"Buzz buzz buzz—"
The silver-white Ground Effect Vehicle sped eastward across the sea; it took a detour upon reaching the Island Country due to the density of fishing boats, taking a total of forty minutes to arrive at Peace Island.
The Ground Effect Vehicle touched down on the water, gliding slowly towards the port of Peace Island, docking at the pier.
"Hmm? What are these...?"
Due to the intense thrust feeling during the voyage, Master Fuli didn't wander around; he sat in his seat the entire time, swiping through videos of foreign women on Overseas Tunes.
As the Ground Effect Vehicle halted, the engine room's hatch opened simultaneously. The ball-shaped Triangular Hammer scampered out swiftly, with its short little legs moving quickly.
Behind the Triangular Hammer, a visibly emaciated seal struggled out of the engine room, its chubby cheeks sunken in and looking listless. Although its skin was gray and white, Ansheng could practically visualize the meaning of malnourished on the seal's face.
"Oooh..."
The seal looked weak all over, gazing at Master Fuli, shakily raising its hand, Fish... give me a Yuyu.
Behind the seal were two salted fish, whose heads were full but bodies thin as lightning.
And a peculiar creature Ansheng had no clue how to describe; it looked like a beast but was covered with scales, had green face and sharp teeth, gills on its neck, and the whole thing was foaming at the mouth.
"Gurgle gurgle..."
As Master Fuli observed those things, the Triangular Hammer moved to his side, swaying, producing a "gurgle" sound from its metallic surface.
The things in the cabin were just found by it.
They were eyeing us, so I pulled them into the engine room for a checkup to see whether they were sturdy.
"Old Li, your vehicle's got bio-fuel!" Master Fuli glanced between the Triangular Hammer and those creatures clearly belonging to Spirit Beasts, then turned to Old Li and shouted.
Though it wasn't observed how the Triangular Hammer eats, those Spirit Beasts visibly had signs of being squeezed dry, and looked listless.
"Well... fuel consumption is pretty high." Li Wenkang picked up his luggage, glanced at the nearly exhausted Yuyu crawling out of the engine room, and gestured for the Security Bureau's driver to give them some oxygen to keep their fish lives hanging.
"Chirp chirp chirp..."
Lin Qi looked at the strange creature, making chirp sounds like teasing a dog. Though the thing's true nature wasn't apparent, its exterior suggested it underwent a Hell Envoy Series genetic edit.
This creature was a Spirit Beast modified from a terrestrial beast to a marine creature.
"Uh..." The Hell Sea Monster raised its head, looked at Lin Qi teasing it, plopped on the ground dispiritedly, showcasing a melancholic aura, and sighed deeply.
"So young, yet so worn-out."
Lin Qi joked, following Li Wenkang to the pier, where the entire port had only concrete flooring and no other modern facilities or traces of life.
Even the small house at the port was wooden, with stones weighing down the roof as if fearing the sea breeze would blow it away.
With some scrutiny and contemplation, Lin Qi examined the architectural structure on Peace Island.
"Another party without an invite for me..." Lin Qi retracted his gaze and commented with a sigh.
"......"
Upon hearing Lin Qi's teasing comment, Li Wenkang suddenly seemed to recall something, his face turning dark as he headed straight towards the Magic Princess castle.
"What's up with Old Li?"
Riding Miyel, Master Fuli noticed Li Wenkang's low-pressure aura and long face.
"Him? Probably reminiscing his youth; don't be fooled by Old Li's serious demeanor now; he was once a famous DJ when he graduated from Berkeley and joined the Wyde Biological Research Institute!" Lin Qi shrugged and explained:
"He might be upset seeing all the parties on Peace Island that he wasn't invited to."
"DJ?" Master Fuli was stunned, surprised that Old Li had such talents and understood music.
"Wait a minute! Didn't Old Li study abroad in the seventies or eighties? Did they have DJing back then?"
"Of course they did; arrange starlets in a row, let them bare their pale butts, why can't you play then?"
"???" Master Fuli was filled with confusion.
"Old Li was very prestigious; he rode in extended Lincolns, and when he was done with starlets, he didn't need to pay a dime; they would even happily foot the bill, thank Old Li for last night's vigorous play, and rummage through the trash to see if there were any leftover elf bags..."
"But Old Li was really wicked, always throwing it into the toilet to flush away, causing the hotel's sewage pipes to get blocked, and the waste water to overflow."
