Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

It wasn’t until they arrived at the company building that Gu Ming suddenly noticed Lu You’s unusual silence. He asked with concern,

"How is your Star Spirit? The prophecy just now seemed to take a heavy toll."

"Huh?"

As if surfacing from deep water, Lu You let out a soft cry. Her awareness finally returned to the present, and she realized they had arrived at their destination.

She quickly waved her hand and explained,

"The Star Spirit has already fallen into a deep sleep. That guidance... it exhausted most of its Spiritual Power."

Gu Ming nodded thoughtfully.

"Given the prophetic Talent the Star Spirit has shown, it has immense potential if cultivated as a professional Prophetic Element Pet Beast."

"For that, we could perhaps consult Teacher Tang, or... get Mr. Huo’s opinion."

He had voiced the thought almost subconsciously.

Even as a university student, his knowledge was limited when it came to a field as unique as the Prophetic Element. Its cultivation system was vastly different from that of conventional Pet Beasts.

He had only scratched the surface in high school. University disciplines were highly specialized, and unless one majored in this specific field, it was difficult to master its core cultivation Techniques.

Therefore, consulting Teacher Tang—an experienced Six-star Beastmaster—or Mr. Huo—an Eight-star Array Master whose knowledge was as deep as the ocean—was undoubtedly the most reliable approach at the moment.

Hearing this, Lu You nodded seriously in agreement.

Saying no more, the two walked through the company’s somewhat empty corridors and arrived at Teacher Tang’s office.

Gu Ming handed the storage token containing the crucial data to Teacher Tang.

Teacher Tang took it, inspected it carefully, and then inserted it into a strangely shaped analysis device that looked like a precision-machined barrel.

Then, he took out three pairs of headphones and gestured.

"Here, let’s all have a listen."

Gu Ming nodded.

Although he had heard it before, listening to it again here might give him a different perspective.

Before putting on the headphones, Gu Ming briefly recounted his previous discussion with Professor Weng at the research institute for Teacher Tang.

He specifically mentioned the theory that the Sound of the Nian Beast might be connected to the Demon Fiends of the Inner World.

After listening, a flicker of surprise crossed Teacher Tang’s face, and he couldn’t help but glance at Lu You.

At that moment, the Star Spirit was slumbering inside the pendant on her chest, its brilliance contained.

He mused aloud,

"This theory... is certainly a unique perspective."

"But first, I’d better hear this sound for myself."

With that, Teacher Tang put on the headphones and listened intently.

Gu Ming put on his headphones again as well, closing his eyes and centering himself. His consciousness sank once more into the boundless static.

Unlike his first time, he now knew which sounds were useless noise. His brain quickly filtered them out, and he grew tense.

His body was prepared to receive that soul-shaking roar from an ancient era.

Even though this was his second time hearing it, when the Sound of the Nian Beast—filled with savagery, destruction, and absolute pressure—once again pierced his eardrums and struck the depths of his soul, Gu Ming still felt a chill shoot up his spine, instantly spreading through his body and raising a fine layer of goosebumps.

The pure terror contained within the sound, as if it could freeze one’s blood, was as shocking as ever.

He took a deep breath, removed the headphones, and rubbed his slightly numb temples.

He glanced at Teacher Tang, who was still listening intently with a slight frown. It seemed he hadn’t yet managed to isolate the specific sound from the complex background noise.

Evidently, there was a high Perception threshold to "hear" the Sound of the Nian Beast; it wasn’t something just anyone could do.

Teacher Tang soon realized this as well.

He took off his headphones and, without hesitation, used the company’s internal comms to summon several colleagues who owned Prophetic Element or support-type Pet Beasts with high Perception.

He didn’t ask for Lu You’s Star Spirit, mainly because her Pet Beast was exhausted and resting. It would have been rude to trouble an unevolved cub at a time like this.

「A short while later.」

With the assistance of his colleagues’ Pet Beasts, Teacher Tang finally managed to clearly capture the ancient roar hidden beneath the noise.

After listening, he sat quietly for a moment, processing the sound’s impact and considering Gu Ming’s theory.

Soon, he looked up, his eyes shining with a light similar to Professor Weng’s.

"The possibility is high."

Teacher Tang’s assessment was similar to Professor Weng’s.

"Gu Ming, your intuition... or should I say, your insight, is remarkably sharp."

"You truly are the genius I took you for."

Gu Ming could only respond modestly, "It was mainly Professor Weng’s insight and the Star Spirit’s ability. I was just relaying information and making a connection."

Teacher Tang just smiled, neither confirming nor denying, and changed the subject.

"Well then, for now, you’ll have to wait for the results of Professor Weng’s on-site verification."

"After all, you’re a student first and foremost. You can’t slack off on your preparations for the University Beastmaster League."

Indeed, Gu Ming’s current tasks at the company were complete. Now, he had to wait for a new assignment.

But he had a strong premonition.

’I’ve already made some headway on this lead about the Sound of the Nian Beast.’

’The company’s follow-up assignments will most likely continue to revolve around this incident.’

’But considering I’m a student, any new tasks will probably be scheduled for weekends or holidays.’

With this in mind, Gu Ming left the company and returned to school.

The daily rhythm of his life—Pet Beast training, classes, and preparing for the league—remained unchanged.

However, that terrifying roar from a bygone era, and the massive mystery it hinted at—a mystery connecting the Inner World to the last age—was like a great stone dropped into the lake of his mind, sending ripples spreading through his thoughts.

’What happened during the last era, in the buried history of Beastmasters?’

Gu Ming scrolled through his chat history with Professor Weng. It was filled with technical terms and new information on Beast Taming.

Almost half of it was content that Gu Ming didn’t understand.

The other half was disjointed, and Gu Ming had only partially understood it at the time.

Now, by rereading and analyzing it repeatedly, he was finally able to digest the information and understand what his future self had been discussing.

Simply put, they were discussing why the Sound of the Nian Beast would originate from the Inner World.

In the future timeline, a new war of invasion by Demon Fiends breaks out across the nation.

The chaos caused by the Rootless Wood was the most severe.

The Rootless Wood appeared most frequently, mainly because, true to its name, it was rootless and didn’t require any special soil to survive.

The growing conditions for the Seed of Rootless Wood Grass were also simple: it could grow into a tree by latching onto the void, and it inherently possessed the Spatial Attribute.

Its appearance created numerous new passages in the lands of turmoil, allowing the Inner World to invade the normal world.

If the number of these passages was small, it might have been manageable.

The problem was that the number of passages had surged to an immeasurable extent within a few months.

This meant that the entire Great Zhou had become inextricably linked to the Inner World.

With such a tight connection, the "sounds" of the Inner World could naturally leak out from these passages, which is how they came to be captured on the night of the Dragon’s Blessing.

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