79: Chapter 79 Changes in Global Pets
"Why has my Husky's gaze toward me been a bit off lately..."
"What's so strange about that? A normal Husky would be the real anomaly!"
"No... have you ever seen a Husky keep a cold, sharp gaze like a wolf?!"
"Damn! My Fat Orange Cat has also been a bit weird lately. It's gotten fatter, and its courage has grown too—it even dared to bite me!"
"Could it be the influence of the spiritual qi in the air..."
"Maybe..."
Time reached nearly three months since spiritual qi appeared on Blue Star...
Humans worldwide gradually discovered that it wasn't just animals in nature affected by spiritual qi; even the pets living with them in the cities were influenced.
Their bodies became larger, and their intelligence grew sharper.
None of this was important, and no one cared; some even felt it was a good thing that pets were becoming more powerful and spiritual.
It wasn't until incidents of pets injuring people occurred repeatedly that humans realized the cute pets they originally raised had changed!
Many countries around the world, just like the outskirts of Jianghai City in the Great Xia Kingdom, had experienced incidents of wild beasts attacking and devouring humans. They also knew from research that wild beasts could consume humans to obtain evolution factors—spiritual qi—within the human body to make their own evolution even more powerful.
What they didn't expect was that the pets living in the cities would also start attacking humans!
Immediately, all countries globally began issuing notices, banning the keeping of pets in cities and requiring them to be sent to official institutions for burial, culling, or to become experimental specimens.
For a time, this sparked intense condemnation from countless animal lovers, but in the face of the officials' firm stance, it was futile.
However, considering that not all pets turned violent and injured people, and some had lived with humans for several or even over ten years with deep emotional bonds, some countries, out of humanitarian considerations, still chose to allow these pets to be released back into nature.
The Great Xia Kingdom issued a nationwide announcement banning the keeping of all pets within cities. Except for experimental animals required by laboratories and university-related disciplines, no other living creatures, including mice, could be kept!
"Holy crap! This is great! I've been a Poop Scooper for over ten years and I'm suddenly liberated?!"
"Xiao Bai, I can't bear to part with you..."
"Da Hei, you must be careful when you're out there!"
"Remember, when you get to the wild, don't mess around. When you develop into a fierce beast, remember to come back and repay me!"
"Waaa... the dream of a Beast-Eared Girl is gone! Last night I even dreamed that my cat transformed into a human to marry me!"
Most of the people in Great Xia were very smart. Lately, the internet and news were full of incidents of pets attacking humans. For their own safety, they had no choice but to release their pets.
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Jianghai City, Great Xia.
The citizens received the official notice and didn't feel surprised.
Unlike others, they had witnessed with their own eyes the scene of a lion pride devouring people to evolve, and they had already guessed how much of an attraction humans were to these creatures.
So, a large number of pets quickly rushed to the outskirts of Jianghai City.
However, even if these pets were influenced by spiritual qi, their wildness and bodies were not as strong as the animals in the mountains and forests. Most became food and found it difficult to survive.
On the highway on the outskirts of Jianghai City, a car slowly drove from the city.
After getting out of the car, two beautiful figures appeared in sight.
Li Minmin looked at the exceptionally dense forest with some fear. God knew if any terrifying fierce beasts were lurking in this dense thicket. Her fair and delicate face was full of tension.
The double eyelids at the corners of her eyes couldn't stop twitching.
"Xiao Yueyue, are you sure Little Phoenix won't hurt us?!"
"Don't worry. If Little Phoenix wanted to hurt us, we would have been dead long ago..."
"But I always feel that the dense forest is just too dangerous!"
These two young girls were precisely Ran Xiaoyue and Li Minmin.
Li Minmin sighed and looked at the dense forest with a fearful expression. Through the recent lion pride live stream, no citizen living in Jianghai City was unaware that a large number of fierce wild beasts lived in the mountains and forests on the outskirts of Jianghai City.
Forget tigers and leopards; even if a single wolf jumped out, the two girls would become meat.
Ran Xiaoyue felt somewhat helpless.
"There's no other way. Who told you that you couldn't let go of your Husky? Don't worry, I believe Little Phoenix won't hurt us..."
"Woof woof woof!"
A dog barked.
Seeing his female owner looking at him, the Husky, Da Hei, wagged his tail and barked a few times pleasingly.
Nourished by three months of spiritual qi, even though the concentration in the city was low, he had grown taller than before. He now had the build of a large dog, looking like a Tibetan Mastiff.
"Da Hei has been in our family for almost ten years. Letting him live in the wild by himself... he probably won't survive."
Li Minmin's face showed some sadness.
The main purpose of their trip this time was Li Minmin's Husky, Da Hei.
It was impossible for Li Minmin to hand Da Hei over to the officials to be killed, so he could only be released into the wild.
Then they thought of Little Phoenix on Divine Phoenix Mountain in the outskirts of Jianghai City, wanting Little Phoenix to help them take care of the Husky, Da Hei.
Although it sounded incredible to have a Prehistoric White-Feathered Great Eagle take care of a Husky, Li Minmin and Ran Xiaoyue were certain that Little Phoenix, who understood human speech, would definitely be able to do it.
"Sigh... you young people really do things crazily. Let's get this straight first... if I don't see that honest Giant Panda you mentioned, I won't let you enter the mountain forest."
Professor Li, standing beside them, spoke up.
He looked at his daughter with a face full of doubt.
A Giant Panda the size of a small truck actually submitting to a Prehistoric White-Feathered Great Eagle, and that Giant Panda would even lead them safely to Divine Phoenix Mountain—this was simply too fake.
"Don't worry, Dad. If the Giant Panda doesn't come out, we definitely won't go to Divine Phoenix Mountain."
"That's good then."
Taking out a few pieces of bread and tearing open the packaging, the scent of the bread began to drift toward the mountain forest with the mountain wind.
However, after waiting for a few minutes, there was still no movement.
Professor Li smiled and shook his head. "Generally, the olfactory range of bears is four to five kilometers. Even if what you said is true and that strange Giant Panda exists in the mountain forest, it's dozens of kilometers away; it's impossible to smell this scent..."
Li Minmin and Ran Xiaoyue exchanged a look. Li Minmin pursed her lips, unwilling to give up.
"It's okay, Dad, let's just wait a bit longer... just treat it as looking at the scenery on an outing..."
An outing...
Professor Li's mouth couldn't help but twitch. With so many wild beasts in the outskirts now, every extra second spent here was dangerous.
If it weren't for the fact that he also couldn't bear to let his family's Husky, Da Hei, wander aimlessly outside, and that his daughter and her friend were both so insistent and firm in their attitude.
He definitely wouldn't have come here.
Another few minutes passed.
Just as Professor Li was getting a bit impatient, the leaves on one side of the road began to shake violently with a rustling sound.
"Woof woof woof!"
At the same time, the previously quiet Husky, Da Hei, let out an uneasy bark..."}],