Lin Qi laughed while recounting some of Li Wenkang's past anecdotes. When Li Wenkang was young, he was vibrant and wouldn't be polite to bosses when choosing models; he'd never settle for just one.
His outings were always to high-end clubs, eating steaks, and he wouldn't even look at anything that wasn't non-greasy; if a model's skin didn't feel smooth to the touch, he might kick them out.
Not tender? Call your mother a model, get lost, I'm a proper consumer!
What is capitalism? Service the Almighty OK?
"It's just sugar-coated cannonballs." Li Wenkang, walking ahead, heard Lin Qi's recollections and said flatly.
The incidents Lin Qi spoke of occurred when the director of Huai De Bio Research Institute first invited him to an outer circle party of the Longevity Club.
During this first encounter, in order to completely eliminate Li Wenkang's possibility of returning to his home country, and further to attach him to the research institute, they prepared to corrupt him with local ties.
Mansions, women, money, and.....children.
Returning home meant being penniless, whereas staying there, the resources, although not as abundant as top-tier tycoons, weren't lacking in material benefits. Humans have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, weighing gains and losses.
At that time, it was the initial stage of Spirit Beasts... or "supernatural creatures" revival, and everyone wanted talented individuals; being a step ahead in the research field could lead to being steps ahead.
If it weren't for what happened later that forced Li Wenkang's rage to boil over, he might have stayed in California and wouldn't be annoyed by those foreigners now.
"Roar—"
While they were chatting about past events, a black bear over three and a half meters tall, sturdier than a grizzly bear, appeared on all fours from the forest path, drooling from its mouth and blocking the group. Its eyes were reddened, and it stood upright, raising its arms and revealing the crescent-shaped white hair on its chest.
The bear's roar echoed through the mountains.
"How dare you!"
Upon seeing this, Miyel unconsciously stepped forward, anger appearing on her pale face, her fingertips wrapped in blue sparks.
"Let me handle it! When it comes to taming Spirit Beasts, nobody knows better than I, Ansheng."
The bear's intimidating posture didn't scare the group walking on the forest path. Master Fuli glanced at the hungry bear on the brink of winter, jumped onto the muddy ground, and walked upright towards the bear.
"Roar?"
The bear appeared to have high intelligence, observing the group's calm demeanor, immediately realizing they might be aristocrats preparing to retreat, unwilling to provoke them.
But Master Fuli had already stepped forward, grabbing the bear's leg hair and pulling it, yanking the massive bear to the ground. Startled, the bear hurriedly got up, scrambling to flee into the brush.
"Just waiting for you to rise, fly up!"
Master Fuli smirked, delivering a heavy punch to the bear's chin as it got up, sending the bear's body airborne into the sky, lifted by an upward airflow, spinning rapidly in the air.
After rotating dozens of times mid-air, the enraged bear's chin hit the ground heavily, its eyes returning to clarity.
The bear seemed bewildered for a moment, immediately losing its ambition, ran to Master Fuli, bowed, and eagerly kissed Master Fuli's tiny foot with a fawning face.
"Stop it, report to the cabin at the harbor. If I don't see you on the ship when I go home tonight, I'll burn your forest home down."
Master Fuli raised a hand, pointing toward the harbor. Receiving the order, the bear immediately ran off toward the harbor.
"This is..."
Lin Qi, slightly astonished, gazed at Master Fuli's back, who had just turned the bear into a loyal follower with one punch, and shockingly looked at Li Wenkang:
"That half-ton bear was spinning 3600 degrees mid-air, does it comply.....with the laws of physics?"
Upon first witnessing Master Fuli hunt wild Spirit Beasts, Lin Qi felt amazed.
Spirit Beasts...are they really that easy to tame? If it's genuinely this easy, the Longevity Club wouldn't have resorted to juicing Spirit Beasts, but rather recycled them continuously.
Ordinary Spirit Beasts have wisdom, but it's not high; their intelligence mainly focuses on bearing grudges.
"Whether it complies with the laws of physics depends on Fuli." Li Wenkang glanced at Lin Qi's surprised look and said:
"Master Fuli's unique skill is turning foes into allies with one punch, including the tall one by your side and Little Tree Lord, all won by Master Fuli."
"Hmm.....we at the Security Bureau have been struggling for a long time." Li Wenkang discreetly glanced at the Triangular Hammer.