Chapter 13: Someone is looking for you

“By the way, Thighs…” Fang Sisi still wanted to say something.

“Can you not call me Thighs?” Qiao Sang interrupted her directly.

“Then how about I call you Beautiful Legs?” Fang Sisi asked.

Qiao Sang: “……”

Under Qiao Sang’s death stare, Fang Sisi finally changed her tune. “Qiao Sang, have you already contracted a beast?”

Any newly awakened Beast Tamer could not resist the temptation to contract a beast at the first opportunity.

Qiao Sang nodded without denying it.

“Then you…”

Just as Fang Sisi was about to continue asking, the noise in the classroom was suddenly muted, as if someone had pressed a button.

Looking up, it turned out the homeroom teacher had arrived…

The next second, Fang Sisi’s face turned pale.

Oh no, oh no, she hadn’t finished copying her homework yet!

“We’ll gather on the playground in five minutes.” After saying this, the homeroom teacher glanced in Qiao Sang’s direction.

Over 4,000 students and 300 faculty members of Wencheng Middle School were all gathered on the playground, a vast, dark sea of people.

“Why is the whole school here?” Fang Sisi, standing behind her, poked Qiao Sang with her finger.

“I don’t know,” Qiao Sang said.

The third-year students were in the final sprint phase and basically didn’t hold morning assemblies with the first and second-year students. Even if the school required a gathering, there was always one or two classes that were the exception.

Qiao Sang looked up at the podium and noticed that all the school’s top brass, including the principal, vice-principal, and the dean of students, were present. This was a rare sight for a typical morning assembly.

Principal Chen Yongfeng was on stage reciting the same old clichés; every morning assembly speech was just those few sentences, lacking any originality.

Qiao Sang was bored to tears and didn’t take in a word of what was being said on stage.

A dozen minutes later, thunderous applause erupted in her ears, and Qiao Sang subconsciously joined in.

A petite figure walked from the third-year section onto the podium.

“Respected teachers, dear students, hello everyone. I am Dai Shushu from Class 9, Grade 3. It is an honor…”

She had thought it was just an ordinary morning assembly; she hadn’t expected it to be a personal commendation ceremony for Dai Shushu.

Qiao Sang had never interacted with Dai Shushu, but having heard so much gossip from those around her, she knew a thing or two.

Her family was poor, and she was the only one receiving a school scholarship. She had been the top of her grade for all three years of middle school, and later, having awakened spontaneously, she was recommended for admission to a Beast Taming High School—a typical inspirational figure.

“What’s the point of being recommended? With her family situation, can she even afford a beast?” a boy standing to the right said sarcastically.

“Her parents aren’t Beast Tamers either. I don’t know how they managed to produce a child who awakened spontaneously,” someone else remarked.

Qiao Sang was a bit surprised. With the development of beast-taming society, humans had long realized that children born to two Beast Tamers were more likely to be Beast Tamers themselves.

The higher the rank of the Beast Tamer, the easier it was to have a child with high talent.

Conversely, if both parents were ordinary people, the chance of their child becoming a Beast Tamer was only 2%.

If there was a slim chance for ordinary people to have a child who was a Beast Tamer, the probability of one appearing who had awakened spontaneously was almost non-existent.

Qiao Sang became interested and pricked up her ears to listen to the speech.

“Being recommended to Shengshui Middle School this time, besides my own efforts, is inseparable from the teachers…”

Qiao Sang’s eyelashes flickered.

They had both awakened spontaneously, and now that Shengshui Middle School was involved, it was hard for Qiao Sang not to compare herself to her.

Once the comparison was made, her heart felt heavy, and she lost interest in the rest of the speech.

Back in the classroom, Qiao Sang focused all her attention on her books.

As middle school students nearing the high school entrance exam, they had already finished the required curriculum, so the focus was mainly on review and doing practice papers.

【Over 3,000 years ago, disaster fell from the sky. Earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and other super-catastrophes plunged the whole world into an apocalyptic atmosphere. Which Beast Tamer stopped this catastrophe?】

【A Chen Jiading】

【B Sen Xiaoman】

【C Wang Wenyu】

【D Wang Yao】

Qiao Sang had seen many questions like this about history over the past few days. The chaos 3,000 years ago was not a natural disaster, but a man-made one.

It was Wang Yao who created the disaster using his beasts. As an SS-rank Beast Tamer, he already possessed the full ability to alter nature.

With each awakening of the Beast Taming Codex, when a Beast Tamer reached D-rank, they would receive a certain amount of feedback from their beasts, which affected their lifespan and physique.

As the rank increased, the feedback became stronger.

Unless directly attacked, it was difficult to be harmed by the aftermath.

Relying on his SS-rank Beast Tamer physique, Wang Yao fought his way out of the Alliance’s encirclement, killing 223 Beast Tamers in return, including 11 S-rank Beast Tamers.

An S-rank Beast Tamer required at least a hundred years of effort to reach that level; the Alliance suffered heavy losses.

Later, SS-rank Beast Tamer Wang Wenyu returned from Yantian Star to subdue Wang Yao, but five of the beasts that had accompanied him throughout his life died in that battle.

Wang Wenyu lived in seclusion ever since.

If you didn’t read this question carefully, it was easy to choose D.

This question had appeared on the last mock exam. It wasn’t that Qiao Sang hadn’t read it carefully, but she had chosen D because of the "three long, one short" rule.

She looked at the question and changed her previous answer.

“Qiao Sang, someone is looking for you,” a female classmate sitting by the door called out.

Qiao Sang looked up and saw a girl in a faded school uniform smiling at her from the doorway.

“It’s Dai Shushu! When did you get to know her?” Fang Sisi asked in surprise.

Dai Shushu was a prominent figure in the school, so she naturally attracted the attention of the classmates, and one by one, they turned their heads to look.

“I don’t know her,” Qiao Sang was also confused.

She walked out.

“Is there something you need?” Qiao Sang asked, full of doubt.

She was certain that her predecessor had no connection with Dai Shushu—one was a top student, the other a slacker, and they were in different classes. With graduation approaching, she couldn’t think of any reason why the other girl would be looking for her.

“I’m apologizing on behalf of my mother for what happened last time,” Dai Shushu said.

She had the appearance of a delicate flower, and because of malnutrition, she looked frail, as if she would blow away in a gust of wind.

“What happened?” Qiao Sang raised an eyebrow.

“Didn’t your mother tell you? Last Friday, my mother said some unpleasant things to your mother. There were teachers all around at the time, and I couldn’t get a word in. Is your mother doing okay?” Dai Shushu said in a soft, thin voice.

Qiao Sang was silent for a moment, then asked, “What did your mother say?”

Dai Shushu wore an apologetic expression. “Just some nasty things. My mother didn’t mean it, and your mother said some things too.” She paused. “It’s just that the teacher saw they were about to fight and told your mother to leave immediately. I feel a bit guilty.”

Qiao Sang said expressionlessly, “The teacher told my mother to leave—what does that have to do with you?”

Dai Shushu tucked her hair back. “If it weren’t for me, the teacher wouldn’t have made your mother leave.”

“I see,” Qiao Sang asked again, “What did your mother say at the time?”

Dai Shushu lowered her head. She was already half a head shorter than Qiao Sang, and with her head bowed, her expression was hidden.

“My mother said your grades are bad because you have no father to discipline you, that you only awakened spontaneously because of dumb luck, and that it’s no wonder your mother got divorced since she’s so fierce.”

She looked up, appearing completely innocent. “So, did you really awaken spontaneously?”