Xiao Chuihuo’s eyes bulged with excitement. “Of course it matters! How could it not?”
“We’ve tried domesticating spirit beasts before, but every attempt failed. No country in the world has ever succeeded in domesticating spirit beasts and putting them into actual combat!”
“Spirit-beast domestication is basically a blank field, not just for us, but for every major power!”
“Yet you’re saying someone already did it? What’s the deal with this Kabu tribe?”
Jiang Nan was stunned. He had thought it was commonplace, not this big a deal!
“It’s a primitive tribe I met in the Sahara Desert…”
Zhao Dezhu’s eyes gleamed. “Tell us everything, every single detail, don’t leave anything out!”
Jiang Nan swallowed hard. Under the ravenous stares of the crowd, he recounted everything that had happened in the Sahara Desert.
Everyone listening felt their scalps go numb. Tao Xinyi covered her mouth in shock!
He had crossed the Sahara death-forbidden zone at silver rank?
The Undying Serum project was actually led by Jiang Nan?
Everyone sucked in cold breaths!
“When I was silver I was still playing games in the coin-op arcade! You were already facing Dracula?”
“Your guts are seriously fat! This is insane!”
“A primitive tribe living inside a spirit ruin? Principal! Even our Toy House relocation plan failed! How did they manage it?”
“Primitive tribe, huh? They might have preserved ancient domestication methods!”
Everything Jiang Nan described left everyone yearning.
Guan Hu couldn’t hold back. “Principal! Let me go investigate! I might actually learn something!”
Xiao Chuihuo was pumped. “Set off this afternoon! We can totally exchange knowledge with them! Be very friendly!”
Jiang Nan’s eyes lit up. “Brother Hu! When you get there, look for Big Black and Little Black. They know those guys!”
Guan Hu laughed. “You’ve helped a ton!”
Jiang Nan slung an arm around Guan Hu’s shoulders and shoved a plastic bag of Aihei black garlic into his hands, complete with a bundle of chives tied on top.
“Take this. One head a day when you get there! Eat it with the chives! Guaranteed to send you to heaven, endless happiness!”
(΄◞ิ౪◟ิ‵)
Guan Hu swallowed. “Huh? That’s how it works? Why’s your smile so sleazy?”
Jiang Nan: “Details, details! When you arrive, remind the chief that their Osas Sky Father still owes me that lion-griffin egg! I’m still waiting!”
“If you don’t bring the egg back, don’t bother coming back!”
Guan Hu rolled his eyes. “Got it, I’ve memorised it!”
Xiao Chuihuo grinned. “If this works out, the academy might have to add a whole new department!”
“Xiong Er enrols normally, as a spirit beast! He can also provide more data for future research!”
Jiang Nan chuckled. “Thanks, Principal! You can start experimenting with the Thousand Island Lake Spirit Ruins!”
“I’ve been to plenty of spirit ruins, and the beasts in Thousand Island Lake seem a bit smarter!”
Xiong Er giggled. “I know that place! Thanks, Principal! Principal really old!”
[Resentment from Xiao Chuihuo +666!]
Everyone still wore shocked expressions, unable to believe the scene before them!
…
Back at the villa, Xia Yao and Zhong Yingxue were hunched over the coffee table in the living room, scribbling their mission reports furiously.
Jiang Nan brought Xiong Er to the villa, found him a room on the ground floor, and let him move in straight away!
He also dragged Wu Liang over from the dorms to live there!
Wu Liang arrived clutching a huge pile of picture-word books, phonetic charts, and preschool learning materials!
Teaching Xiong Er pinyin was serious business!
Wu Liang pointed at the picture book. “Come on! Read after me! Sika deer!”
Xiong Er tilted his head. “No hair deer!”
“Big lion!”
“Big west chicken!”
“Big carp!”
“Big you donkey!”
“Flowery butterfly!”
“Hair fortune butterfly?”
Xiong Er: (･᷄㉨･᷅)
Two veins popped on Wu Liang’s forehead!
“Big tiger!”
“Big brain axe!”
Jiang Nan: “Red carp, green carp, and donkey!”
Xiong Er: “Red female female female female female female female donkey!”
Xia Yao: ꉂꉂ◟(˃᷄ꇴ˂᷅ૂ๑)༡ “Pffthahahaha, no, I can’t, I’m going upstairs to do homework! I can’t write anymore!”
Zhong Yingxue was holding back laughter so hard she snapped her pen!
Jiang Nan covered his face. This bear is beyond saving. He teleported back to his room.
