My tamed beasts can't be demons.

Chapter 80 Wu Xiaoqing's "Small Project"

uh-huh?

Zhou Lu felt like he had heard something incredible.

However, Jiang Shuqi clearly had no intention of continuing the conversation, so he wisely refrained from asking any further questions.

This clearly involves legendary immortals.

So far, Zhou Lu has not seen any news about beast tamers living long lives, which shows that most spirit pets do not provide a lifespan bonus for their owners.

Of course, rarity doesn't mean non-existence. Many spirit pets offer additional benefits to their owners, and it's possible that someone might even develop a spirit pet that increases lifespan.

While they were talking, the fireworks were almost finished.

This electric mouse breeding base isn't very big to begin with, otherwise they wouldn't be using early sterilization as a selling point to attract customers.

Unfortunately, Hanabi failed to acquire the Electric Mouse's skill.

But Zhou Lu was not discouraged.

As long as a spirit beast can be artificially bred, there will always be opportunities to exploit it.

If all else fails, I can take the civil service exam for a disease control center and patrol various breeding bases every day; I'm sure I'll be able to make some money that way.

After finishing work, Jiang Shuqi drove Zhou Lu back to school.

On the way, Zhou Lu finally asked the question he had been wanting to ask earlier: "If an ordinary person wants to interact with the mythical beasts in the veterans' home, what methods are generally available?"

He was actually very curious about how he got involved with the nightmare of death.

After all, if he were to tell Jiang Shuqi now that he had information about the Dream Stone, the person he could contact at most would be Jiang Shuqi.

The nursing team will purchase Dream Stones from their own side and then provide them to the Nightmare of Death as food.

But in doing so, I would no longer be able to contact the other person.

Jiang Shuqi did not doubt Zhou Lu's purpose in asking this question.

These mythical creatures from a generation ago are still very attractive to young people, and are even childhood idols for many.

Jiang Shuqi casually said, "You can try taking the nursing team exam."

To be fair, Fireworks would be a great fit for the nursing team—if it learned a healing skill.

"Of course, you might be able to see one of the mythical beasts at your school a month from now," Jiang Shuqi said with a smile. "The Nightmare of Death will come to your academy to provide psychological counseling. Well, ordinary people can't see the Nightmare, that's for sure."

really!

Zhou Lu immediately realized that his future self had made contact with the Nightmare of Death here.

"Uh, wait a minute." Zhou Lu immediately sensed something was wrong. "Does the Nightmare of Death need psychological counseling?"

"All intelligent beings have psychological problems, even mythical beasts are no exception."

"But are most psychological problems related to dreams? Is it really possible for someone to provide psychological counseling for a mythical beast's nightmares?"

"Hmm... The content of the psychological counseling is to stop the nightmare of death from recurring in my dreams." Jiang Shuqi sighed.

Let the nightmare of death stop haunting my dreams...

How did they manage to do that?

"So... the little project you told me about, it's hypnotizing mythical beasts?" Zhou Lu, who had returned to school and arrived at Wu Xiaoqing's office, never expected that the little project Wu Xiaoqing mentioned would be so explosive.

And he finally learned about how he came to know the Nightmare of Death.

It wasn't a chance encounter that happened at the academy.

Instead, it's giving the mythical beast psychological therapy.

"No... why do you know how to hypnotize people..." Zhou Lu looked at Wu Xiaoqing.

Wu Xiaoqing's chair spun around and around as she pondered, "At first, I just wanted to use those people's dreams to grow mushrooms."

"Wait a minute? You can grow mushrooms in your dreams?"

"Isn't that amazing?" Wu Xiaoqing chuckled. "It's a fantasy species. I'll show you the results another day."

"So...you can also use hypnosis?"

"I'm quite good at physical hypnosis!" Wu Xiaoqing said, making a swinging motion with a baseball bat. "Let me tell you, my hypnosis skills were top-notch back in the day! I could take down your senior brother with a single blow."

Zhou Lu's lips twitched slightly.

He thought that Wu Xiaoqing was already abstract enough.

Feelings were much more abstract back then.

"So? How did you become the psychologist for death nightmares...?"

Speaking of this, Wu Xiaoqing said helplessly, "How would I know? I haven't done this for many years. I don't know where that Nightmare of Death got the information from."

She originally intended to refuse.

However, this time the Nightmare of Death seems to have encountered a big problem. The strong stance from above forced Dean Wu Sicheng to come and discuss it with Wu Xiaoqing in person.

As the saying goes, one Wu cannot have two mouths.

Wu Xiaoqing ultimately compromised in the face of research funding.

Fortunately, this treatment didn't require any specific results; many people were just trying anything as a last resort.

"So, what do you want me to do?" Zhou Lu asked the crucial question.

Wu Xiaoqing began to explain to Zhou Lu the process of the death nightmare descending.

Nightmares are creatures that are almost impossible to observe normally in the real world.

You must enter a dream state, and then see the nightmare within the dream.

Although the Nightmare of Death is a divine beast, it operates on a similar principle.

Wu Xiaoqing's treatment of the nightmare of death naturally took place in her dreams.

"All you have to do is wake me up from my dream at the designated time," Wu Xiaoqing said.

Zhou Lu was speechless: "Can't you just set an alarm?"

"The dreams of a Divine Beast Nightmare aren't so easily awakened." As she spoke, Wu Xiaoqing took out several mushrooms that looked ominous and said, "To successfully awaken myself, I must walk on the edge of death. Who knows if the Deathly Nightmare can still perfectly control its own dreams now? I can't entrust my life to someone else."

As she spoke, Wu Xiaoqing handed the mushrooms in her hand to Zhou Lu: "You can use these mushrooms to poison me later, and I guarantee I can escape the dream."

"???"

Zhou Lu couldn't quite understand Wu Xiaoqing's thought process.

"Don't worry, my cursed frog will jump out and save me right away."

"That's not the problem at all! Who would try to escape a dream this way?"

Wu Xiaoqing tilted her head and thought for a moment: "If you find it too troublesome, you can stab me in the back."

But Wu Xiaoqing quickly rejected the suggestion: "No, that would draw blood, and washing the sheets is such a hassle. You might as well poison me with poisonous mushrooms."

Zhou Lu wanted to say something more, but seeing Wu Xiaoqing's pleading look, he swallowed his words and asked, "Okay, when is that?"

With Wu Xiaoqing's repeated insistence, he could no longer find a reason to refuse the job.

Furthermore, given the excellent reward of the three B-grade spirit beast cards obtained from the previous failure to "kill Wu Xiaoqing," it's hard to say that Zhou Lu's acceptance of Wu Xiaoqing's invitation was entirely without ulterior motives.

Zhou Lu is not one to actively seek out trouble.

However, he would still be happy to accept things that were offered to him passively.

"Let's do it tonight," Wu Xiaoqing said after thinking for a moment. "The sooner this absurd situation is resolved, the better. Honestly, isn't this delaying my research?"

(End of this chapter)