41: I want to be a salted fish

Preparing for the practical training in the wilderness area secret realm requires a lot.

After all, it's the first time stepping out of Jianghuai City, and Song Wenhai and his wife are very concerned about Song Yu.

Especially Zhou Fangmei, who originally planned to accompany Song Yu to the mall, had a lot of work in the company. She could only remind Song Yu a few words and let her go to the downtown beast tamer street alone to purchase supplies.

The broad streets were bustling with people, a large number of pedestrians and cars, as well as various beasts, making this street the main focus.

The most significant difference from an ordinary pedestrian street is that the beast tamer street, whether it's the sidewalk, the shop entrance, or the store's height, is all like an extra-large version.

Song Yu had just gotten off the car, feeling as if she had crossed into a giant's world.

Any buildings and facilities here, the long and wide streets, were four or five times the size of an ordinary commercial street.

Standing at the intersection of the street, Song Yu could even see the central square in the middle of the street, where a super-large metal dragon statue with a height of dozens of meters was hovering! Even though she was just standing at the entrance of the street, that immensely huge dragon statue seemed to carry endless pressure, impacting the minds of countless people.

Especially for someone like Song Yu, entering the beast tamer street for the first time, she was almost blinded by this 'novel world'!

Song Yu moved her throat, as a transmigrator starting her senior year in high school.

In these three months, besides swiping her phone and computer every day, she had not even seen the entrance of the beast tamer street!

Normal weekdays, including Saturday and Sunday, were filled with high-intensity courses.

Except for Sunday afternoon and evening off, the rest of the time was either attending classes or on the way to classes.

In addition, the Song family lives in a high-end villa area, which is extremely quiet, and the schedule for classes aligns with Song Qi.

For three whole months, she hadn't even entered any stores other than the convenience store!

It was truly heart-wrenching and tear-inducing for anyone who heard about it!

Unfortunately, in her Beast Tamer Space, there were plenty of places like commercial streets and amusement parks that she had passed by in a car.

But she wasn't a contract beast, so she couldn't enter the Beast Tamer Space at all.

Every time she used her mental power to check the Beast Tamer Space, it felt like browsing a street map app on her phone, dull and tasteless.

So, in her busy past life, she didn't have time to go shopping. In these three months of school life, Song Yu, who was going shopping for the first time, was truly stunned by the bustling scene in front of her!

With teary eyes and a cat-like pout, she realized that she still liked this lively life!

Quick! I need to make up for the regrets of not shopping for the past seven or eight years!

However, before Song Yu could take a step, a little girl next to her interrupted her thoughts, causing her to instinctively turn her head to look.

"Mommy~ Mommy~ that sister's puppy is so pretty~"

Wearing a floral dress and a lace hat with rabbit ears, the little girl, about two or three years old, just got out of a taxi with her mother. She immediately pointed to the young girl in a pink dress with a contract beast next to her and said with shining eyes, "Mommy~ can you let Hei Dou come out too? Hei Dou told me a few days ago that it wants to play with other puppies!"

"No~ Hei Dou is over 4 meters tall, and it can't be let out casually to play with other puppies." The little girl's mother picked her up, pointing to the large arch at the entrance of Beast Tamer Street and said gently, "Look, it's written here that dogs over 4 meters tall can't come and go freely. If you want Hei Dou to play with other puppies, then we can only go to the park next week~"

The high arch had specific height measurements painted on it, and Song Yu curiously glanced at it.

No wonder there was a specially built arch at the entrance of the street.

Upon closer inspection, Song Yu saw a brass-carved plaque next to the arch, which clearly detailed the relevant safety regulations for contract beasts entering. Among them, it was emphasized that contract beasts over 4 meters tall were not allowed to be released casually and were not allowed to run and fly on the street, among the 12 most important rules.

Patrol police patrolled through the streets, following the street signs.

Song Yu immediately headed to the mall, purchasing a beginner's wilderness survival backpack set.

Custom-made camouflage sportswear, a pot, a kettle, a sleeping bag, a first aid kit, solar-powered lamp...

Even the most basic wilderness supplies weighed more than twenty kilograms, plus the sunscreen suit and a solar charger that made it difficult for her to move her feet.

Song Yu truly felt that, for the first time, she had a chance to contract a spatial-type beast in the future.

Without the help of a spatial-type contract beast, these things were just too much!

Fortunately, she could spend a bit of money to have the store deliver the goods.

Song Yu then reorganized her mood and decided to revisit Beast Tamer Street.

Initially, Beast Tamer Street was mainly related to the beast taming industry, such as alchemy shops, contract beast battle arenas, beast material acquisition shops, and so on.

But as time passed, Beast Tamer Street gradually expanded. Some shop owners discovered business opportunities and opened various food stores on Beast Tamer Street, unlike ordinary restaurants.

All the restaurants here allowed contract beasts and their owners to dine together...

Unfortunately, after Qiuqiu evolved to the third rank, with a height exceeding 4 meters, it couldn't be released to eat with her.

