Beast World: Rise to Power with the Offspring System
Chapter 999 - 997: Probe

Chapter 999: Chapter 997: Probe

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Newbie Zone.

When Sally found Yan Ze and Yi, they were in the midst of battling a group of Stone Monsters.

Every Stone Monster exploded with different rewards. Some were Gold Coins, others were materials, and occasionally they spawned bombs, which inevitably blew up again.

When Sally arrived, she saw Yi with his face covered in dust from a stone bomb explosion.

"You seem to be practicing quite enthusiastically." Sally summoned a long whip in her hand and flung it towards the Stone Monsters, sending them into the air. Watching them explode like fireworks was quite a spectacle.

Yi looked at her with admiration, "Yanyan, you’re amazing!"

Sally chuckled, "Thanks for the compliment."

Yan Ze approached Sally with a cigarette half-smoking, extinguished it gracefully, and it crumbled into dust on the ground.

However, the scent of premium tobacco spread around, and Sally, smelling it, felt a tinge of craving, "Can I have one~?"

"No more." Yan Ze didn’t give her one.

Sally pouted slightly, "Where’s the reward? This task is really tough, and the subsequent troubles won’t be small; you need to give me more."

"Alright." Yan Ze opened the System and gave Sally ten times the reward.

Sally was very satisfied.

"Here’s the new mission." Yan Ze took out a folder from his briefcase.

Sally took it and stored it in the System Space for Xiaomei to see, "How’s King?"

"He’s busy splitting and reorganizing the Taixi Federation Star System. Its internal is a chaos, extremely busy." Yan Ze glanced at Yi, "He..."

"What’s wrong?" Sally set up a Barrier.

Yan Ze, with his back to Yi, said, "He’s very powerful, undoubtedly. And being able to resurrect King is proof, but he has a not-quite-a-flaw flaw."

Sally nodded, "I know, he’s slow to react."

"Yes." Yan Ze looked at her, "Are you sure you want him? Although we owe him, there’s no need to keep him around just for gratitude."

"I’m the kind of person that Zi Qi and others say is heartless." Sally tucked the stray hair by her ear, seemingly helpless about this, "Some wounds, even when healed, leave deep scars, never faded away."

"This is also the first condition for the Offspring System choosing a host."

"Is it?" Sally replied lightly.

"Yes." Yan Ze lit another cigarette.

He understood Sally the best, so he never sought love from her.

She sometimes seemed crazy, appearing to struggle for emotion, but actually it’s just her self-protection mechanism activating, spontaneously balancing the inner chaos.

Once she calmed down, she returned to her current state.

Seemingly affectionate, yet actually heartless.

But that very trait makes Sally a perfect host, whether in his eyes or any system builder’s view.

"Didn’t you say you didn’t have cigarettes?" Sally looked at his cigarette, feigning displeasure.

Yan Ze replied, "Just made it."

"You’re unbelievable. But, I don’t want to see him undergoing tribulation."

"Tribulation?"

"Only when there’s obsession does one need tribulation to unwind. Besides, his appearance happens to match my aesthetic preferences."

"That’s the real reason!" Yan Ze laughed.

Sally suddenly snatched his cigarette, took a small drag, then coughed intensely.

Though it smelled aromatic, it was actually very spicy, "It’s really hard to smoke."

"That’s why I didn’t give it to you." Yan Ze retrieved the cigarette and took another puff before blowing the smoke playfully on Sally’s neck and shoulders.

Sally felt a tickling sensation, tilted his neck, and kissed him on the lips, taking the sensuality between his lips and teeth...

Yi had just finished off the Stone Monsters, turned around, and saw Sally and Yan Ze embracing passionately!

Unable to hide his desolation, he teleported out of the Newbie Zone.

"He left." Yan Ze said to Sally.

Sally replied, "I know."

"You’re deliberately testing whether he can handle the most unbearable side of you." Yan Ze tapped her nose, "Be careful, or he’ll retreat back to the Ancestral Dragon Tomb and go into seclusion."

"If he can’t accept it, then it’s better not to take the last step."

Sally removed the Barrier. Looking at the ground full of Gold Coins and materials from the exploded Stone Monsters, she collected them all.

[Host, this mission is both simple and difficult; it’s about searching for a bird.]

[A bird?]

[A bird named Golden Spotted Eagle, three centimeters in size, weighing five grams.]

Sally looked at Yan Ze in astonishment, "Find a tiny bird?"

Yan Ze nodded, "Yes. Don’t underestimate its size; it’s formidable. It can devour all data, and if you use the System scan, you won’t find it. You have to spot it with the naked eye."

"Devour data?" Sally was even more surprised.

"It’s the White Teng ’Doctor’ cultivated by King. Some trash data are consumed by it. The Golden Spotted Eagle has always been in the Level 13 Civilization, but it left recently."

"Such an important doctor, how did it leave?" Sally couldn’t help worrying, since White Teng and King coexist; if White Teng is ill, King won’t be good either.

"When Little Nannan and the others went to Level 13 Civilization for fun, it might have hidden on them and left together. The System World currently shows no signs of it."

"You suspect it followed them to Beast World!"

"Yes. This mission, issued by King, offers 1 million Cosmic Points. Will you take it?" Yan Ze smiled.

Sally, speechless, "Even if there were no points, I’d have to take it."

Yan Ze said, "This time the System’s power is of no use. Because it can merge into data."

"How does King know it’s not in the System World?"

"Its existence is solely to clean trash data for White Teng. Every time White Teng appears slightly unhealthy data, it shows up immediately to work. But King has released a trash data scent for a while, yet hasn’t found it. So King ruled out its presence in the System World. And its disappearance coincides with when I sent Little Nannan to Beast World."

Sally manifested a picture in her hand, an enlarged image of the Golden Spotted Eagle, blue fluff with golden spots, a sharp little hooked beak, quite adorable.

"Three centimeters..." Sally measured with her fingers, then sighed, "Let’s ask King to come by himself? Let him release trash data scent, see if he can lure it out?"

"King can’t come, and if he could, this mission would be canceled." Yan Ze laughed.

[Host don’t! 1 million Cosmic Points! Xiaomei wants...] Xiaomei shouted.

Sally: [It’s hard to find, and you can’t use your best data skills.]

Xiaomei replied: [Xiaomei will figure out a way.]

"King naturally has other solutions or might give up on the Golden Spotted Eagle to cultivate another. The reason for issuing the mission is to keep you from neglecting him." Yan Ze reached to touch Sally’s ear, his gaze finally settling on her Spring-Colored Earrings.