Chapter 140: Lonely Spirit Pet

Zhou Lu sat on the sofa in the living room, sitting upright and straight.

Not far away, a beauty rose was preparing tea for them.

"Don't be so reserved."

Seeing this restrained look, the beauty rose pressed a button on the recorder.

"Um... we are here to visit the senior of the nursing team..." Zhou Lu looked at Hua Huo who was happily picking the fruit plate, and said, "Excuse me, is the old senior not at home today?"

Hearing Zhou Lu's words, the beauty rose showed a puzzled expression.

"If you are talking about my beastmaster." The beauty rose answered Zhou Lu's question, "She is dead, she died of illness forty years ago."

"Ah! Sorry!" Zhou Lu finally understood that the senior that Ye Qingyu asked him to visit was the plant spirit pet in front of him.

Sister Qingyu was also very bad, and she didn't even explain it in advance.

When Meiren Rose saw Zhou Lu's expression, she knew the reason: "It seems that Qingyu is playing tricks on me again, every time."

As she said that, she noticed Zhou Lu's gaze towards the recorder in her hand, then she skillfully clicked on the recorder and explained:

"I learned some tricks, and asked people to help me record all the words I could think of, and then I could use my ability to trigger and say the corresponding words."

Because plant spirit beasts do not have objective vocal organs, they always need some special methods to make sounds.

However, Zhou Lu estimated that with Huahuo's current learning speed, since it has already understood the principle of sound and has developed its own leaf phonograph, it is not far from making sounds or speaking.

Just like AI splicing corpses, it only needs to record the vibrations of the pronunciation of countless words, and then it can speak by combining these vibrations to make sounds.

And Huahuo is still in the state of accumulation.

Zhou Lu asked it to record various sounds with the leaf phonograph every day.

Meiren Rose seems to have not talked to people for a long time.

Or maybe it was because Zhou Lu was also a beastmaster who raised plant spirit pets, and recalled its former owner, and actually talked to Zhou Lu about its past.

"That guy, he raised me to such a high level, but he passed away."

Although he had no eyes, Zhou Lu could feel the sadness in him.

The higher the level of spirit beasts, the longer their lifespans are.

After the metamorphosis, they have already gotten rid of the limitations of ordinary lifespans.

Just like the divine beasts in the military hospital, there is no problem living for a thousand years.

But beastmasters are different. Although they will upgrade synchronously with the initial spirit pets, the increase in lifespan is not very obvious.

Often, the lifespans of beastmasters and spirit pets of the same level will differ by several times.

Therefore, in the modern beastmaster world, the theory of lifespan is an objective existence.

The spirit pets still have a long lifespan, but the beastmasters have reached the end of their lives.

Some of these spirit pets that grew up with the help of human beastmasters have returned to nature, while others have stayed here because they have adapted to the human world.

The former has become an important helper for humans to manage the secret realm spirit beast cluster.

The latter are willing to continue to sign contracts with humans and will continue to serve humans.

But many will fall into long-term depression due to the death of the beastmaster master.

Among the many functions of the nursing team, one of the most important is the protection and psychological counseling of these spirit pets.

This is also one of the reasons why the nursing team has such a high status in the current system.

Although these lonely spirit pets no longer contract new masters, they are very close to humans, so they will spontaneously maintain peace in the human world.

After thousands of years of accumulation in the beastmaster era, this kind of spirit pet has formed a huge number.

As an institution that directly manages them, the nursing team is equivalent to having a huge number of extraordinary forces.

And with such a long lifespan, the strength is generally not weak.

Just like the beauty rose in front of him, it is a third-level plant spirit pet.

When Zhou Lu was thinking about this, the beauty rose had called Huahuo to its side.

The beauty rose seemed to be teaching Huahuo how to use vines better.

Zhou Lu was also happy to let Hua Huo learn from these older sisters' pets.

"So, you still won't go to the nursing team?"

Zhou Lu looked at the time and asked.

This was also one of the tasks Ye Qingyu gave him.

Meiren Yueji shook her head: "I want to look after this house."

Zhou Lu was slightly stunned.

Meiren Yueji's owner has been dead for more than 40 years.

The decoration style of the room is a bit old-fashioned.

But it can be seen that the house has been very carefully cleaned and tidied.

As if there is always an owner here.

Zhou Lu's heart moved.

He subconsciously looked at Hua Huo.

Hua Huo found that the owner was looking at him, and smiled happily at the owner.

It was obviously not clear what Zhou Lu was thinking.

Who cares.

Zhou Lu quickly gathered his mind.

Maybe in the future, he will have a skill that allows him to share life with pets.

Zhou Lu saw that the time was almost up, so he stood up and planned to say goodbye.

Meiren Yueji sent them to the door of the apartment building.

Just as Zhou Lu was about to leave, Hua Huo gently tugged at the corner of Zhou Lu's clothes with her vines.

This was Hua Huo's warning.

It indicated that there was danger nearby or someone was spying.

Zhou Lu acted as if nothing had happened and said goodbye to the beautiful Yue Ji in a friendly manner.

He took Hua Huo and walked towards the bus stop outside the community with a normal look.

Ever since he knew that Hua Huo was the target of the fanatical followers of the immortals such as Yan Gui, Zhou Lu became very cautious.

Every time he arrived at a place, as long as he stayed for a while, he would let Hua Huo plant the branches of [Plant Mimicry] nearby for reconnaissance.

Unexpectedly, he really encountered an abnormality this time.

According to Hua Huo's feedback, the other party did not take any action because of their departure.

Isn't it coming for me?

Zhou Lu thought in his heart.

That's strange.

According to the pattern drawn by Hua Huo on Ben Ben, the other party is a beastmaster.

And those who can be noticed by Hua Huo are definitely not normal people.

When Zhou Lu was about to reach the bus stop, he suddenly stopped.

Zhou Lu remembered several major public opinion events about the nursing team that Wu Xiaoqing had told him.

And the cause of these events was that the beastmasters extended their claws to these lonely pets in order to make their pets evolve.

These beast masters don't have the courage to go to the wild to confront the target spirit beasts to obtain materials, but they are very brave to take advantage of the trust of lonely spirit pets in humans to launch a sneak attack.

"Hua Huo." Zhou Lu immediately said to Hua Huo, "Have you collected the branches?"

Hua Huo said no.

"Go back." Zhou Lu hugged Hua Huo and turned to rush towards the residential building.

These guys' target is the beauty rose!