"Chirp~~~"
Approaching the season when everything cos back to life, the wind is refreshing, the sunshine is warm, every day is a good day.
With hands in pockets, Ye Hanjun walks alone on the path between the detached villas. The scent of the flowers and plants on the wind is refreshing, but it can't help the silent sorrow in his heart.
"Roar!!"
"Chirp! Chirp!!"
In just three to five minutes, he has seen more than once the fellow assistant teachers, who seem like colleagues, just leaving their hos.
The Contracted Spirit Fond Spirits they summon are Demon Tigers, Horned Sheep, Pegasus, Rhinos, Flying Hawks... Each one is more robust and powerful than the last.
Even worse, seeing Ye Hanjun walking on foot, though they clearly do not know him, they have to purposefully swagger past him.
If Ye Hanjun looked up at them, they would give a slight smile. On the surface, they had the deanor of a calm and composed expert, but behind the scenes they would spur their Fond Spirits to sprint at a faster speed, disappearing at the end of the line of sight like chased by an evil ghost.
"Each and every one, how got they are at showing off."
Ye Hanjun rolled his eyes and didn't take it to heart.
But, upon seeing a spirit master riding a rubber frog that jumps five or six ters high, and bypasses not only flowers and plants but also houses, Ye Hanjun rubbed his temples, slightly shocked.
"Riding a frog... seems like it wears out the crotch of pants."
"In a few years, when the tadpole finishes its tamorphic developnt, will I be traveling like this too...?"
Randomly imagining so scenarios, Ye Hanjun felt a slight headache, anxiously preoccupied with his future ntal state.
The only solace was convincing himself that the contract hadn't been formally established yet and there was still a chance to find a more suitable Fond Spirit, one that could fight, could be ridden, and wouldn't damage his future brilliant image.
Not to ntion... there's still the Blood Pact Summoning!
With so many choices, how could he possibly fail?!
"Caw! Caw caw!"
"Ah! Tuotuo, slow down!"
"Riding unsafely brings tears to my mother's eyes! Slow down! We're going to run into it!"
From a great distance, the loud noises of a racing beast preemptively reached his ears.
Ye Hanjun stopped and lifted his head, subconsciously gazing in the direction from which the sound was coming.
Dust...
A large cloud of dust was rising!
At the end of the side road, an enormous creature was striding towards him at a frenzied pace!
Two young students dressed in casual attire, full of vitality, were originally making their light-hearted way down the street.
Suddenly noticing the peril approaching, the girl's face drained of blood and quivered, clearly terrified.
Although the other boy was also scared, he remained calr. In the nick of ti, he grabbed the girl's hand. The two of them pressed against the wall to avoid the deadly collision.
"Roar!!!"
Dust was swirling, leaving a trail that flashed like lightning.
The face of the racing beast was a blur as it passed the boy and the girl with unmatched speed.
One could vaguely hear a girl screaming in fear and the heavy breathing of an avian creature.
"What... what is that..."
The young man and woman glanced at each other, looking as if they've seen a ghost.
Further afield, Ye Hanjun, standing in the middle of the road, watched the wild dust storm coming closer.
Standing at what was bound to be the path of impact, he showed no panic, just lifting his right eyebrow, revealing a trace of curiosity.
"Swish!"
He drew back, bent down and picked up a handful of dirt, flinging it forcefully in front of him.
The mont he put force into his waist, his lower body rotated backward. His left foot swiftly kicked out, instantly hitting a hard object that was rushing past.
"Ah! Tuotuo! Stop! You've hit soone!"
"Caw! Caw caw... Bang!"
The raging sandstorm abruptly stopped.
A gigantic creature let out a sound of pain and was suddenly tripped by sothing. Losing steadiness, it stumbled and crashed to the right.
A loud crash echoed, and a wall collapsed. A large amount of dust exploded into the air, causing chaos everywhere.
"Alert! Alert!"
"Soone is damaging city buildings! Call the law enforcent team imdiately! Call the law enforcent team imdiately!"
"Be aware! The escapee will face triple the fine, and depending on the severity of the situation, extra penalties may be added. The perpetrator should not hold out the hope of escaping, stay at the scene and wait for justice to convict."
...
The harsh alarm sounded throughout the small surrounding area.
After a violent bout of coughing, Ye Hanjun struggled to his feet.
While dusting off the dirt on his body, he gritted his teeth and grimaced to suppress the pain coming from his lightly twisted ankle.
"This crappy body of mine, for such a simple move, almost mishandled it."
"Now it seems that I don't understand myself well enough. 'Old and weak' describes quite well, at least for now..."
Ye Hanjun shook his head and sighed lightly. His eyes wandered through the swirling dust, searching for his target.
