Chapter 61 That Day, Every Beast Master Received a Slap Across the Face

"Classmate, can your Lao Liu catch a frisbee?" Qian Qi turned her head and asked Liu Sheng.

Liu Sheng shook his head repeatedly upon hearing this. "No way. I've trained it many times, and even showed it videos, but it just doesn't get it."

Up to now, Lao Liu could only understand the attack commands he gave, and apart from that, it knew nothing else.

Oh, wait, it also knew how to shout that it was hungry right on time.

"Is that so..." Qian Qi tilted her head and, finding nothing handy around her, asked Liu Sheng again, "Classmate, can I borrow your jacket?"

"Huh?" Liu Sheng had no idea what she was up to. He looked at his own jacket, then at the one Qian Qi was wearing, and asked with puzzlement, "Don't you already have one?"

Qian Qi lowered her head to look at the leather jacket that cost her a massive twenty-seven yuan and fifty-five cents, and immediately put on a mysterious expression. "That's where you don't understand, right? You need the contractor's clothes for this, classmate."

"What are you trying to do?" Liu Sheng was completely baffled, and the other beast-taming students were equally confused.

"Liu Sheng, just give it to her!" Liu Sheng wasn't in a hurry, but the beast-taming department students watching from the sidelines grew anxious first, urging him repeatedly, "Let's see what big shot Qian Qi is up to!"

For some reason, perhaps because of Qian Qi's previous match against the D-grade contracted beast, the beast-taming students always held an inexplicable sense of anticipation toward her.

They wanted to know what astonishing feat Qian Qi would pull off this time.

Unable to withstand the urging of so many people around him, Liu Sheng had no choice but to hand his jacket to Qian Qi.

Qian Qi took it, rolled it into a ball, and threw it out the next second.

Liu Sheng: "???"

Qian Qi patted Lao Liu's backside and instructed, "Lao Liu, go! Fetch it back!"

Lao Liu tilted its head and glanced at Qian Qi.

Seeing this, Liu Sheng immediately understood what Qian Qi was trying to do. He shook his head again, advising her not to harbor any wild fantasies. "Don't even think about it. It's impossible for it to go fetch it. Flame Hounds are demonic beasts after all; they won't fetch frisbees like dogs do. They think it beneath their dignity."

"Yeah, demonic beasts are terribly hard to train. Mine has been with me for two years, and to this day it still shoves its turds onto the sofa instead of using the dog litter box!"

"You'd better give up, Big Shot. You might be good with demonic plants, but training demonic beasts? You're definitely not cut out for it!"

Qian Qi turned a deaf ear to their words. She rubbed her chin, deep in thought about something. A moment later, she walked up to "Lao Liu" and reached out to give its skull a crisp *crack* adjustment.

Then, she pointed at the jacket she had thrown out. "Lao Liu, fetch the jacket back!"

Lao Liu continued to tilt its head, its eyes fixed straight on Qian Qi.

"Look, I told you it was useless." Liu Sheng spread his hands aside and said helplessly, "Why won't you listen to reason? Demonic beasts aren't dogs; they're proud creatures and would never do something that only a dog would..."

The next second, he watched his own proud Lao Liu dash out with a single, agile bound, eagerly pick up the jacket, and lay it right in front of Qian Qi.

Not only that, but it also wore an expression begging for praise, lowering its head and constantly nuzzling Qian Qi's small hand.

Liu Sheng: "!!! "

I'm so jealous! I am seriously so jealous!

When I bought the Fire Qilin Fruit, you were never this well-behaved!

And now you're acting this affectionate toward a total stranger? Do you have any conscience regarding the meals I feed you and the shit I scoop for you every single day?!

Liu Sheng's mood plummeted to the absolute depths of despair. He truly didn't understand why, when Qian Qi told Lao Liu to fetch the jacket back, Lao Liu obediently did so, whereas when he told Lao Liu to fetch the frisbee back, it refused?

Could it be a matter of scent?

Surely there should be his scent on the frisbee too!

Seeing Lao Liu actually fetch the jacket back, the other beast-taming students widened their eyes in shock, finding it utterly unbelievable.

"What is going on? Why is Lao Liu suddenly listening so well?"

"Did big shot Qian Qi just say you need the contractor's scent for it to work?"

"Could it be that throwing our jackets works for training them too?"

A student immediately tried it out. He balled up his own jacket, threw it out, and patted his own contracted beast's backside. "Go on, fetch it back!"

That contracted beast gave its contractor a chilly look, raised a paw, and slapped him right across the face.

