missions to increase Xiaochi’s evolution points.

Hearing this, Zhen Xue Lan frowned and nodded slightly.

“Recently, more and more vicious beasts have been contaminated. This week alone, there have been four attack incidents by vicious beasts in the suburb. They’re all riots caused by the contamination of vicious beasts,” As she spoke, Zhen Xue Lan sighed and continued, “It’s a pity that we can’t find the source of the contamination. However, the reason for all of this is very likely because of the Qingyu Club.”

After saying this, Zhen Xue Lan stopped talking and lowered her head to eat.

She didn’t take Chen Nan’s words to heart, thinking that his questions were all out of curiosity.

Hearing this, Chen Nan’s expression didn’t change, but he noted down the Qingyu Club in his heart.

At the moment, he was just an ordinary Beastmaster.

Even if he killed contaminated vicious beasts, they probably wouldn’t pay any attention to him.

After all, he wasn’t the only one doing this.

In an instant, the private room returned to its silence, and the two focused on eating.

Ten minutes later, the two finished their meal. They walked downstairs and stood in front of the boss.

The boss was still the same as before, still doing his accounts.

It seemed that he had was doing it from scratch again because he had missed a few numbers.

Zhen Xuelan did not seem surprised when she saw this. She just put some Alliance Dollars on the table, then left Yiqing Snacks with Chen Nan.

They walked back the way they came and entered a quiet alley.

The environment here was ordinary. Rats would crawl over the tiles from time to time.

When those rats noticed the two, they instantly disappeared from their sight.

The two ignored all this and walked on the streets indifferently.

However, at this moment, a noise came from the sewer not far away from them.

In the quiet alley, the noise was particularly obvious.

Hearing the noise, the two abruptly stopped and stared at the place where the noise had come from.

On the other side of the sewer, a stray dog was growling at the source of the noise.

“Roar! Roar!”

Suddenly, Chen Nan sensed the presence of a vicious beast coming from the sewer.

“There might be vicious beasts there,” Chen Nan stared at the source of the noise and his face turned serious.

Hearing this, Zhen Xuelan’s face turned serious as well.

She knew where Chen Nan was referring to, and she didn’t take his words as a joke.

She decisively summoned her contracted beast out of the beast space.

Her eyes were filled with vigilance as she looked ahead.

In the next instant, a Hawk Eagle with a body length of 70 cm suddenly appeared in the alley.

Chen Nan’s gaze shifted over.

The vicious beast had brown feathers and a metallic luster on its back. Its body was thick, and its wings were long and wide.

Its pair of eagle eyes seemed to be able to pierce through people’s hearts.

Before Chen Nan could see the vicious beast’s data, a strong fishy smell assaulted him.

In the next moment, another vicious beast suddenly rushed out from the sewer and attacked the howling stray dog.

The stray dog was naturally not a match for the vicious beast, and it quickly fell to the ground. Blood oozed from its neck, flowing along the ground.

In an instant, only the faint sounds of the vicious beast could be heard in the entire alley.

At this moment, several vicious beasts rushed out of the sewer.

They looked the same as the vicious beast that had killed the stray dog earlier.

They came to the side of the stray dog’s corpse and gathered.

It was also at this moment that Chen Nan was able to see their appearance.

They were the size of domestic pet cats. Their fur was gray, their ears were like circular fans, and their tails were thin and long.

Their entire body was also emitting rays of light, which reflected on the wall.

At this moment, their two swarthy eyes were staring at the stray dog on the ground.

At the same time, Chen Nan saw their data.

[Vicious Beast: Iron-armored Rat]

[Attribute: Poison]

[Level: Middle-rank black iron grade]

[Potential: High-rank black iron grade]

[Evolution Routes: 7]

[Evolution Requirements: … ]

[Description: Highly alert, agile, cunning, and smart. Its fur is as hard as iron armor, making it hard to hurt one.]

At this moment, the several vicious beasts were gnawing on the stray dog not far away.

It was as if they had never eaten before.

In just the time Chen Nan looked at the data, the Iron-armored Rats had finished gnawing on the stray dog.

By now, only the skeleton of the stray dog and a pool of congealed blood were left on the ground.

Beside them were the few Iron-armored Rats that had just eaten.

Seeing this scene, Chen Nan, who had just finished eating, immediately felt a little nauseous.

He decisively summoned Xiaochi out of the beast space.