My beast can't be a demon.

As night fell, Zhou Lu stood by the window, looking at the stars in the sky.

Hanabi squatted on the window sill, imitating Zhou Lu and looking at the stars in the sky.

There are several books piled next to it.

Already intelligent, it began to learn words seriously after entering its growth stage.

Fireworks have only one purpose!

Communicate effectively with the owner.

It's just...looking at the books Wu Xiaoqing gave Hua Huo, Zhou Lu wondered if they would teach Hua Huo a bad way.

"Atlas of Poisonous Plants".

"The Perfect Poison in Life".

Well, if you think about it carefully, this can be regarded as letting Hanabi know in advance how to be a poisonous weed.

"I said, Sister Xiaoqing." Zhou Lu looked back at Wu Xiaoqing who was busy at the side and said helplessly, "Don't you have your own dormitory?"

Yes, it was said that she wanted to have a psychological dialogue with the nightmare of death, but the address Wu Xiaoqing chose was still her laboratory.

"Yes." Wu Xiaoqing said, "Isn't the dormitory provided as standard for students?"

I've forgotten it all……

Although Sister Xiaoqing has her own independent laboratory, she is still essentially a graduate student at Xin'an Beast Control Academy.

"I understand." Zhou Lu nodded understandingly, "Are you worried that the power of the Death Nightmare will affect other students?"

I didn't expect Sister Xiaoqing, who is usually so carefree, to be so careful.

"Ah, no." Wu Xiaoqing pulled out a folding nap bed from under the table, "I didn't think I could use that dormitory, so I rented it out."

"..." Zhou Lu was silent for a while, and then asked, "Then...where do you usually sleep?"

"Of course I'll sleep here!"

Wu Xiaoqing immediately showed a proud expression and patted her folding bed: "Hey, in this case, I don't have to worry about someone stealing my mushrooms in the middle of the night."

Zhou Lu was speechless: "Who the hell would come to steal mushrooms in the middle of the night!"

"No way?" Wu Xiaoqing tilted her head in confusion, "But I often steal my seniors' flying jade hives in the middle of the night."

"???" Zhou Lu fell into a brief downtime.

"There is no way." Wu Xiaoqing said, "The cultivation base of some mushrooms requires beeswax, but I left the honey to them."

"Okay..." Zhou Lu didn't even know what to say.

"Come and help me." Wu Xiaoqing greeted Zhou Lu, "We have to arrange it quickly while there is still some time."

As he spoke, Wu Xiaoqing leaned over and tinkered with something on the ground.

Zhou Lu looked at the red mushroom on the ground and asked curiously: "What is this?"

"Little Exploding Mushrooms, second insurance. If you don't poison me, they will explode."

"Blow you up?" Zhou Lu was full of questions, why was this woman so cruel to him.

"No, blow up the building." Wu Xiaoqing said, "I can always wake up if the building collapses."

Zhou Lu was helpless. In Wu Xiaoqing's eyes, this nightmare of death was like a scourge.

Although his name doesn't sound like a good person, he is also a serious and loyal minister of the founding of the country, right? It is a mythical beast that has stood the test of time and war.

Of course, in recent decades, there has been quite a bit of controversy in society about the mythical beasts in the Invalides.

The main point of controversy is that most of the mythical beasts in the Invalides are ownerless.

They were once the spiritual pets of the beast master, but with the death of the beast master, they regained their freedom.

Many people feel that such a powerful spiritual beast without a beast master to control it is an extremely dangerous thing for human society.

Of course, among such public opinions, it is unknown how many people really feel that it is dangerous, and how many people are just trying to put pressure on themselves to give themselves the opportunity to contract with the divine beasts.

The Nightmare of Death is such an ownerless beast.

The official definition is absolute trust and care for these mythical beasts.

But even if there are mythical beasts with owners, normal people will be a little scared when facing them, let alone the mythical beasts without owners.

Zhou Lu had never come into contact with such a mythical beast, so it was hard to criticize Wu Xiaoqing for being cautious.

Wu Xiaoqing saw that Zhou Lu didn't express anything, so she called Hua Huo to come over and help.

This is the kind of job Hanabi likes to do the most.

Even when I was helping, I took away a few mushrooms without anyone noticing.

With this in mind, Hanabi stuffed a few small mushrooms into her tail.

In the blink of an eye, it was the time agreed between Wu Xiaoqing and Death Nightmare.

Zhou Lu looked at Wu Xiaoqing, who was lying straight on the bed, and asked curiously: "Contacting a mythical beast, this kind of thing must be a big deal, right? Why haven't anyone from the college come to help?"

"Academy? People in the academy don't know." Wu Xiaoqing said.

"have no idea?"

"Yes, the people in the nursing team said that this is a confidential mission." Wu Xiaoqing said, "You can't tell anyone."

This is natural. The mythical beast without an owner still has psychological problems. If this news is announced, it will definitely cause an uproar in society.

However, since it was a confidential mission, why would Jiang Shuqi take the initiative to mention it to herself?

Doubts flashed in Zhou Lu's heart.

"Okay, I'm going to sleep, don't disturb me." Wu Xiaoqing glared at Zhou Lu, "I don't sleep well in the first place."

Are you not sleeping well...?

It seems that Sister Xiaoqing’s research pressure is still high.

"I know..." Zhou Lu just wanted to reply "I know", but he heard Wu Xiaoqing's regular breathing again.

Hanabi raised the flowers and said with certainty: She fell asleep.

What's wrong with your sleep!!!

Zhou Lu roared in his heart.

After Wu Xiaoqing fell asleep, the whole laboratory fell into a quiet atmosphere.

The laboratory building at night always carries a natural fear.

Zhou Lu sat aside, scrolling through his phone boredly.

Hua Huo stood on Wu Xiaoqing's body with vigor, and the most proud part of her chest just gave Hua Huo the opportunity to grasp it.

Following the instructions of the summoner, as long as there was something wrong with Wu Xiaoqing, Hua Huo would not hesitate to put the poisonous mushroom on his "hand" into Wu Xiaoqing's mouth.

Wu Xiaoqing fell asleep like this.

For two or three hours, Zhou Lu did not notice anything unusual.

He originally thought that the Death Nightmare would pull him into the dream as well.

In this way, he had the opportunity to contact the other party.

At least from the perspective of the system task, the Death Nightmare should be a good person to him.

But what he imagined did not happen, and everything was so normal until twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.

Seeing that the agreed time had come, Zhou Lu wanted to order Hua Huo to work.

However, at this moment, Wu Xiaoqing suddenly opened her eyes and sat up.

This action was so fast that it scared Hua Huo.

Before, Hua Huo had fixed herself on Wu Xiaoqing in that posture.

When she sat up like this, Hua Huo and she formed a very strange posture.

Wu Xiaoqing looked at Hua Huo on her chest and complained: "You are very talented in that area, Hua Huo. I have several harmless chemicals that promote local fat growth. Do you want to know about them?"

This speaking style is very Wu Xiaoqing.

Just when Zhou Lu was relieved, the system sounded.

[Ding! The host is detected to be in contact with the nightmare of death, triggering an optional task. ]

[Optional task: assassinate the nightmare of death. ]