Have you no sense of boundaries?! Is this beast's backside something you can just go around patting?

Others followed suit, and promptly received slaps to the face as well.

"What's going on? Why isn't it working?"

"We did the exact same thing, so why can't we do it?"

The contracted beasts refused to fetch the thrown jackets, leaving the beast-taming students utterly perplexed.

They carefully recalled what they might have missed, and then a sudden realization struck them.

Just now, big shot Qian Qi seemed to have given the Flame Hound's neck a... *crack*?

That's right!

That *crack* sound!

That must be some sort of switch!

Several beast-taming students couldn't wait to try it. They reached out, grabbed their contracted beasts' necks, and tried to give their heads a twisting *crack* just like Qian Qi did.

The next second, their arms were clamped firmly in the jaws of their own contracted beasts.

The contractors let out a chorus of miserable screams.

This isn't right!

Qian Qi clearly just did that!

Watching from the side, Qian Qi found it hilarious. She turned around, patted Lao Liu on the head, and gave it a full-body bone-setting massage.

Accompanied by a series of *crackling* sounds, Lao Liu felt its entire body instantly lighten up, its speed and agility attributes directly soaring to the quasi-E grade.

It couldn't help but let out an excited howl, lifted its four paws slightly, and sprinted around the outer perimeter of the beast-taming plaza.

That speed was at least three times faster than Baldy's running speed just moments ago!

Upon seeing this, a student nearly suspected that Liu Sheng had given Lao Liu some private tutoring, and cried out in shock, "Holy shit, Liu Sheng, when did your Lao Liu get so fast?"

Liu Sheng was equally shocked. He knew the limit speed of his contracted beast all too well, and this was definitely not a speed Lao Liu could possibly run.

Unless...

He couldn't help but look at Qian Qi.

Could it be caused by that massage she just gave it?

But wasn't that just a simple massage?

Having witnessed the entire scene, the beast-taming instructor looked at Qian Qi, who wore an utterly nonchalant expression, and once again raised a question: "Classmate, what on earth is going on here?"

He had lost count of how many times he had asked this today. Today's class had completely derailed from his expectations and brought him far too many shocks.

Qian Qi pondered for two seconds, but the beast-taming instructor interrupted her contemplation. "Never mind, you don't need to speak."

I don't believe a single word of what you say.

Qian Qi: "..."

Sigh, there is simply no trust left between human beings.

"Um, big shot Qian Qi..." Liu Sheng rubbed his hands together and humbly asked for guidance, "How on earth did you pull that off? Why is the Flame Hound acting so affectionate toward you?"

He had racked his brains without finding an answer, truly feeling his own foolishness, so he decided to ask Qian Qi directly.

Qian Qi finally had a chance to ponder for two seconds. "The specific method will be posted on the campus forum tonight at 12:00. You're all welcome to check it out."

Upon hearing this, Liu Sheng and the others grew excited. They nodded repeatedly, looking at Qian Qi as if she were their savior. "Then Big Shot, please don't be late! We'll all be waiting for you!"

Qian Qi patted her chest. "Rest assured! Absolutely won't be late!"

...

After this practical class ended, the news that Qian Qi was favored by the Flame Hound and had successfully tamed it quickly went viral on the campus forum.

Word had it that on that very afternoon, every single beast-taming student in the school took a slap to the face.

Then, goodness knows which diligent student actually recorded the footage of Qian Qi massaging the contracted beast and uploaded it to the forum, triggering a massive wave of onlookers.

[——Have you guys noticed? It's like big shot Qian Qi made it stronger after massaging it?]

[——Seems like it. Could it be some kind of special technique?]

[——Replying to the floor above, inside information says big shot Qian Qi will share a guide tonight at 12:00 on how to make the Flame Hound affectionate toward you.]

[——Holy shit? For real? Doesn't that mean contracting a Flame Hound will be a breeze from now on?]

[——As expected of Big Shot Qian Qi! I'm camping out right on time tonight! Looking forward to seeing them as a duo!]

Because Qian Qi was going to publish a guide, the beast-taming department students were too excited to sleep, guarding the campus forum to see how on earth one could win the affection of a Flame Hound.

Meanwhile, Qian Qi, who didn't return from the back mountain until the dead of night, sat on her bed and leisurely opened her optical computer.

She rubbed her little hands together.

Oh~ my cute, charming, and wealthy beast-taming department students~

You must be getting impatient, right~

Want to know the method to conquer a Flame Hound?

It's simple!

Qian Qi's five fingers flew across the optical computer, and a sinister, crafty, demonic grin gradually crept over her calm, slightly rugged face.