"Uh... actually, I didn't want to do it either, but among all my friends, your face is the palest."
"I've even sacrificed the lifespan of streamers before, but in the end, I still had to chew through the guaranteed pity system. The items were already stinking."
Tang You awkwardly started to speak; when it comes to game luck, she really isn't skilled, always resorting to supernatural rituals when drawing cards.
Before today's card draw, she muttered in her heart that she would sacrifice a certain game streamer's lifespan, then turned around to wash her hands and ended up sacrificing her friend's peach blossom luck instead.
"So... did you get any good pulls?" Ansheng asked with some curiosity upon hearing this.
"My friend got a boyfriend, and it seems the guy works as a fashion model..." Tang You said with a face full of black lines, ridiculing herself.
"......"
Ansheng looked at Tang You with a suffocated expression, wanting to speak but failing to form any coherent sentences, his mouth opening and closing several times.
"Old Zhang, or should I just talk about my parents!" Ansheng took a deep breath, turned his head away from Tang You who was looking at him, and spoke with a face full of speechlessness.
Seen plenty of people sacrificing lifespan to pull good items in games.
But someone like you, whose sacrifices are absorbed by the victim to improve their own luck, pardon my ignorance, I've never heard of such a thing in this lifetime or the last.
You've already hit a blind spot in my knowledge.
"Oh, oh..."
Zhang Lin's expression also froze following Tang You's shocking words, and it was only the call from Master Fuli that brought her back to her senses.
"Well, according to Master Fuli's description, we found a pair of Red Foxes from the North China subspecies that match perfectly."
"However, we need Master Fuli to confirm. The members of the logistical support team have already embarked on a helicopter headed for the Imperial Capital Campus..." Zhang Lin glanced at the display of the Security Bureau's internal special aircraft and said.
"Then let's make a trip over!"
Ansheng nodded slightly, but since the Security Bureau's helicopter would take some time to reach the Imperial Capital Campus, it wouldn't hinder Ah Qing and the others from visiting their future campus.
After touring the living area for humans, they arrived at the area where the Spirit Beasts lived.
When Zhang Lin was about to push the door open, she applied force and the double doors remained motionless, even exerting a bit of counterforce.
Her expression froze slightly, and she exerted more force to push the closed doors open, revealing a yellow, black-spotted American pig lying on its back on the ground, slowly turning its head.
When the jaguar saw the people coming, the painful expression brewing on its cheeks disappeared instantly, replaced by a disdainful pout, immediately changing to a flattering expression, hugging Zhang Lin's leg.
"Meow~ Meow Meow—"
Sis, I was just sleeping, and my bulky body accidentally scratched your foot.
Let me massage it for you, don't worry about it.
"This pig doesn't have any bad intentions, it just likes lying by the door to scam some charcoal-grilled beef breast oil and imported snowflake beef steaks from its hometown..."
Zhang Lin raised her hand, pointed at the "pig" on the ground, and began introducing it to Ah Qing and the others.
The jaguar laboriously flipped over, glancing disdainfully at Master Fuli and Ah Qing and the others behind Zhang Lin, and rolled its eyes with arrogance, making a noise akin to an engine idling: "Hawoo, woo—"
What Sis just said was for her alone, 30 skewers of charcoal-grilled breast oil and five pounds of snowflake beef were just the entrance fees for seeing Lord Leopard.
If you want me to do something, that's simply not enough. I can tell if I can get it done just with a sniff.
"Ah Qing, what's the fat leopard saying?" Momo asked, her face full of confusion whilst looking at Ah Qing.
Momo and the others were fluent in canine language, but had no way to deal with the overseas cat language of the jaguar.
"Uh... it said that this door was built by it, and this path was cleaned by it, and if we want to pass through, we have to open the delivery platform and order it a super luxurious lunch."
"If we don't have that, then we have to lie down and show our bellies for it to pet." Ah Qing spoke with a contemplative expression, translating the jaguar's growls:
"Um... compared to a super luxurious lunch, I feel like the leopard wants to pet people more."
"Meow!?"
The jaguar widened its eyes immediately upon hearing this, looking at Ah Qing as if it had seen a ghost.
"Why go through so much trouble, everyone look here." Seeing Ah Qing and the others gathering together as if brainstorming how to get past the fleshy mountain blocking the way.
Ansheng waved a hand, jumping from Ah Qing's shoulder onto the ground.
"Meow?"
The jaguar looked on with confusion, flipping over to gaze at the white fox squatting in front of its head.
The jaguar's size exceeded that of similar species, yet it was still several sizes smaller than the muscular Leopard Head. Its weight should be around two to three hundred pounds.
"Whine..."
Ansheng lifted a small fox paw, placed it by the jaguar's lips, and gently pushed with his paw, causing the jaguar's lips to expose white teeth.
"Hmm?"
The jaguar wore a puzzled expression, as did Ah Qing, Zhang Lin, and Uncle Two.
But what Master Fuli said next left everyone there dumbfounded.
"Wow! You, you grinned!"
Upon seeing the jaguar expose its teeth, Master Fuli promptly flew into a thunderous rage, grasping the jaguar by its neck and violently shaking its form.
Above the jaguar's neck, it seemed as if the highest power was driving it, creating an illusion of a spinning record.
"Meow...."
Master Fuli released his grip, and the jaguar lay on the floor, legs curled up, staring suspiciously at the ceiling of the dorm with its eyes spinning.
"When dealing with Spirit Beasts, the first thing you should know is that all the eloquence in the world is no match for powerful arms."
"Come on, Leopard, show Ah Qing and the others a backflip 720 and a Thomas on landing."
Ansheng stood on his two feet, looking at the jaguar, raising a hand to gesture for it to perform some circus tricks for Ah Qing.
"Meow!"
The jaguar put on a serious face, gauging the power disparity between the sides.
In a flash, the jaguar sprang up, following Master Fuli's words by whirling 720 degrees, landing on its forelimbs and shoulder, connecting a Thomas spin as its hindlegs lifted off, propelling itself fiercely, catapulting towards the window sill.
"Crash—"
The jaguar shattered through the glass window, landing and rolling, becoming a ball that rolled away into the distance.
Ah Qing, Uncle Two, Zhang Lin: "......"
"Please——"
Ansheng smirked, raising his hand, inviting Ah Qing and the others to proceed with their tour as if welcoming them home.
Next, a black-billed grouse with an entirely black body and red eyelids stepped out, glaring menacingly at the naïve newcomer.
Master Fuli approached as always, seizing the black-billed grouse by its neck, straightening it, grabbing both its legs, and hurling it like throwing darts onto the wooden door's surface.
The black-billed grouse's beak pierced through the door, and despite its desperate flapping and kicking, it couldn't free its head.
"Cluck, cluck, cluck——"
The black-billed grouse sorrowfully raised its tail, laying a black egg as an apology to Brother Hu.
From now on, whatever Brother Hu says goes; any fees I collect will be split 4-4-2.
Brother Hu gets four, Brother Fox gets four, and I'll take two.
"See! In future encounters with Spirit Beasts, what you need to do isn't to bicker with them but to inject yourself with a Spirit Particle Potion and go all out with them."
Ansheng glanced at a passing snowy owl, raising his hand to pluck two feathers from its tail hard-handedly.
"Coo, coo, coo——"
The snow owl, feeling the pain, covered its rear with its wings and waddled away.
"Isn't this... not too good?" Ah Qing hesitantly remarked: "They... seem quite friendly and cute."