Therefore, with curious eyes, Song Yu randomly picked a lively restaurant and walked in.

"Welcome! How many people are you? Does the contract beast need to dine with you?"

As soon as Song Yu entered, a neatly dressed waiter in a white uniform came up, smiling and asking, "In our restaurant, we can recommend different dining areas for you based on the height and type of your contract beast."

Standing at the entrance of the restaurant, Song Yu looked inside.

On the left side of the restaurant were contract beasts smaller than two meters, and on the right were contract beasts that could live on land with a size between two to four meters. In the middle of the restaurant, a large transparent glass tank area was dedicated to aquatic contract beasts. The blue aquatic area, with a huge glass cylinder in the middle, had a water column winding upwards.

This wide glass water column circled the restaurant, and many aquatic contract beasts happily swam in the water column, enjoying themselves!

"I'm alone, and my contract beast doesn't need to dine."

As Song Yu marveled at the magical restaurant in front of her, she followed the waiter inside.

However, as soon as she sat down and looked up...

Song Yu saw Zhou Ting sitting at the table next to her.

Song Yu: ??

Zhou Ting was accompanied by three men and two women, all of whom were excited and chatting.

Most of them were familiar classmates from Class 5, but there were also two unfamiliar faces who seemed to be from other classes.

Zhou Ting, with keen eyes, had already enthusiastically waved at Song Yu before she even sat down, loudly saying, "Song Yu! Are you sitting here? Come and sit here!"

"I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence today. I actually ran into you in this restaurant. Are you also here to buy supplies?" Zhou Ting smiled and patted the camouflage backpack next to her seat, pointing to the other five people at the table, "We are all here to buy supplies..."

Song Yu blinked, and it was evident that Zhou Ting was not only here to buy supplies on Beast Tamer Street. She was also here to communicate with her teammates in advance and discuss the upcoming practical training schedule in the wilderness area. From the expressions of these people, it seemed that they had already discussed and communicated smoothly.

Taking a few steps forward, Song Yu was about to refuse.

A tall male student at the table had already blurted out and asked, "Hey, Zhou Ting, is she your classmate? Why is she alone here to buy supplies on Beast Tamer Street?"

"This is Song Yu from our class, and her contract beast successfully advanced to the 3rd stage yesterday." Before Zhou Ting could speak, a slim, bespectacled boy from the class with a smiling face started introducing, "Without even thinking, we know that Song Yu is definitely planning to enter the wilderness area for training alone, am I right?"

"Haha, that's indeed the plan," Song Yu blinked, smiling as she casually responded, "After all, Teacher Zhou suggested it."

"Ah, I envy you so much. We still need to borrow someone else's contract beast to enter the wilderness area... and you can just venture into the wilderness alone!"

"Yes, yes... it's only been three months, and your contract beast has evolved to the 3rd stage. I'm sure it won't be long before you become a star in our Jiangnan Province! Maybe in the future, directors will approach you for advertisements and TV dramas!" A girl propped her chin with her hands, looking at Song Yu with extreme envy.

Huh?

A star? Director? Advertisements? TV dramas?

The curvature of her lips disappeared slightly, and Song Yu carefully observed the girl's expression, which clearly lacked any joking elements. She almost thought she was experiencing auditory hallucinations.

Her throat was dry, and she subconsciously swallowed, a dreadful thought suddenly popping into her mind...

Could it be that the stars in this world are not selected through regular exams from film and television academies but are chosen from the Beast Tamer profession?

Before she could continue thinking, Zhou Ting and others beside her had already chimed in, "Yes, I also think that Song Yu will have the opportunity to shoot various advertisements and magazines in the future!"

"Last year, one of the top ten students in the Beast Tamer Science entrance exam in Jiangnan Province even shot a film called 'Adventures in Campus Beast Taming.' It seems to have gained quite a few online views."

"But I think that 'Adventures in Campus Beast Taming' is not as good as 'Dawn Breaking in the Strange Beast World' starring Master Liu at the seventh stage and his three main battle pets! Master Liu is really handsome! I've watched that movie back and forth at least ten times! Dramas produced by non-professional Beast Tamers just don't have the same effect."

"Exactly, exactly! Stars who shoot films and TV dramas like this should choose powerful professional Beast Tamers with strong contract beasts!"

"Only the powerful professional Beast Tamers who can give the audience strength and guide them positively can become high-quality idols in everyone's hearts!... But someone like Miss Song, who can cultivate a 3rd-stage contract beast in a short time, will probably become a professional Beast Tamer soon!"

After saying this, the person seemed to feel that Song Yu was being neglected and deliberately patted her with flattery.

However.

These words were like a bolt from the blue for Song Yu! It was as if she had been struck by lightning! Her heart instantly turned cold!

No wonder the TV shows she usually watched were mostly shot on real locations, with almost no special effects.

She originally thought it was the film and television company's dedication and love for their work.

Now it seemed that the industry of being a star actor was not for awe-inspiring professional Beast Tamers. They simply didn't have the qualifications or the ability to shoot these TV shows!

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