“Big bro! Good luck!”
Xiong Er: (°¯᷄㉨¯᷅°)
Wu Liang clenched his teeth! Today I refuse to believe I can’t do this!
“Come on! Read after me! Moth!”
“Moth goose paper!”
…
The whole night, the living room echoed with Wu Liang and Xiong Er’s voices!
Next morning, Jiang Nan was brushing his teeth when Wu Liang staggered past with massive dark circles. “Charge! Money!”
Jiang Nan: *spurt* ꉂꉂ(꒪ε꒪‧̣̥̇)
*Cough cough!* “No way, right? Weren’t you supposed to teach Xiong Er? How did he corrupt you instead?”
Wu Liang burst into tears!
I really tried my best, I need a break!
Otherwise I’ll be stuck in the ditch forever!
Monday morning!
The classroom was buzzing with energy. Some students even had plasters on their faces!
Clearly the result of fieldwork missions!
“We should do more fieldwork, it’s so much fun!”
“Where did you go? I went to Qinhai Spirit Ruins, total eye-opener!”
“Hey! Heard our class is getting a transfer student, platinum one!”
“What? For real? A big shot! Even most seniors aren’t platinum!”
“Is it a pure cute girl? Haha! Looking forward to it!”
“Definitely! In anime, transfer students are always school-beauty level, right?”
All the boys were hyped!
Jiang Nan just grinned silently!
The classroom door opened. Tao Xinyi walked in hugging a folder.
“Everyone, today we’re welcoming a transfer student! Platinum-one rank! Please look after him!”
The whole class erupted. The boys slammed their desks wildly!
“Don’t worry, Sister Xinyi! We’ll definitely take good care of her!”
“It’s a girl, right? Definitely, right? Sit next to me! I have an empty seat!”
“Spring! Has my spring finally arrived?”
Tao Xinyi smiled sweetly.
“Classmate! Come in!”
*BOOM!*
The door, previously broken by Ning Youyou, was ruthlessly smashed again!
Xiong Er strode in wearing a baseball jacket, a cap, and a little backpack!
He walked up to the podium!
“I’m Xiong Er! New transfer student! Blue gods my big bros! Everyone old!”
At that moment, every single classmate’s expression froze!
Eyes filled with terror!
This… this is a black bear?
He… I…
Tao Xinyi smiled. “Xiong Er is the platinum-rank black bear spirit beast Jiang Nan brought back from Thousand Island Lake Spirit Ruins!”
“He joined Jiang Nan’s team as a teammate during the All-Star Tournament and helped him win the championship!”
“Now he’s enrolling in Pioneer Academy as a transfer student! I hope everyone gets along and doesn’t bully him just because he’s a spirit beast!”
All eyes turned to Jiang Nan, utterly baffled!
Jiang Nan grinned. Surprise!
The students’ brains were buzzing!
Forget why a spirit beast is a transfer student, why can this black bear talk!
And he calls Nan Shen his big brother?
We were just fantasising about a pure cute girl!
But in reality?
It’s not even human!
You won’t even let us keep the fantasy?
Give me back my spring!
Amid the shocked expressions, Xiong Er plonked himself in the very back row!
Tao Xinyi cleared her throat. “Everyone performed well on the weekend fieldwork missions! Reports were handed in on time!”
“Especially Jiang Nan! His report was exceptionally detailed. Everyone should learn from him!”
Jiang Nan’s eyes lit up. He secretly gave Yu Qingqing a thumbs-up!
Yu Qingqing, sporting two huge dark circles, gave a sweet smile!
(›´ᗜ`‹)
Looking completely drained!
But then Tao Xinyi’s expression turned cold. “However, I have to criticise Ye Xinghe and Qi Yu!”
“How did you two write your reports? Just two sentences?”
“Swept sixteen islands! Got kidnapped by gorillas! Then trampled by a herd of cows! Mission over after returning to base?”
“You’re being perfunctory! Unacceptable! Rewrite!”
Qi Yu and Ye Xinghe were close to tears. We wrote the truth! There was nothing else to write!
Not a single exaggeration!
“Sister Xinyi! There really isn’t anything else to write!”
Tao Xinyi fumed. “Everyone else wrote so much! You need to include details, understand? Details! Like what happened after the gorillas kidnapped you! Your psychological state, etc.!”
“So you don’t make the same mistakes next time!”
Qi Yu and Ye Xinghe’s eyes widened. We… we have to write those details?
That’s… that’s not okay, is it?
