Chapter 67

Jixin thought he had messed up. He pulled out the Great King Egg and nervously retreated a few steps, casting vigilant glances around him.

The first thing to enter Jixin’s field of vision was a leopard.

Unlike Zhao Zhanlei’s small cheetah, this adult leopard that bounded out was as large as a tiger, with robust limbs, an athletic build, and a coat covered in black rosette spots that exuded pure deterrence!

Chasing closely behind the leopard was a puma!

Although it was called a "lion," the puma was not particularly large—about the same size as the adult leopard. It ran neck and neck with the leopard, but the two did not look like they were fighting.

Jixin only had time to process these two before an overwhelming and dazzling array of birds and beasts emerged in droves from within the military academy's buildings and the wide, blind spots of the roads!

At a glance, they were all large carnivorous animals.

They were much larger than the first two felines, and the scene was even more terrifying than accidentally wandering into a zoo!!

Jixin was so nervous that he unconsciously retreated step after step until his heels hit the greenbelt.

Finally, the figures of Awakeners in camouflage uniforms began to appear in groups of three to five behind their spiritual beasts.

They chatted, laughed, and bantered with one another.

There was nothing unusual at all.

Jixin swallowed hard and let out a silent sigh of relief.

It seemed he hadn't accidentally caused trouble; it was simply time, and these people had finished their classes or missions...

Unlike the Sanctuary, in the military academy, Awakeners were free to summon their spiritual beasts at will.

That was why such a terrifying scene had just occurred.

With this thought, Jixin quickly confirmed his hypothesis.

Although the carnivorous spiritual beasts were tall, fierce, and looked thoroughly wild and bestial, they did not display any aggression.

Those towering, broad-shouldered Awakeners occasionally glanced over without any obvious malice.

However, there were a few individuals with expressionless, stern, and fierce looks. The sentinels beside them had similarly sharp and unapproachable spiritual beasts, as if locking eyes for even a second longer would make them treat you as a provocation and lunge straight at you to tear you apart!

These adult sentinels all looked massive.

Tall and robust, beneath their camouflage t-shirts were wheat-colored skin and solid muscles.

Jixin had already stepped onto the greenbelt, and even so, he still had to tilt his head up just to look at them.

Among such a crowd of sentinels whose average height was around one meter nine,

Jixin felt that Fu Shuxing, whom he had always thought of as very tall, must have also become inconspicuous by comparison.

Similarly, General, who looked exceptionally majestic and formidable among their peers' spiritual beasts, would surely not have much of an advantage in a military academy so densely populated with adult carnivorous spiritual beasts.

Watching the sentinels stream out of the campus gates like an ebbing tide, Jixin hesitated internally between "finding him myself" and "asking someone for help."

The setbacks he had faced at the spaceport made him somewhat hesitant to blindly inquire.

While he hesitated, several groups of people had already walked away.

The remaining ones trickled out intermittently, not yet completely gone.

Time and tide wait for no man.

Jixin didn't have that much time to waste here. He thought that if he couldn't find Fu Shuxing, so be it; he would just take a careful tour later or wander around the outside before heading back.

After all, the purpose was just to see the military academy.

When he went back, he would still need to ask how to buy a ticket for the spaceship back to Juhong.

Jixin hadn't seen any ticketing windows at the spaceport.

Seeing the crowd thinning out more and more,

Jixin hesitated and chose a sentinel who looked less fierce and somewhat kinder, mustering the courage to walk over and ask, "Hello, excuse me."

That sentinel took one look at Jixin. From his condescending vantage point, the fair and adorable little guide in front of him was undoubtedly a delicious little dessert.

The sentinel raised an eyebrow and let out a whistle.

"Biao Ge, the rest of us are heading out first."

Seeing that the sentinel had run into a "romantic encounter," several companions left behind teasing and encouraging glances before walking away first.

The sentinel raised a hand to wave them off, and the next moment, his arm wrapped around Jixin's shoulder. "Babe, don't be so distant. What are you holding in your hand? Is that for me?"

Jixin had a large backpack hanging on his chest and was holding the Great King Egg in his arms. Being pulled in like this, he lost his footing and stumbled!

Then, he crashed into the sentinel's piping-hot, hard chest.

Jixin panicked inwardly, but the man's grip was so strong that he couldn't break free at all!

Under this sentinel's strength, Jixin realized that Fu Shuxing's habit of pinching him in the past was just like playing games.

"T-This is my Great King Egg." It wasn't a gift for anyone.

"Great King? What kind of nonsense is that." The sentinel casually poked the Great King Egg in Jixin's hand, its texture making a flash of disgust cross his eyes, and he didn't pay much attention to the egg.

Yet, being poked like that, the Great King Egg violently struggled and thrashed beneath its shell!!

Half of Jixin's mind was focused on protecting the Great King Egg, while the other half was on high alert against the stranger beside him. The sentinel exuded not only a scorching smell of sweat, but also a strange, mixed scent.

That pungent smell made Jixin's scalp tingle, sending a wave of discomfort straight from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head!

Ask and leave.

Jixin took a breath and forced a smile, "I'm looking for someone. Big brother, I'm looking for Fu Shuxing. Do you know him?"

"Never heard of him," the sentinel said. "You're asking someone else when you talk to Big Brother? Big Brother is unhappy and has to punish you."

He reached out to tap Jixin's nose.

While Jixin desperately tried to dodge backward, the man leaned in to sniff Jixin.

He took a sniff.

The sentinel suddenly frowned, realizing something was amiss.

"Babe, release a little guide pheromone for Big Brother to smell. You're very much to Big Brother's taste, but we also have to see if the pheromones match, right..."

Guide pheromones?

Jixin's spiritual power had only just stabilized; how could he possibly have things that only adult guides possessed?

