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That crisp sound was unmistakable. It was the clicking of a spring-triggered device, the kind often used in taming and training beasts.
But what was a beast-taming tool doing here, inside the Panlong Dreamscape, in the middle of the night?
Before He Lingchuan could fully process the sound, a shadow crawled up along the courtyard wall. Then, an aberrant creature lifted its head above the wall.
For a moment, he was not sure what he was looking at. It looked part badger, part flying squirrel, and it also looked part sea otter. Its size was no bigger than a house cat. However, it had no fur at all. Its bare skin was gray, mottled with tiny black spots, patterned so closely to the stone walls and shadowed snow that it almost blended in. The whole creature was gathered into thick, wrinkled folds, as if its hide were several sizes too large for its body.
Its eyes were tiny, appearing to be no more than glints the size of rice grains, but they shone with a sharp red light. And then, with eerie precision, it locked eyes with He Lingchuan.
The look within those beady pupils made the hairs at the back of his neck prickle. It was cold, calculating, and malicious.
Before his brain even formed the thought, his right hand had already slid instinctively toward his blade.
The little monster tilted its head. Then, with unnerving deliberation, it turned its entire body to face him squarely.
It assumed a hunter’s p...
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