In almost an instant, he locked onto the "perpetrator".
It was an ostrich, with a neck as slender as a snake's, supporting a very small head.
The beak was short and flat, shaped like a triangle, and the eyes were large and bright, resembling a frog's.
Looking further down, its torso was short and stout, and its breastbone flat.
A pair of short wings, extrely disproportionate to its body size, sprouted from its sides. The wings were a striking pink color, as if it were the new darling of the fashion world, fresh and lively.
"Gaaaa!!!"
The ostrich squawked with all its might, its decibel level extrely high.
Forget it being pleasant to the ear, even the call of the Giant Sparrow sounded better than it by several magnitudes.
Most intriguing, the Contracted Spirit Fond, nad "Pink Ostrich," appeared sowhat baffled.
Though it was clearly the cause of the chaos, it seed oblivious to the fact. Its large eyes blinked in bewildernt, and its dumbfounded nature made anyone doubt its intelligence.
"I'm sorry!"
"Tuotuo was unusually excited today, despite my attempts to calm it down..."
Sitting on the ostrich's back was a disheveled girl.
She imdiately jumped off and upon noticing Ye Hanjun standing by the debris, scurried over, her face full of concern.
"I'm fine." Ye Hanjun raised his hands, gesturing for her not to co too close.
Given his physical condition, he wasn't comfortable with strangers approaching too closely. It robbed him of his limited sense of security.
"I'm sorry I scared you. Regardless of whether I've hurt you or caused any damage, I will pay for it!"
The girl was in her pri, with short, erald-green hair.
Despite her ss, Ye Hanjun could discern that her oval face, though not breathtakingly beautiful, had a pleasant charm about it.
Especially those brown eyes, which exuded an innocent naivety. His first impression wasn't bad at all.
However, Ye Hanjun's focus was not on that.
From the corner of his eye, he noticed that the girl had so abrasions. Her exposed arms and legs had several visible cuts.
And her skin, rather than being delicate and fair, was a slightly coarse shade of wheat.
Most likely, she has undergone so intense physical training in her daily life and is not just so fragile vase.
"Ah! You're coughing blood!" Su i exclaid, covering her mouth. Her trembling hands imdiately moved to her waist to fetch sothing.
However, she was too flustered to retrieve the dicine from her bag in one smooth movent, and after several attempts, she still couldn't complete the action.
"Cough! Cough!"
Yej Hanjun took out a clean handkerchief he found in the cabinet and wiped the corners of his mouth. He once again signaled that he was fine:
"Calm down, I'm not hurt."
"But you're coughing up blood—such a severe internal injury can be fatal..." Su i, finally able to retrieve the ergency dicine, rushed to try and feed it to Ye Hanjun.
"Coagulating Blood Scatter?" Ye Hanjun glanced at the dicine and his mouth twitched slightly.
"Miss, although the quality of your dicine seems pretty good and must have cost you a lot,"
"Did the pharmacist not tell you that even if you're bleeding from every orifice, you should only take 1 gram of this dicine at a ti?"
"You have a handful here, almost 5 grams worth. If I took all this down, you would have turned a live person into a dead one..."
"Ah? That's a limitation?" Su i suddenly blushed.
She didn't know whether to offer the dicine or withdraw it, and her entire expression was one of extre embarrassnt.
Fortunately, the tily arrival of the law enforcent team unplugged the standoff. First, a white giant eagle swooped down, followed by a muscular buffalo with two grumpy, middle-aged n flanking her and Ye Hanjun, eliminating their freedom of movent.
"What happened?"
A man with a red armband on his shoulder and a badge reading "Li Yan" on his chest looked up and down at Ye Hanjun, frowning,
"You look familiar, have we t sowhere before?"
"..."
To this, all Ye Hanjun wanted to say was,
In a building as large as Canghai Pavilion with at least a hundred mbers in the law enforcent team,
How did I encounter the sa mbers from yesterday's incident in a completely different area? This must be so crazy luck.
"I rember now, yesterday there was soone nad Jia Pengpeng who also damaged a wall..."
Li Yan glanced at the source of the chaos and the pink ostrich who, acting as if nothing had happened, delicately made its way out of the debris.
After squawking a couple of tis, it seed to realize that the giant white eagle and muscular buffalo were not to be trifled with, and carefully positioned itself beside its owner.
"Only the girl caused the disturbance, the boy had nothing to do with it."
Another man nad Qian Biao stepped forward.
He had quickly surveyed the nearby area and by asking shocked bystanders, he ca to a conclusion.
"One wall will cost no less than twenty Lower Quality Spirit Stones to rebuild."
"Since this is your first offence, no additional punishnt will be levied. Please bring this receipt and pay the Spirit Stones at the City Construction Hall within seven days..."
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