Chapter 22: The Golden Slacker

“Enemy?”

Upon hearing this, Lu Yu immediately realized this was the school’s Beast Tamer, a friendly unit.

It made sense; after all, the battle noise inside was not small, and given the powerful psychic energy fluctuations, it would be a waste not to notice it.

Lu Yu organized his words:

“It’s not an invader from the outside, it’s…”

“Not an external enemy? Could it be a mole? That’s great… oh no, that’s terrible!”

Before Lu Yu could explain, the voice from atop the lion-faced deer grew higher in pitch, and a graceful figure somersaulted to the ground, landing steadily.

The person who appeared before Lu Yu was a young woman wearing a black cap and a white trench coat. She had a black high-collared sports crop top underneath, showing off her snow-white shoulders while tightly wrapping her fiery figure, which still couldn’t hide the almost bursting at the seams sensation.

A cascade of black hair fell to her waist, a few strands draped impressively over her E-sized bust, dressed in black trousers and wearing knight boots, highlighting her slender and long legs, drawing the perfect curve of her buttocks.

The rabbit skull pattern on her belt carried a bomb in its menacing grin, clearly indicating she was not one to be tempered with.

Most exaggeratedly, she had two bulging black pistol holsters on either side of her slender waist, and behind her back, she carried a submachine gun, connected to a shoulder-mounted grenade launcher with a mother-and-son buckle.

At this moment, Lu Yu also found the lion-faced deer was strapped with plenty of munitions.

She was practically a walking armory!

Even in his past world, this would be enough for a small-scale battle.

Even in the Beast Taming world, except for some pets naturally endowed with tough fur or shells, other pets were still somewhat threatened by firearms before reaching the Commander tier.

Moreover, this world’s human technological civilization was very advanced, with mechanical technology far surpassing that of his previous world.

Some mechanical creations even began to develop sentience and could evolve alongside human Beast Tamers through contracts, and even large-scale weapons of mass destruction were developed.

Strength has no high or low; it’s all about how it’s used.

Therefore, Lu Yu would not underestimate technology because, in his view, as long as it’s good, it can be assimilated—superpowers and technology can complement each other.

“You’re the person in charge of this base, aren’t you?”

She quickly approached, bringing a scented breeze like that of gardenias, elegant and graceful; her black hair fluttered, and the eyes beneath her tactical glasses shone like dazzling stars.

She asked Lu Yu, “I am Luo Qianqiu from Pet Beast High School’s patrol team, responsible for the school’s security. Tell me where the mole is quickly, or they’ll escape soon!”

Though her expression was serious, Lu Yu could vaguely feel that this person seemed somewhat excited.

It was like playing house as a kid, getting a good role, and eagerly waiting for the game to start.

Lu Yu didn’t answer but retreated quickly under Luo Qingyue’s puzzled gaze, stood together with Little Spider, and prepared to flee through the void at any moment before he questioned:

“Who exactly are you? Don’t think about fooling me, I’ve seen the security team, and there’s no one like you in it, and your name isn’t Luo Qianqiu, it’s Luo Qingyue, isn’t it? What exactly do you want to do?”

He was very familiar with the School Patrol Team, composed of a portion of teachers and official Beast Tamers, a school security force where the lowest rank was the Silver Peak Beast Tamer.

And as the person in charge of the Taohua Forest breeding base, he often had contact with them. Among them, Guard Grandpa Qin was also one of the undercover operatives, so he was very familiar. However, he had never seen the sister-like figure before him.

With her bizarre behavior and a fake name reported, she was definitely not a good person.

“How do you know my name?”

Luo Qingyue asked in shock and then saw Lu Yu’s gaze on her, looking down herself.

She realized that the label on her chest, although somewhat deformed due to the burden, clearly showed the words ‘Luo Qingyue.’

The tuft of hair on her head stood up with a twang, and her face turned a shade of red.

Not from shyness, but from the embarrassment of being caught using a fake name to look cool.

Big blunder—

She actually forgot to remove the label!

“No, I really am from the patrol team…”

“Hehe!”

Luo Qingyue was a bit desperate; she didn’t expect students these days to be so strong against scams. Although commendable, because he was too clever, he regarded her as a bad person.

If she continues to delay, those criminals would have run far away. It was a significant accident she had finally come across; if missed, she didn’t know when she would encounter another one.

She took out her identification, but Lu Yu did not believe it at all.

Such a thing could easily be faked with plenty to go around.

Helplessly and after much deliberation, Luo Qingyue finally took out her phone and opened an app.

It was not a secret but a punch clock app that clearly recorded Luo Qingyue’s photo, information, and punch record.

“May 1st——Missed one punch.”

“May 2nd——Late by 300 minutes.”

“May 5th——Missed one punch.”

“…”

“June 7th——Late by 470 minutes.”

“…”

“June 23rd—— Late by 610 minutes.”

A series of red flashes made Lu Yu’s eyes blur. Every working day involved either a missed punch or a lateness.

Are you playing the golden slacker?

Even today, she was late, almost off duty before coming to punch in. She probably just started patrolling; no wonder she could arrive in time…

But Lu Yu believed her; after all, he had the same punch clock app, and it was impossible to fake so much data all at once.

That Luo Qingyue was either slacking or late during those time periods was normal as Lu Yu was busy with pig farming and couldn’t see her.

The most crucial point was that she was a Gold-level Beast Tamer. If she had any ill intentions, he could only run away.

But from the conversation just now, he could extract quite a lot of useful information.

Her real surname was indeed Luo, and the principal of Pet Beast High School was also surnamed Luo. It was highly probable they were relatives; otherwise, with her attendance record, she would have been swept out the door even with an official identity.

“Ahem, after all, as a worker, it’s normal to backstab the capitalist once in a while, right? Moreover, my main job is an Alliance intern investigator and a mythological scholar. I have to study until very late every day, and the patrol team’s daily tasks are very boring. It’s better to sleep…”

Luo Qingyue coughed lightly, trying to regain some image for herself, but ultimately, she couldn’t stand the weird gaze from Lu Yu and Little Spider and, annoyed, changed the subject and said:

“Alright, quickly tell me where the criminals are?”

Her gun, it was thirsty for action!

However, Lu Yu’s answer was to point to a large hole next to her.

“Here!”

Luo Qingyue: “???”