The comments said I was deeply affectionate, I just added points by using an alternate account.

Hongyuan wanted to ask more questions, but Jing stopped in his tracks.

They arrived at a relatively open circular space, in the center of which was a huge, downward-sloping steel spiral staircase.

The entrance was dark and gaping, its destination unknown, with a cold wind blowing up from below.

"This is my private playground," Instructor Jing said proudly, spreading his arms wide. "When I'm bored, I like to find interesting toys from all over the world and then throw them down here."

His words sent a chill down the spines of both Yin Chen and Hong Yuan.

Are the toys he's talking about normal toys?

The answer to this question was quickly obtained.

The lower you go, the faster the air temperature drops, and an unpleasant smell hits you.

The smell was extremely pungent. Hongyuan wrinkled her nose, sneezed, and fanned her nose with her hand.

Yin Chen walked at the back, tugged at his collar with one hand, buried the lower half of his face in it, and furrowed his brows.

He utterly loathed this uncontrolled, gloomy environment, which utterly destroyed his pride in elegance.

Chen Guan walked in the middle, while the fifth-tier lightning leopard, which had been so majestic in the chaotic rock forest, now tucked its tail between its legs and walked closely to Chen Guan's trouser leg.

It even reduced its breathing to a minimum, and its limbs moved on the iron plate without making a sound.

The instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm is that of wild animals. The certain scents emanating from below made it want to turn around and run away.

At the edge of the retina, pale blue bullet comments began to scroll.

[The White Tiger is on paid leave, and taking his underlings to visit his own zoo.]

[Warning: High-energy content ahead! Young Master Yin's worldview is about to be brutally beaten a second time.]

[Chen Guan: Watching his colleague show off with a blank expression.]

Chen Guan blinked. The comments had actually started coming to his side?

What happened?

He looked at Jing, who was walking three steps ahead, wearing a red shirt with yellow flowers. Was Baihu going to cause trouble again?

Soon, the stairs reached the bottom.

What appeared before the three of them was a vast and oppressive underground space.

Several rows of high-voltage searchlights were suspended from the top. Some of the tubes were broken, making a hissing sound due to poor contact, and the light was pale and unstable.

The space was surrounded by huge cages separated by special alloy railings, with electrified coils wound around the railings, and blue arcs of electricity occasionally flickering and jumping at the joints.

"Welcome to my terrarium." Jing stopped and turned around, opening her arms wide.

There was not a sound from the surrounding cages, but the chilling feeling of being watched by countless eyes pierced Yin Chen and Hong Yuan's skin like needles.

"What you caught up there is called wild game." He pointed to the nearest alloy cage on his left: "These are what we call collectibles."

Hong Yuan and Yin Chen looked in the direction he was pointing.

There was no light in the cage until the beam of the searchlight swept across it, and they could see that there was a huge, mushy creature lying inside.

It has no limbs or a fixed torso, and its dark red body surface is covered with dense, closed cracks.

When the light shines on it, the cracks open all at once, revealing pale eyeballs without pupils.

Hongyuan turned her head away in disgust: "She looks really disgusting."

Yin Chen didn't speak. He stared at the creature; he recognized it.

This creature should live in the deep sea. The last time it appeared was probably seventy years ago during a major battle.

It was still alive, and it was trapped in this underground air-raid shelter where even the ventilation shafts were rusty.

Jing hummed a little tune and continued walking forward.

In the second cage lay a giant wolf that was over six meters long.

Its fur is a metallic silver-gray, and a row of sharp, thick bone spurs grows from the top of its head to its tailbone.

Upon hearing footsteps, the giant wolf stood up, its breath turning into tiny ice shards the moment it touched the air.

The surrounding temperature dropped a few degrees.

"Frostbone Wolf." Yin Chen uttered these three words.

Jing stopped and glanced back at him, speaking casually, "Not bad, young master. You've not wasted your time studying. This thing is hard to find. I ran to the bottom of the deepest glacier in Siberia in the middle of the night and dug it out for three days. It's very stubborn and took me several ropes to dig it out."

Yin Chen's breathing became heavy. Frostbone Wolf, this is a mutated species that only exists in the encyclopedia, starting at the eighth rank.

They are proud and bloodthirsty, and once captured, they will definitely self-destruct their demon cores. He couldn't imagine what kind of power difference was needed to dig out an eighth-tier Frostbone Wolf and keep it safe in a cage as a pet.

The next ten minutes or so turned into a bizarre and mind-blowing exhibition of monsters.

A humanoid beetle with six arms, its body entirely composed of crimson magma, a deep-sea behemoth that, despite being reduced to a skeleton, still scrutinizes them with ghostly flames in its eye sockets.

Each creature in its cage, once released, could easily wipe out a third-tier city.

The excitement on Hong Yuan's face completely disappeared. She wasn't stupid. Faced with an absolute difference in strength, the desire to fight would be completely suppressed by the instinct to survive. Her palms, which were gripping the giant axe, were covered in sweat.

The Lightning Cheetah at Chen Guan's feet was completely paralyzed on the ground.

The pride of a fifth-tier demon beast is worthless here. It buried its head between its two front paws and didn't even dare to flick its tail, for fear of attracting the attention of any of the older brothers and sisters in the cage.

Chen Guan watched all this unfold. What was a legendary disaster for Yin Chen and his group was probably just a toy for Bai Hu to pass the time.

Only now did he truly realize the white tiger's collecting obsession; it had all kinds of creatures—those that fly in the sky, run on the ground, and swim in the water.

Judging from Yin Chen's reaction, these are all rare items.

Chen Guan couldn't help but think of the time when he first met Bai Hu, when Bai Hu was also taming some strange creatures.

"Alright, that concludes the tour." Instructor Jing clapped his hands, the crisp sound echoing in the spacious underground air-raid shelter.

Yin Chen pressed his temples, unable to contain his curiosity, and asked, "Instructor, so you brought us here just to show us these...contraband items?"

Having a large number of mutated creatures hidden away is enough to warrant being dragged out and shot for five minutes in court.

Instructor Jing, wearing flip-flops, walked to an empty metal platform, jumped onto it, and sat down cross-legged.

"Let me correct you, this is called an ecological protection project." He started talking nonsense with a straight face: "I didn't bring you here to show off, of course. I'm a proper instructor, and I'm here to give you some benefits."

"Benefits?" Hong Yuan gripped her giant axe warily; she now felt a sense of unease whenever the instructor uttered any flattering words.

"Yes, perks." Instructor Jing said seriously, "After all, you are now members of the Special Operations Department, and my subordinates. You can choose any of the collectibles here."

The basement was silent for a few seconds.

Only the broken searchlight emitted a buzzing electrical sound.