"Stop spouting those strange and bizarre ramblings; it was clearly you who said you'd buy me a hot dog sausage and let me destroy your National Day homework..."
"Just tell me, did I handle it or not?"
Ansheng, full of joy, strode away from the scene where a mother was thrashing her rebellious child, leaving only a faint sound behind.
Ansheng had looked through the practice book, the school's book, not a strange tutoring class one.
Master Fuli handled things smoothly, satisfying the child's whimsical wishes without angering the parents, and the school's teachers enjoyed correcting homework.
Master Fuli praised his own cleverness.
"Master Fuli, what are you watching?" Tang Lian had driven up to the park entrance at some point and glanced at the scene across the street where a mom was scolding her child, and the child was in tears, somewhat puzzled as he looked at Master Fuli.
How could Master Fuli, such a seasoned fox, be interested in these trivial matters?
"Nothing much, just feeling a bit sentimental seeing this joyous family scene."
Master Fuli showed a sly fox smile and said to Tang Lian, "Let's go! We're heading to Spring Mountain Grassland."
"Alright!"
Tang Lian glanced around, noticing that Steel Park was even more crowded than usual; the parking lot was filled with cars with out-of-town plates, and parents were bringing their children, truly fitting Master Fuli's words about peaceful times.
"The park is indeed quite lively..."
Tang Lian sighed inwardly, as he led Master Fuli towards the parking spot.
However.
Just as they reached the parking space, Master Fuli expertly bounced up, opened the driver's side door, and sat in the driver's seat. Tang Lian's breath caught, staring blankly at Master Fuli who was seated at the wheel, starting the car.
"?"
Daolang Sheep, smoking in the back seat, upon witnessing the scene, typed out a question mark.
"What are you standing there for? Get in!"
After adjusting the seat, Master Fuli grabbed the steering wheel and called out to Tang Lian, "If we don't leave the city soon, we'll be stuck at a traffic light on the grassland."
"......." Tang Lian displayed a smile of utter despair, exchanged a glance with Daolang Sheep, and said, "Coming, but Master Fuli, please stop by the pharmacy at the intersection later. I need to buy some iodine; I accidentally bumped myself last night."
"Oh..."
Master Fuli responded and raised his paw to open the car's navigation map, driving a few kilometers ahead and stopping at the intersection.
Tang Lian ran into the pharmacy, bought motion sickness patches, and stuck one behind his ear, while grabbing some bottled water and iced cola from the supermarket next door.
In the car's silent and despairing atmosphere filled with passengers, Master Fuli obeyed traffic regulations.
Master Fuli politely saluted the traffic cop directing congestion.
Arriving at the grassland on the outskirts of the city.
Master Fuli's form gradually transformed from a fox into a beastman, flooring the accelerator, plunging into the grasslands, racing towards distant mystical phenomena.
"Master Fuli, where are we heading?" Tang Lian asked, nervously swallowing.
It wasn't that he hadn't raced on the grasslands before, but then he was at the wheel and could clearly feel the road conditions and pickup truck's state.
Sitting in the passenger seat, holding onto the handle, Tang Lian's heart pounded, fearing the pickup truck might roll over.
"We're not going anywhere specific. As a red fox, seeing a vast grassland just makes me want to race." Master Fuli casually found a reason while he focused his gaze on a spot where spiritual particles were swirling.
By the time Master Fuli drove over, the spiritual particles in the sky had gradually dispersed, becoming tiny grains almost invisible.
Master Fuli flipped onto the car roof, observing the scattered spiritual particles around, uttering a bright sound.
However.
The grassland remained silent, only the gentle whistling of wind over the grass broke the quiet. None of the anticipated spirit beasts appeared, angrily grabbing Master Fuli's collar as he imagined.
"Wait for me here, I'll wander around the grassland and return later."
Master Fuli frowned, hopping off the roof to the passenger seat, tapping on the window to tell Tang Lian, then leaped forward quickly disappearing from Tang Lian's sight.
"...Brother Dao, do you think if we secretly report Master Fuli's unlicensed driving, he might get jailed?"
Lying in the passenger seat, Tang Lian broke out in a cold sweat, weakly joking.
"......"
Daolang Sheep lit a cigarette, disregarding Tang Lian's complaints, saying, "That's how foxes are."
"At peak energy, they dare to do anything except math and electrical engineering. Wait until Master Fuli gets tired from roaming, once he expends the excess energy, you'll be back at the wheel."
"Do you have more motion sickness patches? Stick a couple more on me; as a ruminant, no one's mentioned I'd vomit food during this!"
"Master Fuli's driving skills are just terrible..."
.......
The ongoing banter and jokes in the car went unheard by Master Fuli, who continued speeding on the grassland.
The speed of high-speed trains, that's the speed at which Master Fuli chased the spiritual phenomena on the grasslands.
"Let's go!"
Master Fuli stomped heavily on the ground, the fox's paw pressing the soil down, leaving a canine paw imprint.
Master Fuli soared upward, like a white rocket launching with a roar.
In just a brief moment, within a second, Master Fuli had climbed over three hundred meters, with the swirling spiritual phenomena appearing right before him, seemingly within reach.
As Master Fuli approached the swirling mass.
The edges of the amassed mist suddenly began to twist, seemingly responding to Master Fuli's call, gracefully reaching out.
Like a glittering silk ribbon of ethereal mist, it floated elegantly trying to wrap around Master Fuli.
But due to the distance limit, Master Fuli's form began to plummet because of gravity, the mist ribbon hadn't managed to catch him.
However.
Master Fuli's fingertip had already touched one corner of the mist emerging from the ground.
At the moment of contact, Master Fuli clearly saw the mist at his fingertip gradually vanish, like sand in an hourglass, seeping into his finger.
Master Fuli did not feel any pain nor any discomfort.
Yet the fingers touched by the mist underwent peculiar changes.
Master Fuli, who should have been in beastman form, displayed a white human hand.
Yet the human-like hand persisted only briefly before reverting to the furry padded fox paw.
"Boom——"
Seeing the unusual change in his hand, Master Fuli was slightly startled, but before he could react, he was already falling at eighty meters per second, hitting the grassland ground with a heavy thud.
"Is it... a strong stimulant?"
Lying on the ground, Master Fuli's cheek showed a trace of surprise as he examined his arm.
The swirling mist...
After contact, it felt as though it was nurturing the physical form while seemingly pushing him forward....
It was a more potent catalytic effect.
Upon touching the mist, Master Fuli's physique passively transformed towards his strongest form.
It was a naturally evolving, inevitable sensation.