377: Chapter 377 Xiaowan Village

"Yes, taming."

"But, I... how could I possibly..."

Song Yi stammered. Tame this horned fish? It was more like he'd be fed to the fish.

"Since I've said it, it can certainly be done. It just depends on whether you have the guts, kid."

Song Yi looked at the mysterious young man before him. He had never seen such an aura in his life. The man's skin was cleaner than the jade worn around the neck of the village chief's daughter-in-law. Did such people still exist in the Wasteland? It was already good enough not to have some strange disease. Could this person be from the rumored Yunmeng Safe Zone?

He felt some excitement in his heart. Could it really work? If he could truly tame this fish, even if it only caught other fish for him, at least he and his sister wouldn't have to starve anymore.

"I'm willing!"

"Alright, then get ready. As a condition, is it alright if I stay at your house for a few days?"

Song Yi nodded and agreed almost without hesitation: "No problem."

Tang Ping came before the Blue-Horned Catfish. Seeing someone approach, the creature suddenly thrashed its body, trying to ram him, but in the next second, an invisible force instantly pinned it to the ground.

To tame it for the boy, he at least had to heal the Blue-Horned Catfish first. This was very simple.

An Azure Realm Mystical Art condensed a drop of emerald-like liquid at his fingertip. As the drop appeared, a dense wave of vitality rippled outward.

The surrounding blackish-gray weeds actually began to show hints of green.

As the water drop fell onto the Blue-Horned Catfish, the wound on its belly healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Beside them, Song Yi and Song Anan stared wide-eyed at the scene.

"This... this fish..."

Song Yi was shocked. Although this was just a fish, what was the difference between that power which instantly healed flesh and bringing the dead back to life?

After all, if such a wound were on a human, they definitely wouldn't survive three minutes.

But such a severe injury was actually healed with just a drop of water. Song Yi looked up at the man with deep reverence in his eyes.

Then, a Spiritual Rune appeared in Tang Ping's hand. His current Ice Nightmare Extreme Pupil was inherently dual-attributed with ice and spirit; it wasn't difficult to condense a Master-Servant Contract to bind two people's spirits.

Besides, he had studied various Contract Magics in Magical Girl Sophia's world.

As two Master-Servant Contract marks appeared, Song Yi suddenly felt a strange connection between himself and the Blue-Horned Catfish.

This Master-Servant Contract wasn't actually a simple Master-Servant Contract, but one that provided certain benefits to both parties.

As the Blue-Horned Catfish grew, Song Yi would receive some feedback, and his body would be strengthened to a certain degree, perhaps even awakening a talent because of it.

The Blue-Horned Catfish would also become increasingly intelligent due to the spiritual link with Song Yi, breaking through its ignorance and no longer being a mere wild beast.

The emerald-like water drop Tang Ping had just condensed also contained pure and surging power. The Blue-Horned Catfish's originally one-meter-long body was rapidly growing.

During this growth process, Song Yi received feedback. His originally thin and weak body showed no outward change, but internally, it was being baptized by this power. His strength increased, and much of the contamination in his body was cleared. As long as his nutrition kept up, the boy's appearance would soon change.

"Big brother, what's wrong with my brother?"

The little girl saw her brother keep his eyes closed and felt worried.

"Don't worry, your brother is doing very well right now."

Tang Ping patted Song Anan's head and used pure ice-attributed power to clean the contamination in her body completely.

Originally, because of the accumulated contamination in her body, this little girl would have died by her thirties. Now, living to forty or fifty would not be a major problem.

By the small river, the Blue-Horned Catfish was the first to wake up. At this moment, the blue on the large catfish was even deeper, its eyes like an abyss, and its body had grown to over two meters. Catfish were naturally stout, and this one's head was half a meter wide; an adult could sit on it without any problem.

That one-meter-long single horn was pure blue with faint silver patterns, as if its bloodline had strengthened slightly.

Song Yi also opened his eyes, knelt directly on the ground, and gave Tang Ping several forceful kowtows.

"I will remember your great kindness for the rest of my life, Senior!"

Tang Ping just shook his head slightly: "There's no need. I just found you agreeable. You don't need to remember anything, as for me, this is just a small interesting episode to embellish a boring journey."

Song Yi's eyes were firm: "But for me, it is a matter of changing my fate against the heavens! May I ask for Senior's name?"

Seeing the boy's persistent gaze, Tang Ping spoke.

"Just remember the name Tang."

Two hours later, after settling the Blue-Horned Catfish, Song Yi brought Tang Ping to Xiaowan Village.

It was truly a very dilapidated village.

Of course, being a small village in the Wasteland, it couldn't be very good.

The walls built from grayish-yellow rocks formed a semi-circle along the sides of the mountain, enclosing mostly run-down wooden or stone houses.

Inside, one could still see some old things from the previous era, before the apocalypse, piled in the corners of the village—things like rusty cars, vans, and household appliances.

It was already very late. Since the Wasteland was shrouded in thick gray mist, there was no true daylight to speak of.

The heavy night air was filled with the scents of rust and decay; this Xiaowan Village looked like a ghost village.