My tamed beasts can't be demons.

Chapter 40 My Day as a Bug Catcher

Chapter 40 My Day as a Bug Catcher (33)

Hanabi wasn't used to the curved shell and entered it very carefully.

Fortunately, the grass's resilience allowed it to quickly adapt to the environment inside.

I really like the large space that the large shell provides for the fireworks.

However, considering that there were still many things to be moved, Hanabi slightly retracted her wildly growing root system.

Then it extends its vines from the old pot to move its collection to its new home.

It's called a flowerpot, but judging by its size, it's more like a large jar. I must say, "moving" is truly an amazing skill.

Looking at the fireworks display not far away, which was quickly adapting to its new home, Zhou Lu felt hopeful for the future.

Racial skills, as the most important skills of a spirit beast, are one of the criteria used by beast tamers to judge whether a beast has the potential for development.

As the most important skill, racial skills are generally not copied by those copying skills, but Meng Yuhua's [Absorption] is an exception.

It's no wonder that Meng Yuhua has so few spirit beasts; with such an abnormal skill, the heavens naturally have to make them pay a price.

Some races have very strong skills, but due to the weakness of the spirit beast itself, they cannot unleash its original strength.

Like this "Transport" skill, because of the Flying Jade Bee's weakness, few people would think that this skill is very powerful.

However, when applied to Hanabi, it demonstrated absurd practicality, and could even be considered Zhou Lu's favorite skill at the moment.

Unfortunately, the "transportation" function only affects mass and cannot change the volume of an object, which means that fireworks can only carry a limited amount of things.

The fact that a bee, which cannot become a spirit pet, has such high practicality in its racial skills gave Zhou Lu the idea of extracting racial skills from insects, rats, flowers, and plants—spiritual beasts that others consider weak.

For example, the electric rat we encountered in the grassland secret realm before.

If Hanabi could acquire its racial skill, then with the skill acceleration effect, Hanabi's vines would definitely be much stronger than they are now.

There's also the Sticky Baby racial skill, which might allow Hanabi to secrete a sticky substance that is waterproof, fireproof, and highly adhesive.

and many more!

Speaking of this...

An idea seemed to flash through Zhou Lu's mind.

In the academy, credits are the "currency," so every student who spends 5 credits to enter the secret realm is thinking about getting their money's worth.

Aside from information obtained through personal channels like Li Yi's, the academy's forums had already developed strategies for recovering losses in various secret realms.

This time, Zhou Lu acted alone. Before entering the secret realm, he had specifically studied the strategy for recovering his losses in the Linxi Secret Realm.

The so-called "recovery of investment" simply means capturing some spirit beasts to exchange for money, and the academy will also issue some tasks from time to time.

However, the missions are in high demand and are usually snapped up in seconds.

The spirit beasts that are acquired over a long period of time are generally consumables for major companies or laboratories.

For example, chipmunks are acquired as laboratory animals, while many mythical creatures are acquired as raw materials.

Zhou Lu took out the electronic encyclopedia, clicked on the distribution of the Linxi Secret Realm, and then searched for the flash of inspiration in his mind among the vast number of spirit beast encyclopedias.

The Forest Creek Secret Realm doesn't have any large spirit beasts; it's a secret realm mainly composed of plants and trees.

Surrounding the forest, which is almost a tropical rainforest, live a large number of small animals.

insect.

Zhou Lu's finger stopped on an illustration.

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Name: 【Ghost Face Nightmare Butterfly】

Attribute: Unknown

Racial Skill: [Lilliput]

Location: C0032 (Forest Creek Secret Realm)

Description: One of the few confirmed fantasy spirit beasts, capable of emitting white light that can shrink objects. Humans used this light to shrink and assemble parts, creating the modern precision instrument industry.

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Fantasy spirit beasts are spirit beasts that exist in human myths and legends. They are the origin of many legends and have existed as legends for a long time until biologists found the Nightmare Butterfly with Ghost Face in the Forest Creek Secret Realm, which confirmed the existence of fantasy spirit beasts.

It is a mythical creature that appears in the fairy tale "Lilliput," and is the culprit behind the creation of Lilliput.

The Nightmare Butterfly in reality does possess the racial ability to shrink objects, but there is a limit to how small they can shrink. It's a means for it to find food or evade predators.

It is generally believed that human ancestors accidentally came into contact with the Nightmare Butterfly with a Ghost Face, which led to the creation of the story of "Lilliput".

The attributes of fantasy-type spirit beasts are very special and cannot be summarized by any known attributes.

These types of spirit beasts are not countered by any known attribute other than the divine attribute, nor do they counter any known attribute.

Because the sample size is too small to define, and it does not show any special restraint relationship with other attributes, it can only be marked as "unknown" and awaits further research for further subdivision.

Many professional players in beast taming competitions want to own a fantasy-type spirit beast, whose attributes and characteristics can make them evenly matched on the field, allowing players to fight without having to consider attribute relationships.

Unfortunately, apart from the Nightmare Butterfly, other known fantasy species are almost impossible to capture.

However, this fantasy butterfly was too weak to be used as a competitive pet. But people quickly discovered another use for it: shrinking parts.

However, in Zhou Lu's eyes, this [Miniature Kingdom] skill has another use.

Thinking of this, he glanced at the fireworks beside him.

With the "Miniature Kingdom," Hanabi can put more things in her "home."

Firework, carrying the snail shell, crawled forward beside Zhou Lu. The two quickly arrived at the campsite of the Forest Creek Secret Realm, where they stored the selected white jade snail shells and red jade pearls, and disposed of the remaining snail shells.

Because of the extensive use of Nightmare Butterflies in the production of precision equipment, there are always merchants in the Forest Creek Secret Realm camp who buy these butterflies.

Zhou Lu easily secured a deal with a traveling merchant to accompany him to the habitat of the Nightmare Butterfly with the Ghost Face.

Raising spirit beasts is actually much more difficult than imagined, because their extraordinary attributes make them extremely demanding in terms of environment.

This leads to many companies choosing to capture wild animals, even though there are breeding industries, because they are relatively cheaper.

This is especially true for the Nightmare Butterfly, a fantasy species.

Following the stream upstream, Zhou Lu soon arrived at the Nightmare Butterfly habitat, located on the edge of the upstream safe zone.

The nightmarish butterflies with their ghostly faces shimmered faintly in the setting sun.

Looking at the ghostly faces on their wings, Zhou Lu doubted whether their true attribute was actually ghosts. After all, illusion was just a temporary, generalized attribute.

"Are you ready? Fireworks?"

Zhou Lu looked at the fireworks to the side.

He never imagined that he would one day become a bug-catching boy.

But no matter what, he was determined to get the skill [Lilliput]!

Fireworks: o(*^▽^*)┛

The fireworks were ready long ago.

It uses its vines to weave a net-like shape on one of its vines.

On the vines of the insect net, Hanabi carefully coated them with sticky baby slime, giving the insect net the characteristics of a spider web.

Hanabi made five of these insect nets!

"Let's begin!"

A skill card appeared in Zhou Lu's hand.

[Body Feeding]! Activate!