Even hybrid monsters have their day

Geng Miaowan's eyes swept across Jiao Lingfeng's desk before returning to his face. With a slight smirk and obvious pride, she replied, "He is Xiaobai, my contracted beast. But now his name is Huangfu Aoran."

"Your pet? Little White?" Jiao Lingfeng looked at Huangfu Aoran in surprise, finding it hard to reconcile the big man in front of him with that small, cute pet dog. "Are you sure you're not mistaken?"

"Even if I could be wrong, would a pet itself confuse its connection with its owner?"

"Then how can you prove that he is your pet Xiaobai?" Jiao Lingfeng was still not quite convinced.

At this moment, Huangfu Aoran suddenly stood up from the sofa. "Stop talking about pets all the time. Do you have something to say or not? If not, I'm leaving." He was clearly unhappy, and his tone was full of dissatisfaction.

He was still quite resentful about becoming a little demon's pet for no reason. Now, being called into the office and stared at like a monkey by a stranger, having to listen to their endless chatter, made him feel like his anger was rising straight up in an elevator. He wished he could shoot a thousand holes in them with his eyes.

Can you please stop bringing up things that are hard to talk about?

Geng Miaowan glanced at him, knowing that his somewhat fiery temper meant he wasn't incapable of doing anything outrageous. She smiled awkwardly at Jiao Lingfeng and said, "Sorry, you didn't give me any pet certificate back then, so I really don't have anything to prove that he is my pet Xiaobai."

Pet certificate...

What a novel term! Jiao Lingfeng thought to himself that after nearly a thousand years as the Lord of Chujiang, this was the first time he had ever heard of the term "pet certificate," let alone seen one. He felt teased by Geng, but he still had to say what needed to be said: "If you can turn him back to his original form, I will believe you."

Returning to her original form? This was something Geng Miaowan wouldn't even dare to think about. If she dared to bring it up with Huangfu Aoran, she was sure he would turn on her.

Sure enough, before she could even speak, Huangfu Aoran had already rushed to the desk, his over two-meter-tall frame looking down at the 1.9-meter-tall Jiao Lingfeng. Using his height advantage, he immediately put down some of Jiao Lingfeng's arrogance. "You think you can just change things like that? Where does that leave my dignity! You like to change things so much? Why don't you try not changing yourself?"

Geng Miaowan chuckled inwardly. This Huangfu Aoran really had a straightforward temper; he dared to say anything. She looked at Jiao Lingfeng, whose expression was constantly changing. His cherry blossom-red lips were pressed into a line, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch into a slight smile.

She could imagine that Jiao Lingfeng, who had been in a high position for a long time, must have rarely heard someone speak so bluntly, which was to put it bluntly, showing no respect, because there was obvious surprise on his face.

He leaned back, looked at Huangfu Aoran with an ambiguous expression for a while, and then spoke again, "Then tell me about your mission this time?"

In fact, Jiao Lingfeng could sense a similar aura to Xiao Bai emanating from Huangfu Aoran. However, the difference in their demeanor made him somewhat suspicious.

Even so, he had basically come to believe Geng Miaowan's words, because the Anywhere Door was not a place anyone could enter at will. Even if Geng Miaowan was a rare, all-encompassing being, she couldn't necessarily bring in whomever she wanted.

He only asked the question as a formality, so that he would have something to say if others asked about it later.

Upon hearing him inquire about the mission, Geng Miaowan couldn't help but recall the words Zheng Xiuxiu had spoken to her before her reincarnation that night. Zheng Xiuxiu's gentle voice seemed to echo in her ears once more. She had said that five days prior, a wandering Taoist named Peng Yuxian had passed through Duantou Ridge and, seeing her pitiful state, had told her about it. As long as she remained at Duantou Ridge, someone who could rescue her would appear within three days.

He even instructed Zheng Xiuxiu not to tell him about this, but Zheng Xiuxiu told him out of gratitude for his help. He wanted her to be aware of the situation so she wouldn't be framed without her knowledge.

Geng Miaowan wondered if Jiao Lingfeng might know about this. In the end, she decided that regardless of whether he knew or not, she wouldn't tell him for the time being.

So she recounted everything that happened in that space, except that someone had told Zheng Xiuxiu in advance that she would be in that space.

Even so, Jiao Lingfeng's face was filled with shock after hearing this. He suddenly sat up straight, his deep green eyes like a bottomless abyss, flashing with emotions that Geng Miaowan couldn't understand. "Describe that thing in the cave in more detail?"

She thought for a moment and then explained carefully, "It looks like an insect, and it secretes a super sticky liquid from its mouth. It looks like silk, but it's much thicker than silk, and it has glowing spherical lumps in the middle. When it catches food, it uses that liquid secreted from its mouth to coat the food."

"How is this possible..." After hearing this, Jiao Lingfeng's expression was one of utter dismay, as if he had suddenly stepped on a dog's ant while walking down the street, or as astonishment, as if he had been blown into the sky by a super typhoon. Even his face seemed to have changed. "How could it appear, and in such a space?"

Seeing his expression, Geng Miaowan asked in confusion, "Do you know about that kind of creature?"

Jiao Lingfeng didn't even glance at her, and without even thinking, he said, "I don't know."

Now it was Geng Miaowan's turn to be stunned. Your rejection was too quick, wasn't it? It's clearly a case of protesting too much. Perhaps her suspicion was too obvious, Jiao Lingfeng coughed lightly and said somewhat coyly, "This thing looks a lot like a creature I saw in a book before, but I'm not really sure. I need to go back and check the information to know if it's that kind of thing."

Is that kind of thing special?

"No, it's just a very common creature."

Geng Miaowan glanced at him, still full of doubts, but her face remained expressionless. She felt that Jiao Lingfeng was intentionally hiding something. If it were truly just an ordinary creature as he claimed, why would he need to go back and check the data to confirm? And most importantly, his expression when he first heard her words clearly showed a knowing certainty.

"I think he must know about that thing," she said in her mind. (To be continued.)