184: Even you don’t have confidence?

Although she always believed that strength wasn't the most important thing, and that intellect and IQ were also necessary for survival in this apocalypse, when it truly came down to a fight, fists were ultimately the most useful.

After all, many people won't take the time to listen to your reasoning before a fight.

Dignity exists only at the tip of a sword; truth is always within the range of a cannon.

So, to ensure that others would calmly listen to her in the future, the power of her fists had to be strengthened.

"By the way, brother, I heard you're representing the Beast Taming Bureau in this year's competition for the younger generation among the Three Great Powers? How is it, do you have confidence?"

Feng Zhi said with a grin.

Among the staff of the Beast Taming Bureau, he was now a hot commodity; his previous spar with Ning Shujie in the Martial Arts Arena had made him quite famous among them.

After he became famous, whenever these people heard any juicy gossip about the Beast Taming Bureau or something sensational from Outside the Wall, they would tell him.

He had become half a walking encyclopedia for the Beast Taming Bureau.

"To be honest, I don't have much confidence," Wang Yi shook his head, sighing for a rare moment.

"What? Even you don't have confidence?" Feng Zhi's eyes widened. Wang Yi was the most talented junior in their Beast Taming Bureau, and he was also a Beast Tamer.

He was also the favored disciple of the Director of the Beast Taming Bureau.

In Feng Zhi's mind, Wang Yi was the strongest existence among all the twenty-something-year-olds in the entire Beast Taming Bureau.

But how could such a powerful Wang Yi say he didn't have much confidence?

Wang Yi spread his hands, saying, "If it were against our own people in the Beast Taming Bureau, of course I'd be confident. But this is a triennial competition among the Three Great Powers. Gu Mingzhu from the City Lord's Mansion and Liu Chen from the Martial Artist Training Base are both formidable opponents; I might not be able to defeat them."

"That's true," Feng Zhi nodded. He had heard of those two, especially Gu Mingzhu from the City Lord's Mansion. He heard she had just broken through to Level 5 Martial Artist a while ago, and the weapon she used was a three-core weapon, with incredibly strong destructive power.

"At that point, we'll just have to play it by ear. My master's demands for me aren't high; getting second place would be good enough," Wang Yi said.

The Director of the Beast Taming Bureau naturally knew his disciple's capabilities. A Level Four Beast Tamer against a Level 5 Martial Artist might be a bit of a disadvantage in terms of rank, but don't forget, a Beast Tamer doesn't fight alone.

Under circumstances of the same level, Qi Cavity, or talent, a Beast Tamer has an advantage because fierce beasts are generally stronger than Martial Artists.

However, in actual combat, anything can happen.

It's not unheard of for people to challenge those of a higher rank.

"That's good then. With your strength and special training, isn't getting second place a piece of cake? Don't put too much pressure on yourself; just perform normally."

Wang Yi lacked confidence in himself, but Feng Zhi had a lot of confidence in him.

"Mm," Wang Yi smiled and said, "No special training today. Let's go do a mission and stretch our muscles."

"Alright."

"Oh, Yunying, have you finished the mission you accepted? If not, we can help you with it today. We're just sitting around anyway," Wang Yi said after a moment's thought.

Actually, he usually didn't need to do any missions when he came to the forest; the low-grade spirit stones he had were enough, so there was no need to earn more through missions.

However, ever since he met Ge Yunying, he found that his frequency of accepting and doing missions slowly increased.

The reason for this was simple: he wanted to get closer to Ge Yunying.

Sure enough, he got his wish and teamed up with Ge Yunying, even though Feng Zhi was also with them, it was still better than just the two of them being men.

It's just... Ge Yunying always seemed to reject his advances, seemingly not wanting to take their relationship further.

Wang Yi didn't know Ge Yunying's thoughts, only assuming that Ge Yunying wasn't interested in him and didn't like him.

But as a man, how could he give up on pursuing a woman at the first sign of a setback?

Besides, he truly liked Ge Yunying.

A straightforward, intelligent, beautiful, and ambitious girl—what reason did he have not to like her?

"I haven't finished it yet, but this mission should be manageable for one person..."

Ge Yunying thought for a moment before speaking, but before she could finish, Wang Yi interrupted.

"If you haven't finished, then let's do it together. More people mean more strength, don't you think?" Wang Yi asked Feng Zhi behind him.

"Ah, yes, yes, yes, we'll help together," Feng Zhi quickly replied with a smile.

Seeing them both say this, Ge Yunying could only nod, "Alright, then thank you both."

...In the Inner Circle of the forest, Lin Feng was calculating his sales progress. Several other items had already been sold, and he had just sold another Martial Enhancement Pill. Now, the only things left to sell on his train were one more Martial Enhancement Pill and the daily limited train exclusive water.

As soon as he sold the last Martial Enhancement Pill, he could upgrade his 'weapons' and reach Level Four!

At that point, even the core circle of the forest Outside the Wall of the top 100 fortresses could be treated as his own backyard, right?

Lin Feng had just driven into the core circle of the forest Outside the Wall of the 155 Fortress.

Due to his previous two intimidations, there were now very few fierce beasts in the core circle that dared to challenge him.

However, he had discovered several small ponds in the core circle, where spiritual herbs thrived, growing lush and green around these waters.

Fierce beasts also liked to guard these ponds, sleeping and recuperating by their sides.

Could these ponds hold some secret?

Suddenly, a tenth-tier Spirit Water Winged Beast emerged from one of the ponds, then walked onto the shore.

The Spirit Water Winged Beast is a very special fierce beast; it didn't mutate from an animal that existed before the apocalypse, but rather appeared after the apocalypse.

This fierce beast has a pair of wings on its back, of various colors; not every Spirit Water Winged Beast has wings of the same color.

It can fly for a certain distance, not very high, but it's very useful in combat.

In addition, it can also live in water, which is where the "Spirit Water" in its name comes from.

Moreover, the Spirit Water Winged Beast is not limited to living in water; they can also survive on land.

Combined with its ability to fly into the air, this makes it an amphibious fierce beast.

Lin Feng was originally just observing the pond, but upon seeing this Spirit Water Winged Beast, he began to observe it.

The Spirit Water Winged Beast, after emerging from the pond, shook off the water from its body and surprisingly walked directly towards Lin Feng's location.

Is it going to ride the train?

Lin Feng was a bit puzzled.

Amidst the confusion of Lin Feng and all the surrounding high-tier fierce beasts, the Spirit Water Winged Beast walked towards Lin Feng, then jumped onto the train through the door.

"Welcome aboard this train. Please sit down and hold on. To board, please purchase a ticket. The fare is 150 low-grade spirit stones."

The subtitles lit up. Once on the train, languages were mutually intelligible, so the Spirit Water Winged Beast could understand what was written.