I was reborn after playing a good hand badly

The ten students slunk away to treat their injuries. They had already overestimated Bu Lingling by fighting ten against one, but they never expected that she would control them so completely.

This result shocked even the students who watched the competition. Putting themselves in the shoes of the students, even those with high mental strength, they lacked the confidence to withstand the opponent's illusion.

They thought it was a sample of a monster that the principal had brought back to broaden their horizons, but it turned out to be a powerful monster boss.

Think about what they did before? Not only did people come to bother them every day, but someone even shoved a camera in front of Bu Lingling to take a close-up photo.

Hiss... Luckily, this powerful demon beast wasn't petty and didn't hold it against them.

A friendly match served as a form of "advertising" for Bu Lingling, making those who were previously unaware of her abilities aware of her skill.

This allowed Bu Lingling to get a job without having to ask Wen Shu for help. It was a part-time job where she used her illusion abilities to help train students' mental resistance.

Why not offer a full-time course instead of a standalone course?

Bu Lingling's illusion magic is an innate ability; she can use it herself, but she cannot teach this ability to others.

Everything was fine up to this point; Bu Lingling was about to take up her new post and begin her new job.

The academy's higher-ups never expected that someone would brazenly come to their door and try to take Bu Lingling away.

The visitor was none other than Professor Liu Zheng, one of the students of Zhao Qiguang, the director of the association's research institute.

Liu Zheng can be said to be one of the earliest people in the Xia Kingdom to study monsters, but unfortunately he has not made any progress.

Before the insect plague broke out, his research had been stagnant, and after the plague broke out, his research on monsters was put on hold.

The nation's focus has shifted to the Zerg, and Liu Zheng is no exception.

He chose to study monsters simply because he saw the potential in this field; it wasn't because he personally liked it. He would become Zhao Qiguang's student, and his previous research direction was the same as Zhao Qiguang's: new energy sources.

But there were too many people researching new energy sources in this era, so Liu Zheng gave up on new energy and applied for a monster research project at the research institute.

When unexpected events occurred and the monster research project could no longer continue, he immediately sealed the data and started a new project, researching the insect race.

It must be said that this detour finally brought him some results; Liu Zheng's team finally achieved some success in their research on the Zerg.

The association's understanding of the Zerg creatures and the utilization of various parts of Zerg corpses are all thanks to Liu Zheng's team.

But now, things seem to be changing again.

Su Mo, whom everyone thought was doomed, suddenly returned. Upon her return, she launched a fierce counterattack against the Zerg. Her momentum was so strong that no one in the entire Xia Kingdom doubted that she could not eliminate the Zerg.

Liu Zheng didn't doubt this either.

After Su Mo finished the pest control operation in China and went abroad, Liu Zheng lost confidence in continuing to study the Zerg. He couldn't wait until the Zerg were completely wiped out before changing his focus; some things needed to be prepared in advance.

Being one step ahead gives you many more opportunities than others.

Just as he decisively abandoned the demon beasts to study the insect race, he had already given up on the insect race in his heart. However, he hesitated whether he should pick up the demon beast research topic, which had not made much progress before.

Someone in the team noticed Liu Zheng's wavering thoughts; it was Chang Xin, Liu Zheng's "top disciple".

After realizing that his teacher wanted to give up on the Zerg, he immediately went to find him and suggested to Liu Zheng that they turn back to the previously shelved monster research topic.

The reason is simple: once the invaders are dealt with, Blue Star will definitely refocus its attention on developing the secret realm, and all aspects of the monsters will become the focus of research.

In the past, the Awakened in Xia Kingdom were not strong enough, and even the Association had difficulty capturing some live monsters for research. However, after the insect plague, the overall strength of Xia Kingdom has been greatly improved. Now, if they were to turn back, they would certainly not lack sample materials.

Their team has accumulated a lot of experience in researching new species, so now that they're going back to studying monsters, are they afraid of not achieving results?

If we can find a new way to help humans contract with monsters, freeing the Xia Kingdom from the contract array plates sold to Su Mo, and helping more people contract with powerful battle pets.

Liu Zheng and his team will be recorded in history.

The pie was too big for Liu Zheng to eat in one bite, but he was clearly very tempted.

Originally, he himself wanted to turn back, but after his student Chang Xin said that, his hesitation lessened.

Currently, apart from Su Mo, almost no one in Xia Kingdom can communicate with demonic beasts, not even the teachers from Suzhou in the academy.

Although Teacher Liu Moxi can create a contract array plate as a medium, she herself has not contracted a battle pet. Not only her, but none of the other teachers have contracted a battle pet.

(It's not that Liu Moxi and the others weren't interested in contracting a battle pet; it's just that they hadn't found one that suited their taste, and it wasn't something urgent, so they put it off.)

The Psionic Academy has published a lot of educational information about the types and habits of monsters.

It can help many people understand how to deal with monsters when they encounter them in the secret realm, which ones can be touched, which ones cannot be confronted head-on, and how to retreat to avoid being chased by monsters, etc.

However, that content is not helpful for raising monsters, artificial breeding, or communicating with monsters and increasing the success rate of contracts.

If, if he could really lead the team to do what Chang Xin said, Liu Zheng would be thrilled just thinking about it.

There are other teams in Xia Kingdom researching monsters, but they encounter the same problems as Liu Zheng's team, or even worse.

To switch back to the right track, you have to be quick, you have to turn around before others can react!

Isn't this a coincidence?

Chang Xin continued to whisper the news he had received to his teacher.

There is a special demon beast that lives in the Spirit Energy Academy. It is a demon beast that can speak the language of Suzhou, just like Su Mo's legendary battle pet, the white wolf. It can communicate with humans.

If they could obtain that monster, it would definitely be of great help to their subsequent research.

“Living at the Psionic Academy? That would probably be Su Mo’s battle pet. Who would dare to make a move?” Liu Zheng hesitated.

He was well aware of his own status, but he couldn't even dream of owning Su Mo's battle pet.

"No, teacher, those monsters were just brought out by Su Mo from the newly opened secret realm at the entrance of Laurel City some time ago. They don't have a contract," Chang Xin emphasized.

This was all information he had gone to great lengths to find out.