He was just about to open his mouth to answer.

When a robust Maasai lion suddenly sauntered over from out of nowhere!!

Its thick, majestic mane extended all the way to its chest, with a huge head, a long nasal bone, strong limbs, and wide paws. It paced over to Jixin's side, shook its lion head, and opened its blood-fed maw as if it would pounce and bite someone to death in the next second!

Jixin instantly didn't dare to breathe!

Fear and terror instantly turned into cold sweat, creeping up his back!

The Great King Egg, clutched tightly in Jixin's hands, thrashed and burrowed around like crazy, completely unable to calm down!

The Maasai lion began to circle Jixin for a second time.

At this moment, the sentinel withdrew his gaze from his own spiritual beast, clicked his tongue, and looked at Jixin with a hint of rising interest. "Fine, seeing as Simba likes you so much, it doesn't matter if your pheromone doesn't smell good. Come on, let's go to Big Brother's place."

With that, the sentinel moved his hand to Jixin's waist.

Jixin felt his hair stand on end instantly and subconsciously shoved him away with all his might. "W-Where are you going?!"

"Where do you want to go?" How could the sentinel be pushed away? His fingers rubbed the little guide's slender, soft waist, and he smiled, his eyes filled with a completely different intent, "Or should we go to your place? Whatever you want to play, Big Brother can accompany you."

Just as those words fell,

the Maasai lion that had just been surrounding Jixin suddenly let out a roar and leaped forward into the air!!

"Ah—!!" Jixin cried out in terror, covering his ears!

The sentinel's expression changed! He immediately turned around!

With a deafening "Roar—," a robust, huge black-and-white figure had already pounced in front of them, clashing paws firmly with the Maasai lion! However, the Maasai lion, weighing only a little over a hundred kilograms, was at a disadvantage in both size and weight, and was beaten back and forced to retreat after just one exchange!

Yet the white tiger had no intention of letting the Maasai lion go. It lunged forward again, its robust forelimbs and sharp claws directly slashing bloody gash marks across the Maasai lion!

The Maasai lion was instantly enraged, turning over to pounce at the white tiger!

The sentinel had no time to spare a glance at his spiritual beast, as he was also being hunted down and beaten.

His opponent's strength was surprisingly formidable, every move fierce and merciless, sharp as if carrying overwhelming hostility!

Having just finished training, the sentinel showed signs of defeat and inferiority in less than a hundred moves.

The same went for the Maasai lion; although it possessed extremely rich combat experience and a naturally fierce and belligerent disposition, in front of a Bengal tiger twice its size, it once again quickly showed signs of defeat.

However, this was the fourth campus district.

Seeing two people fighting at the entrance, and that their fellow schoolmate was the one losing the fight, several sentinels in the distance saw this and joined the fray without a second word!

Jixin was already dumbfounded with fright. Seeing the others about to charge over, his heart leapt into his throat. He ran forward and shouted, "Stop fighting! Please stop fighting right now!"

No one listened.

Jixin was burning with anxiety!

In a scene like this, he couldn't rashly rush in; if he took even a single punch, he would surely die.

Watching Fu Shuxing and General turn into a one-against-three, one-against-four battle,

Jixin turned around and ran to the campus security office for help!

The person on duty at the security office was an old man, sitting placidly with a thermos cup in his hand. Hearing Jixin's anxious words, he took a slow sip of water and said, "That kid isn't from our campus district. He came looking for trouble himself, so getting beaten up is a given."

Clearly, scenes like this were commonplace at the military academy.

Jixin was practically on the verge of tears. Listening to General's roars and howls, and seeing the old man refusing to get involved, Jixin hardened his heart, snatched up a mop from the entrance, and charged right out!

However, his collar was grabbed by the old man, making it impossible for him to run any further.

Jixin cried out toward the outside, "Xing Ge! Xing Ge!!"

"Cut it out!" The old man let out a loud roar toward the other side!

Right after that, the sentinels who had just been fighting tooth and nail stopped simultaneously.

"You lot, all of you combined can't even beat a kid. Aren't you ashamed?" The old man "carried" Jixin over as he walked. Up close, the old man turned out to be even taller than the fighting sentinels. He hadn't seemed that tall while sitting inside the security office, but looking at him now, he had to be at least two meters tall.

The old man released Jixin.

As soon as he regained his freedom, Jixin ran to Fu Shuxing's side. "Xing Ge, are you alright?"

"Yeah." Fu Shuxing had a scrape on his face. He looked down and saw that Jixin wasn't hurt, so he used one hand to shield the little guide behind him, casting a dark gaze at the other sentinels.

The white tiger likewise let out a low, threatening growl at the spiritual beasts!

General had been beaten by polar bears since it was a cub, so it was extremely resilient. Although it had been ganged up on by several spiritual beasts in a four-against-one fight, it disengaged quickly and struck fiercely. Its minor cuts and bruises didn't detract from its majesty at all, and the deterrence of the king of beasts remained overwhelmingly formidable.

On the contrary, the few spiritual beasts that hurriedly returned to their masters looked much more disheveled.

After finishing its roar, the white tiger also walked over to Jixin, gently nudging him with its huge head before lifting its chin to let out a soft whine.

Jixin's throat was dry and his hands and feet felt weak.

Under the old man's control of the situation, Jixin tried hard to explain that this was all just a misunderstanding.

"I was wondering when such a delicious little guide came to our military academy." The sentinel had taken a beating and his injuries weren't light, but his temper was unexpectedly good. Realizing it was all a misunderstanding, he sheepishly rubbed his nose and smiled, looking first at Jixin, then at Fu Shuxing, before raising a hand to pat Fu Shuxing's shoulder. "And you, what campus district are you from? How come I've never seen you before?"