My Pet Beast is Super Fearsome
Chapter 421 - Chapter 421 Chapter 420 The Third-Party Forces

Chapter 421: Chapter 420: The Third-Party Forces Chapter 421: Chapter 420: The Third-Party Forces Shao Zifeng startled himself, quickly shaking his head to dispel the frightening thought.

Point A of the ice dome, being rarely visited, was covered everywhere with thick snow.

Footprints left behind by the mutant creatures from a few days ago were plenty, and most places still had thick snow. This was highly unfriendly for Shao Zifeng–every step sank down to his knees.

Exerting himself to pull out his legs, Shao Zifeng leaned on his knees and gasped for air.

He had felt fine in the cave earlier, but after walking just a few steps, he started feeling chest tightness, as if he had run several kilometers.

Fortunately, his body had been strengthened through multiple “bonding reactions,” and no severe altitude sickness had set in yet.

Yaya took a few steps, then cocked its head to look at the struggling Shao Zifeng.

It pondered briefly, its amber eyes brightening.

An opportunity to prove itself had come, had it not?

Thinking this, Yaya trudged through the snow like a bulldozer, its tail adorned with two rows of stone blades sweeping wildly.

The snow behind was quickly cleared away; though not entirely clean, at least it no longer hindered walking.

Having done all this, Yaya turned its head, eyes gleaming with pride.

In the midst of turning, it did not forget to maintain a stern expression.

But then, one couldn’t just abandon one’s dignity.

Then, it stopped short.

Looking behind, apart from a mound of snow, there was no sign of Shao Zifeng.

A bit frantically, Yaya was about to search when a trembling hand pointed at it from inside the snow mound.

“Young man, you you you lack martial virtues!”

…

“Achoo!”

Shao Zifeng sat astride Yaya, his shoulders shaking continuously.

Even though humans in this time and space weren’t easily susceptible to sickness, he was still utterly disconcerted by the pervasive snow.

Because he had no helmet, a lot of melted snow had seeped into his clothes when he was buried, chilling him to the bone like a shivering dog, occasionally sneezing for effect.

Yaya trudged forward head down, feeling utterly wronged.

It had only wanted to help.

Was it truly just a fool?

As previous scenes flashed before its eyes, Yaya felt increasingly disheartened.

Feeling Yaya’s gloomy mood, Shao Zifeng shivering, said, “Yaya, I am alright.”

“You see, I actually wanted to ride you, and I just pretended… Ah–achoo!”

Shao Zifeng struck a bodybuilder’s pose on Yaya, barely finishing his sentence when a big sneeze almost made him lose his balance and tumble off.

“Gurgle…”

The toothed dragon emitted a low guttural sound, still feeling down.

Shao Zifeng sighed secretly.

This creature was unlike his other pets; maybe because it had grown up on its own, it was rather solitary.

Although it had a gentle heart, it didn’t know how to express it.

For a moment, Shao Zifeng didn’t know how to console it, especially because he was a troubled youth himself and had only gradually changed under the influence and redemption of Qiuqiu and others.

Having experienced this himself, he knew these things shouldn’t be rushed.

For the remainder of their journey, they no longer interacted.

But Shao Zifeng occasionally opened his perceptual vision to identify dangers and tried to soothe Yaya’s emotions.

After crossing two snow mountains, Yaya paused slightly, turning its head to look at Shao Zifeng.

Looking into the distance, the extending mountain range seemed to be veiled in a hazy scrim, like a boundary separating heaven and earth–dark, oppressive clouds above and a vast white ice plain below.

As Shao Zifeng rode atop the all-black Yaya facing this scene, he suddenly felt a unique sense of being supreme above the heavens and the earth…

Cough, cough.

Noticing Yaya’s strange gaze, Shao Zifeng quickly halted his too imaginative thoughts.

He mentally blamed it furiously.

It was all Lingling’s influence!

After shifting the blame, Shao Zifeng felt completely justified.

He began to assess their surroundings.

Their current location was considerably higher than the plain below; moving forward, there would be a steep downhill slope.

It seemed that the inability to clearly see mutant creatures in the distance a few days ago was not just because of the sunlight’s refraction, but also because they had been moving upward from a lower area.

Closing his eyes, he once again expanded his perceptual vision.

Safe.

There was nothing within a hundred meters around…

Suddenly, Shao Zifeng furrowed his brows.

He faintly felt something approaching his perceptive range, and as he extended his perception, behind the snow mountain on their left, the figures of a team of seven were outlined in gray.

Pink meant liking, red meant danger, green meant friendly, blue represented awareness of his presence but indifference toward him.

White meant detecting his presence would not lead to conflict.

As for gray.

Shao Zifeng’s breathing became somewhat rapid.

The color of these lines meant that as soon as they discovered his presence, a fight would ensue.

It seemed that apart from themselves and the already deceased Valery, other opportunists were taking advantage of the summer to come for scientific expeditions.

No, Shao Zifeng suddenly realized.

These people couldn’t be a regular expedition team; if they were, encountering each other on this terrain would only lead to mutual assistance, so without knowing about him, they should be outlined in white lines.

Yet these people, evidently had unspeakable motives, murderous towards anyone beyond their own group.

Realizing this, Shao Zifeng became even more cautious and continued to watch the team.

These people were sitting behind a huge rock, seemingly eating something, with several mutant creatures lying next to them.

Because the distance was quite far, Shao Zifeng could only make guesses based on their body sizes; the mutant creatures’ abilities must be strong.

Then, one of them turned their head and said something to a bird-like mutant creature, which then spread its wings and flew into the sky.

Shao Zifeng quickly opened his eyes and called out to Yaya, who was sulking with her head bowed.

Yaya looked somewhat puzzled but obediently walked over.

“Chirp–”

The birdcall echoed from afar.

The bird-like mutant creature must have been on low-altitude surveillance, not yet flying in their direction.

Shao Zifeng quietly spoke a few words to Yaya.

“Gurgle.”

The little one sat down in a snow nest, bowed its head, and buried itself in the snow, resembling a rock half-buried in snow.

Shao Zifeng also found a rock outcropping to hide behind.

He expanded his perceptual range again.

With the flapping of wings, Shao Zifeng sensed the mutant creature flying over their heads before finally returning to the people’s side.

The people made several hand gestures to the bird-like mutant creature and then continued eating and drinking.

Crisis averted, Shao Zifeng breathed a sigh of relief.

However, he didn’t act recklessly and continued to hide under the rock.

He prepared to play the role of the oriole, those who appeared in groups in this place must have some information he didn’t know.

Afterwards, the bird-like mutant creature performed two more searches, until those people packed up and set off, and Shao Zifeng finally emerged from under the rock.

“Yaya!”

Shao Zifeng nudged the one still pretending to be a rock.

It didn’t move, showing no reaction.

“Yaya, are you okay?”

Shao Zifeng’s face changed, worried that the cold might have harmed the child.

“Gurgle.”

Yaya blankly raised its head, its nose adorned with a string of clear mucus.

Shao Zifeng breathed a sigh of relief and was just about to wipe it off.

Then Yaya sniffed.

Gulp!

It swallowed it down smoothly.

Shao Zifeng was stunned.

Yaya blinked, locking eyes with Shao Zifeng.

Its expression shifted from blank to stunned and from stunned to embarrassed.

Finally, it looked up at the overcast sky.

A face full of despondency.

Paws couldn’t reach, that’s how it always solved it before.

(PS: This was actually yesterday’s, but came out late, noted.)

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