Chapter 20 (1/2)

“Sit here, Zhang Xiaoche!”

With curiosity and excitement in their hearts, the group of boys and girls got on the military vehicle and looked for a seat.

Zhang Che swept his gaze across the vehicle, thinking of where to sit when he saw Huang Tielan sitting by the side waving at him, occupying two seats.

“Huang Tielan, please call me Zhang Che!”

Originally, Zhang Che didn’t want to sit together with Huang Tielan. However, upon remembering the reason he was able to reap a huge profit in the beast world was all thanks to the beast card she gifted him, he could only embrace the ridiculing gazes of his classmates and sit down in the spot where Huang Tielan freed up.

“Alright, Zhang Xiaoche!” Huang Tielan smiled gleefully, not caring about Zhang Che’s insistence.

Zhang Che was helpless about it and could only let her be. After sitting down, he fished out a beast card from his shirt pocket. It was the one-star silver Fiery Scorpion card. He handed it to her, thanking her sincerely, “Huang Tielan, it’s all thanks to this card of yours that I returned successfully from the beast world and obtained my own beasts. Now, please take this card back. You can use it later at the southern suburbs.”

Huang Tielan looked at the Fiery Scorpion card with a wronged expression, replying, “How can I take back something I gave to you? Why don’t you present me with a beast card of similar strength in the future?”

Of course Zhang Che knew what she was thinking. He shook his head resolutely and said, “I’ll definitely get you a decent beast card in the future as thanks, but please accept the Fiery Scorpion card. Otherwise, what are you going to use for the training later?”

Huang Tielan let out a crafty smile as a one-star silver card suddenly appeared between the tips of her fingers.

“Who said that I don’t have another beast?”

Zhang Che was stunned. He looked at the one-star silver card in Huang Tielan’s hand, unable to say a word for quite some time.

-Okay, us paupers really can’t understand the ways of the rich…-

A one-star silver card costs 100 thousand Alliance dollars, at the very least. Let alone a high school student, even some Tier 2 or 3 beastmasters might not necessarily own a one-star silver card, and yet Huang Tielan was able to take out another one, even after giving him one!

He could only think that Huang Tielan’s family really shouldn’t be underestimated…

However, Zhang Che felt relieved immediately after. To be able to get the man outside the spatial gateway to prepare a backpack for him, this was obviously not something a commoner’s child could do.

Zhang Che shook his head helplessly and said to Huang Tielan, “Fine. Take it as I’m borrowing the Fiery Scorpion from you. I’ll definitely get you a better card in the future as thanks.”

“That’s more like it. We’ll happily leave it at that!” Huang Tielan chuckled. Her eyes narrowed into a slit as she extended her chubby palm to swear their promises with a high-five.

Zhang Che blanked out for a moment, before slapping her palm unwillingly. He looked as if he was a damsel being threatened by a fierce man.

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The Southern Suburb Woods was located about ten km outside Qian Wei City to the south. Originally, there were several villages around here.

However, the exotic beasts from the disaster thirty-six years ago levelled these villages. The survivors all escaped into the city, and the area gradually turned into woodlands.

After the spatial gateways appeared, not only was there a horde of innumerable beasts, there was also an unknown energy gushing out from it, causing the vegetation to grow wildly. Almost all of the unpopulated wilderness became an unending forest.