My tamed beasts can't be demons.

Chapter 56 Sticky Baby Breeding Base

After leaving the secret realm, Zhou Lu originally intended to immediately go with Li Yi to his family's breeding base.

Since it's impossible to find a useful poison-type skill, finding a sticky skill seems like a good alternative.

"Holy crap..."

Looking at the seemingly endless farm in front of him, even though Zhou Lu had prepared himself mentally, he still couldn't help but sigh when he saw Li Yi's farm.

"Is this your farm?"

"One of them, I guess."

"One of them?!" Zhou Lu's lips twitched slightly.

Indeed, it's true that some people are born in Rome.

"Come with me," Li Yi said, waving Zhou Lu into the park's sightseeing vehicle. "Disinfection is being carried out here today."

"Disinfection?"

"Yeah, so you've come to help us out, too," Li Yi said with a headache. "Isn't Hanabi good at catching Sticky Babies? You can help us pick out the sick Sticky Babies from the group."

Originally, according to the breeding base's regulations, people like Zhou Lu and Li Yi who had come into contact with Sticky Babies in the Secret Realm or other places would need to undergo a seven-day quarantine if they wanted to enter the Sticky Babies breeding base.

To be precise, they must not come into contact with sticky babies or similar spirit beasts for seven days before they can be allowed to enter the breeding base.

After all, the breeding density here is too high. Any pathogen that enters here will trigger a massive wave of disease outbreaks.

But in the end, Zhou Lu and Li Yi did not go through this process.

Besides Li Yi being the heir to the company, the main reason is that the breeding base itself is suffering from a contagious disease called "sticky baby".

Psoriatic arthritis.

The symptom is that the originally pink sticky baby is dyed a distinct silver color.

When a sick clingy baby produces mucus, the mucus loses all its stickiness and becomes a transparent liquid with a peculiar foul odor.

As a classic case of clingy babies, Zhou Lu had actually learned about it in class.

Nestled in Zhou Lu's arms, Hua Huo was seeing so many clingy babies for the first time, and she looked around curiously.

Along the way, they passed several breeding sheds, and from the corners that were partially uncovered, it was easy to see that the silver blood disease there was very serious.

"Of course, I won't make you work for free." Seeing Zhou Lu's silence, Li Yi thought he had misunderstood him and said, "I don't have that many credits. If you don't mind, how about cash?"

"Whatever, give me whatever you think is best." Zhou Lu was concerned about whether he could get any attributes and skills from the sickly, clingy baby.

After a pause, Zhou Lu continued, "What happens to those sick clingy babies? Are they burned or buried?"

Species raised on a large scale cannot avoid this fate once they are infected with disease.

Zhou Lu didn't feel any pity for the baby just because he thought the clingy baby was cute.

"That's how it used to be," Li Yi said, "but this time there might be a way to recover some of the losses."

"Oh? There's a cure for leukemia now?" Zhou Lu immediately understood the meaning behind Li Yi's words.

Any thriving industry will always spawn a series of other related industries.

The same principle applies to the beast taming industry.

The breeding industry, feed industry, pharmaceutical industry, nursing industry, and other industries surrounding the spirit beasts of beast tamers are all booming.

Since spirit beasts can get sick, there is naturally a corresponding industry of spirit beast veterinary medicine.

"We invited experts from the nursing team over," Li Yi said.

Nursing team.

Zhou Lu paused slightly upon hearing this term.

The three official Beast Taming organizations: the Pioneer Army, the Nursing Team, and the Veterans' Home.

The Pioneer Army is the most famous group among the people because of its involvement in the exploration and development of secret realms.

The Veterans' Home is where many legendary spirit pets retire, and as a guarantee of official combat power, it has become a legendary organization.

It is said that the divine beasts that followed the first generation of beast tamers in their fight against the immortals still live in the Veterans' Home.

Comparatively speaking, the nursing team is the most low-profile.

As the official spirit animal treatment institution, they provide treatment and care for the spirit animals in the Pioneer Army and Veterans' Home.

Pet hospitals in various locations are also organizations under the care team.

If you have pet insurance, treatment at the pet hospital under the care team is mostly free.

However, it is clear that the sticky babies in the breeding base are almost certainly not covered by pet insurance.

Even if a specific cure were available for silver blood disease, most breeding farms would still opt for the simple and crude method of eradication because the cost of treatment would exceed the cost of breeding.

"We have a partnership with the nursing team," Li Yi explained with a smile, noticing Zhou Lu's confusion.

Before they knew it, the two had arrived at their destination.

"The sick clingy babies that Hanabi caught are put here," Li Yi said, pointing to an open storage room. "Below is a medicine prepared by the nursing team's experts. Just let the clingy babies soak in it for five minutes, repeat for three days, and most of them will recover."

"That amazing?"

"Of course, I heard that the head of the nursing team made it with the juice of some kind of mushroom."

"mushroom……"

"What's wrong?"

"No, I just remembered someone I knew." Zhou Lu thought of Wu Xiaoqing.

Zhou Lu placed the eager-to-go Fireworks on the ground, pointed to the surrounding breeding sheds, and said to Fireworks, "Catch all the silver sticky babies and throw them into this shed, understand?"

Fireworks expressed their approval.

Then, the moment Zhou Lu let go, he took off running into the nearest breeding shed.

My little sticky babies! I'm here!

(≧w≦)

As the fireworks burst in, the entire breeding shed erupted in chaos, with chickens and dogs running wild.

The waving vines caught the sticky babies trying to escape.

From a distance, it looks as if a snake-haired witch is using her hair to devour all the sticky creatures around her.

Seeing that Hanabi was in such good condition, Zhou Lu silently activated [Body Feeding].

Today, we must get the clingy baby's racial skill!

"Let me introduce you." At this moment, Li Yi led a tall woman over. "This is Jiang Shuqi, the beast tamer from the nursing team."

Upon hearing the name, Zhou Lu was slightly taken aback.

It wasn't because he knew this woman named Jiang Shuqi.

But the moment Li Yi uttered the other person's name, the long-awaited system task popped up.

[Optional Mission Nine: Kill Jiang Shuqi]

[Mission Introduction: As the person who introduced Zhou Lu to the part-time nursing team, Jiang Shuqi is the key to unlocking Zhou Lu's rise to prominence.]

[Task Reward: 1 Selectable Spirit Beast Skill Card (Grade A)]

Working part-time in a nursing team?

When did I ever think about working part-time in the nursing team?

Talking nonsense.

Zhou Lu scoffed at this, as he was always working non-stop when he entered the secret realm.

"She's a top-notch nurse in the team," Li Yi whispered to Zhou Lu when he saw that Zhou Lu didn't react much. "When many breeding bases have outbreaks of disease, they call on her to handle them."

"Hello!" Zhou Lu warmly grasped Jiang Shuqi's hand. "My name is Zhou Lu, nice to meet you!"

"???" Wait a minute! Weren't you just acting all indifferent?!

(End of this chapter)