Chapter 299 - 271: Your Old Flame Has Come to Find You
The beeping from the Energy Detector instantly jolted Li Qian awake.
It also struck him as unbelievable.
’Where am I?’
In a dormitory at Shazhou Beast Taming University!
One of the eight best Beast Taming Universities in the entire Federation!
That’s why Li Qian simply didn’t believe anything unexpected could happen. He looked directly toward the source of the sound.
The noise was coming from the adjacent balcony.
Wearing a pair of flip-flops, Li Qian shuffled over with a CLIP-CLOP, CLIP-CLOP sound.
He tilted his head and looked. As expected, it was empty. He didn’t see a thing.
Just as Li Qian was wondering if he was hearing things and was about to head back inside to rest, disaster struck!
In the dim night, a bizarre figure appeared like a flash of lightning, darting out from some unknown direction with blinding speed.
Then, it violently charged onto the neighboring balcony.
Seeing this, Li Qian rubbed his eyes.
"First I was hearing things, now I’m seeing them?"
Li Qian muttered to himself, but at that exact moment, a realization hit him.
Because inside his room, on the nightstand, the beeping from the Energy Detector hadn’t stopped!
’What is this?’ Just as he was wondering, a series of bloodcurdling screams suddenly erupted from the dorm room next door.
"AHHHH..."
"Help me!"
The voice was very familiar!
It was Lu Tianjiao, who lived next door!
Hearing the cry for help, Li Qian reacted instinctively. He rushed back onto his balcony, and without hesitation, he leaped over to the one next door.
He had just landed on the neighboring balcony when, before he could act, he saw a figure scrambling and crawling out of the room.
Li Qian was very familiar with this figure.
It was none other than Lu Tianjiao.
But compared to his previous suave demeanor, he looked like a completely different person now.
His hair was a mess and his clothes were torn; he was a picture of utter distress.
On top of that, Li Qian could see numerous bloody scratches on his body.
Without a second thought, Li Qian instinctively prepared to summon Qizai and Xiaoliu for battle.
But just then, a bizarre figure shot out from the room.
The figure was probably human, but it was splayed out on all fours, crouched on the ground like a giant spider.
The spider-like figure had a pair of strange eyes that glowed with a crimson light. Li Qian, caught off guard, met her gaze for a moment. In the next instant, a sudden, inexplicable palpitation seized his heart.
His mind went completely blank for a second.
By the time he came to his senses, the Summoning Array had already faded away at some point.
"Damn, it can interrupt a Summoning Array? Why didn’t you give me a heads-up?" Li Qian immediately understood what had happened and spoke with a hint of exasperation.
Lu Tianjiao, who had collapsed nearby, heard Li Qian’s complaint and replied with a bitter voice, "You got here too fast. I didn’t have time to warn you."
"So it’s my fault?" Li Qian’s mouth twitched when he heard that.
While the two were talking, the spider-like figure moved again. It kicked off the ground with both feet and shot out like an arrow, its target clearly the fallen Lu Tianjiao.
Lu Tianjiao executed a clumsy roll, barely dodging the fierce attack.
Its first attack having failed, the spider-person prepared to strike again, looking like it wouldn’t rest until Lu Tianjiao was dead.
Li Qian leaped forward, grabbed a broom from the balcony, and swung it viciously.
BANG!
The broom smacked hard against the spider-person’s body, knocking it back a step.
"Go!"
Knowing his attack hadn’t caused any real damage, Li Qian yelled out immediately.
Lu Tianjiao scrambled to his feet, and the two of them quickly retreated from the balcony.
As they backed away, Li Qian slammed the two sliding glass doors shut.
Closing the balcony doors meant trapping the spider-person inside the dorm room.
However, Li Qian knew full well that such a simple tactic would only hold it back for a moment.
It wouldn’t have any real effect.
So, after shutting the glass doors, he yelled directly at Lu Tianjiao beside him, "Jump!"
As soon as the word was out, he took action, leaping off the balcony.
It was a three-story drop. In his past life, a fall from this height would have left him crippled, if not dead.
But in this Beast Taming World, after several evolutionary feedbacks, Li Qian’s physical fitness was far beyond that of an ordinary person. A three-story jump wouldn’t cause him much harm.
As for why he didn’t just jump back to his own room, Li Qian judged that it would be pointless.
Besides, with his Summoning Array interrupted, their only chance of survival was to make a huge commotion.
This was, after all, a dormitory at Shazhou Beast Taming University. As long as they made enough noise, someone was bound to notice.
Once that happened, the crisis would naturally be resolved with ease.
CRASH!
Just as Li Qian leaped, the balcony doors, as expected, were smashed to pieces by the charging spider-person.
Lu Tianjiao followed a step behind, jumping down as well. When he heard the commotion behind him, he couldn’t help but sigh in relief.
’If we hadn’t been so decisive, we’d probably be in deep trouble again right now.’
The two of them leaped down, landing on the lawn in front of Building Three. Looking back, they saw the spider-person had jumped down after them.
After jumping from the balcony, Li Qian finally got a clear look at the spider-person’s face in the light of a lamppost near the lake.
But it was precisely because he saw her face clearly that he couldn’t help but look stunned. "Holy crap, isn’t that your old flame? She’s here to rekindle things with you!"
That’s right. Although the figure before them had a very strange posture—crouched on the ground with limbs splayed like a great spider—
Li Qian could still clearly recognize her by her face. It was the same ex-girlfriend of Lu Tianjiao’s whom they had just met twice in the span of a few short hours.
The Gaochang Race girl whose name he couldn’t remember.
"No way, man! I barely even know her, and I definitely don’t want to rekindle any damn old flame with her!" Lu Tianjiao was on the verge of tears after hearing Li Qian’s words.
"Why don’t you try talking to her? Maybe she still has feelings for you," Li Qian suggested encouragingly.
Lu Tianjiao shook his head so hard it was a blur. "She wants to punch a hole straight through me! What ’lingering feelings’ could she possibly have!?"
"What did you do to break her heart?" Li Qian couldn’t help but tease.
"Buddy, do you really think—with her looking like that—that this is about her being hung up on some relationship issue and wanting revenge on me?" Lu Tianjiao’s mouth twitched nonstop.
Li Qian gave an awkward laugh.
’Yeah, not likely!’
’That girl’s clearly possessed or something!’